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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52003 | Yahoo buys content-speeding startup PeerCDN
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Netflix brings 3D, 'Super HD' video to some customers
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Solar thermometer has no need for batteries
Grill gadgets come in all shapes and sizes. Considering the amount of goods that get on the grill, this is a good thing. But all this variety complicates things. Gone are the days when burgers and dogs were the only ones that fought for space on the grill. Today's modern cookout requires a little more planning. But one thing that hasn't changed is that all these goodies equate to fun in the sun.
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Dual thermometer covers both inside and out
A simple fact of life in the kitchen is that some accessories are more valuable than others. Though the fun ones--such as cookware that mimics beer-can chicken, or toasters that demand to be used for making breakfast sandwiches--get all the attention, sometimes it is the little gadgets and accessories that come most in handy. Precision control is always appreciated, because after all, that's what we all really want in the end: well-made food that is delicious. And all that starts with temperature.
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Mosso challenges Amazon on cloud storage
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I spent some time on the phone yesterday with Mosso co-founder, Jonathan Bryce, and Senior Cloud Architect for Rackspace's cloud division, Erik Carlin, discussing what they found. The short-short version is that, for the five use cases they analyzed, they claim (not surprisingly) that Mosso beats Amazon's offerings in simplicity, cost and performance, especially when support is taken into account.… Read more
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52055 | Could Apple Replace Kraft on the Dow?
The new owners of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) -- the index was recently taken over by a joint venture between McGraw-Hill and CME Group -- have a big task ahead of them.
Later this year, Kraft Foods (NYS: KFT) will spin off into two separate companies. One, to be named Mondelez International, will house its global snack business, including brands like Cadbury chocolate and Oreo cookies. The other will retain its grocery business, with brands such as Kraft macaroni and cheese, Philadelphia cream cheese, and Maxwell House coffee.
Because the split will produce markedly smaller companies, however, analysts are speculating whether or not it will retain its membership in the Dow. According to a recent Bloomberg BusinessWeek article: "Kraft, with a $69.8 billion market value that ranks 20th in the 30-stock gauge, may be dropped because the spinoff of its U.S. grocery business will shrink the world's second-largest food company."
Needless to say, if Kraft is removed from the Dow, the big question is: Who will take its place?
Could Apple join the Dow?
At first glance, a highly qualified replacement for Kraft seems to be Apple (NAS: AAPL) .
The venerable iPhone and iPad maker is one of the most iconic and successful businesses in America. It's the largest company by market capitalization, out-distancing ExxonMobil by nearly $170 billion. It had so much cash earlier this year that it was actually considered a problem. And its white earbuds are ubiquitous throughout cities around the world.
Despite this, its chances of joining the Dow are slim to none.
The problem?
Its shares are too expensive.
As my colleague David Williamson recently noted, unlike the S&P 500, which is weighted according to market capitalization, the Dow is a price-weighted index. The higher the stock price, the higher the weighting, and vice versa.
Presently, IBM carries the most weight. With a stock price of nearly $183 per share, it accounts for over 11% of the index. And at the other end of the spectrum is Bank of America, which currently trades for $7.50 a share and accounts for only 0.46% of the index.
By one estimate, Apple's almost $600 share price would give the company a 26% weighting on the Dow, effectively defeating the purpose of an index.
A good but unlikely idea
There's no question that the Dow must reinvent itself to stay relevant. Excluding companies like Apple and Google, while at the same time including companies like Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America, and Alcoa, simply doesn't make sense.
Yet, at the same time, given their share prices, adding Apple and Google to the index under its current derivation would effectively transform it into a large-cap technology index.
As a result, my guess is that we're due for a revision of not only the underlying components, but also how they're weighted. Let me know what you think below.
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RE: Pretty good value
By AmbroseAthan on 10/8/2007 2:44:54 PM , Rating: 2
Well you can cross it out, being the HD-DVD drive comes with the same deal (5 free HD-DVD's), plus King Kong:
RE: Pretty good value
By Oscarine on 10/8/2007 4:43:04 PM , Rating: 2
Thats only if you buy the HD-DVD drive which isn't included, and also why I didn't add the 175 to the "value" of the system, because it isn't really.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52152 | THINGS are rapidly getting worse in Spain. Bond yields have risen to over 7.5% today, on the back of a shaky government debt auction last Thursday, and the failure of one of its regions (Valencia) that now needs help from Madrid. In line with this bad news on the state of the government coffers, the cost of buying an insurance policy against Spanish default (credit default swap premia) is up, and is increasingly diverging from Italy’s (see chart). Investors’ views of Spanish companies are just as gloomy as of its government finances. The Spanish stock-market—the IBEX 35—is down 30% this year, as any expectations that company profits will lead to decent dividends anytime soon are thin on the ground. Things could get worse as the week progresses, particularly if preliminary measures of output to be released tomorrow are weak.
If Spain fails, yet another new plan for the euro zone will be needed, as Spain’s woes means three sets of existing ideas have been exhausted. First, Spain has already received the short-term treatment that was supposed to save it. A €100 billion bailout has already been set up, and approved last week by Germany. Second, another favoured response—booting out the head of government, to put in place a more market friendly leader—isn’t really justified. Since taking over in December 2011 Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has worked hard to talk up its debt position and its banks; he has also largely put in place the policies demanded by Brussels (see here). Third, other potential boosts to the Spanish economy—things like productivity enhancing structural reform (see some ideas here)—are solutions to chronic weakness, and will take too long to help. Something new is needed. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52155 | OLGA wants her first baby, just delivered in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, to have two siblings. Whether he will get them depends on whether she and her husband can afford them. Yes, she says, President Vladimir Putin's new plan to boost child support, and pay a lump sum for second babies, might help.
Mr Putin's aim is to boost Russia's birth rate, which plummeted after the late Soviet period and has stabilised well below replacement level. His ultimate goal is to arrest and reverse Russia's headlong population decline. Despite a large influx of ethnic Russians from elsewhere, the population has fallen by 6m since the Soviet Union collapsed, to 143m. It is falling still, by around 700,000 a year. There may be fewer than 100m Russians left by 2050.
Olga's interest notwithstanding, Mr Putin's plan is unlikely to halt the slide. That is partly because the trend is an old and accelerating one. Money worries do not entirely explain it: some of the poorest groups in Russia (most of them Muslim) are the most fertile. In a way, wealth is even a contributor: Western lifestyles and expectations have spread into Russia and, by European standards, the birth rate is low but not outlandishly so. Anatoly Vishnevsky, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, points out that, elsewhere, maternity bribes have produced a short-term baby rush but little long-term effect.
But the bigger reason for scepticism is that Russia's truly startling demographic problem is its amazing death rate, which has leapt as fertility has crashed, and is now more than twice western Europe's. Most of the leap is accounted for by working-age men. At less than 59, male life expectancy has collapsed in a way otherwise found only in sub-Saharan Africa. It is around five years lower than it was 40 years ago, and 13 years lower than that of Russian women—one of the biggest gaps in the world. Male life expectancy in Irkutsk (not the country's lowest) is just 53.
Russia leads the world, in fact, in a staggering range of scourges and vices. Nicholas Eberstadt, of the American Enterprise Institute, speculates that the heart-disease rate may be the highest anywhere, ever. Russians' propensity to die violently is probably unprecedented in industrialised societies at peace. The suicide rate is more than five times Britain's. With fewer cars, Russians are four times more likely to die in traffic accidents than Britons. Murder is 20 times more common than in western Europe. And so on.
There is an obvious culprit: booze, especially the Russian taste for strong spirits, sometimes not fit for human consumption and often moonshine. Heart disease and violence, the two biggest factors in the mortality surge, are strongly alcohol-related. Alcohol poisoning itself killed 36,000 Russians last year; in America, it kills a few hundred. Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts in the late 1980s to rein in alcohol consumption briefly improved life expectancy. In Irkutsk Igor Bolugin runs a club for children of alcoholics, sometimes taking them to Lake Baikal (see article). Many are themselves drinkers from around 13; in the villages, says Mr Bolugin, the drinking starts much younger.
But the obvious culprit is only part of a complicated, self-destructive syndrome. Other factors include smoking (among the highest rates in the world), pollution, including radioactivity, and a grim and corrupt health system. Alcoholism itself is a symptom. Some see the stress and inequality brought on by the Soviet Union's fall as the cause. But a wanton disregard for their own lives set in among Russian men long before that, and has persisted even as the economy has turned round. Sergei Voronov, deputy governor of Irkutsk, blames the local gene pool, derived largely from Soviet-era prisoners.
Whatever its causes, and shocking though it already is, Russia's national sickness is now likely to worsen, because of AIDS. Since the disease arrived so late, the Russians ought to have been ready. Instead, out of prudishness, intolerance and Soviet-style pig-headedness, the response was criminally lackadaisical. This year the federal AIDS budget is around 3.3 billion roubles ($124m) with extra funding coming from abroad: it was a big increase, but it is piffling by international standards.
In Irkutsk, which has Russia's highest HIV-infection rate, it shows. Packs of stray dogs prowl the grounds of the hospital that houses the AIDS clinic. Yulia Rakhina, its boss, maintains that attitudes, not cash, are the main obstacle. Young people do not use condoms, she says; even HIV-positive people are blasé. “It's hard to explain to someone who feels well that they're going to die.” Like all Russians, says Ms Rakhina, they want to live better, but do nothing about it. Only 200 people in Irkutsk (a city of 600,000) are on anti-retroviral drugs.
Nationally, says Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the federal AIDS centre, some 20,000 will get drugs by the end of 2006—up from 4,000 at the start of it, but still low. The best guess for the total number of HIV-infected Russians is around 1m. (Rates of other sexually transmitted diseases are a guide, and syphilis is dozens of times more prevalent in Russia than in western Europe.) AIDS-related deaths are of hard to measure, partly because of Russia's astronomical level of tuberculosis. The number of future infections, says Mr Pokrovsky, will depend on whether the epidemic continues to shift from drug-takers to the general population. Irkutsk's infection rate reflects its big drug problem; but now, says Ms Rakhina, 70% of new female patients contract HIV from sex.
The immediate result of all this is a huge toll of tragic and needless early deaths. But its health and demographic malaise will also warp Russia's future. The army is struggling to find as many healthy recruits as Russian generals say they need. The population is ageing and sickening: behind the headline death rates is a secondary plague of incapacity. The workforce is shrinking. Yet, as a racist bombing at a Moscow market last month and a near-pogrom against Caucasians in a northern town this week both suggest, Russians are ill-disposed towards the new immigrants their economy increasingly needs.
Some, including Mr Putin, have gone so far as to prophesy the death of the nation itself. In Irkutsk the big fear is the “yellow peril”. As people quit cities that should never have existed, the population of Siberia and the Russian far east has shrunk faster than the rest of the country's. Those who remain fret about Chinese hordes swarming across the border, intent on annexation. “They work for kopeks and live ten to a room,” complains Alexander Turik, an Irkutsk extremist, also alleging that Chinese men are paid to marry Russian women. Even some Chinese worry: Changa, a long-term trader in the Irkutsk market known as Shanghai, grumbles that recent arrivals are damaging business.
It is an ancient Russian anxiety, though probably an irrational one. Many of the Chinese, like Changa, are shuttle traders rather than colonisers. Still, even if fears of Russia's dismemberment are fanciful, its demographic course will render it a different country, and probably a more ungovernable one. That, plus Russia's incubation of assorted epidemics, ought to be a worry for other countries too. Alas, persuading Russia and the Russians to change their ways has never been easy. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52185 | How beneficial is the acai berry for digestive problems?
• Q: I have been taking two acai berries in the morning. I started taking them because I heard they help with digestive problems. Is there really a benefit from the acai berry and if so, is taking the pills versus the drink equal or less beneficial?
• A: The acai berry has been marketed as a dietary supplement. Marketers of these products make unfounded claims that acai and its antioxidant qualities provide a variety of health benefits, none of which has scientific confirmation to date. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not strictly regulate herbs and supplements. There is no guarantee of strength, purity or safety of products, and effects may vary. In general, dietary supplements should only be taken under the supervision of your health care provider. For more specific information, consult with your doctor or pharmacist for guidance based on your specific condition and current medications. Shereen A. Gharbia, PharmD
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52212 | 4 Stars
Year Released: 2008
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 101 minutes
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The project managing hands of Larry Charles (director of “Borat”) and the unapologetically facetious Bill Maher come together for a personal statement of sorts in “Religulous.” Beginning and ending in Megiddo, Israel (the location for the final end-of-days showdown), the film is a thesis on doubt, a declaration for uncertainty. Bill Maher’s opening remarks present his primary concern, which is that “religion is detrimental to the progress of humanity.” Concentrating on Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, the main topics covered consist of evidence vs. Faith, violence and corruption, intolerance, separation of church and state (vis a vis our founding fathers), creationism vs. evolution, and the apocalypse.
Bill Maher raises these questions and shares his views with an assortment of people across a wide range of destinations, including his mother and sister, the Truckers Chapel (in Raleigh, North Carolina), Exchange Ministries (in Winter Park, FL), the Jefferson Memorial, Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor, the Creation Museum (in Petersburg, KY), Father George Coyne (formerly of the Vatican Observatory), the Dutch Parliament, and the Dome of the Rock (in Israel) among other people and places.
The comedy in “Religulous” results from the juxtaposing of visual and verbal humor that punctuate certain rhetorical points combined with the editing of shot-reverse-shots such that a few of the interviewees appear tongue-tied, as if they have just realized how unconvincing or illogical their statements sound. Eruptive laughter occurs frequently at the expense of the interviewee. An especially hilarious moment happens when Maher jokingly alerts Reverend Ferre van Beveren of the Cannabis Ministry in Amsterdam, Netherlands that Beveren’s hair is on fire. Is it mean? Gratuitously prankish? On the surface, sure, but it serves to remind the viewer that Maher is very well aware of his own presence and purpose.
The notion of biased vs. unbiased does not apply in a discussion of this film. Some might find fault with its approach (mixing cynicism, sarcasm, and serious topics), but the film’s method is entirely appropriate since “Religulous” incorporates historical factoids but is neither a book report nor an encyclopedia entry on institutionalized religion. Moreover, Bill Maher isn’t necessarily advocating atheism. He is, however, “preaching the gospel of ‘I don’t know,’” imploring believers to ask themselves what, why, and how they believe. On the one hand, blind faith is dangerous because it can lead to intolerance and violence. On the other hand, believing in any divine being because one would rather be safe than sorry — just in case there really is a God and thus an afterlife — is no better because it’s less sincere.
“Religulous” occupies one hundred and one minutes of viewing time. When it draws to a close, chances are that you’ll want to see more of the interview footage that didn’t make it into the final cut — and not just for a broader perspective. You’ll want more for that extra bit of clarity. The film explicitly indicates that Bill Maher is wary of religion because it can lead, does lead, and has led to behaviors and attitudes that are anything but compassionate. It’s implied that he would probably be less suspicious of religion if holy texts abandoned uncivilized “Bronze Age beliefs” and were revised to accommodate 21st century culture, epistemology, and geo-politics. Furthermore, Maher would, in all likelihood, be fine with religion when it does not infringe upon another person’s mental and physical well-being.
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Is (suffering from) cancer painful?
Asked by rebbel (23413 points ) September 29th, 2011
My (former) neighbour, a thirthyish year old girl/woman, has breast cancer, and although we have had open, straightforward conversations about her being sick, treatment, impact on both mental and physical area, I have untill now not asked a very obvious in my view question:
Is it painful to have cancer?
I am asking specifically about physical pain.
Does anyone know what cancer does to a body?
Since I understand that having (had) cancer is very hard and a very private matter, I understand that one might not want to talk about it on a public website.
In that case and if you would not mind feel free to send me a PM with what you would answer.
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Adirondackwannabe's avatar
Yeah, it is. We lost my MIL to breast cancer. At the end, hospice was handing out the morphine like candy and we were giving her near lethal levels of it.
Hibernate's avatar
Sometimes the pain itself hurts while other times the treatment .. I do not like cancer and I’m glad I’m not suffering from it [yet].
linguaphile's avatar
Some are, some aren’t, and if varies by stages. As I understand it, and from no personal experience, stomach and pancreatic cancers are the most painful to die from (but I don’t think that minimizes any of the pain created by others!) During the first stage, most cancers seem to be asymptomatic or just create discomfort.
YoBob's avatar
It depends on the cancer. My mother passed away due to a recurrence of lymphatic cancer. While the treatment sometimes caused painful side effects, the cancer itself did not cause her pain.
JLeslie's avatar
Breast cancer itself might have little or no pain, but the treatments for the girl cancers really suck. The chemos tend to be very violent on the body, and radiation is irritating and painful from the burn, many times having blistering. Mastectomies have a very painful healing process, and reconstructive surgery has quite a bit of physical pain.
Not to mention the horrible psychological turmoil one goes through, but you seem interested in the physical pain. Why not ask her if it has been physically painful?
GladysMensch's avatar
My mother had an incredibly high pain threshold. She had bad reactions to most types of anesthesia, so she once had major dental work done without any. I have no idea how she did it. However, cancer was a whole different level of pain. She died from endocrine cancer; it moved from her pancreas to her lungs, and finally her bones. She ended up having a morphine pump implanted into her body which shot morphine directly into her spine. It was the only way to eliminate her pain.
Jude's avatar
My Mom had Ovarian Cancer. It was terribly painful for her.
She was in a hospital bed for the last month of her life. Unable to sit up. Just turning her, she would scream in pain. They had to give her meds prior to turning her. Near the end, at night, she would beg them not to turn her, and would grab my hand and tell me not to let go because she was afraid that they were going to hurt her (and she was afraid of dying through the night).
She had tubes to drain the fluid along side her lungs. And, the cancer was destroying her body. Yep, she was hurting.
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Adirondackwannabe's avatar
I think what makes it so painful is it spreads out and attacks other parts of the body. My MIL waited two years to get treatment (no insurance). Don’t wait to seek treatment if you even are suspicious of something.
GabrielsLamb's avatar
It can be… but that is the problem really, so many suffer certain types of cancer for so long unaware because there are no distinguishable symptoms until it is far too late to treat them when they finally get out of control…
Then most change into becoming painful.
28lorelei's avatar
Cancer is when a mutation occurs in a cell that causes it to start multiplying extremely fast. The cells that result, though, never fully mature and thus are useless. They multiply and then move to other parts of the body after multiplying enough, and start multiplying elsewhere. For example, advanced melanoma (a kind of skin cancer) might cause immature skin cells to start multiplying in someone’s lungs. They treat cancer by chemo (which cancer cells are more sensitive to than normal cells, so basically they poison the cancer patient just enough to kill off the cancer cells) or radiation (shooting gamma rays at the tumor). Hopefully treatments will improve in the future, because they harm the patient.
And yes, it can be very painful.
majorrich's avatar
I had pain, but as a side effect of the cancer. I had (have) pheochromocytoma, which causes my blood pressure to spike. As a result I have had some 12 TIA’s, some of which were were quite painful.
fizzbanger's avatar
As said above, the treatments are the worst part.
I read an article in a recent Oprah magazine where one woman said a doctor told her that she was in remission, but since she was scared, she decided to get a double mastectomy anyway. It turned out there were more masses beginning to develop in the areas beneath her nipples. The cancer itself is slippery.
Also, one woman said that after having breast implants after a mastectomy, her chest permanently feels like she is wearing a tight, uncomfortable sports bra.
Judi's avatar
My mom had liver Cancer and there was almost no pain. Her doctor said that Liver Cancer is one of the only ones with very little pain in the end stages.
Bellatrix's avatar
Goodness, what an awfully sad thread. Very informative but sad. My mother died from stomach cancer (although for years I was told it was ovarian cancer). I was too young to know how painful it was or was not for her. Thank you to those who have shared their knowledge. It isn’t a question I have ever asked @rebbel but one I have unconsciously wondered about.
JilltheTooth's avatar
My cervical cancer was extremely painful. The tumor had completely engulfed the cervix and spread to the surrounding areas. Different forms of cancer have different pain indices, some much worse than others.
Please tell your friend I wish her a treatment that is the least invasive possible, the best of support from family, friends and the medical community, and a speedy path to a long healthy life. Urge her to be a member of the Survivors’ Club. Membership includes bragging rights and the license to tell very funny, bad-taste macabre jokes.
lillycoyote's avatar
It depends on the type of cancer, where it is and how far it has progressed, I believe.
This is a pretty good overview of why and how cancer can cause pain
Bone cancer is particularly painful and some cancers can metastasize to people’s bones, and if it does they will usually have pain.
My best friend’s mother mother had multiple myeloma, a particularly terrible type of bone cancer, and up there, I think, in the top ten “worst ways to die.” She suffered horribly at the end. When the disease has progressed far enough, sufferers basically can’t even move without breaking or fracturing a bone.
Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar
From my experience as a pt navigator with cancer patients, head and neck cancers are bad as are lung+pancreatic cancers in terms of pain. Still, bodies are different and some people experience terrible pain, in general, from any cancer.
marinelife's avatar
At the end stages, any cancer is very painful.
Pied_Pfeffer's avatar
As many have pointed out in their stories, it depends upon the cancer type, how it is treated, and what the end result is. My grandmother succumed to breast cancer back in the early ‘60s, and she was in great pain. A co-worker was diagnosed with it about eight years ago, and she has survived the treatments with little pain from the treatment. She continues to live a healthy life, and of the last report, is cancer-free. This is why regular screening and immediate treatment is so important.
It sounds as if you are doing the right thing by continuing to be her friend and part of her support system. Just ask if it is okay to ask about her pain and her feelings.
All I know from dealing with people with cancer or any other debilitating disease is that they want to be treated as fighters and not put in the grave before they are willing to go there. Listen to their perspective, and fight the disease at their side. This is the best gift that you can offer.
faye's avatar
I was a nurse on a cancer unit and the only cancer I saw that wasn’t extremely painful was a brain cancer that robbed the man of knowing his family, his past and any problems. He passed away worry free because of what part of his brain his tumor affected.
Eureka's avatar
Being both a cancer survivor and a medical care giver to cancer patients, I can tell you that it is extremely painful.
Aster's avatar
Some cancers are much more painful than others. The treatments are often the cause of pain. Kidney cancer is not painful; just uncomfortable. The most pain comes when cancer spreads to the brain and spine causing excruciating back pain and headaches. My best friend’s breast cancer spread to her brain and having radiation to the brain did nothing for pain control. This is in opposition to what @faye reports and she knows more about it than I ever will. I assume all or most of the patients on her ward were receiving chemotherapy but they were still suffering.
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Animating a Skeleton, part 1
Posted by Milcho, 08 February 2011 · 442 views
Ahem, so my first entry on what's essentially going to be my long and tedious work towards a small custom game engine.
The first few entries are just going to be me, playing catchup on what I've done so far.
The first thing I've decided to try to do, is animate a human character. For this purpose I created my own custom human skeleton. I used the measurements from DaVinci's Vitruvian Man to obtain measurements and positioning of each bone. In case you don't know it, the Vitruvian Man is this drawing, of a supposedly ideal man:
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The initial skeleton design was done in Google's free program, sketchup, where I traced over the general bone structure in that drawing:
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After a somewhat painful manual entry of the positions, lengths, and orientations, I had the base for creating a set of bones. However, a set of bones isn't enough for proper skeleton animation.
Each bone could have 1 parent (potentially NULL) and many children. The next step is figuring out how to represent the rotations. I wanted to be able to access a bone's position and end position without recursive calls. I also wanted rotations to be relative, and to have the ability to move a point "with" the bone. The last requirement was because I know that I would have to animate a model based on that skeleton.
To solve all this, I wrote a class, called Axes. Axes contained 3 vectors, which started off as the XYZ world space vectors. I also wrote several functions for rotation around the Axes in the class, all of which eventually came down to 1 function: rotation of a point around an arbitrary axis.
The rotation of a point around an arbitrary axis, in brief, is done like so:
1. Translate your axis to pass through the origin. In my case, I always assumed my axis was at the origin, though it was actually at the bone's Starting position. To properly rotate then, all you have to do is perform a move of -sp, where sp is a vector representing the bone's starting position.
2. Align your axis with one of the three world axes (X- Y- or Z-) This essentially means undoing the rotation applied to that axis.
3. Perform your desired rotation, now around the world axis with which you aligned.
4. Undo step 2. (apply the rotation of the bone)
5. Undo step 1. (apply the translation to the bone's position)
That was it. After each bone was rotated then, all I had to do is update it's child bones with their new position (the current bone's end position) and their delta-rotation matrix (however much the bone was rotated)
The final result was this:
Posted Image
The actual work too a little less than 2 weeks - 4 days or so to write all the necessary code, and about another week to get rid of all the bugs.
