Do we get bored with everything? Do friends and lovers, work and play, and even life itself eventually become dull and tedious? Does dissatisfaction with people and projects always set in? If so, should we quit what we are tired of, and try something else? Or should we accept the familiar because that's our duty, or because we know that what's new will become boring too?
The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who I've written about many times in this blog, (here, here, here, here, here, and here) famously thought that boredom was the essence of the human condition, which we experience when life is devoid of its usual distractions. We keep busy so as not to experience this essential boredom. But are we bored because life is boring or because we are bores? Some are bored by everything, others find simple things fascinating. So boredom is not inevitable, nor is it essential. Schopenhauer was wrong.
Do particular activities that were once fascinating later become boring? Yes. As a teenager I played competitive table tennis; after a few years, I was bored with table tennis. Later I played high-stakes poker; within a short time, I was bored with poker too. Later I learned to play golf; once I played reasonably well, I found golf boring. Does my boredom say something about me, or does it say something about these activities? Maybe I bore easily, or perhaps these activities were not sufficiently stimulating. I know that stimulating persons need stimulation, and both our minds and bodies will atrophy without it.
Fortunately, some activities are more stimulating than others. I have never ceased to find the pursuit of knowledge interesting. Yes, I grew bored teaching introductory college ethics classes for the one-hundredth time—literally—but if you master philosophical ethics to your satisfaction, then find another topic. Don't worry. There are plenty of things to do and learn. Might we eventually know everything and get bored? I don't know. If I become omniscient I'll let you know.
How about people? I have known people who have few thoughts, and others who have shallow thoughts. Such people ask few questions. And they already have their answers—usually the first ones they were exposed to. I find such people boring. By contrast, people on a journey are interesting, they are evolving. With them you never encounter the same person, they are as petals unfolding. They are like ships that sail in the ocean rather than being stuck in dry dock. How can you tire of their constant surprise?
Still you may find yourself disappointed with someone you previously respected, or discover that someone is not as good as you thought they were. What then should you do? This is a difficult question and relates to a previous post about "settling," especially for intimate partners. If your expectations for such partners are too high, you are bound to be disappointed; if your expectations are too low, you will settle for a bad partner and be discontent or even traumatized.
Another problem is that it is impossible for us to really know ourselves; for we are too close to ourselves. We don't know if we deserve better friends, lovers or jobs, or if we are lucky to have our current ones. The best thing we can do is ask others who know and love us what they think. Should I try something or someone else? Do I deserve better? Or should I be satisfied with what I have? Those who love us can't know with certainty the answer to these questions, but they can be more objective about us than we can—for they stand outside of our subjectivity. In some ways, they know us better than we know ourselves. So ask those you trust, those who care about you, and ask yourself too. Then listen.
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
I agree, we may get bored doing the same repetitive activities over time— tasks and hobbies that don't change or skills that we have already mastered. Learning something new on the other hand, is hard to get bored with.
When people are first in relationships, they are learning new things about a person all the time. They are sharing things with each other and taking that person in, similar to a new hobby or activity. As long as both people are interested in learning and growing, it would be difficult to get bored with each other. I think boredom may occur when one person is more intellectually curious than another, or people stop sharing things with their partners.
Interesting last comment. I agree it is hard to see ourselves as we really are. Some people are more reflective than other, but still it is difficult. Then again, the people close to us are likely to have the highest opinions of us so they are not necessarily objective.
thanks for the thoughtful commments.
Love your little humour on being omniscient.
I do find everything boring and most people painfully boring. Perhaps boring is a mean word. Maybe it's me who's disconnected from it all.
Sometimes I scan the news on cnn, and it's all headlines but I feel as though I'm looking at really old news. Ahhh. Perhaps nothing is indeed ever new under the sun.
I feel so disconnected, although at peace but very disconnected from people and the world. I secretly hate looking at pictures because they remind me of yesterday and sometimes it's as if I'm looking at pictures of people who are from yesterday. I'll just say it: it's like looking at photographs of dead people.
What's wrong with me. I don't think it's me. I think, perhaps, it's a state of being enlightened in God. You no longer have any interest for this world. It's a very strange dichotomy. One one hand you learn to love, on the other you are disconnected from them.
Perhaps I'm heart broken and don't even know it because I'm too prideful.
Perhaps it is a state of mind of someone who's like every other spoiled American although I'm not American.
Glad to know I'm not alone.
Forgot to mention, sometimes, I read Ecclasiastes in the Old Testament by King Solomon when I feel that everything under the sun is meaningless.
Nope, that was completely unhelpful!


Standing Here is found on the album The Complete Stone Roses [Compilation].
I could park a juggernaut in your mouth?
General CommentThis song is about being in love, and that is all. I really like the imagery of someone shouting 'I should be safe forever, in your arms.' It's ridiculous and sweet.
My InterpretationLove the idea that it's about a guy who dies visiting his girlfriend, as soon as I heard this theory it completely makes sense.
I have always struggled, like everyone else it seems, to decipher the "Over me my free-fall baby" line. It never sounds right when you're listening to the track and reading it. You get the same couple of guesses being regurgitated year after year even though it's nearly 25 years old. The other guess I see a lot is "over me my fruitful life, babe". Again doesn't really make sense and doesn't really sound like what he's singing.
"Over me bright blue fork lightning"
I've listened to live versions and I think this is the correct.
I can feel a hurricane when you shout: "I should be safe forever in your arms"
General CommentI would say this song is basically about unrequited love: 'I really don't think you could know that I'm in heaven when you smile'; The guy doesn't see how the girl can't feel the same way (i.e. 'think like [he does]'), and would hope to turn her around to his point of view ('I always thought I'd have the answer', 'I might just have the key'), but he's pretty sure it's all in vain, 'no matter how hard [he tries]' to think otherwise.
General CommentThe song starts off singing about the Sermon on the mount given by Jesus (blessed are the the meek etc..etc..) - the usual Roses/religious imagery.
A juggernaut is a hindu God not a truck.
The song seems to be an early incarnation of idea that 'the kingdom is all inside'.
Sorry pal, A Jagannath IS the Hindu Lord of the Universe.
Look sh*t up before you post.
General Commentagree with Dommykeay18, the last two verses are absolute genius. i could never grow tired of them either. uplifting and heartrending. reni's understated drums, mani's exquisite bass play and the guitar part at 4:52 - so hauntingly beautiful. truly a unique band and we were denied their talent at the height of their powers by greed. such a great tragedy.
General CommentI first heard this when I was 15 and just getting into music. Now I'm 26, and still think that those last two minutes encapsulate romantic adolescent longing better than anything else I've ever heard. Just beautiful.
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Q: smarty foreach database fetch_assoc I am receiving a syntax error from this following peace of code using smarty template. How can I fix it?
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object
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I am trying to look through a mysqli fetch_assoc function.
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A: Keep things simple, don't try to call the function from the template, instead, in your php script assign the results to a variable and pass this variable to smarty. Making a query in a template is bad practice

