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Run to God
And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, "Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, "Why do you question in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the man who was paralyzed—"I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home." And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God. And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, "We have seen extraordinary things today."
~Luke 5:18-26
Let me ask you… is it more impressive that Jesus forgave the man's sins or gave him the ability to walk? If you're a Christian, you know the "correct" answer is that he forgave the man's sins. However, the paralyzed man was brought to Jesus to be healed of his physical ailments and not to be forgiven of his sins. We ourselves would be upset if Jesus didn't heal our ability to walk. If Jesus only healed the man's legs, at first he would be ecstatic, but it would only take a month or two before he felt the same eternal longings he felt before, leading him to turn to something else to fill that emptiness.
We all have things we think we need more than Jesus: this is called idolatry. An idol is literally anything you worship other than God. Sometimes I believe that if only I had a husband, my life would be perfect. Obviously this is false, but there are times when I let that be the driving force in my life, and not Jesus. The second most important commandment God asks of us in Exodus 20 is to have no other God before him, yet we mess that up every day. God tells us not to have idols because he knew we will!
I once heard a sermon by the Austin Stone Church pastor Matt Carter that acknowledges we all struggle with idols. He says idols aren't things like working, money, or drinking -- those are all symptoms of something bigger. Instead, he believes there to be 4 main root idols in which all sins originate from: comfort, power, approval, and control. Essentially he's saying all things we long for fall into one of these 4 categories. When we crave Whataburger or an afternoon of binge-watching Netflix, we are longing for (1) comfort. When we get mad when our accomplishments aren't recognized at work/school, we are longing for (2) power. When we are upset when we aren't invited to a party we are longing for (3) approval. When we don't like deviating from our set schedule, we are longing for (4) control. There are many other ways in which idols rear their ugly heads in our lives, these are just some common examples.
I think recognizing them is the first step toward repentance. I personally struggle with letting the approval of others come before my desire for God's approval. And after a long day, I want to be comforted by being alone and watching "Friends" instead of resting in the presence of Jesus. Idols can even be good things, like exercising or saving money, but those things shouldn't be what we live for, God should be. God should always be first in our lives. Wherever you are today, run to Jesus. He may or may not fix your present circumstances, but he will fulfill the deepest longings of your soul.
Written by Alexa
Out on a Limb
When I was a freshman in college, I felt very far from God. I had gone almost 7 months without going to church, without having any Christian friends, and without being a part of a ministry group, which was far from my Christian upbringing. I felt like I had forgotten about my relationship with God, or worse, that He had forgotten about me. Even though I was completely unaware of how lonely I was at the time, I knew something important was missing in my life. And the longer I went without God, the farther I got away from Him with my words and actions. Then one day a friend in my math class invited me to her Bible study.
I showed up to the study, weary of what would be said and fearful of feeling like an outsider. The speaker, Josh, set up an insane situation where he had us imagine being on a plane that was going down. He said, "You only have 1 more minute of life before the plane crashes. You are thinking about your life. Do you believe you are going to heaven?" And he went a step further: "If you think that you would go to heaven, raise your hand." Wow, this was not a good week to decide to come to this Bible study.
Since this was basically a room of believers, everyone in the room raised their hand. Except for me. I felt like I wasn't worthy of going to heaven since I had ignored God for so long. At that moment, envelopes containing a single piece of paper were handed out to each person. I heard a collective grumble as everyone else opened their envelopes, so I held back on opening mine. Every person's envelope said the word "Hell." Josh said this was not real, just a means of humbling us and a conversation starter. However, Josh looked confused and asked, "Wait… who got the one different envelope?" I read my piece of paper and it said "Heaven." I was the one person not to raise my hand and yet the one person whose paper said Heaven. I have never felt God speak to me more clearly than in that moment. He went out of his way to find the person furthest from Him and said, "I want you, and there's nothing you can do about it."
I think this is a lot like the story of Zacchaeus. He was an outcast because of his profession: tax collector. He was infamous for being a crook and stealing people's money. However, the Gospel of Luke describes Zacchaeus as being curious about Jesus. He went to town where Jesus was passing by, and when he couldn't get past the crowd, he climbed up a tree and literally went out on a limb for Jesus, just like me going out on a limb and showing up for the Bible study. And it paid off for Zacchaeus as well: Jesus looked directly at Zacchaeus, invited him to come down, and asked Zacchaeus to dine with him that evening. In return, Zacchaeus repented and repaid all the money he had stolen!
Luke 19:10 declares: "For the son of man came to seek and save the lost." The Bible doesn't say seek and save the perfect. And I think that's all of us out there. None of us has it all together—we all equally need Jesus today. Let's all go out on a limb for Jesus; you might just be surprised to see how He shows up.
Written by Alexa
Love Your Neighbor
I knew I shouldn't have gone shopping. Spending money I didn't need to spend, wasting my time, instead of doing something useful. I was leaving the store and was on my way back to my vehicle. That's when she approached me: a woman who looked disheveled, standing right before me, imploring me with her eyes to take notice of her.
"Can I talk to you?" she asked me.
"Okay…" I answered wearily.
Her appearance kept me on alarm—dirty clothes and yellow teeth. I knew I was in a populated area and safety shouldn't be an issue, but I always get nervous when I know someone is about to ask me for money. Her story was that she had come all the way into town to pick up somebody and didn't have enough money for gas to get back to her house. I honestly looked at her in that moment and just wanted to be left alone. I wish I could say I was filled with compassion, but I wasn't. I assumed her story was made up and that she probably did this to people all the time, or at the very least at least she had a car to drive. Nevertheless, guilt kicked in, and I hurriedly handed her $7 in cash from my wallet. She gratefully took the money, and we left each other's presence. We knew why we were talking to each other – she needed money, and I needed her to leave me in the least guilty way as possible.
Later that day I thought, What if she went and bought drugs with that money? I could have directly funded her addiction. Did I do the right thing? Should I have engaged her longer in conversation? Should I not have given her money?
I don't know the answers to these questions. But what I do know is that I did not follow God's second most important command: "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Mark 12:31).
