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The vast majority of Southern Protestants hold to a belief system which began in the 1800’s. This system pervades the entire fabric of Southern life. The Southern Baptists, United Methodists, Free Will Baptists, and most of the independent Baptist churches hold to some form of this theology. It has permeated even some Presbyterian churches. How did this theological system develop? What are the most important beliefs? What has been the consequences of its adoption by the vast majority of the Southern folk? These questions, we will attempt to answer in this series of papers.
Dispensationalism had its beginnings in Great Britain in the 1790’s. Prior to this time, most Protestants there and also in America, held to the theological position known as historic postmillennialism.
Postmillennialism is that view of the last things which holds that the Kingdom of God is now being extended in the world through the preaching of the Gospel and the saving work of the Holy Spirit, that the world eventually will be Christianized, and that the return of Christ will occur at the close of a long period of righteousness and peace commonly called the Millennium.
Dispensationalism started with the work of a Scot named Edward Irving. Born in 1792, he entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of 13 and graduated with a MA at the age of 16. He soon became a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and in 1822, became the minister of the Caledonian Presbyterian Church in London, England. He was considered the best orator in Great Britain. The congregation of fifty quickly grew to 150 in six months.
Soon the church built a larger structure and the attendance grew to 1,800. He had adopted a premillennialist view of the Scriptures and soon he was teaching in special conferences. Premillennialism is the belief that Christ shall return to Earth first to catch up the saints, followed by a literal one thousand year period in which the Jews will be converted to Christianity. After the millennial age ends, the Lord will come back again and set up his reign in Jerusalem. Why would people accept this message? Most scholars believe that the pessimism of the age was the blame. The French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the loss of Colonies all created an atmosphere of depression and hopelessness. Premillennialism taught that things would continually worsen until the Lord came back to rescue his Church.
The membership of his church was mostly from the upper levels of society. For example members of Parliament, government officials, industrialists and professional men. He preached at many conferences attended by Anglicans. However, he began to be consumed with the study of prophesy. Irving held the view that many of the gifts of the early Church could be obtained today. Soon people began to experience ecstatic utterances, automatic writings, and seeing visions, and prophesying. Well, dignified Presbyterians were not going to have any of that. He was defrocked, and lost his congregation. Eventually, he was excommunicated. He was followed by eight hundred of his congregation which was the core of a new denomination. But his excommunication weighed heavily upon him and died shortly thereafter in 1834. His work, however, far outlived him. It was disseminated throughout Britain.
Across the Irish sea in 1800 was born to wealthy Anglo-Irish parents, John Nelson Darby. Like Irving, Darby was a precocious youth. He entered Trinity College in Dublin at the age of 14. After graduating, he became an Anglican deacon and eventually a priest. He was assigned as a missionary to Irish peasants. His ability to preach was so phenomenal that he had up to four hundred converts a week. The Anglican bishop in Dublin did not approve of this and told Darby that the converts must swear alliance to the British Crown. Infuriated, Darby left his office and turned his back on the organized Church for all times. Shortly after this he has a terrible accident on his horse. After an operation in Dublin, he spent a year in recovery. During that time he read his Bible and meditated on becoming a Christian mystic. After he recovered, he began to attend Bible studies with other men who were disgusted with the Anglican Church. These groups eventually formed the Plymouth Brethren movement. Darby adopted and modified Irving’s ideas. He believed that the Secret Rapture of the Church would occur before the seven year period of the great tribulation. He taught that the Church and the Jewish people were dealt with by God in two different ways. He also believed that the history of mankind was divided into seven distinct dispensations. In each dispensation, God worked with men in different ways. He spread his doctrine through conferences and by means of missionary trips to France, Canada, and the United States. He traveled to North America seven times. He preached here for six years traveling as far west as Chicago and St Louis.
Unfortunately for us, his appeal was across denominational lines. Baptists, Methodists, and even a few Presbyterian fell under his sway. One of the preachers who adopted his theological teachings was Rev. Brooks of St Louis. The great revivalist Dwight L. Moody deeply admired him and adopted some of his beliefs.
Next on the scene was the scandalous C. I. Scofield. Scofield was born in Michigan in 1843. He moved to Lebanon, Tennessee to live with his sister’s family when he was sixteen. His brother-in-law was a prosperous dentist. He was preparing to enter Cumberland University, when the War Between the States began. He and many of his friends volunteered and were assigned to Company H, 7th Tennessee. He was only sixteen at the time. After a period of training, the 7th Tennessee was sent to Virginia, where he served until April of 1862. He was in the hospital in Richmond due to sickness. While there he wrote to officials requesting a discharge from the army. He told them that he was a citizen of Michigan and had been visiting his sister in Tennessee when he entered the army. In September of 1862, he received his discharge and returned home to Tennessee. He had been back home in Tennessee only three weeks when he was conscripted and ordered to report to duty. Rather than obeying the law, he deserted and made his way to St Louis, Missouri where another sister and brother-in-law lived. He told Union officials there that he had always been loyal to the Union and was granted a parole.
In St Louis, he studied law under his brother-in-law and later moved to Kansas where he practiced law. In spite of the fact that he was never admitted to the bar in either Missouri nor Kansas. He soon became politically active and in 1872, he was appointed US Attorney General for Kansas by President Grant. He swore an oath that he had never bore arms against the Union as he took his office. By this time, he was married and had two children (girls). Shortly after taking his office, he was forced to resign in utter disgrace. He was accused of buying votes, mishandling money and bribery. He forged one of his friend’s signatures to get enough money to return to St Louis.
From the time he fled from Kansas in 1873 till his conversion in 1879, he lived as an absolute rogue. He abandoned his wife and children. He lived as an embezzler, liar, cheat, and a scandalous scoundrel.
Scofield eventually attended the D. L. Moody’s revival meetings in St Louis in 1879 and claims to have had a conversion experience there. He was befriended by Rev. James Brooks of that city and under his discipleship learned the principles of pretribulational rapture dispensationalism. Let’s look at some definitions here. Rapture refers to the secret return of Christ to Earth to take away the Christians. Pretribulation means this rapture will occur before the tribulation. Tribulation or great tribulation is the period of seven years in which the Jews will suffer greatly (2/3 will be killed) and will finally be converted to Christianity. It is the period in which the Antichrist will come to power. Dispensationalism is the belief that human history can be divided into periods in which God works with men to bring them to salvation (using different methods).
Scofield attended several churches in St Louis and began preaching there. By 1883, he had moved to Dallas, Texas and had become the minister of the Congregational Church. After he had moved to Dallas, his wife filed for divorce on grounds of nonsupport. Before the divorce had gone through, he was courting another lady. He remarried in 1884. For the next twelve years, he continued as pastor and taught at various Bible conferences. He had to re-invent his life’s history in order to fit into the pro-Southern Dallas society. He lied about his Confederate service, claiming that he had followed Gen. Lee to the very end of the War, surrendering only a few short miles from Appomattox. He became very prevalent in the affairs of the United Confederate Veterans, and various memorial associations. The UDC awarded him a service cross, which he later claimed was awarded by the Confederacy, due to his heroic actions at the Battle of Antietam. The absolute mendacity of this man boggles the mind! He also began to add the letters D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) to his name. In fact he had never had any formal religious training and there are no records of any institution ever having rewarded him an honorary degree! For more, I recommend reading The Incredible Scofield and His Book, by Joseph Cranford.
During the last half of his life Mr. Scofield spent much of his time teaching and preaching his doctrines at numerous Bible conferences. He eventually moved to New England in order to be nearer to the location of the most important of these conferences, the Niagara Bible Conference. While living there, he became a member of an elite social club in New York City, the Lotus Club. This club had in its membership several highly influential Jews who were also Zionists. During this time, Scofield began working on a study Bible to propagate his doctrines. What was the influence of these Zionist on this work? We can only guess by association. They have very carefully covered up any direct provable links. It seems highly unlikely that Scofield could have taken several trips to Europe while researching and writing his work without very substantial financial backing. And how in the world did a little known and totally uneducated preacher get his work published by the prestigious Oxford University Press?
After its publication, the Scofield Reference Bible became a best seller.


