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Former Chiefs player Larry Johnson among celebrities promoting anti-Semitism
August 10, 2020 Local, Sports, Strange News
Larry Johnson, who played running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, is among a growing number of celebrities who are spreading anti-Semitic rhetoric. On July 7, after DeSean Jackson of the Philadelphia Eagles ...
Ocasio-Cortez criticizes Catholic saint who dedicated his life to helping lepers
August 5, 2020 Culture Watch, Strange News
Father Damien, who sacrificed his life to help lepers in Hawaii, is a symbol of "patriarchy and white supremacist culture," according to Rep. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The Catholic priest is a ...
The July disaster is here: Taco Bell removing popular items
July 16, 2020 Culture Watch, Lifestyles, News, Strange News
Americans wondered what disaster would befall the nation in July. We now know it is not an asteroid. Reports are circulating that Taco Bell is discontinuing its Quesaritos and Beefy Frito Buritto ...
Oregon official admits faking racist letter
July 8, 2020 Culture Watch, News, Strange News
In yet another example of a faked hate crime, an Oregon politician has admitted he fabricated the entire thing. Oregon Democrat Jonathan Lopez confessed to penning a racist letter to himself after ...
Study: Easily offended are bad employees and hypocrites
A new study has found that millennials who are easily offended are the worst employees. The report, from San Diego State University, says that easily offended people never get anything done and ...
Chinese dog meat 'festival' opens amid outcry
June 25, 2020 News, Strange News, World
European news outlets are reporting that the notorious Dog Meat Festival has opened in China. In recent weeks, Communist China changed the classification of dogs from livestock to pets but have not ...
Woman removes mask, coughs on baby, in social distancing attack
June 25, 2020 Culture Watch, News, Strange News
Social distancing attacks have been taken to a whole new level after a woman assaulted a baby in a restaurant. Police have identified a woman, who purposely coughed on a baby, as ...
Missouri Auditor Galloway praises dark money group then says she hates it "with a passion"
May 19, 2020 Missouri News, News, Strange News
Missouri Democrat Nicole Galloway is in a pickle. The Missouri State auditor, now turned candidate for governor, has bragged about an endorsement from a liberal dark money group just days after claiming ...
Former Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon defending televangelist Jim Bakker
May 9, 2020 Missouri News, News, Strange News
Televangelist Jim Bakker, who is based in Branson, Mo., now has an unlikely ally in defending his lawsuit over claims that he peddled a fake cure for COVID -19. Former Missouri Gov. ...
Actor Jeff Goldblum criticized for questioning treatment of women under Islam
May 5, 2020 Culture Watch, News, Strange News
Actor Jeff Goldblum is under fire for questioning Islam and how it treats women and gays. Speaking in a recent episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race," Goldblum asked a Muslim guest about the ...
Televangelist Jim Bakker faces bankruptcy after promoting fraudulent Covid-19 cure
April 24, 2020 Culture Watch, News, Strange News
Televangelist Jim Bakker, who is based in Branson, told viewers this week that his ministry is facing bankruptcy unless they purchase his products. Credit card processors refused to work with Bakker after ...
Pope Francis blames 'environmental sins' for coronavirus
Environmental degradation is to blame for the coronavirus pandemic, according to Pope Francis, who is calling for a worldwide response to climate change. He made the remarks on the 50th anniversary of Earth ...
The 'Squad' wants $14,000 debit card for illegal immigrants
April 21, 2020 News, Politics & Policy, Strange News
Unpopular Democrat Congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar has been joined by three other Democrats, commonly referred to as "The Squad," in calling for American taxpayers to pay out stimulus funds to illegal immigrants. ...
Venezuelan warship sinks after firing upon and ramming cruiseliner
April 7, 2020 News, Strange News, World
Venezuela has suffered a tough loss of one of its few remaining warships. Media reports say a Venezuelan warship sank after it fired upon and repeatedly rammed a German cruiseliner. Only problem ...
She bragged she wasn't social distancing, now she has coronavirus
April 1, 2020 Health and Wellness, News, Strange News
A 21-year-old Tennessee woman who bragged on social media about not taking the coronavirus outbreak seriously now says she can't breath after contracting the virus. Ireland Tate joked about not following instructions ...
Arrest warrant issued for Florida megachurch pastor who ignored virus orders
March 30, 2020 Church & Ministry, News, Strange News
A Florida TV station is reporting that an arrest warrant has been issued for the pastor of a Tampa megachurch. Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne is facing charges after refusing to close its doors ...
Museum of the Bible discovers that its Dead Sea Scroll fragments are all forgeries
March 15, 2020 Church & Ministry, Faith, News, Strange News
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., discovered on Friday that all 16 of its Dead Sea Scroll fragments are forgeries, National Geographic reported. "The Museum of the Bible is trying ...
Televangelist Jim Bakker sued by Attorney General over quack coronavirus cure
Jim Bakker is in trouble with the state of Missouri for selling a product that he claims can cure coronavirus. Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued the televangelist on Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges ...
Coronavirus is a U.S, Jewish plot says Iraqi political analyst
March 3, 2020 Health and Wellness, News, Strange News
An Iraqi political analyst is spreading a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus is a plot by the United States and Jews aimed at population control. And he's basing it on a 40-year-old ...
Missouri 23rd, Kansas 37th in rankings of most "sinful" states
February 21, 2020 Kansas News, Missouri News, News, Strange News
Let the state that is without sin cast the first stone. Missouri is the 23rd most sinful state in the nation, according to a WalletHub survey, while Kansas comes in at No. ...
Posing as nurse, woman kidnaps baby from maternity ward in Colombia
February 12, 2020 News, Strange News, World
A baby was kidnapped in a hospital by a woman pretending to be a nurse. The incident happened in Colombia this week after the baby girl was taken from her from her ...
Convicted pedophile released, 'no longer deemed threat' because he says he's a woman
January 31, 2020 Columns, Culture Watch, News, Strange News
If you were one of those inquiring souls who was wondering just how crazy the transgender phenomenon could get, the answer to that question may have just surfaced in the Des Moines ...
Pigskin prophecy? Minister believes Super Bowl win by Chiefs is sign of revival
January 28, 2020 Local, News, Sports, Strange News
Fans of the Kansas City Chiefs have waited a half-century for their team to make it back to the Super Bowl. If the Chiefs win, some people believe, it could kick off ...
Study: We're brewing our coffee wrong
January 27, 2020 News, Strange News
You're brewing your morning coffee all wrong. That's according to a new study published last week in the academic journal Matter. It took scientists and mathematicians to discover the proper process and ...
Football fans ready to wing it on Super Bowl Sunday, study finds
January 25, 2020 Lifestyles, Local, News, Sports, Strange News
Is a hot wing the true prize? Chicken Wings are the top food choice when it comes to the Super Bowl. According to estimates, Americans will eat approximately 1.4 billion wings during ...
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Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI National WWI Museum and Memorial 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO 6410
13NovAll Day11AprSilk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI(All Day) National WWI Museum and Memorial, 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO 6410
November 13 (Friday) - April 11 (Sunday)
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WWI exploded in the late summer of 1914. Armies took the field in bright uniforms. Navies steamed to sea flying the colors of their nations. For the ensuing years of
WWI exploded in the late summer of 1914. Armies took the field in bright uniforms. Navies steamed to sea flying the colors of their nations. For the ensuing years of global war until the peace treaty was signed on June 28, 1919, most history has centered on battles, leaders and destruction.
Throughout this time of global upheaval and a devastating war primarily fought by men, women around the world actively responded to the tumult by accepting, and at times actively pursuing, new responsibilities and roles. French women, like others, worked in war industries, in agriculture, in nursing, in transport, for suffrage and equal pay and respect. In France, recent scholarship has shown that the survival of women's fashion also played an important role in life during the Great War. Women's fashion needed to adapt to the necessities of new actions, scarcity of materials and ever-present societal morale needs. The fashion industry, particularly in France, responded.
Silk and Steel feature original dresses, coats, capes, hats, shoes, and accessories. Topics presented are the evolution of the war-time silhouette, Parisian designers during the war, military uniforms' influence, women's uniforms in France and America, war work, economics of fashion, and post-war emancipation.
This special exhibition, Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI, is presented by the National WWI Museum and Memorial from Sept. 25, 2020 to April 11, 2021 in the Wylie Gallery
Virtual Retreat: The Lord's Prayer Conception Abbey 37174 HWY VV, Conception, MO 64433
15JanAll Day17Virtual Retreat: The Lord's Prayer(All Day) Conception Abbey, 37174 HWY VV, Conception, MO 64433
January 15 (Friday) - 17 (Sunday)
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How often has this traditional prayer taught to us by Jesus been recited with little thought
How often has this traditional prayer taught to us by Jesus been recited with little thought of the powerful meaning of each line? Take time to reflectively grasp the deep spiritual meaning of this prayer that is prayed so often and by so many every day. Led by Fr. Roger Schmit, OSB
This retreat will be given in virtual format only. Abbey Guest Center (660) 944-2809
Price: $25 per computer connection or household.
AVOID PROBATE SEMINARS Lewis Living Trust Center 700 N. East Langsford Road, Lee's Summit, MO 64063
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Topeka Rally for Life Kansas Capitol SW 8th & SW Van Buren, Topeka, KS
21Jan8:45 am3:45 pmTopeka Rally for Life8:45 am - 3:45 pm Kansas Capitol, SW 8th & SW Van Buren, Topeka, KS
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United for mothers and babies!
Join special guests Kristen Day, Executive Director of Democrats for Life of America, and Kim Borchers, Kansas Republican National Committeewoman, as they stand united for mothers and babies! Life is truly the winning coalition!
8:30 a.m. – REGISTRATION – Get info on legislative activities, maps, lobbying, capitol tours, pro-life booths and more
9:00 a.m. – WORKSHOPS 1 &2 – 30-minute educational workshop sessions provided by KFL
10:30 a.m. – NON-DENOMINATIONAL RELIGIOUS SERVICE— Capitol workshop room
10:30 a.m. – Catholic Mass with Kansas Bishops at TPAC or stream it at www.livestream/ArchKCK/KSMassforLife
11:45 a.m. – MARCH FOR LIFE from TPAC to south steps of the state Capitol
12:15 p.m. – Rally for Life on the south Capitol steps
2:30 p.m. – WORKSHOPS 3 & 4 – 30-minute educational workshop sessions provided by KFL
All workshops will take place in the Capitol Visitor Center and are no charge.
Everyone is welcome for lunch any time between 11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for free-will donation in the Mater Dei Assumption Catholic Church basement. Mater Dei, 204 SW 8th Ave., is north and across the street from the Capitol.
If weather is a problem, the rally will be held on the 1st floor rotunda of the Capitol.
For details about the capitol building and parking information, visit www.kshs.org/p/kansas-state-capitol-plan-your-visit/18649. For emergency or media, please call KFL personnel Jeanne 785.383.8636 or Mary Kay 913.406.4446 Hosted by Kansans for Life
Women's Encouragement Day City Center Church 17500 West 87th Street Parkway, Lenexa, KS
23Jan8:30 am4:30 pmWomen's Encouragement Day8:30 am - 4:30 pm City Center Church, 17500 West 87th Street Parkway, Lenexa, KS
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Join us for a restful day in the middle of the school year set aside just for you! Our morning starts with coffee or tea while enjoying a light breakfast
Join us for a restful day in the middle of the school year set aside just for you! Our morning starts with coffee or tea while enjoying a light breakfast over good conversation with other mama's who homeschool. We will gather together to hear speakers, enjoy worship sprinkled throughout the day, and sit down to enjoy a delicious lunch – without any cleanup!!! You don't want to miss this day to be encouraged as local moms share what it looks like for them to say "it is well" as they dwell in the Lord through different seasons of life while homeschooling. We can't wait to see you! This year we will offer an online option for those that won't be joining us in person.
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29JanAll DayThe March for Life(All Day: friday) Washington DC National Mall
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The March for Life is an inspiring, peaceful. Every year, tens of thousands of pro-lifers converge on the National Mall and march on Capitol Hill on the anniversary of the
The March for Life is an inspiring, peaceful. Every year, tens of thousands of pro-lifers converge on the National Mall and march on Capitol Hill on the anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which legalized abortion in all 50 states.
Pre-Rally Concert with Matthew West: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Rally Program: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
March: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Rose Dinner (virtual): 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Caravans leave from the Kansas City area. https://www.missourilifecaravan.org/ Also local events. https://www.respectlifekcsj.org/march-for-life.html
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Come join us for a truly amazing experience. Join with pastors, students, and fellow pro-lifers to pray for the sanctity and protection of life in our country. Also, hear from
Come join us for a truly amazing experience. Join with pastors, students, and fellow pro-lifers to pray for the sanctity and protection of life in our country. Also, hear from various pro-life organizations that address issues such as education, legislation, lobbying, protesting, prevention, pregnancy, and healing.
Dress warm for cold and wind! Receive a goody bag to get informed and show off your pro-life pride!
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I love bunnies! Not just at Easter time either, all year round.. they're just so darn cute!
Easter is a good excuse to get more of a bunny fix without looking obsessive though, so I thought why make a bounding group of buns for above my desk?
I had some extra embossing foil lying around, so decided that would be my material of choice – and boy do these bunnies shine! If you don't have any foil though, you could easily make them from cardboard and just colour them in, piece of cake! Carrot cake in fact. Yes, I went there.
Ok, so here's what you'll need!
Print out your template, and use it to cut out a bunch of bunnies.
Put something soft down on the tabletop, like a piece of craft foam. Take one of your metal bunnies and overlay the template again. Using your sharp tool, pierce through the two circles marked on the template. These will be where your string goes through. Do that for all the bunnies. Then, keeping the bunnies on the craft foam, take your blunt pencil (if it's too sharp it might rip the metal) and indent lines and patterns into the bodies of your bunnies. Flatten them out again if they've bent a bit.
Once you've finished decorating your bunnies, all that's left to do is thread them onto your string! Make sure that you always thread them in the same way – from front to back through the first hole, then from back to front though the second hole, so you'll end up with a line of string running along the backs of each bunny. If you want, you can add a piece of sticky tape to the backs to hold them in place along the string.
Trop chou! (Very cute!) Bravo!
Hi Claire – very, very cute. i had to laugh about it being hard to photograph. Metallic and jewels (rhinestones) are the worst – they look so fabulous in real life . . . and then . . .I think your garland looks magnificent, regardless.
Hi Anne, yes it's so tricky! No matter which angle I stood, it just never looked quite right. Oh well!
What is the other garland made of? It's a pretty accent.
Oh Claire, you kill me every time with your DIYs! I am in love with this little garland!!!
i made tea candle holder few years ago with the embossing foil method. Works great.


