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5 Simple Ways to Look and Feel Sexier Starting Right Now
April 21, 2021
There are two types of people in the world – those who admit they'd like to feel sexier and those who aren't being honest with themselves. Being able to command attention and turn every head in the room just plain feels good. Everyone knows or has met someone who positively radiates sex appeal without even trying and has wondered what it would be like to be the same.
Feeling and coming across as effortlessly sexy isn't necessarily about having a perfect figure or a face that looks like it belongs in a magazine. Sexiness does come more naturally to some people than others, but it's also something you can learn with enough practice. Here are some great tips for getting started.
1. Understand that "sexy" is relative.
No two people will have exactly the same ideas as to what makes a particular person sexy. One person may think girl next door-style innocence is the sexiest thing in the world, while someone else might absolutely melt for in-your-face flirtatiousness. People have different ideas about what makes someone's face, body, demeanor, and attitude sexy, as well.
Don't waste your energy trying to please everyone (or anyone, in particular, for that matter.) What do you like best about yourself? What features and traits attract the most compliments from other people? Those are the traits that contribute to your own unique "sexy factor," so focus on playing those up.
2. Channel your inner confidence.
Although no two people are indeed going to agree on everything that makes a person sexy, confidence is one secret ingredient that's on almost everyone's list. Like sexiness, confidence is the type of thing that's hard to put a finger on, but it is something anyone can cultivate.
It starts with accepting yourself, learning to love the unique person you are, and genuinely believing that you're sexy. The belief part is critical, as — without it — you'll never quite get to where you want to be. People instinctively know when someone's putting on an act, so there's no way to fake confidence. If you believe you're red hot sexy, it will show in a way that demands other people think so, too.
3. Laugh often, and have fun always.
There's something genuinely infectious about a person who always looks like they're having a good time. Everyone likes having fun and feeling happy, so they're naturally drawn to folks who look like they know what that's all about. Also, laughter and smiles are incredibly sexy no matter what the setting.
One surefire way to look, feel, and seem sexier no matter what you're doing is to have a good time doing it. Enjoy the moment with wild abandon. Don't be afraid to let other people hear and see your joy. You never know who might find themselves charmed beyond redemption.
4. Make it a point to give (and demand) respect.
Sexy, confident people know their value. Even if they're also the humble type, they don't allow others to take them for granted or treat them as an option when they know they deserve to be a priority. Always treat yourself and others with respect, and demand that those you keep company with do the same.
As with believing that you're sexy, knowing in your heart that you truly have worth ensures you'll be treated well. Surround yourself with people who also agree that you're valuable and worthy. They'll help your confidence and sense of self-love to grow, making you even more irresistible.
5. Treat yourself to sexy things.
Sexy people who believe they're worth it take good care of themselves from the inside out. They make it a point to eat right and work out because they love feeling healthy and being good to themselves. They dress in a way that makes them feel attractive, and they're always careful to practice good grooming, as they know a great impression is often about those little details.
They also buy themselves little treats that make them feel sexy instead of always waiting for someone else to do it. Don't buy or wear sexy lingerie only when you know someone else will see you in it. Buy it for yourself, and bask in the beautiful feeling that comes with wearing it when you want. Do the same with items like satin sheets, luxurious perfumes, fun adult toys, or anything else that helps you feel sexy and irresistible.
Ultimately, the best way to be one of the sexy people is to start thinking like one and treating yourself like one. Sexy people are comfortable in their own skins. They know what makes them unique, and they play those things up. They also get that life's about enjoying yourself to the fullest. They love themselves, they love their lives, and they own it! Start doing the same, and it's only a matter of time before you're where you want to be.


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From Sydney at some point in the last decade, Aloha Units "Mates Machine" is off a 4 track tape of the same name. It is post-punk/diy/lo-fi, and a bit of all the things that are nice according to my subjective yammering and murmuring.
It would be hard to find a better example of a phrase I use as a mantra for both the making and assessing: control achieved through a willing proximity to its loss. Guitars scritch in heaping variables of concerted noise and two drum lanes pace the undertone. The squashy sprawl of the track is composed of a gentle thundering.
If you're acclimated or accustomed to it, there's a great deal of nuance to the edifice and its architectonics. It's one a hell of a Hans Sprungfeld of a tune. And what I want to say, what I'm telling you now, is that Jebediah is really great.
In the petty amount of google searching I did for this post I was very excited to find Finley's more recent work in anti-folk form as VIPP and, alternatively, synthwave focused with Sex Tourists. And really look forward to diving in when there is a moment to breath or look.

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An interesting choice of window box flowers, these tall lilies, don't you think? They made me stop and smile on my lunchtime walk this week.
Here are some other pretty flowers..firstly our beautiful blue hydrangeas out the front. They are growing FAST!
Some pretty specimens around our local estate.
I'm loving this rich, deep purple.
The rain is pouring down now while we are cosy inside the house. We managed a nice walk in Windsor Great Park just now with only a few raindrops. We were 🍀 lucky.
I always love the big old oaks in Windsor Great Park. This one has some heavy duty supports to keep it from falling over onto the path.
Mushrooms… do not eat!
I love this tree's face. I gave it a big hug!
Last, but not least, I want to tell you about last night's meal. We went to Roux at Skindles, which is a brasserie restaurant in Maidenhead owned by the Roux brothers. It's in the building that used to be Skindles nightclub, by the river next to Maidenhead Bridge. I think the prices had gone up a bit since last time we were there, but we didn't really mind as everything was so delicious, immaculately presented and the service was excellent. Highly recommended.
After cocktails of Kir Royale for David and Mojito for me, together with some yummy bread and butter, we both started off with the goat's cheese soufflé. OMG this was so good! We were in starter heaven. We would definitely have this again.
We then were served our tasty bottle of Viognier wine. The main course was also exceptional. I'm sorry I didn't photograph it for you, I was too busy gobbling it all up! We both had the lamb cannon with spinach and dauphinoise potato. Delicious. The lamb was already sliced into thick slices, perfectly cooked, so tender. It was locally sourced British lamb. You'll just have to imagine that. Clean plates.
From my seat at the table I could view the chefs in the kitchen as well as the view of the river and Maidenhead Bridge. The waitress told me this is her favourite seat. The restaurant was not that busy as I think many were at home watching the football. I know where I'd rather be!
Then for pudding, David opted for vanilla ice cream and at his request they made him a chocolate sauce to go with it that was not on the menu. I had the millefeuille with strawberry sorbet. It was all good but the sorbet was exquisite.
If I went again, I'd like to try the chocolate crème brûlée with coconut ice cream. Sounds great.
Off to prepare tea and cake now my friends. There's no tennis to watch but Wimbledon will be back on tomorrow, yippee can't wait! 🙂 Xx


