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Archive for May, 2017
Terror in Manchester
Terror struck again, this time at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. What began as a night of fun for fans of the pop music diva ended with 22 dead, many of them children, and 59 others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself in the middle of the concert arena. ISIS quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by 22-year-old Salman Abedi who seems to have become radicalized after travelling to Syria.
Once again, the world is left struggling with what can only be described as a senseless and ghastly act of violence. As I have after other similar attacks, I want to offer a few thoughts on how to process yet another week marred by a terrorist's malice. Here are three things to consider.
Sin is real.
In general, we want to believe that people are good. Sure, there may an occasional evil outlier, but, overall, we like to assume that people are hardwired for goodness. The steady stream of terrorist attacks, however, indicates differently. Indeed, the tragedy in Manchester was the most widely reported terrorist attack of last week, but three additional attacks were also launched this past week – one in Egypt, another in the Philippines, and yet another in Indonesia. Heinous acts of evil are rampant. Sin is all too real.
It is true that the vast majority of people, thankfully, will never be party to a terrorist plot. Every one of us, however, will struggle with some kind of sin. Whether it be the sin of deception, or lust, or pride, or anger, none of us can escape the sirens of our sinister sides. Because we live in a broken world, we have to live with the sad fact that the sin of terrorism will continue to be "out there." But because we ourselves are broken people, we also have to live with the sad fact that we will continue to struggle with sin in us. The apostle Paul is right when he writes, "For all have sinned" (Romans 3:23). Sin is real and is everywhere.
Righteousness is real.
We may struggle against sin, but we also yearn for righteousness. We recoil in disgust against terrorism precisely because we know it's wicked and we yearn for what is right. But how do we know what is right and that terrorism is wrong? Paul explains that, even if we do not know God, we know what is right and wrong because God has written righteousness on our hearts: "When [people], who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts" (Romans 2:14-15). This is why, in the face of evil, we appeal to and press toward righteousness.
Justice is coming.
In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr. declared, "We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt." At a time when racism was rampant, Dr. King believed justice would ultimately triumph. And although racism still spreads its ugly tentacles through our society, justice has been slowly but surely bludgeoning the evil of racism over the 54 years since Dr. King's speech. What is true of racism is also true of ISIS and other organizations like it. The evil of ISIS is simply no match for the justice of God. ISIS may delight in the death of the innocent, but a day will come when "there will be no more death" (Revelation 21:4), for "death will be swallowed up in victory" (1 Corinthians 15:54) through Christ. Indeed, Christ has already defeated death by His resurrection. And because of Christ's resurrection, those who lose their lives in Him do not lose their lives forever. Death, for them, is but a pause in the drumbeat of life. Their resurrections are soon to come when Jesus comes.
So after a week when a terrorist did his worst, we can take comfort in the biblical promise of everlasting life. To quote the poet and pastor John Donne:
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Trump, Lavrov, Comey, and Flynn
What a week it's been at the White House. Last week brought what felt like a one-two punch of political crises. First, The Washington Post reported this past Monday that President Trump, in an Oval Office meeting, shared highly classified information concerning terrorist activity with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Because the information the president shared was first shared with us by one of our allies, the potential exists, according to some experts, to compromise our intelligence sharing relationships with these allies. Then, the very next day, The New York Times published a story claiming that President Trump had asked the now former FBI director, James Comey, to end his investigation into the president's fired national security advisor, Michael Flynn. As soon as the story broke, many began to raise questions about whether or not the president potentially obstructed justice. The president has since denied The New York Times' report.
As politicians and pundits debate the consequences, the legality, and the constitutionality of the president's alleged actions and their implications for our country, and as our political discourse continues down a path that seems to be increasingly marked by fear, distrust, and anger, here are a few reminders for us, as Christians, to help us navigate these heady times.
Pray for the president and for all our leaders.
Whether you love him, hate him, or are on the fence about him, President Trump needs our prayers. Scripture commands us to pray for him along with all those who serve in our nation's government: "I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people – for kings and all those in authority" (1 Timothy 2:1-2). This means Republicans should be praying for Democrats and Democrats should be praying for Republicans. Political leadership is not only geopolitically treacherous because of the power it wields, it is spiritually perilous because of the prideful temptations it brings. Politicians need our prayers.
Love the truth more than you love your positions.
In February, Elizabeth Kolbert wrote a piece for The New Yorker titled, "Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds." In it, she cites a Stanford study in which researchers rounded up two groups of students: one group that believed capital punishment deterred crime and another group that believed capital punishment did not deter crime. Both groups of students were then given two studies, one of which presented data that showed capital punishment did deter crime and the other of which presented data that showed capital punishment had no effect on crime. Interestingly, both of these studies were completely fabricated so the researchers could present, objectively speaking, equally compelling cases. So what happened? The students who were pro-capital punishment applauded the study that bolstered their position while dismissing the study that called it into question. Likewise, the students who were anti-capital punishment applauded the study that agreed with their position while dismissing the other study. These two groups were so entrenched in their positions that they dismissed, out of hand, any information that called their positions into question, even if that information was presented as factual. In other words, they loved their positions more than they loved the truth.
Politics seems to be custom-made for the kind of thinking that is more interested in holding positions than in seeking truth. I have seen several social media posts where people boast openly that they no longer watch this or that news channel. Instead, they receive their news only from outlets that are sympathetic to their positions. As Christians, we should humbly recognize that there is truth in all sorts of sources – even in sources that disagree with and call into question our political positions.
The nature of truth is that some of it will always make us uncomfortable. Sin, at its root, is based on lies, which means that some lies will inevitably appeal to us more than some truth, for all of us are sinners. Indeed, if some truth never makes us uncomfortable, then we are probably missing the truth!
Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska offered a great bit of moral clarity on the subject of truth in political discourse when he said recently on a morning news show:
Both of these parties, going back a couple of decades now, regularly act like your main duty is to – if here's the truth, and you think the other side's going to say this – you think you're supposed to say this to try to counterbalance it. I think that's a bunch of hooey … You're supposed to say what you think is true and try to persuade people to come alongside with you. You're not trying to counterbalance one falsehood with another.
This is exactly right. You don't fight one political tall tale with a tall tale of your own. Truth trumps political posturing. In the words of the prophet Jeremiah, we are to "deal honestly and seek the truth" (Jeremiah 5:1). We are not to blindly and sycophantically defend the positions of our favorite politicians.
Trust in the Lord; not in an earthly leader.
In politics, crises will always abound. Politicians, after all, are fallen human beings who are prone to making the same mistakes we are and can, at times, even intentionally and malevolently sin. This is why we cannot trust in them for deliverance from our plights and blights. Only the Lord can deliver us from these things.
Perhaps the thing that disturbs me the most about our current political environment is not what our politicians do, but what so many of us believe our politicians can do. So many of us seem tempted to fashion our politicians not as public servants, but as civil saviors. Sometimes, we can be tempted to believe our politicians can usher in a humanly wrought utopia (think of some of the hopes that rested on the chant, "Yes, we can!") while at other times, we can be tempted to believe our politicians can repristinate a bygone America full of wistful nostalgia (think of some of the discourse that surrounded the slogan, "Make America great again!"). As Christians, our hope lies not in utopia or in nostalgia, but in Parousia – the day when Christ will return and sin and death will be conquered by Him once and for all. That is our hope. He is our hope. So let's devote ourselves to proclaiming Christ, Him crucified, Him resurrected, and Him coming again.
No-Win Situations
George Jones once sang a song called "Sometimes You Just Can't Win." I imagine Jesus felt much the same way when He uttered one of the tersest parables of His ministry:
To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: "We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry." For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, "He has a demon." The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, "Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners." (Luke 7:31-34)
It seems no matter what message the kingdom of God was offering, the people of Jesus' day were determined to reject it. When John came preaching a message of somber repentance from sins, the people thought him to be mad. When Jesus came and welcomed sinners and preached to them the gospel of grace, the people thought Him to be licentious. Sometimes, you just can't win.
A while back, my son Hayden was a little under the weather. He was also teething. So when I held him, he cried And when I put him down, he cried. When I sat down with him, he cried. And when I stood up with him, he cried. At that time, I just couldn't win.
I have been a pastor long enough to watch quite a few people put themselves in what I call "no-win situations." Sometimes it's a financial no-win situation. "There is no way I have enough money to live on!" a person will say. Sometimes it's a relational no-win situation. "There is no way I can ever forgive this person for what they have done to me!" another person will say. And when I suggest some ways that someone can, in fact, navigate toward a winning solution, I will hear a whole litany of why there is no way to fix the problem. Sometimes, a person just won't let himself win.
When Jesus invites us to Himself, He invites out of the no-win situations of our sin and into the comforts, promises, and delights of His grace. Like John the Baptist came before Jesus, there is an element of repentance that comes before forgiveness – sorrow that comes before joy. But whether it is in dirge or in dance, we are invited out of our sin and into Christ's arms. The question is: will we be like the people of Jesus' generation, refusing both to participate in repentance and to receive God's forgiveness?
The apostle Paul writes that his desire is to "press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:14). Paul has a desire to win what matters most. But he also knows that his win will come not by his effort, but by his loss:
Whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ – the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. (Philippians 3:7-9)
Paul's win is the righteousness of Christ that leads to everlasting life. This is the win to which Jesus invited the people of His day in Luke 7. And this is still the win to which Jesus invites us. And there's no win that's better than this win.
The Search for Meaning
In his 1946 classic, Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl candidly and insightfully reflects on his time as a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz and how he struggled to find bright spots of meaning what felt like a deeply dark vacant evil. In one particularly moving passage, Frankl describes how he found meaning by thinking about his wife as he was forced into hard and humiliating work:
We stumbled on in the darkness, over big stones and through large puddles, along the one road leading from the camp. The accompanying guards kept shouting at us and driving us with the butts of their rifles. Anyone with very sore feet supported himself on his neighbor's arm. Hardly a word was spoken; the icy wind did not encourage talk. Hiding his mouth behind his upturned collar, the man marching next to me whispered suddenly: "If our wives could see us now! I do hope they are better off in their camps and don't know what is happening to us."
That brought thoughts of my own wife to mind. And as we stumbled on for miles, slipping on icy spots, supporting each other time and again, dragging one another up and onward, nothing was said, but we both knew: each of us was thinking of his wife. Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread behind a dark bank of clouds. But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look was then more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.[1]
As Frankl thought about the woman he loves, he found meaning for life in that love. He writes, "Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire."
The human desire for meaning, it seems, is a desire that is nearly impossible to extinguish, even when it is confronted with the horrors of a concentration camp. Whether consciously or subconsciously, everyone lives for something. Some people live for riches. Others live for fame. Still others live for pleasure. Some wiser and more mature souls find meaning in, if you will excuse the somewhat circular logic, more meaningful things. For example, I was talking to a single mom some time ago who lives for her kids. She works long hours and she has gone back to school so she can better provide for her two daughters. She finds her meaning in motherhood.
What is particularly fascinating to me about this mother's search for meaning is that she is, by her own admission, not a Christian. "Religion," she admits, "is just not my thing."
I have known this mom for quite a while and, on the one hand, I am proud of how far she's come. There was a time, not too long ago, when she reveled in a shallow hedonism – drinking, carousing, and doing drugs. All that has ended. She has fled those demons. On the other hand, however, I can't help but notice that, as admirable as her investment into motherhood is, she has only kicked her search for ultimate meaning down the curb a bit. Here's what I mean.
If my friend finds her meaning for life in being a mother, what happens if her kids rebel against her and ultimately reject her? Will she lose her source of meaning because they have pulled away from her? Or, what happens if she falls back into her old habits of substance abuse and fast living? Will she lose her source of meaning because she will not have been the mother she could have been? Or, less dramatically, what happens when her kids grow up and move away? When she no longer has little children to nurture, what will provide her with meaning and purpose?
It is in light of questions like these that Christianity's answer to man's search for meaning becomes critical. For Christianity asserts that man can only find ultimate meaning in God and in the hope of an eternity with Him. To use the formulation in the opening salvo of the Westminster Catechism: "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever." This is where man finds his ultimate meaning.
The problem with finding ultimate meaning in anything other than God is that no other source of meaning lasts. Every other source of meaning only kicks the search for meaning down the curb, for every other source of meaning eventually fades and expires, which compels another search for another source of meaning. Only God ends such searches permanently.
It is not until my friend finds her ultimate meaning in Christ that her search for meaning will find its final answer. There are greater sources of meaning and lesser sources of meaning to be sure. But there is only one eternal source of meaning. I pray that she, along with others like her, discovers this eternal source. For when she does, she will find that this eternal source leads to eternal life.
[1] Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), 36-37.
Secularism's Struggle
Last month, a group of social scientists from the United States, Malaysia, Finland, and Denmark published an article in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science titled, "The Future of Secularism." In it, the researchers noted that even though social scientists have generally assumed that secularization would increase as scientific inquiry and discovery continued to mature, thereby sidelining the need for religious beliefs to explain the machinations of the cosmos, secularization has not burgeoned the way these scientists had predicted. Instead, internationally at least, religiosity is actually on the rise. This article put forth some theories as to why this is the case. First, because religious people tend to have more children than non-religious people, religious parents have more opportunity to pass along their beliefs and values to their children than do non-religious people. Second, these researchers see a correlation between secularization and smarts. The smarter one is, the more secular he tends to be, these researchers say. And since there has been an overall decline in people's IQs, these researchers suggest that such declines have led to increases in religiosity.
Obviously, there is much that could and should be said about a study such as this. For starters, the story these researchers tell about how secular societies arise is hotly disputed. These researchers assume what has been called by philosopher Charles Taylor a "subtraction story." A subtraction theory of secularization asserts that as science is able to explain more and more, less and less space becomes available for the explanations of religion. Taylor rejects this theory and instead sees that, in more religious societies, people's concerns are centered not just on imminent things that science can observe, but on transcendent things that are beyond the purview of science as a discipline. In other words, people in religious societies are not simply asking questions that, one by one, have been answered by science so religion is no longer needed; instead, they are asking questions that are fundamentally beyond the realm of science – questions of meaning and purpose and morality and perfection. Hence, religion occupies a primary place in some people's imaginations because of the questions they are asking.
It should also be noted that though these researchers' glib assertion that as intelligence decreases, religiosity increases may be the finding of some isolated social science studies, it is certainly not born out by the overall the arc of history. The contributions of Christianity to architecture, literature, and even science are innumerable. So much of what we know now was driven by Christian intellectuals. Indeed, a quick look at the histories of our nation's auspicious ivy league universities demonstrate that we owe a great debt to Christianity intellectually.
For all that is questionable about this article, certain aspects of this study are not surprising. For instance, it is not surprising that religious parents tend to raise religious children. This is what they should be doing. In fact, this is part of what is commanded by Scripture:
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. (Deuteronomy 6:6-9)
Faith formation begins at home, Deuteronomy says.
It is also not surprising that the reports of religion's impending death always seem to turn out to be premature. There appears to be a religious impulse in humanity that just won't quit. The apostle Paul notes that this religious impulse finds its root in the religious reality of the creation of God:
Since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. (Romans 1:20)
In their study, the social scientists acknowledge that even some fellow researchers have suggested "that human needs for a spiritual life are actually strong evidence for the reality of a supernatural realm."
Beyond a family's religious heritage and humanity's general religious impulse, it should also be noted that, from its inception, Christianity specifically has been an evangelical faith. To know of good news and not to share it, in the Christian conception of things, is cruel to people in need of a Savior. So share we do. And, every once in while, through the Spirit's ministry and by the power of God's Word , when we share Christ, a person is converted to Christ and religiosity increases.
All of this is to say that the belligerent endurance of religion is due to much more than higher birth rates and lower IQs. Indeed, religion endures not just because it stands athwart secularism yelling, "Stop!" It endures because it looks at all that is around us and processes the human experience and says, "There's something more."
Religion is the search for that "something more." And, I believe, Christianity reveals the One who is more.


