We have already seen what Peter has to say to us about regeneration and the Christian life and calling. Let us now listen to his testimony concerning sanctification and the deeper experiences of our Christian life and growth.
1. Regeneration brings us life, but sanctification brings us "life more abundantly."
2. Regeneration brings us life, but sanctification brings us life that comes out of death; the death-born life which has entered into the crucifixion of Christ, and the power of His resurrection.
3. Regeneration brings us into Christ, sanctification brings Christ into us. "Abide in me, and I in you," implies a twofold relation. "In Him" is to be saved; "in you" is to be sanctified. It is the indwelling life of the Lord Jesus in personal union and manifestation to the soul.
4. Regeneration makes us the subjects of the Holy Spirit's working, but sanctification makes us temples of the Holy Spirit's indwelling. In regeneration the Spirit is working upon us as the builder of the house; in sanctification He has become the resident of the dwelling and enters to abide as our guest, or, rather, as our host, while we dwell with Him in the fellowship of the Spirit.
5. Regeneration comes to us through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior; sanctification comes to us through full surrender and faith in the incoming and indwelling of the Comforter. It is as we yield ourselves to God and give Him the right of way, without a single reservation, that He accepts the offering and makes us His abode.
Now this twofold experience runs through all the personal and public types of the Bible. We see in Jacob the revelation of God at Bethel, through which he became the servant of Jehovah, and then the deeper experience at Peniel, through which he became the prince of God. We see it in Moses, in his first choice of God in Egypt, and then his deeper experience in Midian. We see it in Job and Isaiah; we see it in Simon Peter and the other disciples with their new experience after Pentecost; and Paul seems to give us this chapter in his own experience in the seventh of Romans, through which he passed into the victory of the eighth. We see it very definitely in the passage of the Red Sea and the exodus of Israel, which represents our salvation; and then the crossing of the Jordan and the entrance into Canaan, which represents our sanctification. We see it in the Passover, which marked the first year of Israel's history, the setting out under the blood, even as we step out from the cross of Calvary; and then the equally marked beginning of the second year when the tabernacle was dedicated and anointed, and the cloud came down and entered in as the Shekinah presence of Jehovah in the holy of holies, the latter representing the incoming and indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the consecrated soul. But time and space forbid enlargement. Beloved, have you also entered into the "twofold life"?
1. It is an obligation. God commands us to be holy. We are called to be holy. He will not excuse anybody from holiness. We have no right to call ourselves His children if we continue to live in sin. "Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid." God forbids you to continue in sin. There are no two classes of Christians between which you may choose; there are no options here. Every child of God is called to be holy.
2. The pattern and source of sanctification. "Be you holy; for I am holy."God is our standard, and as His children we must be like Him. No lower standard will pass. We must not aim to be as good as some people; we must not excuse ourselves because we are no worse than others. It is God who is our pattern. "Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
He is not only the pattern, but the source. His holiness is the guarantee of ours. He commands because He gives what He commands. Out of His fullness we receive and shine in His reflected light, even as the planets that shine in the light of the great day star.
3. The secret of holiness is death and resurrection. Peter gives it to us very profoundly in the fourth chapter and the first verse: "Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin." This thought, this great principle and truth that Christ died, will become a powerful weapon and victorious armor in our experience as we enter into it in fellowship with Him. Sanctification is not the improvement of our natural character, not even the cleansing of our spirit. It is to discover that we are wholly lost and utterly helpless, and to yield ourselves over to Him, to die to self as well as sin, to our natural goodness as well as natural sinfulness, and then receive a new life altogether from Him: Indeed, we are to receive Christ Himself, the risen one, as our new life, and then be as though we had been born out of heaven, and were not the same spirit that formerly lived in sin. Oh, what an inspiration this gives to the new life, to be wholly free by death from the entangling weight of our old habits, memories, and the discouraging sense of our past, and to spring, death-born, into a life of holiness and victory. It is our privilege.
4. Sanctification is the gift of God's grace. We pass over now to the second epistle of Peter to supplement the teachings of the first, and there we are taught in the first chapter and the third verse that, "His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness." He has given unto us this higher life. It is not an attainment, but a bestowal. God has provided the robes of the sanctified, and we simply put them on, and claim His efficiency and His complete provision for every spiritual condition and need. It is now awaiting you, beloved reader, if you will simply recognize your need of it, your helplessness to work it out yourself, and in full surrender accept Him for all that you can never be alone. "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ," and put Him on now.
5. Sanctification comes to us through our being made "partakers of the divine nature." (2 Peter 1: 4.) God is our sanctification. The very nature of God passes into us. It is a divine holiness. Sanctification is not a degree of progress on the old plane, but it puts us entirely upon a new plane, and we pass out of the human into the divine, and henceforth it is not the best that man can be and do, but the best that God can be and do. Therefore, it becomes natural for us to be holy, just as once it was natural for us to be sinful. We act according to the divine nature in us, and our choices, desires, and ministries are spontaneous and free, and obedience is just a luxury instead of a duty.
6. Sanctification comes to us through knowing God, and believing His word of promise. This is very finely brought out by the apostle in the opening verses of his second epistle. "Whereby," he says, "are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature." It is through claiming the promises that we receive the Holy Spirit and the divine nature. We take His Word and present it as a check on the Bank of Grace, and He turns it into the currency of spiritual blessing and actual grace. So again Peter says, He "has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us" not "to glory and virtue," but "by his glory and virtue." That is to say, His glory and virtue, His divine excellency, revealed to us by the Spirit, calls us to the same high and holy character; and as we know Him, we become like Him.
The power by which we appropriate these precious promises and make the gifts of God's grace personal and real is faith. But even this faith is not a struggling effort of our weak will, but the apostle tells us we "have obtained like precious faith." The faith is given, and so from first to last it is all grace. God reaches out to us the fullness of His love and power, and then He puts into our paralyzed hand the energy to reach out and grasp the blessing and make it ours.
7. Once more the apostle's language implies that we enter into this experience of sanctification at a definite moment of time. It is not something into which we gradually drift, but it is a crisis point up to which we come and at which we settle something forever. This is implied in the peculiar Greek tense known to scholars as the aorist tense, used in this passage, verse 4, "Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." We have no tense in the English grammar corresponding to this. It denotes an act accomplished at a given moment in the past, and quite finished. Therefore, at a given moment we have escaped the corruption that is in the world through evil desire; we were delivered from the world and the flesh by becoming "partakers of the divine nature" and receiving "all things that pertain unto life and godliness." We do not drag through a dreary and endless cycle of vain attempts, but we come up to Jordan, we enter in, we pass over, and we sing henceforth, "I am over in the promised land." Beloved, this is the gospel of holiness according to Peter. Surely, it is good news, it is all divine, it is all freely given, it is all for you. Have you received it? Will you receive it?
Now we are ready to grow, and, therefore, it is in the second epistle that the writer advances to these higher experiences and bids us to go on to perfection. Had we attempted to grow before, it would have been distortion. We must have a true life complete in all its parts before we can safely develop it. There must be a good foundation and every wall connected before we can rear the superstructure with safety. Now then, the foundation is laid, and so the apostle adds, "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith." (2 Peter 1:5.) Dean Alford has translated this, "Because of this thing;" not "beside," but "because." Just because you are sanctified, therefore, grow. Because you have resources, such a glorious guarantee, and divine supplies, therefore, go forward and make the most of them. But notice even in our growth that the same principle of grace must be recognized all the way through. We are not to grow in character and virtue and strength, but we are to grow in grace. That means we are to grow in the habit of receiving, of being more and more helpless and dependent every moment to the end of life; it is to be all grace to the finish, and the more we grow, the more will it be true, "He must increase, but I must decrease."
This is also finely expressed in the phrase, "Add to your faith." You are not to add to yourself, but to your faith. And what is faith? It is just the power to receive from God something which you yourself cannot do or have independently. Faith is just a hand to take His grace. Therefore, the way to grow is just to take from Him in each new emergency the supply needed for that occasion. Do we want more love? When we come up to some hard place where we are wronged, we are not to struggle to work up love in ourselves. We are not to be discouraged because we do not find the love there. We are not to pump at our dry well until we get worn out and discouraged. But we are to do as you would do with such a well; pour a little water in, and then it will flow freely out. Go to God and take the love from Him. Tell Him you are unloving and helpless, and ask Him to put the heart of Christ into your cold heart, and thus add to your faith His love. And so, if you need courage or patience or joy, no matter what, just draw upon your bank account. Use the faith that He has given to claim the exceeding great and precious promises, and you will get tired asking before He gets tired giving.
And now the apostle gives us a very fine and symmetrical portrait of the graces and features in which we are to grow. First he says, "Add to your faith virtue." This does not mean moral purity, for all this has already been settled in your sanctification; but the word "virtue" is derived from an old Latin root, which means manhood, courage, virility. It is spiritual forcefulness. God does not want us good and amiable weaklings, but men and women that accomplish things; lives that tell for God and the race. He will give us His strength and make us good soldiers of Jesus Christ, and "strong in the Lord and the power of His might."
Next is knowledge. Blind courage is often wild and dangerous. Power without intelligence and judgment is distortion. He wants us not only to have the "spirit of power,"but also the spirit of "a sound mind." He will give us His wisdom and knowledge, for "if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God . . . and it shall be given him." How wise Christ was! How beautifully we find Him always in order, on time, with a ready answer for His enemies and a right message for needy souls -- a pattern of divine wisdom. And so, by faith we may take His Spirit to rest upon us, as "the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord," that shall make us of "quick understanding in the fear of the Lord."
Next is temperance. That is self-control, the power of poise, the balanced character, the reserve force that can hold your tongue, and wait in the silence that so often speaks more vitally than words. He will give it through your faith and through His grace, if you are willing to be taught to be silent unto God and let Him mold you.
Next is patience. That is the power to suffer not only that which comes to you from the hand of God, but that, so much harder, which comes to you from the hand of man. This is the fusing process that burns all the ingredients into one living mass of spiritual strength. No character is permanent, no quality is fixed, until it has been proved in the furnace of affliction. But patience is His gift. The savage can meet suffering with stoical indifference, but only the heart of Christ can stand in the judgment hall or the garden of Gethsemane and suffer long and yet be kind. You will come up to your trials and fail at first, but you will find the unfailing One at your side, and if you will lean hard on Him, He will give you His victory; and through each new trial you will add to your faith patience, until patience has her perfect work, and you will stand "perfect and entire, lacking nothing."
Next comes godliness. This is the quality of the Spirit which crowns the character. This is the upper chamber, the observatory, where we look up and out upon the heavens, where we meet and know God, where we commune with Him and worship Him and do all things unto His glory. It is this which gives spirituality and devoutness to the character, and makes saints like Rutherford, McCheyne, Fenelon, and the souls whose very names crush our hearts with sacred veneration. Into this we may grow by faith, for piety is one of the gifts of God; and we can have as much as we can claim and wear as a divine habiliment.
But there is danger even on spiritual lines. We may not become extreme and selfish. The cloister and the cell are not the finishing rooms for holy character, but the slums of sin, the wastes of heathenism, and the dark places of human suffering. It is here we reach the largest circumference of spiritual growth. There is a circle, a vertical circle, that rises heavenward and takes in God and all the heights of devotion and communion; but there is another circle, a lateral circle, that takes in all the length and breadth of loving sympathy and service. And so he adds two more features to this divine portrait: "brotherly kindness" and "charity." The first relates to our brethren, the love we owe to the household of faith. The second relates to the great world beyond, the unsaved, the unhappy, the sick, the poor, the lost, our enemies, the people that we cannot love naturally, but whom God has placed in our pathway to teach us that great and heavenly grace He here calls charity.
Such is the fullness of the stature of a perfect man in Christ; the ideal up to which God would have us grow under the molding hand of His grace. Such are the seven colors of this sacred prism -- seven, yet one; the white light of faith and grace separated into the sevenfold graces of courage, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity.
There is a fine shade of expression in the beautiful Greek in connection with the word "add." Literally, it means "chorus." It is a technical word, describing the business of the choir leader who harmonized the music at some great concert in all the parts, voices and instruments, until they blended in one magnificent harmony; many, yet one. And so we are to chorus into our Christian life all the graces of the Spirit until they shall blend in symmetrical proportion, and nothing shall be exaggerated, but all shall be in harmony, and the effect of the whole shall be that our lives shall become a sublime chorus of praise, a doxology to the glory of Him, of whom and by whom and for whom are all things.
Once more, we are to give all diligence to this. The Greek word again is forceful. It reminds one of the finger post which they used to place on the amphitheater in the Grecian games at the homestretch, containing one Greek word, meaning, literally, "make speed." They did not place this at the beginning of the course, but near the end, just at the place where the prize was to be lost or won. There the racers were summoned to the last strenuous endeavor. And so it is after we are sanctified and have learned the fullness of Jesus, that God is calling us from on high to the utmost vigilance and diligence, and to make speed, that we "so run that we may obtain." In conclusion, the apostle gives us several strenuous reasons why we should thus make speed.
1. This will save us from spiritual nearsightedness. "He that lacks these things is blind and cannot see afar off." The reason some people never get a vision of God or deeply realize spiritual things is because they live on too low a plane.
2. It will keep us from living too near the edge. "He has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins." Some people seem to like to live on the edge of the pit and the wonder is that they do not slip back again. God bids you press on from the borderland of danger into all the strength and breadth of the land of promise. If you do not, you will find yourself back even in your old sins.
3. "If you do these things, you shall never fall"; literally, "stumble." Would you be kept from stumbling? Then press on. It is easier to be holy than to be half sanctified, just as it is easier for the car to run on both tracks than to run with one wheel on the paving stones.
4. This will make your life fruitful and active, "for if these things be in you, and abound, they will make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful"; literally, "idle nor unfruitful." How little some Christians accomplish for God! How wasteful of time and opportunity their precious lives! It is because they live too low. Get filled with the Spirit, and you shall neither be idle nor unfruitful.
5. "For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." This is the crowning reason for a life of devotion. There is a glorious prize and there is a solemn possibility of missing it. I have seen three different persons land from a great ocean steamer. One landed as a criminal, a prisoner bound with chains, and led away to the Tombs and the dark future of punishment. And so some will reach yonder destination. A second stepped down from the deck on the gangplank, a stranger in a strange land. He was not in danger of arrest, but there were no familiar faces to greet him, and he almost wished he were back in his own country. And some shall reach the eternal port in this way, saved as by fire, but no soul to meet them at heaven's gate; strangers even in the home above. God save you from such a home coming. But I have seen another figure on that deck, his face glowing with pleasure, his eyes sparkling with tears of joy, his hat and handkerchief waving in response to thousands on the shore who were welcoming him home. And as he landed amid the cheers of the musical bands and the shouts of ten thousand voices, they carried him on their shoulders to receive ovations of honor and the highest rewards that his nation could bestow. He was a public servant and had done his duty and had finished his course with joy. He was coming home to his reward. There shall be such abundant entrance through yonder heavenly gates. Shall they be for you? Shall they be for me? We are making our history now. God help us to write it in enduring letters that shall shine in that glorious day.
The same word translated "chorus," in verse five, is used again in verse eleven, and translated "ministered"; literally, "an entrance shall be chorused unto you abundantly." The things you did and suffered for God, the graces of your Christian life which you put on in the earthly struggle, the souls you led to the Savior -- all these shall meet you there, and like celestial attendants accompany your triumphal march and sing your coronation hymn as they bid you welcome to your great reward. Oh, with such an inspiring hope, let us give all diligence to receive all the possibilities of grace and obtain all the rewards of glory!


