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Allegations: Travis Benjamin
·NFL columnist
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Nevin Shapiro on Benjamin: Play audio
Travis Benjamin was one of dozens of Hurricanes players named by Nevin Shapiro in recorded interviews with federal agents. During those interviews, the booster admitted supplying benefits to an array of Miami players from 2002 to 2010. Shapiro said he provided Benjamin with multiple extra benefits starting in the player's freshman season. Among the benefits Shapiro allegedly provided:
Position: Wide receiver
Rivals recruiting rank: Ranked as the No. 42 wide receiver in the Class of 2008.
Miami career: A three-year contributor and one-year starter who is expected to be Miami's top wideout as a senior this season. Benjamin is also on the radar of NFL scouting departments as a likely 2012 draft selection.
• Food, drinks and entertainment at Shapiro's $6 million Miami Beach mansion.
• Played in a pool tournament for cash at Shapiro's home.
• Food, drinks and entertainment at Lucky Strike Lanes including a "bowling for dollars" tournament over a weekend in September 2008.
Corroborating account
• Yahoo! Sports acquired Shapiro's September 2008 American Express black card and American Express Platinum card statements showing three charges totaling $2,114.18 from Sept. 13 to Sept. 15 at Lucky Strike Lanes. This is where the booster held his "bowling for dollars" events.
In Shapiro's words
• "Travis Benjamin was a kid who was, I think he was from Randy Phillips' school Belle Glade [Glades Central High School]. He was an incoming freshman and when he first got to school, he was at my house a number of times with Randy Phillips."
• "He played in the pool tournament inside my house. He was in my house I want to say 25 times or more. I recall him being at Lucky Strike [Lanes] on at least five, six, seven different occasions. I had given him cash a few times. Whether it be $50, $100, it was never a lot of money. But there was a cash exchange more than one time."
These pages from Nevin Shapiro's September 2008 American Express black card and American Express Platinum card statements show three charges totaling $2,114.18 from Sept. 13 to Sept. 15, for a series of "bowling for dollars" events with Miami football players at the upscale Lucky Strike Lanes. The tab covered drinks, food and bowling, and the charges on Sept. 15 were for a bill spanning the evening of the 14th and the early morning of the 15th. Shapiro said he held the tournaments, which paid cash to winning teams, in the off week between road games against Florida and Texas A&M. He said multiple players were in attendance, including Marcus Forston, Sean Spence, Aldarius Johnson, Randy Phillips, Travis Benjamin and JoJo Nicolas. PDF file
Benjamin did not return a message sent to his Facebook page.
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1. A short story by Tom Winship called "The Vampire Wedding Planner." Witty and appropriate for adolescents and up, it's a cute little satire on how to plan your perfect bloodbath. I mean, wedding.
2. Reviews of Perfume by Patrick Suskind, Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo, and Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Which rocked hard.
3. A looking back post for Throne of Glass (which I'm re-reading now) and Crown of Midnight (which I'll be re-reading soon), by Sarah J. Maas. Spoilers: I think I actually like Chaol now. Except I'm still mad at everyone in CoM for being stupid and secretive and not sensitive to everyone else's feelings.
4. A few giveaways of BEA extras. Let's just say I wound up with an extra copy of Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater and an audiobook ARC of Landline by Rainbow Rowell. And more...mwuahahaha.
5. A small dissertation on what I learned at BEA, including pics and recaps from the event as well as "overhead at BEA" and tips for next year's event.
6. Pictures of my BEA haul, because I'm a braggy mcbraggerson and I can't help it. Plus you get to see what's coming up next on the blog, right? Right?
7. Posts, reviews, and events as part of Mental Health month sponsored by Blog of Erised. This is where you get to take advantage of the fact that I'm getting my PhD in Clinical Psychology and know some stuff. I'll also be reading and discussing It's Kind of a Funny Story by the late, lovely Ned Vizzini and Goodbye, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick, best known for Silver Linings Playbook.
So, cheers! I missed you all!
Who has shaken Cary Elwes' hand.
A short story from Mr. Winship???? GIMME!!!!
I'm planning for tomorrow! You'll love it. It's wickedly adorable.
BEA extra? Heir of the throne? heir of the throne?!!!
God, I wish I could get two copies of Heir of Throne. That one is signed and never leaving my sight.
I am just about finished with CoM and the wait for Heir of Fire is going to kill me.
She did leave it on a crazy cliffhanger. I'm honestly not sure what I would do without an arc. Probably go comatose until the feel of the pages on my fingertips roused me, like smelling salts.
It was so great to meet you! Too bad we didn't get the chance to spend more time together. I'm always running around like a chicken with its head cut off during BEA. Vampire Wedding Planner sounds hilarious.
Look forward to more BEA posts! I will have to do mine soon.
I know! It was so crazy, but it was lovely meeting you in person, especially since it was such a surprise. :P I still have to write mine but I have notes and pictures so that counts? And then gotta get back into the swing of things. Yeep.