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WELL. ::exhales:: The time has come to talk about our absolute favorite (and only??) Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn movie…Death Becomes Her! Meryl and Goldie play two bitter rivals who will stop at NOTHING and I mean NOTHING to one up the other!
First we meet Madeline (Meryl) who is a real DIVA of an actress starring in a shitty Broadway musical. Her longtime frenemy Helen, an aspiring writer, comes to one of her performances bringing her plastic surgeon fiancé Ernest (played by another one of my FOREVER HUNKS, Los BRUCIE WILLIS!) along with her. This was a HUGE mistake because once the words plastic and surgeon touched the incredibly vain and beauty-obsessed Madeline's eardrums, she turned her HORN SIREN on up to full blast, eventually seducing Ernest, causing him to leave Helen and marry Madeline.
Many years later, we find out that this betrayal had turned Helen into an unhealthy, depressed and very obsessed CUCKOOLICIOUS who is committed to a psychiatric hospital. She fakes her way out by pretending to be cured but secretly vows to get her revenge on Madeline.
More years pass and we see that Madeline is still obsessed with looking GORGE N' YOUNG, and Ernest is an alcoholic mortician. During one of her regular spa visits, she is given a mysterious business card of a woman who specializes in youth rejuvenation. Afterwards, she hears that her old pal Helen has become a successful writer and goes to her book party.
Surprisingly, Helen is looking like a lil' hottie and Madeline is clearly SHOCKED AND JEALOUS.
She ends up visiting the woman whose name is on the business card she received at the spa…and THIS is where we meet the elusive Lisle Von Rhoman played by the most beautiful ISABELLA ROSELLINI!!!!
Lisle promises eternal youth to Madeline with her magic potion which is kept in a fancy Fabergé egg…
Madeline is like PLE RIGHT AWAY ::magic boobs scene::
Meanwhile, Helen is plotting to steal back Ernest and kill Madeline! Let's talk about my favorite shot right here. Goldie Hawn, hair and makeup perfect, talking on the phone in front of an candle-lit altar wearing a Nike "Just Do It" shirt.
Always gots 2 give props to a spywear-type of outfit, complete with black beret, leather jacket and cateye shades.
She's even chic as fuck with a rope around her!
Things start to go crazy as the two ladies fight, literally, to the death over los Ernesto! Either he must have been RULL GOOD in the sack or these ladies don't give a shit about anything except beating the other at everything! (Most likely the latter.)
It becomes obvious that both of them paid a visit to the fountain of youth! These betches are OBV not taking care of their youthful bods. Lisle is going to be SO PISSED!
What a great duo Meryl and Goldie were. I could have watched a whole sequel about their two decapitated heads still arguing while rolling down stairs. Why couldn't we get any more movies starring the two of them? Some Thelma and Louise-type of adventures? As we know, Meryl is still doing rull well. These days, Goldie is totally zen and doing good thangs in the world, but I'm still going to hope and pray for a reunion movie with the two of them someday!

