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THE Trinity concept of revealed religion must not be confused with the triad beliefs of evolutionary religions. The ideas of triads arose from many suggestive relationships but chiefly because of the three joints of the fingers, because three legs were the fewest which could stabilize a stool, because three support points could keep up a tent; furthermore, primitive man, for a long time, could not count beyond three.
Aside from certain natural couplets, such as past and present, day and night, hot and cold, and male and female, man generally tends to think in triads: yesterday, today, and tomorrow; sunrise, noon, and sunset; father, mother, and child. Three cheers are given the victor. The dead are buried on the third day, and the ghost is placated by three ablutions of water.
As a consequence of these natural associations in human experience, the triad made its appearance in religion, and this long before the Paradise Trinity of Deities, or even any of their representatives, had been revealed to mankind. Later on, the Persians, Hindus, Greeks, Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans, and Scandinavians all had triad gods, but these were still not true trinities. Triad deities all had a natural origin and have appeared at one time or another among most of the intelligent peoples of Urantia. Sometimes the concept of an evolutionary triad has become mixed with that of a revealed Trinity; in these instances it is often impossible to distinguish one from the other.
The first Urantian revelation leading to the comprehension of the Paradise Trinity was made by the staff of Prince Caligastia about one-half million years ago. This earliest Trinity concept was lost to the world in the unsettled times following the planetary rebellion.
The second presentation of the Trinity was made by Adam and Eve in the first and second gardens. These teachings had not been wholly obliterated even in the times of Machiventa Melchizedek about thirty-five thousand years later, for the Trinity concept of the Sethites persisted in both Mesopotamia and Egypt but more especially in India, where it was long perpetuated in Agni, the Vedic three-headed fire god.
The third presentation of the Trinity was made by Machiventa Melchizedek, and this doctrine was symbolized by the three concentric circles which the sage of Salem wore on his breast plate. But Machiventa found it very difficult to teach the Palestinian Bedouins about the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit. Most of his disciples thought that the Trinity consisted of the three Most Highs of Norlatiadek; a few conceived of the Trinity as the System Sovereign, the Constellation Father, and the local universe Creator Deity; still fewer even remotely grasped the idea of the Paradise association of the Father, Son, and Spirit.
Through the activities of the Salem missionaries the Melchizedek teachings of the Trinity gradually spread throughout much of Eurasia and northern Africa. It is often difficult to distinguish between the triads and the trinities in the later Andite and the post-Melchizedek ages, when both concepts to a certain extent intermingled and coalesced.
Among the Hindus the trinitarian concept took root as Being, Intelligence, and Joy. (A later Indian conception was Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu.) While the earlier Trinity portrayals were brought to India by the Sethite priests, the later ideas of the Trinity were imported by the Salem missionaries and were developed by the native intellects of India through a compounding of these doctrines with the evolutionary triad conceptions.
The Buddhist faith developed two doctrines of a trinitarian nature: The earlier was Teacher, Law, and Brotherhood; that was the presentation made by Gautama Siddhartha. The later idea, developing among the northern branch of the followers of Buddha, embraced Supreme Lord, Holy Spirit, and Incarnate Savior.
And these ideas of the Hindus and Buddhists were real trinitarian postulates, that is, the idea of a threefold manifestation of a monotheistic God. A true trinity conception is not just a grouping together of three separate gods.
The Hebrews knew about the Trinity from the Kenite traditions of the days of Melchizedek, but their monotheistic zeal for the one God, Yahweh, so eclipsed all such teachings that by the time of Jesus’ appearance the Elohim doctrine had been practically eradicated from Jewish theology. The Hebrew mind could not reconcile the trinitarian concept with the monotheistic belief in the One Lord, the God of Israel.
The followers of the Islamic faith likewise failed to grasp the idea of the Trinity. It is always difficult for an emerging monotheism to tolerate trinitarianism when confronted by polytheism. The trinity idea takes best hold of those religions which have a firm monotheistic tradition coupled with doctrinal elasticity. The great monotheists, the Hebrews and Mohammedans, found it difficult to distinguish between worshiping three gods, polytheism, and trinitarianism, the worship of one Deity existing in a triune manifestation of divinity and personality.
Jesus taught his apostles the truth regarding the persons of the Paradise Trinity, but they thought he spoke figuratively and symbolically. Having been nurtured in Hebraic monotheism, they found it difficult to entertain any belief that seemed to conflict with their dominating concept of Yahweh. And the early Christians inherited the Hebraic prejudice against the Trinity concept.
The first Trinity of Christianity was proclaimed at Antioch and consisted of God, his Word, and his Wisdom. Paul knew of the Paradise Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit, but he seldom preached about it and made mention thereof in only a few of his letters to the newly forming churches. Even then, as did his fellow apostles, Paul confused Jesus, the Creator Son of the local universe, with the Second Person of Deity, the Eternal Son of Paradise.
The Christian concept of the Trinity, which began to gain recognition near the close of the first century after Christ, was comprised of the Universal Father, the Creator Son of Nebadon, and the Divine Minister of Salvington—Mother Spirit of the local universe and creative consort of the Creator Son.
Not since the times of Jesus has the factual identity of the Paradise Trinity been known on Urantia (except by a few individuals to whom it was especially revealed) until its presentation in these revelatory disclosures. But though the Christian concept of the Trinity erred in fact, it was practically true with respect to spiritual relationships. Only in its philosophic implications and cosmological consequences did this concept suffer embarrassment: It has been difficult for many who are cosmic minded to believe that the Second Person of Deity, the second member of an infinite Trinity, once dwelt on Urantia; and while in spirit this is true, in actuality it is not a fact. The Michael Creators fully embody the divinity of the Eternal Son, but they are not the absolute personality.
Monotheism arose as a philosophic protest against the inconsistency of polytheism. It developed first through pantheon organizations with the departmentalization of supernatural activities, then through the henotheistic exaltation of one god above the many, and finally through the exclusion of all but the One God of final value.
Trinitarianism grows out of the experiential protest against the impossibility of conceiving the oneness of a deanthropomorphized solitary Deity of unrelated universe significance. Given a sufficient time, philosophy tends to abstract the personal qualities from the Deity concept of pure monotheism, thus reducing this idea of an unrelated God to the status of a pantheistic Absolute. It has always been difficult to understand the personal nature of a God who has no personal relationships in equality with other and co-ordinate personal beings. Personality in Deity demands that such Deity exist in relation to other and equal personal Deity.
Through the recognition of the Trinity concept the mind of man can hope to grasp something of the interrelationship of love and law in the time-space creations. Through spiritual faith man gains insight into the love of God but soon discovers that this spiritual faith has no influence on the ordained laws of the material universe. Irrespective of the firmness of man’s belief in God as his Paradise Father, expanding cosmic horizons demand that he also give recognition to the reality of Paradise Deity as universal law, that he recognize the Trinity sovereignty extending outward from Paradise and overshadowing even the evolving local universes of the Creator Sons and Creative Daughters of the three eternal persons whose deity union is the fact and reality and eternal indivisibility of the Paradise Trinity.
And this selfsame Paradise Trinity is a real entity—not a personality but nonetheless a true and absolute reality; not a personality but nonetheless compatible with coexistent personalities—the personalities of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The Trinity is a supersummative Deity reality eventuating out of the conjoining of the three Paradise Deities. The qualities, characteristics, and functions of the Trinity are not the simple sum of the attributes of the three Paradise Deities; Trinity functions are something unique, original, and not wholly predictable from an analysis of the attributes of Father, Son, and Spirit.
For example: The Master, when on earth, admonished his followers that justice is never a personal act; it is always a group function. Neither do the Gods, as persons, administer justice. But they perform this very function as a collective whole, as the Paradise Trinity.
The conceptual grasp of the Trinity association of Father, Son, and Spirit prepares the human mind for the further presentation of certain other threefold relationships. Theological reason may be fully satisfied by the concept of the Paradise Trinity, but philosophical and cosmological reason demand the recognition of the other triune associations of the First Source and Center, those triunities in which the Infinite functions in various non-Father capacities of universal manifestation—the relationships of the God of force, energy, power, causation, reaction, potentiality, actuality, gravity, tension, pattern, principle, and unity.
While mankind has sometimes grasped at an understanding of the Trinity of the three persons of Deity, consistency demands that the human intellect perceive that there are certain relationships between all seven Absolutes. But all that which is true of the Paradise Trinity is not necessarily true of a triunity, for a triunity is something other than a trinity. In certain functional aspects a triunity may be analogous to a trinity, but it is never homologous in nature with a trinity.
