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Theology Books
This selection includes biblical and reformed books on various theological topics, including many books from the classic Puritan Paperbacks series. These books are both theological and doxological in their exposition of their subjects, as our deep thinking about God should lead us to heartfelt worship of Him. Some notable titles on this page include The Doctrine of Repentance by Thomas Watson, The Mystery of Providence by John Flavel, and Confessing the Faith by Chad Van Dixhoorn.
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The Way Everlasting
A Study in Psalm 139
A devotional exposition of Psalm 139. 128pp.
Victory of the Lamb
Christ's Triumph Over Sin, Death and Satan
Sets forth Christ's victory over sin, death and Satan. 144pp.
Truth For All Time
A Brief Outline of the Christian Faith
Calvin's superb 'A Brief Outline of the Christian Faith'. Translated by Stuart Olyott. 96pp. Also available as a Gift Edition Pocket Puritan.
Today's Gospel
Authentic or Synthetic?
In Today's Gospel: Authentic or Synthetic?, Chantry uses the story of the rich young ruler (Mark 10:17-27) to present the true nature of the gospel, and expose the unbiblical ways in which it is presented today. 96pp.
Thy Word Is Truth
Some Thoughts on the Biblical Doctrine of Inspiration
The classic popular exposition of the biblical doctrine of inspiration. 280pp.
Characterized by clarity, raciness and spiritual richness, Watson continues his exposition of the Shorter Catechism drawn up by the Westminster Assembly. 254pp.
Unequalled as a handbook of Christian doctrine, written from an evangelical and reformed viewpoint. Includes questions for review. 192pp.
Spurgeon vs. Hyper-Calvinism
The Battle For Gospel Preaching
Elaborates the issues involved in 'The Battle for Gospel Preaching' between Spurgeon and fellow Baptists of Hyper-Calvinistic views. 184pp.
What is needed now, as never before,' says A. W. Pink, 'is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.' 168pp. Reset edition 2009.
In 13 short Bible studies, shows what the Christian's perspective on sickness and suffering ought to be. 96pp.
Satan Cast Out
A Study in Biblical Demonology
A lucid, biblical review of Christian teaching on such issues as the existence and activity of Satan, demon-possession and the occult. 200pp.
Using authoritative Roman Catholic documents, the author provides an instructive, thought-provoking and personally challenging analysis of Roman Catholic teaching and how it compares with Scripture. 184pp.
Colquhoun (1748–1827) distinguishes between evangelical or true repentance and legal repentance. 216pp.
In this major study, the 'theologian of revival' analyses the nature of a genuine work of the Holy Spirit. 384pp.
A Reformation Guide to Scripture
The Prologues from the Geneva Bible 1560
The Prologues from the Geneva Bible, 1560'. 152pp.
The Quest for Full Assurance
The Legacy of Calvin and His Successors
Examines the theological development of personal assurance of faith in English Puritanism and the Dutch Second Reformation. 416pp.
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What is credit analysis?
Credit analysis is simply the evaluated creditworthiness of a business or organization. Simply put credit analysis determines whether or not a company can fulfill all of its financial obligations. Credit analysis is used in a variety of financial transactions, including banks that lend to small businesses or companies that issue bonds. Credit analysts investigate both the borrower and the lender and determine a risk rating. The rating is based upon metrics designed to determine the probability of default by the borrower and the estimation of loss the lender will suffer if a default should occur.
How credit is evaluated?
In simple terms credit is evaluating, by assessing the ability of a borrower to repay a loan, with interest in a timely fashion. Usually for businesses, analysts evaluate borrower's cash flow statements, balance sheets, inventory turnover rates, market conditions and other factors to determine whether or not a borrower is "credit-worthy." Often this means the amount of a company's debt do not exceed its earnings and profitability.
What are credit scoring systems?
Decades of research and development have used various systems to determine scoring credits. One of these models is the univariate; a scoring system that compares various account ratios of potential borrowers with industry norms and trends. Using this approach enables analysts to determine whether or not a particular variable for a borrower differs from the norm in the industry. In turn this is used as indicator of possible future performance for a particular borrower. In today's financial world, organizations such as Standard & Poor's and Moody's provide industry ratios to banks.
What are the 5 C's?
The five C's are another set of metrics used to determine a borrower's creditworthiness. Many of these variables are evaluated before a risk rating is granted by a credit analyst.
Capacity –This refers to a company's 'capacity,' to repay from the businesses' cash flow.
Capital –The owner's investment into the company as well as that individual's risk if the company failed to perform well.
Collateral –This is a guarantee provided by the borrower to the lender as a form of repayment if the loan granted cannot be repaid under the loan agreement.
Character –In short, this is an evaluation of a company's character or reputation. Much of what is used in this assessment determines the impression of the borrower by the lender. Usually information such as education, references and past financial dealings help to create the company's 'character.'
Conditions –This is the particular purpose of the loan. Part of credit analysis is to consider the conditions surrounding the requested loan. For instance analysts look at the particular industry and its conditions as well as the local economic climate and determine possible risks/rewards that may influence the borrower.
What is Financial Risk?
In the industry of finance, financial risk is any type of risk that is associated with financing. Financial risk is a term when used, that people often associate with downside risk. However modern financial risk assessment takes into a count a more complete picture of financial risk. Currently financial risk is determined by the standard deviation of a financial portfolio.
What are the types of Financial Risk?
There are many different types of financial risk; the main risks considered are listed here:
Liquidity Risk – In the event that a company or businesses' cash flow is inadequate to cover operational costs and the company is forced to stop operation, the institution will face liquidity risk. Liquidity risk essentially prevents a company from trading services/products/assets, because no one in the market will purchase it. Thus liquidity risk is also correlated to credit ratings.
Types of Liquidity Risk:
§ Market Liquidity- This type of liquidity risk examines the market for specific products/services.
§ Funding liquidity- This type of liquidity risk examines the funding and financial-trading activities of the company.
Credit Risk –This is an assessment of the borrower's default risk. Analysts measure the repayment record/default rate of a borrowing entity, determine market conditions and evaluate default ratios of similar borrowers to determine the possibility that a borrower will default on a loan.
Market Risk –This form of risk focuses on adverse prices or market volatility that affects assets held by a firm or institution. Market risk considers the uncertainty of a financial institution's earnings as well as its sensitivity to movements of the market. There are four aspects of market risk
o Equity risk — Evaluates the risk that a stock or stock indices price will change
o Interest Rate Risk —The risk that interest rates will rise or fall dependent market conditions
o Currency Risk — Evaluates the risk of currency exchange rates increasing or decreasing
o Commodity Risk—Examines the risk that commodity prices may increase or decrease
Operational Risk — this form of risk involves the possibility that a company or institution will suffer financial losses due human or machine errors. Risks in this category include employee settlements and/or customer liability suits.
Foreign Investment Risk— Rapid and extreme changes pervade the market both domestically and globally. Foreign investment risk evaluates these changes internationally and their causes such as: accounting differences, smaller markets, auditing standards, economic conflict, etc.,
How do I become a credit analyst?
Becoming a credit analyst requires a mind for numbers and formulas. Other requirements include at the very least a bachelor's degree in statistics, accounting, business or economics. The national average salary for a credit analyst is $48,000 per year. While many find this work rewarding, there appears to be very little variance in pay after ten years of experience.