Whoever you are and wherever you may be, we have a commonality: we are God's children. Let's keep the gospel simple today. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself." That's it. I said it was simple, not easy. We need to constantly pray for God to give us compassion for all of his children. To truly love God, we must also love his people.
Written by Alexa
The 12:12 Project is sponsored by Katy First United Methodist Church.
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Within a couple of hours a new plague wipes out almost all of the world's population. Trying to avoid infection, people flee to remote locations, but they start seeing mysterious black figures carrying away the dead and experimenting on them. Now Lance and Rachel, two survivors determined to fight back, must kill the leader of these creatures before the rest of humanity disappears.
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Have you ever had one of those moments where something in life absolutely blows you away for all the right reasons? Well, I had one of those moments while perusing the aisles at The Food Show a few weeks back. The prompt? Seeing my maiden name printed on a huge banner covering the back wall of one of the stands.
I pointed it out to Kevin and scurried in to take a closer look and find out what it was all about. While I was busy taking a photo of the banner on my phone, one of the ladies working at the stand came over and said to Kevin, 'Do you know Kirsten McConchie?' to which he replied, 'Yeah, I'm married to her!'. He pulled me around as he said this and I popped out with 'That's me!' – then the ladies brought us aside, filled me in on what was going on and even asked me to do an impromptu book signing!
You see, last year TEAR Fund asked me if I would contribute a recipe for an e-book they were preparing as part of their Live Below the Line campaign. I was happy to help, so shared my favourite mug cake recipe with them – it's quick, cheap and easy. Apparently the e-book was such a success that they decided to turn it into a real, printed cookbook this time around – and so One Helping was born and my name was in print!
One Helping features more than 40 recipes that can be made for just 75c or less per helping, spanning every meal from breakfast to dessert. Dozens of fabulous Kiwi chefs and food writers contributed recipes to the book, including Simon Gault, Ray McVinnie, Annabelle Langbeine and Nadia Lim, so you can guarantee there are some delicious recipes to discover!
But what makes One Helping really special is helping to achieve. Not only will the recipes make it easier for those taking part in the Live Below the Line campaign to create delicious, nutritious meals while living on just $2.25 a day, but it'll make a real difference to the lives of people in Asia. All profits of the book go directly to TEAR Fund's work in Southeast and Central Asia, helping free those who have been enslaved by human trafficking.
Before working with TEAR Fund I had no idea that there are more people in slavery now than at any other time in human history. It's horrifying, and it makes you realise just how lucky we are here in New Zealand – that we live somewhere where we don't know this fact we know from hand experience and that we have the means to help make a change.
The best part is, you can help by simply buying this cookbook. One Helping is perfect for those looking to cook up delicious meals without needing to blow the grocery budget on expensive or hard-to-find ingredients. Pick up a copy for $29.99 in the magazine section or checkout aisle at selected Countdown stores, or order one online from TEAR Fund.


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I've been staring at this cover for a couple of weeks, anxiously waiting to share it with you all. And the more I look at it, the more I notice tiny details that make this cover absolutely perfect for this book.
First of all, those cute boots in the picture? The very first thing my daughter said when she saw this cover was "Andi would definitely wear those boots!" - And she's right. This is, without a doubt, a picture of Andi's feet. :) (She's even wearing the skinny jeans she loves so much.)
And I can tell, just by the way he's standing, exactly who Andi is reaching up to kiss in this photo. I never thought feet were so expressive, but I recognized my guy (or should I say Andi's guy?) immediately. I even know when and where this scene is happening. And it's one of my favorite parts of the story. But I'm not going to tell you. You'll have to wait and read it yourself, when the book is released: 25 March 2014.
The best part, though, for me is a detail most people will probably never notice (unless, of course, they read this blog post!): TWELVE STEPS is set in Wyoming, and the grass Andi and her guy are standing on here totally looks like a patch of Wyoming lawn in the spring - mostly brown, with just a hint of green over a still-slightly-frozen patch of ground. If I took you on a tour of my Wyoming hometown, the basis for the setting of my novel, and pointed out the spot I imagined for the scene portrayed here, you would totally agree that the cover designer must have reached into my brain to pull out the perfect picture for the cover design.
TWELVE STEPS should be available on Goodreads soon, so you can add it to your "To Be Read" list. In the meantime, here's a little bit about the book:


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If there is one thing that drama critics wish for when they hop into bed after a long night's play-watching, it is that the day will come when a vital young voice shall rise up from the streets and make theatre as credible as Public Enemy made rhyming verse. They are still waiting. But in the meantime, their collective hopes continue to cover the emergence of new playwrights with what sometimes looks like unhelpfully indulgent goodwill. Thus it can sometimes be difficult to tell where a young dramatist such as Bola Agbaje's talent stops, and where the cognoscenti's desire to see it ends.
Take Paul Taylor's review of Agbaje's new play Off the Endz. After he praises her "serious gifts", "extraordinary natural talent", "penetrating moral insight", "razor-sharp awareness" and "lovely, mischievous wit" all his first paragraph, one begins to wonder whether a) critic and playwright are related, or b) if we might have another Pinter or Beckett on our hands. Neither of which, from a purely statistical point of view, is likely.
At least the play itself sounds straightforward. A young hardworking black couple live in rented accommodation on a housing estate, but dream of gathering enough money to get a mortgage somewhere nicer. Into their world comes a charismatic old friend, David, fresh from prison, who pooh-poohs their plodding lifestyle and sets himself up instead as a drug-dealer and layabout. "At times Agbaje hammers her points home and is evasive on details," says Michael Billington, another fan, "[But] what [she] does very effectively, is de-glamorise the romantic myth of the freebooting outsider."
Even so, this is not enough to impress Charles Spencer and Henry Hitchings. "To be frank it all seems a touch schematic, and the characters, though vividly sketched, lack real depth and development," says Spencer. In Hitchings's opinion, "the writing lacks bite and the storytelling feels a touch naïve. There are a few moments of sharp humour but there's not much subtlety or shading, and the characters' foibles are overfamiliar."