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By Martin Heidegger,Bret W. Davis
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Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?
Halloween has long been debated in Christian circles as to whether or not it's right or wrong to participate. Sometimes, culture presents us with things that aren't black and white and require us to do a little bit of homework before we jump to conclusions or make blind assumptions. As we teach our students, we need to be thinking people- people who make decisions based on well-thought out logic paired with the wisdom of God.
So what do we do with a culture piece that seems to hold a lot of weight in people's minds? Here's a thinking process we have found helpful when evaluating certain cultural norms. Research-Reject-Receive-Redeem .
1. Research the aspect of culture that you are discussing, in this case, Halloween.
It will take far too long to write the history of Halloween here, and it's not necessarily the point of this post. So in short, the holiday did, in some part, originate from pagan and mythical practices. But calling it "Satanic" can merely end up being a game of semantics. (What about Roman and Greek mythology, etc?) Maybe all these things are "satanic," maybe they aren't. Christians need to exercise thoughtful discernment when coming to conclusions about such matters.
2. Reject, Receive, or Redeem.
Christians have three options when it comes to how they want to approach the culture issue at hand, in this case, Halloween.
A Christian named Pat Robertson called Halloween the "festival of the Devils" and said it was wrong for Christians to participate. But to reject it outright without answering this question, would be foolish... "To what extent does something's evolution from pagan roots entail that its present practice is tainted?" Because today, there's been a huge shift in the original practices of Halloween, to kids dressed up in cute costumes for a sugar fest once a year.
If you are going to outright reject Halloween are you consistent in rejecting other holidays completely as well? There are pagan practices rooted in most holidays as is excess, like too much candy on Halloween. So should we reject Thanksgiving too because some people eat too much and gluttony is a sin?
Other Christians reject Halloween because they fear the evil will influence their Christian faith. The idea is, 'garbage in, garbage out.' But Jesus says the exact opposite is true in Mark 7:21-23. The fruit of our lives (whether holiness or sin) is always tied to the root of our hearts. Sin absolutely corrupts but the sin is not so much 'out there in the world' as much as it is in the heart of every person. Holding fast to the outright rejection position falsely assumes sin is mostly what we do rather than who we are.
Receiving halloween means one might take it in its full glory, jumping in with both feet and embracing every single aspect of the holiday and its practices without ever thinking through the why and the how. This in and of itself may not be a problem, but the concern may be that we might have too quickly and blindly just accepted something culture had to offer without thinking deeply about it.
If we have an informed understanding of the history of Halloween and realize that as a Christian we have the biblical freedom to redeem cultural practices (1 Corinthians 10:22-23), Christians should follow their conscience in choosing how to approach this holiday.
How one goes about which aspects of Halloween to redeem or receive is still a tricky issue. One suggestion is to distinguish between the cultural aspects of Halloween and the religious aspects of Halloween. "There is a big difference between kids dressing up in cute costumes for candy and Mardi-Gras-like Halloween parties with offensive costumes and uninhibited excess."
"It's naive to make a blanket judgment to reject or receive Halloween as a whole. There should be no pressure to participate, but for those Christians whose conscience permits, we should view it as an opportunity to engage wisely with our culture and to choose how we can redeem this aspect of culture. Many Christian use this culture piece of Halloween as a way to get out into their neighborhoods and hang out with those around them, build relationships, and be together with people they live near when they otherwise might not get to do as often. And, let's be honest, mom and dad really enjoy raiding the Halloween buckets once all the kids are sleeping (just don't forget to garboflage the evidence)!
As someone who is both Head of School and a parent of students at our school, I often get an added front row seat on the fruit of our labors as we commit to the time tested process of classical, Christian education. As with all parenting and career pathways, most of us at some point or another have asked ourselves, "Is this worth it? Are we seeing fruit? Do these things really matter?" The answer is yes. Yes, it's worth it. Yes, there is fruit (even on the hard days), and yes, it absolutely matters.
On the drive to school this morning, my kids were talking about a school friend whose family recently had to put their dog down. My daughter asked in a very concerned voice, "Do they do that to people too?" Suddenly, I found myself in the throws of a very deep and weighty discussion at 6:45am before my coffee even kicked in, about ethics, the image of God, our eternality, our position as human beings, and a God who is sovereign over life, death, and everything in between. What struck me, however, was the way in which my 6th grade son joined the conversation.
He kept asking all of the "why" questions surrounding this issue. At first, I attributed it to his developmental age. But suddenly, as he continued talking, I realized I was engaging with the fruit of our labors as a classical Christian school. In classical Christian schools we start everything with: "God created us and everything else for one singular purpose- His glory." All of a sudden, out of the backseat, I began to see the tiny sprout emerging from my son's early logic school education. Here sat a very beginning logic student, on his own, wrestling with the logic of the topic at hand- All truth is God's truth, and God created us and all things for his glory...So, what if this proposition is true? What follows? How should we live, given this purpose? I was completely awe-struck at his ability to detect the errors in an argument about whether or not we should be able to euthanize humans. He was even able to bring the conversation outside of the Christian worldview... "What would be the argument against euthanizing humans if a person does not believe in God or see Him as the ultimate authority. What would follow that? How then, should people live?"
As we drove on to school, I thought to myself that this was a perfect example of the difference between Bible classes and chapel versus Biblical integration that is the spine of classical, Christian education.
I had a meeting earlier this week with another Headmaster and we spent significant time discussing the difference between a traditional Christian school and a classical, Christian school. This obviously doesn't pertain to every non-classical Christian school, but by and large, there are differences in how we approach our faith and its role in the education process.
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For me personally, what we drove me to not just start a Christian school, but a classical Christian school was the deep disconnect I discovered in my faith and real life as I became an adult. Educated in public and traditional Christian education systems, I developed a solid knowledge of Scripture, but I absolutely lacked the experience to apply it in historical or existential ways. This greatly limited my Christian worldview application outside very black and white situations. When I began to find myself face to face with the challenges of modern ideologies, I reacted as I had learned, by compartmentalizing my faith in relation to other fields of knowledge. I wholly viewed the Bible and spirituality as a basis for my life and my beliefs, but most other things outside the obvious spiritual realm I saw as neutral, or disconnected.
Once I began to understand the schools of logic and rhetoric as an adult, I realized where I wanted my own children, and any school community I lead, to go... I wanted them to not only be taught the logic: What if this proposition is true- that God created us and everything else for one singular purpose, His glory? What follows? How should we live, given this purpose? But I also wanted them to go further with it. I didn't want it just end with a spiritual box at the end of the lesson that says what does this application look like.
Instead, I saw the immense value of the classical Christian approach that goes further than the spiritual box at the end of a seemingly secular context... As David Goodwin says, "After given the logic, they are then taught to read and discuss great ideas from great thinkers, in great historical cultures, written in great texts. Students practice emulating the best arguments of these great texts, because there's nothing like emulating a master to learn an art. And the art of logic and rhetoric teaches us that good arguments, after all, connect bedrock axioms with practical daily truth. Through this process, students learn to think well, to view our universe as one big system that fits together, and to understand this system as it reflects "God's Glory alone." This is practiced, not just taught. Over time and through this practice, the student's loves, virtues, and passions are shaped within the order of God's world."
And this dear friends, is where the rubber meets the road...where the early logic student is seeing that every inch of thought, history, and natural creation is an extension of the work of Jesus Christ. This practice equips students to wisely navigate life's ethical and spiritual challenges that they will inevitably face. Students learn to, as Paul wrote in Corinthians, "to take every thought captive to Christ," meaning that they recognize the permanent and beautiful truth of redemption, in spite of what political propaganda, enticing opportunities, and cultural rhetoric they may encounter.
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As Vieques Hunger Strike Enters Day Five, Jailed Officials Remain Steadfast
NEW YORK – Roberto Ramirez is at once resolute and stunned, proud of his stance yet amazed at where he sits. The New York City politician is in prison, sentenced along with nearly a dozen others last month for trespassing during protests of U.S. Navy bombing exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
"This wasn't supposed to happen," Ramirez, a lawyer, told The Associated Press in an interview Friday at the prison where he and two other elected officials are serving 40-day sentences on the charges.
"When you think about the community that I come from, not going to jail was an incredible achievement," he said.
"I spent all my life staying away from jail. In my family, I was the first one to graduate from high school, the first one to get a college degree, the first one to go to law school. I'm the successful one. I went to the state legislature, I became head of the Democratic Party."
Now, he is among the four demonstrators in federal prison in Brooklyn who are staging a hunger strike that was in its fifth day on Saturday.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, City Councilman Adolfo Carrion, state Assemblyman Jose Rivera and Ramirez, the Bronx County Democratic Party chairman, were arrested in Puerto Rico for taking part in protests May 1. Sharpton, who has other civil disobedience arrests, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for trespassing.
Virtually all the publicity about the so-called Vieques Four has focused on Sharpton, a civil rights activist, but Ramirez, Rivera, and Carrion have also been on a hunger strike to call attention to the Vieques exercises. They were among hundreds arrested on trespassing charges in the protests last month.
The three, who have rated little mention in most news accounts, have Puerto Rican roots and have held elective office. Ramirez said they are grateful for the publicity Sharpton has drawn to the issue; yet they draw on a stronger cultural connection.
"I think we have a different perspective. I've been hearing about Vieques all my life. It's been going on for 60 years and I'm 51. Jose Rivera has been fighting against what's happening in Vieques for at least 20 years," said Ramirez.
Their roots help give them the "willingness to put our political careers on the line for the greater good," he said.
Linda Baldwin, Carrion's wife and his lawyer, said that "There's a political history between the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and being Puerto Rican makes you very aware of that."
But it has not been easy for the three to explain to their children why they are in prison and to stay immersed in their political careers from behind bars.
"It has been hard to explain why their father is in jail. The concept is not an easy one," Ramirez said.
Baldwin said, "It's been very difficult on the kids. It's hard to explain to them, but they understand that it's for a good cause. It is very upsetting."
"All we did is to stand in a dirt road eight miles away from where they were bombing for about 20 minutes," Ramirez said, adding of his jail sentence: "This just seems disproportionate."
Each of the three has sought to continue working to some extent through visits and telephone calls.
"I have Fernando Ferrer's mayoralty campaign, I have Adolfo Carrion's borough president race, I do law work. ... The most difficult is the need to make this (Vieques protest) happen and also keep up my own responsibilities," Ramirez said.
Rivera is officially "excused" from the Assembly instead of being recorded as "absent" for as long as he is jailed. The Assembly and state Senate have approved resolutions calling on the Bush administration to stop the practice bombing, saying it is damaging the environment and the health of Vieques' inhabitants.
The four have not made a final decision on how long they will continue their hunger strike, but Ramirez said he intended to persist as long as the action seemed meaningful — at least until the end of his sentence.
"I always wanted to be a member of a group, a quartet," said Ramirez, referring to his membership in the Vieques Four, a term coined by the New York media.
"I just never imagined in my wildest dreams that it would be like this."


