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Kevin Love opens up on The Players Tribune, a Derek Jeter project that is working well
You've read some stinging criticisms of Derek Jeter in this space from time to time, all of them dealing with his disconnect when it comes to Miami Marlins fans being fed up with the team's constant teardowns.
I'll give Jeter credit, however, for recognizing that athletes often have a deeper story to tell but don't really trust anyone else in the telling of it.
FILE – In this Jan. 8, 2018, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers' Kevin Love watches from the bench in the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves in Minneapolis. Love disclosed in an essay for the Players' Tribune on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, that he suffered a panic attack on Nov. 5 in a home game against the Atlanta Hawks. He was briefly hospitalized at the Cleveland Clinic and the episode left him shaken. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
We're talking about The Players' Tribune, a website founded by Jeter in 2014 and expanded since then with videos and podcasts to augment the written content provided by sports celebrities.
The latest buzz created by this site is an essay written by Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love. He reveals that he had a panic attack during a game in November but at first wanted to keep that information from teammates for fear that they would consider him weak.
"Everyone is Going Through Something" is the title of the essay, and in it Love writes "No matter what our circumstances, we're all carrying around things that hurt — and they can hurt us if we keep them buried inside."
Would a player feel comfortable talking about private reflections and personal issues with a member of the traditional sports media?
Some have, like Ricky Williams, and with full knowledge that they might be misconstrued or ridiculed or marginalized. Toronto Raptors star DeMar DeRozan took all of those risks last month in an interview with the Toronto Star about his ongoing problems with depression.
For most, though, it figures that truly opening up to a reporter in the locker room is way outside the comfort zone.
If you only see that reporter ever now and again, how do you make a connection that is solid and believable? And if that reporter covers the team every day and strikes up something like a friendship with a player there, sooner or later he or she will wind up writing something that offends the athlete because it points out an error made to lose a ballgame or is perceived to be taking the wrong side in a contract negotiation with the team.
Honestly, if I had the blessing of athletic skills worthy of millions of dollars on the open market, it might just be easier to keep spouting clichés in interview settings. That's pretty much what Jeter did in the high-profile position of New York Yankees captain. He made no enemies that way and he tried, other than what happened on the field, to make no news.
Are these Players' Tribune essays ghost-written? Surely, in some cases, they are crafted and edited and packaged by people who are writers by profession. Since the athletes approve every presentation before it is published, however, this shouldn't bother anybody all that much. If it's a genuine expression of their feelings on a particular matter, they are saying what they want to say.
Not journalism in its strictest sense. More like journal writing, and then passing that journal around the room for anyone who is interested to read.
Jeter is a smart guy to figure all this out. We all need to know each other a little better, and any forum that makes that possible is a benefit.
[Jim Kelly astonished a Boca Raton crowd with his courageous story]
[Wade's return strikes every emotional touchstone for Heat fans]
Author Dave GeorgePosted on March 6, 2018 March 6, 2018 Categories Baseball, Basketball, Dave GeorgeTags Cleveland Cavaliers, Dave George, DeMar DeRozan, Derek Jeter, Kevin Love, Miami Marlins, New York Yankees, sports, sportsfront, The Players' Tribune, Toronto Raptors
Where was Derek Jeter 25 years ago when his new Marlins team was born?
The Miami Marlins are making a big PR effort during their current teardown mode to celebrate the franchise's 25th year with a special teal logo and with the promise of $4 seats and throwback uniforms during a special June 8-10 series against the San Diego Padres.
So what was Derek Jeter doing 25 years ago, and how strange would it have been to imagine him running the Marlins' show in 2018?
Miami Marlins owner Derek Jeter leaves Major League Baseball owners meetings at the Four Seasons Hotel, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Turns out The Captain was 19 years old and playing in North Carolina with the Greensboro Hornets of the Class-A South Atlantic League. Gary Denbo was his manager there, just as was when Jeter broke into pro ball with the Yankee's Gulf Coast League rookie team in Tampa.
The Marlins wouldn't have been on Jeter's mind back then. He only had eyes for Yankee Stadium and, as everybody knew, he would make it soon enough. Five times he won World Series titles with the Yankees and once, in 2000, he was the World Series MVP.
Crazy to think that his first try as a baseball executive would come with the Marlins, but the old ties are still strong. When Jeter traded away Giancarlo Stanton, Miami's homegrown star and the biggest slugger in the majors, it was to the Yankees.
Denbo is back in the picture, too, as Jeter's Director of Player Development and Scouting in Miami.
All those nostalgic connections to the old Marlins, 25 years in the making, actually seem a bit of a stretch these days than a continuation of something special. This is Jeter's life and these are Jeter's Marlins. Welcome to a new world of baseball in South Florida, starting all over again.
[There was a time when Miami Heat, gulp, played in NBA's Western Conference]
[Please, NFL, takes us back to the days when a catch was a catch]
[Eagles went from losers to champions in one year, but what about Miami?]
Author Dave GeorgePosted on February 8, 2018 February 8, 2018 Categories Baseball, Dave GeorgeTags Dave's Digital Domain, Derek Jeter, Gary Denbo, Giancarlo Stanton, Greensboro Hornets, Miami Marlins, New York Yankees, sports, sportsfront
Derek Jeter apparently missed the memo on how fed up Marlins fans are with fire sales
With Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton in the same lineup, every day will be Home Run Derby for the New York Yankees.
It's an excess of riches for Derek Jeter's old team. And his new one? An excess of prospects, building toward some grand plan that Jeter, part-owner and top baseball executive of the Miami Marlins, has thus far failed to articulate.
New Yankee Giancarlo Stanton answers questions during a press conference at the Major League Baseball winter meetings in Orlando, Fla., Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Willie J. Allen Jr.)
The optics are not good here, trading away the franchise's home-grown NL Most Valuable Player. Some of the worst ever, actually.
Even Jeffrey Loria, the owner everyone wanted to ride out of town on a rail, got off to a better start than this when he bought the Marlins from John Henry in 2002.
Forget for a moment that Loria basically had the team handed to him in an orchestrated deal that sold his floundering Montreal Expos to Major League Baseball first. Forget it because fans care far less about the financial underpinnings of any franchise than they do about the players they buy tickets to see.
In that respect Loria and his general manager, Larry Beinfest, got busy in a hurry on a set of transactions that were far more popular and beneficial to the team's roster than anything Jeter has done or will do over the next few years.
Tim Raines, a good clubhouse guy and a future Hall of Famer, instantly came aboard as a low-cost free agent at the end of his career. Everybody loved "Rock," whether he played a lot or not, so no harm there.
Next came a spring-training trade that sent Antonio Alfonseca, a flighty and overweight closer, to the Cubs in a package that got the Marlins an interesting young pitching prospect named Dontrelle Willis. The D-Train was on the verge of a breakout, from minor leaguer in 2002 to NL Rookie of the Year in 2003, so that worked, too. It was all part of a quiet rollout in which the Marlins improved from 76 wins to 79, with Loria making signs that he meant to compete for something.
In Loria's second season he shifted into a different gear altogether, trading away Charles Johnson and Preston Wilson in a deal that brought Juan Pierre, a great leadoff hitter, to the Marlins.
Next came the free-agent signing of catcher Ivan Rodriguez for $10 million, which was more than one-fifth of the team payroll at the time. Pudge, a future Hall of Famer, was exactly what the Marlins needed to get the most out of a staff of kid pitchers who themselves would go on to be stars.
In May Loria showed his impetuous side, firing manager Jeff Torborg and replacing him with the ancient Jack McKeon. Nobody knew quite what to make of that, and the sale of Kevin Millar to the Red Sox was a puzzler, too, but then came the moves that really proved Loria wanted to win the World Series as soon as possible.
In July the Marlins got a top closer, Ugueth Urbina, in a trade, and in August Jeff Conine, a Marlins favorite who was lost in an earlier Wayne Huizenga fire sale, returned to the team by trade as well. The pieces were then in place for a World Series upset of the Yankees, with a mix of veterans and young stars developed in what was then recognized as a strong farm system.
No matter what anybody thinks of Loria now, at least he came into this thing with the idea that the Marlins should strive to be the best and South Florida fans should know that.
So far, the only things this market knows about Jeter are bad. He won't care about winning for a while, it's clear. He believes there is time for a rebuild because he is new to this project. Poor guy. He doesn't realize that new projects are old news around here. Finished projects are what we crave.
I'm not telling you to love Jeffrey Loria. It seems, though, that he at least cared about first impressions as the owner of the Marlins.
Jeter figures he has already made his first impression, the only one he'll ever need to make, by being one of the greatest players in Yankees history. That was a different time in his life, though, and this job of empire-building, the one that even George Steinbrenner struggled to master, does not come so naturally to him.
[A dream night for Jakeem, but not without familiar frustrations]
[It's OK to start wondering if Tiger will return to Honda Classic]
[Before Richt was available, UM interviewed Schiano and Mullen]
Author Dave GeorgePosted on December 14, 2017 December 14, 2017 Categories Baseball, Dave GeorgeTags Aaron Judge, Dave's Digital Domain, Derek Jeter, Dontrelle Willis, Giancarlo Stanton, Jeff Conine, jeffrey loria, Juan Pierre, Larry Beinfest, Miami Marlins, MLB, New York Yankees, Pudge Rodriguez, sports, sportsfront, Tim Raines
Is it possible that Derek Jeter has rarely even seen the Marlins play a game?
Derek Jeter didn't say much in his introductory Miami Marlins press conference that we didn't already know, except for this strange tidbit.
Last Sunday's regular-season finale at Marlins Park was the first time since his high school days that Jeter has watched a baseball game from the stands or an executive suite or anywhere else but the dugout. That's what he said, anyway.
Derek Jeter at his first press conference as Miami Marlins chief executive on Oct. 3, 2017. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/TNS)
