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Pinched this from FB Good girl Sally! That's what we some of us want.
Kev brought me home the almost finished Christmas mini ...but I want happy, she had far too many clothes on covering her perfectly sculpted assets so I slapped him around until he regained his senses and told him to go undress her a bit.
I think it screams at the stuff in it so loud that all the junk falls off. I kinda want to try using one.
Sounds less technical and more fun. Unless you find technical technicallities technically fun on a technical level.
Questions and Answers / Re: Anyone Recognise This Mini?
Well, I got this in the mail a while back. It's from Ral Partha. No idea what it's from, but it fits perfectly with the HF mini I want to use it with.
Yeah they do look great. Just not my cup of tea at this point in time.
Sweet more soldiers Oh well. They'll rake in the dough no doubt. Hopefully lots of it so kev can get new nekkid girlies into the works.
Well if someone either here or on LAF would buy some of the stuff I've got posted for sale I may be able to dip into the funds to spring for Azaroth and some ghouls. Also, here's hoping the only auction I have on ebay right now, goes sky high.
I've tried it. The resin got little dark spots on it but that could have been from the junk floating in the dettol. The resin didn't seem to get soft.
He's 'H4ML37' ( a sci-fi version of Hamlet ).
I couldn't find a post on the fod about the hamlet in power armour. He needs a name other than cyber hamlet. From the first time I saw him I thought his name should be Dane Greatbach. Seeing as how he's a great dane.
All the best for a swift recovery.
Ideas for New Heresy Models / Re: Any chance of the tunnel dweller coming back?
General Ranting / Re: Martin Whitmore Kickstarter Ghastlycrud Zombies.
P.S. - Inso: I know that zombies definitely aren't your thing, but thanks for the kind feedback on the artwork! The grenades are actual de-commissioned ones I picked up from an army/navy surplus store, but I won't be shipping any of them internationally. ...and I'm hoping not to have any trouble about 'selling' them, since I'm technically giving them away as rewards for supporting my publication. Keeping my fingers crossed!
I am not trying to pee on your fire but I would suggest that you investigate the legal requirements for certification with regards to de-activated explosive devices. I know that there are all sorts of hoops to jump through with regards to explosives in the military (and that includes de-activated firearms/shells) and I would imagine that civvy street was even worse.
In the big scheme of things, would NOT being convicted for arms smuggling be worth the effort of a chat with a copper in the local nick?
I am only looking out for you and a little investigation could prevent all sorts of unpleasantness.
Wouldn't there not be an issue if the device was proven to never be re-armable? Like holes drilled through or completely filled with silicone or epoxy or something? I pretty sure in Canada you can buy guns that have been made permanently un-servicable without much issue from surplus stores, although those aren't common, guns like that or surplus stores.
Nope. More naked girlies first, then two legged doggies. HF needs more nekkid girls on the shelves.
Zippy little anti grav ride on things with handle bars and guns, now yer talkin.
less-than-stellar quality of Forge World's casting!
Scam emails. Been getting a lot of them lately. I'm sorry 'NatWest bank', I am in Canada and have never given you my email address. A lot of them have been coming from scammers posing as banks in the uk saying I have unclaimed income tax refunds. Anyone else getting these? More annoying than angering though.
Here's some more minis I hope to see completed in some form. Especially the first one.
Good reason for a sale, especially since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month too. Save the boobies! Buy little metal ones. Too bad I'm broke and own lots of those minis already anyway.


On the occasion of Social Media Day 2018, here's a note to express our gratitude for connecting with us on various channels.
When we launched our online platform, "National Skills Network – NSN", two years ago, we were excited as well as apprehensive. We were excited because all of us knew deep down that social media has great potential to take us where we wanted to go. Our vision was strategically aligned with social media channels, latest and emerging digital technologies, believing in its empowering potential to communicate through compelling content.
At the same time, we were apprehensive, mainly because of the newness of content in the domain of skill development and vocational training in India. Today, we are here to tell you how our apprehensions gradually turned into hope and how we began building a community of people (non-intrusively) through social media channels who saw value in our work. This visibility was crucial in building confidence and keep going!
Few months later, with more traction, we were popularly known as "NSN", thanks to your acknowledgement of our regular updates on social media, particularly, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. And of course, all the connections we made with people who were at the helm, to publish their interview in the form of "Skill Stories" and "Skill Talks".
The challenge of creating content from scratch in the form or interviews, articles and resources was definitely aided by our conversations on various social media channels, through validating our ideas, working out implementation plans and redesigning our content strategy.
We wish to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for your continuous support, encouragement and advice on our efforts to share the positive impact of skills – making 'skill' our supreme purpose to research, learn, listen, write, read, talk, travel, etc – everything that we've been doing is somewhere connected to the need to recognise the value of a skill irrespective of who we are and what we do.
1. LinkedIn: LinkedIn helped us connect with thousands of professionals who in the domain of Education, Employment, Employability and Entrepreneurship. The amazing power of LinkedIn messaging has opened an entire world of professionals with whom we can communicate in real time in all geographies. We are grateful for your 'likes', 'shares' and 'comments' on our posts.
2. Facebook: We still remember the first time our Facebook post went viral, getting us thousands of views, when it was shared on Skill India and NSDC Facebook pages. Our joy knew no bounds as many friends 'liked' our page and it gave us huge impetus to grow our network organically. When NSDC, other organizations and individuals share our biweekly newsletter it helps us reach many in the skill space.
3. Twitter: We needed support from leaders and change makers in skill space, Twitter was the best medium of this purpose. Occasionally when we sent DM to bureaucrats and CEOs in skills space, we were thrilled to see their prompt response and it strengthened our faith in social media.
4. Though WhatsApp is not a social media channel as such, we have productively leveraged the social messaging potential of this powerful app to interact with our network in real time. Thanks to WhatsApp, communication is not just instant, it is also impactful as it is cost-effective and collaborative.
On the occasion of Social Media Day 2018, we wish to thank each one of you for sharing our journey – for helping us learn, think, understand, discuss, debate, reflect and enrich our knowledge and skills with your updates on various social media channels. The pictures and posts you share help us remain connected at the ground level, as we spend considerable amount of time, observing and analysing the trends in skill development, vocational training from various stakeholders. We hope to get continued support from all of you to expand our network and strengthen our purpose as we are working dedicatedly to reach new milestones for meaningful engagement and interaction.


After the ground-breaking work, Dust, godfather of experimental opera Robert Ashley returns with Celestial Excursions. Ashley's latest endeavor explores remarkably uncharted territory—the kind of language that is common among "old" people who talk all the time or not at all, to anyone passing by or to themselves. The opera premiered at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin, before coming to The Kitchen for it's U.S. premiere in April 2003.
Celestial Excursions delves into the wild intermingling of reminiscence, regret, love, nightmare, old sayings, and songs on the radio—all seemingly to no purpose, except for the operatic end of relentless speed and precision in ensemble singing and the possible stage magic inherent in illusion, hallucination, and a physically changed state of the senses. The opera's originality lies in a use of a new vocal technique Ashley has built over the last twenty years, which enables several stories to be heard at the same time. In an intricate vocal system, a principal voice is "chased" by other voices whose parts rotate in sequence in a given order. The result of this technique creates a complex jungle of voices, delivered with an extraordinary rhythmic intensity rarely heard in ensemble singing.
As for all of Ashley's latest works, the orchestra music of Celestial Excursions was composed in the computer-synthesizer studio. All the voices and the orchestra (on multi-track tape or on disc) are processed again during the concert in order to match the sound of the opera to the performance space. And for this CD release, Ashley went back to the studio with live recordings to rework the piece, extending the orchestra in the final act.


