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You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. -Henry Ford
I made pancakes for breakfast this morning…from scratch.
I have never been known for making anything homemade…well hardly anything! But actually when the kids were little I did make Better Homes and Garden's "Favorite Pancakes" recipe. So today I pulled out the cookbook and went to work.
The recipe called for baking powder…we had none…but I had baking soda. Checking the Internet I read I could interchange them but the proportions were different. Taking that into consideration I whipped up the pancakes. By accident I added more sugar than the recipe called for..but I thought; who doesn't like their hot cakes sweet?
Finishing the first batch I handed my husband a plate of pancakes with warm syrup. When he said they were sour I was surprised…especially with all that extra sugar??
This evening I started to wonder if it was the baking soda that made them bitter. Returning to the Internet I looked at another article.
Ahhh… Yes, powder and soda will make my pancakes rise, but soda will make them bitter unless countered by the acidity of another ingredient, such as buttermilk.
The bitterness of the soda permeated every part of the recipe.
It is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough." (Luke 13:21 NLT)
Sometimes I have a good idea, but it is not executed well. Why? Poor planning, misinformation, unforseen challenges…
Henry Ford said Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.
I need to have the drive and enthusiasm to see my goal accomplished and in order to succeed. The outcome may be different than I expected and I may need to adjust, but I will keep on trying.
However, I need more than just enthusiasm. I need a plan to make my dreams come to fruition. And it needs to be well thought out. I need the right tools…the right ingredients…and when I don't and I miss my mark…I need to regroup and try again. Rethink my course or recipe…learn from the bitterness and make a new recipe…a new dream.
Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity,
but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty. (Proverbs 21:5 NLT)
My hasty shortcut led to bitter pancakes…
Y ~ Yes!
E ~ Envision it!
A ~ Ask God for guidance!
S ~ Stay the course!
T ~ Take a chance!
Even if if turns out sour the first time (or even on the 20th attempt) don't give up on your dreams…your goals…God wants you to succeed.
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A CORK MAN has started nominating friends through Facebook to donate blood after hearing of his best friend's cancer diagnosis.
Less than two weeks ago, 35-year-old David McCarthy was told that his friend Pete Morrissy had bone marrow cancer.
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I was thinking, he needs a lot of blood transfusions and I used to give it before – I stopped about a year and a half ago. I was thinking of the 'Neknomination' and thought I might as well try to even get a couple of people in so I said it to Pete and he said yeah.
McCarthy posted his 'Bloodnomination' online and nominated friends to do it and four or five people in the last week have also gone to give blood in the local Cork donation clinic.
"When I was talking to the nurse, she was saying the summer is the quietest time for giving blood so if it'd get more people to do it it'd be great," he said. "They're not just donating blood, people are donating platelets too and it makes a big difference."
It can be scary enough giving blood but when you give it you feel better.
McCarthy said he would encourage people all across the country to jump on board the 'Bloodnomination' bandwagon in honour of his best friend and other cancer patients who will benefit from it.
Read: Tracing The Blood Line: Here's what happens to your blood after you donate>
More: Here's what to expect when you give blood>


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Karachi, Jan 2 (ANI): Pakistan's National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said that the country will join hands with Saudi Arabia to face global challenges togather.
According to the Dawn, Sadiq told Saudi Ambassador Abdullah Marzouk Al Zahrani, who called on him, that the new year has come with various new regional problems which needed to be addressed through mutual cooperation by Muslim countries.
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Sadiq said Islam was a religion of peace that abhorred terrorism and extremism in all their forms and manifestations.
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Kim Hyun Joong thanks fans for his win at the 'Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards 2013'
Kim Hyun Joong thanked fans for his win at the 'Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards 2013'!
Kim Hyun Joong picked up an award for the fifth consecutive year at the 'Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards 2013' held in Hong Kong. He was given the title of 'Top Buzz Korean Artist', which awards the most searched Korean star on the portal site over the past year. The singer-turned-actor was unable to make it to the event on December 1 due to scheduling conflicts but made sure to thanks his fans.
Kim Hyun Joong shared, "I heard the news of my award while filming the drama, 'Generation of Youth'. Due to my filming schedule, I wasn't able to attend the awards ceremony but thank you to all the fans for their unfailing support for the past five years... I will return the support with good acting and music."
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What is an Explainer Video? How long should an Explainer Video be?
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An Explainer Video serves to explain a business or convey its brand message, essentially, in a clear, concise and engaging manner. It is generally a brief animated video created using simple graphics and easy language in order to hold the viewers' attention. Considering the short attention spans we humans are known to possess, explainer videos are intended to be short.
Arguably, there's no better way to explain your ideas than to present them in the form of a simple and interesting animated video. Various researches confirm that video promotion is several times more effective than print or visual means of promotion. More than half the website visitors prefer to watch a video if available, before reading the text and they tend to remember videos better, too. In content marketing where doing more with less is a mandate, an explainer video can work wonders for any business. Being easier and faster to share, these videos add to the conversion rates and the SEO of a business website. A good explainer video can go a long way in advertising your offerings all around the world-wide-web in no time.
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First of all, ask yourself: what is your explainer video meant to explain? Depending upon whether it will serve as a teaser trailer or a product demo or will cater to certain training or educational purposes, its length may vary. So, for example, while a teaser trailer can be made as short as a one minute video and a product demo may require about two minutes explaining the requisite details of your offerings, a training or educational purpose video can get a lot lengthier.
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13) AlanRobertson: The LocalResourceManager has been requested to model fencing operations as resource operations.
I think this sounds like a big win if we can do this, but as of now, I'm not 100% sure if we know we can do this. More details on this can be found in the NodeFencing page. Also, for some reason, I thought this might also include ResourceFencing (since, after all, our main object is a resource). So, this is unclear to me at the moment.
HuangZhen: what is the define of ResourceFencing? As my understanding, it means that if the "stop" operation does not work or needs a long time to finish, we can use "fence" operation to stop the resource immediately. If so, it is the RA do the final work of ResourceFencing. LRM will just add a type of operation.
