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". . . the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." Words of the LORD Jesus Christ, John 4:23-24 NKJV.
"And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." Words of the LORD Jesus Christ, John 16:23-24 NKJV.
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Dr. Judson's success in prayer is attributable to the fact that he gave much time to prayer. He says on this point: "Arrange your affairs, if possible, so that you can leisurely devote two or three hours every day, not merely to devotional exercises, but to the very act of secret prayer and communion with God. Endeavor seven times a day to withdraw from business and company and lift up your soul to God in private retirement. Begin the day by rising after midnight and devoting some time amid the silence and darkness of the night to this sacred work. Let the hours of nine, twelve, three, six and nine at night, witness the same. Be resolute in His cause. Make all practicable sacrifices to maintain it. Consider that your time is short and that business and company must not be allowed to rob you of your God."
Impossible, say we, fanatical directions! Dr. Judson impressed an Empire for Christ and laid the foundations of God's kingdom with imperishable granite in the heart of Burma. He was successful, one of the few men who mightily impressed the world for Christ. Many men of greater gifts and genius and learning than he, have made no such impression; their religious work like footsteps in the sands, but he has engraven his work on the adamant. The secret of its profundity and endurance is found in the fact that he gave time to prayer. He kept the iron red-hot with prayer, and God's skill fashioned it with enduring power. No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, who does not give much time to praying.---From Preacher and Prayer, By E. M. Bounds.
Matthew 21:9: Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: "Hosanna to the Son of David! ' Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!' Hosanna in the highest!"
Luke 1:32: He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.
Luke 2:14: "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"
Luke 19:37-38 Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, saying: "'Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the LORD!' Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"
1 Corinthians 10:31: Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 3:9: For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
2 Corinthians 3:18: But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18: Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Ephesians 1:12: That we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
Hebrews 1:2-4: God has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 12:3-4: For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood, in your striving against sin.
1 Peter 1:7-9: That the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
2 Peter 1:17: For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
Revelation 19:1: After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God!"
Revelation 19:7: Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready."
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The womenís swimming and diving team bolstered their dual-meet record over the weekend with victories over Oberlin College (108-97) and Case Western Reserve University (160-77). With the wins the Scots improved to 5-0 on the season while winning the annual Veale Classic.
The continued dual-meet dominance of the womenís team was lead by the strong performances of underclassmen.† Kate Hunt í13 led all swimmers with four wins on the weekend including two Veale Classic records on Saturday against Case Western Reserve. Hunt won the 50 and 500 freestyle races against Oberlin on Friday and followed that performance with record breaking victories in the 100 and 200 freestyles against the Spartans.
Melissa Haug í12 contributed a win in each meet for the Scots, with a win in the 100 butterfly against the Yeowomen and a 200 butterfly victory on Saturday. Newcomer Caroline Hansen í13 contributed critical victories to the winning effort over the weekend in the 500 and 1000 freestyle races against Case Western Reserve.
The men finished in second place over the weekend after easily disposing of Oberlin (134-68) on Friday, but falling to the Spartans (126-113) by the narrowest of margins. The Scots were led again by the supreme diving of Luke Knezvic í12, who won both the one and three meter diving events. Ryan Radtke í10 set a Veale Classic record in the 200 Individual Medley on Saturday and won two events on Friday as well.
The swimming and diving teams will host Ursuline College tomorrow in dual-meet action beginning at 1 p.m.