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Forefront: Jake O'Leary on culture as branding
Having trained in the marketing heartland of Procter & Gamble - the company that invented the discipline - O'Leary now is the Global Head of Artist Marketing initiatives at one of the fastest evolving brands on the planet. YouTube has almost 2 billion users a month, heavily skewing towards young audiences that are now all but impossible to reach through traditional advertising. In anticipation of the future conference Forefront, supported by QICGRE, we speak to him about culture as branding, the opportunities of global connection and the lasting power of physical experience in the digital age.
Jonathan Openshaw: How can music help brands connect with an audience?
Jake O'Leary: All culture plays a crucial role in forging connections today. The way the world used to work was a brand needed a certain amount of money to buy a TV spot or radio spot or print spot. Consumers were captive - you'd be sitting in your living room watching TV in the evening and brands knew they could get at you there. Now there are so many choices so it's all about the battle for attention. Brands need to give people a reason to care. Music and art will always have a place here it's because they strike a deep chord with people; they connect at a very deep and personal level. The big question for any brand wanting to engage with culture making is how to do that in an authentic way. That's the super interesting thing for me working at YouTube, because we have a community of 1.8 billion people each month and they're all there because they're connecting with something, or learning something, or expressing something. It's a very authentic way for people and things to be connected
JA: You mention authenticity a bit there, but when a brand with a commercial agenda gets involved, isn't there a risk that you lose that?
JO: People ask that question a lot: what are the risks of branding through culture making. My response is always the same: what is the risk of not doing it? And that risk is irrelevance, which for me is far scarier than any of the quote-un-quote risks of working with talent and communities. There are so many brands that work with artists very successfully and this success always comes off the back of it being a true partnership. I think the biggest risk for brands wanting to work with people who already have strong voices is when they try and stifle what they're trying to say. The reason that you're working with them is because you buy into what they do, and millions of fans do too. It's just crazy to then start going 'do it like this, say it like this'. It's a big leap for brands to have the confidence to endorse messages that might not be precisely in the brand look or the copy guidelines, but that's the reality of marketing today. It's a much more collaborative process and there's never been a more exciting time for brands to really matter.
JA: How can you harness the physical power of music online?
JO: First and foremost, the way we do that at YouTube is through video. Songs mean so much to people but then when you lay video over the top it brings a whole other piece of context. If you think a recent example, like Childish Gambino's This Is America, I mean, that's an amazing song. But launched and coupled with the video, which was mind blowing, it totally changes the dynamic of how you interpret that piece of art. That's what it's all about for us, facilitating creative expression. We recently launched the Community Tab, which enables artists to post still images, ask polls, sell tickets and have all this extra layer of interaction with their fans. There's so many extra layers of engagement that you can build around a core experience like music.
JA: What are the big trends that have caught your eye?
JO: It's linked to my point earlier on attention: the biggest thing I've noticed is culture is now 24/7, 365°. It's on all the time. Artist and fan bases are uploading not just the song and not just the official video, but clips from tour, mobile live from the backstage, the making of video, the list goes on. The artists going the extra mile to engage with their fans are the ones who are really getting the traction. J Balvin is the biggest artist in the world on YouTube right now, getting something like 280 million views per week. This is someone who came from Colombia and who is totally redefining how you think about mainstream music. He sings in Spanish, he works in multiple different genres, he's very brave in the way he expresses himself. He's not your conventional superstar and yet he can still have a crossover like Mi Gente that goes on to get 1.9 billion views. It's such an exciting moment for cultural creation right now, the rules are being rewritten every day, every minute. Any artist or individual has the ability to have a global freedom of expression.
JO: What about the power of physical experience in all this - there's still an undeniable sense of connection that comes from face-to-face that online can struggle to emulate.
JO'L: It's very hard to replace a physical experience so we as a marketing team still work on physical projects a lot. There's something amazing about connecting artists and fans at scale, but then there's that crazy special moment of when a die hard fan meets an act that they've done nothing but sing along to for last six months. That moment has a huge impact. What I'm really interested in how you can take that experience, which was so special for those people in the room, and amplify it to people at home. Look at Coachella, for example. We're in a fifth year of the Coachella livestream now and #Beychella this year was just an insane moment in global culture. Only a tiny proportion of people could actually be there in Palm Springs with the sand in their hair. The only other way to experience Beyonce's set in a real, live, high-quality way was on YouTube. You can't recreate a physical moment like that and those physical moments really matter, but you can create a window through which anyone in the world can look in on at the moment and feel part of it.
JO: And what about the future plans for YouTube, what can you let us in on?
JO'L: It changes on any given day or moment in terms of specific projects, but on a broad level, I think two things are super exciting. The first is our simple commitment to bring diversity to the music business, and that's a diversity of distribution as well as of talent. Then the second big one is we want to be an amazing partner to artists and the creative community. We want to work with artists to help grow their careers and create better connections with fans. Diversifying and connecting, that's what it's all about.
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In a bid to fight climate change, the Delhi Government has proposed to increase the capital's green cover from 20% to 33% by planting over 10 Lakh saplings. The government in its state action plan on climate change (SAPCC) which was submitted recently to the Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change in compliance with NGT's orders, also proposed to increase the fleet of DTC's CNG buses within a year.
Currently, there are 4352 buses which the state government plans to increase to 6900. And apart from the DTC buses, 1758 cluster-scheme buses, 283 metro feeder buses, 802 mini private stage carriage buses, and more gramin sewa's also to operate in the city.
Not only the green cover, but Delhi plans to improve it's solar energy capacity from 88 MW to 150 MW by the end of March this year! This is proposed to save nearly 100 MV of electricity per annum by using energy efficient lighting system on city streets. It also aims to decentralize waste-water treatment by bringing shopping malls and other construction projects into the ambit of pollution control laws.
Delhi government has also initiated a strategic knowledge mission that aims to identify the challenges of climate change by ensuring focused research and creating awareness.
That is good news indeed. A lot actually! More green cover, bettering transport system while caring for climate change, increasing solar energy, bettering water-treatment and investing in research! Wow, Delhi cares after all!


Resources - where to expand your china know how.
As well known as China might be nowadays, Far East Asia, including the People's Republic of China, was and is still not a subject of public compulsory education in Europe. Thus, we grow up with considerable knowledge e.g. on Egypt or Byzantine, but the cultural realm of the far orient remains alien and strange to us. And even if we have later in our professional lives frequent contact with the new economic might of China, it seems that most Westerners deal with a not only geographically but also culturally remote country and its people. I believe that this common experience is rooted in a limited accessibility due to Chinese language, script and cultural patterns.
You will find here a selection of blogs, online and print media, books, etc. that I find worth recommending and which mostly digest Chinese primary sources into English.