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Kaya Beach is a beach themed restaurant suitable for the entire family and is located in Grootfontein, Pretoria.
The Kaya Beach concept is quite unique and unlike any other restaurant in PTA.
We are not like other typical restaurants. We have specific sailing sessions and we follow an island programme where we bring out the meals in intervals so not like an ordinary buffet set up. We also host a fun raffle to keep our sailors entertained. Our music is a bit louder than normal restaurants, creating an awesome vibe without being too overpowering. This, together with the fire baskets situated all around the island, creates the perfect environment for rest and relaxation.
What makes us a really economically friendly choice is that all our sailors (that is, restaurant patrons) are required to bring along their own cooler boxes filled with whatever it is that they are drinking. Yes, that's right! You and your crew are allowed to bring in all your own drinks without having to pay corkage. Relax with a drink in your hand and your toes in the sand.
Our menu consists of a delicious, hearty, 6 course meal. The meals are brought out in 30 – 40 minute intervals and sailors are required to dish up for themselves. If you go home hungry, you only have yourself to blame.
Before I continue, it is important to warn you about the following:
Please do not visit Kaya Beach if you or your crew mates are on diet. The Kaya Crew will not be held liable for any additional {but oh, so worthwhile} kg's incurred.
To start off with, we serve a divine, creamy mussel soup accompanied by the freshest homemade bread. We allow about 30 minutes to pass before we introduce the next 2 meals; our famous chicken potjie and vegetable pot. After a further 30 – 40 minutes, we bring out our signature beef potjie (our Captains favourite) and individual portions of snoek served with a lemon butter sauce. Once that has settled and the feeding frenzy starts winding down, sailors help themselves to tea, coffee and koeksisters.
There are no minimum numbers required to make a booking. We can accommodate anything from 2 sailors right up to a total of 400.
Our island makes the perfect function venue whether it is for a birthday party, engagement celebration, year-end bash or a wedding.


text: I had a lovely time last weekend talking about knitting, spinning, history and socks!!!! It was the first time the Little Sioux Spinners and Weavers Guild brought a speaker to their annual meeting and it was a total blast. Thank you to all of the wonderful ladies who were great students and an attentive audience.


text: Malbaie Press (that is, I) went on a roadtrip this summer to Idaho and Washington state to do, well — let's call it "research" for my upcoming novel. Okay, it was a boating trip! But the trip gave me both work time and new material. After much hard work, two days ago (Saturday) I finished the first draft of the novel. It's about 480 pages right now, double-spaced. It's loosely about a guy who takes up boating, goes through college and gets into teaching, but then quits and ends up on an epic river trip. Below is a picture of me from my recent trip west, on the White Salmon River in Washington. Thanks to Dustin Lanci for the picture.


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It is a beer that is so rich, so glowing, so full of its very own characteristic flavour, that it reminds some who try it of chocolate and others of coffee. Gulden Draak Golden Dragon smells of triumph. It is a definite party beer.
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Brewery Van Steenberge Country Belgium Style Strong Ale Alcohol Content Alc: 10.5% Pack Size Sold as 24 x 330ml


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Upcoming community giving day events provide 24-hour focus to the importance of philanthropy within Nebraska and on our University of Nebraska campuses.
Omaha Gives! – May 21
On May 21, from midnight to midnight, join others in supporting local nonprofits in Omaha through Omaha Gives! The online giving event brings donors together to support the work of organizations throughout the Omaha community.
Two University of Nebraska entities participating this year in Omaha Gives! address issues critical to the Omaha and campus communities: University of Nebraska at Omaha's Maverick Food Pantry and the UNMC SHARING (Student Health Alliance Reaching Indigent Needy Groups).
Maverick Food Pantry
Food insecurity is becoming more evident on college campuses. And UNO is no exception. In 2013, UNO created the Maverick Food Pantry which provides nutritionally balanced food assistance packages to current members of the UNO community who are in need. To date, the pantry has received more than 400 requests and distributed more than 6,500 pounds of food.
The mission of the Maverick Food Pantry is to contribute to UNO's culture of caring by providing food to those in immediate need at UNO and connecting them with resources in the greater Omaha area for long-term assistance. The pantry, located on campus, runs entirely on monetary and non-perishable donations.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center organization enhances the well-being of the Omaha community by providing high-quality, low-cost health care and human services to those in need. UNMC SHARING oversees four student-run clinics in Omaha. These clinics are dedicated to primary health care, HIV and STD testing, primary care for Type 2 diabetes and vision care.
Since the organization's creation in 1997, the SHARING clinics have provided medical care to more than 1,400 patients annually.
The student-run SHARING clinics provide care in multidisciplinary education settings that empower patients and instill the values of service and compassion in UNMC students.
To participate in this year's Omaha Gives! visit omahagives24.org on May 21.
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Give To Lincoln Day is your chance to make a real difference in Lincoln's quality of life. We encourage you to join others for a record-setting day of giving on May 29.
Every donation you make on May 29 helps your favorite Lincoln charities, including the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Your gift goes even further this day because participating organizations also receive a percentage-based share of a $300,000 matching challenge gift.
On this day, UNL provides focus to gifts in support of the Nebraska Legends Scholarship. This scholarship represents a priority for UNL and its effort to recruit top students to Nebraska. Nebraska Legends provides a support system for new students and represents a critical part of the university's efforts to reach an enrollment of 30,000 students.
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Give Where You Live: Kearney Area – Dec. 4
If you're the planning type, mark your calendar for Dec. 4. This day, the Kearney community will come together for a day of giving during the Give Where You Live event sponsored by Kearney Area Community Foundation.
It's the community's biggest-ever day of giving, and it's your chance to make a real impact on the University of Nebraska at Kearney and other organizations that matter to you.
Watch for more information and see kearneyfoundation.org.


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After the plunge in crude oil prices, many oil producers idled a portion of their operations to help keep costs down. However, with energy prices rebounding, drillers will begin drilling again, potentially capping gains in the oil industry and sector-related exchange traded funds over the short-term.
Across oil and gas fields from Texas to Pennsylvania, oil producers have kept the flood gates on 4,731 wells closed, idling 322,000 barrels a day underground or the equivalent of what Libya has been producing this year, Bloomberg reports.
The so-called fracklog, or number of wells waiting to be hydraulically fractured, has tripled over the past year after companies shutdown operations in light of the low oil prices. However, with oil prices rebounding – West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures were back up to $57.9 per barrel Thursday, the fracklog may slow a recovery as more companies finish wells and restart their pumps.
The energy sector has been tapering off after a swift rebound over the past month. For instance, the Market Vectors Unconventional Oil & Gas ETF (NYSEArca: FRAK), which includes North American hydraulic fracturing companies, is down 2.3% and the broader Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLE) is 1.0% lower over the past week.
[The FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resource Index Fund (NYSEArca: GUNR) provides exposure to the rising demand for natural resources and tracks global companies in the energy, metals and agriculture sectors, while maintaining a core exposure to the timberlands and water resources sectors. Specifically, GUNR includes 32.2% energy, 29.6% agriculture, 27.9% metal, 4.9% Timber and 4.8% water. [Diversity in a Natural Resources ETF]
"Once service costs come down and drillers begin to work through their higher-than-normal backlog, the market should start to price in that supply coming online," Andrew Cosgrove, an energy analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, said in the article. "It may act as a cap on prices."