Fairly amazing, but it goes right along with an anecdote from Tom Verducci's book "The Yankee Years," in which Alex Rodriguez visits Derek's New York apartment and is stunned to learn that the Yankees captain did not have the MLB TV package.
"Derek will never watch a baseball game other than the one he's playing in," said Mike Borzello, the Yankees' former bullpen catcher.
Not a World Series game? Not a World Baseball Classic game? Not a Little League game? Nothing?
That's almost certainly an exaggeration, but the whole concept is just plain weird, especially for a guy who is running a major league baseball franchise now.
What would you think if Tom Cruise decided to produce a major-studio film and it was revealed that he had never watched a movie unless he starred in it.
What about a famous painter who announced that he had never set foot inside an art museum unless his own exhibit was being featured and he was being paid to be there?
Or a politician who said that he very rarely voted, and when he did it was only for himself.
It's a mixed signal at best when a person at the top of their industry fails to show the same high level of interest in its widespread trends and development as the average citizen does.
There are a lot of Jeter fans out there, and with good reason, but anyone would agree that any other baseball CEO who admitted he rarely watches the game would be looked at with a very skeptical eye.
This new era of Marlins ownership may turn out to be a whole different kind of adventure, with a famous boss that we still really don't know all that well, even after 20 years in the celebrity limelight.
[Dolphins needed Timmons back more than they needed to punish him]
[Wildest think about Giancarlo Stanton's big season is that he batted second]
[Get to know LB coach who is charged with patching Dolphins' sorest spot]
Author Dave GeorgePosted on October 4, 2017 October 4, 2017 Categories Baseball, Dave GeorgeTags Alex Rodriguez, Dave's Digital Domain, Derek Jeter, Miami Marlins, MLB, sports, sportsfront
Is there anything with this revocable waivers thing to worry about with Giancarlo Stanton?
I'm not enough of a seamhead to know everything there is to know about revocable waivers but if the Miami Marlins just ran Giancarlo Stanton through that process over the weekend and he went unclaimed, as reported by Yahoo Sports, it's time to dig in.
As explained by the MLB Daily Dish website, "In August, tons of players throughout the league are placed on revocable trade waivers, in many cases for clubs to gauge value of their players and in some rare cases, because clubs are actually interested in making waiver-wire deals."
MIAMI – Giancarlo Stanton breaks the Miami Marlins' season home run record as he hits his 43rd of the season against the San Francisco Giants on Monday night. (Patrick Farrell/Miami Herald/TNS)
My interpretation: Generally speaking it's no big deal for a player to be placed on revocable waivers in August. Happens all the time. This, however, makes Stanton eligible to be traded to any team now, and since the Bruce Sherman/Derek Jeter group just signed an agreement to purchase the team from Jeffrey Loria, you have to assume that Jeter is the one who wants to discover all the possibilities.
Stanton is owed $295 million between 2018 and 2027. Surely Jeter's group and Loria talked about that during negotiations to buy the team at the reported price of $1.2 billion. The franchise and its new owners can either build around Stanton or start a new long-range plan with greater freedom to spread money in other directions.
Stanton's on a career-best roll, too, with an all-time high trade value. Going into Tuesday night's game against the Giants, he had homered in five consecutive games, setting a franchise season record of 43 in the process. In August alone Stanton has 10 homers, more than three teams (the Phillies, Pirates and Rays) have managed to pile up. He also went into Tuesday's action with 22 homers in the space of 34 games, a pace that hasn't been seen since Shawn Green of the Dodgers matched it in 2002.
Now, about the "revocable" part of the waivers process, which Stanton reportedly cleared on Sunday.
Other teams have 48 hours to make a claim on a player who has been placed on revocable waivers. The teams at the bottom of the standings get first priority if there are multiple claims.
At this point, a trade can be worked out, or the original team may pull the player back off waivers and everything returns to normal.
Or, as explained by MLB Daily Dish, "the team can simply award the player to the priority claiming team, with the claiming team taking on the rest of the player's contract and immediately acquiring him."
My interpretation: If some other team was willing to take Stanton's contract or any significant chunk of it off the Marlins' books, it would have been tempting for Jeter to approve that. Sounds like a horrible PR move for the new group, of course, in terms of dumping the Marlins' best player in the midst of an incredible home-run barrage, but Loria still owns the team and fans are already inclined to blame him for everything.
Either way, since Stanton was not claimed, the new ownership group has a better idea of which teams are interested enough, and wealthy enough, to make a call and seriously discuss the situation when it comes to Miami's young superstar.
[Pahokee's Anquan Boldin will have a strong influence on Buffalo Bills]
[Two places in America where there is nothing but love for Jay Cutler]
[Any legendary story you hear about Vince Wilfork is probably true]
The Detroit Tigers just went on a fact-finding mission with second baseman Ian Kinsler, who was placed on revocable waivers and was claimed by another unknown team. Since no deal was worked out within the 48-hour waiver period, Kinsler stays with the Tigers. Maybe he gets traded in the offseason or next summer or maybe nothing ever happens with Kinsler but Detroit has more information about his market value at this point and that is important to them.
With Stanton, who has a no-trade clause, it remains possible that he could be traded away by the end of August if there is somewhere he agrees to go and some team rich enough to assume his contract. After that it makes no sense because players have to be with a contending team by Sept. 1 in order to make the postseason roster.
Bottom line, I don't think Stanton is going anywhere right now, but it's no surprise that Loria's guys are looking around to see what is possible, and that Jeter is eager to see what they find out.
The Marlins need to build everything over, from the farm system up. If Jeter is soon to be in charge of both the business and the baseball side of this operation, Stanton is the key to every blueprint that must be reviewed and approved over the next decade.
Author Dave GeorgePosted on August 15, 2017 August 15, 2017 Categories Baseball, Dave GeorgeTags Dave's Digital Domain, Derek Jeter, Detroit Tigers, Giancarlo Stanton, Ian Kinsler, jeffrey loria, Miami Marlins, MLB, sports, sportsfront
A Marlins sale prior to All-Star Game is just too neat and tidy to feel true any more
The All-Star Game at Marlins Park is sneaking up fast now, with barely more than five weeks to go before the annual exhibition between National League and American League stars, plus the Home Run Derby and all the rest, brings baseball's spotlight to Miami.
How sweet it would be to have a new ownership announcement for Jeffrey Loria's franchise by then but I'm losing hope with each new headline on the topic.
2016 Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaking at a rally in Summerville, S.C. Former Florida Gov. Bush is no longer interested in buying the Miami Marlins and has ended his pursuit of the team, a person close to the negotiations said Tuesday, May 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Jeb Bush has dropped his name from the potential ownership group featuring Derek Jeter. That supposedly would breathe new life into the bid led by Tagg Romney, the son of former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, but his group reportedly is growing frustrated with the process and might step away.
Already a group led by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, has come and gone as a potential Marlins buyer. Politics ultimately got in the way. Hey, it's 2017. What else would get in the way?
So it would be a real surprise now to get this clog unstuck in time for the July 9 All-Star Legends & Celebrities Softball game, or the July 10 Home Run Derby or the July 11 All-Star game.
Major League Baseball has too much to study with the financials of the bidding groups, and Loria won't rush through negotiations. There is a lot at stake for him here and, characteristically, he will want it all to go his way.
Makes you wonder what all was discussed before Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, then just three weeks into the job, announced that the Marlins would be All-Star hosts.
The bones of that deal surely were knitted together under former commissioner Bud Selig, who had a system of rewarding franchises with new stadiums to show off. Manfred surely is interested in a fresh start in Miami, for the good of baseball, for the good of the community's trust in the game. If Loria gave any hints that he might be looking to sell soon, perhaps even making the 2017 All-Star game his final big moment as owner, that wouldn't have hurt the bid and probably would have helped.
"It was time for baseball to recognized and pay back South Florida for what they did in building this stadium," Manfred said on Feb. 13, 2016, the day MLB officially awarded the All-Star Game to Miami.
Fair enough, but when MLB took the 2000 All-Star Game away from Miami and awarded it to Atlanta instead, it was a punishment for the World Series fire sale of former Marlins owner Wayne Huizenga and the ongoing uncertainty about the franchise's future. South Florida fans were farther down the list of priorities.
Here is what Loria said on the day of the All-Star announcement more than two years ago. He patted himself on the back. He sold once more the idea that nobody understands his motivations or appreciates the sacrifices he makes.
"It's baseball's recognition that you're doing good things," Loria said. "They awarded it to us. We didn't go and buy it.
"You don't get to the top unless you have ups and downs. You have to take the criticism and take the good with the bad. I'm still here, and I'm still here, and I'm still here because I believed in what we were doing along the way. We changed a lot of things. I took a lot of criticism for what I called pushing the reset button, but if I didn't push that damn reset button, we wouldn't be here today."
Well, I'm still here believing that Loria will pass on his team to another owner at a huge profit when he is good and ready. The change won't be as easy as everyone wants it to be, and it won't be swift.
[Predicting Warriors in six games, and not even LeBron can stop it]
[Who but a NASCAR driver would push an SUV up to 230 mph?]
[LeBron's NBA greatness was predicted on the day he left high school]
Meanwhile, let the criticism come. Loria has something that other people want. It's a heady feeling, and one that will only grow stronger in the weeks growing up to the All-Star Game.
It's sneaking up fast now, and the notion of some new owner taking the bows during All-Star weekend just doesn't seem to be in the cards any more.
Author Dave GeorgePosted on June 2, 2017 June 2, 2017 Categories Baseball, Dave GeorgeTags 2017 All-Star Game, Dave's Digital Domain, Derek Jeter, Jeb Bush, jeffrey loria, Marlins Park, Miami Marlins, MLB, MLB All-Star game, Rob Manfred, sports, sportsfront, Tagg Romney


