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Chris Pratt Hijacks Wife Katherine Schwarzenegger's Baking Tutorial
By Jennifer Drysdale 9:02 PM PDT, April 19, 2020
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Many couples are dealing with a new reality while quarantining together amid the coronavirus pandemic -- and for Katherine Schwarzenegger, that means having Chris Pratt hilariously interrupt her baking tutorial.
The 30-year-old author took to her Instagram Story on Sunday to show off how she's been passing the time by trying out new recipes. After successfully making banana bread, Schwarzenegger was inspired to bake something using the strawberries she had in her fridge. Things went smoothly until Pratt, 40, decided it was time for a little golf.
"While I do this video, I'll preface this by saying that my husband will be playing golf in the background," Schwarzenegger said with a laugh.
"Wait! Show me, it'll be good luck," Pratt asked -- though Schwarzenegger explained she had already set up the camera.
The daughter of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger began putting together her ingredients as Pratt kicked his activity into high gear. "Oh yeah! Get over that drive!" he could be heard yelling in the background. "Oh my God, that was so fun."
The Guardians of the Galaxy star later appeared to offer his take on his wife's baking skills.
"I'm here to attest that Katherine's banana bread [is] truly remarkable," he gushed. "I love it. I got a little giddy inside when she said both of those loaves were for us."
He added: "They'll be gone in… less than a day."
During a recent appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres show, Pratt revealed the one thing he does that Schwarzenegger can't stand.
"I leave napkins folded all over the house. Like, I'll use a napkin and instead of taking the time and effort to go throw it away, I'll just fold it up and set it down as if, 'Well, that's folded, so that belongs there,'" he admitted. "So there's just a little trail of napkins."
Pratt also praises Schwarzenegger during his interview, revealing that the most surprising thing about his wife is "her ability to just fill in my many deficits."
"I've got a lot, too, so that's why it's so surprising," he quipped.
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I think this is a little different than the "What ya reading?" thread.
The last few months I've got into listening to audiobooks while I drive or work. I really enjoy the ones that are read by the author or by someone with a bit of flare. A stale narrator is easy to drown out.
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Written by Phil Knight. Narrated by Norbert Leo Butz. A fun auto-biography on the founder of Nike. Not necessarily a "business book" but interesting for anyone who has a started a business or has an interest in the business of sports and sports apparel.
This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under the Influence - Written and Narrated by Terry O'Reilly: Terry's podcast on marketing and advertising is fantastic. This is a bit of an extension to it but expends on concepts and stories about advertising and marketing that has gone right and wrong. Focuses mostly on stories from the late 70s to the present.
Lord of the Rings - BBC Radio Play: A bigger production than a normal audiobook. It's a full-on radio play with Ian Holm playing Frodo (he played Bilbo in the LOTR movie). Great voice acting and production values.
Beastie Boys Book - Written by the two remaining members of the group (Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz). Narrated by them, as well as 30+ celebrities. Open the spoiler to see the list.
I listened to this on a 10 hour drive and the drive went by quickly. I think it helps if you like Spade's humour, though. He cracks me up so I loved it.
World War Z. It's ####ing amazing.
The movie tie-in edition looks awesome.
I don't know anything about the tie in, because the book and movie have nothing to do with each other outside of the title. But yes, the voice cast is amazing. Alan Alda is a highlight. And it just lends so well to an audiobook format - the book is a series of interviews, so it just makes sense.
I've never read the book so I didn't hate the movie like many of the book readers did. I've downloaded it so I'll give it a go next.
We always have a couple audiobooks for our road trips. Currently listening to Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark.
Two others I've thoroughly enjoyed are The World Without Us and Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?. Both by Alan Weisman.
Just finished it. Damn, you were right. That was a hell of cast.
I'm about halfway through (and I own read the book a couple years ago) but this is a hell of a recommendation. One of the best audiobooks I've heard.
Any others along this same vein?
What app are people using to listen/stream audiobooks with? Audible or something else?
The 10th Anniversary of American Gods is supposed to set the bar for full cast production audiobooks. It's not available on Audible so I haven't listened to it yet.
For a family road trip, the entire Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is hilarious.
I always use Audible. Not very cheap, but the convenience is great.
Check out LibriVox (an app). You can get a lot of great audiobooks for free. We've listened to all of the Ann of Green Tables books on that. I fataing hate those books, but my family likes them and the narrator was definitely good. Someone with the last name of Savage.
Library is a good option - my FIL drives a ton and he listens to almost everything that comes out for free.
Sure it is. I have it. Listened to it before I started watching the show. It's good.
I use audible as well. I used to download them but I was never able to find a solution that saved my spot well enough, so I ended up there. I enjoy business/psychology type books quite a bit, so the ability to take a 30 second snippet and save it with a single button is incredibly valuable. There's been plenty of times when I've had one of those "hey I read about this in that book" and easily dropped in and found the clip I needed.
I just wanted to quote this and say that the Beastie Boys Audiobook is a masterpiece! If you're a fan, you'll love it. It really just has everything between being hilarious and at the same time the nostalgia and some sadness as well. I'm not finished yet, but it's just great.
And the funniest part I have hit so far is the "Oral History of Cookie Puss".
Well I'm a bit annoyed that amazon gift cards don't work with Audible.
Anyway, I signed up with Audible about a year ago and love it. Looks like I purchased/redeemed just under 30 books or free audible originals for the year, but I admittedly quit on about 1/3 of them. I'm fine with that- its a different world from reading a book and takes a while to figure out the genres work for you if even a small percentage of your attention is elsewhere.
I'm utilizing the return feature sparingly, although I am not sure how cautious you need to be on this? Anyone know? Just be honest with returns and Audible wont call you on it? I generally only claim a return if I quit fairly early in the book. Perhaps returned 3 over the year. Used my monthly credits, purchased the 3 credit pack a couple times and purchased a few books individually- although the credit pack seems to be the best option unless you are dealing with books on sale.
Favorite audiobook of the year for me had to be The Pillars of the Earth, and favorite audible original was West Cork.
I'm about 8 hours in 11.22.63 by Stephen King and it's fantastic. The novel is presented in first person and narrator is owning the character. Definitely worth adding to your listening list.
This one might creep into "favourite book" territory for me.
I'm surprised more people don't find the narrator of 11.22.63 incredibly annoying- particularly his dim witted southern voice for Sadie.
Prefer Will Patton on the more recent Stephen King books. And James Franco was actually pretty good on The Dead Zone.


Yello Media, the Caribbean's foremost digital and print advertiser, and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) have announced the formation of a new three-year partnership designed to create community support, commerce and engagement through cricket.
The regional partnership, the first of its kind for Yello Media Group since its rebrand in 2017, is part of the company's push to establish and support initiatives that celebrate Caribbean people and culture. Yello Media Group's Director of Marketing Tshani Jaja welcomed the initiative stating "Cricket plays such an important role in Caribbean history and culture. The CPL has in recent years driven a resurgence in the sport and has successfully engaged a wide subsection of support from all age groups, especially young people. With this partnership, Yello Media Group is able to introduce a more modern and digital take on a tradition that has been ongoing for generations".
Yello, through its newly introduced mobile app and online platforms, will provide match fixtures and profiles of players. Yello will also launch an online campaign to give fans an opportunity to win match tickets and special prizes in Yello's participating markets - Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, St. Lucia and Trinidad & Tobago.
CPL Commercial Director Jamie Stewart added "We are excited to welcome Yello as a Sponsor of the Hero CPL for the next three years. Yello is the Caribbean leader in the digital space and it is perhaps a testament to the League's innovative and powerful online presence that this exciting partnership has been possible.
The partnership further establishes the Yello Media Group's mantra of knowing and celebrating local.
Yello Media Group is the leading provider of digital media and marketing solutions operating across 20 countries in the English speaking Caribbean and Central & South America. Their digital solutions and directory products create seamless connections with businesses and their customers online and offline. With decades of advertising expertise, Yello is the most celebrated Google AdWords Partner in the Caribbean , Central & South America receiving three consecutive awards for Google Display and Mobile Champions in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Yello's diverse mix of digital solutions such as SEM, Website Development, Social Media Management, Online Videos and Display Advertising helps businesses build awareness, expand reach and generate leads. In 2017 they were one of 5 companies recognised Internationally by Google for their innovation in Search & Display Advertising in the Caribbean and Latin America.
First started in 2013, the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is a franchise-based T20 format cricket tournament that combines two of the most compelling aspects of Caribbean life – dramatic cricket and a vibrant Carnival atmosphere. Combining broadcast and digital viewership over 197 million fans watched the 2017 season to make it one of the fastest growing leagues in world cricket. Trinbago Knight Riders are the current Hero CPL champions and the other competing teams are Barbados Tridents, Guyana Amazon Warriors, St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots, St. Lucia Stars and Jamaica Tallawahs. For further information visit www.cplt20.com.


