September 5, 2016 | -by: Kevin George.
You are a restaurant owner. Every day you take care to tickle the taste buds of hundreds of your customers. You also harness the power of email marketing to notify your subscribers and customers about new dishes in the menu to food coupons. But with the holiday season arriving, I'm sure you surely want your business to entice more customers and maximize ROI.
First, prepare an Instagram account if you don't have one. Upload all the daily images of delectable dishes and drinks served in your restaurant. By doing so, you let people know how you incorporate creativity in preparing different dishes.
Now, insert this Instagram feed into your Email. This way your subscribers and customers will get a sneak peek of what new you made last week through your email. Isn't that interesting?
Those images will speak for the quality you offer and will inspire them to visit you for sure.
According to Movable Ink, 76% of emails include social media buttons but only 14% of emails include social images.
It's high time that marketers realize the potential of Instagram in Email Marketing. Instagram delivers 120x more customer engagement than Twitter & 58x more customer engagement per follower than Facebook.
Instagram, in the recent times is one of the fastest growing social network. As of June 2018, the social network reached 1 billion monthly active users, up from 800 million in September 2017.
Additionally, with the introduction of Instagram stories, brands have been able to increase their engagement rates. Social platform Whisper total view count hit 1.25 Million with 15% of viewers swiping on the links to visit the site.
Let's learn how brands use Instagram to supercharge their Email campaigns.
There are several types of contests that you can undertake on Instagram to drive more customer engagement and brand loyalty. Horchow built a contest around an automated feed of their latest Instagram photos.
By promoting the #HorchowHolidayTraditions, they encouraged more customers to take part in their Instagram campaign and earn a chance to win $500 Horchow gift card.
Hashtag: phrases or words prefixed with #.
Meundies allowed its customers to actively participate by submitting photos with an accompanying hashtag. By using the hashtag, audience could discover how different people cherishes, wanders, matches and soars after using the brand product.
The first and the foremost thing is to make your audience aware of your presence on Instagram. Till date, Instagram is new to some people. Hence, they aren't trained much to find out your brand on social media. Urban Outfitters did same thing by adding social media buttons at the end of the Email.
How to get Permission to use chosen Photographs for your Email Campaign?
Once you acquire the permission, you must credit the particular instagrammers for allowing you to use his/her images. However, those permission may differ according to the industry. After acquiring the permissions, you're all set to add user-generated Instagram pictures to your Email campaigns.
The very next step is to notify the Instagramer about the date when your Email newsletter will be mailed to all the customers. And, that's how your journey to more customer engagement begins.
1. Create your email list sign up page.
2. Promote that Email sign up on Instagram.
3. Watch your Email list grow.
And, hey! Don't you just limit your possibilities till newsletters. Use Instagram and Email Marketing for your 'Thank You' pages or even the landing pages. And, enjoy the bright colors of increased customer engagement.
Do you see any other opportunities by incorporating Instagram in your Email campaigns? Does your business integrate different social media? Share with us!
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Frederick Emmart 'Ted' Hood, 86, an internationally recognised yachtsman, sailmaker, yacht designer and builder, died on Friday, June 28, 2013, surrounded by his family.
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1927, Hood grew up in the nearby towns of Danvers and Marblehead. He attended Marblehead High School and Wentworth Institute and served in the US Navy during World War II.
In 1955, he founded Hood Sailmakers in the back of Maddie's Bar in Marblehead, but later moved the operation to the nearby Little Harbor section of the town. With his father's help, Hood was the first sailmaker to weave his own sailcloth, revolutionizing the process to enhance the strength and durability of his sails. By the 1970s, Hood Sailmakers had grown into a worldwide network of service and production lofts, with his sails ubiquitous on winning racing yachts, including all the America's Cup winners from 1958 to 1977.
The talented sailmaker also founded Hood Yachts Systems, which built spars and custom tear-dropped shaped rigging and invented ground-breaking marine hardware including the Gemini grooved headstay for racing, and the Seafurl and the Stoway Mast roller reefing systems for cruising. These contributions made sailing safer and easier for thousands of sailors around the world.
By the early 1980's, Hood had turned his attention away from sailmaking to boatbuilding and design. He created a line of sailboats under the 'Little Harbor' name, and constructed many yachts under that name from 38' to 78', personally involved with design and construction details. In addition, various builders worldwide built more than 1,500 yachts to his designs, including the 133' Anakena.
Hood was a member of the Corinthian, Eastern and Boston Yacht Clubs in Marblehead, the New York Yacht Club, the Cruising Club of America, Storm Trysail Club and Blue Water Sailing Club. He was named Yachtsman of the Year in 1974, and was elected to the America's Cup Hall of Fame and the National Sailing Hall of Fame.


Gooooood Morning, Reader!! How quickly I've become insufferable with all my good morning-ness. I'm up, practically bounded out of that warm bed, ready to grab this day! Well, at the least I'm grabbing my cuppa coffee with both hands, and scarfing down an egg sammy before work.
In interesting to no one really news, ever since I even started INTERVIEWING for this job, my stomach has been growling while at the office. Maybe it was really like a dog in the pit of my gut, growling out a warning to me, the way junkyard dogs can growl out Keep Out, only I didn't heed my junkyard dog's warnings and now I'm paying the piper, and I really hate that demanding piper, Reader. I have an 8:30 a.m. weekly one-on-one starting today, and so I'm feeding my junkyard dog beforehand.
"How are things going at the new nine-to-five, Trixie?" Well, thanks for asking Reader. It shows you care. Without saying too much, let's just say I should have paid heed to my junkyard dog. Instead I just fed it a sandwich, squashing it's growl. I keep reminding myself that as the winds blow, things change.
Oh, one reason the 8:30 meeting sticks in my junkyard dog's craw is that my hours are 8:30-5:30. Planning a meeting at starting time is frankly rude. If you're a manager and you do this, stop it. Right now. It's incredibly controlling when there is no need to try to control people. We're not Nazi's, unless you are, and if so screw you, Nazi.
On that note, it's time to throw on some pants and make like a tree and get outta here.


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Today, we're going back to the 1970s with a few commercials you may or may not remember. I admit to remembering all of them.
Posted by Elspeth Futcher at 6:00 AM 2 comments:
It wasn't all gloom and doom during the 1930s. Here's a quick video of goings-on high above the Picadilly traffic in London.
Such scamps!
Some of us write about this...
while some write about this...
and if you're a mystery writer (like me) you write endless versions of this...
But really, we're all writing about this...
There are the days when you feel as if you're playing this...
and even the days you feel as if you're playing this...
But we all need to play this...
and make our characters play this...
and remember no one ever has this...
on this...
And trust that one day you'll be playing this...
Because you have created a this.
10. There is no dress code.
9. You're not eavesdropping; you're working.
8. Your rather eccentric computer history of websites can be explained as research.
BONUS: Actually, anything can be explained as research - it just takes a bit of thought.
7. Your active imagination now has something to focus on.
6. Although you say you don't base your characters on anyone you know, you could. Revenge is sweet.
5. People expect odd behaviour from creative types. This is an advantage.
4. You know talking to yourself serves a purpose.
3. You can tell yourself your typo isn't a typo, it's a new word. Language evolves.
2. If you write romantic scenes you can blush and tell people you couldn't possibly confirm whether they're autobiographical.
1. You can make your own rules and then break them.
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Most of us try to make a good first impression - we check our clothes for stains, ensure we're wearing matching shoes, maybe even practice a few phrases. Good first impressions pave the way to second impressions; and after that, the sky's the limit!
Take a look at your current manuscript and see what first impression your main characters make. I always try to ensure:
The reader may not necessarily be meeting him/her at their finest moment (or maybe they are) but it is a moment that will demonstrate one of the character's priorities.
There something intrinsically likable (in my opinion) about my main characters. People want to learn more about people they like or can identify with in some way. It might the situation the character finds themselves in, it might be their background, it might be their love of shoes - but there's something that makes the reader want to read on.
No character makes the same first impression as another. My logic is the reader is just getting to know these people - I try to keep it as easy as possible!
I will not introduce a continuing character in a way that harks back to a previous event in an earlier story. The reader may not know the event and will start off feeling that they're missing something. That's just mean.
I'll always choose dialogue over description.
First impressions - you can only make them once.
Make them count.
Some views of my little corner of the world in autumn.
Take a moment.
See you Monday.
Here in the northern hemisphere, it's the first full day of fall. Let's look at hats from 1935. Back then, you'd have never left the house without one. Now, hat-sporters garner odd looks and are often judged as eccentrics. Times change.
But, I still wear a hat from time to time. I like hats.

