Array-ne click on photo to enlargeKitchen Monkey has returned to the U.S., and now that he’s back in the states (with access to english-style keyboards) there will at long last be some posts that do justice to the amazing dining experiences in France and Spain.Let’s start, or resume, with San Sebastian. The face of one building that bore a large Spanish flag had been splattered with red and yellow paint, and posters like this one can be seen throughout the city.Below is the tapas menu, or pintxos if you’re Basque (pronounced peen-choes,) at La Cuchara de San Telmo, which my friend Liz, who grew up in San Sebastian, swears is the best tapas place in town. All of it was accompanied by a bottle of Patxontxo Rioja, which like a lot of wine in northern Spain and France, was both reasonably priced (6 euro for the bottle) and incredibly good.Finally, on my last night in San Sebastian, Liz’s father took us out to dinner at a fantastic restaurant called Aita Mari (which means Father Mari in Basque). Avignon.La Cuchara de San TelmoC/31 Abosto, 28 Bajos, (Trasera)San Sebastian, Spain 20003Tel: 34-943-420840Bar La Cepa31 de Agosto, 7-9, Parte ViejaSan Sebastián-Guipúzcoa, Spain 20003Tel: 94-342-6394Aita MariC/ Puerto 21-23San Sebastian, Spain 20003Tel: 94-343-1359
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Cosmological Argument Baggini derides the cosmological argument, labeling it a ‘disgrace’ to philosophy, despite variations of it being defended by renowned philosophers throughout history.Roughly, cosmological arguments purport to show that the universe has a transcendent explanation or cause. Moreover, the cause must be a mind, since minds are the only entities that can be both timeless and causally active.11 Finally, even if the argument proves merely a First Cause, this is no discouragement, as further arguments show this cause to have God’s traditional attributes. Asserting that Darwinism easily accounts for the apparent design of biological systems, he fails to mention that important scholars cite strong evidence against that hypothesis and in favor of intelligent design.He likewise argues against the notion that the universe itself exhibits design, objecting that since we have no prior experience of designed universes, we have no basis for thinking ours is designed (96).
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6.My first memory is of packing to move to Canada.7.My father is a Catholic from Belfast.8. When I do, I drink to get drunk.21.My cousin says this makes me an alcoholic.22. I said he is a mad alcoholic.23.I have never taken a single drug in my life.24. My cousin, not the mad alcoholic, moved to Canada at 11 and back to Ireland at 30 something. He says the Irish love tourists, but hate immigrants, even ones born there.40. Two days before we broke up he slept with 3 girls. I said it is a shame he ruined that day for you by sleeping with two other people.48. My all time favourite T.V show is Homefront (cancelled after 2 seasons.)55. Next year, I am moving up to Guides.67.I took ballet when I was 4 and quit the day before the recital. And yet we talk about possibly moving there.72. I do not think I could move, as I would have to get rid of most of my stuff.73. I have to go back to work in less than 2 months and I do not want to. I hate working. When William is able to work in Canada, I will not need to worry about working.87. I will work only for spending money.88. I make more on EI, than I would working 4 days a week.95. I told someone from collections to never call me again.98. Someone who worked in a collection agency told me that.100.
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-ne are the subject of this study (apparently full text not on-line, how 90s is that?) in the Journal of Human Resources, reported here in the BMJ (where quotes are from)Married women doctors in the United States earn 11% less than men and unmarried women without children . If they are married, women doctors are twice as likely to have a working spouse (94%) than their male counterparts (46%) and more than twice as likely to be married to another doctor (40% of women and 14% of men).
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-ne I think E has hit his 3 month growth spurt. my pre-pregnancy weight was 94, and I really don’t want to get that low again.
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Array-ne click on photo to enlargeKitchen Monkey has returned to the U.S., and now that he’s back in the states (with access to english-style keyboards) there will at long last be some posts that do justice to the amazing dining experiences in France and Spain.Let’s start, or resume, with San Sebastian. The face of one building that bore a large Spanish flag had been splattered with red and yellow paint, and posters like this one can be seen throughout the city.Below is the tapas menu, or pintxos if you’re Basque (pronounced peen-choes,) at La Cuchara de San Telmo, which my friend Liz, who grew up in San Sebastian, swears is the best tapas place in town. All of it was accompanied by a bottle of Patxontxo Rioja, which like a lot of wine in northern Spain and France, was both reasonably priced (6 euro for the bottle) and incredibly good.Finally, on my last night in San Sebastian, Liz’s father took us out to dinner at a fantastic restaurant called Aita Mari (which means Father Mari in Basque). Avignon.La Cuchara de San TelmoC/31 Abosto, 28 Bajos, (Trasera)San Sebastian, Spain 20003Tel: 34-943-420840Bar La Cepa31 de Agosto, 7-9, Parte ViejaSan Sebastián-Guipúzcoa, Spain 20003Tel: 94-342-6394Aita MariC/ Puerto 21-23San Sebastian, Spain 20003Tel: 94-343-1359
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Cosmological Argument Baggini derides the cosmological argument, labeling it a ‘disgrace’ to philosophy, despite variations of it being defended by renowned philosophers throughout history.Roughly, cosmological arguments purport to show that the universe has a transcendent explanation or cause. Moreover, the cause must be a mind, since minds are the only entities that can be both timeless and causally active.11 Finally, even if the argument proves merely a First Cause, this is no discouragement, as further arguments show this cause to have God’s traditional attributes. Asserting that Darwinism easily accounts for the apparent design of biological systems, he fails to mention that important scholars cite strong evidence against that hypothesis and in favor of intelligent design.He likewise argues against the notion that the universe itself exhibits design, objecting that since we have no prior experience of designed universes, we have no basis for thinking ours is designed (96).
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6.My first memory is of packing to move to Canada.7.My father is a Catholic from Belfast.8. When I do, I drink to get drunk.21.My cousin says this makes me an alcoholic.22. I said he is a mad alcoholic.23.I have never taken a single drug in my life.24. My cousin, not the mad alcoholic, moved to Canada at 11 and back to Ireland at 30 something. He says the Irish love tourists, but hate immigrants, even ones born there.40. Two days before we broke up he slept with 3 girls. I said it is a shame he ruined that day for you by sleeping with two other people.48. My all time favourite T.V show is Homefront (cancelled after 2 seasons.)55. Next year, I am moving up to Guides.67.I took ballet when I was 4 and quit the day before the recital. And yet we talk about possibly moving there.72. I do not think I could move, as I would have to get rid of most of my stuff.73. I have to go back to work in less than 2 months and I do not want to. I hate working. When William is able to work in Canada, I will not need to worry about working.87. I will work only for spending money.88. I make more on EI, than I would working 4 days a week.95. I told someone from collections to never call me again.98. Someone who worked in a collection agency told me that.100.
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-ne are the subject of this study (apparently full text not on-line, how 90s is that?) in the Journal of Human Resources, reported here in the BMJ (where quotes are from)Married women doctors in the United States earn 11% less than men and unmarried women without children . If they are married, women doctors are twice as likely to have a working spouse (94%) than their male counterparts (46%) and more than twice as likely to be married to another doctor (40% of women and 14% of men).
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-ne I think E has hit his 3 month growth spurt. my pre-pregnancy weight was 94, and I really don’t want to get that low again.
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Array In fact, from the framed write ups on the wall said it was the single most extensive Mediterranean menu in HCMC.For appetizers there is a choice of mezze and dips that you can enjoy with warm pita bread, from which we wanted to have some hummus but we elected for a warm minestrone soup and the baked goats cheese tart. My goat’s cheese tart kept me silent for most part of the dinner because I was too busy eating and enjoying the creamy warm slighty pungent cheese against the crispy tart shell and the slightly sourish sun dried tomatoes.
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We sheltered from the weather in a tofu restaurant in Akasaka*.It may seem odd to have a restaurant dedicated to just tofu, but this is not uncommon in Japan. This isn’t the best start as we had already eaten the bowl by the time I got the camera out.- Tofu on a skewer (I don’t know what it is called). Fried, startch-dusted tofu with sauce of heated dashi, soy, mirin with starch. Simple dashi stock, cubed tofu (enormous amounts), miso paste and chopped green onion.Tofu is another one of those interesting by-products of the ubiquitous soy (soy milk, edamame and soya sauce being some of the others). The only bad thing about tofu is tofu burgers, but that’s a debate for another day.Interesting piece of trivia is that legend has it that tofu was discovered by Lord Liu An (grandson of the founding Han emperor) in his search for immorality.
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Because for writers, and indeed publishers, the long tail represents opportunity. This is the ‘long tail’ (aka heavy tail, power-law tail, or Pareto tail). and there are also a large number of individual titles (approaching 200,000 a year in the US) which sell in small numbers, perhaps a few hundred copies each.One man who has given much thought to the long tail is Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired and author-to-be of a book on the long-tail phenomenon. (Thanks to Publishers Lunch for the link.)In his post of 4 July, Chris has a piece about the effect of filters on the long tail. For instance, suppose someone has read every book on breeding budgerigars which has been published in the last forty years. What’s the point?The point, as far as books in general are concerned, and particularly where novels are concerned, is that the long tail offers opportunity.True, it is still hard as hell to get a novel published by a top publisher. And the search engines will direct other filters to it, even if you don’t.In other words, even obscure books on obscure subjects can now be published with a reasonable expectation that, if you do a little work, the thing will become known in the niches where those who might be interested are lurking.I submit that this phenomenon changes everything. This alters the whole balance of power in publishing and it alters the entire economics of the book industry.The long tail, in short, is a phenomenon which offers opportunity to writers, whether they publish their output themselves or work through established firms.And it offers opportunity to publishers. There is a school of thought which holds that the long tail is actually worth more to output producers than is the short head. But, properly handled, the long tail provides modest returns for much less investment, and can go on providing those returns for years on end, as more and more filters find it and recommend it.
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Thirdly - and this is how we’ll always remember her - she made a guest appearance in one of Mark E Smith’s most bemusing couplets, from Telephone Thing: How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you/ Gretchen Franklin/ Nosey matron thing To this day, we’ve never quite worked out what he meant.