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All About Apostles in the LDS Church
by Rachel | Oct 11, 2017 | FAQs | 0 comments
Within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, there is a very special leadership position. The people who hold these positions are called apostles. Apostles are responsible for many tasks in the Church, including assisting in the development and growth of the Church worldwide.
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Who are the Apostles?
The term apostle comes from Greek, and is translated to mean, "One sent forth." The Church uses the title 'apostle' to signify a person who's chosen to be a special witness of Jesus Christ.
Scripture dictates that there are to be 15 apostles appointed within the Church (Doctrine and Covenants 107:22-24).
Three of the apostles make up the First Presidency of the Church (Doctrine and Covenants 107:22). This includes the president of the Church, who is also referred to as the prophet. The other two members of the First Presidency include the first counselor and the second counselor.
The remaining 12 apostles create the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Along with the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is tasked with representing Christ to all people, in all nations.
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Who can be a New Apostle?
To be an appointed as an apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ, you will, of course, need to be a member of the Church. Often times, the new apostle is a member of the Quorum of the Seventy when they are sustained. However, the Church has announced that any person who is part of the general membership of the Church, and who holds the priesthood, can be called to be an apostle.
How are New Apostles Chosen?
Once an apostle is called, and he accepts that call, it is understood to be a lifetime calling. Inevitably each apostle will pass away. Recently, Elder Robert D. Hales, who was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, passed away. The loss of an apostle can be very upsetting to members of the Church, as the apostles are very beloved. However, these times can also be exciting, as there will be a new apostle called.
When a new apostle is needed, the president of the Church will be inspired by God to know who the right person is. At this point, the president will meet with the chosen person to interview him. If the chosen person accepts and is willing to become a new apostle, he will need to be sustained by the members of the Church. After being sustained, the (almost) new apostle will be ordained, or appointed, by the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This is done through a priesthood blessing, where those who are performing the blessing will lay their hands upon the head of the person being blessed.
Apostles are a very important part of the Church. They are able to receive inspiration for the members of the Church, and they travel the world in an effort to share this inspiration and spread the gospel. Go to the Church website to read the words of all the apostles.
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Mormons don't live in closed communities, and they dress modestly, but according to the fashions of the cultures in which they live. Therefore, you might walk right past a Mormon and not realize it. Mormons tend to have a clean, wholesome, and bright look, because of the standards they live by and the health code they follow (no alcoholic drinks, coffee, tea, or tobacco). Mormons are sincere followers of Jesus Christ, and as such, are expected to be approachable and kind. (Read more.)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the real name of the Mormon Church) is a worldwide church with over 16,000,000 members. Sometimes people think of it as an American church, but there are more members outside the United States than in it. There are more non-English speakers than English speakers and church materials are translated into many languages (166 languages in 2008). (Read more.)
The Mormon Church has an extensive humanitarian aid program. Between 1985 and 2008, 167 countries had received humanitarian aid from the Church, totaling $282 million in cash donations and $833 million in material donations. One must add to this the millions of volunteer hours invested by members of the Church to provide assistance on the local and worldwide stage. (Read more.)
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A few days ago, a WordPress user new to the Genesis Framework asked me whether it is possible to display tailored secondary menus on specific pages. All pages on the website should get the same primary menu and – besides a few exceptions – the same secondary navigation menu. The exceptions should get their own specific, secondary menu.
In this post I am going to show you how this can be done by applying conditional tags. Since I am not a trained coder, I prefer to use a tool to achieve this goal. The tool that I will be using in this case is the Genesis Extender.
For the remaining part of this post, I will assume that you have already installed and activated this nifty plugin. For more details about the Genesis Extender, please refer to this review.
For this example I have installed the Genesis Extender with the StudioPress Sample theme. This theme is freely available with the Genesis Framework, so that every Genesis user is able to follow along.
However, you can apply the Genesis Extender with any Genesis child theme – except for the Dynamik Website Builder. The Dynamik is a child theme and framework to create your own Genesis child theme that incorporates the same functionality concerning conditional tags.
Conditional tags are functions that let you control what content is displayed in a particular situation. The Conditional Tag Index of WordPress includes 37 of those conditions. A condition is either TRUE or FALSE.
With a conditional tag, it is for example possible to display a widget area only in a certain situation; namely when the condition is met. An example of a conditional tag is "is_home()". With this function you check whether a page is the homepage. And a much used application of is_home() is that when the page is indeed the homepage you want to display the homepage slider.
Basically you can multiply the number of available conditional tags, since you can also negate a conditional tag. A widget area is only displayed when one or more conditions are not met. In our example of conditional navigation menus, we are going to use "is_page()" and "! is_page(). Or more verbose; is page and is NOT page.
