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Suzuki Swift Sport: Entertainment Available to Everyone!
A beautiful winter day and a Suzuki Swift Sport for a review: today we will have fun! The Suzuki Swift Sport represents the idea of compact high-performance car for the Japanese House. In a market where small hot hatches are quite numerous, Suzuki has decided to offer something different. The exasperated search of power, exaggerated rims, enormous tires, leave room for an opposite philosophy. Instead of trying to “squeeze” as much power as it can from his 1.4L turbo petrol engine, Suzuki prefers to let him deliver “only” 140HP, aiming instead for a well-made chassis and a mass of 975kg. Rims are offered with 17 ‘with 195/45 tires.
On Car-Shooters we have already seen how the search for lightness, even with non-exaggerated powers, can lead to a fun and rewarding vehicle to drive. Suzuki Swift Sport is no exception, we’ll find out. In any case, the advantage is not only in driving pleasure. Suzuki Swift Sport, thanks to the 140HP engine and the non-gigantic tires, has relatively low running costs.
Moreover, this limited-edition Suzuki Swift Sport BeeRacing certainly does not go unnoticed. Its “Champion Yellow” color combined with roof, uprights and mirror caps in “Dubai Black Metallic” make it aggressive and eye-catching. The Swift Sport is quite different, compared to the traditional version, thanks to a specific front with a larger air intake and an aerodynamic kit consisting of front spoiler, side skirts and rear extractor with carbon effect finish. In the rear part it is you will notice the spoiler in the same color as the roof and the double tailpipe. The headlights are with LED technology, as well as the rear lights.
We are therefore talking about a really interesting car! The proof of Suzuki Swift Sport’s skills also lies in the fact that ACI (the Italian automobile club) has selected it as the official car of the “Rally Italia Talent”. This format allows young Italian aspiring drivers to make proof of their skills to win a place in a real rally competition. To honor the sporting qualities of the Suzuki Swift Sport, here we are on a beautiful road in the Tuscan Apennines. For our little “special rally stage” we will also arrive at snow-covered altitudes. The Suzuki Swift Sport in his yellow colour will certainly stand out in the snow!
Before leaving, it is also right to talk about the interior. Going on board you immediately notice the front seats. Body hugging and with a pleasant look, they attract the attention of everyone who gets inside Suzuki Swift Sport. Looking at the dashboard, nothing is missing.
The indicators in front of the driver are very pleasant to see and, thanks to the onboard computer screens, they are able to provide complete informations. In the middle of the dashboard we find the infotainment screen. Also complete with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the system is always fluid. Finally, the interior is also characterized by the red-colored finishes.
The quality of the plastics is acceptable and there is a comfortable automatic climate control. With regard to safety all ADAS systems are available. Adaptive cruise control works very well and does not switch off when we press the clutch to change gear. Great! A note should instead be made to the FCW system. The system aims to warn the driver of an imminent danger through sound and visual alerts. Unfortunately, it results too invasive. In any case, on balance, the technological equipment of Suzuki Swift Sport is complete and, for some factors, even superior to the competition.
It is certainly surprising how Suzuki managed to create such a complete package while maintaining a weight of 975kg. By turning on the engine using the button of the keyless system, we are ready to verify the dynamic qualities of the Swift Sport. On the road its lightness is immediately perceived. Both in acceleration and cornering it is easy to see how the reduced weight translates into a very reactive front of the car.
If you arrive in the corner correctly, it feels really balanced. In cases where the corner tightens, understeering is felt, which however is corrected by the ESP intervention. The good weight/power ratio guarantees a smile printed on the face corner after corner! Turbo Lag is a bit present, the Swift Sport likes that you play with the gearbox.
This feature, however, proves to be valuable in the city: thanks to the weight and to a calibration of the engine with an excellent balance between performance and consumption, it is not difficult to even reach 16 km/l. Trying to find flaws, the steering wheel lacks a little sensitivity, especially at small rotations. Also, it would be even more fun with a louder exhaust.
The double tailpipes deserve a more powerful “voice” and few pops and bangs in the gear changes. However, it seems that some aftermarket solutions are available. Returning back to the valley we are really happy with this day spent with the Suzuki Swift Sport.
An excellent balance between running costs and road fun makes it a very interesting car, with the plus of the five doors. Adding a “voice” as aggressive as its yellow and black look, it would be really impossible not to want it.


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To raise up a generation who know their God, who know their identity in Him, and who know how to bring His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
To see the whole earth filled with His Glory.
TELEIOS is a Greek word meaning mature, complete and perfected. We are on a journey to equip believers to maturity in Christ for their work of service to God.
We are an apostolic center housing several like-hearted ministries/businesses who are bringing our strengths together in specific ways in order to carry out strategic assignments from the Lord to establish His purposes on the earth. We believe God’s five-fold governmental wineskin is necessary in order to hold the new wine of revival and cultural transformation and usher in His return.
About 16 years ago in Bolivar, MO the core team who eventually established Cornelius Connection International believed it was necessary in the coming days of the Kingdom for equipping centers with houses of prayer to arise. We began to dream of what that would look like: a wide range of topics being taught to equip believers to live and move and have their being in Christ, day and night prayer, healing rooms, and pastoral care.
In 2008 the Lord gave Becky Castle a discipleship and healing model called The Exchange. The Exchange was first implemented at Convergence Church, Fort Worth, TX where Becky taught a nine week course on the power of the Cross and Resurrection Life of Christ in the believer, along with training about 15-20 people in a restoration/healing ministry model.
Within a few months Becky was asked to take that training into a church in Houston where the pastor had been involved in immorality resulting in the church being seriously broken. With a team of 18 they brought the church back to biblical foundations of faith and healing which kept the church alive. Becky ended up staying at that church and built out The Exchange within the people and began to offer it to the city. The church also became affiliated with Chuck Pierce’s network, Global Spheres, in Denton, TX.
As the Lord continued to unveil the Kingdom to the church body they responded to the leadership of the Lord to move into the five-fold government and raise up an apostolic center that would resource the region and nations in Kingdom living. This center is now called Freedom Outpost Houston.
One of the main callings of this ministry is to model and help establish the ministry of reconciliation in individuals but also among ministries. We have eight ministries/businesses housed in one facility all learning and giving of their resources one to another in order to fulfill assignments from God in a more complete and full way.
Together we have entered into Teleios Institute for the equipping of the saints for the work of service until all attain to the unity of faith and the knowledge of the fullness of Christ.

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If your only experience with fruity, Frozen Margarita variations is on chain restaurant drink menus, you have been missing out on something truly wonderful. Made properly, with real fruit and fresh juices, these spiked slushies showcase the very best of warm weather drinking. Just one sip of a truly well-made Frozen Margarita can transport you to your happy place, whether that is a pristine white sand beach, an all-inclusive resort or your favorite al fresco happy hour.
This variation uses juicy watermelon at the height of the season to produce a drink so refreshing you may not even notice that it has more alcohol (two and a half ounces) than our traditional Margarita. Besides that though, it is a classic Margarita through and through, which means that it uses lime juice and agave syrup—no sour mix or other additions to muddy it up.
This recipe produces one Margarita, but if you’re in party planning mode, it’s easy to scale the measurements up and make enough to fill a watermelon keg. The fruit you scoop out when you’re making the keg will produce more than enough watermelon for the drinks and the presentation is guaranteed winner. You should even have leftovers to use in a Watermelon Mojito or Sangria.
Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until slushy.
Pour into a Margarita glass.
We like this drink made with freshly cut watermelon, but remember that watermelon is 92 percent water, so it may produce a thinner frozen drink than some other fruits. If you prefer your frozen Margs a little thicker, try freezing your watermelon before blending it.

