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External links
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Restaurant chains in the United States
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Driving to Revitalise Fitness Retreat, which lies on the Devon/Cornwall border just 5 miles from Widemouth beach, there is only one thought crossing my mind: what on earth have I let myself into? While I enjoy the occasional pilates or Zumba class, I'm not a religious gym-goer, meaning I'm hardly at my fittest. How would I cope with a whole weekend jam-packed with exercise?
As soon as I arrived, however, I was put immediately at ease. Personal trainers David Youldon and Brooke Graddon, a former Team GB diver, who run the retreats were welcoming and friendly, assuring me that while it would be tough it would also be a lot of fun. By the end of the weekend, I definitely agreed, despite my aching muscles.
Two other ladies and I were there for an action-packed weekend of exercise and tasty, healthy food cooked by Revitalise Fitness Retreat's chef, Nicky Vereker. And first up on the itinerary was BeAtBoUnCe – a trampoline-based exercise with routines created by Brooke. With an upbeat soundtrack full of chart-toppers, it's definitely the most fun I've had while working out in a long time. There's no denying that it's tough – especially those burpees that are thrown in midway through one of the tracks – but it's an exercise that is now a real hit with Revitalise Fitness Retreat's regular customers.
The next morning saw us join in with Revitalise's regular Saturday bootcamp class, which that day was a woodland workout. Nestled in the private woods just a short walk from the cottage, David and Brooke have created an amazing circuit using logs, tyres and ropes, meaning you work out using the environment around you. Whether you're running, squatting, pulling a heavy tyre up with a rope or doing those dreaded lunges, each exercise is performed for just one minute before moving onto the next one, ensuring all your muscles are worked on.
I won't lie, the woodland workout is tough. After we had completed the circuit the three of us that were there for the weekend were looking forward to putting our feet up – that is, until Brooke told us the unthinkable; we had to do it all again.
After a short rest back in the cottage we were off to another BeAtBoUnCe class, while the afternoon saw a Legs, Bums and Tums class that works muscles in short bursts – 20 seconds of reps followed by a 10 second rest, before a relaxing neck and shoulder massage from local masseuse, Vicky Barnes and a quick dip in the private hot tub.
Sunday was a more relaxing day, but you can choose to do another workout if you wish. With aching muscles, we opted for a short walk across Widemouth beach before we made our journey home, not brave enough to face the tyre challenge David and Brooke had prepared. Maybe next time.


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A teaser of 'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild' sequel dropped at E3 and no one is calm
By Alexis Nedd 2019-06-11 17:17:45 UTC
Nintendo surprised everyone at E3 with news that a true sequel to The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild is in development.
While there was no news as to when the game will come out, some images in the teaser suggested that the sequel will take place after the events of Breath of the Wild and involve a new threat to a post-Calamity Hyrule.
Also, Zelda has a new haircut, Link has a cow/ox friend, and Hyrule castle is maybe blasting off into space.
Get goosebumps with the trailer for Apple's docuseries about being LGBTQ on TV
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The first two examples of what I discussed yesterday are Elijah and Elishia. Consider an example from the life and ministry of Elijah first.
He became the first prophet to the pagan Gentiles when he obeyed God's command to visit a widow in Zarephath. The evil queen who sought to kill him, Jezebel, was from Sidon (1 Kings 16:31). As a Baal worshiper, she simply followed in the footsteps of her native city. This means Elijah was commanded to visit a probable Baal-worshiping widow in a pagan Gentile city. (As a side note the irony of this is amazing. Jezebel is seeking Elijah's life, and God gave him a hiding place in her own city where of her own fellow citizens is won over to the God of Israel!) When the widow's son became sick and eventually died (1 Kings 17:17), Elijah prayed to God and healed him. The result was that, "The woman said to Elijah, 'Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth'" (v. 24). A pagan Gentile, Baal-worshiping widow was redeemed by the God of Israel because her son was raised from the dead.
Elisha was Elijah's successor, a man on whom a double blessing was given. This translated into twice as many miracles being performed on the part of Elisha as Elijah. One of these miracles was the healing of Naaman in 2 Kings 5. He was the "captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram" (v. 1). Aram was also known as Syria, a pagan country. When the king of Assyria had pushed his conquest as far west as Syria, taking the whole country as his loot, Syria rebelled and managed to gain independence for a short time. It was probably during this time that Naaman managed to make himself well known and gain respect for himself. But he was a pagan infidel nonetheless. But he had this nagging disease – leprosy. Elisha gave him simple instructions – "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you and you shall be clean" (v. 10). This is just what Naaman did, yet not without some complaining (v. 11-12). But upon conceding to the prophet's command, "his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean" (v. 14). The result? "When he returned to the man of God with all his company, and came and stood before him, he said, 'Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel…" (v. 15). Another pagan redeemed from evil humanity by a gracious and merciful God through the divine means of healing.
Tomorrow, I'll pose two more examples, one from the life and ministry of Jesus, and one from the ministry of the Apostles.


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Early is a city in Sac County, Iowa, United States. The population was 557 at the 2010 census.
Early was incorporated on May 22, 1883, and is named after D.C. Early, a local settler.
Early is located at 42°27′43″N 95°9′5″W / 42.46194°N 95.15139°W / 42.46194; -95.15139 (42.461903, -95.151290).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.39 square miles (1.01 km2), all of it land.
Early's "claim to fame" is that it is the Crossroads of the Nation, because Highway 71 and Highway 20 cross each other there.
As of the census of 2010, there were 557 people, 246 households, and 146 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,428.2 inhabitants per square mile (551.4/km2). There were 287 housing units at an average density of 735.9 per square mile (284.1/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 93.2% White, 1.4% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.5% Pacific Islander, 3.1% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.5% of the population.
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Early is a 2005 compilation by Scritti Politti which collects singles and EPs recorded in the first years of the band's existence and prior to the release of its 1982 debut album Songs to Remember. It captures the group in its early incarnation as a DIY post-punk act characterized by an experimental musical approach and Leftist political concerns. Following these recordings, leader Green Gartside would abandon the group's avant-garde leanings and attempt a more commercial musical direction.
The group's sound on these early recordings have been described by AllMusic as "scrappy, taut, and forthrightly experimental in style, utilizing abrupt changes, rhythmic displacements, and gritty and discordant harmonies tempered by Gartside's sweet vocalizing of impenetrably obscure lyrics, vaguely political in sense but temporal and abstract in meaning."Pitchfork Media characterized these songs as "what happens when you combine Marxism, art school, and post-punk London, 1979: A rickety, alien pulse, as made by a band that insisted on printing the production costs of every single on the sleeve."
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Start can refer to multiple topics:
Takeoff, the phase of flight where an aircraft transitions from moving along the ground to flying through the air
Starting lineup in sports
Standing start and rolling start, in an auto race
Start, Louisiana, a town in the United States
IK Start, a Norwegian football club from the town of Kristiansand
Start (Orsha bandy club), Belarus sports club
Start Nizhny Novgorod, a Russian bandy club
Start (newspaper), a daily tabloid published in Serbia
Start, by Terry Virgo 1999.