All the graphics are drawn with OpenGL, and I didn't quite start from scratch, I had a somewhat ready framework from a previous project.
The next step was to animate the skeleton.
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#1Elucid8DPosted 2/17/2013 12:03:32 PM
Here's some gameplay of primal carnage me and a friend made. It's a pretty fun game and if you don't already have it you should pick it up!
Me and him are stealthily taking out humans by hiding in the bushes with raptors and that was pretty entertaining...
Check it out if you want, if not, don't
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#2zinformantPosted 2/18/2013 8:46:41 AM
Cool. Are there a lot of players?
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So which story is more convolted MGS or KH?
#11XechsPosted 11/3/2012 9:29:10 AM
KH for sure especially every handheld version excluding birth by sleep just bogs down the storyline.
--- Ranka-Macross Frontier
#12jason19192Posted 11/3/2012 9:31:45 AM
Kingdom Hearts was more convoluted than MGS all the way until MGS4. The ending of that game made it more convoluted than any game ever made.
#13SolidDBZPosted 11/3/2012 9:45:43 AM
MGS's story is a mess imo (not the same as being complex). MGS1 was the only game in the Solid series that had a great story. The rest were a mess. Still, I like the characters and the gameplay, it's my favorite series. And even though the story is ridiculous, it does have soul, that's what I like about the series.
Metal Gear!?
#14NSYNCPosted 11/3/2012 9:47:27 AM
faris_ruhi posted...
and I understood MGS the first time through pretty much completely.
Explain parts 2 and 4 then. $100 says you're way off.
#15Godstriker8Posted 11/3/2012 9:47:41 AM
If you're played the majority of the KH games, especially 3D. Then you know the KH is definitely more convoluted.
I'm just dickin aroouunnnd
#16Mass_CarrierPosted 11/3/2012 10:45:04 AM(edited)
Don't just post youtube links. Say what the **** they are.
#17HakaiVeilPosted 11/3/2012 10:46:52 AM
Fourth option for Spiroth, because his fanboy delusions don't make a lick of sense.
Not only that, MGS did NOT start the stealth genre. You should be hanged for that BS.
The only point at when MGS gets convoluted is 4. They lost their effing minds there.
KH was a trainwreck of a story once they started going beyond the premise started in KH1 and tried making it some HUGE time-spanning thing.
#18este914Posted 11/3/2012 10:47:49 AM
What does convolted mean?
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#19SightoPosted 11/3/2012 10:48:26 AM
Mass_Carrier posted...
That. Kingdom Heart's story really isn't that hard to grasp and it's actually really interesting.
#20SarcChigaimasuPosted 11/3/2012 10:53:17 AM
Metal Gear Solid has a complicated story, but Kingdom Hearts is just absurdity.
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#41Awesomely Awesome AJPosted 1/10/2013 3:59:32 AM
I'm sorry but has anybody actually ever had a problem with the demo limits? I mean if you enjoy a demo enough to play it four or five times then just go get the damn game. I mean were you playing the demo for the 29th time and then become instantly enraged to see that you only had ONE more time to play it before you had to delete it and redownload it?
the only person I've seen that had a legit excuse for this is some insane OCD guy that was complaining about not having his 3DS completely uniform (even went on about how the activity log was driving him crazier than he already was because it wasn't in a neat order).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52293 | Review by Evil Bob 756
"Bunch of pissed off superstrong losers=good game"
Ahh...Mortal Kombat, the game that spawned countless sequels. If you're a next-gen gamer that enjoys Mortal Kombat, maybe you should play the game that started it all.
In the 1P mode of Mortal Kombat, you fight your way up the ''ladder'' The beginning of the game consists of fairly easy matches against all of the playable characters of the game. In the ''Mirror'' match you fight yourself, but as long as you can keep track of which character is you and which is your opponent, you'll be fine. The next three matches can be difficult. You fight one of the game's playable characters and then, with the amount of energy you have left, you must fight yet another character. Beat him, and you've finished an ''Endurance'' Match. Get through three of these and you'll find yourself at the game's mini boss. Now, I'm not giving any strategies or anything to you, that's what FAQs are for, but I can say that Goro isn't too difficult, and the difficulty of the game's boss is the equivalent of an Endurance Match. All in all, Mortal Kombat is a fairly easy game, though it can get frustrating at times.
Difficulty Score~4(a bit too easy)
Patience (and Practice too) makes perfect. I've always thought that the Super Nintendo's controller was kind of odd. And we all know that a game's control is the most important thing in a game, especially fighting games. The control at first is awful, but if some practice it becomes worthy of a decent score.
Control Score~6
Fun Factor
There's nothing more satisfying that hitting your opponent when he's down until you get a flawless victory, but most of the game makes for a slightly above average fighting game.
Fun Factor Score~7
Those of you familiar with the movie will be able to recognize the game's characters. Nintendo had the blood removed from the game though, so the Graphic's score may depend on how much you enjoy seeing your character fall of a bridge onto spikes and have blood splatter all over himself. It doesn't bother me either way, so the graphics earn a good score.
Graphics Score~7
Yay...time for the sound, the least important aspect of any game. I guess it's alright. The guy's voice at the beginning of each fight that says FIGHT! is intense. The character's screams are funny sometimes, or at least I think they are.
Sound Score~5
Play Time/Replayability
Play Time
First time through...average gamer...ehhhhh, I'd say about 20 minutes a try, 3 tries. That puts the Play Time at 60 minutes, one hour, long enough to watch your favorite T.V. show, long enough to read a few chapters of your book...any way you look at it, Mortal Kombat doesn't take very long to beat.
Play Time Score~2
The higher a fighting game's Fun Factor, the higher the Replayability score. Heh, that was easy...
Replayability Score~7
Mortal Kombat for the Super Nintendo's score~7(above average)
Reviewer's Score: 7/10 | Originally Posted: 03/23/03, Updated 03/23/03
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Troy Baker Reads Joker's Monologue At New York Comic Con
During a Batman: Arkham Origins panel at this year's New York Comic Con, voice actor Troy Baker recited a Joker's monologue from Alan Moore's graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke. Check out the excerpt from the panel below.
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Bomber Hehhe satisfies any appetite for destruction. A beard stroking strategy game that has you analyzing a variety of buildings before dipping into your battery of customized explosives. Despite the fact that most of the game's text is written in an obscure form of moon-speak, you'll have no problems in composing and synchronizing your symphony of destruction. Bomber Hehhe's scoring system, which rewards you for conservative use of ordinance as well as minimizing collateral damage, will have you far beyond driven in your quest for maximum pointage.
The game is one bombtrack that will have you embracing the "wisconsin death trip" of controlled demolitions... and... something about... for those about to rock we salute you.
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#1 Posted by mosdl (3215 posts) -
I mistakenly put my 2nd point into the wrong tree and as I remember from the QLEX you can respec for free before lvl 10, anyone know how/where to respec?
#2 Posted by DizzyMedal (398 posts) -
The character creator thingy. The place where you change your face and what not.
#3 Posted by SomeDeliCook (2046 posts) -
In the quicklook thumbnail thats sitting there in the homepage of this site, it looks like you can respec from the same menu where you change your character color and head and name.
#4 Edited by MB (11103 posts) -
You don't get to the point where you can change your character's appearance or respec until about two hours into the game. Closing to avoid potential spoilers.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52322 | Videos from the G-Star Demo
#1 Edited by Dark_Lord_Spam (2880 posts) -
Completely out of left field we get footage from a vastly polished version of the demo being played at G-Star. I'll point out what new stuff I managed to notice for each segment (I don't know that they're entirely in order). Keep in mind that the video quality isn't great.
The Tequatl fight has jumped the scale from "visually impressive" to "shit's poppin' off left and right". I don't know if it's a result of higher player participation, the implementation of more skill animations, or if the animators just decided that everything needed to look about 70% crazier.
Evidently the armor on the player character here is higher-level stuff, which I guess is just for increased visual flair in the starter area. You can also see some additional faces that have been added to humans (all eastern Asian-looking, because after all, it is a Korean demo).
We need to get this out of the way right now: THE NEW CUTSCENE ANIMATIONS ARE FANTASTIC. Whatever they're using to lip-sync the VA (in a foreign language, no less) is spot-on. General improvements have also been made to other animations from what I can tell. The Earth Elemental now uses more varied attacks and more frequently than he did before (hopefully this is an indication that static bosses can get savage). I'm pretty sure the whole "NPC running up to shout at you about a nearby event" deal hadn't been implemented in the last demo. Also, we get to see some of the environmental effects of event chains. In this case, the centaurs have completely fucked up the garrison that they're now occupying.
EDIT: Now noticed that the player had a full bar of weapon skills by the end of the tutorial, which indicates lower unlock requirements. The map has a legend now, which seems like an obvious step forward. And of course the entire personal story sequence at the end with the bandit disguise is new. Hopefully that's a representation of the sort of mission variation we'll get based on our biography choices (for reference, this character is a street rat).
I can't see any of the content or systems changes that ArenaNet has been talking about recently, but everything here just has an extra, much-appreciated layer of spit-shine on it. That in itself seems insane given how much praise has been heaped onto previous versions of the demo for their "AAA" levels of polish.
If you're astute enough to catch any alterations or improvements that I haven't, make sure to point them out below.
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Yeah, finally proper cut-scene mouth animation. That was one of the weak points, until now.
#3 Posted by Vexxan (4598 posts) -
Want this game so badly but it feels like it's still far away.
#4 Edited by Dark_Lord_Spam (2880 posts) -
@Vexxan said:
I'd say about half a year at most, given that most of the remaining info (last profession, WvW, closed beta) is on track to be shown before 2012. Not too bad considering how fucking incredible the game is looking in its current pre-beta state.
EDIT: Here's some high-res screenshots of the (seemingly?) improved character models.
#5 Posted by TheHT (10118 posts) -
Something looks off in those videos. Maybe it's just the suddenly skimpish-on-the-clothes female elementalist they're rolling as. Looks pretty goofy.
That lip-synching is impressive though. Actually really impressive. Can't wait to see some of it in english.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52324 | Why I hate contacting customer support, especially Activision's
So recently, I contacted Activision. I had a question about DJ Hero, and if they would be putting any more DLC out for DJ Hero. This was my email:
I was wondering if any new DLC will be released for DJ Hero. It's been out for nearly half a year, and there are still only about 8 songs on the Music Store. I'm very disappointed by this. I've played Rock Band for a long time, and they have managed to update the store with new songs every single week, and they currently offer well over 1000 songs to download and play. While DJ Hero may not be able to reach that many, the game only has about 8 songs to download. I'm very disappointed by the lack of DLC, and most of the DLC that they do have is pretty horrible. I mean, did it really take you guys that long to put out a few mixes, mixes that feel like they were thrown together at the last minute? This has definitely impacted my experience with the game. I think the game is great, and has a ton of potential that I would be willing to support with my purchase, but I'm not going to buy a game that Activision won't even properly support. So I am wondering if any DLC will be available in the near future, and/or if Activision will plan to release DLC on a regular basis. If not, then I ask that somebody please explain why Activision won't release any more DLC, and why they can't do it on a regular basis. Thank you for your time. I appreciate it.
Now, I didn't really expect an answer that was actually an answer, but I'm still kinda pissed. This was somebody's response:
Hello, Unfortunately, we do not currently have any information available as to whether or not additional DLC for the game will be made available. For an inquiry such as this, we suggest that you periodically search the online DJ Hero webpage at: www.djhero.com. Any updates relating as to whether or not additional DLC will be made available for the game should be made available on this webpage.
They did manage to answer my first question, but anybody should be able to see there are still a few more that are left unanswered. I'm not only upset that they have hardly put any DLC out, but I am also upset that this person, this representative, couldn't answer all of my questions, or direct me to somebody that could. Even a vague answer would be better than no answer.
And this is typically my experience with all customer support departments for video game companies. Granted, not all of them are like that, but my experience has been generally bad. They just don't seem to treat the customer like they should. I basically threatened to never buy Activision again, which should be a red flag for a good company. I mean, I'm only one customer, but if all customers thought the same thing, wouldn't they eventually go out of business? I mean, some company's spend a lot of money in advertising and everything to get customers. Somebody told me one company spent over $200 per customer. So why would they throw it away with bad customer support? Customer support is a very important thing in a company. If you have a poor one, a lot of customers won't be satisfied and will just leave. Basically, I think it gives the company a bad image, and I think my experience within the past week with Activision has left a sour taste in my mouth, and I believe I will follow through with my promise to never buy Activision again. Scratch that. It's also because they hardly ever put any DLC up, there are only around 8 songs in the Music Store after being out for around half a year, and it costs $3 a song. I'll just take my business elsewhere.
So, in a nutshell, I hate contacting customer support because they don't answer your questions like you would want them to. Just like with many political leaders, they seem to answer your question without answering your question, if you know what I mean. I also hate contacting Activision's Customer Support because this is not the first time something like this has happened with them. Last time, I managed to keep the conversation going for about a week. This time, I think I'll just let it pass.
Cell phone games? Oh no. No no no.
Not really, at least. I don't really care about iPhone games that much. There aren't any major releases or anything on the iPhone or any other cell phone, and, well I don't play games on my phone. Not really my thing. If I want to play a game while away from home, my DS will probably be in my pocket.
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So I went sledding today...
...and it was a lot of fun. Out here in Michigan, we got a lot of snow. Even in an area that usually misses out on all the closings, we got enough snow to close schools for 2 days, and it's still around.
So me, my older brother and sister, along with his kids went sledding today. It wasn't anything serious. Just went to an area dedicated during the Winter for sledding. The hill was pretty big. Not that huge, but good enough to have a good time on, obviously.
I got snow everywhere. But it was a lot of fun. Me and my brother fit in one of the sleds when he was standing up, and because of that he lost his balance several times since we were going down a hill. One time he flipped right over me. And another time he injured part of my arm, not seriously but it still hurts. We all had fun.
So Giant Bomb? Did you get any snow? Did you have fun with it (like sledding, or snowball fights)?
The worst game I've played this year?
I'd probably have to say The Conduit. This game really had potential, but to me it was just terrible. Sure, it could do some nice things with the engine, but I thought it still looked bad. The story was crappy in that it was probably already used before. And the multiplayer really wasn't as good as it could of been to me.
Actually, maybe it's not that it was the worst game I've played this year, but the fact that it disappointed me the most.
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A chat with a DJ about DJ Hero
In case nobody knew, yes, I've been excited about the release of DJ Hero. It's revolutionary in my book, and FreeStyleGames deserves a lot of credit for the work done on this. Yes, it's expensive. But I'm still going to get it. $120. Should be worth it.
But some of that excitement went away when I talked to a real DJ. And a very good DJ at that. I can't remember his name; he was just my friend's friend. Anyways, he started talking about DJ Hero. I told him I was excited about it, and he said it looks sweet. But he's not going to get it. He later showed me some of his equipment and explained why.
His main reason was the songs. They weren't all that creative, from what he saw of it. Like on the commercial, with Eminem and Jay-Z. He said he didn't find the song all that good. He even showed me that any Hip Hop, Rap, or both genres mixed together was fairly easy to mix. Then he went on to show me a more complicated mix, dance and hip hop. It was pretty catchy, better than what we heard on the commercial.
His next reason wasn't so relevant, but was nevertheless good. His full time hobby is DJing. He has over 80,000 songs and broadcasts 24/7, with mixes over 29 hours long. Pretty impressive, his career.
To be fair though, he did add that it would be fun for anybody who would want to DJ. But he also said he'd rather wait for the next one. So would I.
Then again, maybe I should still have hope that I will enjoy it when I purchase it. But then again, maybe it'd be funner to DJ for real. There's some food for thought.
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#1 Posted by StainedpandaAlex (2 posts) -
I just wondered if the "average" gamer enjoys normal podcast too with the gaming podcast. I know i like videos of gaming podcast as much as i like regular podcast such as the Rooster Teeth Podcast. Any opinions?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52328 | The Wizardry wiki last edited by ArbitraryWater on 06/08/13 04:09PM View full history
The Wizardry series is a franchise of computer RPGs in a fantasy setting. It is characterized by its first person perspective, multi character party system, and turn based combat. The original game, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, was originally released in 1981. The main series has seen eight installments in addition to a variety of spin-offs.
While originally a western produced franchise, it gained a lasting popularity in Japan, where developers started licensing the brand and producing numerous spin-offs for the Japanese market. This popularity continued even as the franchise declined in the west, leading Japanese online gaming giant Aeria Inc. to acquire the rights to the series in November 2006 through its subsidiary Aeria IPM Inc. after the original developer, Sir-Tech Software, had shut down.
IPM was sold to Gamepot, Inc. in February 2008, and continues to manage and license out the rights to the franchise in Japan.
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It's continued presence in Japan has also inspired a number of modern game franchises based around similar structure and gameplay mechanics of the earlier games in the series. Known as Dungeon RPGs, these include series such as Etrian Odyssey, Class of Heroes, Shin Megami Tensei, Elminage, and Unchained Blades.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52365 | [Haskell-beginners] question on typeclasses and applicatives
Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fischer at web.de
Thu Sep 2 17:50:39 EDT 2010
On Thursday 02 September 2010 23:10:29, Alec Benzer wrote:
> actual type instead of a type variable?
Basically yes. There's a small additional problem because String is a type
synonym (and type synonyms are forbidden in H98 instance declarations).
Apparently, FlexibleInstances allows them in type variable positions, but
if you want to put a type synonym in the type constructor position, you
need TypeSynonymInstances.
So for
import Control.Monad.State
type STI = StateT Int
instance Foo (STI [] a) where
you need FlexibleInstances ([] is not a type variable) and
> I got confused because of the
> emphasis you put on * distinct *.
Sorry for that. I wanted to prevent "Why can't I have instance Foo (Bar a
a) where ... ?".
> And so, if I want to make Maps applicative functors without dealing
> with FlexibleInstances, I'd have to do something like this?
> import Control.Applicative
> import qualified Data.Map as M
> import Data.Monoid
> instance (Monoid k, Ord k) => Applicative (M.Map k) where
> pure x = M.fromList [(mempty,x)]
> M.assocs fs, (k2,v2) <- M.assocs xs]
> (sacrificing some functionality, since spaces won't get intercalated
> between keys if i use strings)
Yes, but why avoid FlexibleInstances?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52366 | Database interface - would like advice on oracle library bind ing
Bayley, Alistair Alistair_Bayley at
Mon Sep 29 15:18:20 EDT 2003
Yes, I know of it.
Krasimir's code uses similar functions and types in the three bindings
(MySQL, ODBC, PostgreSql), but the bindings do not share a common interface
(AFAICT). Because they are so similar, making them support a common
interface shouldn't be a lot of work.
I was hoping the earlier discussions on database interfaces would converge
to a solution most interested parties agreed on. I'm still sold on the
left-fold interface discussed previously. Oleg claims it is sufficient, as
it can be automatically converted to a stream-like interface. I bit of me
agrees with you that I should be consistent with previous work, and another
bit says make it simple and elegant, and this leads me towards Oleg's
proposals (left-fold + auto-generated value extraction functions +
auto-generated stream functions).
Do others on this list (and elsewhere) have any further opinions as to how a
database interface ought to look?
> From: Tim Docker [mailto:timd at]
> Sent: 29 September 2003 13:43
> To: Bayley, Alistair; haskell-cafe at
> Subject: RE: Database interface - would like advice on oracle library
> bind ing
> Alistair Bayley wrote:
> > Still making slow progress on an Oracle database binding...
> > now I'm trying to fit the API I have into some sort of
> > abstract interface (like the one(s) discussed previously:
> Since the previous dicussion I've discovered Krasimir
> Angelov's HSQL interface as part of his HTOOLKIT:
> This has a uniform abstract interface similar to the one
> discussed, apparently implemented for MYSQL, ODBC, and
> PostgreSQL. I've only played with the MYSQL variant.
> If possible, it would seem sensible to provide a consistent
> interface for your Oracle binding. If not, it may be worth
> persuading him to generalise the interface.
> Then again, perhaps you knew about this already.
> Tim
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52368 | [Haskell-cafe] Re: let and fixed point operator
Peter Hercek peter at syncad.com
Thu Aug 30 17:28:03 EDT 2007
Chaddaï Fouché wrote:
> But, even more trivial... You use this all the time when you define
> recursive function, you know ? You would need to add a "rec" keyword
> to the language if you disallowed this.
Great and new reason too. Trying to make a difference based on presence
of formal argument would be bad since point-free is useful too.
Well, in my opinion, only to a certain degree since from some point
on it is more understandable to name intermediate results (points).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52427 | Keichu's Wheel
Getsuan said to this students: `Keichu, the first wheel-maker of China, made two wheels of fifty spokes each. Now, suppose you removed the nave uniting the spokes. What would become of the wheel? And had Keichu done thism could he be called the master wheel-maker?'
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52434 | Spices Of India – Culinary & Medicinal Delight
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The spices of India are known the world over for their strong aroma and the delicious flavors they offer to the Indian cuisine. But what you may not know is the fact that almost all these spices possess several medicinal qualities too. Since India is a diverse country, the spices are diverse too, tailormade for being used in the various cuisines within the Indian cuisine. Here is a list of the major Indian spices used in India and now the world over...
To maintain the authentic flavor of the spices through this blog as well, Indian or Hindi names of the spices have been used, followed by their English version:
1. Adrak (Ginger/Dry Ginger):
Right from the starters to desserts, and drinks, ginger is used in almost every course of meal. This spice is particularly known for its medicinal qualities, which include: fights against common cold and flu, relieves from respiratory problems, prevents blood clotting, and battles against cardiovascular disease.
2. Ajwain (Thyme Seeds):
Believed to have antiseptic properties, this spice is used specially to make paranthas (griddle-cooked stuffed chapatis with lots of clarified butter). The spice can be used to treat indigestion and low appetite too.
3. Chhoti Elaichi (Green Cardamom):
This spice is basically used to induce fragrance in the food and is used to prepare desserts, drinks, and main course meals such as pilaf. Its medicinal uses include treatment of teeth infections, throat troubles, lung congestion, and even pulmonary tuberculosis.
4. Badi Elaichi (Black Cardamom):
Also known as Bengal cardamom, this spice is used for its strong flavor, which smells somewhat of camphor. It is used dried and more often than not, this ends up being used to treat stomach disorders and malaria.
5. Dalchini (Cinnamon):
You may have heard of the cinnamon buns but in Indian cuisine, cinnamon has a widespread use, right from the sweet and savory items to main course meals such as Biryani. Cinnamon has been found to help people lower their LDL cholesterol levels significantly. It also works for blood coagulation.
6. Haldi (Turmeric):
The first thing that strikes you about this spice is its bright, sunny yellow color, which, when added to a dish, imparts the same hue. Turmeric is probably the most important Indian spice, as far as its religious and medicinal values are concerned. Besides being used in cooking, turmeric is also used in auspicious ceremonies like wedding.
7. Heeng/Hing (Asafoetida):
It may also be called the “devil’s dung”, for its sharp pungent smell but that doesn’t take away from the fact that this spice adds depth to the food, especially delivering a smooth flavor to the gravy. Its medicinal values include reduction of indigenous microflora in the gut, thereby reducing flatulence.
8. Javitri (Mace):
Isn’t it surprising that some of the spices of India are already a part of the culinary vocabulary in America. Mace is another such spice, which is derived from the nutmeg tree. Its main aim is to impart a distinct fragrance to the food.
9. Jeera/Zeera (Cumin Seeds):
Jeera is used across the world but in India, its significance is something else. It is used as seeds or in grounded form. It lends an earthy aroma to the food and is used to cook stews and soups.
10. Kali Mirchi (Black Pepper):
This spice is used mostly for seasoning but it has a medicinal value too. In India, you will find black pepper on almost every table in a hotel or a restaurant, along with table salt.
11. Lal Mirchi (Red Chili Powder):
The color and kick are the hallmarks of this spice, which is used in almost every dish that Indians cook. Made of dried red chilies, this spice has culinary as well as medicinal benefits. It is used in every form of Indian cuisine.
12. Methi (Fenugreek Seeds):
Besides the sprouts and leaves of the Methi plant, its seeds are also used extensively in Indian cooking. One of the major benefits of the fenugreek seeds is that it is fed to lactating women to increase their milk supply.
13. Tej Patta (Malabathrum or bay leaf):
This is one of the most aromatic Indian spices and its significance is that it is never used fresh. The leaves are dried and then used in curries, savories, and pilafs.
14. Garam Masala (Hot Spice Mix):
This Big Daddy of Indian Spices is actually a mix of various spices like clove, mace, cardamom, cumin seeds, nutmeg, star anise, and coriander seeds. Indian cooks usually sprinkle it over appetizers, or at the end of a curry-making process, because it gives out an instant whiff of strong flavor.