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Getting to Know Them
Each of our new characters start off like this...
But over time...
We learn she has eyes like this...
and he's proud of this...
We know whether they're this...
and if home is this...
We know their pet looks like this...
although (secretly) they really want this...
and, after a while...
if we're very lucky...
and work very hard...
we may discover they have this.
Continuing on from last week's Tuesday post...
10. I meant to write this scene three times. It's an important scene.
9. No one will notice that the location of the rooms in the house keep moving.
8. My main character isn't an insufferable prig. He's just wise.
7. These jokes are funny. I know, I wrote them.
6. (if you're writing a mystery) It doesn't matter that any of my first readers haven't been able to solve the mystery.
5. It matters even less that they say my solution comes out of left field. It's not unsolvable - it's incredibly clever.
DANGER! DANGER, Will Robertson!!
Back to our list...
4. You can't have too many colourful, quirky characters. More is more.
3. Oh look. I didn't write that scene three times, I wrote it four times. Wow. It's like Rashomon.
2. My main character is in two places at once. Obviously, my he/she has an identical twin.
And one big truth...
1. Any editing pass will go quicker with chocolate. But...watch out for crumbs.
Everyone has good days and bad days. There are those days when you wake up energized and eager and then there are those days when you feel you're deserving of a yet-to-be-invented award because you didn't spend the entire time sprawled on your bed, moaning in a low, mournful register. Not everyone is agreeable all the time. Not everyone is disagreeable. People's moods change.
It's easy to forget this as we write our way through our stories. We're so busy focussing on plot and pace and not repeating words and dialogue tags, that our characters' moods sometimes get short shrift. A character who is happy all the time or conversely, ornery all the time is going to get dull fast. Readers may not always be able to put their finger on it, but those characters are going to hit a false note.
Of course, moderation is the key.
I don't worry about this for every character; my small, one paragraph wonders appear, say their bit, trip, and get off the stage. But I do try and remember it when I'm writing through one of my POV characters' eyes. Not every one of them understands why they're in a bad mood, but I know why and it's there. Bad moods make people short-tempered. Impatient. Not wanting company. Bad moods make people retreat to their 'places of comfort'; whether it's a bar or a bathtub. Good moods make people talkative. When people are in a good mood, they physically touch other people more often. Good moods make them walk quicker. They plan activities. They want to be with their significant other or they want to search a little harder to find one.
Let your main characters change as often as the weather. Let them have good days and bad days. The more human they are, the more beloved they will be.
Welcome to another edition of Fun Friday! You can't go wrong with funny bumper stickers. Or maybe you can, but what's life without a little risk?
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Nicely put...
I'd avoid this car, if I were you...
Points for honesty...
Sad, but true...
Oh dear...
Good idea...but I forsee a few problems...
However, you will note the sticker is right by the gas cap...
Don't you love irony?
Fair warning.
Brief. Succinct. Winner.
Here's an important philosophical question...
And a final one for all of us...
Last December, I wrote a Thirties Thursday post which sounded as if it was about the (then) up-coming Royal Wedding, but was really about this wedding which took place in November, 1934. Please enjoy this rare newsreel of the event.
THE ROYAL WEDDING (aka DUKE AND DUCHESS OF KENT'S WEDDING)
It's a Puzzle
As writers, we all start off with a pile of these..
Some like to start here...
Some here...
And some start here...
There are days when your puzzle looks like this...
Even though you know it should look like this...
But sooner or later, you're about to do this...
And take a step back and look at the whole picture...
which might look like this...
or maybe this....
But somehow...
My puzzles always end up looking something like this.
10 Lies You Might Tell Yourself While Editing
Pay Attention to Me!
You Want to be a Writer...
Seizing the Day

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Scary Bunnies And Sean Spicer: A History Of The White House Easter Egg Roll
Miles Parks • Apr 2, 2018
President Trump delivers remarks from the Truman Balcony with first lady Melania Trump and someone dressed as a bunny during last year's Easter Egg Roll on the South Law
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President Trump delivers remarks from the Truman Balcony with first lady Melania Trump and someone dressed as a bunny during last year's Easter Egg Roll on the South Law
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President Clinton, accompanied by the Easter Bunny, waves to White House visitors on the South Lawn during the White House Easter Egg Roll in 2000
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President Obama, and the Easter Bunny, stand during the National Anthem at the 2014 White House Easter Egg Roll
President George W. Bush pauses to embrace a person dressed as the Easter Bunny during the Easter Egg Roll in 2008.
Updated on April 2 at 9:42 a.m. ET
More than 30,000 people are expected for this year's White House Easter Egg Roll, and you can be pretty sure at least one of them will be wearing a terrifying bunny costume.
The tradition of rolling eggs on the White House's South Lawn began 140 years ago, officially dating back to Rutherford B. Hayes's administration.
Informal Easter festivities for children in the nation's capital go back even further. Schools in Washington D.C. used to close the day after Easter, so kids could "ramble at will on the fresh green grass of the Capitol," until Congress stepped in to ruin the fun with the ultimate "get off my lawn" move. The Turf Protection Act, passed in 1876, forbid using the Capitol grounds "as play-grounds."
That bill led President Hayes to open the White House grounds for the first official Easter egg roll in 1878.
In recent years, the focus hasn't been on the president, or the first lady, who officially hosts the event, but on another guest: the Easter bunny.
And more specifically, just how scary that costume is.
"There will be hundreds of guests. Thousands of eggs," The Washington Post's Jose DelReal wrote in anticipation for 2015's egg roll. "And one very, very creepy-looking giant bunny."
NPR has also documented the terror.
"I've witnessed such inconsolable fear myself," wrote NPR's Frank James in 2011. "I once attended one of these South Lawn rolls and saw the toddler child of a friend shriek at the sight of a bunny the size of a man.
"Only leaving the White House grounds calmed the youngster."
President George W. Bush, however, did not seem frightened.
While spectators have been focused on the creepy costume for years, in 2017 the Trump administration ushered in a new era of intrigue: who is the person inside the lagomorph suit?
Social media erupted last year with photos of then-press secretary Sean Spicer dressed as the bunny in the mid-2000s, leading Melissa McCarthy to reprise her Spicer impersonation, in a bunny suit.
This year's egg roll will take place Monday morning. A White House announcement promises lawn bowling, egg decorating, and of course, "costumed characters."