Nevertheless, the play's emphasis on the importance of individual industry and self-reliance win it friends all round. Though Benedict Nightingale does wonder, in the Times: "Is it reactionary to find this refreshing? , he asks, before jumping in with a reply. "Not after you've encountered Agbaje's most vital character, Ashley Walters's David, the friend who has emerged from jail with his sense of entitlement raring to go." And indeed there is no mistaking the critics' sincerity in their praise of Walters, formerly known (and feared) as So Solid's Asher D.
"Walters is a dab hand at playing the kind of incorrigibly cocky but also rather sexy young man that a woman might want to both slap down hard and then snog," sighs Paul Taylor. He "somehow contrives to be both engaging and morally repulsive," says Spencer. And "he's a revelation," according Hitchings, "a study in cruel magnetism, dynamic and haunting." Which just goes to show that not everybody goes back off the rails when they get out of prison.
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A busy, happy, family weekend around here. We've been having an great time with my husband's family in town from Maryland. My mother-in-law made 9 pies! YUM. And my husband's brined turkey was a home run. Oh my goodness. I am officially declaring him responsible for Thanksgiving turkey for the rest of his life.
A happy weekend
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BobbiNovember 27, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Mmmm, homemade pies. So much better than store bought! Guess who will be making a pie soon? 🙂
BeckyNovember 27, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Love pies! Glad you're having a great holiday!
AmyNovember 28, 2010 at 2:23 am
The pies looks yummy!! love the DOTS in your project.
LeslieNovember 28, 2010 at 6:44 am
Wow! Look at all those pies! Yum!
JackieNovember 28, 2010 at 6:44 am
9 PIES!!! That is phenomenal! They look fantastic too. My hips and thighs would not have liked it too much though.
Denise :)November 28, 2010 at 7:14 am
In our family, pies are my job; luckily, though, I only have to make five. LOL! Can't wait to see your project tomorrow! 🙂
Victoria PaigeNovember 28, 2010 at 8:17 am
I can see what looks like a pillow! Whatever it is, it's adorable and I love the idea and the hand embroidery!
DeeRooNovember 28, 2010 at 9:20 am
Even though I am stuffed I am drooling….drooling for the pies and drooling for your felty project!:)

Got the fabric…you are too generous!! I want to start on it now but alas I had to put it all away so I couldn't see the fabric staring at me!!!

So…how much snow did you get?
T's Daily TreasuresNovember 28, 2010 at 11:58 am
Yummo! Those pies look fantastic. Your project looks to be maybe a Christmas pillow. Whatever it is, looks like fun. Hope you had a great thanksgiving weekend. 🙂 Tammy
DanielleisNestingNovember 28, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I found you through Someday Crafts! I just adore your pillow!
AnnaNovember 29, 2010 at 3:52 am
Oooo – love the look of that pillow. Simple design but sooo snazzy!! Love ALOT!
Anna
Nanette Merrill and daughtersNovember 30, 2010 at 12:40 pm
I made 5 pies but mine didn't look like hers. And I'm not a great pie maker. But this time mine were better than the past. I wish my MIL could cook!
LeanneNovember 30, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Hello from Australia. Your circle cushion is lovely and those pies look delicious.


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Bike Tours
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Cover the city, more of the river and get off the beaten track on an antique British bike. Your guide takes you around the city and out into the countryside at a leisurely pace to really soak up the atmosphere.
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Morning City Tour
(2 ½ hours – starting at 10:30am - approximately 4miles)
This is a great tour if you're really pushed for time. It covers the majority of the sights and follows a squiggly line taking in Midsummer Common, Stourbridge Common, Eights Rowing, College Boat Houses, Jesus Green, Round Church (one of only four in the UK), Front of St. Johns College, Trinity Great Gate, Trinity Great Court (subject to side door being open), The Wren Library (subject to time), Garrett Hostel Bridge, Cambridge University Real Tennis Club, The Backs, The Best Spot to take that iconic photo of Kings College Chapel, Senate House, Kings Parade, Corpus Christi Clock, The Eagle Pub, St. Benets Church and Mill Pond.
We start under the lamp in the middle of Parker's Piece just to the south of the City Centre at 10:30am. If you're running a bit late don't worry ... come straight to our office at No.6 Elm Street where we will be fitting bikes.
The tour will finish at the Mill Pond at around 1pm before returning the bikes. (When you watch the main tour group go off for the afternoon you'll be wishing you were with them!)
Price: £20 per person inclusive of bike hire (Discounts Available to Students, Families and
Afternoon Grantchester Tour
(2 ½ hours – starting at 1:30pm - approximately 4miles)
Perhaps you've done the city and want to get out and about for the afternoon ... well this is just the thing. Meeting under the lamp in the middle of Parker's Piece to the south of the City Centre at 1:30pm we walk over to the office to pick up our bikes and get cracking.
We head out of the city through the fens towards the village of Grantchester to enjoy the river, The Orchard Tea Gardens, The Old Vicarage (previously the home of the poet Rupert Brooke and now the home of the author Jeffrey Archer). Then we sit down for either a cream tea or a pint in a very local British Pub, where we play the oldest recorded pub game called 'ringing the bull' (your drink could be free if you manage to beat the tour guide at this game). You never know you might be sitting next to a Nobel Prize winner as Grantchester has the highest concentration of them in the world. There's a very entertaining local chap in the pub called Peter who takes particular delight in meeting people from all over the world.
If you're daring enough you could bring your swimwear and cool off in the river Cam.
There's a free Rupert Brooke museum we pop into before we head back into the city, finishing at about 4pm.
Price: £20 per person inclusive of bike hire (Discounts available to students, families and groups).


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Popular iPhone game Pocket God is getting its own comic book.
Bolt Creative, producers of the game, tells Kotaku that they've cut a deal with indie comic book company Ape Entertainment to create a new series based on their game.
"A comic book series is a natural extension of the Pocket God brand," noted Dave Castelnuovo, CEO of Bolt Creative. "Ape Entertainment is the perfect partner to help bring our island to book form."
The comic will be released as a digital four issue mini-series through iVerse Media, and later sold in print. Spokespeople for the two companies say they also plan to release a trade paperback version.
