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Francisco Ángel Soriano San Martin (born 28 March 1949 in Las Tejeras-Langreo, Asturias) is a SH1 shooter from Spain. In 2012, he was retired and a pensioner. Soriano competed at the 1988 Summer Paralympics, 1992 Summer Paralympics, 1996 Summer Paralympics, 2000 Summer Paralympics, 2004 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics. In 1996, he won a gold medal in the Free Pistol .50 P4, Mixed SH1 competition.  In 2000, he won a bronze in the Free Pistol .50 P4, Mixed SH1 competition.

Personal
Soriano was born on March 28, 1949, in Las Tejeras-Langreo, Asturias. As a 16-year-old, he emigrated to Belgium. When living and working in Belgium for an elevator company as a 26 years old, he was injured in an accident at work that left him a paraplegic. The accident damaged his 9th and 10 vertebrae. He rehabilitated for a year in Brussels, with the first few months spent in bed. By 1982, he was married.  Together, they decided to move to Spain in 1982. In 2012, he was based in Elche, and a retired pensioner. Prior to taking up shooting, he tried a number of disability sports including wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, swimming and archery.  He spent three years participating in archery.

Shooting
Soriano is a SH1 shooter. After initially trying several sports following his accident, he tried shooting following the suggestion of a teacher. He tried the sport several times before making the decision to purchase a gun.

Competing at the 1981 Belgian Championship, Soriano finished in first place. He won a silver medal at the 1986 Stoke Mandeville Games in the P1 event. He made his Paralympic debut at the 1988 Summer Paralympics. Ghent hosted 1989 European Championships, where he won a silver medal in the P4 50 meter Mixed pistol SH1 event. At the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1990, he came away with a gold medal in the 10 meter air pistol event.

Soriano represented Spain at the 1992 Summer Paralympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics. He was one of only seven Spanish Paralympians to do so. At the Barcelona Games in 1992, he finished fifth. Competing at the Linz, Austria hosted world championsions in 1994, he won a gold medal in the P4 event. The 1995 European Championships were held in Järvenpää, Finland. He failed to medal at the event, finishing fourth in the P3 25 meter Sport Pistol SH1 mixed event, seventh in the P4 50 meter Mixed pistol SH1 event and eighth in the 10 meter Men's air pistol SH1 event.

Soriano competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. In 1996, he won a gold medal in the Pistol 50 meter P4, Mixed SH1 competition. European Championship 1997 saw Chatenoy Le Royal, France host the European Championships, with Soriano winning a pair of bronze medals in the P1 10 meter Men's air pistol SH1 and P4 50 meter Mixed pistol SH1 events. At the 1998 World Championships in Santander, he won a bronze medal in the team event.

Soriano competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. In 2000, he won a bronze in the P4 Pistol 50 meter Mixed SH1 competition. The 2001 European Championship were held in Vingsted, Denmark, with Soriano picking up a gold medal in the P4 50 meter Pistol SH1 event, while having a fifth-place finish in the P1 10 m. Men's air pistol SH1 and a twenty-fourth-place finish in the P3 25 meter mixed sporting pistol SH1 event. The World Championships were held in Seoul, South Korea in 2002, with Soriano picking up a gold in the P4 event. The 2003 European Championship took place in Brno, Czech Republic, with Soriano finishing first in the P4 50 meter Mixed pistol SH1 event and ninth in the P3 SH1 event.

Soriano competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. Suhl, Germany hosted the 2007 European Championships, where he won a silver medal in the P1 10 meter men's air pistol SH1 event.

Soriano competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

The May 2012 Copa del Rey held at the Catalan Shooting Federation's range in Mollet del Vallés was an opportunity for him to set qualifying marks for the 2012 Paralympic Games, which he did in the 50 meter SH1 men's pistol event. The scores won him the event. He also earned a first-place finish in the 25 meter sport pistol, while having a third-place finish in the P1 10 meter men's air pistol event. As a sixty-three-year-old, he competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. He was the most experienced Paralympian on the Spanish team and was the oldest member of the Spanish team. Going into the 2012 Games, he was Spain's most decorated Paralympic shooter, and one of the country's best Paralympic shooters period. During the 2012 Games, he was already thinking about trying to qualify for the 2016 Summer Paralympics as his next dream. In his own words, "I view life as a challenge every single day. If I don't have a dream, the torch's fire will burn out. I know people who leave the job and have no more dreams, and head to an early grave". The Lucentum de Alicante Shooting Club hosted 2013 European Championships in October.  He participated in the event.

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Q: Remove a word from file names on Linux I accidentally ran exiftool -all= * on my Linux system in my Downloads folder (the command removes the EXIF metadata from all files in the current directory). Luckily, exiftool creates backup files by adding the extension _original (so untitled.jpg becomes untitled.jpg_original. How can I remove this suffix from the original files (which I've moved into a folder) so I can make the original files have their original file names?

A: rename
Open the terminal, change directories with cd to the directory containing the files that have _original at the end of their names and run this command:
find . -type f -name '*_original' -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/_original//'

To find files that have an _original suffix in their file names run the first part of the above command.
find . -type f -name '*_original'

find files in subdirectories too and rename renames files wherever they are located, so the files don't need to be moved somewhere else before they are renamed.
rename 's/_original//' deletes _original from the names of the files that find found by replacing _original with a zero-length empty string.
sed and mv
If the rename program in your Linux distro is different from the rename that was used to test this code (Larry Wall's "Perl rename", rename on Debian based, prename on Red Hat based distributions), you can use mv instead of rename to rename files.
find . -type f -name '*_original' | sed -e 'p;s/_original//' | xargs -n2 mv

find . -type f -name '*_original' finds all files that have an _original suffix and sed -e 'p;s/_original//' | xargs -n2 mv replaces _original with a zero-length empty string.

A: If they all are in one level of directories, it can be as simple as this with bash:
$ for i in *.jpg_original; do mv -v "$i" "${i/.jpg_original/.jpg}"; done
renamed 'test.jpg_original' -> 'test.jpg'
$

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Henry Mayo Newhall Engages HTS for Transition Planning Services – HTS Inc.
HTS is pleased to announce that it was recently engaged by Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, CA for its transition and activation planning services. The HTS project team comprised of Kelly Guzman, Kathy Stevenson, and Brandon Sanchez participated in a project visioning session where they were introduced to the Henry Mayo project and team. Set to open in 2019, the new patient tower will provide 142 additional beds, two new surgery suites, and a rooftop helipad with direct access to the Emergency Department.
HTS looks forward to meeting with committees in the next few months to begin the identification of critical tasks.


