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Savile Row has long since enjoyed a fantastic reputation amongst followers of fashion. Since the 19th century, it's attracted flocks of gentleman seeking only the finest quality bespoke menswear, and its tailors are renowned around the world for their skill and attention to detail. Whether you're in the market for a brand new suit or are seeking something of the black tie variety, these tailors are undoubtedly among London's best. For guests staying in The Chesterfield Mayfair, the street is but a short amble away, making it a perfect stop-off whilst exploring central London. Here's our pick of the best tailors on Savile Row.
Norton and Sons
What do Alexander McQueen, Cary Grant, and Winston Churchill have in common? They were all customers at the highly esteemed Norton and Sons. Opened in 1821, the tailor moved from its Strand location to Savile Row in the mid-19th century. These days, the name is a byword for style, class, and unparalleled craftsmanship. Those who prefer to keep their business local will also appreciate that every suit is made on-site.
Norton and Sons, 16 Savile Row, London W1S 3PL, +44 (0)20 7437 0829
Gieves & Hawkes
The royal warrant-holding Gieves & Hawkes is one of the world's oldest continually operated bespoke tailoring companies, and also one of the most prestigious on Savile Row. Favoured by the likes of Prince William, the tailor also specialises in military wear. Rumour has it they even invented the first life jacket, though these days they're better known for their suits.
Gieves & Hawkes, 1 Savile Row, London W1S 3JR, +44 (0)20 7432 6403
Henry Poole & Co
No list of Savile Row tailors would be complete without Henry Poole & Co, the tailor shop that helped make the street the sartorial destination that it is today. The family-run outfit first set up shop in 1806 before moving to Savile Row in 1846, which inspired other tailors to decamp to the same stretch of road. Originally patronised by Emperor Napoleon III, Henry Poole & Co still holds royal warrants today; whether you're seeking a tuxedo, a bespoke suit, or even livery (swords included), it will ensure your dressing needs are well attended to.
Henry Poole & Co, 15 Savile Row, London W1S 3PJ, +44 (0)20 7734 5985
Kilgour began life in Piccadilly in 1882, as the popular tailor T&F French. After a number of mergers and reinventions, the brand emerged in its present iteration in 2003. Each suit is painstakingly crafted on-site over the course of a minimum of 80 hours, ensuring a perfect fit. The brand also has a pop cultural cache, having produced the classic grey suit worn by Cary Grant in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
Kilgour, 8 Savile Row, London W1S 3PE, +44 (0)800 953 5841
Cad & the Dandy
One of the newest additions to Savile Row, Cad & the Dandy only set up shop in 2008, when City bankers James Sleater and Ian Meiers decided to pursue their love of menswear after losing their jobs in the Recession. These upstarts have put a creative spin on the bespoke business, and their colourful, more accessibly priced pieces boast all the hand-made quality of their Savile Row peers but are aimed at a younger and more trend-conscious clientele. As a bonus, an old loom was recently installed in the shop, so many of the fabrics are made on-site – hard to get more bespoke than that.
Cad & The Dandy, 13 Savile Road, First Floor, London W1S 3NE, +44 (0)207 434 4344


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Pronunciation:/griːn /
Old English grēne (adj), grēnian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch groen, German grün, also to grass and grow.
A signal to proceed, to be fresh and/or young, naïve, concerned with the environment, and also the colour of money!
The Friday's Fashion Observatory gives us Green light to embrace the trend, naïve we are not but regarding young and fresh we are as cool as ever, if Green is the colour of money we are all for it, and if Green is the synonym of environmentally friendly, I'm in but I refuse to be anything but fashionably Green.
xo Marez


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Cosmic Brownies!!!!
I did not know that Cosmic Brownies by Little Debbie are a thing that still exists on this planet until I saw a box of them at the grocery store the other day. I almost bought a box until I remembered that I am a grown up now who eats a different and better kind of cosmic brownie. But these were crack to kids in the 90s. The kids whose parents regularly bought these for them for lunch probably dropped out of school early and retired, because they made their fortune from selling the internal organs that other kids in school traded them for just half of a Cosmic Brownie.
That shady sugar pusher Little Debbie probably paid off the FDA to let them leave "pure potent crack" off of the ingredients list on a box of Cosmic Brownies. I mean, the faces of chirrun seriously lit up when someone brought these out. I don't think kids still go crazy over that shit today. They have probably moved on to actual chocolate-covered crack.
But oh, the 90s, a time when kids couldn't get enough of a sugar bar covered in caca droppings from a Lisa Frank bird.


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Amirim Israel
Amirim Israel is your summer opportunity to experience authentic Israeli life in Bat Yam, Jerusalem, or Arad while giving back to the community through meaningful volunteering options. The program gives participants (ages 18–27) a structured yet independent framework, in which you will volunteer four days per week at a non-profit organization in their area of interest. Outside of volunteering, you will discover the Israeli landscape through weekly trips and explore Israeli culture through fun and insightful speakers, events, and learning opportunities. You will make friends and expand your global network while living in apartments with young adults from North America, Israel, Europe, and Africa. Amirim offers 4–8 week options.
Visit the Amirim Israel website at www.amirimisrael.com.


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We Need to Change the Way That We Think About 'Pretty'
How Millennials Are Changing Relationships
Finding Beauty By Shaving My Head
What It Takes To Be A Great Artist
Why We Can't Only Focus on the Positive
What I Learned From Being Single
The Only Choice We Have is Perseverance
It Is Never Too Late to Discover Your Abilities
Sticks And Stones May Break Our Bones, But Words Will Hurt Us Worse
You Don't need to Forget Your Anger
Three Lessons I've Learned By Maintaing An Online Blog
Romantic Love is Not The Most Important Love
Why We Need to Let the Ones We Love Make Mistakes
Don't Be Afraid to Be Yourself
There Is Nothing Wrong With How You Feel
Why "My Girl/Boyfriend Won't Let Me" is Problematic
Don't Let Someone Else Live Your Life
You Are Beautiful in Your Flaws
Human Beings: Essentially Good, or Essentially Bad?
Now It's Time To Grow Up, And What That Means
The Problem With Perfectionism
The Door to the Rest of My Life
Why Positive Thinking is Important
What You Decorate Your Beautiful Body With
A Failure in The Education System
The Good and The Bad in Everything
The Sacrifices We Make To Be Thin
Future Planning: Why I Want to Be a Graduate Student
The Pros and Cons of Social Media
What Four Years At Post-Secondary Bought Me
Why I Don't Drink: Having Fun and Personal Choice
The Fear and Love of Dogs – My Account as a Dog Owner
The Contrast Between Art and Law
Confessions From An Ex-Tumblr Addict
Telling Stories With a Pen and Paper
Where Will You Be 10 Years From Now?