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The Haunted Vagina by Carlton Mellick III
10:02 pm 13 November 2016
One of my Facebook friends posted about this book and at first I thought that there was no way this book could possibly be real. I trotted off to Goodreads and Amazon and sure enough, The Haunted Vagina is a real book. Having read so many books in this genre, I'm always looking for anything quirky that brings something new and so I simply couldn't resist the lure of The Haunted Vagina.
I don't even know where to begin with this review. I suppose I should start by saying that I read the majority of the book with my legs tightly crossed saying, "no, no, no". I don't know about you, but the very idea of a vagina being spread wide enough to encompass a full grown man just made me never want to spread my legs ever again. Pause and read that sentence again. A grown ass man crawled inside a vagina.
It all begins when Steve and his girlfriend Stacy are all cuddled up and he hears a strange sound. At first he believes they left the television on and then he wonders if something is living in the walls. Finally, Stacey admits that her vagina is haunted. That's enough for Steve to decide that he's really not interested in sex with her anymore. Stacey, not being down with abstinence, forces Steve into doing the 69. As Stacey reaches orgasm, a skeleton begins to crawl out of her vagina. Stacey is freaked out for awhile but it's enough to make her decide that if Steve really cares about her, he'll crawl inside her vagina and figure out what the hell is going on in there.
For the most part, Steve is the reluctant participant in The Haunted Vagina. He is physically put into a position to have oral sex with Stacy after explicitly saying he's not interested.
"Same goes with oral sex. We both like to receive it, but neither of us want to give it. Normally we can compromise on oral. If I give it to her, she will give it to me. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to go near her vagina anymore. Not with my penis, not with my tongue.
"It's not like you have to stick your tongue inside of me," she says. "You can just lick my glowworm."
"Glowworm is her pet name for a clitoris.
"It's on the outside," she says.
"But still . . ." I say.
"I'll keep my legs closed," she says. "You won't even hear it."
I don't reply. She turns away from me and takes off her work clothes, as if I agreed. Folding her glasses and putting them back in their case. Her movements are cold and mechanical. She must be pissed. Giving me the silent treatment like the time I washed her white fuzzy coat wrong, or the time she found pictures of my old girlfriends and I wouldn't let her throw them out. On those occasions, she ignored me and locked herself in the bedroom. On this occasion, however, she wants to get intimate. She won't look me in the eyes as she unbuttons my shirt and pulls off my pants. She picks me up and turns me upside-down, then plops us on the bed."
The above is written as just another bizarre incident particularly given the fact that a skeleton climbs it's way out of Stacey's vagina when she begins to orgasm but make no mistake, this scene is describing a sexual assault. Steve actually says that he's been "consumed" by Stacey since the day they met. The fact that Steve enjoys the fellatio he receives doesn't negate the fact that he said no to a sexual encounter. Steve enters her vagina twice through coercion to prove his love for her. Once he's transformed inside the vagina to some sort of creature, it only takes a month for Stacey to have sex with someone else in an attempt to drown him in another man's semen. Yes, it's as gross as it sounds.
Once inside the world which for whatever reason exists in Stacey's vagina, Steve meets Fig, who is just as controlling as Stacey. When Steve declines an offer to play with Fig, she locks him up which forces his body to change into a male version of hers. Steve then becomes violent with Fig, when she initiates sex, mimicking all of the sex acts Stacy made him do, leading to Fig's confusion. In the end, Steve knocks up Fig and they remain trapped in the uterus of Stacey's unborn child, with no hope of release until Stacey's child reaches maturity. This does not bother Steve because he falls in love with Fig and experiences an extreme passion for her.
I'll admit that The Haunted Vagina is certainly unique in this genre, though the execution could certainly use some work. The entire premise of this novel seems to be that women are powerful and can and do exert power using their vaginas. When this happens, the relationship is necessarily unhealthy. Men are held captive and are powerless to resist because they are so enthralled. This very much makes Steve read as a self insert trying to deal with a bad relationship he had participated in.
It's telling that both Stacey and Fig trapped Steve and that both women (or entity in the case of Fig) used a vagina to do so. It's not an accident that both Fig and Stacey are taller and stronger than Steve. It's not an accident that neither of them listen to his needs and or wants. For Fig, Steve is little more than a possession.The lesson in this is that a man must be on his guard during PIV sex because he'll end up with far more than he bargained for. The Haunted Vagina essentially sets up women (and in fact all those who have vaginas) as predators by nature of our genitalia and our supposedly heavy handed neediness. The vagina seen in this light becomes an addictive drug, doling out highs even as it punishes those who dare to venture inside, until a man looses all sense of self and is compliant.
Steve talks about his fear of Stacey's vagina turning her on. He in fact he has a litany of complaints about his sexual relationship with Stacey.
Source: http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2016/11/the-haunted-vagina-by-carlton-mellick.html