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Revisiting ABCs in the Aviation Industry: tips for spotting bad apples in third party relationships
By Wolf Von Kumberg
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When I was a young lawyer in the aerospace industry in the late 1980s it was going through a period of great ethical upheaval. The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was written to address the manner in which foreign defence contracts were obtained. The Industry was forced to look at the way it conducted its business and its employees behaved. Top management - who had been part of the problem - paid lip service to policies and procedures of ethical behaviour, but never meant to take them off the shelf. They were mere window dressing. But things changed as these people retired or were forced out. Large fines were imposed and contractors were debarred from bidding on future government contracts. There was a recognition over time that unethical behaviour was too costly and ethical behaviour actually led to better business results.
Much the same has happened with British companies after the UK Bribery Act was introduced. There was a recognition that the way business had been done, whether internationally involving foreign government officials, or commercially between businesses had been less than ethical. To weed out these practices, companies had to review and strengthen their anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) procedures and implement robust training and ethics programmes. This would provide them with the defence of adequate procedures under the Act, should something go wrong.
So, having implemented adequate ABC procedures in your company, you would think the work is now done. Not so! The greatest ABC threat to companies today does not lie within, but is external to the company. It is the wide-ranging field of third parties that a company must interact with to procure parts, clear customs, market and distribute products, team with, joint venture with or even hold shares in. Many of these third-party players are not even in your local jurisdictions but spread globally often in jurisdictions with low Corruption Perception Index (CPI) scores.
Just think of the aviation industry. Airlines use suppliers of every kind, from catering, cleaners, technicians to ground handling agents, which are scattered around the world wherever there may be a hub; there is a constant need for interaction with local Government officials; spare parts have to be shipped to supply depots around the world; freight forwarders; customs officials; limousine services; the list is endless. Equipment suppliers have faced significant difficulty with the use of intermediaries to assist in sales campaigns, particularly in the developing world. So, what can be done to protect your business from this external threat?
There are simple tips that can be followed to start making changes in your company's compliance programme to capture third party threats:
Identify Red Flags
These are important because they put you, and the company, on notice of a possible violation.
When interacting with a third party, what facts would you consider to suggest a high likelihood of corruption (i.e., qualify as red flags that you should be looking out for)? Particular difficulty may arise when the third party's function is to assist in generating sales, or involves government interactions such as import formalities or licensing.
Common red flags include:
The third party is related to a government official.
The third party refuses to promise in writing to abide by applicable anti-corruption laws or company policies.
The activities take place in a country or in an industry that traditionally has had a reputation for corruption.
The payments to third parties are unusual in their size or method of delivery (e.g. unusually large commissions or payments to an offshore bank account)
The third party has been investigated, charged, or convicted of a crime.
A desire to keep the relationship secret, especially where dealing with government officials or prospective customers.
A failure to provide regular reports on activity, or reports are vague or misleading
Adverse media reporting about the third party or the subject project.
Unexplained or inadequately explained termination of association with one or more other companies.
Requests for over-invoicing, or that all or a portion of the commission be paid in a third country, to a third party, to a foreign bank account, or in cash or otherwise untraceable funds.
The third party is in a different line of business than that for which it has been engaged.
The third party lacks required experience, expertise, resources or personnel.
Heavy reliance on political/government contacts versus knowledgeable staff and investment of time and effort to promote company interests.
Unwillingness or inability to assist in developing or implementing a logical market development programme.
The third party is merely a shell company incorporated in an offshore jurisdiction.
Third party "consulting agreements" that include only vaguely described services.
Managing these risks and applicable principles
1. Assess the risk before engaging with potential service providers.
2. Understand the qualifications and associations of third-parties, including their business reputations and relationships, if any, with foreign officials.
3. The degree of scrutiny should increase if red flags surface.
4. Understand and clearly document the business rationale for including the third party in the transaction. This includes:
Confirming the role and need for the third party.
Ensuring that the contract terms specifically describe the services to be performed.
Having adequate and transparent procurement procedures that are well documented.
Considering payment terms and how they compare to typical terms in the industry.
Confirming that the third party is actually performing the work for which it is being paid and that the compensation is commensurate with the work being provided.
Undertaking robust well documented due diligence prior to engagement and then regular monitoring of the third-party relationships.
Communicating ethical expectations. Ethical ambiguities can be reduced by creating and disseminating an organizational code of ethics. It should state the organization's primary values and the ethical rules that third parties are expected to follow.
Contractual representations as to prior conduct, and binding undertakings as to ethical standards to be observed while performing services, with termination rights in the event of non-compliance.
Seeking information from third parties about their compliance programmes, policies and procedures and, where appropriate, seek assurances thereof through anti-corruption certifications or otherwise.
Ensuring that compliance training is part of the third party's compliance programme and, where ABC risks are high, consider providing additional training.
Implementing regular audit programmes of third parties compliance to the organizational code of ethics, more frequently where there is a greater ABC risk.
The organization needs to provide formal mechanisms so that third parties can discuss ethical dilemmas and report unethical behaviour, such as ethics hotlines.
An ethics programme is only as good as its last update. Laws and regulations change and the policies and procedures in this area also have to be updated regularly and follow-on training provided.
Keeping a regular eye on what is happening in the industry and what the regulators are focusing on. This will permit you to stay ahead of the pack and ensure that you always have adequate procedures to deal with ABC matters.
Implementing a focused third party compliance review based on the aforementioned steps will help to avoid traps in dealing with third parties. Bird & Bird is well positioned to assist with a focused compliance review. With 30 offices and with over 1300 lawyers worldwide, many with hands on experience working for regulators and multi-national companies, you are assured the expertise needed to deal with this complex subject.
Wolf von Kumberg
Author Wolf von Kumberg was the Assistant General Counsel and European Legal Director for Northrop Grumman Corporation and is now a consultant advising Bird & Bird.
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this is the sweetest little set up I have ever seen. Well done ladies.
omg. that is the cutest party ever.
so adorable! I never knew pancakes could look so cute!
the pancakes are too cute! love the little handkerchiefs as well!
omg, i love this idea!! so cute!
Looks sooo good! I want to dig in!
oh my gosh i want to live in these photos!
how divine is this event?! And yes anything involving pancakes truly is from Heaven!
I love the nametag in the stack of pancakes, perfection!
So pretty and inspiring !
so cuute i love those hanging handkerchiefs !
wow I agree! This is so delightful!!