The Trouble With Writer's Block
The Value of Uncomfortable Art
My Tattoo Experience: The Moon
The Importance of Small Pleasures
What My Eleven Piercings Mean to Me
Free Virtual Reality Experience
The Ridiculousness of "What Wo/Men Want"
Thoughts on the First Snow Fall
An Election Based on Fear (My Reaction to Donald Trump Winning)
Kissing Frogs – A Rant About My Sexual Orientation
Operation Get-This-Killer-Out-Of-My-Room
I Was Born From Wood and Stone
The Trouble With Being A Perfectionist
Bucket List Achievement: My First Concert
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My First Event With An LGBT Group


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Community participation integral to Glencoe transportation study process
WILLMAR, Minn. — MnDOT, McLeod County and the City of Glencoe would like to thank the community for their continued participation in the Glencoe Transportation Study.
This spring, over 800 individuals participated in the second phase of the study process. Study sponsors (MnDOT, McLeod County and the City of Glencoe) want the community to know that their feedback continues to be an integral part of the study.
MnDOT and its partners have committed to work with the greater Glencoe community to ensure that the community's concerns and aspirations are directly reflected in the alternatives developed as part of the Glencoe Transportation Study and to provide feedback on how the community influenced recommendations and decisions.
The goals of the transportation study are to:
- Improve safety of intersections along Highway 212 and Highway 22
- Improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists along Highway 212 and Highway 22
- Develop a plan that outlines appropriate access along Highway 212 and Highway 22
- Study the current route of Highway 22
Study partners and technical staff are evaluating potential improvements to intersections along Highway 212 and Highway 22 routes based on what was heard from the community and technical feasibility. Recommendations will be presented to the public in the fall of 2019 as part of the final transportation study.
A summary of community feedback gathered during the spring of 2019 is available now and provides information on what's been heard so far and next steps.
To read the summary visit the study's webpage at mndot.gov/d8/projects/hwy212hwy22glencoe.
For additional updates follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/groups/MnDOTsouthwest or on Twitter @MnDOTsouthwest.


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75% of the procurement was from small and medium-sized suppliers says Intel Israel's corporate responsibility report.
Intel Israel today published its corporate responsibility report for 2016, which states that procurement by Israel's largest high-tech company totaled NIS 5.76 billion, 75% of it from small and medium-sized suppliers.
« Once again, we have made a substantial contribution to the country's economy through exports and local procurement of goods and services, » said Intel Israel CEO Yaniv Garty. « Revenue from Intel's exports of goods and services totaled $3.5 billion last year, 8% of all Israel high-tech exports. »
This was down from 11% of Intel Israel's exports in 2015 totalling $4.1 billion but the amount is expected to rise sharply this year as the Fab at Intel's Kiryat Gat plant begin full operations.
Intel continued its recruitment of employees in Israel, and currently has 10,200 employees in the country. 67% of Intel Israel's employees work in development, and the rest in production. 21% are women, who constitute 30% of Intel Israel's management. The number of women recruited rose 7.5% in 2016, and 28% of the new employees who have joined the company are women. The global Intel company has allocated $300 million up until 2020 to accelerate diversity among its staff.
The report places great emphasis on environmental matters. Intel says that recycling of chemical waste at Intel Israel increased from 83% in 2015 to 93% in 2016. The 270,000 cubic meters of water recycled in production processes is the equivalent of 87 Olympic-sized pools. Intel saved 14 million kilowatt hours of electricity last year, equal to the energy consumed by 900 homes in a year. The company reduced its production of greenhouse gasses by 16,000 tons, equivalent to the emission value of 5,500 average cars.
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Dr. Dan Talks Agronomy
Do Beans Need a Nitrogen Fix?
We have heard a lot about applying nitrogen (N) on soybeans over the past few years. It comes with mixed reviews because supplemental N application only provides a yield benefit about half the time. Commodity prices over the past few years have also dimmed the prospect of return on investment.
Still, we don't want to abandon the concept as a potential practice just yet. It still has a place when applied in the right situation at the right time with the right product.
The challenge is figuring out exactly when it pays and a recommended supplemental rate. Soil texture (potential N supply), soil pH and electroconductivity (affects N fixation) and the growing season (available moisture) all factor into the opportunity to get a yield response.
Ignacio Ciampitti, agronomist and soybean specialist at Kansas State University, has been studying N use in soybeans. He identified that measuring uriede concentrations in the plant can measure N fixation. Uriedes are the primary end product of the fixation process.
According to Ciampitti's research, supplemental N isn't reducing N fixation as we have long assumed. Therefore, applying fertilizer won't shut down fixation.
Nitrogen fixation is primarily affected by environment and particularly soil. "In some soils, plants are only capable of producing 30% of their N needs, while in other soils as much as 80%," Ciampitti said. "In these contrasting environments, plants either rely more on N fixation or on soil sources. We are just beginning to understand in which soil environments N fixation responds and need to calculate a soil's N supplying power to compensate."
University of Illinois crop physiologist Fred Below has been evaluating the application of N as part of program called Six Secrets of Soybean Success. Here are his findings:
-- Soybeans produce about 50% of the N needed from the nodules with the rest coming from the soil.
-- Soybean accumulate between 4 and 5 lbs. of N for every bushel of grain produced.
-- Nitrogen applied preplant at 30 to 60 lbs. per acre can benefit establishment without negatively impacting nitrogen fixation.
-- Supplemental nitrogen doesn't shut down N fixation as previously thought and rates as high as 100 lbs. per acre can be applied without a detrimental effect on nodules or nitrogen fixation.
-- Preplant applications of N were the most consistent in increasing yield because they provided young plants with needed N before the nodules become active.
-- Nitrate-containing and controlled release sources such as ESN were the most effective at all post-application stages, while urea sources and ammonium sulfate were most inconsistent.
-- Soils with a high N mineralization rate will support higher soybean yield potential, but won't necessarily provide enough beyond what the plant can fix. Soils can mineralize more N when soil conditions (organic matter, temperature and moisture) are ideal.
-- At a given site, substantial yield increases can be obtained by applying the right source at the right time, but year-to-year weather variations significantly influence response.
Applying N on soybeans with prospects for a yield increase and economic return requires understanding your crop, soils and environment. It's good to keep experimenting and pushing, but also important to understand that until we can solidly nail down N fixation and soil contribution, there's only a 50% to 60% chance of a yield response.
Dan Davidson can be reached at email@example.com
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Ferry sinks Shrews
Simon Ferry's first goal of the season sealed a hard earned 1-0 win for Swindon at Shrewsbury, the team they pipped to the League Two title last season.
Midfielder Ferry timed his burst into the box perfectly to settle a tight contest in Swindon's favour in the 77th minute, firing low past Chris Weale from eight yards after Andy Williams nodded down a cross from sub Adam Rooney.
Shrewsbury made much of the early running with debutant Sam Winnall, on loan from Wolves, testing Wes Foderingham from 30 yards before heading an Aaron Wildig free-kick over the bar.
Swindon improved as the contest developed and after Williams fired just wide from a good position, former Shrewsbury striker James Collins missed a golden chance to give Paolo Di Canio's men the lead on the stroke of half-time.
Michael Hector cleared Williams' effort from off the line and Collins, just two yards out, ballooned the rebound high over the bar from close range.
Collins fluffed his lines again just after the break when he was denied by a fine reflex save from Weale.
Swindon looked increasingly dangerous as the match went on and Ferry secured the visitors' three points.
