If there is nothing else then why wouldn't you live every second for Joy?
If there is something else then why not live in Joy and rejoice?
If there is a condemning, harshly judging God then why not live in Joyous goodness?
So the real question is who defines joy?
How do you know it's joy?
Are there parameters to joy?
There are 13 colours in the rainbow.
These 5 new colours are your expanded senses.
You are now ready to explore inwardly deeply.
Your Divine Self is perfect, you don't need to be fixed. God created you perfect and you remain so. It's just your ego that needs a little tweaking and adjusting.
It is said that we teach what we need to know. There are many people in the world now teaching self-love and manifesting. It seems that most of them are just scratching the surface by teaching us to love our physical bodies and to manifest the creature comforts. These are indeed a nice place to start.
I would like to push you to go beyond that. I want to push you to remember that you are in the Divine and the Divine is in you and as such the reality of you is perfect.
The second thing for you to do is to make all your decisions, choices, and actions with the Divine. You do this just by asking the Divine what to do then listening for the answer. The answer will come through your intuition. Some of you might hear the answer. Some might see a vision of the answer and some might feel it in their body. However it shows up for you, you will recognize it because you will know without doubt in that first instant that it is right. Pay attention to that first instant because after that your ego might chime in with a thousand reasons why you shouldn't do what's right.
Now I know you have a million decisions to make every single day and you think asking God is going to slow you down. Here's what I did. For big decisions I stopped and asked the Divine and waited for the answer even if I had to go on with the rest of my day while waiting for the answer. I just kept asking until I became aware of the answer and knew that it was right. For all those little seemingly inconsequential decisions I just ask God at the beginning of the day to guide all my decisions and actions for that day and trust that God will do just that.
Once you are in tune with your intuition you will recognize that feeling of deeply knowing when something is right. It may take a leap of faith and courage sometimes to do what is right but when the answer came from the Divine you know the outcome will be the best for all. So what are you waiting for? Invite and ask!


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Chuck Muth October 3, 2021
RINO HUNT '22: Will No-Mask Crusader Challenge this Masked Mash of Mush
(Chuck Muth) – Assemblyman Greg Hafen (R-District 36) isn't the worst Republican in the Nevada Legislature. However, he represents one of the reddest of red districts and is nowhere near as good as that district deserves.
His voting record isn't as bad as RINO Assembly critters Tom Roberts and Jill Tolles, but when it comes to voting conservative, he's no Annie Black or Andy Matthews either.
But the problem with Hafen goes much deeper than just his "yeah" and "nay" votes on bills.
In a district with such a huge GOP majority, he should be a boat rocker, as well. He should be standing up and aggressively representing his constituents as an OPPOSITION leader, not a wishy-washy minority legislator.
Instead, in his two legislative sessions, Hafen's been a wall flower. A potted plant.
District 36 Republicans deserve someone in Carson City who will "take point" and lead from the tip of the spear, not a REMF (non-military folks can Google the term) who sits in the back and watches the troops march by.
During the disastrous 2021 legislative session, Hafen was nowhere to be seen or heard on critical GOP issues, such as terminating Gov. Steven von Sisolak's "emergency" CHINA-19 powers.
Or limiting the abuse of such authoritarian powers in the future.
Or opening the Legislature's building to citizens.
Or opposing the Democrats' requirement to produce a vaccine passport to enter the Assembly chamber.
Hafen was similarly AWOL on a host of other critical issues to Republicans – especially election integrity protection. He just went along to get along.
In other words, he's Grade-A primary bait. There's absolutely no reason for District 36 Republicans to be saddled with such a wet noodle. Here's why…
Republicans in this district could easily nominate a far more active, aggressive and philosophically conservative candidate in next year's GOP primary and still hold this overwhelmingly Republican seat against ANY Democrat in the general election.
Enter Melissa Blundo.
In the early days of the Sisolak Shutdown, Hafen was busy posting selfies of himself on social media tooling around the Nevada desert in his off-road four-wheeler and having the time of his life.
Meanwhile, Melissa was actively recruiting opponents to Sisolak's dictatorial orders, especially his mask mandates. She co-founded the No Mask Nevada PAC and organized various protests and demonstrations all around the state.
To be clear, the No Mask Nevada PAC doesn't oppose Nevadans wearing masks. It opposes the governor REQUIRING, by constitutionally-questionable executive orders, that Nevadans wear an "obedience mask," especially without legislative approval.
That's as American as apple pie.
And you'd think an elected official like Assemblyman Hafen – who represents the town of Pahrump, which has been designated as the "most patriotic community in Nevada" – would have joined the effort and been a key leader in the fight.
You'd have thought wrong. He's been AWOL. An invisible man. The cat's had his tongue.
As such, Melissa is seriously considering challenging him in the 2022 GOP primary – which has the "accidental assemblyman" (he was originally appointed to the seat after Assemblyman Dennis Hof passed away) scared down to his skivvies and breaking out his Catholic rosary beads.
In addition to her active involvement in No Mask Nevada, Melissa owns an Italian restaurant in Pahrump which got hammered by Sisolak's emergency shutdown orders. She was also a field representative for the National Federation of Independent Business and served as the Executive Director of the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce.
So Melissa REALLY knows how badly government hurts and harasses entrepreneurs and business owners.
Greg's business experience, on the other hand, consists of being hired to work in the family store – a utility company – right out of college before he "climbed his way to general manager."
His words, not mine. "Climbed" is hardly the word I'd use to describe being handed something on a silver platter – like the Assembly District 36 seat after Hof's death. Or all manner of other government boards and commissions he's been appointed to thanks to the family name.
Hafen, the fortunate son, also boasts of being a "fifth generation Nevadan."
Melissa, on the other hand, is a Nevadan by choice, not by birth.
Hafen, prior to his Assembly appointment, was rarely, if ever, seen at a Republican event or meeting. Not much has changed since then – unless a cocktail reception is involved.
Melissa, on the other hand, has been an active member of the Nye County Republican Central Committee and the Pahrump Valley Republican Women since 2017. She was elected 1st Vice President of the PVRW in January 2020 and re-elected in January 2021.
Melissa is also a member of the Nevada Federation of Republican Women, as well as a delegate to the National Federation of Republican Women, in addition to being an elected (not appointed) member of the Nevada Republican Central Committee.
Meanwhile, the endorsements Hafen boasts of on his campaign re-election website is a Who's Who of RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) in Nevada, including:
Assemblyman Tom Roberts, Assemblywoman Jill Tolles, Assemblyman Glen Leavitt, Assemblywoman Melissa Hardy, Sen. Joe Hardy, Sen. Keith Pickard, Sen. Heidi Gansert and former Assemblyman Chris "The Weasel" Edwards.
What a rogue's gallery!
And, by the way, Hafen has consistently refused to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising us he'll "oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes."
My guess is Melissa will proudly sign it, without reservation, on the day she announces if she decides to run.
A Blundo-Hafen GOP primary would certainly offer a stark contrast. Melissa: Bold Colors. Hafen: Pale Pastels. Which do you think conservative Nye County Republican voters would prefer?
Which is why Hafen is desperately trying to head off a Blundo challenge.
If fact, in a self-serving blog post a few days ago, Hafen begged GOP voters to "to remember the Reagan Rule not to attack fellow Republicans."
And that, my friends, is a load of crap. That is NOT what Reagan said.
The Reagan Doctrine calls on Republicans to refrain from PERSONAL attacks – such as attacking someone for their divorce – not political differences. Indeed, President Ronald Reagan hit then-President Gerald Ford pretty darned hard on policy differences in their GOP primary in 1976.
RINOs always try to use the Reagan Doctrine to fend off criticism of their votes, actions in office and positions. Sorry, but that dog won't hunt if Blundo decides to bludgeon Hafen over his record of feeble non-accomplishment.
The Accidental Assemblyman concluded his missive of desperation with this gem…
"As we move into the 2022 Election Cycle, it is imperative that we support incumbents and work together to secure more Republican seats to take back our state."
What a crock.
There's absolutely NO REASON to support a weak, spineless GOP incumbent – especially in a safe Republican district that will remain in Republican hands if voters decide to upgrade to a true conservative fighter.
Run, Melissa, run!
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Q: How to draw fully connected graph link picture bellow in latex? This picture represented a graph which is connected to every node. How to use tikz to draw this kind of graph?