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GovindRoobs, 09 Jan 2018Microsoft Invents Others Copy. This shows the Power of Microsoft... moreMicrosoft never invented the concept. They just made their operating system work better in the scenario. That is the whole purpose of them building out their os is to adapt to devices instead of having devices use a different operating system just because of its form factor. And with the power of devices they should be able to transform to other style of devices. They knew they would never keep windows 10 mobile around because it will all become windows 10 eventually with their andromeda shell. But they released a few phones for the purpose of data gathering and to do more work towards their greater goal. Making guinea pigs out of fans. This is going to be the future though and Google and Apple are both going in this direction too.
So we have Samsung Dex for Desktop experience and now Project Linda for Notebook Experience.
For Travelers, business people the laptop dock is a better option.
My Opinion: Dock should contain: Graphic booster (graphic card), Speakers and SDD.
Leave the processor and Ram to the phone.
Anonymous321, 10 Jan 2018damn, the video tempts me to buy a Razor phone!Exactly. I'm not much of a fan of the Razer phone 'cause I'm also not much of a gamer, but this is truly amazing. I'd say that this is much better than DeX since it is a laptop, which means portability is at your disposal.
damn, the video tempts me to buy a Razor phone!
The video associated with this article impressed me.
Microsoft Invents Others Copy. This shows the Power of Microsoft's Marketing in phones.
Not an original concept, but since no one got it right so far, it might be very popular if executed properly.
I would suggest that they make the phone dock larger and include a special bracket for the RAZER phone, this way it will remain compatible with future phones from RAZR and all they will have to do is produce a new bracket for the phone.
It would be nice but market is really limited for this kind of device. What if i purchased this and Razor releases a new phone with improved specs with different dimensions. Do i have to purchase another one which fits the new phone.
It definitely looks more interesting than for example, Dex. Atleast that's my opinion. It will be great if it becomes more than just a concept. I just hope pricing will be reasonable, in the end it's just a shell with keyboard, screen and few connectors.

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“Screwups” is now available for pre-order!
My newest novel Screwups is now available for pre-order at Dreamspinner Press!
In 1996, Jake Stewart is starting his third year at the University of New Hampshire. Even as a successful business major, he is absolutely miserable. Not only is Jake pursuing a field he hates when he’d rather study art, he is utterly terrified of what will happen if his father finds out he’s gay. When he finally gets up the courage to move into the creative arts dorm on campus, his new roommate, Danny, is openly gay—and there’s no denying the attraction between them.
Danny Sullivan has been out since high school, and he appears comfortable with his sexuality. But something happened in Danny’s past—something that gives him nightmares he refuses to talk about. Unknown to Jake, the way he mistreated his friend, Tom Langois, when Tom came out to him in high school, is mild compared to the way someone very much like Jake treated Danny.
It may be too late to fix the mess Jake made with Tom, but if Jake wants to be with Danny, he’s going to have to fix the mess made by another closeted jock he’s never even met.

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Any label information in addition to the mandatory requirements discussed above (i.e., directions for use, promotional statements) does not have to appear in a bilingual manner.
Dealers are, however, encouraged to include such information in English and French. One must also take Quebec and New Brunswick into account. If the customer intends on selling into those two provinces, then yes, everything must be bilingual. Also, they must ensure that English text is the same size as French. Sometimes manufacturers will put French text in a little smaller because it typically takes up more space…but that is not permitted especially in Quebec.
Q. Are explosives exempted from Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations (CCCR)? If so, what regulates the labeling of the container and outer package? He already received some feedback on what Natural Resources Canada (NRC) wanted and has added that wording to his package.
A. Health Canada states the following: The following types of products are not subject to these requirements (i.e., The CCCR 2001), since they are governed by other Canadian legislation: chemical products used exclusively in the workplace, cosmetics, drugs, explosives, foods, medical devices, nuclear substances, pest control products and tobacco products. The CCCR 2001 now falls under the Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA). That Act applies to all consumer products, except the products listed in its Schedule I. The first item in Schedule I is “Explosives within the meaning of Section 2 of the Explosives Act“.
As such, I could only tell you that any labeling would likely appear under the Explosives Act and any associated Regulations. What that labeling might be, I could not tell you. ICC doesn’t currently deal with specific ‘retail‘ labeling for explosives. If the NRC has already indicated what was necessary, the only suggestion I can make is to double check with them that there aren’t any other labeling regulations that are in play for his product. They should not indicate CCCR labeling since the CPSC and CCCR do not apply, per the above.
Q. My product doesn’t appear to be dangerous goods in Canada, but my American customer says I must ship it to them as an environmentally hazardous substance. Why?
A. This is a bit complicated because of the differences between 49 CFR, Canada, and UN definitions of what is environmentally hazardous.
First, check to see if your chemical is listed by name in TDG Schedule 1 or the Hazardous Materials Table of 49 CFR. If it isn’t listed in either, check to see if it meets the criteria of classes 1 through 8. If it doesn’t, it’s usually not regulated as dangerous goods.
However, for U.S. shipments, you must also check if it is listed in 49 CFR in Appendix A to the Hazardous Materials Table (section 172.101). If it is, it will be given a Reportable Quantity (RQ) of 1, 10, 100, 1000 or 5000 pounds. Packages containing a net quantity equal to or greater than the Reportable Quantity will be classified in the U.S. as an Environmentally Hazardous Substance. If there is no other hazard class, it will be assigned to Class 9, and either UN3077, Environmentally hazardous substance, solid, n.o.s. or UN3082, Environmentally hazardous substance, liquid, n.o.s. The technical name will be whatever chemical is present at the RQ level or higher. Also, non-bulk packages must be marked with the letters “RQ”, and the shipping paper must include the letters “RQ” before or after the shipping description.
In general, when shipping a material between Canada and the U.S., if it is not regulated in one country but regulated in the other, you must ship it as regulated. Canada permits the use of 49 CFR classifications for goods not regulated in Canada in TDG section 1.11.
Reportable quantities and the RQ classification only apply within the U.S. So, if a shipment does not begin, end or enter U.S. territory, the above would not be applicable. However, the RQ is only one way chemicals can be classified as environmentally hazardous. The United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods have their own criteria, which is based on environmental testing of chemicals to determine if they’re harmful, rather than using a list like the RQs. These materials should be shipped with the Marine Pollutant symbol beside the class label or placard (although Canada gives an exemption in TDG 1.45.1 for marine pollutants transported by ground only), and must include the words “Marine Pollutant” after the shipping description on the shipping document.
Re: Regulatory Helpdesk, #1 – Transborder Trouble.
I have a slight correction to your article.
Thanks for finding that typo. We’ve updated the article to the correct reference.

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If you ignore the cleaning of garbage in your compound, most possibly rubbish will get built up. At this moment, this could lead to other problems like insanitation and diseases in your complex. In spite of how it really happened, you should get rid of garbage as soon as possible. Many individuals will prefer to hire a skip, which was an excellent suggestion when there was no other alternative. On the whole, a skip will get nearer to your location and you will be able to fill everything into the skip. There are quite a few problems connected with doing this, some of which you might not have still regarded as when you made a decision to get lifted the rubbish. Ultimately, you can hire a reliable rubbish clearance Ealing professionals in your location.
The primary concern you are going to face is the reality that you have to sort from beginning to end the whole you have to remove garbage yourself. This might be fine, but it can be rather very tiring. Afterward, you have to place it on top of the skip. If you’ve ever had to perform whatever thing like this, you know it’s not exactly an easy thing to do. Where is all of your garbage going to wind up? Did you ever think about that? Probabilities are there that the skip will take it to a particular place where it will accumulate for an indefinite number of years. If you are somebody who cares about the surroundings, then you’re utterly going to think about it another way. Why not employ a rubbish clearance Ealing experts? There are really many companies that focus on eliminating these things from your home or building compound.
Consider a skip company which employs highly developed garbage cleaning service. A reliable skip clearance will arrive at your residence, search through your garbage, and they will shift it on to their own vehicle for transportation to a reprocessing centre. Furthermore, they will charge a flat price, signifying that no matter what you develop to have on your home; they will deal with it without charging more. Rubbish clearance Ealing people do well and in an organised manner, so it’s expected that you won’t be surprising them any time or almost immediately. They will meet both your requirements and the necessities of the surroundings in a resourceful manner. Always hire a reliable service provider for good results.

