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Kate Upton makes the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue
February 14, 2012 | 7:48 am
Kate Upton will no longer just be known as the girl who taught Clippers fans -- and anyone else who has a computer -- how to do The Dougie.
Upton, the now-19-year-old model whose video of herself doing the ubiquitous dance at Staples Center during the Clippers-Oklahoma City Thunder game in April became an Internet sensation, is the cover girl for the 2012 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Born in Michigan but raised in Florida, Upton caught the public's eye with her first appearance in the SI swimsuit issue last year, in which she was named rookie of the year. A couple of months later she went viral with her bubbly and enthusiastic interpretation of the dance that accompanies "Teach Me How to Dougie," by Cali Swag District.
And now she appears on the cover of the SI issue that helped launch such models as Christie Brinkley and Elle Macpherson into superstardom.
"I have had a great year," she said. "For me, this is groundbreaking."
On the cover, she poses in front of the waters of Australia wearing a rather small red-and-brown string bikini.
"In Florida, people walk around in their flip-flops, bikinis and jean shorts, so I'm very comfortable in a bathing suit," she said.
Clippers' Blake Griffin isn't basking in the spotlight
Is Jeremy Lin the real deal or just a flash in the pan?
Floyd Mayweather Jr. takes Twitter shot at Jeremy Lin
-- Chuck Schilken
Photo: Kate Upton on the cover of the 2012 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Credit: Walter Iooss Jr. / Sports Illustrated

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A. Welch and Sons Ltd Funeral Services
Arranging a funeral can be an emotionally challenging experience and certain decisions will need to be made at a time when you're least able to do so. We at A Welch and Sons Ltd are here to help and we're just a telephone call away but, for those needing an answer to the many questions you may have, the notes on this page will help.
When someone dies it is very common to get in touch with a funeral director. At A.Welch and Sons Ltd, we pride ourselves with the highest standard facilities, service, care and advice we provide to our customers over the last 70 years. From the first moment that you contact us, the telephone will be answered by someone who can give you assistance and advice, 24 hours a day: there are NO automated switchboards or endless departments to choose from.
Transfer of the Deceased
We will transfer the deceased to our private facilities in our own Private Ambulance. Our Ambulance is not sign-written in any way so provides a very discreet means of transfer at any time of the day or night.
We can also arrange for the deceased to be repatriated from within the UK or internationally.
We will advise you of all procedural and legal requirements relating to your own circumstances. This includes registration of the death, dealing with bank accounts, insurances, probate and estates. If there is ANYTHING you do not understand or need assistance with please ask us.
Arranging the Funeral Service
We will meet with you to arrange the funeral service and ensure that all the necessary paperwork is completed, collated and sent to the appropriate places. If you prefer we will visit you and your family at home at no extra charge. We will contact the funeral celebrant on your behalf, make the necessary arrangements with doctors and hospitals and make all the necessary reservations for the funeral service.
Private Chapels
We have 3 private viewing Chapels where you can visit your loved one. Visits are by appointment only but are arranged at your convenience and include evening and weekend visits.
We also have a private Service Chapel where a complete funeral service can be carried out. We can accommodate approximately 20-30 people for the service.
Mortuary Facilities
Our mortuary facilities were completely refurbished in 2012. We have refrigerated storage facilities for the deceased. We also have a fully equipped Hygienic Treatment Theatre staffed by a fully qualified embalmer.
We can provide Cards and Books of Remembrance for the funeral service.
We can provide a large range of Cremated Remains Memoria including:
Solid Wood Caskets & Urns
Metal, Stone, Crystal & Glass Urns
Keepsake Jewellery
Glass/Crystal Paperweights & Jewellery
We will assist you in selecting and ordering Headstones and Grave Markers.
Everyone has different requirements and expectations of the funeral that they are arranging; every funeral is unique. Our list of services provides a broad overview of what we can provide but it is by no means exhaustive. Whatever you require please talk to us; if it is possible we will do it.
Registering a death
There are 3 things you must do in the first few days after someone dies.
Get a medical certificate from a GP or hospital doctor. You'll need this to register the death.Register the death within 5 days.
You'll then get the documents you need for the funeral.
Arrange the funeral – you can use a funeral director or arrange it yourself.
Please note that if the death has been reported to a coroner you can't register the death until the coroner gives permission.
When registering a death, you will be asked for the following information about the deceased:
The date and place of death
The full name and usual address (and maiden name if applicable)
The date and place of birth
The occupation (and name and occupation of her husband if applicable)
Details of any pension or allowance from public funds
The date and place of birth of any surviving spouse
The full name and usual address of the Informant
The qualification of the Informant
A Death Certificate can then be obtained on payment of the prescribed fee. This will be needed for obtaining Probate or letters of administration, closing bank accounts and making claims on insurance policies.
The Registrar will also issue a green Registrar's Certificate for Burial or Cremation which will be needed by the Funeral Director, and a white Certificate of Registration of Death – Form 344/BD8 – which is for Social Security purposes to cancel the payment of pensions and allowances from public funds.
Without a Cause of Death the Registrar cannot allow the death to be registered.
The coroner
A doctor may report the death to a coroner if the:
cause of death is unknown
death was violent or unnatural
death was sudden and unexplained
person who died was not visited by a medical practitioner during their final illness
medical certificate isn't available
person who died wasn't seen by the doctor who signed the medical certificate within 14 days before death
death occurred during an operation or before the person came out of anaesthetic
medical certificate suggests the death may have been caused by an industrial disease or industrial poisoning
The coroner may decide that the cause of death is clear. In this case:
The doctor signs a medical certificate.
You take the medical certificate to the registrar.
The coroner issues a certificate to the registrar stating a post-mortem isn't needed.
If the coroner decides to hold an inquest
A coroner must hold an inquest if the cause of death is still unknown, or if the person:
possibly died a violent or unnatural death
died in prison or police custody
You can't register the death until after the inquest. The coroner is responsible for sending the relevant paperwork to the registrar.
The death can't be registered until after the inquest, but the coroner can give you an interim death certificate to prove the person is dead. You can use this to let organisations know of the death and apply for probate. When the inquest is over the coroner will tell the registrar what to put in the register.
In the United Kingdom, when someone passes away, a burial or a cremation is usually performed.
A burial takes place at a cemetery. It can occur after a funeral service has been held in a church or other venue, and, sometimes, a service is held at the graveside.
During a burial, the remains of a loved one, along with the coffin or casket, are memorialised in a grave.
When a cremation is chosen as the preferred type of funeral, A . Welch and Sons will arrange for the necessary forms to be completed by the nearest surviving relative.
A cremation takes place at a crematorium. It can occur after a funeral service has been held in a church or other venue. There are many options available with regards to the remains of your loved one which we will be happy to discuss with you in detail.
We can help you with all the necessary requirements for a cremation, including choosing the venue and taking care of all documentation and formalities.
Cemetery or churchyard?
In England and Wales, burial took place principally in churchyards until the 19th century. Concerns about hygiene in the mid-19th century resulted in many town and city churchyards being closed. This was followed by the development of larger joint-stock cemeteries and municipal cemeteries, often on urban fringes. These took on the larger proportion of burials. The term 'burial grounds' is often used to denote either, though it is also used to denote the burial place of a distinctive group, either by religion or national identity.
Cemetery Burial
Anyone can be buried in a Local Authority cemetery, which will sometimes be divided into sections for different faiths and those of no faith. Different religions and cultures have developed different rites and practices for the disposal of the dead, and these have to be considered and respected. There are a number of separate Jewish and Muslim cemeteries, for example, but there are also many cemeteries where different religions are given separate areas within the public cemetery.
Churchyard Burial
Burial in a Churchyard is open to all members of the parish who have been baptised
As members of the National Association of Funeral Directors (N.A.F.D), A.Welch and Sons Ltd agree to comply with the principles and the details of this Code of Practice.
CODE OF PRACTICE PRINCIPLES (Full document available at NAFD Code of Practice Document)
Code of Practice Principles
1. To observe strictly the confidence of every client at all times.
2. To observe at all times the basic rights of clients as consumers.
3. To render good service at all times and make fair charges in respect of services rendered and for merchandise supplied.
4. To ensure that advertising and marketing is always in good taste. No sensational, offensive or misleading advertising or marketing is permitted.
5. To provide clients with full and fair information about services. To have readily available price lists covering The Simple Funeral Service, and itemised charges for all the constituent parts of the Funeral Director's services and all types of coffins and caskets provided.
6. To display the price lists referred to in (5) above in the public area of our premises.
7. To give a written estimate of the Funeral Director's charges and disbursements to be paid on a client's behalf, together with written confirmation of the funeral arrangements in each and every case, as soon as is practicable before the day of the funeral. No contractual agreement will have been entered into until these documents have been accepted by the client.
8. To provide all clients with an itemised account in a form readily comparable with the estimate.
9. To refrain from soliciting funeral orders, or offering, or giving any reward for recommendation to persons or organisations such as Health Service establishments, Nursing Homes or Coroners' Offices.
10. To display to the general public the logos of the National Association of Funeral Directors and the Funeral Arbitration Scheme.
11. To co-operate at all times with Trading Standards Officers, Citizens Advice Bureaux, consumer support groups, and any other organisation representing clients in the resolution of complaints or disputes.
12. To partake in, and abide by, the decision of the Conciliation, Independent Arbitration and Disciplinary Committee Procedures of the Association in the resolution of any complaints or disputes between client and Funeral Director(s).
This Code of Practice and adherence here to is monitored by the National Association of Funeral Directors.
You can contact the NAFD in writing to the following address:
National Association of Funeral Directors
618 Warwick Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 1AA
If you need further information or clarifications, please do not hesitate to contact us
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The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin. If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin's masterwork―the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time―warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE. George R.R. Martin, in collaboration with Elio M. García, Jr. and Linda Antonsson, has written a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, featuring the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead up to the events in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series. Collected within this volume is the accumulated knowledge, scholarly speculation, and inherited folk tales of maesters and septons, maegi and singers, including over 170 full-colour illustrations and maps, family trees for the Houses Stark, Lannister and Targaryen, and in-depth explanations of the history and culture of Westeros. This is the definitive companion volume to George R.R. Martin's dazzlingly conceived universe; THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE is indeed proof that the pen is mightier than a storm of swords.
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Fire and Blood: A History of the Targaryen Kings from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III as scribed by Archmaester Gyldayn George R. R. Martin
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Game of Thrones: The Story Continues. 6 Volumes Boxed Set : A Song of Ice and Fire George R. R. Martin
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In a collaboration that's been years in the making, George R.R. Martin has teamed with Elio M. Garcia, Jr. and Linda Antonsson - the founders of the renowned fan site Westeros.org - perhaps the only people who know this world almost as well as its visionary creator. George R.R. Martin is the author of fifteen novels and novellas, including five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, several collections of short stories, as well as numerous screenplays for television drama and feature films. Dubbed 'the American Tolkien', George R.R. Martin has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an Executive Producer of HBO's Emmy Award-winning GAME OF THRONES, which is based on his A Song of Ice and Fire series. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.