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Sunday, March 13, 2022 by: JD Heyes
(Natural News) The news coming out of Ukraine regarding Russia's invasion has often been sketchy and even unreliable, which is nothing new given Western media's penchant for literally politicizing everything, including war.
The American media is no different, of course, and in fact, one could argue that most left-wing U.S. outlets are literally nothing more than propaganda sources for whatever interests the current Democrat-controlled regime embraces.
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Review: In New York City, Phil and Claire try to keep their relationship alive but in doing this they accidentally become entangled in a conspiracy between corrupt cops, a mob boss and a crazy cab driver.
Director: Shawn Levy
Actors: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson, Jimmi Simpson, Common, William Fichtner, Leighton Meester, J.B. Smoove, Kristen Wiig, Mark Ruffalo, James Franco, Mila Kunis, Bill Burr and Jonathan Morgan Heit
Year: 2010
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime and Romance
Conclusion: 3/5
Steve Carell who is such a clever talented actor ends up in two awful films in the same year. One being this and the other is Dinner for Schmucks (2010). Definitely not Steve Carell's best year for films. On the plus side Steve Carell and Tina Fey do work together very well. Both James Franco and Mark Wahlberg have cameos. Watch right to the end of this film as there is an additional outtake after the credits. Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo both later then appeared in Foxcatcher (2014). Also Mark Whalberg and Mila Kunis both appeared in Ted (2012).
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"Rare & Scratchy Rock 'N Roll #_035 Celebrates "Earth Day"
-- Songs About The Environment --
This episode commemorates the "Earth Day" rock and pop music connection.
"Earth Day "was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in that took place on April 22nd, 1970. And it's been celebrated annually around the world ever since.
We're doing our part here at "Rare & Scratchy Rock 'N Roll." Our very own EPA – environmental platter administration – has assembled a list of 40 ecologically sound songs that have been recycled from our renowned "groove yard" audio archive.
We'll count them down for you. Marvin Gaye, John Denver, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Metallica, the Talking Heads, the Beach Boys, Johnny Cash, Cat Stevens, the Pretenders, Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, the Kinks, the Eagles, the Beatles, the Yardbirds, the Byrds, and many others performed environmentally-friendly refrains and bio-degradable ballads. And you'll hear about them here on this pollution-free podcast – all approved by Mother Nature.
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YOUTH ROUNDUP: Buena JV team wins twice at Royal softball tournament
At Royal Tournament, Saturday
Buena: In a 12-1 win over Crescenta Valley, Nikki Henry was 2 for 3 with a homer and two RBIs. Courtney Terrazas was 3 for 3 with a triple, homer and three RBIs. Haley Howard went 2 for 3 with an RBI. Jonyssa Carrillo finished 2 for 3. Kaylee Daw was 2 for 3 with a triple and two RBIs. Sierra Garcia pitched five innings with eight strikeouts and also had a triple and an RBI. Katelyn Kelley had a hit and an RBI. Julisa Gamino was 2 for 3 with three RBIs. In a 4-0 win over Granada Hills, Garcia struck out six in six scoreless innings. Henry was 2 for 3 with a double, triple and two RBIs. Courtney Terrazas was 2 for 3 with an RBI. Kalyee Daw, Carrillo and Gamino had hits. The 12-team tournament continues this weekend.
Foothill Tech: Troy Lindemann pitched five innings for the win. Sam Bova picked up the save. Victor Valencia, Trey Casswell and Lindemann each had two hits.
ABDG Mets: Kyle Blalock picked up the win, allowing one run on one hit with five strikeouts in 2.1 innings. Ryan Williams didn't allow a run in two-thirds of an inning. Matt Badorek pitched a scoreless inning with a strikeout. Tyler Panattoni pitched a scoreless fifth as the game was called because of the 10-run mercy rule. Panattoni also had an RBI single. Nathan Pavel tripled and scored a run. Jeremy Craft drew an RBI walk and played well on defense. Nick Tatone drew a walk and stole three bases. Jose Rodriguez drew a walk and stole a base. Brian Gabaldon hit a key RBI single to start a second-inning rally. Shaun McAnany was hit by pitch and played well at catcher. Blalock had a single, walk and scored two runs. Chris Handlin had a hit and two RBIs. Chris Down was hit by a pitch, drew a walk and scored twice.
At Russell Cup, Carpinteria, Saturday
Santa Clara girls: Natalie Maldonado placed 18th in 100 (14.21) and 22nd in the 200 (30.17). Clio Wagner was 20th in the 800 (2:49.96) and 1,600 (6:10.01).
Santa Clara boys: Christian Miramontes placed 23rd in 100 (12.57) and 28th in the 200 (25.73). Tyler Holtke was 23rd in the 800 (2:19.93). Chazz Garcia was 26th in the 800 (2:22.25) and 32nd in the 1,600 (5:20.58). Joseph Clark II was 21st in the 3,200 (12:08.1). Michael Barajas was 12th in the shot put (38-02)and discus (99-0).


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Happy Anzac Day everyone!
It's been a while since the last post, but I'm back today — April 25 — to commemorate Australia's 'most important national occasion.' Anzac Day honors the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps who fought during the first military action during World War I. If you're interested in knowing more, read this.
The day begins with a commemorative service at dawn (which, sadly, I slept through… you have to get up at 4:00 am to go, so maybe next year). These services are held throughout the country and are a formal opportunity to pay respects to more than 8,000 Anzacs who lost their lives after landing in Gallipoli in 1915.
Of course, the day quickly devolves from there into an afternoon and evening of drinking and I suspect a fair bit of debauchery.
For starters, on Anzac Day gambling is briefly legalized nationwide outside of casinos so that the Anzac's favorite game, 'two-up,' can be played at all of the pubs. I'm told that it's the game the Anzacs used to play in the ditches with each other to get money for their cigarettes. It involves placing wagers with the folks around you at the bar about whether or not two coins being flipped simultaneously by a person known as a spinner will result in two heads or two tails. When one of each turns up, it's a draw and there is no winner.
It's not exactly a complex or engaging game, but the Australians play it for hours and, in the particular version I saw at the Beresford Hotel, there was a drag queen announcing whether it was heads or tails that had just been thrown.
Add in a lot of drunken military men (who often drink for free if their in they're wearing their sailor suits and medals), and it makes for an entertaining day.
Interestingly though, the Aussies do take the opportunity to pay their respects twice more during the day at noon and 6:00 p.m. sharp when no matter what bar you happen to be at, they stop everything for a moment of silence while playing a bugle call known as The Last Post.
I was surprised to learn that in addition to Anzac Day, Australians also celebrate Remembrance Day in November, which marks the anniversary of the armistice than ended World War I. We'll see if it's as wild and drunken as Anzac Day!


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"Neurosurgery" is also frequently referred to as "Neurological surgery". The field comprises of any surgical treatments for neurological diseases, which means that any neurological diseases with a potential to be alleviated, controlled, or cured by surgery intervention are within the responsibilities of neurosurgeons.
Department of Neurosurgery was established 78 years ago by the first director, Minister Wen-Ta Chiu, followed by Dean Shin-Han Tsai, Director Dah-Jun Wang, Professor Chin-Chang Hung, and Sheng-Hsiung Huang. Currently, the physician-in-chief of the department is Yung-Hsiao Chiang, and the department staff includes a total of 9 attending neurosurgeons and two neurosurgery residents.


