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MacCallum: School canceled at sign of '1st snowflake' but not for Ebola?
A man from Liberia remains hospitalized with Ebola in Dallas, Texas, the people in an apartment where he had been staying are being quarantined (kind of), and about 100 people who had contact with the infected man are being monitored.
What about area schools? Martha MacCallum had a priorities question:
Explain to me why we cancel school at the 1st snowflake, but not for #Ebola ? Who loses if the Texas school takes a few days off?
— martha maccallum (@marthamaccallum) October 3, 2014
Are authorities simply not taking the threat seriously enough?
@marthamaccallum Snow does not transform America. . . when will media get it?
— Sarah Moore (@LooneyTunes002) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum That would be admitting we got a potentially BIG problem. Allot of citizen may die of Ebola cause by PoliticalCorrectness
— Daniel Foynes (@DanielFoynes) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum I don't buy Dr Frieden analysis. CDC doesn't know as much as they think about it. He spins as a politician and is guessing
— Kevin Northcutt (@northcutt2013) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum people need to do what is best for their child and not what is best for the schools funding..
— Barbara Carr (@BeYourselfBarb) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum Parents should not send their kids to school. None!
— molcuta (@molcuta) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum so true . I live here at ground zero and Martha , people are really scared to send their little ones to school.
— Ed Butowsky (@EdButowsky) October 3, 2014
Ebola concerns may not have prompted area school closings, but weather has:
@marthamaccallum Agree! Some Dallas schools are closed today do to power outages,blessing in disquise.Too many ppl downplaying Ebola risk
— brandi (@itsjustboo) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum @JaniceDean says lots of Dallas schools closed bcuz storms. Maybe God closed the schools bcuz the superintendent wouldn't?
— Exozone (@Exozone) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum mother nature did just that. Dallas ISD closed today. Power outage from big storms yesterday
— Randy Maxwell (@Maxhawk4) October 3, 2014
41 Dallas ISD schools are without power this morning…here is the list http://t.co/iCZDIkcTV4 http://t.co/zL4tgSlfkx
— Tempestt Moore (@tcmoore26) October 3, 2014
News chopper caught Ebola clean-up crew; Um. Notice anything missing? (It's enraging) [photo]
Mia Farrow: US is 'SO unprepared' for Ebola
Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/10/03/martha-maccallum-school-canceled-at-sign-of-1st-snowflake-but-not-for-ebola/
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Udall: Green energy first, immigration after
President Barack Obama isn't the only one worried that trying to squeeze in comprehensive immigration reform right now could derail climate change legislation that has been in the works for nearly a year. U.S. Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colorado), who has been a major backer of trying to pass sweeping green energy legislation this cycle, said that the climate change bill should go first in the Senate's busy calendar and that immigration should wait until later.
The climate change and energy bills "are much further along in my opinion than any immigration reform package," Udall told reporters Thursday, suggesting that a win there could build momentum for immigration reform. "If we take up energy as we should and have a success, success breeds success."
Democratic leaders, among them Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, have been pushing to quickly take up an immigration reform bill as a way to fire up Latino voters in states like Nevada, where Reid faces a tough re-election bid. Reid and other Senate Democrats rolled out a major reform proposal today, just hours after Obama tried to wave them off, suggesting that trying to do immigration reform before the election was a stretch.
The timing has become a critical issue since the weekend, when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said pushing immigration reform would kill efforts to secure a climate change bill. The South Carolina Republican has been negotiating with Democrats on a compromise climate bill for weeks, but he withdrew over the weekend.

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Labour markets in focus at Jackson Hole
The 2014 Jackson Hole Symposium promises to be interesting, focusing on a hot-button topic of particular relevance to the US economy: "Re-evaluating Labor Market Dynamics."
Given that this is a Fed-hosted conference, the main thrust from Fed chair Yellen will likely be a reiteration of her position that labor market damage is merely temporary, meaning significant excess slack remains in the economy, permitting a gradual withdrawal of monetary stimulus. Among the technical issues likely to be discussed are the distended Beveridge Curve (the relationship between hiring and job openings), the long-term versus the short-term unemployment rate, the demographic transformation underway and the outlook for wage growth.
Our own take is somewhat different than the Fed's. We believe there is less economic slack than the Fed imagines – due to structural damage from the crisis – and already see signs of wage growth preparing to pick up, via a low short-term unemployment rate, and improving JOLTS survey, and surveys that indicate firms are increasingly willing to raise wages. This argues for a sooner trajectory of rate hikes. Among the international set, the arguments set out by other central banks is likely to be quite varied. Some – such as the Bank of England's Mark Carney – will seek to manage expectations around the (soon) timing of rate hikes. Others, such as the ECB's Draghi and the BoJ's Kuroda, will continue to talk down their currencies, and may hint of the possibility of more stimulus.
Historically, Jackson Hole has occasionally moved markets substantially, though not reliably, and the direction has not been consistently hawkish or dovish. Moreover, even when Jackson Hole does move the market, the effect is not reliably long-lasting. Given that most central bankers are relatively content with their positioning and current communications, this meeting seems less likely to excite markets than several past iterations. Much of the value of Jackson Hole lies in the intersection between academic research and central banking policy, and frequently the importance of papers presented at the conference take some time before becoming apparent or relevant.


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One year ago we were walking the Via la Plata. the long dust road from Seville to Santiago de Compostela. I am having a lot of fun sorting, processing and remembering our time in Spain!
Full disclosure, we made it to Santiago de Compostela, by train! after walking for three weeks we decided it would be more fun to see Spain by train….


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Firewall stealths all ports, detects port scans. Host Protection catches leak test programs. Highly effective at removing and blocking malware. Renames executable e-mail attachments for safety.
Host Protection catches many innocent programs. Spam filter does nothing without training; on tests, it did nothing even with training. No parental control.
Bottom Line
This suite ranks with the best for malware protection and removal, and it has a good, tough firewallalbeit an old-school one that asks more (and more confusing) questions. It protects effectively, but you do have to read the pop-ups or risk blocking good programs.
Tougher on Malware
The software's antivirus technology, from the Hungarian company VirusBuster, has received certification for virus detection and removal from both ICSA Labs and West Coast Labs. WCL also gave it checkmark certification for Trojan horse detection. According to Mikhail Zakhryapin, Agnitum's managing director, the company is in the process of obtaining certification for the suite itself. That makes sense, because it includes its own antispyware engine in addition to VirusBuster; hence the combination might well do better than VirusBuster alone. OSS 08 has been tested by Virus Bulletin twice: It failed the first test but got VB 100% certification on the most recent attempt.