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Card network American Express has added BharatQR to its Amex Pay app joining other card networks Visa, Mastercard and RuPay. On the Google Play Store and the iTunes app store, American Express updated the app on November 8 to add BharatQR capabilities. BharatQR is an inter-operable QR code network for payments, built by card networks where customers can scan the code at a merchant to pay. The idea for an inter-operable QR code network was floated in December 2016 following demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.
From Amex Pay's FAQs, it looks like the application will only support cards issued by American Express. Note that MasterCard and Visa two solutions called Masterpass and mVisa respectively to enable QR code payments but they allow cards from other networks as well. Both of them create a virtual card and link the physical card and process the transactions through their network. Amex Pay will support a maximum of six cards on the app.
Interestingly, the FAQs also added that users can make a payment using the QR functionality wherever they see the American Express logo on a BharatQR sticker. As such, it is unclear if Amex Pay can be used for scanning QR codes generated by the UPI or the app will exclusively work with merchants who have the American Express logo.
In August, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) merged QR codes generated by the UPI will be merged with the ones generated by BharatQR. NPCI instructed member banks to ensure that their applications be equipped to read both UPI QR as well as BharatQR by 15th September 2017. Essentially, it instructed banks and payment players to embed UPI credentials on BharatQR and vice versa.
Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed new slabs for debit card merchant discount rate (MDR) banks will be allowed to charge merchants. It proposed differentiated MDR between acquiring infrastructure involving physical terminals (POS machines, mPOS etc) and digital acceptance infrastructure models (such as QR codes). QR codes payment through cards would attract a fee of 0.3% to 0.85% for merchants. MDR is an inter-bank exchange fee that banks charge for enabling digital transactions.