Over the years I have made keen observations on the reoccurring types of profile pictures people tend to use on Facebook. This is aside from what I would refer to as an "appropriate" profile picture, such as a group photo with friends or a picture of one posing in front of a historical monument. At one point or another, I think it's safe to say we have all fallen victim to at least one of these categories.
I like to call this the "Adele Effect".
I thought, Wow, she's pretty hot!
Do you catch my drift now? Don't make me explain. Let's just say that if all 40 of your profile pictures are just a close-up on your face, then you're definitely trying to hide something.
Oh, the notorious mirror shot. There are many variations of this type of picture: a guy lifting his shirt and flexing his abs, two drunk girls performing the duck-face in a public restroom, or a person who wants to show off their outfit from head to toe, which the one-arm-extension-self-shot technique fails to capture in its totality. However, they all pretty much ignite the same reaction from the viewer: Get over yourself!!
And now the full-fashion-clinic shot. What's my theory for why people like to take this picture? Because the person spent so much time and effort assembling a beautiful outfit from head to toe that it'd just be a damn shame if they ran into no one of importance all day. So, post it up online! Now, everyone will see.
Yes, I have my share of Kobe Bryant snapshots in my profile collection. And yes, I have a picture that advertises one of the greatest blogs in the world. Annnnnd yes, I superimposed a picture of my face on to a random guy walking next to Jessica Alba. I admit, our fandom get's the best of us sometimes. But what really intrigues me is when all of a person's profile pictures are of celebrities… Or scenic views… Or their dog.
I mean, isn't that weird?
It's difficult for me to think of a plausible explanation for this. I guess the one that jumps out most is self-esteem issues. But could a person really find his or herself so unattractive that they are actually ashamed to post a picture of themselves online?! Maybe they're self-conscious because they're unphotogenic? You do have those people who have really nice smiles when they laugh at a joke or something, but the second a lens is pointed in their general direction they get all Freddy Krueger on you. Hm, I don't know!
Anyway, a majority of "candid" pictures out there seem so suspect. Let's take a photograph of a girl smelling a flower as an example. It literally takes about half a second to smell a flower. Do you think a person can whip out their camera, frame, focus, and snap in 0.5 seconds?! Or how about a picture of someone walking down a foggy alley. Yeah, cause you just happen to like walking down foggy alleys by yourself at night and your friend just happened to be waiting at the end of it and he just happened to have his camera all ready to shoot and you just happened not to notice and you just happened to be blowing a perfect cloud of smoke from your cigarette and the night sky just happened to have a full moon and you just happened to be very immaculately dressed, HUH?! Psh, please.


