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Texas Officials Take Aim at Crude Oil Export Ban
With prices stumbling and crude oil backing up in refineries and tank farms across the state, Texas lawmakers are raising a cry for repeal of the 40-year-old ban on most crude oil exports.
by Jim Malewitz March 9, 2015 5 PM Central
An oil refinery is shown in the Houston Ship Channel in 2011. Credit: Louis Vest for The Texas Tribune
With a glut of crude oil filling up pipelines and storage tanks and pushing down U.S. oil prices, Texas lawmakers are calling on Washington to lift its 40-year-old ban on crude exports.
"Congress should update our national trade policy to benefit Texas producers and consumers," state Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo, said Monday at a joint hearing of the House Energy Resources Committee, which he chairs, and the chamber's International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee.
More than 100 Texas House members have signed on to a proposed resolution that calls the ban a "relic from an era of scarcity and flawed price control policies" that should be lifted. All three Texas railroad commissioners voiced support for the legislation, saying that finding more buyers for U.S. crude would prompt drilling, pouring more cash into the state treasury.
"If we want to sustain the 'Texas miracle' and lead the way to energy security, we have to compete in the international market," Commissioner David Porter told lawmakers.
American companies may export refined petroleum products such as gasoline or diesel, but most crude here is stuck at home.
That's because of a policy dating back to the mid-1970s. The U.S. produced far less oil then, and the 1973 Arab oil embargo caused global oil prices to skyrocket. In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which banned crude oil exports with few exceptions – an effort to keep oil here and protect against price shocks.
Since then, the U.S. — led by Texas — has become the world's top oil producer, largely due to technological advances like hydraulic fracturing allowing operators to tap resources once considered unreachable. But that surge of production is filling up the country's pipelines and storage tanks, driving down U.S. prices and slowing drilling across the country, with big implications for the Texas economy.
U.S. refiners can only handle so much domestic oil, because many still run on imports of heavier crudes — imported from Venezuela, Canada or elsewhere — rather than the light "sweet" stuff pumped from Texas and North Dakota shale.
While global supply and demand have depressed crude prices worldwide, the American glut has made U.S. oil about $10 per barrel cheaper than what's sold on the international market.
Supporters of lifting the ban say the move would bring U.S. prices more in line with international prices, softening the blow of the latest downturn. The status quo, they say, leaves on the table billions of dollars that would flow to Texas oil producers, royalty owners and into state and federal coffers.
"We're sort of driving down the road with the windows open and hundred-dollar bills flying out the window for no reason," said economist James LeBas, a former Texas chief revenue estimator who testified on behalf of two oil groups.
Critics argue that shipping U.S. crude overseas would threaten the country's energy security and raise gasoline prices.
"It is inconceivable that you can export oil and take away the surplus and not have it result in an increase in cost to American consumers," said Tom "Smitty," Smith, director of the Texas office of Public Citizen — one of few people who registered as opposing the House resolution (though he chose not to testify Monday). "It is a fundamental violation of the law of supply and demand."
Smith and other environmentalists also oppose lifting the ban on grounds that it would bolster drilling, unleashing more damage to the environment.
But it's unclear how the change would affect prices at the pump. In an October 2014 report, the federal Energy Information Administration concluded that gasoline prices at the pump are more closely linked to global crude prices than the value of U.S. oil. The market research firm IHS agrees, estimating that exports could actually lower gas prices over time.
Some refiners have opposed lifting the ban, fearing they would lose their discount on domestic crude.
"The unlimited export of crude is not in the national interest," Bill Day, spokesman for San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp., the country's largest oil refiner, told Fuel Fix in January. "We're not so sure who would support such a thing, unless you were a producer and wanted to get a higher price for what you are producing."
But neither Valero nor anyone else testified Monday on behalf of refiners.
"We don't have a specific comment at this time," Day told The Texas Tribune.
Disclosure: Valero is a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.


Every month, many homeless people are placed in desperate situations. If you're a woman (or a trans man, or anyone who menstruates) living on the streets, getting your period is more than just a hassle — it's a matter of comfort, cleanliness, and dignity. The latest installment of Bustle's NSFWomen docuseries talks about Homelessness + Periods.
There are 50,000 women living on the streets nationwide, and with limited access to pads and tampons, and no steady, comfortable place to shower, they are forced to get creative with ways to keep clean when they have their periods. Some are forced to steal products. Others wait for homeless outreach crews to come by with pads. Some use socks, paper towels, plastic bags, toilet paper, towels, cotton balls, or clothing in place of hygiene products.
In New York City, Willcuts says she washes up in public park bathrooms and goes to Starbucks for hot water and a water bottle to help with cramps. She also crafts makeshift tampons from pads, because tampons keep her cleaner and are harder to come by, and she washes bloodsoaked socks in restaurant sinks.
The city recently became the first in the country to require public schools, jails, and homeless shelters to provide free pads and tampons.
"You shouldn't have to decide between a pad and having lunch," NYC Council Member Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, whose office led the push for this legislation, tells Bustle.
But many women living on the streets think that shelters are dangerous and prefer to stay away — even if that means spending the little money they have on tampons.
For women like Willcuts and Courtney, feeling clean is a constant struggle which intensifies monthly into what Ferreras-Copeland calls a "crisis situation," wherein the use of makeshift products or the improper use of tampons become a health issue. Ferreras-Copeland hopes that the recent legislation will also help start a conversation about periods.
You can watch this installment of NSFWomen below. For the first 250 Facebook shares this video gets, Bustle will donate a pair of period-proof underwear, offered at cost by THINX, to Distributing Dignity, a women-led nonprofit organization which distributes pads, tampons, and bras to women who are homeless.
To help address this issue, visit Distributing Dignity's donation page.


Youve seen those beautiful bottles in your favorite restaraunts, in the magazines and even in some of your friends hoouses. Isnt it time you had some? Discover what the people of the Mediterranean have known for thousands of years, not only do they look great they taste even better. Use a flavored vinegar in your nexzt dish instead of the plain stuff and tast the sensation of herbs and spices in a whole new way.


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Q: Align two icons to the far right of a parent div I am trying to add an svg and another span element container an svg to the far right of an input however, with my current setting they are overlapping:
I have a structure like this:

/* How can I fix this such that the red will be aligned before the arrows? Currently my css is:  */

svg,
#mySvg {
  cursor: pointer;
  position: absolute;
  display: inline-block;
  opacity: 0.8;
  right: 0;
  position: relative;
  margin-left: -25px;
  z-index: 9999 !important;
}
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.5.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

  <input class="form-control textInput" type="text">
  <svg></svg>

currently they look like this:

A: Here is a simple example that I managed to work on for this purpose. You can change your HTML like this:

  <input class="form-control textInput" type="text">

    <svg></svg>
    ♠

and for the CSS part, you do like this:
#icons_container {
  position: absolute;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  right: 0;
  top: 0;
  padding: 0px 5px 0 0;
}

I have wrapped both the icons with div that is positioned as absolute and it's display property is set to flex.
Here is the example in full in CodePen. https://codepen.io/ahmadkarimi2009/pen/ExgpLbe
Note: I haven't used Bootstrap for tackling this issue.

A: When you using absolute position for elements you can not control overlaping them.
The only thing you can do is that add more right offset to one of them to prevent overlaping.
Example:
svg {
    right: 10px;
}

#mySvg {
    right: 40px;
}

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Q: Firebase storage bucket grants access to some countries only but not others I have a Firebase Storage bucket located in australia-southeast1. When a user creates an image with my app, that's where the file goes.
Then the image is supposed to be shareable through a download link obtained with the getDownloadUrl() function (so a valid public link with token is generated).
However, when I share that link, people from Australia, Asia and US could access it. But users from EU, Canada, North Africa, etc. couldn't. See an example here.
My guess is that this is because of my bucket's default location. But, I am puzzled since the documentation does not mention any geographic restrictions of this kind and I have not set any specific limitation. It is not even a matter of speed of access, it is just simple access.
Shall I create multiple buckets in multiple locations and duplicate all the images in all buckets to ensure access independently of the user's location?
Edit: Details of debugging attempts

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*Those who can't access only see a white screen.

