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Orange County Body Lift Before and After Photos
High-Definition Total Body Lift Patient 11 in Newport Beach
This is a 32 year old female from Texas who presented to Dr. Siamak Agha for a Total Body Lift after losing 120 pounds of weight through diet and exercise. The patient presented to Dr. Agha for a High-Definition Total Body Lift. During a two stage approach, the patient underwent an L-brachioplasty of the arms and J-upper body lift to correct upper body laxity of the chest and back. She also had a Dermal-bra suspension breast reduction and lift using her own excess upper body tissue.
To address the lower body laxity, this patient had a circumferential abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) combined with a lower body lift. Next the buttock tissues were elevated and secured at an appropriately marked position on the lower back to give a buttock lift. Because a buttock lift on its own can result in flattening of the buttock region, Dr. Agha combined this technique with a buttock augmentation using the patients own lower back tissue.
Finally, this patient underwent a Spiral thigh lift to improve thigh laxity in the front, back , inner, and outer thighs. By elevating the thigh to a higher position that is secured to the underlying tissue, a tighter and smoother thigh contour with enhanced skin flow was created.
Post-operative pictures were taken at 3 weeks after the second stage of her total body lift before her return home.


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Good morning all, when your cake isn't level from the get go, lets say it didn't bake even. One side went to the top edge of the pan and the other side did not. How do you fix it? I was taught to fix it with icing, but if you do it this way some one gets a mouthful of iciing, yeck. Is it better to use some form of cake scraps and fill it in with those? Just curious...
Fix it with icing? Sorry, to me that's the "housewifey" way to fix it and not the right way to do a cake. And you're right ... getting a mouthful of icing can be gross to some people.
And in my personal opinion, it's not professional. A good baker can bake/create a nice level cake to start with. Otherwise it looks pretty "slapped together" to me.
My neighbor was amazed when she asked the same question: How do you get your cakes so flat and level? and I replied "You cut off the tops."
Cut the rounded part off until it's level. THe falacy about 'filling it with icing' might work for just a birthday cake (single tier) but when you get to making larger cakes, the icing jsut won't be enough to support the cake, the fondant, the decors, etc.
Another option is when you stack the two layers is to lay the thick side of the top layer on top of the low side of the bottom layer. Lay the cakes on top of each other w/o any filling, so you know who to lay them to get them the msot level. This will also help you see where you need to do add'l trimming. In plumbing and construction, they call this doing a "dry fit" to make sure everything goes together right before doing the final glueing, soldering, nailing.
If your cakes consistenty bake this way, you might check the level of your oven and adjust that. Or turn your pans about 1/3 into the baking (careful ... as the batter is very fragile at that point.) I say 1/3 into the way, not 1/2 into the baking time, as you want to turn it before the sides set. Otherwise it's too late.
A lot of good points Indydeb, thanks. It doesn't happen often but I was curious.

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「日本語から生成文法理論へ : 統語理論と言語獲得」研究発表会
- プロジェクト名・リーダー名
- 日本語から生成文法理論へ : 統語理論と言語獲得
村杉 恵子 (南山大学 外国語学部 教授)
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- 平成29年12月9日 (土),10日 (日) 10:00~18:00
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平成29年12月9日 (土)
"Labeling, Scope, and Unaccusativity" 奥 聡 (北海道大学 教授)
I will first argue that QR (in English) is allowed via interaction of labeling and the semantic property of QPs, and then show that some cases of "preferred" inverse scope (in Japanese) are actually based on their underlying structure of unaccusative sentences.
"On the Optionality of Raising in the Japanese ECM Construction" 高橋 真彦 (山形大学 講師)
I examine some arguments in the literature that accusative subjects in Japanese ECM constructions optionally undergo raising to object and argue that the relevant observations can be analyzed even if we assume that raising to object is obligatory. I also discuss some implications of the proposed analysis.
"Nominative/Genitive Conversion and Feature Inheritance" 越智 正男 (大阪大学 准教授)
This presentation addresses several questions posed by Nominative/Genitive Conversion (NGC) in Japanese. What is the mechanism behind the case alternation? Why is NGC restricted to internal arguments in certain environments (Miyagawa 2012)? I will argue that we may find keys to resolving such issues by assessing how Feature Inheritance (Chomsky 2008, Miyagawa 2010 among others) operates.
"The Semantics of NPs in NP Languages" 和泉 悠 (南山大学 准教授)
Since Bertrand Russell's "On Denoting" (1905), it has been common practice to define a definite description in purely formal terms: a phrase starting with a definite article (e.g., "the") followed by a noun phrase (e.g., "present king of France"). Then, what is a definite description in presumably articleless languages such as Japanese and Chinese? This paper examines some of the challenges that need to be overcome to provide a compositional semantics for bare noun phrases under the assumption that bare nouns are really bare, lacking silent structure.
"Labels, Movement, and Islands" Zeljko BOSKOVIC (University of Connecticut 教授)
The island effects observed with movement have long been investigated. With the minimalist assumptions, they must optimally follow from the interaction of labeling and Transfer operations. This talk presents a concrete hypothesis along this line and tries to capture some cross-linguistic variations at the same time.
平成29年12月10日 (日)
"The Syntax of Multiple Fragments in Korean: Scrambling, Overt Absorption, and Max-Elide" Myung-Kwan PARK (Dongguk University 教授)
This talk is to provide an analysis of Korean MF sentences, showing that multiple answer phrases initially undergo overt absorption, and the rest of the sentence that they escape from undergo the subsequent TP ellipsis. Meanwhile, since QR feeding into absorption is clause-bounded, when an answer phrase is embedded within an island structure like a relative clause, it takes a pied-piping strategy, thus the larger constituent containing it enters into post-QR absorption with another answer phrase remnant.
"Children's Knowledge about VP-ellipsis in English and Japanese" 杉崎 鉱司 (関西学院大学 教授)
In this study, we provide both (i) evidence that English-speaking children have the knowledge that VP-ellipsis is permitted in English, and (ii) evidence that Japanese-speaking children are sensitive to the absence of VP-ellipsis in Japanese. We explore theoretical consequences of these findings from child language.
"Exploring External Merge: A New Form of Sideward Movement" 高野 祐二 (金城学院大学 教授)
In this talk, I will explore a new possibility of External Merge. To account for certain surprising properties of Japanese multiple clefts, I will propose a new analysis of multiple clefts based on the idea that multiple focus elements form a single constituent created by sideward movement carried out by a new form of EM.
"On the Acquisition of Labeling" 村杉 恵子 (南山大学 教授)
The early child grammar is analyzed under Chomsky's (2013, 2015) minimalist approach. We argue that children at around the stage of Root Infinitives are trying to find out the exact system of fai-feature agreement and Case, and what helps children to bootstrap the adult system would be semantics (topi-comment relationship or predication).
"On the MaxElide Effect in Japanese" 高橋 大厚 (東北大学 教授)
This study examines whether MaxElide effects are observed in Japanese. While the condition has been studied so far primarily with interaction between sluicing and VP-ellipsis in English, I point out that relevant effects can be obtained by considering interaction between argument ellipsis and "sluicing" in Japanese, whereby giving credence to its cross-linguistic presence. Then I try to explain the effects by means of assumptions related to phases and labeling, deducing MaxElide from primitive concepts.


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Lord, we thank thee for this food this day which comes to us from the misery of animals in large animal confinement operations, and from the chemical toilet which is modern farm soil, sold to us cheaply through subsidised ag policy which destroys foreign ag economies contributing to starvation in developing nations but enriches US commodity brokers like my uncle seated on the Chicago Board of Trade.
And Lord thank you for the clothes we wear, so affordable to us by the long hours and low wages of child slave labor…
Is trophy hunting okay for a Christian?
For starters I'll share my journey as it relates to the ethics of killing anything. Since my dad was killed violently and then watching my mom go painfully slow, and after countless death notifications with the police department and s many hard funeral in my decades as a pastor, and considering my lung disease and facing my mortality, and studying the senseless loss of innocent life in all our various war-of-the-day, my view on killing changed. It was fuelled also by a desire to take the non-violence of the Sermon on the Mount serious – didn't figure Jesus was offering it as a suggestion, or optional for extra credit.
Over time I lost a desire to kill anything. So I started to push back against violence in society where ever I could – fighting cage fighting in the legislature, and as many know I entirely changed my mind on the death penalty and came to believe we ought to teach our kids it's never okay to kill. It will increasingly become a topic I comment on how this whole red-state, red-blood, red-meat, Cross yourself and pile'em high, ammo and Bibles thing in our churches really is so unChristlike. God comes to the aid of those who are weak in battle not those who trust in their chariots and horses.
