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Kevin Brockway
Florida to open at Arkansas in SEC play
Florida will start and end SEC basketball play on the road this season.
The Gators will open conference play Dec. 29 at Arkansas (7 p.m. SEC Network) and finish up at Vanderbilt on March 4 (2 p.m., ESPN or ESPN2) according to the league schedule, which was released Tuesday.
In between, Florida will play nine of its 16 conference games at the newly renovated Exactech Arena at the O'Connell Center. Florida's SEC home opener is Jan. 3 against Ole Miss (7 p.m., ESPNU). Other home games of note include Jan. 7 against Tennessee (5:15 p.m. ESPN2) and Feb. 4 against Kentucky (ESPN or ESPN2, 2 p.m. or 8 p.m.).
Florida will get a tough two-day turn to face rival Kentucky at home. Two days earlier, Florida will host Missouri on Feb. 2 on a Thursday night game. It's the lone Thursday-Saturday turnaround the Gators will face in league play this season.
The SEC opener at Arkansas will be a homecoming for Florida sophomore guard KeVaughn Allen (North Little Rock, Ark.) and senior forward Justin Leon (Conway, Ark.). It also will pit two of the top returning centers in the SEC — Florida junior John Egbunu against Arkansas senior Moses Kingsley.
Florida's SEC finale and senior night for guard Kasey Hill, forward Justin Leon, forward Canyon Barry and center Schuyler Rimmer will be March 1 against Arkansas. The Gators will play Arkansas and South Carolina twice along with permanent rivals Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Georgia. Florida's return trip to Rupp Arena to face the Wildcats will be Feb. 25 (2 p.m., CBS). For the second straight season, Florida will play four of its last six SEC games on the road.
From a television standpoint, of UF's 18 conference games, 12 will be televised on either CBS, ESPN or ESPN2.
Florida is entering its second season under coach Mike White with four starters returning and nine players overall coming back from last season (including redshirt freshman forward Keith Stone). The Gators went 9-9 in SEC play, which tied for eighth in the conference. After beating Arkansas in the 8-9 seed game, Florida lost to top seed Texas A&M in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament last season.
Contact Kevin Brockway at 352-374-5054 or kevin.brockway@gvillesun.com. Also check out Brockway's blog at Gatorsports.com.
Here's a full look at UF's SEC schedule:
Dec. 29 — at Arkansas, 7 p.m., SEC Network
Jan. 3 — Ole Miss, 7 p.m., ESPNU
Jan. 5 — Tennessee, 5:15 p.m., ESPN2
Jan. 10 — at Alabama, 9 p.m., ESPNU
Jan. 14 — Georgia, noon, ESPN/2
Jan. 18 — at South Carolina, 6:30 p.m., SEC Network
Jan. 21 — Vanderbilt, noon, CBS
Jan. 25 — at LSU, 9 p.m., SEC Network
Feb. 2 — Missouri, 7 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2
Feb. 4 — Kentucky, 2 or 8 p.m., ESPN/ESP2
Feb. 7 — at Georgia, 7 p.m., ESPN2
Feb. 11 — Texas A&M, noon, ESPN/2
Feb. 14 — at Auburn, 7 p.m., SEC Network
Feb. 18 — at Mississippi State, 2 p.m., ESPN/2
Feb. 21 — South Carolina, 7 p.m., ESPN
Feb. 25 — at Kentucky, 2 p.m., CBS
March 1 — Arkansas, 7 p.m, ESPN2
March 4 — at Vanderbilt, 2 p.m., ESPN/2
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The Proof Everyone Is Looking For and Why Trump Will be Victorious
So everyone is looking for the proof that there was widespread fraud in this election. Republicans argue that there was fraud, democrats argue that there is no proof. According to what both sides are saying, they are both correct. Here is where the proof is and why I believe Donald Trump will be named the president for the next 4 years, overturning media PREDICTIONS of a Biden presidency.
First, we have widespread fraud ALLEGATIONS. Allegations are not proof, but can be submitted as evidence in the form of affidavits. The Trump administration has hundreds of these affidavit reports of irregularities from all of the largest democrat run cities in each of the states in question.
Giuliani will use these to open the case with the court. Once the judge sees these affidavits, he will grant a trial. In the trial, the witnesses will be called to testify about what they witnessed. Many of the witness testimonies will support what others are saying, and they will do so even across state lines to show eventually, a probable coordinated effort to rig the election.
These witness testimonies will be for the purpose of granting access to the actual ballots themselves to be audited for irregularities. This is something that, although counted and recounted, a legal audit was not completed on each ballot verifying signatures according to state laws, which require a member of each party to be present during the opening of the ballot. This was done in all other counties in each state respectively, except the biggest cities in the state where democrats controlled the poll. This is also a violation of the 14th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause.
Once the audit is allowed, signatures will be verified and it is in this process where we will find the "PROOF" that everyone is looking for. Not until this process is followed will we get our proof of voter fraud.
The other part of the case is going to expose the voter software being used and the conflict of interest in the developers of the software. An example is the Smartmatic software which was created in 2017 specifically for Nancy Pelosi and the Los Angeles county, as well as other areas around the country. Smartmatic was smart in issuing ownership of the software to the people of Los Angeles, limiting their liability from a legal case.
Once the media decided to make their prediction of Joe Biden being president-elect, Biden then selected the chairman of the board of Smartmatic for a spot in his administration. Although this is not illegal, it adds to the speculation that something may have been put in the software to play with vote counts.
Other areas that will be explored are the moments when the Trump administration saw their vote totals go backwards, while seeing the Biden totals jump by the same number. This leads one to believe there was a vote switching command built into the software that switched Trump votes to Biden votes. This was already discovered in one county where 6000 Trump votes were mistakenly recorded as Biden votes. Many people have been saying that this happened with the Dominion software, which was being used in all of the swing states in the cities run by democrats as well as in 28nstates around the country.
Now, for the final note. There was recently a shuffling of the areas that each supreme court Justice rules over. The shuffle, heavily favors Trump. In the swing states where Trump has his lawsuits, the Supreme Court Justice presiding over those areas is conservative.
If these court cases do not produce a winner by inauguration day on January 20, 2021, and the states do not certify their totals, the House of Representatives then gets to vote on the president per the 12th Amendment. At first thought, you would think this favors Biden, but not the way the rules are setup. You see, each state only gets one vote and it depends on which party controls that state in the house. This also favors Trump, 26-23. So, get ready for 4 more years people!
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Q: how to calculate the transformation matrix if the coordinate system translates and rotates? I was trying to calculate the new coordinates of the 4 corners of the rectangle in the image, but I think I only formed the rotation matrix. what is the correct transformation matrix for this operation ?
this is the triangle and the points names in order

and here is my calculations in Excel , attention that coefficient is only used to determine the sign of X and Y displacement of the origin, I tried both ±1. a=10 and b=5
using this transformation matrix

I don't get the expected results :

A: I can't really comment due to reputation but, can you please include the details: what exactly you're trying to do and include a grid of reference to denote the transformation you're trying to achieve(or atleast the position of origin) and label the vertices of the image in the rectangle. I'll try to help you further then. e.g. an explanation like rotating the rectangle and translating via xyz.