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Array In fact, from the framed write ups on the wall said it was the single most extensive Mediterranean menu in HCMC.For appetizers there is a choice of mezze and dips that you can enjoy with warm pita bread, from which we wanted to have some hummus but we elected for a warm minestrone soup and the baked goats cheese tart. My goat’s cheese tart kept me silent for most part of the dinner because I was too busy eating and enjoying the creamy warm slighty pungent cheese against the crispy tart shell and the slightly sourish sun dried tomatoes.
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We sheltered from the weather in a tofu restaurant in Akasaka*.It may seem odd to have a restaurant dedicated to just tofu, but this is not uncommon in Japan. This isn’t the best start as we had already eaten the bowl by the time I got the camera out.- Tofu on a skewer (I don’t know what it is called). Fried, startch-dusted tofu with sauce of heated dashi, soy, mirin with starch. Simple dashi stock, cubed tofu (enormous amounts), miso paste and chopped green onion.Tofu is another one of those interesting by-products of the ubiquitous soy (soy milk, edamame and soya sauce being some of the others). The only bad thing about tofu is tofu burgers, but that’s a debate for another day.Interesting piece of trivia is that legend has it that tofu was discovered by Lord Liu An (grandson of the founding Han emperor) in his search for immorality.
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Because for writers, and indeed publishers, the long tail represents opportunity. This is the ‘long tail’ (aka heavy tail, power-law tail, or Pareto tail). and there are also a large number of individual titles (approaching 200,000 a year in the US) which sell in small numbers, perhaps a few hundred copies each.One man who has given much thought to the long tail is Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired and author-to-be of a book on the long-tail phenomenon. (Thanks to Publishers Lunch for the link.)In his post of 4 July, Chris has a piece about the effect of filters on the long tail. For instance, suppose someone has read every book on breeding budgerigars which has been published in the last forty years. What’s the point?The point, as far as books in general are concerned, and particularly where novels are concerned, is that the long tail offers opportunity.True, it is still hard as hell to get a novel published by a top publisher. And the search engines will direct other filters to it, even if you don’t.In other words, even obscure books on obscure subjects can now be published with a reasonable expectation that, if you do a little work, the thing will become known in the niches where those who might be interested are lurking.I submit that this phenomenon changes everything. This alters the whole balance of power in publishing and it alters the entire economics of the book industry.The long tail, in short, is a phenomenon which offers opportunity to writers, whether they publish their output themselves or work through established firms.And it offers opportunity to publishers. There is a school of thought which holds that the long tail is actually worth more to output producers than is the short head. But, properly handled, the long tail provides modest returns for much less investment, and can go on providing those returns for years on end, as more and more filters find it and recommend it.
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Thirdly - and this is how we’ll always remember her - she made a guest appearance in one of Mark E Smith’s most bemusing couplets, from Telephone Thing: How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you/ Gretchen Franklin/ Nosey matron thing To this day, we’ve never quite worked out what he meant.
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Array-ne PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A court on Thursday acquitted a Dutch man of sexually abusing two underage boys in Cambodia, lawyers said. They confiscated 52 photographs showing Aubel and several boys posing naked or in bed together, and one in which Aubel appears to be performing a sex act on a boy.
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-ne Series IX, Roll 7, (Pentax ZX-5n, Kodak T400CN): Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper, NYFrame 19 - Not sure what that roof was doing in the middle of the lawn.Frame 24 - The main building of the monastery.
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-ne Hi My name is Elizabeth Freshour (my married name) my mother was Elizabeth Mangiardi. I live in Lake Zurich Illinois and have 2 children a daughter that is a sophomore at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, her name is Heather Elizabeth and a son who is a senior in high school this year and his name is Nick (Nicola). My aunt Rose had one sister named Mary and a brother named Frank, they are both deceased now and are buried in Mineral Point. My aunt Roses family is from Spadola and I think her dads name was Frank and her mothers name was Catherine. Regards Elizabeth (Libby) Freshour - my maiden name was Schwartz my mother was a Mangiardi (her father) and (her mother) was a Tedeschi
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My brother and sister live on Vancouver Island – my sister in Victoria and my brother in Duncan. I’ve been back three or four times since, but I don’t really know it at all.5. As an adult, I’ve lived (in this order) Calgary, Los Angeles, Calgary, London, Menton (France)London, (also Uppingham in Leicestershire – Rutland if you prefer) Victoria, Toronto.10. I had a pony when I was 12 – his name was Paintbox.13. I am pathologically shy, though most people wouldn’t believe me – I’m good at social situations because of all the moving I suppose, but I am horrified at the thought of going to a party where I don’t know anybody.20. I have a great voice for radio, commercials and (I think) phone sex – though I have only been employed professionally to perform the first two.22. I liked working in radio, but I didn’t love it.24. I loved working in television, but I don’t think I’d want to do it again.25. For a time I suffered from panic attacks – and no one knew.26. I have a dog – Lily, a Yorkshire Terrier – who is so adorable, she has actually stopped traffic and from time to time has been swarmed by people who shriek: “She’s just SO CUTE!” I agree with them and she holds this over me.32. I thought I’d been in love half a dozen times, but really it was only once.36. I’ve been engaged three and a half times. (Ha ha – not true…old Zsa Zsa Gabor joke…)38. I read my favourite books over and over – I read ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ every year, and all of Jane Austen every other year. I cannot smoke dope – it makes me paranoid and miserable.48. I love children – but not in that ‘oh – I love little children!’ way. I cry at the drop of hat – or when I see someone else cry (the way yawning makes you yawn) I am too sentimental, which cheapens it, but I can’t help it.65. I don’t think enough people appreciate this – not to look good, but to create a comfortable and comforting atmosphere.66. My role model is a widowed lady in her sixties who is absolutely brilliant at bringing out the best in people – even the horrible, irritating, tedious ones you just want to smite.67. I don’t actually like most of the friends of my friends. Some though – I like some.69. I am bored with people who don’t like Joe Clark because he was plain and Jimmy Carter because he wasn’t charismatic enough. Survivor – but most of all Big Brother.75. I was baptized Protestant – which is a good thing, because the year I was born, they weren’t giving out birth certificates and a baptismal certificate is the only way I managed to get a passport.
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Array-ne PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A court on Thursday acquitted a Dutch man of sexually abusing two underage boys in Cambodia, lawyers said. They confiscated 52 photographs showing Aubel and several boys posing naked or in bed together, and one in which Aubel appears to be performing a sex act on a boy.
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-ne Series IX, Roll 7, (Pentax ZX-5n, Kodak T400CN): Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper, NYFrame 19 - Not sure what that roof was doing in the middle of the lawn.Frame 24 - The main building of the monastery.
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-ne Hi My name is Elizabeth Freshour (my married name) my mother was Elizabeth Mangiardi. I live in Lake Zurich Illinois and have 2 children a daughter that is a sophomore at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, her name is Heather Elizabeth and a son who is a senior in high school this year and his name is Nick (Nicola). My aunt Rose had one sister named Mary and a brother named Frank, they are both deceased now and are buried in Mineral Point. My aunt Roses family is from Spadola and I think her dads name was Frank and her mothers name was Catherine. Regards Elizabeth (Libby) Freshour - my maiden name was Schwartz my mother was a Mangiardi (her father) and (her mother) was a Tedeschi
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My brother and sister live on Vancouver Island – my sister in Victoria and my brother in Duncan. I’ve been back three or four times since, but I don’t really know it at all.5. As an adult, I’ve lived (in this order) Calgary, Los Angeles, Calgary, London, Menton (France)London, (also Uppingham in Leicestershire – Rutland if you prefer) Victoria, Toronto.10. I had a pony when I was 12 – his name was Paintbox.13. I am pathologically shy, though most people wouldn’t believe me – I’m good at social situations because of all the moving I suppose, but I am horrified at the thought of going to a party where I don’t know anybody.20. I have a great voice for radio, commercials and (I think) phone sex – though I have only been employed professionally to perform the first two.22. I liked working in radio, but I didn’t love it.24. I loved working in television, but I don’t think I’d want to do it again.25. For a time I suffered from panic attacks – and no one knew.26. I have a dog – Lily, a Yorkshire Terrier – who is so adorable, she has actually stopped traffic and from time to time has been swarmed by people who shriek: “She’s just SO CUTE!” I agree with them and she holds this over me.32. I thought I’d been in love half a dozen times, but really it was only once.36. I’ve been engaged three and a half times. (Ha ha – not true…old Zsa Zsa Gabor joke…)38. I read my favourite books over and over – I read ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ every year, and all of Jane Austen every other year. I cannot smoke dope – it makes me paranoid and miserable.48. I love children – but not in that ‘oh – I love little children!’ way. I cry at the drop of hat – or when I see someone else cry (the way yawning makes you yawn) I am too sentimental, which cheapens it, but I can’t help it.65. I don’t think enough people appreciate this – not to look good, but to create a comfortable and comforting atmosphere.66. My role model is a widowed lady in her sixties who is absolutely brilliant at bringing out the best in people – even the horrible, irritating, tedious ones you just want to smite.67. I don’t actually like most of the friends of my friends. Some though – I like some.69. I am bored with people who don’t like Joe Clark because he was plain and Jimmy Carter because he wasn’t charismatic enough. Survivor – but most of all Big Brother.75. I was baptized Protestant – which is a good thing, because the year I was born, they weren’t giving out birth certificates and a baptismal certificate is the only way I managed to get a passport.
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Array-ne JohnPeter W.George W.Peter WashingtonRobert SidneyGeorge ManlyAngelia Gail Twittywas born on 24 Jul 1959 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, NC.She was born at Mercy HospitalAngelia married Dalton Lloyd Howard , Jr.