The suite scans files for malware on access, on demand, and on schedule. By default, it scans files on any kind of access, but you can switch it to scan only when a file is about to execute. The program runs a quick malware check (which takes well under a minute) at start-up and also after each update to its signature database. You'll probably want to schedule a daily or weekly full scan; hourly is also an option but not appropriate for a full scan. Technically inclined users can define and schedule any number of custom scans.
By default the suite also scans incoming and outgoing e-mail to strip out malicious attachments. Like ZoneAlarm's MailSafe feature, the scanner renames all attachments of various executable file types such as .bat, .com, and .exe. You can still launch the renamed attachment, but you have to confirm that you really want to proceed even after being warned.
A full scan on my standard clean test system took about 28 minutes, which is right in the middle of the times I've recorded for the various suites. But I found the figure for estimated time to completion totally unreliable: It rose to over 2 hours during the course of the scan and was still showing 45 minutes left just before it finished. This peculiarity was even more pronounced on malware-infested test systems. On the plus side, a repeat scan finished in under a minute! That's because by default, OSS 08 uses a procedure the company calls SmartScan, which scans only files that have changed since the last scan. To identify changed files, OSS 08 stores two files in every folder, using the same sort of technique that rootkits use to hide these files completely from Windows. This method should be harmless, as there are no reports of malware piggybacking on these hidden files. But after a scan with SmartScan enabled, Rootkit Revealer reported well over 2,000 discrepancies, and Panda's anti-rootkit crashed, apparently overloaded by sheer numbers. If you run standalone rootkit-detection software on a regular basis, you'll probably want to do without the SmartScan feature.
When I loaded the software on a number of test systems infested with adware, spyware, rootkits, Trojans, and rogue antispyware programs, it installed quickly and, in most cases, without trouble. One system whose malware resists installation of most security software did in fact prevent installation. I tried the company's live-chat support but found that it was available only from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. GMT (or 2:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. eastern). But when I tried during its alleged hours of operation, the live chat still wasn't online. That's a pretty poor showing compared with BullGuard's highly responsive 24/7 live chat, for example.
I sent a cry for help via e-mail, which resulted in a request for certain logs. Agnitum tech support pointed me at a knowledge base article on the site that explained how to get around the problem. In a way it wasn't Agnitum's fault. Its software installed fine; a Microsoft redistributable was actually what wouldn't install. And with help from tech support I managed to complete the installation.
OSS 08 detected every single malware sample and successfully removed almost all of them. I define full success as removal of all executable files. If a product tries to clean up but leaves executables behind, I give only half credit. On this test, the suite scored 9.0 out of 10the same as Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2008 and just a little behind the 9.3 of Norton Internet Security 2008 (NIS 2008). On a separate test using commercial keyloggers, OSS 08 scored 8.5, better than any other recent suite except NIS 2008 (which went 10 for 10). Panda got 10 of 10 on the spyware removal test but turned in a dismal 2.1 for keylogger removal.
Before testing the software's ability to block installation of malicious software on a clean system, I had to cogitate a while over how to handle pop-ups from the firewall and Host Protection systems. For consistency, I decided to block pop-up requests only after the real-time malware protection reported the sample as malicious. The real-time feature detected three quarters of the malware samples as soon as I opened the folder that contained them. But, unlike most security products, OSS 08 didn't delete them! It left them in place but prevented them from launching. That seems weird to me; if a file is a known malware installer, why not delete it? What if it gets launched somehow while real-time protection is turned off?
The utility detected all but one of the remaining samples at some time during each sample's install process but failed to completely block installation of several. By that I mean it allowed them to install executable files. As with the malware installers, the real-time protection module prevented many of the installed executables from launching, but I give only half-credit for incomplete blocking. OSS 08 scored 8.6 of 10 on the spyware blocking test, the same as ThreatFire 3 achieved using strictly behavioral detection. That's decent, but many others have done better. For example, BullGuard achieved 8.8, OneCare got 9.3, and Panda blocked them all for 10 of 10.
On a separate test using commercial keyloggers in place of malware, OSS 08 detected every sample and successfully blocked installation for almost all of them. It wound up with 9.0 of 10, better than any other suite except NIS 2008, which got a 10, and Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 (9.3). On this same test Panda came in at 3.6 out of 10, proving that you can't always win.
Since OSS 08 blocked most of the malware installers on sight, I challenged its flexibility by testing again using hand-modified variants of those samples. In the real world, many threats self-modify as they spread, so I changed the names, tweaked some nonexecutable bytes, and appended nulls to change the file size. The results demonstrated that OSS is much better at handling known threats than unknowns. The suite still caught a third of the modified samples on sight, but it failed to prevent installation for slightly over half the remainder. Better keep your antivirus signatures up to date!Next: Spam Filter Still a Dog


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Introducing Forty Elephant Gang
With a wild west sound straight out of East London, Forty Elephant Gang have picked up the baton passed round the capital from hands of Mumford and Sons via a slew of heartbroken, bearded, poets in backrooms and bars. Wielding guitar, bass, banjo and mandolin they thump out solid Americana and folk infused tunes with caps doffed to great like Dylan and newer acts like Trampled by Turtles and The Felice Brothers.
2014 has been a momentous yea for Forty Elephant Gang so far as they've taken their live show to bigger venues and crowds and dropped their debut EP 'Slow Down The Days'. Have a listen below and stick around for the bluesy closer 'Hand Out Your Pocket'.
If you like what you hear you can catch them round London on the following dates:
Sunday 19th October (Softly Softly @ Kiss The Sky), Sunday, 26th October (The Kings, Islington), Friday, 31st October (Scream Studios, Croydon), Thursday, 11th December (The Icarus Club, Pelton Arms Greenwich).


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Satellite-connected Raspberry Pi cameras allows for real-time monitoring of Antarctic penguins
By pairing a solar-powered satellite-enabled camera with the tiny but powerful Raspberry Pi microcomputer, scientists will be able to remotely monitor, and perhaps learn how to help, the declining populations of a distinctive polar bird.
Populations of one of the most iconic animals in Antarctic, the extremely hardy and resilient Emperor penguin, are being affected by a number of different factors in their environment, including climate change, pollution, diseases, and impacts on fisheries, leading researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to predict their rapid decline, and potential extinction, over the next century.