A: TL;DR: You need to use the inverse of the transformation matrix in your question.
You've made a fairly common error here. The transformation matrix that you've shown maps the old coordinate axes onto the new ones. However, to get the coordinates of a point relative to these new axes, you have to invert that transformation. Why this is so is covered elsewhere on this SE and on the Internet, but I'll briefly explain why here.
Let $\mathbf U$ and $\mathbf V$ be the positive unit direction vectors of an arbitrary pair of coordinate axes, and $O$ the origin point of this coordinate system. We can express any point as $u\mathbf U+v\mathbf V+O$; the coefficients $u$ and $v$ are the coordinates of this point in this coordinate system. The $x$- and $y$- coordinates in the standard coordinate system can be understood in the same way by taking $\mathbf X=(1,0)$ and $\mathbf Y=(0,1)$, so that we have $x\mathbf X+y\mathbf Y$. We can write $\mathbf U=a\mathbf X+b\mathbf Y$ and $\mathbf V=c\mathbf X+d\mathbf Y$, and if we express $O$ as coordinates in the standard coordinate system, we get the following identity: $$x\mathbf X+y\mathbf Y = u(a\mathbf X+b\mathbf Y)+v(c\mathbf X+d\mathbf Y)+O.$$ Using homogeneous coordinates, we can express this identity in matrix form as $$\begin{bmatrix}x\\y\\1\end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix}a&c&O_x\\b&d&O_y\\0&0&1\end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix}u\\v\\1\end{bmatrix}.$$ Note that the $3\times3$ matrix in this identity maps the standard unit coordinate vectors onto the new ones and sends the origin to $O$. We want to solve this equation for $u$ and $v$, which we can do by multiplying both sides by the inverse of the $3\times3$ matrix.
In your case, $\mathbf X$ gets sent to $-\mathbf Y=(0,-1,0)$, $\mathbf Y$ gets sent to $\mathbf X=(1,0,0)$, and the origin gets sent to $(a/2,b/2)$. The correct matrix for computing the new coordinates of a point is therefore $$\begin{bmatrix}0&1&\frac a2\\-1&0&\frac b2\\0&0&1\end{bmatrix}^{-1} = \begin{bmatrix}0&-1&\frac b2\\1&0&-\frac a2\\0&0&1\end{bmatrix}.$$ More generally, if the new coordinate axes are obtained by rotating and translating the old ones, the coordinate transformation matrix will be $$\begin{bmatrix}R&\mathbf t\\\mathbf 0&1\end{bmatrix}^{-1} = \begin{bmatrix}R^T&-R^T\mathbf t\\\mathbf 0&1\end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix}\cos\theta&\sin\theta&-(b_1\cos\theta+b_2\sin\theta)\\-\sin\theta&\cos\theta&-(b_2\cos\theta-b_1\sin\theta)\\0&0&1\end{bmatrix}.$$ Here I used the fact that the inverse of a rotation matrix is its transpose.