A: This is not your graph, but my recommended variant of it.
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{scope}[every node/.style={circle,minimum size=.75cm,draw}]
    \node (a) at (0,2) {Goal};
    \node (c2) at (0,0) {$c_2$};
    \node (c3) at (2,0) {$c_3$};
    \node (c1) at (-2,0) {$c_1$};
    \node (a1) at (-1,-2) {$a_1$};
    \node (a2) at (1,-2) {$a_2$};
\end{scope}
\draw (a)--(c1)--(a1)--(c2)--(a2)--(c3)--(a)--(c2) (c1)--(a2) (c3)--(a1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Some notes:

*

*The size of the nodes should not be too big. Hence I use minimum size=.75cm.

*The nodes should be in circle shapes.

*You should not have all paths from a specific nodes connected. For instance, this is bad, in my opinion.

It is even worse if you want to add arrows.

*The nodes should have a good alignment. In this graph, they should be horizontally centered.

*Put node label in math mode, if they are something like a, b, m1, n2, etc.

A: Based on the pencil drawing, here is a sample code, which you can improve according to your needs:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}

\tikzset{squarenode/.style = {
    shape  = rectangle,
    draw   = black,
    minimum height = 2cm,
    minimum width  = 2cm
}}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=2cm]
  \node (a) at (0,0) [squarenode] {Goal};
  \node[below=of a] (c2) [squarenode] {C2};
  \node[left=of c2] (c1) [squarenode] {C1};
  \node[right=of c2] (c3) [squarenode] {C3};
  \node[below=of c1] (a1) [squarenode] {A1};
  \node[below=of c2] (a2) [squarenode] {A2};

  \draw (a.south) to (c1.north);
  \draw (a.south) to (c2.north);
  \draw (a.south) to (c3.north);
  \draw (c1.south) to (a1.north);
  \draw (c1.south) to (a2.north west);
  \draw (c2.south) to (a2.north);
  \draw (c2.south) to (a1.north east);
  \draw (c3.south) to (a1.north);
  \draw (c3.south) to (a2.north);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

To understand the anchor points used, refer the diagram and code below:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}

\tikzset{dot/.style = {
    shape  = circle,
    draw   = black,
    fill = black,
    minimum size = 0.2cm
}}

\tikzset{squarenode/.style = {
        shape  = rectangle,
        draw   = black,
        minimum height = 10cm,
        minimum width  = 10cm
}}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=2cm]
  \node (a) at (0,0) [squarenode] {};
  \node[label=a.center] at (a.center) [dot] {};
  \node[label=a.north] at (a.north) [dot] {};
  \node[label=a.south] at (a.south) [dot] {};
  \node[label=a.east] at (a.east) [dot] {};
  \node[label=a.west] at (a.west) [dot] {};
  \node[label=a.north east] at (a.north east) [dot] {};
  \node[label=a.north west] at (a.north west) [dot] {};
  \node[label=a.south east] at (a.south east) [dot] {};
  \node[label=a.south west] at (a.south west) [dot] {};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