The collaborative performance of The Bell Tree by Black House and Gamelan Genta Kasturi is part of Charlotte Street's OPEN STUDIOS WEEKEND on May 18 + 19. It is a FREE public, 2-day event, featuring open studios of 30 visual artists and 7 performing artists/ensembles, in 3 downtown office buildings, with live dance, music, improv, performance art, special exhibitions and installations, art sales, talks, kid-friendly workshops, and more. This culminating event showcases the work of the 2011-2012 Charlotte Street Studio Residents, including Black House Improvisors' Collective and Gamelan Genta Kasturi!
Here to talk about Charlotte Street, Urban Culture Project, and Open Studios Weekend is Charlotte Street's very own Patrick Alexander.
As Facilities Manager for the Charlotte Street Foundation, Pat is responsible for the day to day management, operation, and maintenance of Urban Culture Project exhibition and performance spaces and Studio Residency Program facilities. Patrick Alexander join sus to discuss Urban Culture Project – Studio Residency Open Studios Weekend, May 18-19.
Patrick talked about The Charlotte Street Foundation, how it has grown, and the objective of this amazing not-for-profit organization.
– 30 Artists' studios open for viewing with all artists on-hand to discuss their work and answer questions.
– Dance performances including the collaborative works An Inside Job, The Smith Project, and more, plus individual contemporary dance performances.
– Performance of The Bell Tree, the Black House Improvisor's Collective and Gamelan Genta Kasturi collaboration of new music combining modern jazz with traditional Balinese music, and featuring a lighted canopy installation and dance by fellow residents.
– Family friendly workshops on Saturday including, Mask-Making, Youth Creativity, and Exploring Paint & Plastic, and a hands-on exploration of the unique instruments of Gamelan Genta Kasturi.
This culminating event of Charlotte Street's Open Studios Weekend showcases the work of the 2011-2012 Charlotte Street Studio Residents, including Black House Improvisors' Collective and Gamelan Genta Kasturi!
Mark Titus has been involved in the video industry for more than 20 years. What started as videotaping family events led to the creation of Titus Video in 1985. Gradually Mark has expanded his focus to include performance art archiving, training videos, coach and highlight DVDs for high school, college, and professional sports. For more information you can visit: marktitus.com. Mark Titus has documented hundreds of LIVE performances in Kansas City over the past 25 years, and he joined us as our guest DJ to share stories for his journey, and music from the Pembroke Hill Glee Club from 1968, where Mark was a student from 1955 to 1967. Mark played music from DMZ, the Boston based punk band that he was associated with with for 3 years in the mid 1970s, and music from the KC Chorale in Kirkwood Hall.
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1) What does travel mean to you?
Travel is essential as it enhances your sense of being. You discover different cultures and learn to accept who you really are. You grow and learn to appreciate things in a new light!
2) Is there a place you've always wanted to go to for Christmas? Why?
Being a beach bum, I would have to say Hawaii. This island has festive vibes all through the year. Instead of a white, snowy Christmas, you get to celebrate it on white sandy beaches. Their beaches are some of the best in the world. I've always wanted to try out surfing there as Hawaii's beaches have some good breaks. I'm looking forward to crossing this off my bucket list soon.
3) Which was your most memorable Christmas trip? Tell us more about it.
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4) How do you think travel blogging has changed over the past few years?
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5) What advice would you like to give to aspiring travel bloggers?
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Leave your comments below, would love to hear from you and what is on your bucket list?


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The developer of the proposed Giant gas station at the intersection of Highways 69 and 169 in Dewey will make a presentation on traffic plans for the intersection at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, in town council chambers, 2735 S. Highway 69, Suite 12, Humboldt.
Developer Rod Sheehan and his team of traffic engineers will speak about the proposals for ingress and egress at the gas station and answer questions. The mayor and council members also will be present. However, representatives from the Arizona Department of Transportation are not expected, according to Town Manager Tom Wilson.
The Arizona Department of Transportation planned lane closures this week have been delayed, according to a late Monday news release.
The plan was for lane closures on north- and southbound Highway 89 between East Road 1 South (milepost 327) and East Road 4 North (milepost 330) for pavement repair.
Crack-seal work was scheduled to occur Tuesday through Thursday, Feb. 27-March 1, with no Friday or weekend work is planned, according to a news release.
However, because of pending winter weather expected this week, especially Tuesday, ADOT has delayed the project.
"(ADOT) advises drivers that due to the weather forecast for the coming week, the planned lane closures on north- and southbound State Route 89 between E Road 1 S (milepost 327) and E Road 4 N (milepost 330) for pavement repair have been postponed."
ADOT did not indicate its new schedule.
For more information, call the ADOT Project Information Line at 855-712-8530 or email Projects@azdot.gov. For real-time highway conditions statewide, visit ADOT's Traveler Information Site at www.az511.gov, follow ADOT on Twitter (@ArizonaDOT) or call 511, except when driving.


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Norwegian payment app Vipps has struck an alliance with payments firm Nets to facilitate invoice and bill payments in the country.
eFaktura, the e-invoicing solution of Danish firm Nets, will now be available across the Vipps platform.
eFaktura distributes around 100 million invoices annually. Nearly 2.6 million customers use it in Norway.
The tie-up will support payments of digital invoices and bills in Vipps or through online and mobile banking.
Vipps CEO Rune Garborg said: "We believe that this agreement will contribute to digitising all paper and email-based invoices in Norway.
On the bright side, banks, corporates and suppliers will not require system upgrades for gaining access to the new solution.
Nets Norway country director Frode Åsheim said: "Combining Vipps and eFaktura will empower digital consumers by providing them with an overview of their finances.
Åsheim said that around 180 million invoices are being delivered on paper or PDF on a yearly basis.
Nets has been in the limelight since the start of this year for its consolidation activity.
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Golf CommercialsMarch 31, 2016
Bubba Watson goes shirtless for some reason to promote his new sock deal
There's a scene from a Seinfeld episode in which Jerry is dating a model and she shows him an ad in which she's coming out of the shower covered only in a washcloth. "What's this an ad for?" he asks. She replies: "See those wrinkled jeans slung over the chair? Way in the background, out of focus?"
That's kind of the way we feel about the new ad campaign for Stance Socks that features Bubba Watson. It's tough to notice the socks when, well, see for yourself. . .
We'll say this for Bubba, he's not shy. And the #sweatervest hashtag is classic.
On Thursday, Stance announced the addition of Watson to its roster of Punks & Poets. You could make a case that Bubba bridges both categories with the rap verse he laid down as a guest artist last year. And this isn't the first time he's showed off his impressive(?) chest hair. Who could forget those Golf Boys videos?
Of course, there's more to the ad than the two-time Masters champ doing some manscaping. Here it is in full, depicting a young Watson getting hooked on golf, forgetting about his dreams of becoming an astronaut, and using a sock to wife BBQ sauce off his face.
"Mamma we made it!" Watson says at the end. Yes, you did, Bubba. Just not into space.

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Like many Australian doctors worried about soaring rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, Dr Sandro Demaio, star of the ABC's Ask the Doctor knows that the single most effective thing we can do as individuals to improve our health is to improve our diet. He also knows that many of us are confused by what this means.
His first book, The Doctor's Diet, cuts through the noise of conflicting dietary information and presents a simple, affordable and delicious way of eating that is accessible to every Australian. Drawing on his Italian heritage, his medical training and knowledge as an international expert on obesity, he explains that the best diet is one based on unprocessed ingredients, simply and easily prepared. The book features 120 recipes, eating plans, and clever tips for making sure that preparing and eating good food is the most pleasurable way possible of getting well and staying healthy.