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Inspirational Anthony Bourdain Quotes About Love, Life, Food and Travel
By Amit Chauhan
Anthony Michael Bourdain was born on June 25, 1956, and died on June 8, 2018. Anthony was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian. Bourdain rose to fame with his best-selling book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. After that, he appeared in many programs on TV. He won two Emmy Awards. Celebrities around the world mourned his death. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay wrote on Twitter, "Shocked and saddened by the death of Anthony Bourdain. He inspired many people to learn about cultures and cities through his food. "Shocked and saddened by the death of the vibrant, brilliant Anthony Bourdain, who has exposed America to so much culture, joy and understanding," said journalist, TV presenter, and author Tina Brown. Here are the best and most inspiring Anthony Bourdain Quotes that are about love, life, food, cooking, and traveling.
Anthony Michael Bourdain Quotes
Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. -Anthony Bourdain
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I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. -Anthony Bourdain
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. -Anthony Bourdain
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. -Anthony Bourdain
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. -Anthony Bourdain
Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever
The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca. -Anthony Bourdain
Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife. -Anthony Bourdain
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. -Anthony Bourdain
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. -Anthony Bourdain
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. -Anthony Bourdain
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund. -Anthony Bourdain
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind. -Anthony Bourdain
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. -Anthony Bourdain
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, dr#gged, and completely out of it. -Anthony Bourdain
The way you make an omelet reveals your character. -Anthony Bourdain
I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. -Anthony Bourdain
Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world. -Anthony Bourdain
Luck is not a business model. -Anthony Bourdain
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport – would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine. -Anthony Bourdain
There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub. -Anthony Bourdain
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins. -Anthony Bourdain
Like I said before, your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. -Anthony Bourdain
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living–all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents. -Anthony Bourdain
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. -Anthony Bourdain
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures. -Anthony Bourdain
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . . -Anthony Bourdain
And now to sleep, to dream…perchance to fart. -Anthony Bourdain
Good food and good eating are about risk. -Anthony Bourdain
Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbones and Pernod. -Anthony Bourdain
I believe I should be able to treat my hamburger like food, not like infectious fucking medical waste. -Anthony Bourdain
Without new ideas success can become stale. -Anthony Bourdain
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him-Anthony Bourdain
I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I'd yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I'd found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. -Anthony Bourdain
Writing anything is a treason of sorts. -Anthony Bourdain
My love for chaos, conspiracy and the dark side of human nature colors the behavior of my charges, most of whom are already living near the fringes of acceptable conduct. -Anthony Bourdain
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. -Anthony Bourdain
Only one in four has a chance at making it…. And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be me. I was going to live. I was the guy. -Anthony Bourdain
Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition. -Anthony Bourdain
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards. -Anthony Bourdain
He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he's got a home in this one. -Anthony Bourdain
..for the rest of my life- to resemble this one: both complex and strangely comforting. -Anthony Bourdain
Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right. -Anthony Bourdain
Remember, brunch is only served once a week — on the weekends. Buzzword here, 'Brunch Menu'. Translation? 'Old, nasty odds and ends, and 12 dollars for two eggs with a free Bloody Mary'. -Anthony Bourdain
It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience. -Anthony Bourdain
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck. -Anthony Bourdain
I Like this quote I dislike this quote"My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. -Anthony Bourdain
I'd been the culinary equivalent of the Flying Dutchman too long, living a half-life with no future in mind, just oozing from sensation to sensation. -Anthony Bourdain
Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts. -Anthony Bourdain
I've assembled a pretty good collection of mid-'70s New York punk classics on tape: Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers, Ramones, Television and so on, -Anthony Bourdain
Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining. -Anthony Bourdain
I learned to recognize failure. -Anthony Bourdain
And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don't know what they want to eat. -Anthony Bourdain
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Jude, which is rendered "Judah" in Hebrew and "Judas" in Greek, was named after its author (v. 1), one of the 4 half-brothers of Christ (Matt. 13:55; Mark 6:3). As the fourth shortest NT book (Philem., 2 John, and 3 John are shorter), Jude is the last of 8 general epistles. Jude does not quote the OT directly, but there are at least 9 obvious allusions to it. Contextually, this "epistolary sermon" could be called "The Acts of the Apostates."
Author and Date
Although Jude (Judas) was a common name in Palestine (at least 8 are named in the NT), the author of Jude generally has been accepted as Jude, Christ's half-brother. He is to be differentiated from the Apostle Judas, the son of James (Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13). Several lines of thought lead to this conclusion: 1) Jude's appeal to being the "brother of James," the leader of the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15) and another half-brother of Jesus (v. 1; cf. Gal. 1:19); 2) Jude's salutation being similar to James (cf. James 1:1); and 3) Jude's not identifying himself as an apostle (v. 1), but rather distinguishing between himself and the apostles (v. 17).
The doctrinal and moral apostasy discussed by Jude (vv. 4–18) closely parallels that of 2 Peter (2:1–3:4), and it is believed that Peter's writing predated Jude for several reasons: 1) 2 Peter anticipates the coming of false teachers (2 Pet. 2:1,2; 3:3), while Jude deals with their arrival (vv. 4,11,12,17,18); and 2) Jude quotes directly from 2 Pet. 3:3 and acknowledges that it is from an apostle (vv. 17,18). Since no mention of Jerusalem's destruction in A.D. 70 was made by Jude, though Jude most likely came after 2 Peter (ca. A.D. 68–70), it was almost certainly written before the destruction of Jerusalem. Although Jude did travel on missionary trips with other brothers and their wives (1 Cor. 9:5), it is most likely that he wrote from Jerusalem. The exact audience of believers with whom Jude corresponded is unknown, but seems to be Jewish in light of Jude's illustrations. He undoubtedly wrote to a region recently plagued by false teachers.
Although Jude had earlier rejected Jesus as Messiah (John 7:1–9), he, along with other half-brothers of our Lord, was converted after Christ's resurrection (Acts 1:14). Because of his relation to Jesus, his eye-witness knowledge of the resurrected Christ, and the content of this epistle, it was acknowledged as inspired and was included in the Muratorian Canon (A.D. 170).
The early questions about its canonicity also tend to support that it was written after 2 Peter. If Peter had quoted Jude, there would have been no question about canonicity, since Peter would thereby have given Jude apostolic affirmation. Clement of Rome (ca. A.D. 96) plus Clement of Alexandria (ca. A.D. 200) also alluded to the authenticity of Jude. Its diminutive size and Jude's quotations from uninspired writings, account for any misplaced questions about its canonicity.
Background and Setting
Jude lived at a time when Christianity was under severe political attack from Rome and aggressive spiritual infiltration from gnostic-like apostates and libertines who sowed abundant seed for a gigantic harvest of doctrinal error. It could be that this was the forerunner to full blown Gnosticism which the Apostle John would confront over 25 years later in his epistles. Except for John, who lived at the close of the century, all of the other apostles had been martyred, and Christianity was thought to be extremely vulnerable. Thus, Jude called the church to fight, in the midst of intense spiritual warfare, for the truth.
Historical and Theological Themes
Jude is the only NT book devoted exclusively to confronting "apostasy," meaning defection from the true, biblical faith (vv. 3,17). Apostates are described elsewhere in 2 Thess. 2:10; Heb. 10:29; 2 Pet. 2:1–22; 1 John 2:18–23. He wrote to condemn the apostates and to urge believers to contend for the faith. He called for discernment on the part of the church and a rigorous defense of biblical truth. He followed the earlier examples of: 1) Christ (Matt. 7:15ff.; 16:6–12; 24:11ff; Rev. 2,3); 2) Paul (Acts 20:29,30; 1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Tim. 3:1–5; 4:3,4); 3) Peter (2 Pet. 2:1,2; 3:3,4); and 4) John (1 John 4:1–6; 2 John 6–11).
Jude is replete with historical illustrations from the OT which include: 1) the Exodus (v. 5); 2) Satan's rebellion (v. 6); 3) Sodom and Gomorrah (v. 7); 4) Moses' death (v. 9); 5) Cain (v. 11); 6) Balaam (v. 11); 7) Korah (v. 11); 8) Enoch (vv. 14,15); and 9) Adam (v. 14).
Jude also vividly described the apostates in terms of their character and unconscionable activities (vv. 4,8,10,16,18,19). Additionally, he borrowed from nature to illustrate the futility of their teaching (vv. 12,13). While Jude never commented on the specific content of their false teaching, it was enough to demonstrate that their degenerate personal lives and fruitless ministries betrayed their attempts to teach error as though it were truth. This emphasis on character repeats the constant theme regarding false teachers—their personal corruption. While their teaching is clever, subtle, deceptive, enticing, and delivered in myriads of forms, the common way to recognize them is to look behind their false spiritual fronts and see their wicked lives (2 Pet. 2:10,12,18,19).
Interpretive Challenges
Because there are no doctrinal issues discussed, the challenges of this letter have to do with interpretation in the normal process of discerning the meaning of the text. Jude does quote from non-canonical, pseudepigraphal (i.e., the actual author was not the one named in its title) sources such as 1 Enoch (v. 14) and the Assumption of Moses (v. 9) to support his points. Was this acceptable? Since Jude was writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:20,21) and included material that was accurate and true in its affirmations, he did no differently than Paul (cf. Acts 17:28; 1 Cor. 15:33; Titus 1:12).
I. Desires of Jude (1,2)
II. Declaration of War Against Apostates (3,4)
III. Damnable Outcome of Apostates (5–7)
IV. Denunciation of Apostates (8–16)
V. Defenses Against Apostates (17–23)
VI. Doxology of Jude (24,25)