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"Thus the man increased and became exceedingly rich, and had many sheep and goats and maidservants, menservants, camels, and donkeys."
This chapter is about Jacob, the son of Isaac. He went north from where his father lived at that time. He went to his uncle, Laban and worked for him in order to marry Rachel. But this father-in-law deceived him and gave him Leah. Jacob worked for seven years to have Rachel, but Laban deceived him and gave him Leah instead. So Jacob had to work another seven years in order to marry Rachel, the wife that he wanted. Even though Jacob was working there faithfully, Laban was always cheating him.
When Rachel, the wife that he truly loved, became pregnant, Jacob decided that it was time for him to establish his own home. So he asked his father-in-law to pay him for the work that he did, and Laban only gave Jacob a few animals. That's what Laban paid him with. But the Lord favored Jacob. The Lord made sure that Jacob was blessed wherever he turned.
Jacob decided to mate the animals that he had, and those animals started multiplying. They continued to multiply until Jacob had more animals than his father-in-law, Laban. This verse says that Jacob "increased and became exceedingly rich..." He didn't become increasingly rich overnight. He became increasingly rich through his own wise and prudent work, through employing the actions that would help him to get there. His success happened in time.
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tigue and sufferings and squalidly clothed (1); and, on another occasion, a prince (2), standing up to be purchased like cattle; when we see, that from the plentiful supply, so low was the price, that Olaf the prince, who afterwards became king of Norway, and the invader of England, was sold for a garment (3); and that a collection of boys were disposed of for a fine goat (4); when we discover such things to be frequent, it seems absurd to look into the north for increased civilization,
And yet the happy change was beginning to emerge. The principle of improvement was in existence, and its vegetation, though slow, was incessant and effectual.
As soon as the vikingr stooped from the pursuit of sanguinary glory, to collect profit from traffic, piracy, as a laudable custom, must have begun to be undermined. It must have received another fatal blow, as soon as agriculture became reputable. Though valour was still the pride of the day, many chiefs were perpetually arising of peaceable and unwarlike habits (5). At the period of which we now speak, one Sigurd Syr the king, who educated Saint Olave of Norway, is particularly described to us as assiduous in his domestic occupations; who often surveyed his fields and meadows, and flocks and herds, and who was fond of frequenting the places where the handicraft labours were carried on (6). His pupil, Olave, though in the first part of his life he became a sea-king, yet among other things was educated to manual arts as well as to warlike exercises (7). The sweets of landed property and peaceable occupations once experienced, the impulse of nature would urge the chiefs to favour husbandry, and to induce or to compel a part, ever increasing, of the northern population, to pursue the labours of the field in preference to war. Every regular and settled monarch favoured the new habit. Though the disorderly reigns which followed Harald Harfragre made his law against pirates almost obsolete, yet as soon as the government of Norway became established in Saint Olave, he revived the prohibition. He forbade all rapine (8). He enforced his law so rigorously, that though the vikingr were the children of the most potent chiefs, he punished the offenders by the loss of life or limb; nor could prayers or money avert the penalty (9). One of the Canutes was equally hostile to the habits of the vikingr. He prohibited all rapine and violence throughout his kingdom, and was highly displeased that Egill should have pirated in the summer. "In addicting yourself to piracy," said the king,
(1) Snorre, p. 256. (3) Ibid.
(5) Many of these are noticed in Snorre's Heimskringla. (6) Snorre's Saga, Olaf's Helga, c. i. p. 1. and p. 31.
(7) Arcum tractandi atque natandi imprimis peritus, in pilis et missilibus manu jaculandis eximius, ad artes fabriles a natura formatus, lynceisque oculis ad ea omnia quæ vel ipse vel alii fabricaverant. Snorre. Olaf's Helga, p. 1.
(8) Snorre, tom, i, p. 315.
(9) Ibid. 316.
(2) Ibid. 193. (4) Ibid.
you have done an abominable thing. It is a Pagan custom, and I forbid it (1).'
It was indeed a custom which had been so familiar and so extolled, that its suppression was difficult. Olaf's severity against it excited an insurrection in his dominions (2). But though interested men struggled hard to uphold it, the good sense of mankind awaking, however tardily, to their real interests, was combating against it. The benefits emanating from the cultivation of agriculture were announced with impressive admonition to all, by the dismal famines which at times occurred. The augmented power, the more striking dignity, and the permanent happiness accruing to the chiefs from a numerous clan of quiet peasantry, from the annual riches of tillage, and from the mercantile importation of every other luxury; the lessons, though rude, of their new Christian clergy; the natural indolence and quietude of human nature, when permitted to follow its own tendencies, and when freed from the goading stings of want, by the fruitful harvests of regular labour; must have alienated a large part of the northern society from the practice of their ancestors, and must have made piracy, in an accumulating ratio, unpopular and dishonourable. Human reason is never slow to amend its erring associations, when once a new beam of light occurs to it; and nothing can more strongly paint the progressive change of manners, than the rapid degradation of the meaning of the word vikingr. At first designating a soldier, it became appropriated by pirates, when every warrior pirated. But now that the condemning voice of society was rising against rapine, the vikingr hastened fast to become a synonyme of the robber (3). Poets, who often stamp the morals of ages, and who always influence the population of the day, began to brand it with that opprobrium, which, from their numbers, falls with the most deterring effect (4).
The improved feelings of society on this subject could not accumulate without communicating some contagion to the vikingr themselves. Though the novel sentiment might be unable to annihilate their evil habits, it awakened, in their fierce bosoms, a little sense of moral distinction; it compelled them to seek some shield of merit to avert that most terrible of all ills, the contempt and hatred of the society to which we belong. They began to feel that it was not honourable for a brave man to prey upon the peaceful mer
(2) Snorre, p. 317.
(1) Knytlinga Saga, ap. Bartholin, 453. (3) The editors of the Gunnlaugi Saga give many examples of this, p. 298–300. (4) Thus Sighvatr, the scalld of Olave, sang:
chant, who feeds and benefits his contemporaries, nor to murder the unoffending passenger whom various necessities enforce to roam. A new sort of pirates then appeared more suitable to the new-born morality of their feelings, and to the mental revolutions of the day. The peculiar and self-chosen task of these meritorious warriors was to protect the defenceless navigator, and to seek and assail the indiscriminate plunderer (1). The exact chronology of these new characters is not clear, but they seem reasonably to belong to the last age of piracy. Their existence was, above all laws, efficacious in destroying piracy. They executed what society sighed for, and what wise kings enacted; and their appearance must have hastened the odium of the indiscriminate pirate, who became gradually hunted down as the general enemy of the human race. It is pleasing to read of this distinction in so many authors. Some men associated with the solemnity of an oath, that they would in piracy acquire money honourably, because they would exterminate the berserkir and the malignant, and give safety to the merchant (2). So others pursued piracy to deprive the plundering vikingr of the spoil they had torn from the husbandman and merchants (3). With the same character, Eric the Good is exhibited in the Knytlinga Saga (4).
By the laws of the pirate Hialmar, we see that they bound themselves to protect trade and agriculture, not to plunder women, nor to force them to their ships if unwilling, nor to eat raw flesh, which was the practice of the savage pirate (5).
On the whole, we may state, that after the tenth century piracy became discreditable; and that in every succeeding reign it approached nearer to its extinction, until it was completely superseded by the influence of commerce, the firmer establishment of legal governments, improved notions of morality, and the experience of the superior comforts of social order, industry, and peaceful pursuits.
Ethelred the Unready.
Ethelred succeeded on his brother's assassination ; but the action which procured his power was too
(1) See the Torsteins Saga, ap. Verclius. Herv. Saga, 47.
(2) Bua Saga, ap. Barth. 457.
(3) The Vatzdæla, ap. Barth. 458.
(4) Knytlinga Saga, ap. Barth. 452.
(5) Bartholin states these laws from the Orvar Oddr Sogu, p. 456.; and see the laws of the sea-king Half, another of this band of naval chivalry, in Bartho. 455. Saxo also describes another set of heroes, who, in the following age, fought against the common pirates, lib, xiv. p. 259.
atrocious to give all the effect to the policy of his adherents which had been projected. Dunstan retained his dignity, and at least his influence; for what nation could be so depraved as to patronise a woman, who, at her own gate, had caused her king and son-inlaw to be assassinated! In attempting to subvert Dunstan by such a deed, she failed. After no long interval, he excited the popular odium, and the terrors of guilt, so successfully against her, that she became overwhelmed with shame, and took shelter in a nunnery, and in building nunneries, from the public abhorrence.
The reign of Ethelred presents the history of a bad government, uncorrected by its unpopularity and calamities; and of a discontented nation preferring at last the yoke of an invader, whose visits its nobles either invited or encouraged. In the preceding reigns, from Alfred to Edgar, the Anglo-Saxon spirit was never agitated by danger, but it acted to triumph. By its exertions, a rich and powerful nation had been created, which might have continued to predominate in Europe with increasing honour and great national felicity. But within a few years after Ethelred's accession the pleasing prospect begins to fade. The tumultuary contests in the last reign between the monks and the clergy, and their respective supporters, had not had time to cease. Dunstan, acquiring the direction of the government under Ethelred, involved the throne again in the conflict, and the sovereign was placed at variance with the nobles and parochial clergy. The measures of the government were unsatisfactory to the nation. The chiefs became factious and disloyal, and the people discontented, till a foreign dynasty was at ⚫ last preferred to the legal native succession.
Ethelred was but ten years of age when he attained the crown. His amiable disposition gave tears of affection to his brother's memory; but Elfrida could not pardon a sensibility which looked like accusation, and might terminate in rebellion to her will, and in disappointment to her ambition. She seized a waxen candle which was near, and beat the terrified infant with a dreadful severity, which left him nearly expiring. The anguish of the blows never quitted his remembrance. It is affirmed, that during the remainder of his life he could not endure the presence of a light (1). Perhaps the irresolution, the pusillanimity, the yielding imbecility, which characterised him during his long reign, may have originated in the perpetual terror which the guardianship of such a mother, striving to break his temper into passive obedience to her will, on this and other occasions, wilfully produced.
As her power declined, the feelings of the nation expressed themselves more decidedly. The commander of Mercia, and Dunstan, attended by a great crowd, went to Wareham, removed the body of the deceased sovereign, and buried it with honour at Shaftesbury (2). Dunstan might now triumph: though his oppo(2) Flor. 362. Sax. Chron. 125.
(1) Malmsb. 62.
nents might equal him in daring, they were his inferiors in policy. After a flow of prosperity uninterrupted for nearly a century, England, in the full tide of its strength, was insulted by seven Danish ships, which plundered Southampton and Thanet. The same vikingr, in the next season, ravaged in Cornwall and Devonshire (1). In the year following, three ships molested the isle of Portland (2).
The re-appearance of the Northmen excited much conversation at the time (3). Another attempt of the same sort was made at Wecedport, where the English gained the field of battle, though Goda, the governor of Devonshire, and the brave Stenwold fell. In this year Dunstan died (4). He had enjoyed his power during the first ten years of Ethelred's reign, but the civil dissensions, which he appears to have begun and perpetuated, unnerved the strength of the country. The vices of the sovereign increased the evil.
Within three years afterwards, formidable invasions of the Danes began to occur. A large force, commanded by Justin and Gurthmund, attacked Ipswich (5). They advanced afterwards along an unguarded coast, or through an unguarded country, as far as Malden. Byrhtnoth, the governor of Essex, collected some forces to oppose them, but he was defeated and slain (6).
(4) Flor. Wig. 364. Sax. Chron. 126. MS. Chron. Tib. B. 1. and B. 4. merely addition of his attaining heaven. Siric was consecrated to his see. year was memorable for its diseases.
(1) Flor. Wig. 362. Sax. Chron. 125. Tib. B. 1. As Olave Tryggvason was at this time marauding on the English coast, and at last reached the Scilly isles, he may have been the sea-king who renewed the invasion of England.
(2) Flor. 363. Sim. Dun. 161.
Dunstan died in the year 988. The mention his death, without the printed The preceding
(5) The printed chronicle leaves the place an imperfect blank. The MS. Tib. B. 1. and B. 4. have both Gypeswic; and see Flor. 364. The Ely Chronicle says, that at this time frequent irruptions of the Danish pirates occurred on different parts of the coast. It represents Byrhtnoth as defeating the first invader of Malden, but that another fleet, more numerous, came under Justin, and Guthmund the son of Stretan, to revenge the disaster. 3 Gale, p. 493.
(6) It is on this event that the narrative poem was composed which Hearne printed from a Cotton MS. since burnt, and of which Mr. W. Conybeare has published an English translation. As it seems to have been written soon after the events it narrates, it may be regarded as an historical document for both the manners and the incidents it describes. A few extracts will illustrate the character of Byrhtnoth as a favourable specimen of the Anglo-Saxon nobility. The herald of the vikingr first demanded tribute. The conduct and answer of the Saxon ealderman on this request is thus detailed :-"Byrhtnoth upraised his buckler, he shook his slender javelin; stern and resolute, he uttered his words, and gave him answer :'Hear, thou mariner! what this people sayeth. Instead of tribute, they will bestow on you their weapons, the edge of their spears, their ancient swords and arms of Herald of the men of ocean! deliver to thy people a message in return; a declaration of high indignation. Say, that an earl with his retainers here stands undaunted, who will defend this land, the domain of my sovereign Ethelred, his peeple and his territory; and the heathen shall perish in the conflict. I shall think
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Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 de abril de 1834 - 29 de julio de 1900) fue un bibliófilo y escritor. Personaje destacado especialmente por haber llegado a poseer una de las más extensas colecciones en sus focos de interés como bibliófilo: Cervantes y literatura erótica.