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We have been enjoying the sun and the warm weather here which inspired some summer/outdoorsy cards. This month you'll be making cards that are perfect for the guys in your life (of course they also work for the women too). Scroll down to see the cards for June's card class.
If you have not attended a card class before, I'd like to share why you should try out a class:
Learn New Techniques: Each month you'll learn new techniques or a spin on technique's you already know. For scrapbookers, these techniques will lend themselves well to your scrapbook pages - use them to make "wowie" pages.
Save Money: Cost of class is just $7.50 for 3 cards. That is just $2.50 per adorable, handmade card. Want to see just what a great deal this is? Check out the prices on cards at a local Hallmark store...eegads, who has $4 or more to purchase a plain 'ol card.
Save Even MORE Money: Submit a $20 order at card class and you'll receive your card class for FREE - a $7.50 savings! It's a win, win situation. You get the supplies you love, free cards to go with them, new techniques to try and a great couple hours of fun!
Make Friends/Enjoy Some Personal Time: This is a great chance to get out and have some relaxing fun with close friends. We often don't make time for the important people in our lives. Card club is a way that you and your friends can get together at least once a month - invite them to come with you! Don't have friends who are crafty? That's okay too, join us and you'll soon find friendships blossom.
Regulars are Rewarded - Besides our regular nightly drawing (everyone who attends is entered), regulars have the opportunity to earn $25 in Hostess Rewards. Interested, ask me for more details (email@example.com).
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Improve your workflow with Adobe Photoshop Elements using various shortcuts and techniques for working on your family archives.
Eric Basir owns a photo-retouching studio in Evanston, IL. Since 2001, he has served the genealogical community as a teacher and author of two books and the Photo Retouching and Restoration Foundations video course.


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Detroit Lions safety Glover Quin is in the fourth year of his five-year, $23.5 million contract. But by living on just 30% of that salary and investing the other 70%, Quin has managed to double his money.
In a fantastic story from Michael Rothstein of ESPN, Quin said his frugal tendencies and savvy investments — from the moment he entered the NFL in 2009 — had allowed him to effectively earn two contracts simultaneously.
"To sit here and say I've played for eight years and made this much money, I was in a couple investments for five years and kind of made the same amount of money," Quin told ESPN. "It's kind of like having a double NFL career, you know."
Whereas so many professional athletes blow through their huge contracts and quickly go broke, Quin has set himself up nicely for the future. He majored in business at the University of New Mexico, and he told ESPN that even living on 30% of his salary still felt like a ton of money to him.
"I like to call it tunnel vision. It's not good to have tunnel vision on the field, because you need to know what's going on around you, but when you're in life, especially in this field, you need to have tunnel vision, because you see so many guys around you buying cars, buying jewelry, doing this, spending money, talking about the money that they spend.
"And you're sitting there like, 'Man, I'm living off this much money every month, and this cat spending this much money every day.'"
For the first three years of his career, Quin lived on $6,000 a month, and he invested the rest of his salary in well-known, publicly traded companies. His teammates called him cheap, but he stuck with his plan.
When he signed his contract with Detroit in 2013, he did not go out and spend wildly; he did not even buy a new car (he continues to drive his 2009 Yukon Denali). Instead, he diversified his portfolio and began taking more investment risks.
"After signing a free-agent deal in Detroit in 2013, Quin decided to venture into a more risky investment world — private equity, using 10 to 20 percent of his wealth to fund private, up-and-coming businesses ...
"So far, the strategy has worked. Quin and [financial adviser Humble] Lukanga estimate a five-year projection where his private portfolio could match the money he has made in the NFL. When his contract expires after the 2017 season, Quin will have earned more than $21 million, before taxes, in his eight-year career."
Quin insisted to ESPN that he was a football player first, but the time and research he puts into his investments certainly sound like a full-time job. He has a methodical four-step plan before investing, and he aspires to give money only to companies he believes are trying to change the world.
He wouldn't share his full portfolio with ESPN, but some investments listed were Health Warrior, which makes food out of chia; pawTree, a pet nutrition company; and PeerWell, whose PreHab mobile app helps patients prepare both physically and mentally for surgery to recover faster.
In some ways, Quin is using his football skills as an approach to his business. Said Manish Shah, the cofounder of PeerWell:
"I think Glover is taking his on-the-field thinking and applying it to what he does off the field. Like anticipating how a market will develop, it's very similar to how a play develops on the field. It may not happen as fast, but having the skill set to see it happening in real-time is valuable."
And Quin has no plans of slowing down.
"It's one of those things that's very exciting," he said. "Hopefully, everything continues to work out great and I can be one of those stories that they say, 'You know what, I probably made more money investing than I made playing football.'"


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I recently had the opportunity to talk with chat with our friends Adam and Frank by By Land Or Sea (previously known as Frankie and His Fingers) about their newest release, transitioning names and whats to come from the band. You can check out my review of their album here or visit their myspace here. Also, remember the name, because you will be hearing it again soon!
Mind Equals Blown: What was the mentality behind changing your name from Frankie and His Fingers to By Land or Sea?
Frank: To be honest, we never really liked the name Frankie and His Fingers. I had come up with it as a solo project name and Sammi and I couldn't think of anything else when we turned it into a band. For the past 6 years we just never considered the fact that we could change it anytime we wanted. One day, on the way to the studio, we just started discussing it. We figured our happiness was more important than anything, and we weren't happy with the old name.
Adam: We also had changed a lot as a band and we felt that the old name didn't represent who we were anymore – we were basically a brand new band, and a new name was deemed appropriate.
MEB: I don't mean to create any animosity, but some people, including myself, find your new name to be somewhat generic as opposed to your original name. Do you have a rebuttal to this sentiment? Do you think the name change has alienated many of your fans?
Frank: Like I said, we wanted to be happy with our band name. We figure that people who can't understand that may need to evaluate their priorities and their criteria for liking a band. Though it was important enough for us to want to change it, it really should come down to the music we play and whether or not people like it.
Adam: I agree with Frank. I don't think the name change has alienated many people, at least not to the point of hating us or something silly like that. Part of the reason for the change also was to remove all the emphasis on Frank as some kind of "band leader." We all have an equal stake in the band and honestly everyone assuming that Frank did everything got annoying after awhile.
MEB: How has the inclusion of your new bassist, Adam Stoutenburgh, affected your songwriting process?
Frank: Adam joined the band in October of 2007. We actually all hit it off immediately and Sammi and I did our best to make it clear that his say in the songwriting process was extremely valued and equal with ours. He has contributed more than I could have hoped or forseen. He doesn't play root note with half and whole step walk-ups. He songwrites on the bass. That's wonderful.
Adam: I've definitely affected the songwriting process – I helped craft these songs with Sammi and Frank. We generally write as a team, all contributing ideas to create the final result. I'm not a bass player normally, so I think that's helped me view the bass with a pair of fresh hands – I'm not restricted to all the things that many bassists do because I don't know what those things are.
MEB: What does that process usually entail?
Adam: Someone usually has a basic idea (like a riff or melody) and then we all jam on it until we come up with a final song. Then, Frank writes lyrics and a melody. Some of the songs came together really quickly (I think we wrote "Fizz" in like an hour) but others we labored over for months before we felt like they were finished. "Children" took us forever to be happy with.
Frank: Lyrics are a whole other process. Sometimes they take forever. Sometimes they pour out of me. They're extremely important to me, so I really like to make sure they're saying what i wanted to say, how I wanted to say it. The lyrics on this album were especially taxing, due to the emotional events and attempts at soul-searching that inspired them.
MEB: Samantha (Niss, drums) has serious chops, and it's pretty apparent on Hell Broke Loose [the band's most recent release]. Good female drummers seem to be a commodity in rock music, and great ones seem to be even fewer and farther between. How did you find Samantha?
Frank: We met at Bennington College in Vermont, where we both attended for one year. A bunch of the musicians that lived in our dorm set up their instruments on the patio one night, and when she laid down a groove, jaws dropped. Needless to say, everyone wanted her. Somehow I got lucky.
Adam: Sammi isn't just good for a girl, either. She's damn good, period.
MEB: Speaking of your new album, are there any songs you're particularly excited about performing live?
Adam: Well, we've been playing all of these songs live for awhile now, so none of them are exciting in that "it's a new song" kinda way. But, I personally love playing "Wood/Lead" and "Hell Broke Loose." Fun songs.
MEB: You guys are based out of Kingston, NY. What are your thoughts on the current music scene in the Woodstock/Kingston/Nyack area?
Adam: The music scene in Kingston kinda sucks. There are a few good bands, but there are basically no good venues. Keegan Ales has been great to us and we love playing there, though.
Frank: Yeah, music scenes in general are, sadly, a dying thing. We all need to fix that. Seriously.
MEB: Do you have good/bad relationships with other bands in the area (i.e. the guys from Fire Flies, Kiss Kiss, Dandelions, etc)? Any local bands you'd like to recommend?
Adam: Nightmares For A Week. They're our friends and we play with them whenever we can. They're also just a great band. Fire Flies are friends of ours too, but they broke up about a year ago.
Frank: Dead Unicorn. They're a wonderfully nasty noice/punk duo of just bass, drums and vocals. Amazing energy. Great creative musicians and just awesome music.
MEB: Thoughts on labels? Do you have yet to be asked to join a label, or do you choose to remain unsigned?
Adam: We haven't really been offered anything significant. If we were approached by a label with some kind of offer we'd absolutely be excited to consider it.
MEB: Are you already thinking about the future, as far as the direction of your band goes? Do you think that you will go with a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach with your music in the future, or will you continue to reinvent yourself like you have in the past?
Adam: Who knows what's next? We aren't the kind of musicians who like to do the same thing repeatedly, so I'm sure that new songs will always be going in a different direction. That's the exciting part about being in a band to me.
Frank: Couldn't have said it better myself. Music is to wonderful to force it in any way. Whether that means forcing oneself to do the same thing or to do something different. We just make music and try not to think about it TOO much.
MEB: Are you live show-oriented, or are you more of a post-Revolver Beatles studio type band? If the former, what about playing live "does it for you"?
Frank: We LOVE playing live. Its what rock and roll is. Our record is even kind of a snap shot of a live show. A sepia one. Tacked to an attic wall with blue lights on it.
Adam: Live for sure. We almost didn't put any overdubs on this album at all. Kevin convinced us to do a few, but most of them are textural and are only there for "fleshing out" purposes.
MEB: Do you guys have any places you hope to play in the near future? Any east-coast tours in the works?
Adam: We don't have any tour plans yet, but we're always playing out. We're going to try to focus on playing shows in the city I think, you can only play Kingston, NY so many times before it gets stupid.
MEB: How about Boston? You should definitely play in Boston. (Note: it's difficult to convey facial expressions like shifty eyes via an email interview).
Adam: You know a place? Hook us up, man!
MEB: What would be your biggest guilty band?
Adam: I never feel guilty about music that I listen to. I'd probably be made fun of for liking Copeland, but I love 'em.
Frank: My friends poke fun at me for liking a lot of sugar-coated whiny emo. But every know and then, I need a twinkie. If you get what I mean.
MEB: If you had the chance to pick three bands to tour with, to form the ultimate show, who would they be?
Frank: If death was not an issue: Nirvana, The Beatles and Elvis Costello.
Adam: Yeah, three current bands or just three bands in general? I'd pick The Beatles, Television, and Wilco.
MEB: Any last words? (Not before I kill you, before the interview ends)
Adam: Thanks for the interview, bub.