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Duff Disco drops the next set of edits on his own Duff Disco imprint and boy does he deliver another tasty pair. The first release by the Duff camp is one of the dopest records I've picked up in a while, offering supreme slo-mo reworks of David Bowie and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers (I know how disastrous that sounds but it's really really good, check out some samples here).
The second release will see the light of day in a week or three, and features a cheeky low-slung rework of Return of the Mack. In case you were born outside of Europe after 1980: The Return of The Mack was a monster hit in the 90s by Mark Morisson, a British R 'n B/Urban badboy with a seriously messed up haircut who managed to get thrown in jail for paying a lookalike to perform Morrison's court-appointed community service in his stead (!).
Duff uses/reworks that killer hook of Return of the Mack to maximum effect, creating a 100 BPM monster of a groove. There's two versions, one with snippets of the familiar vocals and one dub. It's the latter that I can't stop playing, it really hits the spot.
Have a listen to Return of the Duff (Dub) here:
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Duff releases these babies on vinyl only (a very limited run of 300 copies) and sells them through the Duff Shop and a handful of select vinyl retailers. Juno still have a few copies left of Duff Disco 001, so pick it up before they're all gone - forever!
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Mitchell’s highly-regarded Indian Law program has received a major grant from the federal government. A U.S. Department of Justice grant of more than $280,000 will allow the program to provide even more help for Minnesota and Wisconsin Indian tribes and more experience for law students.
The grant will provide funds for two different clinical programs. It will allow Mitchell students to assist Indian tribes in Minnesota and Wisconsin with the development of criminal codes and rules of criminal procedure.
“Thanks to this grant, tribal governments will benefit from new, cost-free enhancements to their judicial systems while students gain hands-on, practical experience,” said Professor Sarah Deer.
The grant will also fund travel and related expenses for Mitchell students and faculty to represent criminal defendants in Bois Forte and Menominee tribal courts.
“For the Menominee Nation, this will mean the creation of their first public defender service, and it will enable students to have real-world interaction with clients who may not otherwise have legal counsel,” said Professor Colette Routel.
The Indian Law Clinic was founded last spring, and is already making significant impact for Indian tribes in the region. Last summer, students worked on their first major trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, representing the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, the Sokaogon Chippewa Indian Community, and the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. The case centered on tribes’ right to hunt white-tailed deer at night off-reservation. This semester, clinic students are assisting the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, which is preparing to assert criminal jurisdiction over its reservation.


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STATS -- One of three key seniors on the No. 6 Wildcats, Dobbins, a 5-foot-8 guard, had 13 points and six rebounds in a 62-53 win over No. 13 Old Mill last week in the county championship game. It was Arundel's fourth county title in a row and the ninth in 11 years, and the second in which Dobbins played a role.


Urban foxes have been blamed for killing a number of chickens and pet rabbits in a city suburb.
Stephen Lambert, a councillor in the Kenton area of Newcastle, said he has received seven complaints within a matter of days from residents around Montagu Estate, two of them relating to attacks on other animals.
“I’ve had complaints about a proliferation of urban foxes,” he said. “They’re basically strolling down the streets.
“They’ve been scavenging in back gardens and plastic bags and have been in garden huts and eaten three pet rabbits.
“I had half a dozen complaints in a week and a half, then another from a man who lives in the Kenton area who had all his chickens destroyed in Coxlodge allotments.”
Wildlife officials point out that foxes rarely pose a problem but are looking for food, and advise householders to keep food waste and pets secure or try a non-toxic deterrent like Scoot.
The residents, who do not want to be identified, have reported sightings of foxes, sometimes three at a time, around Montagu Estate, which are wandering into residential areas off nearby Nuns Moor. There were no witnesses to the attacks but the residents blame foxes.
“I’ve represented the area for 16 years and this is the first time something like this has come to my attention,” said Coun Lambert, who been in touch with Newcastle City Council’s pest control department and said the advice to residents is to secure gardens and rubbish bags and that a non-toxic deterrent is available which contains lemongrass.
Steve Lowe, head of conservation at Northumberland Wildlife Trust, said if a fox is removed, another will take its place but generally the animals cause no problems and even help keep the rat population down.
He said: “There are a number of very simple measures that can be taken: clear up rubbish, including food waste, as the reason foxes are there is that they’re looking for food. With chickens and pets, make sure enclosures are secure.
“People in this case might be sure it’s a fox but a cat or a dog can have the same sort of impact.”
He said foxes are generally nocturnal and there may be more urban foxes around than people realise, but they tend to keep well out of the way.
A council spokesman said the local authority does not have a legal responsibility or right to control foxes and it is against the law to trap, poison or harm them in any way.
It has had no reports of any other fox problems in Newcastle and its advice is also to contain food waste and secure fences.


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Group B streptococci (GBS) are the leading cause of neonatal meningitis and sepsis worldwide. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) is the current prevention strategy given to pregnant women with confirmed vaginal GBS colonization. Due to antibiotic resistance identified in GBS, we previously developed another strategy using a bacteriophage lytic enzyme, PlyGBS, to reduce vaginal GBS colonization. In this study, various DNA mutagenesis methods were explored to produce PlyGBS mutants with increased lytic activity against GBS. Several hyperactive mutants were identified that contain only the endopeptidase domain found in the N-terminal region of PlyGBS and represent only about one-third of the wild-type PlyGBS in length. Significantly, these mutants not only have 18–28-fold increases in specific activities compared to PlyGBS, but they also have a similar activity spectrum against several streptococcal species. One of the hyperactive mutants, PlyGBS90-1, reduced the GBS colonization from >5 logs of growth per mouse to <50 colony-forming units (cfu) 4 h post treatment (∼4-log reduction) using a single dose in a mouse vaginal model. A reduction in GBS colonization before delivery should significantly reduce neonatal GBS infection providing a safe alternative to IAP.
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This work was supported in part by US Public Health Service grants AI-056510 and AI-057472. We particularly thank Bokai Xia for his assistance in statistical analysis. We also thank Jutta Loeffler and Daniel Nelson for reviewing the manuscript.
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Cheng, Q., Fischetti, V.A. Mutagenesis of a bacteriophage lytic enzyme PlyGBS significantly increases its antibacterial activity against group B streptococci. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 74, 1284–1291 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-006-0771-1
- Group B streptococci (GBS)
- Streptococcus agalactiae
- Bacteriophage lytic enzymes
- DNA mutagenesis
- Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis

