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Currently alive, at 75 years of age.
1945 – He was born on the 28th day of May this year in Berkeley, California, USA.
1958 – He and his brother, Tom Fogerty, formed the band in El Cerrito, California as Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets.
1966 – He joined an Army reserve unit. He served at Fort Bragg, Fort Knox and Fort Lee.
1967 – He was released from the army this year.
1968 – 1972 – His released its first album, the self-titled Creedence Clearwater Revival, and also had their first hit single, "Susie Q". Other hit singles of the band were "Proud Mary", "Fortunate Son", "Up Around The Bend", "Lodi", "Green River", "Down On The Corner", "Travelin' Band", "Lookin' Out My Back Door", "Bad Moon Rising", "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" and "Who'll Stop The Rain."
1971 – His brother, Tom, left the band. John subsequently demanded that Stu Cook and Doug Clifford write and sing one third each of the next album, Mardi Gras.
1973 – He began a solo career, originally under the name the Blue Ridge Rangers for his year.
1975 – He played all of the instruments and covered others' hits, such as "Jambalaya" (which was a Top 40 hit) and some gospel songs like "Have Thine Own Way, Lord," and "Working on a Building".
1985 – His solo career emerged in full force with Centerfield, which went to the top of the charts and included a Top 10 hit in "The Old Man down the Road" and a title track frequently played on classic rock radio and at baseball games to this day.
1986 – His follow-up album was Eye of the Zombie , which was less successful.
1993 – He became precedent when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned lower court rulings this year and awarded attorneys' fees to Fogerty, without Fogerty having to show that Zaentz's original suit was frivolous.
1997 – He retired until returning Blue Moon Swamp, which won the Grammy for Best Rock album this year.
1998 – He had a very successful tour this year in the United States and Europe. He released a live album from that tour titled Premonition, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Album this year. However, he lost to Sheryl Crow's 'The Globe Sessions'.
2004 – He appeared on the Vote for Change tour, playing a series of concerts in American swing states.
2005 – He returned to Fantasy Records. The first album released under the new Fantasy contract was The Long Road Home, a compilation CD combining his Creedence hits with solo material.
2006 – He had his first concert in Mexico City, at the Auditorio Nacional; which was sold out to 10,000 fans.


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Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonder about this. Is life actually short, or are we really complaining about its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel life was short if we lived 10 times as long?
Since there didn't seem any way to answer this question, I stopped wondering about it. Then I had kids. That gave me a way to answer the question, and the answer is that life actually is short.

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This is SRF's 25th year as the only organization solely dedicated to the Standardbred breed, the only one of its kind providing full care for horses when adoption is not possible, and following their welfare in every home diligently for life. SRF has served thousands of Standardbreds, and helped hundreds of children through its award winning programs. Breeding donations, and SRF's sale of such gifts make a substantial difference.
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You're heading to Las Vegas with more than 100,000 of your closest friends for the greatest EDM show on earth, the Electric Daisy Carnival. We hope you packed sunscreen and water. We already know you don't plan on wearing much — an EDC tradition.
This weekend in Denver, temperatures are expected to soar, according to the National Weather Service. But you won't escape the heat by heading to Las Vegas (did you really think that would work?). The federal forecast says highs of 97 (Friday), 103 (Saturday) and 108 (Sunday) will strike during the three-day festival. Monday, the first official day of summer, could see a high of 110 degrees.
Federal meteorologist Caleb Steele says that overnight low temps over the weekend will be in the low to mid-80s (!!!).
Steele notes that high pressure building over the Four Corners would affect Phoenix, then Vegas, then Southern California. "This time of the year it could last a bit," Steele says. "The high sticks around."
"Drinking plenty of water throughout the weekend is vital to your health and safety," EDC promoter Insomniac states. "Drink water at regular intervals, especially in warm weather, and be sure to stay hydrated on the days leading up to the show."
EDC will have water for sale as well as "hydration stations" with free H20.
Steele points out that visitors to Vegas sometimes don't realize how much water their bodies are losing.
"It's heat, but it's also how dry the air is here," he says. "Even if you're not feeling hot, you're losing water through your skin. It's important to hydrate while you're visiting."
EDC has seen about one ecstasy death per year since the event moved to Las Vegas from Los Angeles in 2011. Experts have drawn a correlation between hot environments, vigorous activity (dancing) and MDMA-triggered deaths.
The hot weather "certainly exacerbates the situation," says Dr. Marc Futernick, medical director of emergency services at California Hospital Medical Center. "One of the things we see with ecstasy is elevated temperature. So if temperature is elevated already, the weather is an additional factor."
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The doctor warned, however, not to overdo it with water. Some MDMA deaths have also been attributed to hyponatremia — low blood-sodium levels. Futernick suggests, and studies have also said the same, that drinking too much water while on ecstasy dilutes blood-sodium levels, which can trigger organ failure and cause death.
Futernick was critical of EDC when it was held at the Los Angeles Coliseum. He compared his nearby emergency room to a war-style trauma facility during such events.
"One of the things that's most impressive is the volume of patients all coming at one time," he told us in 2010.
His advice is not to use MDMA at all, especially during such hot weather. He also says sports drinks with electrolytes, such as Gatorade, could be a lifesaver.


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Montoya To Join Penske's IndyCar Team In 2014
Team Penske announced today that Juan Pablo Montoya will join the team in 2014.
Montoya will drive the No. 2 Team Penske IndyCar for the full season as he will join Will Power and three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves in the team's IZOD IndyCar Series lineup beginning next season.
Montoya, 37, is a native of Colombia. His career highlights include race wins in Formula One, NASCAR and the CART Indy Car Series.
He is the only driver to produce victories in the Indianapolis 500, the 24 Hours of Daytona and the Monaco Grand Prix. Montoya earned 11 IndyCar wins over two seasons as he captured the CART Series title in his rookie season of 1999 followed by a victory in the Indy 500 in 2000.
"I am really excited to join this legendary team beginning next year," said Montoya. "I have had the opportunity to drive for some of the best racing teams in the world and I have always admired Roger Penske and his organization. I consider it an honor to be offered the opportunity to drive for Team Penske."
Chip Ganassi Raicng announced it was would not rehire Montoya to its Sprint Cup team for 2014 earlier this year.
"Juan is a proven winner at all levels of motorsport," said team owner Roger Penske. "He has won a lot of races and championships and he has an extremely passionate fan base. We look forward to building on his successes together and we believe he will be a great addition to Team Penske."No Comment


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Cape Town – Will Smith has been announced as the presenter of the new limited event series, One Strange Rock, coming to National Geographic (DStv 181) in 2018.
Produced by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, the 10-episode "global event series" will look at planet Earth.
One Strange Rock is set to be broadcast globally on National Geographic from March 2018 in 172 countries.
"I am thrilled to have Will Smith on board to guide our series," says Aronofsky.
"His charisma, intelligence and humanity will add greatly to the project, helping welcome viewers into this unique narrative about the mind-blowing wonders that make life on Earth possible."
One Strange Rock is the extraordinary story of Earth and why it is special and uniquely brimming with life among a largely unknown but harsh cosmic arena.
Also appearing will be a group of astronauts including Chris Hadfield, Jeff Hoffman, Mae Jemison, Jerry Linenger, Mike Massimino, Leland Melvin, Nicole Stott, and Peggy Whitson.
They will tell the story of Earth through unique perspectives and relate personal memoirs of Earth as seen from space.
"Their personal experiences are portals to vital themes explored throughout the series, including the genesis of life, death, breath, cosmic violence, human intelligence, sacrifice, terraforming and more," says National Geographic.
"By pairing the incomparable, out-of-this-world, global appeal of Will Smith with our rock-star astronauts, who literally went out of this world, we tell the incredible story of the complexities of our planet," says Tim Pastore, president for original programming and production at National Geographic.
"With the distinctive storytelling from Darren Aronofsky, One Strange Rock will be an incredible visual treat, taking audiences from the microscopic to the cosmic, leaving viewers to see and appreciate our planet as never before."
National Geographic says One Strange Rock will "reimagine factual programming and give viewers a cinematic spectacle like they have never seen before".
"We'll unpack the science behind our marvelous planet and provide stories that are entertaining and provocative".
National Geographic released the first teaser trailer for One Strange Rock on Tuesday.