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One Person Hospitalized in Crash Involving Box Truck
RAMONA – A box truck carrying furniture ended up on its side after a crash with two pickup trucks today, fire officials said.
One person was taken to a hospital after the crash, Cal Fire spokesman Thomas Shoots said. It was unclear from which of the three vehicles the hospitalized person came.
Two people were inside the cab of the box truck. The other two involved in the crash were the drivers of the two pickups.
It happened at 2:40 PM Sunday on San Vicente Rd. near Hanson Lane. A tow truck was called to the scene to remove the box truck from San Vicente Rd.


We were the first media outlet to report Tay-K facing a second capital murder charge for a killing in San Antonio days ago.
New details have now emerged in the heinous crime that reportedly occurred at a Chik-fil-A in north San Antonio in Bexar County.
Tay-K and other suspects used two women to gain entry into Walker's home, the Star-Telegram reports.
Holt and Bharrat were arrested on July 27 and July 28, 2016, respectively. The two women face a charge of capital murder, and are being held on $500,000 in Tarrant County Jail.
Merritt was arrested on Aug. 3, 2016 and being held at $145,000 bail. He faces a capital murder charge.
Robinson was arrested Aug. 11, 2016 and being held on $800,000. He faces a charge of capital murder, attempted capital murder and two counts of aggravated robbery.
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Is a game that I add or subtract the four numbers that appear on the screen as the same result as ANSWER.
We add or subtract a number to flick towards plus or minus use all four numbers that appear on the screen. It is clear if it matches the answer that appears in the part of the ANSWER at the top of the screen to add or subtract results are displayed in the RESULT of the middle of the screen.
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I will start by pressing the start button.
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March 2019 has been good for digital music. Flume, Tame Impala, Shlohmo, and Apparat are a number of of the names who've put out gorgeous new music for the reason that begin of the month. ZHU and Disclosure are including themselves to the combo now, it appears, following a now-deleted Instagram story asserting a collaborative piece that will be launched over the last week of the month.
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The cry of triumph of 8:31 has died away and in the ensueing silence another shadow falls across Paul's mind to be dispelled by the light of God in Christ. Why had the Jews not come flocking into His Kingdom? Why did they not receive Christ as their long awaited Messiah?
In these three chapters, we will learn of God's sovereign purpose toward Israel. He foreknew Israel; set his love upon her; gave her the privilege of son-ship; held out to her unconditional promises; and appointed her to fulfill a grand role in redemptive history. But Israel has not come to the appointed destiny. Paul is heart-broken that the bulk of his fellow-Jews still stand outside God's kingdom.
John 1:11-13: He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
It would seem that chapter twelve would be the next chapter of practical application to our walk. However, Paul adds a parenthesis in Chapters 9, 10 & 11. These three books form a unit to show us that God's program of righteousness by faith alone does not nullify another part of His program, His promises to Israel as a nation.
Paul means for 11:33 to be taken seriously. "Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments and His ways past finding out." He does not claim to know the answers from A to Z. But he does claim to have found important clues which were enough for man to know of God's unfathomable designs.
In verse 6 he makes a plain statement, "For they are not all Israel which are of Israel." This true Israel of God knows no national frontiers. According to Rev. 19, this company of saints stands in the Presence of the Lord. They ascribe their victory to the Lord our God.
Blessed are those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed are those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world!
The elect's present blessedness and their fitness to appear in the presence of God have been won for them by the sacrifice of Christ. The heavenly dwelling place of God is itself the temple. He will spread his tent or tabernacle over them. God's presence is His glory among His people.
We have been freed from sin's dominion. Not only are we free from the acts of sin; but our sin nature has been taken away.
The Holy Spirit is enabling us to meet God's standard of righteousness through the gift of righteousness.
No one can accuse us or condemn us.
We are sons of God under Holy Spirit control.
We are assured with Hope as a certainty of our deliverance from natural corruption.
Our salvation does not depend on human failure or success, but upon the sovereign purpose of God. We can fail, but our salvation is sealed.
God cannot fail. There is no defeat in Jesus. We can't go under for going over.
We must persevere and prevail in prayer. The indwelling Spirit causes us to pray in the perfect will of the Father.
He is sanctifying us, using our natural weaknesses, assaults of Satan, adversities, and the uprising of indwelling sin. Even our failures are part of God's gracious purpose to make us more Christ-like.
He foreknew us—not due to any virtue on our part.
He called us. We responded in Faith.
Through faith, He justified us.
Our glorification is just as certain to come to pass as was our calling and justification.
All that is required of us is to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, receive the Holy Spirit and be willing to be made more Christ-like daily.
Nothing can separate us from Christ: not the severest trials; all that life brings us; death, neither time nor space; creature or created can separate us from the love of Christ.
Has God's purpose failed because of Israel's failure? Can His sovereign purpose for us be changed because of our failure?
Israel has rejected the Messiah. They foolishly imagine that they can attain righteousness through human effort. These chapters are a forthright address to the subject of election. Paul is clear that we are not helpless pawns in the Hands of God. God definitely has election, but this in no way frees man of his responsibility in his freedom to choose.
By this sovereignty of election he chose the Apostles (Luke 6: 12-19). Paul was a chosen vessel. (Acts 9: 10-16): "Go your way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him what great things he must suffer for my name's sake." This should be humbling to all those who presume to assume their status in the Kingdom.
Paul communicates the same desperate passion for the Jews as did Jesus. Paul makes a startling statement when he says he would be accursed to save Israel. Moses is the only other recorded man in the bible, other than Jesus, who offered his soul in exchange for Israel.
Exodus 32:32-33: Yet now if you will forgive their sin…; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written. The LORD said to Moses, Who so ever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
At this point in Paul's ministry, the Jews have persecuted him to the extent of trying to kill him and even leaving him for dead. This is Paul's heart speaking, not the Spirit. He was well aware that the death of a man like himself could save no one. He also knew there was no way for him to be separated from Jesus. Passion made Paul a great preacher. He is expressing his great passion for Israel.
They were adopted before the eyes of the whole world as God's chosen people.
They enjoyed glorious manifestations of His Presence in their midst (Shekinah Glory).
God made covenants with them guaranteeing they would ultimately rule the world as a righteous kingdom.
He entrusted His law to them, which revealed His standard of righteousness.
They received amazing promises concerning salvation for the entire world, a land of their own and through them the coming of the Messiah.
God appeared to the patriarchs in person.
Christ Himself was a Jew and Jesus is God over all, worthy of praise forever.
He entrusted the Holy Scriptures to them. The Old Testament and New Testament was written by Jews with the exception of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts.
Israel's sovereign election as a nation on earth has already occurred. However the fullness of the Glory of the nation is yet to be completed.
Why did God choose this nation and load her up with such fabulous promises? I think we are safe to conclude that it was because of Abraham. God was so pleased with the faith of this one man that He elected to make a nation out of him.