Mortal man is passing through a great age of expanding horizons and enlarging concepts on Urantia, and his cosmic philosophy must accelerate in evolution to keep pace with the expansion of the intellectual arena of human thought. As the cosmic consciousness of mortal man expands, he perceives the interrelatedness of all that he finds in his material science, intellectual philosophy, and spiritual insight. Still, with all this belief in the unity of the cosmos, man perceives the diversity of all existence. In spite of all concepts concerning the immutability of Deity, man perceives that he lives in a universe of constant change and experiential growth. Regardless of the realization of the survival of spiritual values, man has ever to reckon with the mathematics and premathematics of force, energy, and power.
In some manner the eternal repleteness of infinity must be reconciled with the time-growth of the evolving universes and with the incompleteness of the experiential inhabitants thereof. In some way the conception of total infinitude must be so segmented and qualified that the mortal intellect and the morontia soul can grasp this concept of final value and spiritualizing significance.
The First Source and Center, who is Father to the Eternal Son, is also Pattern to the Paradise Isle. He is personality unqualified in the Son but personality potentialized in the Deity Absolute. The Father is energy revealed in Paradise-Havona and at the same time energy concealed in the Unqualified Absolute. The Infinite is ever disclosed in the ceaseless acts of the Conjoint Actor while he is eternally functioning in the compensating but enshrouded activities of the Universal Absolute. Thus is the Father related to the six co-ordinate Absolutes, and thus do all seven encompass the circle of infinity throughout the endless cycles of eternity.
It would seem that triunity of absolute relationships is inevitable. Personality seeks other personality association on absolute as well as on all other levels. And the association of the three Paradise personalities eternalizes the first triunity, the personality union of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. For when these three persons, as persons, conjoin for united function, they thereby constitute a triunity of functional unity, not a trinity—an organic entity—but nonetheless a triunity, a threefold functional aggregate unanimity.
The Paradise Trinity is not a triunity; it is not a functional unanimity; rather is it undivided and indivisible Deity. The Father, Son, and Spirit (as persons) can sustain a relationship to the Paradise Trinity, for the Trinity is their undivided Deity. The Father, Son, and Spirit sustain no such personal relationship to the first triunity, for that is their functional union as three persons. Only as the Trinity—as undivided Deity—do they collectively sustain an external relationship to the triunity of their personal aggregation.
Thus does the Paradise Trinity stand unique among absolute relationships; there are several existential triunities but only one existential Trinity. A triunity is not an entity. It is functional rather than organic. Its members are partners rather than corporative. The components of the triunities may be entities, but a triunity itself is an association.
There is, however, one point of comparison between trinity and triunity: Both eventuate in functions that are something other than the discernible sum of the attributes of the component members. But while they are thus comparable from a functional standpoint, they otherwise exhibit no categorical relationship. They are roughly related as the relation of function to structure. But the function of the triunity association is not the function of the trinity structure or entity.
The triunities are nonetheless real; they are very real. In them is total reality functionalized, and through them does the Universal Father exercise immediate and personal control over the master functions of infinity.
In attempting the description of seven triunities, attention is directed to the fact that the Universal Father is the primal member of each. He is, was, and ever will be: the First Universal Father-Source, Absolute Center, Primal Cause, Universal Controller, Limitless Energizer, Original Unity, Unqualified Upholder, First Person of Deity, Primal Cosmic Pattern, and Essence of Infinity. The Universal Father is the personal cause of the Absolutes; he is the absolute of Absolutes.
This is the threefold union of love, mercy, and ministry—the purposive and personal association of the three eternal Paradise personalities. This is the divinely fraternal, creature-loving, fatherly-acting, and ascension-promoting association. The divine personalities of this first triunity are personality-bequeathing, spirit-bestowing, and mind-endowing Gods.
This is the triunity of infinite volition; it acts throughout the eternal present and in all of the past-present-future flow of time. This association yields volitional infinity and provides the mechanisms whereby personal Deity becomes self-revelatory to the creatures of the evolving cosmos.
Energy is organized by the cosmic agents of the Third Source and Center; energy is fashioned after the pattern of Paradise, the absolute materialization; but behind all of this ceaseless manipulation is the presence of the Father-Son, whose union first activated the Paradise pattern in the appearance of Havona concomitant with the birth of the Infinite Spirit, the Conjoint Actor.
In religious experience, creatures make contact with the God who is love, but such spiritual insight must never eclipse the intelligent recognition of the universe fact of the pattern which is Paradise. The Paradise personalities enlist the freewill adoration of all creatures by the compelling power of divine love and lead all such spirit-born personalities into the supernal delights of the unending service of the finaliter sons of God. The second triunity is the architect of the space stage whereon these transactions unfold; it determines the patterns of cosmic configuration.
From spirit potency to Paradise spirit, all spirit finds reality expression in this triune association of the pure spirit essence of the Father, the active spirit values of the Son-Spirit, and the unlimited spirit potentials of the Deity Absolute. The existential values of spirit have their primordial genesis, complete manifestation, and final destiny in this triunity.
The Father exists before spirit; the Son-Spirit functions as active creative spirit; the Deity Absolute exists as all-encompassing spirit, even beyond spirit.
Paradise is the center of the force-energy activation of the cosmos—the universe position of the First Source and Center, the cosmic focal point of the Unqualified Absolute, and the source of all energy. Existentially present within this triunity is the energy potential of the cosmos-infinite, of which the grand universe and the master universe are only partial manifestations.
The fourth triunity absolutely controls the fundamental units of cosmic energy and releases them from the grasp of the Unqualified Absolute in direct proportion to the appearance in the experiential Deities of subabsolute capacity to control and stabilize the metamorphosing cosmos.
This triunity is force and energy. The endless possibilities of the Unqualified Absolute are centered around the absolutum of the Isle of Paradise, whence emanate the unimaginable agitations of the otherwise static quiescence of the Unqualified. And the endless throbbing of the material Paradise heart of the infinite cosmos beats in harmony with the unfathomable pattern and the unsearchable plan of the Infinite Energizer, the First Source and Center.
The Conjoint Actor universally integrates the varying functional aspects of all actualized reality on all levels of manifestation, from finites through transcendentals and on to absolutes. The Universal Absolute perfectly compensates the differentials inherent in the varying aspects of all incomplete reality, from the limitless potentialities of active-volitional and causative Deity reality to the boundless possibilities of static, reactive, nondeity reality in the incomprehensible domains of the Unqualified Absolute.
As they function in this triunity, the Conjoint Actor and the Universal Absolute are alike responsive to Deity and to nondeity presences, as also is the First Source and Center, who in this relationship is to all intents and purposes conceptually indistinguishable from the I AM.
These approximations are sufficient to elucidate the concept of the triunities. Not knowing the ultimate level of the triunities, you cannot fully comprehend the first seven. While we do not deem it wise to attempt any further elaboration, we may state that there are fifteen triune associations of the First Source and Center, eight of which are unrevealed in these papers. These unrevealed associations are concerned with realities, actualities, and potentialities which are beyond the experiential level of supremacy.
Although these associations cannot augment the infinity of the Father-I AM, they do appear to make possible the subinfinite and subabsolute manifestations of his reality. The seven triunities multiply versatility, eternalize new depths, deitize new values, disclose new potentialities, reveal new meanings; and all these diversified manifestations in time and space and in the eternal cosmos are existent in the hypothetical stasis of the original infinity of the I AM.
The Eternal Son is the absolute of spirit reality, the absolute personality. The Paradise Isle is the absolute of cosmic reality, the absolute pattern. The Conjoint Actor is the absolute of mind reality, the co-ordinate of absolute spirit reality, and the existential Deity synthesis of personality and power. This triune association eventuates the co-ordination of the sum total of actualized reality—spirit, cosmic, or mindal. It is unqualified in actuality.
Thus are interassociated the infinity reservoirs of all latent energy reality—spirit, mindal, or cosmic. This association yields the integration of all latent energy reality. It is infinite in potential.
As the triunities are primarily concerned with the functional unification of infinity, so are triodities involved in the cosmic appearance of experiential Deities. The triunities are indirectly concerned, but the triodities are directly concerned, in the experiential Deities—Supreme, Ultimate, and Absolute. They appear in the emerging power-personality synthesis of the Supreme Being. And to the time creatures of space the Supreme Being is a revelation of the unity of the I AM.