Marketing Japan: I Must Be Bitcoin's Bad Luck Charm!
Anytime I have anything to do with Bitcoin, the next day, they get bad luck.
I wrote an article for Lew Rockwell on April 9th (that was posted on April 11th at 9pm Pacific Time) entitled The Bashful Bitcoin Numismatist and guess what? Bitcoin crashed late that next day on April 12th, falling about 70%! Please refer to: So, Bitcoin Crashed. Now What?
Well, the other day, I was offered another US TV news interview and asked to discuss Bitcoin and gold. Of course, being a media-hog, I said, "Yes! I wanna be on TV!" and jumped on the chance.
So, being a diligent reporter, I figured that I'd get the scoop on Bitcoin; and since MtGox is only 25 minutes or so from my house, door-to-door, I thought I'd mosey on over there and have a chat. So, I sent them an email.
My name is Mike (I go by Mike in Tokyo Rogers) and I have been a regular columnist for Lew Rockwell since 2004. I also sometimes do TV interviews with stations all over the world and on this Thursday at 4 am Japan time, I will be interviewed for WHDT TV with Gary Franchi host (Watch this station for free online here: http://usmediavault.com/stream.php). We would like to discuss Bitcoin and gold. I'd like to come by your offices for a 30 minute chat if you have time. Maybe take some photos.
Be forewarned I am a sort of skeptic (but Lew Rockwell is not, as you know)... Trust I don't come there to grill you guys, I am a humorist at heart and would just like to report more or less about what the commotion is all about. I do not want to damage, nor promote your business.
I am hoping that you guys can convince me to convince the viewers how great of a thing Bitcoin can be. Anyway, to be fair, I did write a humorous article about Bitcoin that Lew ran a few weeks ago: http://lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers259.html After that, Lew ran a blog post that was very supportive of Bitcoin. That was a good influence on me.
I'm not sold, but I'm not against. Anything that gets people off the state grid is fine by me. As a true Anarchist (and humorist) I am happy to have people use whatever medium of exchange they wish. Far be it from me to decide what people should or should not do.
Well, that was yesterday... And, like I said, I must be bad luck for these folks. For one, they haven't bothered to call me. You'd think that if they truly were believers in their Bitcoin, they'd be happy to promote and tell the world about it on TV and on Lew Rockwell, but I guess not.
See? If I even think about Bitcoin, something bad happens to them the next day! I guess the sh*t is hitting the fan right now at MtGox and if they (allegedly) can't even keep their promises to their strategic partners, I guess calling back Mike Rogers is asking a lot. Especially since, as I mentioned, I am a skeptic and an interview with me might be risky business and just asking to be railed on.... In a humorous way, of course.
"See? If I even think about Bitcoin, something bad happens to them the next day!"
Clearly, I must stop commenting here then as I've had a streak of bad luck I can't shake.
No, that's not entirely true. I had a great day at the firing range teaching a beautiful and wonderful woman how to shoot a gun.
Haha, or maybe you just didn't think of me that day? Oh man, this would never be an issue if I hadn't lost my MoJo.
Anyway, I'm suddenly reminded of that leprechaun video you posted awhile back, "Bring me yer gold"
One other thing, wHAt does it mean when I go to Burt's Gold Page and in place of the graphs for gold silver and platimum, it says, "Sever is too busy"?
Is that the Asian market checking the spot price in the A.M. crashing the Kitco server?
These days it's like the opposite of when gold was $450 per ounce. Back then, the Asian markets had these low low prices at night I wanted to buy into, but by the time my dealer opened the price had gone UP Up UP.
Nowadays, it's just the opposite.
Backwardization stuff... ugh. Why can't it just be simple Fall Down Go Boom, Get Back UP?
Bitcoin is a scam. What kind of "currency" market can be closed on the whim of some jerk-off at MtGox? Which is what happened when the Bitcoin price was collapsing; they closed the market.
The run of "bad luck" hasn't stopped. Mike! Isn't enough enough already?!?