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To say the least it was a fast weekend. New alcohol funny car class records for speed and ET were set.
The Moduline Mustang, with Paul Gill at the controls, was the picture of consistency. Running ever quicker while boosting his mph all weekend; Paul and the Moduline team were able to beat the record setter, Frank Manzo, in round 2 on Sunday morning and move his way to the finals.
After solving a couple of problems that only show up on race day, the Moduline Mustang lost the final round in a close race against Mickey Ferro. It was a great battle for the entire ¼ mile.
The long winters worth of work has paid off for the team. Many long nights this winter are showing the signs of success. Racers, and those who support them, are the only people who know how many hours go into making something as complex as a race car go from point a to point b; in the right amount of time and at the best speed. We salute the dedicated crew that works and maintains the Moduline Mustang. From the guy on his back changing rod bearings to the girl packing the parachutes, Paul has organized a great group of people to race this car.
Its those same organizational skills that have allowed him to build Moduline cabinets into the premier aluminum garage cabinet manufacturer. He has assembled a team of quality and service oriented pros to help you with all aspects of your cabinet selection. From initial discussions, to design and finally assembly, the team is here to work with you. For your trailer, vehicle, or garage, we have a line of premium aluminum storage cabinets for you.
Start your organizational search with the pros at Moduline. Call our toll free number, 1-888-343-4463; talk to our sales professionals and find out how easy they can make the process.

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I have a door! I HAVE A DOOR! Do you hear angels singing? I do! I’ve lived in this house for TEN YEARS WITH NO DOOR! I don’t know who designed this house, but why would you not put a door on a bathroom? It doesn’t even have a door to a separate toilet area – just NO door at all until NOW!
Here’s the before shot. You can imagine how this must light up the room, when someone gets up in the middle of the night or gets up early for work. It was an extra wide opening, so we had to special order a door that would fit.
Because of the shape, you couldn’t really just add a door frame without cutting the wall and evening out those corners. Even if you cut the corners and ordered a frame and door, it would still all need to be custom because of the size. Custom = $$$.
I don’t care anymore. I have a door!
We went up to The Door Store in Marysville with our measurements and my PInterest board filled with barn doors. They said, “Oh, sure. We can totally do that for you. The door will be about $1,500 and the track is about $500.” Then I mentioned that I want the cheaper version. They showed me the cheaper version but it still wasn’t in out budget, so I forced them to get a little creative. They said they could do a special order door, that wouldn’t be a true barn door, but would at least have a couple of panels. They found an unfinished door for me, so I could finish it myself and save a little more money. The unfinished 4 panel door cost us $350, which was a much better price for this project. It’s solid and heavy, which is what I wanted.
I was a little disappointed in the finish on the door. We have been stripping, staining, and varathaning all of the doors, cabinets, and trim in the house. It’s been a long project and we are only about half way done. When I was staining the doors (we bought a new door to the garage too) I ran out of Varathane. I took a picture of what I wanted and sent my hubby to Lowe’s to pick up a new can. Well, either I took a picture of the wrong can or he bought the wrong thing. (I’ll go with me taking the wrong picture since he’s always nice enough to run out and pick up anything I need for my hairbrained projects.) Well, the lighting in the garage isn’t very good and I didn’t even notice how shiny the doors were turning out until I had them hung up. They are shiny. Really shiny. I must have had my hubby buy semi-gloss instead of satin. Grrrrr. It really, really, really bothers me when I look at them, but I have no desire to take the doors back down and go through the whole process of refinishing. So, the doors will stay.
The hardware was another area we had to get creative to cut costs. The barndoor hardware I really wanted was about $450. A bathroom door in my master bedroom, that no one will ever see (except my blog reading friends) is not the place I want to spend $450. So, I asked my Door Store friends if they had any other bright ideas. They sent us over to the economical version of a track for a sliding door. This one was only $80. Perfect! My first thought was just to spray paint it black and call it done, but then I thought that a burlap valance might be a nice way to hide the track. My neighbor also suggested a barnwood cornice. I do have a few pieces of barnwood in my garage, so that may be an option. For now, I will just be happy to have a door! I have a door, friends!!
I think I’ll go down to my local Farm and Garden Feed Center to see if they have any barn door handles.
It's the little things! Isn't it just SO much fun? I LOVE that you haven't had a door for so many years – sounds like my house . . . so when you DO get one (out of dozens here) project done it's SO thrilling! Can not tell you how thrilled I was when my husband finally got up on the roof and removed years of moss . . . it's the little things . . .
That’s a pretty cool project. Sliding doors are the best, since they are very aesthetically pleasing, and you can save some space with it as compared to an ordinary door. Anyway, did you get those handles yet? Thanks for sharing!
Fred Richardson @ SGK Home Solutions Inc.

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One of the most common requirements in job postings is good communication skills. But are companies failing in their own internal communication strategies?
No matter what the role, it seems good communication is sacrosanct in the workplace.
Must be a strong communicator. Excellent communication skills required. Must possess superior written and verbal communication skills.
The examples above are all taken from real job postings looking for, in correlating order, a maintenance technician, a business analyst and a process scientist.
It seems that whatever other skills these roles demanded, having the ability to communicate with colleagues was something of an essential, even urgent requirement.
If communication is such a crucial skill for employees to bring to work, why are so many businesses failing to offer better communication strategies in the workplace?
Research suggests that 60% of office employees would like more feedback on their work. For employees under the age of 30, that figure rises to 72%. And despite the fact that employees want it and managers recognise its value, only 30% of surveyed office workers actually reported that they receive any feedback at all.
So what’s happening here exactly? Why is creating a more effective communication strategy not top of each and every company’s priority list?
Well the reasons for poor company communication are many. Let’s take a look at a handful of them.
The prevailing feedback trend in the corporate environment is the annual review. This sees managers and employees meet face to face for a performance appraisal. As their title suggests, annual reviews are a rare occurrence. One of the big problems with this system is that there’s bound to be too much to say and too little time to say it. The actionable details get lost in a broad, sweeping performance overview.
The other major stumbling block is how narrow the focus of the communication is as the manager offers one-way feedback and sets new goals and KPIs. Can this really provide any effective mutual benefit? For 77% of HR executives, the answer is no. So why keep doing it?
Companies in which the formal annual review is customary are extremely unlikely to have in place a system that facilitates ongoing feedback that would support ongoing employee development. In this sense, it could be argued that the standard annual review system is actually counterproductive since it limits growth.
Have you ever been involved in a conversation with a friend or a stranger where you felt you were just being talked at rather than talked to? Did you feel like sitting there listening to them babble on all day, or did you start thinking about socially acceptable ways to make a hasty retreat?
Why would things be any different in a professional environment? When communication is poor and employees are neither receiving valuable feedback nor feel their own feedback counts, then employee engagement levels tend to drop. As we’ve explored in previous articles, when engagement drops, it sets off a destructive domino effect in which staff morale suffers, productivity decreases and employee turnover sky-rockets.
For small businesses with limited resources, every single hire is vital. Start-ups must be in a position to maximise their employees’ potential by offering them instruction, encouragement, the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them, by creating a culture of collaboration where knowledge is shared across teams instead of held in inaccessible silos.
Yet things are changing when it comes to how companies communicate.
It seems that the shoe is now firmly on the other foot as it is employees who are actively asking for more open, regular and valuable communications in the workplace. In fact an overwhelming 80% of modern-day workers favour instant or regular feedback over the outdated format of annual reviews.
Part of the reason for this is that the younger workforce – who are well used to instant feedback and gratification – simply need it if they are to feel a sense of purpose and potential for growth.
And big businesses are taking note. Huge international banks such as Goldman Sachs, Citi and JP Morgan have all invested resources in improving their communication and feedback strategies. IBM have also announced changes to their feedback system in order to accommodate the needs of the new millennial workforce.
The focus is now on creating 360-degree feedback loops that allows employees to hear what managers, colleagues and even customers have to say.
Receiving micro-feedback from multiple points helps foster a culture of collaboration in which ideas are exchanged across departments; advice and support is offered; and learning becomes continuous.
Companies that employ regular feedback enjoy an employee turnover rate that is 15% lower than those that do not. Such regular feedback not only engages employees, it also encourages innovation. The next great leap forward for your business could come from a voice just waiting to be heard.
Fill in the contact form below to find out how GoConqr Campus can help improve communication in your company.