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"A Deep Irony At Work": Forget What You've Heard. Donald Trump Isn't Really Challenging Conservative Orthodoxy
There used to be a standard operating procedure for Republican presidential candidates when they got asked about the Supreme Court. Avoid talking about specific issues you hope the Court will decide, don't mention any specific people you want to put on the bench, and just offer some vague principles that sound good to everybody but are actually meant as dog-whistles to reassure your conservative supporters that they'll get the kind of appointments they want. Your model justice would be an advocate of "judicial restraint," who "won't legislate from the bench" and who "respects the intent of the Founders."
But as in so many things, Donald Trump doesn't play by those rules. Instead, he just released a list of 11 judges from whom he says he'll choose his Supreme Court picks.
In doing so, Trump demonstrated to conservatives why there's almost no reason for them not to get behind him.
But that's not because the list shows that he shares their perspective or will be ideologically reliable. It's because it's yet more evidence that when it comes to the things conservatives think are important, Donald Trump just doesn't care one way or the other. And that means they can get almost everything they want out of a Trump presidency.
As our reporters Jenna Johnson and Robert Barnes wrote, "Trump's picks looked more like a wish list of the nation's conservative legal elite than the product of a political revolutionary." And that's because, I promise you, Trump just told somebody to put together a list, looked at it, and said it seems fine. He had previously said he'd let the Heritage Foundation assemble his list, while this one has some of their picks and a few others. But I'll bet that if you asked him today who's on his list, he couldn't give you more than one or two names. Even though, as I've been arguing for the last couple of years, the Supreme Court may be the single most important issue in this election, there's nothing to suggest that Trump much cares about who he puts on it. Which means conservatives get what they want.
Some people, myself included, argue that we focus way too much on personality in the presidential campaign (as interesting as personalities are), because what matters more than anything is the basic ideological distinctions between the parties. Yes, the individual characteristics each president brings to the office can make a difference; for instance, Barack Obama is extremely cautious about foreign entanglements, while Hillary Clinton is likely to be more aggressive when it comes to getting involved in hotspots around the globe. But on the vast majority of issues, what matters is whether there's a Republican or a Democrat in the Oval Office. Any Republican will pursue basically the same set of policies as any other Republican, and the same is true of Democrats. Furthermore, they're going to have to fill all those thousands of executive branch positions from the same pool of people. Each party has its own government-in-waiting when it's out of power, cooling its heels in think tanks and advocacy groups and lobbying firms, waiting to move back into government when they win, no matter which contender from their party gets the nomination.
But there's a deep irony at work with Donald Trump. He's the least ideologically committed candidate we've seen in a very long time, at least since Eisenhower and maybe even before. To the broad public, he offers a Great Man theory of the presidency: don't worry about issues, because with my huge brain, superhuman deal-making skills, and overall personal tremendousness, I will solve all our problems. Yet precisely because Trump doesn't care in the least about any policy issues, conservatives may have no more to reason to fear that he'd betray them on policy than they would with a committed conservative like Ted Cruz.
How are things likely to proceed in his presidency? On the Supreme Court, he just takes a list from conservative activists. When Republicans in Congress craft legislation, is he going to stay up late at night going over each sub-section to make sure they reflect his beliefs? Of course not — they'll pass it, he'll sign it, and he won't bother reading more than the title. Is he going to worry about who all his undersecretaries and deputy secretaries are, and make sure he agrees with the policy decisions they make? Not on your life. He'll say, "Get me some fabulous people, really top-notch, the best" — and the Republicans around him will put the same people in those positions who would have served in any Republican administration.
Trump has said many things during the campaign that contradict conservative dogma. So what? If you're a conservative worried about some policy stance Trump took today, you can just wait until the next time he gets asked about the same topic, and he'll say something completely different. That may mean he isn't committed to your position deep in his heart, but that doesn't matter. If on a particular day as president he takes some policy stance that runs counter to conservative ideology, is he really going to care enough to pursue it, especially when the people around him are objecting? Or is he more likely to say, "Eh, whatever — what else is going on today?"
This has already been made clear on specific issues. As this blog has previously detailed, no matter how many times media outlets say otherwise, Trump did not actually signal that he might raise taxes on the rich or raise the minimum wage. All he has done was signal general vagueness born mostly of disinterest or lack of appreciation of policy detail, followed by clarifications that he would cut taxes on the rich and opposes the existence of any federal minimum.
There are a couple of exceptions, particularly trade, where conservatives are generally advocates of free trade and Trump seems determined to start a trade war with China. But even on what may be the issue most important to him, it's hard to tell how his bombastic rhetoric would translate into actual policy decisions. So there too, the Republicans around him would have plenty of room to shape policy in their preferred direction. And yes, the fact that he's so ignorant and erratic could have consequences that range from the problematic to the catastrophic. But that's not an ideological question.
So if you're a conservative, you can refuse to support Trump because he's such a raging buffoon that there's no telling what kind of damage he could do to the country. That's more than enough reason to oppose him. But if what really matters to you is the substance of conservative ideology, you probably have nothing to worry about.
By: Paul Waldman, Senior Writer, The American Prospect; Contributor, The Plum Line Blog, The Washington Post, May 19, 2016
May 23, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Conservatives, Donald Trump, GOP | China, Congress, Heritage Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Minimum Wage, SCOTUS Nominees, Taxes, Trade Agreements | 2 Comments
"Currying Favor To Conservatives": Be Afraid Of How Much Donald Trump's Supreme Court Could Change America
It's now been well over a month since the expiration of Donald Trump's self-imposed deadline for coming up with a list of candidates from which he would choose Supreme Court nominees, including the one he would name right away to fill the seat of the late Antonin Scalia. When asked about the list, Trump said he thought it would be ready to be released before the convention.
This is not a promise conservatives are going to let him ignore perpetually, and conversely, there's no particular evidence he cares enough about constitutional law to make this a serious bone of contention.
But, in fact, conservative fears about Trump's lack of fidelity to their supreme value of limited government could lead to demands for truly radical Court nominees who embrace the idea that right-wing judicial activism is needed to restrain the executive and legislative branches alike.
We are already hearing arguments from conservative legal circles that an atmosphere of lawlessness associated with the Court's failure to kill Obamacare has contributed to the frustration and extremism reflected in Trump's successful drive for the GOP presidential nomination. And some of the same critics point accusingly at Trump's long-standing support for widespread use of the power of eminent domain as showing his contempt for property rights and willingness to use government aggressively.
So it's not enough to say that conservative legal activists don't trust Donald Trump any more than other conservatives do: They actually believe he's a prime example of a politician that judges need to restrain without the deference to the political branches of government that conservatives used to believe in (and that Chief Justice John Roberts exhibited in allowing Obamacare to survive).
And thus: Regular old-school "judicial deference" conservatives like Roberts will not be acceptable to a lot of conservative opinion leaders, particularly coming from Trump. You can expect more and more demands for Justices who share the "constitutional conservative" belief in absolute property rights that permanently debar Congress and the president alike from enacting or administering social-welfare programs or business regulation. This was the philosophy supported by the Court during the early-20th-century period when a chain of decisions begun by Lochner v. United States stymied progressive legislation until FDR's threat of court-packing and then turnover in justices forced its abandonment.
There's now a powerful movement in conservative legal circles to bring back Lochner, and there's probably no quicker route to its restoration than a Trump administration trying to buy favor with those on the right who fear the Donald's tyrannical tendencies.
If and when Trump releases his SCOTUS prospect list — which he's promised he will prepare in consultation with the Heritage Foundation — there are a couple of names to look for in particular. One is Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willet, an outspoken neo-Lochner advocate. Another is Utah Senator Mike Lee, who makes no bones about his belief that the New Deal was and is unconstitutional. And still another might be Lee's best friend in the Senate, Ted Cruz, if he patches things up with Trump and decides the bench rather than the White House is his destiny.
For progressives, the thing to comprehend is that there are worse things that could come from Trump Supreme Court nominations than the expected fifth vote to restrict or overturn Roe v. Wade or to cripple public-sector unions, terrible as either of those things would be. Precisely because Trump is a loose cannon, he may be convinced to promise his new conservative friends what they really want on the Court: Justices who want to turn the clock back not just to 1972, when abortion was illegal in most states, but to the early 1930s when what we think of as the social safety net was considered a radical and unconstitutional idea.
By: Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, May 8, 2016
May 9, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Conservatives, Donald Trump, U. S. Supreme Court Nominees | Affordable Care Act, Eminant Domain, Heritage Foundation, Judicial Activism, Judicial Deference, Lochner v United States, Progressives, Roe v Wade, Social Safety Net | Leave a comment
"Jim DeMint Looking Over His Shoulder": Trump Made A Big Promise Aimed At Winning Over Nervous Conservatives
It sort of got lost in competing news about his efforts to seem a mite more normal now that he's almost certain to head to Cleveland in July as the leader in delegates, if not the putative nominee, but Donald Trump made a very unusual and highly significant promise aimed right at the beating heart of movement conservatism:
Speaking at the construction site for his new hotel in Washington, D.C., Monday, Trump said he will make a list public in the next week of 10 conservative judges that he would consider nominating to the Supreme Court. If elected, Trump said, he would only pick from that list, which is being made in consultation with the conservative Heritage Foundation.
He first made that promise over the weekend in Florida, and he seems to want to make sure it's widely heard. This means somebody is giving him good advice about how to address the concerns of conservatives about his ideological reliability.