*I tried to replicate the issue using VPNs of those countries, and checking the inspector, the console says nothing and for the network part, the GET request gives a '200 Connection established' status but 0 Byte transferred.

*Then I went on and tried to do the GET request from within my app to
display the image in it. This time, I got in the console a
'Cross-Origin Request Blocked...(Reason: CORS header
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing)' message and still the same
status in the network tab. The app is able to successfully open the
image on VPNs of locations that can view it.

*Also, I already checked the CORS configuration in Google Cloud and they look fine and allow
my app's domain to access to the bucket. I even tried to allow any
domain (by setting the origin parameter of the CORS to "*"), just to
see what will happen, but the behaviour remains the same (I don't see
why it would work for some and not for others anyway).

A: This is usually not an expected behaviour. One reason for this may be the CORS configuration is not properly set. As an initial troubleshooting step I would recommend you to configure it as stated here and in a more detailed manner in this document.
If the above doesn't help then you may require to raise a support ticket with Google Cloud Platform Support to investigate the issue in detail and find a root cause. If you don't have a valid support package you may raise a Free Firebase Support ticket.


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Adline Appoints Mikael Leckborn As New CEO
COO & Co-Founder at Adline, a SaaS company specializing in AdTech for SMBs.
We are proud to announce that Mikael Leckborn is joining Adline as the new CEO. The company is now entering an even more aggressive growth phase and therefore needs to increase capacity and even further strengthen its management team. An experienced business leader, Mikael will succeed Carl-Wilhelm Vedvik and assume responsibilities on May 2nd.
Co-Founder Carl-Wilhelm Vedvik will continue as the company's COO, and will be a key part of leading the daily operations and implementing SaaS strategies together with the team.
Mikael Leckborn is a seasoned business and finance executive with 12+ years of corporate leadership and sales experience in the Technology, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Financial Services sectors including commercial experience from Oslo Market Solutions.
"The appointment of Mikael marks a natural progression in Adline's development as we continue to scale the company. Mikael has the necessary experience and a solid understanding of the MarTech industry. He adds to an already very strong lineup of talented people in Adline", says Dag Honningsvåg, Chairman of the Board.
While at Oslo Market Solutions, Mikael worked as CCO and lately Acting CEO leading the full merger of Oslo Market Solutions into Infront AS after the M&A transaction.
"Mikael will work alongside with Co-founder Carl Wilhelm Vedvik to drive value creation of the company. With increased capacity in Adline, Carl will continue to build the SaaS infrastructure as the company's COO together with the team", continues Honningsvåg.
Mikael Leckborn received a Masters degree in Financial Economics from University of Gothenburg in 2010. In 2021, Mikael was picked up in the Dagens Næringslivs 40 under 40 and has invested in Adline.
Adline management team will hereby consist of Mikael Leckborn (CEO), Carl-Wilhelm Vedvik (COO), Mike Damnjanovic (CCO), Jo Hansæl (CPO) and Alexander Trofimov (CTO).
About Adline – enable all SME's to succeed with digital sales at a low cost.
Adline is a super easy advertising platform with no-code analytics. The software lets you create and publish effective ads across multiple channels such as Google & Facebook in 1-click. Algorithms optimize your ad budget several times a day to generate more conversions at a lower cost.
Get started with Adline

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Come to the Confluence taproom to try our Des Moines Beer Week collaboration beer, ConFlix of Interest, brewed with Flix Brewhouse.
Some say there are as many ways to brew as there are brewers in the world. You may think then, when two brewers meet, conflicts of interest may arise. Nothing was further from the truth when we got together with our friends at Flix Brewhouse. Gripped by the spirit of collaboration and equally determined to avoid brewing yet another summery pale ale, it took little time for us to agree on a Biere de Garde, specifically a Biere de Miel (literally beer with honey). We designed our friendly brew to capture the essence of centuries of refreshing farmhouse ales. With the addition of local honey and Lemondrop hops, ConFlix of Interest delivers a subtle aroma of lemon, banana and freshly cut hay, while being malt forward with notes of toasted honey and cereal grains. We hope you'll agree that this beer is the perfect refreshment for your Des Moines Beer Week.


The retention and advancement of women as leaders in technology, whether in technology functions or in operations, or in the technology industry, remains one of the biggest issues around talent and leadership in both big corporations and the startup world.
This unique leadership development program is a vehicle for targeted investment in the retention and advancement of high potential women leaders and innovators in technology and operations.
This leadership program is designed to accelerate women's success and effectiveness as technology leaders and innovators.
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If trustees are listed, would I need to submit their fingerprints and photos with each purchase?
Hello rk_2 A sad day in the history of us humans.
If so, that is messed up!
That is some serious suckage right there.
The subs from Texas are as:holes. Left ruts in my yard, and pop cans in the grass.
I refuse to work on Sun. :) I'll mow grass, just no production.
Not a bad idea. Howdy red. Big job there?
Not a friendly day outside.
Howdy GregD. The warm up is happening early, and slowly, but it is happening. Many folks will wish they mowed this weekend. But, they didn't.
Wouldn't deny it for a second. I watched it more than once!
Thank you for the reppage!! Woot!
If your stuff can't handle twitty's family, then you should've bought better gear.


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Katedra świętej Trójcy (ang. Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity) – katedra Kościoła Irlandii znajdująca się w mieście Downpatrick, w Irlandii Północnej. Mieści się na wzgórzu katedralnym (ang. Cathedral Hill) górującym nad miastem. Jest jedną z dwóch katedr diecezji Down i Dromore (drugą jest katedra w Dromore) w prowincji Armagh. Katedra jest centralnym punktem w Downpatrick.

Jest to stare kościelne miejsce z kościołem pod wezwaniem Świętej Trójcy wzmiankowanym w XII wieku. W 1124 roku święty Malachiasz z Armagh został biskupem Down, i przystąpił do remontu i powiększenia katedry. W 1177 roku John de Courcy (normański zdobywca Ulsteru) sprowadził zakon benedyktynów i wygnał zakon augustianów osiedlonych tam przez świętego Malachiasza z Armagh. Przez 1220 rok budowla była w ruinie i została później zniszczona przez trzęsienie ziemi w 1245 roku. Katedra została spalona przez Edwarda de Bruce'a w 1316 roku, a następnie kilkakrotnie była odbudowywana i niszczona. W 1538 roku klasztor został skasowany, a następnie zniszczony w 1539 roku przez lorda Leonarda Greya, lorda zastępce Irlandii, który urządził w niej stajnię dla koni. Zniszczenie katedry było jednym z zarzutów, pod którym Grey został stracony w 1541 roku. Potem, przez dwa wieki, katedra leżała w gruzach. W 1778 roku Jan Wesley, założyciel metodyzmu, odwiedził i opisał ją jako szlachetną ruinę. Okrągła wieża w pobliżu katedry została rozebrana w 1790 roku. Katedra zawiera elementy XIII-wiecznego kościoła opactwa benedyktynów w Down (czarnych mnichów). Odbudowa zrujnowanej XIV-wiecznej katedry w Downpatrick została zainicjowana po ustawie parlamentu z 1790 roku udzielającej 1000 funtów na ten cel. Hrabia Hillsborough ofiarował dalsze 568 funtów i 300 funtów zostało pożyczonych na rok z dochodów dekanatu. Długie prezbiterium z późnośredniowiecznej katedry zostało wyremontowane i przekształcone w nawę główną i prezbiterium dla nowej katedry. Charles Lilly kierował restauracją, ale była ona tak daleko idąca, że wiele detali z oryginalnej budowli zniknęło, bo dążył do odtworzenia ogólnego efektu średniowiecznego. Prace zostały zakończone i katedra była gotowa do użytku w 1818 roku. Ośmioboczna kruchta i neogotycka wieża zostały dobudowane do zachodniej fasady w 1826 roku. Krzyże z XI, X i XII wieku zachowały się w katedrze. Budowla dzisiaj to przede wszystkim oryginalne prezbiterium z XV wieku z dobudowanymi: kruchtą i wieżą. W latach 1985-1987 miała miejsce druga gruntowna restauracja, podczas której katedra była zamknięta.