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There's a workshop tucked away near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport that focuses on changing lives — identifying, modifying and building customized equipment that give children with disabilities hope and opportunity. It's called the ADAPT Shop, one of several Easterseals disabilities services provided by Southwest Human Development. It's a place where every project begins with an idea based on a specific need and ends with a family helped and a child's life improved.
Families in search of answers get help from the ADAPT Shop in determining what equipment would be most helpful for their child whether custom made or commercially available. Then the program's team of specialists work with the family and collaborate with other professionals involved in the child's care to make that vision a reality.
The ADAPT Shop's mission is to help young children with disabilities, ages birth to 5, develop the competence and confidence they need to become independent and active participants in their home, school and community.
Sometimes even the most simple, low-tech equipment can help a child become more functional in his or her daily activities and reach their fullest potential. That equipment might be custom seating that helps a child sit up on his or her own, a toy that's been modified so a child can now play with it and develop new skills, or a custom scooter so they can more easily explore with their friends at home and in school.
The ADAPT Shop is meeting a need that's simply not met in many places throughout the country. There's a lack of specialized equipment available for younger children with disabilities, and as a result, their growth and quality of life can suffer. The ADAPT Shop's goal is to change that and to provide children and their families with the supports needed to enjoy life and increase their capabilities.
Since opening in 2011, the ADAPT Shop has served hundreds of children and their families and created thousands of custom equipment solutions that improve their participation in daily life, developmental skills and better overall health. The ADAPT Shop provides a variety of different solutions for different needs, such as seating systems, trays, easels, toy and standing bars, light tables, feeding and crawling supports, tummy wedges, and more.
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W.759, Beaupre Antiphonary, Vol. 1
Illuminated in Hainaut ca. 1280 and completed in 1290, this collection of richly illuminated Cistercian manuscripts is a rare example of those being produced in Flanders at the end of the thirteenth century. Eighteen extant large historiated initials, flourished and decorated initials, and an abundance of amusing drolleries facilitate a liturgical narrative within the text. However, additions and removals within the text and imagery tells much about the use and history of the manuscript. The liturgical contents of this volume provide musical settings from Easter to the Assumption of the Virgin. This manuscript is the first of a set of three volumes destined for use on the abbess' side of the choir at the Cistercian abbey of Sainte-Marie at Beaupré (diocese of Cambrai). Two sets of antiphonaries, each composed of three volumes, were originally created for the abbess and prioress of Beaupre. Of these two sets, the Walters Art Museum houses three volumes: two volumes from the set intended for the abbess and one volume from the set designated for the prioress. A fourth associated volume was created later to supplement W.759. It should be noted that apart from the volumes housed at the Walters, there survive four cutout initials from the other volumes. However, in 1865, these manuscripts were regrettably lost in a fire that spread from a house adjacent to Sotheby's, where the books were being prepared for sale. In addition to the manuscripts' rich illumination, there is also a wealth of historical evidence throughout. Added at the beginning of each volume is a full-page inscription that details ownership: "Antiphonaire pour sevir dans le Coeur du coté de Ma-Dame L'abbesse, à Pâques jusque â L'Assumption de Notre Dame," as well as an anathema for a thief, and a blessing for the faithful and honest user. Further information on provenance can be gleaned from the illumination itself; the third volume (W.761) contains an author portrait of the scribe/artist, a Cistercian monk named Johannes de Toussens (fol. 1r), while the manuscripts' patroness who married into the de Viane family is depicted with a younger woman named Clementia on fol. 3v of vol. 1 (W.759). Donations by members of the de Viane family to Sainte-Marie of Beaupré were recorded from 1244 to 1293. Since the volume's assemblage, there have been updates in two major campaigns: ca. 1475-1500 at which time select thirteenth-century Offices were replaced in part by revisions and by additions placed at the end of the volume (see W.762 for supplement) and the second campaign in the eighteenth century at which time some thirteenth- and fifteenth-century leaves were removed, changes were made to both neumes and text passim, and additions were added at the end of the volume or in the Supplement. The first of these campaigns was presumably for abbess Jacqueline Hendricx (1473-1500), the second in the eighteenth century likely for the last abbess, Angéline de Lossy (1755-96), after which point the abbey was seized during the French Revolution. Drolleries are most often found on pages with historiated initials, and principally focused on centered bas-de-page scenes. While many drolleries were effaced, some traces of these images can be recognized by their shadowy outlines. Many of these erasures are thought to be at the hand of John Ruskin, who is also credited with authoring a separate table of contents, as well as several transcriptions of the Latin text found on numerous leaves. Truly a remarkable work, this multi-volume antiphonary was generously gifted to the Walters Art Museum in 1957 at the bequest of the Hearst Foundation.
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Joan Didion (Sacramento (Californië), 5 december 1934 – Manhattan (New York), 23 december 2021) was een Amerikaanse auteur die het bekendst werd door haar romans en haar literaire journalistiek. Haar romans en essays exploreren de desintegratie van de Amerikaanse moraal en de culturele chaos; het overheersende thema is de individuele en sociale fragmentatie. Een gevoel van angst doordringt veel van haar werk.