A: I think this is a job for a TikZ matrix.
With <matrix-name>-<row-number>-<column-number> you can refer to matrix cells as nodes.
Here you find two versions of the graph, if you want the nodes to be squared, leave out the circle option:
\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}
\tikzset{
    mymatrix/.style={
        matrix of math nodes,
        nodes={draw, circle},
        row sep=10ex,
    }
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \matrix[
        mymatrix,
        column sep=3em
        ](mymatr){
        &\text{Goal}\\
        C_1 & C_2& C_3\\
        A_1 & A_2\\
    };
    \foreach \ind in {1,2,3} {
        \draw (mymatr-1-2) -- (mymatr-2-\ind);
        \draw (mymatr-3-1) -- (mymatr-2-\ind);
        \draw (mymatr-3-2) -- (mymatr-2-\ind);
    }
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}
    \matrix[
        mymatrix,
        column sep=1.5em
        ](mymatr){
        &&\text{Goal}\\
        C_1 && C_2&& C_3\\
        &A_1 && A_2\\
    };
    \foreach \ind in {1,3,5} {
        \draw (mymatr-1-2) -- (mymatr-2-\ind);
        \draw (mymatr-3-2) -- (mymatr-2-\ind);
        \draw (mymatr-3-4) -- (mymatr-2-\ind);
    }
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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Pulse Connects
Welcome to the hub of South Asian dance in the UK. We are Kadam, an arts charity based in Luton, and the publishers of Pulse.
Pulse aims to take a snapshot of South Asian dance in the UK at any given time – profile the artists, discuss, critique and contextualise their work, thereby keeping the sector informed, connected and energized. We are equally keen to represent South Asian music, an exciting and evolving art form.
Publisher and the Board
The publisher of Pulse, Kadam Asian Dance and Music was formed in 1995 and is directed by Sanjeevini Dutta, a dancer, curator and producer.
The charity is run by a voluntary board of five members: Yasmin Whittaker-Khan, youth worker and playwright; Samir Bhamra, theatre director and producer; Dipak Mistry, arts consultant; Susan Spencer, teacher; and Simon Richardson, dance and theatre photographer, the Chairman of Kadam.
Pulse, the dedicated magazine for South Asian dance in the UK was published by Kadam from 2001 until end 2017. Kadam acquired Pulse from Aditi the umbrella body for South Asian dance that ceased in 2001. There are fifty-six issues that chart the development of South Asian dance in Britain. Pulse has had three editors: Anita Dawood Nasser 2002, Chitra Sundaram 2003-2007, and the current editor Sanjeevini Dutta from 2008 onwards. It is our aim to make all issues available freely on the web, uploaded on www.issuu.com.
Kadam is a part of SADAA, the network of UK's leading South Asian Dance development agencies – Akademi (London), Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (London), Chaturangan (Liverpool), Centre for Indian Classical Dance – CICD (Leicester), GemArts (Newcastle), Kala Sangam (Bradford), Sampad (Birmingham) and SAA-uk (Leeds).
Facilitated by Rachel Gibson and Anita Srivastava, Producer of Navadisha 2016.
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Sanjeevini Dutta
Sanjeevini commissions articles and reviews for Pulse South Asian dance and music; watches dance of all genres and attends a weekly odissi class. She has produced and edited 39 issues of Pulse magazine since June 2007. The developments of the form and the emergence of new artists and works are a fascination for her which never dulls.
She is the Director of Kadam, and in that capacity produces and tours shows such as The Rose and the Bulbul, a promenade piece for gardens, and the Odissi Ensemble, UK's only professional odissi company in Gods and Mortals, both of which toured in 2017.
Gopa trained in medieval English literature and her earlier career was spent in teaching and research. For the past five years she has been happily learning more about South Asian dance and music as Assistant Editor on Pulse magazine and through helping with Kadam projects. She has always loved dance, particularly odissi.
Parbati Chaudhury
Editorial and Marketing Assistant
Parbati is a London-born and based dance artist and teacher whose kathak training continues with Urja Desai Thakore. She regularly features in Pagrav Dance Company, Akademi and Kadam productions, and performed in Amina Khayyam Dance Company's SLUT at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017. A busy teacher, Parbati leads kathak classes across London.
Aside from her dance practice, Parbati shares in the website's vision of nurturing a more integrated, informed and innovative South Asian arts sector, and has been a part of the Pulse Editorial team since 2013.
Simon Richardson
Chief Photographer
Simon Richardson has been photographing dance, movement and people for the last twenty- five years, with a special passion for South Asian classical dance. He has exhibited widely at home and abroad, including an exhibition as part of the UK Gharana Festival at Patidar Centre, Wembley, in 2011. He works regularly for many of the South Asian organisations in the UK and most of the leading South Asian dancers have come under his lens. He has been the chairman of Kadam Asian Dance and Music since 1998.
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The Trump Gift To Us All
I am going to make a statement that may cause liberal heads to explode. You have been warned.
To begin with, the day got off to kind of a bad start in that I woke up with a slight headache. It got worse when I logged into Facebook and the first thing I saw was a video clip of Donny and Marie absolutely disemboweling Steely Dan's "Reelin' In The Years," complete with Ice Angels. The capstone of this first ten minutes of my day was a conservative friend of mine sharing an article from the Daily Caller that stated that the Russia controversy was actually the fault of Hillary and the DNC, as was (it was implied) the assassination of President Lincoln, the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, the AMC Pacer, and Donny and Marie singing "Reelin' In The Years."1
After I gathered up my brain cells, which the Donny and Marie video had caused to clatter to the floor with much the same sound as a bucket of gravel being poured down a metal playground slide, I started thinking about how the traffic-cone colored nightmare in the White House causes a very similar reaction on a regular basis, which led me down the path of thinking about the multitude of instances of dumbassery we have all enjoyed at his teensy widdle hands.
In the days prior to trump (known as PS, or "pre-stupid"), Republicans couched their proposals in the language of spin (for example, if they were pushing something called the "Gun Safe Schools Act," you could bet your last nickel that this was a bill to require all elementary school faculty and staff to carry, at a minimum, a Glock 9mm at all times, because Murrika, dammit). They publicly presented themselves as the party of small gummint, fiscal responsibility and social conservatism, and maintained that they were merely representing their constituents that were being persecuted by all them nasty ol' Democrats. Nothing really that unexpected, actually, and it sorta followed the accepted rules of Washington: always mean what you say but never say what you mean; always refer to your opposition as "my friend" even if you know damned well that you would toss them under a riding mower at the first opportunity; publicly adopt a bipartisan stance while privately wishing for the opposing party to crash into the surface of the sun. You know, the usual.
Well, about six months ago all that was thrown out the window, and the GOP adopted a platform we here at The Blowhard Pundit like to call "The poor never donate to our campaigns, so the hell with them" and proceeded to go about the business of implementing their new agenda:
Giving tax cuts to the rich.
Making sure the rich get more tax cuts.
Preventing tax cuts from getting to the poor, the reasoning being that it puts an undue burden on the rich.
Poking Ben Carson with an elbow every few minutes to make sure he's still awake.
Throwing the occasional homeless person found in Lafayette Park into KellyAnne Conway's lair and watching her unhinge her jaw to swallow him whole.
Keeping Steve Bannon off-camera as much as possible because ... well, ick.
Ensuring that the rich pay less in taxes.
They also regularly appear in front of cameras to decry the disaster that is Obamacare, apparently based on the belief that if they say it often enough it will actually come true.
It was while pondering all this that I was struck with a sudden thought: maybe trump is actually good for the country in a way2.
Hear me out on this.
In the PS era, we could only assume that the GOP was populated entirely with callous, lying, greedy, opportunistic hacks. Now, thanks to trump and his army of diseased brainstems and bleating sycophants, we know this. It is on display on a daily -- hourly -- basis. After all, why bother debating a health care bill when you can simply put a dozen Republicans in a room to put something together and push it to a vote before anyone really knows what the hell is going on, then have Sarah Huckabee frown disapprovingly at reporters?
The GOP has gone from the party of hidden hackery and opportunism to the party of blatant hackery and opportunism. They have lost sight of the idea of governing and are focused exclusively on winning. They are no longer concerned with the American people, or even Republican voters ... their only concerns are winning elections and getting more campaign money from big donors. The fact that they are unable to do so based on their agenda, and that they have to resort to dirty tricks such as voter suppression and gerrymandering (you can read about this here, here, and here), is irrelevant. As long as they keep getting re-elected and the campaign moolah keeps rolling in.
Which is why, in an odd way, trump has been good for us. By emboldening the Republicans to expose their true nature as greedy, opportunistic, wannabe oligarchs, he has actually made it easier for progressives to counter the Right Wing Shriek Factory. Gone are the days when Fox News could credibly claim to be an outlet for actual journalism instead of an unending stream of nontroversies and agitprop. Reasoned political discourse has been chucked into the recycling bin and replaced with endless, easily refuted accusations of liberal skullduggery. The words "Republican lawmaker" have become synonymous with "ridiculous buffoon," thanks to things like Rep. Steve King (R-IA 4) saying we could pay for the border wall by taking money from Planned Parenthood and food stamps.
The GOP spent much of the first decade of the 21st century building up majorities in state legislatures across the country, all with an eye toward the 2010 redistricting. They used this power to draw districts in such a way that, in many cases, GOP lawmakers don't even have to run campaigns; they can simply collect the campaign cash and keep the seat warm. Thanks to this new openness, we liberals have an excellent chance in 2018 in making these measures irrelevant and installing a Congress that will actually be responsive -- and responsible -- to the majority of Americans. To do this we have to be unflinching in our desire to call out the GOP for being the selfish liars they are, diligent in keeping up the pressure on lawmakers that aren't up for re-election in 2018, and adamant in our quest to replace the ones who are.
I gotta lie down.
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El Carrer Agoders, 28 és una obra de Tàrrega (Urgell) protegida com a bé cultural d'interès local. Edifici construït totalment amb carreus de pedra i format de planta baixa dos pisos i golfes. La disposició de les obertures és simètrica amb balcons individuals, a excepció de les de la planta baixa, que hi ha una obertura allindada i una altra amb arc de mig punt. La construcció és del 1780.