"We are extremely excited to be working with Bolt Creative to bring Pocket God into the comic book space," says Ape Co-Publisher Brent E. Erwin. "Our goal is to expose some of the 2.1 million Pocket God fans to the world of comics, and conversely introduce comic book fans to the world of Pocket God with this fun and exciting endeavor."


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What to Look For: Firm, straight stems, and tightly closed buds. Avoid spears that are shriveled or wet or that have thick, woody stalks.
How to Store: Wrap the cut ends in a damp paper towel and store in a plastic bag in the refrigerator.
Fresh Idea: Rinse to remove sand from the tips. Snap off or trim the bottoms (no need to peel). For an easy lunch, boil asparagus, then run under cold water to cool. Drizzle with olive oil and fresh lemon juice and sprinkle with chopped hard-cooked eggs and chives.
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What to Look For: Be sure the leaves are whole and unbroken, with no signs of wilting or browning. Avoid loose leaf lettuces that appear wet; they decay quickly when moist.
How to Store: Keep unwashed greens in a plastic bag in the vegetable drawer. Don't place them near apples or pears; they give off ethylene gas, which turns lettuce brown.
Fresh Idea: Don't get complicated. Simply dress with extra-virgin olive oil, salt, and pepper to let the flavor shine.
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What to Look For: A uniform color; a deeper red equals a sweeter taste. An exception is Rainier cherries, which have a creamy yellow and red exterior. Be sure that the fruit is plump and firm, with unblemished, glossy skins.
How to Store: Keep cherries unwashed in a bowl or an open plastic bag in the refrigerator.
Fresh Idea: Pit them and toss them with fresh mint, then serve over vanilla ice cream for dessert.
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What to Look For: Smooth, bright green beans with velvety skins. Bend one in half to make sure it snaps; a bit of moisture at the breaking point shows freshness. If you can see the beans clearly through the pods, they were picked past their prime.
How to Store: To keep green beans moist, refrigerate them in a tightly sealed container.
Fresh Idea: Drizzle them with sesame oil, soy sauce, and red pepper flakes and roast at 400° F for 10 to 15 minutes for a savory side.
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What to Look For: Ripe snow peas should be light green and almost translucent, with tiny seeds. The pods of garden peas should be glossy, crunchy, sweet, and full of medium-size peas. Sugar snaps should be bright green with plump pods.
How to Store: Keep all varieties unwashed and loosely wrapped in plastic in the vegetable drawer. Leave garden peas in their pods until you're ready to use them.
Fresh Idea: Snow peas and sugar snap peas can be eaten whole after removing the stems and the strings. Garden peas should be shelled and blanched in boiling water just until they turn bright green (1 to 2 minutes). Try them smashed with olive oil, dill, goat cheese, and black pepper and spread on toast.
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What to Look For: No cracks, a firm texture, and crisp, bright leaves (if they are still attached).
How to Store: Remove the leaves. Refrigerate radishes in a loosely closed plastic bag.
Fresh Idea: Just before using, trim the stems and the root ends and wash. Make like the French and snack on this: halved radishes served with soft unsalted butter and sea salt.
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What to Look For: Bright green tops and firm, white bases. A no-no: wet, wilted tops.
How to Store: Keep bunches unwashed and wrapped in a plastic bag in the vegetable drawer.
Fresh Idea: Wash just before using and trim the roots. They're great grilled whole: Season with olive oil, salt, and pepper and cook until tender (about 4 minutes).
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What to Look For: The crinkly leaves of savory spinach are more flavorful (though a bit tougher) than the flat-leaf variety. Whichever kind you choose, look for a deep, dark color and unbroken leaves with no signs of wilting or yellowing.
How to Store: Refrigerate spinach unwashed and loosely wrapped in a plastic bag.
Fresh Idea: Chop off the root ends and thick stems, then swish the leaves in a bowl of cold water to rinse. Serve it raw, tossed with boiled egg, walnuts, oil, and vinegar.
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What to Look For: Shiny, bright red, and fragrant = good. Bruised, withered, or brownish = bad. Also opt for smaller ones, since big berries tend to be less juicy.
How to Store: Wrap the container of remaining unwashed berries loosely in a plastic bag or paper towel and store in the refrigerator.
Fresh Idea: Wash the berries and trim off the caps just before using. Top with freshly whipped cream. Or sprinkle with sugar and balsamic vinegar and serve with sliced pound cake.
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Searching for hotels in Isle of Man (United Kingdom) or Isle of Man accommodation? The Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea, is a Crown Dependency, which means that while it has strong ties to the United Kingdom, it is not, technically, a part of the UK. It does share British weather though, so you will want to plan your trip for the summer!
Flights are available to the Isle of Man from several UK cities, there are also ferries from Liverpool, Heysham, Dublin, and Belfast, and there is a railway on the island, which should get you to most of the sights. There are also horse drawn trams in the capital city, Douglas, which make for an interesting form of transport.
Within the Isle of Man, you can spend your time in the cities, or you could choose to visit smaller villages, like Laxey, which has what is thought to be the largest water wheel in operation, in the world. Then there is also the island known as 'Calf of Man' which is a bird sanctuary, and would interest eco tourists.
When on the Isle of Man, it's worth sampling the produce of the two local breweries – Bushy's and Okells, since there is legislation that states that only hops, yeast, malt and water may be used in brewing, which makes this some of the world's purest beer.
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The children's show that featured two gay dads has shown more LGBT-inclusion — this time with a lead female.
Nickelodeon's 'The Loud House' is a cartoon television series about a boy and his large 11-child family. In a recent episode, one of the sisters, Luna Loud, was revealed to have a crush on a girl.
Related: 5 Best LGBT Moments in Kid's Cartoons
In the scene, Luna sneaks a love note into a mysterious locker, then runs away. A group of two girls and a boy walk up to the locker and one of the girls, Sam, stops and waves her friends goodbye. She sees the letter fall to her feet, picks it up and reads it. Then, she smiles. Luna, peeking over the corner of the hallway, sees Sam's reaction and smiles back.
This is one of the youngest animated depictions known of romantic feelings between people of the same sex on a children's cartoon. Shows that present LGBT characters typically portray them as background or side characters.