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BLOC-Ballantyne meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This month they will meet at The Gallery Restaurant within The Ballantyne Resort. Park near the golf side of the building which is on the Ballantyne Commons side.
These monthly luncheon meetings are for members and prospective members, where attendees can socialize and share a variety of professional and personal updates.
Start time is 11:45am, but members get there early for networking purposes and the meeting ends at 1:00pm promptly. This is a meeting for the MEMBERSHIP and their guests only. This gathering occurs once a month and is a great opportunity for BLOC-Ballantyne members to catch up with one another.
BLOC- Ballantyne Lunch instructions and overview:
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Ric and Billie Barbara Masten papers
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Overview Writings, correspondence, clippings, photographs, business records, recordings, publications, fliers, posters, artwork, notes, scrapbooks and other personal papers of Ric Masten and Billie Barbara Masten, from 1894, 1929-2008. The bulk of the collection documents Ric's career as a traveling poet and folk singer. Additional items include materials documenting Billie Barbara's work as a poet, artist, and performer.
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Initiative Helps Parents Accused of Child Abuse - Minnesota
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When parents are accused of abusing or neglecting their kids, they often face an uphill battle with social workers and the courts. Even if the allegations are proven false, or the parents make every effort to change, the stigma is often hard to overcome.
But now, a new effort, and a notable Minnesotan, are coming to the aid of these parents.
Case in point: Larene Broome of Maplewood. Thirteen years ago, Larene stood accused of abuse after spanking her son with a belt. "A belt buckle is not what caused the bruises, just the belt itself," she explained. Her son was young. She was angry. At the time, Larene didn't think the spanking was that severe.
But hen her son went to school. Larene remembers, "He said, 'I don't want to go home, my mom you know, is not so nice to me'."
Larene's son was taken away, and an investigation launched.
Her explanation at the time?
"Parents tend to parent the way that they were parented," she said. When she was a child, she says she was primarily raised by an abusive step-grandparent.
Enter former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Helen Meyer.
Inside her office at William Mitchell College of Law, the school's Distinguished Jurist in Residence repeats the question she's been asked a lot lately: "Why would you want to represent parents who've allegedly done horrible things to their children?"
Justice Meyer, who retired from the bench last summer, has an easy answer: "I think if the bond can be repaired, it should," she said.
She believes when a child is removed from his or her home and placed with strangers, no matter what the circumstance, "that's also a traumatic event. And so you should do it very cautiously. And you should do it only when necessary."
But Justice Meyer isn't just talking about the problem. She's now donated $1 million to William Mitchell to create a child protection clinic. Law students are being trained to represent accused parents going through court proceedings in the child protection system. It can be difficult for parents to find lawyers with the skills and experience needed to adequately represent them.
"The clinic is really about helping parents be better, make the changes they have to make," she said. "And we're talking about some major change."
In Larene's case, although she got her son back, "Having to re-prove myself as a worthy parent, that was hard," she said.
"More often than not our clients are vilified," said Courtney Allensworth, a Mitchell law student who's working in the clinic. "But I think to say that somebody can't learn how to parent, or be an effective parent, sort of defeats the idea of the child protective system."
So far, Mitchell's law professors and students have represented 17 parents, and helped reunite about half of them with their kids.
According to Joanna Woolman, a professor who runs the clinic, "We provide a voice for those parents, to make sure that they have the help and support that they need to get through the process, to get their kids back."
Woolman says parents accused of abusing their children are often dealing with problems such as alcohol or drug dependency and mental health issues. Or, like Larene, they were abused themselves as children and are simply repeating the cycle of violence.
"They need to acknowledge that things aren't going well, that there have been mistakes made, and that they're trying to correct wrongs, to be a better parent. I think that's the goal," Woolman said.
Justice Meyer admits that in proven cases of serious abuse or neglect, reuniting children and parents wouldn't be prudent. "But, really, those are rare occasions," she said.
Larene now works with the clinic, mentoring other parents in trouble. She doesn't want others to go through what she went through, all those years ago. "At the time, I felt I was doing what I was supposed to be doing as a parent," she explained. "When I got my son back they gave me a booklet about how to discipline him. That was great and all, but there was still something missing. I was a young parent who was dying on the inside. There were mental health issues, where we needed some therapy. There were some family issues going on. We needed some help."
Today, Larene says her experience has led to wisdom. When she talks with parents at the clinic, "I realize that the abuse is a detail, " she said. "What we need to ask is, 'What is the core? What's going on? What's going on with the parent?'"
Those are questions that Justice Meyer is determined to answer. "We need people who really believe that parents can change," she said.
For more information about the William Mitchell College of Law Child Protection Clinic, click here.
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Intervention: A Path to Syrian Democracy?
It's not hard to find the case for military intervention in Syria compelling. In the Youtube age, tyrants can't easily suppress the evidence of their crimes, and there's something very powerful about the visual realm for us humans. If the images burned into the public consciousness by the photojournalism of the Vietnam war can be credited with fuelling American domestic opposition to that war, then visual evidence can play just as potent a role in making the case for war.
Such scenes of human tragedy appeal to human compassion and rightly overpower the weak verbal arguments customarily offered against intervention: we shouldn't meddle in other people's affairs, it's not our problem, it would cost too much money in a time of domestic austerity, etc. But having demonstrated the most sincere moral fortitude in resolving that "something needs to be done" our comrades proceed with understandable haste, but also unfortunate carelessness, to conclude of military intervention that "this is something, let's do it!"
With the best of intentions it is argued that the condition of the Syrian people will be improved by military intervention, unfortunately a substantive democracy doesn't necessarily follow from the removal of a dictator. Neither is it clear that the removal of Assad would bring an end to the humanitarian crisis rather than simply reverse victim and culprit.
As much as I wish the civil war were a simple case of 'the people' versus 'the dictator,' the reality is that the Syrian rebels represent just one side of a sectarian schism. One of the few commonalities between the otherwise diverse array of factions that constitute the rebellion is that their fighters are almost exclusively Sunni Arabs. Sympathies for conservative Islamic politics is widespread among the militias, although not universal. Salafist militias, from those sympathetic to the House of Saud to those aligned with Al-Qaeda, have found a home within the wide tent of the Free Syrian Army.
It's not just despots in Damascus who fear the arrival of the rebels, Alawites face reprisals for perceived complicity in the Ba'athist regime while Christians and Kurds have also been the victims of sectarian attacks. A tyranny of the majority is no less a tyranny for those who are its victims – it offers to cast aside one injustice only to replace it with another.
Even if we give the rebels the benefit of the doubt and close our eyes to any sectarian disaster that may be unleashed by their victory, freedom for the Syrian people is not a cause which can be advanced by subjugating their fate to the interests of external powers.
Each of the region's powers is playing its own game. To the House of Saud and their allies, there is no greater evil than democracy, which is why they proceeded to swiftly exorcise it, using fire-power supplied with the blessing of the British government, when protests hit the streets of Bahrain in 2011. This was not the first time the UK supported the suppression of democratic opposition in the Arab world and nor was it the last: British arms continue to be sold to both the Saudi dictators and their minions in Bahrain. It's clear that for our selectively outraged rulers, it's not a matter of democracy versus dictatorship but a game of our dictators and theirs.
Dangerous chancers among the interventionists argue that the cynical interests of Britain's ruling class can be exploited, that despite the hypocrisy of Britain backing Bahrain's dictator even more shamelessly than Russia backs Assad, our Government's impure motives can be harnessed to bring freedom to Syria. They may not be so eager to play with fire if they were the ones at risk of being burned.
The Assad regime play the same role to the Iranian mullahs and Russian arms dealers that the rebels do to Saudi sheikhs and British arms dealers. Turkey's soft-Islamist government, meanwhile, hasn't missed its opportunity to pursue its own regional interests. They know that the crutch which supports the rebels in their time of need will become the shackle that binds them in power, in this sense it is not so much that the Turkish ministers are playing the role of hawks but that of vultures.
Whichever power wins out, the Syrian people will lose; the resulting government, whether superficially democratic in form or not, will be the instrument of forces beyond their control. There is no path to democracy in transforming freedom fighters, whether genuine or merely soi-disant, into pawns of sheikhs, mullahs or European powers. One day the Syrian people will assert their will and take control of their own lives but, no matter how much we wish it were otherwise, there are no shortcuts to democracy.