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По официальным данным в этом году с просьбой о выдаче или продлении паспорта в правительственные органы обратилось на 40% граждан больше, чем в в предыдущий.Владимир Каневский, russians.ca Passport process will get easier for CanadiansCBC NewsOttawa will make it easier for Canadians to get their passports, Foreign Affairs said Friday.Beginning this summer, Canadians will be able to renew their passports without submitting proof of citizenship or a guarantor declaration, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said in a news release.The guarantor process will also be simplified so that most citizens can act as guarantors for first-time applicants. В 114 из проверенных 180 домах в воде обнаружилось слегка повышенное (как в официальном сообщении - В.К.) содержание свинца. В Бельвилле, Чатэме, Корнуолле и Ватерлоо вода для питья оказалась абсолютно чистой.Председатель комитета по организации общественных работ в муниципалитете Торонто Гленн ДеБермейкер говорит, что качество питьевой воды в Торонто удовлетворяет всем стандартам. Как признался пастор в интервью радиоканалу 680News, несколько раз он чувствовал себя не слишком удобно, когда взгляды молящихся были направлены не на алтарь, а на вырез в кофточке привлекательных дам. В одном случае он решился передать ведение службы своему помощнику, подойти к женщине, одевшей обтягивающую юбку и довольно открытую блузку и сказать: вы слишком хорошо выглядите для того, чтобы так одеваться в присутствии всех этих людей. Скорее всего, как он сказал журналистам, он разошлет такую листовку и в третий раз.Владимир Каневский, russians.ca Американцы игнорируют МонреальАмериканские туристы, которые обычно заполняют Монреаль и Канаду в целом, с 2001 года стали более редкими гостями. «Ð­Ñ‚о очень важный сигнал миру, что Канада вернулась в игру», заявил он в четверг.Объем двусторонней торговли между Исландией, Лихтенштейном, Норвегией, Швейцарией и Канадой настоящее время составляет 1 млрд. «Ð•ÑÐ»Ð¸ переходный период будет достаточно долгим, возможно это нас устроит, но все дело в деталях, а мы о них пока не знаем».По словам Эмерсона, соглашение предусматривает постепенное аннулирование тарифа Канады в течение 15 лет с 3-летним льготным периодом. По его словам, Оттава инициирует переговоры о соглашении о свободной торговле с Колумбией, Перу и Доминиканской Республикой.canadets.com Nova Scotia to immunize students as mumps cases growThe Canadian Press Nova Scotia health officials and university presidents agreed Friday that a mumps immunization plan is needed as new cases of the disease continue to be reported.Talks between doctors and representatives of the Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents come as the number of mumps cases in the province continues to rise.Health officials report 24 new cases this week, bringing the Nova Scotia total to 350 since the outbreak began in February.We presented the issue and our recommendation of what we need to do, including immunization, and have reached agreement from the university presidents to really participate in a collaborative process, medical officer Dr. Robert Strang said Friday.Universities know how to communicate with their students best, so we need to work very closely with them and they agreed to move forward together.Officials will now go to work on the specifics of a plan to be presented to government.cbc.ca Ottawa to look into U.S. treatment of Canadian MuslimCBC NewsThe government will look into the mistreatment of a Canadian Muslim detained by U.S. border officials last month, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said Friday.Munir El-Kassem, who is seeking an apology, said he was dehumanized and demeaned by American border authorities last month during a stopover at the Detroit airport en route to a conference in Milwaukee.El-Kassem, a professor of dentistry at London’s University of Western Ontario, said that when authorities found out he was Muslim, he was sternly ordered down a hallway into an interrogation room and questioned about whether he personally knew Osama bid Laden.
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Предыдущие исследования изучали биохимические показатели рецидивов, и согласно этим исследованиям, разницы между видами лечения не было выявлено, заявляет доктор Джей Сиезки (Jay Ciezki), радиолог клиники Кливленд, штат Огайо.В анализ было включено 2285 мужчин, пролеченных по поводу рака предстательной железы начальных стадий в клинике между 1996 и 2003 гг. После того, как исследователи сравнили все факторы в совокупности, было выявлено, что брахитерапия и хирургическое лечение имеют эквивалентную эффективность, в то время, как дистанционная лучевая терапия менее эффективна.«Ð¢Ð°ÐºÐ¸Ð¼ образом, три стандартных подхода в лечении раннего рака предстательной железы имеют различия в общей выживаемости пациентов», заключает доктор д.Сиезки.
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Boney MFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBoney M. was a pop and disco group, comprised of four West Indian singers and dancers and masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian, and who were successful during the 1970s. They sold nearly 150 million albums worldwide.Boney M., with their bubble-gum infectious tunes, became one of the few Western groups at that time to become well-known outside of the West, including Africa, Arab countries, Iran, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the USSR. To this day, along with Swedish pop group ABBA, they are among the most widely known 1970s Western music acts in these regions.HistoryFrank Farian recorded the single Baby Do You Wanna Bump? in 1975, performing the sparse vocals of the song himself. Released under the name Boney M., it became a hit in the Netherlands and Belgium. It was then that Farian decided to hire a team of dancers and vocalists to ‘front’ the group, so it was created thereafter, and made up of four West Indian artists working in London, Germany and the Netherlands: singers Marcia Barrett and Liz Mitchell, model Maizie Williams, and DJ Bobby Farrell.The line-up of the group went through numerous changes, Maizie Williams being the only original member that remained. Not satisfied with merely miming to Farian’s songs, one of the members, Claudja Barry, left on short notice in February 1976 – days before the group was scheduled to appear on a local television gig in Saarbrücken. Liz Mitchell, then an unemployed singer and formerly a member of the Les Humphries Singers, was brought in as a temporary replacement for the gig, under the recommendation of Marcia Barrett. Farian was impressed with her performance, and she went on to record Boney M.’s first LP, Take The Heat Off Me, along with Marcia Barrett, who had already recorded some songs with Farian for the album; these were the title track, and Lovin Or Leavin.The commercial response to the album was lukewarm. However, the group rigorously toured discos, clubs and even country fairs, to earn a reputation for themselves. The group’s big break came when, at the end of that summer, music-TV-producer Michael ‘Mike’ Leckebusch of Radio Bremen, requested the group for his show Musikladen. Boney M. appeared on the live music show on September 18, 1976, after 10pm, in their now trademark daring costumes; by the end of the following week, Daddy Cool became Germany’s #1 single in the charts. The album was to follow the success of the single.In 1977, Boney M. released their second album Love for Sale, and this contained further hits Ma Baker and Belfast. Neither Love for Sale nor Take The Heat Off Me did very well in the UK Album chart, due to their rather risqué covers. In 1978, Boney M. had their biggest year: they released a new single, Rivers of Babylon, which became a massive-selling single all over Europe and #1 in the UK Singles Chart. It also became their most successful single in the United States of their five singles to make the Billboard Hot 100. Rivers of Babylon peaked at number 30 on the U.S. pop singles chart. Next came their biggest-selling album, Nightflight to Venus, which spawned a further single Rasputin. Continuing with their success, they released Marys Boy Child/Oh My Lord”, which was the 1978 Christmas number one single in the UK. Also during 1978, Boney M. toured the Soviet Union.The year 1979 saw Boney M. release their fourth album, Oceans Of Fantasy, containing two hit singles – “El Lute”/”Gotta Go Home” and “Im Born Again/Bahama Mama. The track No More Chain Gang, one of a number of black freedom songs the group recorded, exemplified Boney M.’s mix of white and black music – the producer Farian is white, and the singers are black. They also released another hit single, Hooray! Hooray! Its A Holi-Holiday”. In 1980, Boney M. released a greatest hits album, The Magic Of Boney M., which also contained two new songs, “My Friend Jack” and “I See A Boat On The River”. This album made the #1 spot in the UK, and was their last big UK-seller until “Boney M. Megamix” in 1992. American-born singer Madeleine Davis, who was one of the groups recording backing vocalists, replaced Liz Mitchell for live concerts, because Liz wished to promote her solo career, rather than join Maizie, Marcia and Bobby on stage. She appeared in the video, The Summer Mega Mix and became a member of Marcia / Maizie and Bobbys Boney M. for the single release “Everybody Wants To Dance Like Josephine Baker”.Despite his success with Boney M., controversy followed the groups founder, Frank Farian, in what was to foreshadow his fakery involvement with Milli Vanilli. Bobby Farrell
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По официальным данным в этом году с просьбой о выдаче или продлении паспорта в правительственные органы обратилось на 40% граждан больше, чем в в предыдущий.Владимир Каневский, russians.ca Passport process will get easier for CanadiansCBC NewsOttawa will make it easier for Canadians to get their passports, Foreign Affairs said Friday.Beginning this summer, Canadians will be able to renew their passports without submitting proof of citizenship or a guarantor declaration, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said in a news release.The guarantor process will also be simplified so that most citizens can act as guarantors for first-time applicants. В 114 из проверенных 180 домах в воде обнаружилось слегка повышенное (как в официальном сообщении - В.К.) содержание свинца. В Бельвилле, Чатэме, Корнуолле и Ватерлоо вода для питья оказалась абсолютно чистой.Председатель комитета по организации общественных работ в муниципалитете Торонто Гленн ДеБермейкер говорит, что качество питьевой воды в Торонто удовлетворяет всем стандартам. Как признался пастор в интервью радиоканалу 680News, несколько раз он чувствовал себя не слишком удобно, когда взгляды молящихся были направлены не на алтарь, а на вырез в кофточке привлекательных дам. В одном случае он решился передать ведение службы своему помощнику, подойти к женщине, одевшей обтягивающую юбку и довольно открытую блузку и сказать: вы слишком хорошо выглядите для того, чтобы так одеваться в присутствии всех этих людей. Скорее всего, как он сказал журналистам, он разошлет такую листовку и в третий раз.Владимир Каневский, russians.ca Американцы игнорируют МонреальАмериканские туристы, которые обычно заполняют Монреаль и Канаду в целом, с 2001 года стали более редкими гостями. «Ð­Ñ‚о очень важный сигнал миру, что Канада вернулась в игру», заявил он в четверг.Объем двусторонней торговли между Исландией, Лихтенштейном, Норвегией, Швейцарией и Канадой настоящее время составляет 1 млрд. «Ð•ÑÐ»Ð¸ переходный период будет достаточно долгим, возможно это нас устроит, но все дело в деталях, а мы о них пока не знаем».По словам Эмерсона, соглашение предусматривает постепенное аннулирование тарифа Канады в течение 15 лет с 3-летним льготным периодом. По его словам, Оттава инициирует переговоры о соглашении о свободной торговле с Колумбией, Перу и Доминиканской Республикой.canadets.com Nova Scotia to immunize students as mumps cases growThe Canadian Press Nova Scotia health officials and university presidents agreed Friday that a mumps immunization plan is needed as new cases of the disease continue to be reported.Talks between doctors and representatives of the Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents come as the number of mumps cases in the province continues to rise.Health officials report 24 new cases this week, bringing the Nova Scotia total to 350 since the outbreak began in February.We presented the issue and our recommendation of what we need to do, including immunization, and have reached agreement from the university presidents to really participate in a collaborative process, medical officer Dr. Robert Strang said Friday.Universities know how to communicate with their students best, so we need to work very closely with them and they agreed to move forward together.Officials will now go to work on the specifics of a plan to be presented to government.cbc.ca Ottawa to look into U.S. treatment of Canadian MuslimCBC NewsThe government will look into the mistreatment of a Canadian Muslim detained by U.S. border officials last month, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said Friday.Munir El-Kassem, who is seeking an apology, said he was dehumanized and demeaned by American border authorities last month during a stopover at the Detroit airport en route to a conference in Milwaukee.El-Kassem, a professor of dentistry at London’s University of Western Ontario, said that when authorities found out he was Muslim, he was sternly ordered down a hallway into an interrogation room and questioned about whether he personally knew Osama bid Laden.