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Ashbee nació en Southwark (Londres), casándose en Hamburgo ( Alemania) en 1862. Puede decirse que llevó una doble vida. Públicamente era un burgués adinerado perfecto cumplidor de la estricta moral victoriana; pero en secreto llegó a coleccionar la que se ha considerado mayor biblioteca erótica de la época.

A su condición de hombre de negocios de éxito, propietario de empresas con sede en Londres y París, unió la condición de viajero incansable. Recorrió Europa, Japón, EE. UU. y visitó España en varias ocasiones adquiriendo diversas ediciones de libros de Cervantes. Por su condición de hispanista especializado en Cervantes, la Real Academia Española lo nombró en 1896 Miembro Correspondiente.

Entre sus amigos se encontraban Richard Francis Burton, Richard Monckton Milnes (también poseedor de una gran colección de libros eróticos), Algernon Swinburne, y otros, todos ellos contrarios al puritanismo victoriano de la época.

Fue padre del diseñador Charles Robert Ashbee.

Ashbee legó su colección al Museo Británico con la condición que los ejemplares eróticos fuesen aceptados junto con los ejemplares convencionales. Los administradores del museo, interesados por el material relacionado con Cervantes, aceptaron el legado; pero usando un subterfugio destruyeron gran parte del material erótico.

Obras

Bajo el seudónimo de "Pisanus Fraxi" escribió tres extensas bibliografías eróticas: Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Índice de libros dignos de ser prohibidos) 1877; Centuria Librorum Asconditorum (Cien libros dignos de ser escondidos), 1879; Catena Librorum Tacendorum (Cadena de libros dignos de ser silenciados), 1885; las tres publicadas en ediciones privadas. También escribió novela erótica bajo los seudónimos de "Fraxinus" (ceniza) y "Apis" (abeja). Se le atribuye el libro My Secret Life (Mi vida privada) publicado bajo el seudónimo de "Walter".

Referencias

 Wikipedia en inglés
 El Erotómano. La vida secreta del Henry Spencer Ashbee de Ian Gibson, Ediciones B.S.A., 2002.

Escritores del Reino Unido del siglo XIX

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Audrey Hepburn was always stunning on screen in both beauty and performance, giving great inspiring people all over the world. Today, she's mostly remembered as a style icon and an idea of what defines a lovely woman. However, If you dig a little deeper, you'll see that she could be looked up to for more than her grace. She dedicated her life to helping others, particularly children in impovershed countries like the Sudan, becoming a UN ambassador. It's rumored that when she knew she was going to die, her greatest fear was for the children around the world who still needed help. While we'll always remember how beautiful and iconic Audrey Hepburn was, we need to remember of the ways she made a difference in her life. To help remind us, here are some great Audrey Hepburn quotes on giving back.
This quote attests to Audrey Hepburn's loving spirit, and to how she felt the need to help the underprivileged people who not only needed resources, but needed to know that they aren't forgotten and that they are loved.
Hepburn was dancing in war torn Europe throughout the war, and even helped back then by dancing in ballet that raised money for organizations to fight the Nazis. Her life experience seemed to play a great role in her eventual humanitarianism.
Sometimes we're so wrapped in our own lives that we don't think about the people who are far worse off then we are. Hepburn used her fame and her platform for good, insisting that poverty wasn't just the problem of one part of the world, but all of it.
Of course, with all of her fame and fortune, Hepburn felt that she needed to give back. She had seen strife early in her life, and she couldn't forget about people who were struggling while she was making movies, and attending events in expensive Givenchy dresses. Hepburn took action and left a positive impact on the world.
Clearly, there's still work to be done here, but it gives us something to work on. We should all work hard to make Hepburn's vision come true. We need to channel her generosity to make the world a better place. So if you're trying to emulate Audrey Hepburn, don't just try to get her eyebrows or a buy little black dress like hers from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Focus on her inner beauty, and do your part to give back.


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Gareth Southgate: Rashford to use his speed more effectively.
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England's boss, Gareth Southgate says his frontline is as exciting as any team's. However, he urges Rashford to modify his style and make better use of his speed in an attacking trio.
World Cup Golden Boot winner Harry Kane hit a hat-trick in Saturday's 4-0 win over Bulgaria. Raheem Sterling netted the other and Marcus Rashford played along with them.
"I think they are as exciting as anything," said Southgate before Tuesday's EURO 2020 qualifier against Kosovo in St Mary's.
England is on top of its qualifying group with three wins from three, but only one point above Kosovo.
"I remember going to Spain and thinking, well, a really tough game. But when you look at our front three and their front three, I felt we were strong," Southgate said.
Tottenham striker Kane has scored 25 goals in only 40 caps as well as winning the Premier League Golden Boot twice.
Manchester City winger Sterling is in electric form with seven goals in six games for club and country this season.
Sancho, 19, has scored 17 times and set up 27 goals in 60 games for Bundesliga side Dortmund.
Southgate on Rashford
Manchester United's Rashford has scored seven England goals by the age of 21. Nonetheless, Southgate and his colleagues believe the Manchester United forward could be more effective. That is, if he spends less time dropping back to look for the ball and start using his phenomenal pace to get behind opposition defenses.
"Although we have for a long time almost wanted Marcus to be a number 9, I'm still not certain that that is where he is happiest and where he does his work best," Southgate said.
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The emphasis according to Southgate, is for Rashford to think more about his game positionally, taking up parts of the pitch where he can take advantage of his speed, rather than working on the area where he is not necessarily so strong.
Asked if his forwards know they can be among the best, Southgate said, "They have great humility. I think they possibly don't, because they sometimes don't view themselves as others do."
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I am trying to add a thankyou page to my main domain.
I am using xsite pro at the moment and i have found some people suggesting that i create a new website as the thankyou page and then upload it to my public_html directory on my server.
Now where i am gettin stuck on this. is where do i access my server folder? to be able to add the thankyou page to the public_html directory?
Do i access my server folder where my website is being hosted? if that is the case i am going through the affilorama hosting service. Where do i access this folder ?
What i am trying to do is make a thankyou page. I have made it but i am unsure of how to go about publishing it through xsite pro.
I have my main domain "http://www.mydomain.com"
but i would like to add "http://www.mydomain.com/thankyou"
Any other suggestions other then what i have found??
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What is your thank you page for? An opt-in form or a downloadable product such as something you're selling on ClickBank? The reason I ask is because you'll want to make it harder to guess if it's for a product you're selling. It doesn't really matter for a opt-in thank you page.
I may not be understanding your question correctly, but all you really need to do is create an html page that is your thank you page such as thank-you.html or whatever you like. You can just put it in your public_html folder or create a sub folder called "thank_you."
Thanks for that, i understand what the theory is behind it.
What i am getting stuck on is where do i add this page? how do i access the directory folder, where do i access the directory folder??
I am confused about this step and how to go about it.
I understand you just make another page etc. But do i add the changes to my hosting service?
It would be helpfull if anyone who is using xsite pro here could help me to figure this one out. I have everything else set up. And i can start collecting names for my list, but what i would like to do is send someone to a thankyou page and try and sell them on a product.
I cant do this while i cant get the page to work.
Where do i access the public_html folder??
If all you need to do is create a folder and navigate around your hosting account, then that's a function of your Web host interface. If you have cPanel you can do it from there. You can also do it from within an ftp client program such as CuteFtp or FileZilla.
I'm not familiar with XsitePro, but if it has an ftp tool you can probably use that as well. Sorry I can't be of more help.