So, we're going to open up Rhino and I'm going to open this Rhino file for the Farnsworth house, which will be available in the project assets on Black Spectacles. We're going to open our Farnsworth house Rhino file. Okay, so let's close out of this.


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Doctor Who Review, "The Magician's Apprentice"
Written by Chris-Rachael Oseland in Review
Doctor Who's 9th series premier was a big dumb fun parade of inexplicable action and in-references for long term fans – exactly the opposite of poor Matt Smith's last season. And damn, was it a breath of fresh air.
Moffatt's love of gotchas is questionable at best, but damn if they didn't work here. It kicks off with high energy and high stakes. Stop running through that minefield, kid! Wait, hand mines? OH SHIT, HE MEANS IT LITERALLY. IS THAT MUD FLAT FULL OF BURIED WEEPING ANGELS? Whoa, no! It's something even creepier! What the hell are they?
HA HA HA of course that's never answered, but you'll totally forget that when you see THE DOCTOR PLAYING AN ELECTRIC GUITAR WHILE RIDING A TANK INTO A MEDIEVAL FIGHTING ARENA! Hey, his new stalker, Mr. I Slept On An Electric Griddle is there, too! Except it turns out HE'S A DEMOCRACY OF SNAKES! Snakes on a plane…of medieval battle!
Hey, y'know what we haven't seen in awhile? The TARDIS! Oh, that's because Budget Samwell Tarley packed it up for Davros because he's secretly a Dalek-bot. OF COURSE HE IS.
Budget Samwell and A Democracy of Snakes (which should really be a Duran Duran album title) are just only there to help. The little kid The Doctor abandoned at the start of the episode is all grown up now and wants to have a chat. Come say hi. For old time's sake. What's the worst that could happen?
Did Davros just call himself The Doctor's oldest nemesis? WAIT A DAMN MINUTE! Somebody has known him since always. Since the Cloister Wars. Since the night he stole the moon and the President's wife. SINCE HE WAS A LITTLE GIRL.
If you tilted your head the moment those words came out of Missy's mouth, you could hear thousands of fanfic writers furiously scribbling. Oh, hey, did we mention MISSY IS BACK?
Moffatt isn't even pretending to tell you how she avoided dying. (Though, really, did anyone believe she was dead? Anyone? Bueller?). Don't scratch the plot holes. You'll just leave a nasty scab. Instead, sit back and enjoy Missy's sparkling banter. And I do. Oh, yes, I do.
Missy is my new Patronus!
I've seen a lot of fans complain that there were so many parts of this episode which deserved an entire hour of their own. I totally disagree. We don't need to know how The Doctor pulled off his medieval middle aged blowout party without changing history. We know it happened, or else Unit's striped uniforms would all have bulging codpieces and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart's rank would be designed by strapping on a gold pharonic beard. We're there for the emotionally impactful moment and a bit of whizz-bang, then we're back to the actual main plot.
With Daleks.
So. Many. Daleks.
And they're all nestled in a retro 70's set with rounded architecture and recessed circles everywhere, because the only things Daleks fear more than stairs is a 45 degree angle.
I totally agree with critics who say the actual substance of the episode coud've been condensed down to a five minute webisode, but that wasn't the point. This episode was all about reminding long time fans that Doctor Who is FUN. I've missed that. This episode was a big, flashy declaration that series 9 isn't going down the path that made watching too much of 7-8 feel like work instead of entertainment.
My only real quibble is Moffatt's obsession with turning the Doctor into an anti-hero. I get enough of those from, oh, let me think, EVERYTHING ELSE ON TELEVISION. The War Doctor was incredibly well handled, and really all the Dark and Dreary Doctor I need.
Sure, the occasional deep and morally questionable episode enriches the character. (I loved Human Nature & The Family of Blood.) But I'm really not a fan of Moffatt obsessively reminding us that if you look at The Doctor from the perspective of pretty much anyone other than his favorite human pets, he's a genocidal megalomaniac.
For most of NewWho, The Doctor has been portrayed as a weary but benevolent god who genuinely loves the human race and is always up for a little adventure. Capaldi's Doctor, on the other hand, started off as an elderly dementia patient (NOT someone you want to have god-like powers!) who never quite got his senses back after a stroke. You can't tell people's ages anymore? You're constantly calling a tiny, beautiful young woman like Clara ugly, old, and fat? You have difficulty picking specific individuals out of a group? Did you regenerate into Strax? Why are we supposed to trust your perception or interpretation of anything? Someone take the TARDIS keys away from him before he causes some real harm.
As someone who remembers back when Time Lords were only supposed to have 12 lives, my personal Head Cannon is that he's now past his expiration date and thus his grey matter is permanently spoiled. (Despite the retcon of Timothy Dalton's Mustache Twirlingly insane Gallifreyan high council purposefully torturing him as a boy, that's my explanation for The Master's batshittery as well.) I'm more than a little bummed that this season is clearly going to explore themes of The Doctor Creates His Own Problems (and billions suffer and die as a consequence) and Why Our Elders Need Full Time Caregivers.
That said, judging by this episode, the bits surrounding the Doctor's slow, dreary march to full on anti-hero will be much so fun we'll all be asking grandma if she'd like a zipline tour for her birthday. I can live with that.