Didion overleed op 87-jarige leeftijd aan complicaties als een gevolg van de ziekte van Parkinson.

Gepubliceerd werk

Fictie
 Run, River (1963)
 Play It as It Lays (1970)
 A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
 Democracy (1984)
 The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)

Non-fictie
 Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
 The White Album (1979)
 Salvador (1983)
 Miami (1987)
 After Henry (1992)
 Political Fictions (2001)
 Where I Was From (2003)
 Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003, voorwoord van Frank Rich)
 Vintage Didion (2004, selectie uit haar vroeger werk)
 The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
 We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006, met haar eerste zeven non-fictieboeken)
 The Year of Magical Thinking (2006)
 Blue Nights (2011)

Toneelstukken
 The Year of Magical Thinking (2006)

Scenario's
 The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
 Play It as It Lays (1972) (gebaseerd op haar roman)
 A Star Is Born  (1976)
 True Confessions (1981)
 Up Close & Personal (1996)

Amerikaans schrijver
Amerikaans romanschrijver
Amerikaans journalist
Amerikaans essayist

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Former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon Tuesday refused to answer questions from a congressional committee probing the president's campaign links to Russia, saying he was under orders from the White House not to.
Bannon was quizzed voluntarily behind closed doors by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, the first time he has testified in the probe investigating whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in its bid to influence the 2016 US elections.
It was unlikely to be Bannon's last such testimony: the New York Times and the Washington Post reported late Tuesday that Bannon has been subpoenaed by Robert Mueller, the Justice Department special counsel investigating the same issue.
The committee itself eventually subpoenaed Bannon for refusing to answer its questions, reports said. Still, he again balked after the White House was consulted, said Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee.
Bannon "got the same instruction back again. Basically, 'we don't care whether it's under compulsory process or a voluntary basis -- we're instructing you, effectively putting in place a gag rule,'" said Schiff.
A hard-line nationalist who sought to shake up US domestic and foreign policy, Bannon, 64, was forced out as Trump's chief strategist in August.