These days I marvel at animal beauty and diversity and enjoy their personalities and all that prompts me to turn to the Creator of Life in gratitude and worship. Jesus said look at the birds because they will reveal something about God to you. He did not say shoot the birds. My increasing love for life in its most vulnerable forms changed my view of hunting too. I'm not against responsible hunting for you or others, just saying that personally, I'm done with it. But I have come out strongly against safari hunting and trophy hunting as anything ethically justifiable for a Christian.
Deuteronomy 22:6 revealed to me the concern God has for animals: "If you come across a bird nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on her young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young…. so that it may go well with you and you may live a long life."
I began to note the capacity in animals to respond to God… "Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all ocean depths… [Praise the Lord] wild animals and all cattle, small creatures and flying birds…" Psalm 148:7, 10.
Small creatures and flying birds… like fox and pheasants? Note to self; that text is not one to pull out if asked again to give the breakfast devotional at the Fellowship of Christian Sportsman's Pheasant Hunt.
A book also shifted my thinking on animal cruelty and animal misery and abuse in modern agriculture. It's not some liberal PETA book. It was written by a Sarah Palin speechwriter. Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals and the Call to Mercy, Matthew Scully states: "Go to the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky."
A longing in me to see God's kingdom come on earth drew me to the passages that describe that time to come when we aren't at odds with the animal world. I figure, why wait till then?? I'd think animals didn't run away when Jesus walked by, shouldn't they recognize Him in us when we walk by?…. "And in that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground; and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them lie down in safety. And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies." Hosea 2:18-19
In his extensive Dogmatics on The Doctrine of Creation, Karl Barth reminded us God the Creator did not originally intend for animals to be our food; "Whether or not we find it practical or desirable, the diet assigned to men and beasts by God the Creator is vegetarian. This makes it clear that the supremacy given to man over animals is not one of life and death. Man does not enjoy any capital jurisdiction."
Yes, that changed after the Flood, even after the Flood when killing animals for sacrifice and food was permitted, Barth contends "the prohibition of homicide and eating the blood of animals will be a reminder that the life of another being does not belong to other living beings but to God alone." For Barth, "the introduction of capital jurisdiction between creature and creature, will not in any sense signify a kind of divine submission to creaturely degeneration." In regards to the subsequent legitimisation of animal sacrifice, Barth says God now accepts "the surrender of the life of the animal for that of man" as "a substitutionary sign" in the "reconciliation thereby signified."
David Clough writes: "…human beings may use their superfluity for food but should not wilfully destroy them; in relation to other animals, Barth says they can be killed only as a matter of necessity, and then as a sacrificial act with gratitude and repentance. In a modern context where few humans need to kill other creatures for food, this is a radical ethical stance."
The reason I have all this handy is I have written on my love and regard for Animals in an essay elsewhere. Here are the opening lines of that essay….
Meet Gordon Howie. A visit to his United States Senate campaign website and you would first notice his campaign bumper sticker slogan; God, Guns & Gordon. Click on the tab for videos and up comes a god tube . com link to his video: "Take a World Hunting Tour With Gordon Howie." The six and a half minute clip shows dozens of still photos of Gordon all over the world holding rifles or his bow, standing or kneeling, but always smiling next to the corpse of every conceivable animal one can legally shoot with a gun or a bow; deer, fox, coyote, rabbit, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, antelope, sables and roans, gazelles and African dik-diks, spiral-horned kudo, a half a dozen different bears, leopards, mountain lions, moose, plains buffalo, zebra, and various sub-Saharan wild boars.
An additional feature in the video is the background music of Gordon singing Christian country music songs, recording being another one of his pastimes, actually one of his ministries. The photos advance every three seconds and there are enough hunting pictures to require the entire audio of three of Gordon's songs. While he sings "I'm going home to be with Jesus" the viewer sees dozens of animals who Gordon recently sent on ahead of him. It is not clear what putting a video compilation of decades of safari hunts on a campaign website is supposed to communicate about a political candidates' philosophy of governance except perhaps it does communicate something of his understanding, or misunderstanding, of the dominion mandate of Genesis one.
Here is that video to which I'm referring: Take a World Hunting Tour With Gordon Howie
Been busy- so, this is a week late and my friend Father Timothy Fountain beat me to the punch. I've noted several times on my other blog that we are praying for God's mercy in the Gulf with regard to the oil spill. This is the jist of the prayer I've posted a couple times already and have been praying publicly and privately:
We are praying fervently that God would have mercy on us in relation to the BP oil spill in the Gulf; specifically that he'd release wisdom to plug the leak and creative technologies to clean it up, and that he'd expose what he needs to expose right now in our hearts and especially in our corporate and national leaders.
Now the New York Times reports the oil spill is vanishing fast. Apparently God has been answering our prayers in a way far beyond what we can ask or imagine. One of the main causes of the dissipation is the presence of oil eating bacteria in the Gulf water. In response to that news Father Tim posts… "Dare I say that lots of people have been praying?" In the comment string following Father Tim's post, our yet unbelieving far far left of center friend Cory at Madville Times writes… "Tim, is that headline saying what I think it's saying?" Father Tim responds in part in this way:
Cory – people of faith will consider unexpected improvement a blessing and an answer to prayer. Favorable natural phenomena and successful human effort are not ignored – in fact they are the primary means through which God would be understood to answer prayer in most faith traditions.
Cory thanked him and noted that was the thoughtful answer he was looking for. Here was my contribution to the discussion:
Tim – You beat me to it on this post. I've been busy, but not to busy to notice all those who are now praising mother nature, micro-bacteria and the tiniest members of the ecosystem! And who can we thank for that perfectly ordered natural healing design? That's right… Darwin! O wait, he's dead. I lack the blind faith the evolutionists possess… and I chuckle when people praise the ecosystem instead of the one who ordered it perfectly. I can't even look at a tiny little bird without thinking of the stunning foolishness of those who swallow the dangerous delusion that it is a product of uber-billions of years of unguided random mutations. [It's dangerous because the ideology devalues human life and holocausts and genocide have been the historical result of the deception that some are more human than others – and that only the more fit should be allowed to survive. And, teaching it to kids communicates they are accidental, just the next random mutation, and we have no intrinsic value. Cory will likely take these words and try to make a campaign issue out of them for me. I think we ought to teach evolution as one of the theories explaining origins and point out it's both unproven and flawed.]
I am grateful for the legislators in LA who, painfully aware of the arrogant emptiness of the ideas of man, had the humility and wisdom to ask for Divine Aid. [It would now be appropriate for a Louisiana legislator to call for a Day of Thanksgiving in gratitude to God for saving us from ourselves. If it's appropriate for us to bestow our gratitude and honor any earthly scientist for their great contribution, it's appropriate to thank and give due honor to the Grand Architect of the Universe for having the foresight to hardwire the creation to heal itself. Too bad he didn't think to hardwire the universe to also deal with human Co2 emissions 😉 Perhaps Al Gore will save us there.]
…Though this nation deserves no favors from heaven, we continue to pray God's mercy on every living thing in the Gulf. And we pledge to better steward the wonders of his creation.
Had God prompted a scientist somewhere to solve this problem I would have been praising God while the world bestowed awards and honors on the man. Surely God wearies of the boasting of man. These micro-members of the ecosystem have risen up as one of the little mercies of God and ironically, as simple as they are, they are presently confounding the wise. That too is evidence God is behind this dissipation. [Don't think for a moment that this God who knows when every sparrow falls to the ground has no concern for the masses of oil-covered pelicans.]
All week I've been focused on the notion of "little mercies." In terms of the millions of gallons of oil disappearing I'm not really sure this qualifies as a "little" mercy. But it seems appropriate to designate oil-eating, micro-bacteria as a little mercy.
A couple passages of Scripture come to mind. There is the story Jesus told of the ten being healed of leprosy and only one returning to give thanks. Maybe the others were praising natural processes. What I like to show people are the dangers of ingratitude and how big a deal this is to God when we boast in ourselves. In the oft-quoted Romans 1:21-25 passage about the iniquity in the world, few notice how fundamental ingratitude was the issue and not iniquity. It was because of ingratitude that God turned the world over to it's own destructive course:
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
When the military honor guard officer handed me the flag that draped my father's coffin, he looked me in the eye and said with these words… "On behalf of a grateful nation…" For sure our nation is filled with gratitude for those who give their life in service of their country. But beyond that, I'm not sure it's true we are a grateful nation any more.
One other thought… recently I dropped a quote elsewhere on this blog regarding how American Christianity has digressed to nothing more than a "moralistic therapeutic deism." In light of that, it's no surprise that most church leaders are silent on these kinds of topics. As they have resorted to offering popular therapy over unpopular theology, they've digressed into deism and no longer have a theology of a God who acts or personally intervenes in our world today.