pages – some of these pages will get a tailored secondary navigation, while the remaining pages will get the regular secondary menu.
We have seven pages altogether. All pages are going to get the same primary navigation. The pages titled Red, Green, and Blue will have their own custom secondary menu, while the remaining four pages will have the ordinary secondary menu.
For the Primary Navigation we will be using the wilwebs.com categories.
The Other Menu contains links to all seven pages listed above and can be considered as the default secondary menu.
All we have been doing so far is pretty usual WordPress administration stuff.
The Genesis Extender plugin adds two pages to the Genesis panel. In order to create our conditionals, we have to turn to the Conditionals tab of Extender Custom page.
The pull down-menu Examples shows a couple of conditionals tags. The WordPress Codex lists conditional tags.
What is this? The conditional named "red_page" contains the tag "is_page('Red')", meaning it will only be applied to the page titled "Red". That is it! The conditionals green_page and blue_page are using the same tag, but will apply to the page titled Green respectively Blue.
The tag of the conditional named "not_rgb_page" is a little bit different.
First of all, we see an exclamation mark (!) in front of the tag. This negates the condition. So we have to read this as "is NOT page", hence: is not the Red, Green or Blue page.
Second, instead of the page titles, I have used the IDs of the pages regarding. You can also use the slugs. Titles and slugs are alphanumeric and therefore need to be placed within quotation marks. Digits are numeric and do not get quotations marks.
Third, since the tag applies to a series of IDs respectively page titles, we have to put those variables in an array. When you prefer the titles instead of IDs, you can also use "! is_page(array ( 'Red', 'Green', 'Blue' ))".
That is all. Creating the conditionals is actually the hardest part of creating the conditional menus.
Now that we have our conditionals, we can create the necessary widget areas, where we will add our custom menus. We continue with the Widget Area section of the Extender Custom page.
In the screenshot above, you will notice that I have named the widget areas in line with the page titles where these will be displayed: bluepage, greenpage, otherpage, and redpage.
The widget areas on the Red, Green and Blue page will appear after the header, since I have used the genesis_after_header hook. To show you the ease and flexibility of Genesis and the Genesis Extender, I have used the genesis_before_header hook for the navigation menu on the other pages.
When you click on the Conditional Selected dropdown menu, you are presented a list with the conditionals created earlier. Assigning a conditional is a matter of checking the box in front of the name of the conditional.
The number in front of the Conditional Selected tells you how many conditionals have been applied. When you have created three separate NOT conditionals – one for each of the Red, Green, and Blue page – you would have selected all three conditionals for the otherpage widget area.
Now that we have our pages, our menus, our conditionals, and our widget areas, we are ready to add the Custom Menu widgets to the widget areas.
When you visit the Widgets page (Appearance >> Widgets), you will notice four fresh created widget areas: bluepage, greenpage, otherpage, and redpage.
All we have to do is add a Custom Menu widget to these four widget areas and select the appropriate navigation: Blue Menu, Green Menu, Other Menu, and Red Menu. Leave the Title blanc.
That is all, Folks! Please do not hesitate to leave a comment when you have questions or remarks. It is not imaginary that I have skipped a beat somewhere.
As you will understand, a conditional navigation menu is only one deployment of conditional tags. When you have a look at the Conditional Tag Index and the Genesis Hooks, I am sure you will come up with your own applications.
As mentioned in the introduction, you can install the Genesis Extender with every Genesis child theme, except for the Dynamik Website Builder.
Hi Alex, basically it is the other way around.
Catalyst and the Dynamik Website Builder (DWB) offer comparable functionality; to create turnkey websites – structure (page layouts) as well as design.
Genesis child themes already incorporate a specific design (as defined in the style.css), and the Genesis Extender adds the ability to modify the structure – the page layouts – of these child themes without the need to manually customize the functions.php – without the need to code.
So the DWB equals Catalyst.
The Genesis Extender equals the DWB minus the design options.
With DWB and Catalyst you can create new websites from scratch.
With the Genesis Extender, you can modify the page layouts of existing Genesis child themes.
Thanks Wil now I'm understanding. And I read another of your posts on the comparison.
Thanks for this post! I'm having a little Dynamik problem and I'm wondering if you had any advice.
I'm trying to get an image to appear on the homepage of a site I'm working on, and stretching across the page's entire width.
This works well when I include the image in the body tags, but then it appears on every page on the site instead of just the home page.
Could I use a conditional for this? And how would a noob go about it?
I have done this with one of my sites by adding a little CSS.
You can add this code to the CSS box of the Dynamik Custom Options. Please note that you will have to replace 'images/image.jpg' the URL with the name and location of your own image.
Is it possible to put a menu only in a widget? Not necessarily "conditioned" on a specific page, but within a widget that appears somewhere on a page? For example, I want to create a menu that appears when someone clicks an image. If I put the image in a widget, can I somehow also put a menu in a widget and have it appear on a click … or even better on a hover?
Seems to me that the solution deployed for mobile menus could also be used to display a menu in a widget. The mobile menu appears when a visitor clicks on the menu icon. In your situation, the menu has to appear when the visitor clicks on an image. Let me know when you need help with this – a post about the mobile menus is already on my list.
Thanks Wil. Let me research a bit on the mobile menus. More later! ..