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Revelation Chapter 2 – Rev'd Dr Martin Wellings
by admin | Posted on May 10, 2009
At first sight and first reading Revelation is a very peculiar book. There's nothing else quite like it in the New Testament, or in the Scriptures as a whole, with the possible exception of the second part of Daniel. We are therefore not used to this style of writing and to the conventions of apocalyptic literature, with its careful structures, literary devices, symbols and images. If we dip into Revelation as unwary readers we may find that it consists of the kind of lurid dreams and visions that may stand as a warning against eating cheese just before going to bed. I'm glad, therefore, that the reading appointed for this evening doesn't take us into the stranger parts of the book. They have been a happy hunting ground for interpreters ranging from the harmlessly eccentric to the frankly certifiable. We are asked instead to address ourselves to a couple of the letters with which the book opens. Revelation is a kind of circular letter with seven different introductions, each one tailored for a particular Christian community in Asia Minor, probably towards the end of the first Christian century. So we're going to look briefly at the letters to Sardis and Philadelphia, but before we do, let me quickly introduce those two places to you.Sardis was a famous city in the Ancient World, the city of the legendary King Croesus, whose fabulous wealth rested partly on local gold deposits and partly on the position of Sardis at a junction of important trade routes. Badly damaged by an earthquake in AD 17 and rebuilt by the Romans, Sardis was a powerful and populous city, maybe two thirds of the size of modern Oxford. It was a place with an influential Jewish community and one with an impressive reputation.Philadephia, about thirty miles from Sardis, was an altogether less imposing place. Flattened in AD 17 by the same earthquake as Sardis and then rebuilt, it suffered such regular tremors that the geographer Strabo reported that fresh cracks appeared daily in the city walls and few people actually dared to live in the city itself. Philadelphia depended on agriculture for its prosperity, particularly on the cultivation of vines, and it has been suggested that this was under threat at the end of the first century because the Roman government had decreed the destruction of provincial vineyards to boost grain production. Philadelphia, then, may have been an anxious place.Two cities. Near neighbours, but very different in culture, character, confidence and reputation. And the church in each place reflects its particular context.One theme running through the seven letters in Revelation 2 and 3 is the injunction: 'Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.' So, what is the Spirit saying, to these particular churches, and to the Church as a whole, and to the churches we ourselves know best? Let me suggest four messages, one each to those contrasting communities of Sardis and Philadelphia, and two to both churches. We'll start with the specifics.First, then, in the letter to Sardis, with all its wealth and power, a warning to the self-satisfied. 'I know your works; you have a name for being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains.' (3:1, 2). The church in Sardis, like the city itself, seemingly has a high reputation. It looks good, and is well spoken of, but it fails to deliver. Its reputation is a carefully crafted pretence, a façade concealing a disappointing reality. It reminds me of a church in East Anglia I used to visit, with a pretentious Classical portico in stone tacked on to a building of cheap brick. Unfortunately, the job hadn't been well done, and the stone portico was gradually falling away from the rest of the building. In a world of spin and poise – or should that be pose? – God is concerned with our inner selves, with the sincerity of our faith, our obedience and our love. That's what matters. And if we've slipped away from that, we need to wake up and to repent, to turn around and go back to where we ought to be. However good we look, God isn't taken in.Second, in the letter to Philadelphia, with its wobbly walls and shaky economy, an encouragement to the faithful under pressure. 'Look, I have set before you an open door, which no-one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.' (3:8). It seems that the Philadelphian Christians are a small group, and perhaps in conflict with a well-established Jewish community in the city. Whatever the precise details, there are people around making life difficult for the Christians and pressurising them to abandon their loyalty to Jesus Christ. That story has been repeated in every age of the Church, and it isn't at all unusual today for Christians to feel out of step with the general drift and tone of society. Pressure to conform, to let the world squeeze us into its mould, in Paul's phrase (Romans 12:2) is strong and pervasive. This letter encourages us to recognise the pressure and to resist it, confident in God's presence, power and love.Third, in both letters, a reminder of the challenge of discipleship. All seven letters share a reference to 'the one who conquers': maybe an athletic metaphor, but more likely a military one. Christian discipleship isn't a pleasant afternoon stroll: it's a struggle. It means living a counter-cultural lifestyle, and resisting external pressure, as we've seen. It also means self-discipline: cultivating a pattern of prayer, Bible study, worship and fellowship and developing a sensitivity which can detect and sidestep temptation. These qualities don't come naturally. Sometimes they may seem easy and straightforward, but at other times we may find that prayer is a chore, the Bible a closed book, worship uninspiring and other Christians a pain in the neck. Then it's hard work. The closest I got to rowing when I was an undergraduate was living next door to someone who went out at what seemed to me like the middle of the night to practise. I had a sneaking admiration for his commitment, even though I didn't want to do it myself. Sometimes as disciples of Jesus Christ we need that sort of determination, and it's hard.Fourth, and finally, the promise of belonging. Someone has said that Revelation is a book full of graffiti. Time and again John speaks of things written: in books, on scrolls, on gates and foundation stones and even on people. The Christians in Sardis have their names written in the book of life, a heavenly version of the roll of citizens common in the cities of the Hellenistic world. The Philadephians go one better: they are personally inscribed with the name of God and the name of the New Jerusalem. The point is that they belong. They are known and accepted by God. Their standing is secure. As Christian people we are already citizens of the New Jerusalem. Our calling and our joy is to live up to what we are.There is warning here, and encouragement; a reminder of the challenges we face, and an assurance that faithful discipleship confirms our place as citizens of heaven. Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. So be it. Amen.
Rev. Dr. Martin Wellings, Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford
The Healing of the Paralytic – Rt. Rev'd Michael Marshall, Hon. Ass. Bishop of London
Sermon for Ascensiontide by Fr. Mark Stafford, Curate at St. Barnabas and Junior Chaplain, Merton College
Freshers' Sermon – The Chaplain