Gen. 12:2: I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.
Deut. 14:2: He has chosen you above all the nations of the earth to be a peculiar people unto Himself. God chose Israel through election. It is not proper to refer to her as God's ancient people for she is still His nation in spite of her rejection of Jesus Christ as the Messiah. He has not forsaken her. He still loves her.
Ex. 19:6: You shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.
God begins His purpose with a man and unfolds it in a nation.
Jesus established His Holy Nation, the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven.
1 Pet. 2:9: You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation a peculiar people that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Those who have received Jesus as the Messiah will be part of His Holy nation.
This speaks of "One Seed." That Seed is Jesus Christ. Our confession should be "I am a seed of the promise." The vast lineage of the heritage anointing comes to the children of faith.
Paul anticipates a question, "Can the Word of God fail?" Can God fail to keep these promises made to Abraham? When God made these promises to Abraham, He swore by Himself. How can He fail to keep those promises and be true to His Word?
Not everyone who is born into a Christian home is automatically a Christian. Not everyone who is born a Jew is of the seed of Abraham. God's promises to Israel are for the believers by Faith.
Abraham had eight sons, yet only Isaac was to make up the chosen line. God made it perfectly clear from the beginning, His promises did not pertain to all Abraham's children. God's program is not based on biology. It is based on selection.
A remnant within the nation of Israel (true Israelites). Messianic Jews who believe in Jesus.
Gentiles who believe the gospel and are born again of the Spirit.
The O.T. gives evidence of a preliminary narrowing process in God's purposes, and it is to this light that the present situation is to be explained. The rejection of Christ by most of the Jews does not come as a surprise to God, and on second thoughts need not to the Church, since it is in line with divine principle. As in the early history of Israel, His habit was to select only one branch of the family tree for His special purposes. So it has been designed that at first the Church should contain only a certain number of Jews. Neither DNA nor behavior qualifies a Jew for divine acceptance.
Isaac was selected and chosen before he was born. He was supernaturally born as a child of promise. He is a "type" of the people meant to receive the spiritual promise. The phrase, children of promise are those who are miraculously born by the power of God's promises. Only those who are born again through the power of God's word are heirs as children of promise. True children of God are those who are born as a result of believing. God set the time for Isaac's birth, at this time next year and supplied the power.
9:9: For this is the word of promise. At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
When my children were small, the Lord spoke to me once and told me they were children of promise. I was naïve enough to think they would sail through life. This has not been the case. If we follow the children of promise throughout the Bible, we see the lot of the children of promise is a challenged journey.
9: 10-13: And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; having not done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls: It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
This is a startling example of God's right to choose whomever He pleases as the heirs of His promise. His choices are based on foreknowledge of whom He chooses as His companions in the eternal fellowship. God's choices are based on eternal purpose not an arbitrary selection which say, "I like you and don't like you." God knew the outcome of the two boys' lives before they were born because he is omniscient.
God would that none should perish. (2 Pet. 3:9) He sent His son to die for all men.
Esau opposed God's divine plan.
It is impossible for God to make an unjust decision. God can heal a man's heart. His mercy is consistent with His eternal purpose. The nation of Israel had forsaken the Lord to worship the golden calf. Moses pleaded with him. God promised to spare the nation but reserved the right to pick those in Israel whom He wanted to save. He chose them purely by mercy.
T. scripture is clear that God raised up Pharaoh and made him King of Egypt. God knew he was a perfect example of a hard hearted, stubborn, stiff-necked rejecter of God. God used him as a background to display his power over this type of man. Because he was so hard hearted, God was able to gloriously display his power. People feared the Israelites for over 200 years after this because of the display of God's Glory.
God does not put hardness in a person's heart, but he knows by foreknowledge that the hardness is already there and knows just how to use it for His purposes. The Lord strives with people only to a certain point. The Lord did strive with Pharaoh multiple times. After that he removes the witness of the spirit and the sweet influences that would soften a man's heart.
The Lord's grace is like the sun, the same rays soften wax and harden clay, but the rays of the sun do not make either one.
The gospel of faith-righteousness is easily attained and universally available. Law-righteousness demands life-long success in the moral struggle as its prerequisite for eternal life.
He gave us his own nature, the power of the Holy Spirit, to change our lump of clay into a beautiful vessel like his Son. That's a long way for a piece of sinful clay to travel.
9: 24-26: Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As he says in Hosea, I will call them my people which were not my people; and her beloved which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, you are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God.
The prophet Hosea foretold the calling of the Gentiles to salvation. This prophesy had to wait until after Pentecost to be fulfilled (Hosea 2:23).
9: 27-29: Isaiah also cried concerning Israel. though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness; because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as Isaiah said before, except the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we would be as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.
Zech. 14: 1-4 is a promise that the Lord will spare a remnant because of the national promises He made to Abraham which He must keep. When Jesus returns to plant His feet upon the Mount of Olives, those remaining Jews will look upon Him whom they have pierced.
This remnant (inclusive of Gentile Christians) will again become His earthly nation in the Kingdom and rule and reign with Christ Jesus.
9: 30-33: "What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at this stumbling stone; As it is written, Behold I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offence; and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.".
God used his right of selection.
God knew Israel would forsake Him.
Gentiles would be saved and receive the promises by Faith.
The word of God has not failed. Everything has come to pass exactly as God said it would. We became righteous through Faith. We believed God as did Abraham and it is accounted to us as righteousness.
Jesus is the stone. They kicked him aside. He is Christ the Rock. The stumbling stone appears many times in the O.T. It was the gift their pride could not receive. Jesus can be a stumbling stone or a stepping stone.
The humble will receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and will not be offended.
Isaiah 62:11-12: "Behold the Lord has proclaimed unto the end of the world. Say you to the daughter of Zion, behold your salvation comes; behold his reward is with him, and his work before him. And they shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called, sought out, a city not forsaken.
As we continue through chapters 10-11, Paul makes it clear the present state of affairs was not to be permanent. Paul declares God's election of the Jews and His O.T. promises to them will come into fruition when the full number of the Gentiles has been incorporated into the Church, then, and only then, it would be the return of the Jews as a whole—not a mere handful as now—to acknowledge Jesus as Lord and thus reveal their now hidden destiny as God's elect.
Scripture from K.J.V. bibliography: F.F. Bruce Bible Commentary, Leslie C. Allen; C. S. Lovett's Lights on Romans; Dake's Annotated Reference bible, Matthew Henry's Commentary; Roman Bible Study Notes prepared by Carolyn Sissom in 1987; August 29, 2010.