February 28, 2019. DoE/NETL select eight projects for funding.
October 2018. DOE/NETL Conference Proceedings Available Online.
Proceedings from the "2018 Mastering the Subsurface Through Technology Innovation, Partnerships, and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting," held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA), on August 13-16, 2018, are available online. Included are posters and presentations from the meeting.
03 October 2018: Fluor to test capture technology at Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM). Read more here.
28 August 2018: DOE Invests to Advance Associated Geologic Storage.
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected two projects to receive federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D). Selected under Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001829, "Developing Technologies for Advancement of Associated Geologic Storage in Basinal Geo-Laboratories," the projects will address technical research needs and key challenges in advancing associated geologic storage in support of DOE's Carbon Storage Program. In addition, the projects will support the development of best practices for commercial implementation of carbon storage technologies. From energy.gov on August 28, 2018.
Fall 2018: The Norway Full Scale CCS Project.
10 September 2018. Permission to develop storage site for the Norwegian Full Scale CCS project.
Equinor, Shell and Total submitted application to develop a storage site for the Norwegian Full Scale Project. The project, called Northern Light, will start with concept FEED studies. Permission to develop the site is expected by the end of 2018, see the press release for more information.
The Fortum Oslo Varme Klemetsrud (FOV) waste to energy plant i joins the Norcem cement plant in Brevik in the Norwegian Full Scale CCS Project. 15 May 2018 The Norwegian Government proposed to fund FEED studies (Front End Engineering and Design studies) with 80 million NOK in 2018. The total funding for the demonstration project in 2018 amounts to 280 million NOK, including funds transferred from 2017. The proposed funds for 2018 will cover FEED studies of CO2 transport, storage and up to two capture facilities. However, funds were only granted to Norcem, a subsidiary of Heidelberg Cement, whereas The Fortum Oslo Varme's original project was deemed to have greater implementation risks related to, inter alia, the length of the pipeline, and public perception of having emissions of amines close to a city The cost estimates are also considerably higher, compared to the other two. However, updated information has now beed assessed, and the Government has offered FOV support for FEED.
Continued studies on CO2-capture at Yara's ammonia plant at Herøya in Porsgrunn has been not recommended. Yara's project has a smaller learning potential compared to the two others, and some uncertainties concerning the plant. Yara considers that it does not make sense industrially to continue the planning of their project.
For more, see MPE's press release here and here.
August 2018: Energy Department Invests $7M to Advance Associated Geological Storage.
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected five projects to receive approximately $10.7 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. More information here.
25 - 28 september 2017 the Mission Innovation CCUS Challenge organised a workshop with international experts to discuss basic research and development (R&D) needs in CO2 capture, CO2 utilization, geologic storage, and cross-cutting CCUS topics. The experts agreed on the most critical scientific challenges associated with CCUS, and they established a set of Priority Research Directions (PRDs). The objective of the PRDs is to inspire research that has the potential to make a significant impact on CCUS technology performance. The report includes 30 PRDs to guide future CCUS R&D and is available here.
- Membrane-Sorbent Hybrid System for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture – TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, CO).
3 December 2017. Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) launches new Technology Roadmap (TRM) and Task Force report on Offshore CO2-EOR.
CSLF has launched the 2017 version of their Technology Roadmap. The new TRM includes for the first time quantitative targets, based on the 2 degree scenario (2DS) of the IEA Technology Perspectives 2017. It has also increased emphasis on CCS applied to industrial processes and the importance of clusters, hubs and infrastructure to bring the cost of CCS down.
CSLF also launched the report "Enabling Large-scale CCS using Offshore CO2 Utilization and Storage Infrastructure Developments", which gives status, examples, introduction of emerging technologies, monitoring, regulations review, and recommendations related to offshore CO2-EOR.
7 November 2017: The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy (FE) awards $8 million to assess offshore geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) and technology development in the Gulf of Mexico.
The new projects, operated by Southeast Regional Carbon Storage Partnership: Offshore Gulf of Mexico, and Offshore Gulf of Mexico Partnership for Carbon Storage—Resources and Technology Development—The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX), will focus on assembling the knowledge base required for secure, long-term, large-scale CO2 storage, with or without enhanced hydrocarbon recovery, and assessing technology-development needs (infrastructure, operational, monitoring), which differ from those onshore.
1 November 2017. Two ISO standards on CCS launch in Norway.
The International Organisation for Standards (ISO) has recently published its first two standards in a series of CCS standards. The Norwegian launch took place at the Petroleum Directorate 1 November 2017. The two standards, ISO 27913:2016 Carbon dioxide capture, transportation and geological storage - Pipeline transportation systems, and ISO 27914:2017 Carbon dioxide capture, transportation and geological storage - Geological storage, are available for sale from ISO website.
27 October 2017: Two new storage projects selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy.
More about the project awards here.
Ambitious plans for CCS in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the run up to COP23.
The conference proceedings DOE NETL conferences 2017.
1) The conference proceedings the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2017 CO2 Capture Technology Project Review Meeting are now available here.
Researchers representing more than 50 of the active projects in the Carbon Capture Program's project portfolio gave presentations covering their research and development (R&D) work in advanced solvents, sorbents, membranes, and CO2 compression for post- and pre-combustion projects that range from laboratory scale to large pilot-scale applications. An extensive session on CO2 reuse provided updates on 10 projects in this area, while presentations about Systems Studies and Modeling provided attendees with updates on CO2 capture-related systems analysis activities. Presentations also provided insight into carbon capture projects and technology development in Norway (CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad) and Australia; a global perspective on the status of carbon capture by the International Energy Agency, as well as an update on the International Test Center Network.
2) The conference proceedings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2017 Mastering the Subsurface through Technology Innovation, Partnerships and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting are now available here.
THE CO2 STORAGE DATA CONSORTIUM (CSDC) invites scientists and organisations holding CO2 storage data or otherwise active in CO2 storage to make contact. The CSDC is a new international network aimed at promoting data sharing from pioneering CO2 storage projects in order to accelerate innovation and deployment of CCS. The initiative was launched during GHGT-13 and the aim of the event was to explain the objectives of CSDC and to gain feedback from potential participants. CSDC was also presented at the US-Norway bilateral side event following the CLIMIT Summit in Oslo, Norway March 8, 2017. The CSDC Secretariat can be contacted at <grethe.tangen@sintef.no>.
8 MARCH 2017. SUCCESSFUL SIDE EVENT AT THE CLIMIT SUMMIT IN OSLO. The CLIMIT Summit in Oslo 7 - 8 march 2017 was followed by a side event where researchers from USA and Norway presented present and potential future collaboration within CCUS. For more, take a look at the summary and presentations.