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Position: Pro Dean for Research and Innovation
Email: M.A.Stuart@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Website: CERIC | Twitter | Googlescholar
I joined the Faculty in Leeds in 1992, completed my Doctorate in 1999 and was promoted to a personal Chair in 2005. I took up the Montague Burton Chair in September 2012. My research interests focus on the dynamics of organisational restructuring and skill formation, trade union strategy and change and the modernisation of employment relations. Most recently, my research has focused on the impact of new digital technologies on the future of work and employment.
My work has been funded by the European Commission, European Parliament, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BERR/ DTI), the Economic and Social Research Council, International Labour Office, CIPD, ACAS, Low Pay Commission, TUC and numerous trade unions. Since 2001, I have won and led some 45 external awards totalling more than 10 million pounds. This included the co-ordination of a prestigious EU Framework Five funded study investigating the implications for employment and skills of the restructuring of the European steel and metal sectors. The study involved research partners in seven European countries, during 2001-2005. I was also the lead evaluator of the UK government's Union Modernisation Fund (UMF) and have conducted numerous evaluations of the Union Learning Fund (ULF). Most recently, I have been awarded a grant of £6.5 million from the ESRC to establish a research centre on Digital Futures at Work (Digit). The Digit research centre is co-directed by myself and Professor Jackie O'Reilly (University of Sussex – see: https://digit-research.org/
I have published more than 70 journal articles and book chapters, some 70 reports, monographs, edited books and miscellaneous articles and presented papers at conferences and workshops in over 20 countries. I have published in internationally leading journals, such as: British Journal of Industrial Relations; Human Resource Management Journal; Human Relations; Sociology; Work, Employment and Society.
I am currently an editorial board member of the International Journal of Training Research, Labour and Industry and the Human Resource Management Journal, and was previoulsy an editorial board member of Work, Employment and Society (2004-2007). In terms of wider academic service, I was a member of the Executive of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) between 2010-2013, the President of BUIRA between 2013-2016 and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Work, Employment and Society (2011-2015). Internationally, I have served as the Chair of the International Section of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA: 2008-2015) and the Chair of the LERA award for Best International Paper. I am currently serving a third term on the ESRC Peer Review College. I was a member of the scientific panel for the 2015/ 2018 reviews of the Association of Business Schools Journal Quality Guide and am a sub panel member (assessment stage) for Business and Management for the 2021 Research Evaluation Framework. I was elected as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2019.
I am an associate member of the the ESRC Centre for Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE at Oxford University) and have spent periods as a visiting researcher in the USA (Cornell), Australia (Sydney, Monash and Griffith), France (Toulouse) and Sweden (NIWL).
Montague Burton Professor of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
Founding Director of CERIC
Co-Director: ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1. The wide-ranging effects of digitalisation on the future of work. This has a included a recent study, funded initially by the European Parliament, on the social protection of workers in the platform economy. This research has included policy level interviews in eight European countries and a survey of workers across 4 online platforms. In collaboration with Simon Joyce, Chris Forde, Danat Valizade and others we are currently extending this research through qualitative interviews with platforms workers and further survey investigations.
2. Leeds Index of Platform Labour unrest – see recent publication: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/16880.pdf
2. Restructuring and displacement in the Steel sector - building on longstanding research, Chris McLachlan, Ian Greenwood and myself are examining the ongoing restructuring of the steel sector and in particular the post-steel career trajectories of redundant workers.
3. Union modernisation, skills and learning.
4. Covid-19 and the jobs crisis – currently undertaking an employer survey to explore use of the Job Retention scheme and long-term employers' strategies for labour retention.
I have supervised 14 Doctoral students to successful completion and I am interested in supervising projects related to:
Trade-union led learning (union learning reps, learning partnerships)
Partnership-based approaches to employment relations
Trade union modernisation
Workforce development and corporate training strategies
Globalisation, restructuring and employment relations outcomes
Comparative studies of labour market restructuring and welfare reform
Workplace restructuring, redundancy and experiences of job loss
Unemployment and labour market activation
Skills, workplace change and organisational restructuring
I am also interested in working with interested international applicants for funding for post-Doctoral Fellowships (e.g. EU Marie Curie positions). Depending on experience, students will get an opportunity to contribute and work on some of current funded projects.
If you are interested in doctoral study in any of these areas please contact me at: M.A.Stuart@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
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import org.openquark.cal.machine.Program;
import org.openquark.cal.machine.ProgramResourceRepository;
import org.openquark.cal.machine.StatusListener;

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 * It implements the methods to create machine specific instances
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Arthritis is a degenerative condition that affects the joints causing severe pain and greatly reducing mobility. In severe cases and if neglected the effects can be debilitating.
Arthritis is typically associated with old age and although most prevalent among the aged it can affect almost anyone, but this it is uncommon among young adults and children. Arthritis may not be a life threatening condition but it is a dreaded condition because of the extent to which it affects your life.
Factors relating to it are fatigue, shock, injury, and exposure to cold and dampness. At times nodules may show up under the skin, around the elbows, wrists and fingers, and occasionally on the ankles. The control of this particular type of arthritis may require the cooperation of a physician, a physical therapist, an orthopedic surgeon, and often the physician who specializes in psychosomatic diseases. There are more than 100 types of arthritis. There's osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gouty arthritis, psoratic arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, systemic infectious arthritis, arthritis associated with a venereal disease and many others. The most common types of arthritis are osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and gout.
Arthritis generally afflicts people between the ages of 20 and 50, but can affect all ages, even infants. The average age of onset is 47 and about three out of every five people with arthritis are under 65 years of age. Below you will find a list of helpful remedies and suggestions to help you with your arthritis pain.
Just click the links below for more information on a specific topic.
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Center Stephen Gionta is expected to play for the Devils tonight against the Islanders after appearing to injure his right shoulder in Tuesday night's loss to Philadelphia, but head coach John Hynes said center Jacob Josefson will be a "game-time decision."
Josefson did not practice Thursday after he underwent minor surgery Wednesday to clean out a cut in his right elbow and had some stiffness in the elbow during today's morning skate.
"It was little stiff and a little sore," Josefson said. "So, we'll see tonight. Maybe a few more hours will do it."
Josefson first cut the elbow when he fell on the ice on Jan. 23 in Winnipeg after his elbow pad slid out of place.
"I had some stitches there and when we took the stitches out, the scar opened up again," Josefson said. "It's been open for some time, so I've been on antibiotics for a while. Wednesday, they went in to clean it, a minor little surgery or whatever you want to call it."
Josefson said the cut was not infected, "but they were afraid it was going to be because I was on antibiotics for so long. You can't be on them for so long, so they had to do something."
"They had to open it up a little bit more and clean it and then stitch everything back up and take some stuff out, I guess," he said.
Josefson said the elbow hadn't really bothered him in games.
"It's been a little bit sore," he said. "But, it's just been annoying that they've had to patch it up all the time. When the scar is open like that, you have to make sure it's clean and be on medicine all the time."