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, this morning, docked the former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam before the Federal High Court in Abuja over a nine-count criminal charge bordering on alleged money laundering.
Suswan was arraigned before Justice Ahmed Mohammed alongside his erstwhile Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Omodachi Okolobia.
They were alleged to have looted about N3.1billion, being proceeds of shares owned by the Benue State government and Benue Investment and Property Company Ltd.
The offense the duo allegedly committed are punishable under section 15(3) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 as amended in 2012.
Meantime, shortly after the accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge against them, they were released on bail by Justice Mohammed to the tune of N100m each.
The court further ordered the accused persons to produce one surety each, adding that such person must be a civil servant not below grade level 12 in either federal or state employment.
According to the court, the sureties must be ready to depose to an affidavit of means.
Nevertheless, Justice Mohammed directed that in any event that the accused persons fail to secure a civil servant to stand surety on their behalf, he said they should produce someone with national honour to stand on their behalf.
Meanwhile, the case has been adjourned till December 8 and 9 for trial.
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Мілфорд () — місто () в США, в окрузі Сюорд штату Небраска. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Географія
Мілфорд розташований за координатами  (40.772568, -97.054119).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 2,04 км², з яких 2,02 км² — суходіл та 0,02 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало  осіб у 770 домогосподарствах у складі 494 родин. Густота населення становила 1025 осіб/км².  Було 843 помешкання (414/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 1,0 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 1,6 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 22,2 % — особи молодші 18 років, 62,4 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 15,4 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 31,7 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 126,4 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 129,5 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  долари США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долар (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 10,5 % осіб, у тому числі 3,4 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 10,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 30,0 %, мистецтво, розваги та відпочинок — 9,2 %, фінанси, страхування та нерухомість — 7,3 %, роздрібна торгівля — 6,6 %.

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CTRL Z (undo): works as you would expect now in a Word environment.
Logical grouping of functions: fucntions that belong together are now put together in the user interface, for example Insert New Map, Save as Reusable Map, Delete Map and Map Manager.
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If I can help it, I never deliver a presentation without a presentation remote. Remotes are the secret weapons of professional speakers. They're tools that can make your delivery surprisingly more effective and powerful.
In Public Speaking 101 they tell you to get out from behind the podium and walk around while you speak. This is great advice since podiums often act like barricades, blocking the energy flow between you and your audience. Going mobile for an analog speech is easy, but things get tricky when you have a slideshow to control.
A presentation remote is the solution. A remote frees you to walk around the stage while still "driving" your presentation. It saves you from having to jump back to the podium to advance each slide, or worse, having to awkwardly announce "next slide" to your buddy controlling the computer.
Not all presentation remotes are created equal.
Marketers know the human brain has a built-in affection for customizable buttons. More buttons and a higher price may seem like they indicate a better product while you're standing in the store reading the box, but when it comes time to actually use your presentation remote, less is truly more.
The last thing you want to worry about during your speech is figuring out the right button to press. I've had to use remotes with upwards of fifteen buttons, including a mini-joystick for controlling the mouse cursor. Simply put, this is overkill.
If you have to navigate an application interface during your presentation, ditch the mini-joystick. It's much smoother to walk back to the computer to use the regular keyboard and mouse. It's okay to hang out behind the podium for this portion of your presentation — your audience will naturally focus on the demo instead of you.
The key to using a remote successfully is acting natural. Keep your gestures normal. You want to draw as little attention to the device as possible. Especially avoid deliberately pointing the remote at the screen to advance to the next slide. A lot of people do this because it's how we control our televisions, but presentation remotes are omnidirectional, so no pointing is required.
Which remote is right for me?
When it comes to presentation remotes, I'm a utilitarian. A good presentation remote feels comfortable in your hand and has just four buttons: 1) Next, 2) Previous, 3) Pause, and 4) Play.
The buttons should feel responsive, with little or no lag time (too much button-lag leads to the fumbling, "hold on a second, I jumped too far" situation).
The presentation remote I've used for several years is the Kensington Wireless Presenter Remote ($49). I love the simplicity of its ergonomic design, and the fact it has perfect plug-and-play functionality on both PCs and Macs. It's also very convenient that the USB receiver can be stored inside the remote itself, so it doesn't get lost. I've used many remotes over time, and this is my top recommendation.
A presentation remote is a small initial investment, but worth it. It's a tool that will allow you to explore new styles of delivery and make you a more confident presenter.


I don't know what Petrovic was told before the game but it could have been something like: rough them up a bit. 4 fouls in 20 minutes. Not really bad one but I think the ref should have rewarded his efforts with a yellow card.
His team mate Hanley paid the price a few minutes later.
The only bad moment was a not given penalty for Blackburn in the first half when it was only 1-0 for City. De Jongh came in touched the ball with his right foot but Pedersen still had the ball under control of his left foot. De Jongh then clipped the right foot of Pedersen when he had just passed him. The ref was close and I think was fooled by the first contact with the ball that De Jongh made. And therefore he maybe missed the second contact when no ball was played any more.
Would it have changed the game? City was well in control over the 90 minutes and scored 2 more goals. But still a miss is a miss from the ref.
Some good refereeing proceded the second City goal. An advantage given that resulted in a shot and a corner. Then a yellow for Orr for his late tackle and then from the corner a goal was scored. That was good – you sometimes need a bit of luck as a ref so we will see if the points are also good.
And yes they are. A score of 90% correct calls is really good. With the weight added it goes down to 87,50% but a very, very respectable score in this game. The big question that remains: was there any visible bias in the ref his performance?
And this is really amazing with only 4 wrong calls over the whole game the ref has done an excellent job. And the best part is that he managed to make 2 mistakes against each team.
So apart from the missed penalty for Blackburn a very good game from the ref and the numbers showed a very unbiased performance also.
Wow – so it can be done then!
Just wondering why there isn't a party around here. We just won 6 in a row and moved into 3rd.
This place would be crawling if we had 2 losses in a row. Amazing how fans only come out crying during the tough times!
jones is one of the few decent refs left in the PL..which means he is not getting top matches anytime soon…just look at clattenburg they are keeping him away from all big matches and i wont be suprised if we see him refereeing our match vs QPR just so that he wont get to ref vs city..
Thanks for an excellent review. Well done Jonah!! But so sick is the ref situation–I wonder…… was this only a good performance because the game was going the 'right' way?
Nice to have a good ref performance. Seems to be rarity these days.