Start, by Susan Long (journalist)
Start-1, a Russian launch vehicle
Start menu, element in the Windows GUI
Start button
Start (command), a command in Windows
Start signal, in telecommunications
Brands and products
Start (Polish camera), twin-lens reflex camera
Start (Soviet camera), single lens reflex camera
Start (cereal), a breakfast cereal produced by Kellogg's since the 1980s, mainly in the UK
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Start (Russian: Старт, transliterated Cmapm) was a 35 mm single lens reflex Soviet camera produced by Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk (KMZ) during the years of 1958–1964. The camera was inspired by Exakta camera. Start had Bayonet-mount lenses with Exakta-style shutter release arm, KMZ Helios-44 58 mm f/2 normal lens, cloth focal-panel shutter.
An improved version, Start-2, was produced ca. 1963–1964. It had automatic diaphragm and meteric prism.
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Sng Ee Tze (born 23 July 1978), better known as Stefanie Sun, Sun Yanzi, and known to fans as 13姐 ("13th sister"), is a singer-songwriter. She is known as the Singaporean Mandopop queen. She has sold over 30 million copies of her albums during the span of her career thus far. She is based in Taiwan, as she does the majority of her recordings there. Her popularity extends to China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and her native Singapore.
Sun has an older sister three years her senior Sng Yee-kia (孙燕佳), and a younger sister six years her junior named Sng Ee-mei (孙燕美).
Sun was educated at Nanyang Primary School, St. Margaret's Secondary School, Raffles Girls' School and went on to attend Saint Andrew's Junior College. She later attended Nanyang Technological University, where she obtained a degree in Marketing, and was said to stay at Hall 6 where she was known for her singing talent. Her voice talent was discovered by her music teacher Lee Wei Song.
In the Mandarin-speaking world, Sun is more popularly known by her Mandarin name, Sun Yan-zi or Sun Yanzi. Sun has sold over 10 million copies in Asia. With eleven albums to her name, she is arguably the most successful singer from Singapore. Sun is also known to be good friends with fellow Pop Princess of Taiwan, Jolin Tsai. They are often performing guests at each other's concerts.
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when they would stare
at you just like
the light had fallen
from the sun
you'd think that
jesus had come
i called you sugar on that day
and later sweetness drove my manic haze
and i found another name
so gorgeous was the day we met
i couldn't speak except to say how
gorgeous that i thought you were to me
delirious and daylight falling
into night i fell
i thought i'd drown myself
i thought i'd drown myself in you
well i shook the honey glaze from my head
and i realized, yeah i realized
i'd do anything for you
my eyes were spinning round
like the twist of a top
my head reeling round so fast
i didn't think it could stop
but i stopped and
gorgeous was the day we met
gorgeous that the two of us could be
spill myself all over you like syrup
all delicious and stuck on you
yeah we'll wreck ourselves
yeah we'll wreck ourselves ?as two?
no unseen force can deny this -
why would it even try?
it'll never stop
it'll never go away
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Ex-nurse suspected of killing dozens of kids sentenced for killing 11-month-old
Updated: 2:10 PM CST Jan 17, 2020
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A former Texas nurse suspected of murdering dozens of young children decades ago was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after pleading guilty in a San Antonio court to killing an 11-month-old boy in 1981.The plea deal helped Genene Jones avoid a trial beginning next month for the murder of the child, Joshua Sawyer, KSAT reported. Charges in the deaths of four other babies were dropped as part of the agreement."Ms. Jones, something has to be said for you taking the plea to life on this murder," District Judge Frank J. Castro told the former nurse, who appeared in court dressed in a blue jail uniform. "But it doesn't come close to what you did to these families and the tragedies that you caused. You took God's most precious gift -- babies, defenseless, innocent.""But I truly believe," Castro said, "that your ultimate judgment is in the next life."On Thursday, as part of the plea deal, Jones had to face the families of children she is believed to have killed as they shared victim impact testimonies. Several held up old photos of the children they had lost."You should have to serve one year for every year of life you robbed from the babies that you murdered," Connie Weeks, Joshua's mother, said during her statement. "Although that's not possible, you should definitely serve the remainder of your life in prison for the babies lives that you have shortened."Jones previously served time after being convicted for the killing of 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan. She was sentenced to 99 years in prison in 1984, but would have been released in 2018 because of a state law meant to relieve prison overcrowding.Prosecutors filed new charges in 2017. At the time, former Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood said evidence showed Jones killed Joshua with a fatal dose of Dilantin while he was a patient at Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio, now called University Hospital.LaHood previously said his office suspected Jones was responsible for the deaths of almost 60 children. Jones worked at hospitals in the San Antonio area for about four years, LaHood said. During that time, pediatric units showed a sharp spike in infant deaths during the shifts Jones worked.
A former Texas nurse suspected of murdering dozens of young children decades ago was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after pleading guilty in a San Antonio court to killing an 11-month-old boy in 1981.
The plea deal helped Genene Jones avoid a trial beginning next month for the murder of the child, Joshua Sawyer, KSAT reported. Charges in the deaths of four other babies were dropped as part of the agreement.
"Ms. Jones, something has to be said for you taking the plea to life on this murder," District Judge Frank J. Castro told the former nurse, who appeared in court dressed in a blue jail uniform. "But it doesn't come close to what you did to these families and the tragedies that you caused. You took God's most precious gift -- babies, defenseless, innocent."
"But I truly believe," Castro said, "that your ultimate judgment is in the next life."
On Thursday, as part of the plea deal, Jones had to face the families of children she is believed to have killed as they shared victim impact testimonies. Several held up old photos of the children they had lost.
"You should have to serve one year for every year of life you robbed from the babies that you murdered," Connie Weeks, Joshua's mother, said during her statement. "Although that's not possible, you should definitely serve the remainder of your life in prison for the babies lives that you have shortened."
Jones previously served time after being convicted for the killing of 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan. She was sentenced to 99 years in prison in 1984, but would have been released in 2018 because of a state law meant to relieve prison overcrowding.
Prosecutors filed new charges in 2017. At the time, former Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood said evidence showed Jones killed Joshua with a fatal dose of Dilantin while he was a patient at Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio, now called University Hospital.
LaHood previously said his office suspected Jones was responsible for the deaths of almost 60 children. Jones worked at hospitals in the San Antonio area for about four years, LaHood said. During that time, pediatric units showed a sharp spike in infant deaths during the shifts Jones worked.


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Tony Dungy is the only NFL player since the AFL-NFL merger to intercept a pass and throw an interception in the same game.
In 2007, Tony Dungy became the first African-American head coach to win the Super Bowl when the Colts defeated the Chicago Bears.
In 2011, Tony Dungy and his wife authored a children's book, You Can Be a Friend, which teaches children the importance of being a good friend.
Tony Dungy was born on October 6, 1955, in Jackson, Michigan. After playing for the University of Minnesota, Dungy played three seasons in the National Football League, for the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Francisco 49ers. Beginning his coaching career in 1980, Dungy went on to serve as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and later the Indianapolis Colts. He guided the Colts to a Super Bowl victory in 2007.