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We have complied with the fairness requirement of the law as we promise not to mislead companies when we are obtaining their data. We also consider how the data we obtain is used and if this could have a negative effect on them.
We have also complied with the transparency requirement of the law as we are clear and honest about who we are as a company and why we select their data.
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Yes, please see our data resources page on our website for more information.
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If a data subject objects to the processing of their information, then we will remove them from the data base and also replace the contact for you as a part of our 100% guarantee.
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In order to keep the data which you licence from us accurate, we check our telephone records with BT and our direct mail records with Royal Mail and then we cross check them with our own market research in order to ensure that the data lists we supply to you are accurate.
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We hope that we have been able to provide you with the answers you were looking for and we hope that you choose us as your data list provider. Further reading is available in our GDPR section, GDPR in a positive light.

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text: Efamol Neutraceuticals in Boston, a unit of Efamol Ltd. in Guildford, England, said yesterday that it had named Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners in New York as the first agency to introduce its nutritional supplement products in the United States. Billings were estimated at $10 million. The decision came after a two-month review that had been narrowed to Kirshenbaum Bond and one other finalist, Arnold Communications in Boston.

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What is Hypnobabies® Childbirth Hypnosis?
Many of the birthing mothers who use Hypnobabies experience only pressure or tightening sensations during birth. They have their babies in a state of deep relaxation, with little or no discomfort or fear using real hypno-anesthesia.
Think it is too good to be true? I have seen many of my doula clients birth using Hypnobabies and I have used it myself.
I know it works! 🙂 See my doula clients using Hypnobabies in many birth videos on my You Tube page.
There are live classes and a home study option.
Hypnobabies is a 6 week *complete childbirth education course* using Gerald Kein’s Painless Childbirth Hypnosis techniques instead of simple relaxation, breathing or guided imagery.
We use our Hypnobabies Workbook, CDs and hypnosis scripts to train the inner mind that contractions in labor will be felt only as pressure and tightening sensations.
* Relaxed Mom and Dad throughout pregnancy, labor and birth. Both parents participate in the Hypnosis and Fear Release sessions, providing them with a sense of calm and confidence.

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A house is probably the most expensive investment we make. Turning a house into a home, your ideal living space can be just as challenging.
Green Bird properties have been renovating and extending properties for our clients (and our own) turning dreams into reality over the last 10 years.


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SOMERVILLE, Massachussetts, Nov 8 2014 (IPS) - Pedro sought a safer life. He traveled to Somerville from Chalantenango, El Salvador on foot, by bus, car, and in the back of a tractor-trailer truck.
Now he’s one of 60 new students from Central America who have enrolled in Somerville Public Schools after making it to the Texas border on their own or with other children, part of a wave of 70,000 youth who crossed the border earlier this year. And the district is concentrating on when those students are going, not where they’ve been.
Pedro – who, like other students in this article, is not being identified by his real name – had a perilous journey. He has a gash wound in his arm from an injury he got on the way. He ended up in a cell in Texas and then was bounced to an immigrant holding center in Florida before being reunited with his father, who works as a cook in Cambridge.
By the time he got to Somerville, he had a lung infection that landed him in the hospital.
But the hazards of his hometown justified the risky journey, he said.
Maria, 15, lived with her grandparents, also in Chalantenango. She never remembers meeting her parents before arriving in Somerville.
Miguel, 16, came from San Vincente, El Salvador. Back home he lived with an aunt. His mother works for a local bakery here. Miguel said he had been harassed but never hurt by the local toughs. However, one of his friends was regularly ransomed, Miguel said, because he wore nice clothing. Local gang members assumed he had money. They demanded higher and higher payments. Then one day, the friend’s cousin disappeared.
Almost 70,000 young people, mostly from Central America, were apprehended at the U.S. border during fiscal year 2014 (Oct. 1, 2013-Sep. 30, 2014), up 77 percent from a year earlier, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Most of them come from Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala.
Young migrants from those and all non-contiguous countries have the right to apply for asylum once they arrive. If their application is accepted, they get a court date and are then sent to a shelter or to the home of a family member, if one can be identified.
Those three countries are among the most dangerous in the world, according to 2012 United Nations statistics. Honduras had the world’s highest per-capita homicide rate in 2012: 90.4 homicides per 100,000 people, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. El Salvador came in fourth, with 41.2 homicides per 100,000, and Guatemala was fifth, with a rate of 39.9 homicides per 100,000 people.
The youth who make it to the border and arrive in Somerville face tough odds, according to school counselors and teachers, but the district is ready to take them in. All children in Massachusetts have the right to free public education, regardless of immigrant status or national origin.
All children in Massachusetts have the right to a free public education, regardless of immigration status or national origin. Somerville takes that right seriously, said Sarah Davila, District Administrator of Programs, English Learner Education and Family and Community Partnerships for the Somerville Public Schools.
“Unaccompanied youth is a particular profile,” Davila added. “They come with particular needs and we need to respond to their needs.
“Whatever student comes to our district will bring strengths and will add to our diverse community and we want them here. We want to give them that message,” she said.
The Somerville Public School system calculates that about 60 new students will arrive each school year, but this year the numbers will be much higher. While some students who crossed the border enrolled during the previous school year, in just the first two months of this academic year 48 new students – some unaccompanied minors, others who came to the community with their families – have enrolled, Davila reported. Some of them are high school age but have only a third or fourth grade level.
“Knowing that we have an increase in beginner students… we’ve shifted our cluster of courses,” Davila said.
Even beginning students take all their courses in English, but now there are more entry-level math and sciences courses. In addition to regular courses, all English language learners take English as a Second Language, many of them from Sarah Sandager.
On a recent morning, a classroom of ninth graders chanted, “Today is October 28, 2014!” before getting back their corrected homework – vocabulary worksheets. Sandager moved up and down the rows, cajoling one student to do a re-write, praising another.
“They have so many challenges,” Sandager explained in an interview. Some have left behind parents or siblings, others have to work 40 hours a week, she said.
“You’re dealing with more than just them learning a language. You have to think about their whole self. The social and emotional component,” she said.
In the meantime, he hopes the Somerville community will make an effort to understand the immigrant wave from Central America.
A version of this story appeared in the Somerville Journal and Somerville Neighborhood News.