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Death at Versailles
Posted on 29 January 2016 by voltairefoundation
The Palace of Versailles is mounting a magnificent exhibition entitled 'Le Roi est mort' to mark the tercentenary of the death of Louis XIV. The exhibits, artefacts, texts, and background music document the king's last days, how his body was treated after his death on 1 September 1715, and the rituals of mourning imposed during the long period which followed until his funeral in St Denis on 23 October.
Marche et Convoy funèbre de Louis le Grand, Roy de France (BnF).
If you want to know how French kings were embalmed, how their bodies were divided up between different final repositories, and how mourning dress differed between 'grand', 'demi' and petit' categories, this is the place to go. There are excellent descriptions too of the great funeral procession from Versailles to St Denis on 9 September, which had 2,500 designated mourners, led by 400 paupers in black cloaks and hoods, carrying torches, and marching through the night.
The high point of the exhibition, however, comes in its first room. It is a reconstruction of the chapelle ardente created within St Denis to house the king's coffin, which temporarily turned a Gothic interior into a wholly baroque setting, with skeletons and weepers around a high catafalque under a huge crown. The contrast between that and the tiny stone vault in the crypt where the king's body was placed after the funeral, on an iron trestle next to that of his father, could scarcely be greater. Only then, however, could the traditional formula – 'the king is dead; long live the king' – have meaning and be proclaimed.
In its essentials this ritual was common to most monarchies in western Europe; and one of the great strengths of this exhibition, curated with exemplary skill and imagination, is its demonstration of how the ceremony evolved over time, drawing evidence chiefly from France, but occasionally from elsewhere. By 1715, for example, the wax effigies which had generally taken the place of the royal body in funeral processions since 1500 were falling out of use. Louis XIII had condemned the practice as a pagan relic, and in England James I was the last king to have his effigy carried at his funeral in 1625. Waxwork images were made of later English monarchs but chiefly used to show where they were buried in Westminster Abbey (and perhaps what they had looked like).
Ordre du Cortège pour la Translation des Manes de Voltaire le lundi 11 Juillet 1791 (unknown artist, 1791). / Image BnF.
The royal funeral was losing something of its special mystery in other words, and it lost much more after 1715 as it was gradually adapted and redesigned to cover secular state funerals, beginning with Newton's in 1727 in England, and in France with the transfer of the remains of Voltaire to the Panthéon in 1791 (the exhibition contains a painting of the procession.)
The funeral of Louis XIV therefore marked the apogee of the royal funeral. When preaching on that occasion Bishop Massillon, whose sermons Voltaire admired, famously insisted that 'Dieu seul est grand', and not the king himself. Whatever one might think of the king, however, his was undoubtedly a great funeral, and this is a great exhibition, wholly worthy of its subject and its setting. It closes on 21 February.
– Paul Slack
See also: Le Roi est mort.
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Home / Batman / Video / Christian Bale Talks Batman With 8-Year Old Leukemia Patient [Video]
Christian Bale Talks Batman With 8-Year Old Leukemia Patient [Video]
Nigel G Mitchell 1/26/2013 09:26:00 PM Batman, Video
Christian Bale took a lot of heat for an expletive-filled rant he made on the set of Terminator: Salvation, and some other issues with his personal life. But one thing we can say is that he does a lot of charity work. He doesn't travel around the world with a camera crew in tow like Angelina Jolie. No, he does it quietly and without fanfare. Like when he visited the shooting victims of the theater in Colorado. Or his work with the Redwings Sanctuary to rescue horses. Or how he called up an 8-year-old Zach Guillot (who's suffering from leukemia) to talk about the boy's favorite superhero, Batman. Didn't hear about that one? Watch this:
If you want to follow the little boy's journey, check out his Facebook page, ZachAttacksLeukemia. And to Christian Bale, I say, "Oh, good for yooouuuuu!"
[Via E Online via io9 via The Mary Sue]
It's good he does stuff like that.
That was really nice. That kid won't ever forget it.


Given the pace of life today, it's increasingly common to feel overwhelmed by a blizzard of professional obligations. To-do lists grow despairingly long; calendars fill with meetings and calls. Even those with laser focus can struggle to keep up.
But some of us are more susceptible than others to getting swept up in this frenzied accumulation of tasks, struggling to set priorities or say no. By trying to do everything at once, some of us end up falling behind.
Carter Cast, a clinical professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School, spent several years examining career derailment. In his new book, The Right (and Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers Are Made—and Unmade, he explores five common issues that impede career progress. Of the five, this is the issue people self-identify with most frequently.
Recognize this trait in yourself? Cast offers five recommendations on how to get organized and get ahead.
Many employees, at least on paper, have more responsibilities than any single person can realistically tackle. A sales executive may have a vast client portfolio. An HR executive may be charged with the growth and development of hundreds of employees. A compliance director might technically have oversight over dozens of complex vendor relationships.
For an extreme example, consider the high turnover rate among Chief Marketing Officers. In 2016, the average CMO tenure at top ad-spending firms was just 42 months. Given that CMOs are responsible for a broad range of specialties—from advertising to brand management to customer experience—they are always in danger of stretching themselves too thin.
Cast recommends approaching each role with an eye toward delivering results. This means coming to a clear understanding of what the company actually expects from you, and when. And while this is good advice for just about anyone, those of us who overburden ourselves need to stay particularly focused on the prize.
If you don't address these larger questions early on, you may end up trying to focus on the wrong—or too many—objectives.
If you are struggling to finish what you start, consider whether you are thinking deliberately about what each step in a task entails. Those who over-reach tend to be creative people with lots of ideas but an unstructured way of approaching them.
To counteract that tendency, Cast recommends understanding the workflow in an organization. Most companies have established ways to move projects from inception to completion—project roadmaps.
By a certain point in our careers, most of us are used to keeping lists that outline what we have on our plate for the day. But there is a difference between jotting down a few scattershot items and taking a more systematic approach to prioritizing that list.
One key part of prioritizing is knowing when you work best. Cast suggests breaking your day into segments and tackling challenging work during times when you are sharpest and most productive. If your brain is most active between six and ten in the morning, for instance, that may not be the best time to respond to noncritical emails. Save those missives for a built-in time slot dedicated to administrative tasks.
Just as important is isolating yourself from distractions during your most productive segment of the day. This could mean turning off email alerts or keeping the phone at a safe distance.
If you are feeling overwhelmed by your responsibilities, consider whether you are by nature a "pleaser," as many high achievers are. Pleasers tend to take on more than they should—their default response is, "yes, why not?" But learning when to say "no," and learning to do it tactfully, is critical for preserving valuable time and energy.
For example, instead of sitting down for an hour-long conversation with a colleague about a project idea, you could take five minutes to share some ideas via email or over the phone. That way you maintain the relationship without sacrificing too much time.
In addition to learning how to say "no," anyone struggling to cross critical items off of the to-do list needs to learn the art of delegating. Delegation doesn't always come naturally to high achievers.
"We tend to think the best person to perform a given task is ourselves," Cast says. We may also be under the mistaken impression that delegating is viewed as a sign of weakness.
Even in cases where you are the most qualified person to do the job, that does not mean you have to—or that you should.
Apart from freeing up time to focus on more important tasks, delegating also helps others gain valuable experience and build new capabilities.