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Raccoons are commonly pictured as animals with long legs and a grimace on their faces. While raccoons are bottom-heavy and stocky, raccoons can also be charming and friendly if appropriately treated. These cool facts about Raccoons will keep your kid interested in the animals and turn them into cute little explorers.
It is essential to introduce your child to different creatures of nature. This way, they can learn when and how to protect themselves while learning more about their surroundings and nature. Here are some interesting facts about Raccoons that are sure to make your child more interested in them.
1. How are raccoons identified, and what are their habitats?
Procyon lotor is the scientific name for this medium-sized carnivore that is only found in North America. The North American raccoon (Procyonidae) is sometimes known as the common raccoon. These bear siblings are roughly the size of a small dog. The pygmy (dwarf) raccoon appears to be the only invasive species among the seven species of raccoons.
Raccoons are native to North and South America and can be found in both continents' woodlands. One can find these unusual animals in Europe, Japan, and Asia. Raccoons prefer evergreen forests near water. Because of their versatility, they now live in mountains, agricultural areas, suburbs, cities, and coastal wetlands. Raccoons build dens in trees or caverns in the open. And while on the food search, they prefer to stay within a mile of their homes. You can also find these mammals in rusted cars, basements, and other artificial constructions.
2. What kind of appearance do Raccoons have?
Raccoons are fluffy, dog-sized creatures with glossy black hair concealing their eyes. They may seem pleasant and soft, yet when confronted, they may be aggressive.
Raccoons have a black covering over their eyes and bushy tails with four to ten blackish rings.
The tailed rings are thicker and more profound than the body fur, and the face mask is thicker than the body hair.
Raccoons come in various colors, including light blond, deep black, brownish, and reddish.
Their snouts are razor-sharp and gleaming black.
Raccoons range from 40 to 70 cm in height and from 12 to 35 pounds in weight. Cold-climate raccoons are more extensive and thicker.
Raccoons have five toes and fingers and use their paws to gather food, open garbage cans, and find abandoned vehicles and shells.
3. What do Raccoons consume?
Raccoons are carnivores that consume both plant and animal sources of nutrition. Their primary food sources are birds, rodents, eggs, frogs; fruits and vegetables; reeds, barks, nectar; acorns; and chestnut nuts. They also eat insects and other small animals. Melons, hazelnuts, apricots, and figs are among the different fruits and vegetables that are popular. Raccoons frequently consume trash and other foodstuffs that are readily available in urban areas.
4. Can Raccoons swim and climb?
Yes, raccoons are adept climbers with fast reflexes. These animals can also fall 35 feet from a tree with ease. Raccoons can also swim 5 km per hour, which is why they are so skilled at it. To avoid risk, they seldom swim in deeper water. Raccoons have a shuffle-like stride yet may achieve speeds of up to 15 miles per hour. They can sprint and jump as well.
5. Which diseases are the most prevalent among raccoons?
Bacterial pathogen illnesses in raccoons are possible. Their bites or excrement have the potential to transmit bacteria and other microbiological diseases to humans and animals. Raccoons may spread the following conditions to people's pets:
Worms found in their feces.
6. Raccoons breed in what ways and when?
Adult raccoons breed from January to June, depending on the temperature and weather, when the male animals hunt for female companions. In April or May, the mother raccoon gives birth to 3 to 4 baby raccoons. During the 63-day gestation phase, male raccoons play no part. If a woman is unable to conceive, her fertility will usually return after 80-140 days.
7. What Happens to Raccoon Offsprings?
As per the baby Raccoon facts, they are born in the early summer. Male raccoons do not help raise the offspring; only females do. Mothers look after and raise their children. Cubs have no tail rings or eye covers. The cubs' ocular and auditory canals are closed from birth. Therefore they are blind or deaf. The channels will open after 18–24 days, allowing them to see and hear it.
When cubs are 4 or 6 weeks old, they can stand on their own. Burrows is where babies spend their first two months of life. They begin to separate from their moms around the age of six months. Within a year, they will be completely self-sufficient.
8. How can you determine if raccoons are carriers of Rabies?
A raccoon is capable of spreading diseases such as Rabies and infecting humans as well as animals. A raccoon infected with the disease will exhibit several characteristics. Intense salivation or drooling, unusual vocalizations, or a snarling demeanor are all signs of a psychotic episode. You should contact your local animal control as soon as possible if you believe you have come across a raccoon infected with Rabies.
9. Who Are the Raccoon Predators?
Cougars, alligators, foxes, coyotes, bobcats, alligators, and black bears are the raccoon's natural enemies. Unfortunately, humans are to blame for the vast majority of raccoon deaths in the United States.
10. How handy are the front paws of a Raccoon?
Yes, raccoons' frontal claws are pretty helpful for a variety of jobs. Their claws are shaped like human hands. Raccoons utilize their frontal legs to catch fish quickly in water. They can also remove bootlaces, and open cage locks with their paws. Footprints of raccoons can also be seen. If you detect human-like leg outlines, you're looking at raccoons in the area. Raccoons prefer to forage near bodies of water. Hence paw prints around bodies of water are abundant.
11. Raccoons are maintained as pets by some people. Is it true?
Although many raccoons are wild, some people prefer to breed them. Adult raccoons are aggressive and dangerous to humans, while young raccoons are loving and adorable. They develop into unstable and aggressive adults. They may assault individuals as they grow, making tolerance and obedience challenging to teach.
12. Raccoons: Are they intelligent or stupid animals?
Raccoons are nocturnal, clever animals. They use their excellent sense of smell and fast movements to hunt for food. Raccoons have one of the best senses, the olfactory sense, which allows them to discover food in any situation. They are nocturnal hunters of rodents, birds, rabbits, squirrels, bats, and other animals. Many ecologists have found that female raccoons prefer to feed on their young after they have matured, whereas male raccoons are opportunistic predators who feed on whatever is available.
13. How is raccoon conservation carried out?
According to the IUCN study, the pygmy raccoon is the only invasive species. There are only around 250 adult pygmy raccoons in the forests. Other kinds are not on the verge of extinction.
14. Raccoon life expectancy: How long do raccoons live?
The life expectancy of a feral raccoon is believed to be 2 – 3 years. Due to hunting and car accidents, wild animals have a very short lifespan. Nonetheless, some raccoons may live for 10 to 16 years in dense forests. Captive raccoons may live up to 21 years longer than wild raccoons.
15. Are Raccoons noisy animals?
Raccoons do make a range of unique sounds. They produce a range of sounds, including hissing and growling. They also continue to whistle and snort, among other things.
There are several intriguing and weird raccoon facts that you should be aware of. Some of these facts may be useful, while others may be enjoyable for youngsters to learn about.
Raccoons have been around for over 40,000 years.
The raccoons' northern journey was made feasible by their ability to adapt to new environments. They may now be found as far north as Alaska!
Raccoons are well-suited for city living settings since they are small, have sensitive hands, and eat almost everything.
Raccoons like the hustle and bustle of city life! Raccoon populations in cities have grown by a factor of 20 during the past seven decades.
Toronto is recognized as the "Raccoon Capital of the World." There are 50 times more raccoons in one location than in the surrounding terrain.
Raccoon paws have a network of neurons that operate similarly to taste receptors, conveying sensory information.
Raccoons may use up to 20 different den sites simultaneously, ranging from sheds to sewers.
Raccoon territories in the city are about three square blocks in size. They prefer to play in their backyards rather than at playgrounds.
The word 'raccoon' is derived from the Native American phrase 'Arakum,' which means 'one who scrapes with their hands.'
A nursery, sometimes known as a stare, is a gathering of raccoons.
Male raccoons are referred to as boars, while females are referred to as Sows.
Raccoons are much more intelligent than cats.
Some of the above-mentioned interesting information about Raccoons include recognizing raccoons, what they eat, and how dangerous they can be if disturbed. After you've learned all about Raccoons, you may want to start raccoon-watching, so you know where to look for them!
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Running is a dark, breathtaking novel of love, friendship, and survival set in Athens' red light district in the late 1980s, following the lives of three friends and lovers: queer English poet Milo Rollack, Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe, and seventeen-year-old Bridey Sullivan, an American with a fascination for fire. The three meet working as runners: they ride trains looking for tourists to lure back to the four-dollar-a-night Hotel Olympos and, in exchange, stay for free on the hotel's condemned top floor and get a few drachmas which they immediately spend at the bar around the corner. Cara Hoffman began writing Running over twenty-five years ago when she was working as a runner herself. Taking notes on the backs of beer labels and carrying them in her pockets through years of travel; she has captured a time pre-Internet, a time simply not available to us anymore. Set at a time when it was still possible to be alone in the world—still possible for a person to go truly off the grid—Running is a deeply romantic, deeply transgressive story and the emotion and experiences Hoffman lived pulse through the pages of this stunning, incendiary novel. "Running is like taking a trip into a story you never knew you needed— and you should take it, at once," says Alexander Chee. Cara Hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed novels So Much Pretty and Be Safe I Love You. She has written for the New York Times, Marie Claire, Salon, and National Public Radio, and is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including a Folio Prize nomination, and a Sundance Institute Global Filmmaking Award.
Feminism has long been seen as the fight to join, outlined by various stances and acceptable behaviors. From having the right kind of slogan on a jacket to boycotting the right businesses, women and men everywhere have been pushing for equality, but the notoriously outspoken critic Jessa Crispin challenges this current form of the feminist movement. The time has come to revolutionize the battle for equality and to challenge the polite, shallow form of the movement that has taken over.
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To celebrate its launch in paperback, Kaitlyn Greenidge and Bill Cheng (Southern Cross the Dog) will discuss Greenidge's We Love You, Charlie Freeman, finalist for 2016 First Novel Prize.
The Freeman family—Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie—have been invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans were selected for the experiment because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and welcome him as a member of their family.
Set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland, Lisa Carey's luminous new novel explores themes of regret and desire, myth, and the universal need to connect.
St. Brigid's Island is a secluded community off the west coast of Ireland; a world steeped in tradition, ripe with familial love and deceit, and brimming with magic. This is the atmospheric and enchanted setting for The Stolen Child, by award-winning author Lisa Carey. Set in 1959, the story follows twenty-three year old twins, Rose and Emer, who, though they are married to brothers, could not be more different. Rose, fulfilled by her position as a wife and mother, embraces island life and is adored within the community. The caustic Emer, trapped in a loveless marriage, is cursed with hands that harm those she touches. Though curt with everyone except her beloved son, Niall, Emer craves the warmth her sister attracts.
When Brigid, a striking American stranger with her own mystical power, arrives to reclaim her deceased uncle's abandoned cottage, the sheltered community is suspicious of her motives. Initially ostracized for her differences by everyone but Emer, Brigid sparks a friendship with this prickly woman. Their relationship secretly deepens into a heated and tumultuous love affair, threatened by the fear of discovery, wounds from the past, and clashing desires. Filled with the imaginativeness of The Snow Child and the sensuality of The Paying Guests, The Stolen Child is as unusual as it is evocative.
The supernatural imbues every page of the story—St. Brigid's Island itself becomes a character: beautiful but changeable, bright sunshine one moment and lashing rain the next, a safe haven for its inhabitants but also their prison. As winter approaches and the community hunkers down, largely trapped on the island until the sea calms in the spring, the uncanny begins to happen. A deadly storm appears out of nowhere. Brigid, infertile since a hysterectomy, becomes pregnant. Someone—or something—else seems to peer through Niall's eyes. Emer grows frantic, sensing a growing threat to her son's life. The fantastic events culminate in one shocking night that will change the island, and its inhabitants, forever.
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Kevin Smokler is a writer, performer and public speaker based in San Francisco. He writes about culture and technology, tells stories onstage and likes people a lot. He's the author of Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven't Touched Since High School and Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies.
Virginia Heffernan is an American journalist and cultural critic. She has worked as a staff writer for The New York Times — first as a TV critic, then as a magazine columnist, and then as an opinion writer. She is the author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art.
When we think of the most influential interpreters of the human psyche, Hermann Rorschach may not be among the first that comes to mind. With The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing, distinguished translator and essayist Damion Searls sets out to change that. In this first-ever biography of both the Rorschach test, or inkblot test, and the man who created it, Searls documents Rorschach's groundbreaking contributions to modern psychology as well as the surprising — and deeply enduring — afterlife of his work, as the inkblots spread out of the clinic and into our cultural imagination. Searls is joined by psychology and culture writer Maria Konnikova for a conversation about the twentieth century's most visionary synthesis of art and science.


