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How to Learn Enabling or Disabling Fast User Switching in Windows 10
Sluggish computers are always productivity killers for all of us. And if you are a user who regularly needs to switch their user accounts on your computer system many times a day, then sometime it might irritate for the user. It is only because both the account has some programs or applications running and resources allotted to them, and this will make the process slow. And sometimes, if your system is showing low on performance, then it will automatically kill the natural fluid flow of the users.
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Here you can check out the procedure of how to enabling or disabling Fast Switching in Windows 10 computer or how to make this task of User Switching faster by using some minor tweaks on Windows 10. But before starting the process, we advise you to use the given steps in the given series as it will save your time and take fewer efforts.
Steps to Enabling or Disabling Fast User Switching in Windows 10
Below we will be explaining two methods for enabling or disabling the fast user switching on Windows 10/8/7 computers:
• By Using Registry Editor
• By Using Group Policy Editor
Method : By Using Registry Editor
1. Press the WINKEY + R buttons together on your keyboard to open Run utility on your screen.
2. Type the same word ‘regedit’ on your screen.
3. Then, Press Enter.
4. Once Registry Editor opened, then go to the below-given key-
1. Now, right-click on the System option and then choose New and select DWORD (32-bit) Value.
2. Next, Give a name to this newly created DWORD as HideFastUserSwitching.
3. Double-click on HideFastUserSwitching option, and change its value to 0to enable it.
4. If you want to disable it, change its value to 1.
5. Lastly, restart your system for all changes to take effect.
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The Best Ways to Restore Classic Mac Startup Chime
In the latest MacBook Pro, Apple has disabled its signature Startup Chime, and some users are confused as to why the developer has removed it. Fortunately, the startup tone is there in the system, but it requires a little effort to enable it. The company has disabled the tone, but it doesn’t mean that it can’t be activated again. By digging into the system and some efforts, you can restore the classic Mac Startup Chime.
How to Restore Classic Mac Startup Chime
There is an important requirement for the startup sound, but it is majorly essential for professional users. So if you are regular or average user, you can ignore the disabled Startup Chime. But being a professional, you may need to follow the steps to correctly and effortlessly enable or restore the Classic Mac Startup Chime.
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Here’s how to restore the classic Mac startup chime
1. Go to Launchpad and click on Other.
2. Now, select and open Terminal from the menu.
3. When Terminal is open, enter the following command – sudo nvram BootAudio=%01.
4. You will see Terminal is asking you to provide your system password.
5. Enter the password to Terminal.
6. To return to the silent boot mode, you will need to enter the command in order to enable the silent boot mode in your MacBook.
7. Type sudo nvram BootAudio=%00.
8. You can also disable the Auto Boot Functionality with a command line if you want to return to the older appearance.
9. Type sudo nvram AutoBoot=%00.
10. But the Auto Boot can be restored again if you type – “sudo nvram AutoBoot=%03” command line in Terminal.
Remember, the startup sound has some functional uses. You hear the startup sound when the operating system finds all that all the important components are working fine. During the boot up, MacOS runs a quick diagnostic and check if the important components are fine or not. The startup tone indicates that the Mac system will boot normally without having any bug problems. As the Startup Chime is essential for professional users, still it is not useful for average users. Even though you anyone can enable or disable the Startup Chime in their MacBook by using the commands.
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Multicultural Greek Organization Recruitment
Both fraternities and sororities multicultural organizations, recruit through a process known as intake. The intake process for every chapter is defined by its inter/national/local organization. Membership intake is a unique experience from other Greek recruitment events. Membership intake consists of you learning about Multicultural Greek Organizations, you attending an informational meeting about the organization (e.g. informational, interest meeting, or tea), you submitting your application directly to the organization of your interest, gaining verification of grades and other requirements, gaining approval from the organization, starting the new member education process, participating in initiation and ultimately having a new member presentation/probate where the community comes to find out who the organization's new members are. The entire new member education process is secret for most organizations so most people will not know that you are a new member until your new member presentation.
Meet the Greeks
Meet the Greeks is your opportunity to learn about multicultural fraternity and sorority membership at University or Oregon. The Multicultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations collaborate to provide an overview of all that Greek life has to offer. Chapter leaders and alumni of the chapters at UO will share information about how and when each chapter facilitates their Membership Intake Process and ways that you can get involved.
Location: EMU Crater Lake North
Date: October 20, 2016
Time: 7:00-8:30 PM
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National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. Membership Intake
The NPHC fraternities and sororities at the University of Oregon select members through a process called Membership Intake. Membership Intake is the process of selecting, educating and initiating new members into a fraternity or sorority. This process is prescribed by the national organization.
NPHC fraternities and sororities will individually announce their membership selection/intake process during the term, and they will explain their membership process at informational meetings (informationals). Interested students are encouraged to check out the national web sites for the various NPHC fraternities and sororities and to attend events sponsored by the local chapters of the fraternities and sororities. By doing this, they will gain a better perspective of the organization and its members so that they can make an informed decision regarding membership.
More information can be found in the Membership Intake Packet.
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DNA Replication
Before a cell enters the process of mitosis, its DNA replicates itself. Equal copies of the DNA pass into the daughter cells at the end of mitosis. In human cells, this means that 46 chromosomes (or molecules of DNA) replicate to form 92 chromosomes.
The process of DNA replication begins when specialized enzymes pull apart, or “unzip,” the DNA double helix (see Figure 10-1). As the two strands separate, the purine and pyrimidine bases on each strand are exposed. The exposed bases then attract their complementary bases. Deoxyribose molecules and phosphate groups are present in the nucleus. The enzyme DNA polymerase joins all the nucleotide components to one another, forming a long strand of nucleotides. Thus, the old strand of DNA directs the synthesis of a new strand of DNA through complementary base pairing. The old strand then unites with the new strand to re-form a double helix. This process is called semiconservative replication because one of the old strands is conserved in the new DNA double helix.
Figure 10-1 DNA replication. The double helix opens and a complementary strand of DNA is synthesized along each strand.
DNA polymerase joins nucleotides in a 5'-3' direction on the leading strand, shown in Figure 10-1. However, DNA polymerase does not elongate a DNA strand in a 3'-5' direction. Therefore, the 3'-5' strand, called the lagging strand, is synthesized in short segments in a 5'-3' direction. These short segments placed on the lagging strand are Okazaki fragments and are ultimately joined together by the enzyme DNA ligase to form a new DNA strand.
DNA replication occurs during the S phase of the cell cycle. After replication has taken place, the chromosomal material shortens and thickens. The chromatids appear in the prophase of the next mitosis. The process then continues, and eventually two daughter cells form, each with the identical amount and kind of DNA as the parent cell. The process of DNA replication thus ensures that the molecular material passes to the daughter cells in equal amounts and types.
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The role of the psychologist is to delve deeper into one's psyche...
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Some gripes about Go from this blog, specifically around developer ergonomics (syntax highlighting and language-inherent error detection), politics, packaging and distribution, GOPATH, and the tuple-oriented error handling idiom. As R. I. Pienaar noted, the Go community seems full of "at-Google-wes", which is an excellent way of putting it.
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Is God Still Working In The World? Mark 4:14-32 Dec. 27, 2009
How many ways can we answer,“yes” to the question in the title? It seems to me if you watch the details of life we see many examples of God at work. Yesterday my wife and I walked through a mall and as is my habit I asked a man who was wearing a cross why he was wearing it. He repeated to me my question, and I affirmed he was correct. He said, it makes me feel close to God. That said to me God is working in this young man’s life. As we talked he did not know for sure he knew the Lord. God prompted me to talk with him further and give him a tract. Why? Because God was at work in my life to be a witness, so to the question, Is God Still Working In The World, I say Yes!
1. God Is At Work As His Word Is . . Sown. Mk. 4:14-20
A. God Works Through His Word In It’s Being Sown On . . Rocky Soil. 4:14-17
14 The sower sows the word. 15 These are the ones along the path where the word is sown: when they
hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them. 16 And these are the ones sown
on rocky ground: when they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy. 17 But they have no
root in themselves; they are short-lived. When affliction or persecution comes because of the word,
they immediately stumble.
B. God Works Through His Word In It’s Being Sown On . . Thorny Soil. 4:18-19
18 Others are sown among thorns; these are the ones who hear the word, 19 but the worries of this age,
C. God Works Through His Word In It’s Being Sown On . . Good Soil. 4:20
20 But the ones sown on good ground are those who hear the word, welcome it, and produce
a crop: 30, 60, and 100 times what was sown."
A few years ago the church I pastored had a Christian drama called, “Heaven’s Gates And Hell’s Flames.”
Through the invitation we gave about 150 people made professions of faith. We took everyone who made a decision back to the fellowship hall and individually counseled them. They then came to me and I talked to than and gave them a booklet specifically prepared for them, and a Jesus Video from the Gospel of Luke. Most of these people were from other churches and other communities, but I think I experienced an example of the different kinds of soil. Some were rocky ground, thorny ground and some good ground. We sowed the seed and depended on the Lord to give the increase.
2. God Is At Work As His Word Is . . Shown. Mk. 4:21-25
A. God Works For His Word To Be Shown For People To . . See. 4:21-22
21 He also said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it to be put
on a lampstand? 22 For nothing is concealed except to be revealed, and nothing hidden except to come
to light.
B. God Works For His Word To Be Shown For People To . . Hear. 4:23-24
23 If anyone has ears to hear, he should listen!" 24 Then He said to them, "Pay attention to what you
hear. By the measure you use, it will be measured and added to you. 25 For to the one who has, it will
If you trust God to use His Word you will use every method you can for people to see and hear the Word of God. I know of a man who witnessed to a man who would not let him use the Bible. The witness asked if he could pray for him, and he said, “well okay”. When he prayed he used the scriptures which share the plan of salvation and the man later got saved. What a privilege for a Christian to help the lost to see and hear God’s Word, and watch God save them.
3. God Is At Work Through His Word And His Kingdom Is . . Growing. Mk. 4:26–32
A. God Works Through His Word To . . Surprisingly Grow His Kingdom. 4:26-27
26"The kingdom of God is like this," He said. "A man scatters seed on the ground; 27 he sleeps and
rises — night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows — he doesn't know how.
B. God Works Through His Word To . . Systematically Grow His Kingdom. 4:28-29
C. God Works Through His Word To . . Satisfyingly Grow His Kingdom. 4:30-32
30 And He said: "How can we illustrate the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe
it? 31 It's like a mustard seed that, when sown in the soil, is smaller than all the seeds on the ground.
so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade." HCSB
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the kingdom will grow. God blessed me through the ministry of the Miner Baptist Church, and the Lynwood Baptist church through their presentations of The Judgement House. Our church has seen people saved, baptized and blossom into fine Christian examples through that ministry. Is God Still Working In The World? Amen? Amen!
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You might also have to drive a bit out of the way for these, depending on where you live.
The following images were all pulled from actual sellers on Craigslist as of February 14, 2017.
Someone in Tyler is selling what they claim are actual vintage Valentine's cards from 1969! If you know someone who loves this old style of art, the person selling these is practically giving them away for $1 a card.
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People will tag anything with the trending holiday it seems. Who knows? Maybe someone will get this for the Mavericks fan in their life?
Do you like to look at chocolate, and even smell it, but not be able to eat it? Who doesn't? This is the gift for you! (Is my sarcasm coming through?)
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push upsToday’s Fit Mission is inspired by and dedicated to my friend Melina and her co-worker Iisha.
Melina, who has herself lost more than 50 pounds, told me that she and Iisha are stopping for a moment every hour to do 10 pushups. By the end of their workday, they do 100 pushups or so.
Well, this inspired me. I thought–wow, if I do 10 pushups for every waking hour, I could skip a few and get my 100 in easily.
(And friends, I can even do pushups in my “big shoes”–AKA platform wedges–so no excuses!)
Ten pushups is nothing, but there’s no way I could do 100 at once. But the benefits are still there–so that’s why today’s mission asks you to do the same.
So that’s the mission today: Ten pushups every hour for ten hours.
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If your doctor says you’re healthy enough to exercise but you can’t do pushups, that’s ok! Do ANY kind of exercise for about one to two minutes each hour for ten hours. Some alternatives include situps, pullups, marching in place, arm lifts or anything else that is safe and makes you feel good.
You might also consider doing less pushups each hour, or less hours in a row. Remember, this is all about you and you need to do what feels right for your body. And don’t forget–always check with your doctor before starting this or any exercise program.
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Thursday, March 8, 2018
Guns and Racism
Like any good (good?) liberal, Shannon Watts makes a racial slur in her rebuke to a Jewish woman threatened by some Neo-Nazis, thus introducing race into her "argument." the woman got a gun for self protection after a bunch of Neo-Nazis published her home address on their web site, thus painting a "target' on her back. Shannon, a "top anti-gun fool" financed, through cutouts, by Geroge Soros, told her in a Tweet that her wishing to be protected was because she was "white." The situation, of course, has nothing to do with race, but not to liberals, including Watts. They always inject racism. The cops think driving by her house once in a while will protect her, but that kind of "protection" is so easily avoided by "bad guys," it's silly.
OOPS! Gabby Giffords publishes a list of states and their gun laws, rating them. Her A+ rating goes to the states that have enacted the most of the anti-gun fool laws. And her A+ states listed have had an INCREASE of 278% REAL gun deaths, not the ones "cherry picked" by Giffords. Of course, DC would be an A+ "state" if she had included it. But she "curiously" did not. Maybe because of their very high REAL gun death figures? This list is typical of the "smoke and mirrors" used by all anti-gun fools, who try and improve their position with miscalculated figures and LIES. It is yet another illustration of why you can't depend on them to publish REAL figures.
"JUST SHUT 'EM UP!" If you can't win the argument; if you have no true facts to support your position, and have run out of lies, just call your opposition names to shut them up. That's the direction the anti-gun fools are taking, and have always taken. That's why they say the NRA is racist, and are terrorists, and "have blood on their hands." Racist is their favorite epithet since Obama revived its popularity among liberals as a means of not having to argue on the facts, in any debate. They think if they can make their opponents look bad enough, they can win the argument in spite of having no facts on their side. Liberals have always used that ploy when they just can't come up with a cogent argument to blunt criticism (which is usually every time).
IMPRISONED WHORE KNOCKS TRUMP: No, it's not Hillary, much as we wish it could be. It is a known whore and former (?) XXX film "performer" known as "Stormy Daniels," who SAYS she had an affair with Donald Trump, WAY before he became a presidential candidate. Now she's suing him. For what? For screwing a "porn star?" Wait--isn't his sex life his own business, like it was when Bill Clinton was found to be getting oral sex in the Oval Office? The double standard here is so obvious it sickens me. And I don't believe her for a minute. Money can buy many such lies from such a person. Even if Trump WAS a "sexual person," he doesn't need to lower himself to having sex with a "sex worker." And, as usual, her accusations are backed by NOTHING but her unsupported word. No other evidence. She CLAIMS a "non-disclosure agreement" she SAYS was signed with a Trump attorney wasn't signed by Trump, so it doesn't apply. The reason Trump didn't sign it is, he wasn't involved.
NY TIMES "FAKE NEWS": The NYT published a phony Trump "hit piece," featuring an IMAGINARY family with a "made-up" tax return supposedly showing this family had a $3,896 higher tax bill under the new tax law. Only problem is, they did such a lousy job with the numbers that it just didn't add up. So they had to run an embarrassing retraction. They left out all kinds of deductions (some of them new, in the new tax bill) to come up with their figures. Hey, NYT! If you're gonna LIE, get some competent people to make it convincing! In any case, they didn't even bother to use a REAL family, so they could "tailor" the figures to suit themselves--and they did a lousy job, at that, until the Wall St. Journal "ratted them out."
IT'S ALWAYS RACISM! Embattled Oakland, CA Mayor Libby Schaff is now calling AG Sessions a "racist" for attempting to enforce the law, since she's the lawbreaker. She says Sessions equated ALL ILLEGAL aliens to lawbreakers. Funny. I thought illegal was illegal, and MADE them lawbreakers. Furthermore, the biggest majority of those who WERE arrested in a recent sweep WERE thugs, robbers, rapists, and even some murderers. She can't truthfully deny that, but she will make the attempt. Where she gets that "racist" tag, I don't know, except from Obama, who used it to blunt ALL criticism, after promising that electing him would END racism, forever.
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
The 3rd Time Is (still not) the Charm
Rachel had her annual Spring Sing music concert tonight. She has been talking about it for weeks. We have heard every song dozens of times. She stood in the living the room the other night and ran through the entire performance for Grandma and Grandpa. But for Rachel, the idea of a concert and the actual reality are two entirely different things.
When she was 3, Rachel stood with her hands in her pockets and stared at the audience. For the entire concert.
When she was 4, Rachel stood with her fingers in her mouth for the first half of the concert and finally sang part of the last two songs.
When she was 5, Rachel started out okay. She paraded through the gym with her classmates.
She walked through the school cutout and even gave a little smile.
But then the singing began. And she got scared.
Oh, she sang. Just very, very quietly.
And she did the actions. Just very small. And she was not happy about it.
No matter how much she loves a song (and she LOVES some of these) she just can't let loose and sing in front of a crowd.
But I'll love her all the same.
There is a certain irony in my children. I have one girl who is quiet and kind of shy and often won't answer when people she knows tell her "hi". But put her on stage and she shines. She has no problem singing and dancing and acting in front of a crowd. I have one girl who is outgoing and wildly social and happily talks to total strangers. But when she has to perform in front of an audience she completely shuts down. Neither one acts in the way you'd imagine!
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Unable to attach remote debugger after Visual Studio 2015 Update 2
As the title states: I was unable to attach the remote debugger (for instance to an Azure Web App) after installing Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. I got an error with something about invalid memory access or something like that.
The solution is simple: install Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. Go to the webite, pick your machine’s architecture (the x86 install won’t run on a x64 machine) and click download. After installing, you’re good to go!
Hope this helps.
PS: There’s a list of Related releases on the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 page. Have a look, it’s helpful ;)
Exception with EF code first migrations
Just ran into an exception when running both update-database and add-migration in the Package Manager Console for an EF Code First project. The Exception read:
The type initializer for ‘System.Data.Entity.Migrations.DbMigrationsConfiguration`1’ threw an exception.
The cause? An invalid config file for the project I was trying to run the tools for. So: if you run into this exception, check your configs ;)
Error saving Galileo Wiring App in Visual Studio
The solution
Hope this helps
Getting Bootstrap to work on Windows Phone 8
To fix this issue, follow these steps:
width: device-width;
(function() {
if ("-ms-user-select" in document.documentElement.style &&
var msViewportStyle = document.createElement("style");
Hope this helps.
* The Bootstrap project is no longer under the Twitter brand.
Error: The Path ‘path’ is already mapped in workspace ‘workspace’
Just a quick little post today: I got the error “The Path ‘path’ is already mapped in workspace ‘workspace'” when I connected to a new Team Foundation Server and tried to map my workspace today. I had connected to a Team Foundation Services project a while back to get some shared code, but I already removed the workspace and the server binding. Even though Visual Studio didn’t see any other bindings, mapping my workspace to the same folder the previous TFS binding was mapped to served me this error.
The quick solution: manually edit (or remove if you don’t have any other bindings) the file VersionControl.config, which can be found under %AppData%LocalMicrosoftTeam Foundation4.0Cache
Hope this helps.
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How to add Next and Previous buttons to Twitter Bootstrap tabs
The ShowTab function is simple:
function ShowTab(tabname) {
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How To: Call a generic method with a runtime type
In our example, this would look something like this:
More information:
Generic Type Parameters (C# Programming Guide)
MethodInfo.MakeGenericMethod Method
Unfortunately, this renders as follows:
TagBuilder builder;
UrlHelper urlHelper;
urlHelper = new UrlHelper(htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext);
builder = new TagBuilder("a");
builder.InnerHtml = linkText;
builder.Attributes["href"] = urlHelper.Action(action);
builder.MergeAttributes(new RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes));
return MvcHtmlString.Create(builder.ToString());
Hope this helps.
TIP: “Paste XML as Classes” in Visual Studio 2012
In the past, when you had some XML document that you wanted to translate into classes we had to create / generate a schema based on the XML file. Next, we had to generate a class based on the schema with an external tool. Not all too user friendly and somewhat time consuming.
In Visual Studio 2012 you copy the XML you want to create a class/classes for, place the cursor in a class file on the location you want the code to be added and select the following menu items: Edit – Paste Special – Paste XML as Classes. And you’re done! Just like that…
If you want to try real quick, there’s a sample XML file (books.xml) available here.
The feature is .NET Framework 4.5 specific. Taken from this MSDN article ‘Generating Data Type Classes from XML‘:
“.NET Framework 4.5 includes a new feature to generate data type classes from XML.
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Friday, 1 April 2011
Translations: Risu's Blog- Why UsaTEN has disappeared... 1/4/11
I'm back!
I came across.. an UsaTEN!
I was just doing my innocent little translating when.....
I saw her!
Fire red demonnnnnn hungry for Risu! Oh yess Risu is very tasty but not good for you!!
Back you evil demon!!
Oh nooooooooooooo!!!
Just kidding!!!~
(Don't kill me Usagi~)
1. hahaha, what happen with this blog. it's changed in one night, is this some kind of joke for april mop, i'm really shock ><
btw that evil demon pict really scary
2. haha nice pics! xD
you two have taken this April Fool's Day thing to the next level! ¦D
3. Ohhh sorry hehe Usa apologizes for being so evil!! and yes..the two of us...ahahahahh-Risu
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Discovery Theatre
This amphitheatre is the setting for wacky and wonderful science demonstrations, hosted live each day by Science North’s talented staff! Each show features plenty of audience participation and plenty of surprises! The Discovery Theatre is accessible from both the Third and Fourth Floors.
Located on the 3rd floor
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freely undelete files on Mac
Question: I accidentally threw some files into the waste basket on my Mac, and later I emptied the Trash as well. Does someone have experience in this area? Is it possible to get the complete files back? Is there a program that is better than other ones? I'm in the information gathering phase right now and don't want to make another foolish mistake by starting prematurely.
Answer: Losing useful files may be very frustrating, but Mac shouldn’t give up the idea of finding deleted important data and files back. They need a hard drive recovery program to recover Mac deleted files. Mac Data Recovery is a utility that allows users to recover deleted files osx, which were deleted by mistake.
This Mac Data Recovery ensures guaranteed recovery from multiple cases, like formatted or corrupted drives, missing critical file system structures, careless deletion, application crash and viruses invasion. Therefore, you won’t be irritated by not having a backup for the important data because this software can enable you to realize data recovery on mac easily. Unique data recovery options let you perform data recovery thoroughly. Users are suggested to read the tutorial shown in following paragraphs before starting the recovery all by themselves.
The program itself is simple to use. It displays a list of all drives and partitions for you to choose. Select a drive (from which some files have lost) and hit “Full Scan” to detect the lost data. After the scan, data may be found and sorted into folders in the interface. You can select what you need and then click “Save Files” to place them to a safe partition.
Mac Data Recovery is really a reliable program to be chosen to recover deleted files osx. Users can download the free edition from CNET and try it to see its powerful recovery ability. When the size of data needing to be recovered exceeds 1GB, purchasing an advanced edition is suggested.
Mac files recovery from mac
After users emptied the Trash, what they emptied is actually not the data. They just lose the access to the files from the system. Occasionally, Mac users may format a hard drive when all data in it are useless. In spite of having such wonderful features, Mac OS X Lion still cannot stay away from file deletion and loss, which may be caused due to human’s mistake or technical reason. Under this circumstance, you are suggested to recover files from hard drive by resorting to a piece of Mac data recovery software.
When encountering such accident, users must be very eager to know what they should do to fulfill lost data restoration on Mac. But, it is also true that the deleted file still remains on its original location until it is overwritten. Although it is almost impossible to recover data lost due to hardware error, users can readily recover data lost because of soft error by making use of a third-party recovery program.
Mac Data Recovery is a utility that allows users to recover files …
Deleted files recovery on Mac
Useless data are always produced during the period of computer usage. Thus, users often delete the junk files to release more space for new data. Unfortunately, data loss may occur in this case since some useful files may get deleted by mistake, and later the Trash is emptied. For ordinary users, they may feel they will lose those files permanently because they don’t know how to recover Mac deleted files at all after emptying Trash.
What you should do next is to try to find a piece of free data recovery software that can undelete or restore deleted data. The most important thing is the program should be designed for Mac system. Mac Data Recovery is an ideal program, which enables users to recover deleted data, as well as recovering data from lost and damaged partition for Mac. After downloading it from CNET, you can recover Mac deleted files by yourself.
First of all, open the software and choose “Undelete Recovery” to initiate. Subsequently, please select the partition that saved the d…
mac drive data recover software
Data loss is really a miserable experience, particularly when something very important gets lost from Mac. Well, how to recover files from hard driveon Mac? We guess users are sure to be interested in this issue. It is a wrong perception that you cannot recover a deleted file on a Mac. Or when you delete a file or folder by using “Shift + Delete”, it is considered permanently deleted as you can neither find it in the Trash, nor somewhere in computer. But the fact is that the file still exists on your hard disk.
Don’t be worried. You may completely recover the deleted data on condition that they are not covered by new data. This is because new data will overwrite the deleted data. If so, it will be very impossible for you to recover them completely. You need a piece of Mac hdd recovery software to restore the lost data. Mac Data Recovery is highly recommended.
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Physics Java on the Web
HomeMotionForcesElectricityWavesModern Physics
BEFORE YOU BEGIN: Highlight the questions you were assigned,
Trouble Viewing These Java Simulations?
1. Change Browser Settings - Tools/ Internet Options/Security/Default Level/Medium
2. Also install FREE Java Software
1. Hit the Target! Be patient with this web page, it takes some time to load.
Question a)
Instructions: Set the cannon's angle to 25 degrees and keep adjusting the velocity until you hit the target. Do the same for 45 degrees and 65 degrees. Record your results in the chart.
Summary of Results:
Angle Velocity(m/s)
*** Before answering Question b) read the following directions:
Instructions: Set the cannon's velocity to 50 m/s and do not change it at any point in this experiment. Experiment to see how the size of the cannon's angle of trajectory effects the size of the projectile's maximum horizontal and vertical displacements (range and height).
Question b)
I ) Summarize how the size of the cannon's initial angle of trajectory affects the sizes of the projectile's horizontal and vertical displacements (height and range)
Complete these sentences
Increasing the cannon's angle from 2 to 10 to 45 degrees causes the size of the horizontal displacement to ________________and causes the vertical displacement to _____________.
Increasing the cannon's angle from 45 to 65 to 85 degrees causes the horizontal displacement to _______________ and the vertical displacement to _______________
II) Which angle produces the largest horizontal range and which angles the greatest vertical range?
(Only Full Sentences Get Full Credit)
2. Centripetal Acceleration
a) The object in this simulation is moving at constant speed throughout its travel. At what point in the object's travels does it accelerate?
b) How could the object be accelerating when its speed is constant?
3. See where the earth's satellites are right now! JTrack3D
Click this link and wait until the program jumps to the screen.
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The world is awash in Javascript, but not everyone is speaking the same dialect
The Background
Recently I've been spending a fair amount of time hacking away in Javascript on the improbable node.js. As I've gushed, my preferred stack of choice nowadays is Redis, node.js and Riak. One great thing about this arrangement is that both node.js and Riak speak Javascript natively. Considering that Javascript is the lingua franca of end user browsers everywhere you can imagine a situation where being able to develop in Javascript throughout the stack could be a compelling proposition.
With visions of one language to rule them all running through my mind I set off to remake my world of applications in a new image. A better image. The transformation from a hodgepodge of languages goes smoothly. Synergies are being realized as functions get packaged for reuse in different environments. Alas, all is not well in the Shire. I've run into a snag and it is somewhat interrupting secondsies.
The Problem
Middle-earth aside, it turns out that all Javascript engines are not created equal. Beyond specific performance differences between the various Javascript implementations there are also subtle differences in feature support. In my humble opinion, nowhere is this more glaring then in date parsing. In an era where you are executing javascript in three separate environments - browser, middleware and database - and potentially against three different engines, you need to concern yourself with the details. On the client end your user can be using any of a number of different browsers all with their own Javascript engine and version number. If you are using node.js your engine is v8, Riak uses spidermonkey as its engine. Do not be lulled into a sense of security due to the fact that you are using one language throughout. In some instances you may as well be in two completely different languages. Ok maybe that's a bit much, but let us take a closer look.
Here is a picture of a Date.parse() test I ran on the three major browsers, chrome, safari and firefox on osx snow leopard and the code used to make it happen. It's clear that v8 has the best date parsing support, but I'll let you be the judge.
chrome, safari and firefox
What I'm doing here is running an array of different date and date/time strings through Date.parse() to see which date/time formats a given engine will accept. If an engine can successfully parse a string it will return an integer, if not it will return NaN (Not a Number). This integer is the date/time represented as the number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970, aka. the epoch. Obviously this won't work for dates older than Jan 1, 1970 but I'm mainly interested in present and forward dates. Run the code for yourself, feel free to add any formats you are interested in and take a look at the results. After you are done being all 'WTW' about it come back. Ya, this sucks. This sucks... hard. But, like, why... specifically.
As it turns out computers can sort all kinds of stuff, strings included. However, what you'll find is that string representations of dates like Jan, 1 2011 won't sort the way you want them to... you know chronologically. To skip that problem you need to convert said date into an integer - which computers also have no problem sorting - yet this time the sorting will mean exactly what you want it to mean. For example, this is an issue in Riak when you want to map/reduce over a range of keys and then do interesting things to them based on dates contained therein. I talk about sorting by date in Riak in a previous post.
So now that we know our date parsing is all out of whack what can we do about it?
If your application calls for date conversions do yourself a favor and do it in your middleware - node.js, python, ruby, what have you - and ship integers out directly to the end user and to the database. Centralizing your parsing will ensure that all your parsing is being done under the same rule set. All javascript implementations will be able to go from an integer to a date like so:
new Date(integer)
This will eliminate the vagaries of conversion in multiple environments. Sure, a lot of these headaches can be curtailed by controlling the date format before it enters your system but sometimes it is just out of your control. Minimize the number of places in your application for discrepancy and ship data around your stack in a format every language implementation can understand.
If you know of any other interesting gotchas between the various Javascript implementations please share them in the comments.
Using Riak's map/reduce for sorting
From a database perspective, Riak is a schemaless, key/value datastore. The focus of this post is to show you how to do the equivalent of the sql "SORT BY date DESC" using Riak's map/reduce interface. Due to Riak's schemaless, document focused nature Riak lacks internal indexing and by extension, native sorting capabilities. Additionally, Riak does not have a single file backend. The primary default backend is called Bitcask but Riak does offer a number of different backends for specific use cases. This makes an internal general purpose index implementation impractical, especially so once you factor in the distributed nature of the platform.
So how does a sort actually work in this environment? Map/Reduce. Riak implements map/reduce as its way of querying the riak cluster. Lets keep this description light and simply say: Riak brings your query (for the most part) to the node where your data lives. The map part of your query is distributed about the cluster to the nodes where the data resides, executed, then results sent back to the originating node for the reduce phase. You can write your map/reduce query in two different languages - erlang and javascript (Spidermonkey is the internal JavaScript engine.)
So now that you have a basic theoretical underpinning, how does this actually work in practice? I'm including here a snippet of a heavily commented javascript function that i use in one of my nodejs apps. The bridge between nodejs and Riak is a module called riak-js (disclosure, I've contributed some patches.) Let's take a look, I'll see you on the other side.
Lets break this down. This function is part of a larger nodejs application that uses the fu router library lifted from node_chat, a quite approchable getting-to-know-node example application. No you can not cut and paste this code somewhere and have it work. What you should do is take a look at the map and reduceDescending variables (lines 15 and 40). Those functions are written in javascript and sent over the wire to riak. Lets go over some of the magic that makes this work.