Przypisy

Zabytki Irlandii Północnej
Anglikańskie katedry w Irlandii Północnej
Świątynie pod wezwaniem Trójcy Świętej

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Home » Industry News, News » National Life announces Best Doctors(R) Services for e-Critical Illness policyowners
National Life announces Best Doctors(R) Services for e-Critical Illness policyowners
Jun 12, 2003 | Posted by Insurance-Canada.ca
TORONTO, June 12, 2003 – National Life is now offering Best Doctors Services, free of charge, on all e-Critical Illness policies. Best Doctors is a service that connects policyowners with physicians deemed to be experts in their field.
"Best Doctors is the world leader in giving people access to the best medical care," says Brian Wrixon, Vice President, Individual Sales. "Using its renowned database of over 50,000 doctors recognized as the best by top specialists, Best Doctors provides rapid access to the finest medical knowledge and peace-of-mind to people facing a serious illness."
When an e-Critical Illness (eCI) policyowner develops a life-threatening illness, Best Doctors works with the treating physician in Canada to gather up test results, diagnoses and other pertinent information. A panel of Best Doctors' experts affiliated with Harvard Medical School analyses the data before identifying and contacting an expert for the medical condition regarding the case. The expert then recommends treatment options, devises an action plan for the patient and sends a report to the patient's primary care physician. At the patient's request, a list of up to three of the top Best Doctors physicians suited to treat the medical condition is provided.
"The key to surviving a life-threatening illness is being connected to the best medical care possible," says Mr. Wrixon. "By making Best Doctors services available through eCI, we're providing clients with convenient access to the most accurate and reliable information, optimizing the chance of a successful outcome."
For further information on e-Critical Illness featuring Best Doctors Services, please send an e-mail to [email protected].
About National Life:
National Life has been a strong performer in the insurance and financial industry for over a century, with a reputation for service excellence and product innovation. Providing individual insurance, group life and health insurance, and retirement and investment products across Canada and in parts of the Caribbean, National Life is a trusted name in the financial industry. Working in partnership with the industry's top independent producers, National Life's network of expert resources provides long-term wealth management solutions to clients. The company was rated A (Excellent) by the A.M. Best Company, the oldest insurance rating agency in the world and has been recognized as one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers" for the past three years by MediaCorp. National Life is a member of the Industrial Alliance Group of Companies, with over $17.1 billion in assets under management and under administration.
About Best Doctors(R):
Best Doctors is the world leader in connecting people with the best medical care. Using its renowned database of over 50,000 doctors, recognized as the best by top specialists, Best Doctors provides rapid access to the best medical knowledge and peace of mind to thousands of people around the world facing a serious illness. Best Doctors services are available worldwide serving more than 10 million lives in 30 countries.


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Body of Westmoreland woman found in shallow grave
The Westmoreland police are seeking an individual for questioning in connection with the killing of a woman whose decomposing body was found in a shallow grave behind her house Friday morning.
The deceased has been identified as 40-year-old Kerry-Ann Williams of Mount Airy district, Westmoreland.
Reports from the Negril Police are that at about 7:30 a.m., lawmen visited the home of Williams subsequent to her not being seen for a period of time.
Checks were made and Williams' decomposing body was found buried in a shallow grave to the rear of the premises.
Further checks revealed that the body had a stab wound to its torso. The scene was processed and the body was removed to the morgue pending post-mortem.
Lawmen are appealing to the suspect to turn himself into the police immediately.
Meanwhile, anyone with information that can assist with the investigation is being asked to contact the Negril Police at 876-925-4857, Police 119 emergency number, Crime Stop at 311 or the nearest Police Station.


My husband returned from a trip to Desi-land, a few weeks ago. He brought back a lugguage full of all of the favourite desi gifts that he could. It made me wonder… we live such an NRI* life! The little things that so many Indians back home take for granted, we consider them precious drool worthy gifts….


Rohit Shetty is a movie director from India. He was born on 14th March 1974 at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. His hometown is Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
His father's name is Madhu Balwant Shetty. He was an actor and fight director. His mother's name is Ratna Shetty. Rohit Shetty five siblings two stepbrothers and three sisters.
Rohit Shetty is married. His wife's name is Maya Shetty. She is a Banker. They have a son. His name is Ishaan Shetty. Check out the table below to get complete information on Rohit Shetty.
Rohit Shetty's height is 6 feet 1 inch and his weight is 80 Kg. His age is 45 Years.It is not known if Rohit Shetty smokes or drinks alcohol.


Did you know that 1 chocolate cake mix + 1 can of pureed pumpkin = muffins?
These two items are all you need to get some yummy muffins in your life - it's kind of magical. And if you're like me, you'll just do yourself a favor and add some chocolate chips to the mix. Because - WHY WOULDN'T YOU?
To be honest, these muffins are totally more on the chocolate-y side than the pumpkin-y side. I do not see that as a problem, though, because they are SO rich and SO scrumptious! They're super fudgy and luscious. That being said, if you wanted to amp up the pumpkin flavor a bit, I'd suggest adding a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice - I added it below as optional. I am totally doing that next time to get the pumpkin train really moving along.
Truth time - I actually made these muffins weeks ago. As most of you know, I'm currently away in Europe for the past week. I was in Amsterdam for our tradeshow, IBC, and as this post goes live, I am taking a train down to Germany to visit my boo, Anna for a few days. There will be more on that in the coming weeks on the blog! So keep an eye out!
Anyway, in preparation for my travels, I locked in as many posts as I could in advance so I didn't have to worry about it when it came time to take off - this post included. My co-workers were a bit baffled as to why I had pumpkin treats to share in August but they got over it in time to enjoy a muffin or two. I didn't hear any complaints once a bite was taken!
When that happens, no need to thank me. You're so so welcome.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line muffin tins with liners or spray with non-stick spray.
In a medium bowl, mix the pureed pumpkin and cake mix until combined.
If you're opting to, add the pumpkin pie spice.
Spoon batter into muffin tin 3/4 of the way.
Bake for 18-20 minutes or until toothpick comes out of the center clean.
Cool completely before shoving muffins into mouth one at a time.
Endless yeses! I all but turn pumpkin into a food group unto itself from September straight on until winter, so these muffins are beyond up my alley and a GF version will be created pronto. Thank you for the splendid recipe!