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Although the rhetoric Phillip E. Johnson employs in his article "Creator or Blind Watchmaker?" (FT, January 1993) differs in some details from that of the "'scientific' creationists" of North American Christian fundamentalism, the effect of his pronouncements is the same. That is, it perpetuates the association of Christian belief with the rejection of contemporary scientific theorizing, thereby ensuring that the gulf between the academy and the sanctuary will only grow wider. Moreover, ironically, the concept of creation implicit in his argumentation is one that has moved far afield from the Christian theological heritage.
The title of the lecture series from which Johnson's article was adapted was: "Theistic Naturalism and the Blind Watchmaker." That title was considerably more accurate, because the thrust of his contribution is not to offer the reader a choice between belief in the Judeo-Christian Creator or in Richard Dawkins' "blind watchmaker." Rather, his agenda is polemical in character, focused on affixing the label of theistic naturalism (a term used ten times) to the positions espoused by some of his Christian critics and arguing that such positions are substantively indistinguishable from the detestable "blind watchmaker hypothesis" of evolutionary naturalism, which, by the heavy-handed effort of the "scientific establishment," is fast "becoming the officially established religion of America."
To borrow a phrase from his earlier article in First Things ("Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism," October 1990), there is in Johnson's writing "just enough truth to mislead persuasively." If, for instance, one were to peruse a representative sample of the popular and semi-popular literature written by the strident preachers of antitheistic naturalism (some textbook literature also qualifies), one could, as did Johnson, find an abundance of reckless assertions that modern science, especially evolutionary biology, has soundly discredited all forms of theism. Finding such offensive rhetoric is not at all difficult, and, in full agreement with Johnson, I find such statements wholly unwarranted and grossly out of place in the public education system.
But Johnson's attack does not stop at an expose of the triumphalist scientism espoused by a number of highly visible and self-appointed spokesmen for natural science. No, he proceeds zealously in a more ambitious campaign to establish the position that not only is the exploitation of scientific theories for the purposes of antitheism to be rejected, but the scientific theories being thus exploited are to be rejected as well. One of Johnson's central claims is that "doctrinaire naturalism is not just some superfluous philosophical addition to Darwinism that can be discarded without affecting the real 'science' of the matter," but is the very source of the evolutionary paradigm. Johnson's entire program proceeds from his belief that scientific theories regarding macroevolutionary continuity are the products, not of legitimate inference from empirical data, but of naturalistic assumptions that have been imposed on science by Darwin and his followers.
In his book Darwin on Trial Johnson says, "Biological evolution is just one major part of a grand naturalistic project, which seeks to explain the origin of everything from the Big Bang to the present without allowing any role to a Creator. . . . The absence from the cosmos of any Creator is therefore the essential starting point for Darwinism." Hence, "Naturalism is not something about which Darwinists can afford to be tentative, because their science is based upon it." In Johnson's view, then, the only reason for giving credence to theories that incorporate the idea of genealogical continuity among all lifeforms is their value in promoting the antitheistic worldview of naturalism.
But here's the rub: If biological evolution is, as far as Johnson can see, inextricable from the presuppositions of naturalism, and if evolutionary naturalism is radically opposed to the existence of a supernatural Creator, then how is it possible for a person to be what Johnson calls a "theistic naturalist"? How could one possibly be an authentic Christian theist-one whose worldview is built on belief in the Creator God-and at the same time a proponent of naturalism? Isn't "theistic naturalism" an oxymoron of the highest order?
It would seem so, and this appears to be precisely the kind of conclusion that Johnson would have the readers of First Things reach. As he defines it, theistic naturalism is a transparently incoherent stance that no rational or intelligent Christian could possibly take. Hence, to be a proponent of such (Johnson offers Diogenes Allen, Ernan McMullin, and myself as prime examples), it would appear that one must give up either rationality, or intelligence, or authentic Christian faith.
It is important to notice how this polemic is crafted. How does Johnson- who, in his own words, approaches the creation-evolution dispute "not as a scientist but as a professor of law, which means among other things that I know something about the way that words are used in arguments"- craft his case against those of us who do see the distinction between scientific theorizing and naturalistic propaganda, who do find considerable scientific merit in the concept of common ancestry among all of God's creatures, and who do so, not in defiance of our Christian heritage or of intellectual integrity, but as an expression thereof? Simply put, by using (or abusing) words and selected connotations in order to lead a reader to discover for himself the intended conclusion.
As an illustration of an especially mischievous use of word associations, consider the word naturalistic and the closely related words naturalism and naturalist. One of the fundamental flaws in Johnson's essay (and the rest of his writing on this issue) is that there are two significantly different meanings of the word naturalistic that he uses without a hint of differentiation.
One meaning, I shall call it naturalistic (narrow), is very limited in scope and simply refers to the idea that the physical behavior of some particular material system can be described in terms of the "natural" capacities of its interacting components and the interaction of the system with its physical environment. Hence there is a naturalistic (narrow) theory of planetary motion, or of star formation, or of earthquakes, or of cell behavior, or of photosynthesis, or of the development of a zygote into a mature organism.
So understood, naturalistic (narrow) speaks only to the idea of the functional integrity of a material system as it acts and interacts in the course of time. No stance regarding the ontological origin of its existence is either specified or implied. Nor is the ultimate source of its capacities for behaving as it does, its purpose in the larger context of all reality, or its relation to divine action or intention. Defined in this way, naturalistic (narrow) has no elements or connotations that would in any way be objectionable in principle to Christian belief.
The other definition, I shall call it naturalistic (broad), is far more expansive in scope. It not only includes all of the elements of naturalistic (narrow), but also superimposes the strong metaphysical stipulations that neither the existence nor the behavioral capacities of material systems derive from any divine source (thereby making a Creator unnecessary) and that the behavior of material systems can in no way whatsoever serve in the attainment of any divine purpose. So defined, naturalistic (broad) is essentially identical to materialistic and is absolutely irreconcilable with Christian theism.
Nowhere does Johnson give evidence of recognizing or honoring the distinction between these two vastly differing meanings of naturalistic. Most often the broad and essentially antitheistic meaning is implied (as in his definitions of Darwinism), so that no Christian in his or her right mind could "accommodate" or "compromise with" such a position. However, in the context of applying the pejorative label theistic naturalism to the views of Van Till, Allen, and McMullin, the meaning flip-flops between narrow and broad without any recognition of their profound difference. This strategy ensures that the label theistic naturalism will function to convey strongly negative connotations and cast grave doubt on both the intellectual and spiritual integrity of those persons tagged with this epithet.
This sort of semantic sleight of hand may work well to win a legal case in a courtroom, but it does not at all serve to clarify the discussion at hand. Toward the end of his article Johnson calls upon the scientific community to replace "vague words like 'evolution' with a precise set of terms that can be used consistently to illuminate the points of difficulty." Reflecting on the merits of this advice, Johnson goes on to say that "Nobody on any side of the issue should object to clarifying the issues that way-nobody, that is, who really wants to find out the truth." By the measure of his own advice to the scientific community, the law professor's continuing exploitation of verbal ambiguity represents, I believe, the visible tip of an iceberg of misconstrual. Whether intended or not, the propagation of confusion continues.
A second aspect of Johnson's stance that deserves critical evaluation is his definition or expectation of just what divine creative action is and how it would manifest itself. Although Johnson does not offer us a careful development of this important matter, there is nonetheless a conceptualization of divine creation implicit in his writing. As I see it, Johnson conceives of God's creative activity not only as that singular and uniquely divine act of bringing the universe into being from nothing at the beginning of time, but also as a succession of extraordinary acts in the course of time whereby God forces matter and material systems (such as DNA molecules and living organisms) to do things beyond their resident capacities and therefore different from what they would ordinarily do. One could call this a "theokinetic" concept of creation.
Implicit in Johnson's discussion is the expectation that "real" creative action is of the "miraculous intervention" sort that would "make a difference," specifically a difference that could be unequivocally confirmed by means of empirical science. But is this performance of theokinetic acts the historic Christian picture of what God's creative activity is and how it is manifested? Before we can take up this question, however, we need first to focus on Johnson's own picture and how it relates to the rhetoric of evolutionary naturalism.
I understand Johnson to be saying that if molecules and organisms have in fact accomplished the changes envisioned in the macroevolutionary paradigm simply by employing their own resident capacities (that is, without special "divine assistance"), then molecules and organisms would have accomplished all of the work of creation traditionally ascribed to extraordinary acts of a "supernatural Creator." Furthermore-and this is the part that Johnson's theistic naturalists presumably fail to comprehend-the proponents of evolutionary naturalism would then (by Johnson's measure, that is) be justified in concluding that evolution has made the Creator unnecessary.
If this is Johnson's reasoning, then it would appear to me that he has trapped himself in a misshapen apologetic engagement with antitheistic naturalism. By the apologetic rules imposed by naturalism (ironically similar to those of young-earth creationism), theistic talk regarding creation can mean only special creation through acts of "supernatural intervention." Consequently, the proponents of antitheistic naturalism have occasion to delight whenever they can identify a material mechanism (as a Christian theist I would prefer to call it creaturely action) that accomplishes something that special creationists have reserved for supernatural intervention.
However, since our scientific knowledge of creaturely action is (and always will be) incomplete, the special creationist can always hold out the possibility that there are other missing elements in the developmental economy of the physical universe. Although Johnson wishes to distance himself from the position of young-earth creationists, he tends to employ the same rhetorical strategy of treating the absence of evidence (say, for some process or activity thought to be an important contribution to evolutionary change) as if it were evidence for the absence of full genealogical continuity. By this means a place for "real" creation by a supernatural Creator is secured, giving rise to "a nature that points directly and unmistakably [by scientific measure, presumably] toward the necessity of a creator."
In discussions of this sort Johnson adamantly denies that he is espousing a God-of-the-gaps strategy, but I must admit that I cannot distinguish his argumentation on this point from that of the young-earth creationists, which is built on the assumption that there must exist gaps in the developmental economy of the created world-gaps that can be bridged only by acts of supernatural intervention into the course of otherwise natural phenomena. Gaps in our scientific understanding are not important in themselves, but they gain profound significance by being recognized as indicators of gaps in the economy of the created world. Hence, Johnson is tolerant of a great deal of "microevolution" within the limits of some category of classification, provided that such phenomena (or any other natural processes) not be presumed capable of warranting a macroevolutionary theory concerning how these distinct categories of creatures "came to exist in the first place."
Caught in the jaws of this fruitless apologetic debate, in which the existence or nonexistence of an "active" Creator is to be decided on the basis of whether there are or are not gaps in the genealogical history of lifeforms, Johnson speaks as if the only conceivable reason for favoring an unbroken genealogical continuity is that it appears to give the proponents of antitheistic naturalism an apologetic advantage. Against the background of the dynamics of this apologetic struggle, we can see why Johnson wishes to place under a dark cloud of doubt and suspicion those Christians who are caught in the act of favoring the concept of a created world endowed with a gapless economy that could conceivably provide the basis for the full genealogical continuity envisioned in the macroevolutionary paradigm. They must be identified publicly as persons of questionable intelligence and dubious faith who seek a "compromise" of irreconcilable perspectives, who have "embraced naturalism with enthusiasm" and strive to "baptize" it for incorporation into the body of contemporary Christian belief. Beware, dear friends, of those theistic naturalists, whose twisted reasoning "establishes a remarkable convergence of Christian theism and scientific naturalism." So goes the accusatory rhetoric.
But we must get back to the issue of what kind of activity divine creation is and how we would recognize it. Johnson and other skeptics of macroevolutionary continuity appear to be looking expectantly for "evidence" (I presume this to mean the kind of evidence to which natural science has privileged access) that confirms that God's creative activity has "made a difference." To the question, "What difference would it make if there were no Creator?" traditional Judeo-Christian theism has replied, "If no Creator, then no created world." In other words, the very existence of the world of which we are a part is sufficient evidence for the action of the Creator. No further proof, not even modern scientific argumentation, is necessary. Contrary to all of the rhetorical bluster of materialism in its many forms, neither the existence of the world nor the character of its functional economy is self-explanatory.
It appears, however, that this traditional answer is not sufficiently convincing to the law professor. Hence we must seek evidence for divine creative action of the sort that would convince any honest and intelligent twentieth-century person that we had proved our case beyond the shadow of doubt in the court of scientific rationality. In Johnson's words, "If God stayed in that realm beyond the reach of scientific investigation, and allowed an apparently blind materialistic evolutionary process to do all the work of creation, then it would have to be said that God furnished us with a world of excuses for unbelief and idolatry."
This remarkable statement follows Johnson's appeal to Romans 1, from which he presumably derives his claim that we should expect to find, by unbiased scientific analysis of the empirical data relevant to the formative history of distinctly differing life forms, evidence for the kind of "supernatural assistance" that had "made a difference." One cannot help but wonder concerning the sorry plight of all those poor folks who, "ever since the creation of the world" and before the advent of modern biological science, were deprived of this essential evidence.