Riak will gladly accept a bucket as it's input mechanism in a map/reduce. Although Basho has done a good amount of work to make this performant, simply passing a bucket will force an expensive list:keys operation internally. The more keys you have in your system the longer this will take. Sometimes this is unavoidable or even desirable. Most likely you will want to expressly pass keys to the map/reduce job. This is done in the format:
[ ["bucket","key1"],["bucket","key2"],["bucket","key3"],["bucket","key4"] ]
Now, although I'm passing the keys here in order (key1... keyN), recall that riak has no internal concept of ordering. The map phase will seek out the keys wherever they live and the result is not guaranteed to be ordered. What is needed is to sort the result set in the reduce phase once all the data has been collected. In this case I will be sorting by the X-Riak-Last-Modified header which is a date kept in the format "Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:46:02 GMT". Well, that doesn't look like a sortable string, does it? The trick is to turn it into an int, as I do on line 28:
o.lastModifiedParsed = Date.parse(v["values"][0]["metadata"]["X-Riak-Last-Modified"]);
Here the string date is pulled out of the header and converted via the native javascript function Date.parse() into an int. It is the int that allows the numeric sorting in the reduce phase on line 46:
v.sort ( function(a,b) { return b['lastModifiedParsed'] - a['lastModifiedParsed'] } );
The format "b-a" is what dictates descending order, conversely ascending order would be written as "a-b". Remember the value is embedded within a javascript object and needs to be accessed as such. This trick can be used with any integer value embedded in a json object. If my "key" (on line 30) were an int I could use that, or maybe a price or quantity value.
Map/reduce is a bit tricky to wrap you mind around when coming from a relational/sql background but the new breed of NoSQL databases available make it easy to duplicate many of those features. Riak exposes a fully functional map/reduce implementation to get at all the nested parts of your complex json documents. So what are you waiting for? Get codin!
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1 Java Web Services
2 What are Web Services? Definition of Web Services
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) organization, which establishes the standards for Web services, defines them as follows: "A Web service is a software system identified by a URI whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. A simpler definition, and perhaps more useful, might be: "a Web service is a software application, accessible on the Web through a URL, that is accessed by clients using XML-based protocols, such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) sent over accepted Internet protocols, such as HTTP. Clients access a Web service application through its interfaces and bindings, which are defined using XML artifacts, such as a Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) file." Web services provide a standardized way for applications to expose their functionality over the Web or communicate with other applications over a network, regardless of the application's implementation, programming language, or computer platform.
3 Web Services Benefits of Web Services Web services standards include:
Interoperability in a heterogeneous environment Business services through the Web Integration with existing systems Freedom of choice Support more client types Programming productivity Web services standards include: Common markup language for communication: Web services use eXtensible Markup Language (XML) for the common markup language. Common message format for exchanging information: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) provides a common message format for Web services. Common service specification formats: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) provides Web services with common specification formats. Common means for service lookup: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) specification defines a common means for looking up Web services.
4 Web Services The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) defines a standard way for specifying the details of a Web service. It is a general-purpose XML schema that can be used to specify details of Web service interfaces, bindings, and other deployment details. By having such a standard way to specify details of a service, clients can still use that Web service without prior knowledge of the service . WSDL specifies a grammar that describes Web services as a collection of communication endpoints, called ports. The data being exchanged are specified as part of messages. Every type of action allowed at an endpoint is considered an operation. Collections of operations possible on an endpoint are grouped together into port types. The protocol and data format specifications for a particular port type are specified as a binding. A port is defined by associating a network address with a reusable binding, and a collection of ports define a service. In addition, WSDL specifies a common binding mechanism to bring together all protocol and data formats with an abstract message, operation, or endpoint
5 Web Services WSDL Service Description
6 Web Services A complete WSDL document consists of a set of definitions starting with a root definitions element followed by six individual element definitions – types, message, portType, binding, port, and service – that describe the services. The types element defines the data types contained in messages exchanged as part of the service. Data types can be simple, complex, derived, or array types. Types, either schema definitions or references, that are referred to in a WSDL document's message element are defined in the WSDL document's type -element. The message element defines the messages that the Web service exchanges. A WSDL document has a message element for each message that is exchanged, and the message element contains the data types associated with the message. The portType element specifies, in an abstract manner, operations and messages that are part of the Web service. A WSDL document has one or more portType definitions for each Web service it defines. The binding element binds the abstract port type, and its messages and operations, to a transport protocol and to message formats. The service and port elements together define the name of the Web service and, by providing a single address for binding, assign an individual endpoint for the service. A port can have only one address. The service element groups related ports together and, through its name attribute, provides a logical name for the service.
7 J2EE Web Services Java APIs for XML Processing: Java APIs for XML Processing (JAXP) is a vendor-neutral set of lightweight APIs for parsing or processing XML documents. Java API for XML-Based RPC: Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) supports XML-based RPC for Java and J2EE platforms. It enables a traditional client-server remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism using an XML-based protocol. Java API for XML Registries: Java API for XML Registries (JAXR), a Java API for accessing business registries, has a flexible architecture that supports UDDI, and other registry specifications (such as ebXML). SOAP with Attachments API for Java: SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ), which enables developers to produce and consume messages conforming to the SOAP 1.1 specification and SOAP with Attachments note, provides an abstraction for handling SOAP messages with attachments. The Integrated Platform for Web Services in J2EE Platform: Using a JAX-RPC service endpoint or an EJB service endpoint. Support for WS-I (the Web Services Interoperability Organization) Basic Profile: Messaging standards (such as SOAP), Description and discovery standards (such as UDDI), and Security
8 Designing a Web service
Steps for designing a Web service: Decide on the interface for clients. Decide whether and how to publish this interface. Java Determine how to receive and preprocess requests. Determine how to delegate the request to business logic. Decide how to process the request. Determine how to formulate and send the response. Determine how to report problems. A Web service can be viewed in terms of layers: an interaction layer and a processing layer
9 Service's Interaction Layer
Two approaches to developing the interface definition for a Web service are: Java-to-WSDL: Start with a set of Java interfaces for the Web service WSDL-to-Java: Start with a WSDL document describing the details of the Web service interface . The endpoint type choice depends on the nature of your business logic: Use a JAX-RPC service endpoint when the processing layer is within the Web tier. Use an EJB service endpoint when the processing layer is only on the EJB tier. Example public interface WeatherService extends Remote { public String getWeather(String city) throws RemoteException; public String getWeather(int zip) throws RemoteException; }
10 Service's Interaction Layer
Parameter Types for Web Service Operations A Web service interface exposes a set of method calls to clients. When invoking a service interface method, a client may pass the parameters to the Web service. A method call and its parameters are sent as a SOAP message between the client and the service. When received at the client or service end, the parameters are mapped from XML to their proper types or objects. Parameters for Web service method calls may be standard Java objects and types, XML documents, or even nonstandard types. The J2EE platform supports the following Java data types: Java primitive types: boolean, byte, short, int, long, float, and double, along with their corresponding wrapper Java classes Standard Java classes: String, Date, Calendar, BigInteger, BigDecimal, QName, and URI QName class represents a combined definition of a qualified name with the following two specifications: XML Schema Part2: Datatypes specification, Namespaces in XML The value of a QName contains a namespaceURI and a localPart. Java arrays with JAX-RPC-supported Java types as members JAX-RPC value types: user-defined Java classes, including classes with JavaBeans component-like properties
11 Service's Interaction Layer
After you define the interface, you run the vendor-provided tool to create the WSDL from the interface. For example, in the J2EE 1.4 SDK its wscompile tool creates the WSDL from the WeatherService interface shown as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <definitions name="WeatherWebService" > <types/> <message name="WeatherService_getWeather"> <part name="int_1" type="xsd:int"/> </message> <message name="WeatherService_getWeatherResponse"> <part name="result" type="xsd:string"/> <message name="WeatherService_getWeather2"> <part name="String_1" type="xsd:string"/> <message name="WeatherService_getWeather2Response"> ... </definitions>
12 Service's Interaction Layer
Notice that the WSDL represents the getWeather overloaded methods as two different SOAP messages, naming one getWeather, which takes an integer for the zip code as its parameter, and the other getWeather2, which takes a string parameter for the city. As a result, a client interested in obtaining weather information using a city name invokes the service by calling getWeather2, as shown below: ... Context ic = new InitialContext(); WeatherWebService weatherSvc = (WeatherWebService) ic.lookup("java:comp/env/service/WeatherService"); WeatherServiceIntf port = (WeatherServiceInterface) weatherSvc.getPort(WeatherServiceInterface.class); String returnValue = port.getWeather2("San Francisco");
13 Service's Interaction Layer
If instead you choose to use the WSDL-to-Java approach, your WSDL description might look as follows. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <definitions name="WeatherWebService" ...> <types/> <message name="WeatherService_getWeatherByZip"> <part name="int_1" type="xsd:int"/> </message> <message name="WeatherService_getWeatherByZipResponse"> <part name="result" type="xsd:string"/> <message name="WeatherService_getWeatherByCity"> <part name="String_1" type="xsd:string"/> <message name="WeatherService_getWeatherByCityResponse"> ... </definitions>
14 Service's Interaction Layer
Since the messages in a WSDL file must have unique names, you must use different message names to represent methods that you would otherwise overload. These different message names actually convert to different method calls in your interface. Notice that the WSDL includes a method getWeatherByZip, which takes an integer parameter, and a method getWeatherByCity, which takes a string parameter. Thus, a client wishing to obtain weather information by city name from a WeatherService interface associated with the WSDL might invoke the service as shown below: Context ic = new InitialContext(); WeatherWebService weatherSvc = (WeatherWebService) ic.lookup("java:comp/env/service/WeatherService"); WeatherServiceIntf port = (WeatherServiceIntf) weatherSvc.getPort(WeatherServiceIntf.class); String returnValue = port.getWeatherByCity("San Francisco");
15 Service's Processing Layer
The service's processing layer processes the request and, when the processing completes, the service endpoint returns the response to the client. The following code shows the weather service interface performing some basic parameter validation checks in the interaction layer. public class WeatherServiceImpl implements WeatherService, ServiceLifecycle { public void init(Object context) throws JAXRPCException {....} public String getWeather(String city) throws CityNotFoundException { /** Validate parameters **/ if(!validCity(city)) throw new CityNotFoundException(....); /** Get weather info form processing layer and **/ / **return results **/ return (getWeatherInfoFromDataSource(city)); } public void destroy() {....}
16 Deploying and Packaging a Service Endpoint
Once you complete the Web services implementation, you must write its deployment descriptors, package the service with all its components, and deploy the service. Developers should use tools or IDEs to develop a Web service. These Web service development tools and IDEs automatically create the proper deployment descriptors for the service and correctly handle the packaging of the service – steps necessary for a service to operate properly. Furthermore, tools and IDEs hide these details from the developer. To successfully deploy a service, the developer provides the following information. Deployment-related details of the service implementation, including the Web service interface, the classes that implement the Web service interface, and so forth. Details about the Web services to be deployed, such as the ports and mappings Details on the WSDL port-to-port component relationship
17 Deploying and Packaging a Service Endpoint
More specifically, the deployment descriptor contains information about a service's port and associated WSDL. A port component (also called a port) gives a view of the service to clients such that the client need not worry about how the service has been implemented. Each port has an associated WSDL. Each port has an associated service endpoint (and its implementation). The endpoint services all requests that pass through the location defined in the WSDL port address. To begin, the service implementation declares its deployment details in the appropriate module-specific deployment descriptors. For example, a service implementation that uses a JAX-RPC service endpoint declares its details in the WEB-INF/web.xml file using the servlet-class element. The Web services deployment descriptor, webservices.xml, links the WSDL port information to a unique port component and from there to the actual implementation classes and Java-to-WSDL mappings.
18 Deploying and Packaging a Service Endpoint
web.xml File for a JAX-RPC Service Endpoint <web-app ...> ... <servlet> <description>Endpoint for Some Web Service</description> <display-name>SomeWebService</display-name> <servlet-name>SomeService</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.a.b.c.SomeServiceImpl</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <url-pattern>/webservice/SomeService</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> The Web services deployment descriptor, webservices.xml, links the WSDL port information to a unique port component and from there to the actual implementation classes and Java-to-WSDL mappings.
19 Deploying and Packaging a Service Endpoint
<webservices ...> <description>Web Service Descriptor for weather service </description> <webservice-description> <webservice-description-name>WeatherWebService</webservice-description-name> <wsdl-file>WEB-INF/wsdl/WeatherWebService.wsdl</wsdl-file> <jaxrpc-mapping-file>WEB-INF/WeatherWebServiceMapping.xml</jaxrpc-mapping-file> <port-component> <description>port component description</description> <port-component-name>WeatherServicePort</port-component-name> <wsdl-port xmlns:weatherns="urn:WeatherWebService"> weatherns:WeatherServicePort </wsdl-port> <service-endpoint-interface>endpoint.WeatherService</service-endpoint-interface> <service-impl-bean><servlet-link>WeatherService</servlet-link></service-impl-bean> </port-component> </webservice-description> </webservices>
20 Deploying and Packaging a Service Endpoint
Once the service implementation and deployment descriptors are completed, the following files should be packaged into the appropriate J2EE module: The WSDL file The service endpoint interface, including its implementation and dependent classes The JAX-RPC mapping file, which specifies the package name containing the generated runtime classes and defines the namespace URI for the service. The Web service deployment descriptor The type of endpoint used for the service implementation determines the type of the J2EE module to use. The appropriate J2EE module for a service with a JAX-RPC service endpoint is a WAR file. A service using an EJB service endpoint must be packaged in an EJB-JAR file. The package structure is as follows (Web Application Archive – WAR): WSDL files are located relative to the root of the module. The service interface, the service implementation classes, and the dependent classes are packaged just like any other J2EE component. The JAX-RPC mapping file is located relative to the root of the module (typically in the same place as the module's deployment descriptor). The Web service deployment descriptor location depends on the type of service endpoint,
21 Client Design Web services are only one of several ways for a client to access an application service. For example, Java applications may access application services using RMI/IIOP, JMS, or Web services. Interoperability is the primary advantage for using Web services as a means of communication. Web services use HTTP as the transport protocol, which enables clients to operate with systems through firewalls. The service's WSDL document enables clients and services that use very different technologies to map and convert their respective data objects. For services and clients that are based on JAX-RPC, the JAX-RPC runtime handles this mapping transparently. Scenarios for Web Services-Based Client Applications J2EE component – a J2EE component accesses a Web service. J2SE client – A J2SE client may access the same Web service as the J2EE component. J2ME client – A J2ME client may access the same Web service, Non-Java client – A non-Java client accesses the same Web service using SOAP over HTTP.
22 Client Design Each client type relies on a runtime – either a JAX-RPC or SOAP runtime to communicate the service.
23 Client Design J2EE Client: The J2EE platform provides many other technologies in addition to supporting Web services. Developers can obtain a richer set of functionality by using these other services, such as Web and EJB components, in addition to Web services for their client applications. J2SE Client: Developers of non-J2EE clients are responsible for much of the underlying work to look up a service and to create and maintain instances of classes that access the service. Since they cannot rely on a container, these developers must create and manage their own services and ensure the availability of all runtime environments needed to access the Web services. J2ME Clients: J2ME clients may access Web services using a subset of the JAX-RPC API.
24 Client Design Keep the following considerations in mind when designing J2ME clients. Connectivity and bandwidth limitations – J2ME clients may have limited bandwidth, intermittent disconnects, and fees for connection usage. Processing power – The processing capabilities of a Web service client should be considered in its design. State maintenance – J2ME clients may operate in a connected or disconnected mode, requiring the maintenance of state and synchronization between client and service. Communication Modes for Accessing a Service Using Stub Communication Using Dynamic Proxy Communication Using DII Call Interface
25 Client Design Using Stub Communication
J2EE clients should use generated stubs to access services, especially for services with fairly static interfaces. Stub communication easily allows Java access to a Web service. This is the recommended approach for accessing services and their WSDL files when they are unlikely to change over time. Using Dynamic Proxy Communication The dynamic proxies are similar in many ways to the stubs previously described. However, unlike stubs, the client developer needs only the client-side interface that matches the service endpoint interface. That is, clients using dynamic proxies program to an interface that ensures the client application is portable across other JAX-RPC runtime implementations. Developers using dynamic proxies must create Java classes to serve as JAX-RPC value types – these classes have an empty constructor and set methods for each field, similar to JavaBeans classes. Using DII (Dynamic Invocation Interface) Call Interface A client application may also dynamically access a Web service by locating the service at runtime from a registry. The client does not know about the service when it is compiled; instead, the client discovers the service's name from a JAXR registry at runtime. Along with the name, the client discovers the required parameters and return values for making a call to the service. Using a dynamic invocation interface, the client locates the service and calls it at runtime.
26 Client Design Accessing a Service with a Stub in J2SE and J2ME Environments The client application accesses a stub for a service using the method getOrderTrackingIntfPort on the generated implementation class, OpcOrderTrackingService_Impl, which is specific to each JAX-RPC runtime. J2SE or J2ME clients use these generated Impl files because they do not have access to the naming services available to clients in a J2EE environment through JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface) APIs. Stub stub = (Stub)(new OpcOrderTrackingService_Impl().getOrderTrackingIntfPort()); OrderTrackingIntf port = (OrderTrackingIntf)stub; In addition, a J2SE or J2ME client can access a service by using the javax.xml.rpc.ServiceFactory class to instantiate a stub object. The following code shows how a J2SE client might use a factory to locate the same order tracking service. ServiceFactory factory = ServiceFactory.newInstance(); Service service = factory.createService(new QName( "urn:OpcOrderTrackingService", "OpcOrderTrackingService"));
27 Client Design J2SE Client Dynamic Proxy Service Lookup
ServiceFactory sf = ServiceFactory.newInstance(); String wsdlURI = " URL wsdlURL = new URL(wsdlURI); Service ots = sf.createService(wsdlURL, new QName("urn:OpcOrderTrackingService", "OpcOrderTrackingService")); OrderTrackingIntf port = ( OrderTrackingIntf)ots.getPort(new QName( "urn:OpcOrderTrackingService", "OrderTrackingIntfPort"), OrderTrackingIntf.class); ...
28 Java-based Web Services Developing Tools
To build and run a Web service, here is the list of tools: Sun's J2SE JDK: Sun's J2SE development toolkit provides build tools and utilities. Web container: Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 Update 2: The Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 is the implementation of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 specification. Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Service Pack 3: The Java System Web Server delivers built-in Web security with unmatched reliability for all types of Web applications, including those based on JSP/Servlet technologies. Tomcat 5.0 for Java WSDP: This Web container is based on Apache's Jakarta Tomcat. It implements the JSP and servlet specifications. While it is not intended for production use, it provides an easy-to-learn and use platform for hosting a Web service. Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.6: A Web service toolkit that can be integrated with the Tomcat Web container (above) that will allow you to build and test Web services. Apache Ant: A Java-based tool for building and deploying your Web service.
29 Developing the Example Application
The formula for developing this application can be divided into two parts: Sever: developing the Web service Client: developing the Java Client that accesses that Web service. The basic steps to create a Web service and deploy it to the Tomcat server are as follows: Write the Web service interface class. Write the Web service implementation class. Write the associated descriptor files (all XML files). Compile the service and generate Web services stubs/ties and WSDL file using tools provided with the Java Web Services Developer Pack. Deploy the web service to the Tomcat server.
30 Developing the Example Application
Write the Web service interface class. import java.rmi.Remote; import java.rmi.RemoteException; public interface HelloService extends Remote { public String sayHello(String msg) throws RemoteException; } Write the Web service implementation class. public class HelloImpl implements HelloService { public String sayHello(String msg) { String result = " Hi " + msg + " From Server for WSDL client"; System.out.println("In sayHello for WSDL : " + msg); return result;
31 Developing the Example Application
Web Service Client import javax.xml.rpc.Stub; public class HelloClient { public static void main(String[] args) { try { Stub stub = createProxy(); HelloService hello = (HelloService)stub; System.out.println(hello.sayHello("Duke!")); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } private static Stub createProxy() { return (Stub)(new MyHello_Impl().getHelloServicePort());
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Illustration of essay in economics. Main a few ideas of Adam Smith
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In teaching system of many universites and colleges, the initial homework you receive when start learning economics, may be the essay concerning the person, who is regarded as being the father of economics as being a branch of science. When you yourself have equivalent task, this informative article is very helpful for you, as it contains a typical example of such an assignment.
What do you realize about Adam Smith, dad of economics?
What main ideas of Adam Smith were the main? Today, why don't we make an effort to explain what contribution Adam Smith made into the economy and economics as being a science.
Adam Smith's key ideas and economic views were the cornerstone of development of economics. In the first scholarly works published during his studies, Adam Smith defined the commercial principles ahead of the formation of machine manufacturing. He predicted the priorities regarding the economy associated with market for way of production in line with the analysis regarding the state of agriculture and crafts in England. These views are lay out in the monograph "Theory of Moral Sentiments".
Adam Smith's work ended up being highly appreciated by philosophers and economists. Whenever "Theory of Moral Sentiments" arrived on the scene on the planet, its author received recognition. The a few ideas of Adam Smith on economic concept are developed in the "Study on the Nature and results in of this riches of Nations." He argued that the development of social wealth and production can be done through the free movement of goods and financial competition. In this instance, state legislation and interference of power in the activities of manufacturers must certanly be absent. Smith sharply criticized the insurance policy of mercantilism. Providing this is of capital, sharing its main and reversible.
What's the contribution of Adam Smith?
In those days, both metal and paper money acted. He advocated the replacement of coins by paper money, substantiating the importance of financial transactions and banks in the act of developing agrarian and industrial state capacity. Adam Smith wrote that the foundation of capital just isn't money, but real labor rights and production. He has got created a college of freetrader. That is a entirely new way when you look at the theory of economics and policy of industrial capital. It really is predicated on free trade, non-interference of power in entrepreneurial activity, and balanced tariff and tariff policy.
English thinker Adam Smith emphasized the significance of a smart decision upon which services and products should be exported because of the country, such that it had an absolute superiority in the international market, while manufacturing unit costs were lower than in other countries.
The main ideas of Adam Smith in analyzing the political economy:
• employed employees are assigned to a different course;
• it is crucial to tell apart between unproductive labor and productive one;
• state energy should take part in the battle against crime, the defense of the nation, the corporation of monetary and economic tasks, to guard the economy of the country, rather than to climb in to the manufacturing process itself.
These ideas are set forth within the "Study on the Nature and results in of the Wealth of Nations." We wish that with this article you will discover out what Adam Smith views on economics were and exactly how to publish a short essay about the father of eliteessaywriters economics.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
And You Thought I Had Something Interesting to Say.
So right now I'm chillin' under my bed in this neat-o taquito fort I made all by my lonesome.
Roomie is out with friends.
Other friends are out with...other friends.
I've been watching Big, Bang Theory for the better part of the day. When I haven't been doing that, I've been reading some On the Road.
By myselfness.
It seems like that's how I've spent the past week or so since I got home. By myself. Generally bored. Granted, I was doing homework like a maniac once I got back, writing papers and catching up on reading. But somehow, miraculously, the only thing I have left for the rest of the semester is studying for finals.
I'm so bored. Because I'm a boring person, I guess.
It kind of sucks. Not gonna lie.
I had the time of my life going back home for Thanksgiving (well, for the most part). I was constantly surrounded by people, mostly friends. It was wonderful.
And then I come back to California and I find that I really have no one. I mean, there's a few...but for the most part I'm just kind of chilling all by myself.
Pathetic, right?
I mean, it's not like I chose to be this way. I have friends. We just generally lead different lifestyles so they're always busy when I'm not. Most people would say "Well go make more friends" and I constantly have to remind them that I don't function like that.
I mean, I don't.
Don't think I'm trying to pull this whole "oh, poor Chelsea" act. I'm not. Because honestly I've come to accept the fact that I do and will spend the majority of my time by myself. Most people my age can go out, either to a party or something else, and make instant best friends with 30 people. I can't do that. It takes a while for me to be friends with anyone because I have to find a connection, have to be able to trust them.
I don't not trust a single one of my friends. Once I stop trusting one, they're blocked from my life like that.
Similarly, I don't not have a connection with any of my friends. There's some strand of our personalities that are completely like each other in the not-annoying-but-omg-i-can-always-talk-about-whatever-i-want-with-you-and-be-ok. I can't just me "meh" with people and see them when I see them.
They mean more to me than that.
Guys, I love you. :)
My point: I'm alone a lot of the time out here because I haven't been able to find many of those people that I just instantly jive with and jiving has continued.
I think I had some sort of point to prove with this blog. But I'm pretty sure I lost it. :-/
Welp, my lack of interesting-ness is over with so until next posting, keep cool.
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Archive: June 26, 2016
How Dental Bonding Can Change The Look And Feel Of Your Teeth
how-dental-bonding-can-change-your-teeth Superficial damages to the natural tooth structures can undermine both their integrity and the overall look of your smile. Dental bonding is a relatively inexpensive treatment that can instantly restore chipped or cracked teeth to their former aesthetic beauty. This treatment can also bolster and protect weakened or damaged tooth structures, so that additional harm is less likely to be sustained. How Dental Bonding Works During the bonding process, a composite resin is applied to the tooth surfaces. This resin adheres to the teeth to conceal problems such as chips, cracks, natural imperfections and discoloration. It can additionally be used to fill in minor cavities and to restore teeth that have otherwise been compromised. Dental bonding is currently considered one of the most affordable and effective alternatives to porcelain veneers. Best of all, dental bonding can also improve how your teeth feel. It can be uncomfortable to run your tongue over cracked and ragged tooth surfaces or to have these constantly pressed into the cheek. Bonding creates a smooth and entirely natural-feeling surface so that chewing and talking are not uncomfortable. Easily And Safely Increase Your Confidence With Dental Bonding Dental bonding is not just affordable. It is also one of the shortest, restorative treatments that people can receive given that bonding can be completed in a single office visit. This treatment is also highly versatile and can be used to treat one tooth or all of them. Bonding can even be employed as part of a multi-pronged treatment plan that includes other restorative procedures. Best of all, unless bonding is being used for the restoration of a decayed tooth, anesthesia is rarely necessary.
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Are You Brushing Your Teeth The Wrong Way?
are-you-brushing-your-teeth-the-wrong-way-roseville-dentist Brushing and flossing are two of the most important parts of your ongoing oral care. Unfortunately, you may be doing one of these things all wrong. Given that brushing is such a standard part of a person's daily routine, most people simply go through the motions without ever giving their actions much thought. Following are several mistakes that you could be making each time you brush your teeth. Using A Toothbrush That's Too Large You shouldn't have to strain to open your mouth wide enough to let your toothbrush in. Your toothbrush should have a nice, comfortable fit and it should be slim enough to angle in towards your back teeth. If your toothbrush is too large, you're probably missing multiple tooth surfaces each and every day. This can allow build-ups of tartar, plaque and harmful bacteria to weaken and erode the teeth. Using Bristles That Are Too Hard There's no need to scrub your tooth surfaces with a harsh, hard-bristled brush in order to remove trapped food and other debris. In fact, this technique can make the gums sore and inflamed, which will make you less likely to do a thorough job. Surprisingly, brushing your teeth temporarily softens the enamel, especially if you brush right after an acidic meal. This means that you should always use a slow, gentle and circular motion while brushing with a soft or medium-bristled toothbrush.
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Wanna get that power from the engine to the gearbox? The clutch is pretty crucial to this!
Ducati dry clutch renewal: Monster S2R1000
Motorbike wet clutch rebuild: illustrated using Yamaha RD250LC
Filing your clutch basket: what to do, and what not to do
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Tech companies are taking a stand against wildlife trafficking
Wildlife trafficking is a pervasive crime that endangers animals and threatens wildlife populations. The internet has made it even easier for traffickers to illegally trade animals and products like ivory and rhino horn online. Now, 21 leading tech companies are working together to prevent animal trading on their sites and platforms.
Recently, the Global Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online was launched by TRAFFIC, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and includes companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Instagram, and Alibaba. The coalition will “work together to collectively reduce wildlife trafficking across platforms by 80% by 2020.”
The black market for wildlife products is more expansive and accessible than ever thanks to the anonymity the internet can provide. We might think of crimes like ivory trade as something from a bygone era, but new technology creates new avenues for criminal activity to emerge.
The current challenge in putting an end to illegal trafficking isn’t that companies don’t care; when such activity is spotted, companies often do take action — but the criminals just move to another platform. As a coalition, companies could stand together to better identify and stop traffickers. Law enforcement can’t effectively police every platform or website that might be utilized for trafficking. Nor can each platform or website monitor for trafficking effectively on their own. “If you have one weak link in the chain, that’s where all of the illegal trade will gravitate towards,” said Crawford Allan, the senior director of wildlife crime at the WWF and TRAFFIC, to National Geographic. “It’s like the whack-a-mole effect.”
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i'm alive and well
Friday, December 3, 2010
Teeth of wisdom
I got my wisdom teeth out today.
Before you start thinking "Unicorn After" on me, I did not rap about Jesus.
(Though that would've been super cool)
I'm more wondering how that girl managed to speak so well with the gauze in her mouth, and judging by how numb my mouth was, she must've bitten her tongue or cheek a couple of times.
Anyway. For those who haven't gotten yours out yet, let me describe it.
When you first get there, you'll probably wait for a bit in the waiting room (of course, haha) and then you'll be called in to one of the rooms. The nurse lady will ask a couple questions about allergies and meds you take and then she'll explain what all will happen.
She should take your blood pressure and then start hooking up the electrode monitor for your heart. Then she'll put on the oxygen mask that will also give you the laughing gas when it comes closer to starting the surgery.
The anesthesiologist person will come in and hook up your IV. If you've had your blood drawn before, it's a poking feeling and then a little irritating/discomforting, but it won't be for long. After that, they'll give you the laughing gas and the IV drugs. They also gave me a sugar-water mixture in the IV, but I'm not sure if that's normal procedure or if they did it for me because I'm diabetic.
You'll black out pretty fast once the drugs start pumping. The surgery should take around 30 to 40 minutes, but when you're out, it'll feel closer to a couple seconds. When I first came to, I kinda went back under for a couple minutes and then woke up again. They didn't seem too concerned about it, so I think that's relatively normal. I feel exhausted afterwards but not in pain. The nurse waited till I didn't feel nauseous or anything, had my dad pull up the car and helped me into the car. That's when I started feeling really tired. I slept the way home, other than mumbling at my dad to get me a chocolate frosty.
When I got home, I took out my gauze and ate my frosty- though I was too numb to actually taste it. I thought I could feel a little pain, but it wasn't terrible. I replaced my gauze and I slept for about an hour and a half.
Then it really hurt. I woke up and realized it hurt like a you-know-what. I took out the gauze, practically screamed, then put more gauze in. I crashed on our couch and walked tv while icing my cheek. The nurse said to alternate 20 mins on and 20 mins off, but I just did what felt good- didn't go by actual time increments. I made sure not to keep it on for long periods of time though, because it really didn't feelthat good.
The bleeding stopped (to the point where I could stop using the gauze) at about 6- like 5 hours after the surgery. They said to start soaking the gauze in ice water if it doesn't stop after 4, but I didn't and it was fine. lol.
So now I'm still icing my cheek and every once and awhile I'll eat some pudding or drink water, but even that hurts so I have a feeling I won't be eating much the next week.
Anyway, that's how it went!
Monday, November 1, 2010
They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win
It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting
A Slight Figure of Speech
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
I am very tired.
But relatively pleased.
I had Blazer production night tonight and sold an ad. :) WOOT!
Then I went to the barn and soaked Rainy's hoof in epsom saltwater. ICK.
(But she's getting much better, thank goodness.)
And then I went to the YMCA and exercised with Sara Helen Plensdorf. TIRED!
We did the treadmills, the bikes, part of the lift-y machine-a-majigs, and then finished with the ellipticals, which sucked hardcore. But I felt fit!
And then I came home and ate ice cream. :/
Bwahahaha, blogging at school. :) Not that it matters, because NO ONE'S ON BLOGGER ANYMORE! THANKS A LOT GUYS! D:<
Friday, October 8, 2010
"You say go slow, I fall behind."
First- the cat [Tally-wa]. Check her out on facebook.
Second- the horse. doing better.
Third- Mumford & Sons
Fourth- Noah Jones, Time After Time
Friday, September 17, 2010
Whenever I'm texting someone, I always want to add some sort of awkward noise at the end. Like URGGH, or AHGHHGHGH, or maybe even PSHT! But I never know how exactly I should spell such word in a way that they could understand what I mean.
I hate that.
So usually I just put 'grr', which is overrated and overused, and I dislike it. Occasionally I'll put 'argh', or 'ugh', but they just don't convey the same message as NURGHHHH!
I'm also slightly concerned that if I used such noise text, they would think I just fell down a flight* of stairs, or turned into a zombie, or perhaps nailed my hand to tree. None of which has happened to me...
yet. Knock on wood.
Anyhow, I think I'm going to go change my background/template thing, cos I'm a little sick of the birds.
*Why why why is it called a flight of stairs? It's literally begging people to fall down them. Sigh.