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The Spiritual Gifts Assessment helps individuals identify their God-given gifts for living faithfully as Christian disciples day by day and find meaningful ways to use their gifts in connection with others through the community of faith. The process helps people understand the nature of spiritual gifts and ways to enhance the effectiveness of their gifts by linking together with others.
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Stand-up comedy is proving to be a lucrative stomping ground, as a number of the best comedians find that their unique worldview hits home not just on stage but in various other avenues. Nidhi Gupta talks to the brightest talents in Indian art's most exciting growth industry.
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ey, porn guy!" yells Vir Das at the guy in the green sweatshirt sitting in the front row of the audience at Siri Fort auditorium, for the umpteenth time. "Who's your best friend in the whole wide world?" The guy points, yet again, to his wife sitting a few seats away (he'd done this earlier when Das asked, "Hey, guy in the green shirt sitting alone in the front row — who've you come with tonight?"). "Are you serious?" guffaws Das, "You can't be pointing her out for everything. Although, on second thought, I do see the wisdom of that!"
Das is making a point about how men and women define best friends. In his latest show, a "scientific comedy" called Battle of Da Sexes (which premiered in Delhi recently), Das shreds the tired adage: Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. He goes about it academically, dividing his two-hour set into categories — psychology, business, leadership, history, biology and sex.
Incidentally, for this show, his audience is also divided. The men sit on the left, the women on the right. It is a production quirk that works well because it allows people to laugh at themselves and each other, without worrying about getting into trouble with their "better halves" for having the wrong reaction to a potentially offensive jibe that Das makes.
Das pokes fun at everything and everyone from Hitler to Modi, Manmohan Singh to Aamir Khan, Poonam Pandey to Michelle Obama, himself and the people in the audience. The guy in the green sweatshirt is designated, for the rest of the evening, as "porn guy" because he makes the mistake of announcing his favourite genre of cinema to the world early in the show. It is to porn guy's credit that he doesn't take offence at being the butt of Das' jokes for an entire evening; and to our comic's, that he can pull this off.
Earlier this year, Das was also at the forefront of India's first-ever nation-wide stand-up comedy festival, Weirdass Pajama, in Mumbai. The three-day festival saw over 70 Indian and international comics, performing in English for a particularly metropolitan audience, on stages all over Mumbai. Among the performers were his crew at Weirdass Comedy, as well as the funnymen of All India Bakchod and East India Co.medy — arguably the three largest "camps" in the scene right now. The most outrageous of the many events that made up the festival was Pajama Roast, a sort of "battle of the puns", where comics and celebrities took potshots at each other.
The festival was a huge success. "We were really worried initially — it was almost like a coming-out party for us comics," quips Rohan Joshi, one of four founders of All India Bakchod, along with Tanmay Bhat, Gursimran Khamba and Ashish Shakya. "But we had the 1300-seater Jamshed Baba theatre running at full capacity every day. The festival became a measure of not just how good we were as comics but also the appetite for comedy in our country. At the end of it all, we figured that maybe we had become an industry after all," he says.
That stand-up comedy is a flourishing entertainment industry in its own right today is no longer a contentious claim. Check any listings or bookings website, such as TimesCity or BookMyShow, and you'll find a plethora of standup events vying for space and audiences. Most dining venues now welcome the idea of hosting comedy nights (regardless of the dangers that laughing with your mouth full might pose). And there are a slew of production houses and entertainment companies willing to put the effort — and their money — behind these young, cheeky talents. Prominent among these are Ashwin Gidwani Productions, that now backs most of Das' solo shows; and Vijay Nair's Only Much Louder, production partner for Weirdass Pajama, and the force that is helping commercialise AIB.
It is remarkable that this "scene" has come together in the space of roughly five years. India has, of course, had a long relationship with humour — hasya kavi sammelans and chaat melas have been around for decades. Bollywood has its own stalwarts — from Mehmood to Johnny Lever — who turned mimicry and slapstick into pedestrian forms of comedy.
On TV, through the '90s, Cyrus Broacha, Cyrus Sahukar, Gaurav Kapur and Shekhar Suman played sassy, smart and sarcastic to our collective joy. But it is American comic Russell Peters (of the "Somebody gonna get-a hurt real bad" fame) and the Internet that lay the seeds for standup comedy in English to grow popular in the country. "Two things happened in 2003 — Peters broke out on Youtube and the Great Indian Laughter Challenge arrived on our TV sets. This helped cultivate two parallel audiences," observes Khamba "but the current generation, and the currently popular format, both started in 2008-09."
This generation, including the likes of Sorabh Pant, Varun Grover, Kunal Rao, Sapan Verma, Sahil Shah, Ashish Shakya, Aditi Mittal, Anuvab Pal and Neeti Palta, among many others, found its feet at the open mic nights that became a sub-trend in Mumbai around that time, of which Vir Das was a key proponent.
"In 2009, I'd come back to Mumbai after having lost my job in New York. I went to one of these amateur nights at Cafe Goa, a small, probably illegal, place in Bandra and saw these guys on stage and thought to myself: 'I can totally do this!' At the time, I was on some random diet and my mouth smelled like a national park because of all the haldi and tulsi I was consuming. So I built a routine out of it and I got two laughs! That's cool, I thought. I can do this again," reminisces Aditi Mittal, one of the few female standup comics in the country whose sketches Dolly Khurana, the Bollywood diva, and Mrs. Lutchuke, the 65-year-old sex therapist, are immensely popular.
They all have similar stories to tell about how they started — former journalists, engineers, fresh college graduates who went up on stage to crack a few jokes and were instantly mesmerised by the applause and laughter they caused. Now, four years down the line, a lot of them run successful businesses, both as individuals and collaborations.
"In the past six years, I've done about 570 shows in seven countries," says Sorabh Pant, co-founder of East India Co.medy. "At EIC — of which comedians Sapan, Kunal, Sahil, Atul (Khatri) and Azeem (Banatwalla) are also a part — our plan for last year was to do as many shows as possible. This year, our plan is to churn out more content than anyone else in the business, which means six-12 hours of content per show for each one of us. Right now, we're busy planning our next edition of the Ghanta awards, so it's like an office environment. We all sit, pens in hand, waiting for inspiration to strike," says Pant over a brief telephone conversation, running between meetings.
At the AIB headquarters, the atmosphere is equally intense. "We sit in a huddle, staring into space, thinking up jokes. Of course, getting high always helps," laughs Joshi. Last week, their own worst-of-Bollywood awards show, The Royal Turds, returned to Mumbai. For the rest, they are busy leveraging the power of social media to spoof everything under sun, most recently Arvind Kejriwal and Alok Nath. Apart from a hugely successful podcast, conceptualised as an "online archive of conversations between comics", as Khamba calls it, they also have a video channel on Youtube that has almost 3 lakh subscribers.
"We can't afford to spend on advertising. Which is why Facebook and Twitter are a huge boon — we sell 95% of our shows online. On Twitter, where I have a few thousand followers, I know it is a well-targeted demography in whose minds we as a name will stick," says Joshi.
Since this is now a matter of generating livelihood, they all do several things on the side — from corporate shows to performing at private parties to even writing award show scripts for star hosts. And with different kinds of shows come different kinds of audiences. In the realm of stand-up, where audience inputs are crucial, it is inevitable that reactions will be as diverse as the settings in which they perform.
"Yes, altercations happen. Recently, when we were performing at the Sulafest in Nasik, Shakya made a really stupid — it wasn't even funny — joke about how even Shivaji knew Victoria's secret. Some locals came in and started yelling from the back. It was funny to see these right-wing types at a wine and music event, but our organisers told us to run for our life," recounts Mittal. "Somehow, a girl saying b******d on stage is still the funniest thing. I get the most laughs, but then I'm also seen as a loose sort of woman. The after-show period is often quite horrible."
Last year, Tanmay Bhat got into hot water for making a statement about Ganpati; while Mumbai-based comic Varun Grover made his battle with a corporate event planner very public after they pulled him off the stage for making inappropriate jokes and then refusing to pay him.