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Why was cotton so important in north west England?
About these places: All across the north west of England there are buildings and transport systems that were built as a result of the industrialisation brought about by the expanding textile trades and the import and export of commodities as part of the transatlantic slave trade.
Manchester warehouses
Manchester Town Hall
Remembering Slavery at The Museum of…
Cotton Mills, Ancoats, Manchester
Cotton Bud Fountain, St Ann's Square…


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Much has been made about President Donald Trump's recent comments condemning immigrant alleged gang members as "animals." As many rebuked the President's comments as dangerous when thought to be directed at the immigrant community more broadly, there's been debate as to whether it was an appropriate way to describe gang members, MS-13 in particular.
As community advocates who work with youth that authorities declare to be gang members, we know Trump isn't alone in dehumanizing poor people of color. Police and prosecutors have long carried out that mission. Strategies such as the NYPD's so-called "precision policing" purport to tackle crime under the banner of fighting gangs. These tactics will not make us safer and have done more damage to poor communities of color in the city than anything Trump has done.
After Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy was killed by two young men in the fourth floor hallway of her building in West Harlem's Grant Houses in 2011, law enforcement officials pointed to her death as a watershed moment for the public housing development's decades-long feud with nearby Manhattanville Houses. Following a military-like gang raid on the morning of June 4th in 2014 – the biggest in the city's history at that time – city officials, including Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, used her death to justify the operation. Vance and police produced 103 indictments, mostly of young Black and Hispanic public-housing residents.
What was hardly mentioned was that the community had been asking for help for years or that activists had been trying to diffuse the conflict between young people. While activists worked with few resources to bring together both sides onto neutral ground to make peace on multiple occasions, law-enforcement officials surveilled them and built complex conspiracy indictments.
They chose to largely watch the conflict play out. During the trial of Tayshana's killers, one officer assigned to the NYPD's Viper camera room even admitted that he watched as her killers flaunted a weapon to a group of residents before killing her – but did nothing to stop them.
Tayshana's brother, Taylonn Jr., was one of those indicted as a result of the 2014 raids. Already on Rikers Island for unrelated charges, he was re-indicted by Vance's office. Taylonn Jr. spent more than half of nearly three years in jail in solitary confinement and was one of few who risked going to trial, during which his father was helping to implement the 696 Build Queensbridge anti-violence program.
In 2016 he was convicted on murder and conspiracy charges despite lack of a murder weapon or any physical evidence. He's currently serving a sentence of 50 years to life.
Our line of work takes place in neighborhoods that are affected by inter-generational neighborhood feuds and deeply-rooted police harassment alike. As part of the public health anti-violence work crucial to changing hearts and minds, we engage people who have an understanding of the community and are involved in conflicts. This work was celebrated by the city itself when the Queensbridge Houses went over a year without a shooting under the 696 Build Queensbridge program and by the mayor in reference to the historic drop in violent crimes in New York City.
These efforts represent a credible community-based alternative to gang sweeps and criminalization. However, the city's schizophrenic approach of rhetorically treating violence as a public-health issue but reverting to smashed-door raids and long prison sentences undermine that work. In fact, we know that raids and large-scale indictments are not only likely to unfairly net people minimally or not involved in serious violence, but also work against outreach efforts by creating a climate of fear and mistrust.
It's also important to note that public-housing residents are not the only ones under attack by the current regime of gang policing. Legal Aid represents immigrant youth who are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers facing deportation as a result of being labeled gang-involved not because of a criminal act or a previous arrest or conviction, but as a result of how they dressed, where they lived and whom they associated with.
Gang policing through database-building creates an overly-inclusive net over immigrant youth and their communities that ICE and the NYPD abuse without any current constitutional protections and with no oversight. Essentially, whoever the police and ICE deem as a gang member will be labeled as such and the fact that the vast majority of those facing that designation are Black and Latinx, including immigrant youth, is a crisis happening right in front of us.
When neither ICE nor the NYPD provides notice of this devastating gang label being affixed on the person, then one can be labelled gang-involved and be exposed to severe life-altering consequences without ever even knowing about it.
As with most matters, the NYPD is secretive about its gang policing database. Through the FOIL Yourself Campaign of the Legal Aid Society's Community Justice Unit we see how the NYPD stonewalls efforts towards transparency in order to maintain a veil of secrecy over its gang database. The campaign has facilitated hundreds of FOIL requests in which individual New Yorkers demand to know if they have been labeled as gang members. The police have denied 99.9 percent of those requests. Instead, the NYPD chooses to operate in the dark and doesn't even provide mechanisms to challenge inclusion into the gang database.
Trump talks the dehumanizing talk, but in their anti-gang crusade, police walk the walk. History repeats itself. Gang hysteria is no different than when the Central Park Five, youth, who spent years in prison for something they never did, were labeled savage youth who were "wilding" out of control. Trump stoked the fires back then but it was local police and prosecutors that carried out that injustice.
Communities are built on trust and lasting relationships among residents who care and look out for one another. Gang policing through secret gang databases is the exact opposite. There are proven, community-based alternatives to gang-policing that don't rely on labeling and incarceration. Unlike police officers, credible messengers are from the communities they work in so they have the trust and understanding of community dynamics capable of bringing two feuding sides to a truce.
Instead, in treating youth as guilty by association and lumping in them with terms like "savages" and "goons," the NYPD is treating them like animals, fodder for mass incarceration without real opportunities to transform.
Thanks so much, Mr. Murphy & Mr. Posada, for your work and for this piece. I heard you both speak on the Brian Lehrer Show earlier this week and was heartened both by the community work you are engaging in and the public discourse you are opening around the injustice of gang databases. I want to say that I was also dismayed to read/hear the metaphor to severe mental illness you used in making your point. I hear where you're coming from in using the descriptor "schizophrenic" to explain the contradictory methods used by the NYPD and the city at large to address the injustice of gang violence, but want to caution against such use.
I think it's important that we are more cautious about how and when we use words that describe mental illness because of the deep stigma attached to severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia. What does it say to connote a mental disorder with the violence and injustice of secret NYPD gang databases? How does this serve to solidify the experience of severe mental illness – "being crazy" – as a constant pejorative term in our communities?
Schizophrenia is a cognitive disorder that describes much more than a "confused" or "disjointed" way of thinking, it manifests in a variety of ways, often causing delusional and bizarre thought and/or speech, difficulty in maintaining social relationships, and deep paranoia. In this way, schizophrenia as a mental illness is often understood by the larger public incorrectly; it does not simply mean being nonsensical, and probably shouldn't be used to describe something just because that thing is deeply confusing.
Our public discourse also sadly, and incorrectly, links the experience of severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia to the perpetration of violence. Despite the fact that both data and lived experience show us that folks who deal with schizophrenia are actually more likely to be the victims of violence than the arbiters of it, this belief lives on and effects how the police and the public interact with those who experience mental illness (or those who are perceived to experience it). I worry that even using the descriptor "schizophrenic" in a piece that deals with police violence encourages what was probably an unintended connection between mental illness and violence from your points of view.
As a New Yorker and a social worker, I feel really strongly that our public discourse needs to be more thoughtful about language regarding mental illness. It's worth thinking about for so many reasons, perhaps most pressingly given that both of your work deals with trauma and violence, two major risk factors in the development and onset of mental illnesses like schizophrenia.
Thanks in advance for considering, I'd be happy to continue to dialogue!
Thank you so much for shedding light. Our youth cannot flourish with this form of harassment. My son's business has been hampered he is 0ne of the best in the pharmaceutical trade .
After a video emerged showing a violent arrest, officials rushed to free Jazmine Headley from jail. But why was she behind bars before anyone had a chance to investigate the charges that put her there?
CityViews: Yes, Fare Evasion Costs the MTA. But What About the Costs of Fare Control?
Last year's huge takedown of 120 alleged members made headlines. But as some cases head to trial, there are questions about the basis for charges of mass conspiracy–and the prosecution's evidence is shrouded in secrecy.