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Viola Davis Says Oprah Was a "Chill" Wedding Guest
Most people love weddings, but Viola Davis really loves them. In fact, the actress just married her husband, Julius Tennon, for the third time!
"It's not one of those things where you guys split up and got back together. You just had three weddings," Jimmy Kimmel said on his talk show Thursday. "I like weddings," the actress said with a shrug.
She explained that their first one was very small and held in a condo. "It wasn't big enough," she said, and so they had a bigger wedding three months later in Rhode Island. However, Davis was not happy with the candid pictures everyone told her would be so great. "I wanted to have another ceremony that was pretty where I got to have the fabulous dress with the fabulous food," she said.
For the third wedding, more than 150 people came, including Oprah. "Were you nervous that she would have a good time? Did you have somebody assigned to her to make sure that she enjoyed herself?" asked Kimmel. "She was very, very chill. She looked cute," Davis said. She noted that there was one person who wasn't impressed by the great Oprah: Her 5-year-old daughter, Genesis, who was photographed looking a little bored while next to the former talk show host.
Davis revealed that while Oprah did not give her wedding gift (she had asked her not to), the OWN honcho did extend an open invitation to Davis to visit her home. Little did she know Davis planned to take full advantage. "I said 'Now, Oprah: Julius and I will be at your doorstep with Genesis and until you tell us to leave we are going to be at your house,'" Davis said. That's exactly what we would do too!
Watch Davis describe her third wedding in the video above.


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On Sunday, February 19, 2017, the City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, Chicago, showcased the chamber music ensemble 4SPIEL aka The Chicago Philharmonic Chamber Players, with special guest vocalist Bethany Thomas. The concert was entitled "Sounds of Change", a paean to the music of the 60's and 70's, and featured virtuoso musicians Lisa Fako and Carmen Kassinger, violins; Monica Reilly, viola; and Margaret Daly, cello, along with Thomas, a Jeff-Award winning actress and singer "known for her expressive, genre-defying singing style and audacious re-interpretation of classic tunes".
The music ranged in scope from R and B, through soul, jazz, and rock and roll to classical and musical theater. The commissioned arrangements, by Benton Wedge, Paul Von Mertens and Morna Roberts were new, fresh, expansive/expressive but still easily recognizable. The well-filled comfortable venue was filled with appreciative patrons; by all accounts the concert was successful. The members of 4SPIEL were as comfortable and excited as the audience itself.
The song list included:
-"Back In the U.S.S.R", John Lennon-Paul McCartney, 1968; the title was a parody of Chuck Berry's "Back in the U.S.A." Performed as an instrumental, sans the up-tempo piano and lead guitar riffs, it took one's mind immediately to recent Russian/ American relations- as well as to the legendary Beatles.
-A 3-song medley, played "attacca" and beautifully expressed by Thomas, consisting of "A Change is Going to Come", Sam Cooke, 1964; "What's Going On", Marvin Gaye, Ronaldo Benson and Al Cleveland, 1971; and "Can't Get Next To You", by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, (notably recorded by The Temptations as well as by Al Green). The Sam Cooke song was inspired by an incident in his life when he was turned away from a "whites only" motel in Louisiana; it's an ode to the struggle for black civil rights. The inspiration for the Marvin Gaye song was a police brutality incident; unfortunately, our news reports are still full of such incidents.
-"Blue Rondo a la Turk", Dave Brubeck, 1960; conceived as part of the experimental LP "Time Out", it's filled with unusual time signatures set in classical forms.
- "Sing God a Simple Song", a hymn from "Mass", by Leonard Bernstein, 1971, (text by Stephen Schwartz), commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy for the opening for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Based on the Tridentine Massof the Roman Catholic Church, this is a work of work of musical theater. Certainly the assassination of this President and the subsequent murders of his brother and multiple civil rights leaders set an ominous tone to these years- as did the Vietnam War.
-"Not a Day Goes by", from the musical comedy "Merrily We Roll Along, by Stephen Sondheim, 1981
-Select movements from "String Quartet No. 8 by Dimitri Shostakovich", 1960; this isa composer tyrannizedby a despotic regime. Called "The most loved of all his quartets," this somber, tragic, yet thrilling piece is dedicated to the victims of fascism and war.
-"Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, 1967; the piece has always been an anthem of psychedelic freedom of mind (and not necessarily about drugs) constructed of pure sound. Filled with dream-like imagery, it's also definitely a song of love and desire. As performed at this concert, without the multi-tracking or reverb, this arrangement brought that aspect out with a focused intensity.
-"At Last" released in Etta James' debut studio album of the same name, 1960; this is a song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical film "Sun Valley Serenade", 1941. Often chosen for weddings and used in films, it was performed by Beyonce' at the first inaugural ball given for President Obama.
-"Desperado", by Glenn Frey and Don Henley, 1973 (notably recoded by The Eagles and Linda Ronstadt.) The song was written "In the style of old songs by Stephen Foster", according to Henley, who has called it "A Southern Gothic thing". This extremely romantic call to put aside abstract notions of freedom ("That's just some people talking") and let yourself be loved is a reminder that the music of these turbulent times contained constant adjurations to peace and love.
-"Bohemian Rhapsody", by Freddie Mercury for Queen, 1975; continually on lists of "the greatest songs of all time", "Rolling Stone" magazine noted "Its influence cannot be overstated, practically inventing the music video 7 years before MTV went on the air". It was reverently performed by 4SPIEL.
"Hallelujah", by Leonard Cohen, 1984; often played in films and television soundtracks, with many different arrangements, the original composition contained several Biblical references. Singer k.d. lang has said she believes the song is about "The struggle between having human desire and searching for spiritual wisdom".
4SPIEL has been described as "A consortium of Chicago area musicians committed to stretching the boundaries and expectations of chamber music. With a string quartet at its core, the group reinterprets classic works along with giving voice to contemporary and new work across all genres". There can be no question that the pieces played during "Sounds of Change", each a classic of it's type, were given a new spin. Hard rock became symphonic, pop became operatic, and musical theater became orchestral.
With the addition of the very powerful voice of Bethany Thomas, a singer capable of a range described as "Somewhere in between Neko Case and Chaka Kahn", we heard unique and vibrant renditions. For example, her delivery of "Can't Get Next To You" altered the quick pace and of, course, the multi-lead vocals laid down by the Temptations, but also moving beyond the torch song cover of Al Green. Thomas' version was a heavy-duty sensually driven saga of frustrated desire, with a truly broad range of emphasis. She also put a ton of personality into her version of "Desperado", a sexy country-rock ballad as originally performed by the Eagles, also made famous with a punchy cover by Linda Ronstadt; Thomas belted out with hauntingly beautiful touches of tightly controlled empathy. All in all, this was a concert that will long be remembered.
All photos courtesy of Elliot Mandel
Published on Feb 27, 2017


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2010 has been a great year for me and my family. My amazing wife Jamie and I have seen our son turn into a blob of a baby to a growing young man. Its crazy how fast time flies by and watching him grow up and being a parent with Jamie has been the best part of the year. I also turned 30 this year, celebrated our two year wedding anniversary, crashed my quad and broke a vertebrate, went to Kauai, and once again went to a lot of great locations to do what I love, photography.