Endpoint security is where it all starts. The client is the target most attackers go after. Once you have access there (let's say by emailing cute cat videos), you are in. Compromised systems are the daily routine of information security. Even without contact with the outside world, you have to think about what happens next. Thomas Fischer has thought a lot about scenarios concerning the endpoint, and he presented his findings at the DeepSec 2015 conference.
To quote from the talk: This presentation will demonstrate that one of the most complete sources of actionable intelligence resides at the end point, and that living as close as possible to Ring 0 makes it possible to see how a malicious process or party is acting and the information being touched. There you go. Have a look!
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Presidential pollsters got it wrong, what are the implications for consumer research?
If political polls were so off, might consumer research be equally flawed?
Greg Sterling on November 6, 2020 at 7:21 am
Most of the major presidential polls were off – some way off. And while Joe Biden appears to be headed for victory, as predicted, it's by margins considerably smaller than expected. In short, the pollsters blew it, and in a bigger way than in 2016.
Every day at Search Engine Land our inboxes are filled with story pitches built on consumer research: surveys about intended holiday spending, about device usage, about privacy and many other topics. These surveys are fielded with varying degrees of rigor, but most claim to be sound research. Brands such as Harris, IPSOS and Forrester are often used to bolster the credibility of findings, which are then used for PR and marketing purposes.
Political and consumer surveys use similar methodology
As it's now being called, the "polling debacle of 2020" made me think about the validity of consumer research that we see every day. How related are the two? And is consumer research similarly "off" in many (or even most) cases?
A late October ABC/Washington Post survey gave Biden a 17-point lead in Wisconsin; he won by less than a point. South Carolina Democratic senatorial candidate Jamie Harrison was allegedly behind by two points, within the margin of error, on the eve of the election. Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham won by 15 points. And there are many other such examples.
The methods used to conduct online political polling are basically the same as those typically used for consumer market research: panels and samples that are "census weighted" to reflect age, gender, education, marital status and other demographic variables.
Surveys and real-world behavior often diverge
I recently received a story pitch, based on consumer research, that claimed, "Roughly 1 in 3 online shoppers use their voice assistants to make purchases at least once a month." While I've searched for products with virtual assistants (on smartphones and smart speakers), I've never bought anything via virtual assistant, nor do I know anyone in my extended network who has.
Compare the "1 in 3" claim with a report in 2018, based on internal Amazon data, asserting that only 2% of Alexa users have made a voice purchase. While that number could have grown in two years, especially during the pandemic, it's extremely unlikely — if not impossible — it would have reached 33% of online shoppers.
The survey report indicated it polled 1,000 "frequent online shoppers." Upon further questioning, the survey source revealed that respondents were predominantly Millennials and mostly re-ordering or completing saved carts, initiated presumably from other devices. While this makes it slightly more plausible, the numbers are still way too high.
Another example: surveys over the years have shown that a majority of consumers prefer to buy from brands that support social and political causes they agree with. However, behavioral data often reflect that there's little relationship between these survey-based attitudes and actual consumer purchase patterns.
I could go on.
Look behind the curtain
Surveys are used by brands and marketers for different purposes. Some use them for market validation and to make product and pricing decisions. Much more often they're used for PR and content marketing. In the latter case, methodological rigor is somewhat less important. Whether 60% or 70% of consumers intend to spend more money online this holiday season is of limited consequence — consumers will be spending more. But when product and go-to-market decisions are based on assumptions from flawed data, that can be a problem.
No single survey should be treated as conclusive or even entirely accurate. And we should be very cautious when small samples are extrapolated to the entire population on the basis of the claim that they're "census balanced." There are also phantom data points that get repeated and take on an aura of truth because they're so widely circulated. This was the case with the now infamous projection that "50% of all searches will be voice searches by 2020," which is both a misstatement and wrongly attributed. (I still see this cited.)
People need to look behind the curtain and not blithely accept such things at face value. I've seen many "20 stats about [topic]" roundups that are full of inaccurate information or incorrect source citations. Yet this doesn't mean we should disregard market research. Instead, surveys should, at best, be seen as "directional" and potentially indicative of broader consumer sentiment — but not as 1:1 representations of reality.
Consumer surveys are a useful tool, but they must be reality checked with behavioral data for a more complete and accurate picture of consumer activity. Going forward, we should receive any individual piece of data or survey with healthy skepticism and a clear understanding of the underlying methodology.
Greg Sterling
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land, a member of the programming team for SMX events and the VP, Market Insights at Uberall.
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"We're hungry and frozen / It's the life that we've chosen!": RENT with Queen's Musical Theatre Society Review
Posted byThe Gown Queen's University Belfast February 11, 2019 Posted inArts & Ents, Queen's, Theatre
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February 6th. 7PM. Greenwich Mean Time. Opening night. Zoom in on the Brian Friel Theatre, an audience waiting to see a rendition of their favourite musical, RENT. We're expecting humour, romance, heartbreak and an eye-opener towards poverty and the devastating effect of drugs and HIV on New York's Bohemian Alphabet City in the late 1980's. Not to mention lush harmonies, rock and roll angst and exuberant musical numbers. Expectations are high, and fortunately Queen's Musical Theatre Society (QMTS) are able to deliver.
If you haven't seen the play or the movie, here's a bit of background. RENT is inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera La boheme, written by Jonathan Larson, documenting the lives of artists and anarchists struggling against capitalism and the epidemic of HIV/AID's that devastated impoverished communities, as well as the LGBT+ community, in the late 80's. It has a massive cult following, and was recently reimagined in RENT Live on Fox in America (not very well, might I add). After watching that train-wreck, I was ready for the songs of RENT to be given justice vocally, and the members of QMTS in my opinion did a much better job at capturing the dynamic elements of the songs where RENT Live lacked.
Some praise for the leading cast is definitely in order, and QMTS should be proud of every member. Niall Brooks and Zak Phillips did a great job at playing Mark and Roger. They gave an energy to the beginning musical numbers that the rest of the cast relayed throughout. Mark's lovable nerdy side contrasted well with the rough-cut edge of Roger, and gave a vocal chemistry to the opening number RENT that made me excited for the rest of the musical.
Adam Cooper as Benny was the perfect mixture of formidable and smug: we can see how he was once good but has been corrupted by capitalist values, while also trying to look out for his friends in the only way he knows. His polished costume and vocals contrast with the rough grime of the rest of the cast, showing us how far they have fallen.
Next, Shonagh Forbes' portrayal of Mimi, bringing an attitude to the role that made the character her own. I was impressed by QMTS' use of the elevated space in the Brian Friel Theatre to emulate the New York scaffolding, and was even more impressed by Shonagh's ability to carry one of the more difficult numbers in the musical. She smashed every note in Out Tonight while dancing in heels, and was able to retain this energy in Another Day. This was my personal favourite moment; Shonagh and Zak's rendition of this song was beautiful and captured the heartfelt nature and message of RENT that I believe makes the musical unique.
Aaron McAnulty's performance as Angel frankly put Valentina to shame (a contestant in Ru Paul's Drag Race who portrayed Angel in RENT Live). Angel is such an important role, and Aaron imbued a precociousness balanced only with kindness, and slayed Today 4 U, making the audience so invested in his character that they would be devastated later on (no spoilers). Costuming for Angel also deserves commendation, as they were able to capture Angel's thrifty and resourceful nature while also letting her look no less than fabulous. When Angel reappeared at the end, it did not go amiss that while she lost a part of her identity in the white hospital robes, we see a glimmer of it through her red nail polish.
Aaron and Patrick D'Arcy (the society's president) sang I'll Cover You perfectly, and Patrick's version of the reprise was truly heart-wrenching. Capturing the deep baratone vocals of Tom Collins, and his vulnerability contrasted with strength, Patrick truly deserves praise.
Last but not least, Maureen and Joanne were truly hilarious to behold. Abi Paxton (Joanne) and Saorlaoith Brady (Maureen), bounced off each-other so well, the stubbornness of one both clashing perfectly with the other, delivering the characters we know so well. Over the Moon was the perfect debut for Maureen as eccentric, talented and a little bit vain, but overall problematic and lovable, a performance worthy of that of Idina Menzel. Take Me or Leave Me was the perfect battle of egos, and the vocal matching of both girls was incredible. With big boots to fill on both parts, Abi and Saorlaoith truly succeeded at portraying such pig-headed but lovable characters in all their flawed glory.