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All eyes are on the Grammys tonight as they attempt to correct last year's oversights in the recognition of women. In an early win, a woman made history in the technical categories when Emily Lazar became the first woman mastering engineer ever to take home the Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical) Grammy for her work on Beck's Colors.
"I am so grateful to get to be one of the people...that young women see and they can say, 'I can see it. I can be it. That's cool career, I want to go do that,'" Lazar said in her acceptance speech in the Grammys Awards Premiere Ceremony, which is streamed live on their website before the main show.
Lazar is one of an incredibly small pool of women mastering engineers, among the eqally small pool (a mere 3%) of women who are engineers.
The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released their latest study ahead of the Grammys again this year, with a focus on the problems women face in the recording studio. In production jobs, from engineering to producing to songwriting, 43% of responders said that being taken seriously was a barrier of entry, especially paired with reports of sexual harassment and additional challenges to their vision.
Now that the Recording Academy voters have shown that they take Lazar seriously by awarding her a Grammy, let's hope it opens the door for a lot more to come through.
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect that Emily Lazar is the first woman mastering engineer to accept this Grammy.

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Can you successfully hide your deceit?
How will your life play out based on the choices you make as well as the motives behind what you do?
You cannot make a good choice with an impure motive and come away smelling like roses or sneak by the hand of God. Consequences DO come. Some will be immediate, while some are far reaching. Nonetheless, consequences will not escape those who choose to deceive.
In Genesis 27, Jacob is given instructions by his mother to deceive his father for a blessing. Jacob is aware that he will be deceiving his father, yet follows through with his mothers instruction.
Jacob, in his younger years (whose name means deceiver, heel grabber) experienced the receiving end of deception. He was manipulated and deceived by Laban, his father-in-law, (his mother’s brother). Jacob purposed to honor what he said he would do, yet his father-in-law deceived Jacob by not giving him the woman he asked & worked seven years to gain. As a result, Jacob had to work an additional seven years (totaling 14 years) to obtain the woman he intended to take as his wife.
It wasn’t until years later, Jacob wrestled with God in Genesis 32, that Jacob chose to “grab” onto God. God achieved a firm hold onto Jacob causing him to quit deceiving and rely upon God. God is capable of getting our attention.
Are you like the young Jacob causing God to track you down in your own deceit?
Can you think of a time where God has made himself known to you as he did to Jacob?
At that point of change Jacob walked much differently purposing no longer to deceive. That day, Jacob saw God face to face and his name was changed to Israel.
Thought for the day: Do you buck what you are commanded to do and then stand your ground as if you have a legitimate reason?
When it comes to the greatest commandment to LOVE ~ Purpose to realize that God would not have commanded you to love, if HE was not intending to enable you to love!
Obey the command and then watch the Lord bless you!

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Gazprom is ready to supply Ukraine prepaid volumes of gas while the issue of old debt is to be resolved through the courts, says the Russian energy minister. Moscow is demanding Kiev pay for gas supplied to eastern regions, or face another legal wrangle.
“Regarding debt payments – we are in court with them [Kiev]. We currently have a prepayment system. As far as I am aware, they have paid $30 million, which means we will supply gas paid for with this money,” Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak said on Saturday.
Gazprom also insists that gas supplied to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine should be paid by Kiev’s Naftogaz superstructure in accordance with the contract.
“It’s true that new debts are mounting regarding supplies to southeastern Ukraine. There are two ways to settle. It could be an extrajudicial settlement between two commercial companies making reciprocal payments. Or we’re going to the court,” said Novak, as cited by RIA Novosti.
Former Ukrainian PM and acting MP Yulia Tymoshenko has suggested Naftogaz be abolished, as it is said to be the major source of corruption in Ukraine’s gas producing and transporting industries.
Tymoshenko also urged investigation into questionable financial schemes used in the national gas industry.
After Kiev accumulated a massive debt exceeding $5 billion in 2014, Gazprom switched Ukraine to a prepayment system for gas supplies starting in June 2014.
In return, Kiev’s Naftogaz initiated a claim in the Stockholm arbitration court, claiming billions in excess have been paid to Gazprom over the years.
The Russian energy giant answered with a lawsuit against Naftogaz through the same court, demanding recovery of debt exceeding $5 billion. The first hearing took place this week.
The debt initiated a six-month interruption in Russian gas supplies to Ukraine in 2014. To cope with the winter, the EU brokered an interim Gazprom-Naftogaz deal in October 2014.
After this agreement expired last Tuesday, Gazprom agreed to sell gas to Ukraine’s Naftogaz for $248 per 1,000 cubic meters, significantly undercutting the $329 Ukraine paid Russia in the first quarter of 2015.
A new meeting to thrash out gas supply and transit issues between Moscow, Kiev and Brussels will take place before the end of April, though neither a date nor a location for the meeting has been specified yet, said Novak.
As of April 1, gas prices for private households in Ukraine have risen by a staggering 285 percent, in compliance with an agreement between Kiev and the International Monetary Fund. Electricity, central heating and hot water prices have been adjusted accordingly.

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Rajasthan Royals, a cricket team in the Indian Premier League (IPL) — a specialized Twenty20 cricket league in India played annually, has joined hands with sportswear brand Alcis Sports.
The clothing manufacturer will be the authorized multi-year kitting and merchandise partner for the IPL cricket team.
For the 2019 season, Rajasthan Royals has picked Pink as their official color.
“We are really happy to be associated with Rajasthan Royals, which has consistently been one of the most exciting teams of the Indian Premier League. We will be providing kits to the Rajasthan Royals team as well as creating merchandise for its fans which will bring greater connect between the team and its fans,” Roshan Baid, Managing Director, Alcis Sports, said.
The sportswear range for the team includes match jerseys, training wear, gym wear and everyday wear.
The collection is chic and comfortable to wear. It comes equipped with features such as Dry-Tech — which doesn’t hold sweat and moisture for long, and are made with anti-microbial, anti-odor and anti-static finishes.
The brand has also launched an exclusive at leisure line: ‘The Royals Collection by Alcis’.
The range was launched by Rajasthan Royals’ brand ambassador Shane Warne, a cricketing legend who played for Australia. He also captained RR to win their maiden IPL tropy.
“Alcis brings in a dash of freshness to the Rajasthan Royals brand and stands for everything that clearly defines the attributes of our brand; young, styled with innovation, inspirational and consistent,” Royals brand ambassador Shane Warne said.
The new range includes match jersey inspired fan wear and at leisure, which will be a mix of playing jerseys, practice jerseys, polo’s, tees, track tops, track pants, shorts, leggings and caps.
The at leisure line is now available for customers at four Alcis exclusive stores; Vaishali Nagar, Behror and Bagru in Rajasthan and Kamla Nagar in Delhi; and Shoppers Stop, Lifestyle, Central and Brand Factory.
It is also up for grabs at alcissports.com, Myntra, Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm, Limeroad, Tata Cliq and Gofynd.