Monday, September 6, 2010
the coming fall
The first day of school.
I'm not even going to describe it- if you are to the point where you need someone to do that, I've lost hope. But really. Where did summer go?
Ah well.
I welcome fall with open arms.
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Lately, I've found her gone after I wake up. So today, I decided to keep her close. It's 4 in the morning, I'm still awake trying to learn when she goes away. She does look amazing while asleep. The cutest thing I had ever seen. I leant and kissed on her forehead, as a tear trickled down my eyes on to her cheeks. I rubbed it off.
It's 4.30. I'm getting desperate. So I decided to wake her up.
"Wake up honey. Wake up." She woke up, placing her hands on my cheeks.
"What happened baby?" I pulled her up, held her by her head tightly and looked into her eyes, "Are you scared of me babe?" She turned her eyes aside.
I slid her hair up to her ears and kissed her. The ear-held hair revealed a mark on her neck. A reddish pluck. She tried to hide it with her hands.
"It's okay honey. It's mine." I am not angry.
"Do you know Claire, I hate to miss you. I miss you when I find you gone in the morning. I don't wanna share you with anyone else. That's the reason I don't keep any pictures of the two of us together. They say its bad omen if someone stares a tad longer than usual. I want us to be perfect."
I saw her sobbing, trying to conceal her cries. Rubbing her eyes with her palms.
"Hush baby. We're here. I ain't going anywhere".
The scattered mascara and broken voice told a story I didn't wanna hear. So I tied her mouth with a handkerchief. She held my face, rubbing my cheeks. I pulled her closer and our foreheads struck. I could see our tears wet our laps.
"It will be over soon honey." I said and kissed her forehead.
"You know, you make me very angry every morning when I don't see you. Kate laughs at me when I talk about you. Mom thinks I'm crazy. Do you think I'm crazy Claire? I... I think I should keep my voice down. They shouldn't know you and I are here together. But you know Claire, I won't let you go today." I said.
She stared at the scars that filled my forearm.
"Ohh, this is nothing babe," I told her.
Her fumbled cries tried to break out of the concealment I put her in. I caressed her waist as she moaned. Unplugged her belt as she closed her eyes. I pulled it out.
"Come on give me your hand babe" I said.
She obliged and put it forward. I entangled her fingers with mine and we both stared at it. I pulled the handkerchief down.
"You and I are meant to be together", I said as I tied her belt onto our wrists.
She had her Jeans unbuttoned but she couldn't care less. She knew me. She was scared of me. She loved me.
"It's bliss. Isn't it?" I asked as I finished tying up our wrists. "I don't wanna ask again. Do I?"
"No, yes, yes it is bliss", she prompted.
"That's the reason I love you babe. You know what they say, blood relations are the purest. You and I aren't related by blood. But ours is an honest relation. Isn't it Claire?" I said.
She nodded in agreement. I searched the drawer for the piece of blade that had since given me immense pleasure.
"Oh don't worry we'll be fine. Now, we can't be separated", I said as I pulled back up the handkerchief.
I started carving out beside my thumb, went around my hand, across hers. She closed her eyes as if she and I were one once again. We stared onto each other as the blood flowed down our forearms. I pulled apart the handkerchief and kissed her. I could feel her tears on my cheeks. God, I loved her.
The head ache had returned once again. It felt like a cavalry trying to run down my skull. I screamed as she got up. I begged her to stay. I was blacking out. I tried to hold on to her but I could no longer feel her hands tied to mine. My heart skipped a beat. It turned black soon. The voices drowned out and nothingness swallowed me up once again.
The bells had been rung. As the screams prompted them to run. The ward boys unlocked room 317 to find David Wilson drowned in his own blood, with his radial artery slit wide open.
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Tales of Midgard is a collection of fantasy stories, mostly comics, set in the world of Midgard, which is not the same as in Norse mythology, but if you are vigilant enough you’ll find a reference or two here and there. While all stories are set in the same world, the actual settings for each individual tale varies a lot. Depending on the time and age of a story, the settings of some might be more modern than others.
The “main” storyline, titled Tales of Midgard: The Age of Magic, is about the adventures of a young knight named Anne White.
Content Warnings
• Violence: Fantasy Violence
• Profanity: Mild Profanity
• Adult Themes: -
Violence is mostly the same as typical action/adventure violence.
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Erzsébet Schlett: Liz is a Professional graphic designer and self-taught illustrator. She always wanted to make her own comic. Tales of Midgard: The Age of Magic is her first comic.
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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 ADMIT TO GOD THAT YOU'RE A SINNER, AND NEED FORGIVENESS! For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. – Romans 3:23NKJV For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. – James 2:10 NKJV As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; – Romans 3:10 NKJV For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 6:23 NKJV If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. – 1 John 1:9 NKJV It is tough to admit that we are wrong. Even before God, we feel we are basically good, and we would like to think we are never as bad as some others. The truth is we are all sinners and can never be good enough to earn our way to heaven. God’s Word, the Bible, clearly states that ALL have sinned (done things that are wrong and against God). God is holy and just. Sins against a Holy God deserve punishment. We are told in the Bible that the wages or payment for sin is death—eternal death in hell. However, a loving, merciful God has provided a rescue plan! Both John the Baptist and Jesus himself began their preaching with the word, ‘Repent’. (“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.†–Matthew 4:17 NKJV) To repent means ‘change one’s mind’ or to turn — to go in another direction. How can we be led to repentance? The first step toward repentance is true sorrow for what we’ve done wrong. “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.†– 2 Corinthians 7:10 NKJV. Worldly sorrow is more like the regret of a criminal who’s just been caught whereas godly sorrow is the deep remorse or conviction that produces a change in direction. Have you ever felt convicted after doing something wrong? The Bible says that the Holy Spirit is the one that convicts us of our sin. (John 16:7-8) BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART THAT JESUS IS GOD'S SON For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.â€- John 3:16-17 NKJV …The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel. – Mark 1:15 NKJV Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.†– Acts 19:4 NKJV So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.†– Acts 16:31 NKJV And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the Name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment. – 1 John 3:23 NKJV For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. – Ephesians 2:8-9 NKJV Salvation is not complicated. Jesus said, “Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.†– Mark 10:15 NKJV A child simply puts their trust (faith) in the father’s strong arms. Likewise, we entrust our life to Jesus Christ—believing on Him and His finished work on the cross. The Apostle Paul defined the message of the Gospel (good news) like this— “For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,†– 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 NKJV Jesus Christ, the perfect, sinless lamb of God, laid down His life and took the penalty meant for us, dying in our place (Isaiah 53:6). He paid the debt we could not pay and redeemed us (bought us back) from the power of sin and death. (John 1:29 / Galatians 3:13 / Romans 3:25) CONFESS CHRIST PUBLICLY …that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. – Romans 10:9-10 NKJV For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. – Romans 1:16 NKJV God did his part, sending His one and only Son to die in our place. He has offered us a free gift — salvation, the forgiveness of sin, eternal life with Him in heaven. BUT… we must receive that gift. We must confess our sins (1 John 1:9) and confess (or proclaim) our faith (belief) in the death, burial and resurrection of God’s son, Jesus Christ. Confessing with our mouth requires an outward, public action, not a secret, hidden, timid faith. The Apostle Paul boldly proclaimed his faith so that others could hear and be saved. God’s plan of salvation is freely offered to everyone. So… what happens next? Well, that’s up to you! If you are reading this article and want to receive this free gift of eternal life, there is NO reason to wait! God’s Word says, “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. – 2 Corinthians 6:2b NKJV [warning]None of us knows how long we have on this earth. Waiting on such an important decision may prove to be a costly (and eternal) mistake. The only opportunity we are guaranteed to have is right now![/warning] Heavenly Father, I know that I’ve sinned against You. I realize that the penalty for sin is death. Thank you for sending Your Son, Jesus, to die, shedding His own blood on the cross in my place so that I could receive His righteousness by faith. I now confess my sins to You and ask for Your forgiveness. I believe that Jesus died and rose again so that I can be forgiven and live forever with Him. Here and now, I surrender my life, my plans, my goals to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. By God’s strength, I will seek to share about what God has done in my life with each opportunity God brings my way. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen. Remember, the Bible says we are saved by grace through faith… God sees our heart. We are not saved by simply saying some special words in a formal prayer. We are saved when we reach out by faith, admitting our sin, believing on Christ and confess Him as our Lord and Savior. Saving faith produces a forever changed life. If you have prayed this prayer, we rejoice with you. Heaven itself is even rejoicing with you! Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” – Luke 15:10 NKJV I prayed to receive Christ! Is that it? Nope. Your journey as a follower (disciple) of Jesus Christ has just begun. A newborn baby needs nourishment and care to grow, so too you will need God’s Word, the Bible, to learn and grow in your faith. You should also seek out a church (a group of other believers in Jesus Christ) that believes and teaches the unchangeable Word of God. There you find support and encouragement as your faith grows. There will be battles ahead, but you will not have to fight alone. Let us know that you have prayed this prayer and how we can pray for you!
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1. [ noun ] (economics,business,agriculture) the yield from plants in a single growing season
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• Cliches of a Crappy Site ·
If you’ve browsed through many personal sites at all, you’ve probably seen some of the following things that make me personally cringe. I don’t understand why they’re so trendy, since they don’t improve a site in the least.
• neat code ·
One of the easiest ways to keep your code easy to update, read, and debug is to keep it neat. That means indentation, documentation, consistency, and logic need to be applied. These are basics in any programming class, and they are just as applicable with coding HTML as they are with C++ or any other programming language.
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Preces & Responses, Mixolydian
SATB, unaccompanied; moderately difficult.
Set to the traditional words of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, this electrifying music, with its vaulted lines and expressive choral writing, will illuminate choral Evensong in wonderfully new ways. Many American choirs now regularly feature this setting on their English tours.
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AGO2014 Hymn Festival
Standing room only. Hundreds of people who love to sing hymns. Scroll down to hear recordings.
Hymn Festival Program Booklet
Prelude - Siciliano from Paschal Suite for Brass and Organ
Hymn - Praise to the Lord the almighty
Hymn - Hark A thrilling voice is sounding
Read more to hear the rest of the live recording.
Hymn - Once in Royal David's City
Hymn - Angels from the Realms of Glory
Hymn - How Bright Appears the Morning Star
Hymn - Ask Ye What Great Thing I Know
Anthem - A Fair and Delectable Place
Anthem - The Dawning
Hymn - Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Hymn - Thing Be the Glory
Hymn - Come Down O Love Divine
Anthem - O Thou Who Camest from Above
Hymn - The Church's' One Foundation
Hymn - Holy, Holy, Holy
Hymn - O God Beyond all Praising
Postlude - Dupre Prelude and Fugue in B Major Op. 7 No. 1, Colin Lynch - Organist
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Don't Stress the Mess - A Confession from a Not So Special, Special Needs Mom
Here goes, a confession from a not so special, special needs mom.
My house is quite often a horrific wreck! Not only is it a wreck, it's most likely dusty, and in desperate need of an over haul.
You know what? It's okay. That quote, "Pardon the mess, but the children are busy making memories," well, we're doing that, but the real truth is, we're busy LIVING!
All parents know (special needs or otherwise,) that keeping a house clean when you have kids is like eating Oreos and trying to brush your teeth. It doesn't happen. If it does happen, our children wreck it before we're even finished.
Laundry? Don't get me started there. You're NEVER caught up on laundry. EVER. Why? Because for every person in your house, you have to count what they're wearing. Your hampers may be empty, but in a family of three (like mine,) that's three dirty outfits. Bath time, that's 3 dirty towels. Bedding? That's three beds worth of bedding. You get the idea.
How about your floors? I only have carpet in three rooms, but in the summer time, my living room generally has more grass on it than the yard. Why? Because my son and the neighbor kids are in and out like our front door revolves. Summer is mowing season, and therefore all the grass is being tracked into my house.
Chachkies, or as my hubby calls them, dust collectors. I used to LOVE chachkies! Any more, I loathe them. All they do is remind me that I'm too busy or too damn tired to dust them. They really don't look good any more because I can't see them through all the dust. And ceilings! Who the hell knew that you have to dust your ceilings all the time? Seriously? Who has time for that? Not me, which is why you'll see dust bunnies up there. (Please don't look up if you come to visit us.)
We recently got a puppy. She's being trained to be a support dog for my son. There are dog toys from one end of my living room to the other. I don't dare pick them up, because she's so easily side tracked that she'll chew the carpet if a toy isn't in front of her face. If you come to my house any time soon, keep your shoes on too. You won't want to step in a wet spot from sopped up pee and carpet cleaner.
The toilet. As a boy mom, I loathe cleaning the damn toilets. I seriously think he makes it his mission to pee everywhere but IN the toilet. Just my house? I don't think so.
Back to laundry. My boy is autistic and has sensory issues. He changes his clothes many times a day. There could be a hamper right next to him, but the dirty clothes are either in a pile next to it, or trailing the room where he took them off. (We're working on this.)
You get the idea, my house is a mess. It used to REALLY bother me. Especially when we had support staff for my son, in and out of here every day. Now? Well now I've learned that it only causes me undue stress to worry about it. Now I ask people to call before they come over. That way I can get that quick 20 minute straighten up in. If you just show up at my door, I can promise you, my house will be a wreck. There may not even be a place for you to sit, because my son's toy obsessions are usually all over the furniture.
I "DEEP" clean once a week. That's Sunday. If you want to see my house looking great, I suggest you come before I finish on Sunday. Otherwise, I can't promise you'll see it clean. I really don't care. 30 years from now I'm not going to remember how messy my house was. I'm going to remember raising my son. That's what really matters any way.
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Then and Now: Frog & Toad and Ballet Cat
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The thing about picture books (or early readers in this case!) is that they can stick in your heart and your brain and become an actual memory, a feeling, and a true part of your childhood. In this series, we’ll take a look at picture books of the past and relive those memories through modern picture books. Let’s make connections between then and now.
Here’s a look at friends, the very best kind.
Raise your hand if you checked out Frog and Toad Are Friends from your school library every other week, and only returned it in the meantime because you knew being a friend meant sharing the things you love the most. You too?
These amphibians taught a lot of us all we know about letter-writing and kite-flying and button-finding, and they may live deeper in your heart than you thought slimy things could get. And isn’t that wonderful?
Do you remember how different they are? How Frog is kind of cheery where Toad is kind of calm? That Frog is confident enough to skinny-dip, and Toad is a bit bashful.
But they always love each other the same.
Stories are safe places to figure out friendships and to see ourselves and others.
There are two new friends on the block, as different from and devoted to one another as Frog and Toad. Meet Ballet Cat and Sparkle Pony in Ballet Cat: The Totally Secret Secret by Bob Shea. I’m sure you can imagine that Ballet Cat’s most favorite thing is dancing and leaping and spinning, but do you see Sparkle Pony’s eyes? He might be a little weary of playing ballet, although he is not weary of Ballet Cat herself.
And that is a tricky thing to navigate.
This pair of books is for wishing that your secret secret is safe. For duos that are different from each other, and for the love of friends.
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back from greenbelt !
lest we forget had a fab fab time!
went to and enjoyed:
Steve tomkins – speed christianity
rev gerald ambulance (aka steve tomkins)
fair trade panel
john archer
last orders
phillip yancy (secret of the universe)
simon morden (literature venue)
suzanne elvidge (lit venue)
a bit miffed that i didn’t get to:
jude simpson (sorry jude!)
woebegone brothers (band from long ago)
simon mayo (i’m sorry i haven’t a poo)
cider and carols (in organic beer tent)
several ‘social justice/ethical living’ talks/workshops
finally, i v v much enjoyed:
hot chocolate with cream and brandy
see my piccies here.
my books on sale!
books wot i rote
SU are selling my books, which are normally £6:99, for a mere £2:99!
see here
should i be happy about this or not? does it mean they are so fed up with having stock lying around that they want to get rid of them? or should i feel honoured? I expect the former is more accurate, but i’m going to go with the latter, as i’m a positive kind of person!
i only get 50 pennies for each book anyway, so haven’t quite made my 1st million yet. not even my 1st million pennies; now THAT i’d settle for!
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How to Upload Photos to Instagram Website
on Sunday, August 5, 2018
Big Instagram information today: for the first time ever, you not should have the Instagram mobile app in order to Publish pictures or videos. But prior to you obtain your hopes up, you still cannot Publish photos to Instagram from your desktop computer. How To Upload Photos To Instagram Website: What you can do, however, is utilize Instagram's freshly upgraded mobile web site to publish to Instagram from internet.
How To Upload Photos To Instagram Website
The best ways to Publish to Instagram From Web (Mobile Web, that is):
Action # 1: Go to from your mobile browser - we evaluated both Safari as well as Google Chrome and both of them worked fine! You'll see a button to open the page in the Instagram application, however you could simply ignore it or "x" out of it.
Action # 2: Click the camera button in the bottom centre, much like you would certainly in the mobile application. You are after that motivated to either take an image, upload one from your picture collection, or gain access to a storage service like Dropbox under "more".
Step # 3: Choose your image! You are then taken to a page where you could chop or turn your photo. You'll see that there isn't really the ability to include a filter or edit your picture, like there is in the application. Click next.
Step # 4: Currently you could compose your Instagram inscription! Once again, posting to Instagram from web is extra minimal than the Instagram application, as you can not label anybody or include an area, and also Instagram hashtags don't auto-generate for you.
Step # 5: Click "Share" and your photo or video clip will be uploaded to Instagram!
Undoubtedly, the experience is a lot better on the native Instagram app, however the mobile web sight has actually come a long way as well as really really feels really similar to the indigenous Instagram experience, particularly the home feed.
So, why would you want to Post to Instagram from web on your phone instead of using the native Instagram application? If you have an iPhone or an Android, you possibly don't wish to. Yet my mama still has a Blackberry, so she is limited to utilizing Instagram just on her iPad. Yet with the brand-new mobile internet, I'm anticipating more charming Mom comments on a routine basis as she ends up being a more active Instagram customer.
The new Instagram mobile website works on any smart phone or tablet, which will just increase Instagram's reach, specifically in nations where having an apple iphone is a severe high-end. As Instagram ends up being increasingly more international, having the ability to post from any type of gadget online is key to giving every person the capacity to utilize the platform (and also article selfies!). Could we see uploads to Instagram from desktop soon? This could be a step in the direction of that instructions.
If you love the idea of posting to Instagram from your PC or Mac, you could sign up for Later! You could Upload all your photos straight from your desktop, kind your inscriptions on your computer, and afterwards schedule them for when you intend to upload.
Later on deals with our mobile application, which sends you a press notice when it's time to upload and also automatically pulls in your image to Instagram for you and copies your subtitle. All you need to do is open the press notification, press "paste" in the subtitle, as well as voila! You've simply posted to Instagram without needing to send any images back and forth from your phone.
How to Upload Photos to Instagram Website 4.5 5 Sahibul Anwar Sunday, August 5, 2018 Big Instagram information today: for the first time ever, you not should have the Instagram mobile app in order to Publish pictures or video...
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New Testament Problems and Answers
Internal Inconsistencies
The genealogies of Matthew and Luke contradict each other
Where did Joseph take Jesus from Bethlehem?
Where did Jesus go after his baptism?
Did Jesus speak to the Centurion?
Where did Jesus heal the maniac?
Was Jairus' daughter dead?
Staves or no staves?
Sign or no sign?
When was Jesus transfigured?
When did Jesus cleanse the Temple?
When was the Last Supper?
Did Jesus say he would destroy the Temple?
Did Jesus teach in secret?
How many times did the cock crow?
What was written on Jesus' Cross?
What were Jesus' final words?
Who saw Jesus after his resurrection?
How did Judas die?
Was Abraham justified by faith or works?
Contradictions and Inconsistencies with the Old Testament
Matthew incorrectly attributes a prophecy by Zechariah to Jeremiah
Matthew confused two Old Testament characters
Matthew refers to an unknown prophecy
Matthew misunderstood an Old Testament prophecy
Matthew misapplied an Old Testament passage
When did Terah die?
Where was Jacob buried?
Does God cause confusion?
Can God be seen?
How many sons did Abraham have?
Was Jesus the first to ascend into Heaven?
Was Jesus the first to rise from the dead?
Hebrews incorrectly quotes the Psalms
Mark incorrectly attributed a prophecy
Abiathar and Ahimelech
Historical Problems
There is no external support for Herod's murder of the children
When was Jesus born?
Did Jesus return in the first century?
Bibliography and Sources
The genealogies of Matthew and Luke contradict each other
Solution: Luke records the lineage of Mary, and Matthew that of Joseph.
The problem with this solution is that both genealogies explicitly end with Joseph.
Matthew's geneology ends:
Luke's begins:
So who was Joseph's father - Jacob or Heli? Jacob was his biological father whereas Heli was his father-in-law reckoned as also being his legal father. This would particularly be the case if Mary had no brothers - under the Mosaic law. (Num 27:8) Then upon marriage, the first born son would be reckoned according to the wife's father and receive his inheritance passed down through his mother. (Deut 25:5,6) Such could have been the case with Jesus.
Further, Jewish genealogies were almost always traced via the paternal line.
Today Jewish trace their ancestry via the maternal line. Today if your mother is a Jew, you are reckoned Jewish, but if your father is a Jew, then not. And as I mentioned above, in the case where a man only has daughters, his line would not be cut off, but would be reckoned according to the first born son of the daughters. Jesus was also a special case (after all, how many Jews had no biological father?). So establishing his biological ancestry was important.
Matthew's genealogy of Jesus is recorded in Matthew 1:1-16, and Luke's is recorded in Luke 3:23-38. It has long been known that these two records do not agree with each other. Specifically, they diverge after Solomon, converge at Shealtiel (the father of Zerubbabel), diverge after Zerubbabel and do not converge again until Joseph, the father of Jesus.
Shealtiel probably married the daughter and heiress of Neri, hence is reckoned his son (Luke 3:27).
Note that this also means that the genealogy of Zerubbabel is contradictory. Matthew makes him a descendant of Solomon, David's son. Luke makes him a descendant of Nathan, also a son of David. Since Solomon and Nathan were full blood brothers (I Chronicles 3:5) they cannot both be paternal ancestors of Zerubbabel.
It only takes one instance of a levirate marriage to explain such a divergence in the lines, and such could have occurred with Shealtiel's father, as mentioned above. Then just as Mary and Joseph both had a common paternal ancestor - Zerubbabel, so also Jeconiah and Neri had a common paternal ancestor - David.
In fact, both genealogies are pointless, since both Matthew and Luke then go on to claim that Mary was impregnated by the Holy Spirit, not by Joseph.
Jesus was legally the son of Joseph, as such he was called even by unbelievers during his ministry.
Since Mary was probably of the tribe of Levi (see Luke 1:5 in conjunction with Luke 1:36), it is therefore impossible for Jesus to have been the 'Son of David' as was required for the Messiah (Matthew 22:42).
Who says that Mary belonged to the tribe of Levi? It was true that Elizabeth, her cousin, was of the tribe of Levi, but that doesn't make Mary from the tribe of Levi. For don't forget, we have more than one set of grandparents. And each set, in this case, can come from different tribes. It simply means that Mary's paternal grandparents were not the same as Elizabeth's paternal grandparents. Rather, Mary's paternal grandparents were the same as Elizabeth's maternal grandparents.
There is another problem with Matthew's list. Matthew includes Jeconiah (Matthew 1:11), even though the Old Testament records that God cursed Jeconiah, and prophesied that he would never have a descendant upon the throne of Judah. (Jeremiah 22:28-30)
The term "childless" that Jeremiah uses is explained by the statement taht "no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah." With reference to a lineal successor, he was "childless."
Where did Joseph take Jesus from Bethlehem?
While recording the birth of Jesus, Matthew states that Joseph and his family left Bethlehem and headed for Egypt in order to escape Herod.
The authors simply record certain events and leave out others. If you combine these two accounts what probably happen was:
Where did Jesus go after his baptism?
The three synoptic gospels are unanimous in recording that Jesus went into the wilderness for forty days, immediately following his baptism.
John's gospel, on the other hand, has Jesus in Galilee following his baptism, and in Cana two days later.
John 1:32,35,36 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him...Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
Words like "immediately" are very commonly used in Mark, to stress action and urgency. However one should be careful about inferring the exact timing of the events from a single word. In other words "immediately" in its original context and language may have meant something slightly different than some may assume from its translation 2000 years later.
In fact, John never mentions the temptation in the wilderness at all.
Why should he? It was already recorded in Matthew, Mark and Luke.
Did Jesus speak to the Centurion?
Matthew 8 records the miracle of Jesus healing a Roman Centurion's servant. The Centurion visits Jesus personally to ask for a healing.
In the parallel passage in Luke 7, the Centurion sends a group of Jewish elders to represent him.
In Luke's account, Jesus never met the Centurion at all.
Matthew, writing in a condensed style, could be speaking of the centurion as himself doing that which he really accomplished by proxy. Still, it is possible that the centurion first sent the elders, and then, in the intensity of his anxiety and distress, went in person to the Saviour.
Similar examples of this are:
Where did Jesus heal the maniac?
In Matthew 8, Jesus meets two men possessed by devils in the country of the Gadarenes. He drives out the demons, which then enter into a herd of swine.
Matthew 8:28 (NIV) When he arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.
Mark and Luke both tell the same story, except that they mention only one man, in the country of the Gerasenes.
Mark 5:1,2 (NIV) They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit came from the tombs to meet him.
Although Gadara and Gerasa are both close to Galilee, they are not the same place. Gadara is 10 Km (6 miles) southeast of the Sea of Galilee, Gerasa is 30 Km (19 miles) east of the Jordan, midway between the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee. (New Concise Bible Dictionary, pgs 181 and 188).
They don't have to be the exact same place, for the authors are merely referring to a general geographical designations which apply to the territory in which both Gadara and Gergesa were situated.
Was Jairus' daughter dead?
The three synoptic Gospels record the familiar story of Jesus restoring the daughter of Jairus to life. The narrative follows the same general structure in each Gospel, but Matthew has a subtle difference. Both Mark and Luke state that Jairus' daughter is at the point of death.
Mark 5:22-23 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name...And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death...
Luke 8:41-42 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus...and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying...
In Matthew's version, however, Jairus is adamant that his daughter is already dead.
Matthew 9:18 ...behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead...
There is further detail in each narrative which underscores this contradiction. In Mark and Luke, messengers arrive from Jairus' house to inform him that his daughter had died.
Luke 8:49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead...
This event is not recorded my Matthew, obviously, since it would conflict with Jairus' statement that his daughter was already dead.
The verb used in Matthew is in aortist tense, which doesn't necessarily mean that it is a past event, but could mean "is in the final process of dying", which resolves the problem - simply an incorrect translation.
Staves or no staves?
When Jesus commissioned his disciples for their first missionary effort, he specifically forbade them to take any staves with them.
Matthew 10:9-10 Provide neither gold, nor silver...nor yet staves...
However, in the parallel passage in Mark, the disciples are commanded to take a staff.
Mark 6:8 And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only...M
Matthew is talking about not procuring anything for the journey, but simply to "Go, just as you are." If they happen to have a staff at the time, they can take it, but not to "go to the store to buy one".
Sign or no sign?
According to Mark, when the Pharisees asked for a sign from Jesus, he said that no sign would be given to his generation.
Mark 8:11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven...And he...saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
Matthew and Luke repeat this statement, but add an exception.
(See also Luke 11:29) The 'sign of Jonah', as Jesus went on to explain, was the miracle of his resurrection. Thus, in Mark Jesus stated that there would be no sign given, while Matthew and Luke state that at least one sign would be given. The situation gets even more complicated in John and Acts, both of which claim that Jesus performed many signs.
In each of the above cases, the word translated 'sign' is always the same Greek word ('semeion').
The solution is that the same word "sign" has different connotations
The Mark passage is referring "sign" as the Pharisees would have it, as if Jesus hadn't already demonstrated plenty of signs by his miracles.
Whe can see a clear example of this in John 6:30 where, after Jesus did a miracles by multiplying the loaves, the crowd asks (the rather stupid question): "What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?" As if he didn't just do a miracle.
In the Matthew passage, Jesus changes the meaning of "sign" from what would satisfy the crowd to what would be the ultimate legitmate "sign" of him being the Son of God - his resurrection from the dead.
The John Passage is using "signs and miracles" as connoted so be the apostles, which would include many things that the "crowds" had rejected as signs.
When was Jesus transfigured?
In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus takes his disciples up to a mountain (where he is transfigured) six days after making certain statements.
Matthew 16:28-17:2 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them...
In Luke's Gospel, Jesus speaks the same words, and takes his disciples to the same mountain, but after a different period of time.
Thus, Matthew has the transfiguration taking place six days after Jesus' discourse, while Luke places it eight days after the event.
Luke says "about eight days". This could include two "extreme days" in which parts of the first and last days were reckoned as full days. This was a common understanding in the culture at the time and also resolved some of the discrepencies concerning what day Jesus was crucified.
When did Jesus cleanse the Temple?
Matthew, Mark and Luke all record that Jesus cleansed the Temple at the end of his ministry, shortly after his triumphant entry into Jerusalem.
According to John, however, Jesus cleansed the Temple at the start of his ministry, long before he rode into Jerusalem on the donkey.
It's likely that John is not in chronological order. The chronological accounts of the synoptic gospels had already been well established and well known when John wrote the gospel of John. And so the chronology of the events wasn't his main concern.
When was the Last Supper?
The three Synoptic Gospels are unanimous in placing the Last Supper on the day of Passover.
Luke 22:7,8,15 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat...And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer...
The Gospel of John, however, records that the Last Supper took place before the Passover.
John 13:1,2 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father...And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him...
The term "passover" sometimes comprises the whole paschal festival, or the feast of unleavened bread which began with the passover proper. The term "to eat the passover" may mean "to keep the paschal festival" and "preparation of the passover" for the Sabbath, which occurred in that paschal week.
Did Jesus say he would destroy the Temple?
During Jesus trial, Matthew records that two men brought a false testimony.
According to John, however, Jesus actually did say these words.
How could Matthew call these two men 'false witnesses', if they told the truth, according to John?
It says in John 2:21 "But the temple he had spoken of was his body." Whereas the false witnesses were referring to the building. And thus they also modified his exact words, for he didn't say he would "rebuild" the temple. He said he would raise it up, as he did in his resurrection.
Did Jesus teach in secret?
During his trial, Jesus claimed that his teachings were well known.
The other gospels, however, do record several occasions when Jesus taught his disciples secretly. Mark notes that Jesus used parables specifically to prevent his hearers from understanding his words.
John is referring to "nothing" seditious or criminal, as can be inferred from the context. Or do you suppose that saying "nothing in secret" meant that whenever he was not in public he would not say anything at all?
How many times did the cock crow?
According to Matthew, Luke and John, the cock crowed atfer Peter had denied Jesus three times.
This accords with Jesus' prediction, as recorded in each of the Gospels.
Mark, on the other hand, states that the cock crowed twice, the first time after Peter's first denial, and the second time after his third denial.
Mark 14:71,72 But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.
And the second time the cock crew...
In Mark's Gospel, Jesus makes a slightly different prophecy of Peter's denials.
This means that Jesus' prophecy in Matthew, Luke and John was wrong - according to Mark, the cock did crow once before Peter had denied three times.
The first crowing could have simply not have been recorded in the other gospels, being recorded only in Mark. Furthermore, it seems probable that no one of the evangelists had mentioned all the denials by Peter during that night, as he may have repeated many times the same thing.
What was written on Jesus' Cross?
All four gospels record slightly different readings for the sign that Pilate placed on the Cross:
It is generally supposed by Bible commentators that no one writer records the full text, which should read 'This is Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews'. While this is certainly possible, it cannot be sustained from the text. None of the gospel authors indicate that they were only quoting a portion of the inscription.
They are merely recording parts and not the whole. This form of speech is known as an ellipsis and was quite commonly used in the gospels. They don't need to indicate that they are only making partial quotes here, for they are simply making use of a figure of speech commonly used in the society.
What were Jesus' final words?
According to Luke, the last words that Jesus spoke were 'Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit'.
According to John, Jesus' final saying was 'It is finished'.
The sense is that these were among the last things he said. The skeptic simply misunderstands this form of speech.
Who saw Jesus after his Resurrection?
Matthew records that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were the first to see Jesus after his resurrection.
Mark, however, appears to say that Jesus appeared only to Mary Magdalene.