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Q: Find the maximum value of E(x,y) Find the maximum value of $E(x,y)=xy+\mbox{max}(x,y)$ where $x,y$ are nonnegative real numbers such that $x^2+y^2=1$.
I had a trigonometrical approach to this (I had this idea beacause $x^2+y^2=1$), but I can't manage to finish it.

A: First of all, as KingW3 said, we can assume $x \ge y$ without loss of generality since $E(x, y) = E(y, x)$. Which gives
$$E(x, y) = xy + x = x(y+1)$$
Then, I agree on the trigonometric approach, and because $x^2 + y^2 = 1$, I suggest to replace $x$ with $\cos(\theta)$ and $y$ with $\sin(\theta)$, which permits to reduce E(x, y) to only one variable, the angle. Let's call $f(\theta) = E(\cos(\theta), \sin(\theta))$.
$$f(\theta) = \cos(\theta)(\sin(\theta) + 1)$$
Our goal is thus to maximize $f(\theta)$, which we can do with calculus. We first search for $f'(\theta)$
$$f'(\theta) = -\sin(\theta)(\sin(\theta) + 1) + \cos(\theta)\cos(\theta)$$
So $f'(\theta) = \cos(\theta)^2 -\sin(\theta)^2 - \sin(\theta)$ and we know that $\cos(\theta)^2 = 1 - \sin(\theta)^2$, allowing us to rewrite
$$f'(\theta) = 1 - \sin(\theta)^2 - \sin(\theta)$$
From there, we want to search for $f'(\theta) = 0 \Leftrightarrow 1 - \sin(\theta)^2 - \sin(\theta) = 0$. Then, even if it not obvious right away, we can try to factorize what we just obtained, which can be done in the following way:
$$f'(\theta) = -(\sin(\theta) + 1)(2\sin(\theta) - 1)$$
So we want at least one of the two parts to be 0 for the overall to be 0. But, since we want $x \ge 0$ and $y \ge 0$, on the range from $0$ to $2\pi$ we must have $0 \ge \theta \ge \frac{\pi}{2}$, and that means that $\sin(\theta) + 1$ has no solution over that range. Our problem thus reduces only to
$$2sin(\theta) - 1 = 0 \Leftrightarrow \sin(\theta) = y = \frac{1}{2}$$
From there, we deduce
$$x^2 + y^2 = 1 \Leftrightarrow x = \sqrt{1 - y^2} = \sqrt{1 - \frac{1}{4}} = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$$
And with this, we obtain our final solution,
$$\max(E(x, y)) = E\left(\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}, \frac{1}{2}\right) = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\times \left(\frac{1}{2} + 1\right) = \frac{3\sqrt{3}}{4}$$


We are working with more than 1,500 farmers and many more of their neighbours in the Chipata and Katete districts of the Eastern Province.
The farmers are organised in groups of 20 to 70, generally self-selected and formed into registered Farmers Associations or Cooperatives. EPFC develops an appropriate contract which describes the supply of seeds, training, other services and product marketing. Each group has a number of lead and contact farmers who provide a communication network throughout the EPFC organisation. Some of the groups have built local storage sheds with capacity of around 50 tons and an office from which to run the group. The next development steps will be an increased mechanisation and the further improvement of local infrastructure.
For most areas, we are the only partner seen regularly through the year. At times, our visits will bring training and advice about different crops, other visits will be regular joint inspections of the fields with practical and expert help, while later in the season we provide information about markets, help with shelling and product selection and finally buying across the farm gate.