In personal correspondence, I once asked Johnson to help me understand how this evidential test would work by telling me just how one would establish a "no divine action baseline" to which actual processes and events could be compared. Armed with a knowledge of this baseline we could perform the crucial test and settle the apologetic question of the ages once and for all. Johnson chose not to answer my question. Perhaps he would be willing now to do so for the readers of First Things and tell us just what biological history would have been like if left to natural phenomena without "supernatural assistance."
Now it is time to return to the historical question regarding the way that God's creative action and its visible manifestation have been pictured by Christian stalwarts of the past. Because of my personal interest in this matter I have been studying the relevant works of Basil and Augustine from the Late Patristic period, especially their reflections on the creation narratives of Genesis.
In the words of one Patristic scholar, "Saint Basil's work on the Hexaemeron is one of the most important Patristic works on the doctrine of creation." Delivered as a series of nine homilies, this work has the style of material spoken to inspire praise of the Creator, not the style of a treatise written to be subjected to philosophical or theological scrutiny. Nonetheless, to examine Basil's homilies for their general concept of the nature of the created world and the character of God's creative activity is an instructive exercise.
Summarized as succinctly as possible, Basil's picture of creation is one in which God, by the unconstrained impulse of his effective will, instantaneously called the substance of the entire Creation into being at the beginning and gave to the several created substances the harmoniously integrated powers to actualize, in the course of time, the wonderful array of specific forms that the Creator had in mind from the outset. Both matter and the forms it was later to attain were the product of God's primary act of creation. Reflecting, for example, on the earth being initially without the adornment of grass, cornfields, or forests, Basil notes that, "Of all this nothing was yet produced; the earth was in travail with it in virtue of the power that she had received from the Creator."
In Basil's judgment, harmony, balance, and provision for all future needs are characteristics of the created world that deserve our profound appreciation. Both fire and water, for example, are necessary for the economy of terrestrial life as we know it. But these two elements (as understood in Basil's day) must be provided in correct proportions so that neither one will consume the other. Observing the comfortable balance that appeared to prevail between these two contending substances, Basil says that we owe "thanks to the foresight of the supreme Artificer, Who, from the beginning, foresaw what was to come, and at the first provided all for the future needs of the world." From this it follows, of course, that the Creator need make no special adjustments at some later date to compensate for inadequate provision at the beginning. "He who, according to the word of Job, knows the number of the drops of rain, knew how long His work would last, and for how much consumption of fire he ought to allow. This is the reason for the abundance of water at the creation."
Because each element is called upon to contribute its natural activity to the functional economy of the created world, Basil considered it essential to make clear that even these natures are the product of God's creative word and are not the manifestation of any powers independent of God. "Think, in reality, that a word of God makes the nature, and that this order is for the creature a direction for its future course."
The divine command recorded in Genesis 1:11, "Let the earth bring forth grass . . .," is for Basil God's empowering of the earth for all time with the capacities to assemble and sustain all manner of plant life. This command from God "gave fertility and the power to produce fruit for all ages to come." In several ways Basil expresses his conviction that although the Creator's word is spoken in an instant, the Creation's obedient response is extended in time. "God did not command the earth immediately to give forth seed and fruit, but to produce germs, to grow green, and to arrive at maturity in the seed; so that this first command teaches nature what she has to do in the course of the ages." And in language that seems almost to anticipate modern scientific concepts Basil goes on to say that, "Like tops, which after the first impulse, continue their evolutions, turning themselves when once fixed in their centre; thus nature, receiving the impulse of this first command, follows without interruption the course of the ages, until the consummation of all things." Furthermore, "He who gave the order at the same time gifted it with the grace and power to bring forth." This is consistent with an earlier comment on the Holy Spirit's activity in creation, "The Spirit . . . prepared the nature of water to produce living beings."
In his reflections on the words, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature," Basil speaks eloquently of the Creation actively carrying out the effective will of the Creator. "Behold the word of God pervading creation, beginning even then the efficacy which is seen displayed today, and will be displayed to the end of the world! As a ball, which one pushes, if it meet a declivity, descends, carried by its form and the nature of the ground and does not stop until it has reached a level surface; so nature, once put in motion by the Divine command, traverses creation with an equal step through birth and death, and keeps up the succession of kinds through resemblance, to the last."
Consistent with the world picture of his day, Basil, of course, envisions no historical transformation of these varied kinds; but at the same time he offers no theological objection whatever to the concept of spontaneous generation of living creatures from earthly substance alone. For instance, "We see mud alone produce eels; they do not proceed from an egg, nor in any other manner; it is the earth alone which gives them birth. 'Let the earth produce a living creature.'" It would seem, then, that Basil envisions the first appearance of each kind of living creature occurring in like manner, the earth having been endowed from the beginning with all of the powers necessary to physically realize the whole array of lifeforms created in the mind of God. The elements of the world, created by God from nothing at the beginning, lacked none of the capacities that would be needed in the course of the ages to bring forth what God intended. The economy of the created world was, from the outset, complete-neither cluttered with things that had no useful function nor lacking any capacity integral to its functional economy. In Basil's words, "Our God has created nothing unnecessarily and has omitted nothing that is necessary."
In his work De Genesi ad litteram (The Literal Meaning of Genesis), St. Augustine provides an extensive commentary on the first three chapters of Genesis. His goal is to demonstrate a one-to-one correspondence between the text of these chapters and what actually took place in the creative work of God; in fact, this is precisely how he defines the term "literal" in this endeavor. In contrast to modern biblical literalism, however, Augustine shows no disdain for interpreting certain words and phrases in early Genesis in a figurative sense, but even these figurative readings are firmly bounded by the controlling assumption that Genesis 1-3 is "a faithful record of what happened."
In constructing his literal reading, Augustine makes extensive use of the analogy of Scripture; the meanings of words or phrases in Genesis are often decided by comparison with other relevant texts. But Augustine is equally insistent that the literal meaning thereby derived may never stand in contradiction to one's competently derived knowledge about the "earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world," knowledge that one rightfully "holds to as being certain from reason and experience." In a tone that leaves no doubt concerning his attitude, Augustine soundly reprimands those Christians who defend interpretations of Scripture that any scientifically knowledgeable non-Christian would recognize as nonsense. "Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books."
For a number of reasons, Augustine, like Basil, concludes that God created "all things together" in one initial, all-inclusive, and instantaneous creative act. But the initial and simultaneous creation of "all things together," reported to us within the literary framework of a six-day narrative, should not be taken to mean that all created things suddenly materialized in mature form at the beginning. With considerable labor and repetition, Augustine developed a rather sophisticated program of interpretation by which he sought to distinguish what took place at the beginning from what took place in the course of time. In the beginning, according to Augustine, God called into being all created substance and all creaturely forms. At this beginning all created forms existed both in the mind of God and in the formable substances of the created world. But in the formable substances the creaturely forms did not exist actually, but only potentially. Although the creaturely forms were not yet actualized in visible, material beings, these forms were there potentially in the powers and capacities, called by Augustine "causal reasons" or "seed principles," with which the Creator had originally endowed the created substances.
Perhaps we should let Augustine speak for himself on this issue: "But from the beginning of the ages, when day was made, the world is said to have been formed, and in its elements at the same time there were laid away the creatures that would later spring forth with the passage of time, plants and animals, each according to its kind. . . . In all these things, beings already created received at their own proper time their manner of being and acting, which developed into visible forms and natures from the hidden and invisible reasons which are latent in creation as causes. . . . [W]hat He had originally established here in causes He later fulfilled in effects." Finally, "some works belonged to the invisible days in which He created all things simultaneously, and others belong to the days in which He daily fashions whatever evolves in the course of time from what I might call the primordial wrappers."
Now, lest we be tempted to infer that Augustine is thereby proposing a macroevolutionary scenario in which these emerging lifeforms are genealogically related, we must immediately note that he in fact offers no suggestion whatsoever of any historical modification of the created "kinds." Consistent with the world picture of his day, Augustine envisioned each unique "kind" of creature to have been individually conceptualized in the Creator's initial act of creation and independently actualized as the causal reasons functioned to give material form to the conceptual forms created in the beginning. Standing in the tradition of a hierarchically structured cosmos populated with fixed kinds of creatures, Augustine had sufficient reason to envision the independent creation and formation of each kind. And without any knowledge of genetic variability or of the temporal succession of lifeforms over a multibillion-year timespan, Augustine had no basis for questioning either that tradition or the concept of spontaneous generation.
In the context of our present concern, however, I wish to draw attention, not to the particulars of Augustine's portrait of God's creative work, articulated in the conceptual vocabulary of his day, but to one of his underlying presuppositions concerning the character of the created world: the universe was brought into being in a less than fully formed state but endowed with the capacities to transform itself, in conformity with God's will, from unformed matter into a marvelous array of structures and lifeforms. In other words, Augustine envisioned a Creation that was, from the instant of its inception, characterized by functional integrity. Every category of structure and creature and process was conceptualized by the Creator from the beginning but actualized in time as the created material employed its God-given capacities in the manner and at the time intended by the Creator from the outset.
But if we grant that molecules and organisms do have the capacities to bring about the genetic and morphological changes envisioned in contemporary biological theorizing, have we then capitulated to naturalism? Are physical/chemical/biological processes like mutation and selection (plus all of the other relevant processes) doing the creating? From a theistic perspective, certainly not. These processes need not and cannot create anything.
I believe that we Christians are warranted in seeing every potentially viable lifeform (or every viable variant of DNA) as something thoughtfully conceived in the mind of the Creator. As did Basil and Augustine, I believe that we may rightfully speak of God calling into being at the beginning, from nothing, all material substance and all creaturely forms (whether inanimate structures or animate lifeforms). And, still standing with Basil and Augustine, I believe that we may rightfully presume that the array of structures and lifeforms now present was not yet present at the beginning, but became actualized in the course of time as the created substances, employing the capacities thoughtfully given to them by God at the beginning, functioned in a gapless creational economy to bring about what the Creator called for and intended from the outset.
In the context of this traditional Christian vision of God's creative work (notably different from Johnson's theokinetic picture), we might now wish to employ the vocabulary of twentieth-century science and speak about the full array of functionally viable forms of DNA (and the creatures thereby represented) as constituting a "possibility space" of potential lifeforms-this possibility space itself, along with all connective pathways, being an integral component of the world brought into being at the beginning. Furthermore, in the language of this theistic paradigm of evolutionary creation we would speak of DNA being enabled by the Creator to employ random genetic variation as a means to explore and discover (in contrast to create) viable pathways and novel lifeforms so that the Creator's intentions for the formative history of the Creation might be actualized in the course of time.
See, then, what this evolutionary creation paradigm accomplishes: Do material processes have to create? No, the possibility space of viable and historically achievable lifeforms is an integral aspect of the world that God created at the beginning. Material systems need only employ their God-given functional capacities to discover some of the possibilities thoughtfully prepared for them. But, one might ask, how can such "mindless" material processes function to bring about what appears to be the product of "intelligent design"? The point is that they are not really mindless at all. Rather, every one of these processes and every connective pathway in the possibility space of viable creatures is itself a mindfully designed provision from a Creator possessing unfathomable intelligence.
It seems to me that this theistic paradigm provides precisely what the naturalistic (broad) paradigm-the blind watchmaker hypothesis-could not. It provides the answer to the question, How is it possible that such a remarkable array of lifeforms is not only viable but historically realizable within the economy of the world at hand? Could anything less than the infinite creativity and faithful providence of God suffice?
Surely not. Hence my rejection of the blind watchmaker hypothesis of Darwinism, but without the necessity of rejecting the possibility of genealogical continuity along with it.
I have a dream that some day the forgotten doctrine of Creation's functional integrity will be recovered; that it will once and for all displace all variants of the God-of-the-gaps perspective; that the empirically derived confidence in the concept of genealogical continuity will no longer give apologetic advantage to the proponents of antitheistic naturalism; and that the whole enterprise of scientific theory evaluation will no longer be distorted by counterproductive entanglement with the authentically religious debate between theism and atheism. When that happens, the declarations of atheistic purposelessness offered by Jacques Monod, William Provine, or Richard Dawkins and company will have to be defended on their religious merit alone. They will have lost the services of science, once held hostage by strident preachers of materialism, and once held in distrustful suspicion by a misguided portion of the Christian community.
Howard J. Van Till is Professor of Physics at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.