Luke only complicates the issue. In Luke 24, we read that the two Marys and Joanna (who was not mentioned in Matthew or Mark) went to the Sepulchre and saw the angel, but did not see Jesus. The first recorded appearance of Jesus in Luke is to the two men on the road to Emmaus However, Luke then goes on to state that Jesus had already appeared to Peter before this point.
John follows Mark in claiming that Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene, who was alone at the time. John seems to contradict Mark, however, in recording that Mary went to the sepulchre alone.
Note also that John says that it was still dark, while Matthew records that it was dawn. (But "dark" is rather a relative term)
Each author selected those particular events which seemed to him most important, passing by intermediate incidents. Furthermore The most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20, which is the one the says the Mary Magdalene was the first to see Jesus. The following summary is given by Robinson (Gospel History, pp. 447, 448):
"At early dawn on the first day of the week, the women who had attended on Jesus, viz. Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Joanna, Salome, and others went out with spices to the sepulchre, in order further to embalm the Lord's body. They inquired among themselves who should remove the stone. On their arrival they find the stone already taken away; for there had been an earthquake, and an angel had descended and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it, so that the keepers became as dead men for terror. The Lord had risen. The women knowing nothing of all this, are amazed; they enter the tomb, and find not the body of the Lord, and are greatly perplexed. At this time, Mary Magdalene impressed with the idea that the body had been stolen away, leaves the sepulchre and the other women, and runs to the city to tell Peter and John. (Peter and John appear to have lodged that night in a place separate from the other apostles - the apostles having "scattered" as the prophecy in Isaiah had foretold). The rest of the women remain in the tomb, and immediately two angels appear, who announce unto them that Jesus was risen from the dead, and give them a charge in his name for the apostles. They go out quickly from the sepulchre, and proceed in haste to the city to make this known to the disciples. On the way, Jesus meets them, permits them to embrace his feet, and renews the same charge to the disciples; but their words seem to them as idle tales; and they believe them not. Meanwhile, Peter and John had run to the sepulchre; and entering in had found it empty; but the orderly arrangement of the grave-clothes and of the napkin convinced john that the body had not been removed by violence or by friends; and the germ of a belief arises in his mind that the Lord had risen. The two returned to the city. Mary Magdalene, who had again followed them to the sepulchre, remained standing and weeping before it; sees Jesus, who gives to her also a solemn charge for his disciples."
The earliest post-resurrection account is found in I Corinthians 15, and further perpetuates the confusion. Paul states that Jesus first appeared to Peter (corroborating Luke), but never mentions the women at all.
These verses are true. They're simply not a complete account of everyone who saw Jesus, nor do they claim to be.
How did Judas die?
According to Matthew, Judas committed suicide by hanging himself.
The Book of Acts, however, records that Judas fell in his field and burst open.
Some apologists have suggested that these events can be reconciled by assuming that Judas hung himself in his field, and after several days slipped off the rope and fell to the ground. While this is certainly possible, it cannot be supported by either text, and is little more than a speculative theory.
Why can't both of these accounts be true? If we assume they are both true, then what can we infer happened? For example, he could have hanged himself over a cliff and later the rope broke and his "bowels gushed out" from the fall. Or some such scenario.
Note that these two passages also seem to contradict each other in the matter of the owner of the Potter's field. Matthew records that the field was purchased by the Pharisees.
The Book of Acts, on the other hand, explicitly states that Judas purchased the field.
He simply caused it to be purchased. (See E.W. Bullinger "Figures of Speech in the Bible" pg 562) A similar form of speech can be seen in 1Kings 14:16 - Jeroboam "made Israel to sin": i.e., was the cause of Israel's sin by setting up the two calves in Bethel and Dan.
Another discrepancy between the stories points to the fact that we are dealing with two separate traditions concerning Judas' demise. This discrepancy deals with the name of the field. Both stories record that it was called 'the field of blood', but differ as to why. Matthew says that it was so called because it was purchased with blood money (Matthew 27:8), while the book of Acts claims that it was due to the fact that Judas burst open therein (Acts 1:19).
But Acts 1:19 doesn't say specifically why they called it the "field of blood" and thus it could have been the same reason Matthew gives.
Was Abraham justified by faith or works?
In the book of James, we read that Abraham was justified by his (attempted) sacrifice of Isaac.
Paul, however, specifically states that Abraham was not justified by works.
Romans 4:2,3,6 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness...Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works...
Paul is referring to Genesis 15:6 in which Abraham was declared righteous, which occurred long before the incident with Isaac to which James was referring. Paul is referring to being justified in the sight of God, but James is talking about being revealed as being a justified person. Or to put it simply, obtaining righteousness is a matter of faith alone, but revealing that we have obtained righteousness is a matter of performance. A Christian doesn't put faith in his works to save him, but reveals his faith by his works.
Matthew incorrectly attributes a prophecy by Zechariah to Jeremiah
Actually, this prophecy is found in Zechariah.
However according to Jewish writers, Jeremiah was reckoned the first of the prophets, adn was placed first in the book of the prophets (which included Zechariah) and thus by saying "Jeremiah", he was referring to the book of the prophets, which indeed has that quote.
The other possibility is an abridgment of names. In the Greek, Jeremiah, instead of being written in full, might stand thus, "Iriou"; Zechariah thus, "Zriou." By the mere change of Z into I, the mistake could have been made.
Matthew confused two Old Testament characters
The incident that Jesus is alluding to is recorded in II Chronicles.
However, the Old Testament records that this Zechariah was the son of Jehoidah, not Berechiah. Berechiah was actually the father of the prophet Zechariah, who lived several decades after the death of his namesake.
When Luke quotes this event, Jesus does not give the name of the father of Zechariah.
Jesus is not referring to 2Chron 24:20-21. He's not referring to Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada. It seems rather he is bracketing a time frame for which they will be held responsible having killed righteous people from Abel to Zechariah. But the son of Jehoiada lived almost 870 years before Jesus spoke. More like Jesus is referring to a more recent, or even future event. It is interesting to note that there was a Zechariah, the son of Baruch, who was martyred some 36 years afterward (A.D. 69), immediately before the destruction of Jerusalem, as recorded by Josephus (Wars, iv. 5,4).
Matthew refers to an unknown prophecy
This prophecy is not recorded anywhere in the Old Testament.
Not all prophecies were written. Some were simply spoken, as in this case. (Notice he says "spoken by the prophets") So this is not necessarily referring to any Old Testament verse.
Matthew misunderstood an Old Testament prophecy
In Matthew 21, Jesus tells his disciples to fetch an ass and a colt, to fulfill and Old Testament prophecy.
Matthew 21:2,4,5,7 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.
In actual fact, the prophecy that Matthew quoted only refers to one animal.
As also does Matthew, for in the phrase "upon an ass, and a colt", the greek word for "and" is "kai" which can mean "even". Thus "upon an ass, even a colt" referring to the same animal, just as in Zechariah 9:9.
Matthew misapplies an Old Testament passage
Firstly, the Old Testament passage that Matthew referred to (Isaiah 7:14) does not contain the word 'virgin' in Hebrew. It uses the Hebrew word almah, which simply denotes a young female, and does not necessarily connote sexual purity. The Hebrew word for 'virgin' was bethulah, which is used by Isaiah in 62:5. Matthew followed the lead of the Greek Septuagint in mistranslating almah.
It is true that the word "almah" is a general term for "young female". "Virgins" would be consider a subset of these. Therefore "almah" can refer to a young virgin girl. Should we infer such a meaning from the prophecy. Here is the prophecy:
Would it be a miraculous sign if a young woman who is not a virgin had a child? Obviously (to those who have ears) he is indeed referring to a the subset of "almah" who were virgins. And thus Matthew was accurately translating the meaning.
The second point about this alleged prophecy is that it has immediate application in its own context. Isaiah used the sign of a young, pregnant woman, whom both he and King Ahaz knew. He prophesied that before the child reached the age of accountability (7:16) both Syria and Israel would be conquered. Isaiah thus limited the time span of his prophecy to no more than eight years. There is no indication in the text that this prophecy would have a future fulfillment.
As with many prophecies, there was a double meaning and a double fulfillment. For many of the events of the Old Testament were really shadows of New Testament events as the book of Hebrews mentions. There was a partial fulfillment in Isaiah's time - but such was not miraculous but only a forerunner of what was to come. Kind of like Elijah being the forerunner of John the Baptist.
Finally, Jesus was never called 'Emmanuel' by his parents, nor anyone else.
But is it referring to his literal name, which is merely a shadow of the person, or to the substantive meaning "God with us", which he actually represented.
When did Terah die?
In Acts 7, Stephen claimed that Abraham left Haran after his father, Terah, died.
Acts 7:4 (NIV) So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.
According to Genesis, Terah was about seventy years old by the time he had Abraham.
Abraham was seventy-five when he left Terah, at God's command.
This means that Terah was, at most, 145 years old when Abraham left Haran. However, Genesis states that Terah lived much longer than that.
Thus, according to Genesis, Terah lived at least sixty years after Abraham left Haran. Stephen (or the author of Acts) may have been misled by the fact that Genesis records the death of Terah before the story of Abraham's departure, and simply assumed that Terah was dead by this time, without stopping to check the math.
In Genesis 11:26, Abraham may be mentioned first, simply on account of his theocratic importance; as Moses is usually named before Aaron, who was the elder. So that Abraham may have been the youngest son, born when Terah was 130 years old. It would then follow that Abraham left Haran at the age of 75, his father having previously died, at the age of 205 years.
Some Jewish interpreters, however, think that Abraham actually left Haran sixty years before his father's death. On this theory, Stephen, in asserting that Abraham left after his father's death, simply followed the then commonly received though inaccurate chronology.
Where was Jacob buried?
According to a sermon given by Stephen in the book of Acts, Jacob and Joseph were buried in Shechem.
Acts 7:15,16 (NIV) Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died. Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.
However, it was in fact only Joseph and his sons who were buried in Shechem. Jacob was buried in Machpelah, near Mamre, with his fathers.
Whose to say these were not the same place, but simply called different names.
Furthermore, it was Jacob who bought the field from the sons of Hamor, not Abraham.
It appears that Stephen (or, more likely, the author of Acts) has confused these two incidents, and has Abraham buying the wrong field. The transaction wherein Jacob bought the field of Shechem is recorded in Genesis 33:19.
Abraham was already dead by this time (Genesis 25:8), and thus could not possibly have purchased the field, as Stephen claimed.
Does God cause confusion?
Writing to the Corinthians, Paul claimed that God does not cause confusion.
.I Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace..
This quote takes place in the context of speaking in tongues, i.e. speaking in a foreign, or unknown language. However, the Old Testament, while relating the myth of the Tower of Babel, states that God did indeed cause confusion.
Genesis 11:9 (NIV) That is why it was called Babel --because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world...
This passage contains a play on words. 'Babel' in the ancient Babylonian language means 'the gate of God', while in Semitic it means 'confusion'.
The point of 1Cor 14:33 is that God is not the ultimate source of such confusion, rather sin is, which is the point of Genesis 11:9. God caused people to speak different languages, but was that the source of the confusion? No, it was their sin. So, though God causes bad things to happen, He is not the author of evil.
Can God be seen?
John 1:18 is quite emphatic that God has never been seen.
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time...
Later in John's Gospel, Jesus is even more explicit.
The Old Testament prescribed dire consequences for anyone who saw God's face.
However, earlier in the same chapter, Exodus contradicts itself (and John) by claiming that Moses did indeed see God's face.
This is simply an expression, not meant to be taken literally. It simply means that God spoke to Moses directly and Moses could carry on a conversation with God, as one would a friend.
It seems that Moses was not the only person to be granted this privelege.
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne...
In the case of Job, once again the term "mine eye seeth thee" is simply a figure of speech. Do you see? The word "see" is often used to mean "perceive" and not necessarily physically see. Jesus often used such a play on words.
The case of Isaiah is a vision, once again not physically seeing.
How many sons did Abraham have?
According to the Old Testament, Abraham already had one son, Ishmael, when he had Isaac.
However, the book of Hebrews refers to Isaac as Abraham's 'only-begotten' son.
The Greek word here translated 'only-begotten' (monogene) is the same word that John used of Christ (John 1:18, John 3:16). Therefore, any re-interpretation of the word to allow for more than one son in Hebrews 11:17 can also be applied to Christ.
A term such as "only-begotten" had been commonly used at the time, not only in Israel, but all the way back to the Hamurabi code of ancient Babylon to refer to the son who has a special status. It was well understood that it didn't mean that the person had only one son, but that this son had a special superior status.
God does have many sons, but only one "only-begotten" Son.
So essential "Christians" are brothers of Christ:
Though only adopted and not of the same nature as Christ
Was Jesus the first to ascend into Heaven?
Speaking to Nicodemus in John 3, Jesus claimed that no man had ascended into Heaven before him.
However, the Old Testament records that Elijah was taken to Heaven in a fiery chariot.
The Old Testament (and the New) also seem to imply that Enoch was taken directly to Heaven although this is not explicitly stated. (Genesis 5:24, Hebrews 11:5)
In the first text Jesus, setting forth his own superior authority, says, substantially, "No human being can speak from personal knowledge, as I do, who came down from heaven." "No man hath ascended up to heaven to bring back tidings." So we, speaking of the secrets of the future world, should very naturally say: "No man has been there to tell us about them." In saying this, we do not deny that any one has actually entered into the eternal world, but merely that any one has gone thither, and returned to unfold its mysteries.
Was Jesus the first to rise from the dead?
During a sermon delivered before king Agrippa, Paul claimed that Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.
In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul repeated this claim.
It appears, however, that Paul was not very well versed in his Old Testament history at this point. The Old Testament records several incidents of people being raised from the dead.
In I Kings 17, the prophet Elijah restored a dead boy to life in Zarephath.
The second book of Kings records an incident of an unintentional resurrection.
The New Testament, too, records a number of resurrections that preceded that of Jesus. Mark 5, for example, records that Jesus himself raised to life a young girl. And, of course, John writes that Jesus restored Lazarus to life after he had been dead for four days.
It is true he was not the first to rise from the dead historically. He was the first to rise from the dead after the justification of sins and the reconcilation with God had been accomplished. Or you could say the first to rise from the dead in the Church age, which was initiated by his resurrection.
He was furthermore the first to be raise who would die no more. All those others who had been raised, died again later on.
Hebrews incorrectly quotes the Psalms
In Hebrews 10, the author appeals to one of the Psalms while arguing that Jesus was sacrificed for the sins of mankind.
The problem is that the verse does not appear in the Psalms as quoted.
Note that the crucial phrase '...a body hast thou prepared me...' does not appear in the Hebrew version of Pslam 40:6. The author of Hebrews depended on this phrase for his argument.
The phrase quoted in Hebrews 10:5 actually comes from the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament. This raises the troubling question of textual reliability. We now have no idea which text (Hebrew or Greek) is supposed to be reliable. If the Hebrew reading is correct, then the argument produced here in Hebrews 10 is invalidated; if the Septuagint version is correct, it casts a shadow on the reliability of the entire Hebrew Old Testament.
He's quoting from the Septuagint, which was the Greek translation of the Old Testament accepted by even unbelieving Jew at the time. But the same idea is in the Hebrew version. It is Obedience and not Sacrifice that is emphasized. And so also with respect to Christ, it was his obedience to death that was the acceptable sacrifice and not mere ritual which justifies. This is a major theme in Hebrews where the Jewish sacrificial system was merely a shadow of what was to come and ineffective in justifying a person.
Mark incorrectly attributed a prophecy
Early in Mark's gospel, he quotes an Old Testament verse when introducing John the Baptist:
Mark 1:2 (NIV) It is written in Isaiah the prophet: "I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way"...
Actually, the phrase comes from Malachi, not Isaiah.
It seems that the ancient scribes who copied the New Testament manuscripts were aware of this problem, because a number of later Greek manuscripts remove the reference to Isaiah, and simply substitute "the prophets" (as in the KJV).
Merely a textual variation which some manuscripts have and some don't. Some merely say "prophets" making no reference to which prophet.
Abiathar and Ahimelech
While responding to a charge of profaning the Sabbath, Jesus referred to an incident from David's life, recorded in the Old Testament:
This incident is recorded in I Samuel 21. However, the story indicates that Ahimelech was the high priest, not Abiathar.
I Samuel 21:1,6 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest...So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
Abiathar was in fact Ahimelech's son, who is referred to as a priest some time after this event.
The expression "in the days of Abiathar the priest," may denote merely that Abiathar was acting as his father's sagan or substitute. Or, since Abiathar was, from his long association with king David, much more famous than his father, his name, although he was not a yet high-priest, may be used here by a kind of historical anticipation.
There is no external support for Herod's murder of the children
In Matthew 2:16, Matthew records that Herod ordered the execution of all children under two years of age in Bethlehem. This event is not recorded in secular history. The Jewish historian Josephus, in his book Antiquities of the Jews, has a long history of Herod and his crimes. The massacre at Bethlehem is not among them.
Yes and there were many things that Jesus did that John recorded that hadn't been recorded by Matthew, Mark, or Luke. Most historians do not provide a complete and comprehensive record of history are incomplete.
When was Jesus born?
Matthew places Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, when Herod was still king.
Matthew goes on to record how Joseph fled with Mary and Jesus to Egypt, where they remained until the death of Herod. He also states that Archelaus, Herod's son, was the ruler of Judaea when they returned from Egypt.
By comparing this narrative with the history of Judaea, as recorded by Josephus, it is possible to come up with an estimate for the year of Jesus birth. Josephus records that Herod died a short while after an eclipse, which can be dated to about 4 BC (Antiquities, Book 17, Chapter 6:4). Thus, according to Matthew, Jesus was born sometime around the year 3 or 4 BC, when Herod died and Archelaus became ruler of Judaea in his place.
Antiquities 17 8:1. And now Herod altered his testament upon the alteration of his mind; for he appointed Antipas, to whom he had before left the kingdom, to be tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, and granted the kingdom to Archelaus...When he had done those things, he died...
Luke, however, places Jesus' birth in a different time period. According to Luke 2, Jesus was born during the first census under Cyrenius, governor of Syria.
This census was also recorded by Josephus, but it took place quite some time after Herod's death. Josephus records that Archelaus reigned ten years before being banished to Vienna. Cyrenius was appointed governor of Syria at this time, to wrap up the affairs of Archelaus.
Antiquities 17 13:2. But in the tenth year of Archelaus's government, both his brethren, and the principal men of Judaea and Samaria, not being able to bear his barbarous and tyrannical usage of them, accused him before Caesar...Whereupon Caesar, when he heard it, was very angry, and...both banished him, and appointed Vienna, a city of Gaul, to be the place of his habitation, and took his money away from him.
Antiquities 17 13:5 ...So Archelaus's country was laid to the province of Syria; and Cyrenius, one that had been consul, was sent by Caesar to take account of people's effects in Syria, and to sell the house of Archelaus.
Josephus goes on to record that Cyrenius took a census of Judaea at this time.
Antiquities 18 1:1. Now Cyrenius, a Roman senator...came at this time into Syria, with a few others, being sent by Caesar to...take an account of their substance...Cyrenius came himself into Judaea, which was now added to the province of Syria, to take an account of their substance, and to dispose of Archelaus's money; but the Jews, although at the beginning they took the report of a taxation heinously, yet did they leave off any further opposition to it...
Since Archelaus reigned for ten years after the death of Herod, this would put the time of the census at about 6 or 7 AD. Matthew, then, states that Jesus was born when Herod was still alive, no later than 3 or 4 BC. Luke states that Jesus was born when Cyrenius was governor of Syria, which did not take place until at least ten years after Herod's death.
It has been proposed that Luke was referring to an earlier census, and the Luke 2:2 should be translated '...this taxing was first made before Cyrenius became governor of Syria...'. There are several problems with this approach. Firstly, it stretches the plain meaning of Luke 2:2 a little. Secondly, as it stands, Luke 2:2 is in harmony with Josephus, who records no census before this point, and seems to imply that this was, in fact, the first taxation of Judaea by the Romans.
But then again, do these so called "problems" disqualify such an interpretation?
Finally, Matthew mentions no census in his birth narrative. Instead, he begins his story in Bethlehem, where Jesus was already born.
Yes, and the gospel of John starts with Jesus ministry. Does that mean that John doesn't think that Jesus was born at all, since he didn't record his birth?
In fact, the census conducted by the Roman, Cyrenius, would necessarily have had to be the first. Up to this point, Syria was under the jurisdiction of Herod and his family. It was only after the banishment of Archelaus that Syria became a Roman province. The Roman historian Dio, who wrote about AD 200, independently confirms 6 AD as the year of Archelaus' exile, and the year in which Syria came under direct Roman rule.
You may be referring to the wrong Census. There could have been another census
Did Jesus return in the first century?
A number of New Testament passages indicate that Christ was supposed to return before his generation had died. This would have been sometime in the first century AD.
First, there is the testimony of Jesus himself, who explicitly stated that some of his disciples would not die until Jesus instituted the Kingdom, and that his generation would not pass away until all his prophecies of the end of the world had been fulfilled.
However, within the same context, Jesus had promised, "For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict." Luke 21:15
What I think he was saying was that the words, spirit and influence of that generation of first Century Christians would not pass away until he returns. For their words will be the words Christ speaks through them, which become the New Testament.
And so it has been, the entire history of western civilization from the time of Christ to the present has been strongly influenced by the writings of the apostles. That generation has still not yet passed away. Each generation of Christians has made some attempt to model itself after that first generation.
He was referring to the Transfiguration, which follows that verse. Peter also refers to this in:
There are different senses in which the kingdom of God comes. Pentecost, where the Christian church was formed and the Holy Spirit given. Or, here's another sense in which the kingdom of God comes:
It is important to note that Jesus' long discourse on the end of the world, recorded in Matthew 24 and 25, was spoken in private to his own disciples.
In this discourse, Jesus makes a number of assertions about the fate of his disciples. One of the signs of the end would be the persecution of his disciples.
While tradition records that the disciples were persecuted and martyred, this was not followed by the return of Christ, as he promised.
The Apostle Paul, too, seemed to think that Christ would return for his generation.
Note that Paul twice uses the phrase '...we which are alive and remain...'. This seems to preclude the theory that Paul was speaking of some far future generation. Paul made a similar assertion in First Corinthians.
Note that Paul said that '...we shall not all sleep...'. In other words, he expected that at least some of his generation would not see death. Again, there is nothing in the text to indicate the Paul was speaking about some far future generation.
Paul reiterated his belief in a soon return of Christ in the Book of Romans.
The other New Testament writers had similar thoughts about the iminence of Christ's return.
James 5:8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
The Apocalyptic Book of Revelations repeatedly has Christ saying that he would return soon.
By no stretch of the imagination can 2,000 years be considered 'quickly'.
2Pe 3:8 "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends:
So he's been gone a couple of days!
While it is true that the apostles expected Christ's return in their lifetime, they did not consider that possibility as being absolute. For even at the time Christ Himself didn't know the day nor the hour of His return, much less the apostles.
The Berean Christian Bible Study Resources
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A - C
D - G
H - K
L - P
Q - Z
Of or pertaining to a chromosome that is not a “sex” chromosome. In humans, for instance, an autosomal disease is a disease that is associated with any of the chromosomes other than X and Y.
Bayh-Dole Act
Enacted in 1980, this congressional act allows, among other things, small businesses, not-for-profits, and U.S. universities to retain intellectual property rights over the products of federally funded research.
A form of art that either uses, represents, or is somehow inspired by biological processes.
A term used to indicate the ways that commerce and biomedical research inform each other. The term can be used in its most general sense, to help understand the general interrelation between political economy and the understanding and manipulation of life forms, or it can be used more specifically, to understand particular exchanges of biological materials for other goods of economic value.
BLAST or Basic Alignment Search Tool
This computational tool compares protein and nucleotide sequences and calculates the statistical significance of similarities. The information obtained from BLAST can be used to infer evolutionary relationships, identify members of specific gene families, or even infer gene functionality.
cDNA or Complementary DNA
Genetic sequences in eukaryotic organisms are almost never contiguous. A single genetic sequence can be dispersed across, or even between, chromosomes, thus incorporating many intervening sequences of DNA in its genomic sequence. Enzymes found in the cellular nucleus create a RNA copy of the gene in which all intervening sequences have been edited out, leaving only the contiguous coding sequence of the gene, ready for translation into a peptide chain (see RNA). A cDNA is a sequence of DNA synthesized from this RNA and thus contains only the coding region of the target gene.
A machine that spins an object at high speeds around a fixed point. The machine comes in many different sizes and can spin at many different speeds. It is now ubiquitously used in biomedical research for removing precipitates or separating molecules on the basis of density, often over a gradient (see Gradient).
A long ribbon-like material found in the nucleus of all eukaryotic cells. Chromosomes are made up of bound complexes of DNA and protein where the rough location of specific genes on the chromosome can be mapped using genetic and biochemical analyses.
A set of exclusive rights intended to regulate the use and reproduction of written expressions, ideas, or information.
Creating vs. copying
Creating is often considered to be an active engagement with materials in order to give form to something novel. For instance, an artist creates a statue by chipping away marble. Copying is a form of production that reproduces the information found in an information-laden object in another information-laden object. The ease of copying and pasting digital information often makes it difficult to distinguish between creating and copying.
A branch of biomedicine dedicated to freezing and then thawing either parts of, or entire, animals and plants. The most controversial goal of cryonics is to freeze humans who cannot be sustained by current medical practices so that these individuals can be thawed in the future, when medical practices have improved. This goal, however, remains far from practicable. Still, developments in cryonics, and the branch of physics used to study the behavior of materials at very low temperatures, known as cryogenics, have made many of the techniques currently employed in biomedicine possible. Many recombinant DNA and cell culture techniques require the freezing and thawing of labile biological macromolecules, viruses, bacteria, and plant or animal cells (see Recombinant DNA).
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Last weekend, I installed the new diesel tank, plumbed up a bunch of fuel fittings, and finally installed the new permanent cockpit scupper hoses and seacocks. Yesterday, working late outside under lights, I wired up the engine harness and mounted the alternator. Today at lunch I filled, primed, and tested my “filter farm”: the rack of multiple diesel/water separators, fuel filters, and pumps.
And just this evening, right before the sunset, I fired the engine up! First time running in years now… It took some cranking, until I tracked down the loose connection in the glow-plug circuit, then Vroom! it was putt-putting along.
I’m going to re-work the oil-dipstick tube for better clearance along the engine beds, then I’ll be set to install the engine this weekend. Maybe even sometime this week!
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Snarkasaurus in the Checkbook
Oh no he didn't. Make sure you wrote that life insurance check, buddy.
Over scheduled + over 50 + over-heated (menopause) = Snarkasaurus.
The Snarkasaurus is a close cousin to Momzilla; for the purpose of this story, Snarkasaurus may be more scientifically accurate. Both of these entities are well known to me lately, as they are my alter-egos.
In fact, my snarky Snarkasaurus-side raises its head much more often lately (which is really saying something). The triggers for this transformation vary and cover a broad range of subjects. With my family, I've got a lot to work with as far as snark fodder goes. It's almost a physical transition once the process starts. I soon recognize the familiar feel of my arms getting shorter and shorter, while my fingers curl up in unnatural tight clawlike forms. I know that slowly I am beginning to look more and more like a T-Rex. Should I fling my head back and let out that familiar Jurassic Park T-Rex roar or keep biting my own tongue for all its worth, trying to hold the snark in? That is usually a tough one.
My husband was doing the checkbook the other night. Actually, I love that he loves to balance the checkbook. As far as that particular task goes, I can take it or leave it. But good news! It's an unexpected nuptial score! He wants to do it. Most willingly, I surrender the chore to him. He won’t leave the task if there is even one penny unaccounted for. He practically cheers when he is done: “Balanced! Huzzah!” If ever I wanted to cause him to totally stroke out, I'd just forget to write something in.
But the whole time he is balancing the checkbook on this particular night, he is mumbling under his breath: “Dang, Cherdo.” No actual voiced question; just the whispered chastisement and displeasure.
Finally, he comments, “You need to write neater,” with a pointed emphasis on YOU.
Ahem...I’m 55 years old. My handwriting is what it is - and by the way, it's not bad. I've worked with doctors; they don't even see handwriting as an actual communication tool. Furthermore, at no time do I consider purchasing penmanship books, working all the excercises, trying to get third grade super A + + cursive with a gold star handwriting. That ship has sailed; that helpful hint is wasted on this old bird. But I bite: “Pardon?”
“I can’t tell if this is an S or a five,” he continues.
Where in the world is the checkbook alpha-numeric? Is there a third choice - I'm just asking? He is an intelligent man, really…my arms begin to shorten and I think I'm growing a reptilian tail.
“It’s an S. I spent thirty-S dollars. While we’re at it, there’s a hundred and Z that is not even written in.”
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An African Open Science Platform initiative - Invitation to a series of webinars on "Incentives for sharing research data" 25, 26 and 27 October 2017 (Open Access Week)
Date: Oct 9, 2017
The Open Science movement – focused on making research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent - is steadily gaining momentum. According to Gewin (2016), “[A]a spirit of openness is gaining traction in the science community, and is the only way, say advocates, to address a 'crisis' in science whereby too few findings are successfully reproduced. Furthermore, they say, it is the best way for researchers to gather the range of observations that are necessary to speed up discoveries or to identify large-scale trends.”
Although many researchers are already sharing their raw data and data sets, there are researchers who still question why they should share their data, and what benefits are in it for them. In other words, how will they be incentivized, when others use the outputs of their hard work. These issues also apply on national and institutional levels. What do research institutions have to gain by embracing Open Science? Will the associated data expertise and opportunities for collaboration outweigh the perceived loss of intellectual capital that, if closed, can be exploited ahead of rivals? Similarly, on the national level: is there a strong incentive for poorer nations not to be left behind as science is transformed by the digital revolution? Or will open data and open science merely lead to data assets in the ‘South' being more quickly exploited by better resourced researchers in the 'North'? Very few countries and institutions have policies in place regarding the management (incl. curation) and sharing of data as an outcome of funded research projects.
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Education Marketing and Advancement
Objectivity, transparency, and a collaborative spirit
Marketing Therapy
with Mike Connor
So What?
When I was a Reader (that's an actual job title, folks) at a California junior college a few lifetimes ago, it was my job to evaluate and grade history essays. Remember those blue books?
I was always entertained (and frustrated) by how many of my students danced around an essay question rather than embrace it. Evade it rather than invade it. Sometimes it was because they didn't have a clue. They threw out something--anything--hoping it would stick. Then there were the ones who dumped as many facts as they could at the foot of the question. Surround the question with facts! Choke it to death with facts! They wanted me to know that at least they made the effort to memorize something; they hoped their intention would earn a pass. But they failed to connect the dots and explain why the facts were relevant to the question.
To both of these groups, I must have written "So What?" a thousand times along the left margins. I wasn't trying to be cruel, and I did provide some helpful advice, too. But like the Zen teacher, I wanted to get their attention with the equivalent of a whack with a stick to the head, or an unexpected swift push from a high window. So What? So What? I really was relentless. (If one of you is reading this, please be kind. I meant well).
But for the seekers and consumers of independent education, that is the point, isn't it? How is what you are claiming relevant to what they really care about? How are your noble intentions manifested in the real world? Where is the value--according to how THEY interpret value?
In all of our communications, apply the "So What?" test. Why is what you are doing significant? How do you know? Where is the evidence? Why should I care? How are you different than the multitude of other choices I have? How will you make my child's life better? How will you make a difference to my family? Why should I buy this from you? Prove it. Demonstrate it.
Always answer the question for value: "So what?"
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Problem Set 2
See the Guidelines. I will post on ASULearn answers to select questions I receive via messaging there or in office hours. I am always happy to help!
Mathematics, you see, is not a spectator sport. [George Polya, How to Solve it]
Problem 1: 1.3 #30
Note that this asks about general vectors, so do not define the vectors to be ones with specific numbers - leave them general. Do use the general definition of center of gravity as written in #29 and rewrite it as a linear combination. The definition already gives you a version very close to that, but you'll need to do a tiny bit of algebra of vectors and solve for the c_i's.
Problem 2:
Look at Vector([1,-2,3]) and let L=Span of (1,-2,3) = {t (1,-2,3) where t is real}. Notice L is a line through the origin in R3 (1 free variable) and we can graph the vector in Maple (without the arrowhead) as:
with(LinearAlgebra): with(plots):
Part A: Find a vector w1 so that {Vector([1,-2,3]), w1} spans a plane P1 (and not just the [t,-2t,3t] line) and describe how you chose it.