Because both the Emperor and the Adelie penguins depend on sea ice for some of their food sources, as well as for breeding, melting sea ice due to global temperature rise is at least partly to blame for declining penguin populations. A study from WHOI predicts that out of today's population of 3,000 breeding pairs of Emperor penguins, there may only be about 500 to 600 breeding pairs surviving by the year 2100.Keeping tabs on penguins in the harsh environment of Antarctica with remote cameras and monitoring equipment used to mean that once the cameras were set up and operating, scientists had to return to the sites to retrieve the memory cards with the photos on them. But thanks to an innovative application of the Raspberry Pi platform and the Iridium satellite network by the technology firm Cambridge Consultants, scientists studying populations of the Emperor and Adelie penguins will be able to receive high-resolution photos from Antarctica in real time, without having to go anywhere.
The remote monitoring solution, which consists of the Instant Wild satellite node and camera system, is similar to the one deployed in Kenya to help stop poaching, but is built to withstand the harsh Antarctic weather conditions, including temperatures as low as -45 degrees Fahrenheit.
Currently deployed on Antarctica's Yalour Islands, the system consists of three cameras, one of which monitors the system itself, connected by a wireless hub that will transmit the images, the temperature, location data, and updates on battery life using the Iridium satellite network.
The Raspberry Pi-equipped system uses a passive infrared sensor to trigger the microprocessor inside the unit to wake up the cameras and take images, both in the daytime and at night. Power for the cameras comes from external lead acid Gel Cell batteries, which are enclosed in a Pelican case and charged with a solar panel, and are expected to last about a year before needing to be replaced.
"The battery was housed in the Pelican case to protect it and we used heavy rocks wrapped in chicken wire to create posts on which the cameras were attached. The antenna was pointed, the battery and solar power connected and then we were ready to turn the three cameras were deploying on. One camera was pointed at the actual equipment to send back photographs of the system's integrity and to get a visual photograph that the gear was all intact and not buried in snow and ice." - Penguin Lifelines
If this remote monitoring solution can survive for a year on the Yalour Islands, the team behind the project hopes to set up more of them for long-term testing in other areas of Antarctica.
These cameras will help to aid the Penguin Lifelines project, which was created by renowned Penguinologist (yes, that's a thing) Dr. Tom Hart, and will be used in collaboration with WHOI, Oxford University, Zoological Society of London (ZSL), Oceanites and Stony Brook University.


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Jonathan believes the most important parts of portrait photography are having fun with his clients during photo shoots, and recreating memories and emotions during the editing process. Because of his low overhead and practice of providing clients with digital copies instead of prints, Jonathan is able to offer his services for competitive prices. Jonathan also employs a stylist to work with clients on choosing outfits and makeup for shoots.


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As Labor Day weekend approaches, the National Weather Service has a warning for beachgoers: beware high surf and dangerous riptides.
High-surf advisories were issued for Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties. The OC advisory lasts until 6 p.m. Monday, while the others expire Sunday at 6 p.m.
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Local news from across Southern California
"Surf and swell conditions could be hazardous to anyone entering the water late this week and this weekend, with dangerous rip current potential," according to the NWS.
Breakers along the SoCal coast will range between 4 and 8 feet, with sets up to 10 feet possible in some areas. Water temperatures should stay between 63 and 72 degrees.
High surf also brings flooding concerns in low-lying areas like the Balboa Peninsula, where sand berms have been put in place in an attempt to keep the water back.
Beachgoers are being warned to stay off jetties and out of the water along stretches of Huntington Beach and Baby Beach at Dana Point due to high bacteria levels.
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The NWS recommends that beachgoers planning to swim talk to a lifeguard before entering the ocean.
"The lifeguard is familiar with the beach and can tell you where the safest places are to swim," according to the NWS.
Around noon Friday, dozens of body surfers were catching waves at The Wedge, a popular yet dangerous section of the Newport Beach coastline. Some ocean enthusiasts say these are the days that make or break body surfers.
"It's just the power of the ocean. It's unique and a lot of fun," said surfer David Green of Long Beach.
Lifeguards said they were concerned about possible crowds during the weekend. All lifeguard towers are expected to be opened.
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For anybody who needs help finding the Wayfarer (other than in the mission, "Liberty City Choppers"), one day, I stole a Bati 800 to try to find a Bati Custom, thinking that the Bati 800 would spawn its counterpart, the Bati Custom. I went to Northwood/North Holland and looked around for a while. Later, I then gave up on trying to find the Custom and went and did some arm wrestling at the AOD Clubhouse. After I failed horribly at arm wrestling and quit arm wrestling, two Wayfarers were all of a sudden, parked right by me! I don't know if doing EXACTLY what I did would work, but maybe it will work, somehow GTAFan123 06:03, August 15, 2010 (UTC)
The green bike in GTA 5 is a Bagger, not a Wayfarer.
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The local Two Rocks Tavern perched high on this hill over-looking the boat pens and the ocean.
It is an ideal meet and pick up point to have a drink before your Nightcruiser Party Bus Tour or Transport
3499 Wanneroo Road | Yanchep National Park, Yanchep
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The Restaurant is open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 7 days a week, the huge menu has a range of burgers, pastas, salads and other mains as well as snacks & finger food available.
Breakfast: 8am-10am daily
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They have a range of accommodation styles from backpacker rooms to king-sized lakeview rooms complete with bath & spa jets.
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Grim Reapers on a Field Trip
by J Lenni Dorner
"Good morning, class," my teacher, Ms. Anubis, prowls in, speaking without looking up from her tablet. "All thirteen permission slips are signed. Today is your first field trip through the Veil. I trust everyone has studied their marks. Is everyone in costume?"
She nods as she looks around, stopping when she gets to me.
"Katie, what are you wearing?"
"My reaper costume."
There are giggles from my classmates.
"Why are your robes pink and sparkly?" Ms. Anubis sets down her cracked-screen tablet. She crosses her arms and glares at me.
"There is no rule prohibiting it. Nowhere in your instructions did it say the robes have to be a specific color. I checked."
Travis laughs. "You're such a twit. Where did you find pink fabric?"
Everyone laughs with him, including the teacher. I could respond that I got it from his mother, but I opt not to.
We follow Ms. Anubis. The nearest Veil is across the street, in the town center. We've all seen it before, but it looks bigger and brighter today.