LarsMarowskyBree: I do not think ResourceFencing needs to be handled specially by the LocalResourceManager. Either a resource is self-fencing, in which case we just start it up, knowing that it will handle all of it internally (and the monitor/status operation would inform us if a reservation was pulled out from under us), or we need to perform a special 'reserve' command - but I would argue that we should encapsulate this into a special ResourceAgent, say SCSIReservation, which the Filesystem resource would then depend on - from the point of view of the LRM, no special handling at all is required for either of these two.
AlanRobertson: I will mark this issue as resolved pending the review of the LocalResourceManagerInterface. When that comes out, it may become obvious that this is all fine, or it may become obvious that it needs more work.
14) LarsMarowskyBree: Discussion of the states which resources can be in.
start command will lead to starting state
If no failures occur, will lead to started
If a start failure occurs, will lead to failed
Will stick in this state unless monitor ever fails, in which case it will go to failed
stop command will transition to stopping
restart will transition to restarting
If no failures occur, will lead to started
If a failure occurs, will lead to failed again
If no failure occurs, will lead to stopped
If a failure occurs, will lead to dead
From the ClusterResourceManager perspective, the distinction between starting and started is important, because during a recovery phase we may find a resource in starting phase and know that we can't do anything yet before it has reached the started stage. (Same for the other transitions.) It may also be possible that other resources - ie, primary/secondary-types - can be in more states, transitioning from active to backup or vice-versa, and resources which can be active on a pool of nodes also need to be able to tell that they are number X from a pool of N et cetera. This too needs more thought.
AlanRobertson had an extended conversation with LarsMarowskyBree on this topic this morning (2/19/2004). We agreed that the LocalResourceManager will not track past resource state. As a result of this conversation, AlanRobertson will mark this item as resolved.
11) Have we agreed yet that the LocalResourceManager can be told to monitor a given resource ever so often in a single command and just sent an event when that fails?
I don't find it in the design, and I'd hate to have to send a resource ping across the network potentially every second [;)]
AlanRobertson answers: Yes. I've discussed this with the rest of the LRM team, and we've talked about it. It was something which I originally neglected to mention to them. I will highlight this issue to them.
9) Should operation timeouts be given on a per-operation basis, or should they be given at the beginning when the ResourceInstance is first instantiated
AlanRobertson's CurrentThinking on this subject is that timeouts should be given with each operation to be performed. This would allow different timeouts to be given for the same operation with different parameters. For example, the monitor operation has a parameter which tells the "depth" or difficulty of the monitor operation. Each depth could then easily be supplied with a different timeout. If the timeout is associated with the operation itself, this would be more difficult.
LarsMarowskyBree: I think giving them per-operation is fine.
8) What about large metadata returns?
AlanRobertson: We agreed to put practical limits of (64K for example) on the metadata -- at least for now.
7) AlanRobertson: The module loading and the code of the resource procedures I think should be in the LocalResourceManager process, and not in a child process as the current version of the picture shows.
6) IBM China: What is the resource procedures' meaning?
AlanRobertson: They should absolutely be done in a child process. One per operation. No concurrency should be allowed on any given ResourceInstance
5) AlanRobertson: My experience suggests that system(3) is not the way to invoke the ResourceAgent scripts.
IBM China: you are right, I will change it.
4) IBM China: Do you think the child resource process should live all time or quit when there is no operation?
AlanRobertson: They should live only long enough to perform their work. This changes the process structure from what you already showed.
3) IBM China: What is the benefit of using the structure rsc_ops instead of listing the functions in the lrm_rsc? I learned this way from heartbeat.
AlanRobertson: I copied that technique from C++ compilers who do this in order to avoid making extra copies of all this data which is always the same.
2) IBM China: In the draft, I merged the basic operations and extension operations into one type of operation. And use string as the id of the operation.
AlanRobertson: If I understood your correctly, you merged all the extension operations into a single operation, and used a string as the type of operation for the extension operation. And, you kept the extension operations separate from the basic operations, which are still referred to using an integer or enumeration rather than a string. I think this (if I understand it correctly) is a good thing.
1) IBM China: Can I merge the two types of callback functions, the operation done and the status changed?
AlanRobertson: It seems likely that this is a good idea. However, there's still the nasty return of metadata from the client, which doesn't fit into this category quite so neatly.
IBM China: In fact, what I mean is that there is only one type of operation in the lrm and use the string as the type of the id of the operation. Thus we can make the api more simple but the strncmp will reduce the preformance of the service. So maybe it is not a good idea
AlanRobertson: I think the thing to notice is that the operations may have the same types of parameters (i.e., strings), but they give different result types. In particular, the metadata operation returns a block of XML as well as a return code. The others mainly return a return code.
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Hello Darling's…
So this Sunday we headed down to 'Fanny's Farm' located in Surrey.
Having been to quite a few establishments for afternoon tea we wanted to try something a little bit alternative for a change.
So when a friend told us about 'Fanny's Farms Tree house' we though it would be worth the trip…. And it was!!!
The reviews on trip advisor aren't the greatest but I chose to ignore them and we had a fabulous time. The rustic charm was a welcome change for the bustling city of London.
We entered in through the Farm shop with lots of friendly staff greeting us, we were then shown a selection of cakes to choose from by a very friendly young lady, and then taken to the tree house....
inside was candle lit with a lovely warm heater.
It was very charming I felt like I was in one of the characters houses from 'Wind and the willows'. After our lovely tea, we then had a walk around the yard, which was filled full of antiques and curiosities ; it was very quirky and cool.
As we went to settle our bill I noticed a sign that said 'Vintage china sale' so immediately asked a member of staff about it, she gave me a large key and gave me directions to a barn which was filled fill of vintage china. I picked up 4 vintage desert bowls for £1.50 each!
We loved Fanny's Farm and would recommend it for a fun afternoon out.


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Many schools are on fall break this week and next, so I wanted to come up with some insider tips on how to make the most of your time off by visiting Hendricks County if you are looking for a more affordable option that is closer to home.
My first tip that almost goes without saying is to be sure to browse the many Visit Hendricks County blog posts that go up daily during the week. I'm certain you'll learn about an event or attraction you never knew about before. You can even sign up to be a subscriber there to be notified whenever a new story is posted.
Here are just a few of my personal favorite ideas for fall break ideas in Hendricks County...
Enjoying the Outdoors
The weather forecast for the coming week is pretty great. So, if you're like me, you'd first look for options that include getting out and enjoying the weather - while we can.