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December 18, 2004
There's been no love lost over many years of wrestling between Fort Lupton's Corey Swanson and Adam City's Joey Deaguero, but the rivalry reached a new intensity Saturday night.
The two defending state champions met in the 140-pound championship bout of the Old Chicago Northern Colorado Christmas Tournament with Swanson winning the title when Deaguero was disqualified after the final whistle blew.
Deaguero won the match 4-3, but events leading up to the finale had the two jabbering back and forth after the match. Referee Mike Decker disqualified Deaguero from the tournament when the Adams City wrestler's language turned profane.
"It was just a really intense match," Swanson said. "I haven't beat him in a couple of years, but it's always like a one-point match."
Fort Lupton coach Conrad Parra said that's how the intense wrestling started.
Parra said Swanson became frustrated when he was called for stalling and Deaguero was not called for nearly the same thing. Both were eventually hit with a stalling penalty point, and it was in the third period that things turned a lot more physical.
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Decker gave Swanson a point after calling Deaguero for unsportsmanlike conduct, which put Swanson down 4-2. Deaguero, who had Swanson on his stomach, said Swanson bit him on the forearm and then proceeded to punch Swanson in the right cheek.
Deaguero showed Decker marks on his forearm, but Decker said since there were not upper and lower palette marks, it did not justify Deaguero's reaction.
Swanson scored an escape in the final seconds but still lost 4-3. When the two went back to the middle of the mat, the talking back-and-forth continued with Swanson being held back by a referee.


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Egan and Teresa, ca. 1970s. Catholic Relief Services was instrumental in aiding and spreading Teresa's mission and message across the world. American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives.
Saint Teresa of Kolkata (1910-1997) and Eileen Egan (1912-2000) represent two Catholic women who played a central role in the Church's international work in the latter half of the twentieth century. Coming from different backgrounds, these two women nevertheless shared much in common, including a deep interest in alleviating the suffering of their fellow humans. While they did not meet until they were both in their mid-forties, they nevertheless managed to form a close personal and working relationship that would span the remainder of their lives.
The future Saint and Eileen Egan spent the first few decades of their lives in a similar fashion. Raised by Catholic families in regions with few other Catholics, the young Teresa and Egan nevertheless found a strong core of faith within their domestic settings. In their teens, both women left their home countries and settled in regions wherein they would remain the rest of their lives. In the 1940's, they each experienced a calling to aid those ravaged by poverty, disease, and conflict. While Egan put her organizational and journalistic skills towards refugee relief, Teresa began the initial steps in founding a new religious order devoted towards tending the sick, poor, and dying.
On an October day in 1960, a small, sari-clad woman arrived in Las Vegas. It was her first visit to the United States and first time away from her adopted home in India in over 30 years. A former geography teacher and now head of her own order, the Missionaries of Charity, this unassuming nun known as Mother Teresa had arrived in a city she described as a perpetual light festival, or "Diwali." While little known outside Kolkata (Calcutta) at the time, Teresa had been invited to address the National Council of Catholic Women annual conference. Sitting at a little booth during the conference, she addressed an endless series of questions about her sari, free service to the poor, and Albanian origins.
Months ahead of her trip, Teresa had written to her colleague, Eileen Egan: "Thank God I have plenty to do – otherwise I would be terrified of that big public. Being an Indian citizen, I will have to get an Indian passport." These two sentences encapsulate much of the friendship between Egan and Teresa, revealing personal elements of Teresa's life and work, as well as the more mundane background work it took to continue her mission.
Egan, a long-time peace activist and employee of Catholic Relief Services, had been a co-worker of this relatively unknown nun for five years at this point. In 1955, they met for the first time in the streets of Kolkata.
After her initial meeting with Teresa, Egan became a major supporter of the Missionaries of Charity and their lay counterpart, the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa. Often acting as both the coordinator and travel companion for Teresa's many international travels, Egan also contributed to the Co-Workers' newsletters and meetings. Simultaneously, known for her work on the behalf of peace, Egan was one of several American witnesses who addressed the Second Vatican Council on issues of war and peace. In 1972, she became one of the co-founders of Pax Christi-USA. She would continue to speak out about the need for pacifism throughout the remainder of her life.
St. Mother Teresa and Eileen Egan founded their friendship in the Tradition of the Catholic Church and their work for the common good. This guided their respective work for decades. May we remember them each for their contributions to Communion of Saints and seek ways for deep and nourishing friendships in our own lives. Cherishing the gift of friendship is one way that we celebrate the feasts of All Saints Day.
To read more about St. Teresa, click here. To read more about Eileen Eagan, click here.
This text was originally published at The Archivist's Nook- a work of the Catholic University of America.
Going Deeper On this All Saints day, learn more about one of the most recently canonized saints, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Sept. 4, 2016). Catholic Relief Services offers numerous resources on St. Teresa of Calcutta's life and legacy, including an intergenerational session, a prayer, and video stories and reflections.