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Tonight - Play Michael Coleman's Fiddle at The Cobblestone Bar, Dublin, Feb 26th
Posted by TradConnect on February 22, 2013 at 13:00
Michael Coleman's fiddle will be in The Cobblestone Bar next Tuesday Feb 26th and will be available to play with care on the night. "Coleman's records were to have a major impact on musicians back in Ireland, and were to exercise an influence on traditional music which was to long outlast his own lifetime. He was certainly the most influential traditional musician of the twentieth century, his legacy extending far beyond his native South Sligo and indeed the country as a whole. Although he has had many imitators, Coleman's combination of superb technical ability and deeply expressive playing has had few, if any equals. On the 4th January 1945 Michael died in Knickerbocker Hospital, Manhattan aged 54 years. He was buried in St. Raymond's Cemetry, The Bronx, New York."
"The fiddle used by Michael Coleman to record some of his most famous sets including the Tarbolton, Longford Collector and Sailor's Bonnet is finding a new life in a type of ambassadorial role. The fiddle was purchased from a hock shop on 42nd Street 3rd Avenue New York around 1933 by Coleman and his friend Richard 'Dick' Cosgrove. Cosgrove, who was from Cork, heard of Michael Coleman only after emigrating to America himself where he heard his early records. Thinking that Coleman was likely to be 'a big shot', he was surprised to learn he lived just two blocks from him. They met one evening on the street and Coleman brought him up to his apartment where he proceeded to play numerous reels including Bonnie Kate, Trim the Velvet and Drowsy Maggie.
Coleman played a number of fiddles over the years including fiddles belonging to Hughie Gillespie, Stanley Parker and Lad O'Beirne but during the depression he went with Cosgrove to buy a fiddle between them. Five or six were produced by the store owner and Coleman chose one that at the time had only one string and was in need of a little work. Following Coleman's death the fiddle ended up in the possession of one of his students, Hughie Gillespie who brought it home from America to Donegal. In the meantime Cosgrove married an aunt of Fr Pat Ahern from Moyvane in North Kerry who had also emigrated. Ahern was well known in Ireland in the late 1960s and early 1970s for initiatives that included the first Fleadh Nua and the first tour by a group representing Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann to tour to North America. He had also founded Siamsóirí na Ríochta which would become Siamsa Tíre, who themselves would perform on Broadway in 1976. When Cosgrove became aware of Ahern's plans for the development of Irish traditional arts, he suggested that the fiddle should be part of what was happening and so, when home from America, he went with Ahern, Antóinn MacGabhann and Bill Collins to Gillespie's home in Donegal where the latter reluctantly parted with this prized instrument.
Himself a fine fiddle player, Ahern has played the instrument at various events since the 1970s but has maintained that it should not be in the possession of one person nor end up as a museum piece behind a glass wall. For this reason he entrusted the fiddle into the care of Tradconnect member Daithí Kearney at Dundalk Institute of Technology. For the first semester the fiddle became a very tangible part of teaching and learning activities in Irish traditional music at the college and was the focus of the first DkIT TradWeek in November 2012. The fiddle has been played during the semester by students and staff at the Institute and guest tutors including John Carty and Jesse Smith, who themselves have a keen interest in the music of the Sligo-American tradition. It has also featured in sessions in Dundalk, including a memorable session with Alphie Ó Maolagáin playing Felix Doran's set of uilleann pipes." Source Cobblestone Bar


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International Women's Day - Five years after Beijing
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In developing countries, women are highly visible working in the fields, but when it comes to agricultural statsitics they remain largely invisible.
It has been five years since the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, and this year's celebration of International Women's Day (8 March) offers a chance for reflection on what has been achieved. In June, a special session of the UN General Assembly will review the progress made to date in implementing the Platform for Action adopted at the Beijing Conference. FAO will be present at this session, informally known as Beijing + 5, to make sure that the issues of rural women especially in developing countries are not forgotten.
"Information and advocacy are at the heart of the Organization's activities to promote gender equality," says Marie Randriamamonjy, Chief of FAO's Women in Development Service. Ms. Randriamamonjy stresses that "compiling accurate sex-disaggregated data about food production is essential if we hope to make sure that rural women are not neglected when governments set their policies and priorities." She also points out that FAO's role in this area is extremely important because the need for this information is particularly acute for agricultural policy-makers and planners in the developing world. There, the work of women is often vital to maintaining household food security, but their work usually is not part of the formal economy, so it remains statistically invisible.
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The High-Level Consultation on Rural Women and Information raised awareness about the importance of collecting and communicating accurate sex-disaggregated data about food production.
To raise awareness of the importance of gathering and disseminating data showing the disparities between men and women, Mr. J. Diouf, the Director-General, decided to organize a High-Level Consultation on Rural Women and Information at FAO headquarters in October 1999. This Consultation took place within the global framework for follow-up to the World Food Summit and the implementation of the FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development.
By bringing together decision-makers and representatives of civil society and the media, the Consultation generated a productive dialogue on the formulation of a Strategy for Action to improve information on, for and with rural women. The Strategy for Action will be an important component of the next plan of action on gender to be submitted to the FAO Conference in 2001.
FAO's Gender and Food Security web site also helps to get out the message about the importance of sex-disaggregated information in the fight against hunger. This year's International Women's Day marks the site's first anniversary.
For the first International Women's Day of the new millennium, FAO has organized a series of presentations on gender issues and food security. The event will include a message from Mr Diouf and presentations by FAO's three newly appointed female Assistant Directors-General. The themes that will be addressed include agricultural development and gender in the new millennium and diversity in human resource development. A technical seminar will address the disaggregation of nutrition data on the basis of gender.
FAO's Women and Population Division
Gender and Food Security
High-Level Consultation on Rural Women and Information
FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development
UN Fourth World Conference on Women
Beijing + 5
High-level consultation calls for better information on women's role in agriculture
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There are many advantages to using SCADA to monitor injection pumps. Variable frequency drives provide precision control of pump operations for greatest efficiency. SCADA allows you to remotely monitor the pump and associated tank to ensure any problems that arise can be dealt with quickly.
The advantages of remote monitoring are many, and operators are increasingly deploying drive systems complete with SCADA. But what about the pumping systems already in the field? There is a solution for that too.
MyBus conformance—SCADA remote monitoring can be connected to any system that conforms to MyBus.
Weatherproof communications box—this unit mounts near the system.
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We have all heard of the usefulness of SCADA to oilfield operations but what does it really contribute to your bottom line? Does it really add value to your operations and affect profit? The answer is a definite yes.
SCADA can contribute to both higher production and lower costs. Both of these improvements flow to the bottom line. In addition, SCADA improves the sustainability of your operations. In other words, you can count on your pump to keep pumping efficiently and maintenance to be more proactive than reactive. We all know that emergency maintenance takes longer and has a greater impact on production than scheduled maintenance.


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Support facilities for smokers who want to quit managed by the NHS in Italy 2001-2021
Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 28, 2022
Overall, the number of NHS facilities providing support to people willing to quit smoking increased going from 195 to 301, between 2001 and 2018. In 2019, however, this figure started to drop reaching 224 anti-smoking facilities in 2021. This statistic depicts the number of facilities providing support services for people willing to quit smoking managed by the National Health Service in Italy from 2001 to 2021.
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Istituto Superiore di Sanità. (2021). Number of facilities providing support services for people willing to quit smoking managed by the National Health Service in Italy from 2001 to 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: February 01, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/873866/number-of-anti-smoking-facilities-managed-by-the-nhs-in-italy/
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Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Number of facilities providing support services for people willing to quit smoking managed by the National Health Service in Italy from 2001 to 2021 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/873866/number-of-anti-smoking-facilities-managed-by-the-nhs-in-italy/ (last visited February 01, 2023)
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This gorgeous silver pitcher was part of a series of design variations on bird forms and the title references how a sound changes as it echoes. The vessel was based on the shape of a bird's body and the spout a beak. The handle was fabricated with three thick round rods of solid sterling silver, which creates the texture that functions superbly for gripping.
This sterling silver pitcher is perfect for serving any cold beverage and makes a lovely heirloom gift.
It has been featured in Traditional Home magazine and shown in exclusive, competitive exhibitions, such as Architectural Digest Home Design Show in NYC and Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show.


Clamshell boxes are constructed with two trays that fold into each other. Styles include double walled, notched and four walled, each designed to serve specific purposes. Clamshell boxes can be constructed with interior lids, specialized wells to accommodate such items as iPads, pockets to hold business cards, USB's or printed collateral.
Our clamshell boxes can be covered in a wide range of materials and colors. With full color printing, screen printing and embossing available on the covering materials, there are endless opportunities for customization.