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What Your Atheist Professor Doesn't Know (But Should)
By: Stephen Williams
Narrated by: Dan Kassis
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Thought
Debunking Howard Zinn
Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America
By: Mary Grabar
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has sold over 2.5 million copies and is still required reading in some high school and college classrooms. But its polemic rewriting of American history as a story of oppression is an agenda-driven fairy tale that has no place in academia. In Debunking Howard Zinn, Mary Grabar debunks Howard Zinn's lies and traces the damage his mega-bestseller has done to American education, culture, and politics.
Explained several discrepancies
By David L. Morgan on 10-24-19
Resistance (at All Costs)
How Trump Haters Are Breaking America
By: Kimberley Strassel
Narrated by: Dorothy Michelle Howell
Among the most consistent and aggressive criticisms of Donald Trump is that he is a threat to American democracy - a human wrecking ball demolishing our most basic values and institutions. Resistance (at All Costs) makes the opposite case - that it is Trump's critics, in their zeal to oppose the president, who are undermining our foundations.
A good collection of facts
By Amazon Shopper on 11-04-19
Atheist Delusions
The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
By: David Bentley Hart
Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction of the New Atheists's misrepresentations of the Christian past, countering their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.
A Conversion Experience.
By Ted on 12-01-14
The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
By: Jonathan Haidt
Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right.
This should give you pause.
By Floyd Clark on 10-26-15
Signature in the Cell
DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
By: Stephen C. Meyer
Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
Named one of the top books of 2009 by the Times Literary Supplement (London), this controversial and compelling audiobook from Dr. Stephen C. Meyer presents a convincing new case for intelligent design (ID) based on revolutionary discoveries in science and DNA. Along the way Meyer argues that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution as expounded in The Origin of Species did not, in fact, refute ID.
The Thousand Year Book
By J. Kapetansky on 05-10-19
Darwin Devolves
The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
By: Michael J. Behe
Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
The scientist who has been dubbed the "Father of Intelligent Design" and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin's Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator.
Chapters an subjects
Darwin's Doubt
The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the "Cambrian explosion", many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life.
Very detailed and scientific
By GK on 06-15-18
The Diversity Delusion
How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
By: Heather Mac Donald
Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
The Diversity Delusion argues that the root of this problem is the belief in America's endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has engendered a metastasizing diversity bureaucracy in society and academia. Diversity commissars denounce meritocratic standards as discriminatory, enforce hiring quotas, and teach students and adults alike to think of themselves as perpetual victims.
Important topics covered by a skeptic of the prevailing narrative.
By Dan on 09-10-18
The Logic of God
52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind
By: Ravi Zacharias
Narrated by: Ravi Zacharias
We all have doubts that challenge our faith. We wonder whether the Bible still matters, or whether God is truly as loving and personal as we hope. In his first ever devotional, The Logic of God, apologist Ravi Zacharias offers 52 devotions that explain how and why Christianity, the Bible, and God are still relevant, vital, and life-changing for us today. To all our dilemmas, Ravi says, "I am convinced that Jesus Christ alone uniquely answers the deepest questions of our hearts and minds."
Where Ravi Fit Into My Story
By Craig The Tech Teacher on 04-02-19
Reflections on the Psalms
By: C.S. Lewis
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
In one of his most enlightening works, C. S. Lewis shares his ruminations on both the form and the meaning of selected psalms. In the introduction he explains, "I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself." Consequently, he takes on a tone of thoughtful collegiality as he writes on one of the Bible's most elusive books.
A CS book unlike no other
By Daniel on 01-14-06
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus
Third Edition with Bonus Content, New Reflections
By: Nabeel Qureshi, Lee Strobel - foreword
Narrated by: Nabeel Qureshi, Michelle Qureshi, Lee Strobel, and others
In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, now expanded with new bonus content, Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity, complete with friendships, investigations, and supernatural dreams along the way. Providing an intimate window into a loving Muslim home, Qureshi shares how he developed a passion for Islam before discovering, almost against his will, evidence that Jesus rose from the dead and claimed to be God.
INCREDIBLE!!! This book affected me greatly!!!
By Maria on 08-24-18
Reasonable Faith, Third Edition
Christian Truth and Apologetics
By: William Lane Craig
Narrated by: Jim Denison
J. Gresham Machen once said, "False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the Gospel" - which makes apologetics that much more important. Wanting to engage not just academics and pastors but Christian laypeople and seekers, William Lane Craig has revised and updated key sections in this third edition of his classic text to reflect the latest work in astrophysics, philosophy, probability calculus, arguments for the existence of God, and Reformed epistemology.
Good and logical outline of arguments
By Gerhard on 09-19-17
The information age has begotten turmoil. It seems that the more information we have, the less peace the average person has. To many, an impression has developed that modern science has disproved the existence of the immaterial realm, and doomed us to a sterile, pointless wandering in the wilderness of minutiae. During roughly the same time this impression has been developing in popular culture, however, massive evidence to the contrary has been steadily erupting from the sciences! Now that literally billions of trillions of layers of mathematical impossibility have been exposed for the materialist worldview, compounded by insurmountable metaphysical hurdles, atheism has been shown to be completely irrational!
A reasonably skeptical look at modern philosophy, science, archaeology, and history point overwhelmingly in a single direction, and the truth that it points to is blissful and eternal. If you'd like to see some of the evidence that has been causing a resurgence of theism in academic philosophy departments recently, read this book!
©2012 Steve J. Williams (P)2014 Steve J. Williams
Requiem 4
Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
Better suited for reading than listening
Great content but better suited for reading than listening. There were many long lists and referenced diagrams which got a bit annoying in verbal form. Intend to read the book so I can get the full value from it.
difficult for an atheist to digest
This book shows that theism in general and Christianity particular are the only rational explanations for why the universe and life exist. Any thinking person would have a hard time being an atheist after reading this book.
Mark S. Aguilar Jr
Although I do not agree with some of theories about space, and galaxies discussed, i feel confident there is enough evidence for intelligent design
Barry L. Ickes
A plethora of evidence to silence atheists.
Well worth the time, excellent content, powerful arguments, demolishes the fallacious arguments of those who "claim" their views are rooted in science.
Mr J
Painful for educated on the subject
This book is extremely painful to read for someone with even basic knowledge on these subjects. Some of the points brought up have long been refuted. The positive reviews really threw me - I was hoping for some deep response to the skeptic books I have read. If you are looking for high-quality intellectual thoughts, it's not here.
As an example, the chapter on Intelligent Design is so deluded and tired I thought I was reading a book written in the 1990's. The flagellum again? That's been studied and described now for well over a decade. Transitional fossils don't exist? Hundreds if not thousands of transitions have been found.
I can go on. The Shroud of Turin? Really? Long ago proven a fake. Even the Church has divorced itself from the artifact.
In fairness, for a newcomer to the subject, there does seem to be a quite complete overview of traditional apologist arguments. However, it would be nice if even the most basic responses were provided. For example, regarding the Cosmological Argument, perhaps some discussion on how it is not a theistic argument but a deistic one, how it's consider blasphemy by true believers (it declares Genesis to be false), and how its fundamental premise - no uncaused events occur - is false given quantum dynamic fluctuations. Throughout the book, the most simple and basic responses are either never brought up at all or quickly glossed over.
One general complaint I have is the use of probability. For example, you will hear several times: says the probability of occurring is so low as to be mathematically impossible. Therefore, since occurred, God exists. But...isn't the most logical response to say that perhaps, just perhaps, the math is wrong? If someone says it is mathematically impossible to win the lottery, and then you do win it, I guess you could say there must be a God, but a more level response would be simply to say that the original math was incorrect. No?
I guess if you are a Theist looking for a start, you could try this book. But someone with the most basic understanding of apologetics and skepticism will laugh it away. A waste of money for me, in my opinion.
J. Eubanks
powerful collection of facts and logic
a wonderfully crafted book. A must read for anyone who is about to start college. Especially a young person endeavoring to study one of the sciences
I can't believe it's over! This is one of the best books I've read on atheism. Fascinating to hear the basic arguments on the topic. I'm looking forward to listening again. This was well worth the time and money! Lots of outside resources are given in the book itself.
Shep Edwards
some things to think about....
Exceeded expectations... I expected bias, opinion, loose research, but I was surprised to find the opposite. Certainly there is a philosophical message, but the author implores the reader to seek the truth for themselves.
Kory Autrey
Skeptics Beware!
The is the most complete argument for the existence of God I have found yet.
Always listen to the sample
More nonsense apologetics's. Totally not what I expected this to be . Nothing but assertions. Ridiculous!