Since this year is coming to a close, I thought I'd share with you what I think are some of the better photos from 2010. This year I shot the usual desert and short course races, along with King of the Hammers, some mountain biking, and the NHRA finals thrown in towards the end of the year. In total I went to about 28 events, and took around 40,000 photos. So be patient! Its a pretty long blog but hopefully worth the wait!
Before I begin I'd just like to thank my wife Jamie for putting up with another busy year of photography. I'm usually gone a few times a month which leaves all the responsibility of running a household on her while I'm gone. She is incredibly supportive and unselfish to let me do what I love and enjoy, and she is the backbone of our family.
First off I'd thought I'd show some of my favorite photos from mountain bike races I went to. I shot one endurance race called The Vision Quest / Counting Coup, and also covered a local series out in Irvine called Over The Hump Series. I started riding bikes myself the past few years and I've grown to really love the sport. Its man versus nature at the basic level, and the time you spend on the bike can be very relaxing.
The Counting Coup runs through the Santa Ana Mountains, and gives some great backgrounds and also some really good light in the morning.
The Over The Hump Race is held at Irvine Lake and also gives you some great backgrounds to chose from. OTH is a local series with great support from the community, and is a lot of fun to shoot. Its held every Tuesday for about 2 months so you get a lot of opportunities to play around with different angles.
The races are held during the end of the day so you get some nice lighting to work with.
Among short course racing, Crandon Offroad Raceway is the grandfather of all tracks. Its where the traditions and backbone of the sport started. Crandon is a great track with its wide open speeds, great scenery, and even better people. Here are a few from this years Labor Day race that I liked.
Here are a few of my favorites from this years LOORRS season. At the Surprise, AZ course one turn I like to shoot at is this photo below. Its a wide sweeping turn and during the race the sun is behind the corner so it gives the light a cool look to it.
Robby Woods flies through the air and into the sunset.
A course worker flags down the field silhouetted by the sun.
Ricky Johnson has the Santa Ana Mountains in the background has he hits a jump at Glen Helen Raceway.
Sean Geiser goes for a ride in his Prolite Truck.
Here is one shot from the King of the Hammers, this was taken at one of the more popular spectator spots called Sledgehammer.
At a few races this year I was able to mess around with remote flashes and cameras during the race, and was able to get a few interesting shots. At the SCORE Laughlin Leap I set up my Canon 550ex flash to the right of the trucks and walked farther down the landing area to get a nice head on shot.
At a LOORRS race this year Kyle Leduc let me put my flash inside his truck, so that I could fire it from the track. My goal was to get some interesting shots with the background and truck dark with the cab and him all lit up. You can see my blog about it here.
Here are two shots that I liked the best from the series.
That same weekend I also mounted a Canon 20D on the back of Kyle Leducs truck. Here is a blog about that as well.
I also had the opportunity in 2010 to help out a friend who runs the company Dirtbagz with some product photography. It was my first time doing product shots and I enjoyed it a lot and hope to do more in 2011.
Shooting desert racing is my first love. Its not just going to a track and shooting photos, its the adventure of racing from spot to spot to beat your client. Its prerunning before hand to find the best spots along the course, and the logistics of putting it all together with a game plan for race day. The course is constantly changing as more vehicles carve into the dirt. At a Nascar race you can go to the media center for lunch, in Baja you live off the local taco stand and Doritos.
I'd say overall one of the best desert races of 2010 for photos was the SNORE Mint 400. The course is rough with a lot of great spots, but the qualifying session the day before the race was a photographers candy jar. One spot along the qualifying loop was a jump at the bottom of a long downhill and the racers put on a great show, both intentionally and unintentionally. Here are three photos, one of Cameron Steele crashing his Trophy Truck after landing in a deep hole after the jump, and Roger Norman launching his truck in the air, and a Class 1 car who surprisingly saved it and just ended up breaking his front a-arm.
Here are some more of my favorite shots from the 2010 desert racing season.
Another photo from the Mint 400 where Zorba Racing blows their front bumper into the silt.
Overlooking contingency at the SCORE San Felipe 250 race.
Wilson Motorsports races down the town of Ensenada at the Baja 500.
Mastercraft's Robbie Pierce and COPS Racing blast through a silt bed in San Felipe.
KING Shock using a Macro Lens.
BJ Baldwin launches off a jump at the BITD Vegas 2 Reno race.
Andy McMillin during qualifying for the BITD Parker 425.
Well thats it for the best of 2010, thank you for taking the time to look over my blog and photos for the past year. I enjoy showing my work to all of you and hope you enjoy checking them out. 2011 looks to be an even busier year then the last so make sure to keep checking back for updates! Thanks again and see you at the track/desert/mountains/dragstrip/rocks and more!
Jason Zindroski
HighRev Photography


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I have some rather specific questions about the MOY knot invariant which have come up as Sabin Cautis and I have been thinking about Khovanov-Rozansky homology. I'll start by explaining the following "theorem" and then I'll ask some questions about it. Hopefully someone (for eg. Scott) will be able to answer them.
Consider closed crossingless Reshetikhin-Turaev diagrams for sl(n) where all strands are labelled by 1 or 2. This means that we look at oriented planar graphs with all edges either labelled 1 or 2, and each vertex trivalent with either two single edges and one double edge and matching orientations.
We can think of such a graph as being related to the representation theory of (quantum) sl(n). The single strands correspond to the standard representation and the double strands to The vertices correspond to morphisms of representations (for example ). Within this representation theory context, each graph G can be evaluated to a Laurent polynomial c(G) (an element of the trivial representation of quantum sl(n)).
Now, ignore the representation theory interpretation for a moment and just consider the set of all possible graphs. Let us impose the "MOY relations" on such graphs, by which I mean the relations founds on page 4 of Khovanov-Rozansky's link homology paper.
Modulo these MOY relations, any graph G is equivalent to c(G). Namely, c(G) is the only Laurent polynomial one can assign to each graph which is consistent with the MOY relations.
My first question is whether this theorem is correct as stated and if so where can I find a proof. It does not seem to be stated (or proven) in the MOY paper. It is stated on page 3 of the above Khovanov-Rozansky paper.
Now, come some more substantial questions:
1. Is there any theory to explain how such a graph is equivalent to c(G)? Is there a sequence of moves that one can do in order to reduce any graph G to c(G) and to what extent is that sequence of moves unique? The last move involving sums on both sides is the most confusing in this way of thinking. I guess I am asking for a theory of "invertible foams", which should be the "simple" part of the theory being developed by Mackaay, et al. (and Scott).
2. Is there an extension of the above theorem to "open graphs" (ie graphs with open edges which represent invariants in a tensor product)? I am mostly interested in the case where there are just 4 open edges, all of them single with opposite orientations, so that in this case I know a basis for the corresponding invariant space (it is just two dimensional).