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Forums > Members Lounge > Narrow Gauge Railways >
Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum
Discussion in 'Narrow Gauge Railways' started by tobes3803, Jan 7, 2013.
tobes3803 New Member
For all those interested in mining or narrow guage railways the mining museum at Norden on the Swanage Railway should be opening spring time. Their is work going on every sunday with the 2 foot guage line in operation to move track laying materials and other equipment around and lots of work is happening in the mine itself! For anyone interested please see the facebook page http://www.facebook.com/purbeckmineralandminingmuseum and the main website www.pmmmg.org
tobes3803, Jan 7, 2013
Stormforce New Member
I heard that the work is not going as fast as planned and spring opening is in doubt unless they get more volunteers
Stormforce, Jan 9, 2013
Rumpole Member
Tea-Maker
Heritage Railway Volunteer:
Yes I am an active volunteer
Lifted from PMMMG on Facebook:-
"We are pleased to announce that we will have our first visiting steam locomotive this summer, in the form of Cloister, the "Alice" Class Quarry Hunslet built in 1891, courtesy of the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society.
It is due to arrive following the completion of its overhaul which is being undertaken on a private site in Dorset, hopefully by May, and it will stay until after the Swanage Railway's Steam Gala in September. Further details on steaming dates etc will be announced in due course."
Please note that all of the above is personal opinion and does not represent any organisation of which I am a member.
Twitter: @SwanageNick
Rumpole, Jan 27, 2013
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I have asked around, and have been told that at present there are no facilities for steam engines on site and no agreement has been officially been signed between owners and the museum regarding fees and insurance.
Stormforce, Jan 27, 2013
Dan Bennett New Member
South Western Railway Fitter
4 months is plenty of time to sort out a watering facility, and the coal comes in bags so not exactly difficult to sort......
It seems like you have an axe to grind with the mining museum as you don't have anything positive to say about it?.....
Dan Bennett, Jan 27, 2013
Some form of agreement must have happened betwen the owners and a party for the work to be being carried out to the engine currently! Unless Stormforce is going to report the engine as missing and stolen?
tobes3803, Jan 27, 2013
Dan Bennett said: ↑
4 months is plenty of time to sort out a watering facility, and the coal comes in bags so not exactly difficult to sort.
Don't put too impressive facilities up there, the narrow gauge already has a bigger shed than the standard gauge down here...!
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timmydunn Member
Trains and data
Looking at the website last night and it looks like the guys are doing a lot of great work down on the site. There's a complete U of track that now looks to extend just above the Norden platforms (Norden High Level?!) and a very substantial shed. Plus an opportunity for a 6 mnth curator job. I read somewhere that the idea is to eventually have up to 1 mile of track, so I assume there's an ambition to extend back over the old tramway bridge over the standard gauge. Looking forward to visiting the site and learning more about the industry. Another reason to re-visit the Swanage Railway.
Tim Dunn. Going off the beaten track.
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timmydunn, Jan 28, 2013
Purbeckboy New Member
The Purbeck & Mining Museum is open 25 May2013 - closed Mondays except bank holidays
Purbeckboy, May 25, 2013
buzby2 New Member
Currently open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays between 11:00 and 17:00.
Now recruiting additional volunteer guides to increase number of open days.
Lovely replica Adit during these hot days!
These are my personal comments/views and have no connection with any organisation of which I am a member.
buzby2, Jul 14, 2013
"The Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum at Norden needs more help!
The museum is now open regularly which means we have a range of additional opportunities for people to get involved. We need volunteers who are interested in meeting and greeting visitors and making sure they have a safe and enjoyable visit. The bonus is that you get to find out about ball clay! If you are interested, please contact Clare Randall on 01929 481461 or by email at curator@swanage-railway.co.uk "
The museum will take part in the Swanage Railway Steam Gala with "Cloister" and "Emmet" on site. Also there will be a steam operated minature railway on site. The Museum will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Purbeckboy, Sep 4, 2013
biggles200 New Member
retired and holding on
No I do not currently volunteer
The mining museum railway has 2 Ruston 48DLs - one is "Snapper" ex Lynton and Barnstable Railway and more importantly, Richard Bentley has moved his 48DL 392117 to the railway so it is now able to run on the trackbed that it used to run on in the 1950's and 60s.
There is a long term plan to reinstate the railway over the Swange Branch line, but the work is on hold while negociations with the local council re Parking and footpaths are taking place. The Swanage Railway are also formulating plans for the future of Norden Station which will probably include a rebuild of the Station and better watering facilities. The narrow gauge bridge may even have to be raised. Therefore further extension of the narrow gauge railway will be on hold for quite awhile. There are plans afoot to run demonstration trains a few days each year, but both loco's have some running problems to sort out.
In the meantime the museum is looking for volunteers with and without skills to help develop this interesting museum about the world's finest ball clay that is exported all over the world.
biggles200, Jun 26, 2019
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redbarron New Member
Didn't the museum rather carelessly loose 8 volunteers earlier in the year, all the ones involved in the railway side of the museum including several very skilled people who had been volunteering for years, some of whom had been instrumental in getting 392117 in the first place as well as organising the loan of the HNGRT locomotive Cloister ? Anyway 392117 has been at the museum for several years now and has run on a number of occasions. What is wrong with it, does it not start perchance?
redbarron, Jun 30, 2019
DcB New Member
biggles200 said: ↑
There are plans afoot to run demonstration trains a few days each year, but both loco's have some running problems to sort out.
In the meantime the museum is looking for volunteers
When I travelled on the Flying Scotsman and stopped at Norden managed to have a good look at the bridge, getting it renovated, plus a new home for Secundus will be good.
Sad some volunteers left and an open forum may not be the best place to discuss it? Hopefully new volunteers will join.
Are there any dates for demonstration trains in 2019 so we can plan to see them?
Or does it depend on help fixing problems with the locos?
DcB, Jul 10, 2019
DcB said: ↑
Not sure what these issues are with 392117 are/were, but I did rather enjoy watching it shunting around whilst waiting for departure time at Norden last Friday.
Rumpole, Jul 10, 2019
redbarron said: ↑
Loco is fine, it is just an operating safety problem that has been ignored over the years. Will be sorted soon.
biggles200, Aug 29, 2019
Purbeck Mining Museum will be open for Swanage Railway's Autumn Steam Gala from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th October. See the narrow gauge clay railway in action each day, from 11am to 4pm. OKAY so they are not steam, but one can always dream.
biggles200, Oct 4, 2019
Kingscross New Member
Does anyone know if the former NG engine shed at Ridge which was sold in July attracted a sympathetic purchaser? https://search.savills.com/hk/en/property-detail/gbwirswbs180024#/r/detail/GBWIRSWBS180024
Kingscross, Oct 4, 2019
SpudUk Member
Kingscross said: ↑
Am I right in thinking this is a relic of the Furzebrook Railway, whilst the Purbeck Museum's railway is more focused around the old Middlebere Plateway/Fayles Tramway?
Chris Auckland
"Too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others" - Bobby Kennedy, 1968
SpudUk, Oct 5, 2019