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Live: Pistons beat red-hot Clippers 108-97
Follow James Hawkins for updates from the NBA game between the Pistons and Clippers on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Live: Pistons beat red-hot Clippers 108-97 Follow James Hawkins for updates from the NBA game between the Pistons and Clippers on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2gpbl9y
The Detroit News Published 3:39 p.m. ET Nov. 25, 2016 | Updated 10:05 p.m. ET Nov. 25, 2016
Pistons' Andre Johnson defends the Heat's Tyler Johnson in the third quarter. Drummond 18 points, 15 rebounds, four steals and four block shots.(Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr, Detroit News)
PISTONS VS. CLIPPERS
What: Detroit Pistons (7-9) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (14-2)
When: Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit
Local TV: Fox Sports Detroit
Local radio: 105.1 FM
Tweets from https://twitter.com/detroitnews/lists/pistons-tweets
Outlook: Andre Drummond had 18 points and 15 rebounds as the Pistons routed the Miami Heat 107-84 on Wednesday night. Drummond also blocked four shots and had four steals. "I know he wasn't happy with himself after our last game, but whatever he did to get ready tonight worked," Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy said. "That might be the best defensive game he's played here." . . . Chris Paul scored 18 points, DeAndre Jordan had 16 points and eight rebounds and the Clippers cruised past the Mavericks 124-104 on Wednesday night. "I honestly didn't know we had 14 wins," said Paul, who added four assists and four steals. "I know we have two losses. But for us, when you've been in this league for a while, it's not necessarily about the wins. It's about how you're playing and about the spirit."
Mobile users can follow the game here.
► Pistons lose another Reggie — this time Bullock
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40% of LGBT+ People in EU Continue to Face Harassment
A new study has shown that 40% of LGBT+ people in EU countries have recently faced harassment, with six out of ten people being afraid to publicly hold their partner's hands.
The study which was conducted by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) surveyed 140,000 LGBTI people from EU countries, as well as Great Britain, Serbia and Northern Macedonia, making it the largest survey of its type in the world.
The data, experts say, showed only a little progress since 2012, when the previous study was conducted.
FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty said too many LGBTI people continue to live in the shadows afraid of being ridiculed, discriminated or even attacked.
"Even though some countries have advanced LGBTI equality, our survey findings show that overall there has been too little real progress, leaving many LGBTI people vulnerable," said O'Flaherty.
"Their job and healthcare difficulties may worsen due to COVID-19. Policymakers should take note and do more to actively promote full respect for rights of LGBTI people."
Michael O'Flaherty is Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights
A fifth of respondents said they feel discrimination at work. A third of respondents said they faced unfair treatment in bars and restaurants.
In Poland, where the ruling conservative party, Law and Justice, calls gays and lesbians "the result of Western influence," the largest number of complaints of intolerance against LGBT people has been recorded. Poland is followed by France, in which attacks motivated by homophobia have become more frequent.
European Commissioner for Equality, Helena Dalli said that despite the important steps forward regarding the equality of people in the EU in the last few years, LGBTI+ people still report high levels of discrimination.
"More worryingly, we have recently witnessed within the EU anti-LGBTI incidents such as attacks on prides, the adoption of 'LGBTI ideology-free zone' declarations, fines for LGBTI-friendly advertisements and others," Dalli said.
"Everybody in the European Union should feel safe and free to be themselves."
'What future for LGBTI people in Europe?'' – Report
Comparing the two surveys reveals little overall progress over the seven years. The EU averages mask important differences between countries. In some, over 70% of respondents say society is more tolerant, while in others, up to 68% say it is less.
Key LGBTI survey findings include:
Openness: 6 in 10 avoid holding hands in public with their partners.
Harassment: 2 in 5 respondents say they say they faced harassment the year before the survey.
Attacks: 1 in 5 trans and intersex people were physically or sexually attacked, double that of other LGBTI groups.
Discrimination: 1 in 5 feel discriminated against at work and over 1 in 3 feel discriminated against when going out to eat, drink or being social.
Schooling: 1 in 2 LGBTI students say someone among their peers or teachers supported LGBTI people.
Economic situation: 1 in 3 LGBTI people say they have difficulties to make ends meet. The situation is worse for intersex and trans people (about 1 in 2).
This survey covers the EU 27 Member States, the UK, Serbia and North Macedonia. For the first time, it included experiences of intersex people and young LGBTI people aged 15 to 17.
In the video associated with the report, LGBTI people talk about their own lives – in their own words:
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The 2018 Winter Olympics are finally here, and we could not be more excited. Some of the Olympians are new faces, but others — like Tucker West — might be familiar to you. West participated in the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi, where he became the youngest man to ever qualify for a U.S. Olympic luge squad at 18 years old.
Even more memorable? West's dad, Brett, posted on social media at the time encouraging girls to reach out to his "shy" and then-single son. And it (understandably) went viral.
Known for his excellence on the track, the Olympian made headlines in 2014 when he became the first U.S. man to win a World Cup luge race since 1997. So yeah, we're a teensy bit disappointed to discover that dad's attempt to find him a match totally worked and took Tucker West off the market.
They met up again in 2008 at a USA Luge camp and started dating in 2016. Now, the two are neighbors at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, and they're basically inseparable.
Tucker West and Raychel Germaine both really love puppies, and we honestly couldn't relate more. Maybe we can have a puppy playdate together?
Sadly enough, Germaine didn't qualify for the 2018 Olympics, but that doesn't mean she isn't cheering on her teammates — and West — at the Pyeongchang Games.
We're totally #TeamTucker, and we love seeing this couple pursue athletic excellence together. Be sure to follow our ongoing Olympics coverage for the latest!


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The search for embodiments of compliance to contemporary power structures.
Taking as a starting point the WWI phenomenon of shell shock — a type of post-traumatic stress disorder — we've researched how the body reacted to the horrors experienced by the mind. And then tried to find modern interpretations of the poisonous effects media scaremongering has onto the 21st-century man.
How can the body manifest itself as a political instrument when it's not anymore expected to rot in the trenches, but rather patiently sit in front of the screen?
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Yet while it seems barely credible that it's eight years since the discussion in Fitzgerald's that led to the foundation of The Blizzard, the global landscape is almost unimaginably different. Back then, Britain was still two months from the general election that would lead us down the path to austerity, alienation and the present intolerance.
The topic of Brexit has lurked behind a number of recent articles. Here we tackle it directly, looking at the impact it will have on football, how football in some ways predicted the cultural forces that would lead to the Leave vote in 2016 and how partisanship and behavioural patterns that long soured football discourse are now replicated in a political arena.
While I would hope The Blizzard remains politically and culturally engaged, we have also always been eclectic and hopefully that will remain so. This issue also features reminiscences from Brazilian football in the sixties; a consideration of the friendship between Danny Blanchflower and the music theorist Hans Keller; a profile of perhaps the greatest Assyrian footballer, Youra Eshaya; a look at how the Nevilles and the Gallaghers have shaped Manchester; and a memoir of growing up an Ipswich fan in early eighties South Africa; as well as interviews with Didier Drogba, Andi Herzog and Carlos Alberto Parreira.
As I've noted before, there should be nothing remarkable about this. Football happens all round the world so stories crop up all round the world. And yet in the current climate it feels important. The history of football is to a large extent a history of immigration. Coaches and players travelled and took ideas with them, introducing them to new environments where they sprouted in often unexpected ways, driving the evolution of the game (Joyce, of course, was a Dubliner who wrote Ulysses in Trieste, Zurich and Paris). Football developed through openness, tolerance and inquisitiveness and those are the values The Blizzard hopes to reflect.
To do that, we continue to need your help. We have no advertising or marketing budget, so please do help us to spread the word, especially now it's possible to read three free pieces per month on our website, to which all those 2.5million words have now been uploaded.