Anthony Kevin Dungy was born October 6, 1955, in Jackson, Michigan. The son of educators—his father, Wilbur, was a science professor at Jackson Community College; his mother, Cleomae, taught high school Shakespeare—Dungy and his three siblings were brought up in home where a getting a good education was considered important.
Dungy was both a stellar student and a standout athlete. At 14, he was elected student body president of Jackson's Parkside High School, where he also starred on the basketball, football and track teams.
In 1973, Dungy enrolled at the University of Minnesota on a full football scholarship and took the helm as the team's starting quarterback. Over his four-year career with the Gophers, Dungy put up an array of impressive numbers, finishing as the program's career leader in pass attempts, completions, touchdown passing and passing yards. In addition, Dungy, the student, was a two-time Academic All–Big Ten selection and also received the Big Ten Medal of Honor—the conference's most notable distinction—in 1977.
Despite his college career, no NFL team believed that Tony Dungy's arm would translate well in the pros. After failing to get selected in the 1977 NFL draft, Dungy tried out for and made the Pittsburgh Steelers as a converted safety.
Playing for legendary Steelers coach Chuck Noll, Dungy adapted well to the new position, even leading the team in interceptions during the franchise's Super Bowl–winning 1978 season.
The following year, the Steelers traded Dungy to the San Francisco 49ers. Dungy played one season with his new club before getting traded again, to the New York Giants. Dungy made it to preseason with the club, but was cut before the regular season began. Shortly afterward, the three-year veteran announced his retirement.
Following a stint as an assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota, Dungy landed a job with the Steelers, making him, at 25, the youngest assistant coach in NFL history. In 1984 Pittsburgh made him the league's youngest defensive coordinator.
Dungy's time with the Steelers ended after the 1988 season. But the young coach wasn't out of work for long. He hooked on with Kansas City as the club's secondary coach, and then in 1991 signed on with the Minnesota Vikings as the franchise's new defensive coordinator.
Considered one of the brightest young minds in the NFL, Dungy landed his first head coaching opportunity in 1996, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers tapped him to lead the club. For a franchise that had long been the league's doormat, Dungy, with his calm demeanor and ability to connect with players, was a breath of fresh air, bringing both respectability and victories to a team sorely lacking in both areas.
Yet, despite making the Bucs a regular playoff contender, Dungy was fired after the 2001 season. Again, he wasn't out of work long. In January 2002, the Indianapolis Colts hired Dungy to be its next head coach.
During his remarkable seven-year run with the Colts and its star quarterback, Peyton Manning, Dungy turned the franchise into a perennial Super Bowl contender. The Vince Lombardi trophy finally came Dungy's way on February 4, 2007, when the Colts defeated the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI, 29-17, in Miami.
The victory made Dungy the first African American to coach a Super Bowl–winning club. It also made him just the third person in NFL history to win a title as a player and as a head coach.
Following the 2008 season, and after 31 seasons patrolling an NFL sideline, Dungy retired from coaching.
Dungy and his longtime wife, Lauren, are the parents of seven children. In December 2005, tragedy struck the Dungy family when one of their oldest sons, James, was found dead at his Tampa area apartment. The death was later ruled a suicide.
Since stepping down as head coach of the Colts, Dungy has worked as an analyst for NBC's "Football Night in America." In addition, Dungy, a committed Christian, has remained active in a number of charitable causes, including Big Brothers and Big Sisters and the Prison Crusade Ministry.
In 2011, Dungy and his wife authored a children's book, You Can Be a Friend, which teaches children the importance of being a good friend.


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James Whitey Bulger makes rare appearance in court for immunity defense hearing
Judge to determine if defense can bring up immunity claims at trial
David G. Curran/SatelliteNewsService.com
A motorcade of U.S. Marshals and prison officials enter the Plymouth House of Correction in Plymouth , Massachusetts with reputed mobster Whitey Bulger on Friday, April 26, 2013, following Bulger's court appearance in Boston earlier in the day.
SOURCE: David G. Curran/SatelliteNewsService.com
James "Whitey" Bulger made a rare appearance in court for a hearing that will determine whether his defense team can present an immunity defense at trial.The previous judge, who stepped down from the trial, ruled the defense cannot argue Bulger had a license to commit crime granted by a now deceased federal prosecutor.The 83-year-old Bulger was described as looking 'much older' by reporter Kelley Tuthill, who was in court for his first appearance in the summer of 2011.Bulger has not appeared in court for most hearings.He was dressed in prison orange and sat expressionless for much of the hearing between his two attorneys.Bulger claims a now-deceased federal prosecutor gave him immunity for his crimes. The previous judge ruled that Bulger couldn't present evidence about his claim that the immunity deal applied to future crimes he committed.During the two hour long hearing, Bulger's lawyers vehemently argued the former fugitive had a right to present an immunity defense at trial. "We have never asserted it was a license to kill or that the immunity protected Bulger from any future crimes," J. W. Carney, Bulger's attorney argued in court.Judge Denise Casper did not immediately rule Friday on a request by his lawyers to reverse an earlier ruling barring Bulger from claiming immunity as a defense at his June trial.Bulger was on the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitive list when he was captured in 2011. He's accused of participating in 19 murders.Jury selection in the case is scheduled to get underway June 4 and federal court officials say they expect attorneys to go through at least 250 individuals before finding 12 jurors and 6 alternates.The trial is expected to last between Labor Day and mid September.
James "Whitey" Bulger made a rare appearance in court for a hearing that will determine whether his defense team can present an immunity defense at trial.
The previous judge, who stepped down from the trial, ruled the defense cannot argue Bulger had a license to commit crime granted by a now deceased federal prosecutor.
The 83-year-old Bulger was described as looking 'much older' by reporter Kelley Tuthill, who was in court for his first appearance in the summer of 2011.
Bulger has not appeared in court for most hearings.
He was dressed in prison orange and sat expressionless for much of the hearing between his two attorneys.
Bulger claims a now-deceased federal prosecutor gave him immunity for his crimes. The previous judge ruled that Bulger couldn't present evidence about his claim that the immunity deal applied to future crimes he committed.
During the two hour long hearing, Bulger's lawyers vehemently argued the former fugitive had a right to present an immunity defense at trial. "We have never asserted it was a license to kill or that the immunity protected Bulger from any future crimes," J. W. Carney, Bulger's attorney argued in court.
Judge Denise Casper did not immediately rule Friday on a request by his lawyers to reverse an earlier ruling barring Bulger from claiming immunity as a defense at his June trial.
Bulger was on the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitive list when he was captured in 2011. He's accused of participating in 19 murders.
Jury selection in the case is scheduled to get underway June 4 and federal court officials say they expect attorneys to go through at least 250 individuals before finding 12 jurors and 6 alternates.
The trial is expected to last between Labor Day and mid September.