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All Them Witches: Nothing As The Ideal - an enticing feast for psychedelic senses
Scorching new album Nothing As The Ideal from psych-blues enigmas All Them Witches
By Polly Glass 04 September 2020
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Nothing As The Ideal [VINYL]
Psychedelic rockers are two a penny these days. Whether it's pot-addled beardos worshipping at the altar of Black Sabbath, or Kevin Parker's latest Tame Impala offshoots in Western Australia, everyone's been getting their freak on.
Based in Nashville – but wholly removed from the countrified 'contemporary Nashville scene' – All Them Witches freak out with more power and originality than most. But on 2018's ATW album they seemed to fall back to earth. Which was fine, but a little lukewarm for those of us enthralled by the otherworldly delights of their previous records, (especially 2017's boundary-pushing Sleeping Through The War).
Perhaps they just needed a change of scene, judging by the resounding success of Nothing As The Ideal.
Comprising eight enveloping tracks, including two almost-ten-minute epics, it feels as much like a film soundtrack as it does a hooky rock'n'roll album.
From Saturnine & Iron Jaw's haunting ambience and chugging Led Zeppelin guitars, to the trippy, pitch-black tones of See You Next Fall and the cathartic finale Rats In Ruin, it's a dark, enticing feast for the senses, with one foot in ancient times and the other in some far-off dimension.
Watch Saxon's high-octane cover of Deep Purple's Speed King, a celebration of rock 'n' roll history
Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters and Jon Bon Jovi to celebrate Joe Biden's presidential inauguration