Joshi talks of shows in tier-II cities like Indore and Bilaspur where he had his listeners eating out of hands. "There was an old couple — and I mean old, not like 60 years or something — who laughed so hard at my jokes that I thought the wife was going to die of a heart attack! I guess it all boils down to how open-minded your audience is. Not all kinds of jokes will fly in all kinds of contexts, but overall, a non-conservative audience, one that isn't looking to be offended, always helps," he says.
ittal agrees: "I guess people have to understand that there's a difference between comedy as we see it in the urban landscape, synthesised for television audiences; and standup, which is live and our livelihood, where we will be more outrageous, more opinionated, and therefore more real." But perhaps even this is already happening; with comedian Kapil Sharma practically revolutionising Hindi comedy with his show on Colours — he is sarcastic, irreverent and downright hilarious — the capacity of people to laugh at themselves seems to be growing.Image 2nd
Khamba feels that the demand for comedy is far outstripping supply in the country. "Look at Weirdass Pajama, for instance. It was such a feel-good thing, a sign of a scene maturing. It was amazing that 70 comics from across the country came together for the show. But also, if you think about it, there are only 70 comics in a country with over a billion people. These days, people have begun making comparisons between AIB and The Viral Fever (another comedy website run by Arunabh Kumar). That is such a myopic view: the question shouldn't be which is better, it should be: why are there only two to choose from?" he says.
It is perhaps this dearth of talent that ensures there's more collaboration than competition among the different camps. "The Indian stand-up scene is like the West Indies right now. We're a bunch of islands coming together to form a nation," quips Pant. "Because we're at such a nascent stage, and because everyone involved is too intelligent, we know that collaboration is more viable for all involved at the moment," he elaborates.
In an effort to grow the community, AIB now conducts workshops for comedians, while EIC organises their own open mic nights in different cities, through which they have found seven new faces to be introduced this year.
It took quite a few decades for standup, considered to be quite the cruellest form of comedy, to evolve to its present state in US, the land of its origin. In comparison, the scene in India is coming together much faster — perhaps due to globalisation. Here, we're talking about everything from big social issues to the small facts of life, "punching higher" all the time, as Khamba calls it. Even as they gain celebrity and cash in on your mirth, they yearn for more people to come and join their ranks — and here, truly, the more might be the merrier.


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Hard-to-Read Fonts Promote Better Recall – HBR
Fonts that are hard to read promote better recall of the message, according to research reported in March's Harvard Business Review.
Daniel Oppenheimer with colleagues Connor Diemand-Yauman and Erikka Vaughan found that students presented with material written in hard to read font (grey, 12-point Comic sans) recalled 14% more facts than students given material in pure-black, 16-point Arial.
Of course, the subjects were required to read the material in those tests. It is less clear how you might use this in a marketing context where the goal is usually to remove any potential point of resistance to your audience receiving your message.
The knee-jerk reaction is to assume this means that there is nothing of use to marketers here. However, I wonder if there is a way to use this in a subtle way. For example, what would be the impact of using a slightly less clear font for highlights or summary points? Or if those important points are in the same font but a colour that offers less contrast to the main text: could such a point be both more appealing (drawing the eye) but still require the fractionally greater degree of concentration that makes the fact register more readily retained?
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Hey ho! Ame here. I am new to the gang. I'm kinda confused. I have a lot of questions. For one, I want to know WHY it always smells like cat food when I only get to eat three times a day? Hum? This is my biggest question. I mean, dude, really?
For instance, today is cat food making day. I can smell the yummy food cooking away and I am getting hungrier and hungrier just smelling all of the good smells. I get nothin' until later.
Here is what went into the pot for Meat Stock:
5 cups water
1 pound turkey
cooled and separated (the meat went on the dish and got covered by a clear bowl, which then I had to stare at without eating! The liquid went back into the pot.)
The whole thing, pot and all went into the refrigerator. Cool the broth off in the refrigerator and scoop fat off of cooled broth.
Ah! That fat! Don't throw it away! It is good stuff; good for fur and tummies. Place the fat in a container in the freezer. If you make a label for the fat, make sure that you have your FFF (see previous post for translation) around to help you with the writing. I helped. It came out much better.
Making Broth for food:
1 carrot with green top
1 celery stalk with leaves
1 bunch of parsley
6 cups of meat broth
Cook this until vegetables are limp. Strain the vegetables out of the liquid. Cool the liquid and freeze it in 1 cup portions. (it freezes nicely in ziplock bags and takes up very little room this way) This broth can be substituted for water when you cook your turkey for the meal (mentioned by Padma in previous posts).
Here's the thing. Celery is good for your general digestion, but not the seeds, bulb or stringy stalks for cats, no no no. I love to chew the celery tops when they come home, before they go into the pot. Yum! Maybe that's why I am not allowed in the kitchen on cat food making day. I can't see where a nose here, or a paw there would hurt anything! And who ever said a little cat hair hurt someone's food?
Parsley is another thing that I love to chew. Of course I leave a nice little present if I chew it, but, hey! I have nice breath!
Carrots, cooked, are good for my heart. The green stuff on the top is not bad either.
So, here I am, smelling all this good stuff, not allowed in the kitchen to give my opinion and banned to the sun room where wafting smells are making me drool all over the nice bamboo floor. DUDE! Maybe next time she'll let me help her cook!


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21 Feb Racial Reconciliation
A conversation about the progress of racial reconciliation in America and the church, racially charged current events, Black Lives Matters, and what our response should be as followers of Christ. Guests include: Dr. Crawford Loritts, Tasha Morrison, and Jesse Lee Peterson.
About Dr. Crawford Loritts
Crawford has a Doctor of Divinity from Biola University, a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Cairn University, a Doctor of Divinity from Moody Bible Institute, a Doctor of Letters from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a Doctor of Divinity from Columbia International University. He is the host of two national radio programs, the weekend program Living a Legacy, and the daily program Legacy Moments.
Crawford has traveled throughout the US, Caribbean, Asia, Canada, South America, Africa and parts of Europe preaching in churches, evangelistic outreaches, conferences, in colleges and seminaries. He has also been the featured speaker at Super Bowls, NCAA Final Four Chapel, and the Pentagon with senior military officers. Crawford and his wife Karen are featured speakers at Family Life marriage conferences. They are co-authors of Developing Character in Your Child. Crawford has written 8 books including newly released, Unshaken. Presently, Crawford serves as Senior Pastor at Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell, GA.
About LaTasha Morrison
Tasha is a bridge-builder, reconciler, fellow abolitionist, and a compelling voice in the fight for racial justice. Possessing a passion for social justice issues across the globe, Tasha uses her platform to encourage racial reconciliation among all ethnicities, to promote racial unity in America, and to develop others to do the same.
About Jesse Lee Peterson
Jesse Lee Peterson is an outspoken critic of the "civil rights" establishment and "social justice" movements in America today. Jesse is the president and founder of BOND, a nonprofit organization dedicated to "Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man." Jesse counsels men and women—young and old—getting to the root of destructive emotions and relationships. He has a particular desire to help black men and families, due to the heartbreaking devastation occurring in the black community.
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Yesterday, on my way to church, the Lord dropped a Holy Spirit bomb on me! I was driving and thinking about ministry events I have coming up. I saw a blank billboard with just a phone number on it, and said to the Lord, "I wish I could have a billboard to advertise these meetings!"
I immediately heard the Lord say, "THE WORLD USES BILLBOARDS and ADVERTISING. YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT!"
Suddenly, I remembered! Months ago, the Lord started speaking to me about a different way of communicating. During my prayer time with the Lord one morning, He had shown me a fisherman's "cast-net". A knot was tied everywhere the cords of that net intersected, creating a net-work. He then showed this net being cast over the United States, and a flame popped up in every spot where a knot was. He called each of these spots "a revival hub"!
He asked me, "How are all of these revival hubs going to stay in contact? How will they know they are all in unity and on the right track?"
Dumb-founded, I said, "I don't know, Lord!"
He answered His own question to me by saying, "THEY WILL COMMUNICATE THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT!" He then told me that I was going to teach others how to do this. This meant that He was going to have to teach me, first!
"I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father," (John 14:12 AMPC).
Jesus said if He did it, we can do it, too!! Learning to communicate by the Spirit is just one of those "greater things"! After all, there is but one Spirit, one Lord, and one God! On top of that, this Spirit – the same spirit that raised Christ from the Dead – lives in ME and in YOU (see Romans 8:11)!