Today I woke up and decided to send out a little tweet (which quickly goes to my Facebook page) and I'm told this little tweet was a bit cryptic. So, since I'm not limited here to 140 characters, I thought I'd explain myself. But first, here's the tweet:
WAS thinkin Urbana w/caleb insteada Onething cause KH/I, KHs dad went 80s/60s. Not goin aftr seein religusleft influence
And, here's my explanation which I also dropped on my Facebook:
Urbana is the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship sponsored missions conference for college students that has been held every three years since 1946. It's held in Urbana IL, thus the name. Kristen/I went there in 1984 and 1987 (Billy Graham spoke) and we were powerfully impacted. Kristen's dad, now a retired pastor, went as a college student in 1962ish. So I thought to break from our norm (going to OneThing in KC) and take Caleb (age 19) to Urbana – figured it would be a three generation family tradition and a good way to add fuel to his fire to reach the world.
Urbana has always been about reaching the lost, aka evangelism, and the call to go into all the world with the Gospel. And I can see from the materials that is still the central thrust of Urbana. But now there is a mixture in the message. Now the gospel includes "the Mission of Healthcare" both domestic and international. And, "environmental stewardship." Shane Claiborne is speaking.
Don't misunderstand, creation care is vital and Biblical. And medical missions is too. But I'm not dumb, this is a chance to further hype the global warming hoax. And domestic health care? You can be sure the religious-left friends of Jim Wallis will be waxing eloquent about our "moral duty" to pass Obamacare and there will be no tolerance (or platform time) for anyone who points out the evil "details" of letting the elderly die and funding the unbridled slaughter of the unborn.
A missionary to mother nature is more welcome at Urbana now than a missionary to the unborn.
The hand of God is on OneThing. I'm not sure what has gotten hold of Urbana.
Felt like we had a video production company here this morning. Had to prepare another short video of me greeting the folks back home at CATG for this Fourth of July weekend. And, Thomas has some great video stuff on his blog from yesterday. Here is his toboggan video. And he has new video installment for his blog series – What Should We Get Pastor Dennis? We frequently find stuff that makes us think of Pastor Dennis when we are in gift shops. Also, Thomas is now offering vitally important Tourism Do's and Don'ts tips on his blog.
Kaitlyn has some great pics on her latest post, especially the last pic of the Swiss flag outlining the mountain. I think it's a great shot and we, being puzzle people, just may turn that one into a puzzle. Kristen hit a home run on a meal the other night and has a post about this delicious German meatball thing she whipped up.
Thanks to Caleb for putting together the following video clip from our visit yesterday to the Guinness Book of World Records Largest Rolling Ball Clock.
This clock is found in the Bucherer Store in Lucerne, Switzerland. The clock is four stories high. It runs on rolling glass marbles and kinetic energy. It took twelve people an entire year to make it. Here are some more details:
One marble ends up in the ring every minute, until 60 of them finally make up an hour. A polar opposite to this ongoing motion is provided by a giant crystal ball on the ground floor, which oscillates once every quarter of an hour. The mechanical components, all perfectly geared to one another, are fascinatingly combined to create a clock system that is precise, completely self-contained and infinite. The installation extends to all four floors in the Bucherer store, is 11.6 m (38 ft) high and 6 m (almost 20 ft) wide. In the entire system, 150 crystal balls measuring 30, 40 and 150 mm (1.2, 1.6 and 5.9 in) run along 297.8 m (977 ft) of track.
More pictures can be found here. Check them out as they have pictures of how all the parts are handmade.
Those following the blog know I've posted a few times so far on Swiss watches and clocks – banks, army knives and watches are huge things here. I've learned these are "time measurement systems." I'll get right to the point… as big and mind boggling as this huge clock is, it only measures God's time. Try to wrap your mind around the Providence of God and you'll truly be blown away. But even in the natural order, every time measurement system invented is a mere human attempt to capture what no amount of random unguided chance could have possibly arranged and set in such complex yet precise and perpetual motion. Jeremiah 31:35 tells us that it is God above who "appointed the sun, who decrees the moon and stars to shine at night, who stirs the seas so that its waves roar." Job 37:12 tells us how God is the One who set the elements of the earth in motion and they do "whatever he commands." The planets, the seasons, the tides of the seas – he's behind it.
Let this thought speak to you… he's never late. But, it is possible to not "keep in step" with Him. Make sure you do. Synchronize your life in Him. Seek to know and discern his shifts in times and seasons. Check out pages 86-90 in my Momentum book for how to discern the sacred rhythms and pace of the Spirit. You'll find what is written there no where else – I've looked – and, not finding anything, I decided to write this critical stuff down myself. You're welcome. There is a "moment" in momentum's development that we must discern. Many are at a spiritual standstill today because they are oblivious to discerning these key moments.
I think I'm going to preach on this topic this weekend. Read this. And, then read how the adversary tries to change God's times and seasons (or at least get us out of sych with them). Here's a great clip for those of you who want to reflect on this more.
The forecast today was 70% rain – we discovered that means seventy percent of today it was pouring down rain. We now have forty Swiss franc's worth of umbrellas to bring home.
Also, I discovered that if you keep driving for a while after the gas light comes on… it starts flashing at you. Maybe some of you who love to live close to the edge thought the rest of us already knew that. Not so.
We also learned that if you buy a can of corn in Germany, the words "4 stück" on the side of the can means it's not kernals but four ears still on the cob. All would have been well if the can had 5 stück, but 4 stück means that one of the five of us went without.
Among other things today we went back to Zurich to the Beyer watch store. It's like there is a magnet drawing me there. Here's a picture of the front of it and here's what our travel book says about this location; "Banhofstrasse – some call it the finest street in Europe -along its path is an impressive display of wealth – the head offices of the "Gnomes of Zurich" (the five largest banks in Switzerland) – this is the center of Switzerland's opulence – everything you can never afford to buy is sold there."
Since I can't buy I decided to covet instead. You know, covet, as in the tenth commandment thou-shalt-not-covet. Not to worry, I hardly covet a thing, ever. But watches are hard for me. And this one in particular kept winking at me as I went by. I think it's The One. Kristen says Dream on, she's way out of my league.
I have no idea if anyone else is interested in this but I for those who are I want to show you another amazing clock from the Beyer museum.
This one is called Pendulette de table avec Planetarium (aka Planetarium Table Clock). It keeps time. AND, the earth rotates around the sun in perfect real time. AND, the other nine planets rotate as well, around, up, down in relation to the etched constellations of precisely positioned stars on the crystal globe, which if you are smart enough will reveal what season it is. (You can see the stars better in this pic). I have trouble getting my watch's date feature to not switch at noon each day and here's some guy back in 1770 had the whole universe gracefully moving in precision.
Here's the thing – the universe is a billion times more complex than this mind blowing clock which is unquestionably the product of an amazing mind. I don't know, I guess I just don't have the faith to believe even this level of complexity could be in any way random. Honestly I felt like worshipping God after I saw this clock. And to think kids today are being taught they are just the next mutation in a unguided process. Sad.
I'm teaching my kids they are no mistake but rather they were conceived in the mind of God before the foundations of the world (as the Bible says) and God's dream for their life only manifest in the flesh at conception.
My kids wonder if anyone else out there besides me who thinks of ways to hammer both on the theory of evolution and abortion while wandering around a clock shop.
We travel all week starting tomorrow AM and are not sure where along the way we'll have internet. Stay tuned.
God revealed himself to me today as Creator while I was sitting outside in a lawn chair. Thomas and I picked a little group of trees to sit under – Thomas has plans for that spot as soon as he gets an extra $47.
I looked to my right to see one seed left on this dandelion. I thought to myself, "there is no freakin' way that evolved. Oh the fantasy life of the evolutionists! To think that the first dandelion plant had the sense and ability to perpetuate itself, and then the genious to produce near-weighless seeds atop a launch pad each specially rigged to a umbrella/parachute-like lift system designed to catch the wind to transport the seed… ugh!" A fool says in his heart there is no God. If this doesn't reveal the brilliance of a Creator I'm not sure what does.
That this was designed by a Designer is a plain fact – you hear that science community? Fact! Your theory is ridiculous fantasy. It's remarkable to me that there is even a debate on our origins. The existence of a Creator is not religious dogma, it's just a plain-as-day, open-your-blind-eyes fact. There isn't even a remote chance this seed or anything else evolved. Please don't offend my intelligence or force the children of the world to accept your fairy tale theories.
The US Census Bureau reports the world's 6,666,666,666th person was born on May 10. Of course, overpopulation.net is reacting to this by bemoaning we have now "passed our sustainability" and that "reckless breeding humans" are responsible for the inevitable downfall of the species because we have ignored alarming facts about sustainable food limits that the earth produces relative to population. The Sierra Club wants to re-double its promotion of population control.