Naga Kanyaka 2 (Naaga Kanyaka) is a malayalam Serial being aired on Surya TV. It is the part 2 or seasaon 2 of popular serial Naga Kanyaka which was aired only Surya TV since 20th June 2016. Nagakanyaka 2 was launched on Surya TV on 19th June 2017 at 8:00 PM . The serial is aired every Monday to Friday at 8:00 PM.This supernatural fantacy thriller has gained popularity that helped to rise Surya TV's channel ratings.
Naga Kanyaka 2 is the dubbed version of the second season of Naagin premiered on 8 October 2016 and airs weekends at 8:00 pm IST. Nagin is is created by Colors TV based on Indian Mythology. The thriller serial is conceived by Seema Shrivastav and stories are by Mrinal Jha, R.M Joshi, Neha Singh and Ankush Nagpal. the serial is directed by Santram Varma, Chandni, Niraj, Lalit Marathe and Rakesh Chowdhury. Naagin is considered one of the highest rated teleseries on colors TV.
Story of the serial : Naagakanaya2 is a story of Shivangi,the daughter of an Shivanya. Almost 25 years later, a widowed Shivanya doesn't want Shivangi to become an Ichchhadhari Naagin to protect the Naagmani.A saint tells Shivanya that this can be avoided by getting Shivangi married before she turns 25. Rocky, the fiancè of Shesha and the adopted nephew of Yamini, falls in love with Shivangi. Unaware of Rocky's relation to Yamini, Shivanya arranges for him to marry Shivangi. What will happen next?
Mouni Roy is the heroine of Nagakanyaka 2. Karanvir Bohra is her love interest Rocky. She plays duel role of Shivanya and her daughter Shivangi. Kinshuk Mahajan, Karanvir Bohra, Sudha Chandran, Adaa Khan and Aashka Goradia are the other stars of Naagin 2 with Super-natural theme filled with love, revenge, betrayal, violence, lust and seduction between the main characters of the story.
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Transcript of Daphne's Garden Tip, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, 8 Mar 09.
Copyright BBC Radio Lincolnshire; used by permission.
As most of you know, I've been around a long time – but I saw a spectacle yesterday I've never seen before in all my long gardening years.
We were privileged to attend the funeral of Geoffrey Smith in Harrogate. It was all he could have wished for – a beautiful day, clear blue skies, a wonderful service and hundreds of his friends and colleagues gathered to say goodbye. But the thing that will remain in most people's minds was the crocuses – millions of them, on the Strays, on the verges, in front gardens, in tubs, baskets and troughs, in the public gardens and on the roundabouts, crocuses of every size, variety and colour. Not just odd patches, but huge drifts, all with their flowers wide open to the early spring sun. Altogether, there must have been acres of them and I'm sure even Geoffrey would have marvelled at the sight. He couldn't have wished for a better goodbye than his beloved Nature had arranged for him.
My tip this week, therefore, is to plant some crocuses. Most garden centres have them for sale in pots at the moment, and even if you have plenty, you can never have enough, and even one pot will be a reminder of the years of pleasure Geoffrey gave everyone, young and old, gardeners and non-gardeners alike. I know I'm going to buy some today, some more for our garden, and a special pot for the good friend and neighbour who baby-sat the greyhounds and gave us the chance to witness that wonderful display in Harrogate. It was something that none of us who were gathered there yesterday will ever forget.
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    pass

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    def __init__(self, filepath):
        new_msg = "File \"{}\" does not exist".format(
            filepath
        )
        super(FileDoesNotExistError, self).__init__(new_msg)

class DirectoryDoesNotExistError(ObjectDoesNotExistError):
    def __init__(self, dirname):
        new_msg = "Directory \"{}\" does not exist".format(
            dirname
        )
        super(DirectoryDoesNotExistError, self).__init__(new_msg)

class Directory(object):
    def __init__(self, path, err_if_notexist=True, create_path_if_notexists=False):
        """
        Load and check directory information
        :param path: Directory path
        :param err_if_notexist: Error if the path does not exist
        :param create_path_if_notexists: Create path if it does not exist (overrides err_if_noexist)
        """
        self._path = path

        if create_path_if_notexists:
            exists = self.__check_existance()
            if not exists:
                os.makedirs(self._path, exist_ok=True)

        if err_if_notexist or create_path_if_notexists:
            exists = self.__check_existance()
            if not exists:
                raise DirectoryDoesNotExistError(self._path)

        return

    def __check_existance(self):
        if os.path.isdir(self._path):
            return True
        return False

    def join(self, other):
        """ Todo: other should work on Directory too
        """
        p = os.path.join(self._path, other)
        return p

    def path(self):
        return self._path

class InputDirectory(Directory):
    def __init__(self, path, err_if_notexist=True, create_path_if_notexists=False):
        super(InputDirectory, self).__init__(path, err_if_notexist, create_path_if_notexists)

class OutputDirectory(Directory):
    def __init__(self, path, err_if_notexist=True, create_path_if_notexists=False):
        super(OutputDirectory, self).__init__(path, err_if_notexist, create_path_if_notexists)

class File(object):
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        self.dir = Directory(self._fp_head, err_if_notexist, create_path_if_notexists)

        self.filename = self._fp_tail
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            if not os.path.isfile(filepath):
                raise FileDoesNotExistError(
                    os.path.join(self.dir.path(), self._fp_tail)
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        return

    def path(self):
        p = self.dir.join(self.filename)
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class InputFile(File):
    def __init__(self, path):
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    def __init__(self, path):
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    def truncate(self):
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            file = open(fp, 'w')
        except FileNotFoundError as e:
            msg = "Could not create/truncate {}, please make sure the directory exists: {}".format(fp, e)
            raise FileNotFoundError(msg)
        file.close()