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Paul Bettany loves Marvel's 'big bag of cash'
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British actor Paul Bettany joked about how much he loves getting "a big bag of cash" for starring in Marvel films
Paul Bettany loves getting "a big bag of cash" for starring in Marvel films.
The 43-year-old actor, who plays J.A.R.V.I.S. and Vision in 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron', makes his first on-screen appearance in a Marvel film in the new movie and has revealed it was a "double-edged sword".
Speaking at a press conference at the Corinthia Hotel in London yesterday (21.04.15), Paul told BANG Showbiz: "It was lovely to finally be on set with a bunch of people that I'd been supposedly working with for ten years but never actually met.
"It's a double-edged sword. Initially, my job was turning up at the end of the movie with the superhero power of if anything was still unclear I could clarify it by just talking and they would give me a big bag of cash! I couldn't imagine that the contract would ever be better than that."
Paul said that despite 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron' boasting a star-studded cast - which includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner - he found everyone to be very friendly .
He said: "It was a dream, honestly. Everyone was so welcoming, a bunch of really lovely, happy, well-paid actors."

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Dimi wears collar 325 & is a tabby tortie girl. She came to the sanctuary in November 2020. We think she was born around August 2020.
She is a lovely friendly cat who loves a fuss & to play. She has been Spayed
Update: Good news! Dimi found a forever home in March 2022.