The adults who normally use this one have taken the day off or are using one of the others. Officer Been orders us to settle down.
"Hello, seventh grade class of Ms. Anubis. For those who don't know me, I am Officer Been. I am in charge of this Veil. Who can tell me why first-timers, such as yourselves, have to go through today, instead of any other day?"
Five hands shoot up, including mine. I figure that he'll pick me, since we reside in the same building. But he calls on the other student who shares our address, Travis.
"This Veil goes to Earth, to a place called America. There, today is when people wear costumes. Since we didn't learn invisibility yet, we go in costume to blend in, dressed the way they expect reapers to look, and snag them."
"Very good, Travis. Has each of you studied your mark?"
Everyone says they have. Officer Been goes over the history of America's costume holiday. I can't hear over Billy and Martin snickering beside me.
"I bet no one expects reapers to look poor," Billy says.
"I'm here for your soul, or your blackest sheet," Martin jokingly impersonates Travis. I stomp on his foot.
"What's your problem?" He backs away from me.
"Maybe Katie's in love with the street-cleaner's son," Billy says. "Katie and Travis rolling in a grave, K-I-S-S-I-N-G."
"Shut up. I'm trying to concentrate." I'm not in love with Travis. His parents are nice, though. They failed reaper training, which is why his dad cleans the streets and his mom does upkeep for my apartment building. His mom used to be a tailor, but in a metropolis where no one repairs what can be replaced, her skill became unprofitable.
Until I asked her to help me make this special reaper costume.
Billy goes through the Veil first. Thanks to a screen Officer Been set up, we get to watch the encounter. Billy walks beside his mark, someone that looks a lot like him, except for the different costumes.
"Oh man! I got peanut butter cups at the last house."
The mark turns to Billy. "You're lucky."
Billy shakes his head. "Nah. Peanut butter makes me sick."
The mark looks into a bag he's carrying. "Want to trade for this?"
Billy nods. They swap candies. The mark's hand glows red for a moment, something only those from our side can see. We all cheer as Billy returns through the Veil.
"Piece of… candy!" He laughs and fist pumps. He hands the soul to Officer Been.
Travis goes next. His tattered, more gray than black, robe snags on a bush. He calls out for help. Dogs bark behind a fence. A light comes on in a darkened house.
"No blasted trick-or-treaters wanted here! Can't you read? Private property!"
"Help, help! I'm trapped!" Tears stream down his face. "I want to go home!" Travis wails.
The man stumbles across his yard, moaning and complaining. He lectures Travis about the dangers of walking at night alone, without a light. Then his hand glows. The mark collapses on his grass.
"Excellent work, Travis!" Ms. Anubis says as he returns from the Veil, passing along the soul. "Katie, you're up."
It's colder than I expected. Maybe this is why Earth people think we wear hooded robes? I sneak down a long, white hall. Even I think this place smells terrible, and I'm from beyond the Veil! If I ever have a mark in a hospital again, I'm bringing nose plugs.
As a nurse ducks out of a room, I slip inside. The door shuts behind me.
"Hi. Trick or treat?" I hold out my bag of candy.
The girl on the bed sets down her crayon and stares at me. "I'm not supposed to have visitors. I'm con… con… confabulous."
"That's okay. Want to share my candy?"
"I can't eat real food." She points to her IV bag. "You aren't really a kid like me, are you?"
I move to her bedside. "How do you mean?"
"You're Death."
"Why do you think that?"
She shrugs. "I guess because I knew you were coming. I didn't think you'd be in pink though."
"Do you like it?" I strut around, modeling. She laughs.
"I love all that is pink and sparkly." She picks up her pink crayon, makes two marks, and then holds up the drawing. It's a sparkling, pink sky. "We can go now."
Smiling, I take her hand. I concentrate. The light is red for a moment, then turns pink with gold glitter as her soul slips out. I hear her laugh a final time. My first field trip through the Veil is over.


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Pingtung County-based scuba divers are urging tourists not to interfere with sea turtles in waters near Siaoliouciou Island (小琉球), after video clips emerged showing visitors disturbing them.
There are 163 turtles living near Siaoliouciou and almost every group of divers or snorkelers gets to see one, professionals in the dive tourism industry said.
The increase in the number of turtles is good for business and an encouraging sign for the local environment, they said.
However, they said they are aware of video clips circulating on social media that show tourists toying with turtles, adding that they have also witnessed such inappropriate activity firsthand.
"Time and again, we have told tourists to leave the turtles alone," a diver nicknamed Xiao Jin (小金) said.
He said that in the past few days he saw a snorkeler grab a turtle by its shell and try to swim along behind it.
He gestured to the tourist to indicate that she should stop what she was doing immediately, but he was ignored, he said.
The woman did not appear to be part of a tour group, he said.
It is the policy of most dive tour operators to tell tourists that touching the turtles is against the law, sources in the industry said.
Turtles can become distressed if they are touched, and if they are chased when attempting to flee, they could abandon the area permanently, the sources said.
The Pingtung County Department of Agriculture said people who deliberately touch, disturb, catch or endanger sea turtles are liable to imprisonment for up to one year, commutable to a fine of NT$60,000 to NT$300,000.
In related news, students from Keelung's Jhonghua Elementary School on Monday participated in an annual underwater graduation event that is now in its eighth year.
The event's theme is ocean conservation and the students first spend time cleaning up any underwater trash they find and are then awarded their diplomas, school principal Pan Chih-huang (潘志煌) said.
Although the students are not expected to remove much waste, the event has significant educational value and it will be a good memory for them, Pan said.
The 13 young divers were led by dean of students, Chen Chih-hung (陳志宏), and the head teacher of the graduating class, Hsiao Shu-fan (蕭書凡).
A student surnamed Chen (陳) said he had been anxiously awaiting the event and was afraid that bad weather would prevent it.
"The undersea world is so magical. There was a little bit of trash and debris, but my classmates and I cleaned it up. I hope we can keep the ocean beautiful," he said.


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Malton Food Lovers Festival 2018
Posted on 14th May 2018 at 17:44
Calling all foodies in Ryedale!
It's that time of year again! Malton Food Lovers Festival sets up stall in the picturesque market town on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th May 2018.
Malton's town centre will be transformed into a gastronomic destination with around 180 food stalls, chef demos, street food, music and a festival bar.