As I've mentioned in a previous post, we have an incredible selection of parks in our county. Whether you're a local or a visiting fall breaker, you don't have to wander far to find a great park that has numerous amenities - open space, walking/hiking trails and playgrounds. An afternoon at the park is always our family's go-to. Check out my post for three of our favorites.
Another fall favorite for our family is a horseback or pony ride. Lucky us, we have a beautiful ranch right here in Hendricks County.
Natural Valley Ranch
Natural Valley Ranch is a great place to take your little adventurers or animal lovers. This 78-acre ranch in Brownsburg boasts horseback riding, a petting zoo, pony rides, catch-and-release fishing and lodging.
Guided trail rides are offered in lengths of 30, 60 and 90 minutes.
Guests will be taken on a scenic tour of the beautiful property at Natural Valley Ranch.
Trail rides can be scheduled Monday-Sunday. Call or text (317) 509-3577 for availability and to schedule your trail ride.
Gorgeous scenery and relaxing horseback trail rides are just a few of the reasons this ranch remains a popular destination in Hendricks County. But truth be told, my kids always seem more enamored by the goats and free-roaming chickens and cats. That's right, the ranch is also home to a petting zoo.
The petting zoo is free for guests to enjoy, but a $2 donation is recommended.
The petting zoo is open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. and 4-7 p.m. Saturday hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Pony rides are $5 per person. Call for availability and schedule your pony ride by calling (317) 509-3577.
There's plenty of reasons to put a day at Natural Valley Ranch on your fall break "to-do" list.
Beasley's Orchard
Another outdoor activity my family enjoys this time of year is a trip through the corn maze at Beasley's Apple Orchard in Danville.
They just wrapped up the final day of their Heartland Apple Festival, but if you didn't make it out during the event, you still have time to take advantage of this popular fall attraction.
This year's corn maze theme pays tribute to the classic Ford Mustang. The four miles of "Mustang Muscle" pathways can be completed in as little as 30 minutes, but many take their time and spend at least an hour making their way through the maze.
Tickets are $7 for guests 3 years and older - children 2 years and under are free.
In addition to the corn maze, Beasley's also offers tractor-drawn hayrides to their 15-acre U-pick pumpkin patch. Guests can hitch a scenic ride for $3 per person - children 2 years and under are free with adult. Hayrides to the pumpkin patch operate on the same schedule as the corn maze.
They also have a new Barnyard Bonanza this year with all kinds of fun activities including some ball toss games, a giant jumping pillow and more. For more information about Beasley's Orchard, click here.
All of these activities and more are available now through Oct. 31 on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sundays noon-5 p.m.
They have even extended their hours this week and next only for you fall breakers as they are open Monday-Thursday from 1-5 p.m.
Monster Mini Golf
With Halloween fast approaching, this would be the time of year that my children most request a trip to Monster Mini Golf in Avon.
It's hard to describe this venue if you haven't seen it yourself. The interior of Monster Mini Golf is extravagant and captivating. Giant monsters and creatures cover the facility and come to fluorescent life under the black lights. An in-house DJ provides a mix of upbeat and spooky music - the perfect soundtrack for this attraction. Even modest mini-golfers will enjoy a round or two.
Monster Mini Golf is open from 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Mondays-Thursdays; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Fridays; noon-10 p.m., Saturdays and noon-8 p.m., Sundays.
Tickets for one 18-hole round are $7 for children and $8 for adults. Click here for special offers - different deals are offered daily.
UPaint Pottery Studio
Looking for a creative activity? Artists and amateur crafters will undoubtedly enjoy a little time spent over fall break at uPaint Pottery Studio in Plainfield.
If this is your first trip to the studio, here are some things you should know:
- No art experience is necessary. The studio has a friendly staff that is there to help.
- All materials are provided. A $5 studio fee covers the cost of paints and materials.
- Pottery pieces range from $5-$80.
The atmosphere at the studio is so inviting and relaxing. Children really enjoy the process of choosing their pottery piece, looking through design books and of course, painting their piece.
Pieces made by kiddos at uPaint Pottery Studio make fantastic, personal gifts for friends and family. I know it's fall break, but Christmas will be here before we know it.
When guests finish painting their piece, the studio will fire it and have it available within 7 days for pickup. If you're traveling from out of town, the studio will gladly ship your fired piece for a small fee.
The studio is open 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Mondays-Thursdays 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Fridays 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturdays and noon-5 p.m., Sundays. Guests can bring their own refreshments.
You obviously can package some of these ideas together or with any other activities that interest you on either the Hendricks County Insider blog or the Visit Hendricks County website to make your trip an extended week or weekend. There is plenty to do, and Hendricks County also has some great, affordable accommodations, restaurants and shopping.
Whatever fall break holds for you and your family, I'm sure you'll find plenty of ways to enjoy the time right here in Hendricks County.


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Biosceptre will be presenting a poster at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR) in Chicago this year, please find the time to come and talk about our understanding and exploitation of oncology target nfP2X7.
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Biosceptre's Phase 1 Clinical Trial for anti-cancer vaccine BIL06v approved by Ethics Committee
On the 21st of February Biosceptre's proposed Phase I clinical trial for BIL06v (anti-cancer vaccine) was granted conditional approval by the Bellberry Ethics committee. Biosceptre is now proceeding to take BIL06v into a Phase I trial in late Q2 or early Q3 2018.
Biosceptre has high confidence in the safety of BIL06v, in part as a result of pre-clinical studies and compassionate access patients treated in Australia under the TGA's Special Access Scheme.
The planned clinical trial will recruit between 20 and 30 patients from a basket of late stage cancers and seeks to confirm safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of BIL06v. The planned clinical trial will also seek to identify early indications of efficacy in humans.
CEO Gavin Currie said "Having recently closed entry to our Series A fund raising round, we are pleased that this fully funded clinical trial, building on significant preclinical data, has been conditionally approved. We consider that a successful clinical trial, our first for a systemic therapeutic product targeting nfP2X7, will provide further validation of nfP2X7. We are hopeful for first patient recruitment in Q2 2018."


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I'd like to see that an edit was already rejected by another reviewer and especially the reason for this decision. Right now, in the new beta-review you can't even see whether an edit was approved or rejected previously (in the old review view the buttons had
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The problem is, that some reject decisions are not obvious. Simple example: copied content. I google for every suggested tag edit and very often it is copied without proper attribution. However, a few minutes later I find the edit approved by two other reviewers.