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Discover the cosmos! Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
July 18, 1995
Cygnus Loop Supernova Shockwave
Credit: NASA, HST, WFPC2, Jeff Hester
Explanation: 15,000 years ago a star in the constellation of Cygnus exploded. This picture shows a portion of a shockwave from this supernova explosion still expanding past nearby stars. The collision of this gaseous shockwave with a stationary gas cloud has heated the gas causing it to glow in a spectacular array of colors, known as the Cygnus Loop. This picture was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope.
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(CNN) Keeping a lot of light on while you snooze -- such as from a television or bright nightlight -- has been linked with an increased risk of weight gain and obesity. Specifically, sleeping with a television or light on in the room was positively associated with gaining five kilograms, or 11 pounds, over [...]
New moms and dads continue to be deprived of sleep a full six years after their children are born, a new study has found. Researchers tracked the long-term sleep patterns of 2,659 new parents from 2008 to 2015 to judge when, if ever, they returned to their normal sleeping patterns. Unsurprisingly, sleep deprivation peaked when [...]
If sleeping soundly isn’t your strong suit, cutting out caffeine is often the first suggested solution to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. While this certainly seems logical, new research suggests that drinking an energizing cup of coffee or tea during the day actually improves your sleep cycle and helps you stay asleep longer. [...]
The negative health effects of skimping on sleep during the week can’t be reversed by marathon weekend sleep sessions, according to a sobering new study. Researchers have long known that routine sleep deprivation can cause weight gain and increase other health risks, including diabetes. But for those who force themselves out of bed bleary-eyed every [...]
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Attempts to gentrify south Provo have been quietly underway for decades. The area around 500 South just west of University Avenue is one of the few industrial areas from the early 20th century in Provo, and developers have recently started to capitalize on the industrial aesthetic fetish, turning former factories into reception halls and co-work spaces. Homes in the surrounding neighborhoods have slowly been purchased, quickly renovated, and flipped while new generic condos have been erected to alleviate the housing crunch. The Frontrunner now chugs through and sighs to a stop in south Provo a block away from Provo Studio, the site of the first exhibition by the curatorial collective working under the name PARC. Comprised of Tiana Birrell, Ron Linn, Art Morrill, and Cole Walker, PARC assembled a cohort of seventeen artists (including themselves) and six writers around the exhibition’s theme and title of dis/place.
Leaden galvanized-steel sheets clad the walls of the main gallery space that is the entry of Provo Studio. Unframed works on paper are gingerly adhered to the metal using neodymium magnets. The magnets are both a practical solution to temporarily affixing the work and a metaphor for the exhibition series of which this is the first. Titled MGNT (“magnet,” minus the vowels), this quarterly series brings together artists to highlight the unseen forces that attract them to one another, and in this case, issues of place. The title of this inaugural MGNT exhibition is obviously meant to be read as a fracturing and self-reflexive displacement of the word “displace” but also can be read as slang: “dis place,” as in “this place,” or “dis” meaning “insult.” All of these readings can be found in the varying work in the exhibition spaces.
Standouts from this well-populated show include Eric Edvalson’s unassuming photograph “Meiji Jingu” (2019), from his Meanderings series. The largely monochromatic photograph depicts a pair of stanchions huddled as closely together as their bases will allow, blocking a narrow path between an empty garden bed and a wall wrapped in a grommeted vinyl photo mural. The mural depicts a set of seven stone stair steps climbing up to a platform behind a wooden railing. The mural’s perspective is warped by the oblique angle at which it is photographed, creating a disorienting space that is made inaccessible by ad hoc fencing and the impossibility of entering the illusionistic space of the mural. Edvalson quietly celebrates these unintentional collaborations as different parties add elements to their built environment, resulting in quirky juxtapositions.
Ron Linn’s understated graphite drawings on tracing paper of photo negatives read as a series of found imagery — children in thick wool sweaters loitering around a fishing dock, vintage alpine skiers, the start of a swimming race in a narrow swimming pool, a small rural structure belching thick smoke into the sky as the building burns. As negatives, the images can be hard to read. Linn has taken the drawn negatives and used them to create positive cyanotypes that are displayed below the graphite drawings, but not paired. The results are rich, Prussian blue photographic scenes that look akin to mezzotints or early 20th-century Pictorialist compositions. The photographic sensibility is moderated by the meticulous scribbles of the parent drawings. This translation from photo to drawing, and back to a photographic process reflects the fleeting relationships to places visited and the evolving and devolving nature of memory of those places.
Jaime Trinidad’s 3D-printed sculptures graft together classical Western art icons with sculptural forms of Trinidad’s native Mexico. In “Small Colossal Head of a WESTERN Youth” (2019), the artist has taken the marble “Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth” from the second century BCE and completed the missing upper portion of the head with an Olmec stone sculpture known as “San Lorenzo Colossal Head 4,” dating to before 900 BCE. Both of these “colossal” works are about the scale of tchotchkes picked up in roadside tourist markets around Italy and Greece. It is common to view a fractured Greek sculpture and wonder what is missing. Trinidad’s clever response is to fill that negative space with what is missing in most canonized art history.
Most of the work in the exhibition is small and physically unassuming, which is to be expected given the modest rooms. However, Kelsey Harrison received the lion’s share of the exhibition space, occupying one-third of an adjacent studio/gallery. This work includes a modular interactive sculpture called “Luxury My Way” and two lighted signs resting on an adjacent wall spelling out the titles of the works, “Repeatable Experience” and “Limited Options.” “Luxury My Way” is composed of a set of minimalist forms bearing postmodern ornamentation. The styles and color schemes of these building blocks are taken from new construction going up around Salt Lake City and other areas around the West. Each piece quotes the earth-tone architecture of a storage space, new metal-wrapped condominiums (like the complex neighboring the exhibition), or other similarly generic buildings that utilize a late Modernist aesthetic solely because it allows the owners to be cheap. Visitors are welcome to stack the pieces to create their own bland, khaki, mid-sized Hell.
The adjacent glowing signage borrows the typography habitually found on a real estate office or nail salon and declares exactly what the artist sees within these generic spaces and businesses: “Repeatable Experience” and “Limited Options.” The signs themselves were cut from the walls of Nox Contemporary where the work was first exhibited last year. Since they were built directly into the wall, the walls themselves were displaced to their new temporary home in Provo Studio.
dis/place is a smart first effort that shows these artist-curators working through ideas and democratic collectivism. At times, the impulse to include more artists for more vantages of the curatorial theme results in a less focused experience with some timid, small objects. Since PARC declares that their future endeavors will be nomadic, I hope to see them address the sites of the projects more directly — and I would have especially expected that to be more prevalent in an exhibition about displacement staged in a quickly gentrifying area. The group’s bravado is to be commended given the paucity of established contemporary art venues in the state, let alone Utah County, but I am heartened by newcomers PARC, PAL gallery, the open_room, and other fledgling artist-driven projects. I look forward to them growing, maturing, and developing their voices.
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The final Fox X-Men movie, The New Mutants, is set for release at the end of the month after years of delays. And following the opening’s preview at Comic-Con at Home, more details about the X-Men horror movie have surfaced. The latest synopsis features a surprising X-Men and Deadpool movie connection for one of the characters.
It turns out that Anya Taylor-Joy’s Illyana Rasputin aka Magik is the sister of Colossus.
The New Mutants official synopsis reads: “The younger sister of Colossus, Magik becomes encased in armour at will and wields a soulsword that amplifies her multiple superhuman and psychic abilities.”
X-Men movie fans will know Colossus as Piotr Rasputin, who was played by Daniel Cudmore in the noughties X-Men trilogy and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
While Stefan Kapičić has portrayed the mutant in Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool movies.
MCU Cosmic has reported on an Australian TV spot saying The New Mutants will stream on the platform from September 4.
However, Disney have responded that its a fake.
Nevertheless, the outlet has pointed out that the studio reps previously called leaked promo art for Solo: A Star Wars Story and Avengers Endgame “fake” just a few weeks before it appeared on toy packaging.
While the outlet also makes a case for why the TV spot could in fact be real.
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From Kentucky Public Radio’s Tony McVeigh
A group opposed to expanded gambling is threatening to sue if video slots at Kentucky horse tracks are approved without a constitutional amendment.
Governor Beshear is considering calling a special session to address looming state budget deficits, and horse industry officials are hoping expanded gaming will be on the call.
But Kent Ostrander of The Family Foundation says if lawmakers approve video slots at horse tracks without first putting a constitutional amendment on expanded gaming before the people, the foundation will sue.
“The Family Foundation has always been against the substance of any law that would expand gambling because we do not believe that government should take upon itself to encourage its people to lose in order that it might gain,” he says.
Ostrander says the foundation is capable of raising the funds necessary for a protracted legal battle and “we will win.”
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A nuclear conflagration between India and Pakistan would devastate global food supplies and could trigger unprecedented global food shortages and starvation for over a decade, a 19-member international research team said in a study on Monday.
“Even a limited war would have devastating indirect implications worldwide. It would exceed the largest famine in documented history. We’re not saying a nuclear conflict is around the corner. But it is important to understand what could happen,” said Jonas Jägermeyr a post-doctoral scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies who led the study.
The paper was co-authored by a total of 19 scientists from five countries, including three others from Goddard, which is affiliated with Columbia University’s Earth Institute: Michael Puma, Alison Heslin and Cynthia Rosenzweig. Jägermeyr also has affiliations with the University of Chicago and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
As per secondary research by the EurAsian Times, much attention has been focused recently on North Korea’s nuclear program and the potential for Iran or other countries to start up their own arsenals, many experts have long regarded Pakistan and India as the most dangerous players, because of their history of near-continuous conflict over territory and other issues.
India tested its first nuclear weapon in 1974 and when Pakistan followed in 1998, the stakes increased. The two countries have already had four full-scale conventional wars, in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999, along with many substantial skirmishes in between.
As the EurAsian Times reported earlier, in November 2019, Pakistan’s Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed warned India of area-specific nuclear attacks with tactical atomic bombs. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had said that rising tensions between the nuclear-armed countries could endanger the world.
Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh had said that India may change its ‘no-first-use policy’ in future depending on the circumstances. In such volatile situations, it’s not hard for one to predict a nuclear war scenario.
Imagine this, as geopolitical tensions rise between India and Pakistan over the contested region of Kashmir, a terrorist attacks a site in India, and as an immediate response, India sends its tanks rolling across the border with Pakistan. As a show of force against India, Pakistan decides to detonate several small nuclear bombs.
The next day, India sets off its own atomic explosions and within days, the nations begin bombing dozens of military targets and then hundreds of cities. Tens of millions of people die in the blasts.
That horrifying scenario is just the beginning. Smoke from the incinerated cities rises high into the atmosphere, wrapping the planet in a blanket of soot that blocks the Sun’s rays. The planet plunges into a deep chill. For years, crops wither from California to China. Famine sets in around the globe.
The Little Boy bomb attack by the US alone killed around 100,000 Japanese—between 30 to 40 per cent of Hiroshima’s population—and destroyed 69 per cent of the buildings in the city.
But Pakistan and India host some of the most populous and densely populated cities on the planet, with population densities of Calcutta, Karachi and Mumbai at or exceeding 65,000 people per square mile. Thus, even low-yield bombs could cause tremendous casualties.
Secondary research by the EurAsian Times estimates that the immediate effects of the bombs—the fireball, over-pressure wave, radiation burns etc.—would kill twenty million people. An earlier study estimated a hundred 15-kiloton nuclear detonations could kill twenty-six million in India and eighteen million in Pakistan—and concluded that escalating to using 100-kiloton warheads, which have greater blast radius and overpressure waves that can shatter hardened structures, would multiply death tolls four-fold.
Moreover, these projected body counts omit the secondary effects of nuclear blasts. Many survivors of the initial explosion would suffer slow, lingering deaths due to radiation exposure. The collapse of healthcare, transport, sanitation, water and economic infrastructure would also claim many more lives. A nuclear blast could also trigger a deadly firestorm. For instance, a firestorm caused by the U.S. napalm bombing of Tokyo in March 1945 killed more people than the Fat Man bomb killed in Nagasaki.
Now consider likely population movements in event of a nuclear war between India-Pakistan, which together total over 1.5 billion people. Nuclear bombings—or their even their mere potential—would likely cause many city-dwellers to flee to the countryside to lower their odds of being caught in a nuclear strike. Wealthier citizens, numbering in tens of millions, would use their resources to flee abroad.
Should bombs begin to pound, poorer citizens many begin flowing over to Afghanistan and Iran for Pakistan, and Nepal and Bangladesh for India. These poor states would struggle to supports tens of millions of refugees. China also borders India and Pakistan—but historically Beijing has not welcomed refugees.
But that is not all, the recent study based on computer simulations has suggested that even a limited nuclear war between India and Pakistan could lead to 20 to 50 per cent losses of staple food crops above 30-degree latitude or 11 per cent globally for five years after the conflict.
The simulations predict that if India and Pakistan each set off 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs, firestorms would spew around five million tonnes of soot (black smoke) into the stratosphere that would be carried by winds across the world, absorb sunlight and lower average global temperatures by 1.8 degrees Celsius for at least five years.
The temperature drop would lead to an average of 11 per cent fall in the production of maize, wheat, soybeans and rice, the four major staple cereals, the researchers said in their study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Their calculations suggest that by the fifth year, maize and wheat availability would decrease by around 13 per cent globally and by more than 20 per cent in 71 countries with a total population of around 1.3 billion.
The study, which relied on computer simulations of the impact of firestorms on crop production, has indicated that crops in the northern temperate regions — in Canada, China, Europe, Russia and the US — would be the hardest hit.
However, because many of these countries produce surpluses that get exported to the low-income countries, the scientists predict, the production falls in the northern countries would impact the low-income countries.
The scientists predict that the northern nations would impose export bans to protect their own populations. Some of the countries to be hardest hit would be Bangladesh, Honduras, Niger, Rwanda and Somalia.
India-based analysts view the study as a fresh attempt to amplify concerns about nuclear weapons in South Asia, although the researchers themselves have pointed out that of the estimated 14,000 nuclear warheads believed to exist globally, 95 per cent belong to the US and Russia while India and Pakistan are thought to have about 150 each.