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The United States is troubled by the decision by an Egyptian court after a judicial process to freeze the assets of additional human rights defenders, including Mozn Hassan of Nazra for Feminist Studies and Mohamed Zarea of the Arab Penal Reform Organization. These freezes follow similar actions against the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, and the Egyptian Center on the Rights to Education – and their leaders – in September.
These human rights organizations work to document violations and abuses, advance women's rights and gender equality, and defend the freedoms enshrined in Egypt's constitution. This decision comes against a wider backdrop of restrictions on Egyptian civil society activity and will produce neither stability nor security. We urge the Government of Egypt to lift these asset freezes, take all legally available measures to end the investigations into these human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and ease restrictions on association and expression so that these and other NGOs can operate freely.
Source: U.S. State Department.


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|A few works from Hush at The Fayetteville Public Library
Monday started with an interesting and exciting business meeting and some great views. Tuesday, there was a much needed get together with theatre maven Erika Wilhite. Wednesday I enjoyed a day off and some giving of time in honor of Nelson Mandela and then yesterday there was another good meeting and the installation of my latest exhibition, Hush, at the Fayetteville Public Library. Today, Stewart Bremner and I are being interviewed for a feature in the Free Weekly about our current exhibition, A place called home, which continues through July 27th at the Arts Center of the Ozarks.
Never a dull moment in my art world and for that I am grateful.
Yesterday after Hush was installed on the walls of the library, I do what I always do, I take a minute to absorb the new exhibition space and the work I have done. I viewed the familiar paintings with new eyes as a viewer and not the artist. I read each painting with words and I studied the pure abstracts and I marvel yet again how a space changes with art, how the blank room I entered was not the same and how even the paintings change as they take on their new surroundings.
I have to say I think the library is a particularly perfect fit for this body of work. As always, there is that quiet moment when I just look and a calm comes over me. I relish that fleeting moment of complete satisfaction after watching the work slide into place to fit the space. There is a zen to putting up an exhibition, less is always more as space is required so the work can breathe and truly be seen. I felt so serene as I was doing my walk through. At one point a young woman, who I know from many openings, looked up from her computer, smiled and whispered across the room, "Megan, your work looks really great in here..." Thinking about it now brings tears to my eyes. Her face was so wide open and she wasn't saying anything more or less. I smiled and I floated out of the room, Yes, my work looks really great in here...
Here is my statement for Hush.
Megan Chapman's exhibition, Hush, brings together three recent bodies of work into one. In it viewers will find works from the artist's popular series, Falling into sound, Sometimes I love you
and other stories and From across the ocean. All of these paintings are part of what the artist terms her White Series, that began in 2009 and continues today.
In Falling into sound, the artist began the transition into more minimalist work, using a near monochromatic palette. These paintings are quiet and meditative but also buzzing with layers
of subtle colors and texture. Two of these pieces are featured in this exhibition, Sometimes and Falling into sound.
Many of the paintings that make up both Sometimes I love you and other stories and From across the ocean, feature words written using an old manual typewriter and vintage paper. The words are
the artist's own and reflect her thoughts while being in a new long distance relationship with Scottish artist, Stewart Bremner.
The small framed paper works, from the artist's most recent series From across the ocean, document the artist's first journey overseas, when she spent four months in Edinburgh, Scotland. The lines echo
the geology of the area, the sea and the atmosphere of the grey winter sky. Simple words and lines are used to stage these moments and hold them in a type of permanence.
Megan Chapman's Hush brings all of these works together and into a new light. These works are not unlike chapters in a book, each a little different but very much connected in the telling of a story, not
only about the artist but also about the viewer.
Hush will be on display July 19th through September 4th in the Reading Room on the second floor of the Fayetteville Public Library. An artist's reception will be on August 4 from 3-5 in the Walker Community Room.


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With the spring rains on the way, it's a good time to start thinking about the backwater valve installation. Long before you get the heavy downpours that cause blocked drains and backed-up sewers, get your local plumbing services to come around and do a camera inspection, service your hot water heater and install the necessary equipment to avoid water damage this year.
Who Needs One?
Most new homes built in Toronto have all the necessary valves and protections installed at the time of building. If you live in a condo you certainly don't need to worry. If you're in a home more than a few years old, however, you may not have one, and if you haven't experienced flooding to date then you've just been very lucky. Basement flooding is endemic in the City, and contractors offering plumbing services are very busy every spring dealing with the fallout.
How Does It Work?
A backwater valve (also referred to informally as a sewer backup valve, sewer backflow preventer, and backflow valve) is a mechanism installed to prevent flooded municipal sewers and drains from backing up into your home. Even if the water (which possibly contains sewage) rises above the level of the drainage pipes, it only allows flow in one direction. This stops it from re-entering your home via outlets such as your sinks, showers, toilets and laundry tubs.
Does It Need a Sump Pump As Well?
Stopping the water from getting back into your house is only the first part of the battle. Getting rid of the excess water is the second part because unless you provide another outlet for backed up floodwaters it's likely to collect in pools around the foundations of your home. That can not only cause the flooding you were trying to prevent but also result in damage to your foundations.
A sump pump installation helps to disperse the water, in the absence of another method of drainage. Not every application requires both pieces of equipment, but in many cases, that's what is advised. The sump pump shifts the accumulated water from its location near the valve to a safe dispersal point, either on your property (such as your lawn where it can be absorbed) or directly into the City's main drainage system.
Will I Need to Maintain It?
Backwater valve installations require very little in the way of maintenance, but it's always good to have them inspected annually to make sure all the parts are moving freely and nothing is blocking its functioning. You might also need to clean out the valve periodically to avoid the collection of debris inside. This will maintain the integrity of the valve and keep it operating adequately.
What Will It Cost?
The cost of fitting a backwater valve depends on several factors, including whether it's retro-fitted or not:
- the location of your home's sewer line
- whether excavation is needed to access the location
- if you need a sump pump or pit as well as the valve, and
- whether you qualify for the City's rebate program for installation costs
Contact your local plumbing services to evaluate your situation and provide you with a comprehensive estimate of the costs involved.


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Pose for me. Pose. Pose, dammit!
(Click to expand to full size. Made with a Kindle Fire)
Ooh, I like! And the background is awesome.
Your paintings remind of Salvador Dali.
I love your stuff. I didn't know you could do that kind of thing on a Kindle Fire? It sorta makes me want purple nipples! 😉


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Published in the Federal Register on July 26, 2010.
36 CFR Parts 1192
[Docket No. ATBCB 2010-0004]
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guidelines for Transportation Vehicles
AGENCY: Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
SUMMARY: The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) is proposing to revise and update its accessibility guidelines for buses, over-the-road buses, and vans. The guidelines ensure that transportation vehicles are readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities. The guidelines apply to the acquisition of new, used, and remanufactured transportation vehicles, and the remanufacture of existing transportation vehicles to the extent required by regulations issued by the Department of Transportation. The guidelines for transportation vehicles operated in fixed guideway systems (e.g., rapid rail, light rail, commuter rail, and intercity rail) will be revised and updated at a future date.
DATES: Comments must be received by November 23, 2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number 2007-1 or RIN number 3014-AA38, by any of the following methods:
- Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
- Fax: 202-272-0081.
- Mail or Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of Technical and Informational Services, Access Board, 1331 F Street, NW, suite 1000, Washington, DC 20004-1111.
All comments received will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.
Supplementary Information:
- Background
- Format and Organization
- Proposed Changes That Received Substantial Comment
- Service Issues
- Section-by-Section Analysis
- Regulatory Process Matters
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Manorial Collegiate Church and the Monastery of Bad Wimpfen
Lindenplatz 7
- Opening Times: 7:30 am - 8 pm (church); cloister of the Monastery: Tue-Fri 10.30 - 11.30 am, Sun 3 - 5 pm
Monastery Bad Wimpfen, Lindenplatz 7, Tel. 07063 9704-0
Manorial Collegiate Church in Wimpfen im Tal:The romanesque west wing of the present-day building dates from the 10th century and the Gothic nave and chancel from the 13th. High Gothic cloisters. The Benedictine monks expelled from Grüssau monastery in Silesia lived after 1947. The Maltese Cross organisation uses it for seminars, retreats and as a base for social work. Those following the Saint Jacob's pilgrim trail find a peaceful place for an overnight stop here.
catholic churches
Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Klostergasse 13
- Opening Times: 8 am - 6 pm
A Dominican monastery was founded in 1269 and a Gothic church, added after
1300, was subsequently rebuilt in 1713 in Baroque style. The monastery was dissolved following secularization in 1818. The church is an important place
of pilgrimage (fragment of the Cross).
In the interior: a frieze with the armorial bearings of various benefactors, gravestones of Engelhard von Weinsberg and Anna von Ehrenberg (15th century),
a Late Gothic crucifixion group and an Ehrlich Organ. The monastery building and cloisters are now a grammar school.
Protestant Churches in Bad Wimpfen
- Town Church, Kirchplatz 1
Opening Times: April to October: Fri, Sa & Sun 10 - 12 am, 2 - 5 pm
Evangelical municipal church built between 13th and 16th centuries as a parish church on the site of a previous church predating Staufer times. Highly decorative interior including late medieval side-winged altars, mural paintings, Lutheran confessional and a 14th century pieta.
- Cornelia Church in the Valley, Heilbronnerstraße
- Parish Church Hohenstadt, Kapellengasse 10
- Liebenzeller Gemeinschaftsverband e. V.
Mathildenbadstraße 48, Tel. 07063 2350067
Kingdom Hall, Jehova's Witnesses
Im Löhle 5
New Apostolic Church
Alte Heilbronner Straße 6