Of all the things they fear about a President Trump, the most urgent is that he will throw away a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape SCOTUS and constitutional law. And of all the temptations they have to hold their noses and support the man despite all of his heresies and erratic behavior, the most powerful would be the confident belief that at least he would position the Court to overrule Roe v. Wade, protect Citizens United, overturn Obama's executive orders, eviscerate regulation of businesses, inoculate religion-based discrimination, and maybe even introduce a new Lochner era of constitutionally enshrined property rights. This would be a legacy that might well outweigh the risks associated with a Trump presidency.
Promising to make his SCOTUS list public right now is smart, because otherwise it's an empty promise, and involving the Heritage Foundation in developing it is key to its credibility. Not only has Heritage had a long history of vetting Republican appointees; its current president, Jim DeMint, is arguably the most reliable of "constitutional conservatives," a man who believes conservative policy prescriptions ought to be permanently protected from the occasional liberal majority via a divinely inspired and unchanging Supreme Law.
Bonding with conservatives over SCOTUS makes some psychological sense for Trump as well. Nothing symbolizes the betrayal of the conservative rank and file — whose abiding exemplar is arguably the humble anti-choice activist staffing phone banks and licking envelopes to protect the unborn from "baby-killers" — by those GOP elites in Washington better than the long string of Republican SCOTUS appointees who have turned out to be traitors to the Cause, from Roe v. Wade author Harry Blackmun to the generally liberal John Paul Stevens and David Souter to the current Obamacare-protecting chief justice. If Trump can break that pattern with Jim DeMint looking over his shoulder, maybe he won't be that bad for conservatism after all.
By: Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, March 22, 2016
March 23, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Conservatism, Donald Trump, Jim DeMint, U. S. Supreme Court Nominees | Citizens United, Constitional Conservatives, David Souter, Harry Blackman, Heritage Foundation, John Paul Stevens, Religious Liberty, Roe v Wade | Leave a comment
"Strategic Rift In Anti-Trump Coalition": The Two Republican Establishments Are Split On Their Anti-Trump Strategies
The day after Super Tuesday, Mitt Romney (as the immediate past nominee of a nongoverning party, he would have once been called the "titular head" of the GOP) laid out the Republican Establishment's game plan for stopping Donald Trump.
If the other candidates can find some common ground, I believe we can nominate a person who can win the general election and who will represent the values and policies of conservatism. Given the current delegate selection process, that means that I'd vote for Marco Rubio in Florida and for John Kasich in Ohio and for Ted Cruz or whichever one of the other two contenders has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump in a given state.
Everybody outside TrumpWorld was onboard, right? Wrong. Especially following the March 5 caucuses and primaries, when he solidified his second-place position in delegates, Ted Cruz and his backers made it clear they believe the most efficient method of stopping Trump is for Republicans to unite behind his own candidacy. It's Marco Rubio's "anti-Trump consolidation" theory adopted by another candidate now that Rubio is struggling to survive. And thus with most of the Republican Establishment digging under the sofa cushions for funds to help Rubio beat Trump in Florida, Team Cruz was up in the air in the Sunshine State running anti-Rubio ads.
Was this a rogue action by a candidate not exactly known in the Senate as a team player? Perhaps. But more fundamentally, the strategic rift in the anti-Trump coalition is the product of two very different Republican Establishments: that of self-conscious movement conservatives, who find a Cruz nomination either congenial or acceptable, and the non-movement-party Establishment, which is as hostile to Cruz as it is to Trump.
The conservative-movement Establishment can be found in organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the Club for Growth and opinion vehicles like National Review magazine. Their basic mark of distinction is that they view the GOP as a vehicle for the promotion and implementation of conservative ideology and policy position rather than as an end in itself. They are virulently anti-Trump (as evidenced by National Review's recent special issue attacking the mogul) for all the reasons most Republicans (and for that matter, Democrats) evince, but with the additional and decisive consideration that Trump has violated conservative orthodoxy on a host of issues from trade policy to "entitlement reform" to the Middle East. Members of this Establishment do not uniformly support Ted Cruz; some are fine with the equally conservative (if far less disruptive) Marco Rubio, and others have electability concerns about the Texan even if they like his issue positions and his combative attitude toward the Republican congressional leadership. But suffice it to say they are not horrified by the idea of a Cruz presidency, and many have concluded his nomination is an easier bet than some panicky Anybody But Trump movement that at best will produce the unpredictable nightmare of a contested convention even as Democrats (more than likely) unite behind their nominee. RedState's Leon Wolf neatly expressed their point of view yesterday:
Maybe you preferred someone who is a better communicator than Cruz or who stood a better chance of beating Hillary in the general. Sorry, but for whatever reason, your fellow voters have ruled each of those candidates out, and Rubio's collapse this weekend pretty much put that nail in the coffin. It's now a choice between guaranteed loser Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, who might actually win.
From the movement-conservative perspective, it's not Cruz who's going rogue but instead elements of the party Establishment (including the members of Congress who conspicuously hate Ted Cruz) that cannot accept that it has lost control of the GOP this year and is insisting on a contested convention as a way to reassert its control behind closed doors in Cleveland. Party Establishmentarians are often conservative ideologically, too, but are dedicated to pragmatic strategies and tactics at sharp odds with Cruz's philosophy of systematic partisan confrontation and maximalist rhetoric. And they are highly allergic to risky general-election candidates.
But there's a fresh crisis in the party Establishment after the March 8 contests in four states, wherein Trump won Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii, Cruz won Idaho, and Marco Rubio won — maybe, it hasn't been totally resolved yet — one delegate in Hawaii and absolutely nothing else. And new polls of Florida are beginning to come in that don't look promising for Rubio. Even as party Establishment and even some conservative-movement Establishment folk pound Trump with negative ads, there are signs of panic. Most shocking, Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, normally the most reliable of party Establishment mouthpieces and a big-time neoconservative booster of Rubio's foreign-policy positions, publicly called on the Floridian to drop out of the race and endorse Cruz in order to stop Trump.
We'll soon see if the divisions between the two Republican Establishments will quickly be resolved by the surrender of party types like Rubin. Some may instead try to reanimate Rubin or switch horses to Kasich, who has a better chance than Rubio to win his own home state next week. Still others may make their peace with Trump, or resolve to spend the rest of the cycle focused on down-ballot races. The confusion of the Republican Establishments now does not bode well for their unity or effectiveness if they do somehow manage to force Trump into a contested convention.
March 11, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Conservatism, Donald Trump, Establishment Republicans, Ted Cruz | Club For Growth, GOP Contested Convention, Heritage Foundation, Jennifer Rubin, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney | Leave a comment
"The Challenge Of Being Paul Ryan": He's Been Anointed As A Savior, And Saviors Often Meet A Bad End
Paul Ryan had excellent reasons for not wanting to be speaker of the House. He's a smart guy and knows that the Republican caucus he is about to lead is nearly ungovernable. He's been anointed as a savior, and saviors often meet a bad end.
Moreover, the Wisconsin native (and ardent Packers fan) is still very much a work in progress. He was happy to stay away from the center stage as he mapped out the next steps of his life and the direction of his thinking. As chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, he could pick his fights and choose the issues he wanted to highlight. As speaker, the issues will often pick him and he may well have to wage battles he might prefer to avoid.
Ryan has always wanted to be several things at the same time, and they have not been easy to keep in balance.
On the one hand, he is, from my experience, a genuinely nice and warm person who wants to be seen as thoughtful, wonkish and willing to delve deeply into policy details. He's a religious man who knows that his faith teaches the imperative of compassion and the urgency of justice. He has repeatedly given speeches declaring his determination to alleviate poverty.
But he is also an ideologue — one reason the right-wingers in the House could accept him as speaker. He has said that the unforgiving libertarianism of Ayn Rand — whose books include one called "The Virtue of Selfishness" — inspired him to enter politics. In a speech before the Heritage Foundation in 2011, he divided the world between "takers" and "makers" and spoke of government programs as creating "a hammock that ends up lulling people into lives of dependency and complacency." I doubt that poor people think they spend their lives swaying gently between the trees.
The budgets he has proposed over the years are his signature. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal group that is very careful about its numbers, repeatedly found that roughly two-thirds of the cuts in Ryan's budgets came from programs for low- and moderate-income people. Take that, you takers!
Had Ryan not been pushed toward the speakership, he would have more room to refine his views and would not face constant pressure to appease the right. That pressure led him to criticize the process that outgoing Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) used to save Ryan from having to deal with impossible problems around the budget and the debt ceiling. Being Paul Ryan has just gotten even harder.
But let's give Ryan a brief respite by focusing on his virtues. When he insisted that he would not take the speaker's job unless he could protect his "family time," he showed what kind of person he is and made a statement that could transform the debate about work and family.
I personally identify with Ryan because we were both 16 when our dads died and, like him, I have three kids. Time with my family has been a treasure for me, too. Good for Ryan for placing his family at the heart of his life.
Yet his statement brought him immediate and sharp criticism because he had voted against mandatory paid family leave. Rather than resenting his critics, he should take them very seriously by admitting that he enjoys a degree of bargaining power that so many Americans lack. And he should not pretend that the "flex time" proposals he has endorsed are the answer. They would merely undermine employees' existing rights to overtime.
Ryan might take a look at a 2006 essay in the Weekly Standard by Yuval Levin, a conservative thinker I am sure he admires, acknowledging the tension between the market and the family. Levin noted that the market "values risk-taking and creative destruction that can be very bad for family life" and that "the libertarian and the traditionalist are not natural allies."
Sometimes, despite what Ayn Rand says, government action is essential to preserving individual rights in the marketplace and protecting the integrity of family life. Many families are under severe economic pressures. There are times when only government is in a position to relieve them, often through the programs Ryan would cut.
Thus a hope: Ryan could use the first days of his speakership to signal his intention of bridging at least some of the great ideological gaps in our country. A man who so honorably values his own family could start by changing his mind on family leave.
By: E. J. Dionne, Jr., Opinion Writer, The Washington Post, October 28, 2015
October 31, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | House Freedom Caucus, Ideologues, Paul Ryan, Speaker of The House of Representatives | Ayn Rand, Heritage Foundation, John Boehner, Paid Family Leave, Poor and Low Income, Republicans, Ryan Budget Plans, Yuval Levin | 3 Comments