In the past, The Loud House featured the gay dads of the main character's best friend. They have so far appeared in four episodes of the two-season show.
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Warriors' Kevon Looney in line for heavier workload
ATLANTA — Three-plus seasons into his NBA career, the Warriors' Kevon Looney has yet to play more than 28 minutes in a game.
That might have to change soon. With Damian Jones potentially done for the season with a torn left pectoral muscle, Golden State head coach Steve Kerr has only three options at center — Looney, Jordan Bell and Jonas Jerebko — until Draymond Green (sprained right toe) and DeMarcus Cousins (torn left Achilles tendon) return.
Jerebko, who was acquired largely for his floor-spacing ability, is far from a prototypical big man. In his second NBA season, Bell is still figuring out all the league demands.
That leaves Looney as easily the Warriors' most reliable center.
Though his per-game averages — 5.8 points and 5.3 rebounds in 19.0 minutes — won't wow, he is consistently where he needs to be for a momentum-shifting block, an offensive rebound or a timely screen. In addition to shooting 59.8 percent from the field, Looney has committed multiple turnovers in only four games this season.
"He's been here for four years now, so he knows exactly what Coach wants him to do," forward Kevin Durant said. "He's a smart player, so he just plays his role really well."
Monday night's game in Atlanta ended too late for this edition. For the details, please go to sfchronicle.com/sports.
The question is whether Looney can handle the physical toll that comes with playing 30-plus minutes a night.
Within the past 18 months, he has shed 30 pounds, overhauled his diet and taken up Brazilian jiujitsu. That doesn't change the fact, however, that Looney's body has endured a lot for a 22-year-old.
Two hip surgeries limited his rookie season in 2015-16 to five games. Even today, Looney has a tough time changing direction. Only after becoming a master at taking the best angle to beat his defender to a certain spot did Looney blossom into a valued role player.
Asked whether Looney can play 30 or so minutes a night, Kerr said, "We'll have to see. He's never really played much more than about 25. But we can play him in shorter bursts. We might be able to give him five six-minute bursts, something like that. Six five-minute bursts. We'll play around with that."
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Saudi Arabia could have helped the United States prevent al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on New York and Washington if American officials had consulted Saudi authorities in a "credible" way, the kingdom's former ambassador said in a documentary aired Thursday.So our dear "allies" the Saudis were actively following the plotters with precision.
Prince Bandar said that Saudi intelligence was "actively following" most of the 9/11 plotters "with precision."
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Speaking to the Arabic satellite network Al-Arabiya on Thursday, Bandar -- now Abdullah's national security adviser -- said Saudi intelligence was "actively following" most of the September 11, 2001, plotters "with precision."
"If U.S. security authorities had engaged their Saudi counterparts in a serious and credible manner, in my opinion, we would have avoided what happened," he said.
maybe the translation was wrong and instead of following he meant funding?
Any credible reason for the Saudis not to pass on to US intelligence the identities of these precise plotters and details of the plot?
This doesn't say much for the Saudi side of the vaunted US-Saudi relationship when after knowing the plotters and tracking them with precision the Saudis sit idly by and watch a few thousand infidels get killed.
If his statements are true and why would he lie about this, it is well past time the US reexamines its relationship with the Saudis, and their poisonous wahhabbism.
Interestingly Bandar isn't giving the standard Arab line of the "Jews knew about it beforehand", its instead "We the Saudis knew about it beforehand, and if only you asked it wouldn't have happened". Since this is coming from the royal family and former official mouthpiece of the Saudis it should raise at least some question as to the Saudi government passively permitting or perhaps even actively assisting in the carrying out of the 9/11 attacks.


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Today is the 2nd anniversary of the suicide of Shawn Matthews. Arguably, the most renowned Korean expat blogger in the early-middle of this decade, who helped open up Korea to foreigners coming over to work, before everyone started getting blogs of their own or meeting together via Facebook. The comments to even his most basic of blog posts usually ran quite long and had their own sense of community in itself. He also wrote a book on his experiences in Korea. He later picked up and moved on to China, to give the ESL experience a shot over there. Although his China blog didn't get as much as a following as his Korea one, he looked to be having a sunny outlook there, as well. But things went sour in his life in the spring of that year, so much as that he eventually jumped to his death from the top of his apartment building and shook up the online expat communities in China and Korea. I was never much of a reader of his blog, as much as I was for Swiss James (IMO, the last great blogger of the early Korean blogosphere.), who also moved on to China, but I do know of how much Shawn's words made for a sense of comfort to many Korea newbs looking to get a feel for what its going to be like before taking the plunge. And his brand of upbeat outlook ran counter to the overly-paranoid-people-twitching-off-in-a-corner type of negative blather found on Daves. And that deserves a raise of a glass.
But I certainly don't know why these tragic events seem to come in groups at a certain time. Such as the Mike White tragedy, which is finally getting picked up by Korean-language media. But also not to mention the rash of recent suicides in Daegu, such as the one downtown and the one in Suseong-gu.
And it's not stopping there. Two more suicides in Daegu recently occurred, as well. A 15 year old girl in Hyomok-dong, depressed over an issue she was having with her boyfriend, leapt from her apartment building a week ago, only to succumb to her injuries, yesterday. Also in Hyomok-dong, a 27 year old woman, after repeatedly failing a service exam in order to gain employment with the goverment, hung herself in her bathroom.
So many grieving friends and families hunkering down and dealing with loss in Daegu, right now.
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So I was driving home from work last night, listening to the news on the local NPR station, when they turned to the latest developments in the Duke lacrosse case. North Carolina officials dropped all charges against the three lacrosse players, citing a district attorney who rushed blindly to judgement and overlooked or ignored exculpatory evidence.
I don't have a problem with that. If the facts don't support the filing of charges, then charges should not be filed. And if they've already been filed, then they should be dropped. That's how our justice system is supposed to work, after all.
The thing that put a burr under my saddle, though, were some of the comments made by one of the three exonerated players (possibly David Evans, though I can't find a clip on the NPR site that matches what I remember hearing on the radio yesterday to verify that). The young man in question thanked his lawyers for their efforts on his behalf--and then went on to say that he'd been lucky that his family was sufficiently wealthy that they could afford to hire some good lawyers.