At 9.54pm the floor manager walked on to the Today at Wimbledon set unable to disguise his delight and relief.
'John's here now,' he told presenter John Inverdale and analyst Pat Cash while the programme was showing action from the most dramatic day of the Championships. He sounded like the embattled soldier who had spotted the seventh cavalry on the horizon.
Instead, he had a bar of chocolate, a couple of slugs of bottled water and a little wander around the BBC studio before taking his chair as the expert's expert.
The talent, as they say, had arrived.
John McEnroe, once (and still) the scourge of officialdom the world over, was assuming his position as the pre- eminent observer and critic of all matters tennis.
The rebel has a suit as well as a cause. His jacket and silk tie contrasted with the casual open-neck shirt look of Inverdale and the battered old tennis top of the even more relaxed Cash.
But it is beneath the waist where it counts on television. Ever since it was discovered that the late lamented Reggie Bosanquet read the news in his Y-fronts, there has been a fascination about what is worn beneath the desk.
Inverdale, it can be revealed, concealed trousers, sandals and no socks while Cash was in shorts, tennis socks and deck shoes. McEnroe wore the other half of his suit, sober black boots and, one presumes, matching hosiery.
So much for the great anti-establishment tennis player of the 1970s and 1980s.
But McEnroe still says it how it is. Chalk flies up. He also sees it how it is, and invariably before anyone else. That, together with his name, fame and notoriety, make him just about the hottest property in television sports.
He is working for BBC and NBC this week. He will do the U.S. Open for CBS. U.S.A Network also pay well for his services and take his broadcasting earnings over the million dollars-a-year mark. He does not need the money.
Television executives like the sound of his voice 'almost as much as he likes the sound of his own voice,' one American insider said.
Those, like Britain's John Lloyd, who regard him as much a 'genius' with the microphone as the racket, need no blanket of anonymity.
Producers admire the work ethic which saw him do two sets of commentary on Lindsay Davenport and Jelena Dokic for the Beeb on Monday, five sets of Pete Sampras for NBC, followed by three sets of Tim Henman, again for BBC.
Eight hours of commentary which made him late for the start of Today at Wimbledon at the appointed time of 9.30pm. Hence the empty chair and the early joke.
Cash had the idea of holding up a copy of Mac's autobiography Please Play On against the vacant chair. The editor liked it. He liked better, though, the front cover of the Radio Times.
McEnroe has made a few front covers in his time.
The thing about McEnroe is that as incisive and insightful as his off-camera asides are the public never get short changed. He says it how he sees it.
'I never want to count Pete out but I think it is the end of an era,' he told the viewers. There is much more authority when one great champion talks about the demise of another great champion.
A late finish to proceedings meant a swift rewriting then tearing up of the script. 'I feel as if we are serving at 4-5, love-30 in the fifth set,' Inverdale said. Lots of paddling under the water yet seamless as far as the armchair audience was concerned.
Inverdale's reference to 'Whispering Ted Lowe' produced off camera an explanation by an Australian to an American of the unique style of the British snooker commentator.
Mac nodded. All he could talk about during the pieces of action was getting some action himself. He was desperate for a hit with Cash.
He might love talking about tennis but it does not compare with playing it. He was out the studio in a flash, baseball hat back to front, rackets in his hand. It was 10.30 and dark but he was ready for a game.