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All the projects published in our two-part Small Projects feature were built for less than £250,000. The second part will be published next week. The work will be exhibited at the RIBA headquarters at Portland Place, London, in February.
PALMIRO, CHORLTON, MANCHESTER Architect: Maurice Shapero Cost: £150,000
This extension to an award-winning restaurant, specialising in authentic Italian trattoria food, creates an outdoor eating area and a first-floor extension to the flat above, where the owner lives with his family.
The brick wall is inspired by a Frank Stella painting, which consists of orange stripes winding around the surface of the canvas. The construction was resolved by threading stainless-steel rods through holes in the bricks, letting the mortar go off, and then post-tensioning.
The concrete wall cantilevers over the brickwork and a 25mm gap is left to give the feeling of suspension.
BY EDWARD ALBEE, LJUBLJANA CITY THEATRE, SLOVENIA Architect: Avci Architects Cost: £30,000
Albee's family tragedy is centered on an award-winning architect who falls in love with a goat. The consequences of this unusual love affair vary from mocking from his best friend to bewilderment from his wife and disgust from his son.
The tragic ending, in which the mistress goat is slain by the wife, supersedes the conventions of family drama and steps over into the bounds of Greek tragedy. This is recognised in the set, designed by Sanja Jurca Avci, which, while still serving as the minimalist architect's living room, also evokes the dimensions of a set for a Greek tragedy.
VALLEY ROOF ADDITION, TUFNELL PARK, NORTH LONDON Architect: Ian Hay Cost: £155,000
The two original hipped slate roofs at the front and back of this large listed Georgian terraced house in north London conceal a central valley. The inner roof slopes were removed and the central area enclosed with a glass skin to form a single space linking the front and rear roof voids. The space provides a new rooftop study with views south across the city and north towards Hampstead Heath. A steel cage structure, which meshes invisibly with the retained timber construction, cantilevers from the spine wall running along the centre of the valley to support the new roof and floor.
WROUGHTON ROAD, BATTERSEA, SOUTH LONDON Architect: Matthew Heywood Architecture Cost: £45,000
The corner site of this property provided an opportunity to create a new space linking the existing house with the garden. The simplicity of the design is intended to enclose a contemporary living space while sitting comfortably in the corner of the Victorian house. The use of anodised aluminium for the roof cladding emphasises the simplicity of the structure.
The glass doors fold back to blur the boundary between outside and inside, allowing activity to spill outside when appropriate.
BOILER HOUSE, GLASGOW Architect: Chris Stewart Architects Cost: £125,000
This is a small community building built within the walls of an old boiler house, which stands in the Hidden Gardens in Glasgow. In addition to an internal workspace there are associated kitchen, WC and office facilities. An enclosed external garden area has been created to allow classes to take place in the open air. Recycled materials have been specified where possible.
The main floor to the workspace has been created from a reclaimed gym floor, while raised planting beds have been constructed from gabion baskets filled with reclaimed bricks.
The old boiler house walls form much of the external walls to the new building.
BAVARIA ROAD, HORNSEY, NORTH LONDON Architect: West Architecture Cost: £55,000
A double-height living space has been refurbished and a new mezzanine has been constructed in this former Methodist chapel. All the services have been replaced, with a new kitchen relocated and underfloor heating incorporated into a ground-resin floor. The plywood balustrade to the mezzanine is solid to give privacy to the sleeping space and also provides primary support for the mezzanine structure in the form of a very thin deep beam. Access to the mezzanine is via a steel folded-plate staircase which hangs slightly short of the floor. The staircase is constructed from untreated mild steel and the intention is that it will oxidise gently over time.
GLENBOIG COTTAGE, FINTRY, SCOTLAND Architect: Studio Kap Cost: £220,000
The building brief, although for one house, required accommodation for two independent households: a nurse and her young family, and the elderly parents she is caring for.
The building is devised as a longhouse, in keeping with indigenous forms. Working with the contours of the land on a north-south axis enabled singleand two-storey elements to be brought under a unifying roofline.
Single-storey accommodation at the south end, with a sheltered loggia on to the garden, links at half level via living areas with the two-storey accommodation at the north end. Both parts of the house are entered from the east while living areas are orientated to the west with views of the landscape.
RETAIL UNIT, SPITALFIELDS MARKET, EAST LONDON Architect: Jonathan Clark Architects Cost: £180,000
The ground floor of this grade II-listed shop unit in Spitalfields market is for selling Asian teas, with the basement for selling teapots. On the ground floor there is a tasting counter with bar stools at one end. The general concept is the reinterpretation of traditional Japanese images and experiences without immediate reference. The long joinery wall serves both to display the product within mirrored spot-lit open boxes and also for product storage behind spun-vinyl curtains. These vinyl screens were imported from the US, where they were developed by NASA. The basement has teapot displays within suspended spot-lit Perspex boxes.
ART AND MEDIA SPACE, HOLBORN, CENTRAL LONDON Architect: Ash Sakula Architects Cost: £150,000
This scheme, for an art collector, is an insertion into the rear courtyard of a grade II*-listed Georgian townhouse, providing a terrace at ground-floor level and a media room from the existing vaults below. A white stone disc floats over the vaults to form the new terrace, with a curved glass balustrade skimming its edge and circular flush rooflights providing natural light to the space below. Glass bridges connect back to the main house through the modified existing sash windows. Presiding over all is the cast-iron Antony Gormley life figure, positioned to be viewed through the house on opening the main front door.
Below, a full-height faceted glazed screen follows the curve of the terrace to extend the existing vaults for the media room, and connects to the main house under the glass bridges. The screen creates multiple reflections on to a dense planting of ferns and bamboos. The white underside of the terrace curves up beyond the screen and is punctured by the shafts of the circular rooflights forming unexpected geometries as they intersect the arched vaults.
COMPOSTING WC, SHEFFIELD Architect: Sheffield School of Architecture Cost: All materials, tools and facilities were donated in kind from local sources/ organisations.
All work was undertaken by students as part of their MArch Course Designed and self-built by 12 MArch students as part of the University of Sheffield Live Project, the Ecclesall Woods dry-composting WC was the result of a partnership between Sheffield City Council, Handspring Design and the university. The form is inspired by natural elements encountered in the woods; its twisting and curving organic man-made structure is constructed using rotated rectilinear elements. Rising 4m into the forest canopy, the structure uses locally sourced timber and rests on a selfsupporting foundation of reclaimed railway sleepers. Applying innovative construction techniques, the WC enclosure employs no glue or metal fixings.
ARCHITECT'S STUDIO, MILTON KEYNES Architect: David Grindley Cost: £75,000
The new architect's studio is a linear, singlestorey open-plan space, in four distinct zones, with north-facing, clerestory windows bringing natural light into the space.
Emphasis was placed on the use of sustainable materials and prefabrication.
The principal construction material is a solid cross-laminated timber panel system. The panels were craned into position and screwed together to form the total structure and enclosure. The interior was left unfinished and treated with a white wax. The exterior was insulated and waterproofed using a continuous breathable rubber membrane.
This was then overlaid with vertical rainscreen cladding of untreated larch.
MEAD HOUSE, EWELME, OXFORDSHIRE Architect: Nissen Adams Cost: £60,000
An extension to a country house designed by Ivor Smith in the 1960s, and in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the brief was for a multi-purpose room and independent flat at the end of the exisiting building.
The new space is south facing and leads directly to the garden and the most intimate corner of the site. While strongly conscious of the surrounding environment, the architect also wished to respect the initial design's Brutalist background, while building a Modern design. Walls are cut away and broken down into sections that provide controlled views of the outside.
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We strongly encourage our vendors and party planners to adhere to safety guidelines provided by the WHO, CDC, and federal and local governments. Get tips for postponing events or hosting virtual parties here. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something…called a cragel? This isn't the traditional bridal rhyme gone wrong - it's a list of predictions for party design trends in 2014! We've scoured the web to bring you what's up and coming this year. Whether you're planning a wedding reception, corporate party, or even a backyard birthday bash, here are some of the trends you'll want to incorporate:
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1. Technology Meets Tradition
Pretty, printed invitations aren't going anywhere. E-vites just simply don't have the same allure as a sealed-and-sent request. However, in a world glued to their cellphones, it only makes sense to make some aspect of the invite process digital. Apps like Social Tables are a dream for event planners, letting you map out floor plans and check in attendees. For party hosts or brides-to-be, sites like RSVPify let guests RSVP with the click of a button; making life (and seating charts) easier for everyone.
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2. Sorry, Cupcake
Mini cakes may have been the star of the dessert table last year, but this year, expect to see an influx of interesting food combinations. We're talking cronuts (croissant meets donut), cragels (croissant meets bagel) and dessert pizzas. Start experimenting with your own mash-up menu items!
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3. Mix & Match
Bold colors, unique textures and funky patterns will live in harmony at this year's events. Get ready to dust off your grandmother's antiques, and mix them with fresh new decor for a quirky but charming atmosphere. Anticipate other combos, like bright neon hues with animal prints, or rustic chic with elements of nature. See the above photo of varying table centerpieces from MarthaStewart.com.
Photo credit: Elizabeth Anne Designs
4. We'll (Still) Be at the Bar
Interactive food bars will continue to be a hit, and for good reason! Guests get to play with their food, while customizing treats to fit their taste buds. From pancakes to grilled cheese, Elizabeth Anne Designs offers up this mouthwatering list of make your own stations.
2014 is sure to be a year for the ages, and these fun event trends will make your parties equally as memorable!