Nothing wrong with that, either, at least on its face. He should thank the people who worked their butts off to get the charges dropped, and he is lucky that he comes from money--because otherwise, he'd probably still be sitting in jail, looking at the very real probability that he'd be looking at the world from behind bars until he was nearly of an age to retire.


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"Within days of registering I was making my first film appearance in "Hollywood Homicide," a movie starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett as detective buddies."
By Dave Riley
RETIREMENT ISN'T EXACTLY A LIFETIME DO-OVER, but it is a kind of Act 2, a chance to accomplish things you never had the opportunity for during your Act 1. After retiring, some of my senior neighbors finally got to write a book or perfect their painting skills or perform on the stage. Some volunteer, some play more golf or tennis or bridge than they ever dreamed possible. The list goes on.
Alas, some don't do much of anything except write snarky letters to the editor and complain on weekends when the neighbors' grandkids come to visit.
"What do you do all day?" a young, fully employed relative asked me during my first year of retirement. "What do you want to do?" others asked.
What did I want to do? Really? I wanted to be in the movies, that's what.
An older friend, Howard Fong, who had been doing character actor roles in TV and films for years kept after me to take a stab at it. "Be an extra," he would say. "You've got the look they want." Whatever that was.
So two years after I retired, I went up to Hollywood, a drive of about 50 miles, and registered with several agencies that secure extras — the current term of art is background actors — for film and TV. A surprising number of those registering were seniors — "Golden Pond" types, Howard called them..
First, before you think I believed I was about to become a star, let's make clear where extras rank in the pecking order: dead last. They rarely get a screen credit, there's no Oscar for best performance by an extra, and they don't go to the Academy Awards unless they have a second job as a limo driver. On some sets, they don't even make eye contact with stars, much less chat or have a coffee with them. That said, there are stars whom I have to applaud for being cordial with extras — in my experience Brad Whitford, Linda Park, Craig T. Nelson, Jimmy Smits (especially Jimmy Smits), and others.
Anyway, within days of registering I was making my first film appearance in "Hollywood Homicide," a movie starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett as detective buddies. We were in downtown Hollywood, at the Hollywood and Highland shopping complex, where Ford and Hartnett were about to shoot a foot race with some bad guys.
I waited with a few dozen others in an empty office space — and waited and waited. That's what you do on movie sets. You wait. Suddenly a guy with a loud voice and a bad attitude caromed into the room and said, "I need ten people! Now!" Then he pointed to ten of us and we raced with him out the door. He positioned us on an outdoor stairway.
I'm new at this. Like totally new. I have not attended some Extras Academy or anything of the kind, so I don't know what to expect. Suddenly a voice yells, "Background! Action!" And my nine companions start moving, which I figure I should do too. I go down the stairs, and pretty soon someone yells, "Cut!" I look around. There are at least one hundred shoppers who have stopped to watch us.
Wow! I'm in the movies!
"Back to one," an assistant director says through a bullhorn, and even though I'm new I guess, correctly as it turns out, that means to go back to where I started from. So we do it all over again, and then even again. It was only a few hours of work, but I was happy.
I MUST HAVE DONE OKAY, BECAUSE A FEW DAYS LATER I was invited back for what is known as a "featured extra" bit. No lines, but apparently I will be seen on the screen. This time we are at a small ranch up off Mulholland where I am to portray a "dead body," the final victim in "Hollywood Homicide."
In the scene Ford and Hartnett walk by me as they investigate. I was splattered with movie blood and one arm is cut off — production assistants buried it in the dirt to simulate that it was cut off — but none of that seems to interest the two detectives. In the movie, Hartnett's character wants to talk about getting out of police work and pursuing a movie career. Ford's detective is busy ordering a uniform to get them some food: "Cheeseburger, well done. Raw onion, ketchup, pickle. No rabbit food."
We do three rehearsals and seven or eight takes of this scene, which, as best I recall, takes well over an hour. The sun is just beginning to set, and after three takes someone up on the hill near the camera gushes over a bullhorn, "This scene is getting better and better!"
But Ford is irritated over all the retakes. "What about the performances?" he growls in a voice dripping with sarcasm. "Are they getting any better?" I'm not pleased either because I can't get up and relax between takes. Remember — my arm is buried. But of course how I feel doesn't count.
Eventually we finish, and I try, unsuccessfully, to get up. Finally a production assistant helps me and I stagger to my feet. Then an amazing thing happens. The nearby crew breaks out in applause for my efforts — the grips, the gaffers, the lowly assistants.
In extra work there are things called "bumps," extra bits of pay for using your own car or bringing a specialized costume like a tuxedo. Eric Fox Hays, the first assistant director, awards me a $100 bump for having "blood" splattered on me — it was on a studio costume, not my personal clothing —plus he pays me at the union rate even though I am non-union. Little did I realize that not every day would be this much fun.
I WENT ON TO APPEAR IN A BUNCH OF MOVIES: "Seabiscuit," "American Wedding," "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," "Princess Diaries," and others. Also on TV shows including "The Gilmore Girls," "Judging Amy," "Boston Legal" and by far my favorite, "The West Wing." On "The West Wing," even though I was an extra, I was frequently assigned a role — newspaper reporter or secretary of state.
TV shows are more fun because normally you're closer to the action — in the situation room at the White House, for example, or in Luke's dineron "Gilmore Girls." By contrast, a film like "Seabiscuit" involves lots of long exterior shots and hundreds of extras and mannequins — yep a lot of those race fans in the upper stands at Santa Anita were actually dummies. I have a DVD of "Seabiscuit" and even though I know where I am in every shot, I've never been able to find myself on the screen.
Eventually I got to speak on camera in some graduate student films at the New York Film Academy and Chapman University. (Don't let the term "student" fool you. Those programs turn out some excellent filmmakers.) Then I was cast as a well meaning but naïve southern minister, Preacher Murphy, in a grisly full-length indie flick entitled "Abundant Sunshine." The setting was Beaumont, Texas, but we actually shot in Whittier, just outside of L.A., and in a gritty area of suburban North Hollywood. Unfortunately the film has never been released although its trailers are on the internet — without me.