While spices are considered to be aphrodisiacs throughout the world, in India, they complement the food and its flavors. With so many versatile spices of India available today, you can also use them to lend that special Indianness to your occasional meal.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52438 | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
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Release Date: November 21, 1992
Hyrule Times Vol. 10: Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Almost 10 years old, but still unbeaten. A look at the best game in the Zelda series. Plenty of movies inside.
But the story doesn't end there. Many centuries after the Imprisoning War, new disasters began to strike Hyrule. Pestilence and drought so strong, even magic couldn't control them. Worried that the seal on the Dark World had been broken, Hyrule's king ordered an investigation -- but the seal was intact. Luckily, a wizard named Agahnim offered to help and contained the disasters with his powerful magic. The king rewarded Agahnim by making him an advisor and he quickly became known as the savior of the lands by among the common people. But not all was right at Hyrule court... Rumors soon appeared that the king had become nothing more than a puppet of Agahnim's will. The people of Hyrule began to worry that the savior was really behind the evil that had swept the lands. And that's where the game starts.
The one thing that is still alive in the minds of many Zelda players is the sense of atmosphere Link to the Past managed to instill with very simple means. If you've played the game, I bet you still remember the very first scene in the game when Zelda's voice reaches Link in a dream, complete with the solemn music and the sound of rain and thunder in the background. If not, here it is, captured just for you:Watch a Quicktime video clip of the beginning of the game right here: A Link to the Past: The Beginning Quicktime (12MB)
The beginning of a Super NES classic: the quest to save an imprisoned princess.
The basic gameplay of A Link to the Past hasn't changed since the NES original, but the added power of the SNES elevates the exploration and action gameplay of the Legend of Zelda series to all new heights. Nintendo's artists worked overtime to give each and every temple and dungeon its own look and feel. Players accustomed to the simple color palette swaps of the predecessors were in for a real treat when they entered the game's many diverse temples to retrieve amulets or free sages. Watch a Quicktime video clip of the first temple right here: A Link to the Past: First Temple Quicktime (2.7MB)And how about that music? The SNES sound chip, courtesy of (now arch rival) Sony, helped set the mood. You don't realize how many of the melodies from this game you remembered over the years until you play through it again. What about the staccato dungeon theme with the realistic sounding timpani? Or how about the enchanting "faerie" theme when you uncover a hidden wishing well? Thanks to the talents of Nintendo star composer Koji Kondo, the game's music affects the atmosphere just as much as the outstanding graphics design. But nothing made the hearts of Zelda fans beat faster than the return of their favorite melody, the Overworld Theme. Do you remember the moment you step out of the church into the sunny day for the first time? Relive it here:Watch a Quicktime video clip of the Overworld here: A Link to the Past: Overworld Quicktime (5.4MB)
The design of the overworld in LttP is a big step up from Zelda 1 and 2.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52455 | Apple Closed Jailbreak Exploit Due to App Piracy?
Did Apple close the 24kpwn exploit in the latest shipments of the iPhone 3GS due to app piracy? MobileCrunch thinks it's certainly a factor:
While jailbreaking allows for countless wonderful (but otherwise disallowed) apps to run on the iPhone, it also allows cracked versions of paid applications to be installed. As a result, piracy is mind-blowingly, soul-crushingly rampant on the iPhone. Many iPhone developers – such as those behind the popular IM client, Beejive – are reporting that 80 percent of their users are pirates. Yep. For every 10 users on Beejive, 8 of them didn’t pay for it. I’m no saint myself, and all of us here fully understand that a download does not equal a lost sale – but when 80% of the people using your app (and in Beejive’s case, your servers) aren’t paying to keep the lights on, it’s likely seen as a big issue.
As Jeremy posted yesterday, Apple has begun shipping iPhone 3GS with new boot ROMs patched against the longstanding 24kpwn exploit commonly used to Jailbreak the devices. We also saw some reports on the state of app piracy from Pinch Media.
What do you think? Would Apple turn a blinder eye towards Jailbreaking if app piracy wasn't a factor? Or is Apple duty bound to patch known security exploi
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zato says:
Gee, iPhoneBlog, what are you guys going to do? Will the Microsoft checks continue?
d.allen says:
80% just isn't a believable number to me.. I'm calling shenanigans. (but if that is true, thats crazy.. but directly reflective of the high prices that beejive tries to get away with.. if people feel like you are stealing from them, they steal from you.. I'm sure there isn't many one, two or three dollar apps that have a % like this, if it is real)
computerjeff05 says:
Beejive is a great service, and was well worth the $15 to me. I hate people that want everything for nothing.
Wesley says:
I disagree, I believe that use the piracy argument is an excuse, they what don't want is people having more control than themselves on the devices.
iTunes is the big problem here, why are pirated apps so easily imported on it?
taroliw says:
Considering how many people bellyached about spending any money on a great piece of software, I believe the 80% number. The thing that pisses me off about this is that these theiving jerks have now given Apple a legitimate excuse for blocking jailbreak, and now all of us who merely wanted to use jailbreak to /extend/ the capabilities of our devices will suffer for it.
Get a life and start paying for commercial apps, children.
RADEN says:
Doesn't yesterday's report from Pinch Media contradict this?
"These analytics show roughly 4 million jailbreak devices, 38% of which are using pirated app(s) (aka cracked apps). In other words, most jailbreakers don’t steal apps."
I don't think piracy is a major issue but I'm sure it's at least one reason to close the exploit.
As for Beejive..I also don't believe that 80% of their users are pirates. They would have packed up and left a while ago if that were the case. Also, I happen to know there wasn't a working cracked version of their app until recently.
d.allen says:
My last post may have given off the idea that I'm okay with these numbers.. I'm not.. I've jailbroken before and have never once used a cracked app. I also don't have beejive, as I have no use for that type of service.. but in reply to your question.. I do believe that it forces apples hand a little.. but not much.. its not as if they pay to much attention to what developers want.. I just wish they would open up the app store to things like backgrounder, catagories, sbsettings, googlevoice, and winterboard.. then, you wouldn't have nearly as many people jailbreaking.. I know I wouldn't need to.
antonioj says:
RADEN is can 38% of 8% (the ones that use jb) of the total iPhone/ipods be a HUGE problem for devs?? Is everyone insane?
Francis says:
I'm a bit skeptical about Pinch Media's report. I think their analysis is intentionally exaggerated. I tried to reply to their post, but they didn't approve my comment.
Some excerpts from what I tried to post:
“Of paid apps that use Pinch Media’s services, 60% have been pirated. Of those pirated apps, 34% of all installs are the pirated version.” This means that maybe only 20% of installs are pirated. Those numbers are actually really good for software.
Judging from Pinch Media's graph, it appears that roughly 10-15% of all iphones have been jailbroken. “About 38% [of jailbroken iphones] have used a pirated application.” “34% of all installs are cracked” This means that roughly 4-6% of iphone users have ever used a pirated application. And yet somehow, those 4-6% of iphones account for 34% of all installs? I’m a bit skeptical.
flyingember says:
Apple has to close the holes. Businesses won't take the device seriously if they don't. Business accounts are worth more than individual accounts. (remember that they tested the app API with large corporations)
How many people have noticed that > 75% (rough #) of posts on this forums on this site relate to jailbreaking?
I'm with d.allen. There are two problem's Apple is facing. 1. The app store promotes cheap apps. When people can steal apps less developers will make apps that don't fit under item 1.
They need to open up the store more and make a framework for more user control. They could even sell themes. That's an entire market they could open up for artists to earn money like programmers do now. This is what I want to see in iphone 4.0
John zimmer says:
I hate the closed nature of iphone os. Windows desktop and mobile allow installation of third party paid and free apps. There will always be piracy. These measures makes it harder for rest of us to customize our phones legally.
These measures hinder creativity. Lets not forget that The app store idea has been barrowed from the jailbreak community.
rpv says:
@Wesley, iTunes will not install pirated software, in order for cracked app to be installed you need another applicaiton running on iPhone which would tell iTunes signing is ok, which if i am correct you can download from Cydia.
Until Jailbreak was just a way to extend functionality Apple didn't bother that much, but when you have expensive applications like Tomtom, CoPilot, iGo, Navigon etc available on torrents that's something else.
So if Jailbreak communitywould put NO to pirated applications and disallow apps on Appstore to be installed i think it would be fair.
nic says:
Hey iPhone developers, you think you guys are alone in the piracy world?
firesign3000 says:
zato - wtf are you even talking about?
anyway, i believe that there is rampant piracy of iphone apps, just like there is for damn near every other program that, god forbid, wants people to pay for it. whatever your excuse for pirating apps, it's stealing and it's wrong. in the case of iphone apps, they don't even cost that much in general. people are allowed to be compensated for their work. i'm sick of the "everything should be free" crap i see all the time. if you can't afford it, don't use it. you do not have the right to steal it.
sting7k says:
Apple probably really cares very little about Jailbreaking. There will always be people trying to crack it open and do their own thing. App piracy is a huge deal. With all the debate on the app store right now about issues with reviews and not talking to developers they need to keep apps from being stolen.
Is there anyway to update old devices with this new boot ROM? I wonder if they will start taking devices they get back out of the channel instead of offering them as refurbs without this new boot ROM as well.
Joe McG says:
If Beejive knows that 80% of the users are pirates, then they obviously have identified which ones are and aren't. Just block the pirates from your server. Geez.
rpv says:
@Joe McG, @nic, the problem is that you don't know who is a pirate and who is not, because all you get from apple is number of units sold. so you can see how many you got paid for and how many are in use.
If there would be a link between a purchase and between developer, than you can protect your software better, but Apple doesn't give you this link that's why it is much easier to pirate on iPhone and in fact on Android as well.
Typically, when you buy software you come to shop and a seller knows who bought what and when, so you given a product key code as an example, if there is a problem you developer can always check his database and help you.
When it comes to iPhone, you don't know who bought your software and there is no really way of telling if you bought or not at all therefore there is very little you can do to protect it.
websyndicate says:
U can run but u can't hide apple. We will find a way.
I don't care for pirated apps too much but cydia apps and sbsettings are some of my favorite apps
Gregg says:
If apple really wanted to stop JB they would give you 72 hours from the time the new update to come out or your phone would be useless. And everytime the dev team JBd the new software apple had a new release out 24 hours later and it would he a vicious cycle of updating. I JBd my old 3G for about a day. It was total garbage and I would never do it again. It was so unstable it was about worthless. Safari would crash apps would crash. Phone would freeze reboot at random. Totally worthless to me.
Dyvim says:
I bet one thing that BeeJive hasn't taken into consideration in estimating the piracy rate is that via the AppStore you can buy an app once and then have the right to use it on all devices in your household. Our family has 4 iPhones (2 active, 2 used as iPods). I can buy 1 copy of BeeJive IM and run it on all 4 devices. BeeJive would see 4 devices accessing their servers but know that they only sold 1 copy and infer a 75% piracy rate, when in this case no piracy had occurred. I'm not saying that piracy isn't rampant, just that BeeJive's numbers might be a bit off.
jtarrio says:
Apple has always tried to stop jailbreaking, and they will do even if there's no piracy. They have deemed jailbreaking to be illegal, so it wouldn't make sense for them to allow it "as long as there's no piracy".
That said, piracy gives them even more reason to try to break jb, but don't think they'd let everyone jailbreak if there was no app piracy.
Stan The Man says:
No, Jobs is a control freak... Can you imagine what he could do if he wasn't wasting time trying to control what users did with their phones? And instead spent the time making the iPhone that much better? I think trial apps that expired in 2 weeks or a month would do more to help prevent piracy. If you like it, push the buy now button. No one wants to take a $5 or $10 chance on a untested app. Face it there is a ton of junk apps out there. Also why would you spend $99 on an app when you can buy a stand alone device (gps for example) that can do a better job for the same price?
SpiceRak2 says:
That is an interesting point.
hand me the gun and ask me again says:
i'm interested on how many people here object to people pirating apps but download movies torrents themselves. Is there any difference here ?
icebike says:
"@Joe McG, @nic, the problem is that you don’t know who is a pirate and who is not, because all you get from apple is number of units sold. so you can see how many you got paid for and how many are in use.
Its interesting you mention this. Beejive is one of the few apps that could actually work some of this kind of magic, where as your average game could not.
IM+ just yesterday added an in-app purchase capability for new functionality. (Voice to text for sending IMs).
Could this be a route for blocking cracked versions, OR obtaining a revenue stream inspite of the crack?
Who knows what is actually sent when you do an In-App purchase, or when your application calls home to the mother ship like Fring and Nimbus. Can they get the phone's serial number, or its GUID?
A game developer may not care, and may write piracy off as advertising. But once your app creeps over the $10 mark it A) becomes a target, and B) starts to hurt financially.
icebike says:
@Dyvim #20
Well Said. There are a lot of multi-iPhone household, and college dorms where simply syncing with your roomie's laptop gains you twice the music, twice the apps.
Then Apple added the Home-Sharing feature for music. What could Possibly Go Wrong(tm) with that in the dorm?
Raul Lugo says:
When media on iTunes used to have DRM, it didn't matter what device you were using or what were you trying to do with the file, it was a no go, you could not use the file. Couldn't Apple do the same with apps? I think I agree with Wesley. I tend to think this is an excuse to gain control over jailbreaking. I am completely against app piracy and I can say that I've never once used an pirated app. But I think that Apple could find a way to avoid piracy even on jailbroken iPhones.
Disclaimer: I know mp3 songs and Iphone apps are completely different things, but still I think there is an answer besides killing jailbrakes.
iphonemilk says:
What are you guys crying about? We should ALL PAY for our apps, i'm sick of you free MP3 free movie Limewire types. it disgusts me.
Work on an application for months and have someone steal your work, go ahead.
bugs says:
apple dont care past point of sale. its been there moto for a long time.
icebike says:
Developers are MAKING apple care past the point of sale.
iBamse says:
Of f***ing course Apple have to do what they can to patch any security exploits that can be patched.
At the same time, they should look at why most people do jailbreak their devices and add core functionality to support their needs. Like allowing backgrounding of certain applications and more freedom to apply visual and sound themes.
Extended says:
So people like you use this argument to justify piracy? lack of trials? nice one but there are tons of alternatives. Almost ever app with respectable title had been reviewed in depth if you know how to use Google.
At the end of the day, you are just a stinckin' thief trying to ruin jailbreak for the rest of us.
chrstphr.ross says:
I totally agree with the piracy statement. It's ludicrous that people think they can get away with it, and it serves them right....but....
There's always a but :) Apple blocking a jailbreak would be like Windows shutting down a way to get on the Internet from their OS because a group of their users decided to pirate software. People still have a choice, and it's pirated owners that hold responsibility. You put something out publicly, and you give them the option to take it. That's how this whole electronic thing works. Instead of Apple breaking it, they should make Beejive fix their program (or servers for that matter) from allowing use of cracked items. There's ways of telling that, you know. Apple supplies the hardware and the OS. It's not their fault you as a developer didn't take precautions from hackers.
Stan The Man says:
Programmers that produce junk apps disgust me. Stop writing garbage and go back to teaching junior high gym class where you belong. There are plenty of desktop apps that have died on the vine because they didn't have a trial version or were just poorly written. Anyone remember Anapod explorer?
Joe McG says:
@people whining about piraters
Oh please! Don't sit there and cry about somebody "stealing" from developers while you sit in your cushy house in the suburbs. The Pinch Media article showed that pirating was most rampant in Asia, where workers get paid next to nothing so you can have your precious iPhone for a few hundred bucks, and still complain about it.
Software pirating is common everywhere, not just on iPhones. You're never going to be able to stop it. If you don't like it, go build something "hard" for a living.
I'd say software piraters are pretty low on the todem pole compared to people who do fishing scams to steal your credit card numbers.
shollomon says:
This is what happens when you set yourself up as the sole arbiter of what will and will not get loaded on an iPhone. Everybody's problem becomes your problem.
In a world with more than one channel for installation of application on iPhones, if a developer doesn't like the turn around time for approvals at one app store, he goes ot another, or maybe just puts it on the web in his own store. If piracy is a problem, its not something Apple fixes, you know, those crazy users just do what they want, what are you gonna do? If an app horks your iPhone, it ain't Apples fault.
But in a world with a single source Apple has to fix everything, usually at the expense of the customer.
bugs says:
apple closed jailbreak since apple protects has to to protect the copyright patent on there os.
if they do nothing they can void out the patent.
its only in apples best interest to close all forms of installing apps/movies/music only through itunes and there store.
frog says:
100% it's due to piracy. The cr*p "I only jailbreak to get a weather icon on my homescreen" was always total BS!
Ever since 3.0 - jailbreaking existed primarily, to allow piracy on the iPhone.
Apple is right to go out of their way to block it, if piracy is so rampant.
chrstphr.ross says:
I've had my phone jailbroken since 3.0, and have never installed anything but official apps and all of the apps from cydia that /enhance/ the phone. SBSettings, Backgrounder, winterboard... basically all of the shit that apple should have on their phone but haven't thought of yet, or are holding out as a 'marketing strategy' as i've heard some put it.
I'm with the nay sayers to the whiners of piracy. Get over it. You put something out to the public, get ready to be abused and misused a little, and maybe even start putting in a kill switch into your apps when they "phone home" and the UID of the phone or something doesn't match up with your numbers.
t0m says:
I thought BeeJive did server side blocking like AIM Paid? Didn't work for me.
Therealtruth says:
Trial periods for apps could be a good idea. Only problem is that can be broken too no? Bottom line is people seem to think that they are somehow entitled to things and they shoulnt have to pay. That's it. Pretty simple really. Nothing apple or the developers can do will change that. People are a bunch of whining babies.
Raul L says:
@ Joe McG
SO SO SO TRUE!!!! Thank you for bringing that out!!
Micky1701 says:
Need to provide essencial apps for their users. Like tethering - I need it - but where is it? So I used pdanet on my windows mobile device - no issues. With iPhone I need to JB to install it. That's what I need to do to get the functionality I need. So iTunes put up pdanet and I will pay you for it without the JB. and how about a spellchecker. And any app should be free to try for at least an hour. Selling them without trying them out is robery as far as I am concerned. Please excuse my speelling errors. :)
Therealtruth says:
@Micky 1701
why would you have a device that can't do something that is essesntial to you without having to jailbreak? Just asking.
iphonemilk says:
Hey @Joe McG
I earned my "Cushy house" in the suburbs.
@#@# off
Michael says:
@chrstphr.ross that's a pretty bad analogy. Iphone blocking a jailbreak would be nothing like windows blocking internet. I mean seeing as how accessing the internet is not illegal. Technically jailbreaking is illegal as of right now. So anyone who is complaining about ppl "breaking the law" by stealing apps you too are breaking the law.
I dont believe in stealing apps so I don't do it, though I will admit that its been pretty tempting considering there are so many apps out there that truly stink, and its an outrage that you pay for these things and have no way of getting your money back.
Bottom line is people will steal apps. It happens. People steal movies, people steal music, people steal software, People steal beer, food, money, cars, bikes, etc. The list goes on and on. If it exists someone will want to steal it. Everyone who is freaking out about how apple is making it harder to jailbreak should just relax the guys who create the JB software are on top of it and I'm sure you will still be able to jailbreak. It's ok. Relax.
frog says:
Yeah, funny how the only jailbreakers on this forum are the "moral" ones who, despite all the evidence suggesting the do - would never, never, never pirate any apps.
Too proud to admitt it, or too embarrased to admitt they can't afford the apps!
YourMobileGuru says:
There are two Main reasons apple breaks jailbreak:
1. Pirates apps
2. They are reying to compete with Blackberry for business customers and the hallmark of a bb for business users is it's secrity and havng an organzed commnity out there that not only circumvent the os's security but make it easier for the technolgically challenged to do it as well just highlites how insecure the iPhone os really is to ptential business users.
dloveprod says:
I don't believe 80 percent, everyone that I know that has beejive paid for it, I don't even know how to install cracked apps. I've even bought apps from the cydia store.
SOV says:
I really think in 1 year or so jailbreaking will be like Sasquatch stories of old. Lol do you remember redsn0w or quickpwn? Why that was years ago lol
larryw says:
When you introduce a single point of attack in security, especially in a lucrative environment like the App Store, exploits will be, well, exploited.
The problem is the developers have been relying on Apple to keep things on the up and up. Is this due to Apple's internal requirements, or is it due to laziness on the part of the developer? I don't know and I don't know the inner workings of the Apple App Store approval "process" [snicker].
It is easy to implement validation and security for an application, especially one li9ke Beejive. Yes, it takes some work to build an infrastructure the applicaiton can ping and check for a valid license during use, but the beneifts if the numbers are accurate will be readily apparent. Will Apple allow this?
Think about it: during a IM conversation, Beejive checks with an authentication server for a valid license and if pirated, it quits after sending a "SOFTWARE PIRACY IS A CRIME - THIS COPY OF BEEJIVE IS PIRATED" IM to all participants in the chat. End of piracy problem.
Quit relying on others to cover your a**.
fastlane says:
... they should look at why most people do jailbreak their devices and add core functionality to support their needs.
The best point so far, IMO.
I don't really know why, or even if, Apple is blocking jailbreak... and I personally don't care. I have SBSettings, and Backgrounder — that's it. I don't even think they're considered apps, but rather just extensions or utilities, and I've never even bothered with anything else. Heck, I just jailbroke to see what all the fuss was about in the first place... not to steal apps or bandwidth.
Nevertheless, if or when the days of jailbreaking end, it won't be the end of the world (for me, anyway). I'd be just as happy with the iPhone un-jailbroken... but as long as I can, I will for those two measly little features that come in handy on rare occasion.
fastlane says:
Incidentally, does anyone know if Apple can tell that Cydia is on an iPhone when sending them all the installed apps for Genius to work?
larryw says:
@ fastlane.
Bingo! iBlacklist (d*** telemarketers!) and Lockdown are two gotta-have apps for me. If Apple had these in the store, I wouldn't jailbreak my 3G.
Chris says:
I'm sure jailbreakers will come up with new ways to jailbreak
tys says:
Jailbreak does not equal piracy!
I've been Jailbroken since 2.0 and have NEVER pirated an app. I wouldn't even know how go about it.
I pay for the apps I want whether through the App store or Cydia. Most apps are ridiculously cheap already!
It's very unfortunate that pirates are giving the rest of the jailbreakers a bad name.
antonioj says:
Again, piracy is rampant? So, roughly 8% of total ipod+iphone users jailbreak their devices, and not even half of them pirate apps, and this is considered a huge problem? Developers should be concerned about SELLING to the MASSIVE majority of users that don´t pirate apps
David says:
Re that Pinch Media report - remember that jail broken devices can turn off Pinch Media's tracking (PiraCy). So I wouldn't take those numbers as they are.
My 2c..
aaronius says:
I've been jailbreaking since the 1.1.x days of the iPhone 2G. Initially it started so I could SSH ringtones into my phone before Apple gave up that functionality, but to this day, I can't even imagine not having the functionality that the JB provides. I'm a bit of a power user, so I have a terminal client along with SSH server/client package so I can access my phone from my laptop and vice versa. As was also mentioned further up, sbsettings, backgrounder, winterboard, and a whole host of other freely available Cydia apps are a mainstay on my phone. I don't see what the problem is with people wanting to use their phone to its full ability. With the iron hand that Apple uses to control applications on the app store, jailbreaking will never go away, regardless of what the "straight" community thinks. As for the piracy aspect, I did have appulous installed for a while, but never used it. I couldn't get over the idea of stealing someone else's work. However, that doesn't apply to jailbreaking, as I paid for the phone, and as long as I don't disrupt anyone else's service or use the added functionality to pirate commercial applications from the app store, I don't see what the big deal is.
Jailbreaker says:
I'm a jailbreaker and a pirater and I can afford the apps but I'm not gonna pay for them because torrents are out there that make me not have to. Navigon is a fantastic app and free is better than $89.99 24.99 for the speech upgrade.
If you don't pirate apps, don't, but your faggoty opinion won't stop me, just Apple's BS eventually will. By then, if Cydia isn't a regular part of the Iphone, it won't be worth it anyway.
Redth says:
As a developer, I can tell you, Apple does NOT need to stop jailbreaking to stop piracy, and in fact, that's an uphill battle to go about it that way.
The better way would be to provide us developers with a means to verify an app purchase on iTunes' servers by deviceId. Each time you install an app through the app store, Apple would know your device ID, and could associate it with a transaction on their servers. Developers could then use their own server (or even in app) logic to communicate with apple's servers to acknowledge a deviceid should indeed have access to an app. Simple as that.