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There's always a nice big bowl of potato salad available at picnics and cook-outs in the summer. Now that summer is gone, there's a vacancy at the table where our starchy, creamy, tangy companion once reigned. A few Thanksgivings ago it occurred to me that potato salad doesn't have to go away if I used some fall-friendly ingredients. It was a big hit and I've served it at several Thanksgivings since. Try it out this year!
Sweet Potato Salad– serves 5 or 6
approx. 3 lbs. sweet potatoes (2 very large sweet potatoes), peeled and diced
2 garlic cloves, crushed and peeled
2 Tbsp oil
2 tsp Kosher Salt
1 ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground sage
½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
½ tsp ground coriander
2 tsp toasted onion powder
¼ tsp ground fennel seed
¼ tsp ground cumin
⅛ tsp chipotle powder
⅛ tsp powdered rosemary
dash of allspice
¾ cup mayonnaise
½ c plain greek yogurt
½ c dried cranberries
⅔ cup chopped toasted pecans
1 small red apple, diced
1 long rib celery (or 2 ribs celery hearts), finely chopped
½ diced red onion
2 stalks scallions, sliced
Preheat oven 350°. Place diced sweet potatoes and garlic cloves on an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet. Drizzle with oil and sprinkle on salt and pepper, and toss to coat evenly. Roast for 40 minutes, tossing halfway through cooking time.
In a very small bowl, mix together spices and set aside. Meanwhile, stir remaining ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Cover and refrigerate.
When sweet potatoes are finished roasting, test them with the point of a small knife to ensure they are tender. Remove garlic cloves and place them on a cutting board.
While potatoes are still hot, toss with the spice mixture, and set aside to cool. Using a fork, mash the garlic cloves to a coarse paste and stir the paste into the mayonnaise mixture.
When sweet potatoes are cooled, stir them into the mayonnaise mixture and thoroughly combine. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, and serve chilled.
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While projections about planet Earth's expiration date are fraught with peril, the fictional world that Bowie created has its time limit announced from the very start: five years. It opens on people crowding around a television set to hear a newscaster tearfully tell the world that it has "five years left for crying." The ostensible reason is a lack of natural resources. In the face of impending disaster, human do what humans do. Chaos quickly ensues, complete with looting and other savage behavior, including killing over food.
It is against that backdrop that Bowie creates his most enduring character, Ziggy Stardust. The song "Five Years" has a beautiful restraint to it, slowly building and building until it's a towering inferno, dwarfing all other work Bowie has done previously. A big part of glam rock is ironically trussing up rock and roll to accentuate its more ridiculous curves and angles. Hunky Dory did that to a masterful degree, but Ziggy Stardust is totally serious about its camp. I know that's a contradiction in terms ("serious camp"), but the way Bowie sells it, you buy the contradiction, a spare, and the t-shirt that goes with it.
Brian Slade, the Bowie-like character in the indie flick Velvet Goldmine, said in a press conference, "Rock and roll is a prostitute; it should be tarted up." "Soul Love" tarts up its musical motif to exaggeratedly point out that it really is a prostitute, from the nasally performed vocals right down to the alto sax solo. Story-wise, I'm not sure how it fits in to the Ziggy plotline, though it makes perfect musical sense for it to follow the achingly epic "Five Years." Lyrically, it seems to be about the narrator being in love with love, with the concept itself. Even so, he's aware that he can't have a practical application of the concept 'til it's directed at a particular person.
Segueing right into it is "Moonage Daydream," a slow rocker and Bowie's strongest attempt so far to blow the listener's brains out. This represents the birth of Ziggy Stardust on Earth, his triumphant arrival and the start of his mission/ministry. Ziggy is a sort of futuristic Christ figure, a being from outside this world whose sole purpose is to save it from itself. This parallel isn't lost on Bowie, and he plays it to the hilt, if pretty subtly. Ziggy's means of salvation are generally the same as Christ's, too; Jesus atoned for us by being a perfect replacement, the Platonic form of a human being. All over "Moonage Daydream" are suggestions of Ziggy's identical nature to human beings, divine entity though he is.
There's also the closing words of "Moonage Daydream," spoken over the killer Ronson guitar solo that ends it. "Freak out! Far out! In-out!" It reminds me of A Clockwork Orange, in which in-out is a Nadsat slang term for sexual intercourse.
I could speculate wildly on what this means, getting further and further from the point, but what still remains is that Ziggy likes sex. Maybe he thinks that sex will save the world. On an extremely general level, I understand that line of thinking; if people had more sex, there would probably be less war, for one thing. However, it won't fix our planet, and it won't fix Ziggy's, either. So what will?
The answer: rock and roll.


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Mary Orlin is the wine and food writer for the Bay Area News Group and a James Beard Award and Emmy award-winning journalist, Certified Sommelier and WSET Advanced certified wine professional and frequent wine judge. Prior to joining the newspaper group in 2014, Mary contributed to local and national wine publications, and produced the wine TV show "In Wine Country" on NBC for nine seasons. Mary's journalism career began at CNN in Atlanta. She enjoys cooking and traveling throughout the world's great wine regions.


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There are some interesting people on Booksie and there are some other people as well. I fear this site may become a kind of Facebook for writers, wherein the only goal of many people is to gather as many fans as possible by making nice comments on other people's work regardless of its real quality, then "fanning" those people hoping for reciprocal nice comments and a fan request back. I have decided that I will only comment on stories I like, and I will only "fan" people if I really like their work. I don't see the point in collecting fans for the sake of it and I don't see the point in people "fanning" me if they don't really like what I do. I would like the number of fans I have to say something about how many people really enjoy what I write, not simply equal the number of people I "fan". I don't see the point. Is that weird?
Unless I end up with no fans. Then I'll sit in a corner hugging my knees and sucking my thumb while rocking gently backwards and forwards. Then I'll start making nice comments and fanning people like crazy until I get my confidence back. Then we'll start all over again if that's ok with you.
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Patients respond favourably to NSHA's first patient experience survey
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Jan. 29, 2018
Halifax, N.S. – The results are in: patients of Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) are reporting a higher level of satisfaction with their care experiences across the province. That's according to NSHA's first patient experience surveys, reflecting results from 2016-17.
Overall, 89.5 per cent of patients who responded rated their experience of care positively. This is an increase of 7.3 per cent over our previous aggregate results.
Areas surveyed in 2016-17 were mental health and addictions, primary health care (33 collaborative family practices across the province), long-term care, cancer care, inpatient (hospital) care and outpatient services. Surveys measured both quality of care and experience of care. Questions were aligned with Accreditation Canada's service dimensions as well as NSHA's strategic plan.
NSHA distributed more than 27,000 surveys and received 10,796 responses.
"Hearing from our patients and clients about where we're doing well and where we need to improve is our most valuable source of learning as an organization," said Colin Stevenson, Vice-President, Quality and System Performance. "Now we need to use that feedback to improve our services. Teams have already begun work to address areas in which we achieved less than 90 per cent."
Examples of where patients rate NSHA highly (90 per cent or greater):
• Respecting patient needs, values and preferences
• Treating patients with dignity, courtesy and respect
• Taking cultural values into account and respecting diversity
• Listening to patients and families
Examples of where patients say NSHA needs to improve (under 90 per cent):
• Waiting for clinic appointment following registration
• Providing information about possible medication side effects, and what symptoms to look for after you are sent home from hospital
• Explaining different options available
• Letting patients know what supports are available in community
View more details, including a one-page summary of results for each area surveyed. Several of the survey questions connect directly to measures within our strategic plan. You can view a summary of these results here.
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Lawyers keep the gates of public justice institutions, particularly through their roles in formal procedures like hearings and trials. Yet, it is not clear what lawyers do in such quintessentially legal settings: conclusions from past research are bedeviled by a lack of clear theory and inconsistencies in research design. Conceptualizing litigation work in terms of professional expertise, I conduct a theoretically grounded synthesis of the findings of extant studies of lawyers' impact on civil case outcomes.
On the basis of theories of cultural reproduction and rational choice, we examine whether access to study-abroad opportunities is socially selective and whether this pattern changed during educational expansion. We test our hypotheses for Germany by combining student survey data and administrative data on higher education entry rates. We find that studying abroad was socially selective during the entire observation period. Selectivity increased between 1991 and 2003 and hardly changed thereafter. Unexpectedly, the expansion of higher education does not explain this development.
Americans love crime. The criminal justice system is fetishized in popular culture and news media. We watch the news and scour the Internet to assess our own moral compass, take cues from others' digressions, and bear witness to justice and punishment. Historically, we learned about crime through news media and fiction. The Internet has dramatically changed this landscape: for the first time, mug shots and jailhouse rosters are available with a click.
This article explores how the efficiency of Internet search is changing the way Americans find romantic partners. We use a new data source, the How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey. Results show that for 60 years, family and grade school have been steadily declining in their influence over the dating market. In the past 15 years, the rise of the Internet has partly displaced not only family and school, but also neighborhood, friends, and the workplace as venues for meeting partners.