The Holy Spirit is GOD HIMSELF, and He lives in us! Look at this:
"[There is] one body and one Spirit… [There is] one Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of [us] all, Who is above all [Sovereign over all], pervading all and [living] in [us] all," (Ephesians 4:4-6, emphasis mine).
Why would God NOT communicate with HIMSELF? He made a covenant with Himself in Abraham's time. In fact, Hebrews 6:13-14 says,
"For when God made [His] promise to Abraham, He swore by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom to swear,
Saying, Blessing I certainly will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you," (emphasis mine).
Scripture has established that not only does God talk to Himself, He purposely put a part of the Godhead INSIDE OF US so that we can speak to Him directly – and so He can speak to us.
Wait! There's more! The FULL Holy Spirit lives in me, and the FULL Holy Spirit lives in you. God didn't give each of us just a piece of Holy Spirit, or some small portion of Him, or even a different Holy Spirit. He gave every born-again believer the FULLNESS of THE One and Only Holy Spirit, to live inside of us. That means that we all have the same Holy Spirit, and all share all of Him!
God placed fully one-third of Himself – the paraclete, our helper, the comforter, the communicator — inside of us. God has been training us to communicate with Him through Him. Why not communicate with each other through Him? Since we all share the same Holy Spirit, how simple would it be for us to do this – once we learn the technical aspect of HOW?
Think of it! When this happens, and I am quite certain there are some who are already doing it, He is communicating with HIMSELF through US! Just as Abraham was the beneficiary of God's covenant with Himself, so are we the beneficiaries of this Godly communication between Himself and Himself, through Himself!
He then reminded me of a story I had been told. A woman said she was at a meeting where the speaker announced the next meeting from the platform – but didn't tell anyone the time or location! She went up to ask him for these details, and his response was, "If people are supposed to be there, they will know when it is, and where to go."
Wow! You see, God is already at work in us in this earth realm with this concept! He is simply enlarging our territory – stretching out our tent stakes by stretching our minds – and our belief systems! What we "KNOW" about Holy Spirit may be only a grain of sand on the beach of what He is truly capable of!
How to Communicate through the Spirit
This is what the Lord has taught me so far about how to communicate through the Spirit. This is not exhaustive, and He is continually adding to this list:
- It is contingent on UNCONDITIONAL LOVE – Without unconditional love, we cannot communicate through the Spirit (see John 15:12-14). It is possible, because Jesus asked Peter if He 'Agape' Him (see John 21:17); not just once, but twice.
- FOCUS – We must FOCUS on the message while we are attempting to communicate in the spirit (see Col. 3:2).
- We must Be IN THE SPIRIT to communicate BY the spirit (see Rev. 1:10).
- We must BELIEVE that we can do it – and do not doubt! Because NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HIM WHO BELIEVES (see Mark 9:23)!
I don't have the fullness of it all, yet. However, since God has instructed me to teach others, I am certain we will learn to communicate with each other through the Spirit! Jesus set this up in advance for us, for today's needs – and tomorrow's! He is already in tomorrow and knows what we need before we even get there.
Be excited about learning how to communicate through the Holy Spirit. There is no better filter that I can think of! As an added bonus, the next time your cell phone runs out of battery, you can just pick up the Holy Spirit instead!
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My almost eight year-old has been asking me all month long about Santa. She was bugged that some of the kids at school were trying to convince her that he doesn't exist. A lot of her friends still believe, but she has asked me if I do, too. I answered unhesitatingly in the affirmative. And I'm not lying. That doesn't mean that I believe that a jolly man in a red suit will be coming down our non-existent chimney tonight. But I do believe that Santa, something magical, does exist in the world, most definitely in my daughter's world. When kids grow up and become parents they become Santa. They make magic for their kids. They pass the baton, so that their children can share in that same feeling that they remember from their childhood — a mixture of hope, anticipation, faith and disbelief — could it really be? And then the presents are there in the morning — magic!
I don't blame the playground kids. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs or disbeliefs. I first covered this topic two Xmas eves ago and still feel exactly the same way:
The whole world is magical to kids. They want to believe in Santa, Rudolph, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, etc. Kids don't live in a bubble. At five my daughter and her friends are already deeply discussing whether Santa, etc. exists. Some are trying to convince her otherwise, like kids tried back in 1897 to Virginia O'Hanlon. I'm in the "He's real" camp until she shows signs of not wanting to believe anymore. Kids can be cruel and just plain silly, but the "There is no Santa" schoolyard discussions seem to me less an attempt to blow a hole in the magic bubble, but an attempt to appear smarter, more knowledgeable of the oh-so-attractive grown-up world. Kids, if you only had the merest glimpse of the mundanity of many aspects of what it is to be "grown-up," you'd relax and settle back and bask in fantasies like Santa as long as possible.
I also think it is worth reprinting some words of Santa wisdom from one of my favorite authors, Alexander McCall Smith (originally printed in Parade):
Myths help us to get by. The day they all die and we tell our children exactly how things are, the world will be a poorer, less enchanted place. So don't be ashamed to clap your hands at Peter Pan or act as if Santa exists. He stands for kindness and generosity, and those things are alive and will continue to be alive—as long as we believe in them.I have some cookies to decorate for Santa — Merry Christmas!


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If you are signed up to our newsletter, you will know that the super amazing (and very unique!) Photo-Kombi will be hanging out with us at the next Fair! Co-owner (and all round rad gal) Tania has been creating a stunning backdrop for inside the van, I can't wait to see it in action! So, what is Photo-Kombi?READ MORE


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Enjoy the beauty of summer evenings and fellowship in Bay View during this long standing family tradition. After a long day of playing in the sun, relax, unwind and let Bay View do the cooking. It's the best deal around! Located at the Ernie Gray Clubhouse.
Monday nights at 6 p.m. Mondays, June 19-July 24
One hot dog/chips/soda $3.00 • Two hot dogs/chips/soda $4.00
Children's Movie Night: Mondays starting at 7 p.m. at the Boys' and Girls' Club after all Hot
Dog Roasts.
Questions? Contact Larry Dunlap, Recreation Director firstname.lastname@example.com
The Bay View Association is located just outside of Petoskey, Michigan on the shore of Little Traverse Bay.
1715 Encampment Ave
P.O. Box 583
Petoskey, MI 49770
Phone: 231-347-6225
To be an institution in which Christian values and traditions are central; To enrich the human experience for individuals and families within Bay View and the surrounding community through a seasonal program of religious, educational, cultural and recreational opportunities; to provide a Christian perspective in a changing world.
The Bay View Association is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.


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Earning your degree is an important achievement. Having access to "life tools" for continued success is also essential. Regent student resources will help you thrive. We invite you to explore Academic Advising now. You may also access Career & Talent Management, Mental Health Counseling, and more in the tabs below.
Contact Details: 757.352.4926
firstname.lastname@example.com (students)
firstname.lastname@example.com (employers)
Visit us in person – COM 250 (Building 8 on map)
M-Th: 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. (ET)
F: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (ET)
The experienced staff and online Career Development Center of Regent University's Office of Career & Talent Management (CTM) provide excellent resources for life.
Contact Details: 757.352.4485 (Phone) | 757.352.4628 (Fax) | firstname.lastname@example.com
Student Center SC 241,
1000 Regent University Dr.,
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
M–F: 8 am–5 pm
** In the event of an emergency call 911.**
Other important phone numbers:
Lifeline 800.273.8255 | Suicide Hotline 800.784.2433
Regent Counseling Services, a part of the Department of Student Services, provides free professional counseling to any Regent students who are enrolled in at least one class and are able to come to the Virginia Beach campus. Services include individual counseling, group counseling, pre-marital/marriage counseling, assessments, and psychoeducational workshops. All counseling is provided or supervised by licensed professionals, is completely confidential, and adheres to all laws and ethics that govern the counseling profession.
Counseling services are available free of charge to all Regent students.
Student must be currently enrolled in at least one class and must come to campus to receive services.
During the summer and winter breaks, students may participate in counseling as long as they are registered for the following semester.
Schedule appointments through TherapyPortal, accessible from any device with internet access. You will need to be registered with Counseling Services to gain access to the portal.