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In the late 1880s off the coast of Africa, a young couple and their infant son escape a burning ship and land on the unexplored rainforests of Africa, where they built themselves a treehouse in which to live there in order to survive. Meanwhile, a gorilla couple named Kala and Kerchak are traveling with the rest of their group when their infant son is killed da a leopard. The successivo day, the cuore broken Kala hears a distant cry and follows it, stumbles upon the treehouse. She enters the treehouse to find it trashed and blood paw prints everywhere on the floor. Kala rescues the baby and return to the group, Kerchak despise him because for his appearance. Nevertheless, Kala decides to raise the child da herself naming him Tarzan.
Jane Porter - She is the Amore interest of Tarzan and eventual wife. Jane is traveling with her father and their guide Clayton, to Africa, where they intend to study about gorillas. As along the way she sees a baby babbuino and try's to draw it. But the baby babbuino takes it from her, eventually she got it back and before they could got it again Tarzan swing in to get her. After meeting, Tarzan is fascinated da Jane and teaches her about the gorillas and she teach him how to speak english and the human culture, also about the human world. Meanwhile he falls in Amore with her. Soon, a ship arrives to her back to London. Eventually she stays with Tarzan and Tarzan will become the king and Jane will become Queen of the jungle.


Here's a commentary on it.
1. We need a major investment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure: roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools. . . . A $1 trillion investment in infrastructure could create 13 million decent paying jobs and make this country more efficient and productive. . .
I'm joining with the members of Progressives United to send a clear message to President Obama that we will stand with him when he vetoes Republican legislation that attacks the well-being of the struggling middle class.
Join me and members of Progressives United to urge the president to VETO any Republican legislation that attacks working families.
NO to cuts in Social Security. NO to cuts in Medicaid. NO to converting Medicare into a voucher program. NO to new trade legislation that sends our jobs overseas and hammers our middle-class workers. NO to cuts to nutrition programs, education or environmental protection.
YES to raising the minimum wage. YES to a massive jobs program rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. YES to transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels. YES to pay equity for women workers. YES to overturning Citizens United.
We already know what "compromise" will mean from a Republican Congress: their way or the highway. In order to win in the future, President Obama must stand strong for the American middle class, and we must support him.
Tell President Obama: Standing firm is the only option, and that means committing to VETO legislation that attacks working families, and fighting for legislation that defends their needs.
Today, John Boehner bowed to the inevitable logic of the impending political season and placed a "clean" debt ceiling increase bill on the floor of the House. At this writing, the bill passed with 28 Republican and 193 Democratic votes. Now it moves on to the Senate, where it is expected to pass in time to allow the Treasury to keep issuing debt instruments.


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Der Bus-Anschlag auf der M62 (im Vereinigten Königreich als M62 coach bombing bekannt) ereignete sich am 4. Februar 1974 auf der Autobahn M62 im Norden Englands, nahe der Autobahnraststätte Hartshead Moor services bei Hartshead Moor Top in Kirklees, West Riding of Yorkshire, Vereinigtes Königreich. Der Anschlag traf einen mit etwa 50 Personen besetzten Reisebus, der britische Soldaten und deren Familienangehörige von einem Wochenendausflug in Manchester zurück nach Catterick transportieren sollte. Zwölf Insassen wurden getötet, darunter neun Soldaten, eine Frau und zwei Kinder.

Der etwa 20 kg schwere Sprengkörper, der von einem Unbekannten in Manchester im hinteren Gepäckstauraum deponiert worden war, explodierte kurz nach Mitternacht bei voller Fahrt und zerfetzte das Heck des Busses vollständig. Der verletzte Busfahrer Roland Handley konnte das Fahrzeug auf der Straße halten und nach über 200 Metern sicher anhalten. Die nahegelegene Autobahnraststätte Hartshead Moor wurde als Erste-Hilfe-Station genutzt, von wo die Verletzten in Krankenhäuser nach Bradford, Wakefield und Batley gebracht wurden.

Unter den Toten vor Ort befand sich der 23-jährige Lance Corporal Clifford Houghton, dessen gleichaltrige Ehefrau und ihre beiden Söhne im Alter von fünf und zwei Jahren. Zudem wurden sieben weitere Soldaten im Alter zwischen 17 und 28 Jahren getötet, ein weiterer Soldat starb vier Tage später im Krankenhaus. Die Soldaten waren Angehörige verschiedener Einheiten aus dem großen Stationierungsort Catterick, sowie dem RAF-Stützpunkt Leeming.

Kampfmittelbeseitiger sowie Bombenexperten der Polizei und Armee untersuchten den Anschlagsort, stoppten und kontrollierten auch drei weitere Reisebusse, die mit Armeeangehörigen aus London, Liverpool und Leeds abgefahren waren. Der Anschlag wird der Provisional IRA zugeschrieben, die seit September 1973 ihre Angriffe auf britische Einrichtungen und Ziele intensiviert hatte.

Der Anschlag führte zu einer Verschärfung der Antiterrorgesetze im Vereinigten Königreich; unter anderem konnten von nun an Terrorverdächtige bis zu sieben Tage ohne Anklage festgehalten und speziell dafür einberufenen Gerichten vorgeführt werden. Nur zehn Tage nach dem Anschlag wurde die 25-jährige Judith Ward verhaftet und im November nicht nur des Bombenanschlages auf der M62, sondern auch der Täterschaft in den Anschlägen auf den Bahnhof Euston vom September 1973 und dem Anschlag auf das Joint Service Defence College in Latimer für schuldig befunden und zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt.

Ihre Verurteilung stellte sich später als Justizirrtum heraus und sie wurde nach 18 Jahren Haft im Jahr 1992 freigelassen. Das Gericht sah es als erwiesen an, dass der unter psychischen Störungen leidenden Ehefrau eines IRA-Mitglieds unter fragwürdigen Verhörmethoden unterschiedliche Geständnisse abgerungen worden waren. Auch die an ihr vorgenommene Grieß'sche Probe wurde als nicht gerichtsverwertbar beurteilt, da die dabei sichergestellten Rückstände eines Bestandteils von Nitroglycerin an ihren Händen auch bspw. in handelsüblichen Schuhcremes vorkommen. Zudem waren ihr psychischer Zustand und der Widerruf ihrer Geständnisse nicht berücksichtigt worden.

Seit 2009 gibt es eine Gedenkstätte an der Raststätte und eine weitere im Imperial War Museum North.

Weblinks
 1974: Soldiers and children killed in coach bombing, BBC.co.uk
 Hero driver of M62 coach bombing honoured with memorial, ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk
 M62 Hartshead Moor bombing victims remembered, BBC.co.uk

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In the midst of escalating trade wars, Tesla is moving ahead with its plans to build a factory in China.
The company announced on Wednesday that it signed a "land transfer" agreement with the Shanghai government for a 212-acre plot to build its proposed Chinese factory. The land transfer agreement opens the way for Tesla to start construction on the giant factory.
The Shanghai Bureau of Planning and Land Resources reported the land was sold at auction for $140.5 million.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk went to Shanghai in July to sign an agreement to build the factory, and the company said it expected the first cars to roll off the new Chinese assembly line in two years.
The factory will be the first in a new Shanghai free-trade zone that won't require automakers to pair up with local manufacturers whereby they would have to share technology and profits.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (r.) and Shanghai Mayor Ying Yong in Shanghai July 10, 2018
Currently, Tesla sells Model S and Model X cars built at its California factory in China at about 50 percent higher prices, after paying Chinese tariffs on the cars.
According to a Reuters report on Wednesday, the cars Tesla builds in Shanghai will still be subject to the Chinese tariffs, since they're built in the free-trade zone, but the location will give Tesla access to cheaper labor and parts supplies to help lower prices.
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Although the factory will build cars, not batteries, the company is calling it the Gigafactory 3 and says it will eventually produce 500,000 cars a year there for international markets.
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For the oat cereal: Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
Place the cereal in a large bowl. Pour about half of the tempered chocolate over the cereal and, using a rubber spatula, toss the cereal around to coat evenly. The chocolate will begin to set. When the first coating has set, pour in the remaining chocolate and again toss to coat evenly.
Working quickly while the chocolate is still pliable, scoop up small mounds of the cereal and place them on the prepared baking sheets. Set aside for about 30 minutes (or place the baking sheets in the refrigerator for no more than 10 minutes to speed the setting).
Layer the cereal clusters, separated by sheets of waxed paper, in an airtight container and store at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.
For the corn flake cereal: Crunch up the cereal by hand, so as to break them up, but not pulverize them into crumbs. Add the crumbled cereal to the bowl of chocolate and toss to coat evenly.
Drop the cereal by rounded spoonfuls onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Place the sheet into the refrigerator to help the cornflake clusters set.
Cook's Note: Tempering, which requires more patience and care than skill, can be done in a variety of ways, but the end result must always be the same: a smooth, pure chocolate that will retain its satiny texture and shiny color once it has set. It can be done 3 different ways. 1) the demanding traditional, time-consuming (and messy) French way, called tabliering whereby two-thirds of the full amount of melted chocolate is poured out onto a cool surface and worked with a spatula until it reaches 81 degrees F and then worked back into the remaining melted chocolate until the whole mass is of a uniform temperature; 2) simply by working with the chocolate over a hot water bath; 3) in a microwave oven. Since the chocolate must reach and maintain an exact temperature in each case, you need a perfectly calibrated thermometer. I rely on a digital laser thermometer, which is a good investment if you want to make tempering an easy job.