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Rogue claims management companies that use information based on cold calling or spam texts could face seven-figure fines under new government powers.
The Ministry of Justice is set to unveil plans to fine companies up to 20% of their turnover in its latest crackdown on elements of the industry.
It is the first time penalties have been linked to the revenue of a firm and could lead to some companies being fined millions of pounds if they breach new rules.
Justice minister Lord Faulks will confirm the new fining powers today following a consultation earlier this year.
As well as using information through unsolicited calls and texts, claims companies can be fined for wasting people’s time and money by making ‘spurious or unsubstantiated claims’, and for ‘misleading’ marketing.
The new rules are set to apply from next year and will be policed by the MoJ’s claims management regulation unit. The law changes to allow fines to be issued were part of the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill 2013.
Lord Faulks said: ‘No longer should claims companies be able to plague hardworking people and waste everyone’s time. The scale of these fines shows just how serious we are about stopping them.
‘This is also good news for the reputable firms in this industry, as it will boost confidence in the services provided by the sector.’
The MoJ already has powers to vary, suspend or cancel any firm’s licence to operate in the claims management sector but the new fining power provides an additional way to tackle rogue companies.
Extra fining powers are the latest MoJ attempt to clean up the claims management industry. Referral fees were banned in April 2013 and the department barred companies from offering up-front incentives later that year. From the end of this year, the Legal Ombudsman will have the power to handle complaints about CMCs.
Latest figures show that the number of CMCs registered to handle personal injury claims fell from around 2,300 at the start of 2013 to 1,200 at the end of May 2014.

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BARACK Obama scored an historic victory over his presidential rival John McCain yesterday ... in Holywell.
According to Holywell High School pupils Obama will become the first black President of America on November 4.
With one exception the youngsters have successfully forecast every Presidential election since 1980.
The only hiccup was George W Bush against Al Gore – and that was won by a whisker and steeped in controversy.
Yesterday sixth former Jake Kulowski, 17, who took on the role of Democrat candidate Barack Obama, trounced his Republican rival John McCain, student Scott Gillham, 17, winning the election with 72% of the vote compared with the Republican’s 28%.
Head of sixth year Jeff Collins, 59, has been mirroring the US elections every four years since 1980 – the year California Governor and former film star Ronald Reagan ousted peanut farmer Jimmy Carter from office.
“This has been our seventh election and we have got all of them right. The only one which went wrong was Gore and Bush. The school voted for Gore and basically he did win the largest share of the votes.
“How different the world would have been if Gore had won.”
The candidates have done a head to head debate, delivered their policy statements and answered questions from students at morning assembly.
The school band struck up New York, New York and cheerleaders added a touch of glamour, and the school stood for the American national anthem.
“When I came here as a young teacher I was amazed at the lack of knowledge generally in society about what is happening in America,” said Mr Collins, who also teaches American politics.
“If you think about the current economic situation it really does bring home that well known saying ‘when America sneezes Europe catches cold’.
“When America goes to the polls they are electing the most powerful man in the world. If Gore had been elected there would not have been an Iraq or Afghanistan.”


Lyon’s prized forward Nabil Fekir has opened up on the recent speculation linking him with a £25m
The Daily Express have reported that the France international has no intentions of leaving OL during the current transfer market, handing a blow to Arsene Wenger’s hopes of signing him in the process.
Liverpool had also been interested, but they too will be forced to turn their attentions elsewhere.
Lyon had slapped a £25m asking price on his head, but instead of cashing in, they were hoping to keep hold of him now that they’re set to make an eagerly awaited return to the Champions League next season.
“There is so much talk of my departure but I honestly do not think that I will leave Lyon,” Fekir said.
“While in football it is said that you never know what the future holds, I will stay at Lyon regardless.”
The 21-year-old first broke into the Lyon first team during the 2013/14 season, but made only a handful of appearances. However, this year he has come into his own, notching an impressive 15 goals in 40 appearances across all competitions.