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Hi, Cindy! Nice to see you here on Diann's blog. I'm also looking forward to your visit to Sisters of Crime (Central Coast). I've always enjoyed the sense of reality that humor gives to grim situations. As a devoted MASH (TV show) fan, I also learned that humor allows people to carry on when the going is more than tough. Congrats on your new book and the success of your Dying series. See you soon!
Thanks Rolynn. It seems like everyone needs a laugh recently so I'm glad I can provide readers with a few hours of entertainment. I'm really looking forward to my SinC visit in September. See you then.

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After a long-waited reset period, we are happy to finally announce that we will be having our reset on November 10th. We sincerely apologize for the extremely long wait and hope that with this new reset we can bring back some old faces, and also hopefully bring in some new. Also, to everyone that has helped in this reset process from participating in reset discussions to helping us with building, thank you. This community truly cherishes this server and we hope to equal that passion from here on out by bringing the best server experience WOK can offer. For future updates on the server, be sure to keep an eye on the newsfeed, and we hope to see you come reset day.
For those still intrested, Towny will go into CHAOS tomorrow 11/4/2017.
Enjoy this towny tradition for a week while we await the official reset 11/10/2017. And yeap we will have a kit ready for you filled with only the best TNT minecraft has to offer! If you have anything to ask just let us know via msg here on the website, in game or find us on Discord. Enjoy!

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I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that has an extra medium of design preservation and design communication: culture.
Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its member to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does!
I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when you don't know what the right questions are yet. Once you get the questions right, then you go answer them, and that's typically not philosophy, that's one science or another. Anywhere in life where you find that people aren't quite sure what the right questions to ask are, what they're doing, then, is philosophy.
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being perhaps just the chooser of the laws. By the time God's role has been so diminished, he becomes a bit like a constitutional monarch, presiding ceremonially but not having any more work to do. That's a place for God if it makes people comfortable to keep God as the presider over the universe. I suppose that is satisfying for many.


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We commit to keep our time together short to respect your Sunday afternoon. For those of you who are able to stay after our meeting, though, we would love to have you join us in the sanctuary so we can pray together!
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Miller actually joined WWE very recently, as part of the recruits that were unveiled in February, that also included the likes of Trevor Lee, Sam Shaw, ACH, Karen Q and more.
Casey also broke the news yesterday that NXT talent Stacey Ervin Jr. had requested his release following concerns over a concussion scare. In an update to that, Pro Wrestling Sheet reported that Ervin has been given time to think over his decision.
This news hasn’t been confirmed by either WWE or Miller himself, and we will of course keep you up-to-date with any developments.


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Palanquin, standards, and sign boards.
Large and exuberant festivals in honor of local gods are central to village life among the Kinh majority in Vietnam. In a procession that may stretch nearly a mile, marchers in vivid costumes snake through the village lanes and on dikes between rice fields, bearing on their shoulders a palanquin, or ornate platform-type conveyance, containing a sacred object, perhaps an image of the god. With all the pomp of a king surveying his domain, the god proceeds from his temple to a community house. There he may accept petitions from local dignitaries on behalf of the village.
The festival tradition, important for hundreds if not thousands of years, had disappeared during the past half-century of wars and economic hardship. But the 1980s saw a revival of these celebrations, which enhance local pride and reinforce a sense of community. As festival organizer Mr. Nguyen Tuan Mac observes, "The festival is a source of invisible strength."
Reverent officials place a petition to the local god Ly Phuc Man in an ornate box, as part of the Gia festival held in 2000.
A military hero of the sixth century, Ly Phuc Man died while bravely defending his country from foreign invasion. Today, in the village of his birth, Ly Phuc Man is honored as a patron god during the spring festival. As part of a three-day event—called the Gia festival, after the village where Ly Phuc Man was born—young men in historic dress enact mock battles and a mile-long procession carries Ly Phuc Man's ornate palanquin.
The modern Gia festival was reconstructed from the memories of elders, combined with research by Vietnamese scholars. Rituals reflect current as well as traditional values: for instance, women may now participate, but as in the past, no one who has violated the community's moral code may take an active role in the festival.
Incense palanquin. Wood, fabric. Kinh people; Man Thai Ward, Danang; 2000.
The fishermen of Vietnam's south and central coast honor "Sir Fish," the spirit of the whale, who protects them as they head out to sea. Ngu Ong, as he is called, may calm the waves, quiet the wind or lead endangered sailors home to port. The whale itself is revered as well: the people do not hunt these animals and attend carefully to those that have died natural deaths. Deceased whales are buried, and after three to five years, the people dig up the bones, shroud them, and carry them to the temple to be worshipped, as if the animal were a beloved community god.
The Cau Ngu festival has marked the opening of the spring fishing season in this region for centuries. Local gods as well as Buddha and the souls of drowned sailors are among those invited to gather in Sir Fish's temple. The celebration includes folk games and songs celebrating the virtues of Sir Fish and the life of a fisherman.
"Because we fishermen go to sea, facing the winds and waves, we attach great importance to honoring Sir Fish."
Performances by water puppets are a magical part of festival entertainment at the Chua Thay festival in northern Vietnam. Controlled by underwater strings or wires up to 30 feet long, or by shorter bamboo rods, the puppets seem to swim, transplant rice, or even dance on the very surface of the lake. A procession of these puppets, which echoes the pageantry of a human festival parade, introduces most performances. Some of the most astonishing shows occur at the Chua Thay festival, held to honor the 11th century monk Tu Dao Hanh, believed to have originated water puppetry.
The puppetry tradition occurs in provinces throughout the Red River Delta, where more than a dozen guilds of dedicated amateur puppeteers preserve the old techniques and stories, making these shows educational as well as entertaining.

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Allan Rouben has been practicing law in Toronto for over 25 years and handles all kinds of litigation matters, including appeals, employment and labour disputes, personal injury and insurance cases, long-term disability claims, professional negligence cases, shareholder and partnership disputes and some criminal cases.
Allan never had never thought about developing a proper identity for his business before. But as the world of law became increasingly more competitive, Allan saw his counterparts moving into self promotion and branding. When he decided it was his time to jump, he turned to Wise & Hammer to build a fresh new website and new identity that would feel as professional as he was.
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With Allan, it’s more than just words.
Allan is a great writer and speaker, and he writes about almost everything pertaining to law. He’s even been featured several times on Slaw.com, Canada’s most respected legal online magazine.
Whether he’s writing about his last argument to The Supreme Court of Canada, or simply explaining new developments in employment law, he wanted a clean effective tool to deliver information on his trade and stories.
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Stephen A. Smith's words should always be taken with a grain of salt.
When you are known as much from shouting out take after take that's clearly never going to happen just to be able to point to the one out of 100 that actually did happen, it's probably the wiser course.
But when you state that you have information to the effect that the Boston Celtics and LeBron James will be in contact about a potential James signing, it's probably the only course.
Does this mean Smith is wrong? Given the fact that the Celtics have the clearest path to contention next season and beyond, it's not an outrageous thing to say on its surface.
But given the fact that the Celtics would have to ship off one of their max guys - Al Horford, Gordon Hayward, or Kyrie Irving - without James taking a significant pay cut or gutting the depth of the roster by including a package of Boston's promising young stars, this is a lot less likely than it seems.
Throw in the fact one of those guys (Kyrie) is only on the team at all because of his desire to not play with LeBron, and that said player will be able to opt out and leave for nothing at the end of next season, it seems so far-fetched as to be laughable.
Smith also reports James will have conversations with the Celtics, Rockets and Sixers during free agency.
That doesn't mean a phone call won't be made, potentially technically proving Smith right, but the chances of that call lasting more than a few minutes are very, very low - never mind the odds it actually produces anything of note.
So, while an interesting take, I suggest we recall the source, more an entertainer and pot-stirrer than analyst - and not get too worked up about a personnel move that would be reviled by much of Boston's fanbase, if only because it's not going to turn into anything.