The ensemble cast deserve a pat on the back too. It is no mean feat to undertake such complicated and over-the-top numbers such as La Vie Boheme and Seasons of Love that are so well known and feature so many different harmonies, especially amid the technical difficulties of opening night. They also sang Will I with a reverence and grace that was truly tear-jerking. Their multi-layered talent provided a consistent vocal backdrop that was the making of this rendition, and are the backbone of this wonderful show.
Thanks to QMTS for letting me nerd out about one of my favourite musicals for a night, and for portraying the characters so well. Megan and her cast did so well, and a night with QMTS is highly recommended to all.
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Four scientific strategies for an emotionally authentic holiday season.
Whoever wrote "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" never had to endure a night of Hanukkah listening to their right-wing cousin rail against communism. Or had to make dinner for two dozen family members, who each has his own unique set of food (and family) intolerances. Or had to spend an entire Christmas alone while cheers and laughter erupted from the apartment down the hall.
Fortunately, psychological research suggests some effective strategies for the holiday blues—and flags some especially unhelpful ones. The upshot is that sadness and other tough emotions are not afflictions that we should try to avoid or overcome. Instead, if properly understood, they can help contribute to a healthy—and happy—life.
Here are four strategies to help you craft your own happiness recipe this holiday season (and the rest of your year).
At family gatherings with cousins you secretly can't stand and in-laws who dole out backhanded compliments, it can be tempting to put on a happy face while you seethe inside. Indeed, that might even seem like the most mature response—no drama, no conflict.
But a 2011 study by researchers at Michigan State University and West Point might make you think twice. They followed dozens of bus drivers for two weeks, looking to see when they flashed fake versus genuine smiles at their passengers. (Bus drivers do a lot of smiling, it turns out.) The results show that on days when the drivers tried to put on an act and fake a good mood, their actual moods got worse. This was especially true for women.
Similarly, a 2012 study led by Maya Tamir of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that people who wanted to feel happy even when a situation called for a different emotional response, like anger, actually reported less happiness overall. And research by Iris Mauss of UC Berkeley suggests that people who really want to be happy actually derive less happiness from positive experiences, apparently because their expectations are too high. Again and again, trying to force happiness seems to backfire.
The results of the bus driver study can be explained by researchers Oliver John of UC Berkeley and James Gross of Stanford, who found that "negative" feelings like sadness or anger only intensify when we try to suppress them. That's because we feel bad about ourselves when our outward appearance contradicts how we truly feel inside. We don't like to be inauthentic.
When we suppress emotions like sadness, we deny them the important function they can serve in our lives.
What's more, when we suppress emotions like sadness, we deny them the important function they can serve in our lives. Sadness can signal that something is distressing us; if we don't recognize that feeling, we might not take the necessary steps to improve our situation.
Expressing our sadness can also elicit comfort and compassion from those who care about us, strengthening our bonds. By contrast, suppressing our emotions can actually undermine our relationships: A study led by Sanjay Srivastava of the University of Oregon found that college students who bottled up their emotions experienced less social support, felt less close to others, and were less satisfied with their social lives.
But none of this is to endorse drowning in melancholy or lashing out at our in-laws. Some ways of processing and acting on our emotions are healthier than others.
Recently, scientists have been paying special attention to the benefits of mindfulness, the moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings. A mindful response to an emotional trigger (e.g., overcooking the holiday turkey) means that you pause rather than react. Instead of berating yourself, you simply notice what you're feeling without judging that response as right or wrong.
Studies suggest that a mindful response to a negative event reduces the amount of sadness we experience after that event, is associated with less depression and anxiety, and may even carry physiological benefits, like lowering our heart rates. It's a way to avoid suppressing your emotions without reacting hastily or getting consumed by rumination. And, fortunately, mindfulness isn't something you're simply born with or without; research suggests it's a skill you can cultivate over time.
4. Enjoy your emotional cocktail.
Inevitably, the holidays will bring a mix of highs and lows. Perhaps the most important lesson to keep in mind is that this variety of emotions might be the best thing possible for your overall well-being.
Inevitably, the holidays will bring a mix of highs and lows.
That was the key insight from a study published last year by a team of researchers from Yale, Harvard Business School, and other institutions spanning four countries. Their survey of more than 37,000 people found that those who experienced more "emodiversity"—a greater variety and abundance of emotions—were less likely to be depressed than people who reported high levels of positive emotion. In fact, people with more emodiversity used less medication, visited the doctor less frequently, spent fewer days in the hospital, practiced better dietary and exercise habits, and smoked less.
In other words, sadness, anger, and other difficult emotions are like so many other staples of the holidays, from egg nog to office parties: In moderation, they're nothing to fear. Just make sure you're balancing them with other, lighter experiences. And don't forget to give yourself a break.
Jason Marsh wrote this article for How to Create a Culture of Good Health, the Winter 2016 issue of YES! Magazine. Jason is the director of programs at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and the founding editor in chief of Greater Good, the center's online magazine. He is also a co-editor of two anthologies of Greater Good articles: The Compassionate Instinct (WW Norton) and Are We Born Racist? (Beacon Press). He has written for The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, the opinion section of CNN.com, and many other publications.


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Mikel Arteta encouraged by top-four talk as Arsenal chase Liverpool scalp
November 20, 2021Social Media
Mikel Arteta believes talk of Arsenal finishing in the top four of the Premier League this season is "positive".
The Gunners resume action after the international break lying fifth in the table after embarking on an impressive eight-match unbeaten league run following their 5-0 thrashing at Manchester City in August.
Arsenal travel to Liverpool on Saturday just two points behind Jurgen Klopp's side and a win would move them into the top four.
"For me this (talk of Arsenal being in the top four) is positive," Arteta said.
"It means there is excitement and they want to push us. This club is about being the best, not even about being fourth.
"So that mentality and drive is because of our history. That history has to be present all the time, trying to achieve the biggest targets.
"If not, you don't have the mentality to play for this club. That's the demands.
"Whether we can achieve it or not, we will see what we can do. But the level of expectation has to always be the highest."
Arsenal have not finished in the top four since Leicester's title-winning 2015-16 season when the Gunners claimed the runners-up spot under Arsene Wenger.
On the Liverpool game itself, the manager added: "The standards that we have in this club, the ambition every day is to win this game and it doesn't matter who you play you have to prepare the game to win it and that's what we're going to do, to go to Anfield and get the result."
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Since Arteta took over in 2019, the club have yet to finish in the top six, and missed out on all European football this season after a disappointing eighth-placed finish last tern.
However, the Spaniard believes he is seeing a "big change" at the club.
"It (changing the energy at the club) was obviously one of the main things for me because when I took the job there were a lot of difficulties in that sense," Arteta said.
"We had one thing bigger that we never expected – that our stadium would remain empty for the next 18 months. So that intention became impossible to achieve.
"But now I really see a big change and the impact that has on the team and the performances of the players is huge. And we can see that every time we play at the Emirates and away from home because of the support we are getting. That increases the level of our team."
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Cinderella headlined the final night of the 2011 Clearfield County Fair. Celebrating their 25th anniversary, the band also brought along brethren bands FireHouse and Slaughter. This is exactly the kind of tour package these type of bands need to be on. Three solid bands playing their hits and a few lost gems is exactly what the doctor ordered. And the appreciative crowd gave their heroes quite a response.
Cinderella really gave their set list a long due overhaul. Inserting long absent, but appropriate "Once Around The Ride", the band really shook things up by playing their longtime closer "Shake Me" second. From there they played a few standards before digging out "The More Things Change", complete with "Bad Seamstress Blues" intro, just like how they opened their 1991 shows with. Considering all the problems vocalist/guitarist Tom Keifer has had over the years, he sounded really good. Drummer Fred Coury, was solid as usual along with rhythm partner, bassist Eric Brittingham. Guitarist Jeff Labar was perhaps the underrated hero of the night. His solid leads and great solos gave the songs their needed punch like on a fantastic version of "Long Cold Winter". Another cool aspect was closing their show with "Shelter Me". The past few tours I even noticed how big of a response it was receiving. Kudos to Cinderella for shaking up their set, unlike some other band also celebrating their 25th anniversary this year.
Slaughter opened up with the riotous "Wild Life" and proceeded to play their big songs. "Mad About You", "Spend My Life" and of course "Up All Night" all met with a good reaction from the audience. Slaughter now comprises of only vocalist Mark Slaughter and bassist Dana Strum from the original line-up.
