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artist: minson
album: hidden monsters
release date: 2008-04-16
contact: myspace
We are glad to anounce that the minson Hidden Monsters EP, released in March, is finally available for listening. here we have a text present on the cover which induces us in the mithologycal theme of the album
Beneath us was nothing now to be seen but a black tempest, till looking east between the clouds & the waves, we saw a cataract of blood mixed with fire and not many stones thrown from us appeared and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstruous serpent: at last to the east, distant about three degrees appeard a fiery crest above the waves slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks till we discoverd two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea fled away in clouds of smoke, and now we saw, it was the head of Leviathan, his forehead was divided into streaks of green & purple like those on a tygers forehead: soon we saw his mouth & red gills hang just above the raging foam tinging the black deep with beams of blood, advancing toward us with all the fury of a spiritual existence.
BLAKE, William, The Marriage Of Heaven and Hell


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This short video is a video snapshot from peaceful valley in a mountains where children are flying kites. Statements in a form of subtitles comments some situations in everyday private and social life.
"Made for the exhibition 'In Situ' in Simulaker, Novo mesto. It looks like a fragment of the brain storm."
Made for the exhibition 'CI-KEL-RA-ŽA' (collaboration with Manja Vadla) in Gallery Vžigalica, Ljubljana.
"Made for wall installation with the same name. Short fragments of comments I read from Facebook."
Project Missing (Screens) was solo project in Gallery Ganes Pratt. Layered site specific installation inside and outside gallery space, explored childhood and points toward to unstable meaning of images.
"The idea at the time was to produce more and more art with my son and comment contemporary time and its urge to do more things with the kids as a parent. I left my job to be with my son so I also used my professional time to do art with him."
"Video is documentary of Erik, my son, doing productive things with us. He was included in our serious jobs so I planed to the the exhibition together with him. So the Nice City exhibition was created and the video was part of the installation."
Video was a part of the interactive multimedia installation that looked like a diary.
This short video was taken on almost empty streets on the first of January 2004. The main issues of doing this video were questions about human escapism and human behaviour.
A test is given to author's closest family memebers, asking them simple questons about their intimate enviroment and video in a documentary way records their good or bad observations about everyday objects in the living space of home.
Video explores the private world through private and subjective eye. No narrative story is obvious, except some images that makes us believe that private life is going on mainly infront of the television, computer monitors, bedroom and kitchen.
Video was made as site specific ambient for the beautiful church St. Spirit in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia for the occasion of celebration at 100 anniversary of fire burning down Meškova Street in the same town.
Project was orientated to people working in the Tivoli castle space in the middle of Ljubljana's Tivoli Park. The project was based on sometimes hidden interviews with each of MGLC employees.
Tree short videos was taken from old Super-8 recordings of the street and town. All sequences have the number counting (1-2-3) to accompanied minimal and quiet rythm of soundtrack, then video stops. Video is made as a loop ambiental.
Generaly idea is based on a football game as a primitive game who has a referee who judges very subjective, although spectators can watch what really happened between the game on a slow motion replays on their TVs at home.
The airplanes slowly reveal themselves as children's toys floating through the sky. The viewers are implored to question their perception and consider the manner in which they relate their vision to previous memories.
The video is unedited video piece that shows author dressed as Santa Claus. He dances to the music and observes how people who live in the same apartment reacts on the situation of act,
Arcobaleno is a computer generated video, which reflects with slightly ironic undertones on the hidden tensions within the countries that, while focusing on their national identity, simultaneously have a strong longing to belong to the bigger entity of "Europe".
Documentary video was made as a document for Argos project in Vevey, Switzerland at the first place, but later became a road movie. It's a non-edited documentary of travel and art festival experience.
Video is made as a computer edit with a simple cut from a movie with latter added sound. It was made for a CD-ROM.
Nonedited video of traveling trought the city of Ljubljana with later added drum'n'bass soundtrack. The story is simple. We drove to visit two McDonald's Drive In restaurants.
Old Super-8 recordings from the Tower in toronto made by my father in the 70's. Natural voices are later digitalised.
Four short videos about sending data over the e-mail.
The screen combines the shot from a football match with the shots of an American city from a car in motion. Statement 'West - Can't Undo - East' repeats in it's variations.
The Author asked some people he knows what they think of him. Intimate confrontations in a form of statements from the information TV programmes.
Scenes from Super-8 recordings taken by the author's father in the US and Canada in the 70's with added music.
Music video for internet vocal group Aca Lumni Project.
Music video for vocal group Bassless.
Behind the scenes movie for vocal group Perpetuum Jazzile (unreleased).
Behind the scenes movie for vocal group Perpetuum Jazzile.
Music video for vocal group Perpetuum Jazzile (unreleased).
Music video as a part of interactive project.
Music video. Group TEN.
Tone Kralj (1900-1975) was a Slovene sculptor and painter also known for his wall paintings and illustrations. Movie was made together with art historian Dr. Igor Kranjc. DVD production (Slovene, English subtitles and narration), Občina Dobrepolje.
France Kralj (1895-1960) was important in Slovenian expressionism and in the later new reality style. In the 50s, he started making monotype prints. Movie was made together with art historian Dr. Igor Kranjc. DVD production (Slovene, English subtitles and narration), Občina Dobrepolje.

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Things are heating up again. Can you handle it?The SUMMER BOYS girls are back on the beach for another dose of sizzling drama. Can soul mates Beth and George maintain their long-distance love affair, even while another boy is catching Beths eye? Will reformed bad girl Ella REALLY be able to change her wild ways? And can shy, smart Kelsi open herself up to love again after shes had her heart broken? And whats happening with Jamie on her summer writing program? Find out all this—and much more—in this sexy sequel.
On vacation again together, three cousins share their familys beach house and find a whole new selection of boys—and the problems that go along with dating them.


