One of the best practices we often preach is the importance of a consistent visual brand identity. When you have a defined visual identity, all of the content created by your brand follows a series of creative guidelines.
This ensures that the people who consume your content and interact with your brand are exposed to a consistent experience.
However, to develop content that will consistently deliver results, you need to test creative iterations to see what styles, formats, and tones best resonate with your audience. The optimal way to test performance is to drive as many qualified eyes to your content as possible. Once you capture people's attention, use metrics like comments, shares, and click-through rates to analyze what drives the most engagement.
To capture that data, you first need to drive your audience to the content. How can you boost visibility? Upload your content to social ads and let them run.
What's your optimal color for content?
Color has a profound impact on visual content marketing. There are certain colors that tend to capture people's attention more than others. Some colors evoke feelings of trust and dependability more effectively than others.
Your goal as a marketer is to develop a color palette for content that captures the attention of your target audience and promotes your brand as a credible authority figure.
Use research others have compiled about various shades of colors to kickstart your visual calibration. This is the color emotion guide produced by The Logo Company.
You can see the feelings and emotions heightened by various shades of color. Many of the world's largest brands have developed their reputations, in part, based on the colors used within their logos and various promotional pieces of content.
Leverage the colors that closely align to your brand's visual identity. Use those colors within the visual and video content produced by your creative team. Then, run a series of ads that incorporate different pieces of content featuring variations of color.
Analyze metrics like reach, impressions, and especially click-through rates on the different versions of your content. See if there are any trends within the data that indicate more favorable responses to content with a certain shade or type of color compared to the others.
You can use these insights to further optimize your visual calibration and create more effective content that will deliver results.
How do environments within content influence engagement?
Once you know which colors best capture people's attention, you can begin testing other creative nuances. For example, have you considered how people react to the environments featured in your content?
Some brands use lifestyle, outdoor settings to connect with prospective customers through a shared love of the outdoors. In some instances, depending on the location you're promoting your brand, it would befit you to feature recognizable landmarks in the background to show viewers your brand is on the ground in their community.
Localized visual content is an excellent way to establish trust and credibility.
But when you can go local and feature lifestyle environments, you have a greater probability of producing a more fulfilling consumer experience. You can insert your product into these settings or keep the content strictly lifestyle oriented. The end result should be a higher degree of engagement.
This creative strategy is used by brands like Patagonia. According to an excerpt of an interview with Patagonia's Director of Photography, Jane Sievert, content that showcases an intriguing lifestyle is more interesting to the consumer than strictly product-heavy promotions.
Suppose your brand is in the financial services industry. Financial services brands spend as much as $7.2 billion annually on digital advertising. Therefore, it makes financial sense to run a series of tests on how the environments in your content influence audience attention and engagement rates.
Develop a series of ads with content calibrated to reflect your brand identity. Run a test on ads showcasing content in outdoor lifestyle settings and compare how they perform against content featuring indoor settings. In the financial services example, you'd most likely show settings from one of your branches.
Pay particular attention to the disparity of reach and impressions between the various types of content. The data should illustrate a trend, and the odds suggest that content with lifestyle-oriented settings or environments will resonate best with your target viewers.
All of the ads you test will generate data you can use to continue calibrating your visual identity. Allow the numbers to guide you along the path of optimization until you produce a distinct visual style that stands apart from competitors and resonates with your viewers.
Include a period of time dedicated to testing when mapping out your content calendar, and use that time to analyze the performance of your ads. You need enough data to draw rational conclusions and finalize your visual calibration.
That means you need the capability to produce a ton of content. All of the creative nuances you can test against - from color palettes to diverse environments and many other variables - require enough content to collect data, and continuously improve the look and feel of your brand.
This is what we help you do at Shutterstock Custom. You can use our platform to calibrate your own custom visual identity and create visual content at scale to run as many digital advertising tests as required. Book a demo and speak with one of our specialists to learn more about our custom process and start creating content that generates real results.


One hour to rewrite the past . . . For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back. So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past. Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened? Full of atmosphere, mystery, and romance, Hourglass merges the very best of the paranormal and science-fiction genres in a seductive, remarkable young adult debut.
Seventeen-year-old Emerson uses her power to manipulate time to help Michael, a consultant hired by her brother, to prevent a murder that happened six months ago while simultaneously navigating their undeniable attraction to one another.