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The home that stands out among similarly-priced houses is the home that sells. Why? Because it makes a good first impression that lasts right to the settlement table. You may not be able to improve the market value of your home, but you can improve it's marketability.
Put yourself in your buyers shoes. CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN everything! Even if you think it doesn't need to be cleaned, clean it one last time anyways! You'll be surprised what comes off of surfaces you don't think need it!
While you're cleaning, clean it out. Get rid of items you don't want. Box up items you want to make sure move with you, so you're guaranteeing that they'll be packed away safely. Have a garage sale of arrange for a charity to pick up your unwanted items.
Living Room & Dining Room: Strive for a lived-in, cozy feeling. Discard worn, chipped or frayed furniture. Open the curtains and clean off the tabletop. Furnishings here and throughout the house should be well places and in good repair. Set out fresh flowers.
Kitchen: Many buyers judge the house by the way the oven and stove are kept. Appliances should be spotless and in working condition. Replace or repair anything that sticks, squeaks or drips. Counter, cooking, cabinet and eating spaces should be kept open and uncluttered without countertop appliances. Clean the butcher block. Floors and walls should be inviting light colors, and resistant to grease and moisture.
Bedrooms and Bathrooms: The second most appealing room to the buyer (after the kitchen) is the Master Bedroom. Unclutter here, and make sure your areas are defined (sleeping, dressing, sitting, etc). Show the true size of the closets by removing or packing away items that can be stored elsewhere, like off-season clothes. In the bathroom, practicality combines with attractiveness. The sink, toilet, bathtub, tile and even the shower curtains should be immaculate. Fix leaky faucets and if there are rust stains, it could be a sign of faulty plumbing. Repair/replace caulking and grouting. Minor flaws suggest neglect to the prospective buyer. Light should be soft but bright.
Rec Room/Basement: An atmosphere of relaxation, fun and activity should pervade. Open space to accommodate an assortment of activities. Make sure the fireplace or wood stove is clean, with fresh logs. If you have a workspace in the basement, hang tools on peg boards and put items on shelves. Cure any damp smell by placing bags of limestone in the damp area. Clean the water heater, change the furnace filter (consider having it serviced), and make any inspection -access easy. Painting the walls can brighten a basement. If your laundry is here, clean around the machines and consider cleaning the washer, as sometimes it can grow an odor.


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Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), Abu Dhabi; leading national entity for development aid, and the Government of Morocco, have enjoyed strong bilateral ties dating back to 1974. The four-decade-long close relations continue to drive sustainable socio-economic development across key sectors that benefit the citizens of Morocco.
To date, the Fund has supported Morocco with grants and concessionary loans worth AED9 billion across 76 development projects. The projects spanned diverse sectors, most notably transport, housing, water and agriculture, education, and healthcare.
In addition, ADFD currently owns equity shares in several Morocco-based companies, active in the telecommunications, holding, agriculture and livestock, tourism, and industry sectors. These include Maroc Telecom, Rebab Company, Société Delma d'Investissements Touristiques (Delma Company), Société Palmeraie Maroc Emirats (Palmare), Ciments du Maroc (CIMAR) and Union Maroc Emirats Arabes Unis de Pêche (UMEP).
According to ADFD’s country report marking Morocco's Throne Day on 30 July, the 76 development projects have significantly contributed to improving economic and social conditions in the country.
On this occasion, His Excellency Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi, Director General of ADFD, extended his sincerest congratulations to the Moroccan royal family, government and Moroccan people, and wished them continued prosperity.


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Whether you are taking the PERT as a Florida high school student or as part of Florida college enrollment, your time and money will be saved if you do your best. Take advantage of some quick study help with our FREE FLASHCARDS for the PERT and prepare to boost your scores! Accurate PERT scores will allow you to get any help you need, through remedial classes, but prevent you from spending time and/or money on reviewing material you really do know, but may have forgotten.
It’s easy to forget all those tricky little skills once you’ve finished a Math class. Here’s your chance to review some of them, quickly and easily, with these free PERT Math flashcards.
Knowing how to do a lot of little things always helps. Enrich your vocabulary by using these flashcards, which include possible PERT selections. Then, when you are faced with a PERT reading passage, your comprehension will be greater and you’ll have a greater knowledge of word meanings for the definition questions.
There are so many skills needed to become a good writer and lots of these are tested on the PERT. Reviewing these flashcards will give you hints and tips you can use to answer questions about written passages and sentence structure on the test.
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THOUSANDS of civil servants across Spain have gone on strike today to vent their anger at PM Jose Luis Zapatero’s austerity cuts.
They are protesting against a five per cent cut in pay that will be imposed later this month.
The trade unions hope that hospital, school, fire brigade and local government workers will support the action.
Spain’s budget deficit currently stands at 11 per cent of GDP and the measures are designed to reduce this debt.
But the trade unions claim that public sector workers are being unfairly penalised by the 15bn-euro austerity package.
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text: 30 Days of Opera is exactly what it sounds like: 30 days of totally awesome - totally FREE - performances by Opera Memphis. For the entire month of September, we take the show on the road - singing all over Memphis and the MidSouth. We like to say that we spend the month turning the "opera house inside out," and it could not be more true! Whether we are at a large community festival, singing on a street corner, or doing a show of The Playground King (our original children's opera), we'll be somewhere near you! Explore this website to learn more, and plan to see us again next year!


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(1) It is a productive landscape that by a design intervention will resolve an existent malfunction in the physical environment. This malfunction may already be explicitly present by negatively affected ecological, societal and economic development. The malfunction may also be artificially introduced in a landscape, because the environmental interactions are expected to be resilient against an introduced stress, i.e. respond with a beneficial processing. The design effort lies in the determination of the components, scale, position, time and set of human/animal interactions, by which a landscape could adapt to a desired functional situation. The malfunction (or induced stress) needs to be quantified to predict the material interactions and it also needs to be qualified to understand the type of interactions to facilitate new routines of human/animal involvement.
(2) The machine-aspect consists of ecologically described processes that are either enlarged or stimulated to perform. These will continuously interact with each other, affecting the shape, scale and position of components within the landscape. There is a dynamic exchange, a continuous shift of ecological interactions, because there is a continuous disturbance of the system by large scale harvesting of crops, fresh water, cleaned soil or animal stock. There is need for a book keeping model of all the input and output that runs through the system.
(3) The design and evaluation of the functionality is made explicit by an input-output ratio, i.e. metabolism of the system. This can both be monitored quantitatively (e.g. amounts of water retention and waste decomposition) and qualitatively (e.g. human and animal responses and well being). The overall development can be simplified by four stages: an initial stage, a growth stage, a yield stage and a steady state stage. During the initial stage an intervention is made in the landscape and the related societal/(a)biotic types of engagement. The growth stage is transitional due to various parallel successions that interact. During the yield stage the Landscape Machine entirely regulates itself, is powered by renewable resources and will provide a maximum amount of ecosystem services and goods. The steady state stage would be the ideal state of the landscape machine because it indicates that the continuous harvesting of products can coincide with continuous shifts within the landscape, maintaining an abundance of biodiversity (ad. 2). Preferably developing into the dynamic and dissipative ecosystem such as mangrove forests, wetland systems or highland peats. Yet it could also evolve into a steady state that is no longer productive. This would mean a failure according to the intended design, but a success to a newly introduced ecological state.