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For a special menu in celebration of the food of Provence, we came up with a three-ice-cream plate; Lavender Honey, Walnut, and Prune and Armagnac. You don’t have to make all three, of course, one at a time is wonderfully satisfying. But, ah, if you have the time, try this trio. It will transport you to the south of France.
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Gene therapy to the inner retina prevented blindness in a mouse mannequin of the neuro-degenerative dysfunction CLN3 Batten illness. Adeno-associated viral (AAV)-mediated expression of the human CLN3 gene led to important survival of bipolar cells and pre-served retinal perform, as reported within the peer-reviewed journal Human Gene Therapy.
Batten illness is a bunch of deadly, inherited lysosomal storage issues that predominantly have an effect on youngsters. The most prevalent kind is CLN3 illness, for which there isn’t a treatment. Retinal degeneration and ensuing imaginative and prescient loss is without doubt one of the signs.
Robin Ali, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, and coauthors state that “Bipolar cell specific expression of human CLN3 rescues the retinal phenotype of Cln3-deficient mice.” They present that the Cln3-deficient mice endure a decline in inner retinal function ensuing from the demise of rod bipolar cells.
“In complex genetic diseases like Batten disease, the ultimate gene therapy solution may require parallel efforts between correction of the neurodevelopmental impairments and the vision loss,” in accordance to Editor-in-Chief of Human Gene Therapy Terence R. Flotte, MD, Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor of Medical Education and Dean, Provost, and Executive Deputy Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Medical School. “Thus, therapies aimed at correcting the retinal defect may prove to be very important in the care of these patients in the future.”
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United States Army Veteran Jake Talbot was asked by the owner of CDY Fitness in Troy, Missouri to remove his Trump 2016 Election shirt while working out at her gym because the clothing was ‘offensive’ and linked to ‘racism’.
Talbot refused, cancelled his membership and took to social media to discuss the incident.
According to LifeZette, The former Army staff sergeant wore a “2016 Trump for President” shirt to work out — but was asked by staff at the gym to change his shirt.
He revealed this in a now-viral Facebook video he posted earlier in the week.
As of Saturday morning, the video had been viewed more than 54,000 times and received nearly 2,000 comments.
During the video he says, In it, he says, “I just left CDY Fitness here in Troy, where I was working out. And the owner, Liz, came up to me and said the Trump shirt I had on was offensive and that I needed to remove it to work out there, and [that] it’s linked to racism — which I friekin’ hate that word whenever people use it. It’s used way too loosely. It’s 2019. Get the hell over it. It’s not racism.”
CDY Fitness has since deleted it’s Facebook Page, a direct result of the outrage CDY Fitness received over the incident.
Talbot had worn the shirt to the gym on several occasions in the past according to Drew, but she had received many complaints about it, including from African-American and Hispanic gym members.
“I said, ‘Jake, we’re friends and I love you, but I’d appreciate it if you didn’t wear that shirt in the future,’” she told him.
“This was about protecting the comfort level of all members and keeping politics out of my gym. Sadly, it has done just the opposite,” she added.
RIght Before CDY deleted its Facebook page, the owners generated a post to the page saying they did not want their gym to be a political forum and that they wanted “everyone to feel safe and comfortable there.”
“I am deeply saddened by the amount of hate this event has garnered,” the post read. “I will personally and publicly continue to defend my stance for tolerance and against hate no matter the financial consequence.”
Talbot — who had worked out there for years — and two other members canceled their memberships, also according to LifeZette.
“I’m not going to go back to an establishment like that,” he said, as KSDK noted.


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We can see a very strong cultural commitment to have healthy children among the Chinese if we look back at their ancestral worship which has been a strong tradition throughout Chinese history. Because of this, Chinese medicine, over the centuries, has developed extremely effective therapies to aid couples in getting pregnant and make them experience uncomplicated and healthy pregnancies.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) of which acupuncture is a very important part of concentrates on maintaining or restoring the natural and healthy flow and balance of Qi (pronounced as chee) or vital energy which exists inside the body. We need Qi for the proper functioning of all of our physiological processes and organs, including reproduction. Qi brings about proper healing and health, the potential for life, physiological efficiency and structural stability and integrity.
Qi uses energy pathways called meridians to circulate all over the body and bring much needed energy and nutrients to every area of the body. According to TCM, a person is believed to be in good health when his/her Qi flow is unhindered, is in balance, and when it flows in sufficient amounts and in the right direction. A deficient, blocked, or imbalanced Qi flow will result in disease, discomfort, and pain.
To augment the amount of Qi or restore its normal unimpeded flow, acupuncture needles are used. These needles are inserted into points in the body wherein meridians are located underneath. The needles have the ability to correct imbalances, boost Qi, and normalize energy flow restoring harmony within and healing the maladies of the body.
A very safe and natural way to alleviate many of the symptoms of pregnancy, acupuncture can also help lessen or neutralize the side effects of pharmaceutical drugs and is itself free of any side effects associated with these drugs. Usually, medications are contraindicated during pregnancy anyway so this means that acupuncture can be a way to help pregnant women get through their pregnancy problems safely.
Acupuncture Treatment Can Lead to a Healthy Baby and Mother
During pregnancy, a once or twice a month acupuncture treatment can be important for both the mother and baby. It can guarantee excellent health of the unborn child at different stages of its development and of the mother. Also, it can treat and prevent the rise of symptoms associated with pregnancy.
An acupoint known as the “the beautiful baby point,” is always used to help the fetus build blood, lower anxiety, and calm the mind. This acupoint is also known as the K9 or Hsu bin and is found at the lower leg on its inner part.
Weekly treatments are highly advised when the mother reaches her last 4 to 6 weeks of pregnancy. This is to prepare both the baby and the mother for labor. A typical session lasts for thirty to forty five minutes. The needle insertion may cause a mild or heavy sensation but no pain on the point of insertion.
There are women who may be suffering from pre-existing medical conditions. These conditions may aggravate during pregnancy. Fortunately, acupuncture can also address this issue. This treatment is an excellent alternative to pharmaceutical drugs for pregnancy-related problems since it is natural and effective.
Acupuncture for Pregnancy-Related Symptoms
Bleeding, migraine headaches, anxiety, fatigue and other symptoms that come with pregnancy can be addressed with acupuncture. This also includes morning sickness that is commonly experienced by pregnant women during their first trimester.
Hemorrhoids, constipation, heartburn, sinus congestion, and stress are common symptoms seen in women in the second trimester of pregnancy. They can all be resolved with acupuncture. Excessive weight gain, increased blood glucose levels, and edema are the other more serious second trimester symptoms that acupuncture can treat but since these health problems are potentially dangerous, pregnant women suffering from any of these conditions should be monitored by their doctor or by a western-trained midwife.
For some women, the third trimester of pregnancy would bring about symptoms such as carpal tunnel syndrome, joint pain, pelvic pain, back pain, and sciatica. Without the need for medications, these symptoms can effectively be treated with acupuncture. This is verified by a recent study featured in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In the study, it was seen that when combined with conventional Western treatment, acupuncture was extremely effective compared to standalone Western standard treatment in alleviating mixed back/pelvic pain during pregnancy.
Weekly treatments may be required if the symptoms are severe in order for the woman to manage well during a difficult period of her pregnancy.
Special acupuncture points will be included in the treatment at the start of the 32 – 34 weeks of pregnancy. This is to position the baby in the proper head-down position when the time of delivery arrives. The number of treatments may be also increased at this point in time. This means weekly sessions in order to ease labor and facilitate delivery.
Preparing for Childbirth
Acupuncture is a very good way to facilitate the natural processes in the mother’s body especially when she is about to deliver her baby. It can calm her anxiety, boost the flow of Qi in her body, tonify her Qi, and alleviate her stress. Acupuncture promotes a health delivery and adds to her chances of going into labor in a natural way.
Post-partum Recovery Acupuncture Treatment
Acupuncture can aid in the recuperation process of the mother after she has delivered her child. If the mother underwent a Cesarean section, acupuncture can heal the incision and speed up recovery from the surgery. It can also block the pain in the perineal region, heal backache, and stop discharge and bleeding.
Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture are both able to regulate Blood and Qi flow in the stomach and also boost milk production. They also can help aid and prevent mothers from suffering post-partum depression. We can see acupuncture can still be very important in the health of the mother even if she is busy tending to her newborn.
Pregnant women should consider getting acupuncture to help get them through their pregnancy well. This treatment is helpful in ensuring a healthy mother and baby and to resolve symptoms associated with pregnancy and pre-existing conditions. Acupuncture is a great way to experience a healthy and relatively easy pregnancy, a smooth, natural and easy labor and delivery, and fast post-partum recuperation.