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Musharraf heading for a painful end
February 18, 2008
President Pervez Musharraf [Images], it seems, has lost his most important political battle within two months after taking off his army uniform.
February 18 was a historical day. The people of Pakistan tried to defeat terror and tyranny by vote power. There were many incidents of bombings and sniper firing just a day before polling. The targets were the anti-Musharraf parties. One candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was gunned down in Lahore [Images] on February 17.
Musharraf assured a British newspaper one day before polling that his PML-Quaid-e-Azam will win the election. The writing on the wall was that polls would be rigged. There was also a fear that a big number of voters will not come out from their homes on polling day.
Election Day started with two bombings in Quetta. But democracy lovers risked their lives. They were determined to defeat the bombs and bullets by the ballot. They came out from their homes. Voter turnout was not big but it was close to past turnouts. More than a dozen people sacrificed their lives for democracy on election day.
By the evening of February 18 it seemed clear that Pakistan People's Party, PML of Nawaz Sharif and Awami National Party have swept three provinces and the PML-Q performed well in Baluchistan.
Musharraf is no more in a position to change the victory of the opposition into defeat. The army will not help him in rigging. People are ready to resist. The pro-Musharraf PML-Q seem to have vanished in at least two provinces -- Sindh and the North West Frontier Province. The PPP and the PML-N have created cracks for PML-Q in Punjab, which was a political fort for pro-Musharraf forces.
The PPP and the PML-N have already decided to cooperate with each other against Musharraf. The most trusted friend of the US in Pakistan will have no other choice but to leave office.
Febraury 18 is the beginning of the end of Musharraf Raj in Pakistan. The credit of this victory goes to the great sacrifice of Benazir Bhutto on December 27. The PPP got votes out of a big sympathy wave. Nawaz Sharif did well because of a very offensive and organised election campaign. He emerged as the champion of the independent judiciary and free media.
Musharraf was rejected mainly due to his bad strategy in the war against terror. He killed more Pakistanis in this war than the Indians killed in the wars of 1965 and 1971. He is heading towards a very bad and painful end.
Now the question is who will be the next President of Pakistan.
The PPP and the PML-N can agree on a new prime minister but it would be great challenge to agree on a new President. Some diplomats in Islamabad were stunned few days ago when Nawaz Sharif announced that disgraced nuclear scientist Dr A Q Khan will be their presidential candidate. It will not be acceptable to the US and the West. PML-N sources said that party has not formally nominated Dr Khan as their candidate for presidency.
The PPP and the PML-N have to face many challenges in the coming days. Asif Ali Zardari and Sharif will meet soon and will try to resolve all issues, including the names of new prime minister and President.
It is expected that if the PML-N supports a PPP prime minister, the PPP will support a President named by the PML-N. There are no doubts that both the parties will restore real parliamentary democracy in Pakistan. The President will have no power to dissolve the national assembly.
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Ever since moving to Seattle in late 2006, I've been hearing about Beth's Café. From a great spot to get some late-night tucker to somewhere to nurse a hangover the morning after, Beth's has always been near the top of Seattleites' list of greasy spoons.
And with hushed, almost hallowed tones, I'd heard the legend of the 12-egg omelette. In fact, I remember seeing it featured on TV in a Red Lion Hotel in Tukwila within days of moving here.
So it was with some intrigue that I answered a call from a friend Friday night – let's call him "Brett" – telling me to turn on the TV. The Travel Channel was featuring Beth's 12-egg omelette on its Man v. Food show (it was a repeat) where host Adam Richman was about to take on the Southwestern Exposure version of the omelette. He ultimately failed, but this did not deter Brett – he was ready for the 12-egg challenge. He set the date: Sunday morning… 9 a.m… Beth's café.
As a recent immigrant to this country, I am still awe-struck by American-sized food portions and the eating challenges that Americans willingly put themselves through. Hot dog-eating competitions, pie-eating challenges, chili-eating contests, the world's biggest cupcake (and the winner is Minneapolis!) – the reckless desire to gorge oneself is astounding. Yet the voyeur in me, and the millions of others who turn out to watch these events, finds the spectacle hard to turn away from… like a train wreck.
So at 9 a.m. we arrived at Beth's. It was a chilly October morning. Svelte runners in Lycra Lulu Lemon leggings trotted past us on their way to do a quick lap or two around Green Lake, as if trying to amplify our sloth. We settled into a booth, replete with hand-colored illustrations stuck to the wall, cast by former patrons – one an excellent likening of Nelson Mandela accompanied by an obtuse poem involving Mandela, his socks, Britney Spears and pole dancing. Another was more foreboding – a 16-year-old gloating about his mastery of the 12-egg omelette. The gauntlet had been thrown down.
Brett decided that the Southwestern Exposure, which had been Richman's downfall, was not for him and settled on the ham and cheese 12-egg omelette. It arrived on what looked suspiciously like a pizza tray. Brett's initial response upon seeing the perhaps three pounds of hash browns lurking beneath the yellow mass was not promising: "I'm making a qualification – I may not finish the hash browns." I was quick to point out that anything short of an empty tray would be considered a failure.
Beth's staff kept the coffee coming to help wash the mass of food down, and teed up an inspiring soundtrack which was bizarre in its breadth – A Flock of Seagulls, Katrina and the Waves, Garbage, The Vapors, Kings of Leon, Silversun Pickups, Death Cab for Cutie.
Brett was powering through the omelette, and paused briefly to play food critic: "They haven't sacrificed quality for quantity – it's a great omelette; very cheesy," he mumbled between bites.
Soon half the omelette was gone, but Brett was showing signs of fatigue. He also seemed to be changing color, from red to pale green to white. Yet he pushed on.
The finish line began to appear on the horizon. Brett was into the final stretch – only a hand-sized pile of hash browns remained – but he was beginning to look like a defeated man. His rhetoric also began to change: "I still think I can finish it but it might take another hour," he said. "I'm not giving up per se, but if you have things you want to get done today…"
With that, we knew it was over. He pushed a few more mouthfuls of hash brown around the pan, but it was futile – the 12-egg omelette had won the day. And so, with tail tucked between his legs, Brett stepped out on to Aurora and went home defeated, to collapse into bed and sleep off the morning's heroic exertions.
Footnote – Adam Richman, in his Man v. Food attempt, said that completion of the omelette nets the victor a free Beth's t-shirt. Sadly Beth's menu advises otherwise: "Sorry, there is no prize for finishing a 12-egg omelette other than the knowledge of a job well done!"
So intrepid ultimate omelette-eaters, the glory lies in the cholesterol overdrive your system is craving, not the material spoils of 100 percent cotton. As Brett put it, "I showed that omelette who's number one; and that omelette is now number two!"
Beth's Café is located at 7311 Aurora Ave N in Seattle.


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Enrolment is the process that all students go through to register onto a course. Following enrolment, you will officially become a student of the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London. During enrolment, we will check your qualifications and ID, and you will have an interview and/or assessment with teaching staff to make sure that the course you have chosen is right for you.
At the end of the enrolment process, you will be given your CONEL ID badge and information about your college induction.
Our main enrolment usually takes place in August and September, before your course starts in September.
If you're interested in starting a course now, why not have a look at our FREE short courses starting throughout the year?
How do I enrol?
To enrol, you must fulfil the entry requirements of your chosen course, complete an eligibility-residency assessment and if working, provide a copy of your latest payslip.
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2. What to bring and things you need to know!
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If you are an Adult Asylum seeker, we need to see your ARC card. As an Adult, you need to have lived in the UK for 6 months and a maximum of 1 year. Otherwise, we need to see proof that your case is under consideration by the Home Office.
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text: Say dragons did exist. In that alternate universe, how would they breathe fire? (Where the answer is not "magic".) Kyle Hill has a nice explanation for how real-life fire breath might work, and how it could have evolved over time. (Although, slight spoiler, Hill's idea won't be terribly surprising to those of us raised on Ken Hamm Creationism videos.)


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For Refugee International Advocate Camilla Olson, awareness is an important step in helping the women and families affected by the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
"Many people have no idea about the conflicts that are taking place right now in the Congo or even how long they've been happening," Olson said to a group of the District's most passionate humanitarians at the Hudson Lounge and Restaurant on Thursday night.
Olson was the guest of honor at the Young Humanitarian Circle benefit for the ongoing conflict in Congo. The Y.H.C. is a Washington D.C. based group that provides an opportunity for young professionals to join together and raise awareness for some of the world's most vulnerable people.
"There's been a lot of women who have been raped by militia groups and armed men, people are fleeing their houses, their sick, their hurting, and they really need our help. " she said. "Our main goal is to figure out how to prevent this kind of violence from happening in the first place and to assist these women and families in any way we can."
Even if the Congo is a world away from the District, Olson encouraged Y.H.C. members to get involved and to be engaged in helping victims in the African nation.
"You're never too late to help someone who really can't help themselves, and you're never to young to be educated on something so important," she said. "I think sometimes it may be hard for us to grasp how difficult it is over there because it's so far away, but we can relate to them -- they're just like us. We really can make a difference if we try."
Ten percent of all proceeds from Thursday night's benefit were given to Refugees International's lifesaving work. To learn more about helping with the mission, please log on to www.refugeesinternational.org.