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Dan - afraid you and I see very differently on how to reply to this -- I think this comment was mainly asking if we had done our design right and if we are ready to move. I think it is important to make it clear to him that we have implementation experience (I can name names - I am not just "making it up") I am not trying to "hide behind process" but rather to make it clear we meet the process needs. However, the really important thing is his second comment. We don't have any new issue to raise - we already made our decisions in this space. His email suggests a different way to parcel things out, and I am explaining why we made the decisions we did -- I think this is the right thing to do, and our responsibility -- pointing him to months of discussion and saying "sort this out" seems to me to be very irresponsible on our part. I am also not in sympathy with your suggestion that we write sections and ask him to approve -- because that will require a lot of our effort, and it may be we'll do it and then discover that we weren't even in the space he wanted. I wrote: At 10:30 -0400 5/13/03, Jim Hendler wrote: >> If this outline of a solution is acceptable to you, we will produce >>> proposed text properly setting the expectations with respect to >>> inverse and oneof, and request your approval before closing this >>> comment. in short - I tried to make it clear this was an interim answer, and that we wanted his response before we went on. HP is an important contributor to the Semantic Web and I think they deserve the kind of careful answer I provided - not just a "thanks for the advice" blow off answer. I'm happy to work on a better answer, but you don't suggest any text for the meat of his comments, just criticized me for "making things up" -- btw, the three implementations I have in mind are Cerebra, Euler, Fact, Racer, and I believe that cwm and Otter handle them as well, although I have that only second hand. So, I am left unsure what to do. I don't know how to fuse my comments and yours as they seem to be aimed at different levels of response. -JH At 9:20 -0500 5/13/03, Dan Connolly wrote: >On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 17:56, Jim Hendler wrote: >> The following is my proposed response to the message from Martin >> Merry, which is found at: >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2003May/0046.html >> >> >> Thanks for your comment. We believe it raises two important >> questions, one is whether the design of OWL DL as is would require a >> long CR period, the other is whether dropping #hasValue and #oneOf >> should be done by the WG. Let me answer these in reverse order. >> >> 1 - a Long CR: >> From a Process point of view (and ignoring your technical point for >> a moment, I promise to return to it), I would point out that there is >> no requirement that all features of a recommendation must be handled >> by all implementations. > >You switched from "we believe it raises" to "I would point out"; >are you writing for the WG or for yourself? please be consistent. > >Note that the comments on schedule aren't technical issues >at all. > >I'd suggest just > > Thanks for your advice on the schedule; we'll consider > it along with many other factors as we decide when > to ask The Director to advance the specification. > >No need to ask if he's satisfied with that part of >the response; his comment wasn't about the text >of the spec. It's advice to a decision we haven't >even made yet. > >I don't like the hiding behind process ala "there's >no requirement that all features are implemented >by all implementations." That's pretty much the >definition of interoperability, and that is our >goal, while we don't guarantee 100% to meet it. > > >> The process document states that the >> requirement to move from CR to PR is: >> >> each feature of the technical report has been implemented. >> Preferably, the Working Group should be able to demonstrate two >> interoperable implementations of each feature. >> >> For every part of the OWL DL specification we currently have multiple >> implementations that can implement it, and in fact for every subset >> of the language features that doesn't contain BOTH "inverseOF" and >> "OneOf" we have multiple working and interoperable implementations >> either complete at this time, or coming soon. >> So from a process point of view, we believe the current OWL DL >> implementation meets the requirements for advancement. >> >> 2 - Your second issue is a more important one, you suggest that for >> the current OWL DL, which includes OneOf there is a lack of >> practical implementation experience -- this is not quite correct. We >> have numerous implementations that support oneOf quite well. > >This claim should be backed up by citations of at least >three such implementations. > >Or better yet, just please don't make up ad-hoc answers like this. > >Cite from the specs and/or the decision record. > >If you can't find an answer there, then this is a new issue >and the WG should consider it. > >Ian suggests we "point to the extensive discussion we had regarding the >features to be in/out of OWL DL and Lite". I'm having trouble >finding relevant decisions. There aren't any issues >whose names make their relevance to this comment obvious to me. > >> What is >> correct is that for the whole of OWL DL, which includes BOTH >> owl:inverseOf and owl:oneOf there is a problem -- if both are used >> together, in the same ontology, there is a possibility that the >> solution to some queries will take a very long time (that is, that >> there is no effective algorithm). This is true -- although the >> language containing both of those features is decidable (it is, and >> it's not just Ian's assertion, the proofs are quite well known and >> studied), the algorithmic complexity is potentially quite high. >> However, there are other solutions than removing owl:oneOf, for >> example removing owl:inverseOf would work as well. >> In fact, the problem is that there are two useful features in OWL DL >> (inverse properties and designators such as oneOf and hasValue) that >> are widely used in practice. The WG believes that removing either >> one of these would cause there to be many valuable use cases that >> could not be represented in OWL DL. However, there is no problem >> with documents that use either Inverses XOR designators, it is only >> when both are used together that the problem occurs. A "common >> sense" analogy is found in medicine where there are many drugs that >> are each beneficial, but when used together they can cause bad side >> effects -- inverse and oneOf are analogous to two such drugs. >> >> In your comment you write: >> >> >> We find that the draft documents make it clear that OWL Full systems will >> not have full reasoning support and that therefore users will not be too >> surprised when there is a resulting migration cost from one OWL Full >> system to another. >> >> so we believe that if the documents made clearer that using BOTH >> oneOf and inverseOf (and their various forms) could lead to an >> unexpected rise in complexity, we would set the expectation >> correctly. In that way the current OWL DL subset would be easier to >> understand, and the design rationale behind it better understood. >> >> Thus, given these two below, we propose that the WebOntology working >> group will make the issue above clearer and will write text to appear >> in the Reference, S&AS and Test documents that explain the above. >> However we would also propose not to remove these very useful >> features from OWL DL or to have a long CR period mandated by this >> specific issue. >> >> If this outline of a solution is acceptable to you, we will produce >> proposed text properly setting the expectations with respect to >> inverse and oneof, and request your approval before closing this >> comment. > >Let's please not ask the commentor to buy a pig-in-a-poke. >If we're going to change our docs in response to the comment, >let's craft the words and *then* ask if they're acceptable. > >> >> We look forward to your response >> Jim Hendler >> WebOnt Co-Chair, on behalf of the Working Group >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> At 15:18 +0100 5/9/03, Merry, Martin wrote: >> We wish to comment on the usefulness of OWL DL as a sensible subset of OWL >> Full. >> >> We're concerned that OWL users should have their expectations met when they >> use OWL compliant systems. >> >> We find that the draft documents make it clear that OWL Full systems will >> not have full reasoning support and that therefore users will not be too >> surprised when there is a resulting migration cost from one OWL Full system >> to another. >> >> We are concerned, however, that OWL DL is presented as a sensible stopping >> point before OWL Full, where there are greater guarantees. >> >> The theoretical results for the decidability of OWL DL are interesting but >> not particularly helpful. OWL Lite is justified by practical results in DL >> systems (primarily from Ian Horrocks). There is no such practical experience >> for the OWL DL subset. We would like to see such practical experience >> before OWL exits candidate recommendation. >> >> In particular, we would like to see adequate practical implementation >> experience of the OWL DL constructs owl:oneOf and owl:hasValue. We believe >> that this should include the goal that OWL DL reasoners can make a >> reasonable attempt at classic NP complete problems (such as the 3-SAT >> problem and the subgraph isomorphism problem) which can be straightforwardly >> encoded within OWL DL. For example, any such problem that can be solved in >> seconds by a specialised reasoner should be soluble by a general OWL DL >> reasoner in minutes rather than years. >> >> An alternative, would be to redefine OWL DL downwards, excluding owl:oneOf >> and owl:hasValue, which would then be subject to the health warnings of OWL >> Full - i.e. use of these constructs means that your ontology is likely to be >> outside the limits of practical reasoning. Such a redefinition of OWL DL, >> could sensibly accompany a redefinition of OWL Lite to exclude complete >> class definitions. >> >> >> Martin Merry >> HP Semantic Web Programme Manager >> >> >> >> Martin Merry >> HP Semantic Web Programme Manager >> >-- >Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ -- Professor James Hendler firstname.lastname@example.com Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendlerReceived on Tuesday, 13 May 2003 10:41:11 UTC
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What if we're not alone? 11-7-13
November 07, 2013
One reason I used to love to write about new developments in science is that science seems to be full of endless surprises.