I was also in some commercials and actually had a line in one for the New York Times that ran on cable for over a year — "It's aerobics for the brain," I said, referring to the Times crossword.
But about five years ago I "retired" from the movies. The pay was lousy, and the commute was worse. Still I found that there are few things more exciting than on those occasions when you are featured, and two makeup ladies and a wardrobe guy come over and make a big fuss over you. Then suddenly comes the moment you are on camera. Now there's a rush.
At the same time, nothing is more dull than sitting around for eight or nine hours waiting for that moment to come.
Caution: If you rent "Hollywood Homicide" to see me, be forewarned that my scene is a long shot. In fact, if it weren't for the tiny bald spot on the back of my head, I could be mistaken for a big sack of flour.


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Direct Transmission of Multimedia Files
The Direct Copy function automatically transfers media files from your digital camera or camcorder to your LinkStation™ website.
Integrated BitTorrent Client
Download large media files directly to your LinkStation™ without turning on your PC, thanks to the integrated BitTorrent™ client. The BitTorrent™ client is based on the BitTorrent™ protocol, which regulates the exchange of large files over the Internet.
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Set access restrictions at group and user level to protect your data.
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Our Buffalo devices are easy to install and configure using a simple web-based interface. Features • Marvell ARMADA 370 ARM 800MHz dual core processor.
• SATA 3Gb/s interface.
• Gigabit Ethernet.
• Integrated BitTorrent.
• JBOD and RAID 0/1 support.
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|2 Bay
|Total Storage Included
|8000 (2x 4000) GB
|Type of Drives Included
|Edition of Drives Included
|Capacity of Drives Included
|Max. Storage Capacity
|Drive Interface Support
|2 x SATA II - 3Gb/s
|Drive Form Factor Support
|2 x 3.5"
|Internal Flash Memory
|Internal Flash Memory Capacity
|DOM Module
|DOM Capacity
|CPU Type
|CPU Model
|CPU Cores
|Dual Core
|CPU Speed
|0.8 GHz
|RAM Memory Included
|RAM Memory Type
|Max. RAM Memory Supported
|Cache Drive Interface
|Included Cache Drive Capacity
|Included Cache Drive Type
|LAN Type
|Expansion Slots
|External Connectivity
|Noise Level
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|PSU Wattage
|Max. Power Consumption
|19 (Typical) W
|Physical Security
|87 x 126 x 205 (WxHxD mm)
|0.85 (Empty), 1.7 (Fully Populated) kg
|Additional Information
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- Duration:
- 24 months
- Type:
- Direct
- DOA Period:
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- RTB Period:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Inventories held by U.S. businesses rose modestly in May, as retailers stocked up to meet customer demand.
The Commerce Department said Friday U.S. business inventories rose 0.2 percent in May after edging up 0.1 percent in April. Sales rose 0.2 percent.
Manufacturers, pinched by weak global demand and a strong dollar that makes their products costlier in world markets, left inventories unchanged. Over the past year, factory inventories were down 3.0 percent.
Meanwhile, retailers raised inventories by 0.5 percent in May and 6 percent over the past year, a sign they are confident that American shoppers will continue to spend.
Auto dealers expanded inventories by 0.7 percent, furniture and appliance stores by 0.5 percent and sellers of building materials and garden supplies by 1.1 percent. But department stores cut inventories by 0.7 percent.
A slowdown in restocking empty shelves has dragged down economic growth three straight quarters and helped limit growth to a lackluster 1.1 percent annual pace from January through March. Growth is expected to pick up in the second quarter on a rebound in consumer spending.


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Throughout the journey through the Silver Gate, solitude and learning have arisen as a touchstones for me. Solitude creates my place for restoration, rejuvenation, and healing. Learning inspires me on my journey of renewal.
Category Archives: Reflections
Renewal Comes
• How do you renew and regenerate yourself? Where do you experience Lorca's duende? (The spirit of passionate renewal, the igniting power of fire that comes from the depths of the human spirit.) Angeles Arrien
By now I recognize the signs of overstimulation. I have more than usual difficulty in staying present. I resort to distractions rather than rest. And I have difficulty with sleeping. Generally, I think of myself as uncentered – becoming irritable and inattentive – like a child without a nap.
All of these signal a need for solitude.
Learning feeds me in a different way. When I am in malaise or feeling burned out, finding myself living by rote and not living to any purpose – it is time to learn something.
One could argue that I learn something each day. But there is a different spark for me. It is listening to one of the many teachers who I admire, and hearing their insights. It is choosing an online class from coursera.org and seeing an entirely different view of my world. Or it is choosing a class at the local university to sit in on movies and discussions, to have interactions with people having the same interests or opposing views. This is renewal.
Solitude and learning. Tending to my inner self and learning from the world around me. These are my dependable ways to bring myself back into alignment.
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The Soul's Fire
"Many sacred texts, such as the Bible, Koran, and Torah, speak of fire as a symbol of the vital life force that can be called upon for transformation, revisioning, or the transmission of renewed meaning.
Reflect upon the four fires—the fire of vision, the fire of the heart, the creative fire, and the soul's fire. What does fire reveal to you about your dreams, work, health, relationships, creativity, and soul's desire at this time in your life? …The soul's fire calls us to be authentically who we are and serve others rather than our own egos." Angeles Arrien
I've been studying and thinking about the Enneagram and it's path toward our own spirituality and essence. Being aware of my "fixation" as a Type Seven offers me a great opportunity recognize those times I fall into ego and move away from my true self.
It is also interesting that although having the knowledge I tend to categorize myself as that personality rather than remembering to use it as a reminder that I am more and deeper and richer.
As a seeker, I know and respect many paths toward wholeness. My fundamentalist Christian upbringing by spiritually broadminded parents prepared me for my search for the nuggets of truth that are translated in different ways by different faiths – be it Buddhism, Taoism, or no ism. All lead me toward the fact of my oneness with everything and everyone. At certain times in my development, some spiritual languages are more accessible to me than others. There is no teacher who can't be depended upon to shed light if I am open and listening and ready.