QuackLabs holds pride in software companies to provide application development & maintenance, technology infrastructure services, programme and project management to its clientele. We have best and strong application development for job portal.
QuackLabs focuses on keeping clients in the mainstream of continually evolving technology. We understand technology is the enabler and also understand that there is always scarcity of resources to abreast the right technology. We work with our clients from the initial stages of planning their technology investments, helping then tie-up with best of the breed partners and then help all the stakeholders to manage the expectations, ensure checks and balances for timely delivery with financial prudence. QuackLabs offers business intelligence and analytics as it's core business solution enabling clients to right invest.
Quacklabs technologies focuses on keeping clients in the mainstream of continually evolving technology. We understand technology is the enabler and also understand that there is always scarcity of resources to abreast the right technology. We work with our clients from the initial stages of planning their technology investments, helping then tie-up with best of the breed partners and then help all the stakeholders to manage the expectations, ensure checks and balances for timely delivery with financial prudence.
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Heaven Our True Home | 7 Lectures
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Understanding Jesus | Walking on Water | St. Matthew 14
Now available at patristic nectar dot Org. patristic nectar publications is pleased to present a seven part lecture series by Father Josiah Trenham entitled Heaven, our True Home. One of the most shocking realities of the preaching and teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ to his early first century Judean audience was his fervent, expansive and repetitive teaching on Heaven. Heaven literally permeates the sermon on the mount and our Savior's parabolic instruction. The Holy Apostles received this single eyed focus upon the next life from the Lord Christ and passed this teaching on to their disciples in the early church. Sacred tradition has vivified and animated the discipleship of Christians in their race toward heaven ever since. In these lectures, Father Josiah opens the scriptures and the writings of the church fathers on the subject of Heaven in an effort to plant a deep impression of the future life for God's children and to stir up a great desire for obtaining it. For these and other available titles, please visit our website at patristic nectar dot org and now the arena with Father Josiah Trena. In the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, a blessed Lord's Day to all the few brothers and sisters I'm preaching this morning on the Gospel Text I've entitled my homily understanding Jesus. This text this morning is from the Fourteenth Chapter of St Matthew's Gospel and it serves as a bridge from last Sunday, the Sunday of the feeding of the five thousand, to this incredible account of Jesus walking on the water. Matthew, as does mark and John, who also recounts this event, he describes this incredibly sharp transition from Jesus being with his disciples working this incredible miracle for five thousand men, if you add women and children, maybe up to twenty people. Just think of how many people that is. Think of a time when you've been somewhere and there's twenty thousand people. Think of a stadium, maybe for a massive sports event or for a concert or something. That is the population that the Lord was feeding from nothing, or I should rather say from a few loaves and fish. Jesus has been doing this. This must have been an incredible work. Talk About having a small concession stand right here, the twelve disciples and Jesus distributing food for that many people. And then Jesus does something amazing, something a new usual. He asks his disciples in a very curt way. He says, look, you have to leave, get in the boat and go across and I'm going to stay here and deal with the people. No more explanation than that. Can you imagine if the congregation, on our little tiny feasts that we have, if you all came up to me and said Hey, at the very end, father, we're leaving, you know, following the principle of Jesus, after eating, we have to go. We're gonna leave you here to take care of everything. Oh, thank you so much, thank you so much. Why did he do this? Why did Jesus Act this way? Why did he send all of his helpers away and stayed to deal with the people himself? There's a clue that John gives us. He gives us the answer, in fact his accountess recorded in chapter six, around Verse Fifteen, it says that Jesus perceived...
...that the people were intending to come and to take him by force and make him king. This was the response of the people after they had seen this marvelous multiplication of fish and lobes. The fervor, the Messianic Fervor, and interpreting that Messiah in their way, in that very earthly Jewish way, had reached such a height that Jesus thought that they were going to just forcibly take him and put the crown on his head, that they were going to come and say, Jesus, we know who you are, get rid of these Romans, bring an end to this illegal occupation, deliver us from this bondage to pagans. I think that we can infer from Jesus sending the disciples away that the disciples themselves were not very far from that thought. Jesus is about to start right after this. He begins his concerted preparation to convince the disciples that his whole mission is not that that's a pathetic, small vision of a mission compared to what he came to do. He begins to convince them that his destiny is not that. It's not to have a crown on his head and to kick out pilot. His destiny was to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men to be abused and suffer and to be crucified and on the third day rise again. Mark, who records this account at the end of chapter six, begins in chapter eight with quoting Jesus saying that to his disciples. In chapter nine Jesus says exactly the same thing again to his disciples, and in chapter ten Jesus says exactly the same thing again to his disciples. You see what's going on in their minds. Jesus is trying to help them understand the centrality of his suffering, that the Messiah came to die. He came to deal with a much greater problem than what they all thought the problem was, which was not the Romans. This is the first thing I want you to see. John helps us a little bit too in this. In his account about this, he says that the disciples heart was hard. They were having a hard time perceiving who Jesus was and the core of his mission because their hearts were hard. Sometimes we want Jesus to save us, but we want him to save us from the things that we think we most need saving from. These people wanted the Romans out, they wanted the occupiers out of their land. But they did not want sin out of their hearts. They needed to be conquered by Christ. They needed to have the enemy removed, yes, but not the Romans. They needed the demons from here. They needed the hardness from here out. What about US, dear ones? Many of us know how desperately our nation needs Jesus's guidance, but how desperately do we feel our need? I think it's a big temptation. I feel it in my life and I suspect that you feel it in yours too. When you're when you're nation that you love is on fire, when it is...
...m digressing, collapsing further and further and further, it's very easy to become fixated upon how much the nation needs Jesus to save it and miss the real issue of why Jesus came, which is you and me. Our land needs saving, no one questions that. But the land that most needs saving this land, this dirt, and that's the best way to make the contribution to your country. You want to make a great contribution to the United States, yield, yield yourself to Christ. Let him be your ruler, let him conquer you. We no Washington, D C or Sacramento or in great need. But what about nine o seven at four seven zero zero, Canyon Crest drive? How about that? I could put your addresses, but I don't know all your addresses and I have my book right. These are the addresses that we have to pay attention to. So Jesus protects his disciples from DIS fervor. He currently sends them away, and look at where he sends them. This is my second point. Jesus deals with the people. We have a very short sentence. That is a very brief explanation on how Jesus dealt with people. I would love to have seen that. How he possibly calmed them down, let them know he has no intention of letting them make him king by fourth and then sends them away so that he can get some peace. What a wonder. I have no idea how he did that. We'd love to have learned something from that. Jesus sent the disciples into a boat and he himself went up to a mountain to pray. Here we find the Lord in the Wilderness in concentrated prayer. Again, at another very important moment in his ministry, the evangelists described Jesus as praying constantly in the middle of miracles, before miracles, after miracles. But they focus on his retreats, his retreat to go someplace to be with his father, away from noise. They focused only a few times on that, and always at a point in Jesus Ministry that was exceedingly important. Something was happening that he needed to prepare for. So we have the evangelists tell us that he left and went to the mountains to pray before he chose his twelve apostles. It was such an important decision that he retreated into silent prayer. He went into the Wilderness to be with his father and spent the night resisting sleep and making sure what he was doing, praying through that here, just as he's saying no to a definition of his ministry that wasn't from God, that wasn't his father's will, at this very important point, when he's turning his attention to Jerusalem, it to the cross, we find him retreating again. And then once more it gets semony. When the ultimate purpose of his mission is right before his face and he's about to be arrested and about to be crucified, he strengthens himself all night in prayer. Well Jesus was doing that, we find the disciples on the path of obedience. They did exactly what they were told. Jesus said, get the boat and go across, and that's exactly what they were...
...doing. And look at what happened to them. They're in a boat, a terrible wind rises, the sea is deep, capable at some parts of producing incredible waves that topple and sink small boats. In fact, the text tells us that we just heard that they were straining. That's how it's often translated in English. They were straining at the oars, the images the winds hitting them keeping them from making progress in their command from Christ to go to the other side. They were rowing as fast as they could, twelve men rolling at full strength, going nowhere, expending all their energy and making absolutely no progress. Have you ever felt that before, making a valiant effort, busting there, hung and going nowhere? The word that is used, that is used here, Vassa needs ooh, it's an interesting word. It's usually translated torment, torment. They were in torment doing what apparently God wanted them to do, but it wasn't going well for them. They were being drowned by the waves St John Chrysostom in his commentary on this. He says this terror, this great trial, came on them in the path of obedience. God sent them into the storm. He commanded them to go into this terrifying situation. How often, when we find ourselves in frightful trouble, do we think immediately something must be wrong, don't we think? So often when we find ourselves in a really bad way, we're like, oh, what is going on? And in this case the answer is nothing. This is exactly what I I'm speaking for Jesus. This is exactly what I intended for you. I sent you there. This is exactly where I want you to be. That's a hard thing to accept, but it's clear. They ended up in this trial because they were obedient and it sets the stage for Jesus coming to them, which is the last point I want to make. Jesus walking on the sea. He comes to them uniquely. How how does he come to them uniquely? Well, you're probably thinking, father means he comes to them uniquely because he's walking on top of the water. Men Don't do that, especially in terrible storms. But there's Jesus. Can you imagine that sciples are in torment. They're probably running out of energy. You know this. Last summer our teens we went camping in central California and one of the days we spent was on a beautiful beach called Rin Kong. Rincon's about fift twenty minutes south of Santa Barbara. Very famous point break there. In fact, it's a matter of fact, it's a it's an incredible surfing spot when the waves are large. For you beach boys fans, it's in the Song Surfing USA. Actually it's one of the places that the Beach Boys mentioned in their surfing us a song. We had a great time there. We went there because the beach is absolutely packed all the time with Driftwood, incredible driftwood, and all the kids had competitions creating the most interesting art piece castle whatever with the driftwood. But I told them a story of something that had happened to me on that beach when I was young. My first year in College,...
I went surfing there on the occasion of a massive, massive swell. That would be called stupid. Yes, I went there and the waves were massive, several stories high, and when you are working, when you're surfing against that kind of swell, that kind of pressure. It's absolutely exhausting. It's absolutely exhausting if you take a wave in trying to get out past the break, especially when the swell comes in successive sets where the waves are breaking a little bit further out each time. You have to use such incredible effort to try to get out pass the break just to get set up to try to take one. And I say stupid because you can also be tricked by the excitement of the moment not to be listening to your body and you could end up finding yourself out there unable to have the energy to go anywhere. And that's exactly how I found myself. I was in torment. I didn't have enough energy even to lift my arms properly to swim, because I was having such a time I didn't want to come in it properly and I almost died. I got hit by a wave. It took my board. The force of the wave was so great that it took my cord, my leash, which is attached to your ankle and bound to the board, and snapped the leash right in half and I was left now out there with no board and no energy, and I looked in and I saw my board bouncing on the rocks on the shore, which is exactly what I thought I was going to do, and then I prayed. I think they call that a foxhole prayer. Yes, I prayed in my desperation and I remembered that I had been taught in a in a class, in a in a scuba diving class, that if you ever find yourself in a situation like that, you should make like a duck and put your legs out wide and your arms out wide, keep your head up and you'll have the most buoyancy. And that's exactly what I did. Wave after waves smashed me in the head, twirled me around. I had no idea if I was going to be able to get to the surface before I ran out of breath. Next thing I know, I was on the sand myself, like my board, bobbing on the sand, on the rocks, and I just put my elbows up and I crawled up onto the sand out of the waves and went to sleep and just thank God, I just think God was that I was alive. I have never forgotten that. It was exceedingly important to me it. Everybody has something that they did when that was so stupid, when they were young, that it really taught them to believe that they were stupid, and believing that you're stupid really helps you from being stupid in the future. It really helps you. And this was my moment. This was my moment where, because I was so dumb, I learned. I learned. I think it was God's will for me. He took care of me, he kept me alive and then taught me tons of things through it. These disciples had to learn something and the only way that they could learn it was to be stuck in the middle of the most frightening situation. It was God's will for them and they had to learn mostly exactly who Jesus is and why he came, and that's how the whole account ends. They see Jesus walking on the sea and they know, good Jewish boys that they are. They've chanted the psalms, they know that only God treads upon the waves. Only God, not men, walks on diseased. They had just seen him multiply loaves and fish for people, but...
John's very clear that they were not seeing clearly. Their hearts were hardened and they were not seeing clearly, and Jesus wanted them to see who he was, and that's most apparent in mark's account, because in Mark's account this will blow your mind. And Mark says that when Jesus is walking on the sea, he quote, intended to pass them by. Unquote. Did you hear that? They're drowning, they're in torment, they're almost out of energy, they're thinking that they're going to get and then they see Jesus and then he's like hey, guys, he's walking by them. What is that? What is that? He intended to asked them by. It's very important reference. Jesus was there to show them something about himself. We have a little bit more of a clue of what that was when he looked at them and he said incredible words. Two things. Don't be afraid EGO EMI. It is I. It's often translated it is I, but that phrase has an incredible history. John, especially in his Gospel, uses it all over and over and over again. Those words are the words. If you read the SIP to a Gent when God tells Moses His name, the Septuagent writes down this. I am, I am is sometimes translate I am who I am or I shall be who I shall be. Jesus is wanting them to figure this out. His disciples are tempted to have the JEWISHPERSED perspective. Jesus came to free us from the Romans. This is what it's going to be. and Jesus is pulling his hair out. He's like, I just multiplied fish and loaves for people and you think I just came to free you from the Romans. I'm walking on the water for you and I'm passing you by. Do you see this? Do you see this or do you not? Doesn't that make the word from John Even more clear? That they did not understand because their hearts were hard? Just think of Pharaoh. Why did Pharaoh, after seeing love those miracles that God, produced ten plagues? Why did Farrell Not Know God? Because his heart was hard? Why did the disciples have such a weakness towards this shallow perspective of what Jesus was trying to accomplish that the crowds had who have been fed? John says, because their hearts were hard. Jesus was trying to change their whole opinion of himself, change everything. Look what I'm here for. The account says, and John that when Jesus got in the boat he did two more immediate miracles. The wind ceased that moment and, quote, immediately they were at the shore. He showed that by their by his presence in that boat, the thing that they feared nothing, it's nothing, and immediately they were at their destination. Jesus wants us...
...to know who he is and why he came, and it's much greater than anything, any little thing like fixing a nation. He came to conquer what couldn't be conquered. What we should really be afraid of? The Devil, our own sins death. If he can conquer those things, which he does, everything else follows. Everything else follows and we don't have to worry about anything, anytime, anywhere. No Storm, no storm. If your savior is God and walks on the waves, may his name be praised by US and may we know who he is and want him for what he truly offer us. On them. We hope that you have enjoyed and have been edified by this presentation offered to you by Patristic Nectar Publications, a nonprofit organization committed to nourishing the spiritually thirsty with the sweet teachings of the Holy Fathers. If you are interested in other available titles. Or if you would like more information on patristic nectar publications, please visit our website at www dot patristic nectar dot org. Again, that's www dot patristic nectar dot org.
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Sirach: Fashioning a Life of Wisdom | 5 Lectures
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Patristic Nectar Publications is pleased to present a new five-lecture series by Father Josiah Trenham entitled Sirach: Fashioning a Life of Wisdom. The Wisdom of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus, as the book is known in the Western or Latin tradition, is a choice composition from the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament.  Written in the 2nd century BC in Hebrew and translated into Greek by the author's grandson in Alexandria, Egypt, this majestic portion of Holy Scripture combines the rich aphorisms of traditional Hebrew sapiential literature with the concerns and background of 2nd-century Hellenic culture. Jesus, the Son of Sirach, was highly prized by the Church Fathers from the earliest days of the Church. In these five lectures, Father Josiah hones in on the themes of learning and seeking wisdom, humility, work, wealth, almsgiving, friendship, social life, wives, women, medicine and physicians, youth and aging, and wise speech and the power of words. In these topical lectures, practical substance is given to the practice of the fear of God in a wide array of human activity so that the servant of God pleases the Lord and lives thoroughly and thoughtfully before Him.
Lecture #1 - Learning and Humility.
Lecture #2 - Work and Wealth in Sirach
Lecture #3 - Almsgiving, Friendship, and Social Relations
Lecture #4 - Wives, Women, and the Stages of Life
Lecture #5 - Wise Words
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Fredonia: Nathaniel Gates Pleads Guilty To Selling Crack Cocaine
Fredonia Man, Nathaniel Gates Pleads Guilty To Selling Crack Cocaine
BUFFALO, N.Y (STL.News) U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nathaniel Gates, Jr, 47, of Fredonia, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to possessing with intent to distribute, and distributing, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum of 40 years in prison.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Seth T. Molisani and Charles E. Watkins, who are handling the case, stated that in April 2015, the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration began investigating the drug trafficking activities of the defendant in Chautauqua County, NY. During the investigation, investigators made three controlled purchases of narcotics from Gates. Investigators also executed a search warrant at the defendant's Brigham Road apartment in Fredonia and recovered illegal narcotics and items commonly used in drug distribution.
The plea is the result of an investigation by the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force, under the direction of the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Ray Donovan, New York Field Division.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 25, 2021, before Judge Sinatra.
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This image took 5.5 hours total. It took just under an hour to actually set up and take in my backyard. However it took 4 hours of editing that spanned two weeks to create the final image above. I don't sit and edit a gallery of photos like a traditional photographer. I bounce between the original sketch, Lightroom, Adobe Stock and multiple images of this composite.