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Hazmat crew called in after Covanta facility temporarily evacuated in Pennsylvania
Flickr, Presidio of Monterey
Firefighters and a local hazardous materials response unit were called to a Covanta facility in Myerstown, PA on June 26 in response to an orange smoke cloud coming from the building, as reported by the Lebanon Daily News.
Local employees and some area residents were evacuated for about six hours as a precaution according to ABC27 News. Two response workers were treated at a local hospital for minor injuries related to burning sensations in their hands.
In a statement released to local publications, Covanta praised the work of first responders and offered the following update. "Earlier today we had an unexpected gaseous reaction that led to a small fire when processing non-hazardous waste materials in our solidification pit. As a precaution, employees and neighbors were temporarily evacuated from the area. The reacting waste has been extinguished and employees and neighbors have since been cleared to re-enter the area. There is no danger to the public."
Investigators from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection arrived the following day and are working with Covanta to identify the root cause. This particular Covanta facility accepts a range of "non-conforming or problematic waste loads" beyond typical solid waste, so the list of potential sources is wider than in traditional municipal solid waste facilities.
This incident follows fires at two Covanta waste-to-energy facilities in Maryland and Virginia earlier this year. The Virginia fire kept Covanta's Fairfax facility offline for multiple months, though the company has said it will have minimal effects on annual earnings for 2017. Earlier this month, an improperly installed door gasket also led to a release of lime at the company's new facility in Ireland. None of these incidents resulted in major injuries or public health risks.
The Myerstown facility, formerly operated by Waste Recovery Solutions, was purchased to expand Covanta's Environmental Solutions portfolio more than a year ago. The operation is permitted to take loads with completed profile forms and intended to divert materials that aren't suitable for waste-to-energy facilities so the remainder can be processed into a "blended acceptable state." Covanta has been increasing its focus on this special waste sector recently, with projections for double-digit growth. In May, CEO Stephen Jones told Waste Dive that small acquisitions in the space have been done strategically to line up with existing WTE capacity in the east and opportunities are now being considered in other regions.
Lebanon Daily News DEP investigating chemical reaction at waste recovery plant
ABC27 News Homes evacuated for hazmat incident near Myerstown
Filed Under: Corporate WTE Labor
Photo illustration by Brian Tucker/Waste Dive/Waste Dive
Disposing 'forever' toxins: How the waste and recycling industry is tackling the PFAS chemicals crisis
Found everywhere from Arctic seawater to the blood of most humans, PFAS are inevitable in the waste stream. With the prospect of regulations and litigation mounting, the industry is figuring out how to handle one of its most difficult issues in years.
By E.A. Crunden • Oct. 19, 2020


Lloyd's Register (LR), the global engineering, technical and business services organisation, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airobotics, a fully automatic drone platform, to work together to deliver faster, safer, more insightful and innovative services through the use of autonomous drones for pre-programmed inspection missions.
This milestone is a key component in LR's 'Remote PresenceTM Technology Program', aiming to deliver its services more effectively to clients, not only with experts on the ground, but through remote access technologies, allowing on demand access to its expert workforce, across large distances.
Airobotics has developed a fully automatic platform, continuously available on-site and enabling both pre-programmed mission, and expert access on-demand. The platform is completely self-sustained, able to replace its own batteries and payloads as required for different missions. Payloads include various capture devices such as HD video, HD stills imagery & infra-red, with hyperspectral and sniffing capabilities being developed. This high end system is capable of collecting aerial data and processing and analysing it in a fast, safe, and efficient way.
One of LR's core values is to share our knowledge and expertise – but sometimes that knowledge isn't available when you need it, or isn't available in your area. LR's Remote PresenceTM aims to provide the flexibility you need to stay on schedule, and make sure we can still provide you the quality inspection service recognised around the world.
Slim Presence – Stream, review and document data through the use of simple monitoring technologies.
Vast Presence – Covering large assets in a hyper efficient manner, giving better resolution visibility and insight at scale.
Secure Presence – Utilising technology to reach hard to access locations. Removing unnecessary risks while increasing reach into an asset.
Auto Presence – Delivering a set of fully autonomous services, reducing the resource needed, while increasing frequency and accuracy.
Deep Presence – Utilising a combination of technologies to enable a fully immersive, always on environment.
Ran Merkazy, LR's VP Product and Service Innovation, said: "LR is committed to exploring all options that new technology brings, but only using methods that ensure we maintain our high standard of service quality. Our collaboration with Airobotics is a great example of how we're innovating on our journey towards more flexible and efficient services for our clients."
Ran Krauss, Airobotics CEO, said: "Airobotics is proud to take part in LR's Remote PresenceTM Technology Program. We believe our co-operation will open doors for the Maritime industry to reveal a new level of efficiency and innovation with our automated, industrial-grade drone solution."
Is 'just in time' an unjust solution?