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Q: Help with a medical term for addiction to medicinal properties I am looking for a word I had heard on a medical show ages ago, The Good Doctor to be specific, to use on my medical project in high school. The term referred to someone who had a sort of addiction to taking medications (not referring to illicit drugs, but prescribed medications). It sounded like something along the lines of Gardiobraediactic, Gardiovradiactic, or something similar.
If anyone could help me find this, it would be greatly appreciated :)
I don't believe the prefix is cardio due to it not having to do with the heart or flow of blood
When I had done previous searches of what I had heard, I had not pulled any results at all - save for drastic misspellings like Chiropractic. I had even gone back to searching for medical terms used in The Good Doctor but it was only showing simple words like necrosis, or even simpler ones like autism.
I had also searched for "medical term for addiction to medicine" however all it had pulled was drug and substance abuse.

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Homeless Camp Weathers November in Seattle's University District
KUOW
Published November 26, 2014 at 9:14 AM AKST
The Ave Foundation homeless camp in Seattle's University District.
KUOW Photo/John Ryan
Homeless camp resident Billy Plur
Billy Plur (rear) and other residents of a homeless camp in Seattle's University District.
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The Seattle City Council has approved spending $100,000 to support homeless camps next year, like the one that sprang up on a busy sidewalk in front of the University District post office in September. That camp has since moved to the parking lot of the University Congregational United Church of Christ a few blocks away.
Twenty men, women and children now make a home out of eight parking spaces.
Every day at noon, residents of the tent village that calls itself The Ave Foundation hold a meeting to work through problems and assign chores. They call it their "family meeting."
Billy Plur was in charge of Tuesday's meeting. He ran through a list of concerns, from tarps to cleaning to supplies.
"The propane, if we can figure out a way to get some propane today," Plur said.
"I think everyone should come up with 50 cents," another resident said.
This time of year, staying warm and dry is a constant challenge.
Wooden pallets beneath flattened cardboard boxes keep tents off the wet asphalt.
Tarps hanging above the tents sag with heavy pools of rainwater. Overnight, the tarps billow and flap in the gusting winds, drowning out the traffic of busy Northeast 45th Street a few feet away.
It's the same parking lot that the tent city known as Nickelsville, which now occupies a spot in Seattle's International District, fully occupied four years ago, with up to 100 residents.
Homelessness in Seattle has increased by a third since then. On Monday, the City Council approved $2.3 million more for homeless services in 2015 than was budgeted for this year. Barring a veto by Mayor Ed Murray, Seattle will set aside $35.3 million for homeless services next year.
"If we can find poles to better prop this thing up, that would be way better," Plur said. "This canopy, we should really try to think of something to fix especially that corner right there."
It's a fragile shelter, but it's a big step up from where many homeless people find themselves each night.
The Ave Foundation camp has a Porta-Potty. A two-burner stove.
The church next door lets them use a garden hose for water.
Residents take turns doing guard duty around the clock.
There's even a warming tent with two electric space heaters inside, attached to a long extension cord running from the church.
Wilhelm Schmidt stopped by at the start of the meeting. He carried two large duffel bags and was looking for a place to stay.
Schmidt said he got kicked out of Denny Terrace, the low-income housing project where he used to live on Seattle's Capitol Hill. He also lived in a tent on Whidbey Island for a while.
In recent months, he's been living "just on the streets," he said. "I move around."
"I'm trying to get in a program of mental health that would actually put me inside and give me medication and have me have, you know, meals and everything like that," Schmidt said.
Billy Plur told Schmidt they do have an empty slot or two now since a couple residents moved out and others on the wait list seem to have disappeared. To get in, people must pass a criminal background check, attend three family meetings and sign a code of conduct: no drugs, alcohol or weapons.
"Whoever actually shows up to the meetings and shows that they actually want to be part of this and what they can give back to it and not just take from it," Plur said.
"It's a community, and in a community you have to be able to give back into it and not just take from it and just expect handouts. That's why we try to do what we can."
Mid-meeting, Schmidt shouldered his bags and walked off. "I've got to go down to the avenue and see if I can get a meal," he said.
After their Saturday meetings, The Ave Foundation's residents head out from their tents and do a neighborhood cleanup in the alleyways of the University District, often removing litter left by other homeless people.
"Not all of us are bad people and slobs," Plur said. "Some of us are actually good people and are trying to give back what we can, even though it's not as much as like, say, people who are working jobs and making money and are able to donate to places."
At least 2,300 people find themselves homeless each night in Seattle. That number, based on a one-night count in January, probably underestimates the homeless population, since many take pains to hide themselves at night from police or other prying eyes.
Seattle's tent cities provide at least partial shelter for about 150.
"It's part of our mission," said Tim Croll with the University Congregational United Church of Christ. "If Jesus was around and had a building or parking lot like ours, he'd be doing what we're doing."


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Q: Enable user interaction on overlay view I'm creating an darken overlay on top of my UITableView, I would like to highlight one of the row. I'm able to highlight it, but how can I enable user interaction (e.g. tap on the cell)?
func addFullScreenDarkOverlay(){
    let viewDarkOverlay = UIView()
    viewDarkOverlay.alpha = 0.5
    viewDarkOverlay.backgroundColor = .black
    viewDarkOverlay.frame = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow!.frame

    //  add dummy hole (will change it to the frame of the particular cell)
    let holeFrame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: viewDarkOverlay.frame.width/2, height: viewDarkOverlay.frame.height/2)

    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    let path = CGMutablePath()
    // Dark background
    path.addRect(CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: viewDarkOverlay.frame.width, height: viewDarkOverlay.frame.height))
    // White/spotlight path
    path.addRect(holeFrame)

    let maskLayer = CAShapeLayer()
    maskLayer.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
    maskLayer.path = path;
    maskLayer.fillRule = kCAFillRuleEvenOdd

    viewDarkOverlay.layer.mask = maskLayer
    viewDarkOverlay.clipsToBounds = true

    UIApplication.shared.keyWindow!.addSubview(viewDarkOverlay)

}

A: Basically, you can disable the user interaction of the mask view, that will pass the all the touch events to the view below... however, if you just want the highlighted area to be intractable (i.e. the cell), you can create a custom UIView subclass, override the hitTest method, like so:
import UIKit

class MaskView: UIView {

    var hitableArea: CGRect {
        return CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: bounds.width * 0.5, height: bounds.height * 0.5)
    }

    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        installMaskLayer()
    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)
        installMaskLayer()
    }

    private func installMaskLayer() {

        backgroundColor = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.5)

        let path = CGMutablePath()
        // Dark background
        path.addRect(bounds)
        // White/spotlight path
        path.addRect(hitableArea)

        let maskLayer = CAShapeLayer()
        maskLayer.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
        maskLayer.path = path;
        maskLayer.fillRule = CAShapeLayerFillRule.evenOdd

        layer.mask = maskLayer
    }

    override func hitTest(_ point: CGPoint, with event: UIEvent?) -> UIView? {
        if (!self.isUserInteractionEnabled || self.isHidden || self.alpha <= 0.01) {
            return nil;
        }

        if (hitableArea.contains(point)) {
            return nil
        }

        return self
    }
}

Just create this custom view and add it to your window, and now you can only touch the cell now.

A: Remove the user interaction in your overlay view and you will be able to select the rows in the view below it:
viewDarkOverlay.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

If you want the selection only inside the whole you can transfer the touch from the overlay view to your parent view using a delegate like so:
protocol OverlaySelection: class{
    func selected(with touch: UITouch?)
}

class OverlayView: UIView{
    weak var delegate : OverlaySelection?

    override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
        super.touchesBegan(touches, with: event)
        delegate?.selected(with: touches.first)
    }
}

then in your parent view:
func addFullScreenDarkOverlay(){
     let viewDarkOverlay = OverlayView()
     viewDarkOverlay.delegate = self
    //other config..
 }

 //Delegate
func selected(with touch: UITouch?) {
   if let location = touch?.location(in: self.view){
 //Here you check if this point is inside the whole and if it is you select
 //the row, if not just return
  let indexpath = tableview.indexPathForRow(at: location)
  tableview.selectRow(at: indexpath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .bottom)
   }
}


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La squadra era composta da Mauro Checcoli, Paolo Angioni, Giuseppe Ravano e Alessandro Argenton.