The ICV Autumn Conference in southern Germany, CCS Controlling Competence Stuttgart, took place on November 23. The ICV CEO Siegfried Gänßlen opened punctually at 12 noon. The first speaker started soon after him: Jens Ropers from the CA Controller Akademie reported on a major event dating about 200 years back: Waterloo. How this ended for Napoleon, we all know. But what does it have to do with controlling? Ropers showed in an exciting speech.
Conclusion: "Prepare yourself for the VUCA world and avoid your personal Waterloo," concludes Jens Ropers.
CFO von BLANCO, Hersteller von Spülen und Armaturen, spricht bei der CCS 2017 über die Preisfindung in einer agilen und digitalen Welt.
The second lecture at CCS Controlling Competence Stuttgart goes right into the heart of corporate practice. The speaker is Rüdiger Böhle, CFO of the BLANCO Group – a manufacturer of sinks and fittings. The head office is in Oberderdingen, Germany. However, 65% of sales are generated abroad (as of 2016). In his lecture, Rüdiger Böhle shows what influences the pricing decision in today's agile and digitalized business world – and how these reflect back into the infrastructure of a company. Summarizing: a lecture on changing markets, causes and effects, the market participants in a digitalized world and the price pressure that comes with it, as well as decision-making processes that have to fulfill a multitude of requirements (across functions, countries and hierarchies) – "and all that fast!" – it says the experienced CFO, who knows, which challenges arise also for controlling.
Karin Schönwetter, Director of IBM Global Financing DACH, über zukünftige Geschäftsmodelle, die aus der Digitalisierung erwachsen.
"Digital is already natural," says Karin Schönwetter, the third speaker at CCS 2017. She is Director of Global Financing DACH at IBM. Advanced intelligence is already set for further developments in the economic sector. That's why Karin Schönwetter thinks today about the effects of these facts, which extend to some interaction – between companies and customers as well as within the company: in the interaction with employees and between employees alike. For Karin Schönwetter, it is therefore clear that entrepreneurs have to answer another important question: What will be our business model of the future. Does this model take these changes into account? "One of the key topics that we are currently discussing with our customers". This and other insights into the status quo and the future are provided by the speaker to the participants of the Controlling Competence Stuttgart 2017.
Most important for Karin Schönwetter is one thing: "The business models of the future are always about people AND machines. Cognitive systems can help with decisions – but they do not take them away from humans". She gave system-driven models as examples, taking care of customer wishes, customer complaints and the health of a man. However, it is essential to define political and social framework conditions when it comes to morality and ethics, says Schönwetter, who had to answer many questions following her presentation. She called for discussing current developments, regardless of age and gender: "Especially girls, I advise to choose not only previously typical women professions, but also sometimes IT." After all, at least 10 percent of current careers – especially simple jobs – are lost or taken over by cognitive systems as a result of digitalization. But she also noticed: "Instead 100 percent new jobs will be created".
Dr. med. Jan Vagedes zeigt den Controllern bei der Herbsttagung in Ehningen, wie sie auch in Stress-Situationen ruhig und konzentriert bleiben.
Work concentration is one of the modern buzzwords, which puts the strain of the employees in a modern working world to the point. They are often perceived as above average. Dr. med. Jan Vageres, who also takes care of preemies as a pediatrician and "neonatologist", knows about this situation and its effects. "Especially then it's important: Keep calm," he knows. His recommendation is as clear as it is simple: training helps. At the suggestion of the ICV Board Members he started a small four-week study with seven controllers. The results are presented to the guests of the CCS. To summarize, e.g. burnout symptoms and sleep improved. Dr. Vagedes explains to the conference participants also the "biofeedback techniques that allow you to remain calm and focused, even though "the bear is quilting" because" controllers also have a responsibility for self-controlling". Finally, as a colleague of Dr. med. Vagedes said: "Controllers are as important for the company as the heart for the organism".