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After 15 years promoting the perfect in classic clothing and accessories, the time has come for me to retire. There are basic items that have to be thought-about in the group of a classic trend present. She does have wonderful objects at Klassic Line Vintage Clothes and Costume and her site is being up to date daily. Popular magazines and sample firms suggested women on easy methods to remake males's fits into sensible outfits, because the men were in uniform and the cloth would in any other case sit unused.
I've a couple of classic clothes of my very own and a few baby outfits that have been my older brother's. Sexier attires reappeared and tight becoming clothes had been worn as soon as again as glamorous and fabulous clothes slowly returned to the style scene making vogue designers breathe a sigh of aid. Through the years, trend has privileged one shape over one other one at totally different times.
She is taken into account to be a Classic icon of the Nineteen Fifties as a consequence of her at all times polished and sophisticated apparel. To today, secondhand and classic clothing attracts a variety of shoppers with myriad political, aesthetic and financial motives for his or her different procuring decisions. As hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's wildly fashionable 2013 hit Thrift Shop" declared, if you've solely obtained $20 in your pocket—sporting your granddad's vintage garments is an incredibly high quality look.
In becoming so quirky and particular person, Gucci has actually hit the zeitgeist – which is what the vintage buyer has always been; just a little little bit of a magpie, taken with color, brilliant patterns and embellishment," says the self-confessed unashamed maximalist. We always have an exquisite selection of genuine classic from this distinctive and quite superb time.


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Just hours after hearing news of the Dreamville's sequel to "Revenge Of The Dreamers", J.Cole and company decide to surprise fans by dropping it off on iTunes a few days early.
Originally set to drop this Friday, the project, which is a collaboration between J. Cole and the rest of his Dreamville members, Bas, Omen and Cozz, contains 9 tracks in total and features guest appearances from Donnie Trumpet, Ari Lennox, & Correy C among others. It's being led by the previously heard single "Night Job."
Cop the project now on iTunes or stream the project via Apple Music.
We'll update with an official album stream once made available.
Peep the tracklist below.
1. "Folgers Crystals" (J. Cole)
2. "Night Job" (Bas Feat. J. Cole)
3. "Backseat" (Ari Lennox Feat. Cozz)
4. "Caged Bird" (J. Cole Feat. Omen)
5. "48 Laws" (Omen Feat. Donnie Trumpet)
6. "Housewives" (Bas)
7. "Tabs" (Cozz Feat. Bas)
8. "Still Slummin'" (lute)
9. "Grow" (Cozz Feat. Correy C)
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Posted on 25th October 2012 by Media Relations
The view from the Taronga Centre
Taronga Zoo's function centre is boasting a fresh new look after undergoing some extensive refurbishments and launching a range of delectable new menus.
The Taronga Centre's Harbourview Terrace and Harbourview Ballroom have been refurbished marking the start of a new 5-year contract between Taronga and exclusive onsite catering team Compass Group's Restaurant Associates division.
New menus designed by award-winning celebrity chef Sean Connolly feature a range of gourmet delights including freshly-shucked Sydney rock oysters with Cabernet Sauvignon Vinaigrette, White wine Daube of Beef with Potato Puree, Speck, Morels and Glazed Shallots, and Manjari Dark Chocolate Fondant with Vanilla Ice Cream.
The Taronga Centre is an iconic venue and hosts a large variety of both small and large scale events catering for a range of corporate and private functions. Each room boasts panoramic views of Sydney Harbour and the zoo grounds.
The Centre was officially recommissioned on Tuesday 23rd October at an exclusive evening launch party event, featuring a safari-themed cocktail party and live music. The new canapés menu was also launched on the night.
The popular Harbourview Café in grounds at Taronga Zoo is also due to undergo extensive refurbishments and will be a fine dining restaurant, taking advantage of its intimate location and views overlooking the Zoo's sprawling concert lawns.


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The 'finally' date
Sometimes there are people who you keep trying to meet up with, but life gets in the way. Then you finally have your date. This is what happened with The Philosopher and I. Last month, at a friend's birthday party, a bunch of us were talking about my upcoming month of dating. The Philosopher (my friend's best friend) told me that he would love to be one of my dates, even though we had barely spoken to each other. He picked the 7th and the 17th as our two date times (or at least one of them). Well, I had to work the 7th and he had to work then played baseball on the 17th. Fate was keeping us apart, but amazingly enough we were both free yesterday afternoon for lunch and a chat and it actually happened.
Even though we hadn't spoken that much at the party last month, we had made it through the initial meeting, so getting together this time was very comfortable. He picked me up in his car (he's my friend's friend, so I trust him), got out to open my door, held the restaurant door open for me, insisted on paying the bill.
We talked about lots of taboo topics. I love this. I feel like we should talk about religion (he's Jewish, so it was a totally appropriate topic of conversation, considering I'm not), ex-partners, his date the day before, my dates the days before, philosophy (not sure if this is really a taboo topic, but we did talk about it as he went to school for philosophy before changing into finance and philosophy was the only class in university I really didn't understand), real estate. I'm all about being open and I like a date who isn't uncomfortable with speaking about all sorts of things.
We also talked about cool traveling we've done, which is always a favourite topic of mine. He was born in South Africa, so it was interesting to hear about his childhood there. He also did an awesome back-country ski trip that sounded amazing!
I had a really nice lunch with him, despite the fact that he really only asked me out for the blog. I have no idea if he thought I was cute and wanted to take me out, or because he was doing me a favour, but either way, I had a great time. I'm sure the religion factor (his mom wants him to marry a nice Jewish girl) will keep us from another date (unfortunately – but religion is one of those deal breaking factors that usually can't be compromised around), but it'll be great to chat again at the next party we're at together.
Your Target Market
Speaking of being Jewish, there are a many dating websites that are specific to a demographic (and not my demographic), that I want to mention:
- JDate – Jewish singles community online
- Jewish Mingle – Jewish online dating service
- Jewish Friend Finder – Jewish online dating
- Love and Seek – Christian dating service
- Muslim 4 Muslim – Muslim dating site
- Uniform Dating – online dating for those who work in uniform or fancy those who do
- Interracial Match – interracial dating site
- Blingles – events for black singles aged 30 and up
- Tall Club of Toronto – social organization designed to promote friendship, fellowship and tall awareness among tall people in the Toronto area
- Geek 2 Geek – (my favourite of these sites) computer geek dating service
- Single Parent Meet – single parent online community
- No Kidding – social club for childfree couples and singles (not a dating service)
- Senior People Meet – dating community for single seniors
- Date a Cougar – cougar dating community
- Eligible Greeks – Greek singles site
- Eligible Social Club – upscale dating event company
And there are many more, if there's a specific demographic you're into that I didn't mention.
Another concert! With the ex-boyfriend…


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Hello one and all!
Another fine and cloudy Thursday. A definite plus over the week of fog we had last week.
Our 40% sale is still on going. Come in and grab what you want before we're sold out! Once it's gone, it's gone! No better time than now to pick up additional MOLLE gear, magazines (limited quantity), and other accessories for your gun and gear!
Sunday's current weather forecast looks to be cloudy with sporadic bouts of sun, with a chance of either rain or snow flurries in the afternoon. Hopefully we'll be lucky and we get neither!
See you guys Sunday!