Please choose the appropriate link below:
Robert M. Kuschel, MS, LPC
Director of Counseling & Disability Services
"Robbie" joined Regent University in February of 2012. With over 20 years of experience in counseling, he has worked with a very large number of individuals, groups, and families facing a plethora of mental health issues. His work experience includes school-based drug and drop-out prevention, delinquency counseling (residential and community based), residential drug treatment, private practice, adoption, and church-based counseling. He has also served as a youth pastor and high school Bible teacher. Robbie earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology at Palm Beach Atlantic University in South Florida and has earned professional licensure in Florida (LMHC) and Virginia (LPC). A former college athlete, Robbie is admittedly a sports fanatic and also enjoys fishing and computer gaming.
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A nurse practitioner is available to all on-campus students, inclusive of those residing in campus housing as well as commuters (both undergraduate and graduate), who are in need of minor healthcare services on campus. The nurse practitioner can provide a higher level of care than a nurse and has the authority to write prescriptions. A portion of the University Services Fees for on-campus students grants students the ability to visit the Health Center as many times as necessary. If additional care is needed, students have access to physician partners nearby on Providence Road at Sentara Family Medicine Physicians Please note: allergy shots cannot be administered on campus.
The Health Center is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. The center is closed when the university is closed for various holidays including Christmas break when the university shuts down, during emergency closures due to weather or other unexpected events.
The Health Center is located in room 103 of Constitution Hall in the Regent Commons. No appointment is needed.
Contact us at 757.352.4953 or via email at email@example.com.
There are several options available to you after hours or on weekends:
Patient First
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Virginia Beach, VA 23464
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If this is an extreme emergency, call 911 or go to the emergency room at one of these hospitals:
Sentara Leigh Hospital
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Because of the unique mission and resources associated with Regent University, a number of centers have been developed to engage in those activities that further extend our outreach and influence in the world.
To learn more about the individual centers, please visit the websites listed below.
Center for Christian Thought & Action
Center for Entrepreneurship
Center for Global Justice
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Charis Institute
Institute for Cybersecurity
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Martinson Center for Mathematics & Science
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text: Corpsecrank Posted May 10, 2009 Are you trying to upload a .zip to online file storage? Are you trying to cram all you can onto a small flash drive? Want to email some huge file quickly? This tip should help you then Anyone who frequently archives files or sends things around is familiar with the various compression tools used such as WinZip WinRAR 7Zip ect. These tools usually get the job done reasonable well. However there are some files that will not compress much at all or that are still to large even once compressed into an archive. The solution is a better tool to compress with. Yeah I know your probably thinking great more crap to install. But the tool I recommend has insane compression and the files can be extracted in VERY short time with common tools such as WinZip or WinRAR. The compression tool to use is called KGB Archiver. KGB Archiver Do not expect a large file to be compressed quickly though. You will need a few hours even on the fastest of machines. The advantage is maximum compression with a short decompression time that is compatible with common compression tools. The key to this happening is choosing the correct options. The options are pretty obvious but I will point this out anyways. When you run the program and choose a file to compress make sure you choose Zip format and set the compression level to maximum. There is an option to use KGB format instead of zip. The problem is that it will take hours to compress the file and then hours to decompress the file. Not only that but you can only decompress the KGB format with the KGB Archiver and our goal is to make a super small file that most anyone can decompress. Otherwise you would have to make sure that who ever is getting the file has KGB and about 6 hours of free time... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 13:48, Arthur Barstow wrote: > Marcos - would you please enumerate the CR's uses of HTML5 and state > whether each usage is to a stable part of HTML5? 1. "A browsing context that comes into existence after initialization. The concept of a browsing context is defined in [HTML]. Multiple widget instances can be instantiated from a single widget package. A widget instance is unique and does not share any DOM attribute values, widget storage area, or [Web Storage] storage areas with any other widget instance." Browsing context is a concept - and a well understood one at that. 2. "User agent implementing [HTML]'s Window interface must implement the Widget interface as the widget attribute of the window object in the manner defined by the WindowWidget interface." The window object is present in all browser implementations. Widgets to put any additional requirements on it. 3. "When getting or setting the preferences attribute, if the origin of a widget instance is mutable (e.g., if the user agent allows document.domain to be dynamically changed), then the user agent must perform the preference-origin security check. The concept of origin is defined in [HTML]." Origin is concept that is well understood - as is the same origin policy used by browsers. Hope that helps! -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.auReceived on Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:07:27 UTC
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Yep, it's political polling season. But if you're tired of Gallup, Rasmussen, Zogby and others, here are some different "polls" we've recently run across.
Methodologically robust? Not quite. Entertaining? Absolutely.
NOTE: Many links removed because they were no longer active.
- Amazon Meters measures support by comparing Halloween face mask sales. (For a related article, click here). Don't think face masks are a good predictor? Then how about t-shirts or coffee?
- 7-11 is polling by cup selection. (allegedly 7-11 coffee drinkers have accurately predicted the outcome of the last two elections …)
- How about some donuts with that coffee?
- Or cookies?
- Finally, my favorite. Using MotiveQuest's Online Promoter Score (TM), the BrandAdvocacy08 Website measures each candidate's brand by monitoring online conversations.
While each one of these seems absurd in isolation, they each tap into a different section of the voting zeitgiest. And in aggregate, perhaps they are a good secondary measure of political preference. After all, these "voters" are willing to put their money (often literally) where their mouth is!
Are there more of these "polls" floating around on the internet that we didn't find? Type your own in the comments below …


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The Art, Music & Recreation Division of the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County is located on the 2nd floor of the Bausch & Lomb Public Library Building. This division highlights collections in
- Art
- Architecture
- Antiques and collectibles
- Costume
- Dance
- Photography
- Sports and games
- Music
- Film, radio programs and television
- Biographies of celebrities–actors, artists, dancers, designers, musicians and athletes
Notable resources include
- Recorded music–over 10,000 titles to choose from; large selection of classical, jazz, and musicals. Patrons can borrow up to 10 CDs.
- Framed prints–ready to hang in your home or office for an eight-week loan. There is a limit of 4 framed prints per patron.
- Picture File–over one million images, arranged by subject, to borrow or reproduce. Patrons may borrow 20 images from an individual subject folder.
Databases used are
- Doremi, a comprehensive index to sheet music for popular songs
- Wilson Art Index to periodical articles on all aspects of the arts
- ArtFact, offering auction prices and reference information on art and antiques


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Baby facts for kids(Redirected from Infant)
A baby is a very young human who is born when a mother gives birth. A baby is called a newborn for the first 1 to 3 months of life. They are then called a child until about the age of three years old, and a preschooler between 3 years old and school.
An infant is a human child at the youngest stage of life. Some people say that infancy is until someone can walk, while some say infancy is the time before the age of one. An infant less than 1 month old is a newborn. Newborns can be premature infants, post-mature infants and full term newborns. The word infant comes from Latin, meaning "unable to speak".
After learning to walk, infants are called toddlers, usually when they are 1-3 years old.
Physical characteristics of newborn
A newborn's shoulders and hips are wide, the abdomen protrudes slightly, and the arms and legs are relatively long with respect to the rest of their body. In first world nations, the average total body length of newborns are 35.6–50.8 cm (14.0–20.0 in), although premature newborns may be much smaller. The Apgar score is a measure of a newborn's transition from the uterus during the first minutes after birth.
In developed countries, the average birth weight of a full-term newborn is approximately 3.4 kg (7 1⁄2 lb), and is typically in the range of 2.7–4.6 kg (6.0–10.1 lb).
Over the first 5–7 days following birth, the body weight of a baby decreases and is largely a result of the resorption and urination of the fluid that initially fills the lungs and until breastfeeding becomes effective. After the first week, healthy babies should gain 10–20 grams/day.
A newborn's head is very large in proportion to the body, and the cranium is enormous relative to his or her face. While the adult human skull is about one seventh of the total body length, the newborn's is about ¼. Normal head circumference for a full-term infant is 33–36 cm at birth. At birth, many regions of the newborn's skull have not yet been converted to bone, leaving "soft spots" known as fontanels. The two largest are the diamond-shaped anterior fontanel, located at the top front portion of the head, and the smaller triangular-shaped posterior fontanel, which lies at the back of the head. Later in the child's life, these bones will fuse together in a natural process. A protein called noggin is responsible for the delay in an infant's skull fusion.
During labour and birth, the infant's skull changes shape to fit through the birth canal, sometimes causing the child to be born with a misshapen or elongated head. It will usually return to normal on its own within a few days or weeks. Special exercises sometimes advised by physicians may assist the process.