As it stands now, there is NO MECHANISM for developers to know if it's a legitimate purchase or not. There are a few tricks and hacks that expose cracked apps as being such, and I'd bet Beejive employs some of these to make it work, and probably has their own method that they'll keep secret to prevent hackers from circumventing it.
So, yes, Apple could stop the piracy, and they do not need to do it by stopping Jailbreaking. Many GOOD and GREAT things come from Jailbreaking. Piracy is a by-product of Jailbreaking, but only because Apple won't fix the root of the real problem properly, instead they use it as a blanket excuse.
I'm a jailbreaker says:
I have all the navigation apps for free(€300 .worth) Why do I need all of them? I don't, I've got all them coz they were free lol! F.uck u Steve jobs for trying to stop jailbreaking!
therealtruth says:
@Im a jailbreaker
No your are a genius....
Tom S says:
App pirating isn't a huge problem for Apple or developers. They are simply using this as an excuse as they crack down on jailbreaking. It is obvious that jailbreaking doesnt hurt Apple or developers (and barely andybody pirates apps) they just want to control us
iDutch says:
If Cydia even shows up in itunes app management, hell yeah, apple should have a way to know if they wanted to.
SpiceRak2 says:
@Michael #49
"Technically jailbreaking is illegal as of right now."
Is it?
That's a pretty cavalier attitude about stealing. Ever been mugged? Ever have your car stereo stolen? Ever put a lot of work into a project only to have someone else take the credit? The list goes on and on...
Stealing is okay unless it happens to you? When someone steals anything else (besides software), it is considered a crime and legal action will be taken. Why? Because this act affects the entire community. Why should software be any different? Piracy impacts all users with price increases and user restrictions, at the minimum.
Heck, if others wouldn't be so cavalier about stealing, I'd be able to purchase a pack of batteries or a DVD that does not involve negotiating titanium-strength plastic...(I mean really...what is that stuff???)
Yes, people steal. But are we just supposed to be okay with it? I think not.
Fassy says:
No, jailbreaking is not illegal. Some believe it is because Apple filed papers stating their position that jailbreaking should not be a protected activity under the DMCA, but that is Apple's opinion, not law. The EFF, among others, have filed opposing comments, which also carries the same amount of legal force as Apple - none.
Until a) Apple actually formally pursues a party for jailbreaking, and b) the federal government sides with Apple after the inevitable DMCA counterclaim, jailbreaking is and remain perfectly legal.
Rene Ritchie says:
@Fassy: If I remember right, it was the EFF filing for a DMCA exception for Jailbreaking that prompted a response from Apple, not the other way around?
Gamble on the EFF's part if the exception isn't granted. Apple's likely legally/contractually bound to file in opposition to protect their copyrights and deals with exclusive carriers like AT&T.
MQK says:
with this new thing, will blackra1n still work??
fassy says:
You are completely misreading what I wrote. I never said Apple filed first, just that their are filings on both sides, and all filings carry the same legal weight: squat.
As tempting as it also might be to blame AT&T and exonerate Apple, if Apple has any clause in a carrier contract specifying they have to file DMCA opposition to a concept, but not charges against violators, then they have the most incompetent legal team on the planet. I do not believe any corner of Apple is stupid, much less that stupid.
As for a gamble, no -- there is no gamble at all on the EFF's side, because they have nothing to lose. The EFF simply did what they do, filing publicly to put a company (Apple, in this case) on notice-- "if you pursue jailbreakers, we will stand with them in court."
Apple has nothing to lose with a filing, either, but they have plenty to lose if they take the proper next logical step and file a complaint against a specific jailbreaker/dev team, which is why they have never done so.
The DMCA, unlike 99.9% of US law, presumes the target of a complaint is guilty until innocence or an exception is granted. However, if an exception is filed for, the government is bound to rule and set a precedent. As you point out, if that precedent favors Apple, they are in great shape, and can cheerily prosecute jailbreakers to their heart's content. That Apple has never filed a complaint, despite the presence of millions of jailbreakers, indicates one or both of the following:
1) That Apple tacitly approves of jailbreaking, and does not believe it to be illegal at all, but is filing a motion to keep its future options open.
2) That Apple believes that the current copyright office would rule in favor of the jailbreaker/EFF, and does not want to risk jailbreaking being officially codified as an exemption.
Either way, jailbreaking is and will remain legal.
Luc Richard says:
This is why I decided I'm not going to get an iPhone, it has a lot of problems but if you fix these it's awesome, same as the Pre but apple just killed jailbreaking so I guess Palm Pre is for me. Palm support openess and keesp piracy down at the same time.
Caribou says:
App store prices are very-reasonable, especially compared to what I used to pay for Windows Mobile apps.
What bugs me is what is MISSING, that I could (but haven't) jailbroken in order to obtain:
- Useful lock-screen info
- Better home screens/organization
- Background apps
- Bluetooth Keyboard support (ok, even jailbreak won't deliver that, but I still miss it daily from WM)
Still, there's SO MUCH more available app-wise for the iPhone than for any of my prior phones that I'll suffer and wait.
Jason says:
the numbers are most likely fudged. Statistics these days are more political than true. Its not abotu the data as much as the propaganda. If 1% of iphone users represent terrorist, the number would, by an unsaid rule or corporate greed, jump to more liek 10%. Btw i bought beejiveIM and im trying to jb my ipod touch 3rd gen right now. Im also a developer, it my experience that if you have something good and you are fair, it pays off well. For example, some company can make an app store to sell apps on behalf of others who need the help, but if they allowed all apps and did not dicriminate, im sure more people woudl drop the androids and come back to the fruit basket. If i pirate, it just to test functionality, nothin worse than getting something you didnt realize didnt work liek you thought. The only real issue i see here is cyndia apps from my best guess , are not loaded with stupid ads that are way out of place.
I want to see MS make and IE app, be real interesting how apple does that. Do the walk the anti-trust line or give in so they are not in court liek ms over ie>netscape back in the day. Does apples closed device policy give them more monopoly protection? I doubt it.
Im sure everyone can see the greedy apple now limiting their hardware just to make a buck off of something that shoudl have been includd from the start. That is just sick and and pure greed. But why would apple care about us lower peasants who keep them alive with sales and the update tax ($5 to upgrade to full potential)?
free iphone apps says:
thankz ya useful post......
Omar E says:
I think that Apple has to do is anyway because they have more than one point. If Apple does not consent the apps to be widely published and available for install on the device, there must be reasons. Because they don't want "unsuitable" software on the device, whether it be for violation af app backrounding, springboard interaction, or material or truly illiegal things, such as ID Anonymity towards your electronic identity or any thing else similar to this. So that anything that might put the "safe platform" at risk is not published universally to the platform for public download. But I have to also say that the idea of customizing a great device OS UI is a great idea. But not at the risk of messing around with the phone's roms. I hope to see that in the future, Apple decides to have a little more open-midedness about what's inbetween flexibility and guidlines.
Iphone User says:
I haven't JB my 3G yet, but very much considering it. Not to pirate apps, but to get so much other apps not available thru Apple store. More importantly, I want to unlock my iPhone because it is my right to change provider, but damned stupid Apple locked my freedom to do so, and to unlock I need to JB first.
Ben says:
I'm not a pirate, i pay for everything including cydiastore apps or rockapps. I have a highly stable jailbroken phone. I know Apple can't be seen to be supporting this community as they would lose a whole heap of integrity and would lose alot of a investments, however i think they have hit a happy balance of allowing it to happen, while being seen to be attempting to fix exploits, releasing media speeches etc.. They could as people have mentioned before there are ways apple could really make it tough for jailbreakers, but all they do is fix one exploit to save face, and leave another open for someone to find.
I remember the JB community saying if you havent saved a hash of your old 4.26 baseband, you may NEVER be able to jailbreak again, days later, the JB was out, and only a couple months later, an ultrasn0w it out for it as well.
It's unacceptable to allow carriers to charge for tethering, to restrict ringtones, and have such harsh conditions on applications, but it is understandable why they do so, by allowing the jailbreak community to function, they are effectively having their cake and eat it too, users can have all the phone they ever want, without apple being obliged to support them under warranty for it, and if an application while useful may contain unknown risks or side effects, apple cant be blamed for it as they didnt approve it.
What's great is even that the non-jailbroken average joe user has a reliable phone with many great features and access to the appstore. For people like me however, my productivity increases 10 fold being able to tether on a network that doesnt support tethering, having SBsettings for quick access to brightness and other tweaks, being able to put custom themes and ringtones on the device, and being allowed to run things like backgrounder and instantly switch between apps that dont close every time to hit the home button, show the available RAM usage up on the taskbar. Not to mention having filesystem access to use it as a storage device, tweaks that allow you to download mail attachments or from the web, and email the file to someone, instant respring, amongst many other invaluable tools.
If apple supported this community more, there would major problems as people would find it too easy to jailbreak and instead of the people that know how to learn and take advantage of this and understand the risks, you would have every day teens trying to do it wrecking their phone and causing other problems. Even with GUI's like pwnage tool, the process is still a very intricate process of matching up the right tutorials, with the right currency, with the right firmware files, the right settings, and the right previous phone version, and using the right technique to jailbreak. It's difficult for an amateur user to really successfully jailbreak and understand everyday instructions in the hacking world.
I think it will continue to be just the way it is... A good phone, which will always be open for the enthusiasts to use to its max, while apple can maintain its integrity, reputation, reliability, and continue making money and new products.
Case in point - Why does the 3GS have 128MB more RAM when the OS does not allow multitasking. It runs standard OS not much better than the original 3G, but it doesnt slow down when you JB it and load it up and run backgrounder.
I find it very hard to believe that apple isnt happy about jailbreakers. Everyone who knows how to write exploits understands that Apple has many resources available to them to completely stop jailbreaking if they really wanted to. But they have done a great job in building a phone with two levels of use and keeping everyone in the industry happy and satisfied that they are doing their best to protect against it. Meanwhile it remains relatively tricky to do keeping its use to those few that understand what they are doing (kinda)
pl flfg says:
Guys i know all about old 3gs and new 3gs they are still able to be jailbroken and u can install cracked apps and use it as always.. just et the newest blackrain and jailbreak, when it'll say connect to itunes, do it again and u're good.. if you have to restart your phone just connect it to comp and use blackra1n.. Apple is the ones who made iphone have all the features that are available on it, dev team just provies all ppl with it
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Should people be able to instantly retrieve -- in plaintext -- all the saved passwords stored by the browser they're using?
That's the information security question of the week after Elliott Kember, a director at software development firm Riot, called out Chrome's insane password security strategy. "Google isn't clear about its password security," he said in a blog post, in which he accused Chrome of not behaving as ordinary users would expect. Specifically, after Chrome gets its hands on a password, the browser will reveal it with a single click.
Kember acknowledged that technically astute types often recommend that people avoid storing their passwords in the browser, and use a third-party password manager instead. Another common argument, he said, is that "the computer is already insecure as soon as you have physical access."
But would the average user -- who may share their computer with family or friends -- expect that anyone with access to their PC might so easily retrieve all stored passwords in a single go? "Go up to somebody non-technical. Ask to borrow their computer. Visit chrome://settings/passwords and click 'show' on a few of the rows. See what they have to say," said Kember. "I bet you it won't be 'That's how password management works.'"
[ Department of Homeland Security urges all website operators to check for vulnerability. Read HTTPS Hackable In 30 Seconds: DHS Alert. ]
Google's Chrome team, however, sees things differently. "I appreciate how this appears to a novice, but we've literally spent years evaluating it and have quite a bit of data to inform our position," posted Justin Schuh, head of Chrome security, to the Hacker News site. "And while you're certainly well intentioned, what you're proposing is that that we make users less safe than they are today by providing them [with] a false sense of security and encouraging dangerous behavior. That's just not how we approach security on Chrome."
Schuh added that passwords stored by any application on a system are "trivially recoverable" by anyone with access to that system, and said adding a master password to the application was "security theater."
Many security experts, however, said that Schuh missed the forest for the trees.
"How to get all your big sister's passwords ... and a disappointing reply from Chrome team," tweeted World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
How do other browsers handle passwords? Apple's Safari includes a "show password" setting, but to be enabled, OS X first requires the user to enter their master keychain password. In fact, Kember's post was sparked by his finding that when importing bookmarks on his Mac from Safari to Chrome, all of the passwords stored by Safari had to be automatically loaded into Chrome, at which point anyone with access to his Mac could reveal them with a single click -- no password required.
Like Chrome, both Firefox and Opera will show passwords, although they do allow users to restrict access to that feature by adding a master password. Still, per Schuh's comment, anyone with the requisite skills can still retrieve the stored passwords. The same applies for passwords stored by Internet Explorer, which can be retrieved via Registry tweaks or by using free third-party tools.
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Ancient Jerusalem
Evidence for the existence and occupation of ancient Jerusalem dates back before even the Bronze Age, an Age stretching approximately from 3,300 B.C. to 1,550 B.C. Ceramic evidence has dated the ancient city into the Chalcolithic Period, ca. 3500 B.C. This Copper Age pottery indicates that the site of Jerusalem was in use well before it was ever mentioned in the Old Testament.
Jerusalem history is scant from this time period, as is history in general. Very little is known of any civilization prior to 3500 B.C., though it is known that civilizations and cities were flourishing. Ancient Jerusalem seems to stretch back even to this most ancient and unknown of times.
A Map of Where Abraham and Melchizedek Met
The first Biblical mention of Jerusalem is not under that name, but rather under the appellation Salem. It occurs in Genesis 14:18. This is one of the most mysterious verses in all of the Bible.
This incident involved Abraham during his daring rescue of Lot from king Chederlaomer, who had previously laid waste Sodom and Gomorrah and taken Lot captive. Upon returning from his successful campaign, Abraham met Melchizedek, the mysterious priest of El Elyon ( God Most High ), right outside of Salem, or ancient Jerusalem. Melchizedek, at this point in history, was the king of Salem. This would later be the site of the Amorite city Jebus, and later the capital city of king David and Israel. Ancient Jerusalem passed through many hands prior to David's.
Ancient Jerusalem Page Contents
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze Age Jerusalem
Late Bronze Age Jerusalem
Early Iron Age Jerusalem
Map of Early Canaan
Jerusalem Topography
Jerusalem in the Bronze Age
Map of Egypt and Canaan
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze Age Jerusalem ( 3500 BC - 1550 BC )
Without delving into the controversial dates surrounding these events, it is generally agreed by scholars that Abraham existed in the Middle Bronze Age, more specifically around 2000 B.C., though exact dates vary. His migration patterns match those of the time period, a possible result of instability in and around Ur in southern Mesopotamia, also in accordance with a historical context from around 2000 B.C. Ancient Jerusalem would have been an occupied site during this time period as well.
An archaeological find in the north of Palestine, along the coast, produced some remarkable documents from the early 3rd millennium B.C. The discovery of Ebla (Tell-Mardikh) has shed an invaluable light on the history of this region. In its prime, ca. 2300 B.C., Ebla was an ancient city of towered, three-storied buildings. It was a major trading power, thus an economic power in Syria and Canaan. Ebla traded mainly in timber, copper, and precious stones. The site of the discovery covered 140 acres.
The Setting of Abraham's First Years in Canaan
Perhaps the most astonishing discovery was a treasure trove of over 1,500 clay tablets. These tablets were written in a form of cuneiform pictographs, credited to a language that is best characterized as belonging to the same northwest Semitic tongues as Hebrew. It has even been suggested that this language at Ebla may even be the ancestor of Hebrew. Regardless, these tablets provided a wealth of new information on the epoch in question.
The Ebla tablets make mention of cities such as Jerusalem, Hazor, Lachish, Megiddo, and Acco. Also, personal names such as Esau, Ishmael, David, Saul and Israel appear in these texts. None of these names, however, have shown links to their Biblical counterparts. They do attest to the commonplace use of such titles and names in the culture of the day, however, and would seem to corroborate the other evidence suggesting Jerusalem's antiquity.
In these texts the name of ancient Jerusalem appeared as Ye-ru-sa-lu-um. Other texts mentioning Jerusalem are from Egyptian Execration Texts dating from the 20th to the 18th centuries B.C.E. The earliest of these texts date from the early Twelfth Dynasty, around 2000 B.C. Only a few cities are mentioned in Syria-Canaan throughout these texts.
Two sets of Execration Texts exist. In Palestine the only cities mentioned in the earliest Execration Texts are Jerusalem, Ashkelon, and Rehob. Ancient Jerusalem, according to Eric Cline, appeared as "rwsh3mm" in these Egyptian heiroglyphics (Jerusalem Besieged, 16). Various transliterations of the name have been given, including; Roshlamem, or Rosh - ramen, Rushalimum, Urushamem, Urusalim.
Cline suggests that these texts suggest the early rulers of ancient Jerusalem were of West Semitic descent, and more specifically Amorite. This seems to be the case, at least, during the time of king David. The Jebusites were of mixed Amorite and Hittite blood, and rulers of Jebus, their stronghold prior to David's siege.
Settlement evidence dates to the Early Bronze Age ca. 3100 B.C.-2800 B.C. lists the first houses as being discovered in 2500 B.C. Kathleen Kenyon, the archaeologist famous for her work on Jericho, dates Jerusalem to 2600 B.C., and states it was founded by Northwest Semitic people. Fortifications also exist from ancient Jerusalem.
From the Middle Bronze Age comes a sizable collection of segments from fortification walls, fragments of houses and other similar structures and even flooring pieces. Foundations of a wall running down the slopes of the hill Ophel date back to 1800 B.C.
A Sketch of Ancient Jerusalem
This wall falls into the time period classified as the Middle Bronze Age 2 ( ca. 2000 B.C. - 1600 B.C. ). ran an article in 2009 about the discovery of the ancient wall. The wall is believed to have been built by the Canaanites, prior to Israel's settlement of the city.
The size of the wall is staggering. It was built straight up to a height of 26 feet. Such walls built today require machinery for construction. The ancients, of course, had no such technology. It was constructed of boulders weighing 4 and 5 tons apiece.
The discovered section of the wall runs 79 feet long, however, it is believed to be much longer. The Israel Antiquities Authority released a statement saying the wall likely extends much further to the west, "beyond the part that was exposed".
This discovery shed light on the defenses and fortifications of ancient Jerusalem prior to king David. Archaeologists believe the wall to be part of a massive fortification system that "descends to the spring tower from some sort of fortress that stood at the top of the hill". Walls such as this one were used in antiquity to protect from desert raiders and would-be invaders. It secured the water supply for the city.
"We are dealing with a gigantic fortification, from the standpoint of the structure's dimensions, the thickness of its walls and the size of the stones that were incorporated in its construction," the IAA statement said.
"The new discovery shows that the picture regarding Jerusalem's eastern defenses and the ancient water system in the Middle Bronze Age 2 is still far from clear," said the excavation's director, Ronny Reich.. "Despite the fact that so many have excavated on this hill, there is a very good chance that extremely large and well-preserved architectural elements are still hidden in it and waiting to be uncovered."
The Topography of Ancient Jerusalem in the Bronze Age
This evidence would seem to support the context for Abram's meeting with Melchizedek as being possible. Salem/Jerusalem would have been occupied during that time, possibly fortified with massive walls. Supposing 2000 B.C. as a general time frame for Abraham, evidence shows ancient Jerusalem had structures ca. 3100 B.C. - 2500 B.C.
The site had likely been occupied for quite some time prior to their meeting! The historical context of the earliest Biblical account of ancient Jerusalem can be verified, even if the actual story of Melchizedek as king of Salem cannot.
Jewish tradition identifies Melchizedek as Shem, one of the sons of Noah . Thus, according to this line of thinking, ancient Jerusalem was founded by Shem, along with the help of Eber. Both of these are descendants of Abraham. It is widely believed by many Biblical scholars, based on the chronology of Genesis, that Shem may have been alive for part of Abraham's life.
Ancient Jerusalem would have flourished during the urbanization that took place in Canaan during the Middle Bronze Age. Several Canaanite cities have undergone excavation with ruins discovered dating from 2000 B.C. - 1550 B.C.
Jerusalem, Gezer, Megiddo, Jericho , Dan (Laish), and Hazor have all been excavated from this time period. From each city we can gleam what ancient Jerusalem may have looked like.
The city would have been fortified with immense walls surrounding it, such as the one discovered above. These walls were very thick, constructed of mud-brick set on a stone foundation. Huge stones and boulders, in some cases weighing tons apiece, were roughly fitted together to form the walls.
The walls often stood atop massive earthen ramparts made of soil and debris from nearby. We know a "Millo" existed in the ancient Jebusite city, though the exact function of this is unknown.
Cities of this time, Jerusalem included, were well built and well planned. Strong fortifications were accompanied by drainage systems, and in the case of Jerusalem and Megiddo, elaborate tunnels carried water into the city, thus enabling the city to undergo a siege. The massive wall was discovered near the water source for Jerusalem, the Gihon Spring. The shaft connecting the spring with the city was what allowed Joab, one of David's men, to sneak into the city and throw open it's gates.
The Jerusalem Stone Stepped Structure, possible David's Millo from the Bible
Typical Canaanite cities included temples to their foreign gods. A stone-stepped structure 59 feet high and 42 1/2 feet wide was discovered in ancient Jerusalem. This structure dates back to 1200 B.C. and was part of the Jebusite city David conquered.
The Stone Stepped Structure may be part of the "Millo" mentioned above. Administration buildings would have likely been present within the city walls as well. The houses of the rich would have likely towered over the houses of the poor.
The Late Bronze Age Jerusalem ( ca. 1550 B.C. - 1250 B.C. )
Ancient Jerusalem appears frequently in documents discovered from the Late Bronze Age. The most famous of these documents are the Amarna Letters, written from vassal kings of Canaanite city-states to the Pharaoh of Egypt. The Amarna Letters mostly date from the first half of the 14th century B.C. ( 1399 B.C. - 1300 B.C. ) and cover the reigns of Egyptian Pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten. The tablets were written using Akkadian cuneiform logograms.
The most powerful city-states of this epoch were, from north to south, Hazor, Megiddo, Beth-shan, Shechem, Gezer and Jerusalem. Hazor was the largest, with a population around 30,000 - 40,000 inhabitants.
The Biblical data corresponds with this, as Hazor is declared as the head of a multitude of city-states during the time of Joshua and the Conquest.
The Amarna Letters mention Abdi-hepa, or Abdi-hiba (also Er-heba), as the "mayor" of ancient Jerusalem, or 'Urusalim'. He was a minor king of a minor city in the affairs of Egypt. Abdi-hepa wrote six letters that have been discovered, and was mentioned in two other letters. His reign of ancient Jerusalem took place ca. 1350 B.C.
In his letters, he complains of the SA.GAZ, or Habiru, as attacking and raiding the Pharaoh's lands around Jerusalem. He opens his letters with the salutation:
"I fall at the feet of my lord, the king, seven times and seven times."
He continues with the danger to ancient Jerusalem.
"They have seized the land of Rubute. The land of the king has fallen away to the Habiri. And now, even a city of the Jerusalem district, Bit-in-ib by name, a city of the king, has fallen away to the side of the people of Qeila. Let the king listen to Er-Heba, your servant, and send an army of archers that they might restore the land of the king to the king. For if there are no army of archers the land of the king will fall away to the Habiri."
It is significant that during this time Jerusalem was under the vassalage of Egypt. It's king was subject to Egyptian authority, thus the plea for assistance to pharaoh. In response to Abdi-hepa's plea, Egypt sent a company of fifty archers. These archers were stationed in ancient Jerusalem for an extended period of time. Cline also points out these Amarna Letters are the earliest recorded instances of conflict in Jerusalem.
Egypt during this time was in a state of decline, which allowed the Habiru to attack Egyptian interests in Canaan. Many scholars place the Conquest during this time of a weakened Egypt, and find striking similarities between the Habiru of the Amarna Letters and the Israelite Conquest as described in the Bible. This, of course, draws much debate.
Regardless, ancient Jerusalem in the Late Bronze Age fell under the watchful eye of Egypt. At some point, invaders attacked the walls of Jerusalem drawing pleas for assistance from its king. A map of ancient Jerusalem from this time period would include the hill of Ophel only.
Augustade Forlin painted ancient Jerusalem (1825) nestled in the mountains
This ridge was flanked on both sides by valleys, with the southern end of the hill overlooking the junction of the two valleys.
Jerusalem during the Amarna Period, and the subsequent Israelite invasion, encompassed eight to ten acres. This would have been a considerably large city for the time and region. Fortifications extended halfway down the steep eastern slope of Ophel.
It is likely the city maintained this layout until the time of David. The archaeological remains from the Amarna period, or Late Bronze Age, or few. Most of the finds are limited to structural remains found on the summit of the eastern ridge. Some pieces of pottery were discovered in tombs on the Mt. of Olives. Some of these were imported from Cyprus.