Jay Pharoah is the newest Saturday Night Live alum to slam the show for its practices.
Pharoah's departure from the show came as a huge surprise to fans, but now he's finally speaking up about what happened.
Jay, known for his impressions on the show, also noted that SNL kind of "gave up on the Obama thing," and that Pharoah was put in sketches less and less.
He also mentioned that he was almost fired years before for speaking up on the show's lack of diversity.
Pharoah's departure from SNL isn't stopping him. Deadline reports that he is now working on a Showtime series called White Famous, based on Jamie Foxx's experience working his way up in the business.
Despite the somewhat negative attitude towards the show, Pharoah confirmed that he has no hard feelings against SNL's well-known producer. "Ain't no beef with Lorne… we're on good graces," said Jay.
Fellow ex-cast mate Noel Wells (who was also fired) recently echoed similar sentiments to Pharoah and called the show "comedy dinosaurs," and criticized it for basically becoming a formulaic machine.
SNL seems to be on a firing streak and Taran Killam, another beloved SNL cast member, was given the boot the same year. He recently opened up about what it was like to have Trump on the show, calling him a "moron." Killam is finding new success on Broadway as King George in Hamilton.
Obviously, all of the comedian's could be considered "disgruntled employees," but we wouldn't be so quick to dismiss them. Prior to the 2016 election, SNL had been steadily losing viewership and even their most loyal fans were starting to find the show a bit irrelevant.
Watch the full interview with Jay Pharoah below.


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Published on August 7, 2011 August 8, 2011 by admin
A lot of readers are curious after reading books about where the idea came from. So I thought I'd share with you here a bit about the story of "The Worker Prince, Book 1 of The Saga Of Davi Rhii." I have stated often that the genesis occurred when I was 15 years old. I don't remember exactly but I know it was while I was in early high school, and I'm 42 now. It's a long time ago. The kinds of movies and books I was into then were Star Wars, Star Trek: The Original Series, Planet Of The Apes, Space 1999, Superman — noticing a pattern here? I liked my genre stuff and I liked it larger than life with good v. evil and heroes who were clearly good v. bad guys who were clearly bad. As a young kid, raised in a Christian home, listening to Sunday sermons and Sunday school stories, reading the bible, and reading these books, I dreamed of grand adventure. I wanted to be the dashing hero. I wanted to save the world. That was the start of it.
Also in the midst of this, I struggled with being adopted. Being adopted challenges your sense of belonging by forcing you to ask: why didn't they want me? The irony of this, of course, is that the adoptive parents who love you chose you and wanted you. But somehow your mind and heart just dwell on the rejection part and tend to gloss over the other, at least for a while. Add to this sense of unwantedness my sense of being an outcast amongst my peers as a geek, a Christian, and a kid who wasn't afraid to follow his own drumbeat, then you have someone whose life was and has often remained focused on questions of: who he is and where he belongs. So those elements combined into the Davi Rhii coming of age story and his quest, upon discovering his own adoption, to figure out who he is.
The movie The Ten Commandments ran on TV annually back then on the big networks, and I often watched it. I have always loved Charlton Heston despite his annoying association with the NRA. The movie was so well made and the saga so dynamic. It seemed to lend itself well to the large stage of space opera as I loved it. I dreamed up the saga, then titled The Exodus, as a huge miniseries involving a group of slaves breaking free and fleeing from their captors much as the Israelites did in the biblical story. I came up with the father of the main character, a man named Sol, and the antagonist, an evil ruler named Lord Xalivar. I even wrote the first line of the novel: Sol climbed to the top of the rise and stared up at the stars in the heavens — later changed during editing to: Sol climbed to the top of the rise and stared up at the twin suns as they climbed into the sky. I made pages and pages of notes and story outlines and dreamed of the day I could go further and write the story.
Then I went off to college and life happened and somewhere along the way those notes got lost–or at least buried in a box where I have yet to find them. But the names Sol, Xalivar, that opening line, and the basic plotline stayed with me, gestating mostly in the closets of my mind, but occasionally popping out for air. I did continue to read Science Fiction and Fantasy whenever I could and revel in the way they stimulated my imagination.
In the Fall of 2008 I made my first attempt at a novel–a love story a la Nicholas Sparks which I still hope to write some day–written without any knowledge of craft and little of the genre. I finished it around 60000 words, then prompting rewrote it several times before discarding it as crap and me as unfit as a novelist and began studying my craft. I bought various books, read author interviews, got into On Writing by Stephen King, etc. I also returned to reading novels, a habit I developed as a preteen and continued for years but then dropped after college in favor of nonfiction and other research and rarely revisited. Over the next year as I read, I suddenly rekindled my passion for science fiction and fantasy. And, of course, the Davi Rhii story came back to me again and again. I practiced my craft, studied it in novels I read, and then, finally, in August of 2009, sat down and wrote those words: Sol climbed to the top of the rise…
From August 15 through November 15, I wrote 89000 words, day after day, sometimes writing as much as an entire chapter in a day, sometimes only a few scenes. I wrote every morning, first thing when I woke up for a couple hours. Then worked my telecommute job for the day, wrote a little at lunch, and then did more writing in late afternoon before dinner. I was cooking along, despite restarting Chapter One over after realizing I'd started it in the wrong spot. The story just flew out of me with very little planning–pantsing all the way, being as surprised as I hoped my readers would one day be. Despite my wife's hospitalization for mental illness by a judge and all the ensuing stress, I wrote every day, the only time I got stuck being on the final chapter, Chapter 13, which somehow took me three weeks to write. Finally, I wrote the quick Epilogue in one day and wrote: The End.
Then, following the encouragement of author Ken Scholes, whom I'd met and talked with on Facebook, I set about to write short stories while I let the first draft gestate a while. For a month, I wrote around 2 stories a week. Then I went back and read The Worker Prince again, finding it wasn't half as crappy as I expected it to be. In fact, it might actually be good. The draft that comes out October 4th is probably around number 18 or 19–counting even partial drafts or drafts to eliminate -ly adverbs–but I did it. The book went from 89000 down to 85000 and back up to the 89700 it is now along the way.
The story developed in the process. I added a lot of political intrigue, a story of divided belief systems which reflects our own U.S. culture today, I added subplots, twists, and even various characters, and I somehow divided my original idea into three books, even though I wasn't sure what the other two would be yet. All I knew was, there was no exodus in the book I'd come up with so I had to find a new title. The slaves being called workers, the hero being a prince born a worker, I then devised the title and I was set. I found fascinating the way belief systems and cultures interact and cause clashes and wanted to write a more realistic world than is often depicted in stories with Christian characters by Christian novelists because I thought this story was one which would appeal across belief lines and from the feedback I get from early readers, I hope I've accomplished that.
The Worker Prince is not a Christian novel in my mind, even though it has characters in it who engage with that belief system. I made a conscious effort never to stoop to proselytizing because I don't like to be proselytized either. And I have as many or more non-Christian characters as Christians in major roles. It was the milieu of conflicting beliefs which fascinated me as a setting for a space opera which I have not seen explored and which led me to write it.
The journey of the idea to publication is an altogether different story, and at some point, when it's been out a while, I may break down the nuances of the various plot lines, twists, and motifs which ended up there, but for now, that's a summary of how The Worker Prince and Saga Of Davi Rhii came about. It's an incredible accomplishment in my life. My greatest writing success, and I am truly grateful to that 15-year-old kid for having such a great idea, and also grateful for life keeping me from trying to write it until I had the depth and wisdom to do it right. I could have log ago tried, failed, ruined it and given up, then where would I be now. It would be sad if no one got the chance to read this story because so far, people love it. So here I am on the cusp of my debut novel which had quite a journey, grateful for every step.
For what it's worth…
To read a synopsis of book 1, The Worker Prince, click here: http://bryanthomasschmidt.net/2011/01/22/the-worker-prince-synopsis/
To read excerpts of The Worker Prince, click here: http://bryanthomasschmidt.net/tag/excerpt/
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"Bryan Thomas Schmidt's "The Worker Prince" will appeal to readers of all ages. Bryan deftly explores a world where those who believe in one God labor against oppressors, and a single man may have the power to change their situation for the better. But will he be able to rise above all that his powerful uncle has taught him?" — Brenda Cooper, Author of "The Silver Ship and the Sea" and "Mayan December"
"I found myself thinking of stories that I read during my (misspent) youth, including Heinlein juveniles and the Jason January tales, as well as Star Trek and Star Wars."
— Redstone SF on "The Worker Prince" series (Book 1 forthcoming, October 4, 2011, Diminished Media)
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2 thoughts on "The Worker Prince: The Genesis Of A Saga"
Paul (@princejvstin) says:
Thanks, Bryan.
You've described a long and twisted genesis to novel completion.
And completing a novel is definitely an accomplishment you should be proud of.
I am proud of it, and pleased with it. It was definitely a long road but satisfying. As I continue to work on the second book and plan toward the third, I look forward to the day people can read them and hope they enjoy the end results as much as I did the process. Certainly a lot of thought goes into them. Thanks for reading and spreading the word!
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This contemporary reading room extension to the First Church of Christ Scientist is a steel-framed, glaze structure that makes good use of natural light. The design used the wall of an adjacent building and incorporated stone floors, timber ceilings and glass elevations.
The project required us to be especially vigilant as access to the courtyard site was restricted and the church remained in use throughout the construction period.
The project received an Oxford Preservation Trust Award for the quality of the work.