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Q: FTP reverse proxying based on hostname/domain I just set up nginx as a http/https reverse proxy and it worked well.
After that, I realized that for some domains ftp services are available. I was able to install ftp.proxy and it also works well, although it just handles one single domain.
My question is: Is there any possibility to reverse proxy ftp services based on hostnames/domains like I do with nginx for http?

A: No, ftp doesn't have an equivalent of the HTTP/1.1 Host header so each FTP service has to have its own IP.

A: Good news: There's SuSE FTP-Proxy Suite, which is a lightweight, easy to configure ftp-proxy for exactly the task you are looking for. It used to be easy to install to any other distro, too.
Bad news: The development of FTP-Proxy stopped quite a while ago. Anyway, you can download the sources and compile it yourself.

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Whenever we turn to the Gospel of John, the phrase "lifted up" appears on several occassions with reference to the accomplished work of Jesus Christ. Jesus is presented as God in human flesh (John 1:14), and thus is the Greatness of God revealed in full humanity and undiminished deity. Jesus at the beginning of his earthly ministry referred to his "lifting up" in John 3:14 "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up." Jesus was predicting early on the manner in which He was going to be displayed as God's banner of salvation, God's ensign, for all to see. The famous verse of John 3:16 reveals that Jesus was sent, indicating His pre-existence. Moreover, John 3:16 reveals further that Jesus Christ is God's "only-begotten" Son, indicating His sharing in the same eternal nature as the Father who sent him.
Who will stand as a signal for the peoples; And His resting place will be glorious." Without the greatness of God revealed in Jesus Christ, there is no personal draw available for missionaries and the church to convince sinner's of their greatest need - the Great God. Jesus has revealed Him perfectly (John 1:18), is God in human flesh (John 1:14; 1 Timothy 3:16) and is necessary for the gospel to work. After all, tethered to the great commission is Jesus' own self-declaration of His greatness and Divine authority in Matthew 28:18-20 - "And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." The greatness of God in the Son is the drawing power of the great commission and the greatness of God in the third Person of the Trinity acts in the same manner, which will be our focus tomorrow.


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K-12 Public Education: Front and Center in the 2020 Election
May 19, 2019 May 20, 2019 ~ Ann Policelli Cronin
At last! At last! At last! A candidate for President of the United States has recognized that the bedrock institution of our democracy is in peril, and the same forces of greed and racism that are working to destroy other elements of our society also threaten the very foundation of our society: K-12 public education.
That presidential candidate is Bernie Sanders.
Honoring the 65th anniversary of Brown vs. The Board of Education, the Supreme Court case which outlawed segregation in public schools, Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled his education plan, a comprehensive 10-point agenda, called The Thurgood Marshall Plan for A Quality Education for All.
The bold assertion that Senator Sanders' plan makes is that every child has the right to a quality education.
In his plan, Senator Sanders endorses the NAACP's call for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools. The NAACP calls for that moratorium because it has determined that:
Charter schools have failed in fulfilling their original purpose to innovate and infuse new ideas into traditional public schools. There has been no carryover from charter schools to traditional public schools. Charter schools have not, in any way, been learning labs which try out new ideas that benefit the larger population of students in public schools.
The education that charter schools provide is questionable. The large scale study of student data from the Center for Research Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University's Hoover Institute found that 17% of charter schools produced academic gains better than traditional public schools, 37% of charter schools performed worse than their traditional public schools counterparts serving similar students, 46% of the schools showed no difference. Reducing class size, not charter schools, the NAACP states, is how to improve student achievement.
Charter schools take public tax money but are privately managed and do not tell the public how they spend the public's money.
Charter schools do not accept their share of children with learning issues or who do not speak English as their first language.
Charter schools "counsel out" students who will not be successful on measures such as standardized tests or graduation rates.
Charter schools have mostly inexperienced, short-term, uncertified teachers.
Charter schools suspend and expel students for behavioral issues at a much higher rate than traditional public schools.
The NAACP opposes charter schools because it insists that children of color have the same rights as white suburban children to a quality education. Similarly, Bernie Sanders' plan for K-12 education insists on the same fundamental right to a quality education for all children. Sanders' plan points out that the proliferation of charter schools has disproportionately affected communities of color and increased school segregation– 17 percent of charter schools are 99 percent minority, compared to 4 percent of traditional public schools. Charter schools stand in opposition to the chief tenet of Brown vs.The Board of Education: A separate education is NOT an equal education.
In addition to issues of racial equity, Senator Sanders' plan addresses the funding of charter schools.
First of all, billionaires like DeVos and the Waltons (Walmart) together with private equity and hedge fund executives, have bankrolled charter schools and poured tens of millionst into school board and other local elections in order to privatize public schools, and, therefore, control how children are educated and make profits for themselves, such as by buying buildings and then renting out those buildings to charter schools.
Secondly, the Sanders plan points out that charter schools are led by private entities that take substantial tax money but owe no accountability as to how that money is spent. One example of unregulated and unaccountable funding in Connecticut is that heads of charter schools gave themselves salaries in excess of superintendents' salaries in much larger public school districts and districts in wealthy communities. Tax filings for 2014 show that the two chief executive officers of Achievement First Public Charter Schools each made just over $260,000 and the executive director of Domus, which oversees two charter schools in Stamford, was paid $325,000 while tax filings from 2013 show that the school district superintendent in wealthy Greenwich was paid $235,00, and the superintendent in Hartford, a school district with 20,000 students, five times the enrollment of the Achievement First schools in Connecticut, was paid $194,000. With no oversight or accountability to taxpayers, charter school administrators are free to determine what to pay themselves.
Thirdly, the Sanders plan highlights how charter schools drain funds from public schools. Charter schools are given the per pupil funds that would have been allotted to the public schools and keep that funding even if students leave or are dismissed from the charter schools and return to traditional public schools. The public schools, of course, are minus the per pupil funding that accompanied the children who enrolled in charter schools.
Charter schools have been able to function in impoverished communities in ways that more affluent and politically savvy communities would not tolerate. Who in more affluent communities would allow their children to go to schools in which there is no accountability for how the taxpayer money is spent, inexperienced teachers who turn over every two years, racial segregation, disregard of the needs of special education learners, and students being dismissed from school or held back a grade in order to boost the school's test scores or graduation rates? The answer is no one.
So how will Bernie Sanders stop the damage to communities caused by unregulated charter school growth? His plan states that, as President, Bernie Sanders will fight to:
Ban for-profit charter schools and support the NAACP's moratorium on public funds for charter school expansion until a national audit has been completed to determine the impact of charter growth in each state. That means halting the use of public funds to underwrite new charter schools.
Invest in our public schools system. We do not need two schools systems. That said, existing charter schools must be made accountable by:
– Mandating that charter schools comply with the same oversight requirements as public schools.
– Mandating that at least half of all charter school boards are teachers and parents.
– Disclosing student attrition rates, non-public funding sources, and financial interests.
– Matching employment practices at charters with neighboring district schools, including standards set by collective bargaining agreements and restrictions on exorbitant CEO pay.
– Supporting the efforts of charter school teachers to unionize and negotiate contracts.
Bernie Sanders has done his homework. He gets it. He knows how to move education in this country forward by enforcing the perspective of those who founded our democracy. He understands what John Adams wrote:
"The Whole People must take upon themselves the Education of the Whole People and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one Mile Square without a school in it, not founded by a Charitable individual but maintained at the expense of the People themselves."
Like John Adams, Bernie Sanders advocates a strong public school system as the foundation of our democracy. The charter school industry has taken us off course; we must invest in our public schools so that our democracy thrives.
And Bernie Sanders is showing us the way.
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... which meant I had to "sign-on" today. I CAN'T wait to be employed again, then I won't have to go to the Job Centre office, which must be one of the most unpleasant places on earth!!! Things will hopefully take a turn for the better this week ... I had an interview last Friday & the company called me again today to ask a couple more questions. That's a good sign isn't it?
Anyway to cheer myself up after my visit to the Job Centre, I re-visited my stash of TaylorMade goodies & created a couple of quick LO's.
This is going to be a fun week for me (in terms of digi-scrapping) because both TaylorMade Designs and Fei-Fei's Stuff are both having week long challenges at Catscraps and Oscraps respectively!
Iain's decided he wants to go out for dinner tonight ... so he's getting "tarted up" as I type, then I'll get ready and we'll "hit the town".