The festival is approaching its tenth anniversary and as a gift to gastronomes everywhere, all the chef demos are free this year.
Nearly a decade of delightful dishes and ingredients has been served up in Malton, widely regarded as Yorkshire's Food Capital.
The chef talent this year includes 'Michelin Madness' in the form of Yorkshire lads Tommy Banks, Michael O'Hare, James Mackenzie and Andrew Pern.
Other guests include The Talbot Hotel's Marc Hardiman and BBC2's The Piggott Brothers, as seen in The Big Family Cook Showdown.
Other BBC2 favourites will be at the show, including The Robshaws and Debbie Raw and for Masterchef fans, Jess Gardham will be attending the festival.
The stalls are open from 9am to 5pm each day, while the festival bar and entertainment will take place from 5pm to 10pm Friday and Saturday and 5pm to 8pm on Sunday.
Regarded by some as Yorkshire's Food Glastonbury, sponsors this year include local businesses such as Brass Castle Brewery, Sloemotion, Ryedale District Council, Country Warmth, Inntravel. Transpennine Express and Orchards of Husthwaite.
The unique atmosphere of this festival is partly to do with the food stalls being positioned throughout the market place, meaning there's plenty of space for people to mill around, taking in the various smells, tastes and even sounds.
The stalls surround the historic church in Malton's market place and there will also be a main stage where celebrity chefs can demo their talents.
and entry is FREE!
The event is great for Malton, however there is a small amount of disruption due to town centre road closures and also due to the volume of traffic.
Our drivers are more than prepared but it is best to allow extra time for any journeys you might want to take.
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If you are in Pune, you cannot miss these 11 must-visit food joints.
From Vada Pav to American Breakfast
We love Pune! Especially its cafés and amazing foot joints. Everyone loves food there- be it a high-class businessman, a student or a scooter riding middle-class employee. To know why so, check out these 11 joints to have the best food in Pune and if you are there, go on a food tasting spree in these places!
1. Garden vada pav centre- Legend since 4 generations
This vada pav place has been in existence since 1972 and three generations of the family got involved in this business. This joint has been serving the same kind of vada pav since four decades. You need to taste a vada pav at this place to know why this joint has become a legend.
2. Kalyan Bhel- Pune stops here to have bhel
Kalyan Bhel, per say, is just a chaat corner; however, this place is in the top of the list of all the people wanting to have chaat! It serves the best chaat with the combination of chopped onions, raw mangoes, and mixed herbs. A special ingredient goes into making of Chaat here however you will never be able to guess the name of it (that is what makes chaat of this place so delicious!). Add some chutney, crispy kurmura and crunchy puri to the bhel. Relish the awesomeness of bhel here.
3. Vaishali- The crowd accommodator
Vaishali serves a good variety of mouth watering snacks and food that will fill your stomach to the brim! It is a big place which accommodates good college crowd. It is actually the favorite of many localities here. If you ask me the specialty of this place then that, without doubts, will be dosas.
4. Kayani Bakery- Bites of heaven
You have to take a bite of biscuits made at Kayani Bakery to believe in the fact that bakery biscuits can melt in your mouth. Taste normal vanilla cookie, a mawa cake or a strawberry biscuit here and you will fall in love with the bakery products of Kayani Bakery. Step in at any time of the day, you will never find it empty.
5. German Bakery- The place for foreigners!
German bakery is one place where you find foreigners that too in big numbers. Come along with your friends here for a proper brunch or a weekend breakfast. The food served here is out of the world. The specialty of this place is sweet delicacies and pastries.
6. Joshi Wadewale- to go food joint!
Joshi wadewale is the place where you can grab a quick bite and carry on with your work. Some famous delicacies served here are cada pav and pithla bhakri.
7. Bedekar- Pune goes here for Missal Pav
Maharashtra is known for its missal pav and Bedekar is known for its missal pav in Pune. Missal pav is basically baked bun served with spicy gravy. Bedekar serves the special gravy made of peas, lentil, chopped onion, farsan; it is served with a dash of lime on the top. It is a known joint all over Pune; not very happening, but serves quality food.
8. Venky's XPRS- It is about chicken here!
If you are a fan of chicken then you should, for once, leave the likes of KFC and try out Venky's. There is absolutely no match for the roasted garlic & pepper chicken at Venky's. You will start salivating for more, once you get a taste of this place in your mouth!
9. Fish Curry Rice- Finally a place for seafood in Pune
Looking for a good place to have seafood in Pune? Check out Fish Curry Rice. The place serve delicious fish curries and one can get all kinds of seafood, right from fish to prawns. While you are here, do not forget to try bombil fry!
10. Appa
Appa has been serving authentic Marathi dishes since 5 decades as of now. Their spread is quite limited to a few items like Poha, Upma and matar usal but they have created a niche for themselves in such a limited menu. Next time you are here do not forget to try their special sabudana khichdi.
11. Sujata Mastani
Sujata Mastani is a known place to hang out for ice-cream in Pune. The specialty of the place is that it serves authentic ice-cream. This place is in existence since 50 years as of now. Go here for a milkshake with a garnishing of ice-cream and dry fruits.
Make sure you have these on your bucket list if you are in Pune. Comment below if we missed any food joint or restaurant.
Tag your friends in Pune now and ask them if they have tried and tasted all of this.


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Dead sites, dying sites or sites languishing in various stages of inactivity can give even the most seasoned webmasters nightmares. Quite honestly, inactivity (or any other signs of morbidity) is a term I hope to never utter in conjunction with my site. However, I realize if I am not careful, I can get complacent and let it creep upon me, or my site to be precise. Thankfully, there are ways to prevent such unwelcome and ill-fated eventualities, and help a site live a full and healthy (read, active) life.
Because I know that there are many out there, living in constant fear of their site dying on them, in dire need of some site-revival intervention, I shall list 9 ways that will surely help breathe new life into a site.
1. Don't Take A Break From Building Content: Imagine that you are a restaurateur… will you ever consider serving your customers stale leftovers? Of course, you won't! Setting up a website is just another way of serving your customers, by providing them the freshest and most relevant information. If you fail to do that, you won't ever have any repeat customers (or visitors). This customer satisfaction angle aside, not updating your site can negatively affect your search engine rankings too. So, if you wish to see your site thriving with a steady stream of traffic, and stay high up on the SERPs, it is important that you regularly create content and update your site.