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Just two years ago, there were no daily online newspapers to produce news content and compete with other local media in Oman. But because of a collaborative effort by a group of journalists, the first online news outlet in Oman debuted in May 2012. It's called Al Balad.
Al Balad arrived as a result of a change that took place in Omani society: People switched from traditional media to reading news online, which included getting headlines and stories from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What we cover Since it was launched, Al Balad has covered different news than traditional print or broadcast media. Al Balad also attracted a larger audience from a younger generation by using social media. We created interactive services to enable readers to share their stories and ideas via our Send News and Readers' Journalism sections. Al Balad produces multimedia content to gives us an edge over traditional newspapers and, thus, to attract a larger audience. Our team is using infographics and videos to maintain an attractive and interactive website. Financing the site However, improvements to the website, like the design and speed, are future goals dependent on money. One of the major challenges we've faced while launching Al Balad was funding.


When born, infant's eyesight is not completely developed. Over the first few months of life, the eyes only see high contrast colors, but by six months of life, vision sharpens. At this point, a child should have his or her first eye exam. That may seem young, but it means that if there are vision issues, they can be addressed instead of waiting until the child is old enough to understand how to talk about their vision. At the first exam, even as young as six months, the optometrist can determine if the eyes are developing as expected and are working together.
The next exams should be around 3 to 4 years old. By this age, the eyes have finished developing and eye glasses can be prescribed to correct any vision impairments. After this point, it's best to schedule annual exams to have eyes checked for changes as the child grows. The optometrist has treatments available for many eye conditions; for example, a "lazy eye" (amblyopia) can receive therapeutic treatments to correct and strengthen the eye. For a child, therapies like having to wear an eye patch are best done before school age, so they don't have social repercussions and they are more easily adaptable to differences.
Children often don't know their eyesight is not what it should be and may only complain about headaches. They may also squint when looking at something. If left unchecked, poor eyesight can be a hindrance to learning. Although school exams are provided, an appointment with an optometrist will be much more thorough. Contact us at Signature Optometry in Fresno for an appointment today.


a. The act of traveling from one place to another, especially when involving a considerable distance; a trip.
b. A distance to be traveled or the time required for a trip: a 2,000-mile journey to the Pacific; the three-day journey home.
2. A process or course likened to traveling, such as a series of trying experiences; a passage: the journey from addiction to recovery.
To make a journey; travel.
To travel over or through.


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Розвідувальна інформація також розвідувальні відомості () — усні та зафіксовані на матеріальних носіях (у тому числі у зразках виробів і речовин) відомості, які неможливо отримати офіційним шляхом, про реальні та потенційні можливості, плани, наміри і дії іноземних держав, організацій та окремих осіб, що загрожують національним інтересам, а також про події і обставини, що стосуються національної безпеки і оборони; відомості про інші держави (партії, організації, установи тощо), що добуваються розвідкою та частково контррозвідкою або під їх керівництвом іншими державними та приватними організаціями та особами відповідно до розвідувальних завдань.

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В залежності від ступені аналізу і узагальнення інформації розвідувальні відомості поділяють на:
 Первинні розвідувальні дані. Первинні розвіддані містять всю доступну для відповідних засобів розвідки об'єктивну інформацію у вигляді якісних та кількісних ознак розвідуваних об'єктів. Розвіддані добуті засобами технічної розвідки можуть являти собою знімки об'єктів та місцевості в різних діапазонах хвиль або запис прийнятих сигналів та результатів вимірювання їх параметрів в цифровій або аналоговій формі на електронних носіях, а також у донесеннях, складених розвідниками.
 Якість первинних даних, з точки зору можливості виявлення ознак розвідувати об'єкта, залежить не лише від технічних характеристик засобів розвідки, а й від властивостей та стану цього об'єкту, а також від умов ведення розвідки (дальності, метеоумов, пори року і доби, рельєфу місцевості та ін.).
 Розвідувальні відомості отримані в результаті обробки і аналізу первинних розвідданих:
 Матеріали першого рівня аналізу (первинна обробка). Містять результати аналізу даних отриманих від одного джерела (з допомогою одного засобу розвідки). У випадках, коли повнота та достовірність отриманих розвідувальних відомостей, достатні для вирішення поставленого розвідувального завдання, процес обробки закінчується на цьому етапі і готується підсумкова розвідінформація.
 Матеріали другого рівня аналізу (комплексна обробка). Обробка розвідданих отриманих від різних джерел і різними видами й засобами розвідки. Спільний аналіз різнорідних відомостей, що належать до одного об'єкту, взаємна логічна ув'язка та уточнення, аналітичне визначення характеристик об'єкта, що залежать від сукупності різнорідних відомостей.
 Узагальнена розвідувальна інформація. Являє собою розвідувальні зведення, донесення, довідки, аналітичні огляди, технічні описи та інші документи, підготовлені на основі отриманих розвідувальних відомостей для різних категорій споживачів відповідно до їх запитів.
 Органи розвідки у сфері своєї відповідальності розробляють розвідувальні документи для трьох основних категорій споживачів — для вищого військово-політичного керівництва, для військового командування і для військово-промислового комплексу. Обсяг, зміст, спрямованість, ступінь деталізації або узагальнення інформації в цих документах визначаються згідно з запитами конкретних споживачів. Узагальнена розвідувальна інформація являє собою кінцевий результат розвідувальної діяльності, який практично використовується в інтересах державних та військових органів, організацій та підприємств ВПК держави.

Інші види класифікації розвідувальної інформації
За ступенем правдивості розвідувальна інформація поділяється на достовірну, ймовірну, сумнівну і помилкову.

За значущістю — на особливої важливості, важливу й звичайну.

За змістом — надзвичайної важливості, термінову і поточну.

Загальна цінність розвідданих визначається рядом аспектів, серед яких оперативність надходження, обсяг, якість, ясність, легкість подальшого використання і вартість отримання.