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system, unattached to a Go workspace. Best of all, to switch to using goat you
won't have to change a single line of code.

# The problem

There are two problems that goat aims to solve:

* `go get` does not allow for specifying versions of a library.

* `go get` does not have an easy of way of sandboxing your project's development
  environment. You can either muck up your global environment with dependencies
  or mess with your `GOPATH` everytime you want to develop for that project.
  Others that want to work on your project will have to do the same.

* Other dependency managers are strange and have weird command line arguments
  that I don't feel like learning.

# The solution

* The root of a goat project has a `.go.yaml` file which specifies a
  dependency's location, name, and version control reference if applicable. It
  is formatted using super-simple yaml objects, each having at most four fields.

* All dependencies are placed in a `vendor` directory at the root of your
  project.  goat will automatically look for a `.go.yaml` in your current
  working directory or one of its parents, and call that the project root. For
  the rest of the command's duration your GOPATH will have `<projroot>/vendor`
  prepended to it. This has many useful properties, most notably that your
  dependencies are sandboxed inside your code, but are still usable exactly as
  they would have been if they were global.

* Goat is a wrapper around the go command line utility. It adds one new command,
  all other commands are passed straight through to the normal go binary. This
  command is `goat deps`, and it retrieves all dependencies listed in your
  `.go.yaml` and puts them into a folder called `vendor` in your project. If any
  of those dependencies have `.go.yaml` files then those are processed and put
  in your project's `vendor` folder as well (this is done recursively).

# Installation

To use goat you can either get a pre-compiled binary or build it yourself. Once
you get the binary I recommend aliasing it as `go` (`alias go=goat`),
so that `goat` gets used whenever you use the `go` utility. Don't worry, unless
you are in a directory tree with a `.go.yaml` file or use one of goat's special
commands nothing will be different.

### Pre-built

Check the releases tab on github, the latest release will have pre-compiled
binaries for various systems, choose the one that applies to you.

### Build it yourself

To build goat yourself make sure you have `go` installed (go figure).

```bash
git clone https://github.com/openbohemians/goat.git
cd goat
make
```

The binaries will be found in the `bin` directory.

# Usage

See the [tutorial][tutorial] for a basic use case for goat. After that check out
the [.go.yaml file][projfile] for more details on what kind of features goat has
for dependency management. There are also some [special features][special] that
don't really fit in anywhere else that might be useful to know about.

# Authors

* Brian Picciano
* Tom Sawyer

# Copyrights

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Efficacy of Convalescent Plasma Therapy compared to Fresh Frozen Plasma in Severely ill COVID-19 Patients: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Meenu Bajpai, Suresh Kumar, Ashish Maheshwari, Karan Chhabra, Pratibha kale, Amita Gupta, Ashad Narayanan, Ekta Gupta, Nirupama Trehanpati, Chhagan Bihari, Reshu Agarwal, Kamini Gupta, Upendra kumar Gupta, Ankit Bhardwaj, Guresh Kumar, Mojahidul Islam, Ravinder Singh, Pushpa Yadav, Rakhi Maiwall, Shiv Kumar Sarin
Meenu Bajpai
1Department of Transfusion Medicine, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
2Department of Medicine, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital, New Delhi, India
Ashish Maheshwari
Karan Chhabra
Pratibha kale
3Department of Microbiology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
Amita Gupta
Ashad Narayanan
4Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
Ekta Gupta
5Department of HepatoVirology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
Nirupama Trehanpati
6Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
Chhagan Bihari
7Department of Pathology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
Reshu Agarwal
Kamini Gupta
Upendra kumar Gupta
Ankit Bhardwaj
8Masters Clinical Research, Department of Clinical Research, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
Guresh Kumar
9Department of Research, Institute of Liver and BiliarySciences, New Delhi, India
Mojahidul Islam
Ravinder Singh
Pushpa Yadav
Rakhi Maiwall
Shiv Kumar Sarin
For correspondence: shivsarin@gmail.com
Background The role of convalescent plasma (COPLA) for the treatment of severely ill Corona Virus Disease-2019 is under investigation. We compared the efficacy and safety of convalescent plasma with fresh frozen plasma (FFP) in severe COVID-19 patients.
Methods and findings This was an open-label, single-centre phase II RCT on 29 patients with severe COVID-19 from India. One group received COPLA with standard medical care (SMC) (n=14), and another group received FFP with SMC (n=15). A total of 29 patients were randomized in the two treatment groups. Eleven out of 14 (78.5%) patients remained free of ventilation at day seven in the intervention arm while the proportion was 14 out of 15 (93.3 %) in the control arm (p= 0.258). The median reductions in RR per min at 48-hours in COPLA-group and FFP group were -6.5 and -3 respectively [p=0.004] and at day seven were -14.5 and -10 respectively (p=0.008). The median improvements in percentage O2 saturation at 48-hours were 6.5 and 2 respectively [p=0.001] and at day seven were 10 and 7.5 respectively (p=0.026). In the COPLA-group, the median improvement in PaO2/FiO2 was significantly superior to FFP at 48-hours [41.94 and 231.15, p=0.009], and also at day-7 [5.55 and 77.01 p<0.001]. We did not find significant differences in hospitalization duration between the groups (0.08).
Conclusion COPLA therapy resulted in rapid improvement in respiratory parameters and shortened time to clinical recovery, although no significant reduction in mortality was observed in this pilot trial. We need larger trials to draw conclusive evidence on the use of Convalescent plasma in COVID-19. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrial.gov (identifier: NCT04346446).
The authors have declared no competing interest.
No external funding was received
IRB of Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, and IRB of Maulana Azad Medical College
Data is available with Project Investigators at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, and Maulana Azad Medical College and will be available with permission of IRB of above institute
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The New Zealand Transport Agency has announced that the changes to public access to the Motor Vehicle Register have been delayed until April 1, 2011.
Currently, the names and addresses held on the Motor Vehicle Register are publicly available to any person who provides the registration plate number of the vehicle and pays the prescribed fee. It is possible to request a confidential listing.
This means that anyone who knows the registration number of your car can find out where you live.
It is still possible to make a request to the Motor Vehicle Register under the Official Information Act, but it is expected that most such requests will be refused to protect the privacy of the person enquired about. The decision will be up to the NZTA and can be appealed to the Ombudsman.
This means that it will be a lot harder for someone to find out your address from your car registration number.
Note that this applies only to personal information - address details for cars registered to companies or other corporate bodies will still be available. This may be a privacy issue for businesses that are run from the family home.
However, people or companies can apply to the Secretary of Transport for special authorisation to be able to access the MVR. The intention is that this will be used for insurance and finance companies. They will have to answer the following questions to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Transport.
You can opt out of letting these specially authorised companies find out your details at the NZTA site. Whether this will make it harder for you to apply for finance or insurance in the future is yet to be discovered.
The law was originally intended to take effect on 1 November 2010.
This has been delayed until 1 April 2011. The reason for the delay has not been announced.
No. The law change taking effect on April 1 2011 will make your address details a lot harder to access. Only people/companies authorised by the Secretary of Transport will be able to find out your address from your car registration.
If you wish, you can choose to also block access to these specially authorised people by opting out at the NTZA website.