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Ranking the episodes of Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams
October 30, 2017 May 23, 2018 ~ alexmoreland	~ Leave a comment
Electric Dreams, adapted from Philip K Dick's short stories, was an anthology series offering a new take on a different science fiction concept each week. Tonight saw its sixth episode, concluding the series' 2017 run – a further four episodes are scheduled for early next year. As with any anthology series, Electric Dreams had its highs and lows; here, then, is a ranking of each of the series' six offerings so far.
Worth noting this is my ranking of the first 6 episodes of Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams, as they were broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK – The Hood Maker, Impossible Planet, The Commuter, Crazy Diamond, Real Life and Human Is, respectively. Though not in that order, obviously.
In short, I wanted to love them, but often found I didn't. Generally, I found that the latter four of the Channel 4 broadcast were actually better than the initial six, though I've never really written about any of them. I'd like to go more in-depth on them at some point, though – one possible, far off project I'd like to take a crack at would be a series of detailed essays on Black Mirror and Electric Dreams.
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The Crown Episode 6 review: Gelignite finally allows the drama to breathe
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And, indeed, no series has been so convinced of its own self-worth, nor so focused on its place within the bigger picture.
You can tell that Gelignite is an episode with one eye on the future; the depiction of the press in this episode is undoubtedly set to be contrasted with that which eventually handles the story of Diana and Charles, whenever that eventually appears. As much as this episode works on its – and it must be said that it does – own, it quite clearly wants to be part of something larger.
However, Gelignite is also the first episode that has genuinely felt as though The Crown could be deserving of these awards – the one that's justified the self-worth it wears so openly on its sleeve.
Another contender for my favourite episode; not, as with Act of God, because it wasn't very good – rather because it was the first one that showed real potential, and some genuine character development. Not really a good thing that's only being said of the sixth episode in a series of ten, mind you.
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Accordingly, then, at times it feels as though it lacks nuance or subtlety – from discussions of Elizabeth's duty to, in this case, deliberations on Churchill's age and efficacy, it often appears very surface level. And, arguably speaking, it is – while there's a lot going on, the workings of the drama are laid open and entirely clear for all to see.
Here, then, it's very clear what's going on – the death of Venetia Scott (Kate Philips) was telegraphed early, and entirely unsurprising when the moment came. It's one of the few attempts on behalf of the episode to actually ground the story in terms of the impact of the smog on the public, rather than political infighting or royal squabbles.
And yet it was largely ineffective – not least because it was little more than a cheap fridging, as The Crown here falls into the old trope of killing a female character to develop a male one. It's particularly lazy writing, made all the more evident by The Crown's tendency to wear its themes on its sleeve.
This episode, man. Possibly the most irritating of them all, because it managed to be the one that was both the most engaging and the most exemplary of all the show's problems. Arguably it's my favourite – not because it's good, but because it'd be very easy to write about. I could go on about this at length. It's probably a good thing that CultBox tends to put a 500-word limit on these reviews, because otherwise I'd have written thousands.
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In the world of subcompact cars, the 2013 Honda Fit rates as one of the best values around. It combines fuel efficiency with good interior space, a strong safety record and a very reasonable price. But, the Fit's trump card is an exceptionally taut suspension that makes it fun to drive. And, the Fit's great resale values don't hurt either.
The fit is a good fit for urban drivers.
The car is fairly loud when on the road. It also does not have a lot of engine power. I think it is an excellent price point for a really reliable car. I love the hatchback and honestly one of the best features of the car is that it has a ton of cup holders. I have had my car for over five years and have had nothing but very minor mechanical issues. I am noticing, however, that there seems to be some electrical issues. The interior light in the gear shift as well as the cup holder are is only on for a portion of the time. I also think that while the gas mileage of the car was a feature that was really talked up when I bought it, I do not think I have ever gotten really great gas mileage. Certainly not an above average amount for any other sedan or hatchback. I think this car is perfect for in-city driving with the occasional longer trip.
The fit: fits all the categories that are important to a savvy consumer.
The fit is a car that feels bigger than it looks. Its four doors which makes it easy to get in and out of the back the trunk is large enough for all your things, I find that if I put the seats down I can make the trunk exceptionally large. Because it is small I hardly spend anything on gas. It is simple with very few gadgets which is exactly what I want and need. There just are not that many things that breakdown. It was relatively inexpensive and yet I feel I got the reliability of the Honda name. This is my second fit. I saw the new fits and I don't like the shape of them as much, but maybe I will give it a try.
It is a good ride for the money.
Love the back for carrying loads as the back seats fold down flat and there are no wheel wells like there are on other makes. There are also compartments where you can store small things. The mileage is really good but it has plenty of get up and go when needed. My car has over 100, 000 miles and I have had very few problems although the most common seems to be the fan motor going out, which has happened with both my Honda fits its small so I assume a large person would find it uncomfortable but its good for a smaller person. Rides well with little noise.
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Posted May 16, 2006 in Accessibility, Front-end code.
The type of layout you choose for a web site is often considered a tricky decision, it seems you can never make a popular layout decision. However, there is a process to go through to make sure it's as accessible as possible.
One of the main decision is whether the layout is fixed width, or liquid (or elastic). I posted to a local government usability/accessibility forum about this recently, but thought it would be good to expand on it a little.
Just to start off, trying to make web sites conform to a 'picture' (e.g. photoshop) representation is fundamentally flawed, simply because we don't have that much control over the client end of the medium. There isn't much disagreement about that amongst developers, but it isn't always easy to explain that elsewhere.
Using relative units is a double-A checkpoint, although I would admit there is (or should be) some leeway in practice. I'm focusing on the layout aspects of the checkpoint here, assuming that fonts are relatively sized already.
Who does it matter to?
People on linear browsers, such as screen readers, text browsers and some mobile devices.
Group e is catered to by using a CSS layout (properly), because the source order can be better controlled.
Group a should not be affected by whatever decision is taken on this issue, and get the design as intended.
That leaves those who most affected by this checkpoint, those who change font/screen size or magnify the screen.
1600 at regular and large font sizes.
If you've been testing sites across those resolutions and font sizes, you'll probably notice that side columns don't actually have to scale, if they have some buffer for text to scale up.
The navigation on the left is a plentiful 185px wide, allowing for large words and multiple-word links to wrap. The right hand side (related links etc.) is a bit tighter, and we have to be careful of the content on that side.
However, if you test a site that has a narrow content column, reading becomes difficult when you bump up the font-size.
This affects me personally as I have a laptop with a 16″ screen, but a 1600 wide resolution. I have the DPI turned up, and larger font sizes, and still I have to scale up fonts on the web. It makes some fixed width designs very difficult.
Anyway, the conclusion I am building up to is that yes, there should definitely be flexibility in the design. In simple terms, the content area should scale, and other areas should be checked at various settings with buffer space around text areas.
Still not sure? Ok, let's see what happens.
You can also play with the fixed width example page.
The worse your eyesight, the larger you have the font size, the more horizontal scrolling you get. I've tested sites that use this style of layout (and all the others) with people who have visual impairments, it was easily the worst method, fixed widths actually worked better!
There is an advantage to font based layouts though, and that is for people like me on stupidly high resolution monitors. When you have a large resolution and up the font sizes, the pages 'zooms in' (apart from images, unless you pull some funky tricks).
Even reminding myself how Internet Explorer's CSS expressions work from the original max-width in IE article, I couldn't get this to work properly in IE 5-6: Em and max-width example page.
Setting a font size on the body (e.g. 80%) seems to prevent the font being reported as anything else. Anyone good with IE's CSS expressions?
The best options for accessibility are still either a liquid layout (e.g. our Defacto CMS site), or an 'elastic' layout, which flexes up to a point, but then stops (e.g. this site).
If you want a black and white rule, then use relative units.
If you know enough to take a more considered approach, then use flexibility where appropriate and test it.
One of the arguments for fixed or em-width layouts is having an 'optimal line length'.
Line length is far from a cut-and dried topic, especially online as Joe Clark pointed out before. Some of the best (most relevant) usability research I've come across comes from the "Software Usability Research Lab" (SURL) at Witchita University.
Their study on line-length matches the results of earlier and more comprehensive studies I remember (but don't have links for).
That is about as helpful for making a decision as a slap round the head. However, it does add weight to the liquid design argument, as then users have a choice. They may not know it, and you can constrain the choice somewhat (elastic rather than liquid layout), but you shouldn't take away the choice. I remember a study that compared people's reading speed and preference, and it showed that people's speed and comprehension was quicker at their preferred line length, which varies from person to person.
You also have to accept that you can't actually control someones reading length, even if you fix the width of the layout, as increasing the font size will affect the characters per line.
Great article. I work for Florida Blind Services and am currently transforming my pages to xhtml and a tableless format. Your article helps support info I know but can't enumerate! Thanks.
Hey, just came across this article and your page doesn't correct in Opera 8.54. It looks fine in Firefox 1.5 though.
Yep, there is too much margin around the header image in Opera 8.5x. I've been meaning to do a test case, IE7 doesn't get it right either.
Thanks, cool article. I'm in the process of redesigning my site and I think I've now decided on an elastic layout.
Great article. I'm hear after reading your article from .Net magazine which was also very interesting.
But how are you implementing your max/min widths for IE6 on this site?
If you have a look at the source code, you'll see I bring in an IE < 7 style sheet. Since the expressions for IE are not valid CSS, they are brought in with IE conditional comments, to avoid conflicts with other browsers.
This then uses a similar method to svendtofte's, but not using EMs, as that doesn't work if you set the font size (as most sites do!).
I am doing a site for a charity (older people) and we want to use Joomla! CMS. This article shows up a real problem for us beacause as far as I know there is no template for CMSS that are elastic or meet many of these requirements. Any pointers?
Hi Roger, assuming that you are stuck with that CMS, and can't update the templates, I would base the selection on the testing criteria above.
If it is fairly 'spaceous', and reacts well to browser-text resizing it should be ok.