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BARCELONA—Switching from a quinolone to penicillin as prophylaxis in men who are undergoing transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsies of the prostate (TRUSP) may increase the risk of serious infectious complications after the procedure, according to data released at the 25th Anniversary European Association of Urology Congress.
"At least for now, we should stick with the longstanding proven strategy using quinolone-based antibiotics," said Satoshi Hori, MBBS, MRCS, Academic Clinical Fellow in Urology at the University of Cambridge and West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust.
Dr. Hori and his co-investigators reviewed results in patients who underwent TRUSP during a recent 15-month period at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St. Edmunds because of an elevated PSA level, an abnormal finding on digital rectal examination (DRE), or both.
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The first 119 patients in the series received oral ciprofloxacin 500 mg one hour before their procedure followed by a twice daily three-day course of 500 mg ciprofloxacin starting immediately afterwards. The next 110 patients had their procedure at a later date when the institution's policy for antibiotic prophylaxis had switched to co-amoxiclav prophylaxis. These patients received co-amoxiclav 625 mg given orally one hour before the procedure which was continued three times a day for the next three days.
"Because of the emergence of antimicrobial resistance and troublesome Clostridium difficile infections, U.K. health authorities have been trying to persuade urologists to find effective alternative antibiotics to quinolone-based antibiotics in patients undergoing TRUSP biopsies," Dr. Hori explained. "We wanted to determine whether changing antibiotic prophylaxis from a quinolone-based to a penicillin-based strategy had any bearing on the development of serious infectious complications following TRUSP biopsies."
The study excluded patients who had been given an antibiotic prophylaxis strategy that was different from the strategies in the two distinct study cohorts because of prior hypersensitivity reactions and/or a clinical decision by the attending urologist.
Results showed a significantly lower rate of post-TRUSP sepsis in the ciprofloxacin group. Sepsis developed in two of 119 patients in the ciprofloxacin group (1.68%) compared with eight of 110 patients in the co-amoxiclav group (7.27%). Post-TRUSP sepsis was defined as pyrexia in which a non-urologic cause had been excluded that necessitated hospital admission within two weeks of the procedure. No patient in either antibiotic prophylaxis group experienced a C. difficile infection.
Since the completion of the study, Dr. Hori's team has reverted to the quinolone-based antibiotic strategy for TRUSP biopsies. During the first eight months of last year, only four of 169 men (2.37%) who had the procedure developed sepsis afterwards.
To his surprise, he said, the study found that Escherichia coli was the only organism isolated from patients presenting with post-TRUSP sepsis, all of whom were sensitive to co-amoxiclav on microbiological testing.
"This finding suggests that prophylaxis with co-amoxiclav failed to work either because the dose of the antibiotic was too low, the course of antibiotics too brief, there was poor absorption of antibiotic via the gastrointestinal tract or there was poor antibiotic penetration into the prostatic tissue," Dr. Hori said. "All four factors may play a role, but we feel that poor prostate tissue penetration of co-amoxiclav probably is the major factor in its failure as an effective prophylaxis agent in preventing post TRUSP sepsis. Ciprofloxacin, on the other hand, has excellent penetration into prostatic tissue."