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text: First hike in a long time. I like this park. It has a variety of land. Cave/bluff area is neat. I would like to plan a backpacking trip here.


text: 24" WINE CELLAR WITH GLASS DOOR AND METAL-FRONT RACKSA combination of style and functionality, this Stainless Cabinet Wine Cellar features two temperature-controlled zones to help preserve the flavor and integrity of individual wines and allows white and red wines to be stored at a separate temperature. The 46 wine bottle capacity is the perfect size for a collector. The SatinGlide®Metal-Front Racks provide a smooth movement.


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ST. THOMAS — The head of the VI Hotel and Tourism Association says there are some indications that fear of mosquito borne illness are keeping visitors away. Hotel association president Scott Derrickson said so while speaking to stjohntradewindsnews.com at the end of a scheduled meeting on Sept. 16.
While definitive figures reflecting fewer visitors have not been compiled yet, Derrickson pointed to reports from hotel food and beverage managers, showing a 20 to 30 percent decline in sales. The declines come during the slower summer months but follow 2015 when the number of summer visitors to the Virgin Islands were at their best.
Travel and tourism industry experts suspect the spread of Zika may have something to do with it. Derrickson said he invited Davis to encourage his members to become well informed. “That’s why I invited Dr. Davis. Most of us, we’re older. We’re not going and trying to get pregnant so we’re not as concerned about it,” he said.
Health Commissioner Michelle Davis appeared as the scheduled speaker for the hotel association meeting.
The commissioner told the audience about the combined efforts of the local health department, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization in fighting the spread of Zika.
There are currently 299 reported cases of Zika in the territory and hundreds more in neighboring Puerto Rico.
“In addition to Brazil, Zika was found in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands first, then the United States. We’ve been dealing with that since December,” Davis said.
The commissioner added that St. Thomas has the greatest number of Zika cases, compared to St. Croix and St. John. Those numbers raise concerns for the local hospitality industry because the number of travel related cases are on the rise.
The ailment is often diagnosed based on the patient’s recent travel history, their symptoms and blood test results. Symptoms of a Zika infection include muscle pain, headache, joint pain and conjunctivitis — also known as pink eye.
Most people who get Zika feel miserable for a day or two and then recover, the commissioner said. As Zika spread from South America to the Caribbean in early 2016, so did reports about severe birth defects affecting newborns.
Aggressive steps are being taken and strategies are being formed to address the problem, Davis said. Most recently the Virgin Islands was awarded $ 5 million to purchase a portable lab. Anti larval tablets are being used to control mosquito breeding around areas of standing water and some limited spraying for mosquitoes may be used.
Protection from mosquito bites is one of the best ways to avoid infections but research shows Zika can be passed between sexual partners and from pregnant women to their fetuses. Because concern for pregnant women and infants are the greatest the greatest focus on prevention lies within that population. A pregnancy registry set up by the CDC is helping agencies like Health follow the progress of pregnant women and their children as part of wider research effort, Davis said.
One of Health’s major outreach efforts centers on the distribution of Zika prevention kits that contain bed netting, male and female condoms, mosquito repellent and a laundry additive that adds a layer of protection to clothing. With help from local big box hardware stores, the Health is also encouraging retailers to stock more of the items found in the prevention kits.
One association member spoke about a recent discussion with a visiting official from C.D.C. who identified east St. Thomas as a Zika hot zone. Within that area are some of the island’s major hotel properties, including Margaritaville, Sugar Bay Resort, the Ritz-Carlton and Point Pleasant Resort.
Hoteliers and hospitality managers are also being encouraged to join the Zika fight. Davis said hospitality professionals can provide prevention materials to employees and guests; conduct public awareness campaigns and share Zika prevention kits.
Those who want to keep up with the latest information from the CDC can participate in teleconferences and webinars. The commissioner also shared the Health Department’s Zika Hotline number at 340-712-6205.


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Posidyne® clutch brakes, with oil shear technology that allows rapid and precise stopping, starting, reversing, speed change and positioning, all without adjustment or maintenance, are now available in space-savings piggyback designs.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to near a 44-year-low last week, pointing to further tightening in the labor market even as economic growth appears to have remained moderate in the first quarter.
Bad water will turn even the best coolant or cleaner into a rust-inducing liquid.

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If you’re still one of those who thinks shawarma and Mediterranean food are too different, unfamiliar, and perhaps even downright unapproachable, it’s time to think again and give it a second chance. While the cuisine hasn’t had as big of a boom as, say, Japanese or Korean food, it is undeniably a cuisine with a following.
Enter Shawa Wama, a new Moment Group concept which aims to make Mediterranean food more approachable and more accessible. Mainly a grab-and-go concept, Shawa Wama encourages its diners to mix and match items on the menu to their liking.
There are pita pockets and meals over rice and over hummus, all of which you can customize with your choice of meat or vegetables.
Lamb meat over rice, served with a side of slaw, as well. You can choose from five sauces to pair with your dish—white garlic (the classic), lemon garlic, cheese, mild chili, or hot chili. Personal recommendation? Go for mild chili.
Fried cauliflower over hummus, served with pita bread. The hummus is much smoother than your usual hummus. This dish is perfect for vegetarians.
You can eat these wherever you’d like—at the dining area, as you walk around the mall, in the cinema. No judgment.
Before you leave with your stash of food though, don’t forget to grab some sauce. Unlike most Mediterranean restaurants that offer only two to three sauces, Shawa Wama goes with five—white garlic, lemon garlic, cheese, mild green finger chili sauce, and hot red bird eye chili sauce. White garlic is the classic sauce you get in most Mediterranean spots. For something tangier, go for the lemon garlic (it’s more lemony than garlicky though, in my opinion. Maybe you can mix the white garlic into it?). Personally, I find the chili sauces a better match for the dishes.
Shawa Wama opens at Power Plant Mall, Rockwell, on Apr. 10.

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Duo Wei, Leiying Zhang, David L. William, and I. William Browder "Glucan Stimulates human dermal fibroblast Collagen biosynthesis through a nuclear factor-1 dependent mechanism." Wound repair and regeneration, 2002.
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Join IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) exhibition artist Darren Vigil Gray (Jicarilla Apache/Kiowa Apache) for a special holiday event. Gray will discuss his art practice at 1:30 pm and perform with his band the Righteous Renegades, an experimental jam band, as they bring in the holidays with a bang at 3 pm—Don’t miss the fun!
MoCNA exhibition Expanding Horizons: Darren Vigil Gray highlights new abstract landscapes which reflect a personal approach to the subject landscape. Gray’s spontaneous painting method is inspired by abstract expressionism and his inner self. Abstract elements found in nature, color relationships, as well as the physical properties of his oil paints play an important role in the creation process of his lush compositions.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Program Manager Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo) at (505) 428-5907 or ahanley@iaia.edu.