It's hugely disappointing to me that key evangelical leaders like mega-church pastor Rick Warren and Christianity Today editor David Neff are signing things like the Evangelical Climate Initiative which was largely funded ($475,000) by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The Hewletts are major contributors to abortion and population control efforts.
All this panic over more people on the planet is soundly debunked by Steve Mosher's latest book – Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. Mosher leads the Population Research Initiative which is dedicated to objectively presenting the truth about population-related issues, and to reversing the trends brought about by the myth of overpopulation. PRI is a growing, global network of pro-life groups spanning over 30 countries. Get this… to date they have successfully eliminated $750 million in U.S. tax dollars to population control groups or programs. Praise God for PRI and Steve Mosher!
You can read a great review of this new book here. In case you are pressed for time, I'll paste a taste here. The very first line of the book reads… "we have all grown up on on a poisonous diet of overpopulation propaganda."
Mosher's book is, first and foremost, an answer to the allegation that the human race is inexorably multiplying, hell-bent toward a giant demographic cliff like so many lemmings. The numbers show that the world is not, has never been, nor ever shall be, overpopulated. In fact, according to the world's experts–even the ones advocating population control–birthrates around the world are dropping at a precipitous rate. The book thus torpedoes the lifeboat scenario, which argued that in order to survive, we had to throw some of the earth's passengers overboard. But it is much more than this. The history of the population control movement is replete with human rights abuses. Those who were made to walk the plank of abortion, sterilization, and contraception–all for the supposed good of humanity–have some horrific tales to tell.
These people hate people. Don't believe me? John Muir, the founder of Sierra Club had this to say about more people… "Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape." John David the editor of EarthFirst agrees… "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." Paul Watson, the founder of Greenpeace, said… "I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds." Or this from Paul Taylor, author of Respect for Nature, "Given the total, absolute disappearance of Homo sapiens, then not only would the Earth's community of Life continue to exist, but in all probability, its well being enhanced. Our presence, in short, is not needed."
The Word of God says the polar opposite… that the redemption of the created order is dynamically tied up in the redemption of man. That all creation is presently waiting for us to get right with God. That the creations liberation from its "bondage to decay" awaits us. The salvation of the earth is not in the elimination of humankind but rather in the redemption of humankind. God has never rescended the mandate to "be fruitful and multiply."
If you've yet to hear my message this past week on this subject you can download the podcast here. It's titled "Changing Climates" and is about Rizpah in 2 Samuel 21. The key points are…
1. The number one thing we can do for the creation is acknowledge the Creator.
2. Blood pollution, more often than not, is the culprit in any climate crisis.
3. It takes an atonement to redeem and heal the land.
4. God uses intercessors to change the atmosphere.
Not recorded on the audio version are my comments on the We Get It Campaign which was launched on Friday. I encourage everyone to read the declaration and consider signing it and joining with others who are committed to finding pro-life strategies to care for the environment.
This past week alone I got sermon feedback from people in Washington DC, Hawaii, California and Iraq. Oh the wonders of the podcast. I'm told in three of these places my "Origins: God's Green Earth" series is making the rounds and is quite a hit. Of course I appreciate feedback that is positive. Interesting to me, I'm getting triple the feedback I normally get in a message series and we are giving away hundreds of CDs. One lady on Sunday, a visitor, took a handful and plans to send them to her Ph.D microbiologist son with hopes that he'll make room for God in his life. This morning I was mapping out the remaining messages in the series and had the thought… why quit so soon? There is so much more to say on this theme. I do believe it has end time relevance.
Also I know that those of you who attend CATG each weekend may never be able to run for President unless you disavow the crazy politically-incorrect things I'm saying right now and have said over the years. Actually we do need people in our midst to rise up and govern – that's the Creation Mandate – rulership, dominion over the created order. Go for it! I promise to not pull a Rev. Wright.
Big thanks to my friend Steven M. Collins for this guest post. As usual, Steve opens the Scriptures in untraditional ways showing things we wonder why we didn't see all along. Recently Steve gave me a preview of a fascinating paper he was about to post on his website – "Is the earth 6000 years old." I've linked to the full paper here and also at the end of his guest post. After reading his paper a couple of times, I asked him to write a guest post here to sum that up and that is what is spelled out below. Steve lives here in Sioux Falls with his wife and family, has written five books on Israel, and is one of our life group leaders. More on his books and his blog on his website. Pray for Steve's health – he's unable to travel and take speaking engagements right now. Lord, touch this brother!
Pastor Steve, I am really enjoying your message series on "Origins: God's Green Earth." I agree it is critically-important that we understand the foundations of our beginnings in order to truly understand our Creator and his purpose for our lives. As you have been giving your "Origins" series, which has a strong emphasis on Genesis 1, I have been putting the finishing touches on an article which complements the subject matter of your messages. My article addresses the "Creation vs. Evolution" debate from an entirely new perspective.
My article strongly affirms a literal understanding and application of the scriptures, and I believe that by combining the account in Genesis 1 with creation accounts in other books of the Bible (Job, Isaiah, Ezekiel, etc.), we can actually reconcile the differences between the scientific community and the Christian community regarding the origins of the earth and life itself. We know that God has eternally existed. Have the creative efforts of an ageless Creator (in the physical world) been limited to only the most-recent 6,000 years, as many "young earth" Christians maintain? Read the rest of this entry »
Al Gore is a prophet who lives wealthy and hypocritically off the offerings of his followers. Global warming has become a religious belief – there are believers and unbelievers, infidels and apostates, proselytes, evangelists, hypocrites and corruption. There are rituals, creeds and divination. There is blasphemy and "truth" albeit inconvenient. There is preaching, prophecy and indoctrination. There are disciples (the media), and the professors have become the high priests and apostles of evolution. Their textbooks are now Holy Writ. The faithful vow to follow no matter what the true facts may show. Abortion is the sacrament. A global Crusade is underway with converts and casualties. A Jihad has been called against the only thing in the created order that bears the image of God. The salvation of the planet is only in the extermination of people.
So much for the "separation of church and state." So much for NOMA – the "non-overlapping magisteria" of science and religion. But then again, what do you expect, this isn't science anymore, these are faith-based initiatives.


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June 30, 2016 A very good chance the Rapture will take place on June 12 Pentecost by Greg Wilson
Thanks a million to Greg Wilson for this excellent work of scripture investigation.
Pentecost this year is on June 12
6/12 = 6/6+6 = 18 keep this present when you read this article below.
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Via spec, Friday, Feb 12 looks promising since we now deal w/ the 3-day mid-trib 'overlap as well as the 3-day delay from Signing to Rapture.
Jan 3, 2016 is REALLY Dec 24, 2015 and Jan 3, 2016 + 37 days (that must pass for all to synchronize prophetically & Scripturally) is TUESDAY, Feb 9, 2016, the possible Signing (Wedding Ketubah's were signed on Tuesdays since God blessed the 3rd day twice.) 37 days is the needed difference between 7 solar yrs (2557) and 7 perfect yrs (2520). At Creation Dec 24 was the original KISLEV 24 and 7 days later the COUNT began on the 8th Day, originally TEVET 1 which later became Jesus' conception day (since +280 is Tabernacles, Tishrei 15, His Birth).
TUESDAY, Feb 9, 2016 (Signing?) +1260 days (a.c. 'keeps' covenant w/ Israel) is TUES, July 23 2019 (LEO 1….'LION of JUDAH' Leadership/12th Mazzarot sign…….Abomination of Desolation in Temple/a.c. killed. Three days later he is indwelt by Satan whereupon he finally has the supernatural power to kill Elijah and Moses (who rise after 3.5 days).
1260 days from beginning of Petra Protection (from Tues, Abom of Desol, July 23, 2019) is the RETURN, TUES, Jan 3, 2023 (FAST of TEVET 10…..Zech 8:19) which is REALLY DEC 24, 2022……the Haggai 2:7 "Desire of Nations Comes/Shakes Nations." Remember, Jesus FIGHTS the Nations ALONE (Isa 63).
The earth will likely take 3 days to straighten (to make up for mid-trib's 3 uncounted days when a.c. is dead)…..Jan 3 – 6, 2023 and Jan 6 is CAPRICORN 15……then +75 days is ARIES 1 (LAMB, 8th Mazzarot sign) which will be the 'new/Millennial' NISAN 1 and MARCH 1 when all is adjusted (EZEK 45:18).
RAPTURE is likely 3 days after Signing because the following must synchronize according to Scripture:
….1260 signing to a.c. breaks covenant
…..1260 Elij & Mos' ministry (& the 144,000 Jews) til killed by 'risen' a.c.