There is a great deal that constrains thinking, making the encounter with what I call a 'thinkable' extremely rare. The thinkable is that which erupts out of the unthinkable. What do we engage in, what do we do when we encounter a thought? We are habituated to the assumption that we invent or 'have' thoughts that belong to us, that we can secure them with a signature, which then allows us the right to claim them as our intellectual property. The thinkable operates in quite another way. A thinkable, and this will no doubt sound counter-intuitive, is independent of either a given thinker or a fixed object of thought, instead it circulates between both in the midst of an event, a taking place that takes more or less time. It is less the thought that I have, than the thought that strikes me, coming from elsewhere, emerging in the midst of an encounter.
Isabelle Stengers argues that we are suffering a disaster of thought, and it is this that has contributed to the exhaustion of our environment-worlds today. Bad habits, in thought and in practice, are hard to shake. In the news media and across Web 2.0 feeds, plugged-in readers bear witness to the plague of 'alternative facts' and 'fake news'; readers become prey to misinformation. As Bruno Latour has pointed out, if fundamental extremists are deconstructing facts according to a well-exercised logic of social constructivism, in effect redeploying the arguments of critical thinkers, what are we to do? (2004: 227). How do we disentangle an assertive matter of fact from an ideological miasma in order to gather around our cares and concerns? Can we fight critique with yet more critique? If so, how might we better hone our critical concept-tools? The job of criticism has been to challenge the myth of a stable ground, but this thought becomes a weapon that can be handled toward the most dangerous ends.
This third module will be dedicated to the capacities of critical thinking and the role of the concept-tool in its relation to pressing problems.
These tasks offer you the opportunity to create a lexicon of key concepts that are relevant to your research. The concept of a heteroglossia is appropriated from Donna Haraway's famous Cyborg manifesto (1991). Haraway's aim is to challenge the production of universal totalizing theories and the habits of binary thinking. She explains, "This is a dream not of a common language, but of a powerful infidel heteroglossia" (Haraway 1991: 181). Much like a lexicon or glossary, a heteroglossary is a place where key terms can be collected while creating a space in which contradictory or even conflicting projects and diverse positions can be supported. A heteroglossary allows "different" (hetero) definitions of concepts to jostle alongside one another, which can challenge the stability of a status quo in practice and theory.
The concept-tool as a construct is taken from the work of Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. Concepts are things for thinking with, they offer aids and prompts to thought, they can be applied and circulated and adapted for use like tools. The concept emerges amidst contingent circumstances, which is not to say it is randomly formulated, or based on some kind of free for all. While contingent in their emergence, concept-tools are also sited, pertaining to specific geographies and histories and material entanglements. The concept-tool plays a pedagogical role: Learning from the concept as it presents itself offers a means of attending to a problem, attentive to the specific moments of its construction, learning how to deal with the milieu in which you find and lose yourself again. Concepts are tools that we share with others and which we are prepared to generously pass on, otherwise concepts easily get stuck in a rut, turning into unreflective dogma.
TASK 01: Create a 'Heteroglossary' with around 10 entries for the 'concept-tools that have been relevant to your research. Note in each case the source of the concept-tool, or its history, or how you have constructed it from several sources.
TASK 02: Offer a reflection on an essay/article/chapter you have shared with Philosophies participants. Your shared essay/article/chapter should be one that has 'shocked you to thought' or aroused you from your dogmatic slumbers, a reading that has somehow re-orientated how you think about and engage in a world.
TASK 03: Read and offer a brief reflection on at least one essay that has been shared by a participant in Philosophies.
Isabelle Doucet is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the relationship between (urban) politics, aesthetics, and social responsibility in architecture, which she examines through both historical and contemporary cases. She is the author of The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968 (Ashgate, 2015), and co-editor, with Nel Janssens, of Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism (Springer, 2011). Her current research centers on counter-cultural architectures in 1970s Belgium. Isabelle is currently also a researcher for the Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Project called "Architecture and/for the Environment", coordinated by the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Alessandro Armando, architect, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architectural and Design (DAD) of the Politecnico di Torino since 2011, where he teaches Architectural Design and Design theory. He is a member of the Board of the Doctoral programme DASP ("Architecture. History and Project") at the same Politecnico. He received his doctorate in architecture and building design in 2005 and since the same year he has been conducting research on Design issues. He is also part of the research team of the Joint Research Lab Polito-SCUT at the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhou. Recently he has been visiting scholar at the Collège des Humanités at EPFL-Lausanne (February-June 2017). His current research activity focuses mainly on the political and bureaucratic effects of architectural design on the urban processes, and he has published articles and essays investigating the connection between design and politics. He is founder and member of the editorial board of "Ardeth" (Architectural Design Theory) magazine, and he is currently the editor of "Rivista di Estetica", 2, 2019 (The Sciences of Future, deadline on April 30, 2018). From 2005 to 2014 he worked as a project consultant for the Urban Center Metropolitano (UCM) in Turin, dealing with the accompaniment of public processes and projects in the cities of the Turin Metropolitan area. He took part to international and national conferences and lectures about urban policies and design processes (Genoa, Rome, Milan, Siracusa, Salerno, Venice, Skopje, Zagreb, Lisbon, Kanazawa, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beirut). In his professional practice as an architect, he is a partner of the DAR Architettura office, with M. Di Robilant and G. Durbiano. His "Urban house with big window" in Cambridge MA (with M. di Robilant) has been published by «Architectural Record», «The Architects Newspaper», «Domus» and «Dezeen». Among his publications: Teoria del progetto architettonico (2017); Rome: Carocci (with G. Durbiano); Watersheds. A Narrative of urban recycle (2015), Guangzhou: Sandu Publishing (with M. Bonino and F. Frassoldati); La soglia dell'arte: Peter Eisenman, Robert Smithson e il problema dell'autore dopo le nuove avanguardie (2009) Torino: SEB 27.
Panel Discussion between Isabelle Doucet, Alessandro Armando, and Hélène Frichot on architectural theory and practice in relation to recent editions of the journals Architectural theory Review (ATR) and Ardeth: A Magazine on the Power of the Project http://www.ardeth.eu/about/ The special edition of ATR 22:1 Resist, Reclaim, Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City, edited by Isabelle Doucet and Hélène Frichot, will also be launched.
Ahmed, Sara. "Feminist Kill Joys" in The Promise of Happiness, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, 50-87.
Braudel, Fernand. "History and the Social Sciences: The Long Durée" , in On History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980 26-54. (Lenastina Andersson).
Corner, James. The agency of mapping: speculation, critique and invention, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2011, 89-101). (Suha Hasan).
Doucet, Isabelle. The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. Excerpt.
Tresch, John. "Technological World Pictures: Cosmic Things and Cosmograms" in Isis, 98 (1), 2007, 84-94.
Yaneva, Albena. Five Ways to Make Architecture Political, London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Excerpts-Ch. 5 and Ch. 7.
Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix. "What is a Concept?" in What is Philosophy? New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, 15-34.
Foucault, Michel and Deleuze, Gilles. 'Intellectuals and Power.' In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1977, 205-217.
Grosz, Elizabeth (2017) The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, New York: Columbia University Press.