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Opinion: Obama is upending the role of the presidency
President Obama arrives for a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in 2014. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)
By John Yoo
Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we're talking about executive power. Need a primer? Catch up here.
John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller professor of law at University of California at Berkeley, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and a former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration. He is co-editor of the forthcoming "Liberty's Nemesis: The Unchecked Expansion of the State."
President Obama has all but declared that he will spend his last year in office acting unilaterally to advance his agenda. But his basic misunderstanding of presidential power will render his gains hollow, and his excesses will create the very tools to undo his legacy.
Obama's determination to ignore Congress and rely solely on his presidential power has become the signature of his governing style. He has reshaped immigration policy by refusing to enforce the deportation of millions of illegal aliens, unilaterally suspended parts of his signature health-care law to make it more politically palatable and entered into international agreements on Iran's nuclear program and on climate change without congressional approval.
[Other perspectives: Strong presidencies may threaten democracy. Luckily, we don't have one.]
Obama intends more of the same for the next 11 months — White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough promised a year of "audacious executive action." This attitude betrays a fundamental constitutional error. Obama has aimed unilateral action at domestic policy, where the Constitution gives him little power, and shrunk away from the areas where the Constitution gives him the most strength: national security and foreign policy.
Article II of the Constitution vests the president with the "executive power" of the federal government, makes him commander in chief and tasks him with the duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." The Framers concentrated the executive power in one person because only a single individual could guide the nation through emergencies and crises, which are often acute in foreign affairs and national security. As Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist No. 70, an energetic executive "is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks." Only the president can respond with "decision, activity, secrecy and dispatch." Congress can check executive policy through its funding power, but its core function of legislative deliberation gives it little ability to grapple with sudden crises and fast-changing foreign events.
The Framers reversed this relationship when it comes to issues at home. They granted the great powers of commerce, spending and taxation to Congress. Unlike foreign affairs, domestic affairs rarely demand instant executive action. Our government has far more time for "reflection and choice," in the words of Federalist No. 1, while the states regulate most matters of daily life. The executive's role is secondary: to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." A president may decline to carry out congressional commands only when they violate the Constitution, because the Constitution is the highest form of law. Enforcement includes some prosecutorial discretion due to scarce time and resources, but not to the point of refusing to enforce laws simply because of their policies.
Presidential power in domestic affairs extends no further. As Hamilton explained in Federalist No. 75: "The execution of the laws and the employment of the common strength, either for this purpose or for the common defense, seem to comprise all the functions of the executive magistrate."
[Obama can't rewrite the law]
President Obama's policy initiatives have upended this basic constitutional structure. On domestic policy, the president has failed his enforcement obligation by picking and choosing which laws to follow, effectively overriding Congress's policy choices. But in foreign policy, he has refused to act where the Constitution expects presidential initiative. While Congress can block executive adventurism, it cannot force the president's hand. Only the chief executive commands the armed forces and intelligence agencies, and only he can conduct diplomacy.
Obama's refusal to use his presidential power where it is best suited has set back U.S. interests and accelerated global disorder. The Syrian civil war, the rise of Islamic State, the collapse in Iraq, the drawdown in Afghanistan, the Russian seizure of Crimea, the rise of Tehran and Chinese encroachments in the South China Sea have brought home the bill of foreign passivity.
Obama's upending of the Constitution's structure and limits may prove its own undoing. The next chief executive can suspend, and then repeal, all of the executive orders and regulations of the past seven years. He or she could terminate the Iran nuclear deal and the climate change pact; reinstate enforcement of the immigration laws; and fully reveal Obamacare's distortions of health care. The further Obama stretches his powers to reach for a legacy, the more powerfully his successor can snap the Constitution back into its proper shape.
Explore these other perspectives:
Adrian Vermeule: Imagine there's no Congress
Brianne Gorod: Obama is maintaining the balance of powers, not overturning it
Elizabeth Slattery: Obama can't rewrite the law
John Carey: Strong presidencies may threaten democracy. Luckily, we don't have one.