I mentioned Bede Griffiths in a recent post. His quote comes to me now. "To discover God is not to discover an idea but discover one's self."
And I love this quote from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar " "Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us."
When I come to my own essence, to my authentic self, I see God, I am one with God.
The Student
The Creative Fire
"Many sacred texts, such as the Bible, Koran, and Torah, speak of fire as a symbol of the vital life force that can be called upon for transformation, revisioning, or the transmission of renewed meaning.
Reflect upon the four fires—the fire of vision, the fire of the heart, the creative fire, and the soul's fire. What does fire reveal to you about your dreams, work, health, relationships, creativity, and soul's desire at this time in your life?…The creative fire signals the work that we love, a keen awareness of our gifts, and our desire to express them as a way of contributing to the world." Angeles Arrien
Last spring I took a wonderful class at OLLI, our local university's Lifelong Learning Institute. Each time he offers this course, the teacher chooses a few Mystics, Saints, and Sages and demonstrates their lives and how they have enhanced our spiritual world. In discussing Bede Griffith the conversation arrived at the Christian concept of Charism. We were asked what we felt our "gift of the spirit" to be.
What all I have received as gifts – I'm not sure. But I have grown in wisdom. And I have been given the gift of empathy and compassion. I am also able to communicate, to write as if I were talking, and to encompass and express a universal point of view.
In return I pass this gift to anyone who happens upon my blog: A Letter to My Children. I encourage any and all to use my ideas – and even my words – if necessary. In addition to personal letters to my family, notes on ancestral history, and my thoughts on life, love and death, I write generic form letters on a variety of subjects to aid my readers in communicating with their own loved ones.
I live a full life with my lifelong companion. I have spent many years sustaining a rich relationship with my children and grandchildren who are all an integral part of my life. These pursuits, together with my writing, I now consider to be my most important work. My charism, if you will…
The Student


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text: Erin Hussey Erin Hussey is a high school special education teacher at Great Lakes Cyber Academy (GLCA). She has worked in multiple public schools in Michigan, assisting other special education teachers until the fall of 2013, when she joined the staff at GLCA. Ms. Hussey holds a bachelor of science degree in special education from Eastern Michigan University. "Being a teacher gives me the opportunity to help students succeed. I like being a part of the students' school experience and doing what I can to make that experience positive. I love teaching at GLCA because, here, we are able to give individualized instruction and provide a variety of learning opportunities to meet our students' specific needs. I also have the unique opportunity to work with students of various backgrounds from diverse geographical locations." I love teaching at GLCA because, here, we are able to give individualized instruction.


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A research conducted by Unit 4 revealed that on an average office worker spend 69 days in a year on administrative tasks globally, costing companies $5 trillion annually. An increasing number of organizations are opting for workflow automation, to streamline routine processes, boost service levels, increasing efficiency and ultimately boost the bottom-line. Here are 6
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Pepper Hamilton's Construction Practice Group has an unparalleled record of resolving complex construction disputes and winning complex construction trials.
Our Construction Practice Group is one of the largest and most sophisticated in the country, ranked nationally by Chambers USA, U.S. News / Best Lawyers and similar publications. Our lawyers counsel clients on some of the biggest, most sophisticated construction projects in the world, and we are aware of no firm that tries (and wins) more complex disputes than we do, in federal and state courts nationwide and arbitration forums domestic and international. With 15 partners who all have multiple first-chair trial experience, significant bench strength with experienced and specialized associates, a flexible cadre of long-term contract attorneys, and a national network of 14 offices, we have the depth and breadth to try cases of any complexity, anywhere at any time.
And our trial lawyers are specialists. Our clients and their busy construction staff waste no time explaining the submittal approval cycle, how to read a geotech report, the estimating process, CPM scheduling, cost reporting systems and other basics. Our lawyers don't try construction cases as a sideline – construction is our life's work, just like it is for our clients.
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We negotiate and document all types of contracts for complex construction projects, such as construction management, construction services, design, design/build, engineer-procure-construct-manage (EPCM), technical assistance agreements and facilities management contracts, as well as for project finance (off-balance-sheet, build-own-operate-transfer) deals. Unlike other firms, every drafter of contracts and adviser on project administration in the group is an experienced litigator – many with technical or design backgrounds. We know how to craft agreements and positions that can stand up to disputes and litigation, since we've seen firsthand how contract terms can lead to future problems – so we're better prepared to prevent them up front and to assess what issues are likely to cause real problems later.
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As usual Naxos has been quick to capitalise on releasing a disc of music used in a number of 2007 cinema hits by raiding their own catalogue and hopefully encouraging punters to buy the complete records. I hope they do for they could do a lot worse as many of these discs are well worth the small investment required from Naxos. While it's perfectly true that hardcore classical fans will have much of what is detailed here already most who have seen the films will not and I cannot think of a better, cheaper and more accessible way to introduce some fabulous music to the masses. I for one, had not got a recording of Verdi's "La donna é mobile" and now I have and it will help remind me of when I had to mime it to Placido Domingo's recording on stage when I played in Ronald Harwood's play "Quartet" about 4 retired opera singers in a home. Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto will always remind me of the film "The Seven Year Ich" rather than "The History Boys" even though I only saw that recently whereas how many years can it have been since I saw Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell … Suffice to say that I bought one of my first ever LPs on the strength of hearing the music in that film.
There's no doubt about it that music is an extremely powerful way of rolling back the years and bringing back memories. One of my favourite songs of all time is "Song to the Moon" from Dvořák's Rusalka and the recording here is very lovely and, again, I had not got it until now. Those of us "of a certain age" will forever associate the andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21 with the film "Elvira Madigan" in which that music played such prominent role. I shall always link the duet from "The Pearl Fishers" with my first ever experience of opera that my mother took me to and I still have a very soft spot for it for that reason. I also remember another of the first records I ever bought was the 1812 overture which used real cannon, and the recording here is just as exciting.
All in all I enjoyed this trip down my own musical memory lane and hope it does similar things for legions of others.


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