Trade was conducted with Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Aegean. Extensive roads cris-crossed Canaan, and though Jerusalem was a mountain enclave, it rested on the Central Ridge Road, the main artery of traffic in the hill country.
A Map of Amarna, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Jerusalem
Minoan pottery dating from these early years have been found in Canaan and Syria. Mycenaean pottery from later periods was also found all over Canaan and Syria as well. Interaction with different peoples and cultures was commonplace. In fact, the land of Canaan was in many ways the meeting spot of the ancient world.
Within a 1,500 mile radius of ancient Jerusalem was Rome, Chaldea/Ur, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Ethiopia. Athens was equidistant from Jerusalem as Ur was, in opposite directions.
Approximately 300 miles southwest of Jerusalem, Memphis rested on the Nile River. Approximately 300 miles to the northeast of Jerusalem the great Hammoth rested on the Orontes River.
Due west from Jerusalem was Alexandria, Egypt, which would eventually come to house a large and influential Jewish population. A mere 160 miles to the north was Damascus, center of the Arameans of antiquity, great rivals of Jerusalem's.
Aram-Damascus would come to be included amongst those that laid siege to the walls of Jerusalem. Their siege was done in conjunction with the northern Kingdom of Israel. The history of Jerusalem is littered with references to Damascus and the Arameans.
Early Iron Age Jerusalem ( ca. 1200 B.C. - 950 B.C. )
The events of the Late Bronze Age above took place in ancient Jerusalem between the Jerusalem of Melchizedek, mentioned in Genesis, and the city of Jebus, conquered by David in II Samuel 5. At the time of the Israelite Conquest under Joshua, Jerusalem is under Amorite control. The opening verses of Joshua 10 lend insight into ancient Jerusalem.
"Now it came about when Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai, and had utterly destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were within their land, that he feared greatly..."
The date of Joshua's incursion into Canaan is a hotly debated topic. Theories and dates vary widely. However, the Merneptah Stele, dated to ca. 1230 - 1200 B.C.E, from the reign of the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah, is the earliest recognition of the state of Israel.
This is the first reference to Israel as a recognized nation, thus the Conquest had to have occurred prior to the 13th century.
Regardless, at the time of the Conquest Jerusalem was under Amorite control, and sought the help of nearby city-states, forming the Amorite alliance in opposition to Joshua and the Israelite invasion.
Joshua 10:3 lists the members of the Amorite alliance. Jerusalem was teamed with Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon. These were the major cities in southern Canaan.
Scripture records Joshua never managed to take Jerusalem, or Jebus as it was called. The Jebusites resisted Israelite occupation, though as stated above, the two peoples did coexist, with the Israelite settlements likely outside of the city walls on the surrounding hills and valleys. Judges 1:21 describes such a scenario in ancient Jerusalem.
What is interesting is that a conflict did take place between Israel and Jebus prior to verse twenty-one. In Judges 1:8, the "sons of Judah" fought against Jebus, and set the city on fire. Apparently they failed to completely drive out the Jebusites, as indicated later in verse twenty-one.
These walls would have been the massive ones discussed earlier, and the stone-stepped structure earlier mentioned was likely the work of the Jebusites in Jerusalem during this time period.
Jebus would remain outside of Israelite control until ca. 1000 B.C. David would capture it and name it his capital city Jerusalem. Holman's Bible Atlas claims David captured Jebus in about 993 B.C.
A Map of Ancient Jerusalem Under David and Solomon
This Jebusite city was about ten acres in size. It was primarily built on the southeastern hill Ophel, above the nearby water source the Gihon Spring. By this time Jebus had a well developed fortification system, touched on above, and a drainage system which allowed the city to obtain water from the Gihon during times of Siege.
The Bible relates in II Samuel 5 that David captured Jebus through the act of one of his men, Joab, scaling the water shaft into the city. Upon successfully navigating the water shaft, Joab would have stealthily crept into and through the city, throwing open the gates of Jebus to the awaiting Hebrews below. The southeastern hill is now known as the City of David.
David expanded ancient Jerusalem to the north along the eastern ridge. The northern part of this eastern ridge rose 250 feet higher in elevation than the southern portion.
Mt. Moriah would come to be where Solomon would build the First Temple, and where the Dome of the Rock rests today. The Temple Mount remains at the center of world attention today.
II Samuel 5:9 hints at David's expansion.
The exact function of the Millo is unknown, as discussed briefly above. A structure, tabbed the Large Stone Structure briefly mentioned above, was discovered in 2005. This structure is part of a large public building in the city of David from the 10th or 9th century B.C., or the time of David. It was discovered near the Stone Stepped Structure mentioned above, which dates to ca. 1200 B.C.
The Stepped Structure connects to, and supports, the Large Stone Structure. Together these structures may be part of this mysterious Millo mentioned in the Bible.
From this point the history of Jerusalem is well documented. The Biblical period of Jerusalem history roughly covers the time of David, ca. 1000 B.C., to the Roman occupation in the first century A.D. A brief mention is made in Genesis, and references are made to Jerusalem during the time of Joshua and the Judges, the dates of which vary.
However, the bulk of the material on Jerusalem starts with David. Jesus spent much time in Jerusalem, as documented by the New Testament. The Bible does not cover the time from about the late 4th century B.C. to right before the birth of Christ. This is known as the inter-testamental period.
Ancient Jerusalem, in conclusion, extends far beyond the pages of the old Testament. Though the city has Jewish roots stemming back perhaps four thousand years, the actual city itself is much older. Chalcolithic evidence indicates an existence during that era known only as pre-history.
It is one of the oldest cities on earth, and one of the longest occupied cities in human history.
It's association with Israel and the Jews can perhaps be traced back four thousand years. Jerusalem, thus, maintains a sense of the ancient through it's numerous ruins in existence today. It is truly one of the few spots on earth where the world of antiquity interacts with the world of technology, maintaining a truly unique balance of old world and new.
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Hi there,
I'm still pretty novice to bash, but I have some experience in manipulating data per line by using the 'while read' structure and for example extracting some data with awk and such.
Now I have an ldif file, which has data in it per paragraph (separated by a newline). Now I want to extract data from it (different attributes in it) per ldif record, which is harder cause there is no 'read paragraph' of course. :)
Example, if I have an ldif file like this:
dn: uid=test1,cn=example,cn=dom
time: 20110822105940
modifyTimestamp: 20110822085944Z
dn: uid=test2,cn=example,cn=dom
time: 20110822105941
modifyTimestamp: 20110822085945Z
dn: uid=test3,cn=example,cn=dom
time: 20110822105942
modifyTimestamp: 20110822085946Z
I want to be able to do checks and compares of attributes in every record, like comparing time and modifyTimestamp, but I need to do it in all of the records (skip none) and I would like it generic enough so I'm able to use it in a for or while loop and, say, grep the data out of it.
I'm sure there are cool solutions for this in sed or awk and I hope I can learn from it how it's done and I can try to use it to my own liking.
Thanks in advance!
grail 08-23-2011 09:10 AM
Well using awk you can set the record separator and that will then make each paragraph a record. You will then need to choose whether you want to split the data or use
the field separator ... it will depend on how uniform your data is. As a demo:
awk '{print NR}' RS="" file
With above example this will print from 1 to 3
chrism01 08-23-2011 08:50 PM
Depends how complex these checks are, but I'd seriously consider using Perl; its very good at this sort of thing.
TsubasaJM 08-24-2011 04:31 AM
Thanks all for replying.
grail: the awk option sounds quite useful but now I need to figure out how to get data out of it on a per record basis. So how would I use awk to enter a sort of while or for loop (or split it so I can do stuff on each record individually) and grab the time and modifyTimestamp attributes from each record?
chrism01: thanks for the tip but I suck even more at perl than I suck at bash ;)
grail 08-24-2011 05:13 AM
Here is my bible. Have a look at field separators and the split function.
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This example shows the use of the Magellan SpaceMouse for manipulating objects in the virtual world. The whole system of a hot chamber manipulator control was prototyped in 2 hours using Virtual Reality Toolbox.
Magellan Space Mouse is a six degrees of freedom input device, useful for navigating and manipulation of objects in virtual worlds. SpaceMouse is also suitable as a general input device for Simulink models. This professional 3D device greatly facilitates all the above mentioned tasks, and is recommended for higher performance applications and user comfort. SpaceMouse is supported via the SpaceMouse Input block, which is included in the Virtual Reality Toolbox Simulink library.
All six degrees of freedom of the SpaceMouse are used for manipulating the mechanic arm. Animation shows the movement of the arm both in and "Dominant" mode, when only the mouse cap movement in the dominant direction is considered.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/52664 | Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics
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1. Feb 7, 2011
Aside from the brilliant departure offered by the album's opener, Blunt has lost all concept of how to sound like himself. His voice is the same, but it's singing songs that don't sound like his songs.
2. Jan 18, 2011
From the plinky, high-tuned acoustic guitar to the mindlessly skippy rhythm to the "whoa-oh-oh-ooh" chant, there's not a major element of "Stay the Night" that doesn't sound exactly like "Hey, Soul Sister." For some, that's a selling point; for others, a warning siren.
3. Jan 18, 2011
When all's said, Some Kind of Trouble is not a terrible record by any means, but there's little sense that Blunt has advanced--and equally little sense that it'll make any difference to his bottom line.
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When Blunt sticks to playing it safe, he offends the least. And whilst it seems contrived to applaud an artist for sticking to his zone, this man is an exceptional case.
6. Jan 18, 2011
Shallow, soulless and strangely cynical, Some Kind of Trouble is a thoroughly depressing listen.
7. Jan 18, 2011
Despite all the work put into his workmanlike pop, it ultimately comes off as agreeable, but not memorable.
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Some Kind of Trouble comes off as inert and oddly hollow; apart from the album's comparatively lively bookends.
9. Jan 19, 2011
Sadly, Blunt's warbling renders most of them unpalatable. [Jan 2011, p.83]
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1. Jan 26, 2011
This album is an attempt at a happy pop album from James Blunt which feels like he didn't really put his soul into the songs like he did with previous albums. The songs have less emotion. They are however still good songs and are extremely catchy. You will be humming along after the first course of most of the songs. So not a bad listen but he can do much better. Full Review »
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Nice..Fresh and acceptable.............Better than his last album but not lives up to Back To Bedlam ..........songs like Stay The Night and Calling Out Your Name are the best on this record Full Review » |
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wow account(s) question
Hi, i was just wondering, is there anyhow i can see which wow accounts that have logged on to my computer? i made a new account a few weeks ago, upgraded it and all, but havent played on it for some time and now i cant remember its account name/email adress, anyone have any idea what to do?
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In your wow folder.
World of Warcraft\WTF\Account
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just did, have a few accounts there, but the one that it is, is named 129869305#1, is that some kind of a name...or...?
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Hmm, you could try to go to each of your accounts, go to the character transfer to see which one it is.
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that wont work either, never transfered any char there, only started a new char, i think i merged it with my old account though so i could transfer chars if i wanted to, so trying to find out how to see that atm ^^
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Named accounts existed before wrath. Now it's just a random number assigned to the BNET account. But yes, every one of those random numbers is an account. Inside that folder is folders with the names of the toons played and the servers they were on. Should be easy to figure out from there.
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Hi Gohan, this may be a tricky one but Blizzard can definitely help you track down the accounts - now I don't know about going through the computer to figure out account information. If someone comes to us and basically has some of the information - either a credit card used for a digital purchase or subscription, a game key, possible emails used with the account or the exact real name for the account holder - all of these can help us help you. Be sure that if you do contact us, not to put your credit card info in any email - we would only ask for that information either over the phone or through our new live chat support. You can contact us through this page Feel free to give me a shout directly if you have any questions.
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Reach for the Skies is a combat flight sim focused on WWII's famous "Battle of Britain", splitting the battle into four stages and giving you the option to take part for either the Royal Air Force or the German Luftwaffe. As well as piloting a plane, you can also take on Controller duties, of planning which planes to deploy where on each day, trying to minimise losses.
Eight planes are simulated, from Hurricanes and Spitfires to Ju88s and BF110s, each with their own cockpit displays and characteristics. When playing as the Germans, protecting the fragile and slow Ju88 bombers is crucial. There is a practice mode with indestructible planes, realism levels can be adjusted, and time can be accelerated while an enemy plane is not in sight.
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Moto Extreme is a motorcycle action game inspired by Road Rash. As such, beating your opponents into submission is of more use than out-revving them. There are 8 different off-road tracks, including United States, Canada, Japan, France and on a special bonus course once you complete all the others. You will have to cope with ice, sand dunes, oil and water, and snow, leaning the bike accurately to balance your way across these. There are 3 difficulty levels (amateur, expert and pro) and a choice of 125cc, 250cc and Superbike machinery.
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Originating in the arcades, Side Arms is a horizontally scrolling shoot ‘em up in which you control Lieutenant Henry (a second player can control Sergeant Sanders in some versions), armed with crude weaponry and protective jump-suits. They must save the earth from the mercenary invaders of Bozon. You must first reach Bozon’s territories, then wipe out its forces hidden in caverns and lurking in underground seas, before destroying the main invasion ship. Lots of extra weapons can be picked up, often with similar tokens to those in 1943 and some other Capcom titles. Most weapons can be shot either to the left or the right, giving you more range to launch attacks.
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I was quite excited when I got to drive around a Covenant Warthog type thing on Halo 2. Despite (or perhaps because of) its fatness, it simply looks awesome. It's also extremely manoeuvrable and the plasma cannon on the back looks and sounds incredible. It could be a little more powerful though. It was also the first Covenant vehicle that looked actually red (in my opinion anyway). It can hold two passengers, so that makes it slightly more useful than the Warthog. I just wish you got to fight it when you're in a Scorpion sometime. It would be fun to blow up a Spectre. But the only time you get to kill Spectres is when Brutes are in it.
The first thing you'll notice about my Spectre is that it isn't red! This is because I don't have many red pieces, and almost no dark red pieces. So I built it in dark blue. Also, I used a lot of black in it and I think that black would have stood out a lot more if it had been red and would have made the colour scheme look a bit garbled. Also, the purple highlights look better with dark blue and, let's face it, they look so good on this creation.
The second thing you'll probably notice about this Spectre is that it's too big. The turret could also use some improvements, though I haven't yet seen a really good Spectre turret. But it was the first Halo vehicle I made (even though I uploaded the Ghost first) so I don't think it's too bad.
A view with no Elites in it and the cockpit opened. Because the Spectre is so big, the cockpit is pretty roomy. This is unlike in the game where the Elites can barely fit. Bah, at least it's better than the Scorpions and especially the Wraiths. The Elites actually can't fit in them. When an Elite hops in he 'melds' into part of the cockpit. The inside of my Spectre's cockpit isn't the right colour (it's silvery gray in-game), but I think it does the job.
Since I only have two Elites, here's a pic with the Elites on the sides and the turret and cockpit empty. They're just sitting there, but if you wanted to you could add something to the sides that they could use as a 'handle' to hold on. I have no idea how they manage to keep themselves on the Spectre in the game, since there aren't any handles, there's no proper seats and the Spectre is often going over all sorts of bumps, not to mention splattering enemies.
A view with the Spectre being manned by my two size comparison minifigs, Frank and Jerry. In this picture it becomes obvious that the Spectre is too big.
You know, although the Spectre is awesome and I'm really glad they included it in the Halo games, I think Bungie needs to be careful not to include all these 'equivalents' to things. I don't like it when humans have one vehicle and then aliens have one that's almost exactly the same. It's a good thing that the Spectre is still quite a bit different from the 'Hog, and the Wraith is a lot different from the Scorpion. It's also a good thing humans have no equivalent to the Ghost (although there is that Mongoose in Halo 3, but that's massively different) and no equivalent to the Banshee either (even the Hornet in the third game is much different).
The minifigs seated on the side. Regular minifigs can sit more firmly as they can connect with the studs, though they stick out at crazy angles.
Banshee-eye-view. All up I'm pretty happy with my Spectre, despite its numerous flaws. One day I plan to make a smaller, red-coloured Spectre, but not for a while. First I want to improve my minifigs (make some more Elite colours, make some properly coloured Grunts, etc.), then make a Wraith tank, and then I'd like to go on to some UNSC 'figs and vehicles.
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the best spectre i also just looked at your ghost so your one of my faves now.w00t!
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Wow! Probably the best lego spectre I've seen yet. You really got the curved shape figured out.
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The first guy is right, all your stuff is so good and I love finding the underrated people who build so well, you're going on my faves.
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all your stuff is so good mine cant even compare to it =(
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Reviving an old thread. Now that the LO is no longer so little that I can keep using the Moby (cry) and ring slings are only okay for short trips, what are the recommendations for bigger babies (she's 18lbs now)? I'm eyeballing the Boba 3G and the Beco Butterfly 2 (cost = ouch, but what can ya do?).
Thanks in advance!
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I don't know about either of those, I made myself a mei tei and that works fabulously. I love it and with padded straps it is so comfy.
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You are so crafty! I looked at those too. Are they good for long-distance wearing?
I'm also contemplating the catbird baby pikkolo. My go-to for info has been the Portable Baby, particularly the comparison section:
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I still use the k'tan with DS who is 15lbs. DH uses the Boba. I think we're pretty happy with both though we don't have anything to compare to. From what I've heard from friends it's worth it to pay for the nicer carriers.
ETA - Just looked at babysteals and they have Ergos for a good price today!
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I absolutely love the mei tei Rowdie! That's an awesome web page.Thank you for the compliment also :)
I went to a mom meet up and a couple ladies had the k'tan and if I could ever squeeze my hips into one of those I would totally go after one. They look very comfy for mom and baby.
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I just got introduced to Kinderpacks. I'm going to be following them on fb and when I see something I like posted in their "in stock" section, I might grab it. That could take a while, though.
Until then, I went ahead and took the plunge on a Beco 2 Butterfly (robots!) as it is on sale this weekend through Smart Momma (and I found a website that shows you how to customize the front panel without a sewing machine--stitches that I just might be able to manage). I tend to steer clear of Ergo. Some of their bullying business practices (patenting technology that had already been in use for years, then pressuring WAHMs for legitimate use of it) turned me off them. They may have chilled out since then.
As I've turned into a huge babywearer, I may have to expand to some other types. Mlog, that k'tan looks awesome, like a more structured Moby (and as I said in the OP: I loved the Moby so much!). And some of my friends were singing Mei Tei praises--cute fabrics on those too! Can I justify three new carriers? Hmmm. Maybe wait for her first birthday.
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just get a soft structured carrier, ergo, becco, etc. It will be worth every penny.
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we have a bunch of woven wraps that we love, but our Kinderpack and wrap-conversion mei tai get the most use. I would especially recommend the KP.
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There seems to be no majority opinion about 'minority' — if or when to stop calling some ethnic and racial groups that.
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Journalists are as divided as people at large. The deputy standards editor at the Associated Press, David Minthorn, was quoted as saying that the wire service, which feeds most of the American news media, would continue to follow academics, demographers and the dictionary. That is, it would use "minorities" to refer to racial, ethnic, religious or political groups that are smaller and different from the larger group.
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"I prefer not to say 'minority'; better to be specific," tweeted @PeterTatian. Peter Lake, commenting online, seemed to go further: "Time to stop using ethnic and racial labels altogether except when that use is required. REQUIRED is the operative word here."
What perhaps all might agree upon is that this is debate will grow. "I have no doubt other precise terms will emerge as the situation evolves," said Minthorn.
This is called kicking the can down the road. Diplomatically.
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Its possible using vmware server (freeware) in windows. I think with this kind of machine you could try running trial version of windows server 2003 in "desktop" mode. I would (and I do)... ;)
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on Oct 11, 2000 at 00:24 UTC ( #36121=monkdiscuss: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
Take a look at the code in this node. Since it didn't have taint checking (amongst many other problems), I was rather concerned about it. A quick review of this code revealed the following line of code. Where does the filename come from?
open(IN, "$filepath/$siteinfo[1]");
It appears to come from here (near the start of the program):
$query_string = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; @search = split(/&/,$query_string); @info = split(/=/, $search[0]); @siteinfo = split(/-/, $info[1]);
Guess what the following URL does (assuming it's pointing to that CGI script):|
If we use that code with that URL, we have /bin/ls| in the filename to be opened. That trailing pipe causes /bin/ls to be executed instead of opened.
Well, that's interesting.
I can now execute any executable on the server that the the script would have rights to run. Needless to say, there is a security issue here and it's a whopper. For all those monks out there who don't take this seriously (and I see a lot of them), pay attention!!!!
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by Ovid (Cardinal) on Oct 11, 2000 at 00:32 UTC
Update: The above URL doesn't use reverse directory traversal. Stupid me. It should actually read: +in/ls|
Update: Adam of course has raised the age-old "Security through Obscurity" question. The problem listed above is a classic on that many sites have. A resourceful hacker can easily write a Perl script that automatically probes for a number of common holes without necessarily knowing the holes are there. Even if you don't mention the hole, just having one can leave it exposed.
Security through obscurity is simply hoping they don't find the holes. All it takes is one lucky guess to earn the programmer a pink slip. If we plug the holes in the first place, we don't have to sit at home worrying.
On another note, this demonstrates why we shouldn't allow users to specify files names. Some programmers think the following can help protect:
$filename =~ tr/\.\.//;
This fails miserably. We can't disallow periods completely if there is a chance that a legitimate file to be opened is named something like datafile.dat, so we are concerned with two periods in a row. The hacker could simply specify \.\./\.\./\.\./bin/ls| as the path and our tr/// fails. If you don't believe me, hop on your linux box and see what ls \.\./ does.
Update 2: I noticed that someone downvoted Adam's post. He stated that he was playing the Devil's Advocate "for fun". His intention was clearly to start good discussion, not to defend "security through obscurity." I gave him a ++. Don't downvote him for it!
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by Adam (Vicar) on Oct 11, 2000 at 00:46 UTC
Ovid raises an important point, so for fun I am going to play devil's advocate:
How would any hacker/cracker/punk know to try that parameter with my script? Am I not protected by obscurity?
Maybe because due to an unrelated security hole the bad guy got your script code to be displayed?
TIMTOWTDI applies to cracking too, the bad guys can get in through a single gaping hole but also through a series of just slightly insecure features in your code
Still playing the Devil's Advocate here. (Thank's Ovid for recognizing the usefulness of playing dumb. )
But no one sees this code...
Except your co-worker that wants you fired cause your oversized paycheck puts a real damper on the funds available for raises. Or the new site Admin accidentally re-configured Apache to display CGI scripts as text files instead of running them. The list goes on. ++ for mirod
Not if they realized it came from Matts Script Archive...
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He he... I liked this answer. Say you foolishly put an ad on your site for the legendary archive. Hacker gets idea... This guy doesn't write secure code... lets find the holes! ++ for jcwren
You are not protected. That parameter is a standard thing to try, along with various variations of it. You may need to vary the number of ..'s, you may need to fool an RE or two, but there are a finite number of combinations to use, and eventually you will hit one.
You see there are a limited number of basic attacks the attacker will be trying to get to happen. There are a collection of ways to fool standard code with standard mistakes into falling for something interesting. And your code has a set of input parameters. So the script kiddie is going to list your parameters, and then plug a series of inputs in, until something interesting happens, and this attack will be on the list of obvious things to try.
Were your code written in C an attacker could similarly pass longer and longer parameters until they got evidence something crashed. Once it crashes then you play around figuring out at what length it crashes. Once you know that then you start putting interesting exploits at that position. Again, it takes virtually no knowledge of the specifics of the code to figure out how to abuse it. Perl is virtually immune to buffer overflows, but they make up the most commonly reported security errors.
And that is the key. Identify an easy to make mistake, start trying it out in random places. Eventually you find a way in. The key is not to analyze any one target in depth and break in there, rather it is to rattle a lot of doors until one falls apart. And once you break one door, probably lots more have the same flaw...
Another fun one is default passwords. For instance Microsoft's SQL Server had a default login for the longest time. It has been fixed for a year now, but plenty of sites still have the login. So go, try that key on enough sites, and eventually you will get a database of credit cards.
It is as easy as that!
Really. :-(
Ding Ding Ding. And the always verbose tilly comes in with the answer I was looking for: Dumb Luck
The malicious hacker does not need to know your code to abuse it. Some kid who knows LWP and has plenty of time on hand can easilly write a simple little script to go through a handful of different attacks on a list of sites that the kid has visited recently. Ooops... there goes your day. ++ for tilly
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by footpad (Monsignor) on Oct 11, 2000 at 23:36 UTC
A penitent humbly asks:
After carefully reading the thread (several times), perlsec, the online version of Lincoln Stein's Security FAQ, and a few other sources for most of the morning, I'm afraid I must confess that the solution to the problem continues to elude me.