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Nearly one-third of the earth's population is Christian. Of those, almost all expect that the kingdom of heaven awaits them on the other side of the grave. But that's not what the Lord said in His Sermon on the Mount.
"Not everyone," He warned, "who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven."
That should fill those among us who are "Cafeteria Christians" with fear and trembling. For they not only fail to live by "every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God," they do so unrepentantly.
Indeed, they pick and choose which of God's commandments they find acceptable while rejecting those that do not comport with their secular sensibilities. But God is no Automat Cafeteria. He says what He Means and Means what He says. The words that go forth from His mouth shall not return void, but accomplish what He pleases.
And those who defy Him have hell to pay.
So by what contemporary issues may upright Christian and Cafeteria Christians be distinguished? Well, let us consider the following five:
1. Opposition to authority
Romans 13:1 states, unequivocally, "Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves."
Clearly the solons in the U.S. House of Representatives do not fear God. For they have steadfastly opposed the nation's governing authority – President Donald Trump – since he was sworn into office in 2016. Trump's opponents were certain the Russians put Trump in the White House. But only God could have been behind the biggest political upset in U.S. history.
2. Idol worship
Exodus 20:4-5 commands that "You shall not make for yourself a carved image – any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them."
Neiman Marcus sells figurines of Hindu god Lladro Lord Shiva. Amazon sells Swarovsky crystal statuette of Buddha. Target sells a granite garden statue of the Virgin Mary. Most Christ followers would agree that the figurine of Lord Shiva and statuette of Buddha are forbidden idols. How can the same not be said of a faux granite carved image of Mother?
3. Strange flesh
Leviticus 20:13 pronounces that, "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination." Jude 1:7 warns that "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
The LGBTQIAPK (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Polygamous/Polyamorous, Kink) community is emboldened by the unGodly gains it has made over the past decade or so with legalized same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption rights.
Now they are targeting the Church, demanding not only that they be welcomed in the House of God, but also "affirmed." In other words, they want heterosexual Christians to affirm that God condones homosexuality when, clearly, the word of God says the exact opposite.
4. Legalized infanticide
Psalm 139:13-14 praises God, exulting, "You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my souls knows very well."
America's abortion industrial complex is responsible for the slaughter of 61.3 million preborn babies since the nation's highest court in 1973. That's more than all the souls put together who were victims of Hitler's Final Solution, Stalin's Homodore, Pol Pot's extermination of as much as third of the Cambodian population, the Ottaman Empire's annihilation of as much as half the Armenian population in territories ruled today by Turkey, Syria and Iraq, and the Genocide of more than 70 percent of Tutsi's in Rwanda. All put together.
Yet Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers continue to kill preborn babies with impunity.
5. Rewriting the Bible
In Revelation 22:18-19, John of Patmos warns that, "to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from things which are written in this book."
Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, obviously ignored John's warning. Because in 1830 he published the so-called "The Book of Mormon," which is reputedly "Another Testament of Jesus Christ." Smith claimed that a man named Maroni engraved the sacred text on golden tablets and buried it in upstate New York before he died. According to Smith , Maroni returned to earth in 1827 transmogrified as an angel and told the father of Mormonism where he could find the buried golden tablets and translate them.
To the so-called Latter Day Saints, the Book of Mormon is no less sacred than, say, the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But the foundational book of the Mormon faith is completely at odds with the word of God as written by John of Patmos.
There are millions of supposed Christians who believe they can disagree with God on subjection to the governing authority He has appointed or worshipping (or for those who prefer, "venerating") the Virgin Mary or whether unrepentant homosexuals will inherit the kingdom or whether or whether preborn babies have a right to life or whether the Book of Mormon is heresy.
But God's will on these issues – and many others addressed in the Holy Bible – are abundantly clear. Those who beg to differ can take that up with the Lord when they stand before the Great White Throne Judgment.
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The GOP presidential candidates believe, as an article of faith, that the United States is an overly-regulated society. They want to eliminate "unnecessary" regulations and even entire regulatory agencies to, in their view, unleash the growth potential of American business. Governor Perry wants to eliminate 3 federal regulatory agencies (2 he named; one whose name he couldn't remember), Ron Paul wants to eliminate 5 agencies, and so on (Republican Presidential Debate, November 9th 2011).
The GOP candidates claim that the U.S. regulatory environment is not competitive with that of our peer group, and risks losing jobs to other countries. Still another article of faith among GOP candidates is that the regulatory scheme has worsened under President Obama.
I describe these as "articles of faith", because to my knowledge -- they have not shown any non-partisan research, or international benchmarks, to demonstrate that our overall regulatory environment is particularly burdensome.
1.	Large Countries (List 1 below): I view this as our peer group. In this category, the U.S. is the easiest country where one can do business.
2.	High Income Countries (List 2 below): In this category, the U.S. is the fourth easiest for doing business, behind several much smaller high-income countries.
3.	All Countries (List 3 below, including many under-developed countries): Again, the U.S. ranks fourth.
The World Bank Index samples 10 regulatory categories, so is not exhaustive across all regulations. But it clearly shows that overall -- we are among the easiest of countries in which to conduct business, particularly when compared with our peers.
As for the Obama administration's performance, a recent General Accounting Office study found no particular increase in the regulatory burden by comparison with the preceding Bush administration (Bloomberg News, 'Obama Wrote 5% Fewer Rules Than Bush', October 25, 2011).
Finally, an additional interesting piece of data comes from a recent survey of high net worth entrepreneurs in China -- 60% of which are considering emigrating, most to the U.S. The reasons cited include: the strength of the American regulatory system -- and the resulting safety of our food, environment, workplace, etc. (Bloomberg Business Week,'China's Super-Rich Buy a Better Life Abroad', November 22, 2011).
Not every regulation or law in the U.S. is perfect; not every regulator is a paragon of virtue. We can all name individual failures. Certainly, we should strive, as a country, to be the best we can be, and compare ourselves against international standards. But we cannot make our economy stronger or more competitive by making judgments and major structural changes based on faith -- rather than reality.
c) May actually dissuade foreign investors from coming to the U.S.


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Q: What is meant by "curve" in the Mathematica documentation? My system: Mathematica 11.2
I am missing something major in how to read the on-line help.
Quoting from Mathematica help:

Arrow[curve, …]
  represents an arrow following the specified curve.

The examples only ever mention splines, Bezier curves and such. But I want to use this feature for a curve I define myself.
For example, for me a circle is a curve. Yet
Graphics[Arrow[Circle[{0,0},1]]]

gives an error.
What does curve mean here?
I am aware of this thread, so I know how to get a circular arc with an arrow at the end. The code there is mostly Greek to me, but for example
Graphics[Arrow[Table[{Cos[t], Sin[t]}, {t, 0, 2 Pi, Pi/24}]]]

will produce a circle with an arrow at the end.
So more specificially: What input will be recognized as a curve by Arrow?
Or, a more meta variant. Where should I start my studies of the manual to avoid banging my head against walls like this?

A: From the documentation article on Arrow

The following curve specifications can be used in Graphics:
$\qquad$Line[…]$\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ $piecewise line segments
$\qquad$BezierCurve[…]$\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ $composite Bezier curve
$\qquad$BSplineCurve[…]$\ \ \ \ \ \ $B-spline curve
$\qquad$JoinedCurve[…]$\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ $joined curve object