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Every weekend and school holiday cinemas around the country drop the prices of kids movies right down for families. This is on every week, but so many families still don't know about it, and if they do, they don't realise what good value it is - I certainly didn't till I booked our first tickets.
Kids AM at the Vue -most movies start at 10:00am but some can start at 9:45 and you can pick up tickets for £1.75 for adults and kids on Saturdays and Sundays. (3D movies are £3).
Movies For Juniors at Cineworld - For just £1.50 choose from a selection of lively kids movies, from animated films to live action spectacles. Register your details with mycineworld and sign up to receive exclusive film time emails, news and offers and you can take 10% off these movies too - my two little ones and I watch movies for £4.05 all in.
Odeon Kids tickets are between £1 and £2.50 depending on where you live. For tickets booked online, by phone, through the app, or on the mobile site a Remote Booking Fee of 50p applies to every ticket. If you use a credit/debit card to pay for 1 or more tickets in your online booking, Bookit Ltd will levy a single Card Handling Fee of 21p for processing your credit/ debit card transaction.
Click on any of the links above to go to the cinema's website and see show times.
At these prices, I never mind if my kids aren't enjoying a movie and want to leave, but at full price, I'd not feel as okay with it!


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I'll be there for your sketching , and signing pleasure.
This is a Batman drawing I did at last years charity live-art event.
It's a fun show with a bunch of cool guests.
If you're in the neighborhood, please stop by and say howdy!
Thanks for coming to Houston. It was great to be able to meet you. I love the Wolverine you drew for me! I hope to see you again next time around.


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The Jess Set- $ 155.00 USD $ 225.00 USD
Our two-piece set, in collaboration with @JessWithLess.
A versatile two-piece intended to adapt to many outfits. The top is reversible and the knot can be tied forward or towards the back. The pants are pull on with elastic waistband. Made of deadstock fabric that was sourced in Los Angeles. Learn more about our fabrics here.
- Zoe is 5'5" | dress size 8 | bust 36" | hips 40" and wearing a size medium in both the top and bottom.
- Two piece is 100% vintage linen/rayon blend.
- Dry clean or hand wash and lay flat to dry.
- Designed in Saint Louis and sewn in Alabama, supporting ethical work conditions and fair wages.
Fit Notes:
- Inseam: 22.25"
- Rise for both front and back: 25.5" (xxs), 26" (xs), 27" (small), 28" (medium), 29.25" (large and xl), 31" (1x), 33.25" (2x), 34.5" (3x)
*Please note, these measurements can vary up to .5".
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Hamm House
Established in Aÿ more than a century ago, Champagne Hamm has managed to preserve itself from modes and tendencies. Become master in the art of blending, its members had heart to perfect their expertise to offer champagnes of high quality. A century after its creation, the family house continues to write the legend of the king of wines.