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Предыдущие исследования изучали биохимические показатели рецидивов, и согласно этим исследованиям, разницы между видами лечения не было выявлено, заявляет доктор Джей Сиезки (Jay Ciezki), радиолог клиники Кливленд, штат Огайо.В анализ было включено 2285 мужчин, пролеченных по поводу рака предстательной железы начальных стадий в клинике между 1996 и 2003 гг. После того, как исследователи сравнили все факторы в совокупности, было выявлено, что брахитерапия и хирургическое лечение имеют эквивалентную эффективность, в то время, как дистанционная лучевая терапия менее эффективна.«Ð¢Ð°ÐºÐ¸Ð¼ образом, три стандартных подхода в лечении раннего рака предстательной железы имеют различия в общей выживаемости пациентов», заключает доктор д.Сиезки.
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Boney MFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBoney M. was a pop and disco group, comprised of four West Indian singers and dancers and masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian, and who were successful during the 1970s. They sold nearly 150 million albums worldwide.Boney M., with their bubble-gum infectious tunes, became one of the few Western groups at that time to become well-known outside of the West, including Africa, Arab countries, Iran, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the USSR. To this day, along with Swedish pop group ABBA, they are among the most widely known 1970s Western music acts in these regions.HistoryFrank Farian recorded the single Baby Do You Wanna Bump? in 1975, performing the sparse vocals of the song himself. Released under the name Boney M., it became a hit in the Netherlands and Belgium. It was then that Farian decided to hire a team of dancers and vocalists to ‘front’ the group, so it was created thereafter, and made up of four West Indian artists working in London, Germany and the Netherlands: singers Marcia Barrett and Liz Mitchell, model Maizie Williams, and DJ Bobby Farrell.The line-up of the group went through numerous changes, Maizie Williams being the only original member that remained. Not satisfied with merely miming to Farian’s songs, one of the members, Claudja Barry, left on short notice in February 1976 – days before the group was scheduled to appear on a local television gig in Saarbrücken. Liz Mitchell, then an unemployed singer and formerly a member of the Les Humphries Singers, was brought in as a temporary replacement for the gig, under the recommendation of Marcia Barrett. Farian was impressed with her performance, and she went on to record Boney M.’s first LP, Take The Heat Off Me, along with Marcia Barrett, who had already recorded some songs with Farian for the album; these were the title track, and Lovin Or Leavin.The commercial response to the album was lukewarm. However, the group rigorously toured discos, clubs and even country fairs, to earn a reputation for themselves. The group’s big break came when, at the end of that summer, music-TV-producer Michael ‘Mike’ Leckebusch of Radio Bremen, requested the group for his show Musikladen. Boney M. appeared on the live music show on September 18, 1976, after 10pm, in their now trademark daring costumes; by the end of the following week, Daddy Cool became Germany’s #1 single in the charts. The album was to follow the success of the single.In 1977, Boney M. released their second album Love for Sale, and this contained further hits Ma Baker and Belfast. Neither Love for Sale nor Take The Heat Off Me did very well in the UK Album chart, due to their rather risqué covers. In 1978, Boney M. had their biggest year: they released a new single, Rivers of Babylon, which became a massive-selling single all over Europe and #1 in the UK Singles Chart. It also became their most successful single in the United States of their five singles to make the Billboard Hot 100. Rivers of Babylon peaked at number 30 on the U.S. pop singles chart. Next came their biggest-selling album, Nightflight to Venus, which spawned a further single Rasputin. Continuing with their success, they released Marys Boy Child/Oh My Lord”, which was the 1978 Christmas number one single in the UK. Also during 1978, Boney M. toured the Soviet Union.The year 1979 saw Boney M. release their fourth album, Oceans Of Fantasy, containing two hit singles – “El Lute”/”Gotta Go Home” and “Im Born Again/Bahama Mama. The track No More Chain Gang, one of a number of black freedom songs the group recorded, exemplified Boney M.’s mix of white and black music – the producer Farian is white, and the singers are black. They also released another hit single, Hooray! Hooray! Its A Holi-Holiday”. In 1980, Boney M. released a greatest hits album, The Magic Of Boney M., which also contained two new songs, “My Friend Jack” and “I See A Boat On The River”. This album made the #1 spot in the UK, and was their last big UK-seller until “Boney M. Megamix” in 1992. American-born singer Madeleine Davis, who was one of the groups recording backing vocalists, replaced Liz Mitchell for live concerts, because Liz wished to promote her solo career, rather than join Maizie, Marcia and Bobby on stage. She appeared in the video, The Summer Mega Mix and became a member of Marcia / Maizie and Bobbys Boney M. for the single release “Everybody Wants To Dance Like Josephine Baker”.Despite his success with Boney M., controversy followed the groups founder, Frank Farian, in what was to foreshadow his fakery involvement with Milli Vanilli. Bobby Farrell
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-ne You know…I really shot myself in the foot by deleting CQ (the first blog), because now my whole 101 in 1001 list is gone. And I started it in March of 2005…I’m going to go with March 30th so that I might get a couple more days in there. I’m thinking about changing some of the travel ones because I know I’m not going to Europe at any point this year because I have no money with which to go. Take an actual yoga class10. Befriend someone I don’t like12. Learn how to do the butterfly stroke.24. Tell someone off without apologizing afterwards.31. Preferably someone I enjoy.33. Read through a whole book without reading the end first.38. Don’t eat fast food for two weeks. Learn to speak a third language.46. Learn to play the guitar.48. Learn to play the piano.49. Tell someone how much they’ve affected me.50. Actually write thank-you notes to everyone who gives me a gift.51. Teach someone to read.59. Be honest when someone asks if they look fat in this60. Learn to mix a drink.62. Learn to drive stick.66. Learn how to make bananas foster.76. Learn to surf.83. Visit an actual castle85. Learn how to make bread from scratch.94. I can definitely still do most of them, but unless someone feels like sending me to Europe for a few weeks, I doubt I’m going to get all 101 finished. It’s funny how 1001 days seemed so long two years ago…and now it doesn’t seem nearly long enough.