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UTICA — Thomas Bell and his family moved from Georgia to Utica years ago in search of a better, safer life for themselves and their children.
Friday evening, his family and friends gathered on Varick Street to remember and honor the kind of man Bell was after he was killed in a fight early Friday morning.
“We were basically trying to get away from all of this,” said Bell’s brother Brandon Dobbs. “He was definitely the life of the party all the time. … See all these people out here right now? They’re crying now, but we going to celebrate this (man) later. That was my best friend.”
Bell, 33, was killed after a fight that involved at least four men broke out at the intersection of Varick and Cooper streets around 1:10 a.m. Friday, according to Utica police.
Friday afternoon, police arrested Kwame Spratt, 28, of Utica, and charged him with second-degree murder in connection with the fight.
More than 30 members of Bell’s family and friends, wearing T-shirts that said “RIP Tom” formed a semi-circle on the corner of Varick and Cooper streets, to light candles and remember him for who he was.
“I’ll be missing you” by Sean “Diddy” Combs filled the street as people released balloons, lit candles and told stories about Bell’s life.
Bell, who leaves behind three young daughters, was remembered for being the life of the party and an all around good man who would help anyone who asked for it — unless it was to gamble, Dobbs joked.
He said Bell was out Thursday night just having a good time like everyone else.
“He didn’t even have any problems, we was just out having a good time like everyone else,” Dobbs said. “A guy got jealous and made it something more than it was. We had our mistakes, we’ve done our wrongs here and there, but we weren’t out here to cause harm, we weren’t trying to kill nobody, we were just out here trying to live our life and take care of our kids.”
When police arrived on the scene Friday morning, Bell was found on the ground with multiple stab wounds, according to police spokesman Lt. Bryan Coromato.
Bell was transported to an area hospital, where he died from his injuries, Coromato said. Two other men involved in the fight also suffered stab wounds, he said.
Coromato said the stabbing was not associated with the Saranac Thursdays event, which took place earlier Thursday evening.
Police are investigating what happened, speaking with witnesses and reviewing all video surveillance footage from local businesses, as well as city-owned cameras.
Bell’s 9-year-old daughter wiped tears from her face Friday evening and recalled a time her father motivated her to do better on a multiplication test and when she did well, he sent her a text message telling her how proud he was and how much he loved her.
Dobbs said he has big shoes to fill, but now he has three girls to take care of and he plans to do the best he can to give those girls everything they need.
“Now I’ve got three girls I’ve got to take care of,” Dobbs said. “See those girls? He’d give them the world … now I’ve gotta step up and make sure they’ve got everything. It’s big shoes for all of us to fill. We’ve got big shoes to fill.”
The investigation into the events that lead to Bell's death is still ongoing. Anyone who has any information about the fight is asked to call police at 315-223-3510.