Getting into the holiday spirit has never been easier with our complete Halloween calendar of events! Find the children's Halloween activities and other festive events for the whole family. Whether you're looking for a local parade or a popular Halloween festival near you, our calendar is full of awesome Halloween activity ideas for the family.
When you think back to your childhood memories of Halloween, what comes to mind? For many of us, community events like parades and festivals bring back the fondest memories. Spending time with friends and family, enjoying the fresh autumn air, and showing off your costumes to the neighborhood are staples of the Halloween experience.
This Halloween, don't wait for the 31st to get into the holiday festivities. Explore our calendar to find all the local Halloween events and activities near you, so you can fill your schedule with all the exciting events near you and make this the best Halloween ever!
Some parents might think the costume is the most memorable aspect of Halloween when really it's the activities and events we remember most. And while trick-or-treating is the highlight of Halloween, there are a number of other exciting events happening throughout the month of October in towns across the country.
Bring your little ones to an amusingly frightening community festival they'll always remember or find other not-so-scary Halloween activities for children and families. You can even explore carnivals, parties, and other spooky get-togethers all in one convenient Halloween calendar.
Don't miss out on the whole holiday season because you're waiting on Halloween night. With a huge lineup of Halloween festivities taking place all throughout October, you can have more haunted fun than ever before this Halloween season! Find activity ideas for your high schoolers or look for neat, children-friendly Halloween events in your local town. Whatever your family enjoys, you can find the perfect event for it on our online Halloween calendar.
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SINGAPORE, May 4th, 2017 – According to International Data Corporation (IDC), 104.1 million smartphones were shipped to China in 2017Q1. This was a mere 1% year-on-year (YoY) growth, in part the result of high inventory from the previous quarter. 2017Q1 was also relatively quiet aside from a few product launches like Huawei's new P10, P10 Plus, and Honor V9. This, along with strong momentum for the Honor brand, helped Huawei reclaim the top position from OPPO.
"Despite a soft first quarter in China, the second quarter should pick up sequentially given not only JD.com's June promotions, but also activity around a number of new products like vivo with its Y53, Xiaomi with its Mi 6, Meizu with its E2, and Gionee with its M6S Plus," says Tay Xiaohan, Senior Market Analyst with IDC Asia/Pacific's Client Devices team.
"Apple has been seeing double-digit YoY declines for the fifth quarter in a row, but we believe that Chinese consumers are holding out for the launch of Apple's 10-year anniversary iPhone at the end of the year, and this will help Apple to see a rebound in the China smartphone market," according to Tay.
The top five smartphone companies now dominate 70% of the market . We expect their share to continue to rise and to see more consolidation from the smaller companies in the coming year. We also do not expect to see any new smartphone companies entering the market that will be able to make a significant difference to the smartphone scene in China.
Android ASPs continued to increase QoQ and YoY . This was largely due to the top Chinese smartphone companies Huawei, OPPO and vivo seeing an increase in their ASPs, as consumers seek to purchase their key flagship models. Consumers are also seeking to upgrade their smartphones to seek a better user experience, and these companies offer models that can meet their needs. Additionally, with key flagships by these Chinese companies having more upgraded specifications such as dual cameras and OLED screens, the price of smartphones has continued to increase.
Huawei's Honor 8, OPPO's R9s and vivo's X9 were the popular models from these companies in the quarter . Apart from the continued reliance in celebrity endorsers for these models, one other common factor these models share is the strength of the phones' cameras which was clearly highlighted across all their advertisements. These models also had batteries with the capacity of around 3000 mAh, highlighting the importance of phones having a powerful camera and strong battery life.
Smartphone companies will be focusing more on their offline retail expansion. Huawei has committed to opening more experience stores in key cities while OPPO will be opening more stores in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities. Xiaomi, who used to focus on its online channel, has targeted to open 1,000 Mi Home stores in the next 3 years across China.
"Having one star flagship model that is marketed successfully is sufficient to significantly propel a company's shipments in the right direction. This can be aptly exemplified in OPPO's key flagship R9s which comprised close to half of its overall shipments. In light of the foregoing, whilst the Chinese companies can continue to innovate and try to outshine one another in the coming year, they can also consider focusing their resources on one or two key models with clear key messages than to stretch themselves thin and try to diversify their portfolio," ends Tay.