Enabling Taint mode would not be entirely sufficient, would it? Would a regular expression around the query string solve the problem? If so, which would be the most effective?
Perhaps, more clearly: how would you rewrite this to be safer?
(fwiw, I'll happily pursue links, but ask for ones that show examples....)
Taint checking would have fatally crapped out when it discovered that you were attempting to use a piece of a foreign string in a critical operation (opening a file). So yes, it would have been quite sufficient in detecting the problem, but it does nothing to help you fix your script so that it will actually run.
Your best bet is to use tokens in your URL submissions, and then map those tokens to a set of filenames. If that can't be arranged, use a regular expression to "untaint" the data by explicitely declaring permitted characters.
($secure) = ($tainted =~ /(\w+)/); open(F, "< $secure") or die "$!"; # read only "../../bin/ls -l /etc|" -> "bin" (no such file)
Fastolfe: you need to check for failure on your regex. Currently, if it fails and if there was a value already in $1, it will be passed to $secure. That could be disastrous. If a cracker gets your code and figures out how to pass "../../../bin/some_executable" into the previous backreference, you're back to the original problem.
Also, if the filename has a period delimited extension (and many of them do), your regex won't work (e.g. "somefile.txt").
Update: I'm a moron. Fastolfe is right. Read dchetlin's response below. (sniff, sniff)
That's what I get for reading his code too fast :(
Would a regular expression around the query string solve the problem?
Basically, what a regex does to untaint a variable is to ensure that only valid characters are in the variable. The variable in question, in this example, is $siteinfo[1]. Unfortunately, it's very, very difficult to find an appropriate regex that can perfectly secure user-supplied data that is passed to the shell. What I would probably do in this case is creates a hash that has the user data as the key and the hash value as the actual file to be opened. I say "probably" because if you have hundreds of files that the user could open, you would want to take a different solution.
my %files = ( colors => 'colors.dat', tests => 'test.txt', names => 'names.dat', bribes => 'politicians.txt' ); open IN, "<$filepath/$files{$siteinfo[1]}" or someErrorRoutine( "Can't open $filepath/$siteinfo[1] for reading: +$!" );
In the above example, the user data is used to pull a value from a hash. Since you have created those hash values, you know they are safe. If the hash value doesn't exist, then someErrorRoutine() is called. Depending upon how your site is set up, you might want someErrorRoutine to log the details of the failure. The key point to remember here is that user data never gets close to the shell (and that you should always check to see if your open statement failed).
Also, taint checking should still be used here. The following regex is interesting to me:
$siteinfo[1] =~ /^[^.]+/(\w+\.\w+)$/ or someErrorRoutine( "Regex failed" ); my $fileToOpen = $1; # $fileToOpen untainted
In this case, we are making sure that there are NO periods prior to the final slash and only one period in the actual filename. Note that the error subroutine is called on failure. If it's not and that fails, $1 might contain an undesireable value that gets assigned to $fileToOpen.
The Moral: When untainting data, make sure you check for failure of your regex to match.
For a little more information about exploits like this, read this article (thanks to tilly for that link).
Yes, check for failure. But regular expressions to perfectly secure data passed to the shell are actually pretty easily come by. You just need to remember the cardinal rule, deny everything that is not explicitly allowed. Trying to trap everything that can go wrong is hard. Allowing very limited input, is not. Try the following:
/^( (?:\w+\/)* # Directory components? \w+ # Start of filename (?:\.\w+)? # Extension? )$/x
This will work for most filenames you have a reason to allow, and I guarantee you that on a standard Unix system with a standard directory structure (unless someone has placed poor symlinks, etc), there is no way to name anything that passes this which has shell problems.
You could test length($1) if you are afraid of buffer overflows. :-)
What you will find though is that at some point some developer wants to break the rule. That is fine, just become more lenient (eg allow an optional period in a directory) but step by step keep the philosophy the same. Only that which you have guaranteed safe shall pass.
The line:
in Ovid's example has me confused. The extra slash (/) in the middle is throwing me off. At first glance, it looks like he meant to use the s/// operator. At second glance, it becomes apparent that it's meant as a directory separator (to exclude things like "../../". However, doesn't placing a '/' in a regexp delimited by '/' characters require an escape character (\)?
(I must be getting a mild case of LTS)
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I think it will work out better if you can find a genuine passion, interest, work-related problem, or itch to scratch, and you choose a project that is important and interesting to you. If you seek a project, any project, to contribute to, I doubt that will be sustainable in the longer term. You need have a genuine interest and reason to work on a project.
Notice that your approach was tried and failed some years ago in the (now inactive) Perl Phalanx project.
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I am using a regex to extract some numbers from a string, to build an array of numbers. However, I don't seem to be able to use < and > to compare the numbers.
The conversion from strings to numbers is automagic, though you could write: $VAR1 = ['M4568-51', 'M', 0 + '4568', 0 + '51' ];
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It was in the time when me and Chainsaw were working in the college, we used to work there as sysadmin of about 30 old sparc station 5, one day we wanted to learn something new, so we did decide to learn Perl, so we did read a few tutorials and learned something, not much. That were the days when i used perl with no strict and perlmonks was a casual page to visit, then one day a friend of mine who owns a restaurant asked me for help, he did need a POS so i make one with perl, for that project i learned (in the hard way) DBI, CGI, _allways_ use strict and warnings. That was about 2 years ago, now today i use perl for everything i need, and i get paid to use perl COOL :)
About 3 months and 22 days ago i was in my friend restaurant, cuz he wanted some features to be added to the POS and i meet a girl, now that girl (vanne) is my g/f, so it was thanx to perl that i meet her :)
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Dreams they just disapear into the shadows,
then they become true....
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How do I parse out n to a var named $nvar?
I'm either confused or failing to understand your question, but is a simple search and replace what you want to do here? In which case, you'd be looking at this code:
my $function = 'b+c(t)+t^234.57*t^n*f(t)+Z'; $function =~ s/n/\$nvar/g; print "New function: $function\n";
Which should print
New function: b+c(t)+t^234.57*t^$nvar*f(t)+Z
In case I got you wrong, however, could you please clarify your question? ;-)
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Try perldoc perllocal. It'll show you all the modules you have installed and a bunch of extended information about them (like where each module is installed, and its version), but it doesn't include the standard library modules. The .pod file, perllocal.pod is where this man page comes from and you could probably parse it yourself if you want. It's somewhere in your lib directory (on 5.00502 i found it in /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502/i386-linux-thread).
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Note that not all ways of installing modules update this file. Last time I checked, it was the generated Makefile that included the code to update that file. If you use the MakeMaker tools for installing modules without a Makefile, then the perllocal.pod won't be updated (and this was reported as a bug so it might be fixed now). I'm not sure whether PPM, etc. update that file.
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Actually this method only shows some modules that were installed properly, missed the ones in the core, and is flaky in a few other ways as well. (Anything people put in by hand won't be there.) I would seriously not trust it.
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This depends on your code.
Show us a simplified example of what you are doing.
If you use one of the combined functions of DBI, like fetchall_arrayref, the data will persist.
On the other hand, if you loop over the results using prepare, execute, fetch, you cannot close the connection, as this will drop your statement handle.
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Thanks, I see its not using combined functions so I guess the only option would be to do a re-write of most of it.
Hang on a minute - you may be rushing to change something you do not need to. The point being made is that if you open a cursor on a result-set, don't retrieve the whole result-set then close the connection you have not got all of the result-set you queried in the first place. So long as you retrieve the result-set via combined DBI functions or otherwise, then closing the connection should not matter. Of course this depends on where you store the results and whether the variables you store the results in go out of scope and are destroyed but the basic principle is go need to retrieve the result-set before closing the connection.
Why do you want to close the connection anyway?
There should be no problem with something like:
sth1 = prepare select sth1->execute sth2 = prepare select sth2->execute sth3 = prepare insert while () { sth1->fetch sth2->fetch sth3->execute } sth1->finish sth2->finish sth3->finish
Unless your database prevents having multiple statements at the same time.
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What to try
• Have some family rules about which foods are a no-go at breakfast time-like ice cream-and then stick to those rules.
• Encourage your preschooler to suggest healthy breakfast foods that he'd like you to purchase at the grocery store-e.g., his favorite brand of unsweetened cereal.
• Look for foods that have strong kid-appeal and yet that still deliver the goods nutritionally: e.g., fresh berries on cereal or whole grain waffles.
"My child complains that her lunch "tastes yucky" by the time lunchtime rolls around."
• Pack your child's lunch with a frozen food pack so that her lunch stays cool and fresh as long as possible.
• Choose foods that survive well in a lunch bag. Steer clear of fruits that are easily bruised and vegetables that wilt in a matter of minutes. Appearance is a big deal to most kids.
• Invest in a well-designed lunch bag that features a lot of padding and insulation.
"We end up eating takeout or convenience foods more often than we'd like, simply because we're too exhausted to cook."
What to try
• Know what you're making ahead of time. Sometimes the toughest part is coming up with the idea du jour-and ensuring that you have the right combinations of ingredients on hand.
• Load up on cookbooks that feature menus that can be whipped up quickly and easily, and that are both healthy and kid-friendly.
• Do some food preparation ahead of time or look for items in the grocery store that can save you time on the food preparation front (e.g., salad in a bag, mini-carrots, etc.).
• Make at least one extra meal on the weekends, either by cooking that meal all by itself and popping in the freezer, or by making "doubles" of one of your family's weekend meals (e.g., a double batch of spaghetti sauce or lasagna) so that you can have leftovers during the week.
• Look for ways to join forces with other families on the mealtime preparation front. Consider meal swaps, supper clubs, cooking coops, and other ways of cooking smarter and freeing up more time in your schedule so that you'll have more time for fun and relaxation.
"It's hard to find a dinner that the whole family likes."
What to try
• Instead of trying to play short-order cook, think about creating variations of the same meal. For example, if you're having spaghetti, you could serve the noodles, sauce, meat, and vegetables separately so that kids who only like certain parts of the meal (or who don't like the different parts of the meal to touch each other!) could come up with an acceptable meal alternative.
• Don't be too rigid -- but don't be too lax, too. Define your boundaries when it comes to making "alternative meals" (or allowing kids to make their own alternative meals), and then stick to them.
• If you allow the kids to make an alternative meal, require that they state their intention early. You may want to have a rule that there's no bailing from the dinner choice du jour once Mom or Dad has started making dinner. It's not fair to the cook!
"My child hates milk."
What to try
Consider one of these possible solutions (assuming your child isn't allergic to milk):
• Whip up a smoothie;
• Serve chocolate or strawberry-flavored milk;
• Serve other beverages that are fortified with calcium and vitamin D;
• Add milk to foods: soups, casseroles, mashed potatoes, on top of fruit, etc.
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3 stars Well, well, I finally hunted down this old contentious sucker, had it on vinyl when it came out and even though the cover artwork warned me not to sell it off, I did so, much to my recent regret. I was visited one night while asleep and this big-eyed blue hue whispered to me that I need to reintroduce this back into the fold. Ok, bossman, just don't tell Mulder and Scully!
Anything with Santana's muscular Michael Shrieve participating should be of interest, though this is no jazz-rock effort, in fact not even remotely close to Abraxas or Caravanserai. When Shrieve left the studio after the Yamash'ta/Winwood/Shrieve project was complete, he stayed in contact with bassist Doni Harvey and axeman Pat Thrall, the three connected with keyboardsman Bayete Todd Cochran (who would later star with Peter Gabriel). Let's get one thing straight, this is no masterpiece by a long shot, more a very curious, extremely original take on jazz/funk/space/pop/rock that has no parallels and as such is meritorious of inclusion in the prog pantheon. The overall sound is nothing glorious but there is such charm emanating from this unpretentious group, relying on Pat Thrall to illuminate the guitar skies, held down solidly by the Harvey/Shrieve foundation. Bayete masters a wide variety of keys, synths, clavinets and such but his vocals are weak in my opinion. Some pretty good funky rock tunes like "My Pearl", "Coming Through", "One 'N One" that are pleasant listens Then there some that are not quite as appealing such as the undercooked "Newspapers" which has moments but is mistreated by poor vocals and shoddy production. Similarly, "Geni-Geni" and "Right Back Down" fail to impress beyond the acceptable.
There are some incredible tracks here such as "There's A Way" with its great solo guitar and insistent like a hornet bass rant , the awesome and memorable title track, the Bowie- esque "Interstellar Tracking Devices" and the finale "Atlantis Rising Theme", all conveniently packed at the end of the album.
A good album that has its merits and deserving of cursory interest. Fantastic cover art though, Spoooooooky!
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In a recent article, Paul Raabe examined a number of cases of double entendre, or what he calls “deliberate ambiguity,” in the Book of Psalms.1 Two of his instances come from Psalm 59.2 What is proposed here is that there is at least one more example of such doublemeaning speech, intended by the poet, in the refrain in Pss 59:7 and 59:15.3
Psalm 59 contains two refrains, the first of which is found in vv. 7 and 15, and the second in vv. 10-11 and 18.4 It is the first of these refrains (vv. 7 and 15) that is under consideration here. The text and standard translation of v. 7 are as follows:
1 P. R. Raabe, “Deliberate Ambiguity in the Psalter,” JBL 110 (1991) 213-27.
2 Raabe, “Ambiguity,” 217-18 (on Ps 59:16); 224 (on Ps 59:14). On Ps 59:16,
see now J. Trapper, “'Sie knurrten wie Hunde.' Psalm 59,16, Kilamuwa:10 und
die Semantik der Wurzel lun” ZAW 106 (1994) 87-95; on pp. 87-91, Trapper
advances strong arguments against deriving
from , “complain, murmur.”
3 There are other poetic devices in Psalm 59 besides deliberate ambiguity. An
inclusio is formed by
in v. 2 and in vv. 17-18. There are
also three instances of talionic reversal: in vv. 2 and 12, the psalmist prays that
“those who rise against me” ( ) God will “bring down” ( ); the
hostile “mighty” ( ) of v. 4 are confronted by God's “might” in vv. 10 ( )
and 17-18 ( ); the roaming around for food by predatory enemies (K
Q , v. 16) leads the psalmist to pray “Make them totter” ( ). Fi-
nally, there is a probable instance of hysteron-proteron in v. 5: “they charge
( ), they form themselves in battle array” ( on this assimilated hitpolel
with this meaning, see D. J. A. Clines, Dictionary of Classical Hebrew 4 “Shef-
field: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998” 376).
4 The presence of more than one refrain in a psalm is not unparalleled; Psalm
42^3 has three refrains (42:4d and lid; 42:6, 12 and 43:5; 42:10 and 43:2), none
of which is exactly repeated.
5 The simile
is taken as a collective: “As often with animal names, He-
brew uses the singular collective preceded by the definite article” (W. H. C.
Propp, Exodus 1-18 “AB 2; New York: Doubleday, 1999” 591).
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Chapter VI Price Stabilization Programs in Latin America
INFLATION control is one of the serious economic and political problems of Latin America. Price or inflation control assures an equitable distribution of goods in wartime. Moreover, any group which suffers from rising prices--because its income does not rise so rapidly as prices--becomes disgruntled, and therefore the group becomes a political liability. Price control is therefore necessary both on political and economic grounds. All groups will gain--even the business entrepreneur who, though he may temporarily gain through rising prices, would pay the bill in the later, inevitable period of collapse.
This chapter is divided into two parts: (1) some broad generalizations which apply more or less to all Latin American countries; (2) individual studies of five countries. In the latter the peculiar problems of each country are considered in detail. Some readers may wish to read only Part I and particular sections of Part II.
Inflation is a vital economic problem of common interest to the Americas. Inflationary forces have been at work on a hemispheric
This section is largely based on the introduction of a "Report on Anti-inflationary Programs in the United States." That document, which includes reports to four Latin American governments, was put together for the use of several agencies of the United States government. The introduction of that report has been published in Foreign Commerce Weekly, October, 1943, and in numerous Latin American journals.
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IBEX And TWINS Observe A Solar Storm
April 15, 2012
To better understand how to protect satellites from intense bursts of energy from the sun, scientists study the full chain of space weather events from first eruptions on the sun to how the magnetic fields around Earth compress and change shape in response. During the April 5 storm, two NASA Heliophysics System Observatory missions — the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and two spacecraft called the Two Wide-Angle Imaging Neutral-Atom Spectrometers (TWINS) — were perfectly positioned to view the storm from complementary viewpoints.
The three sets of instruments have been used together to paint a more complete picture of what happens during a solar storm, from initial impact of solar energy through to the particles that ultimately slide down into Earth’s atmosphere near the poles. These results were published online on March 27, 2012 in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
“One spacecraft can only take recurring measurements along its own flight path,” says Natalia Buzulukova, one of the authors on this paper and a geospace scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and at the University of Maryland in College Park. “But this is not always enough to understand the whole event. With several spacecraft at once we have a unique opportunity to observe more of the magnetosphere simultaneously.”
The two TWINS spacecraft and IBEX orbit Earth in very different paths. TWINS travels along a highly elliptical orbit around Earth through the magnetosphere. IBEX, too, circles Earth, but generally lies outside the magnetosphere allowing it to map the very edges of the solar system. Together, they offer glimpses from the inside and outside of the magnetosphere, including the side that faces the sun, the side that extends long away from the sun — the magnetotail — and an electric current that sometimes appears around Earth like a giant hula hoop called the ring current.
“This imaging gives us a better global picture of the evolution of the magnetosphere – especially of the processes by which the sun injects energy into the magnetosphere – than has ever been available before,” says David McComas, a space scientist at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, who is first author on this paper and also the principal investigator for the IBEX and TWINS missions.
IBEX and TWINS both have instruments to study what’s called energetic neutral atoms or ENAs. These fast moving particles are produced during particle collisions between charged and neutral particles. Crucially, they move in a straight line from their point of origin, unmolested by the magnetic fields that would constrain charged particles in their travels. Thus they can provide an “image” to decode and map out the structure of a far away charged particle system, such as occurs in the magnetosphere and ring current.
The ENA images from IBEX were taken from a distance of around 180,000 miles above the magnetosphere. They show that the magnetosphere immediately compressed under the impact of the charged particles from the solar wind. Minutes later, one of the TWINS spacecraft observed changes in the inner magnetosphere from a much-closer 28,000 miles: the ring current began to trap incoming charged particles. About 15 minutes after impact, these trapped particles gyrated down magnetic field lines into Earth’s atmosphere, a process known as “precipitation.” The time delay between the onset of trapped particles and losing them to the atmosphere points to a fairly slow set of internal processes carrying the region from storm impact through compression to precipitation.
“The solar storm directly causes the ring current activity, but the other effects, including particles precipitating down toward the atmosphere, are triggered by something called a substorm, a process that releases energy form the magnetotail,” says Buzulukova. “These two triggers have different physics and different manifestations. This analysis opens the door to understanding how these different effects are connected.”
The paper also paves the way to more sophisticated modeling techniques of the entire magnetosphere. To produce the new images, the team developed a series of techniques to process the imaging data, including improved procedures for differential background subtraction, “statistical smoothing” of images, and comprehensive modeling of the ring current.
“Understanding how solar events develop and impact satellites is like understanding the processes that cause extreme weather events on Earth to develop and destroy homes and businesses,” says McComas. “Engineers use weather data to know where and how they need to strengthen buildings against various types of weather threats. The more we know about the processes occurring in space, the better engineers can design satellites to protect them from space weather hazards, which is increasingly important in our highly technological world.”
IBEX is the latest in NASA’s series of low-cost, rapidly developed Small Explorer space missions; TWINS is an Explorer Mission of Opportunity. Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio leads both projects with teams of national and international partners. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center manages the Explorers Program for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, DC.
Image 1: The highly elliptical orbit of TWINS offers a good view of the ring current — a hula hoop of charged particles that encircles Earth. Credit: J. Goldstein/SWRI
Image 2: Artist’s concept of the IBEX spacecraft. Credit: NASA
Image 3: Photo of one of the TWINS spacecraft. Credit: SWRI
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/53122 | The Vices Of Digital Imaging; You Can Play With Your Food, But Don’t Photograph It
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According to Metrocurean (, a blog aimed at epicureans in the Nation's Capitol, it is OK to play with your food but taking pictures of it in restaurants is verboten. The story (posted in the October 2006 archive) provides feedback from chefs and bloggers, including a list of rules for tableside shutterbugs. It suggests, "Read the room. A romantic boite will be more intimate than dim sum, so adjust picture taking to fit the mood. If your server asks you to stop, don't start an argument." When Jason of D.C. Foodies snapped pictures at Buck's Fishing and Camping the chef asked him to not use the photos, thereby sparking a debate about what a restaurant can restrict. I can only respond as did Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (that's Fronk-in-steen!) did after slapping a plate of food, "There, I've touched it. Happy?"
Last month's Digital Innovations looked at the virtuous side of digital imaging. This month I take a look at some of the vices and how to get rid of them.
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Sometimes shooters are proud of their macro photography even when it isn't all that good. Using a macro lens lets you get close, but achieving a pleasing composition requires a good look through the viewfinder. Adorama's ( Pro Optic Right Angle Finder is the perfect accessory to make you truly proud of your macro shots. At half the price ($89.95) but the same build quality as camera brand optics, Adorama's Right Angle Finder is the perfect solution for low-angle photographs, macro or not. It has nine elements in five groups and an angled prism for crisp viewing. There are 1x and 2x magnification settings and diopter corrections of +/- 4. The viewfinder rotates through 360Þ so you can put the camera in position to make the shot and still be able to see the image for precise composition! It even comes with a nice case.
Don't be greedy and install lots of fonts. In case you forgot, Adobe's Photoshop has a Type tool and if you don't take care of your fonts, you're asking for the kinds of system problems I recently encountered. When font problems occur, who ya gonna call? FontDoctor ( that's who! FontDoctor locates and eliminates hard-to-find font problems that can wreak havoc on Mac OS applications and system performance. It scans folders on local hard drives or over a network to locate and repair common font illnesses, including missing Postscript fonts, missing bitmaps, corrupt or damaged fonts, ID conflicts, extra font sizes, and mixed font types.
If you want to install lots of fonts and manage them effectively use FontAgent Pro ( It repairs, optimizes, and organizes your fonts. Then you can build font libraries and cascading sets you can activate, manage, preview, and print. It can eliminate font problems to improve system performance and stability while stopping resource waste, font menu clutter, jaggies, substitution, and unpredictable output. The next time you think fonts aren't important to digital imagers, think again.
You can be the envy of all your friends when all your snapshots look perfect. Tribeca Labs' ( Photobot is zero-click, automatic photo correction Windows software designed for snapshooters. Photobot is always on, searching your hard drive for photos, but that is its downside for me. When it finds image files, Photobot applies patented technologies to improve brightness, reduce redeye, and give pictures lifelike colors. On the upside, Photobot makes adjustments to images only if they are required and then only to the degree necessary to achieve optimal results.
Sitting here, watching the thumbnails appear then be corrected within seconds, I never saw an image that didn't benefit. After tweaking, Photobot can automatically upload them to your Swiss Picture Bank ( account where they are protected from hard drive failure, accidental deletion, theft, format changes, or other disasters. Tribeca Labs operates Swiss Picture Bank in the same facilities Swiss banks use, and bundles a three-month trial with Photobot. As tested, both Photobot and Swiss Picture Bank were only available in beta form, but should be commercially available by the time you read this.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/53147 | Logs From Darkrai Inclusion Tournament
Discussion in 'Dream World' started by jrrrrrrr, Jul 21, 2012.
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May 23, 2006
Nice neutral title and OP, this post will contain every log I got from the Darkrai tourney. Please feel free to read over them and discuss Darkrai's performance in the metagame.
Finals: http://pastebin.com/mLSp3Rrp
Other logs are in order of when I got them in my PM inbox, starting with the semifinals and working back to the earliest
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3. superbadd
Jun 26, 2012
Even though I haven't participated in the tournament just from looking at the logs it gives you a good idea of what darkrai is like in dw ou. It looks pretty underwhelming tbh, which is quite surprising, I thought it would be more of a force. Call me crazy, but I don't even think darkrai needs to be tested. If you dump it into the metagame it won't really cause much of a stir. It just looks like a beefed up Alakazam or gengar. It may cause manaphy to rise in usage and send alakazam to uu. But that's about all I can see. It's a got a shit ton of common checks from breloom, scizor, thunderus, ect. Manaphy even counters it. I think it's only worthy of a test if it's more powerful than estimated.
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Atkinson: Do you have many other engineers working with you at Lynnwood?
Carver: I wish. There are only two engineers: myself and Vic Richardson, who's been with me eight or nine years. Since right after the inception of the Carver Corporation.