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Mark Noll: The innovation of the early American church
Although it is commonplace today for Christians to create organizations that tackle social problems, that approach was an innovation in the American Protestant church, says one of the nation's top church historians.
The American Protestant church's great innovation was its voluntary organization, but organization alone did not guarantee success. The real key to thriving is focus on mission, said Mark Noll, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
In the 1800s, Christians created hundreds of groups to address important issues, and "it was very new," Noll said. "It was innovative, and the scale in which it was carried out in the United States really did transform the public landscape as well as the landscape for the churches."
But as American Christians developed a voluntary form of church, the institutional structures were less important than a focus on doing Christ's work in the world, he said.
Noll, who is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is one of the foremost scholars of American religious history. He received the National Humanities Medal in 2006 and co-founded the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals when he was a professor at Wheaton College.
His many books include "America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln," "God and Race in American Politics: A Short History" and "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind." He is currently working on a book about the Bible in American history.
Noll spoke to Faith & Leadership while at Duke University to give the 2012-2013 David C. and Virginia Steinmetz Lecture, which is on iTunesU.
Q: You've described the United States as a "biblical civilization." What do you mean by that, and is this different from the question of whether America is a Christian nation?
The Christian nation question is very complicated, and it means bringing to the table a standard by which the question should be answered. So that's one question.
The other question, about a Bible civilization, is a problem that's worked out historically and objectively.
What were the shapers of the language? By any stretch of the imagination, the one great shaper of the language of Americans for the first 100 or more years of national history was the King James Version of the Bible.
This was true for all Protestants who spoke English. It became true for Protestants who didn't speak English when they began to speak English, and became true for Catholics, who used actually a different translation but often, when they talked about the Bible in public, would use the language of the King James Version.
It was true for the first Jewish Bible translations in America, which sounded an awful lot like the King James Version.
In the 1850s, there wasn't any television. There wasn't any radio. There wasn't any Internet. People read, and what they read was almost always, in some way, influenced by the King James Bible.
And I've studied the way in which the national schism that led to the American Civil War was a schism over how to interpret the Bible.
From the early 1830s onward, there was a strong abolitionist attack against slavery, and those attackers drew liberally on the Bible. That attack generated a response. The respondents drew liberally on the Bible.
All the sides to the debate brought the Scriptures to bear. It wasn't the only authority or the only warrant that was brought to bear on this issue, but it was … by far the most often-cited authority.
Q: Did the argument over slavery introduce the notion that the Bible could be used in different ways?
The debates over slavery were not the first time that serious Christians had differed on how they interpreted the Bible, but for American history, it was the decisive one.
It's really in the early 1830s that [the slavery debate] begins, and it lasts for 30 and more years.
Q: How did that change the way that Americans viewed the Bible?
Well, the argument that I tried to develop is that this public disagreement, extended over a long period of time, over how to interpret the Bible actually affected a number of elements in the broader American society.
One of the elements was changing opinions on what the Bible itself really was. There was a substantial group of people who felt that if the Bible could be used to defend slavery, it was necessary to have a new conception of the Bible.
I think also a second result was that there were people who continued to believe very deeply in a traditional Bible but realized that putting that traditional belief out in public to be debated had not been helpful.
And then a third is that, having not succeeded in bringing a unified biblical testimony on the question of slavery, it was harder and harder to bring a unified biblical testimony to any major social problem.
Q: You've written about the innovation of voluntary religion in the United States. Is that a particularly American way of going about being a Christian?
The way in which Christian believers in the United States have voluntarily joined together to create organizations to do specific tasks is not unique to the United States, but the United States is a place in the world where that way of operating has developed most extensively.
The separation of church and state that was national from the 1790s and then came to all the states by the 1830s was almost unprecedented in the world. All of the European places where the church people came from had some kind of a church establishment where the institutions of government and institutions of church were interwoven.
European Christian believers looked at America and said, "We will have a democratic mob ruining the Christian tradition." But they were wrong.
In fact, what happened was that the church people adjusted to a situation where the state was not telling the churches what to do and the churches were not, by and large, telling the state what to do.
They adjusted and then adopted this pattern of forming churches by voluntary activity, voluntary support, voluntary patterns of naming leaders, and then other organizations. That was a real innovation.
In the United States from 1800 onward, there's just a plethora of groups like the American Bible Society, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Sunday School Union, the American Anti-Slavery Society and philanthropic groups aimed at prison reform.
There were hundreds of them formed by people who didn't wait around to say, "Well, what's the government going to do?" Or didn't wait around to say, "What's my denomination going to do?" But they said, "We've got a problem; we need to band together and solve it."
Now that seems like just what everybody does all the time, because that's still an American way of doing things, but it was very new. It was innovative, and the scale in which it was carried out in the United States really did transform the public landscape as well as the landscape for the churches.
I would put it this way: it was the adaptation of traditional Christianity to a new social structure, new social forms. The adaptation was successful from one angle, because churches figured out how to organize without relying on the state.
The difficulty was that there was little motive to bring these energies together. So you had free space, and people took advantage of it and did wonderful things.
But as the Christian disputes over the American Civil War showed, if these self-created, self-funded, self-motivated groups disagreed, and they disagreed on an issue that you could only choose one or another, then you had a real problem.
If you disagreed that you should print the Bible and pass it out without the Apocrypha or you should print the Bible and pass it out with the Apocrypha, the United States was big enough that groups could choose to do either one. That is an example that happened.
But with the question whether to extend slavery into the territories or not, there was no mediating ground. An informal, voluntary, ad hoc way of organizing was just not really able to handle that particular problem.
Q: Was that impulse primarily an evangelical mindset, or is that more of an American Protestant mindset?
I think the free-form entrepreneurial attitude and practices in the United States were a combination of strongly evangelical Protestant impulses and democratic impulses.
Evangelical Christianity does not require a free-form democratic system. There were strong evangelical elements in the Church of England in the 18th century that remain to this day.
But there was a kind of elective affinity, a kind of -- a kind of alliance between a religious emphasis that stressed the need for individuals to hear the Christian message, respond to the gospel and act on that response, and a more democratic form of society in which you looked to the people as voters to select the leaders that would guide the society.
So there is this strong affinity, and I think it's one of the reasons why we have, for example, in the United States a much higher proportion than anywhere in the world of Baptist churches. That was a form of Christianity that fit very nicely into American patterns.
Q: Are there threads in this history that pull through to the current day?
There probably are a number of threads that link the late-18th-century and the 19th-century American religious life and the present.
One would be that the success of churches like the Methodist under Bishop Francis Asbury had a great deal to do with the ability to compete.
They really were not nervous about saying, "We've got to provide a religion that is every bit as gripping and as …" -- they wouldn't have used the word "exciting"; that's a modern word, but -- "… every bit as gripping and as worthy to be committed to as anything economic, anything political in our society."
Since the Second World War, competition in American culture has become fierce, has become intense. Some of the churches have competed better than others because they have not relied upon bureaucratic or group decisions but have relied upon entrepreneurial activity.
That's, I think, one tie back to the early history.
Q: In the contemporary context, do you think that those more entrepreneurial or competitive church organizations and church leaders are, again, the evangelical?
Since being at Notre Dame, I'm aware of ways that Catholics have mobilized to compete.
But probably it would be the case that forms of the Christian faith that emphasize personal decisions, personal responsibility and a personal tie to the organization are those that do better than organizations that rely upon past traditions and past achievements to gain success.
Groups like the Mormons continue to expand, and I think they're an interesting group that, in form, is a lot like the early Methodists.
They do demand a lot individually, but then they also have a strong network of sharing and communication that somehow combines the need for individual commitment and individual choice with connections. And that certainly was a genius of the early Methodists in American history.
Q: Do current trends in the church have historical parallels?
My own historical sense is that churches that have been effective and have thrived mostly are concerned more about the communication of the Christian message. What turns out to be the most effective way of strengthening the organizations is not always looking at the organizations, but it's looking at the message.
What is the church for? It's to communicate the love of Christ and the doing of Christ's work in the world. It seems to me that the effectiveness of institutions will depend upon, not clarity of thinking about institutions, but the success of church institutions will hinge upon the clarity of thinking about the message that they want to communicate.
That may be an evangelical prejudice in itself, as well as a historical prejudice.
I do have one example. I really am a great fan of Francis Asbury and his kind of dictatorial style with early Methodism, because he did have a very strong conception of how you organize things.
But when he died, people talked only a little bit about the organization.
They talked about his dedication as a preacher, his love for the Bible, his desire to help people out. The organizations clearly sprang from those desires, but what was really significant was his mission.