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The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1939 American gothic mystery film based on the 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Directed by Sidney Lanfield, the film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson. Released by 20th Century Fox, it is the first of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films produced between 1939 and 1946 starring Rathbone and Bruce.

It is among the most well-known cinematic adaptations of the novel, and is often regarded as one of the best. It co-stars Richard Greene as Henry Baskerville (who received top billing, as the studio was unsure of the potential of a film about Sherlock Holmes) and Wendy Barrie as Beryl Stapleton.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is notable as the earliest known Sherlock Holmes film to be set in the Victorian period of the original stories. All known previous Holmes films, up to and including the 1930s British film series starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes, had been updated to a setting contemporaneous with the films' release.

Plot
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson receive a visit from Dr. James Mortimer, who wishes to consult them before the arrival of Sir Henry Baskerville, the last of the Baskervilles, heir to the Baskerville estate in Devonshire.

Dr Mortimer is anxious about letting Sir Henry go to Baskerville Hall, owing to a supposed family curse. He tells Holmes and Watson the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, a demonic dog that first killed Sir Hugo Baskerville several hundred years ago (seen in flashback) and is believed to kill all Baskervilles in the region of Devonshire.

Holmes dismisses it as a fairy-tale, but Mortimer narrates the events of the recent death of his best friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, Sir Henry's uncle. Although he was found dead in his garden without any trace of physical damage, Sir Charles's face was distorted as if he died in utter terror, from heart failure. He alone had noticed footprints at some distance from the body when it was found; they were the paw marks of a gigantic hound.

Holmes decides to send Watson to Baskerville Hall along with Sir Henry, claiming that he is too busy to accompany them himself. Sir Henry quickly develops a romantic interest in Beryl Stapleton, the step-sister of his neighbour Jack Stapleton, a local naturalist. Meanwhile, a homicidal maniac named Selden, escaped from Dartmoor Prison, lurks on the moor.

Holmes eventually makes an appearance, having been hiding in the vicinity for some time making his own investigation. Watson and Sir Henry attend a seance held by Mrs. Mortimer. In a trance, she asks, "What happened that night on the moor, Sir Charles?". The only reply is a lone howl, possibly from a hound. After some clever deception by Holmes, he surmises that the true criminal is Stapleton, a long-lost cousin of the Baskervilles, who hopes to claim their vast fortune himself after removing all other members of the bloodline.

Stapleton kept a huge, half-starved, vicious dog trained to attack individual members of the Baskervilles after prolonged exposure to their scent. However, when the hound is finally sent to kill Sir Henry Baskerville, Holmes and Watson arrive to save him just in time. They kill the hound. Stapleton then traps Holmes down in the hound's underground kennel, and  sends Watson into the moor to meet Holmes. Holmes cuts his way out of the kennel and returns to the house and destroys the poison that Stapleton had just given to the wounded Baskerville. Stapleton pulls a gun and flees. Holmes says ominously, "He won't get very far. I've posted constables along the roads and the only other way is across the Grimpen Mire."

Holmes is praised for his work on the case, and he turns in.

Cast
 Richard Greene as Sir Henry Baskerville
 Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
 Wendy Barrie as Beryl Stapleton
 Nigel Bruce as Dr John H. Watson
 Lionel Atwill as Dr James Mortimer
 John Carradine as Barryman, butler
 Morton Lowry as John (Jack) Stapleton
 Eily Malyon as Mrs Barryman
 Barlowe Borland as Frankland
 Beryl Mercer as Mrs Jenifer Mortimer
 Ralph Forbes as Sir Hugo Baskerville (in flashback sequence)
 E. E. Clive as Cabby in London
 Lionel Pape as Coroner
 Nigel De Brulier as Convict (as Nigel de Brulier)
 Mary Gordon as Mrs Hudson
 Ian Maclaren as Sir Charles

Reception
In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin described the film as an "excellent film version of the novel." noting that the film's elements "sustain the suspense until the exciting climax," and that "the atmosphere is extremely well contrived". Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were praised for their roles, while "only Wendy Barrie seems lifeless as Beryl in a cast which is uniformly good."

Awards and honors
American Film Institute recognition
 2001 - AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills - Nominated
 2003 - AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains:
 Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - Nominated Heroes
 2008 - AFI's 10 Top 10 - Nominated Mystery Film

References

External links

Films based on The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 films
1930s historical films
1930s mystery films
American detective films
American historical films
American mystery films
1930s English-language films
American black-and-white films
20th Century Fox films
Films directed by Sidney Lanfield
Films scored by David Raksin
Films set in the 1880s
Films set in London
Sherlock Holmes films
1930s American films
Historical mystery films

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Why Mourinho must hold onto David Luiz
Date:15th August 2013 at 11:23am
In an interview with BT Sport Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho reaffirmed the club's stance on David Luiz and said that the Brazilian won't be leaving Stamford Bridge.
This comes shortly after freelance sports writer Duncan Castles claimed that the West London club had indeed put a price-tag on the defender and it was up to Barcelona to meet it if they are serious about prising Luiz away from Stamford Bridge.
Mourinho had already stated that there was no chance of Luiz leaving during the US tour, but has rubbished the rumours once again.
The Portuguese manager told BT Sport:
"No chance he is going to leave. He is a player we want to keep. He is a player with four years (on his) contract, he just signed a contract last year.
"We like him. He is an important player and the club is not ready to sell him for any price."
Mourinho also denied reports that the 26-year-old has asked if he could speak with the Catalan club, saying:
"I don't know if he said that. What I can say is that he is not going to.
"The last quotes I read were Luiz saying he is not speaking about clubs when he is with the national team, which is a fantastic quote that I appreciate. That is the last quote I have and it is an intelligent one."
(BT Sport)
Since arriving from Benfica in 2011 Luiz has been capable of both the sublime and the ridiculous, and he has come into a let of criticism from fans and pundits alike for his mad moments, but over the last season he was arguably the most improved player in the squad which deserves a lot of praise.
As it stands he's the best central defender we have. John Terry has been a rock for Chelsea over the years but all that time playing through injuries is creeping up on him and it's been difficult for the skipper to maintain a level of fitness over the past 18 months. Then there's Branislav Ivanovic, who is one of the unlikeliest goal poachers you've ever seen and isn't half bad in his own box either, but he gives away too many free-kicks in dangerous areas and as good a man-to-man marker he is, he just cannot defend the space in behind.
Gary Cahill represents are fourth-choice at centre back and he demonstrated all of his bad habits during the England v Scotland match last night. One of these days he's going to end up in Petr Cech's lap with his continuous backing off and it seems to take him a full minute to turn sometimes.
I'm sure that Mourinho can help give Terry a final hurrah as he enters the latter stages of his career and he'll probably be able to work on Ivanovic's faults, but he simply cannot afford to lose Luiz at this stage as he's the only guaranteed starter out of the lot and when he's used right he offers a lot going forward in that position with his passing range and natural technical ability.
Source: BT Sport