I'm currently reading Proof of Heaven by Dr. Eben Alexander III. It is quite interesting. Here is the blurb from amazon.com.
Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people.
A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul" is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real to the people having them, but in truth they are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.
Then came the day when Dr. Alexander's own brain was attacked by an extremely rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human— shut down completely. For seven days Alexander lay in a hospital bed in a deep coma. Then, as his doctors weighed the possibility of stopping treatment, Alexander's eyes popped open. He had come back.
Alexander's recovery is by all accounts a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.
This story sounds like the wild and wonderful imaginings of a skilled fantasy writer. But it is not fantasy. Before Alexander underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. That difficulty with belief created an empty space that no professional triumph could erase. Today he is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.


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President Donald Trump:Kanye West – "Who's Hustlin' who?
October 11, 2018 October 14, 2018 ~ Fred Thomas, III	~ Leave a comment
Cover Photo: Rapper Kanye West hugs U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval office of the White House on October 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras - Pool/Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump meets with rapper Kanye West and former football player Jim Brown (R) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, October 11, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
[Washington, D.C.] This afternoon was a meeting luncheon that may go down in history as Donald Trump hosted Kanye West at the White House. Jim Brown tagged along and from a rare moment where White House staff allowed cameras to document the event, it also showcased a diatribe by West that even appeared to stun the usual fast-talking Trump.
In 1985 the late legendary singer Aretha Franklin came out with one of her many hits, "Who's Zoomin' Who?" After today's luncheon Franklin's beat came to mind and instead of zoomin', the words were flipped to hustlin' or "Who's hustlin' who"?
Trump has shown little appetite to have serious meetings with African-American policy-makers or those who are known leaders in the community. However, he has been quick to marginalize that group and instead give audience to the likes of West, who shockingly didn't even vote in 2016, let alone for then candidate Donald Trump. Although he did clarify his statements indicating had he voted, Trump would have been his choice,
I didn't vote in 2016 but if I did, 'I would have voted for Trump', Kanye West
Trump professes to be a master of the media. Indeed, he gave audience to West but like most manipulators you never fully know his motivation? Some have intimated the luncheon demonstrated his connection to the African-American community. Unfortunately, his track record proves otherwise.
Justifying their allegiance
West made many remarks during his diatribe. Highlighting his ignorance of voting, the process and the final selection; he like many who try to justify their support for the republican party make the claim "blacks are locked into voting for the democratic party."
Perhaps in their mind it sounds cute and maybe something they truly believe?
"As a bloc, African-Americans are very sophisticated." Mara Gay, New York Times editorial board.
The basic premise in voting is supporting the candidate or the party who supports your ideals and desires. It may be too much for West to understand or ponder over the years if the democratic party has shown more support for African-American issues than the republican party? Of course, that is not to confuse the issue that just because your vote aligns with one party does not mean all is won and you will get everything you desired? That is why most understand voting is simply one piece of the process, and one that surely does not end after the candidate who won. The other is holding those you voted for accountable. And yes, despite best intentions sometimes there is failure and disappointment. But, like any good fight, you get up and keep fighting but the principal of voting for those who support your ideals is paramount.
"many people believe that, if you're black, you have to be a Democrat and said he was pressured not to wear his red "Make America Great Again" hat. But he said "this hat, it gives me power." Kanye West
Now that Trump has completed his luncheon with West this may be a first step? Trump has the opportunity to get serious about African-American issues. West has the opportunity for the African-American community to better understand his sentiments but first things first, let's make sure he is registered to vote and in fact can participate in the mid-term elections which are just weeks away.
Otherwise, the luncheon may go down in history as "Who's hustlin' who?"
Much has been said and written about the meeting. Just to add some levity to the issue here is SNL's take on it.
Mortgage rates jump to near 5%
October 11, 2018 January 12, 2019 ~ Fred Thomas, III	~ Leave a comment
COVER PHOTO.  Traders work on the floor at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on October 10, 2018 in New York. - Wall Street stocks plunged Wednesday, with major indices losing more than three percent in a selloff prompted by the sudden jump in US interest rates. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost 3.1 percent or 830 points to finish at 25,613.35, in the biggest fall since February. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images)