Part B: Set up the augmented matrix resulting from the spanning equation (with the vector (b1, b2, b3) as the equals column) and use Gaussian in Maple to find an equation involving b1, b2 and b3 that represents the plane that Vector([1,-2,3]) and w1 lie in (set any inconsistencies equal to 0).
AugmentedPr2:=Matrix([Vector([1,-2,3]),Vector([your vector w1]),Vector([b1,b2,b3])]);
Part C: Find a vector w2 not on the same line through the origin as w1 so that {Vector([1,-2,3]), w2} also spans the same plane P1 (linear combinations are in the same plane) and describe how you chose w2 (Hint: the diagonal of the parallelogram would be a natural choice).
Part D: In Maple, use a spacecurve command for each vector, like
a:=spacecurve([t,-2,3*t],t=0..1,color=red, linestyle=solid): to show that all three vectors lie in the same plane but no 2 are on the same line. (Hint: you can use different colors like black, blue, green..., and one display command like display(a,b,c); and turn the plane "head on" to show this-just be sure you have executed with(plots): Another option for plotting is: spacecurve({[4*t,7*t,3*t,t=0..1],[-1*t,2*t,6*t,t=0..1]}, color=red, linestyle=solid); )
Part E: Describe all the vectors w for which {Vector([1,-2,3]), w} spans the same plane P1 as a linear combination
a Vector([1,-2,3]) + b w1 where you specify a non-zero condition on a or b or both (Hint: which is it? - linear combinations are in the same geometric space so think about what a's and b's in the linear combinations you can use that will still span the plane with Vector([1,-2,3]) - and not just the the [t,-2*t,3*t] line - something can't be 0 in the linear combination - specify and annotate).
Part F: Find a vector u so that {Vector([1,-2,3]), u} spans a different plane P2 through the origin. Describe how you chose u.
Part G: Create a spacecurve graph for u in Maple, then display all 4 vectors on one graph, like display(a,b,c,d); and turn the other vectors "head on" to show u lies outside the plane P1.
Problem 3:
Concrete mix, which is used in jobs as varied as making sidewalks and building bridges, is composed of five main materials: cement, water, sand, gravel, and fly ash. By varying the percentages of these materials, mixes of concrete can be produced with differing characteristics. For example, the water-to-cement ratio affects the strength of the final mix, the sand-to-gravel ratio affects the "workability" of the mix, and the fly-ash-to-cement ratio affects the durability. Since different jobs require concrete with different characteristics, it is important to be able to produce custom mixes.
Assume you are the manager of a building supply company and plan to keep on hand three basic mixes of concrete from which you will formulate custom mixes for your customers. The basic mixes have the following characteristics:
Super-Strong Type S All-Purpose Type A Long-Life Type L
Cement 20 1812
Water 10 1010
Sand 20 2515
Gravel 10 515
Fly ash 0 28
Each measuring scoop of any mix weighs 60g, and the numbers in the table above give the breakdown by grams of the components of the mix. Custom mixes are made by combining the three basic mixes. For example, a custom mix might have 10 scoops of Type S, 14 of Type A, and 7.5 of Type L. We can represent any mixture by a vector [c,w,s,g,f] in R5 representing the amounts of cement, water, sand, gravel, and fly ash in the final mix.
Part A: Compute 3S+5A+2L.
Part B: Compare the strength of 3S+5A+2L to that of Types S, A and L - rank them in order of strength (low water to cement ratio). (Note that this is one example of a practical interpretation of vector coordinates).
Part C: What does Span{S,A,L} = {a S + b A + c L where a, b, and c are real numbers} represent in this context - relate your answer to the word mixes?
Part D: A customer requests a custom mix with the following proportions of cement, water, sand, gravel, and fly ash: 16:10:21:9:4 . Is it possible to make using only S, A and L? If so, find the weights (in scoops/parts of scoops) of the basic mixes (S, A, and L) needed to create this mix. If you choose to do this by-hand, don't forget to show the by-hand work, like row reduction. If you choose to use Maple, you can use commands like:
S := Vector([20,10,20,10,0]):
A := Vector([18,10,25,5,2]):
L := Vector([12,10,15,15,8]):
V := Vector([16,10,21,9,4]);
N := Matrix([S,A,L,V]); ReducedRowEchelonForm(N);
Part E: If there is a solution in Part D, is the solution unique? Explain.
Part F: Let V=Vector([16,10,21,9,4]). Explain why any linear combination of S, A, L and V can also be achieved by a combination of just S,A, and L, ie that V is redundant (think about substitution and using your answer from part D).
Part G: What is the definition of linear independence using vectors? Using a matrix with the vectors as its columns?
Part H: Is S, A, L, V linearly independent? Why or why not?
Part I: Let U=Vector([12,12,12,12,12]). Show that {S,A,L,U} is a linearly independent set of vectors by using the definition of l.i. If you choose to do this by hand, then show your reduction work and steps. If you choose to use Maple, and have already defined the vectors S, A and L, as in the sample Maple commands in part D, then you can use commands like:
U := Vector([12,12,12,12,12]): zero:= Vector([0,0,0,0,0]):
SALUzero:=Matrix([S,A,L,U,zero]); ReducedRowEchelonForm(SALUzero);
Part J: What practical advantage does {S,A,L,U} being linearly independent have?
Part K: Compute the mix S+A+L+U.
Part L: Next modify the first entry of the vector S+A+L+U to define a fifth basic mix W to add to {S,A,L,U} such that any custom mixture can be expressed as a linear combination of the set of mixes {S,A,L,U,W}. Set up the augmented system {S,A,L,U,W, generic vector} and use GaussianElimination in Maple to show that your vectors span R5
Once you define W in Maple using a Vector command, you can execute:
SALUWspan:=Matrix([S,A,L,U,W,Vector([b1,b2,b3,b4,b5])]); GaussianElimination(SALUWspan);
Part M: In real-life, there will still be mixes that cannot be physically produced from this set of five basic mixes. Give an example of a custom mix where at least one weight (of S,A,L,U,W) is negative and in your annotations address why we can't use negative weights in mixing cement in real-life.
A Review of Various Maple Commands:
> with(LinearAlgebra): with(plots):
> ReducedRowEchelonForm(A);
> GaussianElimination(A);
> Vector([1,2,3]);
> A.B;
> A+B;
> B-A;
> 3*A;
> A^3;
> evalf(M)
(decimal approximation of M)
plot vectors as line segments in R3 (ie the columns of matrices) to show whether the the columns are in the same plane, etc.
> display(a,b,c);
if plots are set to variables (careful to end those with a colon instead of semi-colon) like a:=implicitplot(...): then this will display them on the same plot
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Darlington Chamber / Main Street Program
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Charlene Mara
2013 - 2018
Quinsigamond Community College
Charlene Mara has served on the Edward Street board since 2008 and has worked with children and families for over 40 years as a teacher, director, developer and administrator. She is currently the Faculty Coordinator of the Early Childhood Program at Quinsigamond Community College and is active with advocacy initiatives both regionally and statewide including the Early Education and Care Advisory Council, Mass Community College Early Childhood Coordinators, and Worcester's Birth to 3rd Grade Alignment Team. Ms. Mara sits on the advisory boards of Head Start and the Worcester Technical and South High Schools.
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10 Interesting Facts About The Human Brain - Exam And Interview Tips
10 Interesting Facts About The Human Brain
The brain is one of the most complex organ in the human body. It is probably the most sophisticated creation in the universe. It witness that the world’s greatest wonders built by humans are the most amazing feature of the brain.
It acts as a storage device for human beings, storing most cherished memories of a person. Well, a person’s personality is totally influenced by the brain along with the consciousness of emotion, passion and motion.
Brain is known as the command center for the central nervous system, it has ample cognitive and physical abilities. However, there are only few roles that a brain can perform.
The most amazing thing about the human brain is that its facts are lesser known by many people. Here are the few interesting facts about the human brain.
It lacks Nerves: The human brain is the only organ in the body that lacks nerves. But, it acts as the central commanding unit for the central nervous system. This means that, the brain feels no pain.
Energy Consumption: The brain consumes largest portion of total energy generated by the human body. To be precise, it consumes 20 percent of energy for maintaining nerve impulses and healthy brain cells.
100 Billion Neurons: The human brain has approximately 100 billion of neurons that is almost 15 times of total human population. The higher number of neurons increases the ability of brain processing.
Fattest Organ: The human brain is the fattest organ among all other organs in the human body. About 60 percent of the brain is comprised of fat. This amount of fat makes the brain as a single organ to have highest concentration of fat in a healthy human body.
Neocortex: Human brain has a special gift compared to animals. The neocortex is a portion through which human beings are responsible for consciousness and language. It approximately makes up to 76 percent of the human brain.
Misconceptions: It is believed that human being use their brain less than 10 percent, but the recent study finds that each and every part of the human brain has its own and known function.
Multiply of Neurons: In many studies, neurons of human brain of a pregnant women multiplies at a rate of 250,000 neurons per minute.
Cardiac Output: The human brain consumes about 15 to 20 percent of blood. Approx. 750 ml of total cardiac output is directed to the brain every minute.
Brain can Light Bulb: The human brain that consumes energy is approximately 25 watts and is sufficient enough to light a bulb.
Brain can Fool You: The human brain is not perfect as you think. It has been found to fool human being by perceiving things differently from the reality.
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Originally Posted by Merlin_Bodhi (View Post)
Richard has basically stolen a great deal of her life.
I agree, but she to blame as much as he is. I mean, I don't think anyone put a gun to her head to be there if she didn't fill fulfilled.
This subject it is sth that has always intrigued me. Maybe I can't understand it since I am single and I have never seen myself in that position. But my question is: up to what point are men responsible for 'taking away a woman's life'?
I mean, 50 years ago maybe they were to blame since women had no other options, but now? If you feel like he is ignoring you, like he doesn't give you all the time that you deserve... why are you still there? Mostly if you don't even have kids, as it appears to be Adele's case.
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English Language Arts Courses and Paths
Plagiarism To steal or pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own; use another’s production without crediting the source; to commit literary theft; to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. (Merriam‐Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10 th edition)
Plagiarism is a serious offence in all courses. When preparing to write an essay, or completing module work, students are expected to collect information, process it, and then re-write it in their own words. Any information taken directly from a book or magazine, the internet or any other published or copy written work must be appropriately referenced. Any work found to be plagiarized in whole or in part will be given a grade of zero for a first offence. If the action or offence is repeated, students may be withdrawn from the course, and/or asked to leave the school.
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The Pebble SDK Is Out and Apps Aren't Far Behind
By Eric Limer on at
The allure of having a smart watch like the Pebble is more than just having a watch with more display options: it's apps. Now, with the release of the Pebble SDK, the apps can start to flow.
The SDK gives developers acess to and control over the watch's 144×168 1-bit display, a 3-axis accelerometer, a Cortex-M3 ARM microprocessor, and messaging information, though that's only on Android. Reactions to the Pebble have been sort of lukewarm so far, so hopefully an influx of apps can spice it up. Hop to it, devs.
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The Difference Between "Literate" and "Fluent"
What is the difference between being literate and being fluent? It is the difference between working with a language and living within a language. Fluency, derived from the Latin “to flow,” implies a natural, easy familiarity with a language. Becoming fluent describes what psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi might call being in a “flow,” so participation includes deep appreciation, creative engagement, and a total involvement with the language in and through life.
Everton Morais, an interpreter for the Church of the Nazarene, notes that this type of fluency seems different from being bilingual. Instead of mentally translating from one language to another before understanding it, fluent translators relate language and concepts simultaneously. Fluency often occurs through immersion into the culture that shapes the language. Many people either live in a host country or grow up within a family that embodies the language. They not only learn about a language but they also practice the language regularly in their lives.
Can fluency even be possible when it comes to our participation with what theologian Karl Barth called “the strange, new world within the Bible”? If so, how can we move from literacy to fluency with the Bible and become immersed in its world, revealed in and through Scripture? I believe it is possible but only if we know how to allow the Word of God to shape us and guide us into a “flow” with Scripture’s stories and practices.
Being Formed by the Bible
Robert Mulholland, author of Shaped by the Word, stresses that these practices help us take seriously our need to read the Bible for formation as well as for information. Mulholland notes that we often seek “mastery” over information rather than obediently allowing God’s Word to shape us into the life of the kingdom of God. Mulholland argues for a balance, so that we may allow God’s Word to shape and form us.
Mulholland’s view comes very close to Dallas Willard’s understanding of study as a spiritual discipline. Willard writes:
We not only read and hear and inquire, but we meditate on what comes before us; that is, we withdraw into silence where we prayerfully and steadily focus upon it. In this way, its meaning for us can emerge and form us as God works in the depths of our heart, mind, and soul. We devote long periods of time to this. Our prayer as we study meditatively is always that God would meet with us and speak specifically to us, for ultimately the Word of God is God speaking.
Reading formatively is supported by John Wesley’s guidelines for reading Scripture, and it sets the tone for gaining fluency.
Three Approaches
Three complementary approaches help us enter into the “world of the Bible” to explore the larger story of Scripture, imaginatively dwell in smaller passages, and participate in worship. The first approach requires a fresh reading of the Bible as a broad story told in community. Recent efforts by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society) and the American Bible Society reveal that many people in the United States own Bibles but do not engage as deeply as before. One reason may well be the lack of an understanding of the story of Scripture. As a response, these agencies developed newer Bibles that don’t include chapter or verse citations so that the Scripture looks like a series of books to be read within a community.
Our first challenge may be reading and seeing Scripture as stories that fit a larger narrative, and hearing it in community. Christians would do well to engage the Scripture first in larger narrative accounts, seeing the breadth of the biblical culture as they engage the text. Two recent responses to this need include the Community Bible Experience from Biblica and Immerse by Tyndale. Both approaches guide readers into a narrative flow of Scripture, seeing the stories and passages in a larger context.
Second, while seeing the larger narrative horizon, readers also need to engage deeply with specific passages through deliberative, reflective engagement. Ruth Haley Barton suggests we engage in a long-standing practice of “divine reading” that combines the Word and silence: “As we make ourselves open and available to God through this practice, the Scriptures penetrate to our very depths, showing us those things about ourselves that we are incapable of knowing on our own due to our well-developed defense structures.”
This approach can help us remove our cultural assumptions so we can enter fully into a culture shaped by Scripture. This type of reading begins in silence before God and includes a slow reading of Scripture, sometimes with our reading a small passage or word several times. The second step involves deep reflection or meditation upon the depths of the passage, which moves us to the third step of asking if there is an invitation or challenge in the reading where we might respond to God. This active third step invites us into the fourth phase of contemplation: resting and residing in God’s revelation and presence before finally rising to live out God’s Word and His will for the world.
Submitting to a regular pattern of divine reading invites us to imaginatively dwell within the story of Scripture until it begins to saturate our being and shape our actions. Finally, we also enter the world of Scripture through worship. When the biblical narrative becomes evident in regular Scripture readings and biblically informed singing, we begin to participate in a community anchored in the Bible. Recent insights from neuroscience suggest that the formative life of congregational worship provides an influence far beyond the small amount of time dedicated to its practice.
When we deliberately allow regular Scripture readings (such as the lectionary) to shape not only sermons but also congregational engagement, we help provide a community life that is energized by the Holy Spirit. Still, to accomplish biblical “fluency,” we should not see these practices of Bible reading and participation simply as techniques for us to use when we feel like it. Instead, we need to approach Scripture engagement much like we approach any habit or daily discipline in life: through deliberate, continuous practice.
Research in the field of neuroscience reveals just how powerful habits and practices are at shaping our minds, but they require time to fully take hold. This involves daily engagement with Scripture. Habitually participating in specific Bible practices on a regular basis can make a profound difference in our lives.
Becoming fluent requires implementing habits and practices that allow Scripture to shape us much like a new culture shapes us. This approach does not negate the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Instead, adopting these practices of Bible reading allows us to be led more specifically by the Holy Spirit. This approach may challenge us to “unlearn” or at least suspend other approaches to reading the Bible, so that we can open our lives imaginatively and prayerfully to the full world of Scripture. Rather than merely understanding or applying Scripture to our lives, we can adopt habits and practices that engage Scripture. In this way, we will discover the full narrative embedded in Scripture so we can “flow into” and find our daily lives defined by God’s story.
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What to Wear
Weddings: What to Wear
Choosing the ideal outfit for a wedding can be a tricky balance. For a start, you don’t want to upstage the bride or she’ll claw your eyes out. The general rule therefore is not to dress top to toe in white/ivory/champagne/cream – whatever you want to call it. And certainly don’t turn up in a veil. Another no-no of wedding fashion is the dreaded black. Now most women fall back on their LBD for events like these but, with a few exceptions, they can look a little bit funereal. So it’s safer to opt for bright colours and pastels.
Do your research
Something a lot of people forget to do is to find out what colour the bridesmaids will be wearing. If you turn up in the very same shade, you’ll run the risk of being grouped together with them all day. If you can’t find out for any reason, go for something patterned. It’s unlikely that the bridesmaids will show up in the same dress!
Also make sure you are aware of the time and venue of the wedding before hitting the shops. An evening event will require an altogether dressier approach whereas daytime weddings usually involve a more relaxed style.
Seasonal Choices
Of course, the date of the wedding will play a large part in what you choose to wear. You don’t want to be freezing your eyelashes off in a mini-dress in the middle of December, nor do you want to be sweating profusely in a thick woolly number in August. If you’re attending a winter wedding, why not find a smart shift dress and team it with complementary tights and a thick jacket? The same dress should work in the summer too if you remove the extras and choose instead to take a light shrug for later in the evening.
Footwear can be a bit difficult too so again, do your research. If the reception is going to be in a floorless marquee, probably best to leave the stilettos at home, opting for a wider heel and fewer embarrassing sinking moments. If the wedding is a casual affair, you might get away with flip flops that can be kicked off later for dancing, but do check the dress code (or lack thereof) before whacking on your Havaianas.
Hats Off – or On
Weddings and hats go hand in hand. Try not to choose anything too overbearing or you’ll end up stealing focus (and probably blocking out half of the Bride’s cousins in the pictures). A simple fascinator is a popular choice and there are plenty available on the high street. You can even make your own if you’re feeling crafty.
Be Appropriate
This is especially important if you are attending a church wedding. Remember to keep skirts to an appropriate length especially if you plan on having a knees up to the wedding band and put that cleavage away. The bride will look daggers at you if half the congregation can’t tear their eyes from your décolletage or the wedding photographer takes more pictures of you, then they do of the happy couple. Sophisticated and demure are good buzzwords, so bear them in mind.
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Link Research
Search on Google for your main search terms (keywords) and find the websites that are competing with you. Then find which sites link to them by searching "link:www.competitor-domain.com".
Study and understand the following queries:
Who's Linking To Website?
Type in Search Box - link:www.your-domain.com
Example: california image
You may also want to try searching without www:
To find which page on the domain californiaimage.com is most relevant and has the most power for the query california image.
site:californiaimage.com california image (Google)
Search on Google for websites that are theme (keywords) related and complimentary to your site's topic, but not direct competitors, and ask them for a link exchange.
Linking Options
There are websites that sell links, and a quality site can provide value from a linking deal. It's possible to approach individual sites where you would like your links to appear. The key to success in the quality linking partners. You need knowledge and time to research every potential link partner.
Pay-per-click advertising link brokers (like Google, Facebook) offer links for sale on their websites in form of ads, and on behalf of other websites by placing your ad links throughout their affiliate network (Google). With these services you'd need a constant spending budget because you pay for every click no matter whether it converts to a sale/client or not.
Link Exchange
We know that websites need links to grow. The problem is that all links are different, and there are numerous ways a link exchange may go bad very quickly.
If you're not savvy you may easily get in a trade situation where the other side benefits from the exchange and your site suffers.
If you're to spend time and effort on exchanging links be careful not to sign up with spam websites or unethical webmasters. This apply also to link buying. Only trade links with quality sites where you can approach others personally and establish communication and trust.
Each site you want to link to, or get links from, needs to be thoroughly analyzed by a specialist who understands subtleties of the trade.
Do not join any link farms. Search engines disapprove of them and people don't use them.
Internal site linking, inbound, and even outbound links all are important for websites that want good search engine positioning to receive high quality traffic. Inbound links from related and/or quality sites and pages, with the right link text (your targeted keywords), are essential for achieving top rankings when there is any competition for the search terms among optimized websites.
While most websites do not naturally attract links, and link acquisition can be time-consuming, expensive and tedious, we still must do it, and it should be treated as an ongoing task.
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Important items to implement into your SEO strategy
Using Javascript or Other Un-spiderable Code
If you intend to use Javascript on your web page it is best to use it sparingly, or not at all. Search engine spiders cannot read Javascript, it slows web page loading time, and is prone to browser errors. If you really need to use Javascript you can safely use it by putting the code into a separate JS file and calling it with a single line of code which you place between your <head> and </head> tags within your web page. The code used to include your JS file looks like this:
Using CSS Effectively
If you are using CSS style commands, do not include them within your actual web page source code. You don't want search engine spiders to have to go through 100 lines of unreadable code before they reach your actual content. Instead, place your style guidelines into a separate CSS file and call them with a single line of code from within your <head> and </head> tags by using the following code:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="replace-with-style-file-name.css">
Primary Keyword Layout
Examine your website from a source code point of view and ensure that your primary keywords or phrases will be spidered first. When search engine spiders read your page they read the source code just like we would read a book from left to right and top to bottom. Search engines place higher relevancy on keywords and phrases which appear closer to the top of a page.
Spiderable Text
Very important part of SEO strategy is quality textual content (body text) of web pages. Every page should have spiderable text content along with images and gadgets. A well-written content should contain all important keywords, and clearly explain the theme of the particular page.
Proper Use of robots.txt File
Search engines use "spiders" to look for web pages on the net with the help of robots.txt file. For help on correctly formatting your robots.txt file, visit
File Size and Page Loading Time
Search engines put greater importance now on page loading time which is connected to the sizes of files. To reduce page loading time all image files should be optimized (compressed), the unnecessary page features removed, and excessive code trimmed.
Dead Links and 404 Errors
There should be no broken links on your website because from a search engine perspective your site is not regularly maintained and updated. Make sure you have a 404 page set up, and use link checking software and verify your link structure.
Using Text Links For Primary Navigation
Using graphical links does not tell the search engine spiders what that link is about. Using optimized ALT text would be a step in fixing this problem. But for maximum SEO effect you need to use a text link that has your primary keyword or phrase for the page you linking to.
Site Map
Search engines like site maps. It's a great idea to have a detailed site map with links to all of your site's pages, with their respective keywords used in text links.
404 Pages and Redirected Pages
Search engine doesn't like page redirects. From SEO perspective it's better to remove the outdated content and replace it with something relevant. Make sure you have "Page Not Found" or 404 page set up with links to site's important pages.
Font Sizes and Using H Tags
Font size is an important factor in SEO strategy because search engine spiders assign relevancy of the content based on the font size used. Heading tags H1 through to H6 are used to define and organize content by importance. Text under H1 tag has a higher relevancy placed on it than text under H2 tag, and so on.
Font smaller than size 2 is usually reserved for copyright information at the bottom of web pages and is overlooked by some search engines.
Spam, Hidden Text, Door Way Pages and Other Tricks
Search engines are pretty smart at identifying spam and other tricks some webmasters use. Avoid using unethical web promotion techniques if you want your site to be successful in the long run. Using shady SEM tactics could result in search engines banning a site in question, and a loss of site's existing listings.
Using Frames and Flash
Frames are not searchengine friendly and should be avoided when possible. Search engines can not read framed documents properly, and indexing of subpages becomes problematic.
Flash is better used as supplemental technology, and the main focus should be on a spider-friendly and indexable code (HTML, XHTML).
Spider-Friendly URL's
Web addresses containing dynamic characters such as &, $, =, %, etc. are at a disadvantage, because search engine spiders may not be able to read them and index the pages. Solutions available to fix this problem include mod_rewrite to rewrite URL's that contain session IDs, or other such characters, into search engine spider friendly URLs.
SEO strategies to improve site rankings and traffic.
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Candy Bars
Candy bars, also known as the chocolate bars are a type of confectionery that are available in a rectangular bar form. Candy bars is a delectable treats that include cocoa butter, sugar, milk and cocoa solids. Depending on the presence of some scrumptious ingredients, these candy bars are classified as white chocolate, milk chocolate and dark chocolate. Ingredients such as vanilla extracts, emulsifying agents and soy lecithin are also sometimes added to these candy bars.
These bars are covered with chocolate and are a favorite among everyone. A variety of bars which contain layers of fruits, grains nuts have replaced the plain candy bars. Various forms of the candy bars such as caramel, nougat, cookie, fudge, fondant, marshmallow, marzipan, coconut are also available in the market
Some candy bars are manufactured as nutritional supplements, commonly known as power or health bars. Various vitamins and proteins are added in these bars maintaining its sweet taste. The most famous candy bar in this category is the power bar which serves the purpose of the nutritional bar. Different famous brands of candy bars are: Dolphin, Ferrero, Charles chocolate, Ganong bros limited, Annabelle candy company, Cadbury Schweppes, Hershey food corporation, ION, Idaho candy company, Hansel, Gandour, Ganong Bros limited, Kraft Foods and many more.
Orange flavored sugar coated chocolates are available in eight colors i.e. orange, white, yellow and in some places in green, brown, pink and mauve colors. These are also available in egg flavors (small particles of egg in them). Some of the candy bars also contain fruit particles in them and are known as Fruities. Red and white colored maple leaf shaped chocolates are available in Canada. These red mapled shaped chocolates are a representation of the Canadian Flag.
Musketeers are an American chocolate bar available in three different flavors of strawberry, chocolate and vanilla. These are centered with nice creamy chocolate nougat. It is also named as Milky Way bar in some parts of the countries. Hundred grand bars contain crisped rice, caramel and chocolate. It is low cholesterol bar but is very high in sugar and fats. One candy bar is laden with nearly 190 calories. Pink colored milk chocolate is a diet bar with nearly sixty percent less fat than any other chocolate bar. It is extremely safe for the calorie conscious people.
A candy bar that consists of almond bits and is dipped in honey is available in a pack of six pieces each separately wrapped in the wax paper and than in the wrapper. A bar with the filling of roasted peanuts and a cover of vanilla nougat is the perfect chocolate to lighten up any occasion. Candy bar with biscuit filling accompanied by caramel and milk chocolate is the right bar to boost the energy levels with its glucose contents. A candy bar filled withy the fresh coconut and a covering of dark and milk chocolate is available in two halves in the same pack.
Many more candy bars like break, breakaway, bourneville, brown pudding, butterfinger and many more candy bars are available to add a touch of special feeling to any occasion.
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I’ve added a couple of poems into the mix of Seven Years. Here’s one on the page. You can also listen to a live recording of it here.
You told us through translation
that your seventh child was born beside a road.
You were walking to the hospital.
a neighbor tied off the umbilical chord
and you walked on, I suppose, the newborn
crying in your arms, breathing the dust into his new lungs.
Six years later, sitting in an elementary school office in America
answering the social worker’s questionnaire.
That old dinosaur of a woman, she’s doing the best she can
with her clipboard and her pen, but the boy still hits his classmates.
Still runs from the teacher.
You told me, in your tiny living room,
two cups of steaming tea sitting between us,
that you aren’t sure how to raise your children
here. How to guard them. How to guide them
crossed the curious landscape of Western values,
urban problems, culture gaps.
Incredulous, offended, and distraught, you asked me:
“Can you believe that two teenagers would
kiss on the sidewalk right in front of us? In front of my
children’s eyes? This is not proper.”
You told me – sitting across the table – that
your daughter saw everything the day you
were attacked. The weapons in the
rough hands of the militia men.
The bag over your head.
Your knees in the dirt. And when
they aired Saddam Hussein’s execution on TV
years later, you told me she saw it all again.
For all evil and despair, I have not
words to respond. Can Good and Beauty
transcend sorrow, transcend culture, transcend language?
Could you and I believe together
that the LORD’s love is mysterious and steadfast,
that his mercies are new each time the planet spins? That
into our dark and aimless exile he reaches to take hold?
You told me, in an ancient tongue, that
all of this is so. I sat alone watching the sky turn
purple above the silent buildings, a cup of steaming coffee
sitting between us. That long-dead prophet’s tears
flowed from my eyes, pooling on the pages
where tragedy and promise are written.
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Is moderation censorship?
Well... um... yes, of course it is. The term moderation doesn't carry the same negative emotional baggage as the term censorship, and the purpose is different, but the terms are synonymous... unless you're an ancient Roman... in which case you probably wouldn't be on on the Net anyway. This question arose on when I objected to a statement in the FAQ which was part of the answer to the question Isn't moderation censorship?. The answer began with the statement that Only governments censor, and that's untrue in modern English, and that was my point. The first reply to my objection, and many subsequent posts in that thread, dealt not with that point, but with the question of whether moderation is censorship.
Oh, well, enough is enough.
5 Februaro 2001 modifita, de Ailanto verkita.
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Monday, April 25, 2016
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) - David Cross #12
Director: Steve Carr
Runtime: 87 minutes
In case you forgot, back in 1998, when Murphy was in decline and starting to do kids movies (he voiced Mushu in Mulan in 1998, and would play Donkey in Shrek a couple years later), Murphy starred in the modern update of Doctor Dolittle (based on Hugh Lofting's series of children's stories from the 1920s, as well as a 1967 musical film starring Rex Harrison). The movie received mixed reviews but made a crapload of money. (It was the eighth highest worldwide grossing film of 1998, right between Mulan and Shakespeare in Love.) So, of course, it got a sequel. Interesting point to note, the 1998 film was rated PG-13, while the sequel was rated PG.
In the sequel, Dolittle is world famous, as we're told through a series of brief gags narrated by the family dog, Lucky (Norm MacDonald, who made the wise choice to remain uncredited). This narration continues throughout the film, despite usually providing no information beside describing what's happening onscreen, like a film for the blind. Dolittle comes home from a world tour to his wife and daughters, just in time for his oldest daughter's sixteenth birthday. Charisse (Raven-Symoné) is more interested in seeing her boyfriend, of whom the doctor does not approve, than having a birthday dinner with her family who are just soooo embarrassing. We also here start getting the first of terrible attempts at jokes for the parents. Dolittle got his younger daughter Maya (Kyla Pratt, who stars in the direct to video sequels because holy shit there are three more of these goddamned movies) a chameleon from Mexico, who is extremely overconfident about his ability to change color. In his extremely thick Mexican accent he talks about how he's going to disappear just "like the baby daddy." This is just the first in a film long series of jokes that the kids won't get and the parents would roll their eyes at.
Anyway, the plot gets moving when a mafia raccoon and opossum have Dolittle go see The Beaver, in an annoying parody of mob films (the filmmakers seem to think that any premise is funny if it's followed by the phrase "but they're animals"), who requests a favor from the doctor: a logging company is destroying the forest and he needs the doctor's help. Dolittle is moved by the destruction and agrees. Long story short, the doctor discovers that there is a single female of an endangered species of bear in the forest. He finds a circus bear of the same species, and gets a court injunction to prevent logging while he sees if he can get the bears to mate. Obviously, the circus bear, Archie (Steve Zahn, from Chain of Fools) is woefully unprepared to live in the wild. When he first sees the female bear, Ava (Lisa Kudrow), by the river, he remarks that he'd "like to see her wet." Once again, pointless for the kids, and rather creepy for the adults.
Archie and Dolittle
Of course, the evil lumber mill owners play dirty and almost win, but Dolittle convinces the animals to fight back, as the animals of the world go on strike, refusing to race or perform or even behave. The mill owners relent, Dolittle and his daughter grow closer, and Archie and Ava make little cubs. (This, of course, leads to a couple other questions, as Archie has one son and one daughter, who are, besides himself and Ava, the only two members of his species in the forest.)
I'm confused as to why, when going from a PG-13 movie to a PG sequel, they choose a plot entirely about Dr. Dolittle trying to help a bear get laid. Of all the plots that could have been used, this one seems among the least fitting for the audience being aimed at, and it affects the final product as all the underlying sex jokes are made to go over the kids' heads, but are still unfunny.
If you're between the ages of eight and twelve, this movie will be a lot of fun because there's a bear who likes to say the word "butt" a lot, and farts sometimes. If that doesn't sound like the highest form of humor, then you'll probably want to stay clear.