Some newborns have a fine, downy body hair called lanugo. It may be particularly noticeable on the back, shoulders, forehead, ears and face of premature infants. Lanugo disappears within a few weeks. Infants may be born with full heads of hair; others, particularly caucasian infants, may have very fine hair or may even be bald. Amongst fair-skinned parents, this fine hair may be blonde, even if the parents are not. The scalp may also be temporarily bruised or swollen, especially in hairless newborns, and the area around the eyes may be puffy.
Immediately after birth, a newborn's skin is often grayish to dusky blue in color. As soon as the newborn begins to breathe, usually within a minute or two, the skin's color reaches its normal tone. Newborns are wet, covered in streaks of blood, and coated with a white substance known as vernix caseosa, which is hypothesised to act as an antibacterial barrier. The newborn may also have Mongolian spots, various other birthmarks, or peeling skin, particularly on the wrists, hands, ankles, and feet.
Umbilical cord
The umbilical cord of a newborn is bluish-white in color. After birth, the umbilical cord is normally cut, leaving a 1–2 inch stub. The umbilical stub will dry out, shrivel, darken, and spontaneously fall off within about 3 weeks. This will later become a belly-button after it heals. Occasionally, hospitals may apply triple dye to the umbilical stub to prevent infection, which may temporarily color the stub and surrounding skin purple.
Care and feeding
Infants cry as a form of basic instinctive communication. A crying infant may be trying to express a variety of feelings including hunger, discomfort, overstimulation, boredom, wanting something, or loneliness.
Breastfeeding is the recommended method of feeding.
Adequate food consumption at an early age is vital for an infant's development. From birth to four months, infants should consume breast milk or an unmodified milk substitute. As an infant's diet matures, finger foods may be introduced as well as fruit, vegetables and small amounts of meat.
As infants grow, food supplements are added. Many parents choose commercial, ready-made baby foods to supplement breast milk or formula for the child, while others adapt their usual meals for the dietary needs of their child. Whole cow's milk can be used at one year, but lower-fat milk should not be provided until the child is 2 to 3 years old. Weaning is the process through which breast milk is eliminated from the infant's diet through the introduction of solid foods in exchange for milk. Until they are toilet-trained, infants in industrialized countries wear diapers. The transition from diapers to cloth undergarments is an important transition in the development of an infant/baby to that of a toddler. Children need more sleep than adults—up to 18 hours for newborn babies, with a declining rate as the child ages. Until babies learn to walk, they are carried in the arms, held in slings or baby carriers, or transported in baby carriages or strollers. Most industrialized countries have laws requiring child safety seats for babies in motor vehicles.
Benefits of touch
Studies have shown that infants who have been the recipients of positive touch experience more benefits as they develop emotionally and socially. Experiments have been done with infants up to four months of age using both positive touch (stroking or cuddling) and negative touch (poking, pinching or tickling). The infants who received the positive touch cried less often and also vocalized and smiled more than the infants who were touched negatively. Infants who were the recipients of negative touching have been linked with emotional and behavioral problems later in life. A lower amount of physical violence in adults has been discovered in cultures with greater levels of positive physical touching.
Human infants have a primal need to be carried close. They need constant physical contact for their first few weeks or months of life. They are born with reflexes that aid them in holding on in every way possible, these being the Moro reflex, and the instinctive grasping of a finger or object placed in their palm. Their legs usually resume an M shape, their knees being the top peaks of the M, which is the ideal position both for optimal hip development, and makes it comfortable for an adult to carry them laid on their chest. They also need frequent care, given that they need to eat and eliminate waste more often than other mammalian offspring that are cared for in nests where they could endanger themselves by crying with hunger and the smell of their excrement.
Response to sounds
Infants respond to the sound of snake hissing, angry voices of adults, the crackling sound of a fire, thunder, and the cries of other infants. They have a drop in heart rate, their eyes blinking, increased turning toward the speakers or parent, all of these indicating that they were paying more attention. This is believed by some to be evolutionary response to danger.
Images for kids
Princess Estelle of Sweden reacts to being held up to people by her father, Prince Daniel, on National Day in 2013.
An infant being immunized in Bangladesh


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Join Sam FM on Friday 4th August for a spectacular fireworks display that lights the night sky for miles around and has marked the end of Cowes Week since the regatta's early years and is extremely popular with competitors, locals and mainland spectators.
Supported by donations from Red Funnel and other sponsors, this year's display starts at 21.30 hrs and promises a blue theme. Cowes seafront and the town are normally packed to bursting on firework night so why not join our fireworks cruise from Southampton and get one of the best seats in the house, just off the entrance to the harbour!
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New Indirect Potable Reuse Regulations — What To Expect
By Laura Martin
Everyone is fighting for their fair share of water in drought-stricken California. The agricultural industry needs a large portion for growing crops and hydrating animals. Fishery owners and environmentalists are demanding preservation and replenishment of the California Delta to protect the salmon and other wildlife. And, of course, the residents of California can't live without their portion for everyday use.
"Everyone's needs are legitimate, but we don't know if this is a five-year drought or a 500-year drought," said Earle Hartling, water recycling coordinator for the sanitation districts of Los Angeles County. "Weather patterns are changing, the population is growing, and 75 percent of people in California live in the southern part of the state while 75 percent of the precipitation is in the northern portion of the state. There just isn't enough water."
Without enough new sources of water to go around, California is turning to water reuse.
In the upcoming months, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is expected to release regulations for groundwater replenishment of drinking water aquifers using recycled wastewater. These regulations are the first of their kind in California and unique in the U.S.
"Some other states have developed regulations for groundwater recharge with reclaimed water, but those developed in California are the most comprehensive," said environmental engineering consultant James Crook, who has worked as an advisor to the CDPH.
Once adopted, these regulations will replace existing, less definitive regulations related to groundwater recharge of potable water supply aquifers, which were adopted in 1978 and consider water recycling projects involving groundwater recharge on a case-by-case basis. The current draft of the regulations, dated June 26, 2013, is used by CDPH to evaluate the acceptability of proposed recharge projects, said Crook.
"The draft CDPH groundwater recharge regulations have helped water and wastewater agencies and others understand what requirements must be met to assure that public health will not be compromised," he said. "This has helped stimulate planning and implementation of indirect potable reuse (IPR) projects via groundwater recharge."
There are two types of groundwater recharge/replenishment, explained Crook.
The first, surface spreading, involves tertiary-treated reclaimed water that is spread in basins, where it receives additional treatment. Then it slowly percolates through the earth prior to co-mingling with native groundwater. It is later extracted at a downgradient potable water supply well.
The second technique involves injecting recycled water directly into an aquifer used as a source of potable supply.
The upcoming regulations will make it simpler for new groundwater recharge/replenishment projects to get started. Nearly 10 drafts for similar regulations have been considered by the CDPH since 1990. Though none were ever made official, the industry has attempted to comply each time, leaving many feeling like they were chasing a "moving target," explained Hartling.
"Hopefully when we have these regulations in place, solidified, and adopted, we'll know exactly what to aim for in terms of treatment," he said.
California has always been at the forefront of water recycling. The state was one of the first to run a groundwater recharge project using recycled water, with the Montebello Forebay Groundwater Recharge Project in Los Angeles County in 1962. California has more groundwater recharge IPR projects than any other state in the U.S.
Because of this long history, Hartling doesn't feel the upcoming regulations will change public opinion of water recycling.
"In a lot of areas of California, we've been doing it for so long that when people find out that their water is recycled they think, 'Oh well, I've been drinking this for 50 years and I'm fine,'" he said. "But when some of these additional projects come about, the new regulations and the additional treatment that will accompany them will go a long way toward removing some of the opposition."
The exact requirements of the new regulations are still being determined. However, a draft written in June 2013 outlined some possible details. According to the draft, all groundwater replenishment reuse projects (GRRPs) should utilize a treatment method that "consists of at least three separate treatment processes," and meets, at a minimum, the requirements for filtered wastewater and disinfected tertiary recycled water. Water that goes through advanced treatment is subject to less regulation overall.