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From the architect. Situated in Ruicheng County of Shanxi Province, the Five Dragon Temple (Guang Ren Wang Temple) was built in 831 A.D. during the Tang Dynasty. Ranked chronologically, it is the second oldest among the remaining four architectures of the Tang Dynasty, as well as being the oldest surviving Taoist temple. The Five Dragons Temple experienced several times of renovation during its lifetime, but its structure from the Tang Dynasty remained largely unchanged. However, contrasting to the Five Dragons Temple's exalted historic position was its previous surrounding environment. The Five Dragons Temple is seldom known and has few visitors. Located on a high slope, the temple as a cultural relic was segregated away from the villagers. Due to arid weather in recent years, the past splendor of the Dragon Spring lying at the bottom of the slope was gone now. Additionally, the advancement in agricultural irrigation technology caused the vanishing of the rain praying culture at dragon temples, thus resulting in the decline of the temple as the neighborhood center. In the end, the Dragon Spring, which was the spiritual core of the villagers, gradually deteriorated into a rubbish dump of the village.
From the end of 2013 to early 2015, the National Cultural Relics Bureau restored the Five Dragons Temple and the stage, but the effort only enhanced the buildings, while the surroundings were left unchanged if not worsened. With the improvement of living quality in the village, residential houses became higher and variations in styles. As the tiles and mud walls were replaced in the village, the temple was left in a more desolate state, forcing people to make another thorough renovation. This renovation was intended not only for the renewal of the poor environment of the temple, but also as a new direction in development for this historical village.
In 2015, Vanke Group built a pavilion in the Milan Expo, and to leave a legacy after the Expo, Vanke decided to invest in the environmental improvement of the Five Dragons Temple, and initiated the "Long Plan", which is an innovative attempt of cultural relics preservation. The "Long Plan" received support from Shanxi Province's cultural relics authorities and the local government of Ruicheng county. Part of the funds were raised by crowd-funding along with Vanke's donation for the Project of the Five Dragons Temple Environmental Improvement. The whole project was organized under the enterprise management together with the abidance of the relative national cultural relics management regulations. This initiative would then go on to become the precedent where the government and private funds cooperated for cultural relics preservation, as well as the promotion of cultural protection through the platforms of internet and the international Expo.
The non-profit environmental improvement design led by URBANUS gained strong support from the specialists of historic preservation, graphic, landscape design and the joint efforts with the Vanke implementation team. In less than a year, the team had gone through the national approval procedures of relics protection. With the completion of on-site construction, this thousand-year-old temple entered modern life with a brand new environment, owing to the high-quality renovation supported by the national fund.
The design of the environment uplift for the Five Dragon Temple was centered around two themes. An outstanding theme was to create layers of overlapping spaces around the main building to tell the story of the temple history and ancient Chinese architecture. Through this theme, people would learn about the knowledge of traditional Chinese architecture to better understand the importance for the preservation of heritage. The latent theme was to restore the temple into an area of public gathering in the village, and to give an alleviated environment to encourage contemporary lifestyles in coherence with the realms of ancient architecture.
The environment effort began with the renovation of the Five Dragon Spring. With the transition from traditional to modern agriculture, as well as the depletion of natural resources, the spring essentially became a garbage yard. After the renovation, the relics were once again protected. The reeds from the banks of the Yellow River matched well with the weathered relics, and the mud ground became a square frequented by villagers. The temple was reinvigorated, and once again became the center of the village.
As the most characteristic human habitation of the local area since ancient times, cave dwellings have since drifted away from the lives of the locals. The design preserved several cave dwellings that served as livestock quarters found at the foot of the temple hill. They restored them with the traditional rammed-earth method, turning it into a shaded rest area for its visitors. With the participation of local workers, the cave renovations helped the villagers re-master this traditional construction skill.
The entrance of the Five Dragon Temple was once a muddy slide, difficult to travel through rain and snow. After the renovation, the dangerous slide was replaced with convenient stone steps. These steps were paved on the original path, preserving the plants along the side of the path.
Entering the temple, people would first see a fore-yard with prefabricated concrete with the texture of rammed wall. The cladding, imitating the local soil color, not only is reversible but also looks original, matching well with surrounding environment. A temple miniature carved on the ground and a time line of Chinese architectural history on the wall clearly show the place of the Five Dragon Temple in history.
Entering further through a narrow aisle, one would see the main structure of the Five Dragon Temple. From this perspective, the elegant side of the structure is presented to visitors. People would feel a sense of excitement and reverence upon seeing this picturesque view.
The original temple yard was barren and had nothing to see. After the improvements, the scale of the yard was trimmed in order to accentuate the temple by enlarging the temple-yard scale ratio. A series of spaces was designed around the temple to add layers in appreciation of the cultural relics. The effect of such spatial adjustment proved to be without saying. The ground between the main structure and the theater stage was enlarged and paved. The new ground could also help prevent the temple from suffering water erosion, becoming an ideal place for villagers to hold activities. The stage thus would become an important carrier of local intangible heritages.
To the north, behind the stone wall, one would see a new viewing platform overlooking the other national treasures: the city wall ruins of the ancient State of Wei, and the distant Zhongtiao Mountain. With the platform, all the rich historical elements of the surroundings along with the Five Dragons Temple would form an immediate and intimate connection.
After the renovation, visiting the relics would be like reading into the history through views toward the temple. Through a series of visual experience around the temple, visitors can deepen their understanding of this national treasure and trigger further thoughts on history.
Spaces around the main structure were renovated into open-air exhibition halls. The temple now looks like a museum of Chinese architectural history, or a rural architecture classroom. The relic is revived. Its value is manifested. Its charm will since endure.
For architects, the design in the field of cultural relics' protection has always been conservative. At the same time we also opposed radicals ideas but would not give up the exploration of new innovations in the existing environment as well as producing new ideas to conserve the cultural relics in present context. The sustenance of a cultural relic cannot simply rely on a singular village, but also the support of tourism, and special outreach to the public. The project of the environmental improvement of the Five Dragons Temple is a new exploration in cultural relics environmental design. It break the usual conservative approach and uses a spatial sequence of etiquette to accentuate the history, rather than using the sense of history to highlight its "originality". Frankly speaking, the spatial sequence did not derive from the original path of worship, but instead is a route for narrative for the present day. The narration first directs the respect towards the cultural relics, thus awakening the culture and customs of the locals in which are difficult to find nowadays in remote villages. By doing so, it integrates into the present village lives the missing pieces of folk culture that has been passed down since ancient times.