The Cross Section:
David Cross is credited as "Dog/Animal Groupie #2." There are a couple dogs it could have been, but they each have one line and speak in a silly voice. I'm not at all sure what "Animal Groupie" refers to. So, basically, there's no notable character, and a matter of a couple seconds of screentime.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Ghost World (2001) - David Cross #11
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Runtime: 111 minutes
Ghost World is an adaptation of the Daniel Clowes' comic of the same name. It follows Enid (Thora Birch, American Beauty) and her friend Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) after they graduate from high school. They're the prototypical outsiders, cynical and directionless, uninterested in leading the life society expects from them. They decide to prank call a missed connections personal ad, and follow the man, Seymour(Steve Buscemi), around, eventually meeting him. Rebecca and Enid drift apart as Rebecca starts focusing on getting a job and becoming part of the adult world, while Enid becomes closer to Seymour, discovering someone who she describes as "the exact opposite of all the things I hate."
The film is fantastic. The character of Enid and the people around her are rendered with a strong sense of irony, but not mockery. The insincerity of modern culture, whether it's the self-described "authentic" Blues music of an unremarkable hard rock band (composed of yuppie 20-somethings singing about picking cotton all day long, no less), or the reformed alcoholic teenager giving a speech about responsibility (and later seen drinking from a flask), drives Enid to the social fringe. Like with her description of Seymour, Enid and people like her define themselves as much, or even more, by what they reject than by what they love. Enid's attempts at employment end in disaster because she refuses to compromise, her sarcastic treatment of customers at the movie theater (beyond being a vicarious fantasy of everyone who works in the service industry) is just one of the more visible ways in which Enid's identity is incompatible with the 'real world.'
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One other thing I really like about Ghost World is how well it captures the underground comic aesthetic. Beyond things like color scheme, there's a focus on characters that appear for only a moment, but really stick in the mind. Minor details make the world strange and slightly grotesque, often without being remarked upon. For example, in one scene a clearly pregnant woman walks directly behind Scarlett Johansson's character, holding a beer in one hand while smoking a cigarette with the other.
Easter eggs abound
Ghost World is fantastic and I highly recommend it.
The Cross Section:
David Cross is credited on imdb as Gerrold, the Pushy Guy - Record Collector. He's one of Seymour's record collector friends who briefly (and awkardly) hits on Rebecca.
Cross only appears in one scene, and is never seen or referenced to again.
This isn't a criticism of Cross's performance, rather that the character is not distinctive, and could be played by anyone capable of smarminess.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Swiss Army Man
According to tradition, the history of film started when Leland Stanford made a bet about whether all four of a horse's legs leave the ground when galloping. That same gambling instinct that has underlain the film industry ever since has stuck again, after Daniel Radcliffe lost a bet and agreed to costar in the soon-to-be-released Swiss Army Man, in which Paul Dano plays a man marooned on a desert island, and Daniel Radcliffe plays a magical farting corpse. No, seriously.
This looks like it could actually be pretty good, or at least interesting.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Chain of Fools (2000) - David Cross #10
Director: Traktor
Runtime: 98 Minutes
Chain of Fools is a "heist comedy-romance" and the first feature film by the Swedish creative advertising collective known as Traktor. Kresk (Steve Zahn) is a down-on-his-luck barber whose wife just divorced him when into his shop walks Avnet (Jeff Goldblum). Kresk overhears Avnet talking on his cell, admitting that he's the one who robbed the museum the night before, killing two guards and stealing the precious Ming dynasty coins known as the Shiny New Enemies. Avnet tries to kill Kresk, but through the power of slapstick Kresk gets the upper hand and puts a pair of scissors through Avnet's neck. Kresk gets help hiding the body from his friend Andy (David Cross) and the two of them steal the Shiny New Enemies for themselves. Meanwhile, the plot thickens with the introduction of Salma Hayek as Detective Kolko, who's investigating the theft of the coins and falls in love with Kresk, Elijah Wood shows up as Mikey, a teenage hitman who really just wants to make new friends, Paulie, an illiterate mob boss, and Kresk's terrible nephew who promptly swallows the coins.
The characters in the film all seem like suggestions from an improv comedy game, which may also speak to Traktor's history in very short film. Steve Zahn's a suicidal barber, and if you replaced all his lines with "aw, shucks," the story wouldn't change much. Salma Hayek's the cop who was also appeared in Playboy. David Cross wears a "Timber Scouts" uniform throughout the movie, and when we first see him it's at the Timber Scouts store he owns, where he berates a child to tears for not knowing how to tie a box knot before ripping merit badges off the kid's chest. Oddly enough, suicide is a prominent theme throughout the movie. A couple main characters attempt to kill themselves, and it turns out that pretty much everyone had at least one parent take their own life, which makes for a really awkward romantic dinner scene. But through the power of friendship, love, and murdering a bunch of criminals, they all live happily ever after.
The film has a lot of memorable characters, but it's so packed with them that we don't really get as much as we'd like for most of them. Kresk and Det. Kolko's relationship is completely out of nowhere and unbelievable (e.g. "You seem like a nice guy. And your parents killed themselves? So did my dad! I'm in love with you now.") The characters that we get a lot of are two-dimensional, and are probably better suited to sketch comedy than a feature film.
The Cross-Section:
Cross, with his history in sketch comedy, is a lot of fun whenever he's onscreen, given his wacky character.
Unfortunately, there are large gaps where the character is not present.
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White Nails (Leukonychia), is a medical term for white discoloration appearing on nails. It is derived from the Greek words leuko ("white") and onyx (" nail"). The most common cause of White Nails (Leukonychia) is injury to the base of the nail (the matrix) where the nail is formed. An occasional white spot is usually evidence that the immune system overcame a bacterial or some other systemic infection. Proper diagnosis requires a thorough review of the patients medical history, and may require testing the health of the liver and kidneys.
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The dinosaur just heard there was a ruckus going on downtown, and he thought he would show up and lend a hand. Clearly, he is delighted at how good of a decision he made.
I saw the trailer for the new Where the Wild Things Are movie, and I highly recommend everyone take a peek. All I’ll say is it gave me goosebumps when I first saw it. The link to the YouTube trailer is here. It contains Arcade Fire and James Galdoflini. You’re welcome. My only complaint is the trailer is a bit misleading, I think, in suggesting that Maurice Sendak, the original author, wrote the film. The screenplay is actually credited to Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, two fairly rocking dudes, but they also 100% aren’t Maurice Sendak.
A bit of tangental fun: YouTube, being the Internet demigod that it is, also suggested a few other clips I might like based on my previous browsing history. Not culled from my search for Where the Wild Things Are mind you, they were rather birthed from a combination of my life’s YouTube searches and my heart’s greatest desires. Meaning, of course, they all ended up being clips from Roadhouse. Go on, peer inside my soul.
Not much new in nerd news this week. I’ve been busy packing up my house, getting ready to move to a new place in a month or two. This week was devoted to going thorugh all my old artwork and short stories from college and before. Not that I’m churning out O’conner or anything right now, but I honestly can’t believe how horrible my writing used to be. I would repost some here, but I don’t want anyone to vicariously die from shame poisoning. Instead, let me paint a picture for you:
Imagine the most horribly violent scene you can think of. Do this twice more, then link everything togethter with a mix of poor transitions, depression and a healthy splash of pretentious misanthropy. Frame everything in an unusuallly uninteresting plot that revolves around “getting the girl” or “sticking it to the man,” and you have every story I ever wrote in college, minus about 9,000 unnecessary swear words.
I’ve moved many time in my life, and I have to say that the worst part of packing is digging through your old crap and having to face who you used to be. Oh well, nothing a few more comics about laser-breathing turkeys won’t fix I suppose.
<3 Mike
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Knowing how to read music is a valuable skill for anyone involved in music composition, songwriting, performance, teaching, recording and production. Many instrumentalists are adept at sight-reading, which is the ability to play directly from a written score. However, a basic-to-intermediate-level reading ability will still help you to grasp the overall structure of a piece, what the key is, its level of complexity, tempo and timing, dynamics and many other musical details. This will allow you to better understand and communicate with other musicians, given you also understand the vocabulary and can follow along with the music.
Once you have the fundamentals down, a great way to learn how to read music is to get hold of some music scores (classical, jazz, and pop scores if possible) and try to follow along with the recordings. This will be easier if you know a musician or teacher who can help you to follow along at first. Scores can be found at traditional music stores and online sheet music retailers. If you’ve never read music before, let’s get started with some basics. The following information comes from Progressive Theory, available online.
The Musical Alphabet
The musical alphabet consists of 7 letters:
Each letter represents a music note. These notes are written on a staff, which consists of 5 parallel lines. Notes are written on these lines and in the spaces between them.
The Treble Staff
A staff with a treble clef written on it is called a treble staff:
The notes on the lines and spaces on the staff are named alphabetically as shown below. Each new note is said to be higher or lower in pitch than the one before it or after it.
The head of a note indicates its position on the staff, as shown:
When the note head is below the middle staff line the stem points upward and when the head is above the middle line the stem points downward. A note placed on the middle line (B) can have its stem pointing either up or down.
Notes on the Treble Staff
Notes on the Bass Staff
The following staff has notes written on the lines and in the spaces of the bass staff in random order. Using a sheet of paper, copy the following notes and write the note name above each one. This will help you to test your note name knowledge, and improve sight reading.
The Grand Staff
When the treble and bass staves are joined together by a line and a bracket, they are called a grand staff. Piano and keyboard music are written on the grand staff.
Bar Lines
If you’ve enjoyed this introduction to reading music and would like continue further, we recommend you check out Progressive Theory, available online now.
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Undesirable Alien
Veronica Gonzalez
Catalog essay 2009
My life has for a long time been woven around George Porcari’s, or his around mine, I realize as I write this. It is in my calling up of memory for the writing of this piece and the corresponding implicit passing of all those moments gone that I comprehend too the ongoing motion and vital- ity of our interrelatedness. And it seems, as I write this, that language is in some ways always an elegy for and of itself. In the moment we speak: I, I is already past. It is mournful that gap, or due to be mourned. If my utterance proclaims its own passing even as I open my mouth, how much more is this passing eulogized by the written word, a film, a photograph. And how deeply felt the long ago story of our first meeting, with Steve Hanson, in the stacks of the library at Art Center College. Or that of how I met Jorge, for the first time, at George’s house; or, more than a decade later, that it was at his house again (a different place) that Jorge first asked me out on a date; or the fact that Mark and I published his first essays in what was our long ago zine, Inflatable Magazine. This after I had introduced Mark to many of my friends (including George) in the unlikely setting of Mexico City. How can I look at any of his work, or speak of the presence of the object, when what the object in and of itself most marks is a passing, a time gone, a death, a pointing away from, a not quite... not quite.... But I must admit that they, these objects, point toward as well; it is an incomplete motion, this time travel, this prodding of our past, yet the gesture is there. These questions seem central not only to our longstanding friendship but on a larger scale to the very art of George Porcari. His work appears to be involved in the pointing toward that which lies beyond it, and in this point- ing out is implied the gap, the interstice, which we as viewers try to fill, though we know that we never fully can. And so, the question remains, in his work (as in that of many others): how to consider the space between, the gap, and those things, like music, or the best writing, and art, which depend on that space: on the this to that... to that... to that. If transition, or the space between is all there is, really, then how to think about the image? Can flow and vitality have something to do with it?
There are those for whom this question of flow, of the vital, seems central, Henri Bergson helped to define this question as a question. For Bergson the interconnectedness of all things seemed the only reality, the breaking down of systems or objects into understandable and fully knowable parts (what he termed the scientific order) seemed a dark fiction indeed; for how can things be pulled out of time and known? In the moment we take things out of the vital, we are creating a fiction which we term “knowledge” or as Bergson puts it “scientific truth”. How much more real the intuitive form of knowledge he espoused, with its ultimate acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of all things, of our inability to know through a breaking down into parts. Can the story of a friendship, for example, be put down to any one event, or set of events, or relation or set of relations, is it not an organic form like any other, dependent on all that touches it, and all that is brought in?
And so, can there be an art that is not an elegy? What if instead of notions of death there is a possibility that a certain kind of art can lead us into an agreement with Bergson that knowledge is intuitive, an art which leads us to the polyphonic, to the layering of what we know, speak, see, are. Can objects and texts in fact function in this way instead, a pointing toward, a part of the motion, a presence through interconnectedness? Bahktin’s dialogic speaks to this, Kristeva’s intertextuality too. This non-idealist, non-absolutist, non-gestalt, non-object obsessed, non-privileged-moment way of viewing the world leads us instead to a view based on contingency and incompletion and process and dynamics and a moving toward. It is Bergson who helps us to wonder: what if things can not be broken up, not known in that way, what if it is as soon as we attempt to break things down into parts, into glorified objects, that we are dealing with, causing, a real death, ignoring the this to that. For, everything is connected, Bergson has reminded us, and in an attempt to really know you cannot pull things apart. Memory, which is invoked in all of our thoughts, helps our understanding of this, aids in our grasp of the vital motion ...
George Porcari’s work speaks to all of this. It is full of notions of memory – real and imagined, or fictionalized (though never contrived) - and longing, and the space between. It is de-centered, and ambiguous and seems to strike out against the final say, the complete object. When I first met George in 1985 he was making long strips of images mounted on foam core or aluminum. He is a real film buff, and this work was certainly a nod to film; the images were a succession of family snapshots, some portraits, shots of friends, film stills, found images. Through his placement, a succession, motion was inscribed into these individual shots. He moved you through them, or, rather, he allowed you to move through them, at your own pace. You might recognize a teen-age George, about to board a plane leaving Lima for Los Angeles and surrounded by little girls – his cousins there to bid farewell; those girls, of various sizes, all wore the same orange dress, white piping accentuating their arms and chests, the soon to be forever altered George standing bravely alongside them in his stoic good-bye stance. You might recognize an obscure shot from Nosferatu, or Alice in the Cities, or Glenn Gould’s pointing hand. There’s a smiling Steve Hanson, there’s Pae White, Jorge, once or twice, there am I.
Those transitions from image to image underscore the space between, motion, vitality; the images had no easy relation so that you, as the viewer, were involved in creating the interconnectedness of it all, and you too, as the viewer, were a part of it, free to take what you would from the work. After about eight years of these long strips, sometimes with up to 50 images, George pared the work down, literally, into pairs of images. And this in a much more controlled way, of course makes us think of collage and jazz, unlikely pairings and the this to that, and of what happens to the eye and mind when presented with all of this. The jumps we make, like those of time (60 years between the images taken by his Tío Cesar and those taken by himself ) and place (the thousands of miles between Lima and Los Angeles, or Berlin and Lima - again in the Tío Cesar series) underscore all of the visual motion in those pairings.
I have mentioned Tío Cesar twice now, the photographs, and so I feel I should share something about that work. Tío Cesar, George’s uncle, was a medical student in Berlin, until forced to leave there as an undesirable alien in the late 1930’s. He had a rough ride home, over the sea between, and died a year later from pneumonia contracted on that long boat journey back. The photos in this series are pictures taken by him while in Berlin, the pretty girlfriend, a love left behind (much as George would many years later leave his pretty cousins) whom none of the family ever met. Did she ever find out Cesar had died? No one knows her, ever contacted her; these photographs are all we have. George recently told me that he believes the deep melancholia which permeated his family as he was growing up was due to Cesar’s untimely death, the golden son, to be sure, and his family’s inability to ever get over that loss. Sixty years later George would have a dialogue with this long lost uncle, who had sepia colored so much of his life but whom he had never met; in those diptychs George answers his uncle’s photographs with images he has himself taken, mostly of Los Angeles – feeling half alien himself here, the immigrant with one foot in each of the Americas for his entire life. George has a great love for la jetée. I understand this love more deeply now: the undesirable, the woman left behind, the attempt to try to reach her, the photographs – for one moment instilled with life - the here but not here aspect of it all, a moving toward which can never be fulfilled.
It was after these diptychs that George moved to the single image, yet he is still able to create a motion in these single image shots, a de-centered feeling which defies the heroic he is so ardently against. He does this through his repeated use of reflection, through his cut up images; and the way that he manages to create a collage effect just by using buses, road signs, moving cars and mirrors, is quite remarkable. But there is the melancholic air of all of the subjects as well – for melancholy always points out, to something missing, so that we never get a subject completely caught up in an action, completely and fully in and of themselves – instead, in the few instances where there is a subject at all, there always seems to be a gap, the unbroachable space. The photographs do seem to mark a death, to be a sort of elegy, a mournful death poem, his uncle forever eulogized, even when there is nothing of him within the frame of the shot.
So, Steve Hanson introduced us. He and George both worked in the library at Art Center (which has become such a mythic place, so many people following in their footsteps – Diana Thater, and Giovanni Intra and Jorge, and Mark von Schlegell - whom I prodded to ask Steve for a job). Steve and I were reading incessantly in those days; there was a great used bookstore we would all go to together, and about which George has since made a film, House of Fiction. We were just taking everything in; and George was helping to contextualize; he was our informal teacher, our mad professor friend. In those days we listened to a lot of music too; Steve and I had been LA punks; we’d met several years before at a Black Flag show when I was still in high school – well, the band never showed up (they were supposed to play at his school, La Cañada High), but we were both there. By 1987 we were living together, with a painter who was a protégée of Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe’s, and we had a lot of parties. Steve’s great art band, Myther, played their first show in our living room. George was there for all of this, again, contextualizing, talking about NY in the 70s, comparing us to his friends back then. He is a great lover of jazz, and though at that point I knew nothing about that music, I would later come to understand where it meets with his love of collage, and sampling and incomplete thoughts – because incompletion seems to be the only place to leave a thought. As mentioned I met Jorge with George. I remember we were all sitting on the floor of George’s apartment and Jorge came in with my and Steve’s painter roommate. A month or so later I saw Jorge’s first show at Bliss, in the garage, which Steve and Jorge and George all helped to drywall. It was a great show – I’ve written about it elsewhere – and when I complimented Jorge on it he just kicked some pebbles around and thanked me without looking up. Nearly 15 years later it would be as we were leaving George’s house that Jorge would ask me out on our first date. I thought he was joking, we’d known each other so long at that point. Of course, it turns out he wasn’t; Penelope, our daughter, is the proof of that.
George Porcari showed work at Bliss too, the aluminum mount- ed fifty image homage to Death in Venice, simply titled Death in Venice, a piece in four or five long strips – the Visconti film with Dirk Bogarde is based on Mahler; Porcari humorously bases his Death on Stravinsky and his wife vacationing in Venice, a much lighter version of love, which George ends with a snapshot photograph of a dog he took on a beach. This exemplifies his disdain for the heroic; he is a funny flaneur, has an admiration of the space between things, of process, openness; he has a deep love of collage, is a teacher, a talker, and a great listener too.
There is, to be sure, a lot of silence with him. A lot of just observing. But when you hear a voice slightly different from the others, and interrupt to ask a question: Tell me about this woman singing, he will go on to tell you the entire history of Sathima Benjamin, her husbandDollar Brand, and her one existing recording with Brandand Duke Ellington. Or if you make a comment: I just sawNights of Cabiria for the first time, he will tell you all about how the film came about, Giulietta Masina mugging for the camera and how Fellini decided to make a film based on that. Or he will begin to speak about a beautiful poet you are both staring at in a book; and there is a love of life in this. And a generosity. A spirit that wants to give, like anyone of your favorite friends who pulls out all his records and books the moment you walk into his room. You enter a space in this way; share an interior, and this in-between space, the space which is his because he is offering it to you and yours because you are receiving and participating in it too, and neither of yours because it is shared and you are both open and offering and giving and talking. This shared space is the locus of creativity, according to the great child psychologist, D.W. Winnicott, the space in which life is lived in an active mode. The gap, the transition, the space of motion. And in becoming a participant in these open spaces an activation, which is life, occurs.
A Cloud In My Pants (this page) is a typical Porcari single image work. It is funny partially because it makes literal Mayakovsky’s earlier poetic: If you like-/ I’ll be furiously flesh elemental,/ or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses -/ if you like-/ I’ll be extraordinary gentle,/not a man, but – a cloud in trousers! In George Porcari’s version we see a car through a large plate glass window, a structural beam obstructing full view of this car and the parking lot it sits in. We see more cars and buildings across the way, and a reflection of further cars layered onto our central car. We begin to notice that our reflections have reflections, that those buildings across the way reflect other buildings, and there are one or two cars which may not be in this parking lot at all, for they may merely be reflections on further windows. The structural beam that obstructs our view is the only thing holding us up, we now see. And it comes clear to us, that on our central car, our protagonist car, there is an image of a man – chest down, his arm and hand clearly visible – our photographer perhaps? It is impossible to make out whether he is reflected on the window in front of this car, or onto the car itself; is it only one window; are there not too many reflections for one window? and we are astonished to learn that George never works with double exposures. The cloud on the windshield does, in fact, complete this man; here it’s his head it replaces not the inside of his trousers. And then we see that there are other clouds on other cars in this parking lot, perhaps completing other men. And the scene is a distinctly urban one, big sixties modernist buildings reflected in the windows of big sixties modernist buildings. The only human image: this reflection on this car, the now ubiquitous symbol of the speed which Mayakovsky celebrated so enthusiastically in his life and in his work (though here it is parked), speed now supremely privatized in the form of the personal vehicle. Man automatized. In his autobiography Mayakovsky tells us that when he first saw a rivet factory illuminated at night he “lost interest in nature. Not up to date enough.” Is this de-centered parking lot something of the modern he envisioned? But we know that he was tortured by love too. And those of us familiar with George Porcari’s work have seen clouds on windshields before, associated with speed, the urban, motion, life, but also with the vanishing face of a woman, the Talin of many of his 80s photos thus shown, the Talin of his 80s obsession, the beautiful unattainable girl whom he met wandering the stacks of the library, thus reflected more than once.
There is a sense of freedom, of life, choice, inscribed into Berg- son’s insistence that we consider the temporal, duration. George Porcari’s work provides us with a dynamic layering of information, each image pointing us in a multitude of directions, activating the space with our own memories, chance encounters (it is helpful in this vein to know that Porcari doesn’t compose his images), literary and filmic and musical references, a cacophony of images in each single shot. This vitality is often and poetically hinted at through his use of reflections, a trope he has been employing since the 1970’s. But it is also a pulling off of the melancholic, of death, the unbroachable gap, the missing person, places left, lost time and past histories, it is an insistence that the mournful is a stop, but is not a place to stop.
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First Love : A Writing Exercise
First Love
First love struck at the age of 17. Like a tiny gilded, guided love missile it thundered towards Charlotte, first entering her chest cavity and penetrating her aorta, before ripping through her back muscles, and rocketing out between her shoulder blades. Its primary mission had been to lay shimmering chains of devotion molecules on its way, finishing off by tying them into a rather large ostentatious bow around her heart.
Once free of her body, the love missile streaked rapidly skywards where seconds later, it juddered silently to a mid-air stop some 200 metres above her head. Then, as if after a change of mind, in order to make absolutely sure of its assignment, the arrow turned deliberately to point downwards, and gathering speed, came dive bombing down, kamikaze style into her psyche. It entered through the top of Charlotte’s head, where it remained lodged for the next 35 years.
Although Charlotte did not notice the technical aspects of the event, she surely felt them. For, when George’s eyes met the gaze of her own, the two love missiles, (for George had received one too), initiated a mutually receptive tractor beam thereby installing the required mental software. This lead immediately and irrationally to them both craving physical and emotional proximity, by any means.
It was of course, all over in an instant, and George although not fully aware of what had happened, felt compelled to approach the beautiful girl he had just seen in the campus gardens to ask her out. Unusually, there was no fear in his heart – largely due to the sub-ether mono-nucleic confidence generator that was working at full pelt in George’s left ventricle.
For George there was a certainty on his part that this young woman was already linked to him, and only to him. He could feel it – rejection would be unthinkable. With both love missiles silently facilitating a high speed first-love connection, Charlotte found she had no choice but to accept the mental invitation from the alluring stranger who had so unexpectedly transfixed her gaze.
Now, both young hearts were beating in rhythm, pumping hormones into blood veins, whose transportation status had already been promoted to high-alert. At the same time, via the furiously busy soul mate processing procedures, the virginal love victims exchanged memory ions.
Later when the processed blood in question travelled through the brain, shared memories would deposit themselves in each subconscious, creating a certain synchronicity of feeling and experience, that the young lovers would later note was so coincidental, so unlikely, as to be fateful. They would be convinced that they had been made for one another.
Liz Jamieson
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Sex ed
SEX ED (92 min)
Castille Landon, Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Hernandez, Lorenza Izzo, Matt Walsh, Retta Glen Powell
When Eddie (Haley Joel Osment) lands his first teaching gig at an inner city middle school, he quickly finds that his highly pubescent pupils are receiving no form of sexual education. Eddie isn't exactly equipped to teach them - he's a virgin. And he's falling in love with Pilar (Lorenza Izzo), the older sister of one of his students. But Eddie goes off lesson plan anyway, delving into the world of menstrual cycles and STDs, and in doing so, incurring the wrath of the local Reverend (Chris Williams).
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Happy New…
Happy New...New Year’s Eve. A time of celebration, often punctuated by lots of drinking and eagerly counting down to the new year! It seems I may have partied a little too hard this evening though, and passed out. I didn’t even get to watch the ball drop! Maybe next year…
Fox and text by TyTheFoxie
Draw by Wen
Source: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18650414/
Poor Fox it seems like he party little to match this New Year’s Eve and did dent have the strange to be awake for the new years. It also seems like he have bean drinking allot to so it is a good thing that he is wearing some thick diapers if he wet in his sleep. I bet his thick diaper could handle that if that happen.
Pichuboy’s new year belly
Pichu: pichuboy
Draw by: pichu90
Source: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12495625/
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Inspired by the great American magnate, the place has the luxury and charisma present in the figure of John D. Rockefeller.
This luxury should be captured in the website. Using the colors black, red and gold, emphasizing name and logo that provides more volume and shine to present higher quality.
We show a dynamic design, with movement between different areas of the site.
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Potential and Actual Persons
Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva's paper, After-birth Abortion: why should the baby live? is, as the title suggests, confronting. The authors suggest that the grounds for killing newborns should be no different than the grounds required for an abortion. They form their argument in the following way:
1. A fetus and a newly born baby are biologically no different.
2. While a fetus and newborn are potentially persons (a person is one who is "able to make aims and appreciate their own life") they are not actual persons.
3. Only actual persons have moral status.
4. Therefore, fetuses and newborns are not "subjects of a moral right to life". Only the rights and interests of actual persons should be given consideration.
It is, on many levels, an objectionable argument, one that has provoked responses from many different avenues. I will restrict my response to a discussion on the terms, 'potential' and 'actual' by situating them within the philosophical context in which they derive their meaning. But first, it may help to situate Giubilini and Minerva's argument within the context of differing ethical theories. This may help us to understand how they come to put forward an argument that most people will find abhorrent.
Ethical theory
There are three principal approaches to ethics:
• Utilitarian Ethics considers consequences and asks what the outcome of an action will be. Will it bring about the greatest good, the most happiness? From this standpoint a person will need to be proficient at weighing up what the best course of action will be by imagining future possibilities.
• A Kantian approach will take into account moral rules (laws) and hold that a person is bound to act in accordance with these rules. A person coming from this standpoint is first required to recognize that a rule needs to be applied and then consider how the rule should be applied.
• A third approach – Virtue Ethics – highlights the importance of being a person of virtue. A person who favours this standpoint will ask themselves what a virtuous person would do in this situation.
In short, the emphasis will be on the end result, or on the action itself, or on the person who performs the action. In practice, most ethicists who maintain one approach will also admit that the themes of the alternate approaches cannot be ignored. Thus, a Kantian ethicist will also explain how certain ends are significant and that virtue does have a place and a Virtue ethicist will explain that there needs to be an element of rule-following etc. Giubilini and Minerva put forward a rigid Utilitarian argument, one that lacks nuance. As such, virtue is trumped by adult interests and the occasion of the action itself is stripped of moral significance. When consequences and future possibilities are all that is considered in ethical decision-making, then terms like 'potential' and 'actual' and 'person' will lose much of their moral force.
Disconnecting the notion of 'potential' from the notion of 'actual'
The terms 'potential' and 'actual' have their origin in an ancient and complex philosophical theory about the nature of living beings. It is a theory that originated in the writings of Aristotle and was later adopted and developed by Thomas Aquinas. Aristotle recognised that every being capable of change (trees, cats, human beings etc.) must be composed of two distinct but mutually interrelated principles, what he calls potentiality and actuality.
All of nature, Aristotle realised, is in process – living beings change and there is something about them that enables that change to occur. Living beings advance – by their own power – toward higher levels of potential. A newborn, for example, has a more developed capacity for life than an 8-week-old fetus. Potency, as such, constantly unfolds and also does not cease once something actual comes into being. 'Potential' and 'actual' are not static or unrelated concepts. Rather, all living beings possess, at all stages of growth and change, potency and act.
When Aquinas and Aristotle argue that an entity has 'potency' they recognize that the capacity to become what it will be in the future is already present. The emphasis is not on a future possibility but on a present reality. A fetus, for example, already possesses the potential needed to become an adult human being. It is not as though it could become something else. What is 'potential' and what is 'actual' are necessarily associated. This is particularly important to the present discussion – there must be something about the nature of the dynamic, growing, changing fetus/newborn that makes possible some future actuality of being a person who makes decisions and forms aims.
Giubilini and Minerva accept that fetuses and newborns have potentiality. They do not doubt that a newborn infant is potentially capable of one day making decisions, forming aims and appreciating her own life. They even point out that a baby may potentially live a very happy, healthy and fulfilled life. However, despite the potential a newborn has to become a fulfilled adult, Giubilini and Minerva argue that this should have no bearing on our moral decisions. Only an actual person, already at the stage of making aims and forming decisions has a right to be valued and protected.
To argue in this way Giubilini and Minerva need to mark a sharp distinction between what is potential and what is actual. In doing so, they use the terms, 'potential' and 'actual' in a way that is inconsistent with Aristotle's logic. They ignore the causal link that exists in the transformation that occurs when a fetus becomes a newborn and then becomes an adult capable of making choices. Their description of human life, as such, is fragmented, as if the stages of change and growth were disconnected. They choose to ignore the continual process that is potency and act. As noted, a living being cannot have potential unless it is already an actual something, nor can it reach a point of actuality such that all potency ceases. Potentiality is forever unfolding as long as a living being is said to exist.
Giubilini and Minerva further misrepresent the notion of potential by implying that it is a capacity that lies dormant and inactive in a fetus or newborn infant. In Aristotle's logic potential is in process, so living beings constantly change and evolve toward what is actual. The terms 'potency' and 'act', as such, express a dynamic reality that can be lost when using the equivalent terms, 'potential' and 'actual'. This seems to be a mistake that Giubilini and Minerva make. Their argument can leave the reader with the impression that once actuality is attained, potentiality ceases, as if 'potency' and 'act' are independent, disconnected realities.
Disconnecting the notion of 'human being' from the notion of 'person'
Some of the confusion that arises in this debate occurs because of the narrow definition given to the notion of 'person'. Just as Giubilini and Minerva describe 'potential' and 'actual' as though they were independent and disconnected realities, so too, they discuss what a 'human being' and 'person' are as if they were disconnected entities. It is indeed significant to the moral status of human beings that, unlike other living beings, there comes a point where we are able to form aims and act in response to decisions we make, and to do so under our own volition. In the exercise of freedom, potency and act take on a new and remarkable form. When this occurs human beings are not restrained by mere biological necessity (the rhythms of potency and act as occur in nature), but are able to act in independence from this reality. However, this level of consciousness does not disassociate the human person from her biological nature – the person who can make decisions and act on them is still the same being who is subject to biological change and growth. A person is a human being. When this point is lost – as it is in Giubilini and Minerva's paper – a disembodied capacity to act (called 'person') is affirmed and credited with moral status while the physical, biologically evolving human being is denied moral status.
Giubilini and Minerva's argument is flawed on many levels. I highlight here how it is flawed because they disconnect the notion of 'potential' from the notion of what is 'actual' and make the same mistake in distinguishing between a person and a human being. I have focused on the discussion from a philosophical standpoint. Otago University Ethicist, Grant Gillett sums up well the senselessness of such a stance: "Human potential looks out at us from the eyes of a child. And the ability to recognize and acknowledge the moral demand of human potential fuels education and the healing professions, and it marks the difference between a self-serving society and one that celebrates the human spirit in all its guises." (See Otago Daily Times, 23 March, 2012).
Rev Dr Gerard Aynsley is a parish priest in the diocese of Dunedin. He recently completed his PhD in philosophy at Monash University in Australia.