Posted January 28, 2011 by William Martin & filed under DVD & Blu-ray.
Ever wondered what Robin Hood would have been like if, instead of a vicious outlaw leading a gang of hosiery-clad men, it involved a gang of four criminals being led by a former insurance fraud investigator? Well, this is your lucky day my friends, as Leverage was created for you.
Aired in the UK on Bravo, which should give you a decent idea of what to expect, this release contains all 15 episodes of the show's 2009-2010 season and is a cracking watch.
The gang consists of Parker (Beth Reisgraf), a blond thief who loves her work, Hardison (Aldis Hodge), a hacker who can seamlessly combine computers, codes and Star Trek references, Sophie (Gina Bellman), the grifter and token British member of the team, and Eliot (Christian Kane), the muscle man and 'retrieval expert'. The team is led by Nathan 'Nate' Ford (Timothy Hutton), who masterminds their heists and cons.
Season 2 opens with the group getting back together for 'one last job', before settling back into working together to help people in need of their assistance. In essence, the show is an American procedural drama, along the lines of CSI, NCIS or any number of other shows named after acronyms. Where Leverage differs from these is its good sense of humour about itself, with a vague whiff of '90s cheese.
Leverage has been described by The Times as "Hustle meets Ocean's 11, meets The A-Team", which in essence is correct. Just like The A-Team, the gang are usually hired by people who seem to find them when they need them the most, then a con is decided upon and put into motion. Inevitably, through twists and turns, the plan is completed by the end of the episode.
However, it balances the predictability of a procedural drama with just the right balance of recurring characters and relationship arcs to keep interest going. Following a slight dip in quality for a couple of episodes after the season opener, a plot arc arises through the second half of the season which involves a significant change in the chemistry of the team, climbing steadily upwards to a nail-biting finale.
And then there's the casting. Whilst the leads may not be particularly familiar faces (unless you too remember Christian Kane from his appearances as Lindsay in Angel), they do a fabulous job, balancing the drama, humour and even the occasional hint of romance. Other cult favourites to look out for throughout this series include Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager's Seven of Nine) in a multi-episode arc, and a small Middleman reunion with appearances from Marc Sheppard and Matt Keeslar in Episode 12, 'The Zanzibar Marketplace Job'.
Released on DVD on Monday 31st January 2011 by Icon Home Entertainment.


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Q: Как из экшена передать значение переменной в другой экшн? Smarty Сайт реализован на Smarty.
Возникло желание добавить поиск на сайте.
Столкнулся с проблемой: не могу понять как передать из searchproductAction, то что она возвращает, сам он работает верно, но как использовать его значение не пойму.
SearchController.php:
function indexAction($smarty){
    $rsCategories = getAllMainCatsWithChildren();
    $text = isset($text) ? $text : null;

    $smarty->assign('text', $text);
    $smarty->assign('pageTitle', 'Поиск');
    $smarty->assign('rsCategories',$rsCategories);

    loadTemplate($smarty, 'header');
    loadTemplate($smarty, 'search');
    loadTemplate($smarty, 'footer');
}

function searchproductAction(){
    $search_box = $_POST['search_box'];
    $search_box = trim($search_box);
    $search_box = mysql_real_escape_string($search_box);
    $search_box = htmlspecialchars($search_box);

    if (empty($search_box)) {
        $resData['success'] = 0;
        $resData['message'] = 'Вы ничего не ввели в окно поиска';
        echo json_encode($resData);
        return;
    }

    if (strlen($search_box) < 3) {
        $resData['success'] = 0;
        $resData['message'] = 'Слишком короткий поисковый запрос';
    }
    else if (strlen($search_box) > 128) {
        $resData['success'] = 0;
        $resData['message'] = 'Слишком длинный поисковый запрос';
    }
    else {
        $text = 0;
        $res = searchTextProduct($search_box);

        if (mysql_affected_rows() > 0) {
            $search_text = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
            $num = mysql_num_rows($res);
            $resData['success'] = 1;
            $resData['message'] = "По запросу $search_box найдено совпадений: $num";
            do {
                // Делаем запрос, получающий ссылки на продукты
                $res1=getLinkSearchProduct($search_text);
                if (mysql_affected_rows() > 0) {
                    $product = mysql_fetch_assoc($res1);
                }
                $text = $text . '
'.$product['name'].'
';
            }
            while ($search_text = mysql_fetch_assoc($res));

            return $text;
        }
        else {
            $resData['success'] = 0;
            $resData['message'] = 'По вашему запросу ничего не найдено';
        }
    }
}

Форма поиска:
<form method="post" action="/search/">
    <input type="text" name="search_box" id="search_box" class='search_box' placeholder="Что искать?" />
    <input type="submit" value="Поиск" class="search_button" onclick="searchProduct();"/>

</form>

javascript:
function searchProduct() {
    var search_box = $('#search_box').val();
    var postData = {search_box:search_box};

    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        async: true,
        url: "/search/searchproduct/",
        data: postData,
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function (data) {
            if (data['success']) {
                alert(data['message']);
                document.location = '/search/';
            }
            else {
                alert(data['message']);
            }
        }
    });
}

search.tpl:

    {if isset($text)}
      По вашему искомому слову найдено:

    {$text}
    {/if}

Работать все должно следующим образом: пользователем вводит слово, получает алерт с количеством найденных товаров, с данным словом, после чего на файл оболочка(search.tpl), выводит ссылку(и) и название(я) на данный продукт(ы)

A: попробую с утра подытожить свой вчерашний комментарий. с помощью аякса вы вызываете метод searchproductAction. Не надо строить логику так, что один раз этот метод возвращает json, в следующий html и так далее. Пусть он всегда возвращает json.
Чутка упростим вызов:
function searchProduct() {
    var data = { search_box: $('#search_box').val() };
    $.post("/search/searchproduct/", data, function(result){
         alert(result.message);
         if(result.success){
            $("#results").html(result.content);
         }
    });
}

Таким образом, в случае успеха мы ожидаем, что в поле content будет содержаться html-код списка результатов поиска. И перенаправления нам тут не нужны. Если использовать переходы на другую страницу, то запрос надо записывать в сессию на стороне сервера. И после перехода на нужный экшен, использовать это сохраненное значение. Так что вопрос в том,реально вам надо открыть другую страницу, или достаточно разместить результат на текущей.
сам метод поиска начните с заполнения ответа по умолчанию, а закончите его отправкой.
function searchproductAction(){
    $search_box = ....;
    $result = ['sucess' => 0, 'message' => "По вашему запросу ничего не найдено" ];
    .....
    echo json_encode($result);
}

при обработке строки запроса будете менять только сообщение об ошибке.
Далее, переходят к формированию результатов заведите новый шаблон search_results.tpl вида
{foreach $products as $p}

{$product.name}

{/foreach}

установите результат в 1 и соответствующее сообщение, извлеките записи из бд, и передайте их в шаблон. Затем выполните шаблон и запишите результат его выполнения в массив результата
 $result['success'] = 1
 $result['message'] =  "....";
 .....
 $smarty->assign('products', $products);
 $result['content'] = $smarty->fetch('search_results.tpl');