…..1260 Petra Protec…Abom of Desol/a.c. killed to the Return
…..1260 Great Trib…Satan enters a.c. to earth's straightening
…..1290 Abom Desol to Isa 63 Temple Entrance
…..1335 Abom Desol to trib end (DAN 12:12)
…..7-yrs Fri, Feb 9, 2016 to earth straight Fri, Jan 6, 2023
The above spans only work if the RAPTURE is 3 days AFTER the SIGNING.
The TRIB END (w/ the +3 days of earth's straightening….Isa 13:13, 24:1,19,20) is March 23, 2023, NISAN 1 (& ARIES 1).
W/ the tilt loss (as earth straightens 'losing' 22-23 days/"days cut short") trib end will adjust to MAR 1, new NIS 1 and ARIES 1.
The RETURN is exactly 280 days 'Remnant Spiritual Gestation' past NISAN 1, 2022 where the COUNT STAYS because the RETURN occurs BEFORE NISAN 1, 2023 is reached; so NISAN 1, 2022 is 6 mths past ROSH/YOM 2021 (Lev 25:9….start of 121st Millen/7th Millen) + 6 mths = NISAN 1, 2002.
The RETURN at JAN 3, 2023 plus the 3 days to straighten, then plus 30 days mourning (Zech 12:10, 13:6) is FEB 5-6, 2023 which is exactly 2300 days past SUCCOTH, 2016.
Succoth 2016 (Oct 17) is the start of the 70 animal sacrifices….for 70 nations (DAN 8:13-14…Temple Desecration) which is 7 mths (210 days) past the possible PURIM EZEK 38 Divine Victory in Israel' mts (March 23, 2016). 40 days (testing) past the RAPTURE is PURIM, then plus 210 days burying/bldg 3rd Temple, then plus 2300 to the Isa 63 Temple Entrance 30 days past the Return (+3 days uncounted).40+210+2300 = 2550 (as the 2550 yrs from 583 B.C. – 1967).
The RETURN is JAN 3, 2023 (REALLY Dec 24 w/ the 10-11-day calendar error….1500's/Pope) and minus 23 days and plus 30 days mourning is JAN 9-10 which is REALLY DEC 31, the solar 8th Day (8th Day of the 8th Feast/CREATION, Jesus' Conception day since +280 = Tabernacles, His Birth). That 7-day span (JAN 3-10) is really 11 days earlier, DEC 24-DEC 31, the original CREATION WEEK.
So the Isa 63 Temple Entrance is virtually on Jesus' Conception Day anniv (Jan 10 is 'same day' as Feb 2…one w/ tilt loss considered, the other not.
W/ the adjustment as earth straightens, JAN 10 will likely extend to JAN 14-15 which accounts for the balancing of the Mazzarot w/ the calendar. That day will be AQUARIUS 15 because plus 45 more days JUDG of the NATIONS is trib end at ARIES 1. (Via the tilted earth as at present, CAPRICORN 15 plus 78-79 days is ARIES 1; but in the Millennial synchronized 360-day/straight earth year, the span will be exactly 75 days).
30 days mourning after the TEVET 10 (FRI, Jan 3, 2023) RETURN is SHEVAT 11……'double judgment/double 11'…..the start of the 45-day judg of the Nations (Hag 2:7…."Shakes Nations' at His Return).
On THIS side of the trib the only interesting span is 4 mths ('delay' to Harvest?) from Yom Kip/Tishrei 10, 2015 to SHEVAT 10-11, 2016…..then plus the 23 days to the RAPTURE (that will MINUS), Fri, Feb 12, 2016.
Fri, Feb 12, 2016 is also AQUAR 22 ('Age of Aquar'…double 11). 2550 days past Feb 12, 2016 is FEB 6, 2023, the ISA 63 Temple Entrance (Jesus + Remnant from Petra).
The 7 yrs fuel use by Israel of Russian weaponry seem to span Mar 23, 2016 (Shushan Purim) to Mar 23, 2013, trib end.
If one sees JAN 3, 2016 (REALLY Dec 24, 2015) to the RETURN at JAN 3, 2023 (REALLY Dec 24, 2022), note the 37 days to the SIGNING, then 2520 days to the RETURN, JAN 3, 2023.
#37 is an extremely interesting number (see Bonnie Gaunt's Book) For instance, Noah & family were in the Ark 370 hours……………& note MANY more 37's…..if applic.
MID TRIB is STILL in the ROSH year 2018 (because ROSH 2019 is NOT reached) which ENDS all the great FIG TREE PATTERNS from 1898, 1918, 1938, 1948, 1968……120 yrs, 100, 80, 70, 50 respectively & a.c. may celebrate those great anniv dates when he enters the Temple THINKING he is GOD (since he will have 'sustained' Israel for the first 3.5 yrs).
If applic, the earth is STRAIGHT by DEC 10, 2022 (23 days BACK from a Jan 3, 2023 RETURN) which will be the NEW TEVET 10 in the Millen. So the RETURN is on the ACTUAL TEVET 10 (Jan 3) and earth is STRAIGHT by the NEW TEVET 10 (Dec 10….w/ in-sync calendar). So too, the trib ends on the ACTUAL NISAN 1 (Mar 23, 2023) and minus the tilt is MARCH 1, the NEW NISAN………ARIES 1.
ISA 13:13 speaks of the earth "moving from its place in the sky;" so one must make room for approx 3-5 days of adjustment so that the trib end date is the new NISAN 1 (Mar 1, Aries 1). We see this because the RETURN is CAPRICORN 10-12 and earth is straight by CAPRICOEN 15 for +75 days to reach ARIES 1.
Be glad there is still a scenario that works……but likely nothing will happen because the reader MUST be reminded that a human…cursed sinner at that (but REDEEMED)…..figured all of the above, something anyone could do if you have a 'mania' for this sort of thing.
6 paragraphs up from the bottom of letter should read: TRIB END 2023, NOT 2013.


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In Brent Staples' memoir Parallel Time, he recounts a game he used to play while a student at the University of Chicago. Staples, who is black, would pace the streets surrounding the campus after dark. When he spied a white couple strolling toward him arm in arm, he would walk directly at them, at a normal pace. The couple would first tighten their grip on each other. Then, as Staples continued to head toward them, they would panic, release their grip, and scurry apart. Staples would breeze between them, without losing a step, without looking back. He called it "scattering the pigeons."
The "pigeons" feared Staples because of his blackness–they were using his race as a proxy for potential criminality. Using superficial traits to infer deeper characteristics in people is common and need not be racist. Generalizing from what is easily and quickly knowable to something that is hard to know for sure is what economists think of as minimizing information costs. If the clouds turn dark and ominous and it starts to thunder while you're out for a stroll, you can find a phone and call the weather service, or you can ignore them on the grounds that predictions about the weather are often wrong, or you can take cover under the assumption that it's probably going to rain. But using race as a proxy is sensitive, for good and obvious reasons.
If skin color as a proxy for criminal intentions were a precise tool–that is, if every young black man strolling the sidewalks were a mugger–it would be hard to criticize. And if the implied generalization had no validity–if a young black male was no more likely to be a mugger than anyone else approaching on the sidewalk–it would be easy to label as racist. But, like most such generalizations, it is valid but not perfect. A young black man is more likely to be a mugger than a young white man–but the assumption that any particular young black man is a mugger will usually be wrong. So is using race as a proxy racist?
This is what the current "racial profiling" controversy is about. Racial profiling is when police use race as a reason to search someone's car or to frisk a pedestrian. Almost all black men have tales of being stopped by a cop for no reason other than their skin color. It's derisively known as "DWB": the crime of driving while black. Earlier this year the governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman, fired the state police superintendent for telling a journalist that blacks were more likely to commit crimes than whites. But she has since admitted that state police systematically stop cars simply because the driver is black. And racial profiling has many defenders who say it is sensible, hard-nosed policing of the sort that has led to a dramatic drop in the nation's crime rate.
O ne generalization that can be made about racial profiling–a valid but not perfect generalization, of course–is that conservatives tend to support it, while liberals tend to regard it as racist. In another controversy, the one over affirmative action, the opposite generalization holds: Liberals tend to support it, while conservatives tend to regard it as reverse racism.
And yet affirmative action and racial profiling are essentially the same. Affirmative action amounts to the use of race as a proxy for other, harder-to-discern qualities: racial victimization, poverty, cultural deprivation. Few critics of affirmative action are against compensating victims of specific and proven acts of racial discrimination. And the critics often positively endorse programs giving a special break to people who've overcome economic or cultural disadvantage. What they object to is generalizing these conditions from a person's race. Defenders of affirmative action say, in essence, that as policy-making generalizations go, this one is overwhelmingly valid–and that more justice will be lost than gained by insisting on scientific precision.