The eternal struggle between form and function is always a top consideration when it comes to bathroom décor. While there's no end to ready-made ingenious bathroom solutions in stores, sometimes you just want to add a bit of that at-home touch.
This homespun solution is the perfect answer to those bits and bobs that always seem to end up scattered around the bathroom. Simply mount a few adjustable metal clamp bands onto an existing shelf, onto a stylish piece of "upcycled" lumber or even directly into the wall if it's sturdy enough. Slide mason jars into the clamp bands, tighten and you're good to go!
Shoe racks aren't just a great way to organize your closet — rod-style racks are also great for towels. All you need to do is find a place to mount the rack against a vertical surface and drape your towels over the rod. Extra-long shoe racks make a great fit for multi-age households, since they can reach closer to the ground for little ones who struggle to snag higher towels.
Beyond any painting or styling you choose to do, this wooden ladder idea is easy as pie. Literally just lean a ladder against a wall, and there you go, instant rack! You can drape towels directly over the steps (or step rods), then add hooks to hold baskets and anything else that can hang around.
If you've been dying for some open shelving in the bathroom but can't be bothered with a bulky chest of drawers, woven baskets are just the thing! Simply nail or tack the bottom side of the basket to a wall or existing shelf, then use it as a cubby for towels and other bathroom sundries.
A bit of PVC tubing can be a great solution if you're tired of wrangling with cords and knocking curling irons off the counter every time you move an arm.
Cut a 2-4 inch length of tubing that's a bit bigger than the diameter of the largest item you want to store, then use hook-and-loop semi-permanent tape to attach it to a wall or inside a cabinet drawer. Curling irons, hair dryers, brushes and anything else that has a handle can slip right inside. You can even mount a smaller tube next to the main tubes to stuff the cords for plug-in items.
Pedestal sinks are undoubtedly gorgeous, but they do have the unfortunate side effect of making discreet under-sink storage impossible. Fortunately, a bit of fabric is all you need for an instant under-sink cabinet. Run a line of semi-permanent hook-and-closure tape around the outside perimeter of the sink, then attach the opposite half of the tape to your favorite piece of window dressing or fabric swatch. Make sure the fabric is in two halves so you can easily pull them apart to access drawers, boxes or anything else you want to stay hidden underneath the basin.


I'm sure I liked it at the time and am almost equally sure I'd find it laughable trash -- or worse yet, dull trash -- now. The poster, though, has a curiously 1950s look, which holds out some kind of promise for the better class of trash.
Ouch. I noticed he'd done that and forgot to fix it. It really is ugly, isn't it?
My brethren and sistren, I am rightly (and properly) chastened. Link fixed in my original post (though by this point, that may be of import to none but BlitzGirl, however long it may take her to arrive there) and in the quotation above; can't do much about other quotations.
jjjdavidson wrote: I've seen it, and actually, it's not a bad Saturday-matinee monster flick. And (if I may be forgiven for allowing the Outside to intrude) it's on Turner Classic Movies tomorrow (Friday 04/12) at 06:15pm Eastern. He's right about the movie poster (being a good boy and not hotlinking it).
No, and I think all the parentheses were properly closed off. Anyway, it sounds like a throwback, and not for the poster alone. Are there any obvious (or even subtle) references to old Saturday-matinee monster flicks?
I don't get TCM, but perhaps it's on Netflicks.
I bet Megan is lying on her back, legs locked around something (or not), and feet sticking up, with head and shoulders leaning back off the plank Planck, and hands behind her head, casual-like. Meanwhile Cueball is gaping at her, somewhere between nonplussed and aghast at this daredevilry.
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Wha—is that a chicken up there? No, no, it's just the way she's holding the grapefruit.
Not bungee jumping, just tieing the rope down up side down.
If you insist. That'll be $100 for misdemeanor defacing of a comic.
I have decided my Knightly name.
Henceforth, I shall be known as Sir Tristram*, the Simple, Defender of The One True Comic.
Any quests to prove myself with?
*Not to be confused with the knight who was part of what the outsiders call "The Knights of the Round Table."
Mikeski wrote: If you insist. That'll be $100 for misdemeanor defacing of a comic.
I thought it was only $20 and your self respect.
The sea is going to come in and destroy their castles made of sand, but by that time they will have built an... I'm not sure what you call an oil rig when it's not used for oil drilling purposes. A rig? A sea platform? And then they can build that into a real castle.
...hauling more lumber in by boat if necessary.
Pfhorrest wrote: The sea is going to come in and destroy their castles made of sand, but by that time they will have built an... I'm not sure what you call an oil rig when it's not used for oil drilling purposes. A rig? A sea platform? And then they can build that into a real castle.
Added: But seriously, I'd be more inclined to go with "sea platform". I think derrick is specifically the towering part specifically for drilling, especially since oil derricks can also be in land drilling.
Seems to fit the wikipedia definition of a derrick pretty well. A tower with lifting mechanism. Close enough, anyway. Platform also works.
Here are a couple of quick templates for how we could do pages for The Bible. Would probably need to decide what the name of this 'Book' is before we go away and create many more pages.
Suggestions welcome. Also people wanting to add content are welcome as well.
Is there going to be one page in The Bible per page on the forum?
EDIT: Sorry for double posting.
OnTopix [new word coined, please use]: The Megan wiggly ladder incident is actually her handing Cueball the first long stick thingy. When you pass something above your head it is usually a bit unwieldy, not because it's heavy, just...because. There is an error because of this motion: The ladder is actually missing, then back again in the next frame when it's being used. Is the OTC imperfect?
The bible should be called The Babel.
Exodies wrote: Are we going to have a vote on whether there will have been Knights Temporal?
It has already been had....in the future.
fhorn wrote: I've lost track of whom to beseech/implore/bribe, but could whomsoever hath the power to deem it so please deem me Knighty Knight?
Then I may coma at will.
Coma is a sickness. You should not want to succumb. Coma is like original sin, we're all inflicted by it but must one day find freedom from it.
Must do. My evil streak sayeth that Randall must be spammed in return as he hath spammeth useth.
Special arrangement with FedEx or a local vagrant. Twenty bucks and free booze will work for either.
The first frame should most likely be time.png, but it's the default for everyone until the script kicks in and replaces it with the current frame. It confusedly is right there, we are just expecting more strange hashed file names instead. Time teaches us to be aware of what is there in the present, not the past, and not the future.
She is totally just hanging upside down getting her bearings, and Cueball is like, "Oh me yarm, what is my girlfriend doing??? Should I be concerned? Should I leap to her rescue? should I ...."
Also it suddenly occurred to me: what if BHG happened upon the construction project? What might he do, or not do?
[EDit] I hereby dub this thread page 303 "See Other".
Latent22 wrote: Would probably need to decide what the name of this 'Book' is before we go away and create many more pages.
Clearly, the only viable alternative for the name of this 'Book' is The Bibel. It avoids confusion with that other tome and has a nice ring to it, being one letter off from The Babel.
And as an operational note, this timething finally drove me to register after 5 years of lurk. I was hoping to be the final member so I could slam the door behind me but alas, no door.
And since this is my cherry-popping post, it'll show up sometimewaitedtime in the future, I think, so who knows what construction madness will be the rage. Not sure what that buzzing sound in my head is tho.
The trapezoidal illusion has become stronger.
The Babel of Time or just The Babel?
In the Bible, a city (now thought to be Babylon) in Shinar where God confounded a presumptuous attempt to build a tower into heaven by confusing the language of its builders into many mutually incomprehensible languages.
Is anyone else having trouble seeing the latest NewPix? My data stream is still giving me the hash of the frame from one and a half Outsider hours ago, even when I close it and open a new one. Using c0.xkcd.com, FWIW.
Added: Not just me, after all. It's glitched the geekwagon.net site; it shows the current frame twice, with an empty frame in between. So far, aubronwood seems unaffected, though.
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A proper God would have confounded blah blah by turning their cement into caffeinatedsemenbabycancer. Why be indirect? If it's about building, deal with building materials. If it's about communication, then ok deal with language.
KarMann wrote: Is anyone else having trouble seeing the latest NewPix? My data stream is still giving me the hash of the frame from one and a half Outsider hours ago, even when I close it and open a new one. Using c0.xkcd.com, FWIW.
Just use more normal means of getting your comic. Here you go: OTC. I haven't had any problem. I also use https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9818122/xkcd_time/ordered/###.png, but that works a minute after live. Whoever made that, thanks. I, uh, make you a Knight Temporal, please claim your position.
Just use more normal means of getting your comic. Here you go: OTC. I haven't had any problem. I also use https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/981 ... /ordered/###.png, but that works a minute after live. Whoever made that, thanks. I, uh, make you a Knight Temporal, please claim your position.
Added: It looks like the connection is dropping once every 10 seconds, on the dot, so almost certainly server problems.
Added2: I'm getting curl exit code 7, "Failed to connect to host."
As an Outsider religious argument, it is quite a good one. The only issue is that "the Bible" deals strongly with the idea of words, the power of words, so a lot of the lessons are language based. Bible just means book, and a book is just a collection of words. "Let there be light" and the Ten Commandments, and whatever else is famous, are all just words. To destroy or change the very molecules of life would not send the right message, while it would be possible, it's just not His Thang.
If the sea is rising... Are they building a boat? A kinda Noah's ark??
I had a couple of suggestions for names a few newpix ago, "The Past", "The Book of Time", "How to Build a Sandcastle". I'll also suggest in tribute to our valuable resource, "The Book of Aubron".
Whatever is chosen, on the inside of the back cover should be a command, the command that Lord Randall would see every time he read the book and reached the newest OurPix."Wait for it."
Time to succumb to coma and wake up in the past. I may not be reliving the same day over and over again, but being stuck in the past feels just as daunting.
SBN wrote: I guess I'm the lone voice in the wilderness. But then I'm still of the belief that Newpix and Timeframes are the same thing.
* not that one. Keep googling.
I don't think two-leafed clovers are quite as iconic.