I am sure that they would have rejected, too, if they just had the information that someone else already thinks that the content is copied. Or at least they would have checked the content more carefully themselves.
And with individual rejections (where someone enters free text) it is even more important to show the text to other reviewers.
I'd like to see this information on the review page. Not hidden in a popup. When a edit is marked as copied content for example, every following reviewer should be aware of it instantly.


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Alright. I have about 48 hours now of getting acquainted with my new Cosmo and sorting out the ends and bits of using it as an unsupported device on Google Fi.
Top line? Works - so long as you DO NOT INSTALL THE GOOGLE FI APP. Doing so means that if you ever want to receive an SMS message again you're looking at a factory reset AND getting stuck in a never ending loop of failed device registration.
I shut down my old Google Fi phone, pulled the SIM, put it and a 400GB Sandisk card into the Cosmo, powered on and it worked. Then I installed the Google Fi app, merrily went about installing dozens of other things - then figured out that my SMS sends were not making it through.
Trouble shooting on a long road... I went through four factory resets, trying different methods and twists of installing the Google Fi app. Voice, data, SMS work before installing the Google Fi app. After, Voice and Data still work, SMS receive works, but SMS send dies and the app fails to register the device properly - which throws it into a never ending fail to register loop - which eats battery..
Other than not being able to run the Google Fi application itself, it seems to be working quite well. Every time I restart, the device prompts me to install the Google Fi application so that it is fully registered. So, I have to select 'later' every time.
When I log into the Google Fi application via web browser, it has the Planet Cosmo Communicator listed as one of my devices and with my proper phone number assigned to it.
Will this device ever be fully supported by Google Fi and it's application? Well, I doubt Google Fi is going to even blink unless they have a few thousand of these showing up on their network.
Is anyone else trying to use the Cosmo on Google Fi? Have you had any better/worse/different results than I have?
14 Feb 2019
It works. In fact, it works pretty darn well actually.
Neverwinter Nights is seeing a pretty significant resurgence in popularity with the BeamDog Enhanced Edition updates and being present on the Steam store for PC/Mac/Linux. However, hidden in all of that is a release through Google Play for NWNEE Android.
NWN is a keyboard heavy game. It requires using WASD -and- arrow keys for navigation - you have to rotate the world and zoom in/out to see/do things. AND on persistent worlds in particular, being able to communicate requires that keyboard. I don't think of it as playable on a phone. The Gemini changes that equation.
Not only is it playable, but it is enjoyable to play on the Gemini. Last night I was logged in an playing on a NWN persistent world with ~90 other players on it. I was able to navigate, communicate, etc. Complex combat 'in game' for spellcasters might be a bit difficult - I haven't tried that yet. For things like that you might still want to use a 'gaming rig'. But for connecting and 'social interaction', it's a fantastic mobile solution.
30 May 2018
So, Google just announced two new phones to be available for use on Google Fi. Both are glass slabs just like the other glass slabs that they offered before.
From my understanding, the Gemini has the requisite antenna support.
What it would need, in my theory, is the carrier & WiFi hopping magic software that Google Fi uses on their phones.
Frankly, all carriers could do with a bit more variety in their offerings. Google's offerings in particular has been distinctly saddening.
Planet Computers would be unlikely to get a meeting with Google Fi's product guy, but I can dream, right?
24 May 2018
Has anyone found an Andriod app that uses the FM radio tuner? Everything I am finding is strictly streaming, which misses the point.
22 May 2018
So, if you put a 64GB or larger 'factory formatted' card into your Gemini, it forces you to format the card prior to recognizing it.
The Gemini apparently does not support ExFAT. Why not? How do we get it included so that it can behave like any other Android phone from the last 5+ years with regards to SDXC media?
Of note - Gemini has claimed support of microSDXC media to 256GB. The SD association specification for SDXC media over 32GB includes ExFAT. Without that, the product is, 'out of spec'.
Yes, I know, Microsoft proprietary format adopted as an industry specification without consulting the masses, EXT4 would have been better, etc... None of that is relevant though.
Your modern stand-alone camera will require EXFAT on all cards > 32GB.
This has far more to do with device interactions than the Gemini's internal microSDXC usage.
Put that card in a USB reader, connect it to the Gemini, and it fails to recognize it and demands that your camera card be formatted. Copying files off of USB mounted SDXC or microSDXC media to the Gemini is a no-go without an Android ExFAT driver.
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*** Hi all, unfortunately the changes to Twitter mean that Twiku can no longer post tweets. Poor old Twiku never sold enough to warrant any more time being devoted to it so instead of removing it from the store I'm making it free. I hope you all enjoy it! ***
If you love using Twitter, but need to spice up your tweets, you need Twiku for iPhone and iPod Touch. Twiku is the app that turns your tweets into pure poetry. Literally! After writing hundreds of tweets, they all start to sound the same. Boring, right? Twiku livens things up by helping you turn your tweets into beautiful Haiku poems.
Twiku was developed with Twitter in mind. Since Haiku poems are all about packing a lot of power and meaning into just a few syllables, they're never boring, and perfect for tweeting. If you're not sure how to start, Twiku has a built-in tutorial that shows you what Haiku is and how to build one.
There are four styles of Haiku, the original Japanese form, and three western forms; and Twiku knows them all. While you're composing, the app continually monitors your progress, and figures out which type of Haiku you're writing. With a built-in 120,000 word dictionary to draw from, and the ability to count syllables and ignore hashtags, Twiku will tell you exactly what you need to finish your poem.
If your muse should abandon you partway through your Haiku (and it happens to the best of us), you can save your masterpiece -in -progress as a draft, and come back to it when your inspiration returns. When you're finished, you can post your poem to Twitter, straight from the app. Or, if you like, you can skip Twitter altogether and take it right to email.
Now that you're published, you can go off in search of inspiration for your next literary feat; or just sit back and let Twiku bring it to you by searching and downloading poems that other people have tweeted.
All the world's a stage, and with Twiku on your iPhone or iPod Touch you've just become one of the players. Twiku has made you a poet, and now it's time to let the world know it!