The post here today and the one tomorrow will be about two of them, and I'll do my best to tie those surprises to the concerns of faith.
Perhaps you saw this Associated Press story earlier this week reporting that scientists now believe there are at least 8.8 billion "stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone."
The finding does not answer the ancient equestion of whether we're alone in the cosmos, but it certainly seems to increase the odds that we are not.
If we're not, what does that do to the Earth-centric religions that have very little to say about the possibility that God has other children on other planets?
The question, of course, takes different forms for different religious traditions. For Jews, it might be this: Does each planet with living beings have a particular chosen people to show others what living in full community with God looks like?
For Christians it might be: Did Jesus go (or need to go) to 8.8 billion to 20 or more billion planets in addition to Earth? And do folks on those planets celebrate a different Christmas? And Muslims might wonder whether either Muhammad or someone else became the seal of the prophets on each of those other planets.
Imagining billions of planets full of active and thoughtful residents can be humbling for residents of Earth. But a little humility is good for us.
What people of faith would do well to avoid is what they haven't been very good at avoiding in the past: Trying to make the findings of science either go away or fit neatly into a previously created theology. Better to let science be science and then see how our theology might take what science is finding into account.
Tomorrow: A surprising little planet that shouldn't exist and soon won't.
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Ok explain that in detail. When drafting these letters be sure to explain what it is you want. You have had a bunch of statements about medications, records, etc, but I was unclear that was your ultimate goal. Getting your ultimate goal across is the number #1 priority. You may also see if it is possible to transfer without graduating from your school. It is a step backwards, but it that is another way to get you to your ultimate goal of a J.D. Don't get lost in the muck your goal is to graduate from law school end of story. There are three ways to accomplish that. (1) Restart at your current school and graduate, but this seems highly unlikely; (2) Be a visiting student at X school and graduate from your current school; (3) Transfer to a new school and lose credits. Figure out the best way to get one of those three paths and leave the other stuff out of it. Your current dosage, your school not turning over records you requested, the names of your therapists, the details of the events that led to your suspension are not relevant to achieving your ultimate goal so don't bring them up.
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Drama styling tips #3: Moon Lovers
So, uh, the last two episodes of "Moon Lovers" have been really painful watch, so instead of doing that I'll spam you with the styling, with an emphasis on the guys. (I tend to care more about how men are styled than women, eh?)
Japanese fashion is totally different than Korean fashion. There's more stress on function and practicality over appearance. Things like how lightweight and durable a piece is is really important to Japanese design. Texture is also super important, and you can see that in the variety of materials used for the suit jackets that Kimura Takuya's character wears.
Most of these are going to be regarding Rensuke's (Kimura) style, because he's the protagonist, and let's face it, he's the most interesting anyway. Ren is the president of a relatively large company, so the standard president-work-uniform is there — blazer, pressed pants, button-down — but what I really love about how he's styled in this drama in particular is that the uniform is mixed in with a laissez faire feel, noticeable in things like throwing in a t-shirt, matching suits with non-preppy shoes, etc.
Let's start with the full-body shots.
Kimura Takuya is not really a model by any standards. He's on the short side and just doesn't have the build of a model, which is why the tailoring on his suits have to be precise, or else he'll drown in them or look too stumpy. That's remedied by the his tendency (his stylist's?) to leave things unbuttoned and not tucked in as to not box him in.
Shades, blazer, button-down/t-shirt/button-down with t-shirt, slacks, non-dress shoes.
I think this is the most interesting part about Kimura's outfits. I think he wears the same pair of shoes all through the drama and it really lessens the strict business feel of wearing a suit in the office. I also like them because they're don't-fuck-with-me shoes, both in durability and in looks. Timberland meets thicker sole, but still classy enough to pair with a two-piece suit. They remind me of visvim's shoes.
BUTTONING the BLAZER
When he does button up, he varies between buttoning everything up, or buttoning one. I think this also varies depending on the material of the jacket — the lighter grey one seems to be a cotton/jersey blend — and thus more flexibility — whereas the darker colored ones look like they could be wool or any other stiffer fabric.
When it's ultra casual time, graphic tees come in. I think in America graphic tees are now too annoyingly "ironic" and hipster to not approach with some eyerolling, but in the drama, it makes Ren look less scary :D
Now we move on to the evil mastermind assistant, Kazami. He wears mostly dark colors and cool colors, and his outfits are usually all one color. Not a friendly dude. Never gonna catch him in a crisp white button-down. All these little things are reflective of a character acting as antagonist.
I'm not really a fan of female Japanese style, but I like how Yuzuki was accessorized in the drama. She's a rich president's daughter, which definitely is reflected in the warddrobe, and everything was fun, not compared to the Eun-jo's stark and serious outfits in "Cinderella's Sister."
YUZUKI's HAIR
Last but not least, Naemi. She's got a sort of boho/relaxed look. Lots of swishy fabrics, everything looks really comfortable and casual.


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Alcorn, Randy: The Treasure Principle (G) (93pgs) Paperback LifeWay Press (2005), glue binding Went through this book the lifeway edition which comes with a study guide with a small group from church. I enjoyed the book. I think the main thing that hit me throughout was that "God owns everything, and I am his money manager". That fact for me helps answer a lot of questions. I would recommend this book. I also really appreciate the eternal perspective that Alcorn has in his writings.
George, Robert P. and Christopher Tollefsen: Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (217pgs)(G) This is a great book for understanding the current debates involved with embryonic stem cell research. I hope this book receive a wide reading. I first became interested when I listen to a lecture Robert George gave at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on this topic. This book is not overly technical, there are some difficult portions that one may need to read more than once but for the most part anyone could read this book and come away with a good understanding of what is at stake in this debate. The book was very convincing that all human beings are persons worthy of basic rights and all embryos are human beings from the time of fertilization. It deals with a lot of the tough questions. I would recommend this book for anyone interested or involved in the pro-life movement. Also those considering IVF there are some things you will want to consider when fertilizing eggs and deciding what to have implanted. Overall, this book was very helpful.