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Gender Self Identification.
Thread starter code1211
Okay, so now we need to have lidded trash cans in Men's Rooms and Urinals in Women's Rooms. Dandy!
How far does this go? Can a borderline good male athlete now declare himself to be a female and compete in the Olympics as a woman?
Will ALL Women's Sports be suddenly inundated with Men who are claiming to be women. Will this become the new JV level of competition in colleges?
The World records for Women in the 100 are almost a full second slower than Men. How many million men who don't even place in the men's side would be the world record holder for the women? The women are pretty talented, but, seriously, they are about 10% slower.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_metres
This whole consideration is the potential salvation of the careers of many would be, wannabe, male athletes.
Is this the final and merciful death of Title IX?
Tim the plumber
If I ever get drafted into the army I will demand that I am dealt with as the lesbian I am.
code1211 said:
As long as they really believe they're women, they should be allowed to compete with the gals.
joG said:
hahah :lol:
Bruce jenner thought it was impossible and decided to be woman when he was too old to compete
Tim the plumber said:
Prison will be a whole new experience.
HonestJoe
We don't need lidded trash cans though it doesn't strike me as a bad idea in general - maybe it would make the gents a little less of a mess. Urinals aren't a requirement, just a space saver.
No. I'm sure you could look up the rules if you really cares.
Will ALL Women's Sports be suddenly inundated with Men who are claiming to be women.
I doubt it. Most of the ignorant trolls who would like to see this happen to make a warped political point are too cowardly to actually act on it in person. They just spout rubbish on anonymous internet forums.
Can I go to the lesbian prison please?
I mean now, no need for a trial, or indeed a crime.
Removable Mind
Irremovable Intelligence
Your mangina isn't gonna be useful...
1751Texan
Southcentral Texas
Have you read the policy directive?
Maybe that would be a good start.
legalimmigrant
Last week I was in Oklahoma chasing tornados. All of a sudden, I felt I was a Cherokee so I applied for a casino job. They told me to get lost. How totally insensitive. Where do I file a federal suit?
Today I feel I am black. Can I have my race reassigned? I would like to aks for them reparations and get me a beemer on 24-inch rims with a spinning whatever they call it.
The Lone Star State.
Hasn't this already been addressed in the MMA?
Sometimes the REAL girl wins.
I really believe I should not pay taxes. Now what?
Almost by definition, the prisons are populated with people of poor character. If a man about to be sentenced for murder, which gender do you suppose he might choose as his identity?
legalimmigrant said:
That only works if your last name is Warren.
SDET said:
...and a slimy democrap liberal
Southern Dad
Presidential Candidate
Shady Dale, Georgia
Who gets to determine if they "really" believe or not. I might want to be a woman just for the time it takes to take this piss.
Think they'll take all federal funding if the states don't let gender identity determine which prison?
WCH said:
Cool. Let's apply it to the Olympics.
You will find living that dream interesting.
Hermaphrodite?
If I really believe I'm a millionaire, should I be allowed to live in a mansion?
Medusa said:
Maybe he should believe that he's young.
Maybe if he snaps his fingers and repeats, "I do believe, I do believe..."
HonestJoe said:
I'm not the first to ask this question. This has already happened at the Olympic level.
The debate on what differentiates the two genders goes on.
Stronger combined with skill usually equals victory. Serena is a pretty strong woman. She cut through the female competition like a scythe through wheat for years. Could she have competed with the guys? We may never know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Ratjen
Let male and female compete together | The Science of Sport
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120613153333.htm
http://www.caaws.ca/e/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Wamsley_lit_review2.pdf
Too much privilege is not freedom .This is what very liberals are wrong about


The band has been together for over 16 years now. It's odd to think about the events that lead to the forming of the band. Odd to think about the naming of the band.
When we formed up we did all traditional music. Jigs, reels and songs from the British Isles peppered with the occasional sea shanty sung by Joe in his rich, deep voice with Greg and I providing the bully-boy chorus.
One of the sea shanties we sang was "Blow The Man Down" which referenced a sailor who ran afoul of the law when he is accused of being a crewman of the infamous Black Ball line and defends himself by claiming to be a Flying Fish Sailor just in from Hong Kong.
In the days of tall ships the various trade and passenger routes were plied by different sailing companies. The "Black Ball" line had a reputation of having the fastest packet ships sailing between the UK and America. The faster you got to your destination and back, the quicker a sailor would paid and get back to England.
The success of the Black Ball line depended on a strong captain who was quick with the lash who would tolerate nothing but complete dedication to the task at hand to ensure the profitability of the voyage. One could imagine that a sailor from one of these ships might cause a wee bit of trouble when returning to port in the UK and might come under the scrutiny of watchful policeman.
So I suppose that we picked that name primarily because of the reference in the song. The double meaning of the term used by a sailor to alleviate suspicion when confronted by the authorities combined with the idea that a Flying Fish Sailor enjoyed the more recreational destinations of the Far East and Asia also has significance. Plus, the image of a Flying Fish is quite whimsical and people seem to like to say the word "fish" a lot and the nick name "The Fish" has stuck with us to this day.
For South away and Eastward Ho!
Is the road for the flying-fish sailor.
That's known to the flying-fish sailor.
You'll hear from the flying-fish sailor.
The way of the flying-fish sailor.
Shine down on the flying-fish sailor.
All's one to the flying-fish sailor.
Will smile on a flying-fish sailor.
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but you can make a fool of yourself anytime.
and some of the people all of the time, and that is sufficient.
You can get *anywhere* in ten minutes if you drive fast enough.
if you will help enough other people get what they want.
gun than you can with a kind word alone.
You can get there from here, but why on earth would you want to?
You can grovel with your boss, and it never has to end.
Grovel, grovel, grovel, in your own peculiar way.
You can grovel in an alley with a mugger after dark.
You can grovel with your Apple, even though you say you can't.
You can have peace.  Or you can have freedom.
Don't ever count on having both at once.


All of East Tennessee is under a winter storm watch, which was issued Sunday afternoon by the National Weather Service at Morristown. The NWS is calling for 2-4 inches of snow Monday night into Tuesday morning.
More specifically, the NWS is calling for 2-3 inches of snow in Scott and Morgan counties. The storm watch takes effect at 4 a.m. Tuesday and continues through 6 p.m. Just to the west, the NWS at Nashville has much of Middle Tennessee under a winter weather advisory from 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, calling for 1-3 inches of snow.
Modeling data continues to indicate the potential for significant snow accumulations declining. Most of the global forecast models now show little in the way of accumulation here on the northern Cumberland Plateau. The European model — the most reliable of the models — began that trend last night. Now the GFS has jumped on board, with its latest run showing only about an inch of snow in Scott County. That's a big change from this morning, when it was showing 3-5 inches of snow across the northern plateau.
The higher-resolution mesoscale models have also shown this trend, to varying degrees. The NAM model is showing 1-3 inches of snow for parts of the northern plateau, but it is much skimpier with coverage than it has been. Just a few hours ago, it was showing widespread 4-5 inch totals for the region. The higher-resolution version of the NAM shows stunningly little precipitation, with virtually no accumulation (less than an inch) for the northern plateau.
This trend continues my earlier thinking, which is that we might not see more than an inch of snow.
The short-range HRRR model is showing 1-3 inches of accumulation, so it's not agreeing with the NAM or the GFS just yet. And the SREF, another of the short-range models operated by the National Weather Service, is also beefier (or juicier?) than the NAM, GFS and Euro.
There's still time to watch this winter storm threat unfold; we're more than 24 hours away from the onset of precipitation. At this point, though, I tend to believe we'll see only minor accumulation here on the northern plateau. That doesn't mean we won't see travel impacts; temperatures will plunge rapidly Monday night into Tuesday morning, so some slick spots on roadways — especially secondary roadways, and bridges and overpasses — seems probable. I'm not convinced we'll see widespread issues, but the possibility is there.