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The ultimate long telephoto zoom for mirrorless systems.
Introducing the SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports, a powerful ultra-telephoto zoom and the first ever Sports line lens for mirrorless cameras. Designed from the ground up, this portable and practical optic revolutionises the way mirrorless users capture wildlife, motorsport and other fast-action subjects.
Not only is this lens ultra-sharp, but it comes with superb build quality, a close minimum focusing distance, weather-proof construction and a range of professional-grade features that will make it even easier to capture even the most fleeting of moments.
The 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports is available for L-Mount and Sony E-mount systems.
An optic reimagined
Although SIGMA already has two exceptionally popular 150-600mm models in its line-up, these are designed for DSLRs and can only be used on mirrorless models with the help of a mount converter.
This new 150–600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports has been designed specifically for mirrorless, and has been completely reimagined, including a completely different optical design and a wide range of new features including Dual Action Zoom and customisable switches. It is the first ultra-telephoto mirrorless zoom lens in the SIGMA Sports line, and offers outstanding levels of performance, functionality, and build quality required for ultra-telephoto shooting in the most demanding situations.
Image quality is exceptional, with ultra-high-performance glass capable of delivering ultra-sharp results even on the highest resolution cameras, and the lens displays beautiful bokeh throughout its zoom range.
Fast and accurate autofocus owing to an AF unit equipped with a high-precision magnetic sensor, combined with an OS (Optical Stabilizer) function effective to approximately 4 stops* of image stabilisation makes this a highly responsive lens that can handle even the most challenging subjects.
Uncompromising optical performance throughout the zoom range
The SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports offers outstanding optical performance throughout its zoom range and at all apertures, yielding professional quality results.
Based on the latest optical design technology, its lens construction of 25 elements in 15 groups includes a range of special types of high-performance glass that ensures thorough control of different types of aberrations. This helps give images the resolution and clearest detail – not only at the tele end around 600mm, which is critical for an ultra-telephoto zoom, but also throughout its entire zoom range – with no compromise.
The lens was designed with image quality in the out-of-focus areas in mind as well, with attractive compression and beautiful bokeh for creating eye-catching images that can only be achieved with a long focal length.
Through improvements to the optical and mechanical designs as well as extensive simulated testing, the lens has achieved high resistance to ghosting and flare. This helps ensure sharp and high-contrast images even in strong sunlight or in backlit conditions.
Images: Simon Roy simonroyphotography.co.uk
Combining exceptional close-focusing and incredible reach
Impressive close-up shooting
At the wide end of 150mm the lens has an impressive minimum focusing distance of 58cm (from the sensor), so it's possible to take macro-style shots of insects and other small subjects. The maximum magnification ratio of the lens is a remarkable 1:2.9, much greater than any competing lens on the market (at the time of writing).
Two dedicated teleconverters
For L-Mount users, SIGMA has two dedicated teleconverters – a 1.4x (TC-1411) and a 2x (TC-2011). The TC-1411 increases the lens's reach up to 840mm, and the TC-2011 up to 1200mm. Both support shooting with full autofocus. This is ideal for moon photography and other subjects where working from a distance is the only option.
Fast, high-precision AF and impressive functionality
The 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports comes with the pro-level functionality that defines the SIGMA Sports line lens, which is designed for capturing fast-action subjects such as birds in flight.
With an AF actuator controlled by a stepping motor, the lens combines fast and quiet autofocus with excellent tracking of moving objects. Furthermore, a high-precision magnetic sensor enables highly accurate positioning for fast and high-precision AF. This is particularly impressive on an ultra-telephoto lens where the focus lens has to move a significant distance.
The OS function delivers effective image stabilisation that offers an advantage of approximately 4 stops*, which is ideal for hand-held shooting at slower shutter speeds. It is possible to change the OS settings using the OS switch and Custom Mode switch to best suit the shooting situation. The image below was shot hand-held using OS mode 2. (simonroyphotography.co.uk)
The lens has a Focus Limiter switch offering three-zone AF modification, which helps to speed up AF performance, and on the L-Mount it is possible to set a custom focusing limit via the SIGMA USB DOCK. The lens also has three AFL buttons to which you can assign various functions on the camera side depending on the model of camera used. This ensures that key settings are able to be customised to suit your shooting style and be accessed easily so that you can adapt quickly to changing conditions.
With the fast and high-precision AF, 4 stop* image stabilisation, and a wide range of customisable functionality that comes with the SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports, the creative possibilities are limitless.
* Based on CIPA guidelines (measured in 600mm with a 35mm full-size image sensor)
Outstanding build quality optimised for ultra-telephoto photography
The 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports combines the build quality that upholds the SIGMA Sports line standards with excellent operability, taking into account different shooting environments and modes of operation expected with an ultra-telephoto lens.
A dust and splash resistant structure that stops water drops or dust from getting into the lens, combined with a water and oil repellent coating applied to the front element, gives peace of mind even in harsh environments.
The lens features a Dual Action Zoom, which supports both straight zoom and ring zoom, allowing users to change the angle of view in a quick and intuitive way.
In addition, there is also a newly incorporated Zoom Torque switch, which changes the resistance of the zoom ring. This helps to eliminate zoom creep, where the lens barrel retracts under its own weight. The issue is most noticeable when photographing birds in flight or the moon because the lens is pointing upwards. With the Zoom Torque switch in T mode, as in the image, the barrel will not retract. In L mode, the barrel can be locked at 150mm.
Included accessories
On the lens body there is a magnesium tripod socket attachable to an Arca Swiss-type clamp. The foot is removable and may be replaced with an optional lens foot (replaceable lens foot type) or mounted on a monopod. When the foot isn't in use, it can be swung upwards by rotating the tripod collar, making it more comfortable to hold the lens.
The lens body uses parts made of aluminium and TSC (Thermally Stable Composite), where they are most suitable. TSC is a type of polycarbonate with a thermal expansion rate similar to that of aluminium, ensuring the lens behaves consistently at different temperatures. By taking advantage of its design intended exclusively for mirrorless camera systems, the lens is both robust – an attribute essential for the Sports line of lenses – and compact and lightweight.
Included in the box is a petal-style lens hood (LH1034-01, pictured) that helps to reduce flare and ghosting when shooting into the sun or other bright source of light. Its tough but ultra-light polycarbonate design can also help protect the lens from damage if dropped. The hood has a rubberised surface for a secure grip, and it screws into place to ensure a tight fit.
Also included in the box is a Cover Lens Cap (pictured), which is a soft, padded cover that slides over the lens and hood (when reversed) to protect the end of the lens during transportation.
A standard 95mm front lens cap LCF-95 III), as well as a rear lens cap (LCR II), shoulder strap, tripod socket (TS-121) are also shipped with the lens.
Other features
- Lens construction: 25 elements in 15 groups, with 4 FLD and 2 SLD elements
- OS function
- Internal focusing
- Compatible with high-speed autofocus
- Stepping motor
- Compatible with lens-based optical correction
*Function available on supported cameras only. Available corrections may vary depending on the camera model.
- Supports DMF and AF+MF
- Super Multi-Layer Coating
- Water and oil repellent coating (front element)
- Focus Mode switch
- Focus Limiter switch
- OS switch
- Custom Mode switch
- AFL button (3 buttons)
- Zoom Torque switch
- Tripod Socket (TS-121)
- Cover Hood (LH1304-01)
- Designed to minimise flare and ghosting
- Compatible with SIGMA TELE CONVERTER TC-1411 / TC-2011 (sold separately / for L-Mount only)
- Compatible with SIGMA USB DOCK UD-11 (sold separately / for L-Mount only)
- Compatible with SIGMA TRIPOD SOCKET TS-81 (Replaceable lens foot type / sold separately)
- Dust and splash resistant structure
- Every single lens undergoes SIGMA's proprietary MTF measuring system 'A1'
- 9-blade rounded diaphragm
- High-precision, durable brass bayonet mount
- 'Made in Japan' craftsmanship
To learn more about SIGMA's craftsmanship, please visit sigma-global.com/en/about/craftsmanship
You'll find our philosophy and craftsmanship in every product
Our new lineup fully expresses our approach to lenses and photography itself. All of our lenses belong to one of three lines—Contemporary, Art, or Sports—all of which share our development philosophy and advanced manufacturing system. High performance, high quality, and high end in every respect, these lenses give people who love photography lasting value and consistent, exciting results. The secret is our passion for craftsmanship that we put into every production process and every product.
Evaluation with Sigma's own MTF measuring system "A1"
We used to measure lens performance with MTF measuring system using conventional sensors. However, we've now developed our own proprietary MTF (modulation transfer function) measuring system (A1) using 46-megapixel Foveon direct image sensors. Even previously undetectable high-frequency details are now within the scope of our quality control inspections. The SIGMA 50mm F1.4 DG HSM will all be checked using this "A1" before they are shipped.
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"Made in Japan"
All Sigma's manufacturing – right down to moulds and parts – with a few exceptions, are carried out under a single integrated production system, entirely in Japan. We are now one of the very few manufacturers whose products are solely "made in Japan". We like to think our products are somehow imbued with the essence of our homeland, blessed as it is with clean air and water, and focused, hard-working people. We pride ourselves on the authentic quality of Sigma products, born of a marriage between highly attuned expertise and intelligent, advanced technology. Our sophisticated products have satisfied professionals and lovers of photography all over the world because our manufacturing is based on genuine craftsmanship, underpinned by the passion and pride of our experts.
Applicable for the Mount Conversion Service
As an experienced lens manufacturer that has been creating a diverse range of interchangeable lenses, we have started the innovative chargeable service "Mount Conversion Service". With this service, the mount of your current SIGMA lenses can be changed to another mount of your choice. It gives a new life to your favourite lenses when you wish to use it on a different camera body.
* This "Mount Conversion Service" is different from a normal repair. In order to apply for the service, please contact your nearest authorized subsidiary/distributor of SIGMA.
The ultimate long telephoto zoom for mirrorless systems.
Lens construction
|Lens Construction
|25 elements in 15 groups
|Angle of View (35mm)
|Number of Diaphragm Blades
|9 Blades (Rounded diaphragm)
|Minimum Aperture
|Minimum Focusing Distance
|58cm (W) – 280cm (T)
|Maximum Magnification
|Filter Size
|Diameter 95mm
|109.4mm × 263.6mm
|2,100g (including tripod socket)
Corresponding AF Mounts
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|Sony E-mount
The ultimate long telephoto zoom for mirrorless systems.
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150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports
The ultimate long telephoto zoom for mirrorless systems.
Lens Hood for 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | S (LH1034-01)
The Lens Hood LH1034-01 is designed specifically for the SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports. The hood will help protect the front element of the lens whilst also reducing lens flare. Supplied in the box with the SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports.
Padded Case for 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports
Sigma USB Dock UD-11
Designed exclusively for the use with a SIGMA Contemporary, Art, or Sports lens and its accessories, the SIGMA USB DOCK allows users to update firmware and customize settings on lenses in these lineups. As the latest addition to the lineup, the USB DOCK UD-11 is designed for two types of mirrorless camera mounts: the L-Mount …
Teleconverter TC-1411
Teleconverters designed exclusively for L-Mount lenses The SIGMA TELE CONVERTER TC-1411 is designed exclusively for the use with SIGMA L-Mount lenses. Mounted between a lens and a camera body, the TC-1411 magnifies the focal length of the camera by 1.4x. The superior optical performance of the SIGMA Contemporary, Art and Sports lines of lenses is …
Teleconverter TC-2011
Teleconverters designed exclusively for L-Mount lenses The SIGMA TELE CONVERTER TC-2011 is designed exclusively for the use with SIGMA L-Mount lenses. Mounted between a lens and a camera body, the TC-2011 magnifies the focal length of the camera by 2x The superior optical performance of the SIGMA Contemporary, Art and Sports lines of lenses is …
TS-121 Tripod Socket for SIGMA Sports Lenses
Dedicated Tripod Socket for SGIMA Sports series lenses, this TS-121 Tripod Socket is a spare or replacement tripod foot for the one originally included with the lens. This foot is Arca-type compatible for direct use on select tripod heads and also features a 1/4″-20 socket for attaching to an additional quick release plate. Caution …
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TS-81 Tripod Socket
To be used with the Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports lens (different to the Tripod supplied with lens).
The lens foot can replace the original lens's supplied foot, making it possible to directly attach the lens to the Arca Swiss platforms and screw knob clamps.
Compatible products: 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM|Sports, 70-200mm F2.8 DG OS HSM | Sports, 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports, 500mm F4 DG OS HSM | Sports
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05 Oct Fentanyl Strips Can Prevent Opioid Overdoses
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Jon Zibbell, PhD,
Senior public health scientist
Behavioral Health Research Division
RTI International
Research Triangle Park, NC,
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: For the first time in 2016, U.S. overdose deaths involving illicitly-manufactured fentanyl surpassed deaths from heroin and prescription deaths.
Fentanyl is an extremely potent synthetic opioid, and an illicitly-manufactured form of the drug is regularly being mixed with heroin and often sold to unwitting consumers. Fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin and its illicitly-manufactured version is extremely difficult to discern when mixed with heroin. Harm reduction organizations have started to distribute FTS and people consuming street-purchased opioids are using them to test drugs for fentanyl. Our objective was to assess whether this point-of-use form of drug checking was influencing people's drug use behavior. The study was self-funded by the research institute RTI International.
Our findings show that consumers who tested street opioids with fentanyl test strips were five times more likely to engage in safer drug use behavior when the test comes back positive. The study was conducted among a group of 125 people who inject drugs in Greensboro, North Carolina.
MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?
Response: This is the first study of its kind to evaluate behavioral outcomes associated with the use of fentanyl test strips.
Our findings suggest that people who inject drugs can and will change their behavior when having information about the increased risks involved. It also shows that fentanyl test strips can be a primary overdose prevention tool to be used before a person consumes drugs, adding to the arsenal of secondary overdose prevention efforts currently in use (naloxone, EMS, acute hospitalization).
MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work?
Response: It will be helpful to study if our findings replicate among different groups in different regions of the country. The next step for us is too see if safer drug use behaviors associated with FTS use can actually facilitate reductions in overdose, something that was beyond the scope of our study.
Fentanyl test strips as an opioid overdose prevention strategy: Findings from a syringe services program in the Southeastern United States
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text: Home Industry Tourism Abu Dhabi to boost tourism sector with new Dhs600m fund The economic yield of this new fund is pegged at Dhs1.6bn by Varun Godinho July 30, 2019 Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) has announced a new Dhs600m fund to boost leisure and business activities in the emirate. The economic yield of this new fund is pegged at Dhs1.6bn by way of increased overseas visitors and enhanced business activities around the entertainment sector. The purpose of the package will be to provide multi-purpose financing that will encourage partnerships with global entertainment bodies to undertake new projects in Abu Dhabi. It will also as scale-up existing entertainment events in the UAE while encouraging them to set up events in Abu Dhabi The fund will work in tandem with the 'Advantage Abu Dhabi' programme, also conducted by the DCT, which has a similar aim of supporting the events sector in Abu Dhabi. The new entertainment package is part of a larger financial stimulus called the 'Ghadan 21' programme which is designed to boost Abu Dhabi's economy and enhance its appeal as a destination to conduct business, visit and live. The announcement of this fund to support entertainment activities in Abu Dhabi comes at a time when Abu Dhabi reported that the number of international guests arriving in the UAE's capital in 2018 climbed 3.94 per cent year-on-year to 10 million visitors. Tags abu dhabi dct 0 Comments Share Tweet Share Share