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-ne #fullpost{display:inline;} But, as Kim Hendren has learned, trying to force drivers to give up cell phone use is a tough battle.Jennifer Barnett ReedState Sen. Kim Hendren has made a legislative career out of trying to make Arkansas’s roads safer. He’s proposed bills to require motorcyclists to wear helmets and drivers hauling loads of gravel to cover them with tarps.And session after session, he’s tried to get his fellow lawmakers to ban motorists from talking on hand-held cell phones — There’s no difference in accident rates for drivers using hand-held versus hands-free cell phones: Both are about four times more likely to be involved in a wreck than drivers who aren’t using a cell phone.“When you start talking on a phone, you just don’t scan the visual environment like you usually would,” Brain activity associated with traffic events is suppressed when people talk on a cell phone.”One study Strayer conducted compared people’s performance on a driving simulator first when they were legally drunk and later when they were sober, but talking on a cell phone.“They were every bit as impaired talking on a cell phone as when they were drunk,” all behaviors typical of drivers over 65, and that increase the likelihood of accidents and impede the general flow of traffic.Strayer said it’s common for cell phone users to acknowledge that other drivers cause problems when they talk on their cell phones, but that they themselves aren’t impaired.“I was riding with one of my colleagues from work and he pulled out his cell phone to answer a call from his wife,” Laws limiting cell phone use in motor vehicles are on the books in 28 states, including Arkansas, which prohibits school bus drivers from using cell phones while they’re operating a bus.In the 2007 legislative session, Hendren proposed not only requiring drivers to use hands-free devices, but also prohibiting young drivers from using cell phones altogether, as 13 other states have done. In our view, there are already appropriate laws on the books to address this issue.”In fact, research on distracted driving shows cell phone usage is not the most dangerous attention-diverter drivers deal with. But the study showed that after an initial surge in compliance, drivers have gone back to using their hand-held cell phones as frequently as they did before the law went into effect.Strayer said the problem is that cell phone users today treat the problem of distracted driving like people used to view drunken driving 30 years ago.“People were still doing it, and just kind of chuckling about it,” They could require drivers who are involved in accidents to provide their cell phone records to the insurance company, to show whether they were on the phone at the time of the wreck. may be able to use technology being developed by a Canadian company called Aegis Mobility that would make it difficult or impossible to use cell phones when a car is in motion.The technology uses the GPS tracking devices embedded in almost every cell phone to keep tabs on how fast the phone is moving when it’s being used, and whether it’s located on a road or not, said Dave Teater, the company’s vice president for public affairs. Subscribers would sign up for the service through their cell phone carrier, and could choose what limits to place on phone use — from disabling the phone altogether while it’s moving, to routing calls to voice mail, to playing a message to the caller that the person appears to be driving and it might be dangerous to answer the phone.Teater, who joined Aegis just over a week ago, has been an active crusader against in-car cell phone use since his 12-year-old son was killed by a driver talking on a cell phone.“I just think what they’re doing will save lives,”
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Alyssa Pham - 135 yards - 4.242. Crystal Riese - 135 yards - 34.243. Neida Salazar - 135 yards - 4.245. Vicki Burdick - 135 yards - 4.2416. Lori-Ann Bartels - 135 yards - 4.2422. Colleen Manning - 135 yards - 4.2423. Angie Carter - 135 yards - 4.2427. Mary Thorpe - 15 yards - .6129.Donna Martin - 135 yards - 4.2430. Lisa Ver Burg - 135 yards - 4.2433. Tania Skillin - 135 yards - 4.2440. Kate Connelly - 135 yards - 4.2441. Shannon Erskine - 135 yards - 4.2443. Leeanna Fatovic - 135 yards - 4.2455. Darlene Laursen - 135 yards - 4.2460. DRF - 135 yards - 4.2466. Lori Mueller - 135 yards - 4.2468. Sherry Buck - 135 yards - 4.2469. Kandi Kwirant - 135 yards - 4.2471. Kim Salsbury - 100 yards - 6.6773. Kristi Schulte - 135 yards - 4.2485. Rachel Schultz - 135 yards - 4.2489. Pegi Taylor - 135 yards - 4.2496. Robin Lema - 135 yards - 4.2498. Julie Kirk - 135 yards - 4.2499. Sandra Tajeda - 100 yards - 6.67101. Michelle Leone - 100 yards - 6.67Labels: Ribbon
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Race #34, Men’s Novice Single Event 6 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 3 Coreten Morel Pelham CRA 8:28.00 2 5 Matt Maddamma Steel City RC C 8:46.33 18.33 3 2 Jon Murcek Steel City RC A 8:50.58 22.58 4 1 Avery Weisfeld Bachelors A 9:21.57 53.57 5 4 Andrew Paisley Malvern Prep A 11:11.63 2:43.63 Race #35, Men’s Novice Single Event 6 Final B Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 3 Alex Diaz Saugatuck RC 8:30.63 2 4 Andre Kleijn Steel City RC B 8:33.27 2.64 3 1 New York RA 9:18.18 47.55 4 2 Max Massey Bachelors A 9:24.02 53.39 5 5 Greg Hilditch Malvern Prep B 9:46.19 1:15.56 Race #42, Men’s Novice Double Event 10 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 1 Gabriel Fort Miami Beach RC 7:47.09 2 2 Bill Doughty Malvern Prep 8:13.85 26.76 3 6 Charlie Devita Germantown Academy 8:36.70 49.61 4 3 Liam Delap Mountain Lakes CC 9:32.60 1:45.51 5 5 Joshua Townsend Steel City RC 10:10.98 2:23.89 Race #49, Men’s Novice Quad Event 14 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 2 Andrew Campbell New Canaan A 6:59.80 2 3 Mike Donohue Malvern Prep 7:08.02 8.22 3 1 Matt Lonski Greenwich A 7:48.15 48.35 4 5 Miles Doolittle Shipley 8:35.10 1:35.30DNS 4 Christopher Kennedy New York RA Race #55, Men’s JV Single Event 16 Final B Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 5 Kynan Reelick GMS RC A 8:11.70 2 4 Brandon Hanna Malvern Prep 8:17.72 6.02 3 2 Tyler Barkin Sagamore B 9:04.97 53.27Race #63, Men’s JV Double Event 20 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 3 Pat Quinn Malvern Prep 7:11.00 2 4 Quinn Boyes Westfield 8:12.84 1:01.84 3 1 Friends Select 9:11.48 2:00.4 Race #74, Men’s Varsity Lt. Double Event 26 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 3 Malvern Prep C 7:13.11 2 4 Jordon Cotton Saugatuck RC A 7:22.38 9.27 3 5 Nicholas Dugan Albany RC 7:32.48 19.37 4 2 Gabriel Fort Miami Beach RC 7:33.44 20.33 5 1 Bob Valenti Malvern Prep B 7:43.21 30.10 6 6 Geoffrey Stafford New Canaan B 7:59.63 46.52 Race #78, Men’s Varsity Single Event 30 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 4 Kynan Reelick GMS RC B 8:01.70 2 2 Jonny Muntz Malvern Prep A 8:17.03 15.33 3 6 Matthew Letner Bachelors 8:29.11 27.41 4 5 Brian Nasca Malvern Prep B 8:40.26 38.56 5 3 Chris Cosgrove Malvern Prep C 8:45.42 43.72 6 1 Sam Gerow GMS RC A 9:05.61 1:03.91 Race #82, Men’s Varsity Double Event 34 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 5 Thomas Nesel Albany RC 7:03.30 2 4 Mark Borgerson Malvern Prep 7:03.91 0.61 3 3 Ben Ortiz Conestoga 7:18.19 14.89 4 2 Aj Smith Steel City RC A 7:22.38 19.08 5 6 Ridgewood 7:27.36 24.06 6 1 Owen Traynor Saugatuck RC 7:58.30 55.00Race #86, Men’s Varsity Quad Event 38 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 4 Carter Lindborg Malvern Prep 6:21.40 2 2 Sebastian Kirwan Maritime RC 6:27.45 6.05 3 1 Conestoga 6:41.46 20.06 4 3 Ian Stewart Osprey Oars 6:44.09 22.69 5 6 Navesink 7:08.01 46.616 5 Tyler Quinn-Halloway Albany RC 7:10.06 48.66
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-ne The BMW E90 automobile platform is the fifth generation of the BMW 3 Series range of entry-level luxury/compact executive cars. Otherwise, the 3 Series has been praised for its class handling and steering, the ride (which is the bane of the E60/E61 BMW 5 Series and E65/E66 BMW 7 Series models), engines, refinement, cabin space (which was once a previous 3 Series achiles heel) and Audi A4-rivalling interior quality.[original research?]The car has so few and minor weaknesses that some journalist proclaim the 3 Series as, objectively in terms of the class its in and against its competitors, the most complete car on sale and easily the best car in its class. Furthermore, with the rival W204 Mercedes Benz C-Class already coming 2nd best against the 3 Series in some comparisons, and based on the track record of other competitors, it is conceivable that the E90 may remain the best car its class until it is replaced.AwardsIn April 2006, the E90 was awarded the World Car of the Year title by a jury of 46 international automotive journalists.
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-ne You know…I really shot myself in the foot by deleting CQ (the first blog), because now my whole 101 in 1001 list is gone. And I started it in March of 2005…I’m going to go with March 30th so that I might get a couple more days in there. I’m thinking about changing some of the travel ones because I know I’m not going to Europe at any point this year because I have no money with which to go. Take an actual yoga class10. Befriend someone I don’t like12. Learn how to do the butterfly stroke.24. Tell someone off without apologizing afterwards.31. Preferably someone I enjoy.33. Read through a whole book without reading the end first.38. Don’t eat fast food for two weeks. Learn to speak a third language.46. Learn to play the guitar.48. Learn to play the piano.49. Tell someone how much they’ve affected me.50. Actually write thank-you notes to everyone who gives me a gift.51. Teach someone to read.59. Be honest when someone asks if they look fat in this60. Learn to mix a drink.62. Learn to drive stick.66. Learn how to make bananas foster.76. Learn to surf.83. Visit an actual castle85. Learn how to make bread from scratch.94. I can definitely still do most of them, but unless someone feels like sending me to Europe for a few weeks, I doubt I’m going to get all 101 finished. It’s funny how 1001 days seemed so long two years ago…and now it doesn’t seem nearly long enough.