2. Build Links: Most people make the mistake of disregarding the substantive importance of links and building links. In addition to the obvious SEO benefits link building offers, it will also help you be connected to other relevant sites. The whole web works on the principle of interconnectedness, so a site that chooses to isolate itself and refrains from connecting with other sites cannot be anything but a failure.
3. Give Your Site A Makeover: If the current design of your site seems old and tired, don't hesitate, initiate that redesign that you've been thinking about. Take inspiration from some of the most popular sites on the web; surfing the web, more than anything, is a very visual experience, keep that in mind while you decide on the design.
4. Update On Popular Demand: If updating the whole site on a regular basis is beyond you, try, at least, to update the pages that are visited the most. This way, even if you don't succeed in attracting new visitors, you won't lose out on the old. Writing on current events, or the latest developments in your field, while choosing a nonconformist, if slightly controversial, slant is a great way to hook people.


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Earlier we discussed the introduction of a continuous random variable and cumulative distribution function. Please see this article if you haven't read it about already. Now we will give some problems related to Cumulative distribution function so you can have a deeper understanding of this topic. These problems are adapted from the following textbook: "Probability and Random Processes by Scott Miller 2nd Edition." Problem-1: Which of the following mathematical functions could be the CDF of some random variable? Remember: To be a CDF of some random variable, the function \(F_{X}(x)\) must start at zero when \(x = -\infty\), end at one...
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Continuous Random Variables and Cumulative Distribution Function
The problem with Discrete random variables was they can't be used for continuous data. In engineering, there comes a time when we need to model continuous random data, and it happens a lot the most popular random variable which we use is Gaussian Random Variable. Since Discrete Random Variables can be characterized or fully described by their PMF (Probability Mass Function) we can't use the same for a continuous case because the probability would be 0. We can explain this by giving an example. To see discrete random variables please visit this article. Suppose you want to measure a temperature of...
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Practice Problems (Introduction to Probability Theory)
A few practice problems related to Probability theory are given here. These problems are adapted from the textbook: Probability and Random Processes by Scott Miller 2nd Edition. These problems cover the following topics: Experiments, Sample spaces, events, Axioms of Probability, Assigning Probability, Joint and Conditional Probability, Independence, Baye's Theorem, Total Law of Probability, Discrete Random variables. Problem-1: A roulette wheel consists of 38 numbers (18 are red, 18 are black, and 2 are green). Assume that with each spin of the wheel, each number is equally likely to appear. (a) What is the probability of a gambler winning if he...
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A random variable is a real valued function of the elements of sample space S which maps each possible outcome to a real number specified by some rule. Random variables are denoted by capital Alphabet like X. If the random variable takes on finite or countably an infinite number of values then the random variable is a discrete random variable and if it takes uncountably infinite values then it is a continuous random variable. As we said earlier that the mapping is done by some rule; Probability mass function \(P_X(x)\) defines that rule. \(P_X(x)\) of a random variable is a function that...
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The History Boys
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In The History Boys, eight gifted British lads in 1983 face one last term before pitching their strong cases to enter Oxford or Cambridge.
They need scant more schooling on this level, so in class they banter or perform hammy musical numbers for quirky, aging teacher Mr. Hector (Richard Griffiths, the mean uncle of the Harry Potter films).
Ambitious young teacher Mr. Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) arrives to add fresh perspectives and cunning to play the system. Forget Hector's love of poetry, Bette Davis flicks and learning for its own sake. The boys must impress with offbeat views and edgy arguments.
They seem receptive to both men's bents, and things run smoothly until a sex scandal erupts. The film then becomes a sermonette on tolerance. But with its one-sidedness, it fails to practice what it preaches.
In the tightly knit group, only one boy, Posner (Samuel Barnett), is avowedly gay. In fact, he's obsessed with his sexuality. But he's a teen — that's normal.
Less credible is the fact only one of his straight friends shows any interest in the opposite sex. He's handsome ladies man Dakin (Dominic Cooper), and even he disregards his girlfriend to seduce another gay teacher out of the blue.
The boys also eagerly perform silly sketches for Mr. Hector, even if it means dropping trou or pretending to be another boy's masseuse. They even patiently agree to ride on his motorbike, though they know it means they'll be groped.
Only the brittle headmaster objects, and he's the bad guy. Mr. Hector, who crosses a line no teacher should cross — anywhere, any time — is the sentimental favorite.
Alan Bennett, who adapted his Tony-winning play, has opened it up nicely, but Nicholas Hytner, who directed both versions, has crammed it full of jarring theatricality. For a film steeped in wit and intellect, The History Boys lacks subtlety, with performances aimed at a theater's back rows.
That's not to say it lacks punch. It's loud and lively and holds your interest. Bennett's repartee remains rich. The cast, reprising roles from London's National Theater, lends full-bodied exuberance.
Yet the play's tug of war between education for enrichment or mere opportunism becomes secondary. Center stage is the boys' too-easy surrender to their teachers' desires.
Tolerance was the lesson of the play, and it remains the lesson here. But while extolling the certainty of knowledge, the film treats morality and sexuality as vague, flexible traits that should shift with the winds of fate or whims of peers. That's not tolerance. It's confusion.


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Christ has freed us
so that we may enjoy
the benefits of freedom.
Therefore, be firm in this freedom,
and don't become slaves again.
—-Galatians 5:1
What does it mean to be free?
The dictionary says,
"to make free; set at liberty; release from bondage, imprisonment, or restraint."
In the verse above, what if we thought of it this way?
"Christ has made us free, set us at liberty, released us from bondage, released us from imprisonment, and released us from restraint."
Butterflies are a perfect picture of a creature released from bondage.
As a caterpillar, they cannot fly.
Trapped within the chrysalis, they cannot even move along the ground.
But then, freedom comes!
As they emerge from the the darkness around them, they are suddenly flooded with light and with wings made for flight, they soar into the air, free to fly!
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ZHENGZHOU, China and BETHESDA, Md., July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts today expanded its luxury portfolio in China with the unveiling of the highly anticipated 416-room JW Marriott Hotel Zhengzhou in Henan Province. Marriott
ZHENGZHOU, China and BETHESDA, Md., July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts today expanded its luxury portfolio in China with the unveiling of the highly anticipated 416-room JW Marriott Hotel Zhengzhou in Henan Province. Marriott International manages this landmark hotel under a long-term agreement with the owner partners, Greenland Group.