Mortgage rates jumped to 4.90% which is a number not seen in nearly seven years based on Freddie Mac's weekly rate survey. Although an increase was expected the jump of nineteen basis points caught some by surprise. As strong as the economy is purchasing a home continues to be an illusive transaction for many. The rise in rates buffeted by the increase in home prices have left many reconsidering their plans as evidenced by the drop in mortgage applications.
Remember that tax break earlier in the year?
Last December president Trump and the GOP controlled congress touted the tax cut as a "cure-all" and justification of their leadership prowess. Indeed, a good chunk of working people did receive benefits from the tax cut and a few were lucky enough to get bonuses. The average cut was about $1,600.
For those who were positioning to buy a home or refinance their existing mortgage the recent mortgage rate hike has wiped out that savings.
Time Rate Payment Annual
Oct. 2018 4.90% $1,252
Diff $139 $1,668
**based on average mortgage of $239,000
Most understand rates and economic metrics are cyclical. In other words when you have an improved economy, you will also see a rise in consumer goods. Also, recently the Feds increased the discount rate. This was done as a preventative measure to thwart inflation. Normally political leaders stay out of the Fed's business but Donald Trump has continued to intimate their move has contributed to rate increases claiming they will result in a negative impact.
"I think the Fed is making a mistake. They are so tight. I think the Fed has gone crazy," President Donald Trump
Another pressure-point for the economy is the recent drop in the DOW Jones and financial markets. Business leaders, especially those in the real estate sector attribute the decline to the uncertainty of the Trump imposed tariffs and other measures. They feel recent gains may be wiped out.
"These tariffs will translate into higher costs for consumers and U.S. businesses that use these products, including home builders," Randy Noel, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders
Here is a snapshot of this week's rate survey
30-Yr FRM
5/1-Yr ARM
Average Rates
4.9 % 4.29 % 4.07 %
Fees & Points
N/A N/A 2.77
Freddie Mac produces the weekly rate survey. It is the industry standard for consumers and mortgage professionals to gauge consumer mortgage rates.


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By Doug Ward
26th Nov, 2021 | 12:11pm
Andrew Dickson hits out at Allan McGregor doubters after Rangers win v Sparta Prague
Sky Sports journalist Andrew Dickson has blasted those who doubted Allan McGregor after the Rangers goalkeeper starred in the 2-0 win over Sparta Prague on Thursday night.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst enjoyed a winning start to life as the Gers' new boss with a Europa League victory at Ibrox and qualification to the knockout stages may not have been possible without a goalkeeping masterclass by 39-year-old McGregor.
While the veteran shot-stopper hasn't had the best of seasons so far, Dickson feels as though more faith should be shown towards the number one after his showing versus Prague.
"Wasn't aware of what he had done at the time as I had to head for interviews but McGregor's double save was ludicrous," said the Gers-mad journalist via his personal Twitter account on Friday morning.
"Admittedly hasn't had his best season but I saw a handful say here after the weekend that he should only play in emergencies from now on. Ridiculous viewpoint."
He added: "First save is very good but the follow-up stop with his foot is up there with his very best, incredible agility. To do that when you're two months from turning 40 is phenomenal.
"Still not entirely sure what [Connor] Goldson was up to as his reaction was non-existent, bailed out massively."
Wasn't aware of what he had done at the time as I had to head for interviews but McGregor's double save was ludicrous. Admittedly hasn't had his best season but I saw a handful say here after the weekend that he should only play in emergencies from now on. Ridiculous viewpoint.
— Andrew Dickson (@mrandrewdickson) November 26, 2021
First save is very good but the follow-up stop with his foot is up there with his very best, incredible agility. To do that when you're two months from turning 40 is phenomenal. Still not entirely sure what Goldson was up to as his reaction was non-existent, bailed out massively.
McGregor turns 40 in January – just let that sink in for a moment.
Despite his advancing years, the goalkeeper produced a moment of real qualify on Thursday night to help Rangers secure their spot in the next round of the Europa League.
While it's not a spot in the last 32, it will be a play-off match against a team who finished third in the Champions League group stages.
As it stands, Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund are among the teams who may be heading to Ibrox in the new year.
Meanwhile, Celtic have dropped into the Europa Conference League and could play the likes of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bodo/Glimt or Qarabag. Wow.
McGregor's double save stopped Sparta from getting back into the game and ensured we'd finish in second place with a superior head-to-head record against them.
It wasn't an easy group by any means but it just shows that if one players produces a magical moment, it can mean the world for the club as a whole.
In other Rangers news, Owen Hargreaves is baffled by what happened to this "moody" Bear in the win over Sparta.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst makes change to get the best out of Alfredo Morelos at Rangers
Rangers team news v Livingston: Van Bronckhorst confirms duo ruled out