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5 players may get big amount in IPL-2018
Ajay Kashyap - January 25, 2018 January 25, 2018
The IPL-11 auction is to be held on January 27 and 28. Many young cricketers can shine at this auction in Bengaluru. 578 players including 360 Indians will be seen in this auction. There are only a few of these players who will be able to see a thorn in the franchisee owners to join their team. So let's us tell you about the same 5 players-
1.Colin Munro
The New Zealand opener is in excellent form these days. Munro is the only player in the world to have a record of three centuries in international T-20 matches. Munro has performed strong in the three T-20 matches played this year. The last one year has been fantastic for Munro in this format. Munro is also number one batsman in the ICC rankings this time.
2. Ben Stokes
Ben Stokes was the most expensive player in the IPL auction last year. Stokes was included in Pune Supergiant team for 14.5 crore rupees. Stokes, performing all-rounds in the last IPL, scored 316 runs and took 12 wickets as well.
3. Evin lewis
Evin lewis of West Indies will also be a good option for IPL franchises. Evin lewis is the only player who had hit a century against India in the T-20 last year. He is one of the few players in the world who have achieved the record of having two centuries in T-20. Louis made the most runs in the T-20 in 2017, in which his best score was 125 runs off 62 balls.
4. Jason Roy
The England's opener Jayson Roy will also have a good chance to get big amount in this IPL. Roy has won England many matches with his brilliant batting. Jason Roy recently scored 180 runs in the first ODI against Australia chasing a target of 305 runs.
5. Quinton de Kock
Quinton de Kock, who has played for The Delhi Daredevils in IPL, is also a good option for all teams. De Kock is well known for his aggressive batting. De Cock was the player of the match in the final of the Domestic T-20 tournament Ram Slam of South Africa. De Kock has scored 720 runs at an average of 32.72 for Delhi Daredevils.
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Music from the People
BBC Radio 4 FM, 12 October 1986 23.15
A series of ten programmes on the folk-song revival in England 7: Folk Song and Ballad
For over a quarter of a century the Folk Song and Ballad Club in Newcastle upon Tyne has reflected the traditional musical heritage of Northumbria and Tyneside. Johnny Handle, one of the founder members, traces the development of this far from typical folk club.
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Sandrine vs. The Humans
I have a long history with Thomas H. Cook, having been introduced to him in 1996 via his Edgar-award wining novel, The Chatham School Affair. Wikipedia tells me that he has been nominated for an Edgar seven times, and I have no cause to doubt it. Sandrine's Case, Cook's most recent book, is a worthy nominee for the MWA Edgar award for Best Novel. It features that most challenging and frequently disappointing protagonist: the unreliable narrator.
That narrator is Samuel Madison, and the Sandrine in question is his wife. She was ill, suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, shutting down in stages and dead by her own hand – or was she? The novel opens as the jury foreman is about to render a verdict in Sam's trial for murdering her… and immediately skips backwards, to the first day of the trial, and then back further, to remember a conversation with his lawyer on the day he was arrested, and then further back, to the evidence that had been gathered against him. And while the type of crime novel feels a great deal like the innocent-man-falsely-accused, it also begins to feel like a you've-got-to-be-kidding-me-he- actually-did-it! type of novel. AKA the psychological courtroom thriller.
Suspense builds throughout the book, primarily because Cook is such a skillful writer that many of the "clues" can be read in more than one way. The reader's perspective on Sam's guilt or innocence changes from chapter to chapter. On one hand, Sam is clearly a jerk. More than selfish, he's totally self-involved. On the other hand, Sandrine had his measure, and loved him anyway. And their daughter, Alexandria, is loyal to her father.
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The final twist comes when Sam realizes that with her death, Sandrine has recreated a painting they had seen together long ago, at a time when Sam was not yet jaded and cynical, but empathetic and soulful. (The painting Cook references is a real one, shown at right.) With her suicide, Sandrine sought to remind Sam of what he had been – and to return him to that better self. It was the final act of a desperate woman, undertaken out of love. Sam returns her self-sacrifice by refusing to offer this explanation in the courtroom, leaving his final judgment up to the jury.
In my opinion, Cook should have stopped there, but I know readers across the country would have let out a mighty cry of frustration. Indeed, he is found innocent, and an unsatisfying coda is added – the idea that Sam Madison would be so moved, so changed by his wife's suicidal action, that he would change his life and spend the next 25 years teaching children in Africa. I found this final grand gesture to be unnecessary.
Overall, Sandrine's Case has the advantage over The Humans in that it is clearly in the mystery/crime/suspense genre. It also has suspense, plotting, pacing, and characterization going for it. No surprise, it takes the lead.
Lunchbox Rankings: Best Novel
Sandrine's Case by Thomas H. Cook
The Humans by Matt Haig
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The sad business of redemption
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Julian Wells was a writer of true-crime books, books that laid bare the atrocities that man can commit, that took an unflinching look at evil. But why, with all his success and security, did Julian make his own life so difficult? Why did he spend so much time apart from friends and from family? And why did he choose to kill himself?
That final question is the one which most troubles Julian's best friend, Philip Anders, in Thomas H. Cook's The Crime of Julian Wells. Close since childhood, Julian is like a second son to Philip's father, a state department functionary who dreamed at one time of being a spy.
Anders thinks that the answer may be found in the book that Julian was researching at the time of his death, which connects to an episode in their shared past in which a young Argentinian woman – their guide – disappeared. As he works to unravel the mystery of Julian's suicide, Anders finds that he did not know his friend as well as he thought he did, and that many people are not what they seem. Through his discovery of the true Julian, Anders also finds himself. The resolution is tinged with irony and sorrow, but also hope.
Thomas H. Cook is a author with many books to his name, an Edgar recipient for The Chatham School Affair, and reliably entertaining and thought-provoking. Another excellent read is his The Last Talk with Lola Faye (my review here), a book which also explores the interpersonal underpinnings of crime.
Tagged mystery, Review, spy, The Crime of Julian Wells, Thomas H. Cook
Evil lives at Bouchercon
Two of my three Friday Bouchercon panels featured evil, and I couldn't have been happier. Keeping to my commitment of three panels a day, evil was supplemented with writing, a blog post, and even a visit to the fitness center (yay, me!).
First panel up, Evil Going On, was a hit. Does evil truly exist? Panelists were divided and the conversation was hot. The moderator was the very erudite Reed Farrel Coleman, with panelists including John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Peter James, Laura Lippman, and Daniel Woodrell. I was jazzed for the topic and also for hearing so many of my favorites. Some key thoughts:
There are two schools of thought about evil: nature (person is born irretrievably flawed and does evil things) vs. nurture (bad things done to child twist him, now he does evil things).
The motivation for evil is often selfishness. Rationalization plays its part.
There is a trend today toward complicated protagonists, who may do wrong in order to achieve justice.
Addressing the evil of man in a book is one thing – addressing it in real life, when there is risk and danger, is another.
The "evil" trend continued with the Dark Angel panel, where Chris Holm, Bill Cameron, Blake Crouch, Leighton Gage, Theresa Schwegel and Michael Wiley discussed morally challenged heroes. Ideas generated:
Noir heroes tend to be morally challenged.
A corrupt setting leads to a hero who has to bend the rules but still seeks justice.
Heroes can be moral in one way – the good cop – and immoral in another way – having an affair.
Immoral? Amoral? Or moral ambiguity? Discuss.
The final panel of the day was perhaps the least directly instructive – no notes on ideas of things to do – but the most fun. It was moderated by the witty and endearing Joseph Finder with a panel of articulate and passionate women, including Laurie R. King, Laura Lippman, Val McDermid and S.J. Rozan.
Absolutely the most fun hour I've spent at Bouchercon, and included anecdotes related to a smack-down between Val and Ian Rankin, Laura Lippman's husband's work on the TV show Treme, S.J. Rozan's dream basketball team, and Laurie King's endeavor to let Holmes age, but never die. Photo here is Val McDermid, who is fun and witty, and everything she says sounds even better because of her rich Scottish accent. I looked for a photo of her wearing devil/angel garb. No go.
I got to ask the question "What new authors are you reading now that you would recommend?" Here's the list. Go buy some books.
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Tagged Bill Cameron, Blake Crouch, Bouchercon, Chris Holm, Daniel Woodrell, devil, evil, John Connelly, Joseph Finder, Laura Lippman, Laurie R. King, Leighton Gage, Michael Wiley, Peter James, SJ Rozan, Theresa Schwegel, Thomas H. Cook, Val McDermid
Quick Review: The Last Talk with Lola Faye
Thomas H. Cook's The Last Talk with Lola Faye was submitted for a 2011 Edgar but not on the shortlist. Cook won the Best Novel award in 1996, with The Chatham School Affair, and the two books have some things in common, notably the lifelong effect of childhood trauma.
The Lola Faye in question is a woman with whom protagonist Lucas Page's shopkeeper father had an affair – or so he long believed – during Lucas' teenage years. Lucas had escaped his grim, small-town future through superior academic ability, and has become an historian with some popularity as an author.
This popularity is on the wane, however, and he is flattered at a book-signing when a woman comes forward for his autograph… and much to his surprise, it's Lola Faye. She has not prospered in the intervening years. They go to a nearby restaurant for a meal and a "last talk."
During their discussion, Lucas slowly begins to realize that his perspective on his family, their relationships, and even their actions are all suspect. Did his father truly have an affair, or was his hard-working father sadly, thoroughly in love with his own ailing wife? Did he help himself to the money set aside for Lucas' education and give it to his lover, as Lucas long assumed? Or was there another reason for the shortfall? And when Lucas' father was shot by Lola Faye's husband, did he die right away? Or did Lucas' mother delay calling the police in order to give him time to die, in order to obtain the life insurance that would secure her beloved son's education?
Cook keeps the suspense taut and moves the plot along with well-timed revelations. Lola Faye's motivation for seeking Lucas out is a little murky throughout: she seems a bit like a cat among the pigeons, doling out information in dribs and drabs and dropping little hints that leads Lucas to reconsider his long-held beliefs. Her motivation becomes clear by the end of the novel. In fact, this is the one aspect of The Last Talk with Lola Faye that I found less than compelling – that Lucas and his wife moved back to Glenville to take care of Lola Faye during her final illness.
Lola Faye worth reading? Absolutely! Am I surprised its not a nominee for an Edgar? Not really. But Thomas Cook is an extremely able author and his backlist – as well as this book, his most recent – are well worth exploring.
Tagged Edgars, MWA, Review, The Chatham School Affair, The Last Talk with Lola Faye, Thomas H. Cook
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Obama: Young People Have Opportunity but Must 'Do The Work'
Mary Alice Salinas
Participants listen as U.S. President Barack Obama holds a town hall-style meeting with a group of Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) attendees, alongside his participation in the ASEAN Summit, at Souphanouvong University in Luang Prabang,
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday told a group of young people gathered in Laos from across Southeast Asia that it is not enough to dream about their plans for the future, but that they have to "actually do the work."