Horton, Michael: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church (259pgs) (G) This was very helpful book is showing what God grace to sinners really can mean and how refreshing it can be. It shows how across the board, liberals and conservatives have been neglecting delivering the Gospel in their churches on the Lord's Day. It shows how much of what is preached is bad because of a confusion between the law and the Gospel, imperatives(things to do) and indicatives(facts to believe). It shows the good that many want to serve their neighbors, but the problem of how they long to see this done. It shows that cultures can be changed not by forming programs that directly address the certain problems in culture but by a proper feeding of the sheep on Sunday where they in turn can serve their neighbors and share the gospel, and change culture in their vocations activities throughout the week. There is a lot packed into this book and I would recommend it for all Christians and I think it would be especially helpful for all pastors and those in the ministry to read. There are some difficult terms that all may not be familiar with but for the most part I think he does a good job of explaining what he means.
Horton, Michael: The Gospel Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World (G)(266pgs)
Lawson, Steven J.: Foundations of Grace 1400 BC – AD 100; A Long Line of Godly Men Volume One (564pgs)(G) This book accomplish was it sets out to do very well. It shows that all the biblical authors believed and taught the doctrines of grace or Calvinism and in doing this shows that the inspired word of God teaches what is called Calvinism. This is a great book for understanding what the bible teaches on these doctrines. It is a little lengthy but necessary to cover the vast amount of text that teach on God's sovereignty in salvation. The book also talks about passages that teach God's sovereignty in general and the doctrine of reprobation or the opposite side of election, those God passes over.
Mahaney, C.J.: Why Small Groups? Together Toward Maturity (113pgs)(G) This was formative in helping me understand the importance of small groups for a church. There is also a lot of great material for leaders and those in the group on their roles. I feel like they slightly presented small groups as a must have for a church as the only way to really fulfill some scriptural commands and I don't think I'm quite as gun hoe about them as the authors. I do though feel more convinced of the good that can happen with them. I would definitely recommend this book for those looking to implement a small groups ministry or wanting to improve an existing one. I was pleased to see the last chapter emphasize the importance of the groups working towards growing the local church and not just becoming some parachurch organization. I would like to see an emphasis on daily family worship a God given small group and hope that a small group would not take fathers away from leading worship in their families. Overall good book.
Mahaney, C.J.: Humility True Greatness (173) (G) This was a good book. A largely practical book, the first little bit goes through what biblical humility is, then proceeds with practical ways to kill pride and cultivate humility. Much of the advice is great for the subject of killing sin, which pride is at the root of most all of our sin. I have not been disappointed by C.J. yet in the 3 or 4 books of his I have read, he consistently takes you back to the gospel and shows how this motivates true greatness or humility.
Marcellino, Jerry : Rediscovering The Lost Treasure Of Family Worship (25pgs) (G) A small and good argument for the importance of family worship.
Murray, John: Redeption Accomplished and Applied (181pgs)(G) This was a great book not a super easy book but one that deserves a re-read in my opinion. It clarifies a lot and really makes more clear what exactly happen on the cross and what that means to believers. I would recommend this book, but take your time and soak it in, there where quite a few words I didn't know but it didn't hinder my reading, I only had to look up a few.
Pink, A.W. : The Attributes of God (G)(117pgs) After finishing this book I now have a new book to add to my list of favorites. So much valuable material is presented in this small volume. Pink does not waste anytime shattering the view of a small God presented in so much of the preaching today in America. The first chapter is on the "Solitariness of God". Pink states "During a past eternity, God was alone: self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of nothing" and "that he did create was simply for his manifestative glory." Simply put God doesn't need us, nothing he created added anything to him. This is humbling and opens the eyes to see how great the love of our God that he has revealed himself to us, and sent his Son to redeem the elect. Pink shows this later in the book in describing God's patience, mercy, and grace. Pink also destroys the typical view of God's wrath, not neglecting how terrible this is for the reprobate, he shows how for the elect even God's wrath is merciful. "Even the casting of the reprobate into the Lake of Fire is an act of mercy… But from the standpoint of the redeemed the punishment of the wicked is an act of unspeakable mercy. How dreadful would it be if the present order of things, when the children of God are obliged to live in the midst of the children of the Devil, should continue forever! Heaven would at once cease to be heaven if the ears of the saints still heard the blasphemous and filthy language of the reprobate. What mercy that in the New Jerusalem "there shall in nowise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither worketh abomination" (Rev. 21:27)!" –Pink READ THIS BOOK! http://www.wtsbooks.com/product-exec/product_id/4886/nm/The+Attributes+of+God+(Paperback)/?utm_source=kclayton&utm_medium=kclayton
Pratt, Richard L. Jr.: Every Thought Captive: A Study Manual for the Defense of Christian Truth(142pgs)(G)
Prime, Samuel: The Power Of Prayer The New York Revival Of 1858 (260pgs) (G)
Ramsey, Dave: Financial Peace Revisited (314pgs)(G) This book helped me get a better grasp on money and how to plan for the future. I can see how this book would be very helpful to many. I am glad that I read it early in my marriage and will use its advice to help us make wise financial decisions.
Robertson, O. Palmer: Jonah A Study in Compassion (64pgs)(G)
Thomas, Geoffrey: Reading The Bible (24pgs)(G) This was a very short but helpful and spurring guide to the importance of reading your Bible with some helpful tips and some recommended resources to help you in your reading.
Wilcox Thomas: A Choice Drop of Honey From The Rock of Christ (30pgs)(G) This is a small tract published by Chapel Library and can be obtained free of charge from www.mountaion.org. This was a great gospel centered tract that just hammers on the point of looking to Christ for the assurance of your salvation and encourages to look at our justification before we look at our sanctification. It is encouraging and shows the power of the Cross is mean for those who are sinners and weak. A good quote from the book is "If you believe, you must every day renounce as dung and dross (Phil.3:7,8), your privileges, your obedience, your baptism, your sanctification, your duties, your graces, your tears, your meltings, your humbling; and nothing but Christ must be held up. Every day your workings, your self-sufficiency, must be destroyed."


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Read more below about what this part-philosopher, part-lawyer, part-technologist is doing to bring about a legal refresh.
Tell me about yourself.
I was inspired to get into legal technology while I was working a number of years back at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. The origins of the Center are in cyberlaw: the ways in which legal concepts shape the development of technology, particularly with regards to the Internet.
I got interested in the reverse: how technology itself comes back around to shape the practice of law itself. In particular, I got interested in the ways in which the legal industry might one day be upended in the same way that many other information industries like journalism have been.
So I went to law school. I ended up going awkwardly in secret because I was working my way through school -- and it turns out that they won't hire you if they think you're in school at the same time. So, I never mentioned it to most people until I graduated three years later!
My long-term goal now is to figure out how to turn Robot, Robot, & Hwang -- a joke website about a law firm run mostly by robots -- into a real firm, run mostly by robots.
What do you want to build?
Community. One of the things that often gets missed in the Valley is the fact that really important successes happen because there is a robust and diverse ecosystem of friendships and talents supporting the development of a technology. I think if you're honest about wanting legal technology to be something that changes The Law (capital T, capital L), it behooves you to constantly be trying to bring in the many different types of people that implies -- legal technology folks need to be building bridges to access to justice advocates, designers, sociologists, activists, and everyday people impacted by how the law is made and executed.