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NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts
Tiny Desk Concerts from NPR's All Songs Considered features your favorite musicians performing at Bob Boilen's desk in the NPR Music office. This is the AUDIO only archive.Are you a fancy A/V nerd and need video? Visit our new Tiny Desk Concert video channel. Eye-popping video and all of the music you've come to expect.
Milagres: Tiny Desk Concert
By Bob Boilen
Published February 27, 2012 at 8:40 AM MST
The big sound of Milagres is built from small, simple elements: the boom of the kick drum, the clack of the claves, the repetitive tap-tap-tapping of a piano. This is a band of selective minimalism — which, in the end, somehow gets me thinking about the big sounds Phil Spector made. It's all about attention to detail, and Milagres is a band that cares.
The opening track from Milagres' Glowing Mouth, "Halfway," was one of my favorite songs of 2011 for just that reason, so I was a bit worried about how the spareness would translate when I invited the group to perform at the Tiny Desk. Frankly, I worried more when the band's list of gear didn't include a single amp and its members said they didn't need to use our keyboard. They came armed with a red toy piano, an autoharp, a shaker egg, a melodica, a glockenspiel, a few acoustic guitars and not much else.
But in the end, that same attention to detail made this a great Tiny Desk Concert. In spite of the tiny sound, the songs were big and strong — delicately built, yet sturdy enough for the emotive sounds of Kyle Wilson's voice.
"Hard To Stay"
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"Glowing Mouth"
Producer and Editor: Bob Boilen; Videographers: Michael Katzif and Doriane Raiman; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; photo by Emily Bogle/NPR
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In 1988, a determined Bob Boilen started showing up on NPR's doorstep every day, looking for a way to contribute his skills in music and broadcasting to the network. His persistence paid off, and within a few weeks he was hired, on a temporary basis, to work for All Things Considered. Less than a year later, Boilen was directing the show and continued to do so for the next 18 years.
See stories by Bob Boilen
The Cranberries: Tiny Desk Concert
The best-selling Irish pop-rock band has returned with a new album called Roses. But the group isn't afraid to dip into its arsenal of early hits at the NPR Music offices.
Joyce El Khoury And Brian Jagde: Tiny Desk Concert
Soprano Joyce El-Khoury and tenor Brian Jagde are young, fresh-faced opera singers at the dawn of promising careers. Here, their deliciously sung Puccini reverberates off the walls of NPR Music.
Joan Soriano: Tiny Desk Concert
With his songs of heartache, Soriano is an essential piece of the bachata story. Known as "El Duque de la Bachata" ("The Duke of Bachata"), Soriano gives a raw but beautiful performance at the NPR Music offices.


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Cabin pressure rises at Delta as union vote begins
October 1, 2010 By Special to People's World
Thursday, September 30, when union voting began, marked a glimmer of hope in the lives of 21,000 flight attendants at Delta Airlines, even though many of them may not see it.
Court gives unions go-ahead at largest U.S. airline
July 14, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
(PAI) - A federal court ruling has given the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and the Machinists the "go" signal to organize approximately 50,000 workers at the "new Delta."
Scabs paid to break British Airways strike
March 31, 2010 By Morning Star
Striking British Airway workers' union leaders have slated the airline's bosses for blowing millions of pounds on exorbitant wages and expenses for scabs attempting to break the cabin crew strike.