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April 26, 2018 , Company/Trade Group News
AXA Equitable Holdings to go public
By Editorial Staff Thu, Apr 26, 2018
The IPO price is currently expected to be between $24.00 and $27.00 per share. The shares are expected to trade on the NYSE under the symbol "EQH".
AXA Equitable Holdings, Inc. announced today the launch of its initial public offering and commencement of the roadshow for the IPO. The company's sole stockholder, AXA S.A., is offering 137,250,000 shares of common stock, and AXA has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 20,587,500 shares of common stock.
AXA is selling all of the shares of common stock, and the Company will not receive any proceeds from the IPO. The IPO price is currently expected to be between $24.00 and $27.00 per share. The shares are expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "EQH".
The shares are being offered by a group of underwriters led by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan, Barclays and Citigroup. A registration statement relating to the proposed IPO has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective.
AXA Equitable Holdings has approximately 12,200 employees and more than $670 billion of assets under management through two principal franchises, AXA Equitable Life and AllianceBernstein.
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The Guardian Angel: Eucharistic Miracle, Faverney, France, 1608
On the Vigil of the Feast of Pentecost, the monks of Faverney decided to expose the Blessed Sacrament for public adoration. During the night, a fire flared up which destroyed the altar and the sacred furnishings, but not the monstrance containing the Sacred Host. The monstrance was retrieved after a few days while it was suspended in the air perfectly intact. The miraculous Host is still kept today and many are the pilgrims who every year hasten to venerate the miracle.
In the 17th century, Protestantism and Calvinism spread quickly in France by means of the many material benefits conceded by the new religions to the members of the nobility and the clergy coming from the Catholic Church. This placed at risk the faith of many and created many uncertainties, even in the monasteries.
In the city of Faverney there was a Benedictine Abbey whose monks had departed a great deal from the rule of their founder. They held only the highest esteem for the devotion to the Lady of Notre-Dame la Blanche, known in all the area for its many miracles. Through her intercession many miracles had in fact been verified, among which was even the returning to life of two infants who were not yet baptized.
In 1608, on the Vigil of the Feast of Pentecost, the monks decided to prepare an altar for the exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The lunette of the monstrance was very large, and because of this, they decided to put in two Hosts. When Vespers had finished the monks left the monstrance exposed on the provisional altar. On the next morning, the sacristan opened the church and found it full of smoke, with the provisional altar completely reduced to ashes.
He started to yell, and immediately the religious and other people hastened and proceeded to remove the ashes with the hope of finding some part of the monstrance. When the smoke began to clear, they were astonished on seeing that the monstrance was suspended in the air.
The multitude increased and crowded to see the Eucharistic marvel, in which the Hosts had remained unharmed regardless of the fire. The religious were astonished and unable to make a decision. They asked the counsel of the Capuchin friars of Vesoul. The friars immediately prepared a new altar over the burned one and celebrated Holy Mass.
During the elevation of the Host, the monstrance slowly descended upon the new altar. When the canonical process finished, on July 10, the Archbishop of Besançon declared that the miracle was authentic, and on September 13, the Archbishop of Rodi, who was the nuncio in Brussels, made it known to Pope Paul V who granted a Bull of Indulgence.
The miracle rekindled the faith of many. In 1862, the Congregation of Rites authorized the celebration of the miracle. In 1908 the third centenary of the miracle was solemnly commemorated with a National Eucharistic Congress. Even today it is possible to see and venerate the relic containing one of the two Hosts which remained unharmed. The other Host, unfortunately, after it was donated to the Church of Dole, was destroyed by the revolutionaries in 1794.
The Real Presence
The Eucharist as the Real Presence is the touchstone of sanctity. As evidence of this fact we have the witness of the saints who, when they speak or write about the power of the Blessed Sacrament to sanctify, seem to be positively extreme in their claims about what the Real Presence can achieve in making a sinful person holy.
In order to appreciate the value of the Real Presence in the spiritual life, we must go back in spirit to the event described by St. John when our Lord, after He had worked the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, made the solemn promise of the Eucharist.
"I am the Bread of Life," Christ declared on that occasion. "He who comes to me will never be hungry. He who believes in me will never thirst. But, as I have told you, you can see me and still you do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me, I shall not turn him away because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but to do the will of the one who sent me. Now the will of him who sent me is that I should lose nothing of all that he has given to me and that I should raise it up on the last day. Yes, it is my Father's will that whoever sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life and that I shall raise him up on the last day."
By now we have read and heard and meditated on these words many times, but they deserve further reflection because they contain so much mystery that after nineteen centuries of the Church's existence she has not begun to exhaust the richness of their meaning.
Every time we go back, every time we go back to Christ's words of revelation, we always discover something new. Always! The key word in Christ's discourse on the Eucharist is the word believe.
On the answer to what do we believe depends in large measure whether we shall only know about sanctity or also attain it, whether holiness will remain only an idea or whether we shall actually become holy. What a difference!
The simplest way to express what Christ asks us to believe about the Real Presence is that the Eucharist is really He. The Real Presence is the real Jesus. We are to believe that the Eucharist began in the womb of the Virgin Mary; that the flesh which the Son of God received from His Mother at the Incarnation is the same flesh into which He changed bread at the Last Supper; that the blood He received from His Mother is the same blood into which He changed wine at the Last Supper. Had she not given Him His flesh and blood there could not be a Eucharist.
We are to believe that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ – simply, without qualification. It is God become man in the fullness of His divine nature, in the fullness of His human nature, in the fullness of His body and soul, in the fullness of everything that makes Jesus Jesus. He is in the Eucharist with His human mind and will united with the Divinity, with His hands and feet, His face and features, with His eyes and lips and ears and nostrils, with His affections and emotions and, with emphasis, with His living, pulsating, physical Sacred Heart. That is what our Catholic Faith demands of us that we believe. If we believe this, we are Catholic. If we do not, we are not, no matter what people may think we are.
Our faith is belief because we do not see what we believe. We accept on Christ's words that all of this is there, or rather, here in the Holy Eucharist. Faith must supply what, as the Tantum Ergo sings, "the senses do not perceive." And faith must reveal what the mind by itself cannot see. Let us never forget this phrase, first in Latin, lumen fidei, the light of faith. Faith reveals, faith discloses, faith enlightens, faith empowers the mind to see what the mind without faith cannot see.
Strange as it may sound, when we believe in the Real Presence, we believe in things twice unseen. We see only what looks like bread and wine, tastes and smells like bread and wine, and yet we are to believe that behind these physical appearances is a man. Faith number one. And we are further to believe that behind the unseen man is God. Faith number two.
Is it any wonder the Church calls the Eucharist, Mysterium Fidei, the Mystery of Faith? Those who accept the Real Presence accept by implication all the cardinal mysteries of Christianity. They believe in the Trinity, in the Father who sent the Son and in the Son who sent the Holy Spirit. They believe in the Incarnation, that the Son of God became man like one of us. They believe in Christ's divinity since no one but God could change bread and wine into His own body and blood. They believe in the Holy Catholic Church which Christ founded and in which through successive generations is communicated to bishops and priests the incredible power of making Christ continually present among us in the Blessed Sacrament. They believe, against all the betrayals by the Judases of history and all the skepticism of Christ's first disciples, in an unbroken chain of faith ever since Peter replied to Christ's question whether he and his companions also wanted to leave the Master. What a chance Christ took. "Lord," Peter looked around, "whom shall we go to?" (And he spoke for all of us.)" You have the message of eternal life, and we believe, we know, that you are the holy one of God."
There is a prayer in the Coptic Liturgy that I think perfectly answers the first question we are asking. "What do I believe when I believe in the Real Presence?" The prayer goes as follows, a little long, but worth it:
"I believe and I will confess to my last breath that this is the living bread which Your only-begotten Son, our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ, took from our Lady and the Queen of Mankind, the holy, sinless Virgin Mary, Mother of God. He made it one with His Godhead without confusion or change. He witnessed before Pontius Pilate and was of His own free will condemned in our place to the holy tree. Truly I believe that His Godhead was not separated from His manhood for a moment, not even for the twinkle of an eye. He gave His body for the remission of our sins and for eternal life to those who partake of this body. I believe, I believe, I believe that this is in very truth that body. Amen."
That is your faith and mine.
But why do we believe in terms of the promises He made? What blessings and benefits did He assure those who believe in this Eucharistic Mystery? All the blessings that Christ promised to those who believe in the Holy Eucharist are summed up in His own masterful promise of life. Those who believe will receive life and the life that He promised was zoé – the kind of life that belongs to God, the kind of life that Father, Son and Holy Spirit shared and interchanged from all eternity. Those who believe will receive this life. Those who do not believe will die. What kind of life was Christ talking about? It must have been the supernatural life of grace in our souls, of partaking or participation in His own divine life.
This, in homely language, is what the Savior promised those who believed in His Real Presence. He assured them and, therefore, assures us, that we shall be not only alive, but filled with His life, full to brimming and flowing over with strength and power and wisdom and peace and all manner of holiness. This is what sanctity is all about. It is the muchness of the good things of God. It is the more and more and still more of the life of God in our souls. More still, He promises that, provided that we believe in Him in the Eucharist, He will sustain this life in our souls into eternity. In other words, being alive now we shall never die. And most marvelous, He will even make this life pour from our souls into our bodies risen from the grave on the last day and glorified by the vision of God. No wonder the Eucharist is called panis vitae, the Bread of Life. It is that, and let us remind ourselves, and here is the condition, one condition, that before we eat this bread with our lips, we take it by faith into our hearts. Indeed, unless we first have faith, we shall, as Paul tells us, "eat it to our malediction." Only believers can benefit from this Bread of Life, only believers can profit from the Blessed Sacrament, and only believers can grow in spirit by partaking of the Eucharist depending always on the measure of their faith. Those who believe deeply in the Real Presence will benefit greatly from the Real Presence; those who believe weakly will also benefit accordingly. The Eucharist is capable of working miracles in our lives. So it can – after all, the Eucharist is Jesus. He worked – change the tense – He works miracles, but as it depended then (remember, Christ could not work miracles in certain places for lack of faith), the same now. It depends on the depth and degree of our faith.