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Ufficiale di cavalleria dell'Esercito Italiano, ha preso parte a due edizioni dei Giochi Olimpici.

Nel 1966 Angioni rimase schiacciato sotto il suo cavallo in una gara in Polonia, entrò in coma ma riuscì a recuperare tanto da riuscire a competere alle Olimpiadi di . In seguito ha scritto diversi libri sulla scuola equestre e sulle tecniche.

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Q: Include Newest Note and Comment in List I have to include both the newest Note and Comment with view model that I am passing to my list view but I cannot figure out how to include it in the view model.
I tried to do include but after I type p it will not give me a list of my properties for MinimumProductInfo which ProductNotes is a property for it.
Here is the controller code I am trying:
public ActionResult MinimumProductInfoList()
{
     var Model = _minimumProductInfo.GetAll();

     var Notes = db.ProductNotes.Where(p => p.NoteTypeFlag == "p").OrderByDescending(p => p.NoteDate).First();
     var Comments = db.ProductNotes.Where(p => p.NoteTypeFlag == "c").OrderByDescending(p => p.NoteDate).First();

     var Model = db.MinimumProductInfo.Include(p => p)

     var ViewModel = Model.Select(x => new ProductInfoWithNoteList { MinimumProductInfoID = x.MinimumProductInfoID, ItemCode = x.ItemCode, MinimumOnHandQuantity = x.MinimumOnHandQuantity, MaximumOHandQuantity = x.MaximumOHandQuantity, MinimumOrderQuantity = x.MinimumOrderQuantity, LeadTimeInWeeks = x.LeadTimeInWeeks  });

     return View(ViewModel);
}

Everything else is working except now I need to include the latest note and latest comment in to my viewmodel
This is what I have now with WithMetta's help:
public ActionResult MinimumProductInfoList()
    {
        var productInfoViewModelCollection =
            from x in db.MinimumProductInfo
            let pnote =
                (from inner_pnote in db.ProductNotes
                 where x.MinimumProductInfoID == inner_pnote.MinimumProductInfoID
                     && inner_pnote.NoteTypeFlag == "p"
                 orderby inner_pnote.NoteDate
                 select inner_pnote).FirstOrDefault()
            let cnote =
                (from inner_cnote in db.ProductNotes
                 where x.MinimumProductInfoID == inner_cnote.MinimumProductInfoID
                      && inner_cnote.NoteTypeFlag == "c"
                 orderby inner_cnote.NoteDate
                 select inner_cnote).FirstOrDefault()
            select new ProductInfoWithNoteList
            {
                MinimumProductInfoID = x.MinimumProductInfoID,
                ItemCode = x.ItemCode,
                MinimumOnHandQuantity = x.MinimumOnHandQuantity,
                MaximumOHandQuantity = x.MaximumOHandQuantity,
                MinimumOrderQuantity = x.MinimumOrderQuantity,
                LeadTimeInWeeks = x.LeadTimeInWeeks,
                Comment = cnote.ToString(),
                PermanentNote = pnote.ToString()
            };

        return View(productInfoViewModelCollection);
    }

A: Maybe something like this using LINQ.
var productInfoViewModelCollection =
    from x in db.MinimumProductInfo
    where x != null
    let pnote =
        (from inner_pnote in db.ProductNotes
        where inner_pnote != null
            && x.MinimumProductInfoID == inner_pnote.MinimumProductInfoID
            && inner_pnote.NoteTypeFlag == "p"
        orderby inner_pnote.NoteDate descending
        select inner_pnote).FirstOrDefault()
    let cnote =
        (from inner_cnote db.ProductNotes
        where inner_cnote != null
            && x.MinimumProductInfoID == inner_cnote.MinimumProductInfoID
            && inner_cnote.NoteTypeFlag == "c"
        orderby inner_cnote.NoteDate descending
        select inner_cnote).FirstOrDefault()
    select new ProductInfoWithNoteList {
        MinimumProductInfoID = x.MinimumProductInfoID,
        ItemCode = x.ItemCode,
        MinimumOnHandQuantity = x.MinimumOnHandQuantity,
        MaximumOHandQuantity = x.MaximumOHandQuantity,
        MinimumOrderQuantity = x.MinimumOrderQuantity,
        LeadTimeInWeeks = x.LeadTimeInWeeks,
        Comment = cnote,
        PermanentNote = pnote
     };


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Felix (lat.: "fericit") este un nume propriu, care se poate referi la:

Localitate în Spania

 Felix, Almería, oraș în Spania

Prenume

 Felix Aderca, prozator, poet, estetician, traducător și eseist român
 Felix Bloch, fizician elvețian
 Félix Couchoro scriitor și jurnalist togolez
 Felix Dudchievicz
 Felix Dupanloup, om politic francez
 Felix Edmundovici Dzerjinski, revoluționar comunist rus
 Felix Dahn, jurist, scriitor și istoric german
 Félix Gaillard, prim-ministru al Franței
 Felix Klein, matematician german
 Felix Lihtgoltz, medic-chirurg
 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, compozitor și dirijor german
 Felix Mnthali, poet, romancier și dramaturg
 Félix Nadar, caricaturist, fotograf și pionier aeronautic francez
 Louis Eugène Félix Néel, fizician francez
 Félix Rodríguez (CIA), agent CIA
 Felix zu Schwarzenberg, om de stat austriac
 Félix Sesúmaga, jucător de fotbal spaniol

 Felix Timmermans, scriitor flamand
 Felix Wankel, inginer german
 Felix I, al 26-lea papă al Bisericii Catolice
 Papa Felix al III-lea, Papă al Romei
 Papa Felix al IV-lea, Papă al Romei
 Felix și Otilea, sitcom românesc
 Grădina Félix Hap, parc din Etterbeek, Belgia
 Uraganul Felix, a șasea furtună și al doilea uragan de categoria 5 din sezonul de cicloane tropicale 2007 din Atlantic
 Felix, numele conspirativ sub care politicianul Dan Voiculescu colabora cu Securitatea

Nume de familie
 Aleth Felix-Tchicaya (n. 1955), scriitoare congoleză
 Allyson Felix (n. 1985), atletă americană
 Iacob Felix (1832-1905), medic român
 Jirí Felix (n. 1931), filolog și lingvist ceh

Nume proprii în România

 Băile Felix
 Turism Felix, companie hotelieră din România
 Banca Dacia Felix, bancă din România
 ACF Luceafărul Lotus Băile Felix

São Félix

 São Félix
 São Félix do Coribe
 São Félix de Balsas
 São Félix do Xingu
 São Félix de Minas
 São Félix do Araguaia
 São Félix do Piauí
 São Félix do Tocantins
 Camocim de São Félix
 Salgado de São Félix

Tehnică de calcul

 ICE Felix
 Felix C
 Felix FC
 Felix M
 Felix MC
 Felix PC

Nume proprii


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Source: Press Release 12/22/2013
CVSL And Paperly Finalize Transaction
DALLAS, Dec. 20, 2013 -- CVSL Inc. and Paperly LLC announced today that they have successfully closed the transaction for Paperly to become part of CVSL's family of micro-enterprise companies. The two companies had signed a letter of intent for the transaction on November 1.
Chicago-based Paperly allows its independent sales consultants to work with customers to design and create custom stationery through home parties, events and individual appointments. The company was founded five years ago by Jay and Cindy Rudman. Paperly's brand has expanded since its founding to encompass a wide-range of personalized products including clipboards, cutting boards, iPhone cases and more.
"Paperly is an exciting addition to our CVSL family, not only because it offers such great products to its customers, but also because now we can bring these personalized products to all of the other CVSL companies as business-building tools to help support their sales forces," said John Rochon, CVSL's chairman.
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The thing we like the most about this resource is that it has a worksheet for children to keep track of their experiment results. It is a great start for the scientists-in-the-making!
This blog post has free printables of hands-on activities you can do with pre-k to kindergartners.
Would your child learn the continents better if they could put little animal replicas on the web? This blog post has some fun activities for your little one.
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Q: Continuity of a complex valued function and Cauchy Riemann equation checking. $f(z) = \left\{   \begin{array}{ll}   0 &, z = 0 \   \\ \exp(-1/z^4) & ,z \neq 0\             \end{array}   \right.$
       I could show by making a transformation of $\frac{1}{z^4}$ as $w$, that $f$ is not continuous at origin, is there any other way out to prove discontinuity at origin?
Also I am getting into complications while showing Cauchy Riemann equations hold at origin? How to solve this?