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-ne #fullpost{display:inline;} But, as Kim Hendren has learned, trying to force drivers to give up cell phone use is a tough battle.Jennifer Barnett ReedState Sen. Kim Hendren has made a legislative career out of trying to make Arkansas’s roads safer. He’s proposed bills to require motorcyclists to wear helmets and drivers hauling loads of gravel to cover them with tarps.And session after session, he’s tried to get his fellow lawmakers to ban motorists from talking on hand-held cell phones — There’s no difference in accident rates for drivers using hand-held versus hands-free cell phones: Both are about four times more likely to be involved in a wreck than drivers who aren’t using a cell phone.“When you start talking on a phone, you just don’t scan the visual environment like you usually would,” Brain activity associated with traffic events is suppressed when people talk on a cell phone.”One study Strayer conducted compared people’s performance on a driving simulator first when they were legally drunk and later when they were sober, but talking on a cell phone.“They were every bit as impaired talking on a cell phone as when they were drunk,” all behaviors typical of drivers over 65, and that increase the likelihood of accidents and impede the general flow of traffic.Strayer said it’s common for cell phone users to acknowledge that other drivers cause problems when they talk on their cell phones, but that they themselves aren’t impaired.“I was riding with one of my colleagues from work and he pulled out his cell phone to answer a call from his wife,” Laws limiting cell phone use in motor vehicles are on the books in 28 states, including Arkansas, which prohibits school bus drivers from using cell phones while they’re operating a bus.In the 2007 legislative session, Hendren proposed not only requiring drivers to use hands-free devices, but also prohibiting young drivers from using cell phones altogether, as 13 other states have done. In our view, there are already appropriate laws on the books to address this issue.”In fact, research on distracted driving shows cell phone usage is not the most dangerous attention-diverter drivers deal with. But the study showed that after an initial surge in compliance, drivers have gone back to using their hand-held cell phones as frequently as they did before the law went into effect.Strayer said the problem is that cell phone users today treat the problem of distracted driving like people used to view drunken driving 30 years ago.“People were still doing it, and just kind of chuckling about it,” They could require drivers who are involved in accidents to provide their cell phone records to the insurance company, to show whether they were on the phone at the time of the wreck. may be able to use technology being developed by a Canadian company called Aegis Mobility that would make it difficult or impossible to use cell phones when a car is in motion.The technology uses the GPS tracking devices embedded in almost every cell phone to keep tabs on how fast the phone is moving when it’s being used, and whether it’s located on a road or not, said Dave Teater, the company’s vice president for public affairs. Subscribers would sign up for the service through their cell phone carrier, and could choose what limits to place on phone use — from disabling the phone altogether while it’s moving, to routing calls to voice mail, to playing a message to the caller that the person appears to be driving and it might be dangerous to answer the phone.Teater, who joined Aegis just over a week ago, has been an active crusader against in-car cell phone use since his 12-year-old son was killed by a driver talking on a cell phone.“I just think what they’re doing will save lives,”
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Alyssa Pham - 135 yards - 4.242. Crystal Riese - 135 yards - 34.243. Neida Salazar - 135 yards - 4.245. Vicki Burdick - 135 yards - 4.2416. Lori-Ann Bartels - 135 yards - 4.2422. Colleen Manning - 135 yards - 4.2423. Angie Carter - 135 yards - 4.2427. Mary Thorpe - 15 yards - .6129.Donna Martin - 135 yards - 4.2430. Lisa Ver Burg - 135 yards - 4.2433. Tania Skillin - 135 yards - 4.2440. Kate Connelly - 135 yards - 4.2441. Shannon Erskine - 135 yards - 4.2443. Leeanna Fatovic - 135 yards - 4.2455. Darlene Laursen - 135 yards - 4.2460. DRF - 135 yards - 4.2466. Lori Mueller - 135 yards - 4.2468. Sherry Buck - 135 yards - 4.2469. Kandi Kwirant - 135 yards - 4.2471. Kim Salsbury - 100 yards - 6.6773. Kristi Schulte - 135 yards - 4.2485. Rachel Schultz - 135 yards - 4.2489. Pegi Taylor - 135 yards - 4.2496. Robin Lema - 135 yards - 4.2498. Julie Kirk - 135 yards - 4.2499. Sandra Tajeda - 100 yards - 6.67101. Michelle Leone - 100 yards - 6.67Labels: Ribbon
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Race #34, Men’s Novice Single Event 6 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 3 Coreten Morel Pelham CRA 8:28.00 2 5 Matt Maddamma Steel City RC C 8:46.33 18.33 3 2 Jon Murcek Steel City RC A 8:50.58 22.58 4 1 Avery Weisfeld Bachelors A 9:21.57 53.57 5 4 Andrew Paisley Malvern Prep A 11:11.63 2:43.63 Race #35, Men’s Novice Single Event 6 Final B Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 3 Alex Diaz Saugatuck RC 8:30.63 2 4 Andre Kleijn Steel City RC B 8:33.27 2.64 3 1 New York RA 9:18.18 47.55 4 2 Max Massey Bachelors A 9:24.02 53.39 5 5 Greg Hilditch Malvern Prep B 9:46.19 1:15.56 Race #42, Men’s Novice Double Event 10 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 1 Gabriel Fort Miami Beach RC 7:47.09 2 2 Bill Doughty Malvern Prep 8:13.85 26.76 3 6 Charlie Devita Germantown Academy 8:36.70 49.61 4 3 Liam Delap Mountain Lakes CC 9:32.60 1:45.51 5 5 Joshua Townsend Steel City RC 10:10.98 2:23.89 Race #49, Men’s Novice Quad Event 14 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 2 Andrew Campbell New Canaan A 6:59.80 2 3 Mike Donohue Malvern Prep 7:08.02 8.22 3 1 Matt Lonski Greenwich A 7:48.15 48.35 4 5 Miles Doolittle Shipley 8:35.10 1:35.30DNS 4 Christopher Kennedy New York RA Race #55, Men’s JV Single Event 16 Final B Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 5 Kynan Reelick GMS RC A 8:11.70 2 4 Brandon Hanna Malvern Prep 8:17.72 6.02 3 2 Tyler Barkin Sagamore B 9:04.97 53.27Race #63, Men’s JV Double Event 20 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 3 Pat Quinn Malvern Prep 7:11.00 2 4 Quinn Boyes Westfield 8:12.84 1:01.84 3 1 Friends Select 9:11.48 2:00.4 Race #74, Men’s Varsity Lt. Double Event 26 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 3 Malvern Prep C 7:13.11 2 4 Jordon Cotton Saugatuck RC A 7:22.38 9.27 3 5 Nicholas Dugan Albany RC 7:32.48 19.37 4 2 Gabriel Fort Miami Beach RC 7:33.44 20.33 5 1 Bob Valenti Malvern Prep B 7:43.21 30.10 6 6 Geoffrey Stafford New Canaan B 7:59.63 46.52 Race #78, Men’s Varsity Single Event 30 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 4 Kynan Reelick GMS RC B 8:01.70 2 2 Jonny Muntz Malvern Prep A 8:17.03 15.33 3 6 Matthew Letner Bachelors 8:29.11 27.41 4 5 Brian Nasca Malvern Prep B 8:40.26 38.56 5 3 Chris Cosgrove Malvern Prep C 8:45.42 43.72 6 1 Sam Gerow GMS RC A 9:05.61 1:03.91 Race #82, Men’s Varsity Double Event 34 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 5 Thomas Nesel Albany RC 7:03.30 2 4 Mark Borgerson Malvern Prep 7:03.91 0.61 3 3 Ben Ortiz Conestoga 7:18.19 14.89 4 2 Aj Smith Steel City RC A 7:22.38 19.08 5 6 Ridgewood 7:27.36 24.06 6 1 Owen Traynor Saugatuck RC 7:58.30 55.00Race #86, Men’s Varsity Quad Event 38 Final Place Lane Name Team Time Split 1 4 Carter Lindborg Malvern Prep 6:21.40 2 2 Sebastian Kirwan Maritime RC 6:27.45 6.05 3 1 Conestoga 6:41.46 20.06 4 3 Ian Stewart Osprey Oars 6:44.09 22.69 5 6 Navesink 7:08.01 46.616 5 Tyler Quinn-Halloway Albany RC 7:10.06 48.66
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-ne The BMW E90 automobile platform is the fifth generation of the BMW 3 Series range of entry-level luxury/compact executive cars. Otherwise, the 3 Series has been praised for its class handling and steering, the ride (which is the bane of the E60/E61 BMW 5 Series and E65/E66 BMW 7 Series models), engines, refinement, cabin space (which was once a previous 3 Series achiles heel) and Audi A4-rivalling interior quality.[original research?]The car has so few and minor weaknesses that some journalist proclaim the 3 Series as, objectively in terms of the class its in and against its competitors, the most complete car on sale and easily the best car in its class. Furthermore, with the rival W204 Mercedes Benz C-Class already coming 2nd best against the 3 Series in some comparisons, and based on the track record of other competitors, it is conceivable that the E90 may remain the best car its class until it is replaced.AwardsIn April 2006, the E90 was awarded the World Car of the Year title by a jury of 46 international automotive journalists.
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Array The vocab words are numbered because my teacher insisted that we do that and I didn’t feel like going back and changing them all.The Boston Red Sox appear to be on the advent (1) of a stellar (2) season. After their unemphatic (13) Opening Day performance, the Red Sox regained their composure (14) and turned April into a month for the archives (15), never again appearing vulnerable (16). When the vain, egotistical Roger Clemens signed with the Yankees several weeks later, some Red Sox fans felt jaundiced (23) and made caustic (24) comments, but the truth is that Roger is washed-up and self-centered, with a propensity (25) for infantile (26) histrionics (27) due to the cavalier (28) belief that the entire baseball world glorifies (29) and exalts (30) him as its pinnacle (31). The venerable (41) knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, entering his twelfth season in a Red Sox uniform, returns to his fourth spot in the rotation, while interim (42) starter Julian Tavarez rounds out the rotation until Jon Lester returns from a perilous (43) bout of cancer (luckily, the cancer was found in its nascent (44) stages). The repercussions (49) of facing any one Red Sox reliever include strikeouts and bellicose (50) glares at the mound.The Red Sox also have a lineup capable of turning pitches into projectiles (51), and their hitters are currently hot enough to be the genesis (52) of a conflagration (53). At 5’7”, Pedroia appears lilliputian (96), yet his tiny body is able to produce grandiloquent (97) home runs, and he is believed to be in the incipient (98) stages of an impressive career.The Red Sox call the felicitous (99) environs (100) of Fenway Park home, and they are lucky to have one of baseball’s most historic venues (101) as a ballpark.