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Japan fire kills 11 at home for old people
by Agencies , (Last Updated February 1, 2018)
TOKYO: Eleven people were killed in northern Japan after a fire broke out at a home for elderly people with financial difficulties, police said on Thursday.
Television footage showed the three-storey building engulfed in flames and dozens of firefighters battling the blaze in snowy conditions.
Pictures of the aftermath showed the blackened husk of the building, whose roof had apparently collapsed due to the fire.
The victims – eight men and three women – were among 16 residents of the facility in Sapporo, Hokkaido, run by a local organisation.
The other five residents escaped, a police spokesman told AFP, adding that authorities were investigating the victims' identities.
Kenji Kikai, a local police official, told AFP: "Of the five people who escaped, three people – two men and one woman – were rushed to a hospital. The two men were slightly injured and the woman sustained moderate injuries.
"They are still hospitalised but the injuries are not life-threatening," added Kikai.
Two others escaped unharmed.
Police said they had launched a probe into the cause of the fire first alerted at 1142 pm (1442 GMT) Wednesday via an emergency call.
The accommodation was originally a Japanese inn built around 50 years ago that was later turned into a welfare home.
The facility is aimed at supporting elderly people with financial difficulties by offering low-cost accommodation and helping them find work, public broadcaster NHK reported.
It is usually unstaffed overnight, according to local media.
As dawn broke, police and firefighters were combing the blackened remains of furniture in freezing temperatures.
'Small explosions'
"As there were many oil tanks (for kerosene stoves) there, I heard a number of small explosions," a 67-year-old woman in the neighbourhood told Jiji Press.
"Luckily, the only damage to our house was some cracks in the window," she was quoted as saying.
Another woman in the neighbourhood, 65, said when she spotted smoke and flames while she was watching the total lunar eclipse from the window of her house, Jiji Press said.
"The smoke and flames were rising vertically. If there had been wind, the damage would have been bigger," she told Jiji.
"The surrounding area was bright as if it was the day because of efforts to extinguish the fire, and smoke lasted until near the dawn," she said.
Others saw ash falling like snow in the vicinity of the fire, local media reported.
"It was an awful fire. It spread so quickly and flames were billowing," said one woman neighbour, who did not wish to be named.
The fire sparked memories of a similar incident in Sapporo in 2010 when seven residents of a private nursing home for the elderly were killed in a pre-dawn fire.
Four women and three men aged in their 60s to their 80s died when the blaze swept through the two-storey wooden house.
In that case, all the residents were believed to suffer from dementia.
The facility was run by a Sapporo organization that helps people on welfare by providing food and assistance finding jobs, NHK said. Renters paid 36,000 yen ($330) a month, it said.
Japan is a rapidly ageing society. Over 35 million Japanese people were 65 or older last year, or 27.8 per cent of the total population, up from 21.5 per cent a decade ago, government data showed.
In March 2010, seven people at a Sapporo nursing home for elderly people with dementia were killed in a fire.
Last month, 37 people died in a fire at a hospital without sprinkler system in South Korea injuring more than 150 people
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ACTS 3:1 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. 2Now a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. 3When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 4Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, "Look at us!" 5So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.
Peter and John were going to church to pray. Everyday there was a certain man right by the gate who begged for money. He had been crippled from birth and was placed in the same spot at the same time every day. On this particular day as Peter and John walked by, the man asked them for money. The bible says that Peter looked right at him and said, "look at us". They were attempting to get this man to FOCUS on something other than his condition. So the man gave them his attention. It says that he EXPECTED to get something from them.
What do you think he was expecting? I'm quite certain that it was some cold, hard cash. But on this day he would find a divine surprise! He expected a temporary fix and he received a permanent solution. He got more than he expected…he got what he needed!
Often you and I may not get what we are looking for but praise the Lord, God knows what we need. My God shall supply all of my NEED according to His riches in glory!
The man was given his mobility and he jumped up and walked around praising God! What are you expecting today? Make sure that it is something awesome because this just might be the day that you get it!


1967 Ford F250- Shawn L.
I have no intentions of making this a show piece. This is just a great old farm truck. Finally decided to dump some money into her with an engine rebuild. The engine build will cost phenomenally more than the truck is worth. JUST GOT TO DO IT!


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The Mine Explorer: bringing the archives to life
By TVDM2 March 2018 No Comments
Experience the history of the coal mines
Experiencing historical coal mines, on the exact same location the history was made! The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision asked us to create an innovative experience around these mines, to complement their archives. The mines are not accessible for the public audience since they have been closed for over 50 years, so we brought them back to life in virtual reality by guiding users through a virtual recreation of the mine in a playful way!
The Year of the Mines
The Dutch town Heerlen started the initiative called The Year of the Mines – shortened to M2015 – and was organized in response to the announcement of the mines closing 50 years ago. The Year of the Mines was celebrated by digitalizing the cultural heritage of the mining archive and by presenting the VR-experience 'The Mine Explorer'. The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision requested us to come up with an interactive way of bringing the archives back to life. We gave museum visitors the possibility to relive the dusty mines and see the lives of coal mine workers.
Reliving history
Virtual reality is all about being immersed into another world. We introduced visitors to the Dutch mines where they could relive history. For this case, we created a virtual mine environment and provided the hardware such as an Oculus Rift and PC, to deliver an all-in package to the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
Enter the mines
The journey through the history of the mine starts when visitors put on the VR headset and step into a mining elevator, which in its turn descends into the dusty mines. After a short introduction during the descent, the visitor finds himself in a mine cart that starts rolling. As the cart travels through the tunnels, a mine worker tells a story about their lives and work in the mines. Footage of the archives is shown during the historical mine cart ride. The Mine Explorer experience was exhibited at the Limburgs Museum and Nederlands Mijnmuseum to celebrate 'The year of the mines'. Exploring mine history in virtual reality turned out to be a great intuitive way to engage museum visitors!
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Riley Dowell, center, with an attorney, left and father, Rodney S. Dowell, right, waits during arraignment at Boston Municipal Court, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023,…
Riley Dowell, center, with an attorney, left and father, Rodney S. Dowell, right, waits during arraignment at Boston Municipal Court, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Boston. Dowell, the daughter of U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts was arrested during a protest Saturday night on Boston Common and later charged with assault after a police officer was injured. Dowell, 23, is accused of defacing the Parkman Bandstand Monument with spray paint before she was arrested, officials said. (David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
Democratic House whip's daughter arraigned on assault charge
BOSTON (AP) — The daughter of U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark flailed her arms and struck a police officer trying to arrest her for defacing a bandstand in Boston with anti-police slogans over the weekend, a prosecutor said at her arraignment Monday.
Riley Dowell, 23, of Melrose, was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on charges of assault and battery on a police officer, vandalizing property, tagging property, vandalizing a historic marker/monument, and resisting arrest. Police also found a spray paint can in her backpack and saw paint on her hands and jacket, prosecutors said.
Not guilty pleas were entered on Dowell's behalf and she was released on the $500 bail she posted after her arrest Saturday.
Neither Dowell nor her attorney commented outside of court.
Clark, the House Democratic whip, has spoken publicly previously about her concern for Dowell, who is nonbinary, amid bigotry targeting transgender people.
"I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting," Clark tweeted over the weekend in regard to Dowell's arrest. "This will be evaluated by the legal system, and I am confident in that process."
Dowell is due back in court on April 19.
Officers responding Saturday night to a report of a protest at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common saw a person whom they later identified as Dowell spray-painting the monument with the words "NO COP CITY" and "ACAB," police said in a statement posted on the department's website. "ACAB" is an acronym for a vulgar anti-police phrase.
During the arrest, "a group of about 20 protesters began to surround officers while screaming profanities though megaphones on the public street causing traffic to come to a standstill," police said, adding that "an officer was hit in the face and could be seen bleeding from the nose and mouth."
Clark is in her sixth term in the House and represents the state's 5th Congressional District.
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Barndt And Werle Selected To All-EIVA Squad
(Posted April 24, 2007)
HUNTINGDON, Pa. - The Juniata College men\'s volleyball team has received another pair of postseason honors as the Eagles placed two players on the 2007 EIVA All-East Team which recognizes the top 20 players in the 14-team EIVA including Division I, II and III players. Senior Jeremy Barndt (Souderton/Souderton) and sophomore Matt Werle (Meadville/Meadville) were both picked as second-team All-EIVA choices, and were the only two Division III players chosen for the All-East squad. Barndt becomes just the third Juniata player to earn All-East recognition three times in his career, as he was picked for the second team as sophomore, junior and senior. He was also a three-time AVCA Division III All-American. Barndt enjoyed his finest season as established new career highs in virtually every category. He led Juniata with 113 blocks, which was a career best, and a .449 hitting percentage which was also the best of his career. Barndt closed his career with 365 blocks, the fourth-highest total in Juniata history. He pounded out exactly 300 kills in his final season giving him more than 900 for his career, and he closed his career with a hitting percentage of .420. Barndt was twice selected as the EIVA Tait Division Player of the Week during the season, and was also named to the All-Tournament Team as Juniata won its fourth-consecutive Molten Division III Men\'s Invitational Volleyball Championship. He established a new career high with 25 kills in a win over East Stroudsburg, a match in which he posted a remarkable .821 hitting percentage. Barndt reached double figures in kills on 16 occasions on the year, and produced a new career high with nine blocks in a victory over Springfield. Werle caps an outstanding sophomore season by claiming All-East recognition for the first time in his career. He also was selected to the AVCA Division III All-American Team, and was chosen as the AVCA Division III Player of the Year. He passed out a career-best 1,326 assists in his second year, and he ranked among the leaders in Division III and led the EIVA in assists per game. Werle posted 71 assists in the championship match of the Molten III Championship, a total that matched his career best which came in a five-game win over Division III rival New York earlier in the season. Fifteen times during the season he finished with at least 50 assists in a match, and he had five double-doubles in which he reached double figures in assists and digs. He also ranked second on Juniata in digs with 169 and blocks with 90, both of which marked new career highs. He helped Juniata compile a .289 hitting percentage as a team which was third in the EIVA and the Eagles were tops in the conference in kills per game. Werle was named the Most Valuable Player of the Molten Division III Tournament, as well as the Rutgers-Newark Golden Dome Classic. He also earned EIVA Tait Division Player of the Week honors once during the season. Juniata closed its season with a record of 17-9, and became the first program to win four consecutive Molten Division III Men\'s Invitational Volleyball Championships. The Eagles finished the season ranked first in the CSTV/AVCA Division III Top-15 poll, and reached the quarterfinals of the EIVA Tournament for the fifth-consecutive year. ###