This new hotel is located on the top floors of the Millennium Royal Plaza, which is in the CBD of Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan Province as well as an important transportation hub in China. The 60-floor Millennium Royal Plaza stands at 280 meters and is the tallest building in Central China. The JW Marriott Hotel Zhengzhou is the first Marriott property in Henan as well as the seventh JW Marriott hotel in the Greater China region.
"Marriott International has already had several successful hotel projects with our owner partner Greenland in China. The opening of JW Marriott Hotel Zhengzhou is another gem in this spectacular collection. We are most pleased to have the opportunity to manage such a magnificent hotel," said Simon Cooper, President & Managing Director of Marriott International Asia Pacific. "This is a significant property as it is our first hotel in Zhengzhou which is an important transportation, business and convention hub in central China. Also it is another proof of the growing popularity of our JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts brand in this market. We are on the course of opening new JW Marriott hotels in Macao, Chongqing, Kunming and Shenzhen over the next 12 months."
The design of Millennium Royal Plaza was inspired by the Songyue Pagoda, a renowned cultural relic that was built approximately 1,500 years ago. The aluminum exterior's sunscreens give the structure its distinctive pagoda-shape. The sunscreens also maximize the amount of daylight entering the building while reducing glare and solar heat gain. The hotel's interior design reflects the hotel's location with subtle brown metal celebrating the historic importance of bronze, and pale greens representing high quality jade artifacts that were produced in the region throughout the dynasties.
"We are honored to introduce this prestigious landmark hotel to the city that is impressively connected with Henan in so many ways," said Frank Sanders, General Manager of JW Marriott Hotel Zhengzhou. "Our hotel exemplifies the design, service and cultural standards that have become synonymous with the JW Marriott brand. Our dramatic and distinctive architectural and interior features, exceptional culinary offerings and passion for service excellence will result in a truly authentic and unique experience."
Zhengzhou is an important transportation hub within China and Henan has a rich 5,000-year history. The city boasts several UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the world famous Shaolin Temple. The new hotel is ideally located in the heart of Zhengdong New District - the new center of Zhengzhou - and is positioned between the Zhengzhou International Convention & Exhibition Center and Henan Art Center. Due to its impressive location, the JW Marriott Hotel Zhengzhou is well poised to service both the upscale business and leisure travelers.
The new property features a total 416 of spacious guestrooms and suites located from the 41(st) to the 55(th) floor, each offering floor-to-ceiling windows and panoramic views of the city. All guestrooms feature luxurious JW Marriott bedding designed in collaboration with Todd-Avery Lenahan and ergonomic work spaces that foster convenience and productivity.
The hotel's dining experiences on the 38(th) and 39(th) floors include The Grill, specializing in both Chinese and Western dishes made from the freshest seafood and finest cuts of beef; Man Ho, headed up by Executive Chef Wong from Hong Kong and featuring Cantonese classics as well as Henan and Sichuan delicacies; and Zhengzhou Kitchen, the best buffet in town boasting dedicated Western, Chinese and Japanese live-cooking sections. The Lounge - borrowing inspiration from the building's height - features the "tallest tea" in the city, a four-tier stand filled with delectable treats.
The JW Marriott Hotel Zhengzhou offers more than 2,500 square meters of stunning function and event space, including the 1,000 square meter JW Grand Ballroom with an LED wall panel, six meeting rooms - each with natural daylight - and a spacious pre-function ballroom foyer.
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text: Spirituality has allowed me to find my purpose. My purpose is to touch each and every person that I encounter or meet. They are able to dig deep within themselves and find out what their life purpose is and what their spirituality is. Spirituality does not mean that you need to be a religious person. It is how you connect: how you connect with life, how you connect with people, how you connect with your job. Spirituality is adhered to you as a person. As in, "Why am I here? What is my purpose? Am I living out my life mission?" You have to lean on your spirituality to make sure you are eating the right foods. It is okay to fall off the wagon, pick yourself up and dust yourself off. We are all trying to stay healthy and whole. Spirituality is extremely important with our overall health and mental well being.


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I'm an atheist, but a year ago I became a vegan for Lent. I was inspired by Alain de Botton's book, "Religion for Atheists" and a general realization that bad habits and failures of will were the biggest barriers to getting where I wanted in life. I figured that Lent's 40-day trial period was a nice religious practice that could be easily translated into secular life.
We're continuing and expanding that tradition this year at NonProphet Status. I asked our contributors, as well as some of our favorite people, to share what they were giving up for Lent.
Vlad Chituc
I had a few accidental dietary transgressions last year, and I quickly learned how easy it can be to ignore what's in what we're eating. For the most part, though, I solidified a lot of the eating habits I have today. Though I'm not entirely vegan (yet), I've been gradually replacing eggs and dairy in my diet. I maintain a vegan diet for most meals in any given week, so I'm going to give veganism another try this year, hopefully for good.
It's boring, though, to do the same thing two years in a row. So I'll follow through with some sage advice from this Twitter feed: I'll be reading no internet comments for the next 40 days, comments here notwithstanding. I've wasted way too many hours arguing with strangers on the internet for no discernible reason, and there's no sense in wasting my time and harming my mental health on something so petty. I'm convinced that very little, if any good, has ever come from the average comment thread in any website. I have never heard anyone say "Wow, I'm really happy I read that insightful comment section," so I think this is for the best.
Chris Stedman
I haven't observed Lent since I was a Christian, so this is something new. But I like trying new things, so here goes. Instead of giving something up for my first atheist Lent, I'm going to add a practice: every day, I will make an effort to tell at least one person in my life at least one of the reasons that I am glad to know them. Often times, in the busyness of life, these kinds of feelings go unexpressed. We just assume that people already know that we love them, or that we demonstrate our gratitude sufficiently through our actions, or that we'll get around to verbalizing it later. This Lent, I'm going to try to be a bit more intentional about expressing my gratitude for the many ways other people enrich my life.
Chelsea Link
I really like the idea of Lent – like Vlad said, giving yourself a set amount of time to try breaking a bad habit (or forming a new good one, like Chris is working on) seems like a really healthy practice. The combination of a predetermined end-date that you can always look forward to as a willpower booster and the solidarity of lots of other people taking on similar challenges at the same time makes Lent a smart tradition for anyone to adopt, Christian or otherwise.