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1. God ordained the Sabbath as a creation ordinance patterned after God's creation rest (Gen. 2:2-3; Exod. 20:8-11; Mark2:27; Heb. 4:4).
2. The Sabbath does not belong to the category of ceremonial laws that have been abolished with the first coming of Christ. As it is the law of nature that time be set apart for the worship of God, so by a positive, moral, and perpetual commandment binding all men in all ages, God in His Word particularly appointed one day in seven for a Sabbath, holy unto Him. From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, this day was the last day, but since, the first day of the week, called the Lord's Day, to remain in effect as a weekly sign to the end of the world. (Exodus 20:8-11; Gen. 2:2, 3; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2; Acts 20:7; Rev. 1:10; Mt. 5:17, 18.)
3. Our Lord Jesus did not abrogate the Sabbath, but cleansed it from the traditions of the Pharisees, and brought the Sabbath to its ultimate New Covenant expression (Mark 2:21-3:6; Luke 13:10-17; John 5:1-18). The Sabbath is to be kept holy unto the Lord, not only in rest from worldly employments and recreations, but also in the public and private exercise of worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy. (Luke 4:16; Mt. 12:1-13; Mark 3:1-50)
4. The Lord's Day, which the church from the beginning has observed in commemoration of the resurrection of Christ on the first day of the week, is the Christian Sabbath (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor.16:2; Rev. 1:10).
5. The apostle Paul did not abrogate the Sabbath but warned against a Judaizing manner of keeping it (e.g., seventh-day observance - Col. 2:16-17; Gal. 4:9-10).
6. The Sabbath is an eschatological sign pointing to the eternal Sabbath rest which the people of God will enter at the consummation (Ps. 95:11; Hebrews 4:8-11).
7. The New Testament believer's Spiritual rest in Christ (Matt. 11:28-30), enjoyed seven days a week, is an eschatologically realized dimension of the eternal Sabbath, a pledge of our inheritance (2 Cor. 5:5; Eph. 1:14).
8. However, it is not legitimate to infer from the preceding that weekly Sabbath observance has been abrogated by the first coming of Christ. The Sabbath sign remains in effect for the church until the end of the world, signifying that we live as pilgrims (Heb.11:11-16; 1 Pet. 2:11) in this semi-eschatological age while we wait for the consummation, our eternal rest with Christ in glory (John 14:1-4; 17:24; 1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 21:3).
9. Due to its character as a promissory sign of eschatological consummation, the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant, sanctifying the covenant community as holy unto the LORD and putting a visible difference between those that belong to the covenant community and those that belong to the world (Exod. 31:13-17; Ezek. 20:12; cf. Gen. 17:11).
10. Some hold that promise establishes obligation (Heb. 4:1). Thus, the Sabbath sign is to be observed only by the holy covenant community, for to it alone does the promise of eschatological consummation apply (Heb. 4:9-10; Luke 13:16). Conversely, since unbelievers have no promise of eschatological consummation, they have no obligation to observe the sign thereof.
11. Most hold that the Sabbath is moral law and binding upon all men; that the position of the Sabbath ordinance gives strong evidence of the moral aspect of the 4th commandment (not forgetting the positive and perpetual aspects); that there are aspects of man's religious duty that flow directly out of his being a creature, not merely from his supra-creational, covenantal relationship to his God; that the Law binds all image-bearers; that Exodus does not mention redemption as Deut. 5 does as to the 4th commandment, but does mention creation. In this view, the Sabbath is grounded on both creation and redemption. It binds humans as humans and it binds believers as a redeemed people. For unbelieving image-bearers, it is Law, to which personal, perpetual, and perfect obedience is required for life. For the believer, the Sabbath witnesses to the rest which Christ has entered and also promised as real and in which believers participate by faith in Christ. The WCF teaches that the Sabbath is moral law. The moral law was written on Adam's heart, then delivered by God on Mt. Sinai. (WCF chapter 19; Gen. 1:26, 27; Gen. 2:17; Eph. 4:24; Romans 2:14, 15; Romans 5:12, 19; Romans 10:5; Gal. 3:10, 12; Eccl. 7:29; James 2:8, 10-12, e.g.) © 2015 Mary Craig Ministries, Inc.


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Shed Seven have parted company with Polydor Records after six years with the label after the band became "unhappy" over the way that their Greatest Hits compilation was handled.
"The Greatest Hits wasn't our idea – we felt it was a few years too early – but agreed to do it on the understanding that we would release two new singles from the album," said singer Rick Witter.
"'Disco Down' did really well and we were all prepared to follow it up with 'High Hopes', the video script was approved and it was ready to go to radio, when some higher authority decided it would be a better idea to re-release 'Going For Gold' instead. We put our foot down and said 'no way, we are not going to rip off our fans with old material'. In fact, most people at the label thought it was an awful idea."
The album, it is claimed, sold 130,000 copies.
"We know the album could have sold double that, if the campaign wasn't halted half-way through," said Witter.
The band's contract was already up and they had the option to record a fourth studio album for Polydor. The band were offered another contract with Polydor but say that they refused to sign because the terms were too restrictive and are currently in talks with several other labels and are working on new material at home in York.


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Streaming a sporting event has become second nature to a generation of TV viewers. But for a brand name like UConn, whose fan base runs the gamut of age demographics, the news last month about hundreds of Huskies games moving to ESPN+ next year was puzzling for a number of reasons.
Is ESPN+ one of the many offshoots of the sports programming monolith available via a traditional cable subscription? Can it be added to an existing package? The answer, for those unfamiliar with streaming services and devices, is no. You can't access ESPN+ like you would ESPN, ESPN2, SNY, YES or NESN — a short list that would have covered all your bases if you're a UConn fan who also supports one of the regional big league teams.
With so many lingering questions, here's a look at what the recent pact between the American Athletic Conference and "the worldwide leader in sports" means for fans in Connecticut:
Contract terms
On March 27, the ESPN and the AAC jointly announced a 12-year deal that will send 500 AAC sporting events per year to ESPN+ beginning in 2020, with the number expected to at least double by 2022. Additionally, about 135 AAC games per year are slated to air on the company's more mainstream TV properties (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU). That includes at least 40 regular season football games, at least 65 regular season men's basketball games, at least 13 regular season women's basketball games, the men's basketball conference tournament in its entirety and multiple rounds of the women's tournament.
How often UConn's teams will get marquee billing is hard to say. It's safe to assume the UConn women's basketball team will remain the main draw among the conference's 12 schools.
From a financial standpoint, details remain hazy. A report from Sports Business Journal pegged the deal's total worth at $1 billion, with each school due to receive close to $7 million annually. That's a jump from the $2.16 million UConn was getting in the previous deal, but it pales in comparison to the coffers of the Power Five conferences. For instance, in 2017 the Big 10 announced a six-year deal split between ESPN and Fox Sports worth a reported $2.64 billion. The 14 schools are enjoying individual shares worth over $31 million, a figure that would surely ease the tension surrounding the $41 million deficit UConn's athletic department reported for the 2018 fiscal year.
What's ESPN+ and how do I get it?
Launched in 2018, ESPN+ is a streaming service with a $4.99 monthly price tag. In addition to carrying live sporting events from a wide range of leagues, foreign and domestic, users are granted access to the full library of ESPN's original programming. That includes the "30 for 30? documentary series and the weekly investigative show "E:60," which recently aired a multipart docuseries chronicling Jim Calhoun's first season at the helm of Division III St. Joseph in West Hartford. You can access ESPN+ from a tab within the ESPN app on your smartphone or tablet, or go to plus.espn.com, where a free seven-day trial is available. You can also watch ESPN+ on your TV with a streaming device.
How does streaming work?
With a Wi-Fi signal and/or a generous data plan, as well as any number of compatible devices, users can stream ESPN+ content to their heart's content. But since those words might be foreign to some (yet as essential as air and water to others), here's a little more context: A smartphone will serve you well on the go as an ESPN+ user. But if you'd like to continue to watch UConn games from the comfort of your couch, there are several options for in-home streaming receivers that are roughly the size of your cable box. To name a handful, there's Apple TV ($149), Roku (starting at $29.99), Amazon Fire TV (starting at $39.99) and Android TV (starting at $28.99), all of which support major streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and more. But there are affordable options for those who aren't quite ready to cut the cord. Bottom line, if you want to watch all of those UConn games, not all of them will be available through a traditional cable package, and some type of streaming service will be needed.
Can I pause, rewind and record games?
For some UConn fans, a late start, conflicting plans or both have made the DVR a popular option for catching up at one's leisure. But with ESPN+, recording games won't be necessary. Once a live game is in progress, a subscriber can pause, rewind or fast-forward until the action is current. But if you miss a game altogether, full-game replays are available on an on-demand basis.
What about the UConn-SNY partnership?
While scheduling the occasional basketball game at Madison Square Garden has done wonders to rekindle Big East nostalgia, UConn's partnership with New York-based SNY has been the most effective means of keeping the Huskies relevant in one of the major media markets in the country. And there is concern that the terms of the new AAC-ESPN contract will prohibit the UConn athletic department from maintaining that relationship.
"We are disappointed that there will be a reduction in linear TV exposure for our men's and women's basketball programs, including but not limited to the potential loss of our successful partnership with SNY," UConn Athletic Director David Benedict said in a statement released on the night the new AAC-ESPN deal was made public.
Officials from UConn, ESPN and SNY are expected to engage in talks that would potentially allow for the Huskies' continued presence on the "linear TV" network with roughly 12 million viewers, but that would seem at odds with what Courant columnist Mike Anthony noted is an opportunity for ESPN to "horde UConn programming as part of the ESPN-plus offerings in order to drive up subscriptions, no matter how it actually goes over in Connecticut."
Chris Brodeur can be reached at email@example.com.