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The War Conspiracy?
This should be good: I got an e-mail today that originated from ABC News Nightline touting tonight's edition:
TONIGHT'S FOCUS: Several years ago, when President Clinton was still in the White House, and 9/11 was still not even a nightmare in anyone's mind, a group of mostly Republicans wrote a letter outlining a foreign policy strategy that involved regime change in Iraq, by force if necessary. Now that several of those Republicans are in key positions in the Administration, some critics of the White House's current Iraq policy smell something fishy.
Read the rest of the press release in the extended entry:
The Project for the New American Century. Never heard of it? Well, don't feel bad. Few have. But have you heard of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld or Paul Wolfowitz? Back in 1997, those three out-of-office politicians and several other like-minded, mostly conservatives, were frustrated with American foreign policy. So they formed this new organization and a year later wrote a letter to then-President Bill Clinton calling for a "comprehensive political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam and his regime."
Today, a 76-page paper written by the organization reads like a blueprint for the policy being carried out largely by Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. In fact, of the 40 people who signed that letter, 10 are currently in the Administration.
Is this a case of democracy in action? Influential thinkers who became policy makers? Or is it, as some international critics of the White House's policy on Iraq have argued, a secretive organization pulling the strings of the President, with an imperialistic goal of dominating the world? Are these criticisms legitimate?
Tonight ABC News correspondent Jackie Judd will explore this conspiracy theory, and the influence and role of the Project for the New American Century. Ted Koppel will then speak with the Project's founder and chairman, Bill Kristol, who served in both the first Bush and the Reagan Administrations.
Also tonight we'll have another report from correspondent Mike Cerre with Marine Company Fox 2/5 in Kuwait. After 19 days in the desert, they got a shower and a hot meal. But more importantly, they also received their plans for their role in an invasion, if and when one is ordered. After months of training for war, they now know just what they're going to do.
And finally, Nightline's Chris Bury is in Kuwait this evening, the main staging area for the American invasion should it come. He'll give us the latest news of the military's preparations.
We hope you'll join us.
Sara Just and the Nightline staff
ABC News NIGHTLINE
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It's an NGO works in the most deprived, downtrodden communities. The focus work area is Purulia district some of the interventions are also in Bankura and west Midnapur district of WB and Jharkhand, Bokharoand Dhanbad, in Jharkhand the collaborations with Tata steel medical unit.
The urban interventions are in slums of north Kolkata from Baranagar to Kamarhati covering 15 km lakh families. Its rural interventions started with health campus in Para block of Purulia district as early as 2005.
In 2008, 30 bed eye hospitals was established for providing health and it also runs a school upto class five rural people at presently 100 bed hospital.
As Nanritam provides health facility, education and empower the small and marginal farmers to use their potential. With the managerial help with SFI, Nanritam collaborates with MNC's and make buy back agreement with farmers for seed production in Purulia and Bankura.
Nanritam in order to bring about a change in the plight of the population launched its agricultural initiatives at Para block, Purulia – Nanritam Krishi Kendra". Agriculture, being the main occupation of the population could alone serve as a major driver for growth and poverty alleviation.
Hence NKK was launched with the objective to bring about sustainable agricultural development in the drought prone villages of Purulia, thereby improving the livelihood of the associated population. The work began in 9 villages of Para block with 70 farmers participating initially. Today, NKK has 2253 farmers from 21 villages participating in the various programmes launched.
The main occupation of both the tribes and general population of Purulia is agriculture. In-spite of high agricultural participation, income generated through agriculture is not significant thereby adversely affecting the standard of living of the population.
To link marginal and small farmers to technology like seed production as well as the buyback agreement for ensure markets in association with private, corporate or cooperative sector and if necessary, by providing backward and forward linkages like financial institutional and production organizer and input supplier help to farmer by creating a window for agri-entrepreneurs.
To promote Agri -entrepreneurship by encouraging farmers and private sector interest in seed production. Invest and to make linkages to ensure the empowerment of all farmers in the Purulia and Bankura.
1) Involving more number of farmers to adopt good and modern farming practice.
2) Paddy productivity enhancement program.
3) Shift from mono-cropping to multi cropping concept.
4) Promotion of cultivation of common vegetables in seed production.
5) Paddy seed production and processing unit at Para, Purulia, West Bengal.
2010: Sustainable agriculture programme has been launched in Barandanga, Para, Purulia since May 2010, with 70 farmers in 10 villages of Para Block. S.R.I (System of Rice Intensification) technique could be launched successfully on 2 Acres of lands.
2011: In 2011 about 35 women's group in the villages comprising of more than 400 women have done musroom cultivation with substantial producttion of the crop, having had training from Nanritam Krishi Kendra (NKK).
13 villages –Livelihood promotion work going on through SHG & FIG.
Total coverage area – 1500-1700 ha.
2013: Nanritam Krishi Kendra collaborated with Dept. Of Agri & Horticulture and local Panchayet of PARA Block started work on MGNREGS Program. In this program Nanritam Krishi Kendra Completed 25 Hectare Fruit Orchard & 10 Hectare Social Forestry & 50 Hapa Completed in this year.
2014: Nanritam Krishi Kendra stared work on 300 Acres Certified Paddy Seeds Production Program and 250 Acres Certified Pulses Seeds Production Program.
A short documentary on NANRITAM and it's associate organizations.


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Manchester United Prepared To Offer $135M For Gareth Bale
Dan McAuliffe
According to El Confidencial, Manchester United are preparing a $135 million offer for Real Madrid star Gareth Bale.
The Red Devils have long been interested in the world's most expensive player, who arrived in Madrid three years ago from Tottenham at the cost of $113 million.
The Welsh star has reportedly asked Real Madrid president Florentino Perez to leave the cub, however Real Madrid own Bale through 2019. Sources indicate that Bale is keen on the idea of a return to the Premier League.
An early exit would surely cost potential suitors an arm and a leg. Realistically, there's only a handful of clubs that can afford to shell out that much coin on one player.
However, the Premier League's new TV deal kicks in next year, which will totally reshape the transfer market.
The deal, worth over $7 billion, means a lot more money in the pockets of all 20 teams in the Premier League.
Coupled with the proliferation of the Chinese Super League and the rise of billionaire owners, the transfer market has never been as inflated as it is right now.
While it seem crazy to pay $135 million for one player, you can argue that the $113 million Real Madrid paid to acquire Bale from Tottenham was money well spent.
Real Madrid have won the Champions League twice since Gareth Bale arrived three years ago.
Say what you will about his shitty haircuts, but there's no denying that Bale is one of the best footballers on the planet.
He's got the second most dangerous left foot in the game and he's only 26.
Yes, the price tag on Bale is insanely high. But you get what you pay for. If he ends up at Manchester United, they'll be the odds-on favorite to win the Premier League.
Add the secret ingredient, a little Jose Mourhinho into the mix, and you've got the recipe for the most exciting bundt cake the Premier League's seen since Sir Alex got out the kitchen.
Where will Gareth Bale be playing next year?
Dan	McAuliffe


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Suspended jail for husband that killed wife in avalanche
A husband has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after he set off an avalanche in which his wife subsequently died as they were on a ski tour in Obertauern, Austria in winter 2010.
The court in Linz, Austria, yesterday found the 65-year-old guilty of the charges after deciding he had set off the avalanche.
His wife, aged 58, had set off first down the slope and then he had followed down the steep off piste slope; but his movement triggered the avalanche which swept his wife to her death on the 2,228 metre high Sichelwand at the Obertauern ski resort.
The man had tried in vain to dig out his wife who was stuck under one metre of snow. When rescuers managed to free her she was already dead. She had massive head injuries and her mouth was full of snow.
In Autumn 2011 the husband was sentenced a three month suspended sentence for involuntary manslaughter. The court told him he should have realized the danger and should not have gone down the mountain, nor allowed his wife to do so.
The man appealed the sentence, and his legal team argued that his wife took the responsibility herself to go down the mountain and she would have been aware of the danger. The woman had her avalanche detector switched off in her rucksack. However the court has now rejected the appeal.
The decision proved very controversial amongst mountain rescue experts who claimed it linked being an alpinist to a criminal offence and took away the element of personal responsibility.
Tags Austria, avalanche, metre, mountain, Obertauern, responsibility, sentence, ski, snow, wife
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Francis Ryan ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Francis Ryan (Fußballspieler) (1908–1977), US-amerikanischer Fußballspieler
 Francis Joseph Ryan (1916–1963), US-amerikanischer Genetiker und Zoologe