Defenders of affirmative action and defenders of racial profiling even resort to the same dodge in defending their cause against colorblind absolutists. They say they, too, think it's wrong for a person to be promoted and/or arrested just because of his or her race. But, they say, it's OK for race to be one factor among many.
Here is Gov. Whitman, quoted in the New York Times Magazine last month, explaining the difference between profiling (good) and racial profiling (bad):
Profiling means a police officer using cumulative knowledge and training to identify certain indicators of possible criminal activity. Race may be one of those factors, but it cannot stand alone. Racial profiling is when race is the only other factor. There's no other probable cause.
This precisely echoes Justice Lewis Powell's famous explanation of permissible affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke case:
Ethnic diversity is only one element in a range of factors a university properly may consider in attaining the goal of a heterogeneous student body. … In [a constitutional] admissions program, race or ethnic background may be deemed a "plus" in a particular applicant file, yet it does not insulate the individual from comparison with all other candidates for the available seats.
The factor fudge satisfies some critics, but it doesn't solve the racial proxy dilemma. Stopping and frisking a driver or admitting a student to Yale is a yes-or-no decision. As legal scholar Randall Kennedy wrote in his book Race, Crime, and the Law, "Even if race is only one of several factors behind a decision, tolerating it at all means tolerating it as potentially the decisive factor." When it's the decisive factor, it might as well have been the only factor. If it's never decisive, it's not really a factor at all.
he main difference between affirmative action and racial profiling is that one singles out blacks for something desirable and the other singles them out for something undesirable. Reasonable people can differ about whether using race as a proxy is OK. Obviously it depends on how valid the generalization is in any given case, and how costly or impractical it would be to get alternative information. When you fear a man approaching you may be a mugger, you may not be able to find out in the next five seconds whether he happens to be a University of Chicago intellectual headed for the New York Times editorial board. On the other hand, race is not just any proxy, and probably should be used more sparingly–especially by the government–than the narrow logic of probabilities would justify.
Racial proxies are a tough call. But it's safe to say that anyone who is outraged by racial profiling but tolerates affirmative action, or vice versa, has got it wrong.


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San Antonio Pets Alive accused of mistreatment
Videos of alleged kitten neglect at local animal shelter surface
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio organization committed to saving animals is being accused of not providing proper care to cats and kittens, resulting in many deaths.
San Antonio Pets Alive contracts with the city to help adopt out dogs and cats, but now several volunteers say the organization is not providing proper medical care, driving away volunteers and neglecting kittens to the point of death.
Shari Pearson took video of some of the kittens suffering and posted them on YouTube. They show sick kittens, medical supplies in plain view and a lack of staff. They were shot at the San Antonio Pets Alive kitten rescue on Marbach Road. One video even shows someone returning a dead kitten that they had kept stored in a freezer.
Pearson is a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, and said she went there as a volunteer.
"I love that they came into San Antonio and they're helping to lower the kill rate," Pearson said.
But she said she started taking videos when she and other volunteers noticed dying animals and a rescue in disorganization.
"It appeared that some of them had starved to death and we would actually find dead kittens," Pearson said.
Darla Evans and her daughter, Sara, also volunteered and say what they saw drove them away.
"They had several kittens dying daily," said Sara Evans.
Her mother told of being concerned with one particular kitten.
"That orange kitten that I was with, it was No. 15 that day that said, 'Deceased, deceased, deceased,'" Darla Evans said.
Sara Evans said she would always be surprised by what she would find while working.
"And I cleaned the cage and there was still a dead kitten in there that was wrapped under the covers with the other kittens," said Sara Evans.
Holly Livermore is the operations manager of SAPA.
"We have enough staff to take care of the kittens but we always need more volunteers and more donations," Livermore said.
She said there may have been problems earlier, but not now.
"Of course, we've had some losses unfortunately and it's been very, very sad and very, very difficult for us, but now we have all of our protocol in place," Livermore said.
Volunteer Darlene Rowland is a regular there and says this is a well-run, well-staffed shelter.
"I look forward to coming here on Tuesdays and we have a couple of kitties we took home to foster," Rowland said.
But the videos also call into question the recent claims by Animal Care Services that the survival rate is increasing at the city shelter, which counts animals taken by pets alive as saved.
"Sometimes a picture or a video is worth a thousand words," Pearson said.
PETA sent links to the suffering kitten videos to city officials.
The Defenders emailed those city officials in the afternoon and are waiting for responses.
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Mike Thurman lost his lovely wife, Angela to liver cancer last September at the age of 67. His personal loss is tremendous, and it is compounded by the fact that he strongly believes that she died due to negligence on the part of authorities at West Suffolk Hospital in West Sussex.
Angela and Mike Thurman were residents of Fuerteventure in the Canary Islands for eight years. In February 2011, Mrs Thurman complained of severe stomach pains. Realising that this was serious matter and that she required the finest medical care, they moved to West Suffolk. They gave all the relevant medical records from Fuerteventura hospital to the West Suffolk Hospital. There was a dispute about the 25 page biopsy report, Mr Thurman claims he eventually emailed it, though there is no evidence of that.
Ten days before she passed away, Mrs Thurman had to be rushed to the hospital to receive a drip, which was required to reduce the calcium levels in her body, something that is generally a 15-minute process at the hospital. However, on this particular day, she was sent to the hospital's emergency room, where little attention was paid to her due to the rush from a serious accident.
The next morning, the family discovered that Mrs Thurman had been moved to another ward, and was very upset about the fact that she had not been given any of her regular painkillers. This medical negligence was the result of her pain killers having been misplaced. She also complained about the lack of care by the nursing staff, even though they claimed that they had checked on her every two hours.
When confronted with the acts of clinical negligence, in front of the Health Ombudsman, the hospital authorities acknowledged that there were two appointment mix-ups. Mr. Thurman was critical of delays, of a lack of communication between the family and the nursing staff, and also of clear medical irresponsibility in not giving the patient her required painkillers on time.
The ombudsman reports states that "care could have been better", and it concludes "In our view the trust has provided a reasonable response to your concerns about this and provided appropriate apologies. No further action will be taken". There are 14 apologies from the trust, but these have in no way mitigated the anger that Angela's family feels towards, what they feel, is a clear case of hospital negligence. Mr Thurman said, "they say they've got it on record [at the hospital} that this was done and that was done, but I was there and my daughter was there and we witnessed it, everything they say, they've contradicted us".
Mr Thurman strongly feels that there should he should claim compensation, and that the authorities should not be let off with just a mild apology. If he hired the services of no win no fee medical negligence solicitors, he could ask for a judicial review of the report and seek retribution and compensation. Medical negligence claims can be filed stating the acknowledgment on the part of the hospital with regards to some degree of paucity in their services.
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King County now has the second-lowest teenage birth rate in the nation — second only to the Boston metropolitan area. And a huge part of that drop happened in the past few years, according to new numbers released Wednesday by Planned Parenthood and Public Health – Seattle & King County. Between 2008 and 2015, the percentage of teen births in King County fell from more than 21 percent to less than 10.
Also during that window: Nearly 40,000 women of reproductive age got health insurance for the first time.
As federal lawmakers ponder repealing the Affordable Care Act and defunding Planned Parenthood, Seattle and King County have a particularly large stake in keeping those things firmly in place.
"We may find out more as time goes on," says King County Councilmember Jeanne Kohl-Welles, who chairs the Health, Housing and Human Services Committee, but the two main factors that have clearly contributed to the drop so far are that more women have been able to get coverage under the ACA, which mandates coverage of contraceptive care, and that more have had access to long-term contraceptives, like IUDs. "Especially for lower income women, the progress has been very significant," she adds. Before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, more than a third of low-income women in King County had no health insurance; afterward, that number dropped to 13 percent.
As for why King County and Boston are topping the charts in teen pregnancy reduction, Kohl-Welles can only speculate. But one thing King County has that Boston doesn't, she says, is Best Starts for Kids, an initiative that created, among other things, a number of school-based health centers that provide all kinds of preventive health care for teens, including contraceptives.
Kohl-Welles served as a Washington state senator for 21 years before she came to the King County Council, and has long placed women's health care and women's rights among her top priorities. What strikes her now is the relentless attacks on those rights. "What's so amazing to me is that his has been so cyclical," she says, almost exasperated. When she was a senator, "Every few years, we'd get these efforts to defund any type of preventive care associated with reproductive health — these bills to prohibit talking about abortion as one option for people." She fought "a huge battle in the senate" about six years ago, for example, to pass a bill that required any family planning counseling in Washington to be based on science and evidence, not belief. "To me, it just makes sense: you want to give accurate information to kids — particularly kids."