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The shortage of raw materials and resources on our planet has been a hotly debated topic for several decades. The "black gold" in particular inspired many to become active researchers. The people at former Degussa, now Evonik Industries, were also enthusiastic about the idea of one day finding a substitute for oil. This is why, in 1941, they began to develop a white filling material for the tire industry as a substitute for industrial carbon black, which, up to then, could only be produced from oil. Just twelve months on, having created high-temperature flame hydrolysis, they succeeded in producing the first ultrafine-particle pyrogenic silica. Their vision became reality and the brand known as AEROSIL® was born.
This success story took its course, and in 1966, an important foothold was established in Asia with the building of the Nippon Aerosil production plant in Yokkaichi, Japan. In 1976, the same step was taken westwards when the production of AEROSIL® began at the new Degussa plant in Mobile (Alabama/USA).
More than 70 years of experience, development and research have by now made AEROSIL® the most frequently used brand for the creation, modification and characterization of surface effects.
1941: Development of high-temperature hydrolysis for the production of pyrogenic silica
1942: Development of the first industrial production process in Rheinfelden, awarding of the first patent
1943: AEROSIL® is registered as a trademark for Degussa's pyrogenic silica
1953: Production of aluminium oxides using the AEROSIL® method
1954: Production of pyrogenic titanium oxides
1963: Commercial production of the first hydrophobic types, AEROSIL® R 972 and AEROSIL® R 974
1964: Marketing of the first AEROSIL® dispersion
1966: Establishment of the Nippon Aerosil Co. a joint venture with today's Mitsubishi Materials Corp. in Tokyo (Japan)
1970: Start of production in Antwerp (Belgium)
1976: Start of the AEROSIL® production in Mobile (AL, USA)
1986: Development of a further chemical aftertreatment technology; hydrophobizing method completed. AEROSIL® R 805, R 812 and R 202 launched
1992: Launch of the first structure-modified hydrophobic product AEROSIL® R 8200. First fully-integrated production location for AEROSIL® in Waterford (NY, USA)
2002: Official opening of further integrated production plants in Leverkusen (Germany), and Roussillon (France)
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Many hobby soap makers' dream is to start a soap business. And, of course, you can make soap just for fun. But if it's a business, you must look at several factors just like any other business. One big question is...can you make a profit?
Based on my experience the answer is...maybe! But you certainly should do some planning to make that profit happen. Otherwise, you'll spend a lot of money and get little return. Let's consider the basics of generating profit: sales and costs.
Your sales volume must be large enough to generate your profit goals. Best to think about these goals and how to reach them. There are many ways to sell soap. My favorite way is to use craft fairs. You can sell consignment through gift shops, wholesale to retail stores, sell through an internet store or many other ways. Maybe some combination of these methods will evolve as your business develops.
Costs are the other side of the profit picture. One plus of starting a soap business, like a lot of craft businesses, is the low initial investment required. It costs very little to get started. We made and sold 35,000 bars of soap part-time in about four years. Our equipment cost less than 0 total. So it's easy to get started. You just need molds, pans, a thermometer, spoons and a scale.
The cost of each bar of soap depends on the ingredients. The main ingredients are the base oils which turn to soap and the scent oils. Sodium hydroxide is used to make the reaction occur.
Ingredient prices vary widely. With wise buying, you should be able to make a nice scented bar of soap for less than .00 US, maybe even down toward .50. Of course, if you choose exotic oils, the price can be much higher.
The price you receive will depend on your market and your product. But it will also depend on your ability as a marketer. What separates your product from the competition? Is it a niche product? What about packaging? So your entire marketing approach will be important.
If you can sell a bar of soap for .00 with a cost of .00, you can potentially make some profit. If the price was .00, you have an even better chance. But it may be quite a challenge to get those premium prices.
If you are an effective marketer and you can control costs, there is profit to be made with a soap business. My goal in making soap was to make per hour for the hours I spent on the soap business, not counting the time I spent at craft fairs. I usually did it after the initial learning period.
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text: Iranian Majlis says Saddam Hussein trial in Iraq not free "The crimes of Saddam, his cronies and his international supporters go beyond the national Iraqi framework and have an international dimension," said a statement signed on Wednesday in Tehran by 256 deputies in the 290-seat Majlis. "He should be judged publicly and before an international court comprising independent judges, among them Iraqis and Iranians," it said. The statement also hit out at last week's hearing in Iraq, which it described as "not free, closed-door, subject to censorship and under the control of the occupying forces". Complaint "The crimes of Saddam, his cronies and his international supporters go beyond the national Iraqi framework..."statement, Majlis, TehranIran announced on Sunday that it had prepared a complaint against Saddam Hussein for his September 1980 attack on Iran and use of chemical weapons, and will soon file the dossier with the Iraqi tribunal putting the former president on trial. Saddam Hussein's 1980 land grab - which sparked the catastrophic 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war - did not figure on the original list of charges. Neither did his extensive use of chemical weapons against Iranian forces. According to official figures, Iran has 45,000 registered war veterans with chemical injuries who cost the regime around $20 million a year to support. Iran has also alleged Iranian prisoners were tortured and executed in captivity. The head of Iran's new conservative-held parliament, Ghulam-Ali Haddad Adel, has also denounced the trial as "American". SOURCE: AFP


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Top 4 Questions To Ask Any Short Sale Negotiator
Recently, I've had a number of agents ask me how they can know if a 3rd party negotiation service knows what they are doing.
In response I lay out in this video the 4 questions you must know the answers to if you are going to trust your reputation to a 3rd party negotiator. I've personally heard from dozens of agents (Lee's heard from hundreds) who have blindly trusted the wrong person/company with their negotiations only to find out 5-6 months in that NOTHING has happened to help their client. They are left scrambling to find a way to stall foreclosure as they work day and night to close the short sale.
Personally, I believe that an agent should have their negotiations performed by an employee or do it themselves. Your reputation is too valuable. However, I understand the draw of wanting to receive all the benefit of helping homeowners avoid foreclosure and all the goodwill that brings, but not all the headaches that can come with negotiating with the banks.
This Siren's Song has been used frequently to con an agent into doing something foolish, but my hope is that you'll use these 4 questions to curb that alluring tune and make sure you land on the safe shores of a closed short sale.
If you negotiate your own short sales with the bank, you better be able to answer these questions correctly too!
Short sales truly provide the greatest opportunity to establish yourself as a top real estate agent in your community…IF…you get them closed!
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Though the care for and concern about teeth has a long history, the modern practice of dentistry has its roots in the 18th century, and quickly developed the century after that. No Neanderthal had a dental plan, and we should be thankful. That's because a recent study of Neanderthal teeth gives us a glimpse of what life was like tens of thousands of years ago. The results, published in the journal Nature, give us unique insights into, as the authors put it, our "closed known, extinct hominin relatives."
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text: vothiha 11 / 29 Oct 20, 2009 #1Topic: People do different things to stay healthy. What do you do to stay healthy? Use your reasons and examples to support your idea.People do different things to stay healthy. Personally, I think that three ways to be healthy are to do exercise regularly, eat moderately and relax correctly.To begin with, doing exercise regularly is very important so as to maintain a healthy condition. If you activate your body regularly, such as doing exercise every early morning or play sport at weekend, you will become both well-built and healthier. All poisonous substances are given out. that will clear your body, strengthen your bone, tone up your muscle and so forth.Next, a balanced diet is also crucial. in modern life, people have to do lots of things, so they usually run out of energy and work up an appetite at the end of day. Therefore, they need to be supplied the foods that must be both mutritious and balanced to recover and refill energy for a new day. A diet should include high fiber, high protein, lots of vegetable, cut down on fat and keep off smoking and drinking too much.Finally, you have a correct relax method. Especially, you must sleep at least 8 hours per day and shouldn't stay up late. You should read, sometimes, joke stories; watch comedies or tell jokes with your friends and family because smiling is a dramatic method that help healthier.To sum up , health is a priceless gift of oneself. As long as you have your health, nothing else matters. For wise people, they always know how to do stay healthy. For me, three indispensale things are to activate the body, eat scientifically and refresh wisely.I try to write a longer essay as your suggestion. Please correct it for me. Thanks!