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Wounded by Religion; Healed by the Sacred
September 4, 2018 by reasonablycatholic	Leave a comment
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Terrlyn Curry Avery coined the title "pastologist" to reflect her dual roles as a Presbyterian minister and psychotherapist. She works with clients of all religious denominations whose painful experiences at the hands of the church are keeping them from thriving. Rev. Avery will be leading a workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Courtyard Marriott in Norwich on Sept. 15. Information can be found at _sacredintelligence.com or by emailing info@sacredintelligence.com.
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"My faith is in God, not in any church…"
So writes Sr. Eileen Dooling, executive director of Mercy By The Sea Retreat & Conference Center in Madison, CT, in this thoughtful blog post:
https://www.mercybythesea.org/blog/a-call-to-rebuild-my-church/?utm.source=Eileen+Blog+Post_Child+Abuse+and+Church.Aug2018&utm_campaign
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Dungeon Infinity Released for PC
Today I have released Dungeon Infinity, a hybrid first person shooter/roguelike game for Windows, Mac, and Linux!
Download Links: https://market.ape-apps.com/dungeon-infinity.html
Dungeon Infinity is a 3d dungeon crawling adventure game. You start on a remote island that contains a dungeon entrance. You must then fight your way through a never ending series of dungeons, getting more difficult as you go. Along the way you will find new items and weapons to help you. All dungeons are generated on the fly, so that no two playthroughs are the same. Collect loot as you go and earn a place on the global high scores list based on the amount of loot you collect. Has elements of roguelike game play, RPG play, and first person shooter play. Dungeon Infinity is set in the Wizards and Dungeons universe.
Dungeon Infinity was created using the game engine from Death 3d, but with an added auto-map generator. Every level in the game is automatically created as you play, and now two playthroughs are alike.
So where did this game come from? Late last year I started creating a game called Wizards and Dungeons that was based off of the Death 3d engine but with RPG elements and an interactive story. I created a bunch of assets and sounds for the game, but the project ended up being so large and my time so limited, that I realized that there was no possible way I would be completing the game any time soon. So a few weeks ago, I got the idea to use the same assets and code I created for Wizards and Dungeons and merge them with the dungeon generator I wrote for Gone Rogue and Hell and Back. The result is Dungeon Infinity, which is essentially a 3d version of Gone Rogue, but with the RPG elements scaled back a bit.
Dungeon Infinity takes place in the same fictional Elmalad Empire universe that I penned out for Wizards and Dungeons, and if the latter game ever arrives, these two will be related story-wise. I actually have a lot of basic backstory and lore written out for this universe, but actually developing the games is another matter entirely!
Anyway, if you're looking for another free game to try out, check out Dungeon Infinity! It's also available on Ape Web Apps, for those who do not want to download a client: https://www.apewebapps.com/dungeon-infinity/ (it's on the Launcher too, of course).
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Conductor Donald Teeters (pictured in an undated performance) led combined forces of the Boston Cecilia and Musica Sacra on Sunday at Jordan Hall.
With its double orchestra, double chorus, and half-dozen or more vocal soloists, J.S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion'' is not an oratorio so much as a monumental passion play in which the soloists and choruses, in recitatives, arias, and chorales, agonize over the Gospel narrative as related by singers representing the Evangelist, Jesus, Peter, Judas, Pilate, and others. Its vast time scale (some performances have run close to four hours) is framed by two great outbursts, the first, "Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen,'' a back-and-forth between the antiphonal choruses, the second, "Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder,'' a minor-key lullaby for Jesus - for all of us, really - that, in triple time, dances like a sarabande.
The piece is so closely tied to Holy Week, it might seem an odd choice for November, but the performance by the combined forces of the Boston Cecilia and Musica Sacra, conducted by Donald Teeters at Jordan Hall Sunday afternoon, proved - if proof was needed - that it's a work for all seasons. That opening "Kommt, ihr Töchter'' could have been more crisply enunciated, and a hitch caused the beginning of the "Am Abend, da es kühle war'' recitative to be restarted, but there was little else to quibble with.
Teeters's reading proved a consolatory one, penitential rather than anguished. Tenor William Hite was a fervent Evangelist, bass Ronald Williams a deep-voiced, knowing, reassuring Jesus. The vocal quintet - soprano Jolle Greenleaf, alto Thea Lobo, tenor Aaron Sheehan, baritone Bradford Gleim (who also sang Peter), and bass Robert Honeysucker (who also sang Pilate) - provided drama without melodrama; Lobo was particularly affecting in her "Erbarme dich, mein Gott'' aria.
The two choruses didn't want for bite when it was called for (as when they spit out "Sind Blitze, sind Donner in Wolken verschwunden?''), or for majesty and beauty in the chorales. The two orchestras played with energy and intensity; there were polished solos from, among others, Danielle Maddon on violin (backing Lobo's "Erbarme dich'') and Laura Jeppesen on viola da gamba, and the oboe section gave individual coloration to Bach's writing for oboe d'amore and oboe da caccia.
As sublime as the "St. Matthew Passion'' is, performances have been known to drag. This one, at three hours and 20 minutes (including one intermission), had angel wings.