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Red Sox Rumors: Andre Ethier
Andre Ethier
There are three pros (why the trade will/should happen) and three cons (why the trade won't/shouldn't happen). But we'll start with the pros.
1.) The Dodger's Financial State.
By now everyone is at least somewhat aware of the Dodger's current finical state. And Yesterday, a judge rejected owner, Frank McCourt's financial plan. This means that now, McCourt will have to receive a loan from MLB.
Like said in the previous story, with McCourt barely meeting his recent payrolls, the Dodger's might try to dump as much salary as possible. Ethier is the third highest paid player on the Dodgers and is due about $3,166,667 for the rest of the season. Ethier's two-year, $15.25 million dollar contract is up after this year. However, he would stay under team control for one more season.
The Dodgers are trying to lock up their two young stars in Ethier and Matt Kemp, whose contract at the end of this season, but will remain under team control for one more year. Yet, since the Dodgers don't exactly have cash to spare, they may only be able to sign one player, if any. The Dodger's need to realize that Ethier and Kemp will be long gone and need to trade them ASAP so they can get a few prospects.
2.) Dustin Pedroia
It doesn't hurt when the guy who is campaigning for you is probably the most vocal guy on the team. Like mention in the photo caption above, Ethier and Pedroia (as well as Ian Kinsler), played college ball together at Arizona State University and are best friends. And it isn't like Theo Epstein doesn't listen to who his players want to play with.
3.) J.D. Drew
He's thirty-five years old, hitting .129 in his last ten games, and lost his starting job to twenty-four year old kid. Sorry J.D., but your time is up. As for Josh Reddick, can you honestly expect him to keep hitting .356 in September? He's just a kid and can't be trusted when it matters most.
Who do you want to have up with two outs and the bases loaded? A player hitting .219 who needs to call it quits, an untested kid, or arguably the clutchest player in baseball in Ethier. In 2009, had six walk off hits (four of them where home runs), the most in the majors since 1974. Subsequently, he won the MLB Clutch Performer of the Year award and won a Silver Slugger.
Now, on to the cons.
1.) The Dodger's Future
Next year, the Dodgers could have a new owner who has enough money to sign Ethier long term. While Ethier's return value will decrease if he is traded in the offseason or at next year's trading deadline, is it a risk worth taking? I mean is getting Felix Doubront (the Red Sox's number two prospect) and not Anthony Ranaudo (Boston's number one prospect) that bad? If I were general manager, Ned Colletti, I'd hold on to Ethier until January and if McCourt was still the owner, then trade Ethier. One thing to think about though, is that after the World Series is over, a lockout will occur.
2.) The Prospects
We saw Ryan Kalish blossom last year and if it wasn't for shoulder and neck injuries, I wouldn't have been surprised if he had been called up before Josh Reddick. Boston has two future stars in Kalish and Reddick and Boston may end up having a position battle in spring training next year. Or have them share time in the outfield. Their last option would be to trade one, because they only really need one of them. And when you have two future stars in right-field do you need a right-fielder who is already a star? No.
3.) Josh Reddick
Simply put the kid is on fire! He has four home runs, eighteen RBI, three triples, slugging .622, and has an average of .356, in just ninety at-bats. When you stretch those numbers out over the amount of at-bats Ethier has, Reddick's numbers would be superior to Ethier's and look like this . . .
Would I like Ethier on the Red Sox? Sure, but with Josh Reddick and Ryan Kalish waiting in the wings, this deal isn't necessary.
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Red Sox Rumors: Hiroki Kuroda
Hiroki Kuroda
According to ESPN Boston.com, "Boston Red Sox more likely to make small deadline deal than blockbuster." Shortstop, right field, and a lefty reliever are all desires. A starting pitcher though, is a necessity. Even when Clay Buchholz and Jon Lester come back, either Tim Wakefield, Alfredo Aceves, Andrew Miller, or Kyle Weiland will still be in the rotation. Wakefield has a WHIP of 1.33, Aceves is more valuable in the bullpen, Miller is averaging a walk every 0.71 innings, and Weiland is just a rookie.
Kuroda on the other hand, has a record of 6-11 (which isn't his fault as the Dodgers have averaged just 2.18 runs per game in his starts), an ERA of 3.13, a WHIP of 1.20, averages a walk every 0.25 innings, and made his professional debut in 1997 as a member of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Japan's Central League. Kuroda has been pitching in MLB with the Dodgers since 2008. Kuroda like Jose Reyes and Ryan Ludwick has an expiring contract and is due about $4 million for the rest of the season.
One thing to take into consideration is that Kuroda has a complete no-trade clause in his contract. However, according to reports, Dodger management has contacted Kuroda about waiving his no-trade clause. Yet, Kuroda hasn't given the Dodgers a list of teams that he'll accept a trade to and each day it starts to look less and less likely that Kuroda will waive his no-trade clause. One last thing to note on his no-trade clause is, that there is a rumor the Kuroda won't accept a trade to an east coast team.
Kuroda has mixed postseason numbers. In 2008, he went 2-0 with a 1.46 ERA in 12.1 innings. Yet, in 2009 in a start against the Phillies, he gave up six hits and six earned runs in just 1.1 innings pitched. Despite his horrible start back in 2009, there is no reason that Kuroda shouldn't be able to pitch in the 2011 postseason like he did in the 2008 one.
With the Dodgers' current financial state (for starters, Manny Ramirez, Juan Pierre, and Andruw Jones are owed a combined $15,033,333 at the season's start), they might try to trade every player they can in order to dump salary, as owner Frank McCourt has barely met payroll according to reports. Kuroda is the second highest paid player on the Dodgers behind Rafael Furcal, the only players in eight figures.
Depending on the availability of Ubaldo Jimenez, Kuroda is probably the best starting pitcher on the market. Kuroda is also one of the most likely players to be traded to the Red Sox. The Indians, Tigers, and Yankees are also looking at Kuroda just to name a few teams.