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At Chasing Ray, Colleen Mondor looks at three books about Druids: Girlwood by Claire Dean, Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay, and Triskellion by Will Peterson. She also looks at the Connie Willis novella All Seated on the Ground.
At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer interviews Daniel Abraham, Gardner Dozois, and George R.R. Martin about their new collaborative effort Hunter's Run.
Author Jeaniene Frost has an interview with her agent Rachel Vater.
Author Rachel Caine reviews Black Magic Woman by Justine Gustainis.
A lot of new reviews at Book Fetish: Swimming Without a Net by Mary Janice Davidson, The Last Twilight by Marjorie M. Lui, Dark Hollow by Brian Keene, Once Bitten, Twice Shy and Another One Bites the Dust by Jennifer Rardin, Evermore by Lynn Veihl, Master of Shadows by Janet Lorimer, and Amberlight by Sylvia Kelso.
Bookgasm reviews Dave Keck's In the Eye of Heaven and In a Time of Treason and Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
The Millions has a great post about making art out of your rejection slips. Also, a list of the best parrot books ever. (Not books about parrots; books that have parrots in them. Oh, just go read the damned thing.)
Good post at Smart Bitches about copyright infringement.
The Dabel Brothers have signed Patricia Briggs to do a four-part series of original comics based on her Mercy Thompson character (Blood Bound, Iron Kissed, et al).
Dear Author reviews Succubus On Top by Richelle Mead, Grimspace by Ann Aguirre, and an interview with paranormal romance author Shana Abe.
Monsters & Critics has a new review of Small Favor by Jim Butcher.
At Fantasy Magazine, K. Tempest Bradford interviews Ekaterina Sedia and Justine Larbalestier.
Harlequin has launched a fabulous new blog for their paranormal romance authors.
La Gringa has a fangirlie moment: Matt Stover's third Caine novel, Caine: Black Knife is FINALLY going to get published! If you haven't has a chance to read the first two, you are doing yourself a serious disservice. Start with Heroes Die. (Just ignore the hideous cover. It is possibly the worst cover in the history of SF/F. Oh, and close your eyes and flip past that one torture scene where the bad guys sew insects under the skin of Caine's leg. GAH! )
The extremely occasional blog of Colleen Lindsay, professional nerd, cat herder, publishing optimist, and sartorial tragedy.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Wednesday night genre link round-up.
Linkity link link link link link! As La Gringa sits here waiting patiently for news about various and sundry job interviews, she may as well provide you with linkity goodness, yes?
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"I believe predictive text can be a real force for good!"
For anyone out there who has ever tried to text my name on their cell phone and gotten the word "ankle" instead. (Via Fluxblog)
Today is International
Delete Your Myspace Account Day!
Yes, it is. I didn't make it up. And Nick Mamatas gives some excellent reasons why you should delete your Myspace account.
My personal favorite:
My personal favorite:
You visit someone's profile only to have your eyes bleed because of terrible page layout with non-matching designs and font colors.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Tuesday night genre link round-up.
Yeah, I know I said I wouldn't be posting as often but I have a lot of links bookmarked that I want to get caught up on, so after this week, link posting will slow down to about three times a week. (Really. I mean it this time!)
First up, at Locus Online, Jeff VanderMeer posted a thoughtful round-up of his Best of 2007. Likewise, Claude Lalumiere has also posted a round-up of recommended reading. Both are well worth reading!
At the Los Angeles Times Online, Ed Park discusses Terry Pratchett. Also, Sonja Bolle reviews Runemarks by Joanne Harris.
Reuter's carries a story about Ender's Game becoming a video game. (Does anyone else see the irony in this?)
Minneapolis City Pages has an interview with Wicked author Gregory Maguire.
Of Blog has a new interview with Ekaterina Sedia. There's also a review of my pal Dave Keck's new book In a Time of Treason. (Yay! Go buy this book, please. Thanks!)
A Dribble of Ink reviews Diana Gabaldon's Outlander.
Fantasy Magazine has new reviews by Paula Guran of Naomi Novik's Empire of Ivory and Cherie Priest's Neither Flesh Nor Feathers.
Graeme's Fantasy Book Review looks at Debatable Space by Philip Palmer and Biting the Bullet by Jennifer Rardin.
Neth Space reviews Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson and The Traitor by Michael Cisco.
Miladyinsanity reviews Black Magic Woman by Justine Gustainis and an interview with Diana Pharoah Francis.
More tomorrow as I catch up...
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Monday genre review link round-up.
Firstly, I'm going to start including the PW round-ups with the regular link round-ups, since it takes too much time to
steal copy and paste and format the whole thing. You can click the link to see the full text of the reviews:
So, from this week's adult trade Publishers Weekly reviews, new reviews of The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson, Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories by L.E. Modesitt Jr. (starred review), Where Angels Fear by Ken Rand, The Alchemist's Code by Dave Duncan, The Ancient by Bob Salvatore, Rolling Thunder by John Varley, Ten Sigmas and Other Unlikelihoods by Paul Melko, When the Tide Rises by David Drake, Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine, edited by Nick Mamatas and Sean Wallace, The Healer by Sharon Sala, Deadly Deceptions by Linda Lael Miller (starred review), and a Signature Review by Jeff VanderMeer of Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the PW page above, you'll also see reviews for the following graphic novels: B.P.R.D.: Garden of Souls by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Guy Davis, and Amulet: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi (La Gringa hearts Kazu, fyi.) Lastly, in YA fantasy, PW has reviews of the following: Reincarnation by Suzanne Weyn and The Swan Kingdom by Zoë Marriott.
Justine Larbalestier has a very thoughtful post about what plagiarism is and what it is not.
At Salon.com, Laura Miller reviews The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories by Connie Willis.
The Book Swede has reviews of Darwin's Paradox by Nina Munteanu, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams, Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks, The Crown Rose by Fiona Avery, and an interview with Robert V.S. Redick.
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist reviews of Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn.
At Rain Taxi, Alan DeNiro reviews The New Space Opera, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, and Kristin Livdahl reviews The Dog Said Bow Wow by Michael Swanwick.
At Sci Fi Weekly, Paul DiFilippo reviews Thunderer by Felix Gilman and Hunter's Run by George R.R. Martin, Garder Dozois and Daniel Abraham; Doug Fratz reviews Debatable Space by Philip Palmer and War Machine by Andy Remic; and John Clute reviews Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost.
Speaking of Shadowbridge, Fantasy Book Critic also reviews it, as well as The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick, After the War by Tim Lebbon, The Blood King by Gail Z. Martin, and Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow.
The San Diego Union Tribune also reviews Shadowbridge, as well as Dragon Harper by Anne and Todd McCarthy, Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston, The Jinn from Hyperspace by Martin Gardner, and Gene Wolfe's Soldier of Sidon.
Author Jeffrey Ford also weighs in on Shadowbridge.
And at Fantasy Magazine, Paula Guran reviews Shadowbridge and Wastelands. Paula also reviews Grey by Jon Armstrong and Antediluvian Tales by Poppy Z. Brite.
EDIT TO ADD: Rose just let me know that there is also an interview with Iain M. Banks in this week's Publishers Weekly.
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
Sunday genre link round-up: Print Media Edition
We're going to get caught up on some print reviews that you may have missed from the past month.
The Denver Post reviews Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost, Queen of Dragons by Shana Abe, and Looking Glass by James R. Strickland.
The Kansas City Star also reviews Shadowbridge as well as Thunderer by Felix Gilman.
At the Washington Post, Paul Di Filippo reviews Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan, A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, The Sunrise Lands by S.M. Stirling, and the anthology Eclipse One, edited by Jonathan Strahan.
At the Village Voice, Brian Francis Slattery reviews You Must Be This Happy to Enter by Elizabeth Crane.
The New York Times reviews Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts, Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence, Clive Barker's Mister B. Gone, and John Shirley's Living Shadows.
The Los Angeles Times reviews Stephen King's Duma Key. Also, Ed Champion reviews Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune also reviews Duma Key.
At the San Franciso Chronicle, Mike Berry reviews Runemarks by Joanne Harris.
The Charleston City Paper reviews Black Hole by Charles Burns.
At the Contra Costa Times, Clay Kallam reviews Carol Berg's Breath and Bone, Kevin J. Anderson's Metal Swarm, Naomi Novik's Empire of Ivory, Whiskey and Water by Elizabeth Bear, End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, and the new anthology Wastelands, edited by John Joseph Adam.
The Toronto Star reviews Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips.
The Times of London reviews Eoin Colfer's Airman and The Cleft by Doris Lessing.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Stinkyboy watches Law & Order: SVU
House Guest took a cell phone photo of Stinkyboy watching television. Specifically, Law & Order: SVU. No, really. I think he has a thing for Mariska Hargitay.
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Wherein La Gringa finally navigates her way through setting up Google Reader!
Third time is apparently the charm. Cheryl Morgan tried to help me with this way back in October, but I made a mess of it utterly and gave up. Finally humanfemale, watching with exasperation whilst I clicked slowly and methodically through every single goddamned link on my blog, took matters into her own hands and helped me set up my Google Reader. And, after nearly eight straight hours of adding links, I am finished!!!
The genre link round-ups I'd been doing here on the blog were taking up an inordinate amount of my time, time I simply don't have any longer. Hopefully this will solve the problem. Also, I'll only be doing major link round-ups three times a week from here on in. That'll also cut down on the time spent online. There will be other changes coming along, but I can't talk about them here just yet.
The genre link round-ups I'd been doing here on the blog were taking up an inordinate amount of my time, time I simply don't have any longer. Hopefully this will solve the problem. Also, I'll only be doing major link round-ups three times a week from here on in. That'll also cut down on the time spent online. There will be other changes coming along, but I can't talk about them here just yet.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
New Soul by Yael Naim, or
That ubiquitous MacBook Air commercial
Because you know that every time you see that ad, you wonder to yourself "What is this music?" Well, I saved you the trouble of Googling it. (You're welcome.)
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And this is why we love Jeff Ford...
A comment that Jeff Ford left on Jeff VanderMeer's blog regarding a post about The Manga Bible:
"There's plenty of fucking in the Bible, but they never do a comic about it. That's the problem. If they do it, they should call it — BEGATS."Brilliant!
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Kirkus Reviews seeking materials submissions for
SF/F Special Issue
Heads up to all you indie publishers and authors out there! Kirkus Reviews is looking for materials submissions for their forthcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Special Issue (onsale April 1st). The deadline for submission of your book and/or manuscript is February 8th.
In order for your book to be considered, you must submit a finished book, galley or manuscript for any book that has been or will be published in 2008. Catalog copy will not suffice. They are also requesting only three books per imprint.
Important tip to authors looking to submit your own books: CHECK WITH YOUR PUBLICIST FIRST! Make sure s/he hasn't already submitted the book for you. If your publicity department has chosen not to submit your book in lieu of three others that they feel are bigger priorities for the publishing house, I would recommend that you respect their decision and do not submit your book on your own. You'll only annoy the people at Kirkus Reviews and you'll also be sending a clear message that you don't trust your publicist to do his/her job.
From Kirkus Reviews:
In order for your book to be considered, you must submit a finished book, galley or manuscript for any book that has been or will be published in 2008. Catalog copy will not suffice. They are also requesting only three books per imprint.
Important tip to authors looking to submit your own books: CHECK WITH YOUR PUBLICIST FIRST! Make sure s/he hasn't already submitted the book for you. If your publicity department has chosen not to submit your book in lieu of three others that they feel are bigger priorities for the publishing house, I would recommend that you respect their decision and do not submit your book on your own. You'll only annoy the people at Kirkus Reviews and you'll also be sending a clear message that you don't trust your publicist to do his/her job.
From Kirkus Reviews:
Once you've made your top picks, please send me one copy of the book, galley or manuscript, along with a one-page information sheet that includes the responsible publicist's name, e-mail and phone number for each title, and mark it as follows (so we can distinguish from books sent for regular review): Molly Brown, Reading Groups Special, Kirkus Reviews, 770 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003.(Thanks to Scrabble pal McLovin' for the heads up!)
We will include Children's and Young Adult books in this issue. Please send those materials to Vicky Smith and contact her directly with any Children's/YA questions at Vicky Smith, 99 Mitchell Rd., South Portland, ME 04106.
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Best. Book trailer. Evah!!!
Directed by McG, for the book Celebutantes by Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper. Seriously funny stuff.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Gratuitous cat photos.
Yeah, you thought this was gonna be a real post. But you'd be wrong. Until my hiatus is over, here are some gratuitous cat photos taken by Romany, my temporary British houseguest.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Welcome to the world, Chloe Arcadia!
Interrupting the hiatus to announce the arrival into the world yesterday at 3:59 PM of Baby Chloe Arcadia, freshly hatched spawn of Dutchboy and VillageChick!
Baby Chloe was two weeks late for her own first birthday, but she finally got around to popping out to say hello yesterday afternoon. Say hello to Baby Chloe!
Okay, sticking head back in the sand for a while.
Baby Chloe was two weeks late for her own first birthday, but she finally got around to popping out to say hello yesterday afternoon. Say hello to Baby Chloe!
Okay, sticking head back in the sand for a while.
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- FCW star Dean Ambrose (Jon Moxley) defeated Ezekiel Jackson in the dark match before tonight's WWE SmackDown tapings in Orlando, Florida. Ambrose is working as a heel.
- One-half of the WWE Tag Team Champions Epico posted the following rants on his Twitter today. It sounds like he's unhappy about being left off the WrestleMania 28 pay-per-view:
"Can you believe this @LaRosaMendes ? Every single WWE title was on The Wrestlemania PPV. But the WWE tag champs get the Pre-show"
"I thought this was WRESTLEmania.... No CONCERTmania... Who did Flo-rida and that MGK beat??? I guess they beat the tag champs"
"Not only the tag champs get left out of wrestlemania... We weren't even on Raw and it looks like we won't be on smackdown either..."
"and since when is Flo-rida, MGK and that menounos chick relevant to a wrestlemania????"