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Bible > John > Chapter 1 > Verse 44
◄ John 1:44 ►
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
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Of Bethsaida
Rev., more literally, from (ἀπό). Bethsaida of Galilee. See John 12:21, and on John 1:28. Philip, being of the same city as Andrew and Peter, was the more ready to welcome Christ, because of the testimony and example of his fellow-citizens. Notice the change of preposition: from Bethsaida (ἀπό) and out of (ἐκ) the city. See on from the dead, Luke 16:31.
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Philip.
John 12:21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
John 14:8,9 Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffises us...
Matthew 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
Mark 3:18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus...
Luke 6:14 Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
Acts 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where stayed both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip...
Bethsaida.
Matthew 11:21 Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon...
Mark 6:45 And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before to Bethsaida...
Mark 8:22 And he comes to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man to him, and sought him to touch him.
Luke 9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them...
Luke 10:13 Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you...
Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."
Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?"
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Last year I wrote about Birmingham Pride after the awful attacks on the LGBT community at Pulse nightclub in Orlando where 49 people were murdered. This year I must write about Pride having taken place in a world where Chechnya'a leader Ramzan Kadryov has reportedly organized a pogrom against the LGBT community, rounding up gay men, torturing, and killing them; a time when the "leader of the free world", US President Trump, has decided that The Whitehouse will not acknowledge LGBT Pride month as it has done over recent years; and even more close to home, I must write up a Pride that took place just a week after the bombing of the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester where 22 people were killed.
It is no surprise that due to the preceding week's events that we arrived with our friends at Victoria Square to watch the start of the Pride parade somewhat apprehensive. Many of us had received phone calls and texts from relatives and friends telling us to "stay safe" and to "keep vigilant", in fear that such a large event, for a cause in conflict to those terrorists' beliefs who found it fit a week previously to murder children, might attract nefarious attention. Subdued compared to previous years the crowd applauded and cheered the efforts of our emergency services to keep us all safe, and remembered the victims of the Manchester attack with a minute's silence. As the parade kicked off the crowd became more relaxed, and were soon whooping, clapping, and hollering – tolerance resounding across the city as drag queens revelled in sequins and feathers, and go-go boys danced in the street. Thankfully at around 2pm the national threat level was reduced and the weekend went off entirely without incident. The security felt super well organised and security checks, given the recent events, were stringent.
And so to the fun, the frolics, the highlights, and the photos. This year's pride featured the usual array of drag and cabaret artists, entirely irreverent, and often downright offensive – god help those in the audience who felt like playing their face to Sandra, Miss Jason, and the other seasoned professionals because they were hilariously taken down. Topping & Butch kept it current with their normal topical political banter – their job must've been made that much easier with the advent of Trump, Brexit, and the ridiculousness of the last few months of politics. Dua Lipa, Boney M, Charlotte Church, Sophie Ellis Bextor and so so many more rocked the main stage to a thronging crowd. The local joints outside the cordon offered their normal welcome to the weary festival goer who just wanted a sit down and a pint in a proper glass.
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Former La Cañada resident and retired architect Millard Archuleta died May 19 in Rancho Mirage, where he lived in recent years.
Archuleta was born in 1929 in Longmont, Colo., where his parents managed a golf course. In 1940 the family moved to the Los Angeles area where he attended Fremont High School. Known as "Arch" to his family and friends, Archuleta took an experimental curriculum in photography and architecture at Fremont. After completing 2,000 hours of classes in architectural drafting and related subjects, he became a junior architectural draftsman and was hired by Burke and Kober, one of only two companies with a national reputation for designing retail stores.
While working for Burke and Kober, Archuleta continued his education in architecture at Polytechnic, Los Angeles City College and the USC School of Architecture.
Archuleta married his first wife, Diana, in 1950 and the couple had two sons: Justin and Christopher. They lived together in La Cañada until Diana's death in 1975.
Archuleta served with the 25th Infantry Division during the Korean War. He was released from active duty on Thanksgiving Day, 1953. The next year he went to work for Welton Beckett Associates. In 1955 he returned to Burke and Kober, which had become Burke Kober Nicolais.
He was a project architect on department stores during this period, including Bullock's Fashion Square Santa Ana and Sherman Oaks, and the Rossmoor Corp. Leisure World projects in Laguna Hills, Walnut Creek and Seal Beach.
In 1961, Archuleta became a licensed architect and partner in Burke Kober Nicolais Archuleta. He formed Millard Archuleta Associates in 1973 and soon operated four regional offices with more than 150 employees. Developer Ernest Hahn was the firm's top client.
For the Frank Rhodes Development Company, another major client, Archuleta served as architect on four medical office buildings in Newport Fashion Island and a 10-story medical office building in the Irvine Spectrum area.
In 1975, Archuleta married his second wife, Hildegarde, a former fashion model and concert violinist who dedicated her time to raising her stepson Christopher during his education at Flintridge Preparatory School and USC.
In 1988, Andy Feola and Millard Archuleta joined forces as Feola and Archuleta Architects. Among their many projects was the Dilbeck Realtors office on Foothill Boulevard at Chevy Chase Drive in La Cañada.
Archuleta was elected to membership in Lambda Alpha, an international honorary land economics fraternity, was presented the Humanitarian Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the National Award of Excellence from the Pacific Coast Builders Conference.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations to: Betty Ford Center, c/o Eisenhower Medical Center, 39000 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270.


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Having read the obituary regarding Elder Lo Bok-tong(盧木童長老)on page 6, Issue 1743 of Taiwan Church Communique(《台灣教會公報》1743期,1985年7月28日 .P6), I have decided to pen this essay to commemorate this long-term elder about whom I have many memories. At 2 p.m. on July 25, 1985, a memorial service was held as part of the Church Funeral for the honorable Elder(名譽長老) for Life Lo Bok-tong at the KhuaN-Sai-Ke Presbyterian Church in Tainan. ( 台南看西街教會) The large church hall was packed to capacity at that time, with many mourners left standing.
Elder Lo was born on October 12, 1900(生於1900年10月12日) at his old home on Pak-si Street (北勢街). He passed away at the age of 84 on July 17, 1985. At age 18, he lost both parents within half a year. Since the family had no financial assets, he took on the responsibility as head of the household to raise a younger sister and two younger brothers. On many days, the meals consisted of rice gruel mixed with oiled salt. But the siblings were all sent to high school and the two brothers to dental and medical schools.
At first, Elder Lo inherited his father's occupation and became a craftsman, making locks and other copper handicrafts. Soon mass-produced industrial copper products became widely available, and Elder Lo was compelled to change his job to selling processed food. When he was 26, his second uncle (younger brother of his mother) kept urging him to get married. "You are no longer young. It's time to start a family." So, in the early spring of the following year he was introduced by a matchmaker to Miss Chin Chen (陳盡), the second daughter of Mr. Tan Phu , who was Deacon of the Thai-peng-keng Church.(太平境教會) The young man told the prospective father-in-law candidly: "Please understand I am very poor." Deacon Tan replied "I understand. It's more important to have faith." In March 1927, a wedding service was held at home, after borrowing 20 yuan.
The couple's love for each other was steadfast throughout their shared lives. They raised ten sons and a daughter. Six have passed away in childhood or adulthood. At present, Chu-gi (盧主義), Chu-ten (盧主典), Shin-hui (盧信惠)and Chu-eng (盧主恩) live in America. They are engaged in actuarial consulting, medicine or systems engineering. The sole daughter Elder An-cheng (盧安貞)and her husband Elder Chhua Khen-liong (蔡虔良) returned to Taiwan to leave last year.
There are many episodes and interesting stories to illustrate Elder Lo's life as a Christian. Here I will just cite several stories from the brief history of the deceased which I presented at the memorial service. On April 27, 1927, the Lo's were baptized by the Reverend Lien Tek-let (廉德烈) at the Thai-peng-keng (太平境) Church. On December 5, 1937, Lo was appointed as Deacon of that Church. When the KhuaN-Sai-Ke (看西街)evangelical mission was elevated to be a branch of Thai-peng-keng Church, Deacon Lo was elected as Elder of the branch on October 12, 1941.
A story, though lengthy to narrate, is a very important part of Elder Lo's life. The old KhuaN-Sai-ke church was housed in a private residence in the middle section of the KhuaN-Sai Street. The church hall faced the street. Church service was often disturbed by all kinds of outside noises , and the hall was also shallow and narrow. For these reasons, Elder Lo constantly imagined in his mind the picture of a new church building.
Operating business to build a church.
Elder Lo's business was sufficient to support his family but there was a limited accumulation of savings. After several years, a fellow businessman from Senhua (善化), who engaged in meat packing at the Cho-eng (左營) Naval Base, wanted to sell his enterprise. Without any hesitation , Elder Lo bought the business with a considerable amount of licensing fee. Then he signed a contract with the naval base to provide the base's military personnel and families everyday with beef from at least ten cows. In return for exemption from meat packing tax, the sale price was set to 80 percent of the market price. Elder Lo's goal was to realize his dream of a new church through this enterprise.
Unexpectedly, however, the meat packing businessmen of Kaohsiung county felt threatened by the invasion of the Tainan competitor and became openly hostile. So ten businessmen from Kaohsiung(高雄), Kongsan(岡山) and Pintong(屏東) pooled their capital and formed a ten share group, and started to sell beef at the Cho-eng market at a deeply discounted price of 2 yuan per Taiwan kg (1 Taiwan kg was equal to 0.6 kg). The market price was then 3 yuan per Taiwan kg so the selling price at the Base should have been 2.4 yuan. According to the contract, the price was now reduced to 1.6 yuan. Whereas the other side needed to slaughter only one cow a day, this side had to slaughter ten. Under such competition the extent of the losses were clear to both sides. Although the loss sustained by each share of the competing partnership was fairly small, the loss on this side was more than 100 times that of each competing share. As a consequence, Lo's bank deposit and operating funds were soon nearly exhausted. The gold and jewelry were liquidated and so were three rental properties. It was not possible to conceal the predicament from relatives and friends. They all urged Elder Lo to quickly close down the business at Cho-eng. However, Lo's reply was "my purpose in operating the Cho-eng business is to build a church. God will provide a way." This heart-felt remark was a strong conviction originating from his Christian faith and experience. It was this conviction which sustained him against physical exhaustion and mental agony. The opposing side anticipated that Lo would go bankrupt within a year. In fact, he was already bankrupt. Around this time Lo experienced many sleepless nights. When employees woke up in the middle of the night, they often saw him reading the bible or praying.