In an upbeat town hall event with people involved in the U.S.-sponsored Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative, Obama said young people have historically been the key to progress and development. He stressed the need for countries to improve education standards and to make sure those gains include girls and not just boys.
"You should never be discouraged, because you have more opportunity today to make a difference in the world than any generation before," he said. "And my hope is you seize that opportunity."
In response to questions from the audience, Obama said he hopes the next U.S. leader will continue his increased engagement with the Asia Pacific region and that he believes Congress will pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
He also touted the benefits of interacting with people of different cultures as a way to continually learn, and highlighted the need to respect people who have different beliefs and backgrounds.
"I think that over the long term the only way that humans are going to be able to work together and interact and prosper and deal with big problems is if we are able to see what we have in common with each other and treat each other with dignity and respect," Obama said.
The president told the audience he plans to continue working with young people after he leaves office in January.
Obama is in Laos to meet with ASEAN leaders and give reassurances that the U.S. strategic rebalance toward Asia is a long term strategy.
Earlier Wednesday, Obama said the United States has a "profound moral and humanitarian obligation" to support efforts to clear bombs its forces dropped on Laos during the Vietnam War.
U.S. President Barack Obama drinks from a fresh coconut along the banks of the Mekong River in the Luang Prabang, Laos, Sept. 7, 2016. (M. Salinas/VOA)
Eighty million cluster munitions did not explode, instead settling on farmland and around villages, only to later kill or injure 20,000 people.
Obama spoke of that legacy as he visited a center in Vientiane called the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise that offers treatment for survivors.
"Here in Laos, here at COPE, we see the victims of bombs that were dropped because of decisions made half a century ago and we are reminded that wars always carry tremendous costs, many of them unintended," he said.
Obama stressed that wars impact countless people beyond the famous who appear in history books.
"Above all, acknowledging the history of war and how it's experienced concretely by ordinary people is a way that we make future wars less likely."
His comments came a day after announcing a doubling of U.S. funding over the next three years to help the survivors and bomb-clearing efforts.
U.S. President Barack Obama greets workers in a tour displaying tools used to clear land of unexploded ordnance at the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) Visitor Centre in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016.
The funding is part of what the White House called a new era in relations based on "a shared desire to heal the wounds of the past" and build a foundation for the future. The U.S. and Laos are also partnering on issues including the economy, technology, education, security, the environment and human rights.
Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to go to Laos. The visit marks his eleventh and final trip to Asia as U.S. president.
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10. You want to rough it like a real cowboy.
Sorry, Casa SoCo is a modern, urban oasis stocked with everything from fluffy bathrobes to bamboo sheets to Apple TV. If you really want a Texas experience take a drive down to Bandera, Texas, the Cowboy Capitol of the World and some of the prettiest bits of hill country.
9. You want to stumble out the door to 6th street (or rather, stumble home from 6th street).
Casa SoCo is a close 1.8 miles from downtown. There are frankly not many places near 6th street we would want to live. But if you really want to be a block away from bars, try to find a condo on 2nd or in the Railyards (or spend a lot of money at the W). We prefer being a quick $10 cab ride from downtown. It also smells better at Casa SoCo, a lot better.
8. You want to relax on Wisteria Lane or in some other planned neighborhood.
The SoCo and SoFi neighborhoods are eclectic and wonderful. There are old funky houses (some need a little love), remodeled craftsman bungalows and new houses featuring some great modern architecture. Neighbors like yard art; some think that pink and purple are really awesome colors for a house. Casa SoCo is a stunner, it's tasteful and private, but if a lack of symmetry makes you anxious we recommend finding a house in Circle C or Round Rock.
7. Your favorite restaurants are Applebee's, the Olive Garden and Chili's.
While we know those baby back ribs are popular, Casa SoCo is surrounded by fabulous local restaurants. We don't do chain. We do small, friendly places that often feature food out of their own garden. Some places even have their own chickens (Olivia's) and those places are pretty chic. To get a quick taste of what's nearby just click on the "Eat" button at the top of the page.
6. You prefer everything to be new and perfect.
Casa SoCo is walking distance to fabulous shops and restaurants. They are mixed in with an old tattoo parlor, an older pet shop and a mechanic with a flare for graffiti. We actually like the mix and would chain ourselves to a building before letting a prettified McDonald's come in. We do love the new and pretty gelato joint, wine bar and cupcake shop that just opened on South First.
5. You think walking for 10 – 20 minutes is a very long time.
If you feel this way, Casa SoCo still might be a good spot for you, but we want to be clear. We get a thrill anytime we can hop on our bikes (here for your use) and be at a wonderful Italian place (Enoteca) in less than 5 minutes – or walk for 20 to enjoy fabulous Thai (Sway). But Casa SoCo is tucked into the neighborhood so you'll walk about 2-4 blocks before you get to the 2 main avenues, South Congress and South First.
4. Sleep is not important to you.
If cozy beds, luxurious sheets, wicked cold A/C and quiet are not your cup a tea, another place might work better for you. Casa SoCo also lacks a hallway filled with drunken college students yelling and falling.
3. You want complete solitude.
Alone time can be oh so nice. But Casa SoCo was designed for groups to create memories. Sure we have four private and cozy bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, but it's all those spectacular spots to chill and laugh (indoor and outdoor) that make a weekend. If you really want to be alone, go for that yoga retreat, or maybe a monastery.
2. Strangers who smile at you are scary.
We smile a lot. Total strangers will chat you up when you're standing in line at Jo's Coffee or at the grocery store. They're just shooting the breeze and mean no harm. In fact, that stranger will probably hold your beer at a concert while you run to the port-a-potty. We're not always happy but let's just pretend we are because it's contagious! If this sounds off-putting head to the Pacific Northwest or other colder parts for a more reserved culture. (Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Seattle, but when I lived there I never got any stranger to talk to me at the grocery store).
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As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones - some 8.8 million people in the UK. An invisible army of carers holding families together.
Here, Kate Mosse tells her personal story of finding herself as a carer in middle age: first, helping her mother look after her beloved father through Parkinson's, then supporting her mother in widowhood, and finally as 'an extra pair of hands' for her 90-year-old mother-in-law.
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Manuel says Harbaugh 'worth every penny'
by Max Bultman August 23, 2016 April 20, 2021
Warde Manuel sees the attention his football coach garners on a daily basis. He just doesn't mind it.
Between the summer production of a rap video, his well-publicized satellite camp tour and various Twitter beefs, Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh remains a fixture in the public eye. Regardless of whether it is intentional, Harbaugh simply draws attention to himself and to Michigan.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Manuel said that while he feels the media often creates that attention, it doesn't bother him.
"In my mind it has a lot of positives," Manuel said. "You look at, when I look at the coverage and I look at what he's doing and what's out there about him and the program, it has a great deal of (positivity) to it, from my perspective."
Asked about the freedom Harbaugh holds in the athletic department, Manuel was resolute in saying he does not manage his coaches by telling them what they can and can't do. He said everyone has freedom, including himself, and that when issues do come up, they are usually handled with a conversation.
On subjects like alternate uniforms, Manuel also noted that he would not force teams to wear any specific alternate uniforms if they did not want to, just one example of the ways coaches are trusted to handle their programs.
He also spoke to Harbaugh's sound understanding of NCAA rules and Michigan's culture, while also saying it was his own job to make sure all coaches were aware of both.
But as for Harbaugh's relative power within the department, Manuel stayed away from making any hierarchies.
"Jim Harbaugh is a great colleague in this department. That's what I'll say," Manuel said. "You guys can determine who's more powerful, and who's all-seeing and all-knowing. That's not for me. Jim is a great colleague, he's a great head coach of our football program. He's a powerful figure in the university and a powerful person in intercollegiate athletics in football because he is the head coach at Michigan, he's had a tremendous career, he is very bright."
Manuel called Harbaugh "tremendous" to deal with and also spoke highly of his value to the school. Multiple outlets recently reported the details of an addendum to Harbaugh's contract stipulating an additional $2 million in compensation be paid in the form of a life insurance policy.
And while that contract was negotiated under former interim athletic director Jim Hackett, Manuel said he had no problem with it.
"I think Jim has proven that he brings tremendous benefit to our football program, to this department and to this university," Manuel said. "I don't have any problems. (I) think he's worth every penny that he makes."
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Ottawa loans $173M to SAS to help complete order
By Ross Marowits | The Canadian Press
Ottawa loans $ 173M to SAS to help complete order
Ottawa is lending Scandinavian Airlines SAS up to $ 173 million to help it purchase eight aircraft ordered last year from Bombardier.
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Aug. 5, 2009, Montreal, Que. – Ottawa is lending Scandinavian Airlines SAS up to $173 million to help it purchase eight aircraft ordered last year from Bombardier.
International Trade Minister Stockwell Day announced the loan Wednesday.
The loan will be administered by Export Development Canada, but the government assumes the risk should the loan not be repaid.
Day suggested the loan would help to support the aerospace industry, which employs tens of thousands of Canadians, especially in Quebec.
"EDC is providing repayable loans to ensure the aircraft production sector remains strong during this economic downturn," he said in a news release.
The loan will support the sale of eight Q400 and CRJ900 aircraft, whose total list price ranges between US$232 million and US$320 million.
SAS and three affiliates ordered 27 aircraft in March 2008, with options for two dozen more aircraft, as part of a compensation agreement after landing gear problems left some of the airline's planes grounded in 2007.
Under the deal, which also involved landing gear manufacturer Goodrich Corp., the airline received more than US$164 million in compensation in cash and credits for future aircraft orders.
The government used the Canada Account to provide billions of dollars in financial aid to General Motors and Chrysler as they restructured under bankruptcy protection from creditors.
Since 2001, the government has helped finance five Bombardier Aerospace orders, including two to Delta Airlines subsidiary Comair, one to Air Wisconsin and one to Northwest Airlines. All of the loans exceeded $100 million.
Export Development's corporate account has also been used to support seven Bombardier Aerospace transactions this year and 11 last year. Most were for orders from foreign carriers. But Canada's Porter Airlines, which operates Q400 service from its base on Toronto Island Airport, received funds on three occasions.
Bombardier shares rose nearly five per cent, gained 19 cents at $4.09 in morning trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Szorgalmatos község Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg vármegyében, a Tiszavasvári járásban.