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Prior to joining the Conservancy, Trish worked as a restoration ecologist with an environmental consulting firm. Trish is a 6th generation Californian and has been working in conservation in southern California for over 20 years. She holds a B.S. from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and an M.L.A. from California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, School of Urban and Regional Planning.
Seth P. D. Riley, Trish Smith, T. Winston Vickers
Freeways are barriers to wildlife passage and gene exchange. In Southern California, mountain lion movement has been severely restricted due to this infrastructure. As a result, the mountain lions in the Santa Ana and Santa Monica Mountains have become severely inbred, threatening their long-term health and…
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Conservation of wide-ranging species like mountain lions is especially difficult in highly fragmented landscapes, such as coastal southern California. Research into their populations can provide important insights into what is needed to protect them, such as where to prioritize habitat conservation or restoration. This paper…
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BiosShock Infinite is well known and acclaimed videogame that got a lot of parodies... including hentai one right here! Just like in the original game you will play form first person perspective with beautiful Elizabeth as your companion. But you won't have to run anywhere or shoot someone - this game will take place in one of those rare moments when Booker and Elizabeth got some quite time for themselves. And it turned out that being locked up in her tower has developed in Elizabeth a big interest in male's sausage! First she will touch it, play with it, then she will stroke it while not forgetting about herself either. Just press an [A] button and Elizabeth will do more and more slutty things with your big and loaded so-called gun... It's time to find out how slutty Elizabeth is!
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Seamlessly join evaluation, instruction, and apply in a single place for every scholar in your district. Native American boarding colleges , which enforced white American values and the English language had been extensively used as late as the 1990s, and were notorious for implementing corporal punishment if a Native child was caught talking his or her language or freely training their tribal faith.
Many of these programmes have been set up in the late Eighties and early Nineties by educational linguists wishing to preserve the languages, respectively – particularly in areas the place there both is a wholesome talking base, or an endangerment of as little as two remaining speakers of a language.
A bilingual trainer additionally meets with college students' dad and mom, who may have limited or no English proficiency. This came with the dramatic lack of the languages, spiritual beliefs, and cultures themselves as a result of widespread use of corporal punishment and mental abuse.
Two-Way or Dual Language Immersion Bilingual Education. In French-immersion, students with no previous French language training, normally starting in Kindergarten or grade 1, do all of their faculty work in French. The languages of instructions are alternated by theme or content material space.
The 2-means bilingual immersion program is based on the principle of clear curriculum separation of the two languages of instruction. College students obtain instruction within the language arts of their native tongue earlier than being launched to those of the target language.


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The Army has confirmed the arrest of 40 foreigners, 39 Boko Haram suspects and over 42 Kalare boys in Gombe, Gombe State.
Commander of 301 Artillery Regiment in Gombe, Brig.-Gen. Zakari Abubakar, spoke at the weekend at the end of the 2016 West African Social Activity (WASA) at the Army Barracks.
He said: "The Army you used to know has gone hi-tech and revolutionised. This is what helped us defeat Boko Haram to the extent we have."
Gen. Abubakar urged the people to come up with information to help the Army defeat insurgency.
"The only problem we have is the communities; the people have not accepted the Army the way they should. A lot of people do not volunteer information to us and we cannot do it alone.
"So, we are call on the people around us to volunteer information to enable us perform even better.
"When they see any undesirable element, they should tell us. But if you collaborate with insurgents and hide them, that will make our jobs difficult," he added.
Deputy Governor Charles Iliya noted that people staying till the end of the event showed their interest in the armed forces. This, according to him, called for gratitude to the military.
"Gratitude for so many reasons. We would not be standing here like this but here we are today because peace has returned to the Northeast and Gombe State in particular.
"That is why we are gathered here today, relaxed and enjoying ourselves.
"We thank God, the Army and other security outfits for ensuring that we can sleep with our eyes closed these days.
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Covenant 1st Among World Universities in the Field of Housing; Satisfaction; Residential Satisfaction
Covenant University's exploits in the field of research has continued to wax stronger, with the University leaving the iconic and lesser known institutions in her trail as she emerged tops in the area of Housing; satisfaction; residential satisfaction.
Elsevier SciVal, the quick and easy access to the research performance of 8500 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide, had in its latest computations for the period between 2012 and 2017 ranked Covenant 1st among the top 10 institutions worldwide in the aforementioned topic.
One of the best 10 universities in Africa, the University of Johannesburg was second on the list, which also featured two other Nigerian universities - Obafemi Awolowo University (3rd) and Federal University of Technology, Akure (7th).
Amongst other institutions in the top 10 bracket were Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (4th), International Islamic University Malaysia (5th), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (6th), and University of Cagliari (9th).
According to the computations, Covenant led the pack with 18 publications and 74 citations, and leading the top 100 authors worldwide is a faculty in Covenant University's Department of architecture, Professor Eziyi Offia Ibem with 15 publications, 71 citations, and 8 h-index.
A multiple award winner, Professor Ibem's research interests include Sustainable Housing, Urban Communities and Construction; Procurement Practices; Post-Occupancy Evaluation; and Environment-Behaviour.
The next Covenant faculty on the top 100 authors list is Dr. Bridgette Egidario Aduwo, also of the Architecture department. Her 7 publications, 40 citations and 3 h-index earned her the 4th position. Dr. Aduwo's research interests are Housing issues; Interior and Landscape Architecture; Urban infrastructure and the built environment.
Other Covenant faculty on the list are Dr Akunnaya Pearl Opoko of the Architecture department, with 3 publications and 2 h-index; and Arc. Uwakonye Obioha, again of the Architecture department, with 2 publications, 8 citations and 2 h-index


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Arbi ,boil,sliced 250 gm.
Asafogetida (heeng) a pinch
Yellow Musturd dal 1 tsp
Red chilli powder 1 tsp
Onion seeds/kalongi 1/2 tsp
coriander powder 2tsp
Turmaric Powder 1/4 tsp
Amchur/Dry mango powder 1 tsp
saunf 1 tsp
Garam masala 1/4 tsp
salt 1 tsp
Oil 2 tbsp+for frying
Coriander leaves for garnishing
Heat oil and deep fry arbi till golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper and keep aside.
Heat 2 tbsp oil add yellow musturd dal asafogetida and onion seed and saunf saute for 15-20 sec.
Off the flame and add other dry spices and swich on the gas and saute for few seconds.
Add arbi and sprinkel 2-3 tbsp water and mix well , off the flame.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with chapati/paratha.


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Noe Eats Sushi After Losing Bet[VIDEO]
Brian Noe lost a bet which meant that he also lost his sushi virginity.
Before the NBA season began, Sinkoff bet Noe that the Miami Heat would make it to the NBA Finals. Since they did, Noe had to eat sushi for the first time in his life.
Remember, Noe is a guy that doesn't like mixing his food together. In other words, his green beans can't touch his potatoes.
First, Noe tried the California Roll and then he gave a Salmon Roll a try. Let's just say that it wasn't a very good night for Noe. See what happens when you bet against the Heat? Remember, it's not the heat, it's the humidity!