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A new Pee-Wee adventure is coming, and it will be made available on Netflix exclusively. The video-streaming service will premiere the new feature film, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman later this year.
"Judd and I dreamt up this movie four years ago. The world was much different back then— Netflix was waiting by the mailbox for red envelopes to arrive. I've changed all that. The future is here. Get used to it. Bowtie is the new black," said Pee-wee Herman.
Paul Reubens created the iconic character, Pee-wee Herman, while a member of the famed Los Angeles improv group The Groundlings. The Pee-wee Herman Show premiered at The Groundlings Theatre on February 7, 1981 at midnight. It quickly moved to The Roxy on Sunset Strip where it ran for an unprecedented five months. The HBO broadcast of the show introduced Pee-wee to a national audience. Pee-wee Herman was brought to the big screen in the hit 1985 comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure, which Paul Reubens co-wrote and marked Tim Burton's directorial debut. Reubens went on to create, co-write and co-direct Pee-wee's Playhouse on CBS where the series earned 22 Emmy® Awards during its five year run. Reubens has been nominated for 14 Emmy® Awards, winning twice. In January of 2010, Reubens starred in, produced and co-wrote The Pee-wee Herman Show which completed a critically acclaimed four week run at LA Live's Club Nokia in Los Angeles. With the incredible success in Los Angeles, Reubens brought The Pee-wee Herman Show to Broadway which opened November 11, 2010 to rave reviews with The New York Times calling the show, "Yummier than chocolate;" New York saying, "Welcome Back, Pee-wee! You were sorely missed;" and the New York Post saying, "the audience screams for joy!" Three decades after his first HBO special, Reubens returned to the network with an exclusive version of the hit Broadway show.
Reubens has starred in a number of diverse film and TV roles, including 30 Rock, Pushing Daisies, Reno 911, Everybody Loves Raymond and Murphy Brown which earned him an Emmy® nomination. His film credits include Mystery Men, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blow, David O. Russell's dark comedy, Nailed, and Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime. In the world of animation, Reubens has lent his voice to many projects including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Star Wars Rebels, Robot Chicken, Family Guy and Smurfs. He is currently developing a variety show for television and appears in a recurring role on NBC's hit drama The Blacklist.


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Thu 2 Jan 2003 11.56 EST
Israeli troops today raided refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, demolishing two homes and engaging in heavy gunbattles with Palestinians, in what was described as a search for suspected militants.
Backed by helicopters the troops entered the Maghazi, Bureij and Nusseirat refugee camps in search of militants from the Palestinian Liberation Front, an Israeli army spokesman said.
Several Palestinians were injured in the exchange of fire in Bureij, he said. Palestinians said that one Palestinian was shot in the upper shoulder with a bullet fired from an Apache helicopter.
Two soldiers were lightly injured in the Rafah refugee camp, where the troops demolished two homes claimed to be hideouts for gunmen, when the armoured vehicle they were riding in ran over a bomb, the Israeli army spokesman said.
At daybreak the Israeli army was still operating in the three Gaza camps although no arrests of suspected militants had been made, Palestinians said.
Later in the Gaza Strip three Palestinian boys shot dead by soldiers after scaling a fence around Jewish settlements were buried in the Jebaliya refugee camp.
The three - 14 and 15-year-old cousins Mohammed and Tareq Dawais and a friend, Jihad Abed - had left their homes in Jebaliya on Wednesday afternoon, said Mohammed's older brother, 19-year-old Fares said.
Armed with a knife and two cutters, they talked about dreams of being killed in an attack on Israelis. "His only dream was to become a martyr," the brother said.
Leaders of Palestinian militias said the boys acted on their own.
Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat accused Israeli troops of using excessive force. "The rate of Palestinian children killed at the hands of Israeli soldiers is alarming and requires immediate international intervention," he said.
Earlier in northern Israel a Palestinian militant who tried to carry out an attack on a village was today killed after his Kalashnikov jammed.
He had fired one shot at the home of an Israeli couple in the village of Maor, three miles on the Israeli side of the line dividing Israel from the West Bank, but they escaped unharmed.
"Suddenly I heard a shot and I jumped from bed and I heard my wife shout that there was a terrorist in the house," said Ronald Maori. "When I heard that the terrorist had a problem with his gun I took all that I had on the table and threw it at him."
The Palestinian stayed in the house for more than two hours, said Yaakov Borochovsky, a police chief in northern Israel, before he was killed in a "quiet and orderly operation" by border police.
The Israeli human rights group B'tselem, meanwhile, reported that more than 1,000 Palestinians are now being held by Israel without charges or trial, the largest number in 12 years. A year ago, 36 Palestinians were being held in so-called administrative detention, B'tselem said.


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Anne Bimby
WNKA International (employer)
Anne Bimby is a character in the HD Universe who is mentioned in Grand Theft Auto V.
1 Character history
2.1 Another studio shuttered and turned into flats.
2.2 British Animation Leading the Way!
2.3 Automaker goes to Penny.
Anne Bimby is, in 2013, a news reporter for WNKA International.
Another studio shuttered and turned into flats.
After Franklin and Lamar
The implosion of the American film industry continued today with the announcement that another major movie studio has closed its doors for good. Lowenstein Pictures was founded by Vinewood mogul Roy Lowenstein in the 1920s and soon became a production line for insipid family-friendly entertainment despite Mr. Lowenstein's much publicized vicious mistreatment of his own wives and children. The news will no doubt deal another blow to Solomon Richards and his beleaguered Richards Majestic studio, which was been forced to scrape the creative barrel in recent years with desperate movies like Defender of the Faith in a last-ditch attempt to stave off bankruptcy.
British Animation Leading the Way!
After Crystal Maze
We've long led the world in talent shows and boy bands. Not top British talent is trying to take over the last bastion of American entertainment hegemony – animation. "The Loneliest Robot" has been a surprise hit in America, with moviegoers loving its whimsical charm and home spun tale of good overcoming adversity via ultra violence, despite some parents voicing concern that some of the material was too extreme for children. The film, which was banned as pornographic here in the UK, has been a huge hit in America with audiences of all ages. We spoke to one mother outside a theatre in Vice Beach. "My kids loved it because of the extreme violence and group sex, my husband liked it because the robot controlled his wife, I just loved the melancholy mood that made me feel intellectual." American animation behemoth Fred's are now expanding production in their UK facility and are promising several more Loneliest Robot films, video games, fast food meals, and other tie-ins. Director S. Louis Crawford told us "the British are coming – this time it's true. We're going to take over and I'm getting that statue even if I have to blow someone."
Automaker goes to Penny.
After Fame or Shame
Billionaire venture capitalist Isaac Penny has announced that he will be taking a controlling stake in the beleaguered Vapid Motor Company, which has blown through all its bailout money and is now teetering on the brink of bankruptcy once again. In the press, Penny is trying to paint himself as the saviour of a great American institution, but a history of ruthless asset stripping suggests that his real intentions are far less noble. Dear oh dear. America. We colonized It, they homogenized it. At this rate their car industry will be as moribund as ours.
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The Cube handles 4K resolution, the Stick does not. It sounds like the version of Kodi you have installed may have been modified in some way before it was installed. The Bad The user interface pushes Amazon content too aggressively. I did put one on pre-order, but, it doesn't get released until the end of the month. Maisel, Bosch, Sneaky Pete and The Man in the High Castle.
Hopping between episodes works just fine with Prime Video and other apps. Interestingly, it works only with apps you have installed. Amazon recommends 15Mbps as ample for 4K streaming, while YouTube and Netflix recommend 20. I wasn't that impressed with the when it came out in 2014. They offer a 7 day money-back guarantee and their prices are really reasonable, especially with our.
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The main reason is Roku's interface, which puts all apps on an equal footing. The main menu is arranged in large rows of apps and media, both personally organized by you and suggested by Amazon. While the device still all but requires you to have an account for full functionality and an Echo speaker doesn't hurt, either , the updated Stick has much more to offer than its predecessor. But the actual Stick hardware does have its share of improvements. Amazon FireStick is an incredibly popular streaming device. Also, take advantage of their free applications, coded specifically for the! But first impressions can be deceiving.
I was interested in the new remote with the power and volume controls but i was afraid that my tvs would not be compatible. You navigate the device with six tabs at the top. They are off brand and do not have the cec hdmi. But Amazon does provide users with a snarky workaround. The Kodi method works on all the devices compatible with Kodi, including Amazon FireStick. It downloads the videos as cache on your device before playing.
Remote If Amazon's search still has a ways to go, its remote is better than it's ever been. I only bring the 64 bit possibility up for completeness, and because some people like to impress friends with. This guide shows you how to install Kodi on Firestick or update to Kodi 17. Then, use the freely available apps designed especially for the to control what the world sees when you use the internet! Spacial limitations most certainly are a thing when it comes to physical design, but this needing an adapter is more than just an annoyance. Finally, being able to download Kodi 17, install it along with some add-ons, then be watching a movie all in 5 minutes flat… Kodi 17 wins! This is a clear, fairly detailed and spacious sound regardless of the format, and will reward those using a decent sound solution rather than the speakers built into their telly. The external microphones and speaker.
I searched for shows like Star Trek and actors like Patrick Stewart with pretty good results overall. Above the buttons is a circular, clickable directional pad the center serves as a selection button , and almost adjacent to it near the top is a microphone button. I'm not sure why Amazon insists on this inconvenient setup when products like the have eliminated the need for a separate adapter. Funny-- one tv is 10 years old and the other one is 6 and I feel like i live in an antique shop! Just press the microphone button on the remote and speak into the mic at the top to talk to Alexa if you want hands-free Alexa in a media streamer out of the box, you'll need to get the. This defaults to 4K, as you would expect. YouTube can still play 4K content and looks great, native app or not. The Alexa functionality is very appealing.