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Breitling x Deus Ex Machina Collaborate on a Limited-Edition Chronograph
Breitling and the Australian custom motorcycle and surf outfitter Deus Ex Machina joined forces for the second time to create a limited-edition Top Time Deus chronograph. Two brands also revealed a new clothing collaboration that revives the nomadic spirit of Breitling's chronograph from the 1960s.
Limited to 2000 pieces, the new Top Time Deus features luminescent indexes and a white lacquered dial contrasted by sky-blue on its subdials and speed-measuring tachymeter scale. The color scheme of the timepiece is all new but it features the details that made the first collab so successful. There is the lightning-bolt-shaped chronograph hand, mushroom pushers, racing-themed calfskin leather strap and caseback engraving of a Deus bike and rider designed by Deus creative director Carby Tuckwell. Each caseback is marked with the "One of 2000" limitation.
First introduced in the 1960s, Breitling's unconventional Top Time chronograph became iconic and featured a stylish in-crowd of café racer and sports car enthusiasts. Men and women were equally drawn to its bold proportions and graphic dials. Today, the Top Time remains Breitling's watch for bikers, boarders, surfers, and digital nomads – and at 41 mm, it's a fit for most wrists.
Each new chronograph comes with a co-branded waxed-canvas travel tote. Breitling and Deus have also partnered on a new line of clothing and accessories that fans of the brands can only get their hands on at six Breitling flagships worldwide (Seoul Hannam, New York Madison Avenue, Milan, London New Bond Street, London Regent Street and Sydney).
The new Top Time Deus is available on Breitling.com, in Breitling boutiques and through selected retailers, while quantities last.


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Lake Anna Civic Association's mission is to preserve and protect the cleanliness, beauty, and safe use of Lake Anna and its watershed through communication, advocacy, education, and community involvement to benefit the membership and all lake users.
The Lake Anna Civic Association, an all-volunteer organization, was formed in 1992 by the late Jack Bertron with a focus on preserving, conserving and protecting Lake Anna. The goal is to keep Lake Anna and its watershed a clean and beautiful place to live and enjoy recreational opportunities while working to keep growth compatible with the area.
LACA is led by an 11-member board of directors elected by the membership at the annual meeting held the last Saturday of July. Each board member serves a two-year term with half elected each year. Members of the board include the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and assistant treasurer along with six regional directors representing Louisa, Spotsylvania & Orange counties.
Board meetings, open to members and the public, are held the first Thursday of each month at 5 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church, 3091 Mt. Pleasant Church Road, Louisa, VA.
The six Regional Directors represent the members in their areas, which typically follow the magisterial districts, on issues and concerns specific to that region as well as the lake overall.
LACA is guided by a set of by-laws and articles of incorporation. It has met the requirements to be a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Mission and goals have been identified and a policy manual guides the Board of Directors in operating procedures. Funding for all activities is through annual membership dues, contributions, and grants from the counties, state agencies and private organizations.
Household memberships are available for one, two or three years at rates of $15, $28 or $40 respectively.