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Welcome to British Summer time
THOUSANDS are expected to flock to the seaside this weekend as Britain sizzles in temperatures set to rival Australia's Bondi beach.
By Nathan Rao
00:00, Sat, Mar 24, 2012
A little girl enjoys her ice cream in the sunshine
Forecasters have predicted wall-to-wall sunshine as the country basks in the hottest March for seven years.
Yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far with the mercury hitting 70.3F (21.3C) at Charlwood, Surrey – almost double the average for March.
Similar temperatures are expected to draw 30,000 visitors to South Coast resorts such as Bournemouth, which could be as hot as Bondi beach in Sydney.
A tourist board spokesman said: "The forecast for the weekend looks good and because of that the hotels have seen a big influx of late bookings. It is an exciting start to the season and hopefully it is a sign of things to come."
Tenby in South Wales will be warmer than the Canary Island of Tenerife, which will reach only 66F.
Thousands are also expected to head for the parks to enjoy the warm weather and lighter evenings from tomorrow when British Summer Time begins.
We're breaking temperature records as the outdoor season begins
Forecaster Brian Gaze, of The Weather Outlook
Ice-cream stalls are preparing for a rush of sun-lovers.
A Bournemouth resort spokesman said: "Hotels have had an influx of last-minute bookings and say guest numbers are buoyant for this time of year. It's a great start to the season."
The hot weather is thanks to a system of high pressure settled over the UK and warm air flooding in from the Continent. And it shows no sign of cooling down, with forecasters predicting glorious sunshine and heat lasting into next week.
Forecaster Brian Gaze, of The Weather Outlook, said: "We're breaking temperature records as the outdoor season begins."
Only the East Coast looks set to miss out, with onshore winds and sea mist keeping temperatures in check. But the hot, dry weather is bad news for water companies as the UK faces the worst drought for 124 years.
Parts of the country are set to be hit by restrictions and hosepipe bans in a matter of days as rivers and reservoirs run low.
Firefighters last night warned the drought-hit countryside has been turned into a tinder box, with the least stray spark capable of leading to a disaster. They urged people not to light barbecues on picnics or discard cigarette ends in rural areas.
The dry weather has been responsible for a spate of heathland blazes this week, including Woodbury Common, Devon, which was ravaged by fire.
Highs of 70F are forecast today in the South and 66F tomorrow.
Warm weather will last into next week with highs of 68F from Monday until next weekend when it could shoot back up to 70F.
Britain is enjoying its warmest March temperatures since 2005, when Wisley, Surrey, hit 71F. Met Office forecaster Dan Williams said: "We are having a long run of very mild temperatures over a widespread area. It will be a warm beginning to next week."