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After shoveling stories across platforms and mastering the art of the “Five things to know for today” listicle, local news organizations will finally begin to “get it” on mobile in 2016. The focus will turn to crafting unique experiences within mobile apps that truly take advantage of the features and benefits of the smartphone platform.
This has been the year many newsrooms (finally!) ditched the Page 1 meeting. Dare I say the coming year will see us lavish as much attention on the small screen as we still do on print Page 1 designs.
Today, my own company’s smartphone apps — and those of just about every news provider — are strictly curated story lists, incorporated within a user experience that takes advantage of the Apple or Android platform. There’s nothing particularly special or unique out there — with the notable exception of the NYT Now app, which builds weather, video, articles, and a quick spin around the broader web into a useful, friendly package.
The coming year will bring more crafted experiences and dynamic story selection, all programmed specifically for the smartphone. Location services will be enabled beyond weather, with stories automatically recommended (just as weather reports are now) based on where a reader is traveling. Archives and historical material, also location-based, will be summoned to automatically enhance news reports.
At least one news organization will begin to experiment with combining mobile content and commerce, testing whether users are willing to make small impulse purchases, such as flower delivery from local advertisers through a news organization’s smartphone app.
These efforts will require some extra effort within newsrooms to geotag and incorporate metadata in content at the start of the process, in addition to overcoming the traditional divide between content and commercial interests. In combination, they are critical steps to begin rebuilding the value proposition around unique local content and information relevant to consumers of products and services at the local level.
Mizell Stewart III is managing director and chief content officer of Journal Media Group, parent company of 14 U.S. newsrooms.
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industry_corpus2: Media & Journalism