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Everything is Game: The Next Generation of NBA® 2K21 Now Available Worldwide
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NBA 2K21 boasts groundbreaking technological advancements, new modes and exclusive robust features that set the standard for next-gen sports simulations.
Sydney, Australia – November 10, 2020 – 2K is proud to announce that NBA® 2K21 for next-generation consoles is now available worldwide. Releasing today for Xbox Series X|Sand on November 12, 2020 for PlayStation®5, NBA 2K21 is built from the ground up to fully utilize the incredible power, speed and technology enabled by the next-generation of consoles. With new groundbreaking advancements, modes and features, NBA 2K21 represents an incredible leap forward and is the largest game in franchise history, ushering in a new era for sports simulation titles.
"In a year unlike any other, I'm incredibly proud of the team at Visual Concepts for delivering the most authentic, immersive and visually stunning NBA 2K game we've ever made," said Greg Thomas, president of Visual Concepts. "From the introduction of the completely customizable MyNBA franchise mode, to the expansion of the WNBA experience, and even the return of affiliations, we developed the details of 2K21 with the express purpose of celebrating our community by giving them the industry's best sports sim."
The next-gen version of NBA 2K21 features a myriad of exclusive features, modes and advancements that are only available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S:
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Lightning-Fast Load Times – By utilizing the built-in solid-state drives (SSDs) of the next-gen consoles, NBA 2K21 now features incredibly short load times that get players directly into the action;
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Introducing the W – Greatly expanding on the WNBA experience introduced last year, The W is the first-ever WNBA MyPLAYER experience for the NBA 2K franchise. Create your own fully customizable WNBA player and take her through a pro career featuring all 12 WNBA teams and the league's brightest stars. Experience the thrill of competition and go head-to-head in The W Online, featuring intense 3v3 MyPLAYER competition set on a beautiful new court exclusive to the game mode;
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At my ripe-but-not-old age, I have finally, yet reluctantly, concluded that mothers know best. This message was brought home to me Saturday night by the mother of the famous clarinetist Derek Bermel. She whispered (entre nous) to me "I told him not to play the trumpet." Thus, she took credit for his world renown as a clarinetist. My mother knew best too. She told me not to play the clarinet. Appealing to my vanity, she said "It will make your lower lip larger than your upper lip." That did it. I gave it up. In retrospect, she saved me from either a large lip or stage fright. Either, way she was right, as was Derek's mom.
My decision to give up playing the clarinet was totally validated at a Music from Copland House concert at Merestead Mansion. The composers and clarinetists Paquito d'Rivera and Derek Bermel rocked the more-than-100-years-old, 26-room house.
The music was so audacious that surely William Sloane, the original owner of the place, would have surely bequeathed Merestead to Artistic and Executive Director Michael Boriskin and his band of merry musicians. You see, Michael has this vision of turning the mansion into a residency place for composers and musicians. While waiting for the powers that be to grant him a lease, he is delighting audiences in the main parlor with world class music. But I digress. My mother, having saved mega bucks on my clarinet lessons, put her money where my mouth was at an orthodontist. He rescued my bite, my lower lip and my mother's sovereignty.
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Cancer rates in medieval Britain around ten times higher than previously thought, study suggests
The first study to use x-rays and CT scans to detect evidence of cancer among the skeletal remains of a pre-industrial population suggests that between 9-14% of adults in medieval Britain had the disease at the time of their death.
The remains of numerous individuals unearthed on the site of the former Hospital of St. John
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This puts cancer prevalence in a time before exposure to tumour-inducing chemicals from industry and tobacco at around ten times higher than previously thought, according to researchers.
Prior research into historic cancer rates using the archaeological record has been limited to examining the bone exterior for lesions. It suggested that cancer was rare, affecting less than 1% of the population.
A team led by the University of Cambridge have now coupled visual inspection with radiological imaging to analyse 143 skeletons from six medieval cemeteries in and around the city of Cambridge, UK, dating from the 6th to the 16th century.
"The majority of cancers form in soft tissue organs long since degraded in medieval remains. Only some cancer spreads to bone, and of these only a few are visible on its surface, so we searched within the bone for signs of malignancy," said lead author Dr Piers Mitchell, who conducted the research as part of the 'After the Plague' project.
"Modern research shows a third to a half of people with soft tissue cancers will find the tumour spreads to their bones. We combined this data with evidence of bone metastasis from our study to estimate cancer rates for medieval Britain."
"We think the total proportion of the medieval population that probably suffered with a cancer somewhere in their body was between nine and fourteen per cent," said Mitchell, from Cambridge University's Department of Archaeology.
Excavated medieval bone from the spine showing cancer metastases (white arrow)
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"Using CT scans we were able to see cancer lesions hidden inside a bone that looked completely normal on the outside," said study co-author and After the Plague researcher Dr Jenna Dittmar.
"Until now it was thought that the most significant causes of ill health in medieval people were infectious diseases such as dysentery and bubonic plague, along with malnutrition and injuries due to accidents or warfare."
"We now have to add cancer as one of the major classes of disease that afflicted medieval people," Dittmar said.
However, the researchers point out that in modern Britain some 40-50% of people have cancer by the time they die, making the disease 3-4 times more common today than the latest study suggests it was during medieval times.
They say that a variety of factors likely contribute to contemporary rates of the disease, such as the effects of tobacco, which began to be imported into Britain in the 16th century with the colonising of the Americas.
The researchers also point to the cancerous effects of pollutants that have become ubiquitous since the industrial revolution of the 18th century, as well as the possibility that DNA-damaging viruses are now more widespread with long-distance travel. Moreover, our longer lifespans give cancer much more time to develop.
CT scan of bone from a medieval skull showing metastasis hidden within (white arrow)
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The skeletal remains investigated for the latest study came from sites near three villages in the vicinity of Cambridge, as well as three cemeteries uncovered within the medieval centre of the university city, including the site of a former Augustinian friary, and the site of a former charitable hospital that cared for the sick and destitute (now part of St. John's College).
Very few of the excavated remains were complete, so the team limited themselves to individuals with intact spinal column, pelvis and femora (thigh bones). Modern research shows these to be the bones most likely to contain secondary malignancies - or metastases - in people with cancer.
The remains of 96 men, 46 women, and an individual of unknown sex, had their vertebrae, femurs and pelvis inspected and then imaged using x-rays and CT scans. The team found signs of malignancy in the bones of five individuals - a minimum prevalence of 3.5%. These were mostly in the pelvis, although one middle-aged man had small lesions throughout his skeleton suggesting a form of blood cancer.
Research shows that CT scans detect bone metastases around 75% of the time, and only a third to half of cancer deaths involve spread to the bone, so the team projected that 9-14% of medieval Britons developed cancer.
However, they caution that the sample size is inevitably limited and diagnosing cancer in those lain dead for many centuries is somewhat challenging.
"We need further studies using CT scanning of apparently normal skeletons in different regions and time periods to see how common cancer was in key civilizations of the past," added Mitchell.
The findings of the study are published today in the journal Cancer.
Source: Cambridge University [April 29, 2021]
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Q: PySpark -- Convert List of Rows to Data Frame The problem I'm actually trying to solve is to take the first/last N rows of a PySpark dataframe and have the result be a dataframe. Specifically, I want to be able to do something like this:
 my_df.head(20).toPandas()