What are the patterns of adapting to health?
In the image, levels closer to 1.0 indicate avoidance of the health context while numbers closer to 5.0 indicate stronger engagement in the context. For example, adults conforming to this pattern show strong avoidance of health care due to cost concern but not due to distrust of doctors. They also see family members as responsible for their own health, but attribute family health care decisions to themselves versus others.
The presence of such patterns underlying a wide range of behaviors has been supported by many empirical studies across diverse populations.
While adults dominated by specific PATH can be treated as segments, the PATH are not really segments that adults belong to.
The PATH are stable configurations of adaptive behavioral response to different health-related contexts that adults conform to different degrees.
The majority of adults proportionally emulate one dominant PATH. For example, the image below shows a space occupied by four PATH. The purest representation of each of these PATH are found at the center of each fuzzy region. One person might conform to PATH 3 at 80% (Person 1 in the image below). PATH 3 is that person's dominant pattern. Another person might conform to PATH 2 at 50% and PATH 1 at 10% (Person 2 in the image below). This person's dominant PATH is still PATH 2, but PATH 1 does have a weak influence on that person's health-related behavior.


Note: This article, part four of a series, first appeared on Biola's Good Book Blog. For a more technical analysis, see the author's article in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.
Exodus 22:25: If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor…you shall not exact interest from him.
Leviticus 25:35 and 37: If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him….You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
Although the first two passages clearly state that the focus of the ban on interest is against loans to the poor, the third passage does not specifically mention the poor. This omission of a reference to the poor in Deuteronomy 23:19-20, combined with the influence of pre-existing Greco-Roman cultural taboos against all lending of money at interest, contributed to the belief (dominant from the early church until the late medieval period) that the Old Testament teaches a complete ban on interest for any loans among Israelites.
In the previous installment, I reviewed a number of problems with the first two interpretive options. In this final post of the present series, I briefly state the evidence supporting the third option. In a future series, I will offer some thoughts on how we might draw on the Torah's teaching about lending money at interest for the present day.
The Economic Status interpretation takes the "brother" in v. 19 to refer to an unfortunate poor person who seeks a loan because he is in need, and the "foreigner" in v. 20 as a traveling merchant who seeks a loan for commercial purposes. Thus the intended contrast is between loans to people in need and investments in commercial ventures. Interest is forbidden on loans to the poor because we ought not to exploit other people's need for gain. Interest is permitted on commercial loans because empowering such ventures serves human needs, and the interest implicitly compensates the lender's risk and lost use of the money.
Thus, on this view all three passages convey the same prohibition on taking interest from loans to the poor, with Deuteronomy 23:19-20 using ethnic references to describe this economic distinction. Mark Biddle summarizes this perspective: "In fact, since most traders in the ancient Near East did business internationally, the permission to charge interest of 'foreigners' may be understood less as a form of ethnocentricity and more as drawing a distinction between lending to the needy in one's community and credit as a component of commercial transactions" (Mark E. Biddle, Deuteronomy, Smyth and Helwys, 2003, p. 252-253; see also Mark E. Biddle, "The Biblical Prohibition Against Usury," Interpretation 65 (2011): 117-121).
The Hebrew term for "interest" (nešek; sounds like ne-shek) is predominantly used in the Old Testament with a contextual focus on protection for the poor. It occurs twelve times, appearing three times in Deuteronomy 23:19. Of the nine other uses outside of Deuteronomy 23:19, seven have a clear contextual focus on protecting the poor: Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:36-37 (two uses); Proverbs 28:8 and Ezekiel 18: 8, 13 and 17. Bruce Waltke notes: "The parallel, 'poor,' in Proverbs 28:8 and the context (see v. 3, 6 and 11) strongly favors restricting its meaning to charging interest from the needy" (Bruce Waltke, The Book of Proverbs: Chapters 15-31, New International Commentary on the Old Testament, Eerdmans, 2005, 413). Thus, by inference from these seven occurrences, this same emphasis on protecting the poor should be expected in the three uses of nešek in Deuteronomy 23:19. This harmonizes with View C but not with Views A and B, which relate this passage to ethnic status distinctions rather than economic status distinctions.
The term usually translated in the Old Testament as "foreigner" (nokrî; sounds like nah-kree) conveys a distinctly economic association. Scholarly consensus holds that it designates a foreign merchant or trader in Deuteronomy 23:20. Jeffrey Tigay writes: "The foreigner is normally a businessman visiting the country for purposes of trade, and he borrows in order to invest in merchandise and make a profit, not to survive poverty. There is no moral imperative to remit loans made for such purposes [Deuteronomy 15:3] or forgo interest on them [Deuteronomy 23:20]" (Jeffrey H. Tigay, Deuteronomy, The JPS Torah Commentary, The Jewish Publication Society, 1996, p. 218). A similar economic sense can apply also to Deuteronomy 14:21 and 15:3.
This economic meaning ("merchant") for a general term ("foreigner") is not unique in the Old Testament. A similar secondary association for "trader" exists for the general term "Canaanite" (kĕnaʿănî; sounds like kuh-naw-uh-nee), which is translated as "trader" in ten Old Testament cases (Job 41:6; Proverbs 31:24; Isaiah 23:8; Ezekiel 16:29 and 17:4, Hosea 12:7, Zephaniah 1:11 and Zechariah 11:7 and 11, and 14:21). Thus, nokrî would be best rendered as "(foreign) merchant or trader" in Deuteronomy 23:20.
Moreover, a conceptual "explicit-implicit parallel" regarding restrictions and permissions of interest-taking is evident in the three Torah usury passages. Walter Kaiser clarifies this explicit-implicit interpretive guideline for the OT law: "When an evil is forbidden in one of the commandments, its opposite good must be understood as being encouraged" (Walter Kaiser, "Exodus," in The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Vol 2., ed. Frank E. Gaebelein, Zondervan, 1990, p. 421).
Finally, an earlier section in Deuteronomy treats the subject of lending in which there is an explicit reference of concern for the poor, in wording very similar to the usury passage in Leviticus 25:35: "If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother" (Deuteronomy 15:7). It seems appropriate to regard Deuteronomy 23:19-20 as a follow-up to Deuteronomy 15:7-11, in which the focus was concern for the poor brother.