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This Week in Biotech
Sean Williams, The Motley Fool
With the SPDR S&P Biotech Index up 25% over the trailing-12-month period, it's evident that investment dollars are willingly flowing into the biotech sector. Keeping that in mind, let's have a look at some of the rulings, studies, and companies that made waves in the sector last week.
It was a generally positive week within the biotech sector, with four of the five most notable stories sending these stocks higher. Therefore, if you need a pick-me-up on this, the first down week of the year for the market indexes, you've come to the right place.
The big news of the week came just yesterday with the FDA approval of Kadcyla, previously known as T-DM1 and developed by Roche and ImmunoGen . Kadcyla was approved as a treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer and is unique in that it includes ImmunoGen's targeted antibody payload technology which helps deliver more potent doses of a chemotherapy toxin specifically to tumor cells while minimizing healthy cell damage. Investors have been generally unhappy with the nominal royalties ImmunoGen is set to receive from the sale of the drug, but I consider it just the tip of the iceberg for this rapidly growing biotech company.
Repros Therapeutics , on Thursday, came out with positive news that the FDA has given the company the go-ahead to complete its ongoing study of Androxal as a secondary treatment for hypogonadism as originally planned. If you recall, Repros disclosed just weeks ago that one of its testing groups exhibited anomalous results which necessitated its top-line data be pushed back one quarter. This week's news gives Repros the clearance by the FDA to assess the data both with, and without, this group of patients. In a few more months, we'll find out if investors are rewarded or run over the coals for their patience.
Similarly, Chelsea Therapeuticsshot out of a cannon mid-week following word that the FDA would allow it to resubmit hypotension drug Northera using data from its earlier clinical studies. Originally, Chelsea was told in March 2012 that it would need to conduct further studies of Northera, but an appeal made to the director of the Office of New Drugs of the FDA proved successful. With Chelsea successfully redefining the end goal of its study, it was able to demonstrate a short-term clinical benefit to the drug of about one week. Beyond that, the data was less defined. This news saves Chelsea big time in their pocket book and the company plans to resubmit its NDA in the second quarter.
Gilead Sciences produced a fourth positive late-stage study of all-oral hepatitis-C drug Sofosbuvir on Tuesday, and, not surprisingly, the drug excelled again. This time Gilead tested Sofosbuvir on the less common genotypes 2 and 3 and produced cure rates of 50% after 12 weeks and 76% after 16 weeks -- far and away better than the current standard treatment. With all four late-stage trials showing significant clinical benefits with an equal or better safety profile, an approval looks all but in the bag.
The one "Debbie downer" of the sector this week was anti-obesity drug maker VIVUS , which received word from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on Thursday that it had, again, decided to uphold its rejection of Qsvia (the European marketing name for Qsymia) for the treatment of chronic weight management and rejected VIVUS' appeal. The EMA's panel suggested that it would like to see how Qsvia affects the cardiovascular system in trials before recommending the drug. While not a real shock, it nonetheless reinforces what a tough road it'll be for weight-loss management drugs to crack the European market.
Is now the time to sell VIVUS?
VIVUS' shares were clobbered after Qsymia's dismal launch. Investors everywhere are wondering whether the tide will turn for this drugmaker or if now is the perfect time to sell. In a new premium research report, the Fool's top health-care contributor breaks down this complex story and explains the details VIVUS investors must know -- including reasons to buy and sell. To find out more about this premium report -- complete with a full year of free updates -- click here now.
The article This Week in Biotech originally appeared on Fool.com.
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Q: How to handle long response times in AngularJS $http? I have a method that fetches some data from an API.
$http.get("https://httpstat.us/200?sleep=20000", header).then(
  function successCallback(response) {
    //logic
  },
  function errorCallback(response) {

  }
);

In certain test cases, the API takes forever to respond so I need a way to handle such cases. If the API is taking more than 10 seconds, I need to return some data. I tried adding a timeout to the request using the code below
$http.get("https://httpstat.us/200?sleep=20000", {timeout: 10000}).then(

But this just aborts the request and goes to the error callback. Is there another way to know if the request is taking forever to respond without actually timing out the request?

A: Short anwser no, there is no build in way to notify the http service listener that the request is long.
You could however build a deferred wrapper that encapsulate the http call in a defer so that you will be able to notify your listener if the service takes too long to respond but you will have to time it yourself.
take a look at this post where the author address a similar problem to yours
https://www.peterbe.com/plog/angularjs-$q-notify-resolve-local-get-proxy

A: If you just need to run a function after some time have passed you can utilize $timeout.
Pass the function you want to run to the $timeout with the time in milliseconds, it will return you a timer promise. If your $http calls resolves before the timeout just run $timeout.cancel(\[promise\]) and pass it your timer promise. This will cancel the inner timeout function call.
Example
var timer = $timeout(function() {
  console.log("this request is taking too long...")
  // tell the client it will take a while ...
}, 10 * 1000);

$http({method: $scope.method, url: $scope.url, cache: $templateCache}).
  then(function(response) {
    // handle successful response ...
    $timeout.cancel(timer); // about your timeout function call
  }, function(response) {
    // handle rejection ...
});

You can of course cancel your timeout in the finally clause.
(Plunker)
If you don't feel like writing the same code for every function that wraps $http, consider using an interceptor.

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