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"Cause darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream"
Welcome, dear hypothetical reader to the reflections of a childlike adult on the bender for booze and bright lights.
Lonely girl
Bottles of wine
Hundred apologies.
I swallow the tablet, the sweetness lingering in my mouth, the knowledge that nothing is helping. The bright happy music is playing in the background as I make quick successive cuts, no deliberation or rationalisation, the quick impulsive action an act of punishment, the punishment for not feeling and being better than this. The blood is warm and fast flowing, quickly running down my leg, tissues and tape quickly bind the wound, as I shove my revealing party dress on, my eyes dancing in the mirror, already knowing full well of my intentions. It's the slightly glazed-over look that is filled with excitement, my heart racing, bottle of wine in hand, red lipstick on. The blood still drips as I quickly drink the contents of the bottle as I wait for my friends to be ready to go.
We arrive at the overcrowded club, so many bright lights and noise, it's exciting and for the moment the warm burning reminder of what I had inflicted on myself is forgotten. The alcohol mingling well with my medication, my eyes darting to possible interests, quickly detailing and determining each person in turn. My friend grabs my hand, pulls me to the side, she looks into my eyes, I can feel the lecture coming, it's always coming. She's worried, the concern clearly written across her face, she tells me that she is scared for me, that I've been different. Pointing to the one freckle on my hand, telling me that she loves me, that I need to be balanced and happy again. She doesn't know I have cried every night of the week after work, that I can't stand to look at myself in the mirror, that I'm too tired to get out of bed, that I need booze and caffeine to become functional for the day. I don't tell her these things, I tell her everything is going to be alright, that I will be better, and that I'm getting help. There are truths to my story, I am getting help, but I never know if it's enough or if it will be in time. Some damage runs too deep.
I quickly kiss her on the lips and say I'm going to dance and have a goodnight, I can see the mistrust in her eyes, but I quickly turn away before she can question me again. At the bar my eyes dart to the man beside me, he is pleasant to look at, I wink, I don't need anything more, that is enough. I slip my hand into his and pull him to the dance floor. I know I have control, he watches as I pull him closer, all the while I wonder if he realises that I'm a new kind of crazy, I knew what I was doing, I was seducing him, the thrill spurring me on, making me more determined and adventurous. He seemed to be enraptured, sometimes I think as an afterthought that men are attracted to the manic woman, she can be the seductress, alluring them, the black widow spider of women, one misstep can be disastrous. We are thrilling for that short period of time, consumed by our intentions and our longing.
The tide quickly changes, in the light of the new day my cuts are made clearer, the pain more severe, the regret written deep inside, this isn't me. The tears and self-loathing resurface in the new light, the subdued waif-like figure once again cloaked in black and standing at the back of the room, gloomy and foreboding wondering what tomorrow might bring.
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Some economists had argued that the level of sophistication of exports determines the income level of a country and its growth rate. Importantly, the level of economic complexity indicates the nature of future economic growth and the ability to produce new goods and move from low-value added to high value-added goods. Sophistication comes from either increasing the quality of currently produced goods or from a move into new and more sophisticated products.
Now, there is a new twist to this line of argument. In a recent book (here is related paper and presentation), Maloney and Lederman argue that "we probably need to spend more time thinking about How rather than What goods are produced." The reason: Countries exporting homogenous goods (natural resources) have heterogeneous performance. For instance, both Nigeria and Norway export oil, but Norway is doing far better than Nigeria. Similarly, both South Korea and Mexico promoted hi-tech production, but the former has been far successful than the latter. Furthermore, in a globalized world where global supply/value chains are so fragmented, attributing export of final product to a single country might not give the real picture of production process spread over a range of activities in many countries. They argue that production of similar products contributes in varying degree to development in different countries. In fact, "about half the differences in industry skill premia at a country level can be attributed to the composition of the export basket, but the other half are due to country specific factors."
They advocate "horizontalish" policies that maximizes the benefits from existing products and creates background for production of new ones. In other words, rather than jumping to production of new products, first focus on harnessing the potential benefits from existing products:
[…]will help get the most out of existing products and lay the foundations for the emergence of new ones. These may include raising the level of human capital, promoting product quality upgrading, reforming the national innovation system, and improving infrastructure, which benefit a wide range of existing and potential products but which wouldn't require choosing particular sectors to support.
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- Resolve innovation related market failures (both old and new goods)
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Inspiration. People get it from their work, their families, their mentors, their heroes and even their personal and business challenges.
Inspiration can be a fleeting feeling, but in the world of work, feeling inspired is often key to being engaged, productive and successful. In the last week, LinkedIn's Influencers have weighed in on what inspires them to do their best work.
Marc Harrison, chief executive officer at Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi
In the medical profession, there is no bigger leap of faith, perhaps, than the trust patients put into their caregivers, wrote Harrison in his post The Privilege of Trust. It's that trust that Harrison said inspires him.
"Early in my career as a paediatric intensive care physician back at Cleveland Clinic, I recall a night when I was called to the emergency department to evaluate a blue, gasping 3-year-old in severe respiratory distress. The child required aggressive intervention and immediate action from my team. I quickly explained the treatment plan to the mother... and she replied by imploring me to save her baby. She asked me to treat her child as if he was my own. It is that responsibility and trust that has driven me to strive for excellence every day of my career," he wrote.
These days, that inspiration guides his hiring philosophy and care guidelines, among other things, he wrote. "We realize that our actions will be woven into the tapestry of family histories for generations. These patients and their faith in our caregivers is my inspiration."
Jacqueline Novogratz, chief executive officer at Acumen Fund
As founder of the global philanthropic fund that focuses on identifying and supporting innovations that effectively deliver basic goods and services to the poor, Novogratz encounters many unassuming leaders and others who inspire her, she wrote in her post Leadership Against All Odds.
"I am inspired by leaders who dare to dream and have the grit, resilience and determination to see those dreams through, regardless of the many times they fall down along the way," she wrote, pointing to "Dr. Venkataswamy (who) founded the amazing Aravind Eye Hospital when he was 58 years old, a successful eye surgeon despite being crippled from rheumatoid arthritis, a former physician in the Indian Army. His mission was audacious: to eradicate unnecessary blindness. His start was humble: a tiny "hospital" with just eleven beds. Nearly 40 years later, Aravind has treated more than 32 million people performing more than 4 million surgeries."
Other leadership traits that inspire Novogratz: "individuals who see a problem and focus on solving it, not yielding to facile excuses and roadblocks" and people "who constantly renew, retaining a childlike curiosity that enables them to seek knowledge and understanding, who commit to something bigger than themselves."
Steve Tappin, chief executive officer at Xinfu
Tappin, who runs the London-based CEO confidant consulting firm, wrote about a mentor who inspired him — the late Sir John Harvey-Jones — in his post Harvey-Jones, vs. Trump vs. Sugar.
"An iconic business leader, in the 1980s he was the European equivalent of Jack Welch, although very different in style. John was also the first famous TV "Troubleshooter," leading a wave of reality TV shows that sought to make business more accessible to an unsuspecting public. The format would later spawn "The Apprentice" and "Dragon's Den," bringing Donald Trump and Alan Sugar to our screens," wrote Tappin, who is also host of BBC's CEO Guru.
Harvey-Jones taught Tappin a number of lessons he has carried with him throughout his career, he wrote. Among them, be inspired, not fired; lift a room with laughter and offer inspiration and belief on demand.
"My experience as a young CEO was a roller-coaster ride of steep growth and sudden dips. John's belief in me was a very powerful thing. "You can do this I have no doubt," he would say, as he kept focusing me in on my few special talents, telling me: "you innovate like no-one I have ever seen". When I felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders, John would reconnect me with what I was really about. I would leave our encounters refreshed and ready to get back and give my best, inspired by him."
Other Influencers
Deepak Chopra, founder Chopra Foundation, wrote about the inspirational power of myth in his career.
Founder of Sydney, Australia-based marketing firm RedBalloon, Naomi Simson, gleans her inspiration from anyone who tells her she "can't" do or be something.