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I have 4 sons and a wife that are my life. I started growing my beard on sept. 18th and starting using beardilizer on oct 18th. The beard game in this past 6 months has been one of the most awesome things I have ever done.
I have meet a lot of awesome people on this short journey so far including the guys at beardilizer that are making this journey possible. I competed in my very first beard comp this year in Austin Tx. In the whaler class. I did not place in that show.
Put I have many more shows and years of growing to make that happen. I will be competing in St.louis in a couple weeks then onto Richmond Va. In April then Springfield Mo in may then Louisville Ky in July.


Increase the quality of existing early learning programs by promoting the development and adoption of comprehensive, evidence-based instructional models that improve young children's language, literacy, numeracy, and socio-emotional skills.
Every Child Ready is a preschool instructional model developed by AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation (AppleTree) based in Washington DC. Every Child Ready is designed to close the achievement gap between "at-risk" three- and four-year-old children and their more advantaged peers. The model is unusual in that it not only provides a comprehensive approach for teaching preschoolers, but it is also rigorous in measuring outcomes. AppleTree opened its first preschool in 2005 and spent six years developing the Every Child Ready model that officially debuted in 2011. As of 2016-17, AppleTree educates approximately 1,200 children at ten charter preschools in high-need neighborhoods. It has reached an additional 1,000 children through nine partner schools and community-based organizations throughout the District of Columbia, as well as one in New York City.
What to teach: The Curriculum has 10 thematic units designed to meet the learning needs of three- and four-year-olds. Each unit covers topics like family and community, color and art, earth science, or space and astronomy, and is aligned to both the Common Core and DC Early Learning standards.
How to teach: The "Attributes Framework" provides teachers with checklists and resources to support including evidence-based instructional practices in each of their lessons (e.g. a community building activity, language support strategies, or behavior management strategies).
How to tell it's being done: The "Quality Indicator Observational Tool" helps teachers and preschool leaders translate classroom quality data into practical feedback to improve teaching quality. Using this tool, teachers can identify their strengths and weaknesses, better preparing them to select appropriate professional development workshops and use one-on-one coaching to improve their teaching. AppleTree has also developed progress monitoring tools for critical skills: Every Child Ready Language and Literacy, Every Child Ready Math, and the Positive Behaviors Rating Scale.
Provide at least two meals per day (particularly important for children coming from food-insecure households, who may arrive hungry).
Exposure to the Every Child Ready model diminishes the achievement gap in early vocabulary, literacy, and math skills for at-risk children in AppleTree schools according to data from AppleTree's 2011-2013 i3 evaluation study. Ninety percent of these children completed preschool scoring within "normal" ranges on commonly used tests of key language, vocabulary, or literacy skills and, as a result, are much less likely to be assigned to special education or held back a grade level. A study of AppleTree alumni conducted just before Every Child Ready's official rollout in 2011 found that AppleTree graduates in the early grades of district public schools were performing as well or better on average than their peers on common literacy measures. In the long term, according to other longitudinal studies, early success in these areas has been linked to lower rates of high-school dropout, behavior issues, crime, and unemployment, among other outcomes.
The 2011 study of 100 AppleTree alumni suggests that graduates are performing on average as well as or better than their peers once they enter elementary school.9 Based on scores from early literacy tests administered by District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), AppleTree alumni on average enter kindergarten with stronger letter recognition skills than the average DCPS student, and maintain that gain throughout the year. AppleTree graduates also showed stronger oral reading skills in first grade than the average DCPS student, scoring almost 30% higher. The sample size for 2nd grade was too small to draw firm conclusions, but there was no evidence of a "fade-out" effect: AppleTree students did not appear to lose their advantage in oral reading skills.
Because the Every Child Ready instructional model is fairly new, evidence of this specific program's long-term impact has not been measured through a longitudinal study. AppleTree's initial success, however, has attracted the attention of peer schools, researchers, and funders: In 2012, New Schools Venture Fund selected Every Child Ready as a "turnaround strategy" for improving preschool programs in several other Washington DC-based schools. While it is difficult to isolate the impact of the model in these additional schools without a robust evaluation, the data appear to point in the right direction: other schools and learning centers that have implemented the full Every Child Ready model also show positive growth rates in children's learning.
Funders can help underwrite AppleTree Institute's implementation of Every Child Ready within their Washington DC charter preschools. It costs about $35,000 to educate a disadvantaged preschool child for two years using the Every Child Ready model in AppleTree-run schools. Much of this cost is covered by the per-pupil funding allocation from the school district, DCPS. In the 2014-15 school year, for example, DC allocated $15,400 and $15,700 per three and four-year-old student to charter preschools (including AppleTree schools). The cost gap – ranging from $3,600 to $4,200 per pupil – is filled by philanthropy. Funding AppleTree directly also supports ongoing research, development, and evaluation of the Every Child Ready model.11 Currently, AppleTree Institute is keenly interested in conducting a third-party evaluation of Every Child Ready's effect on children's third grade reading and math scores.
Alternatively, funders can help bring Every Child Ready to preschools outside the AppleTree network, including those operated by public school districts, community based organizations and charter schools. Implementation costs for Every Child Ready in this context vary depending on school size and the degree to which the school will need to supplement or upgrade its basic level of staffing and resources. AppleTree offers a set-up package of Every Child Ready books, supplies and online services for $5,000 for a classroom of 20 to 25 children. In subsequent years, the cost is $2,500 per classroom and includes the curriculum, assessment and reporting, and year-round support for professional development. These costs should be considered minimums, however, as schools also may need to purchase other books and materials, as well as technology (such as tablets), from third-party vendors to make full use of Every Child Ready. It is also important to note that, in order to implement the model with fidelity, a preschool's costs can increase to accommodate the operational recommendations mentioned previously (e.g. hiring lead teachers with a bachelor's degree, providing full-day programs, etc.).
A philanthropic investment of approximately $3,600 to $4,200 provides an at-risk child with two years of exposure to the Every Child Ready model within AppleTree's own schools.
Mid-term: A 2011 study showed that AppleTree's graduates scored at grade level in early elementary school; their early literacy skills were better on average than the average DC public school student.
Long-term: Based on evidence from similar high-quality early childhood programs, AppleTree students may see an increase in school achievement and income, better health, and a decrease in unemployment.
Take Action: Donors can support AppleTree directly, or can support the adoption and further evaluation of the Every Child Ready model in additional partner schools. Donors interested in further rigorous evaluation of whether the adoption of instructional packages such as Every Child Ready can improve the quality of existing preschool programming can also contact New Profit, which is helping to coordinate donors interested in this approach.
1 See: A Matter of Equity: Preschool in America. U.S. Department of Education, 2015 (retrieved: 11/19/15 at: https://www2.ed.gov/documents/early-learning/matter-equity-preschool-america.pdf Also: Nores, M., & Barnett, W.S. (2014). Access to High Quality Early Care and Education: Readiness and Opportunity Gaps in America (CEELO Policy Report). New Brunswick, NJ: Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes.
2 Two notable examples are the Abecedarian project and the Perry preschool project.
3 Because AppleTree's preschools are technically charters, they cannot select children based on income levels (there is a lottery). Because their schools are located in predominantly low-income areas, however, the percentage of children receiving free or reduced lunch (an indicator commonly used as a stand-in for low income) hovers around 80%. Also, approximately 38% of their children do not speak English as a first language (ELLs).
6 At or under mean of 85.
7 Students scoring low on baseline assessments of the PVVT increased scores by just under 30% by the end of the program.
10 See, for example, results from the Perry Preschool program and the CPC program also profiled in this toolkit.
11 For example, AppleTree has raised $3.5 million from the Stranahan Foundation, Venture Philanthropy Partners, New Schools Venture Fund, the Marriott Foundation and the Martin Family Foundation to put Every Child Ready onto a technology platform so it is truly scalable and easier to use.
12 AppleTree does not at this point have the tracking information to know what percent of their graduates have been assigned to special education, although they do know that less than 5% have been retained. Information on cost supplements for DC special education is available at: https://www.dcfpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Revised-School-Primer-March2015-FINAL.pdf; percentage of special education assignments is available at the DC public schools website: https://dcps.dc.gov/node/966292 Range in per-pupil special education supplements reflect higher degree of need for support while in school.