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(ITS#6059) Abandon syncprov race condition?
Full_Name: Rein Tollevik
Version: 2.4.16
OS: linux
Submission from: (NULL) (
Submitted by: rein
I've had two cases where a delete operation was performed on the master without
being replicated to its consumers, which so far appear to be cases of possible
connection lost (abandon) race conditions. The log (level: stats) shows the
"DEL" message of the entry, immediately followed by a "closed (connection lost)"
message on the connection. Note: No "RESULT" message was logged.
I haven't looked very much into this, but my theory so far is that syncprov
skipped replicating of the delete op after noticing the abandon resulting from
loosing the connection, even though the delete had already taken place in the
local database. That it happened after a delete op might very well have been a
coincident, this possible race could exist after any modify op for all I know.
Do we need some sort of o_committed flag that can be used to prevent o_abandon
from being set or acted upon? Or handle o_abandon more like o_cancel, i.e with
multiple values, including "too late"?
Rein Tollevik
Basefarm AS
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Easy Listening
Easy listening music is often confused with elevator music ("Muzak"),[not verified in body] or lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it bore only modest resemblance to the background sound of this kind of music.
A significant portion of easy listening music is purely instrumental and included some big band and orchestral arrangements of standards, themes from movies, bossa nova hits and small instrumental ensembles playing instrumental versions of popular songs, including light jazz and even some soft rock. However, it was distinguished by slower tempo, and the large prominence of strings. When reed instruments such as saxophones were employed, they were used in a gentle, as opposed to brash, tone.[not verified in body]
The style has been synonymous with the tag "with strings". String instruments had been used in sweet bands in the 1930s and in background contexts in films. In the 1940s and 1950s strings had been used in jazz and popular music contexts. As examples in the jazz genre, there are the post-World War II recordings of Charlie Parker and the 1955 recordings of Clifford Brown and Helen Merrill. Early examples of practitioner in the popular context were Dinah Washington in 1951, and Jackie Gleason in 1952. In the 1950s the use of strings quickly became a main feature of the developing easy listening genre.
The name "easy listening" was used by Claude Hall, radio-TV editor of Billboard magazine to describe the sound of radio station WPIX-FM in New York. The format was developed by Charlie Whitaker, Program Director of the New York Daily News' station, broadcasting from the "Pix Penthouse" in the Daily News Building. Whitaker had designed the format as program director of KODA in Houston, where it achieved top ratings in that market. WPIX-FM also quickly became the top-rated FM radio station in New York and ranked among the top five of all stations, AM and FM, with adults 25-49 from 1964 through 1968. The format was emulated by many syndicated programmers (including Whitaker himself) and became the most popular format in FM radio nationwide. It later became known as Adult Contemporary, and this signaled an end to the instrumental content of the format. An attempt by Whitaker and his partner Lynn Christian, formerly GM of WPIX-FM, to revive the original format in the late 1990s was unsuccessful because of problems with delivery. It remains one of the most popular radio formats of all time.[]
A precursor to easy listening consisted of soft and unobtrusive instrumental selections, in large department stores, on a very structured schedule with limited commercial interruptions. It often functioned as a free background music service, with commercial breaks consisting only of announcements aimed at shoppers already in the stores. This practice was known as storecasting and was very common on the FM dial in the 1940s and 1950s.[]
Jackie Gleason, a practitioner of this genre, expressed the goal of producing "musical wallpaper that should never be intrusive, but conducive".[6]
Similarly, in 1956 John Serry Sr. sought to utilize the accordion within the context of a jazz sextet in order to create a soothing mood which is ideally suited for "low pressure" listening on his album Squeeze Play.[7][8]
The magazines Billboard and Record World featured easy listening singles in independently-audited record charts. Generally 40 positions in length, they charted airplay on stations such as WNEW, New York City, WWEZ, Cincinnati, and KMPC, Los Angeles. Record World began their listings January 29, 1967 and ended these charts in the early 1970s. Billboards Easy Listening chart morphed into the Adult Contemporary chart in 1979, and continues to this day.[9]
During the format's heyday in the 1960s, it was not at all uncommon for easy listening instrumental singles to reach the top of the charts on the Billboard Hot 100 (and stay there for several weeks)[10].
Beautiful music was a precursor to easy listening music, had rigid standards for instrumentation, e.g., few or no saxophones (at the time, the saxophone was associated with less refined styles such as jazz and rock and roll), and restrictions on how many vocal pieces could be played in an hour. The easy listening radio format has been generally, but not completely, superseded by the soft adult contemporary format.[11]
Easy listening singers
Easy listening/lounge singers have a lengthy history stretching back to the decades of the early twentieth century. Easy listening music featured popular vocalists such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Bill Kenny, Astrud Gilberto, Matt Monro, The Carpenters and many others. The somewhat derisive term lounge lizard was coined then, and less well known lounge singers have often been ridiculed as dinosaurs of past eras[12] and parodied for their smarmy delivery of standards.[13] In any event, these lounge singers, perhaps performing in a hotel or cocktail bar, are usually accompanied by one or two other musicians, and they favor cover songs composed by others, especially pop standards, many deriving from the days of Tin Pan Alley.[]
Lounge, a more modern term that lumped together exotica, light jazz, easy listening and nostalgia, emerged in the late 1980s as a label of endearment by younger fans whose parents had played such music while they were growing up in the 1960s. It has enjoyed resurgences in popularity in the 1980s and 1990s, led initially by ironic figures such as Buster Poindexter and Jaymz Bee.[]
In the early 1990s the lounge revival was in full swing and included such groups as Combustible Edison, Love Jones, The Cocktails, Pink Martini and Nightcaps. Alternative band Stereolab demonstrated the influence of lounge with releases like Space Age Bachelor Pad Music and the Ultra-Lounge series of lounge music albums. The lounge style was a direct contradiction to the grunge music that dominated the period.[14][15]
In the 2000s Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine has added to this resurgence by covering (usually profane) hit songs of other genres (primarily metal and hip hop) in the style of a lounge singer. Other artists have taken lounge music to new heights by recombining rock with pop, such as Jon Brion, The Bird and the Bee, Pink Martini, the Buddha-Lounge series, and the surrounding regulars of Café Largo.[]
Instrumental-vocal mix
Most stations adopted a 70-80% instrumental - 20-30% vocal mix, a few offered 90% instrumentals, and a handful were entirely instrumental. The WPIX-FM format called for a 60% 40% instrumental to vocal mix, and included vocal groups such as Brazil 66, The Lettermen, The Sandpipers, The Fifth Dimension, and other groups in addition to vocalists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Doris Day, Peggy Lee, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett and others. By the 1970s, softer songs by artists like The Carpenters, Anne Murray, John Denver, Barry Manilow, Elton John, Nancy Wilson and others were added to the mix on many stations. Also, some of these stations even played soft songs by artists like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Billy Joel, and other rock-based artists.[]
All vocals on such stations had to be extremely soft. Therefore, on one hand a song like "She's Out of My Life" by a non-core artist like Michael Jackson would be heard on some of these stations; similarly, "Crazy for You" or "Live to Tell" by Madonna. On the other hand, even uptempo jazzier songs by standards artists, such as "Detour" by Patti Page, would not be heard on easy listening music stations except during specialty shows.[]
The custom recordings were usually instrumental versions of current or recent rock and roll or pop hit songs, a move intended to give the stations more mass appeal without selling out, but also disgusted some longtime listeners of the format. Some stations would also occasionally play earlier big band-era recordings from the 1940s and early 1950s.[]
Many music stations would air a few Christmas songs during the season. The stations' vocal content would typically increase to about 40 to 60 percent of the playlist during this period, as well. This concept was later borrowed (and expanded upon) by Soft AC, Oldies, and even some country music and Hot AC stations.[]
The predominantly instrumental-vocal mix is still in use today,[when?] mainly by smooth jazz stations.[]
See also
1. ^ a b c d e f g h Keightley 2012, p. 192.
2. ^ Rosen, Jody (June 7, 2005). "The Musical Genre That Will Save the World". Slate.
4. ^ Musiker & Musiker 2014, p. 16.
5. ^ Lanza et al. 2008, p. 161.
6. ^ AoL Music (2012). "Jackie Gleason Albums". AoL Music. AOL Inc. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012. Retrieved 2012.
7. ^ The Cash Box, Album Reviews, Cash Box Publishing Co., New York, December 8 1956, Vol.XVIII No. 12, p. 38 Review of album "Squeeze Play" in Cash Box magazine, Pg. 38 on americanradiohistory.com
8. ^ The Billboard - Review and Ratings of New Popular Albums - Squeeze Play, December 1, 1956 p. 22 on books.google.com
10. ^ "Walter Wanderley Summer Samba (So Nice) Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved .
11. ^ Radio Station Format Guide Archived 2006-03-27 at the Wayback Machine.
13. ^ Sean Elder. "Bill Murray". Salon.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-12. Retrieved .
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Question Paper: Mobile Communication & Computing : Question Paper Dec 2016 - Computer Engineering (Semester 6) | Mumbai University (MU)
Mobile Communication & Computing - Dec 2016
Computer Engineering (Semester 6)
(1) Question 1 is compulsory.
(2) Attempt any three from the remaining questions.
(3) Assume data if required.
(4) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
1(a) Explain in short Time slot hierachy of GSM system.(4 marks) 1(b) Explain in short Wireless Local Loop Architecture.(4 marks) 1(c) What are the general problems of satellite signals travelling from a satellite to a receiver?(4 marks) 1(d) Explain how Mobile originated call (MOC) work?(4 marks) 1(e) What are the characteristics of SIM?(4 marks) 2(a) List the entities of mobile IP and describe data transfer from a mobile node to a fixed node and vice versa.(10 marks) 2(b) What are the modification require to an existing GSM network to be upgraded to GPRS, Explain with the help of diagram.(10 marks) 3(a) Explain in Detail IEEE 802.11 MAC sublayer.(10 marks) 3(b) Comapare 3G and 4G.(10 marks) 4(a) Explain in detail Bluetooth Protocol Architecture.(10 marks) 4(b) Explain in detail how Subscribe Authentication is done GSM.(10 marks) 5(a) Comapare HIPERLAN2, BLUETOOTH, IEEE 802.11.(10 marks) 5(b) What are the different types of Handover in Satellite system? Explain in detail.(10 marks) 6(a) Satellite orbits.(5 marks) 6(b) Android framework.(5 marks) 6(c) Cellular IP.(5 marks) 6(d) Digital Certificate.(5 marks)
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Question Paper: Surveying - 2 : Question Paper May 2015 - Civil Engineering (Semester 4) | Mumbai University (MU)
Surveying - 2 - May 2015
Civil Engineering (Semester 4)
(1) Question 1 is compulsory.
(2) Attempt any three from the remaining questions.
(3) Assume data if required.
(4) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Attempt any two questions.
1 (a) Explain in detail the field procedure for setting out the curve by Rankine's method of deflection angles.(10 marks) 1 (b) Explain in detail the procedure along with neat sketch the tachometric radial contouring project along with method employed for plotting the contours.(10 marks) 1 (c) Explain
i) Principle of EDM
ii) Principle of tacheometry.
(10 marks)
Differentiate between
2 (a) i) Stadia system and tangential system of tacheometry.
ii) Fixed hair method and moveable hair method of stadia tacheometory.
(10 marks)
2 (b) To determine the distance between two point X and Y and their elevations. Following observation were recorded upon vertically held staves from two traverse stations R and S. The tacheometer was fitted with an analytic lens and instrument constant was 100. compute the distance XY gradient from X to Y and bearing of XY
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Travase Stn RL(m) HI (m) Co-ordinates of station Staff stn Beaing Vertical Angles Staff Reading
Lat Dep
R 1020.60 1.50 800 1800 X 15° 14' +8° 9' 1.10,1.85,2.60
S 1021.21 1.53 950 2500 Y 340° 18' +2° 3' 1.32,1.91,2.50
(10 marks) 3 (a) Explain in brief the procedure for setting out a simple circular curve by the method of offset from chord produced.(10 marks) 3 (b) In making a survey for a new road , the intersection point of two straights was found to be inacessible. Four points P,Q,R,S were therefor selected two on each straight, and the distance between Q and R was found to be 122.20m. If the angle PQR was 160°47'40' and angle QRS 148°22'20''; Draw up a table of deflection angles and chainages for setting out a 200m radius curve by pegs driven at every 20m chain. Chainage of Q=(140+90) chains.(10 marks) 4 (a) Define setting out of works and explain in brief the detailed procedure for setting out of bridge.(10 marks) 4 (b) What is total station. Mention the advantages of total station over level and theodolite along with the uses of total station. Mention the features of total station.(10 marks) 5 (a) What is transition curves? What are the requirements of an ideal transition curve. Enlist the objectives of providing transition curve and mention the different types of transion curves.(10 marks) 5 (b) A 3% vising gradient meels a 2% down gradients the vertical curve 200m long is to be used. The pegs are to be field at 20m interval. Calculate the elevation of the curve points by tangent correction method and calculate the staff readings required given that the height of collimation is 350m, RL of the apex is 350.0m and its chainges is 1000.0m(10 marks) 6 (a) What is GPS? What are tc advantages of space based positioning system and enlist the various application of GPS in surveging.(10 marks) 6 (b) Explain in brief
i) Auto level
ii) Objectives and advantages of GIS.
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The system is mainly conceived and built upon the concept of Crowdsourcing, a neologism coined by Jeff Howe in 2006 and currently described in Wikipedia as the process in which a task "traditionally performed by an employee or contractor" is outsourced "to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call". In particular, the term readersourcing refers to a specific instantiation of such concept. The final purpose of the system is to have readers of scholarly papers that also participate in the rating process of the content they read. There are several rationales for this approach. One of them is to overcome the always more frequent shortage of available competent referees, mainly caused by the increased rate at which scientific articles are written and submitted for review nowadays, without being actually paired by an equally significant growth rate of referees. Modern technologies and globalization have in fact provided several advantages to scientific writing, but they do not help the peer reviewing process to the same extent, finally unbalancing the existing equilibrium between scientific writers and reviewers. Another good reason is to exploit, for free, the opinions that readers of a scholarly paper do have after having read it: currently, these opinions are often wasted and forgotten, or spread in a very informal and not effective way. The readersourcing model aims at taking advantage of reader opinions, in order to overcome referees shortage, and also to follow the mass collaboration, collective intelligence, and wisdom of the crowd principles enabled and enhanced by Web 2.0. Of course, simply allowing readers to express their judgement on the paper they read cannot be a reasonable approach, as not all readers can be considered equally prepared and reliable; that is why the proposed model also assigns a rating to each reviewer, so that judgments from those who have proven to be good reviewers do count more than those who should not be trusted. Such a rating is implicitly and dynamically generated by the system, through the continuous comparison of the judgments expressed by the readers on each paper with its current score; providing - or having provided - correct (wrong) judgments will therefore lead to higher (lower) reader ratings, hopefully generating a virtuous circle. Although it is not yet possible to interact with the system, you can find some more information about it both on the document section of this website and through the links provided on the right of this page.
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The Evidence
Topics for Discussion
Science: a “Noble Lie”
A “Noble Lie” as described by Plato:
Plato’s Atheistic “Noble Lie”
In Plato’s Republic, written in BC380, he envisioned a Utopian City where an elite class of intellectuals would have dictatorial rule over the masses. He conjured a “Noble Lie,” designed to separate children from their parents, and indoctrinate them to love and serve the state. In Plato’s Utopia, children would be taught that humans were born from the earth, rather than their parents.
Ideological “Science”
Plato’s Republic influenced the thinking of intellectuals and scientists in the dark ages. Years later, they used his concept of a Utopian “Noble Lie” to pervert the research of Darwin. They changed Plato’s absurd concept that humans evolved from the earth, to the equally absurd “humans evolved from the apes.” As a result, the myth of evolution was imposed on every child in school. The “theory of evolution” is a reincarnation of Plato’s “Noble Lie.” It is not about education or human origins; it is Brainwashing, and Mind Control of the Masses.
The Theory of Evolution; is an Atheistic Creation Myth
Evolution does provide a “theory” for our existence; however, unlike the Bible, it does not provide a purpose. The Bible gives humanity hope of an afterlife. Without an afterlife, there is no reason to live a moral life, or purpose for human existence. Atheism is a “belief” about God. As such, it is a reactionary religion.
The Results
After two hundred years, the consequences of using evolution to drive a wedge between religious parents and their children are obvious to all but the elites in science and academia. Children indoctrinated to believe that they evolved from the apes, will behave like animals.
The Modern Myth of Ideological Science
It seems inconceivable, but atheism has turned science and academia into a mindless Cult of Evolving Apes, who no longer seek the truth, because ideological scientists claim it cannot be known. Do you think that truth is unknowable, or do you think they really don’t want to know?
In the deep ignorance of the dark ages that followed the fall of Jerusalem, theologians began to form our modern religions. These powerless myths were merely modern pretenders to an ancient reality. In an attempt to hold onto power, they suppressed any challenge to their “God-Given” authority.
In a backlash against this theological tyranny, scientists and intellectuals formed the cult of atheism out of whole cloth. These radicals instigated violent revolutions in Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Cuba; killed millions of people, and enslaved those countries under tyrannical atheistic dictators. They caused the Cold War, and an arms race that left us sitting atop deteriorating stockpiles of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons designed by science.
Atheistic “Scientists,” Communists, Socialists, “Intellectuals,” and Left-Wing Radicals
Disguised as “liberals,” the atheists have turned science into an ideological cult. In an attempt to drive a wedge between children and the beliefs of their religious parents, these radicals turned public education into an atheistic re-education camp. Modern Academia is not unlike the brainwashing gulags of the communists. Indoctrinating vulnerable children with the dark age myths of atheism and evolution is comparable to the Infant Baptisms of religion:
Give us the child for 8 years, and it will be a Bolshevik forever,” Vladimir Lenin.
Whether the indoctrination is done by science or religion, force-feeding ideology to defenseless children is criminal. These conflicting “intellectual” cults caused all of our holy wars, and violent atheistic revolutions. They radicalize government, education, and politics in democracies, and embroil us in endless ideological and military conflicts around the world.
America’s founding motto is: “In God we Trust.”
Atheism is antithetical to America’s founding precepts.
Atheism is a godless Anti-American religion. Darwin is its messiah. Evolution is its atheistic creation myth. Liberalism, socialism, and ideological science are its Dogmas; as such, it is an Anti-American godless religion. Why is “science” indoctrinating every child in America’s elementary schools with this radical Anti-American ideology? It should be banned from academia and government under the separation of church and state statute.
Do you really believe you’re an evolving ape?
America, the country’s founders placed our Trust in God; not religion, ideological science, atheism, or evolution.
Empirical Science
Pure science is a noble profession. Through research and discovery, it has provided humanity with many of the advances in technology etc that we enjoy in the modern world. Unfortunately, its reputation has been sullied by the cult of atheism.
It is time for true scientists to reject the dark age myths of atheism and evolution, and renew the effort to solve the mystery of human existence. The Awful Truth, by Patrick J. Conway, would be a good place to start that research. Bookstore.
Cult: The Definitions on
Doesn’t that describe the mindless worship of Darwin and Evolution in ideological science and academia?
a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal.
Doesn’t that describe all Religions?
According to those definitions, all religions, including Atheism, Ideological Science, and “modern” academia, are ideological cults rooted in mindless Dark Age beliefs.
It is time to face The Awful Truth, religion is a modern pretense to an ancient reality, and atheistic science is a reactionary ideological cult.
Global Warming / Climate Change / Environmentalism – Noble Lies?
If you think modern science is above creating a “Noble Lie,” think again. The following link is based on an excerpt from my book The Awful Truth. Please read it carefully. In my forty years of research, I have never seen a more accurate portrayal of academia’s growing philosophical crisis. Climate Change: A Noble Lie?
A Final thought; a prominent Cable Television Program touting scientific advances and research urges its viewers to “Question Everything.” That is; everything but Darwin and the “Theory of Evolution.” Questioning that “scientific” belief is a sacrilege.
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The Worst - Jhené Aiko
Monday, November 18, 2013
Her words, give me chills throughout my body. Watch as she sings out my spirit & relives my October.
Words that stuck out to me:
If you cannot stay down, Then you do not have to pretend
Like there is no way out, I shoulda never let you in, Cuz you got me face down.
And don't take it personal
But you're the worst, You know what you've done to me
And although it hurts I know, I just can't keep runnin' away
You said that you would come again, You (said) that we would remain friends but
You know that I do not depend on, Nothing or no one
So why would you show up so uninvited then, Just change my mind like that
Please don't take this personal
But you ain't shit, And you weren't special ..Til I made you so, You better act like you know
That I been through worse than you
I just can't keep runnin away
Everybody's like, He's no item, Please don't like em, He one nights em
I never listen, No, I shoulda figured tho
All that shit you was spittin' so unoriginal
But it was you, So I was with it
And tell you the truth, Wish we never did it
Cuz I usually do, Stick to the business but you came out the blue and then you just flipped it
God damn baby my mind's blown
I be forgettin' you live in a different time zone
I think I know what this is, It's just the time's wrong
And yea, I know what you did, but baby I'm grown
And my love is patient and kind, and shit
If this is real we can build and do different types of shit
If you was really the realest wouldn't be fightin' it
I think your pride is just In the way(like a bitch)
Funny how everything changed
Once you got all that you wanted
Nothing was ever the same
I don't need you I don't need you I don't need you, but I still want you
I don't mean to I don't mean to I don't mean to, But I love you
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Basic Site Details
Name: Hatton Castle
Town, district or village: Turriff
City or county: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Status: A Listed
Grid ref:
Building Type Classification
The building is classified under the following categories:
ClassificationOriginal classification?Notes
Item 1 of 1Castle
The following date-based events are associated with this building:
FromToEvent typeNotes
Item 1 of 3c. 1814 Reconstruction
Item 2 of 31901 Alterations to upper floors
Item 3 of 3After 1907Before 1911 Alterations and decoration
Design and Construction
NameRolePartnership GroupFromToNotes
Item 1 of 5John PatersonArchitectHc. 1814 Remodelling
Item 2 of 5James DuncanArchitectB1901 Alterations at upper floors
Item 3 of 5James Duncan & SonArchitectural practiceB1901 Alterations at upper floors
Item 4 of 5William Liddle DuncanArchitectB1901 Alterations at upper floors
Item 5 of 5William Liddle DuncanArchitectAAfter 1907Before 1911Alterations and decoration
Item 1 of 1Duff, Garden
Related Buildings, Structures and Designs
Child Structures
Building NameNotes
Item 1 of 4Garrick Cottage, Hatton Castle
Item 2 of 4Hatton Castle Lodge and Gates
Item 3 of 4Hatton Castle, Mausoleum
Item 4 of 4Little Brownhill, Hatton Castle
Bibliographic References
The following books contain references to this building:
Item 1 of 1Walker, David W and Woodworth, Matthew2015The Buildings of Scotland: Aberdeenshire North and Moray Yale University Presspp40, 247
Periodical References
The following periodicals contain references to this building:
Periodical NameDateEditionPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 1RIAS QuarterlyAugust 195185Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS)p61-2
Archive References
The following archives hold material relating to this building:
SourceArchive nameSource catalogue no.Notes
Item 1 of 3Historic Environment ScotlandListed Buildings Register16431
Item 2 of 3National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMSDrawings Collection Plans of 1901
Item 3 of 3RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert MuseumRIBA Nomination Papers William Liddle Duncan: L v17 no1237
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Best Instagram Captions
on Monday, July 9, 2018
Most of us recognize that coming up with excellent Instagram captions can be ACTUALLY difficult! Best Instagram Captions
Should your Instagram caption be funny? Or does a significant tone make even more feeling? Just what regarding emojis and hashtags?
The reality is: if you wish to succeed on Instagram you can't allow your Instagram captions become a second thought!
To assist you create Instagram inscriptions that are as fantastic as your image, we have actually assembled The Ultimate Guide to Writing Good Instagram Captions. Let's get started!
Best Instagram Captions
Why an Excellent Instagram caption is necessary
Writing an excellent Instagram caption could not be as vital as your Instagram feed, yet it still matters!
Your caption is equally as much a depiction of your brand name as your Instagram feed, and could be the secret for taking your Instagram from excellent to wonderful!
A great Instagram caption is important since it could be the trick to having your post seen by more individuals.
The brand-new Instagram formula favors articles with high interaction, so when an article obtains a ton of likes as well as remarks, this signals to the formula that it's premium web content that individuals could want to see.
So the post will obtain bumped up on individuals' feeds as well as might also jump on the Explore Web page!
Composing excellent Instagram inscriptions with effective call-to-actions (CTAs) is just one of the most effective means to motivate your fans to comment on your posts, which will aid drive a lot more interaction on your Instagram account!
The best ways to Create an Excellent Instagram caption
A great Instagram caption is one that supplies context, includes individuality, as well as inspires your fans to act.
Excellent Instagram inscriptions come in all shapes and sizes, from brief to a much longer, in-depth tales (an Instagram caption can be as long as 2200 characters). As long as your audience finds it interesting, you're doing excellent!
Instagram captions offer you the possibility to add context to your photo, or simply connect with your followers and clients! Create your very own Instagram voice to select your brand, and also obtain innovative with your personal caption style.
Among the largest benefits of organizing your Instagram messages is that you can put in the time to compose (as well as reword!) your captions beforehand.
Instead of creating something on the spot, which can be super difficult, with an Instagram scheduler you could prep all your Instagram subtitles a couple of days or weeks before your post goes out!
Developing a Call-to-Action in Your Instagram caption
The basic act of including a call-to-action in your Instagram caption and welcoming your target market to comment or involve can go a very long means it when it concerns driving even more interaction on your blog posts.
But great Instagram subtitles are great way to inspire your fans to engage with your service both inside and beyond Instagram.
As an example, you might ask your followers to act by clicking the web link your biography, purchasing a product, answering an inquiry, marking a buddy, using your branded hashtag, and also method, way much more!
Something to bear in mind when creating a call-to-action is that action words like "start," "quit," "build," "join," "find out," as well as "find" are much more efficient at prompting your fans to do something compared to passive nouns and adjectives.
You ought to additionally consider transforming your call-to-action right into an inquiry, using the 5 W's (that, exactly what, where, when, and also why) as a method to encourage your fans to comment!
Additionally, do not save your call-to-actions for last! It's better to front lots your subtitles with vital details because after 3-4 lines of text, Instagram subtitles are trimmed (reduced).
Likewise, Instagram users today are subjected to more content compared to ever, so making the first part of your Instagram caption extremely appealing and attracting is a foolproof method to enhance the quantity of time individuals invest watching your post-- which could additionally be an aspect that Instagram formula takes into account!
For instance, when my travel blog site Neighborhood Wanderer articles a brand-new article and also we want to advertise it on Instagram, I see to it to add "brand-new post" beforehand in the caption so our followers recognize we have a brand-new post, even if they do not read the entire caption.
To develop a call-to-action in your Instagram caption, you simply need to ask your fans to do something after reviewing your caption!
You could ask a straightforward question, like just what they depend on this weekend break, or exactly what they think about a brand-new item.
If you're running an Instagram contest, a great method to drive interaction is to ask your followers to label at least one close friend in the remarks to get in.
By obtaining Instagram individuals to mark their close friends in the comments, you could draw more focus on the contest and also raise your brand name awareness by having much more people see your Instagram account and go into the contest.
Additionally, it's a good idea to include "competition" or "giveaway" at the beginning of the caption to truly capture people's interest!
If your objective with your call-to-action is to obtain your fans to check out a new blog post, video clip, or sale that you're having on your website by clicking the web link in your bio, it's a smart idea to include an emoji in your caption!
Emojis are a great means to attract the eye and make your fans notice the call-to-action in your articles.
You could make use of a "" or "" emoji beside "link in bio" so it's incredibly apparent to those that are reading your caption that you desire them to click the web link your biography!
As opposed to having to continuously change the web link in your bio to correspond with your latest project or sale, Later's function makes it very easy to route your Instagram audience to the best material and also products, all without altering the web link in your biography!
Making Use Of a Regular Brand Name Voice in Your Instagram caption
Other than the apparent pointers on using correct grammar and punctuation, one of the most integral parts of any great Instagram caption is brand name voice.
And also, eventually, exactly what it comes down to is consistency: your Instagram subtitles ought to sound and feel like the remainder of your advertising and marketing channels.
If you're simply beginning with Instagram as well as planning to establish a new brand name voice, one of your ideal resources is various other Instagram accounts!
Assemble a checklist of your favored Instagram accounts (and various other accounts from your market or company upright) and see if any type of brand name voice stands apart to you. When you locate a few voices you like, combine them to develop your own brand voice that reverberates with your audience, and also technique uniformity!
Utilizing Emojis in Your Instagram caption
When you typically aren't making use of emojis to accentuate your call-to-action, you can make use of emojis to include personality to your Instagram caption.
You could insert several emoji at the beginning of your caption to stand out of your followers with a bit of shade, so they intend to click to learn more, or you can change entire words with an emoji.
Even if you simply add an emoji at the end of your Instagram caption, it will make your caption much more welcoming to your followers-- and also why not? Everybody loves a good emoji!
Adding Mentions to Your Instagram caption
Pointing out the handles of other Instagram individuals is an easy means to give back to your Instagram area and also share in the Insta-love!
References are an excellent method to get in touch with various other Instagram customers, and to promote each other to your personal audiences.
Anytime that you are publishing a photo with another individual or brand name, include their take care of into your caption too, as opposed to simply labeling them in the photo. Then your fans can discover their accounts too!
Divulging Your Sponsored Posts
With the current squabble of Instagram influencers entering difficulty for not divulging when their messages sponsored, it's more vital compared to ever before to be transparent concerning when you're making money to advertise a service or product.
It is necessary to consist of "#ad" or "#sponsored" on any posts that are certainly sponsored, and also you have to do so before the caption reduces, so near the start is best.
Ways To Make use of Hashtags in Your Instagram caption
Using hashtags to your Instagram caption isn't compulsory, yet it most definitely helps!
Not only could hashtags help you acquire a lot more Instagram followers, however they're a great means to connect with consumers, locate content developed regarding you by your followers, and also construct long-term relationships with prominent partners!
When adding hashtags to your Instagram caption, don't limit on your own to keeping them at the end! Integrating hashtags throughout your post adds dimension to your caption, and also given that hashtags are a different color on Instagram, the appropriate hashtag can likewise highlight and contextualize your material.
Best Instagram Captions 4.5 5 Anjih Najxu Monday, July 9, 2018 Most of us recognize that coming up with excellent Instagram captions can be ACTUALLY difficult! Best Instagram Captions Should your Instagr...
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Too much fun!
Beauty and The Best
You have the opportunity to write line 2 in this story, on the theme of drama.
Ths story will have 10 lines, and once they've all been written, you will be sent an email inviting you to read the finished story.
It might be crap, it might be great - that all depends on you, your friends, and your friends friends.
This is the text you have to follow on from:
It's hard to solve a Rubik's cube? Well, it isn't if you remember the algorithm.
Regardless, on that sunny day when I finally met Rubik after a long correspondence I was not really thinking about Cubes or Algorithms and had forgotten to tie my shoes. I walked, or rather tripped, into the cafe and after helping the waitress clean up the broken ketchup bottle and apologizing to the red stained man,
- don't forget to include the word reticent that your friend suggested!
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Once your story is saved, you will be redirected to facebook, with a preprepared message to send to your friends - or email addresses.
This message contains the link they need to follow to make the next contribution.
Should you not want to invite friends with facebook, or not have a facebook account, simply click cancel, and you will be shown the thank you page from where you can distribute invites manually.
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Every Sneaker Michael Jordan Wore in the Finals
by June 08, 2017
Michael Jordan
It’s never a bad time to look back on Michael Jordan‘s greatness. In the 80s, his individual skills destroyed those trying to guard him. Then in the 90s, his Bulls dominated the entire League. In the six seasons Mike won titles, his teams were a combined 478-130, including the playoffs.
478 wins in six seasons. Other-worldly.
Of course, MJ was breaking hearts wearing the most celebrated signature sneaker line ever. Yeah, most of them are beautifully designed and constructed (shout out to Tinker Hatfield, always), but it was Mike’s on-court performance that catapulted the Jordan Brand into the sneaker stratosphere.
While he was averaging 33.1 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists in 35 Finals games, His Airness was rocking the meanest black colorways of his sneakers. The VI, VII, VIII, XI and XIV were all done-up in black for the playoffs, catching everyone’s eyes. Must’ve been terrifying to be Danny Ainge and see Mike coming at you, full-speed, in the all-black Air Jordan VII.