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In this episode Ru and Michelle are joined by Alaska Thunder****. They discuss the origin of the phrase hiiiiiiiii, her experience on RuPaul's Drag Race, becoming sober, her experience dating Sharon Needles, the effects of positivity on success, and oil pulling.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber had his death sentence overturned by a federal appeals court today.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan detonated two homemade pressure cooker bombs at the marathon's finish line on April 15, 2013. The attack killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.
The federal appeals court threw out Dzhokhar's death sentence in the 2013 bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases. A jury in 2015 had found Tsarnaev guilty of all 20 counts he faced and later determined he deserved execution for the killing of three people in the attack.
His defense attorney David Patton has argued that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's brother, Tamerlan was the mastermind of the bombing and was killed in a gunfight with police three days after the bombing.
Dzhokhar fled and the police locked down Boston and most surrounding communities for almost 24 hours, while heavily armed officers conducted house to house searches in the suburb of Watertown, where he was found hiding in a dry-docked boat in a backyard.
Patton also said, "prosecutors must now decide whether to put the victims and Boston through a second trial, or to allow closure to this terrible tragedy by permitting a sentence of life without possibility of release."
Tsarnaev is being held at the United States' "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, a site so remote and well secured that it is nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies."


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Just under a year ago, when the Covid crisis first struck and the shutters came down, Nicholas Quinn honestly believed his competitive swimming career might have come to its end. The 2020 Olympics, the singular goal toward which he had been working, were pushed back by a full year. The competitions and meets that sustained and justified his training were cancelled, instantly and en-masse. The Castlebar native and 2016 Olympian was left treading water.
Wind the clocks forward 11 months or so, however, and Quinn is a man with a renewed sense of purpose. The Olympic Games begin in Tokyo in July and he plans on being a part of them. At the moment he is deep in training in Edinburgh, putting the final touches to his degree while readying himself for an attempt at the magic number of 2.10:35 – the Olympic qualifying time for the 200m breaststroke.
"I've been lucky enough," he says of training his way through the UK's lockdown levels. "The group that I train with got an elite athlete exemption so I've been able to train fairly consistently for the last couple of months. Different things do change as you go in and out of different levels of lockdown but in general, I've been able to have a pretty consistent block of training since September.
"There have been disruptions but you just have to overcome them. You find a new rhythm and just go with it. That's probably the biggest thing that these last few months have taught me, that there are some things you just can't control and you just have to be adaptable, to move and change and go."
Naturally, there remains a huge amount of uncertainty about the months ahead. There is still no guarantee that the Olympics will go ahead at all, despite the IOC and the Japanese authorities' apparent determination to proceed through hell and high water. Quinn hasn't raced competitively since last March and he still doesn't know precisely when he'll race again.
"In September 2019, I could tell you everything I was going to be doing, every competition I was going to, for the next seven or eight months. I can't tell you what I'll be doing in two weeks at this stage!" he laughs.
He's been able to train consistently at the University of Edinburgh over the last six months but no amount of in-house races or time trials can replicate the feeling of the real thing. For a competitive animal and a man with experience of testing himself against the very best swimmers in the world, the absence of true competition has been one of the toughest elements of the last year.
"Absolutely," states Quinn. "I love training and the buzz I get from that but there's nothing like standing on the box thinking 'right, let's see where I am today.' There's nothing like challenging yourself against others and seeing what you're capable of doing. It brings out the best in me, the butterflies.
"That is a big challenge and it's definitely something I miss, but you just have to take it as it is and keep going. I know that when I do get on the blocks for an actual race, I'll more than likely be trying to qualify for Tokyo. That'll be enough excitement anyway."
That qualification process for Tokyo is still a little hazy. The qualifying time remains unchanged but the boundaries imposed by Covid have forced the swimming authorities to be flexible. Swim Ireland recently announced a change to their criteria which will give athletes like Quinn who have yet to hit the required time three separate opportunities to qualify.
The first is at the Irish trials, fixed for April. The second is in May, at the European Championships in Budapest (although Swim Ireland are prioritising relay teams at that meet). The third and final chance will be in June, just a month before the Games, when swimmers will be able to nominate one meet at which they will have one last chance to go under the time.
Quinn still doesn't know for certain that he'll be able to travel to Dublin for the Irish trials in April, but assuming he can, that's the one circled in red on his calendar.
"That's still the aim. April is the first chance and that's the one I'm aiming for. I just have my fingers crossed that I'll be able to get there," he said.
"The next chance would be in June, when I can nominate a meet. But to be honest I can't even think that far ahead. Everything has sort of been planned for April.
"The way I've been looking at, as far as we know the Olympics are going ahead. Whether they actually do or not it is a different question. I'm not even going there though; if they get cancelled, they get cancelled. I have no control over that at all.
"In my head they're going ahead, and if they're going ahead there has to be trials, there has to be a chance to qualify. I have the mentality that at some point, I'm going to be standing in the blocks waiting to go off after the Olympics. As long as I break it down to that, I can just keep doing what I'm doing on the daily."
In Rio, Quinn competed in both the 200m and 100m breaststroke. Then, as now, the 200m was his main focus. He was unfortunate not to reach the semi-finals of the event after winning his heat but narrowly missing out on the necessary time, finishing 19th with 16 going into the semis. He will once again be prioritizing the 200m in his efforts to reach Tokyo, although if his form is good enough in the longer race, he should be in with a strong shout in the shorter one too.
"My best is 2.11, so I'm less than a second off making it. Which in swimming terms is relatively big but it's also okay," he offers.
"It's disappointing because last year I felt I was in as good a shape as I had ever been and I never really got to see what that looked like in terms of a time. I felt as though I could have swam that time last year, whereas this year I'm still looking to improve on last year.
"But all the work that I did last year isn't gone anywhere; I feel that if I perform as well as I'm able to perform I should be able to make it."
He was given an unexpected boost last month when he was selected among the recipients of a new round of funding from the Olympic Federation of Ireland. €50,000 was made available to a group of athletes across various disciplines who, like Quinn, are chasing qualification for Tokyo but are not in receipt of Sport Ireland Podium funding. Quinn's share of the pot isn't massive money by any means but it will make a very significant impact on his attempts to get to the Olympics.
"It was a welcome surprise. I've not been funded for the last couple of years, so to get that funding boost makes a big difference," he says.
"It makes life an awful lot easier. It means you can focus on getting the things you need to make sure you can perform. I have the basic equipment I need but it helps with the extras. It's like 'do I need a massage gun?' If it's something that's going to be a help to me then yeah, now I can get it.
"Even the bigger things, being able to live well, able to eat better. Food and diet is so important, even more important as I've got older. It's being able to look after yourself and not having to worry about how I'm going to be able to pay for this and that. It takes a lot of that weight away.
"It also helps when I go to competitions. Instead of flying at half 11 at night because it's the cheapest flight, I can spend the extra money on a better flight because it means I'll arrive better-rested and better-fuelled than if I had to go for the cheaper option. It allows all the extra bits to be a bit easier and means you're not looking over your shoulder as much," he continued.
Quinn will turn 28 in June, the month before the Games begin. In terms of Olympic swimmers, he's already in his golden years. He won't be making any grand declarations quite yet but he accepts that Tokyo, whether he manages to get there or not, will probably be the end of his competitive swimming career. It will be time, he says, "to move on to the next chapter."
He has nearly finished his Masters in performance psychology. All that remains is one last assignment, which he aims to complete in the next few weeks before he concentrates fully on the water, and his thesis, which he is planning to complete post-Tokyo. He has been a student in Edinburgh for the last eight years (excluding a year he took out from his studies in 2019-20 in expectation of the Olympics) but is excited to take the next step into a career in performance psychology.
"There's a chunk of it that's based on sport, but I think the biggest thing that I've taken from it is that performance in any domain, whether it's sport or business or whatever, how people achieve their peak, a lot of the same stuff goes into it," he says.
"It's been very helpful, I've taken some nuggets for my own preparation, things that I can do better. It's about arriving on race day with the best possible mindset, because at this level, that's really all that separates us. It's how you arrive at training every day, how you go about everything to get the most out of yourself, to reduce that stress but also have the right amount of stress when you need it."
Quinn has met with some personal tragedy in recent years; in 2018 his father John Quinn died tragically in a fall while hiking outside Strasbourg in Belgium, where he was working for the European Council. Nicholas stepped away from the sport for a time after John's death but he resolved to come back for another tilt at the Olympics. That kind of fortitude and dedication to his sport has once again proved crucial over the last year.
"This time last year, there was no real scenario in my head where I was still swimming," he states.
"I saw Tokyo as being the end for me last year, and when it was cancelled I went through a couple of months of getting to grips with whether this was something I wanted to do, to put my body through it again; mentally am I capable of putting myself in the place where I know I need to be?
"If I couldn't get my head in the right place and be mentally in it, to the degree that I was last year, there was no point in doing it.
"But I have managed to do that."