(HealthDay News) — For adults with hypertension treated with antihypertensive medication, reducing systolic blood pressure (SBP) levels to 120 to 124 mm Hg is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality, according to a review published online May 31 in JAMA Cardiology.
Joshua D. Bundy, M.P.H., from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, and colleagues examined the correlation of mean achieved SBP levels with the risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in adults with hypertension. Data were included from 42 trials, with 144,220 patients.
The researchers observed linear associations between mean achieved SBP and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality; the lowest risk was seen at 120 to 124 mm Hg. For randomized groups with a mean achieved SBP of 120 to 124 mm Hg, the hazard ratios for major cardiovascular disease were 0.71 compared with SBP of 130 to 134 mm Hg, 0.58 compared with SBP of 140 to 144 mm Hg, 0.46 compared with SBP of 150 to 154 mm Hg, and 0.36 compared with SBP of 160 mm Hg or more. The corresponding hazard ratios for all-cause mortality were 0.73, 0.59, 0.51, and 0.47, respectively.
Do Uric Acid Lowering Drugs Reduce BP in Hypertensive Patients?
"These findings support more intensive control of SBP among adults with hypertension," the authors write.


Baltimore is the largest city in Maryland and has the eighth-largest police force in the country, with over 3,000 sworn and civilian personnel serving the city's population of 614,000.1 The Baltimore Police Department is committed to transparency and the principles of community policing. The department is continually recruiting qualified candidates for its police force and has recently updated its rigorous hiring procedure to increase the proportion of local, minority, and female recruits to more closely match the city's demographics. The process for becoming a Baltimore police officer is detailed below.
Candidates may begin the process of being considered for a position with the BPD by filling out an application; qualified candidates will be invited to take the civil service test. Those who pass the written test may continue with the physical agility test followed by a preliminary interview. Candidates who qualify at this stage will then undergo a background investigation, a polygraph examination, psychological and medical examinations, and an interview. Accepted candidates will be invited to the police academy as BPD recruits.
For more information about how to become a cop in a typical big city, see 10 Steps to Becoming a Police Officer on our home page. If you are ready to apply, find specific application information on the Baltimore Police Department Recruitment page.
The Interim Police Commissioner for Baltimore is Gary Tuggle. He was appointed in 2018. Commissioner Tuggle has a long history of working for justice; he initially joined the BPD as an officer early in his career and then served with the DEA from 1992 until his 2018 appointment as Baltimore's Interim Police Commissioner. The commissioner earned his bachelor's degree in management science from Coppin State University and his master's degree in government with a concentration in national security studies from Johns Hopkins University.
Candidates who make it through the hiring procedure and are offered conditional employment with the BPD complete basic police academy training at the Training Academy of the Baltimore City Police Department. The recruit training gives new cops the skills needed to work as a sworn officer in the city. Courses in the 27-week program include firearm training, animal control, ethics, community relations, and victim's rights, among many others. After completing basic training, new recruits are assigned to a district and participate in field training for eight weeks. Successful performance in field training leads to a permanent assignment within the BPD.
The BPD is divided into two areas and nine districts. The Western Area includes the Central, Northwestern, Southern, Southwestern, and Western districts and the Eastern Area includes the Eastern, Northeastern, Northern, and Southeastern districts. As you might expect from a big city, the Baltimore Police Department offers many specialized and advancement opportunities for officers who have gained the necessary experience on patrol and are ready to move forward with their careers. Special units within the BPD include the SWAT Division, the K-9 unit, the Mounted Unit, the Aviation Unit, and the Marine Unit, which patrols the city harbor.
Prospective recruits may benefit from attending the department's new "Fit to Serve" boot camp, which helps prospective officers build the physical fitness and stamina required of new recruits before formally applying to the department while building relationships with current officers.
Projections suggest that the number of jobs in law enforcement in the state of Maryland will decrease by 1.1% through 2026.3 However, in the coming years, police employment in Baltimore is expected to increase. A recent report estimated that the BPD is operating with 26.6% fewer patrol officers than necessary, and the department itself estimates that it is short 700 officers from its authorized strength.5,6 Amid the attention towards its recruitment needs, the BPD is now hiring a marketing firm to recruit its ideal candidates through 21st century hiring practices.7 For more information on current BPD law enforcement positions, take a look at our jobs board page.
Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police: Founded in 1966, the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police is the union bargaining unit for police and flight officers and agents through the lieutenant level in Baltimore.


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Dylann Roof's Sister Was Arrested After She Said She Hoped Students in the Walkout Would Get Shot
18-year-old Morgan Roof was charged with two counts of carrying weapons on school property and possession of marijuana.
It's Time to Talk About What's Radicalizing White Male Terrorists
Who gets named a terrorist, and why?
Dylann Roof Receives a Life Sentence in Prison for Each of the People He Murdered
He already received the federal death penalty for killing 9 black churchgoers in 2015.
BREAKING: Dylann Roof Sentenced to Death
The jury unanimously sentenced Roof to death.
Dylann Roof Says He Hasn't 'Shed a Tear' For Killing the Charleston Church Members
He went on to say that he does "shed a tear of self-pity for myself."
Dylann Roof Deemed Mentally Competent to Represent Himself
The murderer who has been convicted of 33 counts of hate crimes will be able to represent himself during the penalty phase of his trial.
Dylann Roof Found Guilty of Murdering 9 Black Members of Charleston Church
Eighteen of the 33 counts carry the death penalty.
Why We Should Be Talking More About the Victims of the Charleston Church Shooting
And less about Dylann Roof.
Does Dylann Roof — Or Anyone — DESERVE the Death Penalty?
We asked 6 college students to weigh in.
A Charleston Church Shooting Survivor Said She Watched Dylann Roof Shoot Her Son 5 Times
Felicia Sanders and her granddaughter played dead while Roof opened fire.