Amen. The White House published a blog post yesterday saying that it supports letting consumers unlock their cell phones so that they can use the phone with other carriers.
Though the administration did throw in a large caveat: this only applies to phones no longer subject to a service agreement. Meaning, cell phone companies can still lock their phones for the first two years, or whatever, and they can still charge you an exorbitant price for a phone that is unlocked and not subject to a service contract.
But the good news is that this would mean phones that used phones that you get as a hand-me-down, or buy on eBay, would be unlocked.
The White House comment came in response to a petition posted on the White House Web site calling on the administration to "ask the Librarian of Congress to rescind this decision, and failing that, champion a bill that makes unlocking permanently legal." The petition received 114,322 signatures.
The petition was in response to the news in January that consumers would no longer be able to legally unlock their cell phones, even after their contract with their cell phone carrier has expired.
Hot guy with cell phone via Shutterstock.
Good luck with the first one. Congress is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the big telecom companies, just as they're owned by Big Pharma, the NRA, and other. Congress has never been owned by the people. And this is a "people" thing. They may be a better chance with the FCC, depending on how the other commissioners come down on this.
Considering the absurd price for a mobile phone contract in this country – my iPhone contract is absurd, at $90 a month for the cheapest contract, and I already paid a premium for the phone – while in Europe you can buy a great cell phone for, that's much better than one of ours, for $26.
Though, as I noted in an update to my story, the "great" French cell phone company I used, called "FREE," shut down my account, with no notice, because supposedly they couldn't charge my debit card when I had ample money in the account and my bank statement shows the charge went through – and there's no one to call to complain to. So there are ups and downs, but still, the prices we pay for cell service and cable (and health care) in this country, compared to comparable service in Europe, are absurd.
Don't most Popes "retire" the same way?
I'll miss Hugo. Not so much Ratzi the Nazi.
You mean like buying an electronic book that isn't really yours?
As opposed to what alternative? Different laws according to which state you live in, or even which county? Or completely laissez faire, where the mobile companies are free to sell you a phone that really isn't yours, not even after your contract is up and you no longer use their services?
You might want to get that "anti gubmint" knee-jerk checked out.
There are few more obvious and necessary areas requiring good, consumer-friendly federal regulation than telecommunications.
What, a patchwork of 50 different sets of laws on the issue would be a better option? Last time I checked, phone lines and cell signals go across state lines. Thus expressly making it a federal issue, per that fussy Constitution thing.
He just retired in the way a Pope should.


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Christian/Religious Music
Thread: Christian/Religious Music
Anyone interested in Christian or religious music?
I will be the first to admit there is a lot of really generic music out there but there is also some amazing expressions of people's faith.
I'll start with this song, A Prayer by my favourite christian band Kings Kaleidoscope. It is about the lead singers anxiety and he actually says the F word when he is describing the nature of his depression, created quite a stir in the christian music community when it came out.
Anyway aside from the swear word (which I personally feel is actually very smartly used but probably became a distraction) I feel like this song is an amazing, incredibly raw expression of Jesus personal love for us and suffering alongside us. The music matches the lyrics so well and the usage of silence is really powerful.
First time I heard this song it made every single hair on my arm stand up and when I played it for my wife she cried.
Anyway, what did you think? If anyone has any other Christian or other faith music I'd love to hear it and I'd be happy to share more.
Last edited by SirSam; 06-28-2018 at 04:46 AM.
Toubabo Koomi
On a Nightrain!
The only song I can think of is alive by pod. Its just a good song whether its religious or not.
I'll check out the YouTube vid when I get back from the doctors.
POD were awesome, when I was a teenager I had a radio show on the local Christian radio station and I probably played that song every second episode.
Didn't know/had forgotten you were religious, and it's odd because I have currently been listening to the bible on youtube.
Checked out the song, it's not bad but not really my thing. It is quite touching though you're right. I do love that POD song tho. I tried learning it on guitar ages ago and it's not even that complicated I just plain suck.
What parts have you been listening to specifically? Anything in particular stand out?
A similar band to POD that I used to really enjoy was a band called Pillar. I even saw them live, was the sweatiest, smelliest mosh pit I've been in. A song I particularly remember enjoying by them was Frontline. It has been years since I listened to them and I expect I may not love them as much any more just as my tastes have changed but give them a listen if you really liked POD.
Disclaimer... I'm a straight up atheist.
Having said that, Christian hardcore is one of my favorite genres. UnderOath, Devil Wears Prada, Stretch Arm Strong, We Came As Romans... I could go on, but you guys get the idea.
Originally Posted by SirSam
It wasn't the swear word, anyone can do that. I do it all the time and it doesn't make you cool. South park made the point for me. It works but needs to be limited so that it doesn't just become casual.
It was the Jesus where are you repeatedly that got me.
Originally Posted by The Dude
Yeah, that part of the song followed by the silence then the violin is spine tingling.
I think for me the usage of the f word is quite fitting because it is used to add violence to the song and is normally not present in any of their music or really any music for the genre. The idea of the Southpark episode about swearing is that when you use it all the time it loses all meaning however when you never use it, the one time you do really stands out and in this context gives it some real emotional resonance to the violence of his anxiety.
Also I meant what parts of the bible have you been listening to?
I'm interested as to what attracts you to Christian music given you probably don't have a lot of time for the lyrical content?
In case anyone is interested here is another song by Kings Kaleidoscope called Alive, it is one of my most listened to tracks of last year, mainly for the second half of the song after the rap in the first verse.
I'm quite into classical music with a religious focus but can't say I know much that is pop or rock oriented, beyond the odd song.
I do remember thinking 'Hello McFly' by Relient K was kinda fun, if that counts.
SirSam,
I grew up as a Christian when I was a teenager, and subsequently got into the hardcore scene where there were a ton of great bands that happened to be Christian. Even after losing my faith, I still enjoyed the style, and it seems Christian bands do that style better than non-Christian bands. Plus, there's generally a good, positive vibe at live shows that the non-Christian stuff isn't always able to maintain.
I'd love to hear some if you could point me to a few songs like that.
I remember going to Christian music festivals as a teenager and just loving catching the metal bands even though they weren't my favourite genre, they just had so much energy and the crowd just went for it so hard.
Sam, I was listening to the old testament but my grandma sent me the new testament and recommended it. I'm not sure if it's for me, but I do feel I should read it which I never have. I was good at R.E at school somehow anyway, I don't get how.
I don't know if this is really what you had in mind when starting the thread, but it came on the radio when I was in the car recently, and it's quite something.
Incredible post PT, absolutely not what I had in mind when I started the post but I do not care one bit. I had like 20 tabs open and was clicking around and this just stopped me dead in my tracks. I just closed my eyes and was transported for 4 minutes.
When I listen to something so mind blowingly amazing like that the only thing that comes to mind is the quote by the father of the Reformation Martin Luther when he said "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."
Not to turn this into the religion thread but that did remind me of something I read once, where the suggestion was that music was the form that took us closest to the divine. I think the suggestion was that when you're dealing in words and language it's inevitably going to be limited by the act of writing it down and the cultural conventions that inevitably constrain ideas, but that the popularity of music lies in the fact that there's something transcendental about it.
Don't know if that's something people are going to agree with, but bringing in Luther made me think of it. And y'know, hearing the music in that video makes me more likely to agree with it than I might have been if I hadn't just listened to it!
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Dinner theater: Childress Vineyards will present "Murder at the Greystone Plantation" dinner theater at 7 p.m. Friday. A three-course meal prepared by executive chef Chris Winner will be served prior to the play. Cost is $75 per person.
Alive After Five: The final concert will be from 5:45-8:45 p.m. Sept. 13 with George Washington Smith and The Marble Alley Band. The concert takes place in the parking lot of Lanier Hardware on South State Street.
'Jazz on Main': The first "Jazz on Main" concert will take place from 4-8 p.m. Sept. 29 in the grassy field across from the First United Methodist Church on South Main Street. Joe Robinson and the Reggie Buie Trio will perform. The event is free.
Free concerts: The Salem Band, directed by Eileen Young, 2012 Summer Concert Series will end with a community band festival featuring the Bethabara Band, the Winston-Salem Community Band and the Salem Band at 3 p.m. Sept. 9.
The concert is free. Location is outside on Salem Square in Old Salem, so patrons should bring lawn chairs or blankets. Café Prada will provide gelato for purchase. For further info, contact Eileen Young at eileenyoung@triad.rr.com or 413-2180.
Brick Street Live: The Brick Street Live concert series for the 2012 summer season will take place on Fisher Street in downtown Salisbury. The remaining schedule is: Sept. 6, Atlantic Groove Band. Tickets can be purchased at the gate or in advance at www.brickstreetlive.com or by calling (704) 637-5363. Gates open at 6 p.m. with concerts beginning at 7 p.m.
Admission is $5, and this year, Brick Street Live season passes will be available. For information and updates on the 2012 Brick Street Live series, visit www.brickstreetlive.com, or find Brick Street Live on Facebook at www.facebook.com/brickstreetlive.
Lark Artists: A meet and greet art show of Lark Artists will take place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at Betsy Browne Pottery, 151 N. Fayetteville St., Asheboro. Lark Artists is a collaborative of artists who promote artistic endeavors.