FireHouse started off the gala with "Hold Your Fire" which then led into "All She Wrote". The powerhouse drumming of Michael Foster was quite evident on "Shake & Tumble". Other than bassist Allen McKenzie, the remaining members have always remained the same. McKenzie has now been in the band for seven years and has jelled quite well. Guitarist Bill Leverty seems to have only gotten better with age as he sounded impressive. As singer CJ Snare tore through "Overnight Sensation" from their self titled debut LP Firehouse, his vocals have yet to diminish. The only strange thing people were wondering was why FireHouse went on before Slaughter. After seeing both bands I was also left wondering the same thing.
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Shanghai port has targeted a 4.1 increase in container throughput by 2015 from the 31.7m TEU recorded in 2011, according to the city's first five-year plan for the shipping industry.
A throughput of 33m TEU by 2015 would probably be enough for the port to retain its global leader status at a time of slowing global trade.
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Egypt interferes with printing of three newspapers
August 25, 2015 5:05 PM ET
New York, August 25, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a recent wave of newspaper censorship in Egypt. Three privately owned newspapers were prevented from going to print or into circulation because of content critical of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, according to news reports.
The censorship comes as the government has approved an anti-terrorism law that criminalizes basic reporting and defines terrorist crimes in a broad manner that can be used to threaten and imprison critical journalists. According to CPJ research, 22 journalists are currently in jail in Egypt because of their work.
"In addition to intimidating journalists with legal harassment and jail, Egypt is resorting to crude censorship to ensure that critical coverage does not see the light of day," CPJ's Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour said. "We call on authorities to stop interfering with newspapers and instead allow the public to exercise its right to news and information."
The state-owned Al Ahram printing house on Saturday told Gamal Sultan, editor-in-chief of Al Mesryoon, that it would not print the weekly edition of the newspaper unless two stories about the president were removed, Sultan wrote on the newspaper's website. The printing house told Sultan it was acting on orders from an "unnamed authority."
Al Ahram told Sultan that the objections were to an editorial by him, titled "Why doesn't Sisi stop playing the role of an Islamic thinker?" The editorial, a summary of which is available online, criticized the president for paying too much attention to the content of religious sermons in the country.
The printing house said the authority also objected to a news item about a presidential trip to the United Kingdom later this year, according to Sultan. Al Mesryoon, which takes an Islamist editorial line,said it removed all references to both articles so that the edition could go to print on time.
Ahmed Sayyed el Naggar, director of the Al Ahram printing house, said in apress statement that Al Ahram was not part of any decision to stop the printing of Al Mesryoon. Al Ahram prints and distributes the majority of Egypt's newspapers.
Also on Saturday, the privately owned weekly Al Sabah was prevented from going to print over a story titled "How to become a child of the president in 9 steps" which criticized the head of the Al Watan political party, Mohamed Badran, for his close affiliation with the president. The edition went to print after Al Sabah removed the story, according to news reports.
A government spokesperson declined requests for comment from several news outlets on the cases of censorship, telling reporters that he had never heard of either newspaper, the outlets reported.
On August 14, Al Ahram recalled and shredded freshly printed copies of the privately owned Sawt al Ummah newspaper from distribution sites, over a story about el-Sisi's visit to his mother while she was in the hospital, the paper's editor-in-chief told Al Bedaiahnews website. The printing house reprinted the issue after Sawt al Ummah had removed the story, the editor-in-chief said.
Sawt al Ummah has been targeted by Egyptian authorities several times, CPJ research shows.
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Al-Tahrir newspaper threatened by insolvency as website blocked in Egypt since May
June 25, 2019 4:50 PM ET
New York, June 25, 2019 -- Egyptian authorities should immediately unblock the website of al-Tahrir newspaper and ensure that media outlets can publish online freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Egypt expels New York Times correspondent, detains local journalist on false news charges
February 19, 2019 2:30 PM ET
Washington, D.C., February 19, 2019--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns yesterday's detention and expulsion of New York Times correspondent David D. Kirkpatrick and the ongoing detention of Egyptian journalist Ahmed Gamal Ziada, and calls on Egyptian authorities to allow journalists to travel into the country and report freely....
Egyptian TV presenter sentenced to prison for interview with gay man
New York, January 24, 2019--Egyptian authorities should drop all charges against TV presenter Mohamed al-Gheiti and stop their relentless campaign against journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Egypt extends detention period for four journalists held as part of mass trial
New York, August 21, 2018-- Egyptian national security prosecutors ordered four more journalists to be detained as part of a case in which more than a dozen journalists, along with academics and activists, are charged with belonging to a banned group and with spreading false news. The Committee to...


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Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
usa_nails [Edit] [Delete] 11 replies 16:26, 13 February '08
Thoughts? I listened to this album again for the first time in quite a while the other night, and it was so ridiculously good. How come this band doesn't get raved about in the same way that others from this era are? Confusing.
best album ever
it's so ludicrously ambitious, but it pulls it off several times over.
they aren't talked about so much because they were so singular i guess. there's so much depth to each one of their records that most people/all of us will never really grasp. i've spent days just reading interviews with them and trying to get my head around their records.
i suppose that creative genius usually isn't appreciated in its own time, anyhow.
ideserve2 | 13 Feb '08, 17:27 | X
lies...!
twin infinitives remains a fucking horrid terrible endurance and remains the second worst cd I cannot believe i spent money on.
And I like noisey and abstract music but this is akin to having a homeless person shouting at you while a rat bangs on tinpots in the background...
amyblue @ideserve2 | 13 Feb '08, 17:43 | X
pretty misunderstood. I think that's part of the reason why they aren't revered as much as they should be. Most garage/indie rock fans saw them as poseurs and a lot of serious rock critics dismissed them a dumb junky band.
I really like 'Twin Infinitives' but I'm not sure I totally get it. I read that they were really into Ornette Coleman's harmolodics philosophy, but again I don't really understand that fully.
Placid_Casual | 13 Feb '08, 18:15 | X
no one understands it fully
really it was just a bit of bullshit that Ornette made up to stop people from questioning his work. Royal Trux are a rock and roll band though, and what contains more bullshit than rock and roll?
ideserve2 @Placid_Casual | 13 Feb '08, 18:23 | X
it's a visionary testament to rock and roll myth and legend, a monument to musical freedom, and a beautiful insight into the human condition duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude
who'd trust a band that everybody gets?
ideserve2 @amyblue | 13 Feb '08, 18:25 | X
Its the 'not understanding'
that I hold most dear. Understanding is for the daytime, and jobs and what not. This is an utterly beautiful mindfuck with a brutal downside and thats what makes it so fascinating to me, personally.
Everyone 'gets' Arcade Fire and their bombastic ilk; I don't trust it/them. Its like believing in Sainsbury's. Twin Infinitives fucking destorys and sooths and laughs and ridicules as and when it feel like it. Its got you captive rather than vice versa, and I love it all the more for it.
usa_nails @ideserve2 | 13 Feb '08, 21:23 | X
that's completely true. it took me ages to put my finger on why i enjoyed Twin Infinitives because it IS pretty impenetrable, but i still found myself thinking about certain riffs or vocals from it and i'd have to go back to it. It absolutely fascinates me as a record and reading about it just raises more questions... like whereabouts is it where they're sampling Blue Oyster Cult? It's a cliche now to talk about 'deconstructing rock music' but Royal Trux did just that.
ideserve2 @usa_nails | 13 Feb '08, 22:11 | X
True Say!
It just reminded me again that I really find music that is confusing or in some way incomprehensible far more fascinating in the long run than stuff that instantly clicks.
Being left with more questions than you started with ftw, basically.
it's something that keeps being brought up in the compression/'loudness war' argument too, there's no nuances left in music that's been compressed so you're not left with anything subtle to pick up on... so a lot of modern records lack personality and you find that subconsciously there's nothing more of interest so you never listen to it again. i wouldn't be surprised if it's a factor in the downturn of fortunes for the majors seeing that they're more likely to use those techniques.
i'm listening to Twin Infinitives now, and it's amazing how different it sounds every time you play it. apparently they only worked on it when they were completely sober too. and by christ is it even frightening at night.
I'm really enjoying reading what y'all think about it and it inspired me to listen to the whole thing in one sitting (standing while cooking really) but, god, it still is fucking annoying! those long ass gaps between songs! arg! But I get what some of you mean now, how they've layered the tracks is really interesting, the jarring different rhythms are impossible to pin down and sound more thought out than bad accident, and the double vocals of neil and jenniferare synch'ed up better than two supposed junkies murmuring away about nothing...!
It's not easy/enjoyable listening but I think i get it a bit better now...
those gaps are only there on CD
it's supposed to be a double LP, and according to them each side is separate; you don't have to listen to it from start to finish.
there's a massive file of interviews on www.rtxusa.com - it's just an unformatted text file but there's a ton of good stuff in there, and reading all their interviews from their junkie period are fascinating.
i guess it's easier to get into if you listen to music that isn't song-based first, like drone or noise or classical or whatever, because then it's far easier to grab onto riffs and vocal lines... but yeah, with a bit of time you can really hear that they spent over a year making the thing.