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This image has everything baseline baseline-7.11.ndz but we upgaded:
- compat-wireless-2.6 and the way its used (more on this below)
- MadWifi to 0.9.4
- apt-get dist-upgrade, except for the kernel (notes below)
The /misc/src/ is a NFS automount to commonly used source code experimenters may rely upon. We take advantage of this and keep a wireless-testing.git repository there updated daily to reflect upstream. With the compat-wireless package installed on the baseline you can now easily get the latest updates by taking the following steps:
cd /usr/src/compat-wireless-2.6/ # Get the latest compat-wireless-2.6 changes first git-pull # Now lets pull the latest changes from our local GIT_TREE on the NFS directory ./scripts/admin-update.sh # If we want to try to hack on any drivers or mac80211 we can do so now # Once you are done compile the wireless subsystem make # Finally install it make install # Now to load your drivers, first you must unload your current wireless subsystem drivers make unlaod # Now load the driver you need, whether it be ath5k, or ipw2200 modprobe ath5k modprobe ipw2200
You can switch between MadWifi and ath5k easily:
To load MadWifi:
athload madwifi
To load ath5k:
athload ath5k
- Size:
The image is now 280 MB, which is a considerable size increase. We will work on reducing this but some compromises will need to be be made.
- baseline.ndz
Until the size issues are resolved baseline.ndz will not point to this image.
- Bridging:
The baseline has bridge-utils, some users were using a "specialized" image for bridging but this is unnecessary.
- Issues with 2.6.24:
Debian has now moved from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24. If you try to apt-get dist-upgrade you will be moved to 2.6.24, but there is a bug with 2.6.24 that affects our nodes. The oops happens before serial access is even available so the only way to see this is if you have a VGA monitor connected. Just for reference the following is the oops and it will be looked into.
The oops bellow was transcribed from a picture. The same oops occurs separate nodes.
GRUB Loading stage 1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel. BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000 EDI 00000000 ESI 00001000 EBP 00000020 ESP c0373f54 EBX c03e5140 EDX 00000006 ECX 00000000 EAX c034f3e0 err 00000000 EIP c038938e CS 00000060 flg 00010082 Stack: 00000000 00100000 00003c00 c039a9ec c03b934c c0373fe8 c03800c8 c039a9ec c037d0b8 00000083 00000000 c0304c47 00000000 00000071 c039a9ec c03b934c c0373fe8 00000071 c039a9ec c03b934c c0373fe8 c037d4ef c0304a7e 000001df
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At Sheppard Pratt's Center for Autism, we provide comprehensive, private pay autism diagnostic and subsequent case management services.
Diagnostic Testing
If you suspect that your child or loved one is experiencing autism spectrum disorder, it can be helpful to receive a formal diagnosis from a team of experts to help facilitate further care and resources. At Sheppard Pratt, our team of clinicians has been diagnosing and working with individuals with autism spectrum disorder for decades.
We offer a comprehensive, multi-day diagnostic process. If after we complete our series of diagnostic tests and find that your child or loved one meets the criteria for autism spectrum disorder, we will begin to work with you on a comprehensive care plan.
Autism Spectrum Disorder Case Management
After your child or loved one has a formal diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, we can help them access the supportive services they need in order to thrive.
Our team works with you to develop a comprehensive care plan – we make sure that your loved one has access to all of the services and care they need to thrive. We work with young children, children, teenagers, adults, and older adults. While many care providers stop providing services when a child turns 21, at Sheppard Pratt, we continue caring for our clients throughout adulthood. Not only do we provide case management services, we provide parents with peace of mind for ongoing care.
Through our case management services, we help individuals with autism spectrum disorder access:
- Medication management
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- Occupational therapy
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- Special education, including Sheppard Pratt's 12 special education schools
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- Specialized inpatient care
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Sheppard Pratt's Center for Autism is a private pay program, meaning we do not participate with insurance. If you have out-of-network mental health coverage through your health insurance, call them to find out more about coverage. It may be possible to get a percentage of your fees reimbursed. Our team can provide documentation for you to submit to your insurance.
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Fast-forward to 2016 and, for the first time, we saw mobile web browsing overtaking desktop.
By 2018, Google announced it was moving to mobile-first indexing. In other words, rather than crawling the desktop version of a website as it used to, it primarily crawls, indexes and ranks the mobile version of a website. That's why it's not only vital that you have a responsive website design, but that it's also uber mobile friendly.
Is a responsive website the same as a mobile site?
A mobile (or mobile-friendly site) is one that looks good on a mobile device. However, that doesn't mean its responsive. It's usually run alongside a desktop version of the same site, making maintenance and management a real headache.
When a website is responsive, it has a flexible layout that modifies to the screen size on which you're viewing it. In other words, it looks great on desktop, tablet and mobile making it easy to navigate, easy to read and (of course) easy to interact with.
The benefits of responsive website design
There are five main benefits of adopting a responsive website design.
1. Cost-effective
Maintaining different websites for your web and non-web audiences are both time consuming and expensive. When you have a responsive design, you're eliminating the need for an additional mobile site.
2. Time-efficient
Having just one site across all platforms means only one log-in and only one website to maintain. Updating content and design tweaks can be done quickly and easily.
3. User experience
Your website is there to be used and viewed. If it's clunky, glitchy and awkward to use people won't bother with it and they certainly won't come back.
A professional, responsive design will deliver the kind of user experience your audience wants. Whether on desktop, tablet or mobile, they will be able to easily read and navigate your site negating the need for zooming and scrolling.
4. Search engine optimisation
We alluded to this one earlier when we talked about Google.
The search giant has been very open about giving mobile-friendly websites preference when it comes to rankings. Therefore, when used in combination with other search engine factors, a responsive website will provide your online visibility with an added boost.
5. Better social management
Your marketing strategy doesn't begin and end with your website. On top of brochures, newsletters and adverts, there are your social channels to consider.
For a moment, let's say you have two websites that you're running alongside one another. Not only do you have double the work when it comes to updating content and design, but you also have to consider which URL to link to from your social media posts.
Having a single, responsive design removes that headache making managing your online presence a whole lot easier.
It's time to be responsive
So far, we have built a pretty water-tight argument for the benefits of going responsive. Time and money are saved, online visibility is improved, and your customers enjoy a far better experience.
What's not to like? That stats speak for themselves:
- 62% of companies have reported mobile responsive websites increase sales
- 40% of users won't engage with a website that's not mobile-friendly
- 52.2% of all internet traffic is mobile
- 48% of website visitors believe companies without a responsive site don't care
- By 2023, the global number of mobile devices is predicted to hit 16.8 billion
- 90% of consumers will return to a website shop if they have a great experience
Isn't it time you went responsive?
Thirty six digital knows all about responsive websites. For an informal chat about going responsive, give the team a call on 0203 291 1021.


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Opaline or starburst or emerald green—
descriptors for barbus or brochis or
gynmocorymbus. The bubble pump flares
sidefins and whiskers. Aquarium fish
appear as mechanical wind-up toys.
They troll the bottom of pop-rock gravel.
A floundering Butterfly Balloon Molly
performs a sideshow for the children
who muddy the clarity with their fingers
or cause underwater earthquakes with a tap
on the glass. Last night the catfish's white
whiskers, illuminated fluorescent,
looked like the white of hot flames, licking
the sides of the tank, making water boil.
Butterfly Balloon by Alyse Bensel
Opaline or starburst or emerald green—