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The Surprising Reason Why a Terrific Law Enforcement Tool Is Failing
Usually, The Watchdog wouldn't regale you with the tale of a promising area company that never made a profit, fired its CEO this year and watched as its stock price dropped to a dime a share. Unfortunately, that's not so uncommon in the high-tech world.But this company's product is so intelligent and helpful to society that The Watchdog can't let the story of COPsync's rise and fall go unnoticed.COPsync is an Addison-based company that sells a messaging system to law enforcement and public safety officials so they can tie in to a central system and share information in real time.Get it? COPsync. Kudos to the name. But sad that the project isn't making money.With more than 500 law enforcement agencies and school districts as customers in 16 states, COPsync should be a game changer. Small-town police departments, county sheriffs and constables across Texas are among its many customers, sharing information together on their computers, phones and patrol car monitors.If COPsync were to go out of business, a lot of public safety enterprises would lose their flow of information. That's why this isn't your average company with bungling managers. Here we have a public company in control of massive amounts of police data and intelligence from communities across the nation.  Continue reading...


The Baking Biatch || by Cynthia Lim: IM-Perfection, Ang Bao Boxes and more!
IM-Perfection, Ang Bao Boxes and more!
When it comes to weddings, especially in Singapore, red packets are given as blessings to newly weds. Therefore, it is very common that most wedding receptions have something called the Ang Bao Box, or the Red Packet Box to keep all the red packet blessings.
Normally, brides would do up boxes using squarish boxes or round cylinders. They would then DIY and dress it up. To me, that can be a tough feat especially when there are many things else to worry about closer to the wedding date. As such, we were blessed to have our Ang Bao Box sponsored by I.M-Perfection in a cheeky UK Post Box style to match our Carnival theme!
It was huge (even though there's an even larger one) and spacious. It even came with a lock so as to keep the red packets safe! We also got the chance to customise the area in the middle with our names and the details of our wedding.... just like the information you'd find on a post box! I'll let the pictures do the work.
It was really adorable and well liked by many of our guests!
Beautiful pens for our guests to write their well wishes.
Lovely Yinteen with the Ang Bao box!
I love our set-up for the reception area. Simple yet fun!
Speaking of I.M-Perfection, they've been in the business since 2012 with the intention of providing unique wedding experiences for wedding couples. I must say that they have been able to blow us away (me in particular!) with their range of products. They have got many lovely items that I love but can't use due to event space restrictions and also the clash of wedding theme.
Giant road signs for names!
I LOVE this lighted LOVE signage!
Adorable Singapore post box in comparison to the real deal!
The live sized UK Post Box! I heard this can fit red packets for 100 tables!
When I saw their products, I was pretty much blown away. I was spoilt for choice. And me being me, I LOVE all adorable things. I.M-Perfection lives up to their name.. and creates opportunities for wedding couples to have a memorable experience with their lovely products. I loved how our UK post box added so much fun and joy to our wedding reception table. Their props are also amazing for any kind of photoshoots! Pre-wedding shoots,graduation shoots, family shoots and even maternity shoots!
Here's how you can contact them for their lovely props and more!


i seriously dought it but if some body killed my dog i would have to kill them.
no defnitely not there is alot of pets to around a pet is not worth a human life.
Absolutely not! I'm sorry, but I can always get another dog.
Yes I would jump out the window. I live on a third floor, and I have done it before. I went to the street and I placed a mattress on the street than I saw my cat could jump from the third floor. So I went to my neighbor in the first floor and I asked if I could jump out his window and he said yes. The mattress that I had placed there was still there. So I jump from the window. I landed on the mattress. I looked up to the window on third floor. And there was my cat with a stare of amazement. And I thought this cat is not as dumb as I thought. And I got a ticket for putting the mattress on the street.
Yes. I love my pets.
Nope. A human's life is more important than an animal's life, in my opinion.
No. not because I don't love animals but I have much more capacity to do good in the world than a cat or dog... I would probably miss them alot though.
Definitely. I love my children . But I wouldn't for a pit bull. Those beasts are horrible.
Would it bother you to have a pet watching while you're on the toilet?
What's the best life lesson that your pet has taught you?


People living on the various parts of the earth may need a bridge or something solid and stable that functions like a bridge, but apparently Russians don't!
Today we present you a very interesting video that can be readily added to the quota of "Only in Russia" videos. In this extraordinary video below, you're gonna see a couple insanely brilliant Russian guys who, showing us how to cross a flowing river with a motorcycle. P.S. In Mother Russia you do not cross the river, the river crosses you!
Scroll down to check out the video below, see how they did it without any hesitation and enjoy the craziness of Russians!