A: This is a classical example (by Looman) that satisfies the Cauchy–Riemann equations everywhere but is not analytic, or even continuous, at $z = 0$.

Hint:
For the continuity issue, show that
$$
\lim_{z\to 0}f(z)=0
$$
is not true. Consider the limit
$$
\lim_{t\to 0+}f(t(1+i)).
$$
For the CR equation at $z=0$, try to use the definition of partial derivatives. Note for instance that
$$ u(x,0) = \exp(-1/x^4) \quad\text{and}\quad u(0,y) = \exp(-1/y^4)$$
where $u$ denotes the real part of $f$. Eventually you would end up with the calculation of
$$
\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{\exp(-h^4)}{h}=0
$$
which implies the CR equation at $z=0$.


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The [Tuesday] Papers
"The [Bureau of Investigative Journalism's] 2017 annual report from our Drones team shows a massive increase in air attacks by American forces in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia since President Donald Trump took power.
"There have been twice as many strikes in Somalia and three times as many in Yemen as the year before. In Afghanistan the number of weapons dropped is now at levels last seen during the 2009-12 surge. There are also signs that drones are returning to Pakistan's skies."
The problem?
"More civilians are being hit. In Afghanistan the UN says there were 177 civilian casualties in the first nine months of 2017 - almost twice as many as in the same period the year before."
So is the president making us safer than his predecessor or creating more (rightfully) vengeful enemies bent on doing us harm? And is America committing war crimes?
"As the casualties mount the U.S. has been less willing to disclose data to the Bureau and we are concerned that this makes it more difficult to hold U.S. forces to account in 2018."
We are a rogue nation.
Not that we haven't always been, on the sly, but now it's our primary identity.
Airbsb
"The Airbnb listing for a 'HIP 1BR' apartment near Millennium Park boasts a 'prime location' - in all capital letters - with 'amenities galore,' all for just $115 a night. The listing leaves out one key word: illegal," Crain's reports.
It's one of numerous illicit rentals in Chicago still available on Airbnb four months after the city launched a computerized system to license homes rented through the shared-housing website. The East Loop apartment is in a building that prohibits vacation rentals, but city regulators have yet to catch up with "Rapheal," the Airbnb host trying to rent it.
A lot of scofflaws like Rapheal are still falling through the cracks of a shared-housing ordinance that Chicago officials like to say is among the toughest in the country. And that's frustrating landlords and aldermen.
"I'm disappointed with how the ordinance is working so far - or not working," said downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd. "The ordinance that is on the books was designed to fail, and that's why Airbnb was happy with it."
The ordinance, crafted by the mayor, passed the council 43-7 in June 2016. It was sponsored by Ald. Joe Moore. The "No" votes were Susan Sadlowski Garza, Patrick Daley Thompson, Marty Quinn, Derrick Curtis, Scott Waguespack, John Arena and Michele Smith. Reilly voted "Yes" - though he "predicted Airbnb would flout the new rules, 'and we'll be back in a few months' trying to pass tougher regulations," according to the Trib.
The Trib reported a year ago that "The city's new shared-housing ordinance and how it would affect Airbnb hosts was a hot topic in the mayor's inbox.
"Investor Marc Andreessen e-mailed Emanuel in November 2015, asking him to meet with Chris Lehane, Airbnb's head of global policy, to discuss Chicago's regulatory plans."
Lehane worked with Rahm Emanuel in the Clinton White House. The New York Times once called him a "Master of the Political Dark Arts."
"Those who know Mr. Lehane say his skill lies in his intricate understanding of how news organizations work, and in his uncanny ability to play one reporter off another," the Times reported.
Back to the Trib:
"Airbnb representatives said they thought Emanuel wasn't 'fully aware of what the bureaucrats have been working on,' according to an e-mail Andreessen forwarded to the mayor. Asking for the meeting seemed to be a drastic measure: In one of the emails, Andreessen's people call it an 'unusual ask' by Airbnb.
"Airbnb spokesman Ben Breit said in a statement that the home-sharing company works with cities worldwide on clear and progressive home-sharing rules. 'Speaking with policymakers and community leaders is essential to crafting home-sharing rules that work for everyone,' he said.
"The implementation of the ordinance has since been delayed and tweaked after being challenged by a couple of lawsuits."
Last March, the Tribune reported that Andreessen "also exchanged messages with Emanuel about how Airbnb was going to hire 'a strong supporter of yours' weeks before South Side Ald. Will Burns left City Hall to work for the company. Mark Kelly, a retired astronaut and husband of former U.S. Gabby Giffords, also e-mailed the mayor trying to set up a meeting on Airbnb's behalf."
Neither Andreessen nor Kelly had registered as lobbyists, one of a couple dozen such cases the mayor's hand-picked ethics board took up and essentially shrugged off, despite the fact that Emanuel was secretly using private e-mail to conduct public business.
New on the Beachwood today and since the last column . . .
GOP Tax Plan Would Give 15 Of America's Largest Corporations A $236 Billion Tax Cut
Over the last 30 years, 15 of the largest U.S. corporations have accepted $3.9 trillion of corporate welfare in the form of subsidies, tax credits, and bailouts, and another $108 billion in government handouts in the form of federal contracts. Now, Republicans want to give these corporations an additional $236 billion tax cut.
John Fox Going Down Fighting For Irrelevant Field Position
The hill he dies on.
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Chicagoetry: Winter Mice
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Harvard Students And DOJ Will Find Answers Elusive In Quest To Learn About Admissions Decisions
"Both inquiries rest on the faulty assumption that admissions decisions are driven by an objective, measurable process that will yield the same results over and over again. It's more human - and random - than that."
The World's Greatest College Football Report's Bowl Game Preview Part 1
College football fans may be among the few Americans not ready for the year to end.
Charter Schools Are Complicit With Segregation
"A recent Associated Press analysis of national school enrollment data found that 'as of school year 2014-2015, more than 1,000 of the nation's 6,747 charter schools had minority enrollment of at least 99 percent, and the number has been rising steadily.'"
Last Week In Chicago Rock
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The Political Odds
Updated to reflect recent developments.
Trailer: Swing District
Featuring a former Chicago police officer and trader - and former Republican state legislator - who is now a 71-year-old Democratic freshman in Congress running for re-election.
This project is raising money to fund its completion. If you can help, contact me and I'll put you in touch with the filmmaker.
The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #179: The Ryan Pace Narratives Drive Us Nuts
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Illinois Coach Banned From USA Gymnastics Over Alleged Sexual Misconduct
Parents stunned; sudden retirement of decorated Westmont coach apparently explained.
Vonnegut's Story Shapes
The master's thesis the University of Chicago rejected.
The Sears Motor Buggy
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RECALL! Piller's Fine Foods Ready-To-Eat Salami
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Retroactivism In The Lesbian Archives
"Bessette considers a diverse array of primary sources, including grassroots newsletters, place-based archives, experimental documentary films, and digital video collections, to investigate how retroactivists have revised and replaced dominant accounts of lesbian deviance."
Chicago For Dummies
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Skating with James Brown's style.
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I Can't Answer These Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems.
Subway Franchisees Rally Against $4.99 Subs.
Remembering The [Rahmbo] Papers.
Alex Jones is right about one thing and one thing only: There is a war on for your mind.
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The power went out at ATL for hours, affecting tens of thousands of people, leaving them stranded in the dark.
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I cook chicken in the smoker for 2 1/2 hours and 225-250 degrees with smoke from wood. The last 15 minutes are cooked with sauce in the smoker and then gets the "grill" marks. These are not from a grill, but from the rack in the smoker.
Chicken most definitely is considered bbq. BUT, what is turned in as "bbq chicken" at comps, is not really bbq chicken. It's really injected, brined, glazed with sauce, etc.
I would bet anyone, you could not find any bbq chicken that is turned in for judging, anywhere at any bbq joint. And now KCBS allows "chicken salad". Isnt that considered "foreign objects" in the meat?
In the truest sense chicken probably isn't real BBQ. But some sactioning bodies have a chicken catagory & I don't think that's going to change any time soon.
Now - as for KCBS allowing "chicken salad" - I really don't think that it would be well received at the judging table any more than a white sauce would be except in Alabama. That's why I've never seen either one turned in in the Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas area.
Most of us agree that the definition of barbecue is meat slow roasted over wood coals. No, most chicken turned in at competitions is not barbecue. But neither are the other meats turned in at a "barbecue" competition. Chicken slow cooked in a smoker at low temperatures definitely fits the definition of barbecue. Chicken poached in butter in an aluminum pan isn't barbecue in my opinion. Neither is brisket or pork wrapped in foil and cooked at 400 degrees. It seems that judges have been conditioned to expect chicken to look the way it looks when cooked in a pan. I submitted some pictures of our boxes to your "judge my box" and several of the comments on our chicken said that it was too dark and even looked burnt. It is dark because it was cooked in a smoker at 235 degrees for 3 hours, not in a pool of butter or margarine in an aluminum pan covered with foil. It is barbecued chicken. So, we are being scored down on appearance, and who knows about taste, for cooking barbecue instead of poached chicken. Competition cooks have pushed the envelope, and redefined (at least in the minds of some judges) the definition of barbecue.
I never really thought about chicken not being BBQ. Thanks for giving your perspective.
Thanks folks; all very good points. It's definitely more rhetorically asked and pondering.