Also a mandate under the Affordable Care Act: No one can be charged more for health insurance or care based on their gender. Believe it or not, that "was standard practice before the ACA," she says. "In Washington, we had to pass legislation to make sure women were not being charged more than men." If the ACA is indeed under threat — as well as Planned Parenthood, which provides health care services to some 28,000 people in King County, including cancer screenings, HPV vaccines, and help quitting smoking — "there's a lot to lose. I don't think we need to step backwards on that."
"Nothing can replace Planned Parenthood and the health services they provide, and it's unconscionable for Congress and the White House to even consider reducing access to birth control and preventive health care," said King County Executive Dow Constantine in a statement released Wednesday. "Together, King County and Planned Parenthood have made great strides in improving women's health, and we won't stop now. We will continue to fight for family planning services as a matter of social and economic justice, and plain common sense."
The federal climate right now, especially with regard to the above, "seems ridiculous," says Kohl-Welles. "It really does." But, echoing Constantine, "we owe it to our constituents to fight for them," she says. "We're doing pretty well here — very well. We don't want to give that up."
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With 25 years of culinary experience, Chef Gillispie leads the team here at the Herrington Inn and Atwater's. We strive to bring the current trends as well as the classics into our menus and source local products as often as we can. We pride ourselves on bringing the freshest quality ingredients in on a daily basis. From our dry aged beef to our no chemical poultry and wild caught seafood we bring seasonally fresh ingredients to the table. I've grown up in this area and lived here for over 35 years. Being local I have had the opportunity to cultivate many great relationships with local farmers as well as local business owners in the area. This has afforded me the opportunity to support local and bring some of the freshest ingredients onto our menus. I work closely with my dedicated staff of culinary professionals to create unique dishes that reflect the season. We offer many gluten free options as well as take our customers dietary needs very seriously. I am very passionate about serving healthy and locally sourced ingredients and I feel it is the only way to truly appreciate good food.
My fifteen years of culinary experience has stemmed from inspiration that I have gained growing up watching my mother cook traditional Mexican cuisine. I became very enthusiastic about food and at the age of fifteen and I started working in professional kitchens. This lead me to fall in love with the craft of cooking and attended culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago. I participated in a competition club that gave me the surreal opportunity to stage at Michelin-Starred kitchens. The Michelin rating is the highest and most prominent restaurant rating one can achieve. Once I graduated, I came back to the suburbs of Chicago and applied the different cooking styles and techniques I had learned. My vision for Atwater's is to create a delicious pallet-memorable experience by using fresh and locally sourced ingredients. Atwater's has a phenomenal culinary team and we invite to you join us and enjoy an unforgettable dining experience.
My passion for food started at a very young age watching my grandmother cook every single day. My Italian roots have influenced me and play a huge part in my cooking style. Yearning to learn more, I attended the College of DuPage, received a Culinary Arts Degree and trained under many great chefs expanding my knowledge of cuisine immensely. I have vast knowledge of butchering and a number of different cooking techniques and I have applied those skills at many hotels and restaurants now of course at Atwater's. When people ask what my goals are as chef, one thing always comes to mind, "Its very simple, to serve excellent food". Each dish on the menu is carefully thought out and has its own theme. By sourcing local market fresh ingredients, we are giving our guests a variety of excellent dishes to enjoy.


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Masi Agricola President Sandro Boscaini has been a key figure in showing the world that Valpolicella can produce good wines. Masi's Luc Desroches visited Cayman in January to host several wine tastings and to participate in the 2014 Cayman Cookout, and he discussed the role Masi played in Valpolicella's rise in the wine world.
Although it is virtually surrounded by good wine regions, as recently as 50 years ago the wine region Valpolicella in Verona, Italy, wasn't known for producing very many memorable wines.
"Valpolicella was mainly a producer of cheap jug wines," said Luc Desroches, the sales managing director Americas – Asia/Pacific for the Masi Agricola winery.
In 1964, a young university graduate named Sandro Boscaini joined Masi, bringing with him a vision.
"Sandro realized the salvation of the region was to improve the quality," he said.
Through some research and experimentation, Boscaini worked on improving the quality of Masi's wines and has taken Masi – and Valpolicella – to new heights.
Every wine has a story and with Amarone della Valpolicella, it's a more interesting story than most.
The wine is made from a blend of grapes most people have never heard of, mainly Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara, but sometimes also Croatina, Negrara, Forsellina or Oseletta.
When used to produce a standard table wine, the result is generally a light-bodied, fruity wine that is best served young and slightly chilled, very similar to Beaujolais. However, by allowing these grapes to partially dry on racks before being pressed, in a process called appassimento, the wines they produce are transformed into rich, full-bodied wines that are among Italy's most prestigious.
The process of making Amarone is expensive, time-consuming and filled with risk. After the grapes are harvested, they are dried on straw mats or bamboo racks for 120 days.
"During this time, they lose between 35 and 40 percent of their weight," said Desroches.
If the drying conditions are too moist, or if the drying room is not ventilated enough, or if the grapes are bunched too closely, or if their skins are broken, the grapes can develop a mold that can ruin all of the grapes.
Conversely, at the end of the drying process, Masi wants the grapes to develop a particular kind of mold called botrytis cinerea – also called noble rot – which is the mold that creates sweet wines like Sauternes. The botrytis gives the grapes higher glycerin levels, which in turn give the wine a soft, round mouth-feel with velvety tannins, and a sensation of sweetness, even though Amarone is a dry red wine.
"Masi's Amarone has less than eight grams of sugar, which is less than cheap California Merlots," said Desroches. "But it has a sweetness in the mouth because of the glycerin."
Production of Amarone, as we know it today, didn't begin until 1950, and the wine didn't really become popular until the 1980s. The early Amarones had very high levels of oxidation, partially because the wines needed 25 to 30 years of aging to really be appreciated, Desroches said.
"Sandro wanted to have an Amarone with as little oxidation as possible," he said, noting that part of the problem was that the fermentation cycle was taking as long as 13 to 16 months. Because the grape drying process created more residual sugar in the juice, it took longer for the yeast to convert the sugars into alcohol so that the resulting wine would be dry as opposed to sweet.
"The key was developing the right yeast to control the fermentation process," Desroches said. "Sandro was able to cut down the process to four to five months and this reduced the oxidation. This produced the Masi Amarone style, which is drinkable and pleasant after five years. This is part of the reason for the big success of Amarone today and was Sandro's the first big innovation."
In some ways, Boscaini's second big innovation was more important than the first because it created a new category of good quality wine that was more affordable than Amarone, thus opening up Valpolicella to a much wider wine market.
"Sandro was searching for something in between the big Amarone and the light Valpolicella," said Desroches.
Boscaini used the lees and pomace – leftover skins and seeds – of the grapes being used to make Amarone and mixed this with already vinified Valpolicella wine. He then added more yeast to create a second fermentation of the mixture and created what is now known as Ripasso Valpolicella, which is sometimes called "Baby Amarone."
This second fermentation process added flavor and body to the wine and the extracted tannins from the pomace add structure.
Eventually, Boscaini improved the process by using partially dried grapes instead of pomace and lees, but with grapes that were only dried about one month instead of 120 days. This method created the "Supervenetian" style of wines.
Over the years that Boscaini has led Masi, the company has become one of the most important wine producers in Italy, with a portfolio of more than 40 different wines. Six of those wines were sampled at a West Indies Wine Company Sommelier Series tasting led by Desroches on Jan. 16. The wines were served with small bites provided by Chef Dylan Benoit and Mizu Restaurant.
The first white wine sampled was Masi's Bossi Fedrigotti Pinot Grigio [Retail: $22.59]. What was immediately noticeable about this white wine in comparison with other Pinot Grigio wines was its light copper tint, which it gets from having some maceration time with the pink-gray grape skins.
"You will notice the aromas of green apple and beautiful acidity," said Desroches. "If you remember one thing about this wine, remember its beautiful acidity."
Next tasted was another Pinot Grigio, the Masi Masianco [Retail: $18.09], one of Masi's Supervenetian-style wines that use the appassimento technique. This is a blend of Pinot Grigio and 25 percent Verduzzo grapes that are dried for 30 days and then vinified in oak barrels. The result is a richer Pinot Grigio with floral and honey aromas and flavors of peach and apricot.
"This is a wine for fun," said Desroches. "It's more mainstream than the previous wine."
The Rosa dei Masi [Retail: $17.99] is the winery's recent entry into the rose wine category. Made from Refosco grapes, this is a unique rose in that it incorporates the appassimento technique, with 15 percent of the grapes being dried for one month. The result is a full-bodied rose with lots of berry flavors that could pair well with many different foods.
"The beauty of this wine happens in your mouth, not in your nose," he said, noting that in this early release of the wine, Masi wasn't satisfied with the aromas, but it was very satisfied with the taste.