Fekvése
Magyarország észak-alföldi régiójában helyezkedik el, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg vármegye nyugati részén, nagyjából egyenlő távolságra Tiszavasváritól és Tiszalöktől; előbbitől északra, utóbbitól délre. Budapesttől 220 kilométerre keletre fekszik, míg a megyeszékhelytől, Nyíregyházától 30 kilométerre nyugatra, Tokajtól 16 kilométerre délre, Debrecentől pedig 60 kilométerre északra. A Tisza folyótól mintegy 8 kilométer távolságban helyezkedik el. Közigazgatásilag 2002. október 20-ig Tiszavasvárihoz tartozott. A köztársasági elnök 101/2001. (VIII.27.) KE. határozatával az önkormányzati választások napjával új községgé nyilvánította, így megszületett Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megye 229. települése.

Mindössze két településsel határos közvetlenül: északi szomszédja Tiszalök, délről pedig Tiszavasvári határolja:

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Közúton mindkét szomszédos település felől a 3632-es úton érhető el. A hazai vasútvonalak közül a  érinti, melynek egy megállási pontba van itt: Szorgalmatos megállóhely a belterület délnyugati szélén helyezkedik el, közvetlenül a 3502-es út mellett.

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 2002–2006: Takács Pálné (MSZP)
 2006–2010: Takács Pálné (MSZP)
 2010–2014: Takács Pálné (független)
 2014–2019: Takács Pálné (független)
 2019-től: Fülöp Adrián (független)

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A település népességének változása:

2001-ben a község lakosságának közel 100%-a magyar nemzetiségűnek vallotta magát.

A 2011-es népszámlálás során a lakosok 72,8%-a magyarnak, 0,5% ukránnak mondta magát (27,2% nem nyilatkozott; a kettős identitások miatt a végösszeg nagyobb lehet 100%-nál). A vallási megoszlás a következő volt: római katolikus 8,3%, református 26%, görögkatolikus 2,4%, evangélikus 0,4%, felekezeten kívüli 24,3% (37,3% nem válaszolt).