However, because head() returns a list of rows, I get this error:
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'toPandas'

So, I'm looking either for method that will return the first N rows of PySpark dataframe as a dataframe, or a method for converting these lists of rows into a dataframe. Any ideas?

A: With limit:
>>> df = sc.parallelize((("a", 1), ("b", 2))).toDF()
>>> df.limit(1).toPandas()
  _1  _2
0  a   1

with pd.DataFrame:
>>> pd.DataFrame(df.head(1), columns=df.columns)
  _1  _2
0  a   1


The groundhog may have seen his shadow, and winter is going to last another six weeks (or longer), but if you are wanting to sell your home before spring/summer now is the time to start the process. Here are four big mistakes to avoid when selling your home.
The Boy Scout's motto is Be Prepared, and that is exactly what you need to do before you put your home on the market. You want to get your home on the market as soon as possible, but you'll only do yourself a disfavor if you rush and ignore the little things that will make your home shine. Take the time to declutter your home, stage it properly, and fix any problems with your home. Even small things like chipping paint or an old water stain from a fixed leak will be red flags for astute buyers. Boost your home's appeal (and sales price) by fixing these issues before putting your house on the market.
We get it, everyone loves their home (even if they are ready to move) and feels like it is worth 100% more than what they originally paid for it; however, people who are looking at your home won't see it that way. What you paid for your home 5 years ago isn't necessarily what someone will pay for it today. And while real estate tends to increase in value over time, fluctuations in the market dictate what price your home is currently worth. Talk with your qualified local Realtor about doing a market analysis to see what your home is really worth before deciding on a list price. Setting your list price too high will push away potential buyers and leave your home on the market for too long.
So you've listed your house with a local Realtor (very smart), now it is time to step back and let them do their job! It's natural to want to be involved in the sale of your home: no one knows your home like you do, after all; however, having the seller present during showings or open houses makes it awkward for potential buyers. They tend to rush through and not give your home the look it deserves because they feel as if they are intruding.
You wouldn't ask your mechanic to look at your sore tooth and you wouldn't ask your dentist to fix your broken radiator, so why would you risk selling your biggest investment without the help of a professional? Your local Realtor is your best resource from start to finish in the home sales process. They know how to accurately price your home, market it to the best potential buyers, show the house and paint it in the best light, and how to effectively negotiate the best possible price for you. Not to mention all of the paperwork that goes with buying and selling a home. Trust in them to take care of you and your home.
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Ex-JD of CBI, Lakshminarayana reveals about some crucial c..
Ex-Joint Director (JD) of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Lakshminarayana, revealed that the he handled at 28 high profile cases at a time. The investigation could be really tough as each case is unique, he said. The resources available in CBI too are very limited. The toughest case that he handled so far seemed to be the Satyam scam. This was so because the entire case depended on technicalities like inspecting balance sheets, he said. However, he was able to do it, with the help of experts in that field, he said.