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I really relate with Don Draper since I am more creative than analytical. I love coming up with fresh, innovative and creative ideas for my clients. And like him, I get frustrated when I know something will work, but my client doesn't buy into it for one reason or another. I have always thought that if you trust an agency enough to hire them, you should trust their ideas even if they seem a little unorthodox. Afterall, it is in the agency's better interest to come up with an idea that is going to work in a big way.
In the first episode of Madmen, the viewer meets the characters and gets a little bit of their back story. One also gets an idea of the radical difference in corporate culture from the 60s and now – women were not very well respected and would never have been considered as a decision maker.
This becomes evident when Don Draper and Roger Sterling meet with a potential client from a high-end department store called Menken's. Don suggests a strategy that includes coupons for "frugal" housewives and becomes incensed when the female owner, Rachel Menken, rejects the idea. The conversation becomes heated because Don was unaware the client was female. Rachel leaves the dinner angry and Don chases her down to try and salvage the account, which eventually he does.
Understanding that the show was set in the 60s, reality doesn't make for good TV, and hind sight is usually 20/20 there are many things I would have done differently. Admittedly, my solutions would not have held up under television viewer scrutiny.
First and foremost, I would have done my research and known exactly who I was meeting with and I would have been prepared. The big difference between Don and myself is the level of his ego – he assumes that his charm and personality along with his reputation are going to win accounts for him. While these things are certainly important, in the real world they are only going to take you so far.
Secondly, no one in their right mind would suggest couponing for a high-end retail store. I am not a fan of coupons for any business. It tells people that your original price is too high and therefore it must be discounted to be sellable. Additionally, if used excessively, which most business do, shoppers will wait for the coupons and getting paid full retail for your products will become an exception rather than a rule. Today, many high-end retailers would say they use couponing successfully, but I think it cheapens their brand.
Shopping is about the experience, especially when it comes to high-end retail. People that could afford to shop at Menken's wouldn't use a coupon because they don't need to – for the most part, price isn't a factor in when you sell luxury goods. In fact, a coupon would cheapen the experience and Menken's wouldn't be exclusive. With coupons, ordinary people could shop there and that is not the image Rachel Menken wanted to portray.
In this instance, I would create a service called Menken's Concierge Club and make the store even more exclusive. I would charge a membership fee for the Concierge Club which would include services that weren't available to non-members like private shopping, after-hours shopping, personal shoppers, fashion shows, new product/season release events like monthly martini parties. I would make part of the store exclusive for Concierge Club members where exclusive products that weren't available anywhere else were sold. This department would have a red carpet and a doorman creating a mystique to further entice non-members. I would have a limousine pick up Concierge Club members at their homes and deliver them to the store. People would want to be seen at Menken's because of the prestige.
If Menken's existed today, you would want to add digital marketing to the mix. Marketing to the wealthy online is challenging but not altogether different than marketing to any other demographic. I would start by having a cutting-edge ecommerce website with plenty of video and photo galleries. I would have interviews with the designers and Facebook Live events from the Concierge Club, so non-members could see what they are missing.
In this digital world, many people forget that traditional marketing venues still have their place in the media mix and are still very effective especially when combined with digital in the right way. Understanding your customer is paramount. Who is she? Where does she live? Does she work or stay at home with the kids? Once you have a complete picture of who your customer is, you can be where she is and host events at places she already frequents.
In this episode of Madmen, coupons were the opposite of what Don should have suggested. Perhaps the only thing that would have been worse would have been suggesting changing Menken's from a luxury boutique to discount shop. In the end, Don gets Menken's business, but not because he offered up the right strategy.


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Transport Marketing
02 MAY 2003 (FRI) | 19:00-20:00
Room 201, Map Library, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong.
Speaker:Prof T O Wallin Professor Emeritus of Logistics and Marketing, Syracuse University; Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, HKU
Active in professional affairs, Prof Wallin serves as External Advisor to the IVE programs in Transport and Logistics, Vice Chair and Director of Education for Hong Kong Logistics Association, Lecturer in the Master of Arts in Transport Policy and Planning (MATPP) programme at HKU, Lecturer for various executive development programs, and advisor to HKU Poon Kam Kai Center in the development of logistics programs. He is also involved with the HKPC and HKLA in the development of a professional program in logistics and is a fellow of the Charter Management Association and the Asia Pacific CEO Organization. Prof Wallin is also affiliated with the Council of Logistics Management, American Society of Transportation and Logistics, and Delta Nu Alpha. He has assisted in the development of the Graduate Diploma in Transport and Logistics at HKUST and has lectured in the program as well as, regularly, in IEEM Courses in Transportation, Logistics, and Technology Marketing.
During the past generation, marketing has grown to become a critical part of the management process. Studies of the business world show that successful market management is the critical component of success and that the building of a sustainable competitive advantage is the key to dealing with an environment of considerable and continuing change. With the exception of airlines and automobile manufacturers, few transport related enterprises have developed the successful, creative use of marketing. This is especially true of mass transport in urban areas. This seminar will explore the essence of marketing and the components of marketing which may hold applicability in transport. Students will learn about marketing components, marketing strategy, competitive advantage, and the basics of consumer analysis. Barriers to the development of marketing plans in transit will be explored along with the potential for enhanced utilization of marketing frame of thinking.
Highway Development in China
28 MAR 2003 (FRI) | 19:00-20:00 Room 201, Map Library, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker:Mr Sam Chow Managing Director, MVA Associates Limited Mr Sam Chow is the Vice
Aviation Developments in the Pacific Islands
18 OCT 2002 (FRI) | 19:00-21:00 Urban & Transport Research Laboratory, Rm 211, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker:Prof Christopher Kissling Lincoln University, New Zeal
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Rudy G. Andrea has an undergraduate degree in Pre-Law from CCNY '79 and master degrees in Marketing and Business Administration from Iona College '84. Mr. Andrea has held a number of upper management positions with Johnson & Johnson, The Mennen Company and Panasonic. He is currently managing partner for Dragon Fly Investments and President of RacJac Family investment group. He is Co-Founder and current President of The Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation, working very closely with numerous charitable organizations. Mr. Andrea has held several Board positions with charitable organizations. His extensive knowledge of private foundation operations has become the benchmark for helping other organizations to become more efficient and to increase donor base and dollars raised. He is also part of the founding fathers of the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys. Over the last several years he has been very active in the cycling community where he has raised the level of awareness for many to support various causes through the mextroplex. The Collin Classic Cycling Event has become one of the largest event in the Collin County area.
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Christina M. Andrea is a graduate cum laude from The University of New Hampshire with Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. She became a legal assistant after college in the Boston area for two years for Hill and Barlow and Goodwin Procter and Hoar, specializing in estate planning and conversation law preservation. She went on to become a business manager for a restaurant in the Boston area and also assisted as host. From there she moved to Atlanta, Georgia and to Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked as a sales representative for her family business, The Mennen Company. After two years in the business, she moved on to Dallas, Texas and worked for Neiman Marcus in the sales department.
She retired to marry and raise her family. Once her youngest was of school age, she began an active career as a volunteer at Childrens Medical Center where she discovered her love of philanthropy. She had been at Childrens' for 20 years before taking a hiatus in 2013 when her youngest left for college. In 2009 she was named as one of The Top Ten Women of Collin County being honored for her outstanding work with Childrens Hospital. Christina was honored to be recognized as a leader in her community for her love of giving back to the community and continues to seek out new philanthropic areas for the Andrea Mennen Family which she is co-founded with her husband, Rudy Andrea.
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Phil received his Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the City College of New York in 1972 and was a teacher in the New York City system before transitioning to the business community. Since 1974, Phil has held a variety of management positions with Fortune 500 Companies and is a Partner in a sales and marketing company.
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He secured a job in the medical field, and works as a Medical Massage Therapist for a Physical Therapy Clinic since 2007 and has his own practice, which he sees his own cliental. He has extensive training in Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Therapy and other medical massage techniques. He has worked with children and adults, which include sport injures, surgical procedures, or helping with areas of pain.
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Adam Andrea was born in Plano Texas, in 1994. He attended Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Dallas front the 1st through the 4th grade. He started 5th grade in the Plano ISD area and graduated in 2013. During his time at middle school and on into high school, Adam was a very active member of the band, as a clarinet player. His senior year he was made loading chief and was responsible for being certain that all the instruments were loaded onto and of the buses at each game. He also became an active member of Young Men's Service League, an organization of mothers and sons providing community service for the less fortunate in our area. Adam did a number of volunteer assignments as a Study Buddy, tutoring young children who were from non English speaking families, Habitat for Humanity where he was on several build projects, worked in a senior center where he spend time with the residents playing bingo and socializing. He also went out to DFW and had a wonderful time meeting and greeting our heroes returning home. He is currently going to TCU and will be graduating in May, 2017 in a degree in early education. He will focus on developing more programs directed at early education with other charities involved with The Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation.
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