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With the IMD's prediction of 100 per cent rainfall giving a boost to investors' sentiments, the Indian equity markets zoomed higher during the mid-afternoon trade session on Wednesday.The benchmark indices touched record intra-day high levels, as positive global cues and healthy buying in automobile, capital goods and FMCG stocks, too, supported the upward trajectory. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) touched a new intra-day high of 9,392.50 points. Similarly, the barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE touched a record high of 30,207.13 points intra-day. At around 12.50 p.m., the NSE Nifty surged by 66.50 points or 0.71 per cent to 9,383.35 points.The Sensex of the BSE traded above the important 30,000 mark. It opened at 29,988.78 points to trade at 30,172.96 points (at 12.50 p.m.) — up 239.71 points or 0.80 per cent from the previous day's close at 29,933.25 points. The BSE market breadth was bullish, with 1,560 advances and 1,054 declines. According to Dhruv Desai, Director and Chief Operating Officer of Tradebulls, the equity benchmark indices started off the day on a firm note tracking positive Asian cues, with the CNX Nifty hitting fresh all time high levels during the morning session. "Sentiments got a boost after the IMD yesterday said the monsoon this year could be 'normal' and bring 100 per cent rainfall instead of 96 per cent it had predicted earlier," Desai said. "IT and banking sector stocks currently traded with mixed sentiments due to profit booking at higher levels, while media-entertainment and power sector stocks complimented the firmness of the markets." On Tuesday, the Nifty inched up by 2.80 points or 0.03 per cent to close at 9,316.85 points, while the BSE Sensex closed at 29,933.25 — up 7.10 points or 0.02 per cent.
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by Yellowcard
Release Date: 30 September 2016
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Hopeless
Yellowcard Self Titled Limited Vinyl 2LP Set
YELLOWCARD have announced that the band will be releasing their final self-titled album on September 30, 2016 on Hopeless Records and embark on 'The Final World Tour', kicking off on October 6 in San Antonio, TX and reaching Europe & the UK in December. "We wanted to have the chance to share our farewell with as many fans around the world as we could, and now is the right time to do just that." 'Yellowcard' was a very personal journey for the band that was self-produced by Ryan Key and guitarist Ryan Mendez with long-time ally and close friend Neal Avron close by as Executive Producer. "The motivation behind this was to make sure these songs came from a place that was deeply rooted in us," they explain about taking the reins and crafting it from top to bottom. "We wanted to push ourselves to create a lasting finale for this incredible story on our own. It is also why we chose to self-title the album. We were lucky to still have our friend and mentor, Neal Avron, on board as Executive Producer. We've made one of the strongest records of our career and a fitting final creative piece."
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It feels like every time we get more excited for the upcoming IT movie, there is nothing that could possibly build any more hype for this long-awaited adaptation. Then something else comes along to do just that. In this particular case, a brief but insanely effective and unsettling international TV spot for IT has surfaced online that gives us arguably our very best look at Pennywise to date, as well as some other truly unsettling and terrifying imagery.
The new IT TV spot comes directly from Warner Bros. Pictures Latinoamerica and proves that the studio is absolutely crushing the marketing for this movie both domestically and abroad. The clip starts out with Loser's Club member Eddie (Jack Dylan Grazer) rolling up on Pennywise in broad daylight holding a handful of red balloons. We've seen bits of this sequence in previous footage, but this extended look at the scene with the Pennywise voiceover is the stuff of nightmares. Following that sequence, there are a few great cut shots before another look at the final shot from the latest full-length trailer, in which Pennywise dives at an unsuspecting Richie in a room full of clown dolls.
If this were the only footage that the studio released prior to the release of IT, the movie would probably make absolute bank. Not only have they released plenty of other great footage, but IT also features an ensemble of promising young actors playing the lead roles alongside Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the clown. The cast includes Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Jaeden Lieberher (Midnight Special), Jeremy Ray Taylor (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip), Wyatt Oleff (Guardians of the Galaxy), Sophia Lillis (37), Chosen Jacobs (Cops and Robbers), Jack Dylan Grazer (Tales of Halloween), Nicholas Hamilton (Captain Fantastic). From everything we've seen, this will be a very scary movie filled with great performances as well.
Director Andres Muschietti has promised that this version of IT is going to be very faithful to Stephen King's beloved novel, but it won't be without its changes. However, the runtime for the movie was recently confirmed to be more than two hours, which means he will be able to cram more elements from the novel into this movie than the 1990 miniseries did. Not to mention the benefit of being an R-rated theatrical movie with a sizeable budget. September 8 cannot come fast enough.
The plan currently is for a sequel to IT, which will tell the second half of the story with The Loser's Club as adults just as the miniseries did (but without the giant spider this time), early next year. The studio is likely waiting to officially announce anything in order to make sure this first movie does well. Seems like a safe bet it is going to do very well at this point. Be sure to check out the new TV spot for IT for yourself below.


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There are limited circumstances when a permit can be cancelled or amended at the request of a non-permit holder. This is because cancelling or amending a permit can seriously affect the permit holder's right to use and develop the land.
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The guidebook on "A Whole-of-Society Approach to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization That Lead to Terrorism - A Guidebook for Central Asia" is one in a series of technical guidebooks produced by the Transnational Threat Department/ Action against Terrorism Unit and focuses on the challenges in developing and implementing effective programmes to prevent and counter VERLT in Central Asia.
This guidebook is one in the series of guidebooks produced by the Action against Terrorism Unit (ATU) in the OSCE Secretariat's Transnational Threats Department.
The aim of this training activity, organized jointly by TNTD/SPMU and CARICC, is to train police investigators to detect, identify and collect intelligence and evidence necessary to prosecute all criminal activities, including illicit trafficking of NPS on the Darkweb or conducted using cryptocurrencies.
In this first-ever episode, Angelisa Corbo talks to Ms. Zaineb Gharbi, a Lieutenant Colonel at the border police of Tunisia and Assistant Security Manager at Tunis Carthage Airport. Ms. Ghabri has been working in the first line for eleven years. In parallel to her everyday duties at the border she is currently a doctoral researcher in sociology. She also holds a master's degree in border management and another in human resources management (Professional stress management). Ms. Gharbi, who is a mother of two, will give us an in-depth look into her daily work routine and how it has been altered by the ongoing pandemic and furthermore will give us a closer look at the gender aspect of the current situation.