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Habitat: Woodchucks live in open forests, forest edges, and rocky areas and by roadsides.
Reproduction: The young are born four weeks after mating. Although blind, hairless, and very small at birth, they are ready to leave and play outside a month after birth.
Physical description: Woodchucks have heavy bodies with short legs, the body being the thickest part on the animal. The body is between 18 and 27 inches long with a tail extending another 6 inches. They weigh between 10 and 14 pounds. Some may weigh up to 20 pounds!
One of the most obvious characteristics of woodchucks is the two front teeth that stick out of the mouth. These teeth are for gnawing and they will continuously grow throughout the woodchuck's life because they are constantly being worn down.
Woodchucks have two layers of hair, the outer coat is made of course hair with a reddish-brown, gray, or white coloring. The inner layer is a soft hair of pale color and is used as insulation by the animal during hibernation. The legs and tail have a dark brown or black coloration to them, and the hair is very short. The belly is thinly lined with coarse hair but has no inner layer of insulation.
Shedding of fur is done annually and has been observed to happen in April, May, and June. The molting process begins at the tail and head at the same time. The molt progresses down from the head and up from the tail until it meets in the middle where it is completed. During this process hair seems blotchy because the new hair is brighter. Albinism and melanism does occur in woodchucks. Albinism occurs from a recessive gene received by one of the parents, who can be of normal coloration. Melanism is from an abundance of dark pigment in the skin and hair.
Calls/Displays: When a woodchuck hears or sees a predator, they will make a shrill whistle to warn others of the pending danger.
Taxonomic affiliation: The scientific name genus and species, of woodchucks is Marmota monax. They belong to the Order Rodentia and Family Sciuridae. Like all rodents, woodchucks have no canine teeth or "fangs" and are bucktoothed. This classifies them as gnawing mammals, a main characteristic of the Order Rodentia.
General Biology, Reproduction, and Behavior: Woodchucks are primarily active during daylight hours. When not feeding, they sometimes bask in the sun during the warmest periods of the day. They have been observed dozing on fence posts, stone walls, large rocks, and fallen logs close to the burrow entrance. Woodchucks are good climbers and sometimes are seen in lower tree branches. Woodchucks are among the few mammals that enter into true hibernation. Hibernation generally starts in late fall, near the end of October or early November, but varies with latitude. It continues until late February and March. In northern latitudes, torpor can start earlier and end later. Males usually come out of hibernation before females and subadults. Males may travel long distances, and occasionally at night, in search of a mate. Woodchucks breed in March and April. A single litter of 2 to 6 (usually 4) young is produced each season after a gestation period of about 32 days. The young are born blind and hairless. They are weaned by late June or early July, and soon after strike out on their own. They frequently occupy abandoned dens or burrows. The numerous new burrows that appear during late summer are generally dug Fig. 3. Burrow system of the woodchuck. Side entrance Nest chamber Main entrance Fig. 2. Range of the woodchuck in North America. B-185 by older woodchucks. The life span of a woodchuck is about 3 to 6 years. Woodchucks usually range only 50 to 150 feet (15 to 30 m) from their den during the daytime. This distance may vary, however, during the mating season or based on the availability of food. Woodchucks maintain sanitary den sites and burrow systems, replacing nest materials frequently. A burrow and den system is often used for several seasons. The tunnel system is irregular and may be extensive in size. Burrows may be as deep as 5 feet (1.5 m) and range from 8 to 66 feet (2.4 to 19.8 m) in total length (Fig. 3). Old burrows not in use by woodchucks provide cover for rabbits, weasels, and other wildlife. When startled, a woodchuck may emit a shrill whistle or alarm, preceded by a low, abrupt "phew." This is followed by a low, rapid warble that sounds like "tchuck, tchuck." The call is usually made when the animal is startled at the entrance of the burrow. The primary predators of woodchucks include hawks, owls, foxes, coyotes, bobcats, weasels, dogs, and humans. Many woodchucks are killed on roads by automobiles.
Range: Woodchucks can be found in Alaska, east into Canada and into the eastern half of the United States. They can be found as far south as northern Georgia and Alabama.


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Iranian oil tanker pursued by US says it is going to Turkey
Published: Aug 24,201912:26 PM by PTI
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The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, updated its listed destination in its Automatic Identification System to Mersin, Turkey, a port city in the country's south and home to an oil terminal.
Iranian oil tanker Grace 1. File photo: Reuters
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An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the US amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington changed its listed destination to a port in Turkey early Saturday after Greece said it wouldn't risk its relations with America by aiding it.
However, mariners can input any destination into the AIS, so Turkey may not be its true destination. Mersin is some 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of a refinery in Baniyas, Syria, where authorities alleged the Adrian Darya had been heading before being seized off Gibraltar in early July.
Iranian state media and officials did not immediately acknowledge the new reported destination of the Adrian Darya, which carries 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil worth some $130 million. Nor was there any immediate reaction from Turkey, whose President Recep Tayyip Erdogan deals directly with Tehran and Russia over Syria's long war.
The ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.com showed the Adrian Darya's position as just south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. At current speeds, it estimated the Adrian Darya would reach Mersin in about a week.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The tanker's detention and later release by Gibraltar has fueled the growing tensions between Iran and the U.S. after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers over a year ago. In the time since, Iran lost billions of dollars in business deals allowed by the deal as the US re-imposed and created sanctions largely blocking Tehran from selling crude oil aboard, a crucial source of hard currency for the Islamic Republic.
In US federal court documents, authorities allege the Adrian Grace's true owner is Iran's Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary organization answerable only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The U.S. declared the Guard a foreign terror organization in April, the first time America named a military force of a nation as such, giving it the legal power to issue a warrant for the vessel's seizure.
However, that would require another nation to acknowledge the writ.
The Adrian Darya had put its intended destination as Kalamata, Greece, even though the port did not have the infrastructure to offload oil from the tanker. The State Department then pressured Greece not to aid the vessel.
Meanwhile, Iran continues to hold the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which it seized in a commando-style raid July 19 after the taking of the Adrian Darya. Analysts suggested the release of the Adrian Darya would see the Stena Impero let go, but that has yet to happen.
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Sir George Sowley Holroyd (31 October 1758 – 21 November 1831) was an English lawyer and justice of the King's Bench.

Life
He was eldest son of George Holroyd, by Eleanor, daughter of Henry Sowley of Appleby, Westmorland, was born at York on 31 October 1758. He was placed at Harrow School in 1770, but his father lost money and he was unable to go to university.

In April 1774 Holroyd was articled to a London attorney named Borthwick, and then entered Gray's Inn in 1777. He read in the chambers of Sir Alan Chambre, and in April 1779 began practice as a special pleader. He at this time associated with Samuel Romilly, Edward Christian, and John Baynes, and with them founded a legal debating society. He was called to the bar 26 June 1787, and joining the northern circuit, obtained a practice both at assizes and at Westminster.

Declining to take silk, Holroyd continued to practise as a junior. In 1811 he distinguished himself in the case of Burdett v. Abbott, in which he appeared for the plaintiff Sir Francis Burdett, against Charles Abbott, Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1815 he was sent as commissioner to Guernsey to inquire into grievances.

On 14 February 1816 Holroyd succeeded Sir Henry Dampier as a judge of the king's bench. On 17 November 1828 poor health compelled him to retire, and he died at his house at Hare Hatch, Berkshire, 21 November 1831. There was a monument to him in Wargrave Church, with an inscription by Lord Brougham.

Family
In 1787 Holroyd married Sarah, daughter of Amos Chaplin of Brydges Street, Covent Garden, London. Of his fourteen children by her, six survived him.

British author Sir Michael Holroyd is Sir George's direct descendant, through his son, George Chaplin Holroyd (1790-1871).