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Q: Time value get increased based on offset in safari browser in JS While parsing the ISO string with new Date() method in safari browser, it will calculated time value based on the client timezone offset. For ex. If we provide the ISO string as "2019-10-17T00:00:00", then it will produces the output "Thu Oct 17 2019 05:30:00 GMT+0530 (IST)". But, chrome displays the correct value like "Thu Oct 17 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0530". Is there any issues in the safari browser and how to overcome this issue?
In safari browser: new Date("2019-10-17T00:00:00") => Thu Oct 17 2019 05:30:00 GMT+0530 (IST)
In Chrome browser: new Date("2019-10-17T00:00:00") => Thu Oct 17 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0530


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George Wishart, 1513-1546
Wishart was born in Scotland and died as a martyr, being 33 years old. He was a teacher of New Testament Greek at Montrose. He was exceptional in his eloquence and manner of communication.
Being the time of the reformation, he adopted the Reformed view of Scripture, denied the errors of the Catholic Church and was then charged with heresy. He went to England and then to the Continent where he was introduced to the Helvetic Confession and became the first one to translate it into English. He returned to England and spent some time teaching at Cambridge around 1542. Afterwards, he returned to Scotland. He fasted every fourth day, ate only twice a day, and lived in humble lodgings, even though his family was well connected and had sufficient means to support him. He was a sacrificial saint who ministered greatly to those suffering with the plague that swept through Scotland at that time. He married the daughter of John Knox.
The Catholic church was dominant in Scotland and his preaching against the papacy and the catholic doctrinal errors, aroused in the papists such a fury that he was threatened with death. Their tyranny was carried out with deadly aim. An attempt was even made on his life. When he was finally captured at Mirmiston, he was taken to St. Andrews, and burned at the stake.
The plague being now considerably abated, he determined to pay a visit to the town of Montrose. . .he received a letter directed to him from his intimate friend the laird of Kinnear, acquainting him that he had taken a sudden sickness, and requested him to come to him with all diligence. Upon this he immediately set out on his journey, attended by some honest friends in Montrose, who, out of affection, would accompany him part of the way. They had not traveled above a quarter of a mile, when all of a sudden he stopped, saying to the company, "I am forbidden by God to go this journey. Will some of you be pleased to ride to yonder place (point with his finger to a little hill), and see what you find, for I apprehend there is a plot against my life; " whereupon he returned to the town, and they, who went forward to the place, found about sixty horsemen ready to intercept him. By this the whole plot came to light; they found that the letter had been forged; and upon their telling Mr. Wishart what they had seen, he replied, "I know that I shall end my life by the hands of that wicked man (meaning the Cardinal), but it will not be after this manner." (The Scots Worthies," by John Howie, of Lochgoin. Edingburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, 1870, page 22)
The two Sabbaths following he preached at Tranent; and in all his sermons, after leaving Montrose, he more or less hinted that his ministry was near an end. . . The next place he preached was Hadington, where his congregation was at first very large, but the following day very few attended him, which was though to be owing to the influence of the Earl of Bothwell, who, at the instigation of the Cardinal, had inhibited the people from attending. . .Not withstanding the anxiety and discouragement which he laboured under, he went immediately to the pulpit, and sharply rebuking the people for their neglect of the Gospel he warned them, "That sore and fearful would be the plages that should ensue; that fire and sword wouldl waste them; that strangers should possess their houses, and chase them from their habitations." This prediction was soon after verified, when the English took and possessed the town, and while the French and Scots besieged it in the year 1548. This was the last sermon which he preached; in it, as had for some time been usual with him, he spoke of his death as near at hand. . .He went to Ormiston, accompanied by the Lairds of Brunston and Ormiston, and Sir John Sandilands, the younger of Calder. John Knox was also desirous to have gone with him; but Wishart desired him to return, saying, "One is enough for a sacrifice at this time."
Another mighty Reformed father moved in the gifts of the Spirit. It seems that those who are deep in prayer are given by God that communication to such a degree that He reveals to his friends the secrets of what is to come.
Copyright by Matthew J. Slick, B.A., M. Div., 2022
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Celebrate OSIM's 35th Anniversary with Lee Min Ho in Singapore!
Event: Celebrate OSIM's 25th Anniversary with Lee Min Ho in Singapore
Date: 27 September 2014, Saturday
Venue: Causeway Point
Singapore, 27 August 2014 – OSIM is pleased to present Lee Min Ho, Korean superstar and drama prince, in Singapore on 27 September 2014 to celebrate OSIM's 35th anniversary. We invite you to come and celebrate this joyous occasion together with OSIM and Lee Min Ho, who is the face of OSIM's chic massage sofa, uDiva.
The charming star recently starred in the popular drama "The Inheritors", which drew legions of fans all over the world. Lee Min Ho has set hearts yet a flutter by becoming the latest celebrity endorser for OSIM's triple enjoyment massage sofa that can transform into a relaxing lounger or a full-body massage chair. Lee enjoys the OSIM uDiva's state-of-the-art 3D Power-Ball massage technology as it packs an intense, precise and effective massage to soothe and energize his tired body after a full day of acting.
Since his endorsement of OSIM uDiva, OSIM has received numerous requests from customers asking to meet Lee Min Ho in person in Singapore. They will be treated to a meet-and-greet session titled 'Celebrate OSIM's 35th Anniversary with Lee Min Ho' on 27 September. Lee will also be toasting champagne with OSIM to celebrate 35 years of success in well-being.
The public will get to meet Lee Min Ho at this highly anticipated date held at Causeway Point. Apart from getting up close with Lee through games and activities, 35 lucky uDiva customers will have a special photo opportunity with the Korean heartthrob, and share why they love the OSIM uDiva.
For more details regarding 'Celebrate OSIM's 35th Anniversary with Lee Min Ho', please visit the OSIM SG Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/OSIMSG
August 28, 2014 StarArena	LeeMinHo, OSIM