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Issues in Jewish Ethics: Recycling in Jewish Tradition
by Rabbi Binyomin Adilman
Category » Issues in Jewish Ethics
Ethical Literature
Ethical Monotheism
Human Dignity & Freedom
Mussar Movement
Agunah
"Kosher" Sex
American Jewish Family
Stem-Cell Research
Autopsies & Dissection
Imprisonment for Debt
Sin & Punishment
Ever Min Ha-Hai
Compounding Offenses
Do the Just Suffer and Wicked Prosper?
Emperor Worship
Gerama and Garme
Ona'ah
Rejection of Original Sin
Agunah (Abandoned Wife)
Different Kind of Hostage
Ransoming of Captives
Expropriation & Forfeiture
Law and Morality
Issues in Jewish Ethics: Table of Contents|Law & Morality|Medical Ethics
I would like to offer some source material that could shed light on the subject of disposal of Yarhzeit glasses.
The Gemarra (Berachot 39b) discusses the law of Eiruv Chazteros, a rabbinic ordinance that enables neighbors in an apartment building or a common courtyard to carry on Shabbos from one private dwelling to another through the public domain. By way of setting aside a portion of bread on behalf of all the neighbors, and making a specific declaration and blessing, they are joined in common ownership and permitted to carry. The Gemarra then asks, What is to be done with the bread? It answers, Ho-eal v'easavead bay mitzvah, n'avead bay mitzvah achreasay (Since one mitzvah was done with it, we should use it for another mitzvah). Namely, as one of the challohs at the Shabbos meal. An interesting distinction that can be made here is that this idea transcends the injunction not to waste, and reveals that once an object has been used for a mitzvah it acquires a patent holiness, a cholos kedushah which is proper to continue to draw upon.
For example, the lulav (willows and myrtles that are waved on Sukkot) are put away and later used for fueling the fire that burns the chametz (leavened products) on Erev Pesach. The etrog from Sukkot is poked full of cloves and used to make a fragrant pomander for the Havdalah service at the conclusion of Shabbat. The old worn tzitzit fringes, when replaced, are used as bookmarks in chumashim, etc. Olive oil from the Land of Israel is hung in the Sukkah as a representative of one of the seven species of the land. It is then saved to use for lighting the Chanukah lights. In addition, a small amount is squeezed out of the wicks, and is eaten six weeks later on Tu B'Shevat. A tallis is used for the chuppah at a Jewish wedding and then becomes the prayer shawl for the husband. Sometimes a portion of the wine over which the blessings are said during the marriage ceremony is saved and used for the cup of blessing at the brit milah ceremony of that same couple's son.
Here are three more examples, one from a primary source, the second a minhag, and the third a minhag that results from a halakhah.
In the Mishnah (Tractate Sukkah 5:3) there is a description of Simchas Beis Hashoeva, a celebration in which tall menorot (candelabras) were lit that illuminated every courtyard in Jerusalem so much so that a woman would have been able to see well enough by the light to sort her wheat grains. The wicks for these flames were made from the worn out garments of the cohanim (priests who served in the Temple in Jerusalem).
In several books from Hungarian Rebbes, I learned that there is a minhag (custom) of using the leftover challah to make a kugel for the following Shabbat.
The cup of blessing that was used at the third Shabbat meal for Birchat HaMazon is may not be drunk until after Havdalah. That cup of wine, therefore, becomes the cup over which Havdalah is made.
Perhaps the most famous example of recycling is the account of the "Great Act" of Rav Chiya, recounted in the Gemarra (Baba Metziah 85b). The Gemarra bemoans the problem of Torah being forgotten from the world. How did Rav Chiya respond? He planted flax, harvested it, and fashioned from it ropes. He wove the ropes into nets to use for trapping deer. He slaughtered the deer, giving the meat to poor orphans, and tanned the hides to make parchment. He made scrolls from the parchment and wrote on them the five books of the Bible, one on each of five scrolls, as well as one order of Mishnah on each of six scrolls. He went to a place where no one was teaching Torah and taught each of five children one of the five books of the Bible, and each of six children one of the six orders of the Mishnah. When the children had all become expert in their sections, they taught one another until they were all expert in the entire Chumash and Mishnah. These children then went on to become teachers of others, and so on. In this way, Torah was not forgotten from Yisrael.
Why did Rav Chiya do this? Each step of the process, which he carried out according to the mitzvot associated with it, infused his act with an ever-increasing degree of holiness. Planting and harvesting entail their own mitzvot, as well as that of giving gifts to the poor, including peah. The slaughter of the deer, was accomplished through ritual slaughter, using a proper knife, after which the meat was soaked and salted properly. The scrolls of the Torah must be written in accordance with complex laws. With the cumulative kedushah (holiness) invested in the scrolls from all of the mitzvot (commandments) that led up to their creation, he created a mitzvah momentum that carried over into the actual learning and insured the project's success. The same idea, incidentally, underlies the treatment of Torah Scrolls, Tefillin, mezuzah parchments and sacred books that are no longer usable. They are not thrown away, but rather buried with respect that befits an item invested with kedushah. After a person has finished his/her work in this world, the body that was the instrument of so many mitzvot and the sanctuary for the holy Jewish neshama (soul), is buried lovingly in the earth.
A similar idea is found in the account of the Ten Plagues. The plagues of blood and lice were initiated not by Moses, but by Aaron. Aaron hit the water of the Nile River with his rod, turning it into blood and hit the dust of the earth, bringing forth lice. For Moses to have done this would have been considered disrespectful since the water protected him as an infant in the basket, and the dust helped him when he buried the Egyptian taskmaster in it. Moses had, so to speak, a debt of gratitude toward the dust and the water, a consideration that applies even to the realm of the inanimate. From here, Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Kotzk learned an important lesson: Whenever he replaced a pair of shoes, he would carefully wrap the old worn-out pair in newspaper and only afterwards dispose of them saying, "How can I simply throw away these shoes that have served me so well?"
One last source to consider is the mishnah in Pirke Avot (Ethics of the Fathers 4:2) in which Ben Azzai counsels us to adhere to a simple mitzvah just as we would to a more serious one, since we do not know the reward of a mitzvah. And furthermore, "Mitzvah gorreres mitzvah... ve-s'char mitzvah mitzvah..." (One mitzvah leads to the performance of another, and the reward of a mitzvah is the award of the privilege of performing another mitzvah. From here we learn the value of training oneself in the performance of mitzvot, since the more we do them, the less we find obstacles in the way to prevent us. The end result is a constant flow of mitzvah performance!
In light of this, I would propose that the contributors who suggested means of mitzvah recycling were well grounded in their approach. The idea of reusing the Yahrzeit glasses for memorial candles is especially fitting, and those who would use them for drinking glasses certainly have an important mitzvah at hand when they thank the Creator with an appropriate blessing! Perhaps this could ease the feelings of those who were concerned about ghoulishness. Each mitzvah performed would be that much more infused with the kedushah of prior mitzvot and encourage the one performing the mitzvah to become stronger in the performance of mitzvot since "MITZVAH GORRERES MITZVAH."
Sources: Rabbi Scheinerman's homepage
Rabbi Binyomin Adilman, Nishmas Chayim, Beis Midrash for Torah Learning and Jewish Spirituality, Yemin Moshe, Jerusalem


Fair to say these are some serious warnings of ye olde family unit making frequent appearances at Drama Ville dinner theater.
Recorded in the Bible it started at the beginning, Genesis chapter 4, and it started with Cain the firstborn of Adam and Eve and of course the older brother to Able.Cain became jealous and angry because God accepted Able's offering but not his, Cain had offered what HE wanted to offer NOT what was acceptable as an offering, instead of heeding God's warning to him, he let his anger simmer and steep until it hit the boiling point.
He talked him into going into the field with him, with the intention of killing him the entire time. Again leading me to believe that Able, like Joseph just did not have a clue to this secret hatred was until it was too late.
We know the story of Joseph and how he was one of two sons bore to his father Jacob by his choice wife Rachel and he was half-brother to the ten bore by Leah, the wife that he had been tricked into marrying.
Now maybe the bad blood was a direct result of that and who truly knows the effect that all the strife and hatred between these sister wives had on the ten as they grew up, who knows the discussions they may have heard and who knows if their ultimate hatred for Joseph was born out of their own feelings of inadequacy because we do know Joseph was the favorite son.
But we also know that it was because Joseph was not anything like them,he was like his mother, he was gentle and mild, it was because he was pleasant to his father.