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Mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd is considering selling a 25-per-cent interest in its Saskatchewan potash mine project, a stake that could be worth close to $2 billion US, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.The move comes as activist investor Elliott Management Corp. has been pushing the company for changes.
BHP is working with an investment bank for the potential stake sale in its partly-built Jansen, Sask., potash project, the sources said this week.
For BHP, the move will help share the risk of developing the mine and reduce its exposure to the project, said the sources, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are confidential.
BHP laid out options for the Jansen project in an investor presentation dated Aug. 22, saying it could wait, find a partner, divest or optimize it.
BHP spokeswoman Bronwyn Wilkinson said it was too early in the process for the company to have determined the size of a potential stake sale.
"If you bring in a partner, you can share the capital and risk and, depending on who the partner is, help secure an off-take (supply agreement) or offer expertise," Wilkinson said.


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I Need a Bike
Joseph Carlough
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"I Need a Bike" is short story zine by Joseph Carlough that describes a brief period in the narrator's 14-year-old life where he is trying to paint a deck in order to get the bike of his dreams - a "Speedliner X-720, complete with 12 speeds, front and rear brakes, racing stripes and a bitching amount of pride."
In the story, the main character is set on getting his dream bike. In the span of 14 pages, you are introduced to several characters - the narrator, his best friend, his best friend's mother, and his best friend's mother's ex-husband. While the last of these is never really presented in any direct contact with the main character, it is still a vital point in the story.
Needless to say, this story was brilliant in its own little way. Reading through the story gave me a great nostalgia feeling with vibes of A CHRISTMAS STORY to even hints of J.D. Salinger wit. And, by the end, it had me gasping for air and on the verge of tears, I have to admit.
Speaking of the end, the conclusion to this short story perfectly completes it and is exactly what I like to see in a great ending, By the end of it, your heart is aching, yet it wraps up the story enough to where you're like "Okay...I understand." Ending it where it ends and not continuing to add information makes this short story what it is.
In critique, however, I would have definitely liked to have seen slightly more backstory as you are introduced to his best friend and her mother, but no story is perfect and some of the wit woven in saves it in this case. (One of my favourite lines, for example: "[Her] mom could make the president's jaw drop, and while it was dropped she could walk up and take his wallet and no one would do a damn hing about it."
In the end, this story brings on an emotional sense of looking back at when you were fourteen, the relationships you had with other people, and how quickly those relationships can come to an end. ~
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The Garden of Eden is a walking route set in the lush, green Knysna indigenous forest. It does not really qualify as a hiking trail but because it is situated next to the N2 it is a great place to stretch your legs or to take a drive there for a relaxing stroll.
The route is a short board walk through the beautiful indigenous Knysna forest. The major attraction is the forest itself; absolutely beautiful yellow wood trees, thick green foliage, ferns and streams.
The walk follows over 1km of wooden board walks and bridges across streams and is entirely wheelchair friendly and ideal for the elderly wanting to visit the forest. There is a number of wooden benches and tables along the trail to sit or have a picnic . There is water and ablution facilities, so it is a great place to stop if you have been on the road for a while.
Distance: Two loops of about 500m (Red and Green) or one big loop of about 1km.
Permits/Costs: R12/adult, R7/child. There is a small office at the entrance. Outside office hours you are allowed to enter and do the walk.


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Nelson Mandela's Musical Tributes: R. Kelly, Nicole Scherzinger, 'Lion King' Cast (Video)
As the world continues to mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela -- who died on Thursday at age 95 -- a handful of musicians have chosen to pay tribute though music.
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R. Kelly composed a special song for the late civil rights icon and said he had performed it in Mandela's living room. He sat down at a grand piano to perform part of "Soldier's Heart" on Thursday night's episode of The Arsenio Hall Show.
"He just nodded his head, man -- he was very happy and very honored, as I was being in his presence," the singer told Arsenio Hall after playing through the chorus. "When I started performing the song on his piano, it was an unbelievable moment for me, man, as it is now."
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Nicole Scherzinger also paid tribute to Mandela through song on Thursday night at the Cosmopolitan Awards in London. The former Pussycat Dolls lead was accepting her award for Ultimate TV Personality as a judge on The X Factor U.K. when she shared an anecdote of singing for the late civil rights icon.
"I sang one of my favorite spiritual hymns called 'Precious Lord,' and I don't know if he liked it because afterwards, he said, 'Do you know anything else?'" she said to the audience's laughter. Scherzinger then sang the chorus of "This Little Light of Mine" while clapping. "I didn't expect to sing, I just was moved. Keep shining your light, especially for the late, great, Nelson Mandela."
PHOTOS: Nelson Mandela and Apartheid: 13 Hollywood Portrayals
Watch the musical portion of her speech at the 4-minute mark in the video below:
Additionally, Good Morning America asked the cast of The Lion King on Broadway to perform the song "One on One" during Friday morning's broadcast. Some of the song's translated lyrics read, "Hold on tight my people/don't get weary/don't lose your strength/we can see/they will not succeed."
"To sing these words today means a great deal because without Nelson Mandela -- without his leadership and also his ideology of a non-racial democratic South Africa, we would not be where we are today," Lion King lead and South African Ron Kuene explained. "This is the man that really prevented streams of blood in our streets."
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State and federal laws say that all children with disabilities have a right to a free and appropriate education (FAPE). Special education includes classroom programs and other types of services that are designed especially for children with various types of disabilities. In Michigan, special education services shall be provided to eligible students from BIRTH through age 25, or until graduation from high school.
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Each night's become another
recitation of a rosary strung
with whispered Ave Marias
disrupted by the calls
from a father never seen,
a judge ever recognized.
This circle of fine filigree
inevitably will lie broken,
perhaps tossed under the bed
with rest of the best forgotten,
like the kind of secrets
that arouse you just before
you come to the crossroad
metaphor of a rising son,
that sacrificial cross, the sign
of death-turned-redemption.
This is the ritual I perform
each night, attached to a chain
linked to the miracle
of that blessed kind of death
lasting only a little while.
Five of the last seven nights have been this way, broken into decades of fruitless near-sleep. Nothing new, just nothing so recent. Once this was my obsession, then my obsessive literary theme. I'm hoping to break THIS particular chain with a new poem from my old, sleep-deprived brain.