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My Dying Uncle Talks Life, Death, and Australia's First Year of Legal Euthanasia
"It's very surreal locking in a date to die. But I haven't had any doubts, because it's just a question of timing."
Chris Shearer
Watch This 102-Year-Old Woman Become the Oldest Person to Go Skydiving
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River Donaghey
This Futuristic Cap Lets People With Paralysis Communicate
By measuring blood oxygen levels in the brain, researchers have discovered a way to let paralyzed patients 'speak' again.
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Meet the Patients and Researchers Racing to Find a Cure for ALS
Check out the trailer for our upcoming episode of 'VICE' on HBO, airing June 17 at 11 PM.
Check out the trailer for our upcoming episode of VICE on HBO, airing June 17 at 11 PM.
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This 'brain-to-text' device could help make the internet of brains possible.
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Hamas to focus on popular resistance: Meshaal
AFPPublished November 25, 2011
Meshaal's comments were made just hours after he held top-level talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. – Reuters Photo
CAIRO: Hamas is looking to focus its energies on popular resistance without giving up its right to wage armed struggle against Israel, the Islamist movement's leader Khaled Meshaal told AFP in an interview.
"Every people has the right to fight against occupation in every way, with weapons or otherwise. But at the moment, we want to cooperate with the popular resistance," the group's Damascus-based leader said in the interview late on Thursday.
"We believe in armed resistance but popular resistance is a programme which is common to all the factions," he said.
The Islamist movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, has long called for the destruction of the Jewish state and has fiercely defended its right to wage a bloody armed struggle to end the occupation.
Although not opposed in principle by Hamas, popular, non-violent resistance has never been a priority for the group which made its name through a series of bloody suicide attacks against Israel.
Meshaal's comments were made just hours after he held top-level talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, who heads the rival Fatah movement, in a bid to cement a stalled reconciliation agreement between the two groups.
Speaking to reporters in Cairo, the two leaders approved a two-page document reiterating their commitment to the main elements of the original deal, which was signed in May, and hailed a new era of "partnership" between their two factions.
The document, a copy of which was seen by AFP, outlines an agreement on "the adoption of popular resistance" which is to be to be strengthened to oppose the seizure of land for Jewish settlement building and construction of the West Bank barrier.
"This resistance will be increased and organised and there is to be an agreement on its style, on greater efficiency and the formation of a framework to direct it," the accord says.
Meshaal did not go into detail about the focus on popular resistance but said the Hamas leadership would ensure the agreement was translated into action.
"I asked them to take practical and positive measures to flesh out this agreement," he told AFP.
"I have instructed the Hamas leadership (in Gaza and Damascus) to adopt a political line and one with the press that doesn't upset the conciliatory spirit, and that truly reflects the atmosphere of reconciliation "The Hamas chief also brushed off threats by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which has vowed to retaliate should Abbas's Western-backed Palestinian Authority form a unity government with Gaza's Islamist rulers.
"The threats by Netanyahu's government and its security cabinet don't scare us but confirms that we are heading in the right direction," he said shortly after Israeli ministers decided to maintain a freeze on millions of dollars in tax monies owed to the Palestinians in response to the Hamas-Fatah rapprochement.
Israel is deeply concerned about the two factions forming a unity government, but such a step is not on the cards until after elections, which the two factions say will be held in May 2012.


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Marriott International to launch 16 new resorts across Asia Pacific
by Victoria Rosenthal |
Weligama Bay Marriott Resort & Spa, Weligama, Sri Lanka
Marriott International is on track to open 16 new resorts across seven brands in 10 Asia-Pacific countries and territories this year. These new properties will benefit from growing demand from outbound Chinese travelers, now the world's top source of outbound travelers.
China National Tourism Administration has estimated that China's travelers will take 700 million trips over the next five years. Earlier this year, Marriott launched a joint venture with Alibaba to help capture this growth.
Here are the new hotels the company is opening across the region:
The company opened several properties in China this year, including The Ritz-Carlton, Haikou, the brand's first golf resort in China, and the Shanhaitian Resort Sanya, Autograph Collection, the brand's first property in China. The Element Chongli, which brings its eco-conscious concept and extended-stay brand to the mountainous Taiwoo Ski Resort of Zhangjiakou, also opened this year and will co-host the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, the Westin brand opened its first hot spring resort in Taiwan with The Westin Yilan Resort.
New South East Asian hotels include The Ritz-Carlton, Langkawi, an oceanfront resort on the Andaman Sea in Malaysia. The JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay Resort & Spa, designed by Bill Bensley, opened earlier this year in Southern Vietnam. The beachfront Renaissance Pattaya Resort & Spa and The Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui opened in Thailand. Meanwhile, the Renaissance Bali Ulutwatu Resort & Spa in Indonesia is scheduled to open in November.
The Westin Yilan Resort is the brand's first hot spring resort in Taiwan.
Japan and Korea
This year, Marriott has expanded its presence in Japan with the openings of five Marriott resorts. The Fuji Marriott Hotel Lake Yamanaka opened in the lake area at the base of Mount Fuji while the the Nanki Shirahama Marriott Hotel near Osaka opened near the beaches and mountain trails in Western Japan. Near Kyoto, Lake Biwa Marriott Hotel opened in Japan's largest lake and natural 'onsen' hot springs district while Izu Marriott Hotel Shuzenji opened on the Pacific coastline in the hills of the Izu Peninsula.
Later this year, the Jeju Shinhwa World Marriott Resort & Spa is scheduled to open and mark the brand's first property in South Korea. On Jeju island, the new Marriott will be part of the mixed-use resort Jeju Shinhwa World, which will have a casino, amusement park and other leisure and entertainment facilities.
Fiji and Sri Lanka
Marriott International opened two properties in Fiji and Sri Lanka in 2017. The Fiji Marriott Resort Momi Bay marked the brand's debut in Fiji. The resort has the first overwater 'bure' bungalows on Fiji mainland in a manmade lagoon. Another new resort, the Weligama Bay Marriott Resort & Spa, marked Marriott International's entry into Sri Lanka. The beachfront resort is near famous attractions, such as the Galle Fort and blue whale watching hubs.
Marriott currently has 130 upper-upscale and luxury resorts in the Asia Pacific region in countries including China, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.
New Hotel Construction Openings Development Expansion Supply and Demand APAC Pipeline Marriott International Element The Ritz-Carlton Autograph Collection JW Marriott Renaissance Hotels & Resorts Marriott Asia Pacific
Victoria Rosenthal
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Since 2009 our team has been organizing the Shimano 24 Hours Cycling Race on the famous Le Mans Bugatti circuit. This atypical event is open to all, in relay teams of 2, 4, 6 or 8, even solo for the brave.
Whether they are sports or amateurs cyclists, more than 4000 participants meet every year in the arena where the biggest names in motorsport have faced. Many companies have already set out on this adventure to develop team cohesion and share 24 hours of strong emotions… by bike.
The bugatti circuit is opening its doors! "The Matinale" (Morning family ride) is a unique opportunity to discover the Le Mans Bugatti circuit by bike. This is the appointment for cyclists to come with family or friends for an hour's ride.
More than a thousand people participates every year!
2019 registrations to the Shimano 24 Hours Cycling of Le Mans are open ! We are on our way to this 11th edition !


"No amount of money can make me endorse something that I'm not 100 percent behind."
Shaquille O'Neal has had his fair share of slam dunks when it comes to business deals. But not always.
During the upcoming season premiere episode of "In Depth with Graham Bensinger," O'Neil expressed his regret over passing on a proposed business partnership with Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz.
The 4-time NBA champion calls forgoing the deal one of his "worst" business decisions to date.


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