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Baxter critiqued Owen’s work in an appendix of his Aphorisms of Justification by tackling a seemingly less central claim in The Death of Death that “the payment made by Christ for us (by the payment of the debt of sin understand, by analogy, the undergoing of the punishment due unto it) was solutio ejusdem, or of the same thing directly which was in the obligation.”[4] As we proceed we will discuss the contours of this debate, considering the relevant biblical material, the systematic arguments made by both parties, and the exact positions of both Baxter, Grotius and Owen regarding this issue.[5] This discussion will lead us to discover the ways (if any) in which the punishment borne by Christ on the cross was identical with the punishment deserved by sinners and the ways (if any) in which it differed.WHY BAXTER TACKLED THIS ARGUMENTWhat we need to remember here is that Owen’s chief argument in The Death of Death is for effectual atonement, while Baxter’s Amyraldianism means he holds to a universal view of the atonement. 17.”[30]Fifthly, Owen proposes that when our sins were laid on Jesus[31] and when he was made sin for us,[32] in that act “lay the very punishment of our sin.”[33] Such an argument from these verses alone seems hard to come by, but the context of Isaiah 53 links, like Owen does, the imputation of our sin onto Christ, Christ suffering the punishment due to that sin.[34] Owen’s arguments are convincing.Finally Owen refers us to the copious references in the New Testament which express Christ’s agonies in his passion, and Owen asks us to “see if they do not plainly hold out the utmost that ever was threatened to sin.”[35] Here Baxter would have no problems in responding, of course Christ’s death had to be as horrific a torture as the Bible describes, for Christ was establishing the new covenant and Baxter had learnt that “a testament [covenant] is established by blood.”[36]THE SYSTEMATIC MATERIALLike any good work from the Puritans this debate was highly systematic and both sides repeatedly drew from “simple truths of logic.”[37] We will firstly critique the arguments from Baxter and Grotius which are claimed to be formulated by reading “simple truths of logic”[38] from clear scriptural propositions, [39] by considering Owen’s responses.1. so I shall not farther trouble any therewith.”[53] However at other points in The Death of Christ[54] Owen does take up one of the charges made by Baxter, namely that Christ did not suffer the “eternity of torment”[55] (which the Bible teaches is deserved by sinners[56]), so did not suffer an identical punishment as the one deserved by sinners.Firstly, Owen agrees that Christ did not suffer punishment forever, because eternal death’s “attendancies, as duration and the like … even the whole obligation, was taken out of the way and nailed to the cross.”[62] Owen later adds that if Christ did not deliver us by his death absolutely “we shall have no benefit by his death but upon the performance of a condition, which himself by that death of his did not absolutely procure.”[63] A position Owen asserts is not biblical for “faith, which is this condition, is itself procured by the death of Christ for them for whom he died.”[64]Baxter later replies that Owen is here falling into the Hyper-Calvinist error which claims pre-faith justification for the elect. In other words, he defines the difference solely by reference to the person punished, not to the measure of punishment itself.”[80]This puts Grotius squarely on the side with Owen who, as we saw in the very last point, made this exact distinction.One final way in which Baxter tries to blur the boundaries between his position and Owen’s comes in response to Owen’s description of the cross as a: “compensation.”[81] Baxter comments “[Owen] saith, it was a full valuable compensation, (therefore not the same.)”[82] As Baxter starts playing with Owen’s words like this we begin to understand why Owen would go on to make comments in his reply like: much of Baxter’s arguments “do lie rather against words than things, expressions than opinions, ways of delivering things than doctrines themselves.”[83]CONCLUSIONSo Owen successfully maintains that the punishment borne by Christ on the cross was identical with the punishment deserved by sinners, in what he calls “weight and pressure”[84] although not “in all accidents of duration and the like.”[85] From this position Owen can describe the cross as Christ “undergoing that same punishment which, by reason of the obligation that was upon [sinners], they themselves were bound to undergo.”[86] Whereas Baxter unsuccessfully maintains Christ bore a different punishment on the cross with that deserved by sinners in that it did not procure its end “ipso facto, delivering the debtor.”[87] Baxter cites Grotius in support of him but we have seen how this is not acceptable, Grotius “merely … Here it is not only the curse threatened but also the coming of the curse on the one “who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.”[15] Baxter is here paraphrasing Grotius in Aphorisms, 303, my italics.[16] Owen, Death of Christ, 448-449.[17] Owen, Death of Christ, 448.[18] Douglas J. Nevertheless his reading does support Owen’s in that Moo would agree that it expressly reveals “the translation of punishment in respect of the subjects suffering it.”[19] Isaiah 53:5.[20] Owen, Death of Christ, 448.[21] Galatians 3:10.[22] Romans 3:20.[23] Joachim Jeremias in John Stott, The Cross of Christ, (Leicester: IVP, 1986 repr.,2003), 345.[24] Galatians 3:10.[25] Owen, Death of Christ, 448, italics mine.[26] “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” on page 1.[41] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[42] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[43] Owen, Death of Death, 270.[44] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[45] 2 Corinthians 12:9; 1 Peter 5:10.[46] Baxter, Aphorisms, 303.[47] Baxter cited in Owen, Death of Christ, 437, 441 etc.[48] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302.[49] Owen, Death of Death, 270, my italics. Owen, Death of Death, 268.[50] Owen, Death of Christ, 441, author’s italics.[51] Owen, Death of Christ, 441.[52] Baxter, Aphorisms, 303.[53] Owen, Death of Christ, 443. Owen, The Death of Death, 270.[58] John Owen, Death of Death, 268.[59] Owen, The Death of Christ, 448, author’s italics. This last reference concerning Christ sweating being especially potent as sweat was a mark of the curse which God placed in man at the fall (Genesis 3:19) and which Owen has already argued Christ suffered the full force of from Galatians 3:13.[60] Owen, Death of Christ, 448.[61] Owen, Death of Christ, 448, my italics.[62] Owen, Death of Death, 268, author’s italics.[63] Owen, Death of Christ, 450.[64] Owen, Death of Christ, 450, my italics. Williams, Effectual Atonement: A Lecture (Given at Oak Hill College, 2007 as part of CD4/5.3 Doctrine of Salvation), 63.[65] Owen, Death of Death, 268, italics mine.[66] Owen, Death of Christ, 452.[67] I have included this section later rather than earlier because we can only realise the importance of the following issues once we have consider the biblical and systematic arguments from both sides.[68] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302, my italics.[69] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302, author’s italics.[70] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302.[71] Romans 5:9-10; Owen, The Death of Christ, 447.[74] Baxter, Aphorisms, 306, author’s italics.[75] Baxter, Aphorisms, 305.[76] Owen, Death of Christ, 447.[77] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[78] Baxter, Aphorisms, 301, my italics.[79] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[80] Garry J. Owen, Death of Christ, 448.[81] Owen, Death of Death, 270.[82] Baxter, Aphorisms, 305.[83] Owen, Death of Christ, 435. (443)[84] Owen, Death of Death, 269.[85] Owen, Death of Death, 269.[86] Owen, Death of Death, 269.[87] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302.[88] Williams, “Grotius,”
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-ne Last week the Transportation Security Administration had lost a computer hard drive containing data and payroll information for about 100,000 employee records. They were planning on it!- May 4, 2007 TSA notifies 100,000 of a lost hard drive- May 9, 2007 The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), along with four security screeners, charged that the TSA had recklessly violated the Privacy Act and also violated the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. If you were handed information and told your financial future depended on keeping it safe, you can be sure there would be people keeping better track of that data better than their wallet.Lack of accountability breeds lack of responsibility.
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-ne Pigs heads on sale in Moore St. The Ulyssies heading into Dublin port. Says he.I stopped the car and told him to turn around that I work in the port and this is not the way.Back on course he headed for the port then straight for the port tunnel.Where the hell are you going now?This is the way. He was very annoyed, it was an expensive lesson for the cabby.Fair enough if a guy knows where he is going you take him where he is going you don’t go on a wild goose chase.New York and Sydney are full of drivers who do not speak English and who have no clue where they are going you could spend a lifetime in transit.All the scamming that is happening here in Dublin at night beggars belief.It has become so bad that I would not be surprised to hear of a murder soon, very unsavory characters around in the night time, both as passengers and drivers.Thought I would give you some 10s of the best for DublinBest restaurants.1 L’Gueleton. 8732266 Very busy good reports not cheap www.chapteronerestaurant.com3 Cafe Bar Deli 78/79 Grafton St. Bewleys6727720 4 Bang Cafe 11 Merrion Row 6760898 www.bangrestaurant.com beside Unicorn which is reckoned to be good as well..5 L’Ecrivan 109 Lr Baggott St.www.leecrivian.com,6611919 All I can tell you of this place is a blazing row with an Italian opera singer from the Westbury hotel.. Aya Clarendon St www.aya.ie 6771544 Japanese food.Sushi,(If you knew sushi like I knew suchi)try the brasdcrumb chicken with lime.
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an impressive selection of darts accessories for sale, in glass display cases . More lottery action, horse racing video, an Instant Lotto vending machine—the Brooklyn version of a gambling bar . the sun through the open door reflects off the video poker machine . Coney Island Avenue @ Cortelyou to Avenue I—a crazy ethnic mélange: Russian, Polish, Pakistani, Muslim, Christian, Hasidic . my love of Brooklyn sometimes makes me tear (5:09 pm) .
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SBS = Sky Blue Sky84 ~ Less Than You Think (AGIB)83 ~ 23 Seconds of Silence (Summer)82 ~ Red-Eyed And Blue (BT)81 ~ Too Far Apart (AM)80 ~ Poor Places (YHF)79 ~ Hell Is Chrome (AGIB)78 ~ Monday (BT)77 ~ Dash 7 (AM)76 ~ Candyfloss (Summer)75 ~ What’s The World Got In Store (BT)74 ~ It’s Just That Simple (AM)73 ~ ELT (Summer)72 ~ Either Way (SBS)71 ~ Someone Else’s Song (BT)70 ~ I Thought I Held You (AM)69 ~ Someday Soon (BT)68 ~ I Got You (At The End Of The Century) (BT)67 ~ Shake It Off (SBS)66 ~ We’re Just Friends (Summer)65 ~ Heavy Metal Drummer (YHF)64 ~ Shouldn’t Be Ashamed (AM)63 ~ Handshake Drugs (AGIB)62 ~ Say You Miss Me (BT)61 ~ Wishful Thinking (AGIB)60 ~ Misunderstood (BT)59 ~ Blue Eyed Soul (AM)58 ~ A Shot In The Arm (Remix)(Summer)57 ~ You Are My Face (SBS)56 ~ Pick Up The Change (AM)55 ~ Spiders (Kidsmoke) (AGIB)54 ~ Pot Kettle Black (YHF)53 ~ Hotel Arizona (BT)52 ~ My Darling (Summer)51 ~ I’m the Man Who Loves You (YHF)50 ~ (Was I) In Your Dreams (BT)49 ~ Summer Teeth (Summer)48 ~ Sky Blue Sky (SBS)47 ~ That’s Not The Issue (AM)46 ~ Theologians (AGIB)45 ~ Radio Cure (YHF)44 ~ Side With The Seeds (SBS)43 ~ The Lonely 1 (BT)42 ~ Passenger Side (AM)41 ~ I’m Always In Love (Summer)40 ~ Please Be Patient With Me (SBS)39 ~ Why Would You Wanna Live (BT)38 ~ When You Wake Up Feeling Old (Summer)37 ~ What Light (SBS)36 ~ In A Future Age (Summer)35 ~ Company In My Back (AGIB)34 ~ Leave Me (Like You Found Me) (SBS)33 ~ I Must Be High (AM)32 ~ Forget The Flowers (BT)31 ~ Should’ve Been In Love (AM)30 ~ Pieholden Suite (Summer)29 ~ Kingpin (BT)28 ~ Kamera (YHT)27 ~ How To Fight Loneliness (Summer)26 ~ I’m A Wheel (AGIB)25 ~ Far, Far Away (BT)24 ~ Impossible Germany (SBS)23 ~ Hate It Here (SBS)22 ~ Outtasite (Outta Mind) (BT)21 ~ Outta Mind (Outta Sight) (BT)20 ~ On And On And On (SBS)19 ~ Can’t Stand it (Summer)18 ~ Reservations (YHF)17 ~ Casino Queen (AM)16 ~ Via Chicago (Summer)15 ~ Sunken Treasure (BT)14 ~ Muzzle Of Bees (AGIB)13 ~ Box Full Of Letters (AM)12 ~ Hummingbird (AGIB)11 ~ War on War (YHF)10 ~ Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again) (Summer)9 ~ Walken (SBS)8 ~ Ashes of American Flags (YHF)7 ~ Dreamer In My Dreams (BT)6 ~ A Shot In The Arm (Summer)5 ~ At Least That’s What You Said (AGIB)4 ~ I am Trying to Break Your Heart (YHF)3 ~ She’s A Jar (Summer)2 ~ Jesus, etc.