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THAUROROD: New Footage From The Studio Posted Online
Finnish/Swedish power metallers THAUROROD entered Rockstar Productions studio in the band's hometown of Hyvinkää, Finland on November 29 to begin recording their sophomore album for an early 2013 release.
The third in a series of webisodes featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the studio can be seen below.
THAUROROD recently announced the addition of Swedish singer Andi Kravljaca (SILENT CALL, SEVENTH WONDER) to the group's ranks.
Commented the band: "We made two shows with Andi in Finland warming up for WINTERSUN and everything felt amazing and we had so much fun together! He easily impressed the band and the audiences with his energetic performances on both shows... what a crazy dude on stage!"
THAUROROD parted ways with Italian singer Michele Luppi in July. They attributed the split to the fact that Luppi "[didn't] have enough time for THAUROROD" and the group's desire to find someone who was "more motivated [and] who share[d] the same passion and hunger to go on with THAUROROD as the rest of the band."
THAUROROD's debut album, "Upon Haunted Battlefields", came out in Europe on September 24, 2010 via NoiseArt Records and Rock The Nation.
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A: I'm actually between jobs right now, but usually I'm a probation officer and investigator. I'm also a professional model.
A: Yes. I started freelancing at 17. Since then I've done hundreds of photo shoots.
Q: What kind of things have you modeled for?
Q: It seems like it could be grueling to stand, smiling, for long periods of time.
A: I did a shoot for an app one time — I was in the War Dragons game — I'm the female warrior with the sword. For that shoot, I was on set for twelve hours and was throwing a sword around; I couldn't move the next day.
Q: What's the overlap like — doing both modeling and law enforcement?
A: I try to keep my worlds separate, for a few reasons.
I have no problem talking about my law enforcement job on modeling sets, and I often disclose that info as a way to filter creeps. On the other hand, I try my best to keep the modeling low-profile when I'm doing law enforcement work. My focus is on my clients, and I try to make sure their focus is on their recovery and themselves, and not on me.
Q: What is the probation officer job like?
A: It's kind of like a cross between psychotherapist and cop. I do a lot of one-on-one counseling with people, case monitoring, report-writing, and general chaos-taming.
When I interviewed for the job they asked me, "If you have to send someone with a family back to jail, would you lose sleep over it?"
Q: And what did you say?
A: "No." And I knew, because I had already done it in the past.
It's another conversation about how incarceration disrupts communities; however, if we don't adhere to our own systems, the result is that people recognize opportunities in the inconsistencies, and they adapt to evade consequences.
Q: It sounds like a challenging job.
A: It's pretty emotionally-demanding work — you have to be in it for the right reasons. Some days are tougher than others because of the extreme workload. I get frustrated when it seems like things might fall through the cracks because there's too much going on.
Your decisions have impact, though, and that's what keeps me at it. I recognize I'm in a position where sometimes I will be there at what is the most critical point in a person's life.
Q: It seems like it takes a certain kind of person to be able to handle this job. Can I ask what your upbringing was like?
A: Challenging, for many reasons. But one example stands out.
When I was nine or so, a new landlord bought our mobile home park. Tenants, mostly fixed-income and elderly, were bullied. Rents skyrocketed. We found out why — for each tenant forced out, an empty home could be cleared to build a profitable condo in place. Suddenly, 50 residents were about to lose everything they had.
My mother, a single woman with no college or law degree and two small children, decided to take on one of the most rich and powerful individuals in our city on behalf of our neighbors. For years, I would pick up the phone to lawyers and councilmembers, and watch her pore over legal research.
It wasn't until I was older that I watched Erin Brockovich and realized I had essentially been raised by her.
Q: Wow. How did you start working in law enforcement then?
A: Honestly, TV shows like CSI initially got me interested, and areas like abnormal psychology hooked me, so in college I pursued a B.A. in Criminal Justice.
I first started doing house arrest monitoring, which I did for a while before becoming a parole officer.
Q: What was it like to monitor people under house arrest?
A: Every day I had to analyze tens of thousands of data points and movement reports in order to determine what our clients were up to.
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Q: What is an ankle bracelet like?
A: Imagine an old Nokia phone or pager attached to rubber straps. One of my old clients would refer to hers as "her VCR." Not attractive!
Most house arrest and GPS bracelets use GPS or radio frequency technology, and others test blood alcohol level through the skin.
Q: Wow, I didn't realize the government could test your alcohol level.
A: It's usually a condition of release as part of an alcohol-related offense, such as in a case with a history of DUIs.
Q: How would you do if you had to wear a bracelet?
A: I'm a homebody, so house arrest wouldn't be hard! I've had to test all the bracelets out as part of training and can certainly say that some are uncomfortable.
Fun fact: women are more likely to have a harder time with fit because we have more changes in the swelling in our ankles.
Q: I can imagine. What do your friends think of your law enforcement job?
On the other hand, virtually everyone in L.A. works in entertainment, so I'm a bit of a unicorn there. Having a Hollywood actress turn to you just to start gushing about how fascinated and jealous she is about your law enforcement career is a truly hilarious and humanizing experience.