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Cleaning of rental properties is often neglected in different situations. A tenant who moved out might have left you, the property owner, with a huge mess to clean up and thus you need the place to look neat for the next one. Maybe you are the tenant moving out and you want the place to be cleaned up so that you can collect your deposit. Or maybe you just moved into a new rental and you are not satisfied with the state of the place and you require extra cleaning. Our rental cleaning services include:
• Outside and inside cleaning of cupboards
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Balfour's Ghost · 20 March 1997
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God's Endurance · 30 November 1995
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Two-Faced · 21 September 1995
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Maggiefication · 6 July 1995
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Why Do the Tories Always Have the Luck? · 23 February 1995
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Is Quebec Crying Wolfe? · 22 December 1994
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Serial Evangelists · 23 June 1994
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Having it both ways · 27 January 1994
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Here we go · 21 October 1993
Tale from a Silver Age · 22 July 1993
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Lawson's Case · 28 January 1993
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Maastricht or no Maastricht · 19 November 1992
Scoutmaster General · 24 September 1992
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Baring his teeth · 25 June 1992
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Up the avenue · 11 June 1992
- Election Rides by Edward Pearce
Hook and Crook · 15 August 1991
- Suez by Keith Kyle
Who ruins Britain? · 22 November 1990
- Friends in High Places: Who runs Britain? by Jeremy Paxman
- The Sunday Times Book of the Rich by Philip Beresford
Into the sunset · 30 August 1990
- Ideas and Politics in Modern Britain edited by J.C.D. Clark
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Diary · 16 August 1990
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Jews on horseback · 10 May 1990
- Disraeli by John Vincent
Seeing it all · 12 October 1989
- The Time of My life by Denis Healey
When the pistol goes off · 17 August 1989
- Arnold Toynbee: A Life by William McNeill
Is it a bird, is it a plane? · 18 May 1989
- The Pleasures of the Past by David Cannadine
Hoylake · 30 March 1989
- Selwyn Lloyd by D.K. Thorpe
Starting up · 6 November 1986
- The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924-1936 by Harold James
- The Making of Keynes's General Theory by Richard Kahn
- Towards the Managed Economy: Keynes, the Treasury and the Fiscal Policy Debate of the 1930s by Roger Middleton
- Keynes and his Contemporaries edited by G.C. Harcourt
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Enemies Within · 7 February 1985
What Keynes really meant · 19 April 1984
- The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Vol. XI: Economic Articles and Correspondence, Academic edited and translated by Donald Moggridge
- Keynesian Economics: The Search for First Principles by Alan Coddington
- Keynes's Economics and the Theory of Value and Distribution edited by John Eatwell and Murray Milgate
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Burrinchini's Spectre · 19 January 1984
- That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in 19th-Century Intellectual History by Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow
Margaret Thatcher is about to have another of her triumphs · 2 June 1983
First past the post · 17 February 1983
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- A New History of England, 410-1975 by L.C.B. Seaman
- The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939 by Martin Pugh
A Time for War · 21 October 1982
- The Rebirth of Britain edited by Wayland Kennet
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Can Maynard Keynes do it? · 3 June 1982
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Crossman and Social Democracy · 16 April 1981
- The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman edited by Janet Morgan
History's Revenges · 5 March 1981
- The Illustrated Dictionary of British History edited by Arthur Marwick
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The light that failed · 18 September 1980
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Strachey, Prospero, and The Seventh Heaven · 22 May 1980
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By Christopher Hopkins
Published December 2017
Can't WAIT to shoot up my school. It's time. School getting shot up on a Tuesday.
In a series of Tweets over a two week period, a Florida high school student unintentionally set in motion a series of events – his arrest, trial, and appeal – which ultimately revealed a gaping hole in Florida law: many threats on the Internet cannot be prosecuted under the relevant Florida Statute because the law fails to address the situation when threats are not directly made to a recipient but, instead, are broadcast via open social media platforms, discussion forums, and website comment sections.
In J.A.W. v. Florida, the Second District concluded that the Tweets above did not violate Florida Statute 836.10 ("Written Threats Statute") because the Statute's "narrow language" required that the threat be sent directly to intended victims or their family members. In J.A.W., the teenager wrote his Tweets as jokes directed to his group of fellow gamers who felt their taste in heavy metal music was wrongly associated with school shootings. None of the recipients attended J.A.W.'s school or were even located in Florida (indeed, group members apparently got the "joke"); unexpectedly, the Tweets ultimately came to the attention of local (Sarasota) police. J.A.W. was charged and tried under the Statute but the appellate court reversed since he had not directly sent the threat to any victim(s).
The Second District acknowledged that social media platforms such as Twitter are "often used to post communications publicly, for the whole world to see, instead of sending those communications directly to any specific person" (discussion forums and comment sections also fit the criteria). The Court recognized, "in this context, a threat of violence made publicly on social media is likely to reach its target and cause fear of bodily harm just like a traditional letter [but not violate the Statute]."
The Written Threats Statute comprises five elements: it is a felony to (i) write or compose and (ii) send or procedure the sending of (iii) a letter, inscribed communication, or electronic communication (iv) to the intended recipient or a member of the recipient's family (v) which contains a threat to kill or injure the recipient or family member.
From 1900-1920, it was a common criminal practice to send so-called "black hand" extortion notes which were anonymously signed with a threatening symbol, the drawing of a black hand. The Written Threats Statute, enacted in 1913, may have been born out of that early Mafia practice. After one hundred years and four amendments, the Statute still requires that the threat must be sent to the victim or family member. The Legislature added "electronic communication" to the Statute in 2010 but this proved to be a belated (and perhaps incomplete) attempt to include all Internet communications. Social media platforms, forums, and comment sections were already widely used by that time but, either by choice or omission, any threats which were openly (rather than directly) made in such forums would slip through the grasp of the Statute.
Meanwhile, in Florida's judiciary, online threats appeared to be a trend: five of the last six opinions interpreting the Written Threats Statute involved Internet-based communications. By 2013, two opinions confirmed that the Statute would not apply to online threats which were made openly but not directly.
Macchione v. State illustrated that the addition of "electronic communication" to the Statute in 2010 may have been too late to catch the social media explosion. Macchione's threatening Twitter posts and YouTube videos were circulated in 2009 before the "electronic communication" amendment and thus were outside of the scope of the then-applicable Statute. The Fifth District recognized that Twitter and YouTube had already "grown exponentially" by the time of the amendment but stopped short of discussing whether the Statute applied to "open" versus "direct" threats online. The First District, however, caught the point.