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-ne Look at the list of books below:* Bold the ones you’ve read** Italicize the ones you want to read*Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.*If you are reading this, tag, you’re it!**If there are any books on this list that I didn’t italicize and you think I should read, let me know in comments! Also, what other books do you think belong on this list and why?1. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)14. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)20. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)58. The World According To Garp (John Irving)79. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)100. Ulysses (James Joyce)Those that were left behind:1. The James Bond series (Ian Fleming)4. Sherlocke Holmes series (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)**Note if a book is both Bold and Italics it means I have read and want to read again
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Array The vocab words are numbered because my teacher insisted that we do that and I didn’t feel like going back and changing them all.The Boston Red Sox appear to be on the advent (1) of a stellar (2) season. After their unemphatic (13) Opening Day performance, the Red Sox regained their composure (14) and turned April into a month for the archives (15), never again appearing vulnerable (16). When the vain, egotistical Roger Clemens signed with the Yankees several weeks later, some Red Sox fans felt jaundiced (23) and made caustic (24) comments, but the truth is that Roger is washed-up and self-centered, with a propensity (25) for infantile (26) histrionics (27) due to the cavalier (28) belief that the entire baseball world glorifies (29) and exalts (30) him as its pinnacle (31). The venerable (41) knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, entering his twelfth season in a Red Sox uniform, returns to his fourth spot in the rotation, while interim (42) starter Julian Tavarez rounds out the rotation until Jon Lester returns from a perilous (43) bout of cancer (luckily, the cancer was found in its nascent (44) stages). The repercussions (49) of facing any one Red Sox reliever include strikeouts and bellicose (50) glares at the mound.The Red Sox also have a lineup capable of turning pitches into projectiles (51), and their hitters are currently hot enough to be the genesis (52) of a conflagration (53). At 5’7”, Pedroia appears lilliputian (96), yet his tiny body is able to produce grandiloquent (97) home runs, and he is believed to be in the incipient (98) stages of an impressive career.The Red Sox call the felicitous (99) environs (100) of Fenway Park home, and they are lucky to have one of baseball’s most historic venues (101) as a ballpark.
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Baxter critiqued Owen’s work in an appendix of his Aphorisms of Justification by tackling a seemingly less central claim in The Death of Death that “the payment made by Christ for us (by the payment of the debt of sin understand, by analogy, the undergoing of the punishment due unto it) was solutio ejusdem, or of the same thing directly which was in the obligation.”[4] As we proceed we will discuss the contours of this debate, considering the relevant biblical material, the systematic arguments made by both parties, and the exact positions of both Baxter, Grotius and Owen regarding this issue.[5] This discussion will lead us to discover the ways (if any) in which the punishment borne by Christ on the cross was identical with the punishment deserved by sinners and the ways (if any) in which it differed.WHY BAXTER TACKLED THIS ARGUMENTWhat we need to remember here is that Owen’s chief argument in The Death of Death is for effectual atonement, while Baxter’s Amyraldianism means he holds to a universal view of the atonement. 17.”[30]Fifthly, Owen proposes that when our sins were laid on Jesus[31] and when he was made sin for us,[32] in that act “lay the very punishment of our sin.”[33] Such an argument from these verses alone seems hard to come by, but the context of Isaiah 53 links, like Owen does, the imputation of our sin onto Christ, Christ suffering the punishment due to that sin.[34] Owen’s arguments are convincing.Finally Owen refers us to the copious references in the New Testament which express Christ’s agonies in his passion, and Owen asks us to “see if they do not plainly hold out the utmost that ever was threatened to sin.”[35] Here Baxter would have no problems in responding, of course Christ’s death had to be as horrific a torture as the Bible describes, for Christ was establishing the new covenant and Baxter had learnt that “a testament [covenant] is established by blood.”[36]THE SYSTEMATIC MATERIALLike any good work from the Puritans this debate was highly systematic and both sides repeatedly drew from “simple truths of logic.”[37] We will firstly critique the arguments from Baxter and Grotius which are claimed to be formulated by reading “simple truths of logic”[38] from clear scriptural propositions, [39] by considering Owen’s responses.1. so I shall not farther trouble any therewith.”[53] However at other points in The Death of Christ[54] Owen does take up one of the charges made by Baxter, namely that Christ did not suffer the “eternity of torment”[55] (which the Bible teaches is deserved by sinners[56]), so did not suffer an identical punishment as the one deserved by sinners.Firstly, Owen agrees that Christ did not suffer punishment forever, because eternal death’s “attendancies, as duration and the like … even the whole obligation, was taken out of the way and nailed to the cross.”[62] Owen later adds that if Christ did not deliver us by his death absolutely “we shall have no benefit by his death but upon the performance of a condition, which himself by that death of his did not absolutely procure.”[63] A position Owen asserts is not biblical for “faith, which is this condition, is itself procured by the death of Christ for them for whom he died.”[64]Baxter later replies that Owen is here falling into the Hyper-Calvinist error which claims pre-faith justification for the elect. In other words, he defines the difference solely by reference to the person punished, not to the measure of punishment itself.”[80]This puts Grotius squarely on the side with Owen who, as we saw in the very last point, made this exact distinction.One final way in which Baxter tries to blur the boundaries between his position and Owen’s comes in response to Owen’s description of the cross as a: “compensation.”[81] Baxter comments “[Owen] saith, it was a full valuable compensation, (therefore not the same.)”[82] As Baxter starts playing with Owen’s words like this we begin to understand why Owen would go on to make comments in his reply like: much of Baxter’s arguments “do lie rather against words than things, expressions than opinions, ways of delivering things than doctrines themselves.”[83]CONCLUSIONSo Owen successfully maintains that the punishment borne by Christ on the cross was identical with the punishment deserved by sinners, in what he calls “weight and pressure”[84] although not “in all accidents of duration and the like.”[85] From this position Owen can describe the cross as Christ “undergoing that same punishment which, by reason of the obligation that was upon [sinners], they themselves were bound to undergo.”[86] Whereas Baxter unsuccessfully maintains Christ bore a different punishment on the cross with that deserved by sinners in that it did not procure its end “ipso facto, delivering the debtor.”[87] Baxter cites Grotius in support of him but we have seen how this is not acceptable, Grotius “merely … Here it is not only the curse threatened but also the coming of the curse on the one “who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.”[15] Baxter is here paraphrasing Grotius in Aphorisms, 303, my italics.[16] Owen, Death of Christ, 448-449.[17] Owen, Death of Christ, 448.[18] Douglas J. Nevertheless his reading does support Owen’s in that Moo would agree that it expressly reveals “the translation of punishment in respect of the subjects suffering it.”[19] Isaiah 53:5.[20] Owen, Death of Christ, 448.[21] Galatians 3:10.[22] Romans 3:20.[23] Joachim Jeremias in John Stott, The Cross of Christ, (Leicester: IVP, 1986 repr.,2003), 345.[24] Galatians 3:10.[25] Owen, Death of Christ, 448, italics mine.[26] “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” on page 1.[41] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[42] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[43] Owen, Death of Death, 270.[44] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[45] 2 Corinthians 12:9; 1 Peter 5:10.[46] Baxter, Aphorisms, 303.[47] Baxter cited in Owen, Death of Christ, 437, 441 etc.[48] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302.[49] Owen, Death of Death, 270, my italics. Owen, Death of Death, 268.[50] Owen, Death of Christ, 441, author’s italics.[51] Owen, Death of Christ, 441.[52] Baxter, Aphorisms, 303.[53] Owen, Death of Christ, 443. Owen, The Death of Death, 270.[58] John Owen, Death of Death, 268.[59] Owen, The Death of Christ, 448, author’s italics. This last reference concerning Christ sweating being especially potent as sweat was a mark of the curse which God placed in man at the fall (Genesis 3:19) and which Owen has already argued Christ suffered the full force of from Galatians 3:13.[60] Owen, Death of Christ, 448.[61] Owen, Death of Christ, 448, my italics.[62] Owen, Death of Death, 268, author’s italics.[63] Owen, Death of Christ, 450.[64] Owen, Death of Christ, 450, my italics. Williams, Effectual Atonement: A Lecture (Given at Oak Hill College, 2007 as part of CD4/5.3 Doctrine of Salvation), 63.[65] Owen, Death of Death, 268, italics mine.[66] Owen, Death of Christ, 452.[67] I have included this section later rather than earlier because we can only realise the importance of the following issues once we have consider the biblical and systematic arguments from both sides.[68] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302, my italics.[69] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302, author’s italics.[70] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302.[71] Romans 5:9-10; Owen, The Death of Christ, 447.[74] Baxter, Aphorisms, 306, author’s italics.[75] Baxter, Aphorisms, 305.[76] Owen, Death of Christ, 447.[77] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[78] Baxter, Aphorisms, 301, my italics.[79] Owen, Death of Christ, 443.[80] Garry J. Owen, Death of Christ, 448.[81] Owen, Death of Death, 270.[82] Baxter, Aphorisms, 305.[83] Owen, Death of Christ, 435. (443)[84] Owen, Death of Death, 269.[85] Owen, Death of Death, 269.[86] Owen, Death of Death, 269.[87] Baxter, Aphorisms, 302.[88] Williams, “Grotius,”
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