Haraway, Donna. 'Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.' Feminist Studies, vol. 14, no. 3 (Autumn, 1988): 575-599.
Haraway, Donna. "The Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminisms in the Late Twentieth Century" in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, London: Free Association Books, 1991, 149-182.
Hauptman, Deborah and Neidich, Warren eds. Cognitive Architecture. From Biopolitics to Noopolitics. Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2010.
Stengers, Isabelle. 'Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practices.' Cultural Studies Review, vol. 11 no. 1 (2005a): 183-196.


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Business booming for Derby's new RiverWalk Social, even amid a pandemic
Police: Missing Naugatuck teen could be in Bridgeport area
Police: Man accused of armed Meriden home invasion
Report: Social safety net supports many CT construction workers
Jean Falbo-Sosnovich
RiverWalk Social Bar and Restaurant has opened in Derby.
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DERBY — Opening a restaurant had been a longtime dream for Anthony Mastroni, and pulling it off during a global pandemic has been no small feat.
Mastroni, a junior at Brown University majoring in business entrepreneurship and a member of the football team, is channeling his skills to make the new family business, RiverWalk Social Bar and Restaurant, a smash. The eatery opened last week at 17 Elizabeth St. downtown, and business has been booming.
"As soon as the opportunity presented itself, I had full support and confidence from my father to open a restaurant, despite the times being as unique and challenging as they are," he said. "This was more rewarding than any internship I could ever dream of. Even though I didn't think we were going to do poorly in the pandemic, nothing could've prepared me for the tremendous enthusiasm that came from the community. That is a testament to the staff like Eric, Brian and Mary Ellen for treating people right for so many years."
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The 5,500-square-foot space previously was occupied by Archie Moore's, which closed in March. Some of the familiar faces are still onboard, including longtime Co-General Manager Eric Heinig.
Mastroni's father, Robert, owns the building and was thrilled to see his son running the show with a dedicated team.
"The opportunity arose when my building became vacant after not being run to its full potential, and I felt that my son was more than capable and qualified of opening and running a successful restaurant," said Robert Mastroni.
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As the managing partner, Anthony Mastroni said the family spent the last few months freshening up both the exterior and interior of the two-story space, including the mezzanine section and expanding the outdoor patio into a welcoming oasis. A new beer tap system was installed, the walls got a fresh coat of paint and new outdoor awnings went up, as did new lights, décor and tables. A wooden swing is fast becoming a social media hot spot for customer photos.
"Business has been unbelievable," Anthony Mastroni said. "I could not be more grateful to the people that absolutely packed the restaurant to capacity this first week. I see this as very indicative of not only how badly people want to get out, but how valuable it is for us to provide a place for people to go out and dine and socialize in a place that they know is safe and following all the correct protocols."
While the Mastronis don't boast direct experience in the restaurant industry, they know their team has the goods to entice folks in with their delicious cocktails, bar bites, harvest salads, hearty burgers, sandwiches, healthful plates, dessert pizzas and, of course, wings.
"People are going to come into that building expecting wings, and I am very confident that we will exceed expectations," said Anthony Mastroni. "We also wanted to add healthy options to what was a basic, greasy bar menu. We now have a robust offering of salads, chicken entrees, healthier sandwiches and gluten-free and vegan options."
Mayor Richard Dziekan's administrative assistant Pam Gagliardi is a repeat customer.
"The Chicken Mastroni sandwich is very good and comes with the most amazing french fries," she said. "The service has been consistently quick and I was happy to see they are cleaning thoroughly between customers."
The Mastronis, who are from Monroe, also plan on being great neighbors, offering discounts to first responders and giving charities and local organizations who hold events there a portion of the earnings.
Robert Mastroni said with new downtown development on the horizon for the city, including market-rate apartments, "people will be looking for an inviting place to go out and eat and drink."
For more information, visit RiverWalk Social's Facebook page or call 203-751-9669.
jean.sos@snet.net


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I decided to take out my one and only adult coloring book by Crayola and found a picture of a cool gypsy looking girl. I took out my Spectrum Noir Alcohol marker (pastels and brights) and spent some relaxing time coloring. I didn't color the entire page, but only the girl. The page had many random flowers and I didn't want to use them. I had a plan to use my new scrapbook paper pad. In the beginning I didn't think I wanted to make a canvas. I wanted to do some art journaling, but the paper is very thick and I didn't want to use it on my art journal book. Therefore, I used a couple of pages and made a simple collage with it and used modeling paste for a little texture.


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Whether you are considering using Delta-8 THC products or looking to avoid them altogether, you may want to view these five questions to determine if they are right for you.
1 Can Delta-8 THC Show Up on a Drug Test?
2 Can it be Converted From Hemp-Derived CBD?
3 Can it Be Sold at Smoke Shops and Gas Stations?
4 Can it Be Used to Ease Chronic Sicknesses?
Can Delta-8 THC Show Up on a Drug Test?
Whether you're testing yourself for a job or want to test yourself for recreational use, you may be curious about how delta-8 THC fares in a drug test. Delta-8 is a new compound in the cannabis market, and many unknowns exist about its use in humans.
Delta-8 shares many similarities with delta-9, but the two compounds interact differently with the endocannabinoid system (ECS).
Unlike delta-9, delta-8 does not have a "magic pill" and cannot clear out your system in a matter of hours. Instead, you will have to wait at least a week to get rid of the metabolites.
A good rule of thumb is not to consume Delta-8 THC if you are testifying in a court case or if you are in a treatment court. If you're on probation or in a safety-sensitive job, you may need to test for THC to ensure you are not infringing on company policies.
You will likely not be able to pass a drug test using delta-8. The FDA does not regulate delta-8, and there is no proof that it is safe for humans. If you must use it, you should discuss your use with your healthcare provider.
Delta-8 THC metabolites are found in the human body for up to 90 days, but most tests only detect them for a day or two.
Can it be Converted From Hemp-Derived CBD?
Whether delta-8 THC products are legally produced from hemp-derived CBD depends on the state. In some places, delta-8 products are permitted to be sold, while in others, they are banned.
Delta-8 THC products are created by a chemical process called "isomerization," which alters the molecular structure of the CBD. These products target consumers seeking relief from stress and anxiety.
Delta-8 THC is produced from hemp-derived CBD and is a relatively simple chemical process. In this process, the CBD molecule is closed off and reacted with an organic solvent. This process boosts the potency of the final product. However, this process has strict testing requirements. The finished product must be safe to consume.
It is not legally allowed to sell delta-8 products in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts government website says this product is a controlled substance. It is also illegal to sell cannabis-derived products across state lines.
Delta-8 products are also sold in Hawaii, where they are tentatively legal. The state government says interstate sales are illegal but not explicitly banned.
Delta-8 THC products are not allowed in Colorado. However, they are legal in nine states, and some products are sold freely throughout the state.
Despite the legality of delta-8 THC products, producers must undergo rigorous testing before selling them. The Drug Enforcement Agency label says that all synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol is still scheduled I controlled substance.
Can it Be Sold at Smoke Shops and Gas Stations?