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Rumors are flying that Halle Berry is hooking up with Olivier Martinez, her sexy Dark Tide costar. In the movie—due to be released in 2011—Halle plays an adventurer drawn to close encounters with Great White Sharks; in real life, she appears to be drawn to canoodling with Martinez in his Paris hometown.
PEOPLE reports the two have been spotted making out and exploring the city together, and of course there's the requisite grainy photo of the two of them either giving each other a totally platonic Euro-friendly kiss goodbye, or indulging in a full-scale tongue-hockey saliva swap, depending on what you want to believe.
Personally, I hope the rumors are true, and I'll tell you why: Halle and Olivier would make the cutest baby ever. Second only in cuteness to Halle's daughter Nahla with Gabriel Aubry, that is.
I mean, think about it. Halle clearly has a gift for making beautiful babies when she hooks up with dudes who have fantastically chiseled cheekbones, right? Olivier may not be on quite the same hotness scale as Gabriel, but I still think he looks pretty damn fine.
If Halle + Gabriel = Nahla, I'd like to see the genetic results of Halle + Olivier. Maybe a boy this time?
Okay, I know it sounds like I just want to breed gorgeous Halle with model-perfect men in order to enjoy the retina-searingly-cute photos of their offspring, but that is TOTALLY not . . . um, actually, yeah, that's pretty much true.
Halle, the world needs more adorable Berry babies. But maybe we could cut back on the jealousy-inducing maternity images this time, because that shit just made me feel bad.
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Journal of Finance and Economics
ISSN: 2291-4951 (Print) ISSN: 2291-496X (Online)
Volume 8 (2018), No. 1, Pages 35-41
DOI: 10.12735/jfe.v8n1p35
A Short Note on the Potential for a Momentum Based Investment Strategy in Sector ETFs
Glen A. Larsen1 Erik P. Larsen2
1Kelley School of Business-Indianapolis, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
URL: https://doi.org/10.12735/jfe.v8n1p35
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The focus of this research is on the enhanced one-year average annual return performance of Select Sector SDPR EFFs with the highest average annual realized return over the previous five-year period [MaxRet strategy]. From 2004 through 2015, the MaxRet strategy generates a higher average annual total return than an equal weight portfolio [EW strategy] of the same sector funds. The average annual return for the MaxRet strategy is 14.13% compared to 9.75% for the EW strategy. In addition, the coefficient of variation [CV] for the MaxRet and EW strategies are 1.52 and 1.59 respectively. The MaxRet strategy, therefore, is a more efficient strategy in that it generates less standard deviation risk per unit of average annual return than the EW strategy over the study period. Measures of downside risk further support the enhanced out-of-sample performance of the MaxRet strategy.
JEL Classifications: G11
Keywords: momentum, performance enhancement, active management
To Cite this Article: Larsen, G. A., & Larsen, E. P. (2018). A short note on the potential for a momentum based investment strategy in sector ETFs. Journal of Finance and Economics, 8(1), 35-41. https://doi.org/10.12735/jfe.v8n1p35
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Priorato is situated to the north west of Tarragona and produces some of the best and most sought after wines in Spain. Naturally, this means they have their price but it is possible to sample the wines of Priorato without taking out a second mortgage.
The region is also only one of two, along with Rioja, that has been awarded the highest quality category DOCa. Unlike Rioja, however, all of its wines are excellent.
The region of Priorato takes its name from the 12th century Carthusian priory (priorat) founded in 1163 which started local viticulture. Legend has it that a shepherd had a vision on the site of the priory, in which he saw angels descending a heavenly ladder, which gave its name to the priory Scala Dei. The name lives on today in one of the regions bodegas still making wine in the cellars of the old priory.
What makes this area produce such unique wines? The answer as always lies with grapes, climate and soil. Lets start with the soil. It is perfect for vines and consists of red and black slate and quartz which conserves and reflects heat. In addition, the roots of the vines have to go deep in search of water, nutrients and minerals.
The region as a whole is very steep and mountainous which means that working the vineyards is very labour intensive and hence, costly. In addition, the area is small and production is limited.
There are a number of microclimates in the area but essentially the summers are long dry and hot and the winters cold. This tends to produce wines of a high alcohol level. The minimum allowed by the DO is 13.5%!
The main grape varieties are the Spanish varieties Garnacha and Cariñena together with the French Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. The vines are old and produce low yields which again increase the cost. However, this means that the wines have a delicious intensity of flavour. All Priorato wines are blends of different grapes sometimes as many as four varieties.
When taken together the three elements of grapes, soil and climate produce Priorato wines that are sought after throughout the world. The most famous bodega in the region is that of Alvaro Palacios who makes three wines the most famous and expensive of which is LErmita.
A reasonably priced newcomer from the region is Nita made by a young, enthusiastic female winemaker called Meritxell Palleja who has worked with Alvaro Palacios. The wine is a classic Priorato blend of 45% Garnacha, 35% Cariñena, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Syrah. The wine has a delicious red fruit character with underlying mineral hints typical of the region. The wine has a pleasing freshness as well as structure with a persistently pleasant aftertaste. It is a well-priced introduction to the wines of Priorato the first rung on Gods ladder.
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In 1996 Ahmed Bashir, 21 was murdered in Hounslow, West London on being discovered to be in a relationship with Nighat Afsar, 20. Her brothers discovered the affair after Ahmed refused to give back her car and Nighat was forced to confess. In response, they accosted Ahmed outside his home and stabbed him 43 times, mainly in the groin. They then pressurised Nighat to return to Pakistan, where she had been forced into an arranged marriage and threatened to kill her as well. She later fled and returned to the UK.
The brothers both received a life sentence. One of the brothers Asfhar was already serving another life sentence for a previous murder at the time of the attack.
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CALGARY- Following days of exhaustive investigations, Calgary Police have released two photos in hopes they will lead to information about the disappearance of a five-year-old boy and his grandparents.
Timeline: Missing Calgary family Nathan O'Brien, Alvin and Kathryn Liknes
5-year-old Nathan O'Brien, 66-year-old Alvin Cecil Liknes and 53-year-old Kathryn Fay Liknes have not been seen since Sunday night, when Nathan's mother dropped him off at the Liknes' Parkhill home for a sleepover. An Amber Alert has since been issued, but so far there is no sign of the trio.
READ MORE: Parents of missing 5-year-old plead for safe return of son, grandparents
On Friday, police released photos of a green truck that was seen in the area the night of the disappearance. Investigators would like to speak with the person who was driving it.
The truck is described as a late 80s or early 90s, Ford 150, which appears to be kept in very good condition.
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Police also continue to follow up on hundreds of tips, and also spoke with about 75 people who were at an estate sale at the Liknes' home on Sunday. Anyone who was at the sale who has still not spoken with investigators is asked to call 403-266-1234.


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Alamance ElderCare will host its 14th annual Alamance ElderCare SuperBowl on Saturday at Country Club Lanes in Burlington.
Teams must consist of five bowlers, and the registration fee per team is $50. Once a team is formed, its captain should contact ElderCare to get a team packet, which contains collection envelopes to be given to each bowler for gathering donations prior to the event.
Bowling sessions will be at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon. Prize packages will be awarded to the top money raisers in three categories, and there will also be a 50/50 raffle and Fish Bowl auction.
Alamance ElderCare hopes to have 90 teams bowl Saturday. For more information or to register your team, contact Alamance ElderCare at 538-8080 or 538-8081.
Alamance ElderCare serves more than 3,000 people annually providing information, community care management and family caregiver education and support.
Since it doesn�t charge for services, Alamance ElderCare holds three to five fundraising events each year to sustain the services it provides to older adults and their families.