References
 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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Attribution

1758 births
1831 deaths
English barristers
19th-century English judges
People educated at Harrow School
Members of Gray's Inn


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One of snooker's fastest players, Robert Milkins is a six-time ranking event semi-finalist who reached a career-high ranking of 12 in February 2014.
He came closest to reaching a full-ranking event final at the 2005 Irish Masters where he led Matthew Stevens 8-5, only to lose 9-8.
The strongest spell of his career to date came from 2012-2015 as the Englishman reached a further four semi-finals, including back-to-back runs at the 2013 Wuxi Classic and Australian Goldfields Open tournaments which saw him break into snooker's top 16 for the first time.
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Asia can lead global transformation towards low-carbon and resilience
3:36 pm GMT+12, 08/09/2019, Thailand
Asia-Pacific Climate Week in Bangkok, Thailand (APCW 2019) wrapped up on Friday, with participants agreeing a set of key takeaways on what steps urgently need to be taken for the region to be able to profit from the advantages of the transition to low carbon and resilience and the worst impacts of climate change.
The compelling social and economic reasons to rapidly shift to low-carbon and resilience were outlined by high-level speakers who warned that current levels of ambition to tackle climate change are insufficient, putting the world on a path towards global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius.
A key takeaway was that Asia-Pacific Region can lead the global transformation in line with a 1.5 Celsius, climate resilient world. Holding the global average temperature rise is the central goal of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
Participants at the gathering agreed that the transformation to low carbon and resilience in Asia can be driven not only by governments, but by dynamic subnational regions and cities, an innovative private sector, political leadership and finance.
Youth groups played an important role at Asia-Pacific Climate Week, engaging with participants and covering the discussions on social media accounts.
Over half of the global population of 1.8 billion young people live in the Asia-Pacific region, whose future is at stake.
The messages will be an important input to the Climate Action Summit convened by the UN Secretary-General on 23 September in New York. The results will also help build momentum towards the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) that will take place in Santiago, Chile, 2-13 December 2019.
Countries are currently designing enhanced national climate action plans under the Paris Agreement (Nationally Determined Contribution, or NDCs) and the Summit in New York will be an opportunity for governments and many climate action players to announce new plans and initiatives before the NDCs are communicated to the UN in 2020.
The Bangkok gathering included an "NDC Dialogue" for the Asia-Pacific Region. At the dialogue, government representatives highlighted the importance of providing economic incentives such as the creation of quality green jobs, whist ensuring there is a just transition to low carbon, with nobody left behind.
Climate change adaptation planning and finance were a key theme throughout APCW 2019, with a focus on communities and ecosystems that need it most.
On the issue of building resilience to climate change, representatives of indigenous peoples from the Asia-Pacific region and academics as well as other stakeholders with diverse backgrounds engaged at an event where they stressed the need for a shift in mindset in the fight against climate change.
The group proposed concrete pathways to help transform societies to achieve long-term resilience for all.
Other issues discussed at APCW 2019 were carbon pricing, the enhanced transparency framework, capacity-building and regional climate finance, above all for highly vulnerable nations.
At Asia Pacific Climate Week, work started on a new climate strategy for Indian Ocean Island States to access finance for priority projects, similar to the sub-regional Climate Finance Strategy developed for the four Melanesian island States of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
The UN Climate Change Secretariat is assisting 10 sub-regions involving 77 countries in Asia Pacific, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean in preparing strategies to access scaled up climate finance.
APCW 2019 is the third Regional Climate Week to be organized this year, following a Regional Climate Week in Africa in Accra, Ghana in March and a Regional Climate Week in Salvador, Brazil in August. Altogether a total of 10,000 registrations were recorded for the 3 events demonstrating the growing interest for these issues.
Next year a new Regional Climate Week in the Middle East and North Africa region will take place in the United Arab Emirates and will be delivered in collaboration with the World Green Economy Organization (WGEO), the hosting organization for the UN Climate Change Regional Collaboration Centre based in Dubai, for the MENA region and the South Asian region.
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'an egg yesterday and a feather-duster tomorrow'
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The phrase an egg yesterday and a feather-duster tomorrow, and its numerous variants, are used:
– of the inanity of life;
– of the transitoriness of success.
This phrase originated in the captions to a cartoon known as The Dejected Rooster, by the U.S. cartoonist Mark Fenderson (1873-1944), published by the weekly magazine Life (New York City: Life Publishing Company) in 1907.
For example, the cartoon appeared as follows in an advertisement for Life's Prints, published in Life of Thursday 10th October 1907:
Copyright 1097 [misprint for 1907] by Life Pub. Co.
"WHAT'S THE USE, ANYWAY? NOTHING BUT AN EGG YESTERDAY AND A FEATHER DUSTER TO-MORROW."
After Mark Fenderson
Reproduction in color, 13 by 15 in.
On Thursday 1st August 1907, Life had published the same cartoon with the following caption:
"WHAT'S THE USE, ANYWAY? TO-DAY WE'RE EGGS AND TO-MORROW WE'RE FEATHER DUSTERS."
The phrase appeared in both British and Australian English very early, probably because the weekly magazine Life was "published simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions."
These are, in chronological order, the other early occurrences of the phrase that I have found:
1-: From the following advertisement, published in The Selma Morning Times (Selma, Alabama) of Sunday 11th August 1907:
"WHAT'S THE USE?"
quoth the disconsolate Rooster—Yesterday an egg and tomorrow a Feather Duster at Butler's.
2-: From the following advertisement, published in The Daily Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, Connecticut) of Tuesday 27th August 1907:
AS THE ROOSTER SAID———-
when he saw a chicken hatching: "What's the use? An egg yesterday and a feather duster to-morrow."
BUT———-
Life is worth living when you can buy such knitted neckties as I sell for 55c per neck.
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He Sells Shirts.
Church & Center Streets.
3-: From Chat from the Capital. Modes of the Moment. Notes by Lady Correspondents, published in the Preston Herald (Preston, Lancashire, England) of Wednesday 25th September 1907:
From affluence to poverty is not the uncommon fate of singers, song writers, actors, and actresses, who, in their time, have contributed not a little to our store of light-hearted gaiety. Their fate reflects that of the spring chicken, which has been depicted as saying "We are eggs to-day and feather dusters to-morrow." With few exceptions our songs are like much of the literature of the present day, which dies almost as soon as it is born.
4-: From Week-End Stage Notes, published in the Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, New York) of Saturday 16th November 1907:
Something about the poultry show in town now reminds one of the picture in "Life" of the lone and despondent rooster leaning dejectedly up against the barn door, with tearful eyes looking heavenward, while he ejaculates, "What's the use, anyhow; nothing but an egg yesterday and a feather duster tomorrow."
5-: From the following advertisement, published in The Pilot (Blair, Nebraska) of Wednesday 27th November 1907:
THE TURKEY SAYS: "What's the use any how? Nothin' but an egg yesterday and a feather duster tomorrow."
No Grouches Here
The turkey has a kick coming these days. So would we if we were going to be hung.
But we're not. We have been treated fine by the people of Blair and vicinity, since we started in business here.
We have nothing but smiles and thanks for you all at this Thanksgiving time.
Of course you will want us to supply your Thanksgiving wants. Then we'll smile some more and you will smile with us.
Order early, there going to be lots to do.
C. J. Robinson.
P. S.—People wont [sic] have anything but Elijah's Manna these days, and we don't blame 'em.
6-: From the column Such Is Life, published in the New-State Tribune (Muskogee, Oklahoma) of Thursday 5th December 1907:
"What's the use?" soliloquized the old rooster, as he leaned up against the barn door, with his legs crossed. "What's the use? Today, an egg, tomorrow a feather-duster."
7-: From the following advertisement, published in The Advertiser (Adelaide, South Australia) of Thursday 19th December 1907:
Says the Rooster,
We're Eggs to-day and Feather Dusters
What's the use of ordering a Suit that looks well for a day or two—and then for ever after is consigned to the old clothes basket?
32/6 MADE TO ORDER SUITS
represent the finest value in Australia. Get acquainted with them.
'(as) cold as Pharaoh's heart': meaning and origin
'as demure as a whore at a christening': meaning and origin