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Saigon’s Hidden Treasures By Scooter
Go beyond the typical tourist attractions and go off-the-beaten-path sights in Saigon. Get to experience the real life in the city as you wander down narrow streets, discover the hidden gems and check out local markets.
- Minimum 2 persons
- English speaking local guide
- Entrance fees for all visits as mentioned in the itinerary
- Scooter with private driver (helmet provided)
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- Other meals than mentioned
- Other services than mentioned
- International and domestic Flights
- Laundry, telephone calls and expenditure of a personal nature
- Tips, Travel insurance
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Saigon’s Hidden Treasures By Scooter
Meet your local guide at your hotel and drive together to Chinatown, where you’ll stop at a Fruit Market. Enjoy a fruit tasting while you head towards Le Quang Sung Street, a must visit street for understanding Vietnamese life. It is the only place in town where they sell wedding betel and areca. Betel leaves, Areca nuts or Areca nut flower are very important in Vietnamese marriage ceremony.
Learn about Vietnamese & Chinese communities as you head to iconic Binh Tay Market, known for its beautiful Sino-French architecture. Wander around and take in the views of food stands, while you can ask your local guide to tell more about local’s lifestyle.
Next stop is Cha Tam Church, built around 19th century. This decaying light-caramel painted church exudes a sleepy, tropical feel. After hearing the local stories about the temple, continue to other markets like Kim Bien and Dai Quang Minh. Dai Quang Minh Market is heaven for Saigon creatives since it is full with shops that sell countless accessories for sewing and crafting.
Continue your journey to other beautiful temples where you and your group can adopt traditional gestures by making wishes for good fortune. Absorb the sacred atmosphere of the Thien Hau Temple, a revered structure built in the 19th century and dedicated to Thien Hau, goddess of the seafarers.
Time for a coffee break at one of oldest cafes in town, Cheo Leo. The place was founded by Vinh Ngo in 1938 and now it’s run by Ngo’s eldest daughter. She still brews the coffee in a traditional way, with an old-fashioned cloth strainer and a clay pot.
Finish your tour with a visit to Ban Co Market, a place where only Vietnamese go. The markets it’s full of stalls with clothes, jewelry, handbags or food. And how great it is to have your own private host! Nobody here speaks English, so either practice your Vietnamese or let your host do all the talking. Head back to the meeting point together with your local guide and say your goodbyes before you leave.
Note: the tour is offered on a join in basis, so there may be other guests joining you on the tour. Our maximum group size is 8 people. For guests that do not want to go in a group, we also offer a private tour option for an extra charge.
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8 thoughts on “Saigon’s Hidden Treasures By Scooter”
Saigon Escorted Tour. Great!!!!!!!!!!
We chose the evening tour from 5:30pm – 9:30pm, and it was, without doubt, the highlight of our stay in Ho Chi Minh City! It is an adventure of food and fun of getting to know the ‘real’ Ho Chi Minh City of hanging out in the best eateries…. and hanging onto the Detoured Asia. I had experience on motorbikes it was a first time experience for me. Right from the start I felt safe and comfortable – even in the Saigon traffic. The drivers are safe and you really feel part of the frantic traffic as you head off to experience the street food which is absolutely delicious. We have been on many different kind of tours over the years and in our experience, the great attitudes of Yen and Huyen really made a great tour concept even more exceptional. I really enjoyed it. Nice way to see city, eat delicious food I wouldn’t have known about otherwise and get to know some locals.
All of the tour guides were amazingly friendly and helpful. I don’t know when I’ve ever felt so welcome or had so much fun. Very authentic and professional. The girls who took us around totally made it! Would be the first thing I do in Saigon again, 100% recommended!!
Very safe, fun and a great way to see Saigon!
Joseph very efficient when I inquiry with him about the tour via Facebook as I didn’t receive a reply through my email (think it got into junk!). But everything went accordingly as planned and my friends and I enjoyed the tour so much! Mr. Sau and his colleagues came to pick us up at our apartment even tho it was pretty far (District 2) then we started our tour for the day. We rode through the different districts, went to their local wet markets, went through small alley ways, got to see where their locals live and also got to try authentic Vietnam coffee (from their local coffee shop) – which was REALLY good and probably the best coffee I’ve ever had in my life. And then we ended the tour with a good bowl of Pho.
My friends and I were really pleased with the service as Mr. Sau and his colleagues were really informative and funny! But most importantly, the entire bike ride was really really safe ? Upon finishing the tour, we asked Mr. Sau where to get good fresh spring rolls and he kindly offered to get one of his colleague to go down the streets to get it for us so that we can have it as tea break when we reach our apartment. They were all really thoughtful and flexible the entire tour. I would really highly recommend this for my friends and might even go for this tour again if I ever visit HCMC! Thank you so much Joseph, Mr. Sau and colleagues for this wonderful experience.
Exploring the beauty of Vietnam with Scooter
This was my first trip to Vietnam and I wanted to see and explore as much of this beautiful country as possible.
My Saigon city tour with scooter tours was fantastic. My beautiful guide Trang speaks excellent English which for me was a great plus as my knowledge of the Vietnamese language is quite limited. I was a little bit worry at first travelling on the back of a motor bike but Trang’s beautiful smile and friendly conversation soon put me at ease. Trang took me to many lovely places and answered my many questions about Vietnamese life and culture. I saw many interesting places, and tasted the many different street foods not just in Saigon.
I also toured Da Lat, traveled up the Mekong river, toured the Mekong Delta and visited the fish market’s and many other places. The beautiful escorts are all very experienced motor cyclists, so your safety is assured. The ladies are great guides and lots of fun to be with. Trang is not only wonderful company, she also has a fantastic sense of humor.
If you’re visiting Saigon for a short or longer stay then a visit to Detoured Asia is a must if you want to experience the true culture and beauty of Vietnam. I am returning to Vietnam and will continue to explore this beautiful country with Detoured Asia.
Excellent Way to See and Experience Saigon!
Outstanding service with very personable guides who speak excellent English and pick you up and drop you off at your hotel We did two different tours with this company. Sophie and Kent were our fun and very informative guides (who spoke excellent English) on a half-day scooter city tour. We visited a variety of places outside the backpacker tourist area. And what a great way to experience the crazy Saigon traffic! I felt safe the entire trip. We also did the city food tour with Sunny and Ryan, and again it was an excellent way to experience the city and it’s food at out of the way local eateries. I can’t recommend these tours with Detoured Asia enough! A must-do experience!
Saigon Unseen was seen
I’ve been all around the world and have seen a lot of buildings and attractions so I like to focus on more local customary sites including interactions with people in various aspects of local life. This is why I chose this tour.
They could not have found me a better person for the Tour than Thao. She was easy going, always helpful and made sure I saw what I wanted to see. I thought we would be popping wheelies all around the city, sitting on the back of a motorbike being twice her weight but she managed to maneuver my mass deftly, smoothly and effortlessly around the city.
Interesting aspects of my trip were viewing temple services, seeing huge paper statues, walking the market and eating at local a vegetarian restaurant. The highlight of my tour was sitting down in the market with a vendor and her regular customers, that had been there making this local drink for 35 years. We were talking and joking through my trusted interpreter Thao who whispered furtively to me the appropriate Vietnamese phrases I needed to keep the conversation going.
I sometimes travel solo and feel like a stranger in an unfamiliar city but Thao made me feel very comfortable touring with her and it felt she was more like a travel buddy than a tour guide.This aspect made the tour so much more memorable and enjoyable.
Explore Saigon By Scooter
Four of us did 2 of their tours. We enjoyed both and and learned a lot about Saigon. The first day we took the “Exploring Saigon Sights & Local Street Food” tour. We each rode on the back of motorbikes driven by young local women. Saigon streets are packed with motorbikes and riding through the city traffic, seeing shops, restaurants, pagodas, and people gave us a real feel for the Vietnamese city culture. Our guides, Trang and Yen, were fun and informative.
We stopped for street food twice. First we ate the very popular and Vietnamese “crepe” named Bahn Xeo at our first street food stop. Before eating we got a quick look at the recipe and preparation of this tasty treat. Later on the tour we stopped for BBQ “baby bird” and “chicken feet”… fun and very good. The second day we went on the “Karaoke Tour”. Karaoke is popular in Saigon. We began with a “Lau De” dinner which is a really flavorful noodle soup. At the Karaoke bar our guides led us in singing and dancing and generally enjoying an evening at a spot we would never have discovered on our own. We had a great time and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Great Tour in Ho Chi Minh City
We wanted to fill our last morning in Ho Chi Minh doing something special and these guys made it extremely special. At our initial early morning meeting they questioned us hard on what we had already seen then proceeded to take us on a wonderful trip. Seeing the city as a local and visiting some of the less seen sights was brilliant. Doing it from the back of a. Moped in the rush hour even better. And the highlight of our tour was the coffee shop or was it the flower market or…. a memorable morning in the compan of two extremely friendly and knowledgable guides that we will remember for a long time to come. Thank you guys for the tour, the memories and the photos!
Simply Amazing way to see Saigon
Joseph was amazing and tailored our tour to fit my 80 year old mother and her mobility issues. He is a very thoughtful guide and passionate about Saigon/Ho Chi Minh city. At the end of the tour he even arranged to have special items sent to our hotel that he took the time to source himself. Very considerate and reinforced our positive feeling about the entire country before leaving. It really is a great introduction to a very hectic city that requires an insider to help navigate.

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Synthesis, Characterization, and Memory Performance of Two Phenazine/Triphenylamine-Based Organic Small Molecules through Donor-Acceptor Design
Chengyuan Wang, Masataka Yamashita, Dr. Benlin Hu, Dr. Yi Zhou, Jiangxin Wang, Dr. Jin Wu, Prof. Dr. Fengwei Huo, Prof. Dr. Pooi See Lee, Prof. Dr. Naoki Aratani, Prof. Dr. Hiroko Yamada and Prof. Dr. Qichun Zhang
Article first published online: 5 MAY 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201500087
Test your memory: Two organic small molecules TPA-2BIPs and TPA-3BIPs have been synthesized and characterized. Sandwich-structure memory devices made from these molecules show that the two materials have similar switching behavior but different ON/OFF ratios. AFM images analysis and molecular simulation indicate that increasing the numbers of acceptors change the stacking of molecules in the solid state, but have less effect on switching behaviors of as-prepared memory devices.

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In a pandemic, everything runs through an internet connection. But what happens when you don’t have one? It’s a good question—one that Jon Walton and Julie Case are working to solve for San Mateo County. In this episode of Aruba Unplugged, we look at how San Mateo County is providing remote access and services for an under-connected population. Vincent Rendoni hosts.
Episode 43: Connecting the Under-connected