Moving to red wines, the Masi Campofiorin 2009 [Retail: $ 20.99] is the original Supervenetian/Ripasso wine. Made with a blend of 70 percent Corvina, 20 percent Rondinella and 10 percent Molinara grapes, this is a rich and velvety wine that has aromas and flavors of cherries. For the price, it is a great value.
The 2008 Costasera Amarone [Retail: $46.59] is a classic example of a Masi Amarone that is drinkable and enjoyable when young.
"The tannins aren't harsh," said Desroches. "They are smooth, round and rich."
On the nose, the Costasera showed aromas of cooked fruits like plums and cherries, and was fruity on the palate, with hints of bitter chocolate and coffee beans.
The tasting ended with Corbec [Retail: $36.99], which comes from Masi's winery in Argentina. This intriguing blend of Corvina and Malbec grapes uses the appassimento technique to produce an elegant and velvety wine with flavors of lush ripe cherries and a long bitter chocolate finish.


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The Limelight Eventplex has a big weekend planned out with shows slated for Friday and Saturday.
Chicago-based rock band The Krank Daddies will bring its rock-on-steroids performance to the Sound Bar stage Friday night. Having shared concert bills with the likes of Social Distortion, Reverend Horton Heat and Rob Zombie, The Krank Daddies are well versed in dominating a high octane live show. Tickets for the concert cost $5, doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the music starts at 8 p.m.
Stokley Williams, the lead singer of the multi-platform R&B group Mint Condition, leads the Saturday night billing at the Limelight, showcasing his solo work. Opening for Williams will be jazz musicians Phil Denny and Shaun LaBelle, featuring soulful singer Kenya. Tickets cost between $20 and $50 with the show beginning at 8 p.m. at the Limelight's main stage.
For more information on the weekend shows, visit the Limelight Eventplex website.


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K-Circle is today India's oldest quiz club, formed in 1972, and is based in the twin cities of Hyderabad & Secunderabad. This Saturday would be the K-Circle Quiz of the Month at Lamakaan which would be a lively, engaging and informally informative quiz session that anybody is welcome to attend! This is a non-competetive event, where teams are formed on the spot


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Sunday Puzzle: Reverse To Get Ahead
Sunday Puzzle: Reverse To Get Ahead
On-air challenge: Each sentence has two blanks. Reverse the first two letters of the word that goes in the first blank to get a new word that goes in the second blank to complete the sentence.
Example: Until 1917 in Russia, there was no bigger ______ than the ______. --> STAR, TSAR
1. The wide branches of the ______ tree left ______ room for everyone to sit in the shade.
2. The company president guaranteed all her employees a ______ no matter what financial difficulties might ______.
3. Before going out on stage, ______ Presley changed out of his ______ into dress pants.
4. If the tailor runs out of time, he'll have to ______ the pants leg ______.
5. Of all the uncommon cases the school infirmary got, the ______ was cardiac ______.
6. For his Irish fans, the fact that the singer came from the province of ______ added ______ to his reputation.
7. Heinz is planning a new-fangled bottle for their ______, but every time I try it, it ______ (2 wds.).
8. Because of its conflicting statements about the use of ______ weapons, the government's policy on them was ______.
9. The flying instructor gave the student pilot considerable ______ in deciding what ______ to fly at.
10. Just for your ______, the word "______" can be defined as "the act of treating someone like a god."
Last week's challenge: This challenge comes from listener Joseph Young, who conducts the weekly blog Puzzleria. Take the start of the name of a country and the end of that country's capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you'll get the last name of a character in a very popular movie. It's a character everyone knows. Who is it?
Answer: Kenya + Nairobi --> (Obi-Wan) Kenobi
Next week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Chris Stuart, who is from the answer to this puzzle. Name a place in the United States that contains a W. Drop the W, and you can rearrange the remaining letters to name two types of mammals, each in the plural form. What place is it, and what are the mammals?
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If you know the answer to next week's challenge, submit it here. Listeners who submit correct answers win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you Thursday, March 1 at 3 p.m. ET.


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Purple Friends
Carol Eade May 26, 2010Beautiful portrait, April, and love the purple theme! #1272638
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These two girls are in my primary class- they are best friends. Taken in studio last week.
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Recently, a window fitter has been jailed for two years after falling asleep at the wheel. He ended up crashing into two cars and hospitalising a blind woman.
The night before, Lee Greenless had been out drinking until 4am. Therefore, he decided to wait until the afternoon before driving. However, he ended up falling asleep at the wheel,drifting over to the other side of the road and crashing into two oncoming cars.
This unfortunately left three people injured. One of which, was blind. She ended up having to be operated on and spent eight days in hospital. She suffered from fractured ribs, a fractured chest bone, a bleed in her lung and regular panic attacks whilst in hospital.
Her husband was also in the crash too and suffered from fractured neck and cheek bones. Due to this though, his wife had to stay in a care home as her husband was unable to look after her due to his injuries.
The final victim in the incident also ended up having to be cut from her car. Luckily though, her injuries were less severe with pains in her stomach, neck and back and a cut to her arm.
Prosecutors described: "it was plain that, prior to the collision, his driving was of concern. He was seen by a witness driving on the kerb, and when he reached the bend, instead of turning into the corner, he drove straight on into the wrong side of the carriageway."
The window fitter was eventually jailed though for two years and disqualified from driving for five.
So what do you think of this? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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|Oxygen sensor voltage stays between 0.35 and 0.55 volts for 40 seconds. Engine was at normal operating temperature and had been running for at least 2 minutes after start with a throttle angle above 5%.
|Coolant temperature sensor signal indicates a temperature below -30° F or above 275° F for 3 seconds after the engine has been running for 2 minutes.
|TPS voltage was above 3.9 volts for 5 seconds when the MAP sensor signal showed manifold vacuum to be 15 pounds or more and engine speed was less than 1750 RPM or TPS voltage was below 1.9 volts for 64 seconds.
|Inlet Air Temperature Sensor signal showed an air temperature below -30° F or above 302° F for more than 2 seconds after the engine has been running for 2 minutes.
|When engine speed was between 1700 and 3600 RPM and throttle position angle was less than 1%, the MAP signal showed low voltage (high manifold vacuum) for at least 5 seconds.
|Inlet Air Temperature Sensor signal showed an air temperature over 304° F after the engine has been running for 5 minutes and 20 seconds and the vehicle speed was greater than 15 MPH.
|EGR open command did not change the fuel mixture when the command was given during off idle operation. EGR opening should cause the mixture to be slightly richer because of the low oxygen content of exhaust gas.
|MAP sensor signal voltage was higher than 3.7 volts for 5 seconds when throttle opening was under 5%, or MAP sensor signal was lower than 0.3 volts when throttle opening was over 15%.
|The EST signal did not change when the ECM applied bypass voltage to the ignition module.
|Oxygen sensor voltage was under 0.27 volts for 25 seconds of closed loop operation.
|Oxygen sensor voltage was over 0.700 volts for at least 51 seconds of closed loop operation. Throttle angle was above 5% and engine had been running for at least 2 minutes.
|EPROM error.
|Battery voltage was higher than 17.1 volts for 0.2 seconds, or below 10 volts for 4 minutes.
|Oxygen sensor voltage was less than 0.3 volts for 5 seconds of closed loop operation.
|A/C refrigerant pressure voltage was either less than 0.19 volts or greater than 4.9 volts for 15 seconds, or the pressure voltage was above 4.0 volts when A/C clutch was not requested.


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Dell is suffering serious shipping delays with some of its Latitude E4300 systems due to an unresolved component supply issue, The Register has learned.
The company has been telling customers unfortunate enough to have ordered the laptop to wait up to three months for the product to be delivered.
One customer, who wishes to remain anonymous, claimed to have been told that Dell had halted all manufacturing of the E4300 model at its new Poland factory before Christmas last year.
Dell declined to give us specific details about the issues it's currently experiencing at its manufacturing plant with the system. Instead it simply blamed a components shortage.
"We have been experiencing some delay in shipping of certain Latitude E4300 systems," it said in a statement to El Reg. "This is down to a component supply issue that we are resolving."
"We apologise to customers that are experiencing a delay in the shipment of their systems, and would like to reassure them that we are working as quickly as possible to get systems out of the factory and into their hands."
Meanwhile, a Dell forum dedicated to issues with the E4300 unit's motherboard having problems with Intel's chipset continues to rage here.
Just yesterday Dell began touting its wares on Twitter in the hope of bagging some much needed sales by offering exclusive Web 2.0-stylie deals, which could upset some of its newfound lovers in the channel.
Elsewhere, it's been recently spotted hiking prices to cope with pesky currency fluctuations in a less-than buoyant PC market. ®
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