Tempting Tangles tells us: "Ancestral Tree truly is destined to become a family heirloom with it's beautiful, vintage alphabets and a unique Tree of Life. Woven baskets (or bird nests, perhaps) perched at the tip of each branch represent each generation. We included all the alphabets so that you might personalize your work with family initials."
Stitch count is 249 wide x 214 high. Specialty stitches include Smyrna Cross, Sofia Stitch, Upright Cross, Four-Sided Stitch, Algerian Eye and and some small motifs in petite stitch.
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If your website contains old information, not easy to use, un-responsive or worse has some sort of malware this will do irreparable damage to your business reputation and likely cost you sales.
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Completing your new website is just the beginning of your online marketing journey. Keeping up with regular design refreshes ensures that your website is compatible with the myriad computer and handheld browsers that are out there.
WordPress and a lot of Content Management Systems (CMS) run on plugins. These plugins can be described as the lifeline and backbone of your website. These plugins need to be updated regularly to help remove vulnerabilities to your site.
Websites are handy marketing tools. And so, having a well-designed and regularly maintained Website helps your company to cut down on some costs.
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Sex Ed, Birth Control And Getting Through School In The Trump Era
Catherine Brown Contributor
I write about improving schools for underserved kids.
The Chandler quintuplets of Erie, CO graduate from Peak to Peak High School in Lafayette on Saturday, May 24, 2008. The Chandler siblings, four girls and one boy, age 19, all plan on attending college in the fall, but all will attend different schools around the country. The siblings make their way around the gym to congratulate their friends. Meagan gets a hug from one of her fellow graduates. Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post (Photo By Kathryn Scott Osler/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
In 2015-2016, more U.S. students graduated from high school than ever before and this progress is a cause for celebration. Girls in particular are flourishing, with 72.5% of girls graduating and going on to college, almost 7% more than boys. But under the radar screen, the Trump Administration has been relentless in its effort to threaten this progress by rolling back access to reproductive healthcare services that help girls stay in school.
In one week, on July 31, the public comment period will close on a dangerous new rule or "domestic gag" that would make controlling girls and women government policy. The rule prevents healthcare providers who receive Title X funding–including doctors, nurses, hospitals and community health centers–from being able to give their patients referrals for safe, legal abortions or refer patients to clinics. Title X provides family planning and reproductive healthcare to 6.2 million women with and without insurance, most of whom are uninsured or ineligible for Medicaid. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the unintended pregnancy rate for girls ages 15-19 would be 44% higher without Title X funding.
The rule will also severely impact Planned Parenthood's estimated 384,000 patients ages 19 years and younger. Because Planned Parenthood averts an estimated 560,000 unintended pregnancies a year through its contraceptive services, cutting Planned Parenthood funding would leave almost 90,000 school-aged young people without contraceptive services, assuming that unintended pregnancies are evenly distributed across age groups.
But the attacks on girls' and young women's access to reproductive health do not stop there. In October, the Trump Administration rolled back the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate, allowing employers and insurers to deny women access to contraceptives if they have "conscientious objections." The Administration's proposed rules would allow any employer, insurance plan, school or individual to use the guise of religious or moral objection to deny access to contraception. This sweeping mandate threatens 38.9 million people ages 17 and younger who currently have insurance that covers no-cost contraception.
Under such a loose definition for objection, there is no way to know how many institutions will claim an exemption, but students at religiously affiliated universities have already expressed concern for how this policy will affect their contraception coverage. Notre Dame University, for example, has decided to ban "abortion-inducing drugs" from insurance plans, which may the morning-after pill, IUDs, or other long-acting contraceptives.
The Affordable Care Act—which currently requires insurance to cover all approved methods of birth control for women at no cost—is a critical resource for low-income women and girls. The number of women with out-of-pocket expenditures on contraceptives has dropped from 21% to 3%, and more than half of all sexually experienced female teens are now using the pill.
Access to contraception increases a woman's chance of completing high school and attending college. Only 40% of teen mothers finish high school, while less than 2% receive their college degree before age 30. In stark contrast, nearly 40% of all women attain their bachelor's degree by age 30, including 25% of black women. This accomplishment yields $1 million more in lifetime earnings. And research shows that access to school-based health centers dramatically reduces the chance of a teenager becoming pregnant.
The Department of Health and Human Services has also taken aim at the widely successful Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program, which funds dozens of evidence-based pregnancy prevention programs across the United States. The teen pregnancy rate hit a record low since the Obama administration implemented TPP in 2010. And research indicates that students who received comprehensive sex education in school were 60% less likely to have been pregnant or gotten someone pregnant than teens who have had no formal sex education. Yet in April, the administration announced that it would only provide funding to TPP programs promoting abstinence-only approaches, a move that is based on ideology, not evidence. This change could leave almost 600,000 students without access to high-quality evidence-based sex education and at risk of unintended pregnancies.
All three of these policies disproportionately affect young women and girls whose ability to finish school is partially contingent on access to reproductive health and education. After all, timing is everything.
Fortunately, the Trump administration's efforts have faced significant backlash. Reproductive rights groups organized to oppose the conscientious objection mandate, submitting over 200,000 public comments. Washington state, Maryland and the District of Columbia sued the administration in four separate lawsuits for eliminating funding for TPP, due to early termination, administrative procedures, and endorsement of religion. All four federal judges have ruled against HHS's decision to end the program. The newly proposed rule on Title X could also face legal challenges and 50,000 advocates have submitted comments to the Department challenging this blatant affront to women and girls.
The Trump Administration must halt this assault on women and girls' reproductive health. Eliminating access to contraception and teen pregnancy prevention programs is not just a healthcare issue. These backwards policies threaten the ability of millions of young women to complete their education, enter the workforce and go on to lead productive lives.
Catherine Brown
I am vice president of education policy at the Center for American Progress. I have been working on education, women and children's policy for nearly 20 years. I started...


This mirror has had a tough life but I think it has even more charm for it. It has had breakages and has been glued back together. However I think this frame is just beautiful as it is. It is Spanish, circa 1900, signed by the maker and has its original backing. The piece has a great look and would fit many styles of interiors.


Guest post from Nick Rojas.
It's time for marketing agencies to get bold.
What if you could accelerate success in business? What if you could transform marketing performance for your clients in 30, 60 or 90 days?
This type of thinking isn't preoccupied with improving traffic, leads or sales by an incremental percentage. It's obsessed with moving the needle substantially in a short period of time.
This is 10X thinking—and it could change the way your agency works.
When outlining your agency's mission, vision and values, it's easy to employ a top-down approach. Executives or other key stakeholders often define them items based on their own perceptions or desires, and then force-feed them to the rest of the team.
If you want to land big accounts, you need to prove that you're not a weak link. Agency collaboration is difficult without sharing access to online services, but you can do so securely with these four practices.
Jesse Giordano is a financial advisor and leads The 360 Group at Morgan Stanley in Great Neck, NY. Jesse and his team provide specialized wealth management services to owners of privately held companies who are looking to exit their business over the next 2-10 years.
Some of the services he and his team provide include helping the owner get their business ready for sale, navigating the many exit strategies available to determine which is most appropriate, facilitating the exit process, and implementing an income replacement strategy once the business is sold.
Jesse has been working with business owners over the last 10 years. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and received his MBA from Pace University in 2003. He is also a family wealth director and senior vice president at Morgan Stanley.
In this interview, Jesse discusses the need for agency owners to start succession planning now, and tips and considerations on how to get started.
This is a guest post from Sheree Tebyanian (@thereinventfirm), founder of Reinvent Firm, an Adelaide based marketing firm that helps small business owners with the right education and marketing tools.
Often, the people who know the most about why an agency failed are its clients. While business owners are often quick to blame the government, shady partners or financial institutions, they hardly ever blame themselves.
There are, of course, situations in which the owner had absolutely no control over what ultimately occurred, but that is rarely the case. Below, I share the 10 most common reasons why small agencies fail and tips to overcome them.


Steven Jensen/ Thrasher ad for your viewing pleasure this weekend. Thrashers coming soon. Get your pre orders in!
With the move of Volume Bikes/ Demolition Parts into a new building in Santa Fe Springs, CA, we also decided to have both brands under one global distribution name of 180 Distribution.
Volume Bikes/ Demolition Parts has been out of Buena Park, Ca for the last 11 years. With the growth of our brands, we felt the urgency to move into a bigger building that we can grow into for years ahead. 180 Distribution will have better stock of products and the same expert knowledge of goods and support from our own staff of riders. With 180 Distribution we're also excited for all of the opportunities that lie ahead.
A couple of posts back we blogged that we moved into a new building. Our new phone system has been in and out all week but hopefully we'll have it all settled asap. Feel free to email us if you need to reach us at info(at)volumebikes.com. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thanks again for the support guys!
We've been getting quite a lot of inquires on the sizing of the new Thrasher frame. The Thrasher shares a lot of the same geometry (S.T. and Stand Over Height) as the Cutter except for the longer top tube. The Thrasher's top tube will make the frame seem a size bigger. I'm 6'2" and normally ride a 56 but the L (53) Thrasher felt more at home to throw around and commute. If I was only going to use it to commute, the 56 would be ideal (for me).
We always go off the standard sizing for adult sized frames but the Thrasher throws that out the window. Look at it as a large BMX frame to thrash on. Just like a BMX frame, it's personal preference on what feels good to you.
We've been in the same building in Buena Park, CA for the last 11 years and we finally outgrew it and moved on up to a bigger/ better building in Santa Fe Springs, CA. Gonna miss the good times we've had there and all the random homeless people sleeping in our boxes in Buena Park. Adios.
We'll have more news and pics of our new place asap.
That's right, we are finally accepting pre orders from shops. For all inquires on Thrasher frames, please contact your local Volume dealer for details. We are always hesitant on getting an exact e.t.a. but we are scheduled to receive them by mid May. After the jump, you can see our dealer pre order sheet. Thanks for the patience guys. I know the wait was a long one. We promise that it'll be worth it though.
As you guys guessed it in a couple posts back, Steven Jensen is now riding for Volume. We're all excited to have him on board. Who wouldn't, he's a good dude and can shred (understatement). Above pic is Steven on his new Thrasher. More pics coming soon.
Now that we're getting closer to the release date (Mid May) of the all new Thrasher frame, we decided to get out more info on the frame. We'll have more updates asap. Check out the new Thrasher page here.
We're really excited to bring a new member to the team to join the likes of Mosher, Congo and Puckett. Who could this be?