What do you see as the biggest challenges in this field?
On the business side, the biggest challenge is that people who are trying to sell their innovations to law firms often face active opposition because it causes obvious problems with the classic models of hourly billing (read more about that here). We're going to have to find a way to build with this, or build around it.
On the institutional side, there's a question of what happens when legal institutions -- like bar associations -- start taking a look at the mass of fledgling companies starting to rise in the space. If bar associations take a strong tack against these tools on the grounds of unauthorized practice of law as some did in the 1990s, it could be a formidable challenge.
What do you see as your successes so far?
So far, I'm happiest with the fact that there is a growing community of people interested in this space, and that Robot, Robot & Hwang got to play some small role in it. Our first conference -- NELIC -- was in 2010: and it was really small, only about 80 people, maximum. In contrast, for our recent conference -- FutureLaw -- the audience was noticeably bigger, and the products were undoubtedly way more mature.
So what I take from that: our scrappy, nerdy little community is coalescing! My friend Dan Katz likes to talk about these small communities as the Homebrew Computer Club for the law, and I think we're seeing the truth of that metaphor as the years go by.
Do you think people need to be an attorney to be an entrepreneur in this space?
Tim hesitates. No, I don't know that it's absolutely necessary that you need to be a lawyer or have a lawyer on board, and it's obvious that a lot can be learned from non-lawyers. In my mind, this is going to be an empirical question: there are all kinds of legal startups out there right now--some with attorneys on staff and others without--and I think we'll have to see where the chips fall.
What's the tone with which legal startups should engage the traditional legal community?
The community needs to learn how to articulate a positive agenda. People are often enamored with fighting or disrupting the traditional legal establishment, but the rhetoric often rings hollow because the community hasn't articulated a compelling vision of what they want to replace the traditional system with.
What we're doing has to be constructive. We must know specifically what we want. For example, we can't just say "the legal education system is broken" and leave it at that. We need to articulate what the legal education system needs to be. We can't just say "Biglaw is doomed." We need to have a concrete message what what there should be instead.
Getting to that point might just be a matter of time, but I'm thrilled to be part of a community that is engaging and building that future.


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A social media influencer is an individual (usually a blogger) that has a large social following online. With such a wide reach, this person has the ability to influence many followers by altering their feelings and decisions. Companies or other individuals that want to sell a product or service may be interested in utilizing the influencer to help get their name or product not only recognized, but also gain positive industry and brand reputation.
What do you think when you see the Taco Bell Chihuahua? Fun-loving, quirky, and overall memorable ("Yo quiero taco bell?"), that brand association did not come naturally – it was intentional and repeated, like a chant. Social media and its influencers provide positive brand association and notoriety, but for far less than a nationwide television campaign.
In the past, traditional marketing only allowed for a one way message, from the business to the consumer. Now, with the new ways of digital marketing a message that is passed from the business to the consumer, will be spread to many other individuals through an influencer.
The other big change from traditional marketing to digital marketing is that companies can now hear the voice of the consumer. A social media influencer has the potential to influence the decision a company makes. They not only speak to the people but they can also act as the voice of the people. If a television show plot is not speaking to it's watchers, and they are complaining about it online, the producers have the ability to tweak the show to better fit the watcher's expectations. If a new flavour of Coca Cola (Coke) comes out and Ontarians dislike the flavour, Coke can decide not to sell that flavour in Ontario.
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An influencer can be found through review websites, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets. Companies need to take note of what these influencers and followers are saying because social media is changing the way customers do business. If they don't pay attention, they run the risk of losing customers to competition.
A company can also have a voice online. They can have an individual write on their behalf online to talk about and answer any questions about their service or product. This person can also be labelled as an influencer. This works quite well for electronics companies. If people have a question with, let's say, a dslr camera, the individual speaking on the company's behalf can answer any questions or suggest solutions to any problems. The two way communication back and forth between customers and companies has never been this advanced.
Take the opportunity to become influential online. If you are a blogger, use your influence to help businesses make important decisions. If you are a business, work with a blogger to get your name, product or services out in the open.
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Anyone for a little Foos?
I never really got the hang of table football. I found it a lot more fun with other players, as trying to control all of the players at the same time was a bit of a nightmare. Especially after a few pints.
Grip Digital have thought about this it seems, since for this version all four rows of players are controlled simultaneously via the left stick, while the action of shooting and passing is dealt with by the right. And that's pretty much all there is to it.
The main aim of the world tour, which serves as the single player aspect of the game in which you aim to complete the twenty teams featured. Along the way you will find the rules changing slightly each time, with the aim of the game changing and the difficulty of your opponents increasing as you progress further. Success at these games unlocks different options for you to play yourself outside of the career modes, and different looks for your players.
As you earn points for your victories, you can unlock some skill shots to aid you in your play (or you can pay to unlock them from the store) and if you can get them to work may give you a slight advantage for a while, and these are activated by the face buttons.
It all looks nice enough, for what it is, there is very little in terms of sounds though aside from the extremely repetetive noise of the ball clunking around. The game also benefits from cross buy and cross save features, which is great for those with a PS3, one copy on both systems and the ability to take your progress with you on the road, which is a nice touch but this game is unlikely to really serve any longeivity. It may be fun for a while and in short bursts, but very quickly gets frustrating, and for myself at least, may have you yearning for some proper football.


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This image, called "Ancient Forest" is one of my favorites from 2018. It was taken on Doohoma beach on the North West coast of County Mayo, Ireland, a landscape that is constantly battered by the Atlantic Ocean . During the storms of the winter of 2017/18 huge quantities of sand were swept away from the beach to reveal a snapshot of a long disappeared landscape. Where is now a beautiful beach was once a great forrest , the shifting sands revealed the roots of trees that are 5000 years old!
I arrived at the beach about half an hour before sunset, the tide was out and the roots were fully revealed, I took several pictures , but really wanted to have the sea water around the roots and so I chose this composition and waited in the freezing cold. Forty Five minutes after the sun had set the Atlantic Ocean began to lap around the roots and I pressed the shutter!
The 20 second exposure was made on my FUJIFILM X-T2 coupled with the XF10-24mmF4 R OIS lens. This is a great lens for landscape, specially in a composition like this , The wide angle allows me to spotlight the large tree root, but still allow the viewer to see the vast landscape of Doohoma Head and Achill Island in the background . On this occasion the lens was zoomed to 14.5mm, I rarely go wider then 14mm. As you can see, this image was taken from a very low angle, I am nearly 2 meters tall, so was very thankful for the flip screen on the X-T2 !
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Treaty of 1868
The Black Hills of Dakota are sacred to the Sioux Indians. In the 1868 treaty signed at Fort Laramie and other military posts in Sioux country, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people. However, after the discovery of gold there in 1874, the United States confiscated the land in 1877. To this day, ownership of the Black Hills remains the subject of a legal dispute between the U.S. government and the Sioux.
Article II delineates the border of the land set aside for the Sioux. The final pages of the 1868 treaty bear the names and markings of the Sioux chiefs and the signatures of the American commissioners who represented the United States.
Treaty of 1868, April 29, 1868, selected page
National Archives, General Records of the U.S. Government
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