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Discover The Daily 'How Did We Let People Die This Way?'
'How Did We Let People Die This Way?'
Over the past year, a record 2,000 migrants from Africa have drowned trying to reach Spain.
Many of these migrants make the journey in rickety vessels, not much bigger than canoes, that often don't stand up to strong currents.
What happens, then, when their bodies wash ashore?
This is the story of Martín Zamora, a 61-year-old father of seven, who has committed himself to returning the bodies of drowned migrants to their families.
Guest: Nicholas Casey, the Madrid bureau chief for The New York Times.
Martín Zamora, the owner of a funeral parlor near Gibraltar, has found an unusual line of business among the relatives of migrants who drown trying to reach Europe: He collects the bodies of those who don't make it to Spain alive. Read this article in Spanish here.
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Senegal receives 73 million from China for the electricity sector
China has granted a loan of 73 million USD to Senegal in order to finance an electrical infrastructure project.
The aim is to resolve the problems of shortages experienced by the Dakar region, through works to renew and extend the electricity grid.
The works will ultimately improve and stabilize the quality of the electricity for 300,000 homes, but will also offer 150,000 households access to the electricity grid.
A second agreement was also signed by the Senegalese Prime Minister, Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye, and the Chinese deputy Prime Minister Hui Liangyu, concerning non-repayable aid of about 9.4 million dollars to Senegal, reports the APS press agency.
The Chinese deputy Prime Minister also indicated at the signature that his country will expand its cooperation with Senegal to a number of other areas, such as agriculture.
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I hope you'll have fun coloring this month's contest page!
Contest closes by the 30th of September!
I may not have time to create a voting poll to decide the winner this time around, but I hope you'll all still enjoy participating as per usual.
Do not edit the original image, beyond coloring.
You can color it however you want- digitally (tablet, phone, PC) or print it out.
Try googling for Coloring apps that let you import your own choice of image to color, in this case the contest page.
Please have it submitted by the end of the month.
How does the contest work, what are the rules and limitations? I'm super excited. Does it have to be this picture, or can it be any coloring book picture??
Limitations: no editing of the original image's linework.
Must be submitted before the end of the month.
But colour it however you choose. Digitally or print it out- whichever you prefer.
You can search online for Colouring Page apps like Prismayjoy that let you import custom images (in this case the contest page).
Sorry, I should have asked before, but where do I submit the picture? I'm still getting into the swing of this site.
If you want a better idea of how it's usually run you could check out the previous colouring contests.


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Q: OpenSSL 0.9.8zg used by PHP does not support TLSv1.2 or TLSv1.1 As part of the installation a PHP 5.4 cartridge from openshift.com on my Mac with OS X 10.10.5 in the Terminal I noticed a message about it loading OpenSSL 0.9.8 for compatibilty with PHP.
Later, trying to install getcomposer.org it is giving me a warning:

Some settings on your machine may cause stability issues with Composer.
  If you encounter issues, try to change the following:
The OpenSSL library (0.9.8zc) used by PHP does not support TLSv1.2 or TLSv1.1.  If possible you should upgrade OpenSSL to version 1.0.1 or above.

openssl version command in terminal reported OpenSSL 0.9.8zg 14 July 2015
Should I update to OpenSSL version 1.0.1?

A: OpenSSL 0.9.8zc or 0.9.8zg does not support TLSv1.1/1.2 which can cause vulnerabilities while downloading using HTTPS links.
You should update OpenSSL to latest version from official site.

A: I am using a MAC OS X 10.10.5. You need to update OpenSSL doing:

*

*Check the current version
openSSl version

*The ports tree has been updated
sudo port selfupdate

*Now, you can update your openSSL
sudo port upgrade openssl

*Check the new version
openSSl version

If the error is still present:

*You need to check the PHP version
php --version

*Change it to your newest PHP version
vi ~/.bash_profile

   export PATH=/Applications/XAMPP/bin:$PATH

source ~/.bash_profile

*Check the new version
php --version


This week, Your News to Know brings you the latest stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Major gold fund sees a bull run in the yellow metal, gold is soaring again, and China's gold imports seen jumping 50% as safe haven demand booms.
Addressing Americans through their annual In Gold We Trust report, the managers at Incrementum AG spoke against the trend of piling into equities to net a quick profit. The analysts believe that risk-happy investors are ignoring both the likelihood of a recession and the potential for the U.S. economy to fall into a stagflation scenario, where growth slows but inflation rises.
"Low interest rates combined with the pressure to invest and [Fear of Missing Out], have nurtured a treacherous sense of carelessness within many market participants. Scenarios such as significantly higher inflation or a recession are currently treated like black swans, although history shows that these events do occur at regular intervals," said authors Ronald-Peter Stoeferle and Mark Valek.
Noting that the rising stock market has been keeping gold down over the past couple of years, Stoeferle and Valek believe the metal's time has finally come. "After almost five years of under-performance relative to the broad equity market, the tables might slowly be turning now in favor of gold," they said.
The authors believe that gold's performance against the soaring stock market is the most telling sign of its future; not only has the metal gained more than 10% since the start of the year amid a record-high stock market, it also posted gains against a U.S. dollar that hit a 14-year high. "We regard this as a remarkable development and as a prime example of a bull market, whose starting gun has not been heard yet by the majority of investors," said the firm.
Outlining four possible economic scenarios for the U.S., Incrementum AG said that these two are the most likely: (1) growth and inflation both rise more than 3%, which would translate to gold prices trading between $1,400 and $2,300 an ounce, and (2) the U.S. economy falls into a recession or sees low growth and high inflation, leading to gold prices rising between $1,800 and $5,000 an ounce.
"We assign the highest probability to the latter two scenarios. Similar to the 1930s and the 1970s, these scenarios would be difficult to navigate, but at the same time provide quite interesting investment opportunities," said the firm, listing a rise to $2,300 an ounce by 2018 as its prediction for the metal.
Gold shines in times of turmoil, and there has been no shortage of concerning events in recent times. The situation with Qatar, the latest terror attacks in London, the U.K. election and last week's testimony by former FBI director James Comey are all helping lift gold prices.
The ongoing feud between Qatar and other Middle Eastern nations could prove to be the most significant of these factors – several nations in the region have already cut diplomatic ties with Qatar amid accusations that the country sponsors terrorism. According to Ding Yao, an analyst with ThinkMarkets in London, "the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Qatar could change the shape of the Middle East" and push gold to $1,350 an ounce.
A decline in the dollar has also helped gold post its gains, as did a slip in long-term Treasury bond yields. This year's spike in gold prices could be a sign that people are worried about the U.S. economy, a notion supported by a weak jobs report released earlier this month. Rising consumer debt, which is already above 2008 levels, is another point of concern. "Investors are hedging their bets to some degree. There are some potential negative surprises lurking," said Lisa Kopp, head of traditional investments at U.S. Bank's Private Client Reserve.
The latest report by Incrementum said that worries about a sluggish economy will combine with a volatile political landscape in Washington to push gold even higher. "The rally in the precious metals sector has probably only just begun," said the analysts, adding that "the election of probably the most unpredictable U.S. president of all time" is another boon for the metal.
Bloomberg reports that China may soon boost imports through Hong Kong by 50% as people show an increase in safe haven demand amid currency risks, a slowing property market and volatile stocks.
Haywood Cheung, president of the century-old Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society, said that mainland China is set to import about 1,000 metric tons from the territory in 2017. These numbers mark the highest import levels since 2013 and are a definitive upgrade from last year's net purchases of 647 tons.
Data from the China Gold Association shows that local consumption was up by 15% in the first quarter, with sales of bars for investment climbing more than 60%. China's imports from Switzerland also rose to 442 tons last year, up from up from 288 tons in 2015.
Cheung's exchange is planning to build a bonded warehouse in Qianhai, which could store up to 1,500 tons of gold and is expected to complete in two to three years, with a temporary warehouse with a capacity of 50 to 100 tons of gold going live by the end of the year. While the society already has an offshore gold product with daily transactions of 20 to 30 billion yuan, the warehouse will provide means to get in touch with the China market, particularly the Shenzhen region which supports some 3,000 jewelry manufacturing companies that supply 70% of the Chinese retail market.