Dave Daubenmire -- Is The Gospel Illegal in America?
IS THE GOSPEL ILLEGAL IN AMERICA?
I know that most of you will find this hard to believe but it is no longer unusual for Christians to be arrested for sharing the Gospel on the streets.
Most of you find it hard to believe because you never do it.
It is like going through the sexual assault/screening at the airport. Most folks don't worry about it because they rarely fly. Only those who have experienced the indignity of being strip-searched or x-rayed for "security" reasons understand the humiliation.
Most things don't matter until they happen to you.
That is what is going on in America. Every once in a while you might see a report of some police-misconduct, but, for the most part, it doesn't bother you because your experiences with the police have been good ones.
But it does affect you. You just don't know it because it hasn't happened to you …yet.
The folks I hang with don't protest, they PROCLAIM…proclaim the Gospel. That activity is rapidly being curtailed by "legal system." The First Amendment grants freedom to every type of deviant speech, but not to proclamation of the Gospel. The Gospel is becoming illegal.
It is happening, I might add, with the approval of the six-foot icicles who stand in most of America's pulpits. They, too, think those of us who take seriously the command to "go ye into all the world" are radicals, fundamentalists, and "make Jesus look bad." The average American Pastor has never spent a day of his/her life engaging in "open-air ministry" (streets preaching). They love to preach inside their stained-glass fortress where they can better hide from the controversy.
To them, one of the congregants complaining about pot holes in the parking lot is persecution…let alone facing a crowd of profoundly lost Muslims outside a Mosque as one faithfully delivers the Gospel of Jesus Christ to them.
My friend Pastor Mark Holick does just that. And last week he was found guilty by a jury of two counts of "loitering" outside a Mosque as he and several other gentle Christians handed out Bibles during the Muslim's call to prayer. He was sentenced to six months in jail (suspended), one year probation, fined $300, and prohibited from being within 1000 feet of the Mosque.
Read the WND story here, but I am sure you won't believe it. The media has convinced you that these "street preachers" are the next Timothy McVeigh. I am one of those "street preachers" and I have first hand experience with how we are treated.
Before Pastor Mark was sentenced he had the opportunity to address the court. I felt the readers needed to hear this humble, Godly-man's open rebuke to the Judge, prosecutor, and press..BEFORE HE WAS SENTENCED…that takes cajones!
May we take faith this morning in Mt. 10. - That when we are arrested and handed over to court that the Lord will help us with what to say. May the Great Cloud of Witnesses record this day and this moment.
In October of 2010, 13 saints of the Lord went out to lovingly and freely offer free bibles to anyone willing to receive them. We went in obedience to our Lord Jesus who instructed us in Mk. 16, to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
Though the others were doing the same thing I was - I was arrested, prosecuted-persecuted, convicted, and will be sentenced shortly as a common criminal with drug users and rapists.
This was not about blocking traffic, or blocking the sidewalk. No, this is about an idolatrous government that has rejected the Lord God Jesus. This is about a Government that has turned from the Lord God to the many gods' of pluralism.
There are a group of the Lord's Commandments so important that He wrote them with his own finger, we call them the 10 Commandments. The first one is #1 for a reason. - That shalt have no other god's before me. None, not any, not Buddha, not allah, not any. This arrest/trial/and conviction by the City of Wichita, the City attorney, the Wichita police and two courts is because the have forgotten Commandment #1.
Ps. 33:12 says that, "blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." The police, prosecution, and courts have forgotten Ps. 33:12. Just as the City of Wichita, police, and courts many years ago conferred upon abortion most favored business status, they have now conferred upon Islam, most favored religion status.
This trial was replete with government falsehoods and distortions.
Captain Jeffery Easter testified that the reason he - a captain answered this call was because he heard it come in and had recently been briefed on the all the violence against mosques. I thought, where have I been? What violence against mosques? So I looked it up. I found a grand total of 1 possibly 2 acts in the entire nation before Oct. of 2010. This is just one of multiple perjuries by Jeffery Easter.
Listen to the 911 call by the mosque. Not one reference to any traffic problems, not one indication of cars being blocked. No, it is clear that the reason they called was because - we were there peacefully offering free bibles. In fact the Islamists came out and told us to get off of the sidewalk, that it was their sidewalk. We did not leave, so they called police.
To which the police, city attorney, and courts were all too willing to act with expediency and malice to silence the Gospel of our Lord Jesus. It takes a village to convict a Christian.
You in authority quickly sided with the Islamists who speak of us as the Great Satan: Islamists who issued a fatwa against David Letterman for telling a joke about Al-Qaida. Islam is the most violent, repressive, tyrannical ideology in the world today.
Of the last 126 people who have been indicted in America for terrorist charges, all were Muslim. Not 90%, not 95%, all of them: Even though the DHS commercials picture white people as the terrorists.
A Harvard instructor may lose his job for an op-ed piece he wrote entitled, "how to wipe out Islamic terror."
Surah 5:72, they do blaspheme who say, " God is Christ the son of Mary," Surah 9:5, "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans, wherever you find them and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them, in every strategum (of war).
Wichita you are confused, I am not your enemy, Islam is. Thou shalt have no other gods' before me. Islamists believe that it is okay to lie if it is to help in the cause of allah. My own government called a foreign Islamist to testify for them against me, an American-born-Christian peacefully handing out free bibles.
The arresting officer said he is Christian. The court judge says he is Christian. The prosecutor says he is Christian. The City attorney says he is Christian. 4 of the 6 jurors say they are Christian.
And I have been convicted for handing out free bibles.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
If only we had more pastors who would speak such piercing words to power. Drop Pastor Mark a line. Let him know how much you appreciate him fighting for all of us.
Christianity is being criminalized. It can't happen here…in America…right?
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Coach Dave Daubenmire, founder and President of Pass The Salt Ministries www.ptsalt.com and Minutemen United www.minutemenunited.org, is host of the high octane Pass The Salt radio show heard in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1999 Coach Daubenmire was sued by the ACLU for praying with his teams while coaching high school in Ohio. He now spends his energy fighting for Christian principles in the public domain.