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So apparently the bug is a potential security vulnerability. Actually that makes sense, because it brings the process down. Could easily be due to a buffer overrun or similar issue that could be exploited by a bad guy.
The strange thing is that I’ve heard nothing from MS on this – not even an automated mail saying that my bug was closed. And the message on the web page isn’t too encouraging. Do they really expect me to report the problem again via a different web page, after they’ve apparently wiped my original bug report?
Perhaps I should just forget about doing the right thing and cash in?


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The brace was very comfortable and helped with the problem but tore in less than 48 hours. Wish it hadn’t. It works better than the ones the specialists made!
these gloves are just what I have been looking for. I just bought a 1nd pair too.
IT WAS LONG OVERDUE FOR A NEW ONE! SO HAPPY THAT I SAW IT ON GROUPON.
The only thing I can say was its just small, maybe making it a little bit larger.


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Pharm-Ace holds a patent on a drug. They used the patent to secure a $1 million loan from First Bank. The patent is chattel paper.
Revised Article 9 of the UCC only applies to goods and does not include intangibles such as accounts or chattel paper.
A PMSI can be created only in goods and software.
Under Revised Article 9 of UCC, electronic chattel paper may be used as collateral in a secured transaction.
Bagsby owns a business selling insects for organic gardening. Bagsby is seeking a loan from First Natural Bank. The loan officer is asking that the loan be secured by Bagsbuy inventory of insects, now owned or hereafter acquired. In order to do this, a new security agreement will need to be signed each time Bagsby gets a new insects or sells his insect.
Maddie enter into a secured consumer debt transaction with Friendly Bank. When Maddie pays the loan in full, Friendly Bank is required to file a statement indicating that it no longer claims a secured interest in the collateral. This statement must be filed within one month from the date the debt is paid in full.
Micky, a mechanic, repaired Daphane's Dodge. Daphane failed to pay the repair bill of $595. Since Micky was still storing the car, he could therefore claim a landlords lien on the car.
Great State bank and first federal loan have a security interest in TriColor's equipment. If neither secured party is perfected, the first to sue or repossess has priority over the collateral.
Article 9 applies to any transaction intended to create a security interest in real property.
Spicy and Hot Inc is interested in expanding its Mexican food restaurant into a Mexican food catering business. Spicy and Hot, Inc. buys a new delivery van from Van World. Spicy and Hot Inc is a buyer in the ordinary course of business when purchasing the van.
For a security interest to attach, there must be an agreement.
Masterview INC. purchased a new computer system, which included some computer programs. When Masterview developed financial troubles, two competing creditors of Masterview claimed the right to repossess the computer systems and programs. The UCC distinguishes software from goods and treats them differently for some purposes which would be important here.
First Federal has a perfected security interest in Victor's printing press. Second Credit had a security interest in the same press, but its interest was not perfected. First Federal takes priority over Second Credit.
First Federal loaned Madeline $20000 to purchase a new van. The van was for Madeline's personal and family use. First Federal's security interest is a purchase money security interest which perfects only upon filing a financing statement.
What cannot be used as collateral in a secured transaction under the UCC Revised Article 9?
Personal injury tort claims of individuals, or a computer program if, by purchasing the computer, the buyer of the computer acquires the right to use that embedded program.
Take possession of the instrument.
What is the purpose of Perfection?
To protect yourself from other creditors.
What are some facts about filing?
It's done with a financing statement that includes both parties names and identifies the collateral. You can also do it with a state agency.
What does possession give you?
Exclusive rights to dispose of collateral.
It perfects automatically without having to file again.
Which takes priority? Perfected interest or unperfected?
What happens if neither creditor has prefected?
The first to attach wins the collateral.
If both parties have prefected who wins?
The first party to perfect.
What takes priority? Perfection or possession?
What is the difference between attachment and perfection?
Attachment protects from default of the debtor. Perfection protects from other creditors.
megan agrees in writing to sell nancy her rolex watch, but they do not specify a price. if one of the parties breached this agreement would the court enforce it?

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


text: Norben thrives on its people strength. A number of eminent personalities occupy the top rung of the corporate ladder helping the company to prosper everyday, right from the beginning. Although the company is not very old yet the people at Norben have vast years of experience in the business of tea.