Hatfield’s inspiration for MJ’s kicks ranged from fighter jets to panthers, making the sneakers even more intimidating. When Tinker saw Mike play, he saw him moving as fast as a hungry jungle cat, bearing down from the sky with as much power as an F-22 Raptor. And if Tinker could see that from off the floor, it’s a sure bet the defenders on the court saw it too.
Run through the gallery above to see the sneakers that Mike was wearing in each game he clinched a title.
SLAM 200 Cover Story: There’s Only Ever Been One Mike
1991, Air Jordan VI
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11 May 2008
Official symbols
Jane Marie said...
I love trillium. After a few days they start to turn a light shade of pink.
Crafty Gardener said...
Beautiful trilliums and such a joy to discover a wild patch on a walk.
Lucy you spotting the butterfly already.
... It's The Journey said...
These flowers look very much like Dogwood, related?
Amanda said...
They're not related, but you're right, they do look very similar (and grow in similar habitats). The Canada Dogwood has one of the fastest pollen explosions of all plants - there's a whole website with amazing footage of it at http://www.williams.edu/Biology/explodingflower/index.html.
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Howard, McNeill & Masterson Set for STLV 2018
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Tranya, anyone? Clint Howard, who made his return to Trek with a cool cameo in the recent Star Trek: Discovery first-season finale, is guest #70 confirmed for Star Trek Las Vegas. Creation Entertainment also announced that Robert Duncan McNeill, Chase Masterson and Michael Forest are among the other new additions for the event, which will take place from August 1-5, 2018, at the Rio Suites Hotel.
star trek las vegas, clint howard
star trek las vegas, robert duncan mcneill
STLV Guest
STLV Guest
Howard, McNeill, Masterson and Forest join such previously announced guests as William Shatner, Jeri Ryan, Jason Isaacs, Wilson Cruz, Mary Chieffo, Colm Meaney, Michael Westmore, James Frain, Ira Steven Behr, Kenneth Mitchell, Gates McFadden and Brent Spiner.
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Udderly Predictable
"(B)y following the directions of M. Guenon, as laid down in the treatise, anyone can tell with certainty whether a cow is a good milker, or whether a heifer will become one, so that there need be no doubt as to the profit of raising an animal, and no chance of being taken in the purchase of one."
National tribute of the French Government Paris, September17, 1848 This quotation is from the first page of the 14th edition of A Treatise on Milch Cows by M. Francois Guenon. Imagine the usefulness of the discrepancy between Expected Progeny Difference that most of us are currently using and Guenon’s “tell with certainty” methodology. Why do we breed in variability by using animal science (which was not even heard of in 1848) and numbers, when animal husbandry, knowledge and a bit of observation can lead us to a more certain and consistent outcome? When we go out in the pasture, do we really see our animals? When was the last time you went out to the pasture, picked a long stem of grass, put it between your teeth, and took a few minutes to observe? Mr. Guenon spent thirty years of his life observing cows to develop his method. A couple of hours on our part spent reading his treatise and thirty days of observation could have any of us light years ahead in understanding the animals that populate our pastures. A good cow must have the following qualities: 1) excellent glandular function, 2) high butterfat to nourish her calf in utero and by her side, and 3) a phenotype that lends itself to calving ease, superior utilization of our grass, and plenty of meat on her offspring. Of all the animals God put upon his green Earth, a cow has more external hair expressions revealing the glandular functions going on inside her than any other species. Guenon’s Treatise is an excellent place to start learning about some of those hair patterns, whether you are looking for beef cows or dairy cows. A cow’s hide is her largest gland. A soft, supple, dappled hide with lots of folds in the neck area is found on animals that also have other fully functional glands. The first gland to develop during pregnancy is the pituitary. If it is not in place and functioning properly, the development of all other glands suffers. If the cow is pregnant during the heat of the summer, the development of the pituitary suffers. The larger the thymus expression, a hair pattern on the lower neck, the better the overall health of the animal. Gland expressions (hair whorls) that are small or in the wrong area of the body are crying out to us, “Things are not right.” The adrenal hair whorl, in most cases, is the easiest gland to see. Think about looking at the top of an apple with a stem still attached (the tuft of standing hair represents the stem). If you see that adrenal “pattern” on the top line of your cow or heifer, you will know she is cycling. This hair whorl needs to be in the shoulder area or further forward for high butterfat production and to assure that she will pass this trait along to her offspring. Once that “stem” lies down, she is either pregnant or has gone infertile. The pancreatic hair whorl is located low on the side of the abdomen. The longer a cow is pregnant, the longer and further up the side of the cow this hair pattern will grow. Learning to read the glandular function of the adrenal and pancreatic hair whorls could eliminate pregnancy checking expense. Three things are vital to long-term profitability on your farm: 1) the amount of butterfat a cow gives, 2) when she will come into her milk and for how long, and 3) how much total milk she gives. To be able to know these traits the day a heifer is born could be invaluable. Guenon’s Treatise describes the visual indicators for each of these traits. Are you looking for butterfat in your cows? You should be. The spade on an escutcheon (the main element of Guenon’s book) that slopes upward at the top as it spreads out onto the back of the cow’s legs indicates very high butterfat. A personal aside, after reading Guenon’s Treatise and learning the other butterfat indicators listed below, one of my newly selected heifers had a calf with yellow amniotic fluid covering her first born calf. I called Gearld Fry and asked his opinion. He replied she was giving that calf so much nourishment that the calf had already pooped before being born. Other indicators of butterfat, some of which are mentioned in Guenon’s Treatise, are loose hide over the pin bones, small-dense bones, a pointed poll, a darker greasy streak down her back, a flat or concave jaw-bone just behind the front teeth, the adrenal hair whorl in the shoulder area or forward, a soft and silky hair coat that is loose to the touch, a bald udder and supernumerary teats on the back of her udder. Exudates that indicate higher butterfat and marbling include 1) yellow flakes at the bottom of the tail bone, 2) yellow wax in the ear, and 3) dandruff on the inside of the back legs. Guenon even shows us how to read the protein content of the milk by the expression of the “butterfly wings” on the back of the udder. That “genetic potential” we put together at the point of conception has to have abundant nutrition in the form of minerals and rich butterfat from conception to maturity to be fully expressed and functional in the animal. Dr. Richard Olree says that the more purebred our animals, the higher the mineral requirements. Linear measurement can also be an invaluable tool to help us know how structurally correct our animals are and how likely they will weather the seasons on our farm. The first heifer that I retained with a 5” + rump width during linear measuring her calved when she was 2 years old and took seven minutes to have her calf from when she first laid down until the calf was on the ground and she stood back up. Almost every measurement recorded is related to the length of the rump. When talking about the correct phenotype, Guenon said, “If there is one part of the frame, the form of which, more than any other, renders the animal valuable, it is the chest.” The width of the shoulders of a cow has to equal the length of her rump. Do you have cows or bulls whose front toes point out? This is a sure sign that his or her shoulders are too narrow. The length from the poll to the nose should equal the length from the hook to the pin bones on a well balanced cow. The greater the distance between the hook and the pin bones, the larger the udder. A wider/longer rump equates to calving ease and volume of meat. I hope that this short article has piqued your interest in just what kinds of cows you have in your pastures, and if they are not what you want, you now know more of what to look for in the future. Perhaps we can accomplish what Guenon speculated elsewhere in his treatise, "The establishment of a race as uniform and remarkable for excellence at the pail as the Devon Ox is for the yoke." Do a bit of reading and observing, and use your God-given talents to select for the positive traits that will work on your farm.
Posted on September 7, 2015 .
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Czardas by Vittorio Monti
Most people, when hearing the expression “Gypsy music”, would imagine a fiery Hungarian or Romanian violinist. At least, that’s what I imagine. For me, the free, improvisational, virtuoso violin playing is at the very heart of Gypsy music. That style came from Hungary.
Historically, life was safer for Gypsies in Hungary than almost anywhere else. They came there as early as in the 15th century, and soon thereafter the Court chronicles mentioned the first professional Gypsy musician – a lute player. Gradually, more and more Gypsies became professional musicians: first one in a hundred, then one of fifty, and, at its peak, about hundred years ago – every one in fifteen!
The Gypsies were serious about their chosen profession. Every little boy was given a tiny violin at the age of 5 or 6, and began scraping on it. An observer wrote that it was considered shameful for a boy “not to exert himself fully, not to put all his heart into learning violin...” The boys often competed amongst themselves, and the winner raised the social status of the whole family. They had incentives to play well, and play well they did!
When, in the 18th century, Hungary began a liberation war with Austria, Gypsies were invited to play during recruitment, to attract more people to join the army. The fiery dances they played were called Verbunkos, from the German word Werben, which means “to recruit”. Later these dances were developed into the Czardas: a dance that begins slow, then gradually becomes faster and more vigorous.
Many renowned musicians – Liszt, Brahms, Sarasate, Tchaikovski, Strauss – used the Czardas style in their compositions. The best one, though, was written by an otherwise unknown composer: Vittorio Monti. His “Czardas” is the only piece he is famous for – but rightly so! Although not Hungarian himself, Monti was able to convey the spirit of this dance as no one else could.
The original piece was composed for violin. I made my own solo piano arrangement, quite improvisational and free – as befits the Gypsy music...
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You may also listen to a sample of this song on or iTunes Song
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TANGO Toolbox - Alpha Version
This document provides the installation manuals of the various software packages found in the TANGO architecture. The results achieved at the end of Year-1 makes it possible to use development tools to shape application code and then to run application on an heterogeneous hardware obtain time and energy consumption profile can be collected in order for developers to establish the desired benchmarks and to assist them in making requirements, design and coding decisions.
Friday, December 23, 2016
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Movie Review
Because of Winn Dixie
Because of Winn Dixie Movie Poster
US Release Date: 02-18-2005
Directed by: Wayne Wang
• Annasophia Robb
• Opal
• Jeff Daniels
• Preacher
• Cicely Tyson
• Gloria
• Dave Matthews
• Otis
• Eva Marie Saint
• Miss Franny
• Courtney Jines
• Amanda Wilkinson
• Nick Price
• Dunlap Dewberry
• Luke Benward
• Stevie Dewberry
• Elle Fanning
• Sweetie Pie Thomas
Average Stars:
Reviewed on: February 18th, 2005
Annasophia Robb in Because of Winn Dixie.
Annasophia Robb in Because of Winn Dixie.
Because of Winn Dixie, I lost over an hour and half of my life that I will never see again. Somehow, somewhere, someone thought the idea of making a sickly sweet movie about a sad little girl and her near magical dog would make for an entertaining movie. They were wrong.
The movie stars Annasophia Robb as Opal, the ten-year-old daughter of a preacher (Jeff Daniels). I don't know if it's the only reason she was hired to play the part, but she bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Tatum O'Neal, only this girl didn't have the good fortune to land a part in Paper Moon or The Bad News Bears. She's not bad considering the role she has, which is basically that of the precocious little girl with the heart of gold.
Opal's mom left her and her dad when Opal was very young and since then her father, whom she calls Preacher, and her have been on the move. As the movie opens, they've just arrived in Naomi, Florida, where Opal finds herself friendless and alone. Alone that is, until the day she claims a stray dog that is causing havoc in the local grocery store.
Once the dog, which she names Winn Dixie, after the store in which she found him, enters her life, everything changes. With some kind of psychic bond, the dog knows exactly what Opal needs and proceeds to get it for her. Soon she's making friends with all sorts of people, like the kindly old blind black woman played by Cicely Tyson (To whom she reads Gone With the Wind, cause what black person doesn't want to hear about the good old days of the civil war?) and the ex-con turned pet store employee played by Dave Mathews.
The whole movie is so darn wholesome and good that it goes down like a cold glass of milk and is just about as exciting. Some of the bigger moments of tension come when Winn Dixie chases a mouse through the church and later when he goes missing during a rainstorm.
Apparently, this movie is based upon a beloved children's book, or least that's what the ads keep stressing, but frankly, until this movie came along I'd never heard of it. I can only suggest, that if the book really is beloved, you'd be better off reading it than watching this "dull as watching the grass grow" movie version.
Reviewed on: August 20th, 2005
Elle Fanning and Annasophia Robb in Because of Winn Dixie.
Elle Fanning and Annasophia Robb in Because of Winn Dixie.
My family and I went to rent a DVD that we could all watch together. Against my eleven year old's warning, we rented Because of Winn Dixie. I learned two lessons. The first lesson is that I should listen to my son more. The second is that some animal movies can be so bad that even an animal lover won't like it.
I am not an animal lover, but my wife is. She got bored with this movie faster than my sons did. Not even half way through it I found myself watching it alone as the rest of my family had scattered to pursue other interests.
This story is so utterly clichéd that there is little to do but notice them. Here is a few: 1. Child of single parent. (Nearly every Disney movie) 2. Child befriends a dog (Old Yeller, Lassie etc...) 3. Wise old black character (Song of the South, The Shining etc...) 4. Little girl charms everyone in town (Pollyanna, Prancer every Shirley Temple movie) 5. New kid in town (Casper, The Sandlot, Lassie)
My son said he read this book in school and was bored silly with it. I completely owe him an apology for not taking his opinion to heart.
Reviewed on: June 12th, 2013
Annasophia Robb and Cicely Tyson in Because of Winn Dixie.
Annasophia Robb and Cicely Tyson in Because of Winn Dixie.
Watching Because of Winn Dixie is like eating spoonfuls of granulated sugar smothered in high fructose corn syrup. It's that gooey sweet. I mean this is a movie that features a candy that makes people sadly sentimental for god's sake. And that's its only original idea.
As Eric wrote, it is filled with family movie tropes and cliches. Like Scott I found it somewhat awkward for an old white lady in the south to recommend the novel Gone with the Wind for an old black woman, especially when you consider that the old librarian's great-grandfather was supposed to have fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. The fact that Eva Marie Saint's character's family may have owned Cicily Tyson's character's ancestors only adds to its inappropriateness.
The dog is cute but way too much trouble. Everything he does, no matter how disruptive or destructive, is met with, at most, a mildly chastising word but more often, a laugh and a shake of the head. The humor is pretty bad. Take the stupid police officer who has this to say when a goat starts ramming his police car, "You are in violation of ordinance 29, the ramming with horny head of a police vehicle!" Hilarious it's not.
Let's see, we have an adorable sad little girl and her equally adorable dog, not one but two wise old ladies to guide her, and an oddball musician ex-con pet-store owner for her to befriend. And just think it was all Because of Winn (barf) Dixie.
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And now, back to the countdown.
Lots of people have been posting about music lately, whether it's in response to the Spin 100 list or under their own initiative (too tired and lazy to link to examples, but trust me, they're out there). Naturally, it got me to thinking about music on my own terms, so for no other reason than because I wanted to (and I'm a compulsive bandwagon jumper-onner), I've compiled this list of what I consider to be my Top 25 Favorite Songs Ever... Right Now, Anyway.
Standard caveat of "Your Mileage May Vary" applies, 'natch. Here goes:
1. Saturday Morning – The Eels: Everytime I hear this song, it’s like I’m 8 again.
2. Feelin’ Massachusetts – The Juliana Hatfield 3: Perfectly describes what it feels like to grow up in a town you can’t wait to escape.
3. New York City – They Might Be Giants: TMBG drop the rampant cleverness for a minute and sing an excellent, truly sweet love song.*
4. Just Like Heaven – The Cure: This song will always remind me of Erin, so it’s a good one.
5. Alec Eiffel – The Get Up Kids: The rare case of a cover surpassing the original (which is a damn good song, too, and probably my very favorite Pixies song, so consider the original #5a).
6. King of the Road – Piebald: Probably the only love song ever written about a bus. Wonderful stuff.
7. Yellow Submarine – The Beatles: Probably my favorite Beatles song. Certainly the one most likely to make me smile.
8. If I Can’t Change Your Mind (solo mix) – Sugar: A heartbreaking song to begin with, made even more powerful when it’s stripped down to just Bob Mould and an acoustic guitar.
9. El Scorcho – Weezer: So angsty and full of longing. Plenty of occasions in my life that I could relate to this.
10. Dear God - XTC: Just a very powerful (and more than a little controversial) song.
11. Eleanore – The Turtles: Contains my most favorite line in all of pop music, “You’re my pride and joy, et cetera.” Lazy writing or pop genius? I vote for the latter.
12. Out There – Blake Babies: What is it about Juliana Hatfield and songs of suburban ennui.
13. All For Swinging You Around – The New Pornographers: Pure power-pop confection.
14. Pleasant Valley Sunday – The Monkees: Yes, I was a bored, suburban kid. Why do you ask?
15. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys: No real reason. I just think this one is nice.
16. Rubberband Man – The Spinners: I must groove to this song when it comes on the radio, no matter where I am. I have no rhythm to speak of, so it’s quite a sight to behold.
17. Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival: Because A.) You need a CCR song somewhere, and B.) this song is just as relevant today as it was when it was writte, unfortunately.
18. Theme from Shaft – Isaac Hayes: Deep down, every white kid wants to be Shaft.
19. Falling for the First Time – Barenaked Ladies: The only song I know to celebrate how it sometimes feels really good to fail miserably.
20. UHF – Weird Al Yankovic: Al proves he knows how to rock on his own terms.
21. Polyester Bride – Liz Phair: Not her most powerful or important song by a longshot, but probably her catchiest, and I’m a sucker for good hook.
22. Rockin’ the Suburbs – Ben Folds: Nice little musical complaint about all the “angry white boy” music that was popular at the time.
23. Let's Go - The Apples in Stereo: Another piece of power pop confection at its finest.
24. Cannonball - The Breeders: Pretty much the theme song for my senior year of high school.
25. Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco: Ani rails against those critics (and fans) who try to pigeonhole her into one particular facet of her identity. I may not enjoy the musical direction she's headed in since this particular album (named for the song), but I respect her right to explore, and this song is a major reason why.
*Tim informed me that this is actually a cover of a song by a band called Cub, not a TMBG original. I haven't heard that version, but I will ignorantly declare this one to be superior, so make that two covers I like better than the originals.
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Venosta red currant cake
A delicious cake with berries
How refreshing! You will not only like this cake with sweet-acidulous red currants if you have a sweet tooth!
60 min.
For the pastry:
100 g butter
125 g sugar
4 egg yolks
175 g plain flour ½ heaped teaspoons baking powder
For the meringue: 4 egg whites 200
sugar 50 g flaked almonds
For the meringue:
4 egg whites
200 sugar
50 g flaked almonds
For the topping:
500 g redcurrants
1 packet white or red icing mix
250 ml redcurrant juice
200 ml double cream
Print recipe
Knead the pastry ingredients to make short crust pastry. Halve and roll out into two sheets of pastry of the same size. Line the base of the two cake tins and chill.
For the meringue, whip the egg whites and sugar till fluffy and mix together with 1-2 dessert-spoons of almonds. Spread equally over the two pastry bases and sprinkle the rest of the almonds over them. Bake for approximately 30 minutes at 170°C. Remove the cakes from the tins and leave to cool down.
Mix the icing with the redcurrant juice according to the instructions and whip the double cream until very stiff. Sprinkle the prepared redcurrants over one of the cake bases and pour some of the cooled icing over it. Spread on the double cream and place the second cake base (with the meringue facing up) onto the cake.
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Ju Jitsu
Ju Jitsu literally meaning the "art of softness", or "way of yielding" is a collective name for Japanese martial art styles including unarmed and armed techniques. Ju Jitsu evolved among the samurai of feudal Japan as a method for defeating an armed and armoured opponent without weapons. Due to the ineffectiveness of striking against an armoured opponent, the most efficient methods for neutralizing an enemy took the form of pins, joint locks, and throws. These techniques were developed around the principle of using an attacker's energy against him, rather than directly opposing it.
There are many variations of the art, which leads to a diversity of approaches. Ju Jitsu schools may utilize all forms of grappling techniques to some degree (i.e. throwing, trapping, joint locking, holds, gouging, biting, disengagements, striking, and kicking). In addition to Ju Jitsu, many schools taught the use of weapons.
Today, Ju Jitsu is still practiced both as it was hundreds of years ago, but also in modified forms for sport practice. Derived sports forms include the Olympic sport and martial art of judo, which was developed from several traditional styles of Ju Jitsu by Kano Jigoro in the late 19th century; and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which was in turn derived from earlier version (pre World War II) of Kodokan judo.
Ju Jitsu was first developed by Samurai. Fighting forms have existed for centuries. The first references to unarmed combat arts or systems is in the earliest purported historical records of Japan, the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan), which relate the mythological creation of the country and the establishment of the imperial family. Other glimpses can be found in the older records and pictures depicting sumai (or sumo) no sechie, a rite of the Imperial Court and Kyoto performed for purposes of divination and to help ensure a bountiful harvest.
There is a famous story of a warrior Nomi no Sukune of Izumo who defeated and killed Tajima no Kehaya in Shimane prefecture while in the presence of Emperor Suinin. Descriptions of the techniques used during this encounter include striking, throwing, restraining and weaponry.
The term "Ju Jitsu" was not coined until the 17th century, after which time it became a blanket term for a wide variety of grappling-related disciplines. Prior to that time, these skills had names such as "short sword grappling", kogusoku koshi no mawari, "grappling" kumiuchi, "body art" taijutsu, "softness" yawara, "art of harmony" wajutsu, "catching hand" torite, and even the "way of softness" judo as early as 1724, almost two centuries before Kano Jigoro founded the modern art of Kodokan Judo.
Today, the systems of unarmed combat that were developed and practiced during the Muromachi period (1333–1573) are referred to collectively as Japanese old-style Ju Jitsu (Nihon koryu jujutsu). At this period in history, the systems practiced were not systems of unarmed combat, but rather means for an unarmed or lightly armed warrior to fight a heavily armed and armoured enemy on the battlefield. In battle, it was often possible for a samurai to be unable to use his long sword, for various reasons, and be forced to rely on his short sword, dagger, or bare hands. When fully armoured, the effective use of such "minor" weapons necessitated the employment of grappling skills.
Methods of combat (as mentioned above) included striking (kicking and punching), throwing (body throws, joint-lock throws, unbalance throws), restraining (pinning, strangulating, grappling, wrestling) and weaponry. Defensive tactics included blocking, evading, off-balancing, blending and escaping. Minor weapons such as the tanto (dagger), ryufundo kusari (weighted chain), kabuto wari (helmet smasher), and kakushi buki (secret or disguised weapons) were almost always included in Sengoku Ju Jitsu.
In later times, other koryu developed into systems more familiar to the practitioners of Nihon Ju Jitsu commonly seen today. These are correctly classified as Edo Ju Jitsu (founded during the edo period): they are generally designed to deal with opponents neither wearing armour nor in a battlefield environment. Most systems of Edo Ju Jitsu include extensive use of atemi waza (vital-striking technique), which would be of little use against an armoured opponent on a battlefield. They would, however, be quite valuable in confronting an enemy or opponent during peacetime dressed in normal street attire (referred to as "suhada bujutsu"). Occasionally, inconspicuous weapons such as tanto (daggers) or tessen (iron fans) were included in the curriculum of Edo Ju Jitsu.
Many other legitimate Nihon Ju Jitsu ryu exist but are not considered koryu (ancient traditions). These are called either Gendai Ju Jitsu or modern Ju Jitsu. Modern Ju Jitsu traditions were founded after or towards the end of the Tokugawa period (1868), when more than 2000 schools (ryu) of Ju Jitsu existed. Various traditional ryu and ryuha that are commonly thought of as koryu Ju Jitsu are actually gendai Ju Jitsu. Although modern in formation, very few gendai Ju Jitsu systems have direct historical links to ancient traditions and are incorrectly referred to as traditional martial systems or ryu. Their curriculum reflects an obvious bias towards Edo Ju Jitsu systems as opposed to the Sengoku Ju Jitsu systems. The improbability of confronting an armour-clad attacker is the reason for this bias.
If a Japanese based martial system is formulated in modern times (post Tokugawa) but is only partially influenced by traditional Nihon Ju Jitsu, it may be correctly referred to as goshin (self defense) Ju Jitsu. Goshin Ju Jitsu is usually formulated outside Japan and may include influences from other martial traditions. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which was developed from judo, but with greater emphasis on ground grappling (ne waza), is an excellent example of Goshin Ju Jitsu.
Japanese Ju Jitsu systems typically place more emphasis on throwing, immobilizing and pinning, joint-locking, choking, and strangling techniques as compared with other martial arts systems such as karate. Atemi-waza (striking techniques) were seen as less important in most older Japanese systems, since samurai body armour protected against many striking techniques. The Chinese quanfa/ch'uan-fa (kenpo or kung fu) systems focus on punching, striking, and kicking more than Ju Jitsu.
The Japanese systems of hakuda, kenpo, and shubaku display some degree of Chinese influence in their emphasis on atemi-waza. In comparison, systems that derive more directly from Japanese sources show less preference for such techniques. However, a few Ju Jitsu schools likely have some Chinese influence in their development. Ju Jitsu ryu vary widely in their techniques, and many do include significant numbers of striking techniques, if only as set-ups for their grappling techniques.
In Ju Jitsu, there are five main sectors ("arts") of training. The first, the Art of Blocking, is used to defend against attacks. The second, the Art of the Fulcrum Throw, is employed in modern judo. The third, the Art of the Non-fulcrum Throw is employed through throws that involve little or no contact with the opponent. The fourth, the Art of Escaping (Hakko-Dori), is very crucial in many styles of Ju Jitsu. The fifth, the Art of Striking (Atemi-Waza), is used more by modern Ju Jitsuka who do not employ body armor.
Technical characteristics
As a "soft" art, jujitsu systems generally employ the principles of balance, leverage, and momentum to overcome opponents. This is in contrast to "hard" systems (for example, karate or tae kwan do) that tend to emphasize developing power, strength, and speed. Although there is some diversity in the actual look and techniques of the various traditional Ju Jitsu systems, there are significant technical similarities common to all schools:
Students learn traditional Ju Jitsu primarily by observation and imitation of the ryu's waza.
The unarmed waza of most schools emphasize joint-locking techniques (kansetsu waza), that is, threatening a joint's integrity by placing pressure on it in a direction contrary to its normal function, aligning it so that muscular strength cannot be brought to bear, take-down or throwing techniques, or a combination of take-downs and joint-locks.
Sometimes, atemi (strikes) are targeted to some vulnerable area of the body; this is an aspect of kuzushi, the art of breaking balance as a set-up for a lock, take-down or throw.
Movements tend to capitalize on an attacker's momentum and openings in order to place a joint in a compromised position or to break their balance as preparation for a take-down or throw.
The defender's own body is positioned so as to take optimal advantage of the attacker's weaknesses while simultaneously presenting few openings or weaknesses of its own.
Weapons training was a primary goal of Samurai training. Koryu (old/classic) schools typically include the use of weapons. Weapons might include the roku shaku bo (six-foot staff), hanbo (three-foot staff), katana (long sword), wakizashi or kodachi (short sword), tanto (knife), or jitte (short one hook truncheon).
Schools and derivatives
Because Ju Jitsu contains so many facets, it has become the foundation for a variety of styles and derivations today. As each instructor incorporated new techniques and tactics into what was taught to him originally, he could codify and create his own ryu (school). Some of these schools modified the source material so much that they no longer considered themselves a style of Ju Jitsu.
Old schools
Circa 1600 AD there were over 2000 ryu of Ju Jitsu in Japan and there were common features that characterized most of them. The technical characteristics varied from school to school. Many of the generalizations noted above do not hold true for some schools of Ju Jitsu.
Derivatives and influences
Some examples of martial arts that have developed from or have been influenced by Ju Jitsu are: Aikido, Bartitsu, Hapkido, Judo (and thence Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Sambo), Kajukenbo, Kapap, and Kenpo – as well as some styles of Japanese Karate. The Wado-ryu school of Karate, for example, is considered as a branch of Shindō Yōshin-ryu Ju Jitsu which has received strong influences from Okinawan Karate.
Some schools went on to diverge into present day Karate and Aiki styles. The last Japanese divergence occurred in 1905 when a number of Ju Jitsu schools joined the Kodokan. The syllabi of those schools was unified under Kano Jigoro to form Judo.
Ju Jitsu was first introduced to Europe in 1898 by Edward William Barton-Wright, who had studied Tenjin Shinyō-ryu and Shinden Fudo Ryu in Yokohama and Kobe, respectively. He had also trained briefly at the Kodokan in Tokyo. Upon returning to England he folded the basics of all of these styles, as well as boxing, savate and French stick fighting, into an eclectic self-defence system called Bartitsu.
Modern judo is the classic example of a 'sport' that derived from Ju Jitsu and became distinct. Another layer removed, some popular arts had instructors who studied one of these Ju Jitsu derivatives and later made their own derivative succeed in competition. This created an extensive family of martial arts and sports that can trace their lineage to Ju Jitsu in some part.
The way an opponent is dealt with also depends on the teacher's philosophy with regard to combat. This translates also in different styles or schools of Ju Jitsu. Because in Ju Jitsu every conceivable technique (including biting, hair-pulling, eye-gouging, etcetera) is allowed (unlike, for instance, judo, which does not place emphasis on punching or kicking tactics, or karate, which does not heavily emphasize grappling and throwing), practitioners have an unlimited choice of techniques.
Not all Ju Jitsu was used in sporting contests, but the practical use in the samurai world ended circa 1890. Techniques like hair-pulling and eye poking were and are not considered conventionally acceptable to use in sport, thus they are not included in judo competitions or randori. Judo did, however, preserve the more lethal, dangerous techniques in its kata. The kata were intended to be practiced by students of all grades, but now are mostly practiced formally as complete set-routines for performance, kata competition, and grading, rather than as individual self-defense techniques in class. However, judo retained the full set of choking and strangling techniques for its sporting form, and all manner of joint locks. Even judo's pinning techniques have pain-generating, spine-and-rib-squeezing and smothering aspects. A submission induced by a legal pin is considered a fully legitimate way to win. Kano viewed the safe sport-fighting aspect of judo as an important part of learning how to actually control an opponent's body in a real fight. Kano always considered judo to be a form of, and a development of, Ju Jitsu.
A judo technique starts with gripping your opponent followed by off-balancing the opponent, fitting into the space created, and then applying the technique. In contrast, kuzushi (the art of breaking balance) is attained in Ju Jitsu by blocking and then parrying or deflecting an opponent's attack in order to create the space required to apply a throwing technique. In both systems, kuzushi is essential in order to use as little energy as possible during a fight. Ju Jitsu differs from judo in a number of ways. In some circumstances, jutsuka generate kuzushi by striking one's opponent along his weak line. Other methods of generating kuzushi include grabbing, twisting, or poking areas of the body known as atemi points or pressure points (see kyusho-jitsu) (areas of the body where nerves are close to the skin).
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) was developed after Mitsuyo Maeda brought judo to Brazil in 1914. At the time, judo was still often commonly referred to as "Jiu Jitsu", which explains why this derivative of judo is called Brazilian Jiu Jitsu rather than Brazilian Judo. BJJ dominated the first large modern mixed martial arts competitions, causing the emerging field to adopt many of its practices.
Modern schools
A Japanese-based martial system formulated in modern times (post Tokugawa) that is only partially influenced by traditional Nihon Ju Jitsu, is correctly referred to as goshin (self defense) Ju Jitsu. Goshin Ju Jitsu is usually formulated outside Japan and may include influences from other martial traditions. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, although derived originally from Kodokan Judo, has evolved independently for many years, and could be considered an example of Goshin Jutsu.
After the transplantation of traditional Japanese Ju Jitsu to the West, many of these more traditional styles underwent a process of adaptation at the hands of Western practitioners, moulding the art of Ju Jitsu to suit western culture in its myriad varieties. There are today many distinctly westernized styles of Ju Jitsu, that stick to their Japanese roots to varying degrees.
There are a number of relatively new martial systems identifying themselves as Ju Jitsu. Since they are created in modern (gendai) times, they are often referred to as gendai Ju Jitsu.
Sport Ju Jitsu
Sport Ju Jitsu is an official sport of the World Games and comes in two main variants: Duo (self-defence demonstration) where both the tori (attacker) and the uke (defender) come from the same team and demonstrate self defence techniques, and Fighting System (freefighting) where competitors combine striking, grappling and submissions under rules which emphasise safety. Many of the potentially dangerous techniques such as scissor takedowns, necklocks and digital choking and locking are prohibited in Sport Ju Jitsu. There are a number of other styles of sport Ju Jitsu with varying rules.
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