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Daily archives: August 26th, 2009
America: Do You Approve of Torture? Yes or No!?
August 26, 2009	TL
CIADepartment of Homeland SecurityEric HolderTurkey
Look. We have to make a decision. Do we approve of torture or not?
If we approve of torture, then, fine. We'll have to accept the fact that our men and women will be tortured. And we must give up our right to complain or "officially protest" any torture on an American soldier.
So, which is it? Do we approve of torture, or not?
From Carol Marin at the Sun-Times:
The feds can't — just yet — deport Michigan restaurateur Ibrahim Parlak to his native Turkey. But they are frighteningly closer.
And the irony screams out.
On Monday, the same day Eric Holder, President Obama's attorney general, announced he would appoint a special counsel to investigate whether torture was used by the CIA to extract confessions from foreign suspects, a U.S. appeals court at the behest of the U.S. government ruled that it didn't have a problem sending Parlak back to the country where he was tortured — imprisoned for 17 months, shocked with electrodes, hung by his arms and sexually violated.
A Turkish Kurd, Parlak was granted political asylum in 1992. It was before our government got cozier with Turkey, before it re-classified some of the Kurdish separatist movement as "terrorist" and before the attacks of Sept. 11. With 9/11, Ibrahim Parlak's horror began anew.
Suddenly he looked different to the newly created Department of Homeland Security and to the Justice Department's Immigration courts. Instead of seeing a hard-working, tax-paying Chamber of Commerce member who ran Cafe Gulistan, a small Middle Eastern restaurant in the resort town of Harbert, Mich., the feds now saw an international menace.
So, which is it? Yes, or no? Torture yes, or torture no?
Scott Fawell, All Smiles Out of Prison, Not Sorry About Anything
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When I think about how over-scrupulous I've been at times during my life, I have to wonder about the apparent lack of scruples among some pols and certain others in government.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Scott Fawell turned on Gov. George Ryan "to save the love of his life," not because it was the right thing to do.
Well, good for him. Losing any sleep over the six children who were killed in a fiery crash?
Less than a year after his release from the U.S. prison system, Scott Fawell isn't all that sorry.
Sure, he pleaded guilty and testified against his now-imprisoned ex-boss and mentor, former GOP Gov. George Ryan. But Fawell — Ryan's onetime chief of staff and campaign manager — says he turned against Ryan to save the woman he loves.
Yes, he understands the public's perception that the licenses-for-bribes scandal under Ryan led to the deaths of six children in a fiery highway crash. But "do I feel any responsibility?" he says. "No I really don't."
And what about all those political friends that Fawell carefully cataloged in lists that the feds seized and used to put Ryan and him away?
They've deserted him.
"I've been very disappointed in the people that are friends of mine," Fawell said. "If it was a reverse situation and one of my friends of mine came back, I would have done anything I could to help. You know, that's friendship. And friendship should go beyond prison."
Fawell and his co-defendant and fiancée, Andrea Coutretsis, broke six years of silence Wednesday night on WTTW-Channel 11's "Chicago Tonight." In a 25-minute interview, they tackled subjects including the despair of leaving their families for prison to the plight of Ryan's successor, recently indicted ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and Blagojevich's co-defendants.
Kudos to Carol Marin for landing this interview, and for conducting it so eloquently.
Watch it here.
You know what? Stick to your scruples. Keep your soul. Whether you believe in a Higher Power or not, you don't want to rush in where angels fear to tread.
Nancy Reagan to Son Ron Reagan: I'll Miss Ted Kennedy
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Ron Reagan interviewed his mom, Nancy Reagan, today on Air America Radio regarding the death of Senator Edward Kennedy. It was incredibly, incredibly moving. Ron's show comes on every day at 5:00 p.m. in the Chicagoland area.
Asking his mother how her and her late husband's friendship with Ted Kennedy started, Mrs. Reagan responded responded, "Nobody really knew it," that their friendship was so close. "I think they couldn't quite conceive of two people in two different parties, how could that become a friendship? Which it, of course, did.
"Yes," her son Ron replied.
"I think it started when we first got to Washington and Teddy asked Dad, Daddy, if he could bring his mother to the Oval Office. And Daddy, of course, said, 'Of course.' Which he did.
"And then after that, he asked him to speak at the Kennedy Library, which he did. And from then on, they developed this friendship."
"Both of them respected one another," Mrs. Reagan continued. "It was a very good friendship. It's what there should be more of today.You know, two different parties. Enough with all this other stuff."
Ron commented that it would be unusual today, his father and Ted Kennedy, "polar opposites politically," that a friendship like that could begin and endure for so long.
"But it shouldn't be," his mother replied. "It shouldn't be thought of as unusual. That's my point. It just shouldn't. They were two men who respected each other — didn't agree, politically — but that doesn't make any difference. You can still respect one another. And they did."
She continued, "Ted gave the best speech about Daddy that I have ever heard. I forgot what it was, but, oh, it was a good speech. So good."
"I got to know him better over our association over stem cell [research], because we both worked very hard for that," Mrs. Reagan went on. "There just was a great, great friendship and respect for one another."
"I'll miss him," Mrs. Reagan said.
The interview is very moving, especially when the conversation turned to President Reagan's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. A subsequent phone call Mrs. Reagan received on her birthday is also very moving.
"It was a good, solid friendship," Mrs. Reagan said, "We need more of them today."
Ron asks his mother if perhaps there was an "air of sympatico" between his father and Senator Kennedy because of the attempt on President Reagan's life, and Mrs. Reagan says she "never thought about it like that. How smart you are!" she says to her son.
That was quite nice.
Mrs. Reagan also expressed her hope that health care reform would pass.
Listen to the whole interview here:
I have to say, this was one of the most touching interviews I've ever heard in my life. I had to pull the car over because my eyes were watering up. Gave me a whole new perspective on Mrs. Reagan, and I appreciate that.
Very moving. Very stirring.
Also, please visit the Ron Reagan show on the Web, and listen to Air America Radio.
Senator Ted Kennedy, the 'Lion of the Senate,' Dead at 77
Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy
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I never met Senator Edward Kennedy. A few years back, I took my son to Washington, D.C., for a vacation, and we saw him in a Senate Hearing. Sen. Richard Durbin was there also.
We were not able to say hello or shake his hand. The senators were called away for a vote.
I'm just sitting with this right now. Senator Kennedy has died.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.
In nearly 50 years in the Senate, Kennedy served alongside 10 presidents — his brother John Fitzgerald Kennedy among them — compiling an impressive list of legislative achievements on health care, civil rights, education, immigration and more.
His only run for the White House ended in defeat in 1980. More than a quarter-century later, he handed then-Sen. Barack Obama an endorsement at a critical point in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, explicitly likening the young contender to President Kennedy.
To the American public, Kennedy was best known as the last surviving son of America's most glamorous political family, father figure and, memorably, eulogist of an Irish-American clan plagued again and again by tragedy.
The last son has died. Rest in peace, Senator. Rest in peace.