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Zac Taylor: "Sean McDermott Said He Needed to Be at the Hospital"
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin remains in critical condition and in the care of the ICU at the University of Cincinnati's Medical Center.
The Bills updated the public on the condition of Hamlin, saying he has made progress from yesterday and the overnight, which is encouraging in his recovery.
Hamlin collapsed on the field after a tackle. He had to be given CPR and had hiss heartbeat restored, before being taken by ambulance.
There was a lengthy delay on the field before players went back into their respective locker rooms and then the word that the game would be called off for the evening.
We don't know exact specifics on what happened on the field from the time Hamlin left for the hospital and the game ultimately being postponed for the evening, but we now do know what Bills head coach Sean McDermott and Bengals head coach Zac Taylor talked about when they congrigated with one another on the field.
Taylor spoke with the media for the first time since Monday night's events and spoke about what McDermott said to him. It's clear that McDermott made the call to not play the game.
Taylor said that McDermott said to him, "I need to be at the hospital for Damar. I shouldn't be coaching this game."
Zac Taylor said that in that moment, McDermott was leading.
Taylor's response is also something that should not go unnoticed. Him and McDermott handled the situation with grace and leadership that we can only hope from every new head coach in the NFL from here on out.
Taylor was also at the hospital to check on Damar Hamlin.
Sean McDermott deserves coach of the year for what he has done for his players and the Buffalo community. He's navigated an incredibly unfathomable set of events this season and the Bills were still in a position to claim the AFC's one seed.
15 Hilarious Buffalo-Themed Coffee Mugs For Bills Fans And More
In honor of National Coffee Day, here are fifteen sweet mugs to hold your hot cup of joe while proclaiming your love for Bufflalo.


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Guest column: 'Welcome to Las Vegas: A faith-based community'
The Chautauquan Dailyon July 4, 2014 /Comments closed
Guest Column by Alan Jones
When I started to think about the theme for this week at Chautauqua — privacy — I kept bumping into a couple issues which claimed priority. Before you can talk about "privacy" you have to have some understanding of not only freedom, but also of what manner of creature a human being is. I thought of the cartoon — a flashing highway sign with the message, "Welcome to Las Vegas! A faith-based community!" It expresses the fact that we all live in some sort of "faith" community, which makes assumptions about what the human enterprise is about.
Las Vegas is a good place to start because it's a community of obvious wishful thinking with its places of worship, seductive liturgies and opportunities for both pleasure and penitence. So, in this very broad sense, we are all part of a faith-based community.
Think of it this way — there's a movie going on in our heads, which isn't necessarily true but is, nevertheless, necessary for our being in the world. It's not that we're passive moviegoers. We interact with it. It can change, and yet we're not in control of it. One clue about the movie in your head can come from asking yourself, "Am I an Arcadian or a Utopian?" Are you an Arcadian — looking to an idealized past (wishing you were 30 again and Eisenhower were president) or are you a Utopian — looking to an idealized future, where the Internet makes us all friends in one happy global family and all of us are making money and buying stuff?
Think about the battling movies going on in the minds of those we send to Congress. Our politics is a cacophonous melee of conflicting movie plots. Whose vision of the world rings more true to you? Does America have a "manifest destiny"? Are we truly "exceptional" and, if so, in what way? The movie studios of Congress are busy churning out movies about health care, foreign policy, entitlement reform, the role of government. Politics, cosmology, culture — all provide the storyline and dialogue for our movie. The trouble is the cultural movie we have in common tends to assume a mechanistic view of the universe. We tend to take it for granted that truth becomes something proved by argument. What current thinking about the relationship between the brain and the mind has brought to the fore is the importance of another, and, to me, ultimately more powerful revealer of truth — metaphor, the stuff of movies.
Iain McGilchrist — a psychiatrist and teacher of literature — laments the fact that a mechanistic view of the universe has come to dominate the movie going on in our heads. He tells us: "We need metaphor and mythos in order to understand the world. Such myths and metaphors are not dispensable luxuries or 'optional extras,' still less the means of obfuscation: They are fundamental and essential to the process. When we are not given anything better, we revert to the metaphor or myth of the machine. But we cannot … get far in understanding the world, or in deriving values that will help us live well in it, by likening it to the bike in the garage."
The myth of the machine leads to a smallness of vision.
McGilchrist's book, The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, is written from the perspectives of philosophy, neurology and neuropsychology. The title is taken from a short story by Nietzsche. The Master is betrayed by his emissary who comes to think he should be master. When it comes to the brain, the claim is that the Right has been betrayed by the Left. McGilchrist's thesis is that the hemispheres have complementary but conflicting tasks to fulfill, and need to maintain a high degree and mutual ignorance. At the same time, they need to cooperate. The entrenched prejudice is that the Left is superior to the Right. The right hemisphere adds a bit of color to life; it's the left that does the serious business.
One of the problems McGilchrist warns us is of "a misplaced need for certainty." "The left hemisphere likes things that are man-made. Things we make are also more certain: we know them inside out, because we put them together. They are not, like living things, constantly changing and moving, beyond our grasp." The left hemisphere "needs certainty and needs to be right." The right "makes it possible to hold several ambiguous possibilities in suspension together without premature closure on one outcome."
Again, "Certainty is … related to narrowness, as though the more certain we become of something the less we see."
Jonathan Haidt's point in The Righteous Mind is that we lead with the emotions. The model we choose to use to understand something determines what we find. "If we assume a purely mechanical universe and take the machine as our model, we will uncover the view that — surprise, surprise — the body, and the brain with it, is a machine. To a man with a hammer everything begins to look like a nail. The metaphor we choose governs what we see."
Which brings me back to the movie inside our head and how what we pay attention to enacts our relationship with the world. It determines what you deem is worthy of keeping "private." Attention is not just another "function" of the brain. "The kind of attention we bring to bear on the world changes the nature of the world we attend to … Attention changes what kind of a thing comes into being for us: in that way it changes the world … And yet nothing is objectively has changed." Take, for example, the way we might talk of a mountain. "A mountain that is a landmark to a navigator, a source of wealth to a prospector, a many-textured form to a painter, or to another a dwelling place of the gods, is changed by the attention given to it. There no 'real' mountain which can be distinguished from these, no one way of thinking which reveals the true mountain." Now play the same game with the words "privacy" and "freedom." These words can mean a whole myriad of contradictory things: "privacy" as a means of keeping some dark and smelly secret from seeing the light of day; "freedom" as the right to own slaves.
Many adolescents — let alone adults — do not have the skill, which only creativity can bring, of being able to negotiate the great absence at the heart of the psyche. And, why have a benign view of the world anyway? Why choose to be kind and compassionate? Why embrace an imaginative charity? Because it is the antidote to the idiocy of a totally private world of the isolated self — a caricature of "privacy," a travesty of "freedom."
How to sum up and bring some of this together? The truth is we need storytelling to make sense of the facts. We need stories to connect the dots. A friend of mine gave me a CD reissue of an old recording of Mahler's Ninth Symphony. Here are the "facts." The year, 1938; the place, Vienna; the conductor, Bruno Walter. These are the bare facts but when you think about them, a story (not a pretty one) emerges that ties all these facts together in the context of a terrible war and the persecution and attempted extinction of a whole people. There's no such thing as an isolated "fact." You need a way of connecting the dots.
When we confuse "fact" with "truth," the result is a comforting shrinkage in understanding. What we think we understand we can control. The intellectual challenge is expressed by Jaron Lanier from Silicon Valley. In his book You Are Not A Gadget, he makes the simple point that information under-represents reality. We live in a data junk yard, and we need a new kind of "faith-based" community, which, in a never-ending conversation, helps us enlarge our horizons, discern the facts and connect the dots. We need both science and art — a revolution in religion — which, at their best, increase our tolerance for ambiguity and our appreciation of wonder.
So, "Welcome to Las Vegas!"
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