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"With a Little Help From My Friends" by the Beatles
"With a Little Help From My Friends" by the Beatles is a classic rock song.
Song Title: With a Little Help From My Friends
Artist: the Beatles
Genre: classic rock, rock
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Concert organizer Live Nation pulled the plug on a Bruce Springsteen concert in London's Hyde Park on Saturday, July 14, 2012.
Bruce Springsteen had already exceeded the 10:30 p.m. curfew by a half an hour when Paul McCartney joined him on stage to sing "I Saw her Standing There" and "Twist and Shout".
Live Nation officials turned off the microphones, forcing Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney to leave the stage without even getting a chance to thank the audience.
Live Nation claimed that silencing the musicians was "in the interest of the public's health and safety."
Steven Van Zandt, guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, criticized the decision as "heavy-handed".
Steven Van Zandt wrote on Twitter, "English cops may be the only individuals left on earth that wouldn't want to hear one more from Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney!" and "On a Saturday night! Who were we disturbing?" and "There's no grudges held. Just feel bad for our great fans. ... It's some City Council stupid rule."
London Mayor Boris Johnson was critical, saying, "It sounds to me like an excessively efficious decision. You won't get that during the Olympics. If they'd called me, my answer would have been for them to jam in the name of the Lord!"
There are calls for boycotting the London Olympics because of the murder of Lennox by government officials.
The withered tree will destroy the healthy tree when it falls down. —Maasai Proverb


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Diplomatic niceties for Trump in Beijing before tough talks
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BEIJING (AP) — President Donald Trump nodded appreciatively as China's Xi Jinping showcased a centuries-old temple in Beijing's Forbidden City. He clapped along as the two leaders watched a Chinese children's opera. And the pair shared a traditional tea and salutations of friendship.
Trump's two-day visit to China opened with diplomatic niceties aplenty Wednesday. But thorny issues await the two world leaders behind closed doors, including potential tensions over trade and China's willingness to put the squeeze on North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.
Ahead of his arrival, Trump delivered a stern message to Beijing, using an address to the National Assembly in South Korea to call on nations to confront the North.
"All responsible nations must join forces to isolate the brutal regime of North Korea," Trump said. "You cannot support, you cannot supply, you cannot accept."
He called on "every nation, including China and Russia," to fully implement U.N. Security Council resolutions against North Korea enforcing sanctions aimed at depriving its government of revenue for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The latest measure, adopted after a September atomic test explosion, the North's largest yet, banned imports of its textiles and prohibited new work permits for overseas North Korean laborers. It also restricted exports of some petroleum products.
White House officials said Trump would make the same pitch to Xi in private when the two sit down together Thursday. China is North Korea's largest trading partner and Trump is expected to demand that the nation curtail its dealings with Pyongyang and expel North Korean workers from its borders. Trump has praised China for taking some steps against Pyongyang, but he wants them to do more.
China is increasingly disenchanted with North Korea over its nuclear weapons development but remains wary of using its full economic leverage over its traditional ally. It fears triggering a collapse of the North's totalitarian regime that could cause an influx of refugees into northeastern China and culminate in a U.S.-allied unified Korea on its border.
China poured on the pomp and pageantry for Trump's arrival. The president and first lady Melania Trump were greeted at the airport by dozens of children who waved U.S. and Chinese flags and jumped up and down. The couple spent the first hours of their visit on a private tour of the Forbidden City, Beijing's ancient imperial palace. It's usually teeming with tourists but was closed to the public for the presidential visit.
The Trumps walked alongside Xi and his wife through the historic site and admired artifacts from centuries' past. Trump posed for photos and, with a wave of his hand, joked to Xi about the reporters watching. And he laughed and clapped along during an outdoor opera featuring colorful costumes, martial arts and atonal music.
Trump said afterward he's "having a great time" in China. But much of the remainder of his stay in Beijing will revolve around deep negotiations over trade with Pyongyang and other matters. The president also is expected to showcase a round of business deals signed Wednesday by Chinese and U.S. companies that the two sides say are valued at $9 billion.
Among them: a pledge by China's biggest online retailer to buy $1.2 billion of American beef and pork. Such contract signings are a fixture of visits by foreign leaders to China and are aimed at blunting criticism of Beijing's trade practices.
It's "a way of distracting from the fact that there's been no progress in China on structural reform, market access or the big issues that the president has tried to make progress on with regard to China," said Elizabeth Economy, the director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Trump has made narrowing the multibillion-dollar U.S. trade deficit with China a priority for his administration — and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Wednesday the deals were a step in the right direction.
"Achieving fair and reciprocal treatment for the companies is a shared objective," Ross said. "Today's signings are a good example of how we can productively build up our bilateral trade."
China's trade surplus with the United States in October widened by 12.2 percent from a year earlier, to $26.6 billion, according to Chinese customs data released Wednesday. The total surplus with the United States for the first 10 months of the year rose to $223 billion.
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Bavaria premier demands action from ECB, German govt to dampen inflation
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The premier of the German state of Bavaria called on the European Central Bank (ECB) on Wednesday to tighten monetary policy to counter rising inflation in Europe's biggest economy, according to an interview in Handelsblatt business daily.
"Inflation is rising overall and at the same time there are still zero interest rates for savers. It is a fact that there is creeping expropriation," Markus Soeder, head of the conservative Christian Social Union, told Handelsblatt.
"In the face of inflation, the ECB should slowly scale back its ultra-loose monetary policy," he said.
Harmonised consumer prices rose 5.7% year-on-year last month in Germany after a record increase of 6.0% in November, well above the ECB's price stability target of 2% for the euro zone, preliminary data showed last week.
Soeder also said the new federal government, led by Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, must take action.
"Germany is experiencing the worst price rises since 1993," Soeder told the paper. "So the government must urgently provide relief for citizens and the economy," he said, suggesting energy tax relief.
German government officials and policymakers at the central bank have said they expect inflation to ease further in the coming months as transitory effects wane.
Central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve have acknowledged that inflation may prove more persistent than once thought, but the ECB has stuck to its view that price growth will slip back below its 2% target in late 2022 on its own.
(Reporting by Madeline Chambers; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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While attending a conference, a speaker helped us remember the phenomenal time in which we live. The pace of technological innovation continues, medicine and biotechnology make impressive strides toward disease control and even eradication. Every ten years, 1 billion people will enter middle class. The opportunities are unprecedented. We are bombarded with contrary information, noise, and it is easy to forget these wonders.
And we can vote. By blessing or luck, depending on how you see it, I am a citizen of the United States of America. Tomorrow we will elect or reelect a president, senators, governors, representatives, judges, commissioners, sheriffs, property appraisers and other offices. The transitions will be peaceful, the outcomes accepted, and life will go on.
The election matters. To me it matters a great deal who our president is. I think that Mitt Romney is a far better choice than Barack Obama. I trust Mitt to make the more advantageous economic policies and have every confidence that he will be able to work with Democrats on bi-partisan initiatives. I believe that he will make good decisions with regard to foreign policy, and that our security and prosperity will benefit as a result.
What if he isn't elected? Then I hope that President Obama resolves to behave differently and to do what is required to work with Republicans. His greatest leadership failure was to set a precedent at the very beginning of his term, through the wholly partisan passage of the Stimulus, that as the winner he would do whatever he wanted. He allowed congressional democrats to steamroll Republicans, and the young notion of post-partisanship was a memory.
I hope the Republicans will also understand the need for painful compromise, regardless of the presidential outcome. No one will get exactly what they want, and understanding that at the outset will go a long way to making some real progress. One thing is clear, regardless of the victors tomorrow, Americans are rightfully fed up with the way that Washington has functioned over the past several years.
Bottom line- whether or not your candidates win, or mine, America is more than any one man or woman. It is more than debt, more than healthcare, more than war. It is, and will continue to be, the greatest nation on earth, and I am proud to be a part of it. I am sitting next to three young servicemen as I type this, and I will thank them for their service, and for their efforts to safeguard our sacred right to vote.