Several states have taken steps to ban the sale of delta-8-derived hemp products. They've cited safety concerns, stating that the products are unsafe for children and contain high intoxicants.
The United States Cannabis Council tested 16 delta-8 products, finding that all but one of them exceeded the legal limit for THC. Some of the products were also found to contain toxic heavy metals.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warnings about Delta-8 products. The agency said there was a "lack of sufficient scientific information" on the safety of Delta-8. It said it's "working with federal and state partners" to investigate Delta-8 products.
A recent lawsuit by the Hometown Hero dispensary in Austin, Texas, sparked legal concerns about delta-8 products. However, the dispensary said in a January 2022 YouTube video that no court date had been set in the case.
A coalition of cannabis producers has been pressuring regulators to ban Delta-8 products. They've said the products are unregulated, making them dangerous outside of a dispensary setting. They also say the products contain unsafe levels of household chemicals and pesticides.
Delta-8 products have become popular in the past year. They're available in vape pens, gummies, joints, and tinctures. They're sold in smoke shops in all but 15 states. They're also sold online.
Delta-8 THC products have been advertised as "legal weed" by retailers. They've also been sold in gas stations across the country.
Can it Be Used to Ease Chronic Sicknesses?
Medicinal cannabis has gained much attention as a possible treatment for chronic pain. It can help reduce inflammation and help ease the pain. It is used in conjunction with other modalities to treat chronic pain. But, if it is misused, it can have dangerous effects on health.
According to the CDC, chronic pain costs $560 billion a year in medical care. It is widespread in Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis. In addition, chronic pain often leads to physical and mental stress. People turn to drugs for anxiety, but there are safer, less dangerous ways to treat the condition.
One in five Americans suffers from chronic pain. Therefore, the FDA is concerned about the proliferation of delta-8 THC products and recommends consumers keep these products away from children.
Some delta-8 THC products may not have been tested for safety. In addition, they may be manufactured in unsanitary conditions and contain harmful by-products due to chemicals used in the process.
The FDA is working with federal and state partners to address concerns about delta-8 THC products. It has received over 2,300 reports of delta-8-THC poisonings between January 2021 and February 2022.
The adverse events reported included hallucinations, confusion, nausea, vomiting, and loss of consciousness. Sometimes, patients had to be admitted to a critical care unit or health care facility.
Delta-8 THC is not legal. It is produced from hemp, but it is not a natural compound found in cannabis.
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The Indian Wire » Automobiles » Mercedes Benz registers record growth in India
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Mercedes Benz registers record growth in India
Mercedes Benz, the luxury car-maker from Germany registers 40% increase in the sale during the month of June.
Mercedes Benz, the luxury car-maker from Germany offered its customers with post GST benefit even before GST was implemented. Due to which its sale increases by 40% during the month of June, with a year on year growth of 18% in the second quarter of the year. The E-Class sedan retained its position of being the highest single selling model.
Till June 2017, the company recorder the growth of 8.7% in its sales by selling 7171 units. While, globally it recorded the sale of 1.14 million unit with the growth rate of 13.7%.
Roland Folger, MD & CEO of Mercedes-Benz India said that "We are confident of our leadership in the market by sustaining this growth story in the remaining quarters as well. The demand for the Long Wheelbase E-Class in particular has contributed immensely to our volumes. It is most satisfying to witness that our product introductions were highly appreciated by customers leading to a steady growth across the NGCs, sedans, SUVs and the performance cars".
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Shun Classic 7" Asian Cook's Knife
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The Shun Classic 7-inch Asian Cook's Knife , or Gyuto, is a Japanese chef's knife ideal for meat and fish as well as vegetables. The thin blade of this all-purpose knife is lighter and more nimble than a western chef's knife, while still providing plenty of clearance between your knuckles and the surface of the cutting board. This Asian Chef's Knife is an ideal go-to blade for a wide range of dicing, chopping and slicing tasks.
In the tradition of Japan's ancient sword smiths, each Damascus-clad Shun Classic knife is handcrafted in Seki City, Japan with a 100-step process. The blade is forged with 34 micro-layers of metal on each side of a VG-MAX* cutting core. There are alternating layers of 431 and 410 stainless steel, plus one additional layer of nickel on each side of the cutting core. Forged into one single, strong piece of metal, these layers, which provide the beautiful, swirled pattern of the blade, support the core, add stain and corrosion resistance, and help the food slide from the blade. The durable, edge-retaining, easy to sharpen core of VG-MAX stainless steel is exposed at the critical point - the blade's cutting edge. The blade of each Shun Classic knife is sharpened to a cutting angle of 16-degrees on each side.
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Tom Kerridge to open new cookery classroom in Churchdown
Posted by MyChurchdown 02/10/2014 48 Views	2 Min Read
Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge will be returning to his Gloucestershire roots when he opens a new kitchen classroom at Churchdown Village Junior School.
The cookery room will open on Monday, October 6 and will be used to deliver food preparation, cookery skills and healthy eating education.
It will also be used as a resource centre for teaching maths, English and science to children across the school.
All 240 pupils at the school will use the new room to get cooking as part of the government's new drive to deliver cookery at key stage two.
Former Saintbridge pupil Tom has won worldwide acclaim at his Michelin star gastro pub The Hand & Flowers in Marlow, and will be cutting the ribbon at the new facility.
Mark Bacon, headteacher at Churchdown Village Junior School, said: "The initiative has been a real community effort, with most of the building, plumbing and electrical work being carried out through generous donations of time and resources by parents and friends of the school.
"Each class will be having a tour and explore of the new classroom, whilst a group of young cooks from across the school will spend the afternoon preparing afternoon tea for guests at the grand opening.
"We are all delighted we will be joined by Tom Kerridge, who will cut the ribbon to officially open The Cookery Room, before meeting the children and enjoying afternoon tea, along with invited guests who have contributed to the development of this exciting new resource for the school."
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HomeHoly ScriptureCommentary on Genesis Chap. 3 MP3
2019 SBC Conference MP4 Set
Commentary on Genesis Chap. 3 MP3
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By Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
This commentary of Chapter 3 on Genesis is taken from a course of twenty-six classes.
This is the chapter that covers the Fall and the promise of the Redeemer to come. In this commentary Brother Francis explores many important points that deals with original sin and its punishment. Before understanding the gravity of the offense, Brother points out that Catholics should know what the original state of justice, innocence, and integrity was. What were the tactics the devil used to lure Eve into disobedience? What was the tree of knowledge? What was the tree of life our first parents lost access to? This is a fascinating look at God's cursing of the serpent and what the fathers called the protoevangelium: the "first gospel." Finally, who was the "woman" of Genesis 3:15 who would crush the head of the serpent and why does God use the term "The Woman"?
"I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." (Genesis 3:15)
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Ooooh Cynic, I totally agree. There will be no "tough" questions asked of John while on any of these programs. I'm sure that there was some sort of agreement before hand that limited any questions that would touch on something that might be in the least way incriminating or suggestive that John had anything to do with the demise of JBR. Do you still think Wood is in the picture anywhere? Like pulling the strings so John can talk. I certainly hope I miss every one of his appearances. How about all of you?