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Cox Communications in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico outage or service down? Current problems and outages - Is The Service Down?
Cox Communications is having issues since 03:20 PM EST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments.
The most recent outage reports and issues originated from Albuquerque.

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For months leading up to the pivotal 2018 US midterm elections, the youth vote was brought up again and again: Especially after Parkland launched Generation Z's first social movement, would young people actually show up to the polls this year?
And now, we have our answer — a resounding yes. According to new exit poll analysis from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 31% of 18-to-29-year-olds voted in the midterms this year, representing a 10% increase from 2014. This is the highest youth participation in the last seven midterm elections, making turnout for voters under 30 the highest it's been since CIRCLE began doing its analysis of midterms youth voter turnout in 1994.
While a third of eligible voters may not sound like a lot, it is when you consider that turnout for midterm elections is historically lower across age groups and it's especially low for young people. In fact, only 21% of eligible 18-to-29-year-olds went to the polls during the last midterm elections in 2014, according to CIRCLE data.
"Young people approached the 2018 midterms with a resolve to change the American political landscape through peer-to-peer action, and yesterday they demonstrated their power," says Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, CIRCLE director. "These data estimates represent a huge increase in youth participation and are a testament to the efforts that a diverse group of youth organisers built and sustained in communities and on campuses across the country. This year we also saw new stakeholders, including more universities, the private sector, and even celebrities, strengthen and deepen their approach to youth outreach and non-partisan voter engagement efforts."
Young people approached the 2018 midterms with a resolve to change the American political landscape through peer-to-peer action, and yesterday they demonstrated their power.
This age group played a decisive role in flipping the House, where Democrats now have a majority. While other factors, like the so-called "suburban revolt," definitely helped, young people heavily favoured Democrats with 67% voting for a House Democratic candidate compared to just 32% for a House Republican candidate, according to CIRCLE.
This is a historically high Democratic showing among this group: People under 30 were about evenly split until 2002, when they started veering more and more Blue with every election. "Young people asserted their political voice by making a decisive choice in House races," Kawashima-Ginsberg says.
Young people also undoubtedly helped candidates running on gun reform and affordable healthcare, like Lucy McBath in Georgia's 6th District, flip districts that had been red for decades. Democrats now control the House, Senate, and governor's seat in six additional states. Plus, seven state legislative chambers flipped from Republican- to Democrat-controlled, and Democrats took back 333 state legislature seats out of the roughly 1,000 lost during Obama's presidency.
In Georgia's controversy-filled gubernatorial race, 63% of young people preferred Stacey Abrams while 36% voted for Republican Brian Kemp. The race has been called for Kemp, but Abrams hasn't conceded as her campaign said there are still votes to be counted.
Countless nonprofits have popped up all over the country in an effort to get young people to the polls, and CIRCLE says they're responsible for the record turnout. "This kind of turnout is only possible with the longtime investment of many, many groups in young people," says Kawashima-Ginsberg. Active involvement in a movement like March for Our Lives made young people more likely to vote, she adds.
Sarah Audelo, the executive director of the Alliance for Youth Action, says her organisation supports countless local youth movements, especially those working with young people of colour, spending $1 million on these organisations this year alone. Some of the tools these groups use include social media, texting, town halls, campus pop-ups, and, well, clever swag. The March for Our Lives activists, as just one example, wore shirts with QR codes on them. Once you scanned the code, it took you to voter registration info on their website.
In Wisconsin, the 10-month-old group Leaders Igniting Transformation knocked on 30,000 doors and sent 50,000 texts, contributing to a 35% turnout among young people, which helped boot anti-choice, anti-union Gov. Scott Walker in favour of Democrat Tony Evers. In Texas, there was an estimated 500% increase in early voting among youth thanks to groups like MOVE Texas.
"Young people, particularly young people of colour, flexed their political muscles this election," Audelo tells Refinery29. Young people are unquestionably more engaged this year, and have already successfully helped lobby politicians to adapt nearly 50 new gun-reform laws, which represents a big rise in state legislation on the issue. The inevitable question is whether this enthusiasm will last.
Overall, the turnout suggests a good portion of young people are angry with the way things are going. Now, it's time to beat complacency, get more people involved, and keep up the pressure on newly elected officials to actually deliver change.


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today i popped into the office of pastor friend who happened to be sitting at his desk and had time to chat. we just caught up on life, on ministry, on family stuff (or lack thereof since i have no spouse and children). he talked of his daughter's upcoming adventure to Barcelona to study for a few months and how excited he was. i was reminded of our upcoming trip to Barcelona and told him i'd love to connect with his daughter (who went on a mission trip with us last summer). we then got to talking about vacations and great places to visit.
as i sat in his office in one of the wealthiest communities in the california - perfect sunny 75 degree weather with the breeze blowing through the window and fresh flowers on the desk, i thought of what a paradox our situation was. two people in full-time ministry talking about 5star vacations when really the topic should have stayed on missions. (never mind the amazing conversation that followed about the 19-29 generation who doesn't know what to do so they do nothing - glad i missed that boat by 1/2 a year, whew).
but in all seriousness, there was a paradox happening in my head of thinking - "what a nice conversation about the opportunities we've been able to have traveling overseas." and then i thought, "if i could get on a plan to go anywhere right now, where would i go?" the answer? undoubtedly and whole-heartedly - haiti. you see, our great God has changed me.
he's changed me from someone who used to love the adventure of overseas travel, love the thrill of saving my money to go on a sweet vacation and do whatever I WANT to do with whoever I WANT to go with for however long I WANT to go. who's in?
someone whois devastated because my brother and sister-in-law are in haiti right now and i want to be there. someone who cannot WAIT to get my plane ticket booked for september because i am beyond excited to go back. someone who is being broken for the things that break GOD'S HEART and being called into things that advance GOD'S KINGDOM instead of mine. who's in?
truly, i'm more excited about haiti than i am about barcelona and they happen to fall in the same month. i love how God is changing me. i love the tension of the paradox in the pastor's office today.