Maybe it was just the sowing of the tares with the wheat. I really don't think Joseph understood that his brothers seriously hated him, I believe that in his innocent thinking and his young age that he just did not get it and when he shared his dream, satan then used that to push them over the edge, he was just a teen-aged boy sharing what in his eyes was the coolest dream ever, we know that his Dad rebuked him for this because being older, wiser he knew that the others hated him.
He did not have a clue, but after they had thrown him in a pit to drown (only there was no water in the well ) they sat around laughing and eating lunch and then changed their mind and sold him as a slave, he finally, painfully, understood. Selling Joseph forewarned of the entire Hebrew nation being enslaved to Egypt and many today live enslaved in emotional prisons built by the hands of their family members and built on their spiritual blood The Bible really doesn't detail Jesse thoughts toward David but we can read between the lines, he is young, writes poetry, plays music, the creative type, so he is given the job of watching over the flock.
The oldest ones seem to have the biggest issues, the parable of the prodigal son even has this theme, the angry older brother. Always angry because they feel they did not get the attention they deserve. He was angry because he saw something in David that he knew he did not possess in himself, courage in the face of a giant.
He wanted to line David out and "put him in his place" in front of the other men as a show of bravado, he could still tell off little brother there.
Why are you here? Why were you born? Why do you have to be here anyway?
Sounds like some of the things many ears have heard. Who is watching your FEW sheep, just got to prove whatever the younger has watch over is not just quite as good or meaningful.
Now he has to let everyone know what he thinks about David with accusations of pride, (remember the accuser of the brethren, one of satan's many name's, well he loves nothing more than to accuse you through your brethren!) and of course he had to give a reason for good show.
Breakdown, Cain was angry and jealous because of Able's offering being accepted by Father God. his only response for his action was "Am I my brother's keeper?" In his eyes, his little brother was not his problem and when he was called on his deed, he only cared about saving his own neck.
God was with Joseph, Joseph named his firstborn son Ephraim, meaning "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction" and giving us all hope in the fact that what is meant for harm God will use for good.
Joseph's brother's were angry and resentful over his relationship with their father.
But he forgave his brothers but the cosmic repercussion of it all still sent an entire race into slavery for over four hundred years.
We do see that David fared pretty well, one whom the whole group of the thought was no more than a singing pretty boy is still considered one of the most fierce warrior Kings to ever have existed and whatever became of his brother Eliab, I haven't a clue, but David's throne is forever established of God.
Goliath laughed at David, mocking him, mocking his size and asking did he come against him with sticks as if he were a dog, more or less, sticks were something to beat something else with, but in the giant's eyes it was no match for him, but the stones, the stones could break him, because just as that stone guided by the hand of God himself took that giant to the ground enabling David to take off the laughing giant's head with his own weapon, God IS OUR ROCK and He always wins.
Maybe you have been or continue to go through these "family affairs", but please hear me, just as with Cain and Joseph's brothers, people can have far darker feelings toward us then we want to accept. It is hard to walk away from family member's especially when subjected to the good old brainwashing like Eliab tried to use on David.
They will always blame you, they will always accuse you because Satan IS the ultimate older brother, to the children of God, he was created first, we were created in God's image, he is older than mankind and he is jealous and angry because you can have a relationship with the Father that is now lost to him forever.
Giants even bigger than Goliath can be born of these relationships,so see it for what it is. Please stay with me, next time I want to give a boatload of scripture, God's word to help with these things and take the heads off some giants, we'll start it with a little "Blood Transfusion"!
"Aha Peasant, EN GARDE!" the command shouted for one of several reasons, maybe a random sword welding D'Artagan wannabe has just pounced out from behind an innocent looking bush and challenged you to a duel or maybe your being gently warned to be on your guard.
I am taking for granted that you who are reading this are nowhere near any bushes so we'll go with the latter.
I've been noticing something for a long time now and it is not the easiest subject to bring up but it needs addressed.
Churches and Christians as a whole have become a wee lax in the area of respect to the Holiness.
This is not aimed at any one person and if we go to church together, please, please, don't think that!
Movies, and the media have for a long while made fun of us and of God.
The onslaught of the white bottomed candy coats with their ever-increasing need to market Jesus as the cool, hip, and never offended by what YOU may do God of ALL YOUR FLESHLY DESIRES have produced an array of off colored jokes, and Christianity related acronyms that seem to find their way printed on everything that makes one wonder are they referring to a Deity or are they selling laundry detergent.
Tacky, questionable off-color jokes and even more tasteless greeting cards with everything from the Ark to Wise Men.
Little animal and snowmen, and anything else you can imagine Nativity figurines now widely available.
In it all, what bothers me most is the jokes about Pentecostals and the never-ending parade of "Cool Jesus" picture posts and "religious" memes and the never-ending saga of share to be blessed with twenty thousand dollars.
Again I am not being harpy, I have struggled with trying to tell people who maybe they really need to THINK about WHAT THEY ARE SAYING AND WHAT THEY ARE LAUGHING ABOUT and I have to keep MYSELF on guard.
My Mother told me that she prays especially for forgiveness for sins that she may never have realized that she committed.
Because as she said, something we may not even think is a problem could be absolutely vile to God, and that is true.
We have accepted all this and you can share to be blessed, but share your time, your heart, or an uplifting thought or scripture.
God is Holy, The Holy Ghost the most Holy of Holiness and think about it, Moses was commanded to take his shoes off because THE VERY GROUND was sacred, if one wrong move was made toward the Ark someone was going to die, dishonor the Sabbath, someone was going to die and on and on through the Bible and falling at feet of the Lord out of absolute respect and awe of His majesty.
We have let it sneak in slowly and it has to be dealt with before it defiles our temples and alienates our minds to the true Gospel.
Jesus is not groovy, He's not your hip buddy.
He is Holy and is to be only addressed with adoration and consummate respect.
He is our friend and our Savior but we have to not let that line blur and if we want cool and hip we might need to look up Michael Buble because God doesn't play that.
Again I do not believe it is intentional, I think it has come through by the world seeping in on us, because we have let down our guard.
See it for what it is and who is behind it and get the rollers under and put it out of your life and walk away from those who try to drag it back to you.
I personally believe God has a fabulous sense of humor and "laughter is merry medicine", but it has to be in the right context, instead of pleasing the flesh with bad humor use that same voice to give him honor and praise.
His peace will keep your hearts and mind alert to these insidious little cracks in the flesh but you must stay aware of them.
So EN GARDE! And I am totally not hiding behind a bush!


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Book Review: Way of the Argosi by Sebastien De Castell
October 2, 2021 by Rosina @ Lace and Dagger Books
It's rare for me to review a book on here that I bought for myself. But I have a reason for posting a review for this one…that being that I'm on an Instagram tour for the second book! I'm very excited to get my copy and give it a read, and so I finally got my ass into gear and read this one! It had been in a few TBR piles, but when I had to cut the pile down for various reasons…it kept being the book I removed.
So this is the first book in a prequel duology to De Castell's Spellslinger series. It follows Ferius, the Argosi mentor from the original books as a child, as she finds her way. Her goal is to hunt down and kill the mages who killed her family, but on her journey, she meets an Argosi wanderer called Durrall, who tries to teach her their ways.
I'll be honest, I didn't love this book as much as I did the Spellslinger series. I adored Ferius in the original books, but as she's coming into her own in this…I'm not as huge a fan yet. I still enjoyed it, but not as much as I did the majority of the Spellslinger books. However, I didn't enjoy the first Spellslinger book as much either, so it could be another case of that.
So, obviously, Ferius was going to be different in this book. She was younger and going through a lot, but all of her anger mixed with the fact she didn't always remember things? I don't know. It didn't quite work as well. By the end of the book, it felt like we were getting more of the Ferius sass. And I definitely appreciated that.
What I was a big fan of was the family dynamics. Ferius was adopted by two knights early on in the book and, her memories of that are sweet. I loved the way that even years later, she still admired them. Then you get the parent figures you know of from the Spellslinger books with Durrall. He's not in the book as much as I expected from the summary, but I do love seeing how their relationship changed. He's going to be a great parent for her, and it's adorable.
The action was pretty good, and the villains were pretty despicable. I was interested in the political turning point near the end with the Jan'Tep, and I actually kind of liked the prince in this. I can't remember if he was in the Spellslinger books or not, but man, am I intrigued. And I was kinda into it, won't lie. The main Jan'Tep villains were kinda…meh, even if they were pretty despicable. The whole curse aspect…I dunno. I didn't believe it as much as I did the curses in Spellslinger.
That said, the plot of the second book is a lot more intriguing. I'm really excited to get it and see what happens. Hopefully, we'll get a bit more sassy Ferius and get to see her flirting with a few more ladies in the next one!