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According to a recent report published by Allied Market Research, titled, " Artificial Intelligence Chip Market by Technology and Application: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2017-2023," the global artificial intelligence chip market was valued at $661 million in 2016, and is projected to reach at $11,173 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 49.5% from 2017 to 2023.
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AI is one of the fastest growing technologies over the years. Continuous efforts and developments to manufacture more human-like robots and increase in rate of deployments in developing regions have transformed the overall market.
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At present, North America dominates this market, followed by Europe. In 2016, the U.S. dominated the North American market. Increase in penetration of head-up display screens in luxury cars, smart wearables, and growth in venture capital investments have propelled the adoption of AI solutions.
The market for AI chip is driven by surge in implementation of AI chips in robotics and emergence of quantum computing. However, lack of skilled labor & other threats are some of the restraints of the artificial intelligence chip market. Nonetheless, the impact of these factors would be minimal due to the introduction of new technologies in the market.
GPU dominated the market in 2016, in terms of revenue. However, the FPGA sub-segment is projected to grow at the highest pace during the forecast period.
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- Asia-Pacific is anticipated to witness the highest CAGR during the forecast period.
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I would like to think that I am not foolish, as I consistently seek Wisdom from on High. For it is with Wisdom that my path is lit and my journey toward God is set. Wisdom speaks:
So now, O children, listen to me; instruction and wisdom do not reject! Happy the man who obeys me, and happy those who keep my ways. Happy the man watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts; For he who finds me finds life and wins favor from the Lord; But he who misses me harms himself; All who hate me love death (Wisdom 8:32-36).
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Steve Martin Duped by German Art Forgers
Banjo playing funnyman and art accumulator Steve Martin must be getting pretty small right about now.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, police in Cologne, Germany said Martin unwittingly bought and sold a forged copy of Landscape With Horses, a 1915 painting by German-Dutch modernist artist Heinrich Campendonk. Martin is not suspected of any wild and crazy misbehavior.
The switcheroo could be Germany's biggest art swindle to date. Martin plunked down $850,000 (€700,000) for the work in July of 2004. Insiders consider this a bargain, but I wouldn't know. I had to buy tube socks that week. Martin put the painting on the auction block in 2006 and took a loss when a Swiss businesswoman brought it home for a mere €500,000. Martin told the New York Times Arts Beat art blog, "It wasn't clear that it was a fake until after Christie's had sold the picture – it was a long time after that, that it became known."
The counterfeit is considered the work of Wolfgang Beltracchi, the accused leader of a multimillion-dollar forgery ring. The carbon copy Campendonk is said to be one of forty-four lookalike paintings Beltracchi and his gang (wife Helene, her sister Jeanette and accomplice Otto Schulte-Kellinghaus) are accused of pawning off over the past ten years.
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The thing about art by low-talent hacks is other low-talent hacks can easily forge it.
A big part of me wants to applaud Wolfgang Beltracchi for pointing out so dramatically the idiocy of paying $850,000 for an easily copied painting.
I'd pay anything for an original fake Elmyr de Hory.
I'd love to find a Derwatt forgery - wonders if Wim Wenders has an "American Friend" to help me find one.
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Boards of non-profit organisations are accountable for not only setting their goals and strategic direction, but ensuring the best arrangements are in place to carry out the work undertaken in support of those goals.
The Buderim Foundation Board is a good example of this principle in practice. The Board is currently made up of eleven Directors who volunteer their services and skills. They are appointed by six community Members.
The Members' role is to ensure the on-going integrity of the Buderim Foundation. They are responsible for appointment of the Board of Directors and for succession planning. The current Members are:
Jenny Cant, Margaret Welshe, Kennedy Fox, Jan Jones, John Kleinschmidt and Rod McKinnon.
The Board meets with the Members twice each year and formally reports to them at the Annual General Meeting. To coincide with this meeting, the Foundation produces an attractive and easily read AGM Report
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Board of Directors
In addition to setting the goals and strategic direction for the organisation, the Directors are responsible for the Foundation's financial and administrative arrangements and governance of the Foundation's seven Committees. Directors are actively involved in Committees, either as Committee chairs and/or Committee members.
Russell Stitz
Dr Russell Stitz is one of Australia's most prominent and highly awarded clinicians. He is respected world-wide for his leadership in the development of innovative healthcare solutions during his time spent in medical roles such as President of the Australian Medical Association of Qld (AMAQ), President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Board Member of the Wesley Research Institute to name a few.
Avril Staniland
Avril has enjoyed a successful career as an investment adviser and until recently was Director of Morgans Financial Noosa. She has held various management positions in the Public Sector. As Chair of the Investment Committee, Avril plays a key role in the Foundation's successful investment strategy which facilitates the Foundation's community grants program. She is passionate about the Buderim community and her role within the Buderim Foundation.
Simon Whittle
Simon has spent his entire life with strong family connections to the Buderim Community. He is well known for his passion for Buderim, its history, its people and its future. This passion and his belief in the value of volunteering and philanthropy have driven Simon for the last 30 years, most evident in a variety of leadership roles with both the BWMCA and the Buderim Foundation.
Rebecca Ramsay
Rebecca is an experienced business owner and coach. She is a vibrant communicator skilled in motivating and evolving leaders through dynamic coaching and development. Her business experience, combined with her keen focus on personal and professional development, gives her a unique approach to assisting business in identifying improvement opportunities for both people and systems. Rebecca is the Chair of the Buderim Foundation's Grants Committee.
Keith Solomon
Prior to moving to Buderim in 2001, Keith was International Director at the Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University). For much of his 20 years in this position he was honorary Chair of Training for St John Ambulance – Northern Territory and a member of the St John Council. Keith is a member of the Foundation's Grants Committee.
Lloyd Edwards
Lloyd Edwards has lived in Buderim since 1999. He is on the Board of Buderim Rotary, the Australia Day Committee and the Buderim Street Party. He has been Chair of the REIQ, a media spokesperson on ABC Radio as well as a Foundation Ambassador. Lloyd joined the Board in September 2016 and now chairs the Events Committee.
Jan Nelson
Jan's 25 year career in the insurance and finance industry included senior management roles in human resources, industrial relations, public/government affairs management and corporate line management. She was a director of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria for three years, and after retiring, served on the Board of Alexandra and District Hospital, in rural Victoria. Jan is Chair of the Ambassadors Committee.
Geoff Sawyer
Geoff has held senior sales and marketing roles in large consumer goods companies with a focus on Australian produce. His previous experience includes executive roles at Berri Limited, Dairyfarmers and Golden Circle. Geoff is currently involved in consulting and Board roles with Australian and New Zealand companies utilising local produce from South East Queensland.
Paul Kusy
Paul has more than 25 years experience as a commercial, business and property lawyer. He has lived in Buderim since 1989 and previously served as director of the Community Solutions Group, committee member of the Regional Arts Development Fund and Secretary of the Mooloolaba Chamber of Commerce. Paul is Chair of the Governance and Risk Committee.
Graham Tamblyn
Graham is a director of Cardno and a Fellow of the Urban Development Institute of Australia (Qld). In 2010, he established an ongoing Engineering Scholarship at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Graham is the Foundation's Public Officer; Chair of the Youth Sub-committee and a member of the Investment Committee.
Margaret Thursby
Margaret was Director of Marketing at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) for ten years. Prior to that she had been responsible for marketing the University of Queensland both in Australia and internationally.
In 2001 Margaret joined the group brought together to establish a community foundation in Buderim. She has been involved in the Buderim Foundation ever since and is currently Chair of the Marketing Committee.
Structure Chart Buderim Foundation June 2020
The Foundation has established eight committees to carry out much of the work undertaken by the organisation. The Committees and their members are as follows:
Ambassador Committee:
Increases interaction with current Ambassadors and recruits new Ambassadors.
Jan Nelson (Chair), Vicki Cooper, Cheryl Ryan, Gregory Ward, Geoff Sawyer, John McMahon.
Events Committee:
Develops the events program and provides resources and coordination for each of the events as they occur.
Lloyd Edwards (Chair), Keith Solomon, Jenny Cant, Ros O'Brien, Erik Larsen, Geoffrey Hole, Brenda Devers, Teale Ring.
Philanthropy Committee:
Works with Ambassadors and Donors to encourage and coordinate growth in fund raising, donations and bequests.
Simon Whittle (Chair), Natasha Read, Paul Kusy, Sue Needham, Sally Caddy, Roy Peterson.
Grants Committee:
Sets and maintains grants policy and coordinates the grant making process.
Rebecca Ramsay (Chair), Graham Tamblyn, Roz Bull, Jenny Carroll, Keryn Bauer, Annette Hall, Margaret Welshe.
Investment Committee:
Invests and manages Foundation funds for both annual earnings and growth over the long term.
Avril Staniland (Chair), Jayne Graving, Ken Waddington, Swain Roberts, Justin Scattini, Graham Tamblyn.
Marketing Committee:
Positions and profiles the Foundation, promoting local philanthropy and coordinating all communication activity.
Marg Thursby (Chair), Michelle Smytheman, Alex Sweet, Simon Whittle, Phillip Illingworth, Paris Ramsay.
Youth Committee:
Plans and coordinates engagement with the youth sector to ensure young people can contribute to, and benefit from, the Foundation's work in the community.
Graham Tamblyn (Chair), Elizabeth Toohey, Charlotte Bird, Gary Davis.
Governance and Risk Committee:
Paul Kusy (Chair), Graham Tamblyn, Jan Nelson, Keith Soloman.
Information Management Project: Jan Nelson, Richard Wood, Phil Illingworth, Simon Whittle, Geoff Sawyer and Sally Caddy
Public Officer: Graham Tamblyn
Treasurer: Allen Hertel
Administration Officer: Sally Caddy