Certain contaminants must be monitored regularly before and after the recycled water is released into the environment. Prior to replenishment, at least one 24-hour composite sample to test for total organic carbon (TOC) must be taken each week. Results of the TOC monitoring performed cannot exceed 0.5 mg/L based on a 20-week average of all TOC results and the average of the last four TOC results.
Nitrogen samples, representative of the recycled municipal wastewater or recharge water applied throughout the spreading area, must be taken each week at least three days apart to assure average levels don't exceed 10 mg/L total Each quarter, the recycled municipal wastewater must also be analyzed for chemicals having notification levels (NLs).
The draft also outlines requirements for how long recycled water must stay in the environment before being utilized by a downstream drinking water facility. As the draft currently stands, the water must stay in the environment for at least the period of time required for the organization in charge of it to respond and identify treatment failures and take action. This can be no less than two months. The draft also states that "two monitoring wells downgradient of the water entry point must be constructed no less than two weeks but no more than six months of travel time away and at least 30 days up-gradient of the nearest drinking water well."
Public notification of recycled water use could also be required by the new regulations. As the draft stands now, "the first downgradient potable water well owner and well owners whose drinking water well is within 10 years from the GRRP based on groundwater flow directions and velocities" must be notified of the recycled water use. Industrial, commercial, and residential communities within the service area that flows into the water reclamation plant must be informed of water reuse intent. The draft states that this is "for the purpose of managing and minimizing the discharge of chemicals and contaminants at the source."
The regulations require more treatment for recycled water than may be necessary, said Hartling. But he doesn't expect them to loosen up anytime soon.
"The health department was, probably rightly so, hesitant and concerned about using recycled water, so they were a little overly cautious," he said. But once those regulations get in, it's very hard to make them less stringent."
Once the recycled water recharge regulations are in place, the CDPH will begin working on the second half of the initiative — creating regulations regarding direct potable reuse (DPR). It is estimated that the framework for DPR regulations will be completed by 2016. Hartling believes DPR and ground water recharge will both eventually be a necessity in California, as well as other states that are short on water.
"We can put water underground, and that helps, but we can only put so much water underground," he said "Eventually DPR will have to be the future."
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Tom Brady achieved yet another notable career landmark on Sunday when he became the most successful quarterback in NFL history, winning his 201st game to move ahead of Peyton Manning.
The four-time Super Bowl winner, who has spent his entire NFL career with the New England Patriots, boasts some seriously impressive statistics.
With the help of Opta, we take a look at a number of his most impressive numbers.
7,957 - Brady has thrown for a NFL-record 7,957 passing yards in the postseason. Peyton Manning (7,339) is the only other quarterback with more than 5,900 postseason passing yards.
56 - Brady has also thrown 56 touchdowns in the playoffs, 11 more than Joe Montana, who sits in second place with 45.
335 - The 39-year-old holds the NFL record for most consecutive regular-season passes without an interception.
60,498 - Brady is closing in on Brett Favre's record for the most passing yards accumulated with one team. The Patriots QB's current tally of 60,498 yards puts him just 1,157 yards short of Favre's tally with the Green Bay Packers.
97.0 - A career passer rating of 97.0 puts Brady fourth on the all-time NFL list, behind Aaron Rodgers (103.5), Russell Wilson (100.3) and Tony Romo (97.1).
9 - Brady holds the record for the most game-winning drives (nine) and fourth-quarter comebacks (six) in a postseason career. He has led 38 fourth-quarter comebacks in all, the second-most in NFL history.
4,000 - He has thrown for at least 4,000 yards in five straight seasons, tied for the second-longest active streak in the league and the fourth-longest streak all-time.
259.6 - Brady is averaging 259.6 passing yards per game, which currently ranks as the seventh-most all-time among qualified quarterbacks. In addition, he owns a career interception percentage of 1.9 per cent, which is the fifth-lowest in NFL history among qualified quarterbacks.


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TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — NJ TRANSIT has launched an internal probe into its preparations for Superstorm Sandy, according to a published report.
Among the most crucial issues to be probed is the decision to store trains in areas that ended up getting inundated by storm surge, according to the New York Post.
Almost a third of the NJ TRANSIT fleet was damaged in the storm on Oct. 29, and some say the potentially multimillion-dollar loss could have been prevented, the Post reported.
In all, 261 of NJ Transit's passenger railcars and 63 of its locomotives sustained damage and are in line for repairs, spokesman John Durso Jr. told The Record of Woodland Park. An estimate of the cost to repair the damage is not yet available, Durso said.
The agency has 203 locomotives and 1,162 cars.
Still, he insisted there will be no impact on rail service in the short term. Late Friday, the agency announced all but one of its rail lines will be up and running on Monday. However, much of the system will still run a modified schedule, including the Bergen, Main and Pascack Valley lines.
The Northeast Corridor, the line with the most traffic, is expected to run a regular schedule.
Limited service was restored earlier this week to the Montclair-Boonton Line into Penn Station in New York City and to Hoboken.
Midtown Direct service also resumed on the Morristown Line with trains operating between Dover and Summit into New York. The agency says trains will also resume on the North Jersey Coast line between Bay Head and New York City and Hoboken on Monday.
Full information can be found at njtransit.com.
Durso declined to explain the long-term impact that fewer railcars and fewer engines will have on NJ TRANSIT customers who have been left to navigate a constantly changing, patchwork system that includes emergency buses and ferries while the agency tries to address systemwide damage resulting from Sandy. The agency did not anticipate the severity of the flooding that enveloped its Hoboken yard, Durso said. There were 37 railcars and 12 engines left in Hoboken.
"The extent of flooding in Hoboken exceeded any prior experience," Durso said. "The engines and railcars there were located in the highest point in the yard — in a location that had never sustained flooding previously, including in storms such as Irene or Floyd."
The 49 pieces of now-damaged equipment were left in Hoboken even as NJ TRANSIT, in a news release issued the Sunday before Sandy struck New Jersey, announced it was shutting down its bus, rail and light rail systems and moving equipment out of low-lying areas.
"The suspension of NJ TRANSIT service will require a minimum of 12 hours to complete," the release said. "The process requires the relocation and securing of buses, rail equipment and other NJ Transit assets away from flood-prone areas."
The release also pointed out that during Hurricane Irene, NJ Transit saved billions in assets by securing its system.
Durso said cost estimates for the damage are still being gathered and that all of the damaged equipment will be repaired. "None will be lost," he said. He gave no answer when asked how long it will take to finish repairs.
The other coaches and locomotives in the fleet that were damaged were at NJ Transit's Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, which was fully surrounded by floodwaters during the height of the storm.
Durso said the full extent of the damage is still not known, but so far includes:
Water damage to vehicle interiors, such as soaked insulation panels and seat cushions.
Saltwater intrusion into onboard electrical systems.
Damage to undercarriage equipment, such as heating and air conditioning units and batteries.
He said some vehicle repairs may require the removal of seats, wall panels and floors to get to the damaged components.
NJ Transit stores train cars and locomotives at rail yards in Waldwick, Great Notch, Hoboken, Dover, Suffern, Port Morris, Bay Head, Kearny, Morrisville, and Raritan.
In preparation for Sandy, Durso said the equipment in vulnerable areas was housed or transferred to areas around the state, including the Waldwick Yard, Raritan Yard and locations in Woodbridge, Jersey City, New Brunswick, Hammonton and Hoboken, as well as other locations in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
The agency is now scrambling to repair the equipment by reaching out to sister agencies like Amtrak and repair shops.
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... Mikey and I touched on evolvability and how it itself is a product of the process of evolution - although the extent to which it itself is selectable is an open question. However, there is one area which may be of particular interest along these lines.
Variable Length Tandem Repeats
In recent literature, there is a fair amount of discussion involving tandem repeat slippage in variable length repeats. Much of the slippage being discussed is in coding sequences - which is a great deal easier to analyse than that we occurs in the promoter regions where transcription factors (typically regulatory proteins, although structural proteins may also act as transcription factors) bind to genetic sequences acting as inputs which determine the extent to which the protein which a gene codes for gets transcribed. Additionally, tandem repeats are being found in introns which control alternate splicing - and thus give rise to different proteins being coded for by the same gene.
PZ Meyers dealt with one of the technical papers a while back in his post:
Tandem repeats and morphological variation
Monday, January 03, 2005
http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comm ... variation/
This was in reference to the article at:
Molecular origins of rapid and continuous morphological evolution (YES!)