Atkinson: That's not many creative people for a $25 million company.
Carver: Yeah. We should have more.
Atkinson: A change of subject: The last time you appeared in Stereophile's pages was in response to the amplifier challenge. What was the legacy of that whole business?
Carver: When I started that transfer-function emulation project and then subsequently designed an amplifier with that transfer function, I thought I was being a powerful force for good and doing something worthwhile.
Atkinson: By allowing people to get what in effect was the same sound at a significantly lower cost?
Carver: What, in fact, I ended up doing was just pissing everybody around me off. I angered my dealers, I angered so many people, that I wish I could hop in my time machine, go back in time, and not do it.
Atkinson: Purely because of the social aspects rather than the engineering?
Carver: I just didn't like having my feelings hurt so much. It's my own fault. I didn't understand at the time that that's what would happen.
Atkinson: It certainly provided a lot of editorial copy for The Audio Critic, The Absolute Sound, and Stereophile. How do you see the relationship between a company like yours and the high-end hi-fi magazines? Do you see your company and the magazines as basically being in an adversarial position? Or as working toward the same end?
Carver: I see us all working toward the same end. As a matter of fact, in the case of Stereophile, it was a horrible slap in the face that hurt me tremendously editorially. But you know what? It really got me off my duff and it got me busy designing some new things. Some important and significant new products. That was the silver lining for me, personally and professionally.
Atkinson: One of the comments that I thought rang true was from Larry Archibald, when he said that he would be much more interested in seeing what you, Bob Carver, would be capable of doing as a creative engineer if you had no limits imposed.
Carver: Well, in part it was because of Larry's feelings that I started on the Silver Seven. Now I'm not going to say I did it to say, "Ah! I showed you, Larry Archibald! I can design a great amp too!" But probably at some subconscious level, there was a little of that going on. It did result in a world-reference-class amplifier; the Silver Seven's unquestionably the best amplifier in the world. And it gave me a new transfer function; this time it was my own transfer function! And I've done the best job I can to put that transfer function in my Silver Seven-t. It's not exactly the same. It's not an infinite null, but it's as close as I can possibly make it.
Atkinson: In production?
Carver: Both in production and on the lab bench.
Atkinson: Because one of the things which came out of that whole business for me was how unstable the null was. If you breathed near the amplifiers, the depth of the null would change and the position of the null would change.
Carver: If you let the sunlight shine on an amplifier that's sitting there with a 70dB null, the null will go higher. Or deeper. Less null.
Atkinson: This is the crux of the matter...
Carver: A 70dB null is a very steep null. It's really down to the roots of the universe and things like that. 70dB nulls aren't possible to achieve in production.
Atkinson: What is your target null between the Silver Seven-t and the original Silver Seven?
Carver: About 36dB. When you play music, the null will typically hover around the 36dB area. So it's not a perfect null. No question about it.
Atkinson: It's 98.5% the same...
Carver: It's not a bad null.
Atkinson: ...and there is a significant price difference.
Carver: Yeah. The only way to get a 100dB null is to buy the Silver Seven.
Atkinson: You were saying last night that one legacy of the Carver challenge was that it made you realize that, in fact, high-end magazines have significant readership among retail-store staff. The people who actually sell the equipment. Do you think that that is as important as the effect they have on audiophiles?
Carver: To the extent that the magazines enhance people's understanding of this wonderful, fun art of ours. Store salesmen are audiophiles.
Atkinson: Do you think that magazines, a) realize that, and b) take their craft seriously enough?
Carver: I don't think that magazines understand the power they have. You've heard the expression "the power of the press"? It's amazing. Part of being human is not believing that you can control the world. Why would a normal human being have that belief? And why, indeed, would a magazine have that belief? The reality, however, is that there is a tremendous, tremendous amount of power inherent in the press. Probably way more than any member of the press thinks or believes. That's been my impression from talking to editors for 20 years.
Atkinson: So even a casual remark, if it's in print, may have a significant effect, either up or down, on sales for a company like yours?
Carver: Absolutely. A tremendous effect.
Atkinson: How then could magazines do a better job in acting responsibly?
Carver: [laughs] I think the answer is very easy. Be open, be honest, be receptive to fresh ideas, particularly being receptive to different religions.
Atkinson: Religions?
Carver: Religions. There are several religions that exist in our audio community. Magazine editors should practice religious tolerance. If you can be honest, if you can be truthful, if you can put your scientific hat on, be scientific when you need be, put your subjective hat on, be a subjectivist when you need be, and always be open-minded, never be defensive, that's what I believe a magazine should strive for.
Now, it's part of being human to be defensive, to have a tad of religious intolerance. That's okay; it's part of your humanity, it's part of my humanity. But I feel that magazine editors will do their job better if from time to time they step back, survey the scene from above, and question themselves as to their religious tolerance. Other than that, be honest and truthful. And the manufacturers have to respond in kind. They have to have the same fundamental, philosophical approach. Nobody's exempt from that. And I think that in the end the magazines play an incredibly important role in advancing the state of our audio art, both in the effect they have of getting manufacturers to do a better job, and also in their constant questioning "What if?," "What could be?"
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While most of the cases where people accused of file sharing end in quiet settlements, over in France, a man has been fined over 10,000 euros for sharing about 10,000 songs. Of course, you may wonder whether or not the musicians whose music he shared will see any of the money. It certainly sounds like they don't think so, as a bunch of musicians have signed a petition begging the recording industry to stop suing people who are just downloading music to listen to in their homes. Of course, the recording industry could (and maybe should...) respond that they're not suing downloaders so much as they're suing uploaders. Either way, as more musicians seem to be recognizing that unauthorized distribution is actually good for them, the claims from the recording industry that they're doing this to protect musicians is looking increasingly weak.
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I think the music industry should wake up and see the benifit of musicians sharing their music I as a musician willingly share music and want other people to share and mix my music if you want to then do it but use the creative contents method look at the website above
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Justin follows Brian over to the bar wearing a very knowing look. "You fucked him, didn't you?" Justin asks with a smile. Brian plays coy and innocent, but Justin's not buying it. "He's only, like, the hottest guy I've ever seen," Justin beams. Ouch. Take that, Brian. Wait. He did. Justin asks for numbers and positions. "Once...twice," Brian says. "I'm getting hard just thinking about it," Justin smiles. He asks why Brian hasn't told Michael about it. Brian says that the first rule of Gay Etiquette is never to fuck and tell. I'm so calling bullshit on that one. I bet you guys tell each other everything while you're still fucking. I know we tell everything, so I know you tell everything because everybody tells everybody everything all the time. Justin just nods. The camera pans over to Ben giving Michael the Heimlich Maneuver to a beat.
Emmett and Ted are at a fancy soiree. Ted is pointing out the who's who of the hoity-toity gay community. Ted sips his martini and lists off the attendees like he's standing on the red carpet. "The A Gays," Emmett jokes. "That's a vulgar term," Ted mumbles. "I'm a vulgar girl," Emmett smiles. I love Emmett. He's the only one who doesn't look horrible in all the blue light. Wait. I just froze TiVo on a very bad shot of Emmett swallowing. Ted says there's nothing wrong with wanting to associate with a "higher class" of people. Emmett says that there's nothing wrong with the group they associate with now. Ted says he could make significant contacts or co-chair an important event if he knew these people. He adds that he'd get good seats to the Bernadette Peters concert. Ted stops when he sees his dream guy: Garth Racine. Not to be confused with Garth Ancier, who developed my most beloved 21 Jump Street, headed both FOX and the WB, was the President of NBC (is he still?) and looks pretty much like this Racine guy, whose name just happens to be an anagram. But don't get them confused, okay? Ted says that Garth is the head of all things queer, and that you're nothing if you're not invited to one of his exclusive parties. Emmett reminds Ted that everyone here is just another "cocksucking fairy," and that he should go up to Garth and introduce himself. Ted can't do anything right, of course, so he mumbles and stammers all over Garth and just about spills his drink all over Garth's fancy friends. The group of Über-men laugh openly at Scary Ted because he looks like he's about to pull out a gun and kill Garth. They all walk away without even the slightest introduction. Defeated, Ted stands still as Emmett joins him. "Nothing like a higher class of people," Emmett says.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/53246 | Chapter Five
The phrases 'from olam and to olam' and 'from the olam and to the olam' are not common in the O.T. There are eleven examples of which eight are liturgical. The phrase follows such expressions as 'Blessed the Lord or Blessed be the Lord' (six cases). "Thou art God' (Psa.90:2) and 'The mercy of the Lord', (Psa. 103:17). Three others refer to the promise or possession of the land or kingdom. (Jer.7:7 and 25:5, Dan.7:18).
Some cases are anarthrous (no 'the') a few contain the definite article. These latter are in Chronicles, Nehemiah, Daniel and the Psalms (41:13; 106:48). The use of the definite article strongly suggests the existence of some concept of time which we may call 'ages'.
The very use of 'min', (from) and 'ad' (to) demands a distinguishable difference between two entities. In respect to time (as of course to space) one may speak of passing 'to' and 'from' a single entity (to-X-from); but to go 'from' one point or period 'to' another logically requires two entities (from X to Y). Of course if we are talking about eternity itself then 'from' and 'to' can have no meaning at all.
Therefore the form of the phrase 'from the olam and to the olam' demands the concepts of separate periods and proves that the idea of periods of some sort expressed by olam had developed.
In Jer.7:7 and in 25:5, the Jews are urged to mend their ways that 'I may cause you to dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers 'from olam to olam'. One Jer.7:7 Rotherham comments,
'From times long past even unto times long to come. Scarcely from everlasting to everlasting'.
We might add, certainly not 'from all eternity to all eternity'. Both the promise of the land and its occupancy had a beginning in history, so cannot be eternal, but are terrestrial in location and scope. There must be an element of devious eisegesis in introducing either 'everlasting' or 'eternal' into these two passages.
Daniel 7:18 states (R.V.) 'The saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever' (to olam and to olam of olams).
The form of this composite phrase is unique in the O.T. There are no other identical formulae for comparison. the following comments are offered as likely pointers to its original meaning.
(a) The repetition of 'olam' suggests that this term did not of itself represent unlimited duration, otherwise the first 'olam' would have covered all time.
(b) The whole context is oriented to a future period, which had then not even begun.
(c) In the one phrase we have both singular (olam) and plural (olamim). A plural eternity is by definition an impossibility, so the terms must refer to some periods of time.
(d) 'Remotest time' is more plausible; but 'remotest time and remotest time of remotest times is self contradictory.
(e) To a remote time even a remote time of remote times would conform to Hebrew idiom making the second phrase a normal Hebraic polytotonic superlative. (Compare King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Holy of holies, Song of songs, etc.)
(f) Presently evidence will be advanced to show that at least by the time of the writing of the book of Daniel, late by any theory of dating, the concept of an age, and of 'periods' of time had developed. If this be accepted, the text may then be translated 'to (or for?) an age, even an age of ages'. By treating 'an age of ages' as a normal Hebraic superlative we get, "the saints...shall possess the kingdom unto (perhaps, for) an age even (the best) age of ages'.
From the standpoint of the Jew of the exile even to the present day, the envisaged age of their nation's possessing the kingdom has been regarded as the 'age of ages', the time of restoration and promised blessing of which the O.T. has much to say.
This rendering and interpretation is simple, direct, and consistent with Hebrew grammar, with the context, with the overwhelming majority of the cases of olam, and with the Bible throughout.
Further, acceptance of the above remarks removes all difficulty from Jeremiah 25:5, "Return...from the wickedness of your doings, so shall ye remain on the soil which Yahweh hath given you and to your fathers even from age to age'.
Of the eight liturgical passages containing 'from olam and to olam' or 'from the olam and to the olam' four call for blessing of the Deity. (I Chron.16:36,29: 29:10, Neh.9:5 and Psa.41:13). What does it mean to 'bless the Lord'? In each case the root of the verb is barak. Davidson gives the primary adoration, meaning as "to bend the knee', 'to worship'. This suggests adoration, and if the verb were applied only to man's attitude to God, this would suffice; but often the order is reversed and God is said to 'bless' individuals, groups and nations; and this seems to mean the conferring of benefits.
However in the texts now being considered the expression appears to be a call to worship the Lord, made to human beings and as such must apply at the most to a period co-terminus with that of the human race. This sets a limit so far as the past is concerned.
Liturgical expressions tend to be poetic and unsure grounds for precise doctrinal statements of fact. The common liturgical expression 'world without end' is in conflict with credal statements about 'the end of the world', and eschatological matters related thereto.
The sentences calling for "blessing Yahweh" from olam and to olam read like pious aspirations or desires that men would remember God's goodness and thank him always. If it could be shown that in other contexts the phrase (or its component terms) embraced infinite duration, then it would be fair to regard it so here also. The evidence set out in the preceding pages suggests, 'Bless the Lord from age to age" is a proper translation. Probably the writers had nothing more definite in mind than 'all the time'.
In Psa. 90:2 "From olam and to olam Thou art God', the author appears to be struggling to express the concept that the existence of Deity precedes all creation, reaching into the past beyond the capacity of the human mind to comprehend, and likewise with regard to the future, but the repetition of olam and the form of the phrase show that this Hebrew word did not itself compass infinity. The same conclusion arises from the present survey of the cases of olam repeated.
It may of course be urged that it is the whole formula which is meant to convey the sense of eternity. For those who think of eternity as time extended beyond measure into both past and future that could be a possible interpretation wherever the content will permit, but then it would not be olam which implied unbounded duration since when that concept is attributed to the term itself incongruities continually emerge.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/53247 | KOH & 50 MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY / notes (SETTING, COSTUME AND SEQUENCE OF PERFORMANCE, PRODUCTION NOTES) May 25th 2004 SETTING: Basement of Peres Projects On the left and right corners are two drum-kits with cymbals. The kits are painted all white. Both kits have coming out from them thick white painted braids that run from the surface of the drums to the floor. There is a lot of them so the drum kit begin to look like organic creatures. Interweaved between them are also multi-colored weaves. Also, white string also spins out from them like spider-webs and rolling out all over the floor. The wall behind the kits are covered with the faces of 50 different boys, drawn in a variety of media. the drawings are drawn on big sheets of white paper that have been taped to the wall. the tape is mostly silver but also different colors. Crayons, charcoal, pencil, pencil crayons and paints. However all their eyes are painted in silhouttes of gold, they all have golden "ian curtis" eyes. Covered over all the drawings are layers of different colored paints, and then over them layers of colored wax. There are also parts of the walls with partial holes in them, and the holes are colored and also wax spills out from them. *drawings (each boy) are for sale at $50 each. buy them by cutting it out direct from wall. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/53261 | Adobe updates Flash 10.1 beta with GMA 500 support
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Adobe has updated its Flash 10.1 beta with support for Intel GMA 500 graphics and Broadcom Crystal HD chips.
According to Nilay Patel of Engadget, the third iteration of Adobe's Flash 10.1 beta should make Hulu and YouTube HD "usable" on machines such as the Sony Vaio P, Vaio X, the Nokia Booklet 3G and the Dell Mini 10.
Adobe updates Flash 10.1 beta with GDMA 500 supportIn addition, the new build also offers support for the Broadcom Crystal HD accelerator found in a number of Intel Pine Trail Atom systems, including the Dell Mini 10 and HP Mini 210.
"We just tried it out on our review HP Mini 210 and it managed 720p YouTube just fine, although 1080p was a no-go," wrote Patel. "We're waiting on some updated Broadcom drivers though, so don't take that as gospel quite yet."
Meanwhile, a Netbooked journalist reported similar HD graphic results with the latest beta version of Flash 10.1.
"I've tried Beta 3 on my UL20A with GMA 4500M HD graphics, but windowed and fullscreen 1080p video is still not smooth and results / CPU usage have no been different for me from older versions.
"I also tried Beta 3 on my ASUS Eee PC T91MT with GMA 500 graphics, with the above drivers and 720p works nicely - not smooth but it's not a slideshow like you get without the Flash 10.1 drivers." |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/53265 | Why Cyclists Should Pay For Rego
Pay to ride.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/53285 | A history of Nokia's from paper mills to Gorbachev
Started in 1865 as a paper manufacturer, Nokia began making radio phones for the military in the 1960s and launched its first handheld in 1987
The launch of Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 Windows smartphones in 2012. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
In 1865, Fredrik Idestam established a pulp mill in south-west Finland and started manufacturing paper. He opened a second mill three years later near the town of Nokia and by 1902, the firm had moved into electricity generating. Shortly after the first world war, Nokia was close to bankruptcy and the nearby Finnish Rubber Works, maker of galoshes, hoses and tyres, bought the firm in order to ensure a power supply. A few years later, the group acquired Finnish Cable Works, exporter of telephone and electricity cables to the Soviet Union, and the crucible of Nokia's electronics business. The three companies merged in 1922 to form a conglomerate.
By the 1960s, Nokia had begun making radio phones for the Finnish military. In 1982, Nokia introduced its first car phone, with the grand title of Mobira Senator. Its first handheld mobile arrived in 1987 and weighed a hefty 0.7kg (1.7lbs). Officially called the Mobira Cityman, it soon became known as the 'Gorba' after Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was pictured using one.
By 1992, conglomerates were out of fashion and Nokia decided to focus entirely on mobile phones, gradually selling off its rubber, cable and consumer electronics businesses.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/53304 | Comments on: Oh good grief. I think you’re right. Keeping up with Sheri's Loopy Life... Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:11:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Theresa in Italy Theresa in Italy Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:58:28 +0000 I too vote with Wonder Husband on the fingering weight noodles, but the rest of them here prefer the sport weight. The dog has no preference. Anything that hits the floor is good. But he seems to be immune to the effects of wool fumes….
By: Kim Kim Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:34:00 +0000 I LOVE the noodle analogy……so hilarious!! I always look forward to your friday recipe day! And I made your winter fruit salad just a few days ago! Still as good as ever. Maybe you could have a recipe contest or something to take the heat off of you to supply a recipe every friday. We could all send some in, and then you and your fam can pick and choose and put some out when you’re needing a breather!
By: Phyll Phyll Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:50:43 +0000 Oh my goodness I laughed so hard over the fingering and sport weight spaghetti noodles I just could hardly contain myself. I think that is just wonderful and so are all of you. This is my favorite place. You are all great!
Must knit now,
By: Lexy Lexy Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:48:48 +0000 You’re not just crazy.. you’re batsh…. well, you, know.
We all appreciate it though. at least you’ve conned your family into joining the insanity instead of resisting it.
*heart* all the new yarn. And the yarn club :D
By: Michele Michele Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:15:49 +0000 Hello Again Sheri! Have you seen the sheep doormat from Lantern Moon? It is at Knit Picks on clearance for $9.99. How cute!
By: Robin Robin Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:16:39 +0000 I am with Wonder Husband on the noodles!
It sounds like you all are having a great time! I don’t feel quite so guilty about being on the of 150 sockers now.
By: Tracy Tracy Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:02:11 +0000 That’s the funniest thing I’ve read today – sport weight vs fingering weight noodles!
You guys sound great, I’d love to spend an evening knitting with you.
By: Patty in Indy Patty in Indy Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:35:07 +0000 Hi Sheri,
You’re so fortunate to have such a Loopy family. You are all a great team. I think that 150 is doable. whew! I know one thing … sure do love us alot to take on that number.
I love the way yarn has now spilled over into your food world. Noodles…I think that is so funny! ~grin~
I only ask one thing, please don’t start looking at Zoe and Casey to make any donations other than moral. If you’re looking at the noodles you might start looking at them for their fur. You know they are both very pretty and would make lovely wool. Oh no, see you have be doing it! Poor babies!
I am glad you ordered Zoe a resting pad. I need to order one for my cat, Jake. Where did you order the pad from?
I love your blog, shop and family. You bring happiness to knitting. I thank all of you for that.
By: Debi Debi Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:31:17 +0000 Poor Zoe!!
I love how knitting is seeping into all aspects of life at the Loopy homestead!
Did you see today’s post? :)
By: Minnie Minnie Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:35:18 +0000 the sock c lub will be a piece of cake! you can assemble the kits (god, i just typed kids!) at your leisure, and print labels (hoping there’s no postal increase between now & then, lol), and then, on the big day, inundate the post guy! how hard is that, lol? all in your copious free time (lol). i started the martha socks yesterday, frogged them twice, then frogged them again today. i think i’ve got it now! (however it’s not in your yarn, i never got any before you sent me my prize (and those needles are LOVELY! what kind of wood iare they?))
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/53374 | Jun 17 2010 9:37am
When did the Internet become poison?
So, this fellow named Nicholas Carr wrote a book called The Shallows. I have not read it (but I want to, I want to suggest anyone interested in the points below do so as well). I have read a review of it called “So Many Links, So Little Time” by John Horgan over at the Wall Street Journal, though (and I’d link it ‘cept it is the WSJ, and they are all “register or die” and I’m not even registered, I just had the article “guest linked” to me.) Anywho, so I read this review, and it is pretty easy to see what it is about: the Internet is turning our brains into mush!
It is an age old argument going as far back as Ralph Waldo Emerson, which both the book and review point out. When trains were getting big, Emerson said “Things are in the saddle / and ride mankind.” So apparently the monkey on our back now is the digital age. And I can see where the author (and the whatever-mongers) are coming from. As I write this, I have emailed, Facebooked, and shopped around for a Smartphone. I have yet to twitter or text, but that is probably forthcoming.
And the reviewer talks about how even his children feel the weight of the information age on them. His son confesses that he wants to cut down on his online time, but that he fears isolating himself from his friends. And you know what? I can sympathize with that. One reason I’m actually thinking of finally breaking down and getting a Smartphone is because I have to spend over an hour daily when I get home from work catching up on the Twitter, Facebook, and personal email activity of the day. And I also get to see conversations that started and ended that I would have liked to have been a part of but missed out on.
But, there are counter-points to this whole “too much information is giving us collective ADHD and an inability to have deep, poignant thoughts.” My favored author right now, Brandon Sanderson, blogs, tweets, Facebooks, emails, has a Smartphone, and still writes an epic fantasy novel a year. I personally am an Internet junkie and I still have written multiple manuscripts without taking a de-wired hiatus, and my blogs here on are hardly chopped liver intellectually, if I do say so myself. Critical summary and analysis is not a simpleton’s game.
So why is it that some people feel spread thin by the information age and some don’t? Well, age is one component, I think. My generation is the first to really be born into the Internet. I was still in middle school when it was common to bike down to the library and surf online for a bit to look for something, and I had broadband in the house before I left high school. I was using the Internet on a regular basis in my education to look things up, and I was even allowed to use websites as sources in my papers (provided they were decently reputable). At the same time, I still know how to move around a library and look things up (I haven’t done it in a while, but I remember doing it and still can), and I know how to enjoy long-form narrative (or non-fiction, if it is a subject I like.)
And there, I think, is the core of what it takes to not be mush-brained. So many people today don’t know how to just sit down and read a book. Even a shorter novel of three hundred pages or so requires far more of an attention span than anything on the Internet (well, I guess eBooks are a-comin’, but that is more book than “Internet-spawn”). And this, I also think, is why long-form narrative, ie, the book, will always be around just as it has since the days before they even could call them books and instead called them epic poems.
Oh, and as an aside, I think the Internet in general is a wonderful thing. Yeah, sometimes my brain is mush-like, but I am managing to retain (at least to the greater extent) my ability to think deeply and collate information as it comes at me, even with the speed of the digital age. And that means I am processing information all the better and having more to process. I think anyone in my generation has this ability—though perhaps they need to read a book more often to exercise that ability—and I shudder to think of what my children will be like.
Anyway, you can have your information overload and news programs that look more like websites all you want, the strong mind craves immersion that only a long-form work can give. It also craves the transparency. Long-form gives people a story in which they can ignore the medium it is being told in. There are no fancy graphics, no loud noises, and no actors chewing the scenery. Aside from an occasional typo or general error on the author’s part, books are clear as a window.
And through that wonderful streak-free surface, the mind can exercise deep, cognitive thought, even if reading sessions are occasionally interrupted. I mean, even as connected as I am, and even with my laptop lid still open next to me while I read, the entire world, electronic and otherwise, becomes a little dimmer as I turn inward and curl up with a good book.
Richard Fife is a blogger, writer, and doing what he can to not be the next Lawnmower Man. You can read more of his ramblings and some of his short stories at
1. Negrore
Alas, my brain went mush-like in these last ten years. That's the reason why I just dropped down internet, selecting a few blogs (as this one) to continue the effort of growing up as a writer (already published in Italy, four times).
But I agree with you, even if this premise doesn't seem to point it out.