This year, in an effort to both take better care of my body and be more financially prudent, I'm giving up alcohol for the next 40 days. I'm making an exception for the bottle of champagne I've been saving to celebrate my boyfriend's last day of work this weekend, because rituals and traditions should be flexible, not dogmatic. But I feel like I'm somewhat making up for that rule-bending in a few weeks since I'll be keeping kosher for Passover during the last week of Lent. Borrowing from two religions at once has got to count for something, right? Thank goodness Ramadan is still a few months away.
Adam Garner
My phone is for all intents and purposes an extension of my body. If I'm not obsessively checking Twitter or refreshing my Facebook news feed, I'm getting into internet fights on Reddit. It's bad enough that when I go out to dinner with my girlfriend I have to surrender my phone as soon as we sit down. So for the next 40 days I'm going to make a potentially futile attempt to wean myself off of neurotically checking my phone every 3 minutes. That's not to say that I'm going to give it up completely. I'm about 98% sure that would break me. But I really like the idea that for the next couple of weeks I'm going to make a conscious effort to only check it once every…hour. Yeah. I think I can do that.
Keith Favre
A few months ago, I would have dismissed the term "cultural Catholic." But I've since developed a near obsession-level interest in religion, and that's taught me to appreciate the positive aspects of the tradition I was raised in. It seems natural to capture the spirit of Lent in my own secular practices, just as it does with Christmas and other religious rituals. Following this logic and some inspiration from Vlad's piece "Lent for Atheists," I decided to give adopt a vegetarian diet for Lent this year. I would try veganism, but one step at a time.
That's not the only thing I'm giving up for Lent, though. As it turns out, a lot of those lessons from Sunday school many years ago have stuck in my head. Every year we would have the Lent discussion; everyone wants to give up things like chocolate or soda, but that's missing the point. Thinking theologically, what you give up should be some vice that's distancing you from God. From a secular perspective, then, it should be something that's distancing you from being a better person. In this way, it seems to me that the purpose of the Lent tradition is self-improvement. My sacrifice of meat-eating will be my 40-day experiment, as Vlad put it. The vice that I'll be giving up, though, is procrastination. It's a popular subject for jokes on the internet, but it's also something that has started to become a serious problem for me. I'll hopefully end these forty days with less stress from work and more awareness of the challenges I'll face with my inevitable full transition to a vegetarian diet. Let the games begin.
Paul Fidalgo
For 40 days I will give up a piece of my utterly-fragile ego. I will abstain from checking up on the pageview stats on my blog (Near-Earth Object), and I will go out of my way to avoid finding out how many folks have retweeted my material or followed me on Twitter. I may look for other ways to eschew self-validating Internet quantification as I think of it, but these two jumped out at me. I waste a lot of RAM in my own brain in being concerned about that kind of thing, so maybe I'll become, magically, A Better Person by letting all of that go for a while.
There are, of course, blog comments, which I know Vlad is avoiding. I won't be ignoring them, as much as I hate them most of the time, because sometimes there is sincere and well-meaning discourse to be had there. Oh, maybe I'll ignore it anyway. We'll see.
Facebook is different, as a red-badged notification number often means there's a message from family or something, not just "likes" on a post, so I may have to keep those up for now.
I'll have to engage in work-related analytics, of course. I do have a job, you know. So get off my back.
Walker Bristol
I'll give up tweeting raisin puns for Lent.
"Joseph Raisinger", "Singin in the Raisin'', "If emotion without raisin is blind, then raisin without emotion is impotent", "Raisin Rally"…


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I had an interesting little temptation this morning. I was writing a general email to folks -- from my other screenname- in which I talked about being a born-againer being in a book of transgendered persons. I realized that one of the people was a liberal who disliked born-againers. I was about to remove her name from the general address SEND TO and send her a solitary email in which I removed all mention of being a born-againer. But the Lord reminded me of what destroys the seed...the cares of the world and when persecution comes people are disloyal to Jesus and deny him. It took bravery but I sent the general email.
This morning I was listening to a Christian program which showed a tape of what had happened on the View where poor Elizabeth -- the bornagainer-- was being slammed by Rosie O'Donnell. Rosie was saying fundamental Christianity was just as bad as fundamental Islam. And I was just stressing out. I was shouting to the hubby: "Turn the channel! Turn the channel! You know I HATE being hated."
But God reminds us that if the world hated him, it would hate us.
I can only pray that God will strengthen me that I no longer fear the hatred of the world. That's the only way to conquer in Christ...be loyal to him.
This will be a blog for Christians, for people who are part of a minority, for writers. I'm a poet, essayist, devotionalist, reviewer and writer of speculative fiction.Let God be true...and every man a liar.
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Olympic champion Nastia Liukin and a troupe of male gymnasts will share the spotlight in the U.S. television primetime lineup Tuesday evening.
At 9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST, Liukin guest stars on NBC's "The Biggest Loser," the hit reality series that challenges overweight contestants to get in shape.
As the season nears its conclusion, Liukin will help guide the remaining contestants with the episode's pop challenge. While the challenge did not require anything specific to gymnastics — such as balance or flexibility — Liukin said she was impressed by the effort put out by the contestants.
"It was so amazing to see these contestants giving everything they had to try to achieve their goals, and I think that is something any athlete could relate to," Liukin told IG.
Liukin had been in Los Angeles in August for the launch of her clothing line, "Supergirl by Nastia," when she got the invitation to visit "The Biggest Loser Ranch" in nearby Calabasas. There she took part in the challenge and toured the ranch, where the contestants eat, sleep and sweat on the show.
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While Liukin works with contestants on their way to fitness, a few lucky male gymnasts share the runway with models already famous for their physiques.
At 10 p.m. EST/9 p.m. CST, the annual "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" airs on CBS, and includes current and former U.S. team members Sasha Artemev, Alexy Bilozertchev, Chris Brooks, David Durante, Morgan Hamm, Wes Haagensen, John Macready, Steve McCain and Derek Shepard.
Filmed Nov. 10 at the Lexington Armory in New York City, the show features the gymnasts performing tumbling and a mushroom act on the runway. The idea to feature gymnasts came from the show's casting director, Shane Geraghty, a former gymnast.
Getting to work with supermodels like Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima and Karolina Kurkova made the gig a perfect "10," joked Durante.
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Joked Bilozertchev, "But no worries, we had our eyes on the models!"
The full episode from Tuesday night's "Biggest Loser" with Nastia Liukin is available online in the U.S. at NBC.com.
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