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DieHard Wolfers :: View topic - Corrider 7?
What is this game? I have never heard of it in my life. Is it any good? Does it have a storyline. The avators in the gallery make it look like some kind of space shooter. Just any info would be nice.
It's from Capstone games. I don't like it. Shading makes the game very dark, stupid monsters and weapons. Feeh. But the musics aren't bad.
I took some time and gathered up the manual for C7 (off the original CD) and posted the storyline and some of the features. I didn't give it all away, but lets just say the game is interesting.
If you haven't played it, it is something that you should look to try. Some people like the game, others, maybe because it was in the time of Wolfenstein didn't like the concept. I actually enjoy playing it, as is very well designed and has some interesting features.
I really enjoyed playing Corridor 7. Unlike in Wolfenstein, there's a wide variety of weapons and enemies. I think that variety is a very important thing to have in a computer game. That way, the player is kept interested. I think Corridor 7 actually did a good job of this.
Even though it has nothing to do with Wolfenstein in terms of concept, Corridor 7 has actually inspired me in my game-design career. I felt lucky to have been able to play it.
Remember playing Chokage with Corridor 7 music?
It was nothing like the demo. The atmosphere was great, but no action... I liked the demo better.
Hi, first post here, been looking on and off for a forum with people that have Corridor 7. Although i was looking for a corridor 7 site instead of the hundreds of wolf3d sites that exist. Which kinda ment i got nowhere.
Corridor 7's earlier levels on Corporal difficulty were almost empty of aliens, only getting decent numbers towards the end of the game. The first level for example only had 4 of the most basic aliens over a huge area.
On Major difficulty the levels have a lot more aliens with as much as 50 on level 4 for a level with no large expanses. (It doesn’t help that a group of 4 of the more advanced ones can come out of nowhere and kill you in under a second at some points). And the later levels make this look tame.
Once one gets past level 10 then the amount of aliens almost becomes too much at higher difficulties (it's actually becomes a challenge), and once you start meeting the bosses you'll be wishing you had of chosen a easier difficulty setting.
The last level even on easiest makes even the hardest levels on wolf3d look easy.
I’ve only got the Disk version though that I bought over 9 years ago i think , which only has 30 levels and 5 weapons, the CD version I hear has 9 weapons and over 40 levels.
The Demo level is not in the full game unlike most games which is intresting, makes keeping the demo worthwhile even if you do get the full game.
Considering how good C7 is and how many people have it im surprised there are 0 sites for it, which is kind of sad.
Unless someone actually has a site for it, impress me.
I've checked and my disk version after install and zipped is 2.4 MB while off abandonware sites its 1.2 MB . So im not sure weather there versions diffrent because all the install does is get the files out of a zip file itself, in 2 full disks. which with the setup comes to what i have.
The file size looks almost exactly like the demo and therefore means it proberbly is.
what I have also found is this which speaks of Capstone making Corridor 8 just before they sank in late 1996 meaning Corridor 8 never got past the drawing boards.
There were two games that were about to be released by Intracorp in 1996 : Fate (that had a public demo, the game looked very promising IMHO) and Corridor 8 (sequel to Corridor 7, no demo, no screenshots, just rumours). What happened to that games and to Capstone & Intracorp companies in 1996 ?
There was a big push to expand the company. We had purchased 360 creaters of Harpoon, and we were outsourcing titles for development like never before. The company grew 10 fold in just one year it seems in the attempts to initally go public. I think all of the financial resources went in making this happen so when it went belly up the company took a big hit. At first about half the employee's were let go but there was a still a focus of moving forward, thus Fate and Corridor 8 were being developed. There really wasn't enough man power to do both games and since Fate was farther along there was more of a focus to have a demo to pimp for financial backing. A single player only version of Fate was the final game Capstone would make before sinking into the sea. Its a shame really, seeing all the talent go to waste because a few bad decisions, but thats all in the past and I learned from those mistakes.
Even if there were Corridors 1-6 it is most lickly they never got out of the orginal creators mind, Unfortunatly Corridor 8 has even less webspace than Corridor 7 was has none, Not even a vague storyline is left now.
It might be a good idea to see how many people here have what versions of corridor 7 to see if its worth even thinking about creating Corridor 8.
After observing the layout of the demo level, I got the impression that the whole level was designed around the purpose of demonstrating the different features in the game, such as the enemies, "Access" computers, weapons, etc. The levels in the registered versions are structured as normal levels. They have purposes relating to the theme/plot of the game. That's probably why Capstone didn't include the demo level in the full version.
I'd like to see someone create a sequel to Corridor 7. Maybe part of the story could be that one of those invisible Enirams on level 30 managed to escape undetected, and then came out of hiding to re-open the vortex, letting out another wave of alien soldiers.
An Intresting Idea, but if my understanding is correct, and someone with the CD version may want to correct me, don't you destroy the aliens on their planet so there would be nothing to send to Earth to attack again.
But a story similar to this may have been Corridor 8's Story to begin with, a copy of the orgininal story would be intresting.
Yes, you are correct. In the CD version on level 30, if you don't destroy the Vortex, you can enter it and you end up on the alien world. The extra 10 levels in the CD version take place on the alien world, and you have to destroy their leader, Tebazile. Then, you enter the Vortex to return to Earth, and destroy it once and for all.
But I had thought that perhaps there might be a whole wave of alien invaders who the player never encountered, not even when he was on the alien planet. They were created as a "special" reinforcement, and had remained hidden away until such time as they were needed. And the Eniram who escaped contacts them.
If a TC was made though would it be easier to go the hard route of making 2 TC's for C7 (disk and CD version), or the easier route of making a C7 TC for Wolf3D.
But a Wolf3D TC for C7 would remove copyright issues, mean many more could play, but all the code, weapons, monsters and everything would have to be remade in a way to create a TC with a believeable sqeual atmosphere.
Appers that MindArcade Enterprises has ideas for this address.


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Another Wall Street analyst out today speculating that Apple’s got a new tablet-like gadget/computer that will be hitting the market sometime early next year. Let’s analyze.
First off, we can certainly expect that Apple’s got some new gadget/tablet/computer hardware products that they will be rolling out to the market in 2010. I mean, come on, is anybody really going out on a limb by saying they expect Apple’s got some new consumer hardware products that they’ll start selling next year? No.
This company and its brilliant (but option-backdating scandalous) CEO are most definitely going to roll out some new hardware next year. And while I recently wrote an article about how we should be able to buy the iPhone at Verizon by Christmas next year, I also think the company’s likely rolling out some other new tablet-like hardware that the Wall Street analysts were crowing about today. The $1000 price tag that’s being reported as the MSRP for such a product wouldn’t shock me either, but really, it’s likely there will be more than one tablet and price point that will be offered.
Some people have taken to calling this new tablet-like gadget from Apple a “game-changer”, but I’m not one of them. I do think the Wall Street analyst’s note today is right in which he calculates that a new tablet-like gadget would add more than 25 cents per share to the company’s earnings per quarter — perhaps a billion dollars of sales for any such new product over the next couple years. But I’m not sure a product that would sell a few million units next year is really much of a “game changer”. Rather, a new tablet-like gadget from Apple would be more of a “game enhancer” and another step for the company in its drive to make its operating system and hardware products the de facto standard of platforms for next gen applications.
Okay, okay, what did I mean by that last sentence? In my Revolutionomics class at Seton Hall, I always talk about how important it is for technology companies to create a proprietary “platform”. Platforms like the iPhone/iTouch operating systems that all those “apps” work on can be a key to long-term profits in technology. If you’re a developer and you have a great idea for a new GPS-basketball app that tells the consumer where every basketball hoop in the area is (by the way, you’d probably use the Google Map app as a secondary platform upon which you build the app), then you’ve got to choose – am I going to develop this app first for iPhone/iTouch/Apple-gadget people? Or for the Droid platform from Google? Or for the Windows Mobile platform from Microsoft? Or for the Blackberry platform from RIMM?
And if Apple can get enough products based on the same platform as the iPhone/iTouch are built on into the consumers’ hands around the world, then the Apple platform would become at least a similar type of de facto standard as the Windows platform was for computers in the 1990s.
Platform races often result in a couple of very big winners and lots and lots of losers. Developers want to develop apps for the platform with the most users and consumers want to buy products with the most apps offered for them. It’s a virtuous cycle for those who hit critical mass and a vicious cycle for those who fail to hit critical mass.
Apple’s got critical mass already with the iPhone and iTouch becoming ever more popular and getting ever closer to true “critical mass” to make their platform the runaway de facto standard. More tablets, more products building on their platform is certain.
Not sure Apple’s gonna run to $300 anytime soon, but I do think Apple remains a name any long-term investor would want to stick with – especially if they can get in a pull back towards $150 or so.
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Most Intelligent: The Questions Continue..
So simply, which is the most intelligent character in Bionicle? (Not including the great beings) Is it Tren Krom, Artakha, Teridax, Chirox, Takadox? Or perhaps someone else? There are many intelligent Beings in Bionicle, but who is undeniably the smartest being within Mata Nui? It could even be Mata Nui if that's your honest opinion(I wouldn't think so) but do let me know your thoughts everyone!
In terms of who is the actual the most intelligent, probably either Tren Krom (again), Arthaka, Teridax, or any number of beings.
yeah but what about the great beings?
I completely agree with you, that's what I figured, I just wanted to see another's opinion on the matter. Thank you.


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