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03 April 2014
Navantia (Spain), STX (Korea), Daewoo (Korea) and Hyundai (Korea) are passed the first stage of bidding. (photo : Navy Recognition)
MANILA, Philippines - The Department of National Defense (DND) aims to sign the deal for the P18-billion Navy frigates project in July to fast-track the upgrade of the country's territorial defense capabilities.
"We aim to perfect the contract for the frigates in July. The contract will have been completed by that time," Defense Undersecretary Fernando Manalo told The STAR in a recent interview.
Workshops were done last February to determine if the four firms that pre-qualified can move on to the next stage of the bidding.
The four firms that pre-qualified are Navantia Sepi (RTR Ventures) of Spain and South Korean firms STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Heavy Industries Inc.
The Navy recently finished studying the documents of the four companies eyeing the project.
The Navy technical working group that conducted the workshops has declared all the four companies as eligible bidders.
"They passed the first stage of the bidding, hence they are qualified to participate in the second stage of the bidding," said Commodore Ronald Mercado of the Navy technical working group.
The second stage involves the submission of financial documents, including the price tag of the ships they are offering.
Seven companies joined the bidding for the frigate project, the second largest item in the military's upgrade program after the P18.9-billion lead-in fighter trainer jets.
Three other companies – Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd., STX France SA and Thyssenkrupp Marine System – were disqualified during the first phase due to deficiencies in the documents they submitted.
Issues were raised on the net financial contracting capacity of Garden Research and STX France and the list of completed contracts submitted by Thyssenkrupp Marine.
The three firms have asked the DND bids and awards committee to overturn their disqualification.
The DND asked the opinion of the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPBB) on the three firms' appeal but has yet to receive a response. The queries were contained in a letter written by Manalo and sent to the GPBB last December.
03 April 2014
DND Plans to Sign P18-B Navy Frigates Project in July
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DHS: Require REAL ID for Prescriptions
C|Net News reports that DHS Assistant Secretary for Policy Stewart Baker called today for national ID checks when Americans buy prescription drugs. This is yet another in a growing list of activities that federal authorities would bring within their control should the national ID system created by the REAL ID Act be implemented.
The eminently savvy Baker was unintentionally ironic when he reportedly said he "doesn't 'understand' the civil liberties objections to the plan."


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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, have felicitated with Christians on the celebration of Easter.
NNU gathered in a statement by his electronic media assistant, Simeon Nwakaudu, Governor Wike urged the people to emulate Jesus Christ by making sacrifices that would advance the course of development.
He said that Easter exemplifies the ultimate sacrifice made by Jesus Christ to save mankind, noting that as individuals, Christians must take into consideration the welfare of others.
The governor called on the people of Rivers to re-dedicate themselves to the service of the state, as they reflect on the ideals of Good Friday and Easter Celebration.
He gave assurance that he would continue to make sacrifices for the state, defend its interests and ensure that the people always enjoy good governance.
Governor Wike described Easter as a period of fresh beginning, forgiveness, love and friendship.
He, therefore, urged the privileged to reach out to the less privileged, saying everyone works to deepen the culture of true Christianity.
While wishing the people of the state a happy Easter celebration, the governor assured them of their security before, during and after the celebrations.
On his part, Mr Fayose urged Nigerians not to give up but keep hope alive on the challenges facing the country.
In his Easter message, he said, "The death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus have given mankind the hope that no situation is beyond the divine power of God.
"That our Lord Jesus Christ never gave up on his mission for our salvation despite the betrayals, humiliation and persecution, is the reason we must never give up on our country Nigeria."
Fayose also asked the people to stand for the truth at all times, stressing that only the truth exalts a nation.
He noted that by raising his son, God himself has established and secured the hope of mankind for a better tomorrow.
"Therefore, in the spirit of Easter, we must let our hope in Nigeria be as alive as Jesus Christ," said the former governor.


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Tensions were building up inside and outside of the Tonga Legislative Assembly in Nuku'alofa during the week leading up to Thursday November 16, the day mob violence erupted, destroying much of the central business district. In the following report, Matangi Tonga staff piece together what happened on that ugly day, one month ago, including the events leading up to it.
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I started to learn programming on my own at home when I got a new computer from my parents. I found some lectures on YouTube for iOS development and I started making things happen. I hadn't met anyone before that was an iOS developer, I'm from a small town and nobody was doing it. It was so cool, I was learning stuff every day. Give me a challenge and I would take it, and I usually found a way!
After that I earned my Masters of Computer Science at La Trobe, where I found out about the Summer Vacation program. I thought to myself "I'll apply and the worst that can happen is that I'll get a rejection from Australia's biggest telco – from there, anything else will be easy".
I was selected out of the many applicants and started the Summer Vacation program in 2014, working in the IT Global Contact Centres team for three months as a business analyst to understand how everything worked. The team I was in reported to a General Manager who guided me through the program. It struck me how Telstra has these amazing leaders who are so intelligent and hardworking and get to balance their work and life! It made me really want to work here, so I worked really hard as a summer vacationer and was offered a place into the Graduate Program right after.
During the graduate program, I got to work on transitioning some of our big teams to our corporate Wi-Fi network. The person who led that project was determined, strong willed and who got things done. She just started giving me responsibilities and said, "Hope you can handle it!" I met her recently and she said to me "I really threw you in the deep end and you swam." I was working with architects that had 15 – 20 years' experience and sometimes I had to ask them to slow down and help me get to where I needed to be but they were so great and helpful.
I really appreciate the breadth and depth of work I get here – if I want to see what some technology or language does, I can find a team that does that no matter what level in the business I am. I can find someone who can guide and mentor me. Another bonus is the transparency that the business has with grads – we've met everyone; the CEO, his leadership team, executive directors, other senior leaders and whatever you're interested in people are willing to take time out of their busy schedule, sit down and help you out.
It's still surprises me but in my first rotation I worked on a project for our CEO, Andy Penn. I was in a room with four people, one of them being Andy and the other his Chief of Staff – it was amazing! And when all the grads had a session with Andy and his Chief of Staff, she said to me 'Hi Isha, how are you?' I was like, 'OMG she knows who I am!'
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It's impossible to concisely explain the importance of Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro in under 2000 words. It simply cannot be done. In attempting to adapt James Baldwin's unfinished final novel, "Remember This House," the masterful Haitian filmmaker has created both a fascinating, detailed chronicle of one of the most progressive and lyrical minds of the last century in Baldwin and a powerful, wounding document of the black American experience in the U.S.A. And in serving as Baldwin's posthumous voice, Samuel L. Jackson does some of his best work to date, constantly yet never obtrusively aware of his tone and enjoying finding his own rhythm with the pronunciation of each word Baldwin penned.
The latest trailer for I Am Not Your Negro may not give a full idea of the scope of Peck's movie but it should give viewers even passingly interested in how black Americans are treated here something to chew on, regardless. The movie was released briefly, for awards consideration, in late 2016, but it will see a wider release on February 3rd. Either way, it should quickly take its place next to 13th, O.J.: Made in America, and The Interrupters as a crucial cinematic work on the subject of race and racism in America.
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Here's the official synopsis for I Am Not our Negro:
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of this manuscript.
Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.