I don't think Woody is with him but he probably helped draw up pre-interview terms for his appearances.
With respect to watching the appearances, I will watch them all because watching is free and I have a strong pain threshold. I won't buy his book but I'll read it at the library or bookstore.
It would take 12 years before the Boulder district attorney's office completely cleared the Ramseys of any wrongdoing in their daughter's slaying, and issued an apology in 2008. But in the meantime, John Ramsey's reputation was ruined and he had lost his thriving business. JonBenet's mother, Patsy Ramsey, died of ovarian cancer at age 49 in 2006.
In his newly released book, "The Other Side of Suffering," John Ramsey talks about his incredible journey from grief to hope. He recounts how deeply his faith helped him navigate course from suffering to forgiveness.
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Finally exonerated in the murder of his daughter, JonBenet, Ramsey talks about the loss of his wife and his wealth—and the suspicions that still haunt him.
After the child beauty queen was found strangled in the basement of her Boulder, Colorado home in 1996, Ramsey watched the grief, and the stress of being falsely accused, slowly kill his wife, Patsy, who died of cancer in 2006. A grand jury that sat for 13 months refused to indict the Ramseys, yet the Boulder District Attorney announced they were "still under an umbrella of suspicion," and they spent the next decade shunned by friends and hounded by the press.
Then, in July, a new Boulder DA, citing fresh DNA samples, officially cleared the Ramseys and apologized, in a letter, for the "ongoing, living hell" of their ordeal. In his first in-depth interview since receiving that letter, John Ramsey describes those painful years to The Daily Beast.
After the murder, Ramsey, who had built a billion-dollar computer company up from nothing, fell precipitously from the peak of wealth and prominence, losing not only his daughter, but also his career and his home. "The fact I'm no longer under suspicion will never bring back my life," he says. "Once your reputation is tarnished, it stays tarnished."
But Ramsey hopes that the new "touch" DNA evidence can eventually release him from the mental torment of not knowing who murdered his child, and from a haunting suspicion that it was someone in the family's inner circle. He and a few allies from Boulder suspect one particular friend who was familiar with the Ramseys' home and details of their life. However, District Attorney Mary Lacy, who took over the case in 2005, says that this individual "has been thoroughly vetted and cleared through the new DNA."
The discovery of DNA from an "unidentified male" in three places on JonBenet's long johns allowed investigators to rule out the possibility that a single sample of this DNA found earlier belonged to a worker at a clothing factory (this was the original police theory). They also concluded that this stranger—not any of the people in the Ramseys' circle, who were previously tested—was the murderer.
Yet Ramsey's suspicions persist. Asked directly if he thinks this acquaintance killed JonBenet, Ramsey says, "Oh, I don't think so, But then he proceeds to poke holes in the man's alibi and describe how the Boulder police botched the investigation from the beginning. Moreover, Pam and Michael Archuleta, who remained close to the Ramseys and are also speaking publicly for the first time, tick off circumstantial evidence that they believe points to this man. Asked about the new samples of "stranger" DNA, Michael, who was the pilot of John Ramsey's King Air jet, adds, "perhaps this person's DNA was not found because he hired someone to do it for him."
At age 64, Ramsey still has the gloss of wealth about him. He greets me in a wine-colored cashmere sweater and yellow-checked shirt, his wavy hair the color of cornstalks in winter; he is smooth and genial, even debonair.
"Sometimes, in a crowd, I will see the flash of a little coat that looks like JonBenet's… I can't stand to hear children cry, I really cannot bear it."
For solace, he goes every Sunday to a small church nearby, just as he did with Patsy. He obsessively reads the theology books that line the sunroom: Max Lucado, C.S Lewis, even Billy Graham. Having seen true evil, he is trying to find "an intellectual rather than an emotional basis for believing in God."
"Do you still feel married to Patsy?" I ask, "Do you think about her a lot?"
"No, no," he says, his face relaxed but his eyes miserable. "Just occasionally, when a pleasant memory comes back."
"You talk of her in the present tense," I say.
"Do I? Oh well, just an accident."
Such a flood of tragedy defies any normal reaction, and John Ramsey's responses have been often judged abnormal. It was his bizarre poise on the morning of the murder that first raised police suspicions about him. "They wanted me to wail and cry in front of them," he says. "It somehow escaped them that how people really feel is not always apparent."
John was also criticized for immediately getting a lawyer. "I got a call from someone in the law enforcement system on the second day. They told me I better do it, because the police were already considering me the prime suspect."
"It started when our frantic call brought a single rookie cop who was so inexperienced she didn't seal off the house or collect evidence. She even had to send out for a book on kidnapping," John says. "Then, later, they took 200 DNA samples and one by one they purportedly eliminated our friends and acquaintances so they could investigate the only people they really thought had done it—us. And our DNA wasn't even found on our child's body!"
Patsy became a suspect because of the similarity of her writing to that of the ransom note, "But no expert would say that the handwriting absolutely matched," John says. The police floated false rumors—such as the fact that no footprints had been found in the snow around the house, when there was no snow there that day—hoping to smoke out family members.
The tabloid press followed them everywhere. "They banged on our car and, called us child killers. They printed garbage. A Japanese camera crew even broke into Burke's school," John says. "We worried. We didn't know who was out there. Someone had killed our daughter. All we wanted to do was protect Burke and give him a normal childhood."
After Geraldo Rivera broadcast a mock trial of the Ramseys, Patsy went to bed for two days. They took all of the TV sets out of the house and cancelled the newspapers. One day, Patsy was in a supermarket checkout line with her son. "The headlines from a tabloid screamed out that Burke had done it," John says. "She dropped her produce and rushed Burke out, but the damage had been done." Burke saw a child psychologist for two years.
Ramsey admits, for the first time, that both he and Patsy suffered waves of guilt about the murder. "I kicked myself for not getting more sophisticated house security. We left it off that night because it would go off like a siren and catapult us out of bed."
Patsy, he says, "wondered who she had enticed by putting JonBenet in beauty contests." And both parents lamented that the videos of JonBenet vamping in these competitions—released by the pageant organizations—became the only thing most people knew about their daughter.
"But she was a born performer, she and Burke would put on all these plays," Ramsey says. The pageants were only an occasional fun thing."
Some friends saw JonBenet's bedwetting and other problems with toilet training as a protest against the pressure of the pageants. They believe she might have soldiered on to please her mother after Patsy's harrowing battle with cancer.
When JonBenet was two years old, Patsy was essentially absent for a year during her treatment. "JonBenet just stuck to me," John said, with a rare smile. "I was upset because Beth had just been killed in the accident and JonBenet would tell me 'Dad I don't like that face.' I would smile and she would say 'That's better.'"
In his campaign for a larger DNA database, John Ramsey points out that thousands of rapes and murders can be prevented, for such criminals often strike many times. "DNA can, of course, exonerate people as well," he says wryly.
Because the new, more sensitive, "touch" DNA test can recover tiny samples from surfaces that the old DNA could not,more and more states are requiring that samples be taken on arrest.