The final note I have is that the covers for these books are still gorgeous! I love these covers so much, and they're a stunning addition to my bookshelf. I wish I had room to store them face-out!
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Age Range: Young Adult
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REGIONAL BRIEFS
THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS
50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE
TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
B A T H I N D A E D I T I O N
Illegal construction in PUDA-approved pvt colony
Speaking up against coloniser leaves residents high & dry
Kotkapura (Faridkot), February 8
The residents of Arvind Nagar in Kotkapura town of Faridkot district are facing the hostile behaviour of the coloniser with the drinking water supply and streetlights being cut off for over a week now.
Work on region's first model rly station gathers steam
Abohar, February 8
The railway authorities have started work in the second phase of the Adarsh (model) railway station project here by renovating the main platform that had received dignitaries like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru and Lala Lajpat Rai during the freedom movement.
Bathinda thermal plant running out of coal
Patiala, February 8
The coal stock at the three thermal plants of Punjab is fast depleting as they are receiving lesser coal from Panem Coal Mines Ltd in Jharkhand.
Day after drug seizure in jail, govt suspends 3 employees
Fazilka, February 8
The Punjab Jail department has placed three employees of the local sub-jail under suspension on charges of dereliction of duty as narcotics were seized from the jail inmates yesterday.
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EGS teachers say policemen manhandled them, cops deny
Double delight for border town
HC orders legal action against retired officer
Long queues add to woes of railway passengers in Fazilka
Cancer survey's reach comes under criticism
HC gives hope to residents
PRTC taps private pumps
Education Dept cracks the whip
Whistle-blower alleges harassment, police probe on
State on major afforestation drive, to plant 4 cr saplings
Ferozepur, February 8
Alarmed at the dismal green cover of the state, the government has embarked on a major exercise to plant 4 crore saplings besides filling hundreds of vacant posts in the forest department.
Two arrested for fraudulent land deal
Bathinda, February 8
The Mansa police today arrested two persons for selling a piece of land by roping in two women who posed themselves as the mothers of the two accused. The police also recovered the material worth Rs 56 lakh from the possession of the accused. The accused, Major Singh and Darshan Singh of Khiala Malakpur, had sold the land belonging to their mother's share of property with the help of the two women.
Mansa SSP Narinder Bhargav giving details of the crime on Friday. A Tribune photograph
Clerk suspended for fraud
The additional deputy commissioner of Mansa Amit Dhaka ordered the suspension of a clerk for committing a fraud of Rs 4.21 lakh in government grants. The clerk, Rakesh Gupta, was posted on deputation in the office of the ADC (D)-cum-additional district election officer, Amritsar.
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Residents say the action is retaliatory as they had raised their voice against illegal construction and the alleged sale of a public park in the PUDA approved private residential colony.
After the residents complained, the PUDA pledged 12 plots of the coloniser and warned him of forfeiting his bank guarantee if the services were not restored. But the situation has not improved since January 28 when the residents first unravelled the illegalities.
Anil Kumar Garg, additional chief administrator, PUDA, said after receiving the complaints from the residents, the coloniser was issued a warning. "If the services are not restored in the coming days, besides imposing financial penalties, legal action would be taken," he said.
Nand Kishore, the president of the Arvind Nagar Welfare Colony, said the residents started facing the antagonistic behaviour of the coloniser after they started raising objections against illegal construction in the colony, sale of public parks and arbitrary changes in the size of PUDA-approved plots in the colony.
In utter violation of the drawings approved by the PUDA for Arvind Nagar, the coloniser sold more than the authorised portion, even a public park, showing it as a residential plot, alleged Nand Kishore.
Pawan Singla, the coloniser, accused the residents of making false complaints against him. "Lodging one complaint after the other, some of the residents keep harassing me," he said.
The residents of the colony also accused the PUDA officials of allegedly conniving with the coloniser and not taking any action against him.
As the PUDA officials were not taking any concrete action against the coloniser, some time back, the residents filed a writ petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
"By covering the open space under some plots, the coloniser illegally altered and increased the size of these plots and decreased the open space in the colony. This is a violation of the letter of intent (LOI) signed between the PUDA and the coloniser," alleged Kuljit Sehgal, vice-president of the Arvind Nagar Welfare Colony.
Even an 11-feet-wide water channel, which is a government property, was included in the colony area and sold off illegally," alleged Nand Kishore.
"After spending our hard-earned money, we built houses in the colony but have been denied even the drinking water and streetlights. Now, we have no other option but to start a public agitation to draw the attention of the authorities concerned towards our problem," said Nand Kishore.
Since the main platform did not meet the specifications and was a mute witness to commuters getting injured grievously while boarding the trains or alighting from them, the NGOs and public representatives had been urging the railway to reconstruct it and raise its level. Former chairman of the Railway Board Ashok Bhatnagar had realized the gravity of the situation during his visits.
The matter was also raised by former Lok Sabha Speaker Bal Ram Jakhar and Member of Rajya Sabha Virendra Kataria.
However, the railways listed Abohar as an Adarsh station only in the last rail budget.
The work got a boost when the Minister of State for Railways KH Muniyappa visited Abohar last year to inaugurate the much awaited Abohar-Fazilka rail link.
The work on the construction of a new platform by extending platform number 1 has recently been completed. The authorities have now begun the renovation of the old platform speedily and hope to complete the task by March 31. However, the ban on quarrying has created an acute shortage of gravel sand and other construction material.
The railway also plans to make major changes in the existing sheds besides renovating the administrative block, waiting rooms and providing state-of-the-art facilities. Abohar becomes the first in the old Ferozepur district to have a model railway station.
Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader Sunil Jakhar and former MP Virendra Kataria had recently met Railway Minister Pawan Bansal to list before him the demands for improving rail services for which his predecessors had given a nod.
Jakhar took up the issue of building another railway overbridge on the Sriganganagar road and underpass with Bansal and Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal also. Following this, the authorities have conducted a final survey for both the projects and hope that the required funds would be made available to ensure their completion during the coming financial year.
As per the latest report of the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), coal stock at Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant, Bathinda, is enough to keep the plant going for just a week, and the stock at Ropar and Lehra Mohabbat Thermal plants is enough for 10 and 13 days.
In case coal stock at a thermal plant is not enough to run it for a week, it will then figure in the critical category, as per the CEA standards.
The normative requirement of coal stock for Bathinda, Ropar and Lehra Mohabbat Thermal Plant is 30, 25 and 30 days. Normative requirement is the level of reserve stock that needs to be maintained by any thermal plant to keep the generation going.
The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has its own captive Pachwara mines in Jharkhand. Panem is the joint venture of PSPCL and Eastern Minerals and Trading Agency. PSPCL gets six rakes from Panem on a daily basis but presently it has been getting five rakes (each having about 3800-tonnes of coal).
Sources said since Panem had already excavated more coal in the first 10 months of the current fiscal, the company had to reduce coal excavation for the next two months.
PSPCL generation wing authorities said because of low power demand, two units each of 210-MW capacity at Ropar thermal plant and one thermal unit of 110-MW capacity at the Bathinda thermal plant had been shut down. Another unit of the 110-MW capacity at the Bathinda thermal plant is already not functioning on account of renovation.
"As of now, less coal is required so there is no need to panic," said PSPCL Director (Generation) GS Chhabra. He said PSPCL had already made a request to Coal India Limited (CIL) to step up coal supply.
It is learnt that a separate team of PSPCL officials had recently visited South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) headquarters in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh and Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) headquarters in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Both SECL and CCL are subsidiaries of CIL. The team had held discussions with the SECL and CCL authorities pertaining to the coal supply issue and had requested them to ensure that Punjab got sufficient coal on a daily basis.
Alarming figures
* As per the CEA standards, if a thermal plant does not have enough coal stock to run it for a week, it will figure in the critical category
* The normative requirement of coal stock for Bathinda, Ropar and Lehra Mohabbat Thermal Plant is 30, 25 and 30 days. The normative requirement is the level of reserve stock that needs to be maintained by any plant
A search being conducted in Fazilka jail. Tribune photo
"The DIG (jails) has suspended Des Raj, head warden, Sukhwinder Singh and Karamjit Singh, both barrack guards," said Deputy Superintendent of Police (sub-jail), Fazilka, BS Ghuman. The names of the these employees figured in the FIR registered with the police last night regarding seizure of narcotics, a mobile, sharp-edged weapons, cash, cigarettes and other banned material.
The search was conducted by a team of civil and police officials led by Fazilka Additional Deputy Commissioner Charandev Singh Maan.