In O'Leary v. State, the defendant made threatening statements on Facebook about harming his relative who did not see the post because the defendant's account was private. However, by propinquity, the defendant was "Facebook friends" with a mutual relative; thus, the First District stitched together that O'Leary's threat was "sent to" the one relative who was his Facebook friend. Since that person was related to the victim, the statutory elements were met. Despite a successful prosecution under the O'Leary facts, the shortcoming in the Written Threats Statute was clear: a threat on social media would not be prosecutable since it was not sent to the victim unless, by pure chance, it could be argued that it was directed at a victim or family member who happened to be a "friend" or "follower" of the person making the threat.
The State might argue that Florida Statute 790.163(1) criminalizes a "false report, with intent to deceive, mislead, or otherwise misinform any person… concerning the use of firearms in a violent manner…" That law, however, requires "intent" which, as the Supreme Court confirmed in Elonis v. U.S., can be difficult to prove. Since Elonis, defendants often deny criminal intent by claiming that their statements were "a joke" or quotes from violent rap songs.
J.A.W. confirms that the Written Threats Statute cannot address threats which, while still harmful, are openly (but not directly) made on the Internet. The Second District concluded that, "the Legislature may wish to revisit section 836.10 to address the modern problem of threats issued and shared publicly on social media."
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2015 regular season record: 1-7
2015 regular season standings: 10th in OUA
2015 playoff record: N/A
2015 playoff finish: N/A
This fall York University Lions head football coach Warren Craney enters his seventh season at the helm of the program and expectations have never been higher for his squad.
Craney and his staff reset after a challenging 2014 season and the program took a noticeable step forward last year, posting a victory over Waterloo in Week 5 and finishing the season with a narrow one-point loss to nationally-ranked Queen's in the finale. The positive results were thanks in large part to a remarkable recruiting class that produced four OUA all-rookie team members. This year's fortunes will once again rely on those same players and a new crop of rookies who will attempt to make the same impact, and for those reasons a top-six finish is squarely in their sights.
In recent years the offence has shown it can move the ball, and this season Craney expects the defence to hold its own when called upon. The Lions are still young and will rely heavily on first- and second-year players, but with such a balanced roster and talent to burn, 2016 is shaping up to be the best yet for Craney and his program.
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"We've got a solid foundation and we are looking to make a run at the playoffs," said Craney about his team's outlook for 2016. "The recruiting class we brought in last year is far exceeding their expectations as sophomores and they are ready to carry this program on their backs. We followed up that class with some much needed size and talent on the lines this year, as well as another group of talented skill position players who will bring some much needed depth to the line-up.
"Last year I said before the season that it was the best football team we'd ever had, and I will say right now that this year we are even better. We are older, bigger and stronger and have remarkable talent across all position groups. We have a bunch of winners on this team, they don't know any better and that's all they want to do here."
- Warren Craney, head football coach, York University Lions
Head Coach: Warren Craney
- Number of seasons as head coach with team (including 2016): 7
- Number of seasons as head coach in CIS (including 2016): 7
- Career regular season record with team: 6-42
- Career regular season record in CIS: 6-42
- Career overall record with team (reg. season & playoffs only): 6-42
- Career overall record in CIS (reg. season & playoffs only): 6-42
Number of returning starters: 9
Key returning players:
RB Jesse Amankwaa (Etobicoke, Ont.) won the OUA rookie of the year award last season, York's first recipient since 1996. He ranked second in the conference with 137 rushes and had 689 yards and four touchdowns. He was also named a member of the OUA all-rookie team.
QB Brett Hunchak (Calgary) is the opening day starting quarterback as a sophomore following an impressive rookie debut in which he took over the starting job in Week 4. He finished his first season 80-of-143 (55.9%) for 952 yards and two touchdowns.
REC Colton Hunchak (Calgary) appeared in all eight games as a rookie and finished with 32 catches for 355 yards. He showed in the season finale why the coaching staff is so high on him, catching 13 balls for 135 yards against nationally-ranked Queen's.
OL Chris Kolankowski (Etobicoke, Ont.) enters his fifth season with the Lions and will anchor the offensive line. He was selected by his hometown Toronto Argonauts in the sixth round (49th overall) in the 2016 CFL Draft earlier this year.
Key recruits or transfers:
RB Khaliel James (Toronto) joins an explosive backfield for the Lions. He won a silver medal with Team Canada at the 2014 U19 world junior championships in Kuwait and also played for Team Ontario in the 2013 Canada Cup. He picked up more than 12,000 all-purpose yards and 67 touchdowns in high school and in 2014 was named the Windsor-Essex male athlete of the year.
RB Kayden Johnson (Kerrobert, Sask.) is another running back now in the fold with the Lions. He represented Canda at back-to-back U19 International Bowls in 2014 and 2015 and played for Team Saskatchewan at the 2013 Canada Cup. He is also a track and field athlete, winning a silver medal in the decathlon at the Canadian junior championships and finishing fifth at the junior Pan American championships.
OL Ben Phelps (Burlington, Ont.) comes to York from Assumption C.S.S.. He participated in the 2015 Ontario Prospect Challenge as a member of Team Halton-Peel's varsity squad.
Key losses:
OL Jamal Campbell (Toronto), OL Jordyn Moore (Whitby, Ont.)
Number of returning starters: 8
Key returning players:
DB Rees Paterson (Sherwood Park, Alta.) finished his sophomore campaign with 21.5 tackles, two interceptions, one fumble recovery and 10 pass break-ups. He is a former OUA all-rookie team member and was part of the Canadian team that won the country's first ever gold medal at the 2012 U19 world junior championships.
DB Josh Small (Pickering, Ont.) has played in 30 games over four seasons at cornerback and safety, compiling 111.5 total tackles, four interceptions and 10 pass break-ups. He participated in the 2015 East West Bowl and last season had 21.5 tackles.
LB Nikita Starchenko (Whitby, Ont.) has started 18 games at linebacker over the last three seasons, accumulating 83 tackles, and last year started seven games and finished third on the team with 39 tackles, including 4.5 for a loss. He participated in the 2016 East West Bowl.
Key recruits or transfers:
DL Skye King (Calgary) was a lineman at the prestigious Notre Dame H.S., winning back-to-back provincial championships in 2013 and 2014. He played on the defensive line for Team Canada at the world junior championships this past summer, winning a gold medal with an upset win over the United States in the final.