John W. Fondon, III *, and Harold R. Garner
PNAS | December 28, 2004 | vol. 101 | no. 52 | 18058-18063
In essence, Fondon and Garner were able to trace much of the morphological variation in dogs back to variable numbers of amino acids in transcription factors - where this variability is itself the result of the variable length tandem repeats which code for these transcription factors.
Likewise, the antifreeze proteins of polar fishes appear to be the result of variable length tandem repeats. Here are a few articles in the area:
Cheng, C.-H.C. and DeVries, A.L. (2002) Origins and evolution of fish antifreeze proteins. In Molecular Aspects of Fish and Marine Biology Vol.1 - Monograph on Fish Antifreeze Proteins (Eds. C. Hew and V. Ewart), pp. 83-108, World Sci. Press, New Jersey.
Cheng, C.-H.C. and L. Chen (1999) Evolution of an antifreeze glycoprotein. Nature 40: 443-444.
Cheng, C.-H.C. (1998) Origin and mechanism of evolution of antifreeze glycoproteins in polar fish. In Evolution of the Antarctic Ichthyofauna (Eds. G. di Prisco and E. Pisano), pp. 311-328, Springer-Verlag, Italy.
Conservation of antifreeze protein-encoding genes in tandem repeats
Davies PL., Gene. 1992 Mar 15;112(2):163-70.
(Abstract) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract
The following is are two articles on the role of variable length tandem repeats in the regulation of alternative splicing:
New Study Explains Process Leading To Many Proteins From One Gene
Date: April 14, 2005
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 142734.htm
Evidence for the regulation of alternative splicing via complementary DNA sequence repeats
Yun Lian and Harold R. Garner
Bioinformatics 2005 21(8 ):1358-1364
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.or ... /21/8/1358
Likewise, here is an article on tandem repeats in a promoter region:
Sequence Turnover and Tandem Repeats in cis-Regulatory Modules in Drosophila
Saurabh Sinha and Eric D. Siggia
Molecular Biology and Evolution 2005 22(4):874-885
But why are variable length tandem repeats and tandem repeat slippage important?
Because this form of mutation (where due to a kind of stuttering during the process DNA duplication occurs with repeat sequences - such as CGG, triplets will be added or subtracted from the genetic sequence) is up to a 100,000 times faster in modifying a genetic sequence. Incidentally, there is at least one other mechanism by which variable length tandem repeats may grow or shink - a process of unequal crossover during sexual recombination.
Here are a couple of articles on this:
Technical REVIEW
Mini- and microsatellite expansions: the recombination connection
Guy-Franck Richard & Frederic Paques
EMBO reports 1, 2, 122-126 (2000)
http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v1/ ... bor606.pdf
Expansions and Contractions in a Tandem Repeat Induced by Double-Strand Break Repair
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY, Apr. 1998, p. 2045-2054 Vol. 18, No. 4
But where do such tandem repeats come from?
Although it is possible for them to originate, for example, as the result of point mutations, at least with the shorter sequences, larger tandem repeats are the result of retroelements.
Please see:
Technical REVIEW
Origin, evolution and genome distribution of microsatellites
Eder Jorge Oliveira, Juliano Gomes Pádua, Maria Imaculada Zucchi, Roland Vencovsky and Maria Lúcia Carneiro Vieira
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 29, 2, 294-307 (2006)
Furthermore, retroelements appear to be the relics of past retroviral invasions of the genome. As such, a great deal of the evolution of multicellular life is evidentally driven by the engine of retroviruses - which insert their sequences into the genomes of organisms, and, over time, these sequences become duplicated and then are subject to tandem repeat slippage.


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As inspired as we all were, one thing the convention lacked, in my opinion, was an emphasis on datavisualization. Perhaps I was aware of this because I was tracking NICAR13 on Twitter at the same time. All I know is that students (and advisers) need much more training on this.
And get it (at least a bit), they will. My Journalism 121 are starting the unit on data reporting. First, I'm aiming to convince them that learning this stuff is necessary, as I've done in the past. In fact, it may just get them a job.
We're not going big on this. After all, it's an introduction, and realistically, serious training would take a heck of a lot longer than two weeks. But, I want them to at least get some exposure and some practice. The plan is to familiarize them with Excel through a series of exercises. Then, in the past, they've written stories based on their analysis of college crime statistics. This semester, though, I'm loving Jake Batsell's coffee prices assignment, which also brings in mapping, something we did a couple of assignments back.
If any of them really geeks out on this unit, I've got a list of resources for them to continue their training. This list is fraction of what's out there:
- Data Driven Journalism–Really, you can just stop reading my list right now and go straight to theirs. It's awesome.
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Bizarre FACELESS fish found in Australia leaving scientists baffled
Weird 40cm creature with 'no eyes or mouth' was found during major scientific voyage exploring deep waters
THIS bizarre faceless fish discovered during a world-first exploration of an Australian deep sea abyss has left scientists completely baffled.
The incredible creature was among dozens of new species uncovered during the scientific voyage at depths of 2.5 miles below the surface.
Experts used nets, sonar and deep-sea cameras to study an area from northern Tasmania to central Queensland, dubbed the "most unexplored environment on earth".
They came across the unusual 40cm faceless fish south of Sydney, which has only ever been recorded once before by the pioneering crew of HMS Challenger off Papua New Guinea in 1873.
Chief scientist Dr Tim O'Hara, speaking on board the ship, told the Guardian: "This little fish looks amazing because the mouth is actually situated at the bottom of the animal so, when you look side-on, you can't see any eyes, you can't see any nose or gills or mouth.
"It looks like two rear-ends on a fish, really."
He said because of the darkness at such huge depths, creatures "often have no eyes or produce their own light through bioluminescence".
Another find was carnivorous sponges that wield lethal spicules made of silicon, effectively glass, which digest small crustaceans hooked on their Velcro-like spines.
They also found bright red spiky rock crabs and gigantic sea spiders "as big as a dinner plate".
Dr O'Hara added: "We've got 27 scientists on board who are leaders in their fields and they tell me that around one-third of what we've found are new species."
Several thousand specimens have so far been retrieved with two weeks of the trip remaining.
Dr O'Hara also revealed that the crews have come across large quantities of rubbish, including PVC pipes and cans of paints, which he believes was dumped from old steam ships.
"It's amazing, we're in the middle of nowhere and still the sea floor has 200 years of rubbish on it," he told the Guardian.
The expedition has been organised by the Museums Victoria and the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
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In this VERY special episode of Timey Wimey TV, we invited romance author and supplier of genetic material Janet Miller to discuss her favorite time travel shows and films, from past classics to recent favorites.
Well, that was the original idea, anyway. What ACTUALLY ends up happening is Liz and Rudy and Janet discussing how romance works as both a genre and a storytelling element in science fiction. It was a fun conversation! Hopefully you'll enjoy it.
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Trailer: for "Pretty Persuasion," starring "Thirteen"'s Evan Rachel Wood, here. Premiered at Sundance, got a mixed reception. Looks to be a falling-anvils-worthy attempt at Alexander Payne-style satire.
AFP reports that Hong Kong-based director Andrew Lau, of the "Infernal Affairs" and "Young and Dangerous" films, is in talks to direct a mid-budget Hollywood drama starring Richard Gere. Martin Scorsese's remake of "Infernal Affairs," "The Departed," is currently filming in Boston.
Via Empire, John Moore, whose "Flight of the Phoenix" remake was greeted with shrugs and yawns of enthusiasm, has signed on to direct "The Omen 666," either, yes, a remake of the Gregory Peck-meets-devil-baby classic, or the latest in the long, barrel-bottom-scraping sequels that followed it.
From the Hollywood Reporter: Antoine Fuqua is in talks to direct a Notorious B.I.G. biopic for Fox Searchlight.
And, by way of indieWIRE: Sundance hit "The Dying Gaul," with our beloved Peter Sarsgaard, gets picked up (of course) by Strand.
+ Trailer: Pretty Persuasion (Apple)
+ Hong Kong director invited to Hollywood to make debut film (AFP)
+ Is This A Bad Omen? (Empire)
+ Fox Searchlight readies Notorious B.I.G. biopic (HR)
+ Holedigger Films Announces Deal with Strand for "Gaul" North American Theatrical Release (indieWIRE)