The subject of this painting, taken from the Old Testament was very popular in seventeenth-century painting. Sold into slavery in Egypt, Joseph served in the house of Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard. Potiphar's wife made eyes at him, but he resisted her attempts at seduction. On one occasion, when she tried to entice him to bed, Joseph escaped and she was left with only his coat. Disappointed by yet another rejection, she told her husband that Joseph had made advances to her, whereupon the angry Potiphar had Joseph thrown into prison.
Murillo's depiction is reminiscent of a scene in the theatre, showing the dramatic climax of the story; both figures are as if floodlit before the dark background. With arms outstretched, Joseph flees from the half-naked woman on the bed, who only succeeds in getting hold of his yellow cloak. In its division between of light and shade, this large picture betrays a preoccupation, typical of Murillo's early work, with the painting of Caravaggio and his circle, much of which was to be seen in Seville until the mid-seventeenth century.


Maverick Norwegian oil man Berge Gerdt Larsen has been sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding his own company, Larsen Oil and Gas, of 20.5 million kroner ($3.4m), and evading taxes.
"The defendant has…committed fraud against his own company," the judge said in a hard-hitting judgement. "He has shown longstanding criminal intention, and a lack of respect for the basic obligation of business people to pay taxes."
The judge ruled that Larsen had set up an "ingenious" system involving "mispriced options and stock transactions, tax havens, and back-dating documents" to protect a fortune worth some 645 million kroner ($108m) from taxation in Norway.
Larsen hit back in a press release attacking the "incompetent" court, confirming his previous promise to appeal the judgement.
As well as the jail term, two and a half years of which come as a suspended sentence, Larsen was fined four million kroner. The prosecutor Elisabeth Deinboll also demanded that 31.6 million kroner of Larsen's wealthy be confiscated to compensate for his alleged tax evasion.
Larsen, with his trade-mark shoulder-length hair, was a well-known figure in the international oil industry as chief executive of DNO, Norway's leading independent exploration company, from 1998 to 2004, and then its chairman, spearheading the company's bold and profitable move into Iraqi Kurdistan.


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Ducab inks cable supply deals with two UAE solar megaprojects
Ducab is supplying its newly launched SolarBICC cables to the Shams 1 project in Abu Dhabi, and Dubai's Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park
Ducab plans to officially unveil its SolarBICC cable line at WETEX 2017 in Dubai.
by James Morgan
Ducab has revealed that it is supplying cables to two solar energy megaprojects in the Emirates.
The UAE-headquartered cabling company is providing its newly launched SolarBICC cables to Abu Dhabi's Shams 1 project, and Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai.
The manufacturer plans to officially unveil its SolarBICC cable line, which has been developed in a bid to meet "energy needs of the future", during this year's Water, Energy, Technology and Environment Exhibition (WETEX) in Dubai.
The launch is in line with Ducab's efforts to power the UAE's renewable energy agenda, with a particular emphasis on solar, nuclear, and wind energy.
READ: DEWA reviews progress of MBR Solar Park Phase 3
Eng Jamal Salem Al Dhaheri, chairman of Ducab, commented: "The UAE continues to take significant steps to diversify its economy, and today that transformation is clearly seen within the nation's power and energy sector, when it comes to the adoption of clean energy sources.
"Ducab is committed to accelerating this transformation by investing in innovation and creating tailored products that make it easier, safer, and more cost effective to deliver sustainable energy not only in the UAE, but around the world," he added.
Ducab stated that its SolarBICC cable line has been specifically developed for the UAE's growing solar energy sector. The manufacturer contends that its investment is particularly timely, given Dubai's plans to build the largest single-site concentrated solar power (CSP) project in the world – at a cost of $3.9bn (AED14.2bn) – as part of its Clean Energy Strategy 2050.
Furthermore, Ducab noted that the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 – which includes a $27.2bn (AED100bn) Green Fund – aims to make the emirate a global centre of clean energy and the green economy. The UAE intends to spend $163.4bn (AED600bn) over the next 33 years to integrate renewable, nuclear, and clean fossil energy as part of the programme.
In addition to SolarBICC, Ducab will use WETEX 2017 as a platform to showcase its NuBICC nuclear-grade cables, which are already being supplied to domestic and international nuclear energy projects.
WETEX 2017 will take place from 23-25 October at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC).
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