DL Rossini Sandjong-Djabome (Longueuil, Que.) comes to York from CEGEP Edouard-Montpetit, where he spent three seasons playing defensive end. He was part of the Canadian team that won the silver medal at the 2014 U19 world junior championships in Kuwait.
LB Andrew Smith (Whitby, Ont.) spent one season at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., where he led the team in tackles and was selected as an all-state and all-Southwest all-star at linebacker. While playing for Donald A. Wilson H.S., he earned the league MVP award in grade 11.
Key losses:
DE Hussein Hazime (Toronto), DB Scott Noivo (Montreal), DB Damone Williams (Mississauga, Ont.)
Key returning players:
FB Mitchell Fraser (Newmarket, Ont.) earned the team's Andre Durie Special Teams Award for 2015. He picked up seven tackles and was a force in all special teams scenarios.
K/P Nick Naylor (Abbotsford, B.C.) has been the team's starting punter and placekicker for two seasons. Last year he was 9-of-13 on field goal attempts and averaged 33.1 yards per kick on punts.
ey recruits or transfers:
K/P Enzo Lariccia (Port Colborne, Ont.)


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Jay Rubenstein
Armies of Heaven
The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
Basic Books 2011
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You've got to be pretty creative to get anything like "holy war" out of the New Testament, what with all that trespass-forgiving, cheek-turning, and neighbor-loving. By all appearances Jesus didn't want his followers to fight for their faith, but rather to die for it as he had. And during the first three centuries of Christianity–in the time of the Roman persecution–that's just what they did. "To die in Christ is to live," wrote the Apostle Paul. And it seems a lot of early Christians believed him for they sought martyrdom. Jesus passively gave his life; and they passively gave theirs. What could be more fitting?
All this passivity makes the Crusades seem very strange indeed. If Christ's message was one of peace, what in the world were Christians doing taking up arms in the his name? In his excellent Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse(Basic Books, 2011), Jay Rubenstein explains that the reason they did so had everything to do with the conviction that the world was going to presently end. The Crusaders fervently believed that the closing chapter in temporal history upon them and that they had a role in bringing it to the right conclusion. They didn't know exactly what that role was, but there were good hints in ancient scripture and contemporary signs. Everyone agreed that, whatever part the Crusaders were to play, it involved liberating Jerusalem from the infidels. So off they went. Since they were on a holy mission–in fact the last holy mission before Christ's return–the ordinary rules did not apply. The Crusaders forced Jews to convert or else die (many were murdered). They killed Muslims indiscriminately. They made sport of desecrating the bodies of their victims. They even roasted some on spits and ate them. That's right: they roasted and ate them. It was like something out of the Book of Revelations. Which made sense, because the Crusaders believed they were in the Book of Revelations.
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Goodlatte, Nadler Applaud House Passage of Judiciary Committee's Bipartisan Music Licensing Legislation
Washington, D.C. -- The House of Representatives today approved the Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (H.R. 1551), bipartisan legislation that updates several key provisions of U.S. copyright law regarding music licensing. This consensus legislation is a product of the House Judiciary Committee's comprehensive copyright review and was introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Vice Chairman Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), former House Judiciary Committee Chairman and current Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and Representative Ted Deutch (D-Fla.).
Chairman Goodlatte and Ranking Member Nadler applauded today's vote in the statements below.
Chairman Goodlatte: "Today's House passage of the bipartisan Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act is a major victory for American music creators, music distributors, and the music listening public. This legislation, which modernizes our music copyright laws so music creators are fairly compensated for their works, finally brings our music laws into the digital age.
"I appreciate the hard work of the many House and Senate Judiciary Committee Members who came together on this legislative package. Music has such an immense impact on all of our daily lives and with this important legislation headed to the President's desk, we will help ensure the sustainability of the evolving American music industry for decades to come."
Ranking Member Nadler: "I am proud that the Music Modernization Act will now head to the President's desk. This bill will update the law to better serve both creators and digital music providers. Virtually all of the major industry stakeholders came together to support this bill. I am particularly pleased that this bill includes several measures included in the Fair Play Fair Pay Act, which I introduced the last two Congresses. Under the leadership of Chairman Goodlatte, we have joined together on a bipartisan basis to modernize the music licensing system. We have seized this historic opportunity to resolve some longstanding inequities in the music marketplace by helping digital services more efficiently license and distribute musical works, while ensuring artists, songwriters, and other music creators receive fair market value for their work."
Key Provisions of the Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act include:
Title I – Music Modernization Act
- Reflects how modern digital music services operate by creating a blanket licensing system to quickly license and pay for musical work copyrights
- Discourages music litigation that generates legal settlements in favor of simply ensuring that artists and copyright owners are paid in the first place without such litigation
- Ends the flawed U.S. Copyright Office bulk notice of intent system that allows royalties to not be paid
- Implements uniform rate setting standards to be used by the Copyright Royalty Board for all music services
- Shifts the costs of the new licensing collective created by the bill to those who benefit from the collective - the licensees
- Updates how certain rate court cases are assigned in the Southern District of New York
Title II -- Compensating Legacy Artists for their Songs, Service, and Important Contributions to Society (CLASSICS) Act
- Provides that performers who recorded songs before 1972 can finally be paid for their works (currently, only performers who recorded songs after 1972 are paid for their works)
Title III -- Allocation for Music Producers (AMP) Act
- Ensures that record producers, sound engineers, and other creative professionals receive compensation for their work


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Originally from Parma, Ohio, Mr. Raiff attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland where he earned a bachelors of science in accounting. He obtained his teaching credentials from John Carroll University and master's in educational administration from Cleveland State University. Mr. Raiff taught mathematics, business, and technology courses at Maple Heights High School, Parma High School and Independence High School for nine years.
Mr. Raiff began his administrative career serving as assistant principal at Bexley High School, Westerville South High School, and principal at Westerville Central High School before coming to the Olentangy Local Schools. With Olentangy, Mr. Raiff was the assistant principal at Olentangy High School for three years, principal at Liberty High School for four years and the chief academic officer for the district for five years. He is the first internal candidate to ever be promoted to the position of superintendent with the Olentangy Local Schools.
Mr. Raiff is the proud husband of Katie Raiff, a fifth grade teacher at Freedom Trail Elementary School. He and his wife have four children.


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