"The last hope I have," he says, is that "one day I will get a call from somewhere in the country and a voice will say, 'We know who killed your daughter.'"
It is every bit as nauseating as I thought it would be.
While drawing up some talking points might be a cathartic exercise, I'm pretty sure that this has all been hand-picked to continue the love fest and the interviews will be confined to screened questions and topics.
Barbara Walters may hit him with a tough question like: If you didn't have your faith do you think you could have survived the suffering?
Follow-up question: Do you consider yourself to be an American hero?
1. Are you aware that the current Boulder DA, Stan Garnett, has publicly stated that Mary Lacy's exoneration of you and your family has no legal standing with him?
3. Why did your son, Burke, refuse to speak to Boulder investigators recently?
4. The 15th anniversary of JonBenet's death was a few months ago, it appears you did nothing publically to draw attention to that fact, why, and how do you justify that considering the publicity you are presently seeking for your book?
Excellent questions, Cynic, but as you said, John doesn't have the cojones to get within ten feet of a REAL interviewer who would ask them!
Sorry to hear you have a sick child on your hands, Cherokee. Sincerely hope all will go well. Is it some sickness which is spreading around?
JonBenet's dad says he finds shows like Toddlers & Tiaras "unhealthy." Hate 2 break it 2 u, freaky,u started it.
OMG, I DON'T have a stong pain threshold, and just reading your excerpts of John's sanctamonious BS interviews is EXCRUCIATING!
I won't be buying the book either. I hope the publisher loses money for thinking it would be profitable to promote John Ramsey's crap and lies! I predict the book will go straight to the bargain bin, but not before doing more damage to the truth, especially through these fawning national interviews.
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Ha ha, I love it! Thanks, Cynic!
Our suffering is knowing the truth, while having to look at John Ramsey's lying lizard-tongued face, and watch him publicly tout a rescinded exhoneration as he throws innocent people under the bus!
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We are very excited to announce our opening date will be May 10th 2014 ! You can now go to our website to book your riding days in advance. For 2014 we are opening with a shuttle service to get you to the top of our trails. To provide you with the best experience possible we have limited amount of seats available per day, so book now and come enjoy the freshest trails out there! CGP is a work in progress, and will be constantly evolving and changing around you and your feedback. From new trails & amenities all the way up to future lift plans, it will all be built around ridership. More riders means more trails. To grow we need you out here on our trails. Book Now!!
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Over the years we have built countless trails and signature features for several pro riders and high end films. These trails have made the coast a destination recognized across the globe. Historically we have kept these trails very private, but we are humbled by the demand. Now we have the opportunity to create our own lift access bike park. We are confident we can continue to build the best trails out there. Our goal is to share our creative passion with you and bring you into our world. Since our inception in 2009 our fans have celebrated our vision. We appreciate the passion and loyalty of all of our supporters. We couldn't do what we do today without them. This is the opportunity for us to give back and we hope you will be a part of making it a reality.
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The Coast always seems to surprise and this day is no different. Today finds us exploring just one small fork in the road but has us realize how far the land and the sea can take us. Standing on the bridge between these two mystery worlds gives a true feeling of what-if and what's next. We witness a little of the unknown everyday and in our case you can never get to the end, all we can do is open our arms and take it in. Finding a balance in what the dark, vast ocean inlet can give you, and the gargantuan rain forest (we call home) can offer -- Endless adventure.


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Emefiele: INEC sensitive materials safe with clerics, says Shehu Sani
Ahead of the 2023 general election, former lawmaker, Shehu Sani, on Wednesday, advised the Independent National Electoral Commission to keep its sensitive materials for the exercise with pastors and an Islamic human rights group, Muslim Rights Concern.
The PUNCH reports that the Nigerian Bar Association and civil rights groups on Monday warned that the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele's involvement in partisan politics was threatening the 2023 elections.
They also said Emefiele's membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress had eroded the credibility, of the apex bank, where sensitive materials are kept, during elections.
Prominent Nigerians who spoke separately to The PUNCH condemned Emefiele's APC membership and his failure to resign while allegedly plotting to contest the 2023 presidency.
But INEC in a statement by Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to its Chairman, said it had taken notice of the latest revelation on Emefiele.
It added that it might move ballot papers from the CBN vaults.
"The strategic partnership between the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Independent National Electoral Commission which enables the commission to store its sensitive election materials with the CBN has been in place for many years and is beneficial in several ways.
"Indeed, there have been various reports that the CBN governor is nursing an intention to run for the office of President. But, he has yet to formally declare his intention to run for the office of president, as of today.
"However, if and when he eventually does, the commission will look at the implications and take a decision on what becomes of the long-standing strategic partnership with the CBN," the statement read.
However, reacting to the development on Wednesday, Sani who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, said the electoral umpire should entrust the ballot papers to the care of "God-fearing" individuals.
In a tweet on his Twitter page, Sani wrote, "INEC materials should be given to the God-fearing MURIC and Pastors for safekeeping."
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Places of interest07 September 2018
"Cincşor Guest Houses" or the story of a village in Transylvania which became a model of authentic rural tourism
Somewhere, at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, between Brasov and Sibiu, guarded by gently-sloping hills, there is Cincşor - a place of quiet and peace, a place full of history, tradition and authenticity
Cincşor Guest Houses, Transylvania
With a tradition of over 600 years, the Cincşor village has a story similar to many other Saxon villages once abandoned, but with the chance of being retrieved, rediscovered and revived by the kind-hearted people. Carmen Schuster is one of those people, returned home with great plans. She studied at the village school, has made a career in Germany but she has returned to the country, animated with wonderful thoughts and projects related to the revival of her native village.
She started with the renovation and restoration of the main buildings that made up the cultural and spiritual center of the village: the Fortified Church (XIII century), the Parish House (XV century) and the Evangelical School (built in 1910). Then, having the vision of the tourism potential of the village, she decided to transform the parish house and the school in guest houses, to enable the accommodation of tourists who want to spend more time in the village.
Another challenge was the transformation of the parish stables in comfortable living spaces. Everything was done by minimal interventions trying to preserve the old architectural environment. Where it was needed, they were also integrated modern elements, and were opened interior spaces, horizontally and vertically, but which show off the old wooden structure. For the rooms furnishing were used authentic pieces, which were intercalated in with some modern, all made in order to ensure the tourists comfort.
"We really like the relaxed and bohemian decor of the guest houses, whose essential elements are precisely the recovered and disclosed details of the historic buildings - the frescoes, the authentic plaster, the old wooden beams, the stoves, the shape of the windows ...", says Carmen Schuster.
The Cincşor Houses confer an oasis of peace and quiet needed for the exit from the hubbub of the everyday life. Here, you can read relaxed old and new books in the splendid library of the house, you can socialize in the beautiful lounge, you can take revitalizing walks through the village or in the surrounding areas, you can retreat into the secret places where to resonate with the nature, you can inspire the fresh air with the scent of ancient world, and when you get hungry, you can enjoy selected dishes, prepared in a kitchen led by a chef.
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