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Barbara Boxer is one of the female senators profiled in '14 Women.'
'14 Women' and some wise little girls
By HELENA ANDREWS
"What are senators?" asks narrator Annette Bening.
"I don't know," answers one sixth-grade girl dressed in her school uniform.
"Senators are part of the legislative branch," beams another in braids and glasses.
This little girl will be the voice of reason, narrative chorus and omniscient higher being throughout "14 Women," the new documentary about the female senators of the 109th Congress that premiered last week at the AFI Silverdocs film festival. The film is still looking for distribution.
Directed by Mary Lambert (sister of Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche L. Lincoln) and produced by Nicole Boxer (daughter of California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer), "14 Women" is a sometimes candid, other times scripted and most times captivating take on what it's like to be a legislator with two X chromosomes, which according to our favorite sixth grader allows them to "use both sides of their brains."
With access only an I'm-with-the-senator production team could possibly get, the film vacillates between time spent in homes (sorry, not Hillary's), offices and campaign stops all sandwiched by pointed commentary from the mouth of babes, not the film's producers.
"How many women do you think should be senators?" asks Bening.
All the girls answer, "Half!" without skipping a beat -- "Just like they are on the street, half and half. That just seems fair to me." And suddenly through the eyes of children the grotesque gender inequality in the United States legislature becomes obvious and clear -- as if no one thought of it before.
The film's standouts are obviously Sens. Lincoln and Boxer. There are scenes of Lincoln, the polished farmer's daughter, doling out lunch money, juggling a load of laundry and making sure one of her sons has his shoes on. Later she heads into the office to make sure all Americans have health care.
Still, there are a few surprise performances by the women you think would never get caught off guard, like when 4-foot-11-inch firebrand Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) claims you can do anything with "lipstick and friends." (But again, sorry, not Hillary. She pretty much stays on message.)
Plus, there are sidebars with Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) that some might find a little creepy. He's the film's de facto go-to guy for explaining what the gals have accomplished.
Exhibit A: "The good news about women in the Senate is that they get together," explains Sherlock Biden as he presses the tips of his fingers together. "They get together across party lines," he adds, this time interlocking his fingers tightly to suggest some type of synergy.
But the other man in the film makes up for Biden's weirdo hand gestures -- Stewart Boxer.
In a fleece and bluejeans, the husband Boxer meticulously slices cantaloupe on the couple's kitchen counter. "I'm actually preparing this for my wife, who will come home tired and hungry," he says. He also makes sure the house isn't a mess. Every woman, senator or not, wants to marry a man like Stewart Boxer.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) might be the most bare when she talks about the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and the city's first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk. She describes looking for Milk's pulse and putting her fingers "through a bullet hole."
"Only one other time have I gone through this chapter and verse," she says. "It took me six years to sit in the chair where George was killed."
All the women say the watershed moment for gender equality in politics came in 1991 when Anita Hill was questioned "in an unseemly manner" by the all-male review, er, Senate Judiciary Committee during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
"Because women use both sides of their brains, they can talk and have feelings at the same time," chimes the star student. "So they will probably be thinking about how we can make this world a better place."
I was in sixth grade in 1991 but was probably way more concerned with NKOTB, so maybe the raw common sense of today's sixth graders says something good about the number of senatorial women to come.
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This notebook is meant to provide intuition behind how ANOVA and Linear Regression are the same model.
First we need to import a few libraries and setup some data. Our fake data here is meant to show how fast in hours a drug relieves symptoms. We want to see if there is a difference between a control (placebo), regular, and extra strength version of the medications.
Before looking at this notebook, this StackOverflow question is a good place to get a nice idea of what ANOVA is doing http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/5278/how-to-visualize-what-anova-does/5280#5280 as well as this blog post http://rpsychologist.com/d3-one-way-anova.
Next we use statsmodels to run an ANOVA on our data and view the results.
We can see here that our ANOVA has a relatively large F-Value indicating that one or more of the group means differ from one another. We can visualize this by take a look at the three different groups side-by-side. Visualization inspired from https://github.com/thomas-haslwanter/statsintro_python/blob/master/ipynb/8_anovaOneway.ipynb, which is also a great resource for statistics in Python.
So what does this have to do with a linear regression? It turns out they are really the same thing but it requires that we re-code our variables using "dummy-coding" before running the regression. This means we create a new variable for each feature or group. The variable is equal to 1 when the depedendent variable (here, hours to relief) is from that group, and 0 when it is not. You only N - 1 dummy variables to represent N groups, because when the N - 1 variables are set to 0 it indicates that the dependent variable (hour) is from the left-out "reference" group. We will use the get_dummies function from the Pandas library below to create these new variables for us. After that, we will run a regression and confirm our resulting F-Value is the same as the ANOVA.
The F-Value is the same. Now in the context of a regression, the F-value compares our current model to the "reduced" model which only contains the intercept (http://blog.minitab.com/blog/adventures-in-statistics/what-is-the-f-test-of-overall-significance-in-regression-analysis ). We can think of this as answering the question: "Does the increased complexity of our current model deliver significantly better results than a much simpler model?" A larger F-value indicates that it does. But what does this have to do with the F-Value from ANOVA?
Let's start by taking away the "extra strength" level of our factor and just looking at a graph of our "dummy variables" for "control" and "regular strength".
Here we only have one dummy variable (because we are looking at only two levels of our factor). The points above 0 (when the dummy variable for "regular strength" is 0) correspond to the control group, and the points above 1 correspond to the "regular strength" group. We have also have the corresponding regression line. As discussed above, our F-test is going to tell us whether this model, with effectively 1 feature, is significantly better than a straight horizontal line (intercept only). Intuitively it looks like the answer here would be yes.
Below we run the regression and look at the results as well as the same two-level regression as ANOVA.
Again, the F-Values are the same. We can also take a look in the regression coefficients to see what they are telling us about the dataset. The intercept is the mean of the control group.
and the coefficient for the dummy variable plus the intercept is the mean of the "regular" treatment group.
So let's look back at the regression with both dummy-coded variables from above and extract formula for the corresponding regression equation (a plane in this case).
If we graph the dummy-coded groups (now in 3 dimensions) and show the plane, we can see that the F-test in this regression compares the two planes in the image, the one with the two dummy-encoded variables, and one contains only the intercept.
It may not be completely obvious, but you can imagine that the plane using the two dummy-coded variables (on top) does a better job describing the 3 groups of dummy-coded variables in 3 dimensions than the plane that is described only by the intercept (below).


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Oregon sweeps Pac-12s
PULLMAN, Wash. — The Oregon men's and women's track and field teams swept the Pac-12 Championships for the sixth straight year, as the men won their eighth consecutive title with 163.25 points and the women picked up their sixth in a row with 176 points on Sunday.
Jenna Prandini was named the women's athlete of the meet after winning three individual events, the first to do so since Seilala Sue of UCLA won three in 1999. Prandini entered the second day of competition with the long jump title under her belt. She started the day by winning the 100 in 11.21 and followed up with a blazing 200 win in a school record 22.60, the second-fastest time in the NCAA this season.
Prandini was a part of 38 Oregon points, also running on the women's 4x100 relay to end the meet.


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Q: Recursively extract contents of (nested) parentheses in string, replace selected content(s) down to a single (char+int), read again and repeat This is my first post so please comment down if you need further clarification, Say we take in a string such as:
((((a).(5)).((a)*)).((b)*))*
and through the process, we perhaps count++ the amount of '(' read and count-- the amount of ')' read until we come across our first char or variable (we can consider other operators such as '.' or '|' or '*') that is the left and innermost content such that a is replaced so that our string now reads:
(((R1.(5)).((a)*)).((b)*))*
We must consider when a is selected, we also include its parenthesis as well but only consider the string that is read (perhaps store it in or as a vector, pointer, object, etc.), the same applies for when 5 which results in:
(((R1.R2).((a)*)).((b)*))*
at this moment we perhaps find now that the innermost content found is string (R1.R2) and
this results the string to be converted into R3 and having the string as:
((R3.((a)*)).((b)*))*
We continue the iteration for a to be read too.
((R3.(R4*)).((b)*))*
If a star * is read, we can consider extracting that content with R4 to be replaced as R5
((R3.R5).((b)*))*
Our next iteration follows:
((R3.R5).(R6*))*
((R3.R5).R7)*
(R8.R7)*
R9*
and finally as our final result,
R10
And we end.
I've already tried a variety of algorithms from several sources for hours yet I'm still stuck and puzzled at the same spot and I may not be thinking this through very properly as I had hoped.
The only closest that was modified was this:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/extract-substrings-between-any-pair-of-delimiters/
but I'm still puzzled about what must be properly implemented.
How would you make this possible? Any solutions or a straight post of your code could surely help me understand this process.

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Union of Iranian Republicans or United Republicans of Iran () is a secular political organization founded in 2004 by Iranian leftist activists in exile. They are classified as part of the democratic republican opposition groups, whose members are not exclusively made up of former Marxists, but substantial numbers of them are.

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