Microsoft has confirmed an issue with the latest update for Windows Defender for both Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. The update was released earlier this week and due to the issue, some Windows 10 systems with Secure Boot will no longer start.
The update can also cause issues with AppLocker, if it's activated it can block downloads in some cases reports MyCe. German Windows Expert Günter Born reports about the issue after some of his users alerted him about the problems.
Microsoft has confirmed the issues and provides workarounds that should solve both the AppLocker and SecureBoot problems. Besides the issues with this particular update, Born also reports that Microsoft had problems with its update servers after which users started to report about error messages when they tried to update.
The workarounds involve changing the allowed paths in Windows and disabling SecureBoot and require some manual typing. More information can be found on the Microsoft website.
Restart the device, and enter the BIOS.
Turn off Secure Boot, and then restart the device again.
Run sc query windefend to verify that the Windows Defender service is running.
Run sc qc windefend to verify that the Windows Defender binary no longer points to version 4.18.1901.7 .
Restart the device, re-enter the BIOS, and then turn on Secure Boot.
Windows updates screwing around again? Really, m$?
Defender is disabled for me cuz i use NOD32.
Your computer can't get infected if it doesn't boot.
This update has been annoying me for about a week now it does its thing asks for a restart and once it restarts it shows like there's no boot drive after power off it starts up again and repeats. It's fine because it's on my secondary computer and as long as I dont restart it works but at least I know how to fix it.
You computer can't get infected if it doesn't boot.
More work incoming... thank you, Microsoft.
I have disable all windows updates from the moment I installed and have never had an issue.
This is why I'm still on windows 7, it's just not worth the trouble to downgrade to a broken rolling release windows 10.
Are they trying to push their customers to other platforms? Servers depend on stability.
Finally Windows Defender detects Windows 10 as a virus and block it!
"Secure Boot will no longer start."
Like what? What group of people is affected?
I understand no one has a crystal ball, but will there ever be a time where MICROSOFT will die and us PC gamers can game without needing Windows 10 and dIrectx within my life time? I'm 34 by the way. I just really hate Microsoft.
Bill Gates is 63 y.o. And he really loves us the users.


This episode we're gonna be baaaaad! Jon, Murph, and Chad workshop how to make good bad guys. This episode was recorded on March 14, 2019.
The National Library of Australia recently approached Chaosium to ask if the company would donate Terror Australis to their collection, as part of the library's mission to collect resources "of national significance relating to Australia and the Australian people". So they sent a copy of the new edition plus the original version from 1987. The new edition is currently available in PDF, and it will be released in full color hardback later in March.
There are many more quality fan-made products available in the Miskatonic Repository. So go check 'em out.
A company called Just Crunch Games has released a new scenario for the rules-light system called The Cthulhu Hack. The scenario is called Valkyrie Nine, set in the late 21st Century on a lunar station. Valkyrie Nine is available in print (All Rolled Up) and PDF (DriveThruRPG).
Chaosium's Miskatonic University – The Restricted Collection game is out in the wild!
Modiphius Entertainment have released Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition versions of their Achtung! Cthulhu Investigator's and Keeper's Guides.
At the time of this recording, Oscar Rios will be launching An Inner Darkness Kickstarter at midnight, Eastern. A sneak peak of the Kickstarter video was posted on Facebook, and it looks amazing. If you're listening to this episode soon after it went live, you still have time to back this book.
2019 marks the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott's groundbreaking film, ALIEN! To celebrate, six short films set in the ALIEN universe are coming out from AlienUniverse.com . There were some public screenings at Emerald City Comic Con and C2E2, and the online releases of the films will be on IGN every Friday, starting on March 29th.
The Chemical Formulary – A series of books that contain the formulas for a wide variety of compounds and items; for example: solidified fuel, tracer ammunition, epoxies, adhesives, resins, gums, and waxes. The first three volumes of the 1933 work are on the internet archive.
Keepers might mine The Chemical Formulary for inspiration in scenarios where the investigators need to concoct their own chemical tool or chemical weapon. The formulas may also inspire Keepers to create their own Mythos Chemical Formulary.
Thank you again to Graham for sending in this fantastic Card Catalog idea. If you have an idea for a Card Catalog entry, please email us or post it in our forums.
Mr. Tyler is back again – Back in Black, one could say, with a look at The Black Paintings of weird Spanish painter Francisco Goya.
What is one of your favorite human villains in published scenarios? Why?
What's the best Mythos villain? Why?
What character traits make the best villain?
Using randomness websites above, generate a random character.
Discuss what the character wants.
Method 1: Roll a random monster from Malleus. Discuss how the character THINKS this entity/creature might help the character get what they want.
Method 2: Pick a random Mythos artifact that the character THINKS will help the character get what they want. (will have to figure out how to randomize that).


Ian has built his international reputation by adding that visual twist that makes a good idea great. Driven by his enthusiasm to create eye-catching work, Ian has developed an approach to filmmaking that combines his knowledge of the postproduction process and in-camera artistry. His work has brought him around the world to work with clients such as Audi, Chevrolet, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nike and the NBA.


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Marketing Genius
Insights from the most brilliant minds in real estate
Making the Leap with Lee Adkins
About real estate brokerages, real estate teams, Lee Adkins, entrepreneurship, Amplified Solutions
At its core, real estate is an entrepreneur's dream, and not just for investors or developers. Agents themselves enjoy incredible freedom to build their businesses as they see fit, facing bigger risks than most professions, but also greater potential rewards.
This is multiplication. If you can get five people doing the same business as you, then that's more money than you're making.
— Lee Adkins
Yet in an industry like real estate, making the leap from agent to leader presents unique challenges. Will you go independent, or join a franchise? Form a team, or start a new brokerage? Who will you hire, and in what roles? The diversity of business models out there shows that there's no right answer to any of these questions.
For Lee Adkins, however, one thing is clear: the key to building a great team or brokerage is understanding that you can't do it alone, nor should you.
After several years in production as a real estate agent, Lee gave up selling to manage a real estate team full time. Under Lee's guidance, the Atlanta Sold Sisters doubled their revenue in just two years. Today, with his consulting firm Amplified Solutions, Lee is helping real estate teams of all kinds guide both fledgling and established businesses into the next phase of their growth.
For Lee, the key to getting a business off the ground is understanding and embracing not just your strengths, but also your weaknesses. "I think the overarching premise is just kind of recognizing what you're good at, and accepting it," Lee told us. "People don't typically learn to be good at a lot of things. I think if you're a numbers guy, you're probably not going to just become a great marketer."
Other agents, reluctant to leave selling behind, struggle with the transition to a full-time management role. But clinging to production, Lee says, is often shortsighted. "This is multiplication," Lee told us. "If you can get five people doing the same business as you, then that's more money than you're making. You're at your ceiling."
Still, a great business doesn't need a lot of moving parts—in fact, Lee stresses, simpler is often better. One way to find out if your business is getting too complicated? Talk to an outsider. "I think we'd all be really smart to pull in a friend who's not in the business every now and then and try to give them our elevator pitch," Lee said.
Lee has helped various real estate teams establish the structure, culture, and strategies they need to break through to the next level. In this interview, Lee Adkins discusses the challenges and pitfalls of expanding your real estate business, and why being an entrepreneur doesn't have to mean reinventing the wheel.
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