Sources said the Deputy Commissioner, Fazilka, through a report sent to the Principal Secretary (home) and the Director General of Police (jails) had recommended that the entire jail staff should be shifted as it was not possible to push narcotics and banned items into the jail without the employees' connivance.
The DC also observed in the report: "It seems that no laws are followed inside the jail, hence disciplinary action be taken against the erring officials." Ironically, the local police is reportedly trying to underplay the matter and registered an FIR against one inmate Charanjit Singh, a resident of Bahawala, Fazilka, under Sections 15 and 18 of the NDPS Act. It has been mentioned in the FIR that 200 gm of poppy husk was recovered from his possession during the search.
Apart from 20 gm of opium seized from the ventilator of barrack number 4, the team seized a mobile phone from inmate Anil Kumar, an amount of Rs 6,000 from Rohtash Chaudhary, resident of Sirsa, Rs 3,800 from Sunil Kumar, Rs 2,000 from Inderjit, Rs 1,000 from Sanjay Pal and Rs 780 from Parminder.
Nine razors, a scissor, two lighters, 'biris', cigarettes, earphone and a box of blades were also recovered. Despite the recoveries, no immediate action was taken against these inmates on the pretext that an inquiry was being conducted, sources said.
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Dubbed as a major initiative by the department in decades, the aim therein is to plant these saplings by June next year as part of the ongoing Green Punjab Mission. Nurseries have already come across the 15 forest divisions across the state and learning from the not too successful experiments in the past on similar lines, efforts are afoot to ensure survival of all the saplings this time. The required infrastructure too is in place. Sources said Punjab's forest cover, at just 6 per cent, was the lowest in the country, the national average being 15 per cent. According to experts, the ideal forest is 33 per cent of the country's land mass. Taking corrective steps to double the cover here is a step in the right direction and would go a long way in improving the environmental health of the state, it has been maintained.
Large scale deforestation, often in connivance with officials, political patronage and encroachments are the major stumbling blocks in implementation of such programmes.
Farmers living adjacent to forest areas are encouraged to cultivate their land for a fraction of the prevailing market price by junior forest officials, sources said.
Such offenders manage to get away because of lax laws and perennial staff shortage compounded by lack of equipment and infrastructure. The magnitude of the problem can be gauged from the fact that the forest guards, the front line of defence against encroachers and illegal loggers, have to patrol over 200 km of forest area each within their divisions using their own vehicles and that too without proper back-up and in absence of arms or wireless sets. There have been numerous instances when the forest mafia fired at staff, forcing the latter to back away, they pointed out.
Dr SK Tewari, Divisional Forest Officer, Ferozepur, admitted to lack of staff but said they were doing their best with the resources at hand. The department has recruited over 500 guards recently and this will go a long way in stopping the encroachers and loggers. Steps are also being taken by the department to provide effective patrolling facilities for the ground staff.
He added that another problem pertains to non-incorporation of various government notifications earmarking department land in the local revenue records. This leads to a lot of foul play, with the revenue officials changing the ownership of the land in favour of private persons. "I have written to the Deputy Commissioner to get the records rectified so that action can be taken against such offenders," he said.
The Mansa police today arrested two persons for selling a piece of land by roping in two women who posed themselves as the mothers of the two accused. The police also recovered the material worth Rs 56 lakh from the possession of the accused.
The accused, Major Singh and Darshan Singh of Khiala Malakpur, had sold the land belonging to their mother's share of property with the help of the two women.
A case in this connection has been registered against the accused under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC at the Bhikhi police station.
As per the complaint in the case, the accused got the land sold with the help of a few other persons, including the two women.
The police said the matter was being investigated and efforts would be made to get the properties purchased through unfair means, seized through the court.
Dhaka said that a written communique had been sent to the Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar, for further police action against the clerk.
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Brin took to the Google+ social networking site Thursday to post his opinion of the Stop Online Piracy Act being debated Thursday in the House Judiciary Committee for markup. He also opposes the Senate's version of the measure, known as the Protect Intellectual Property Act.
"Imagine my astonishment when the newest threat to free speech has come from none other but the United States. Two bills currently making their way through congress -- SOPA and PIPA -- give the U.S. government and copyright holders extraordinary powers including the ability to hijack DNS and censor search results (and this is even without so much as a proper court trial)," Brin wrote. "While I support their goal of reducing copyright infringement (which I don't believe these acts would accomplish), I am shocked that our lawmakers would contemplate such measures that would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world."
Some lawmakers have bristled at those comparisons.
During the hearing, Rep. Berman (D-Calif.) attacked similar analogies made by Rep. Lofgren (D-Calif.) about SOPA's ability to censor Web users through surveillance and filtering of their activities.
"That's nonsense," Berman said. "There's a big difference between regulating commercial activity designed to deceive consumers and violate ownership rights and those seeking to suppress political conduct and dissent."
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), SOPA's lead author, said at the hearing that there is not enough being done by Web giants to stop piracy. He said a search on Google that morning led to sites dedicated to illegal piracy.
"While the Internet should be free, it should not be lawless," Smith said.
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Issa on OPEN, an alternative to SOPA
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National Lottery money will be available for young people to develop their sporting and artistic talents, Virginia Bottomley, the National Heritage Secretary, announced this week.
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Press Release · Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group to Hold Public Forum in New York City
College Park, MD. . . The Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group (IWG) will hold its second public forum at the U.S. District Courthouse in Manhattan, on September 27, 1999, from 10 am to 5 pm. The courthouse is located at 500 Pearl Street. The press and the public are invited to attend.
The IWG, established by President Clinton under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is required to identify and recommend for declassification and release U. S. Government records that are still security-classified and relate to Nazi war criminals, war crimes, persecution, and looted assets during Hitler's rule. The documentation will be made available to the public at the National Archives and Records Administration.
The New York City forum is one of several programs planned by the IWG to solicit the advice of the public and scholars to help fulfill its mandate. It will consist of three parts: First, public figures will present their views on the importance of opening pertinent classified records as required by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Second, scholars studying the Holocaust will suggest areas for further inquiry. Third, the IWG will hear from the interested public whose personal knowledge or experience may lead to further research.
Among those invited to speak are: Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York; Edgar Bronfman, Chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and President of the World Jewish Congress; J.D. Bindenagel, the State Department's Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues; Neil Levine, Superintendent, New York State Insurance Department, National Association of Insurance Commissioners International Holocaust Commission Task Force; Israel Singer, Secretary General, World Jewish Congress; and Stuart E. Eizenstat, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
Scholars and experts making presentations include: Ken Klothen, Executive Director, Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States; Jeffrey Burds, Professor of History, Northeastern University; Irwin Nack, Investigative Counsel, New York Banking Department; and Robert Wolfe, National Archives and Records Administration, retired.
The IWG is composed of three public members appointed by the President and the representatives of the heads of seven federal agencies. It is chaired by Dr. Michael Kurtz, representing the Archivist of the United States.
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Vice Admiral Sir Frank Forrester Rose KCB DSO (7 February 1878 – 3 March 1955) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be commander-in-chief of East Indies Station.

Early life and education

Rose was born in Sicily, the son of British parents William Rose, a merchant, and Martha Gardner. He was educated at Stubbington House School in Fareham and on HMS Britannia.

Naval career
Rose served in World War I initially as commander of HMS Laurel taking part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914. Promoted to rear admiral in 1929, he was appointed rear admiral commanding the destroyer flotillas in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1931 and then became commander-in-chief of East Indies Station in 1934 before being replaced due to illness in 1936.

Personal life
He initially married Freda Edith Gordon, daughter of Walter Alwynne Gordon. They had one son, Hugh William Mackenzie Rose, who died aboard the HMS Cossack in 1941. In 1923, Sir Frank Forrester Rose remarried to Dorothy Maud Kay.

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Q: Ax2012 View - Query Range lessThanUtcNow() don't work the static method SysQueryRangeUtil::lessThanUtcNow(), used in a range within a query to populate a view, does not recover the current date.
Have you ever encountered similar problems?
Thank you
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Ciao a tutti,
all'interno di una query utilizzata per popolare una vista, il metodo statico SysQueryRangeUtil::lessThanUtcNow() utilizzato in un range non recupera la data corrente.
Avete mai incontrato problemi simili?
Grazie

A: Oh, I see your problem. You have used the lessThanUtcNow as a query range value, then made view based on the query.
This will not work, because the SQL view cannot call the AX method. The range value is baked in the view at the time of the synchronize when the view is created!
You can confirm this using the SQL Enterprise Manager.
Lesson: only use real constants in a range value when used in a view.
You could of cause synchronize the view before each use, that would be rude!
Instead you have include the fields ValidTimeFrom and ValidTimeTo in the view and do range check on these manually.

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