The *real* problem is that internet ate my reading-time. And I'm aware of the problem. Now I want it back. But it costs a lot, to me, focusing on reading right now. Dropping down internet is the only solution I saw to do it well and train another time my mush-like brain to be a writer-like brain.
It's a problem, but only for those who don't see the effects because they've never been in a different way. Children, today, must be educated to use internet and read at the same time, otherwise ADHD will spread its wings out of control.
The funny thing is that internet caught me because of books and readers, only after being published. After two, three years of struggling around the problem, I made my decision: few things on internet, much more time reading. But it wasn't so simple to see how big was the problem (for me). Only my past life-style - I was a strong reader - taught me that I was behaving like a mushroom.
I wouldn't be so sure that new generations won't have this problem. ADHD growing trend shows it: it's not a deadly problem, but we must be aware of it.
A smile,
P.S.: hope my English is good enough.
2. Patrick Rennie
Also, learning to read will make you quit using your memory!
We're in the middle of the maturation of one new mass medium (video games) and the adolescence of a second one (internet). That means all the other mass mediums get to play musical chairs with the finite amount of audience until things settle down. Then in a few decades, they get to do it all over again as the next new mass medium pops up, and the limited audience starts enjoying their brain visions or whatever it ends up being.
Book lovers can take comfort in the fact they aren't losing too many of their fellow readers during the current shuffle or the next one, because nobody reads books already. Seriously, we lost out to movies, radio, and television in the first half of 20th century. Books ended up at the bottom of the mass medium pile, with only comic books beneath it. Heck, you should be happy about the growth of the internet. With so much of its content being reading (hi there!) and writing (that would be your response telling me I'm wrong in response to my response telling you you're wrong), you should be happy about the internet. Functional literacy is going up. That doesn't automatically mean more book readers, but it certainly preps the ground better than television does.
So old people who are apparently younger than me (300 baud modem, people), get off my lawn!
Brook Freeman
3. LongStrider
@1 Negrore
What are you doing all that time on the internet if not reading?
Online I read the news, sports reports, books, fanfic, blogs, comics, professional journal articles & databases, email and many others. On occasion I watch a streamed movie through Netflix or some Youtube. I play lots of games. But even with the last two I'm reading all the time, instructions, quests, item descriptions, subtitles, etc. How can you possibly be spending huge amounts of time online and not reading?
Jason Ramboz
4. jramboz
This is a very, very old argument indeed. (The following example comes from memory, and is slightly exagerated for effect, so please forgive me if I get the details wrong.)
Socrates, in fact, argued that this new-fangled thing called "writing" would ruin people's minds, since no one would ever remember anything. They'd just go look it up on paper instead of having it in their heads! We'd all become mindless research-zombies, incapable of thinking anything other than what's written down. O, as they say these days, noes!
Ironically, the only reason we know anything at all about Socrates was that one of his students bothered to write down the stuff he said.
I'd also be very surprised if people weren't making the exact same "mush-brain" arguments when the printing press made masses of new information available to the average person. And our kids, I'm sure, will say the same thing about the 21st Century's Next Big Thing.
Ken Walton
5. carandol
I'm forty-eight, and when I got into reading SF and fantasy as a young teen, a three-hundred page novel was long! Most were around 150 pages, maybe 175, and a book over 200 pages was something of a blockbuster. I don't know what this says about shortening attention spans! :-)
6. euphrosyne
"I have not read it"
As a voracious reader, one of the things my 'old age' (thirtysomething) has taught me is that essays, arguments, and the like that start this way are never worth the time they take.
Bloviations of the "everyone's talking about this lengthy, well-considered work by a respected figure, and I haven't read it, but let me tell you what *I* think about it anyway..." variety are so common as to seem like air on the internet. Everyone's talking, but no one knows what they're talking about.
Let me ask you this: why did you feel it important to post this article? Why would you pen a moderately lengthy (by blog standards) post discussing a work you've never read? (Hey--isn't that what the book is about?) Which leads to the next question--why haven't you read the book? Is it because you don't have the time or attention span required? (Hey--isn't that what the book is about?) And if it's not worth actually reading, then why is it worth discussing? Is it because of the fragmentary, superficial nature of internet discourse which expects you to quickly form opinions to everything in your RSS feed? (Hey--isn't that what the book is about?)
Worst of all, do you really not see the facepalm-level irony of more or less dismissing the book's central concerns after admitting that you haven't read it and are too young to actually know what the author is comparing your experience against? Knowing how to "move around a library and look things up" does not count as the type of mental calisthentics that educated minds have employed for the past couple thousand years of pre-internet human history.
Maybe you should read the book--not with an eye toward dismissing it at the dodderings of an oldster, but with the goal of actually understanding the nuances of the author's position first (it's not nearly so simple as 'books versus the internet'). Then think it about it for a while. Then come back and tell us what you think. I can guarantee it will be far more substantial than what you've written above.
7. Negrore
@LongStrider: LOL!
You're right: I'm reading all the time (and writing). But the point is another one, I think: a book is another kind of reading and I agree that it causes deep, poignant thoughts.
The way in which I intend this "deep, poignant thoughts" is not that discussing with other people (here, for example) is a cursory way of thinking, but that the continuous jumping from a place to another doesn't allow to really *focus* on something and try to grow that thought in something deeper and more poignant.
Yes, not everything needs to be *so* deep and poignant. But I can say - and you should believe me, because I'm not saying anything good about myself! :) - that "zapping" from a site to another, from a discussion to another, made me less able to concentrate on a single thing as I was once.
At the same time, yes, I guess in this way I'm gaining other abilities, but concentration is not one you can leave behind so carelessly. Can you?
I'm saying that, yes, I understand what the author of the book is talking about, because I discovered that *I* lost something along the way. Or, maybe, I'm wrong and I'm just older! :) (I'm 38 years old, now.)
Richard Fife
8. R.Fife
@6 Amazingly enough, I do want to read this book, despite my initial inclination to not agree with it. What has stopped me as not been a matter of "too long, didn't read" or any a feeling of not enough time. It has been a matter of money, which I am perpetually short on and needing to save for other things (such as Dragon*Con and a planned trip down to FL for the last Space Shuttle Launch in the future, food and beer in the present).
As to why I felt I should respond as I did is because this review (which my father linked to me), caused a brain spasm of thought that I wanted to put down and have a discussion over. And, I think, we are seeing a decent bit of "both sides" in the comment thread so far, so discussion created and thought stimulated. That is all I could ever ask for, and I didn't even have to buy a book.
And for the record, I am 27. I actually worked in a library for a time, and I wept when we got rid of our card catalog. I did a majority of my high school papers using hard text for my research (it was not until senior year that I started getting to use websites).
@5 Carandol Good point. It does seem that 300-pages (in my estimation) is a "shorter" novel now, but that did used to be rather long. I wonder if this "ballooning" of stories is part of why books aren't read as much anymore (aside from the above mentioned loss to TV, radio, and movies.)
9. euphrosyne
"What has stopped me...has been a matter of money..."
"I actually worked in a library..."
"...have to buy a book..."
I think there might be a solution to your's crazy but it just might work... :)
10. hapax
Very much so. Trithemius's DE LAUDE SCRIPTORUM (In Praise of Scribes) is a classic of the genre, and quite readable still.
I even agree with some of his arguments. Nonetheless, alas, I have succumbed to the garish lure of cheaply available printed texts. :-(
Yvonne Eliot
11. Yvonne
I read an interesting article a year or two ago about a scientific study that showed evidence that the brains of today's teens are developing on a neurological level to multi-task (surfing the net, txting, etc.) The structure of their brains are measurably different. I find that fascinating and am curious where it will lead....
Wesley Osam
12. Wesley
Some points that may have been missed by the people who've commented on the book without bothering to read it first:
1. Nicholas Carr is not a luddite and does not believe the internet is evil. His argument is merely that we as a culture are spending too much time multitasking and attention-switching and not spending enough time on activities (such as long-format offline reading) which encourage a strong attention span and deep, solid thought. As Carr puts it, "we're losing our ability to strike a balance between these two very different states of mind."
2. Humans are not good at multitasking. As Yvonne says, some teens may be getting better at multitasking, but being a better multitasker is kind of like being better at holding your breath underwater: you'll never be very good. You don't have the gills.
3. There's a lot of evidence that reading online is different from normal, non-net-connected reading. When we read online, without being aware of it, we're usually skimming. We switch back and forth between articles, tabs, other programs--we don't give ourselves the chance to develop a train of thought. Studies have found that even just the presence of hyperlinks slightly impedes understanding--while you read, you're subconsciously deciding whether or not to click, hooking your attention away from the text.
(Note that this is about reading while hooked up to the internet vs. offline, not about reading from a screen vs. paper.)
I would encourage anyone reading this to read the book before dismissing it.
13. Chris Johnstone
Hm. I've just written this, read it, realized it could sound a bit critical and then wondered whether I should post it. I am posting it, but I don't mean it to be an attack in any way. It's just some thoughts.
I suspect that the thing that leads people to feel mush-brained and information-overloaded is not short-form articles and fiction per se, or the media itself, but the way it is used and the demands on attention that it can impose.
It seems likely that there is a pronounced difference between putting aside a couple hours to facebook and twitter, and on the other hand, having IM messages popping up all day or compulsively checking facebook.
Distraction, we suspect, does do some odd things to the brain. If nothing else, we know that it takes ~15 min to return to a state of concentration after a distraction. We also know that in moments of day-dreaming or blanking out, the brain is actually getting quite crazed with activity--doing something like decompiling probably, possibly akin to what happens during sleep--making, reinforcing or breaking connections.
One thing I've noticed (and of course this is anecdotal, so it doesn't really mean anything) is that in the past when I was exhausted from critical thinking, reading or writing, I used to be more likely to take a walk, go get a cup or tea or stare at the ceiling. Now I tend to flick online and do some casual reading. I'm unconvinced that this represents the same sort of decompiling--I don't know if it's better or worse, but I suspect it is different and generates different neuroplasticy sorts of effects in the brain. It could put more demands on the sleeping brain. It could do something else entirely. I'm not a neurologist. I can't really say.
I guess, I should raise a further point that I'm not quite sure which way around you were arguing cause and effect. I gather you are arguing that reading long-form books (I don't think this should be restricted entirely to fiction) imparts skills of concentration? The argument could just as easily be made that skills of concentration are needed to read long form books.
The truth is probably somewhere in between--that the skill and the activity constitute a feedback loop in which one reinforces the other. Most acquired skills seem to work this way. However, it seems perfectly plausible that some people will not benefit from reading a long form book simply because they currently lack the concentration skills needed to read a long-form book. There needs to be a gateway into the activity for their to be a benefit.
Bridging books for children (the sort of semi-novels that older children and some younger teens read) probably serve this function in adolescent brains--though for adults, I don't think much of this sort of thing exists. Novellas or graphic novels or pencil and paper RPGs are probably the closest we have. Some of the more story-based computer games might fall in this category, except that they tend to rely too much on catching and keeping people's attention by playing around with the frequency of environmental change*. Of the three, graphic novels are probably the most widely consumed. I wonder if that may imply interesting things about the graphic novel or the hybrid illustrated books for adults in the future?
There's also an assumption inherent in your argument that the concentration skills gained through reading a story (which is entertaining and which will usually, if good, hold a person's attention) will translate in a beneficial way to other aspects of a person's life. That may be true. It may not be. It's a big assumption.
Also, also, I'm getting a bit scientific-critical here, but I suppose I need to point out that illustrating your argument with two anecdotes (yourself and Brian) is not evidence. It's akin to stating that because my uncle Jack lost his left leg in the war and he gets along just fine, therefore left legs are superfluous and no-one should be bothered by a similar loss. It's a generalization, and rather a broad one.
I like to think of myself as a basically nice person who doesn't criticize strangers online, but you did illustrate your argument by stating that the intellectual rigor of your writing was itself evidence of a differentiated power of concentration. Um, well... the thing is... I'm sorry, but your argument is pretty shabby, and not good evidence in and of itself of anything. There's no inductive reasoning involved at all (as far as I can see) and the deductive reasoning is flimsy. It's not so much an argument as a rhetorical statement.
Understand that I'm not supporting Richard Carr in this either. As far as I can tell, he's guilty of the same sort of flimsy reasoning--my kids find this newfangled internet thing a problem, therefore everyone of their age must be experiencing the same thing.
Anyway, I don't mean to seem too critical if I've come off that way, and I apologize if I do. I'm not interesting in getting drawn into an argument so I possibly won't check back in here for a bit. I'll give other people time to weigh in and discuss it. In the end, these are just some thoughts.
As an aside, a couple of interesting books in this field are Damon Young's 'Distraction' and Norman Doidge's 'The Brain that Changes Itself'.
The latter has come under some criticism, but is still worth reading.
* Turns out the human brain is wired to pay extra attention to an environment if it is changing at a rate over a given frequency. This is probably because rapidly changing environments are potentially dangerous. Computer games and gambling machines both take advantage of this, though for a long time the designers didn't really know why or exactly how it worked.
Richard Fife
14. R.Fife
@All You are all making good points, which, as I said above, was really some of my main reasons to posting this. I wanted a caucus of information from other sources (including some people who have read the book, it seems, yay!) But, I am remiss in that I did not include the following line, and I have since edited the blog to include it:
Yes, I understand and fully appreciate the irony of me wanting to start a discussion about this topic based on the "limited information" that I had. But, honestly, I feel a more expanded person for all of my commenters' input. Thank you, all, and thank you to those who might comment after.
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Well, my personal objections to the idea of chivalry aside, it's probably your real-world answer. Trek's odd like that - it insists that women be capable security guards, soldiers, etc, but then also has difficulty treating them like they are.
More on topic, do we even know if in-universe it's intended to be a Vulcan pinch? Surely other cultures have developed pressure-point attacks or the like that cause temporary unconsciousness?
Trek Survivor's right, though, in that we don't really need to know how and when he learnt it (whatever it was); it makes sense he would, so it's not really a "hold on a minute..." moment.
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1x8" or 1x10" practice combo will have a very hard time keeping up with a drummer and guitarist unless your guitarist also uses a small SS practice combo and your drummer is on an electric kit again through a similarly powerful amp. The closest I can recommend to what you want is to find one of these used. Should be dirt cheap used, behringer has such a bad reputation they're near worthless. In reality it's heavy for what it is, and doesn't have the best sound but in my experience it's near indestructible (probably has something to do with the weight) and is cheap.
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In addition, Soulshatter becomes Provocation which taunts your target, Twilight Ward becomes Fury Ward which will absorb all schools of damage, Shadow Bolt becomes Demonic Slash, and Fear becomes Sleep.
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Summary: Acer's Iconia Tab A100 joins a growing sector of the Android tablet market, being a 7in. model.
Acer's Iconia Tab A100 joins a growing sector of the Android tablet market, being a 7in. model. Our review sample ran Android 3.2, though online we notice various sellers advertising it as an Android 3.0 device. It's a nicely made offering with good specifications, and may well find itself a niche, but we have a couple of niggles.
There are two versions of this tablet. The Iconia Tab A100, which we had for review, is a Wi-Fi-only version, and we've seen it online for around £300 (inc. VAT). The Iconia Tab A101 is identical apart from adding 3G SIM support into the mix; we've seen this online for around £350 (inc. VAT).
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There is 512MB of RAM supporting the processor and 8GB of internal memory. Under a tab on one long edge there is a microSD card slot for adding more storage. This tab also protects the SIM card slot — blocked out in the case of our Wi-Fi-only model.
The screen automatically rotates, but there's a small lock switch next to the volume buttons on one long edge so that you can prevent the motion sensors from kicking in if necessary.
One short edge houses a headphone jack and the on/off switch, while the other houses twin speakers, the power connector, USB and HDMI ports and a docking connector (we've not seen the dock). There is a touch-sensitive home button on the screen bezel along with a 2-megapixel camera; a 5-megapixel camera with a small LED flash sits on the back.
Acer has included Dolby Mobile for enhanced audio output. Still, we were disappointed by the quality of sound output, which is rather tinny both through the device's speakers and our (good-quality) headphones.
Build quality, on the other hand, is impressive. The chassis is plastic but solid, and the very slightly angled long edges mean the Acer Iconia Tab A100 doesn't look like a dull rectangle.
Acer tries to add a little personalisation by grouping applications together. The main screen contains icons for Games, eReading, Multimedia and Social. Predictably enough, tapping one of these launches an app browser.
Choose eReader and you get two icons — for the LumiRead and Kobo e-reading platforms. Choose Games and, rather sadly, there's just one app available — a collection of solitaire card games.
The Multimedia area offers a little more choice, with three options: YouTube, MusicA, which identifies music playing locally over the air, and the nemoPlayer, which you can use to share music, video and stills over DLNA. Social gives access to Google Talk, a Facebook client and Acer's SocialJogger social media aggregator for Facebook and Twitter.
Frankly, with multiple home screens available that can be filled with shortcuts to apps, we find these tiered access models rather irritating. Adding insult to injury, Acer has failed to include some apps in its groupings — the Media area is missing the Gallery and Music Player apps, for example. We're also surprised that although Acer includes its own Clear-fi media-sharing application on the Iconia Tab A100, it does not earn a space in the Multimedia group.
The Acer Iconia Tab is a neat Android 3.0 tablet. However, Acer could have done more to enhance the audio output, and should have done less in terms of providing application groupings.
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Written contributions come from Toby Duane, Richard Elsberry (ODD), Bob Farnham (The Chigger Patch of Fandom), W. Paul Ganley, A.W. Haddon, Orville W. Mosher, and Ev Winne.
Bert Hirschhorn also wrote a column for Spaceship.
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The fact that God has created a realm of personal beings other than mankind is a fitting topic for systematic theological studies for it naturally broadens our understanding of God, of what He is doing, and how He works in the universe.
One has only to peruse the amount of space devoted to angelology in standard theologies to demonstrate this. This disregard for the doctrine may simply be neglect or it may indicate a tacit rejection of this area of biblical teaching. Even Calvin was cautious in discussing this subject (Institutes, I, xiv, 3).2
Though the doctrine of angels holds an important place in the Word of God, it is often viewed as a difficult subject because, while there is abundant mention of angels in the Bible, the nature of this revelation is without the same kind of explicit description we often find with other subjects developed in the Bible:
(3) Finally, there are numerous references to angels by the Lord Jesus, who is declared to be the Creator of all things, which includes the angelic beings. Paul wrote, “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities (a reference to angels)—all things have been created by Him and for Him.”
So while the mention of angels may seem incidental to some other subject contextually, it is an important element of divine revelation and should not be neglected, especially in view of the present craze and many misconceptions about angels. It is out of this extended body of Scripture, therefore, that the doctrine of angels, as presented in this study, will be developed. The objective is to make the Bible our authority rather than the speculations of men or their experiences or what may sound logical to people.
Though theologians have been cautious in their study of angels, in recent years we have been bombarded by what could easily be called Angelmania. In “Kindred Spirit” Dr. Kenneth Gangel has written an article on the widespread discussion and fascination with angels even by the secular world which he entitled, Angelmania.4 Gangel writes,
In his 1990 book Angels: An Endangered Species, Malcolm Godwin estimates that over the last 30 years one in every ten pop songs mentions an angel. But that was just romantic fun.
Now our culture takes angels seriously, if not accurately. In the last two years Time, Newsweek, Ladies’ Home Journal, Redbook, and a host of other popular magazines have carried articles about angels. In mid-1994, ABC aired a two-hour, prime time special titled “Angels: the Mysterious Messengers.” In Newsweek’s November 28, 1994 issue an article titled “In Search of the Sacred” observed that “20% of Americans have had a revelation from God in the last year, and 13% have seen or sensed the presence of an angel” (p. 54).
Newsweek is right; modern society, so seemingly secular and hopelessly materialistic, desperately searches for some spiritual and supernatural meaning. If angels can provide it, then angels it will be. Certainly they are more cheerful and brighter than our long-standing infatuation with movies about demons and evil spirits, along with endless Dracula revivals5
The bookstores abound with books on angels and many claim encounters with angels. One of the major networks has a popular program entitled “Touched By An Angel.” Certainly, this is just a story to entertain, but it does illustrate our fascination with this topic. In addition, it illustrates a very poor grasp of what the Bible really teaches about angels and about God. By these comments I do not mean to discount all the so-called encounters with angels that we occasionally read or hear about. Why? Because, as will be discussed in more detail later, angels are servants of God, described by the author of Hebrews as, “ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation.” See also Psalm 91:11 and Matthew 4:11. So certainly, due to the inspired and inerrant character of Scripture, we can trust completely in the Bible’s teaching on angels and, “with a perhaps lesser degree of certainty, consider the personal accounts of reputable Christians.”6
There is an important question that needs to be asked. Why all the fascination of our culture with angels? First, there is always a bent in man for the miraculous or supernatural, for that which lifts him out of the mundane and pain of life, even if for a moment, but there is more to this issue. The interest in angels is due in part to pendulum swings of society. In the past, society had swung from the gross mystical speculations of the middle ages to the rationalism of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Now, due in part to the failure of rationalism and materialism to give answers and meaning to life, the emptiness of man’s heart along with the futility of his pursuits has given rise to his interest in the mystical, in the supernatural, and in the spiritual. The tragedy is that our culture continues to pursue this independently of God’s revelation, the Bible. The pendulum has swung back to mysticism as it is seen so prominently in the New Age movement, the occult, and in the cults. So belief in Satan, demons, and angels is more and more common place today and used as a substitute for a relationship with God through Christ. This predisposition is not because people are believing the Bible, but because of the rise of occult phenomena and the futility of life without God (see Eph. 2:12 and 4:17-19).
A Simple Definition
The Terms Used of Angels
General Terms
Though other words are used for these spiritual beings, the primary word used in the Bible is angel. Three other terms undoubtedly referring to angels are seraphim (Isa. 6:2), cherubim (Ezek. 10:1-3), and ministering spirits, which is perhaps more of a description than a name (Heb. 1:13). More will be said on this later when dealing with the classification of angels.
The Hebrew word for angel is mal`ach, and the Greek word is angelos. Both words mean “messenger” and describe one who executes the purpose and will of the one whom they serve. The context must determine if a human messenger is in view, or one of the celestial beings called “angels,” or if it is being used of the second Person of the Trinity as will be discussed below. The holy angels are messengers of God, serving Him and doing His bidding. The fallen angels serve Satan, the god of this world (aiwn, “age”) (2 Cor. 4:4).
Illustrations of uses that do not refer to celestial beings:
(1) For human messengers from one human to another (Luke 7:24; Jam. 2:25).
(2) For human messengers bearing a divine message (Hag. 1:13; Gal. 4:14).
(3) For an impersonal agent, Paul’s thorn in the flesh described as “a messenger of Satan” (2 Cor. 12:7).
(4) For the messengers of the seven churches (Rev. 2-3). It is also used in connection with the seven churches of Asia, “To the angel of the church in …” Some take this to mean a special messenger or delegation to the church as a teaching elder, others take it to refer to a guardian angel.
Thus, the term angelos is not only a generic term, pertaining to a special order of beings (i.e., angels), but it is also descriptive and expressive of their office and service. So when we read the word “angel” we should think of it in this way.
Holy Ones
The unfallen angels are also spoken of as “holy ones” (Ps. 89:5, 7). The reason is twofold. First, being the creation of a holy God, they were created perfect without any flaw or sin. Second, they are called holy because of their purpose. They were “set apart” by God and for God as His servants and as attendants to His holiness (cf. Isa. 6).
“Host” is the Hebrew tsaba, “army, armies, hosts.” It is a military term and carries the idea of warfare. Angels are referred to as the “host,” which calls our attention to two ideas. First, it is used to describe God’s angels as the “armies of heaven” who serve in the army of God engaged in spiritual warfare (Ps. 89:6, 8; 1 Sam. 1:11; 17:45). Second, it calls our attention to angels as a multitude of heavenly beings who surround and serve God as seen in the phrase “Lord of hosts” (Isa. 31:4). In addition, tsaba sometimes includes the host of heavenly bodies, the stars of the universe.
Difficult Terms
Sons of God
In their holy state, unfallen angels are called “sons of God” in the sense that they were brought into existence by the creation of God (Job 1:6; 38:7). Though they are never spoken of as created in the image of God, they may also be called “sons of God” because they possess personality like God. This will be demonstrated later in this study. This term is also used in Genesis 6:2 which tells us the “sons of God” took wives from among the “daughters of men.” Some scholars understand “the sons of God” of Genesis 6:2 to refer to the sons of the godly line of Seth and the “daughters of men” to refer to the ungodly line of the Cainites. Others, in keeping with the use of “sons of God” in Job, believe the term refers to fallen angels who mated with the daughters of men to produce an extremely wicked and powerful progeny that led to the extreme wickedness of Noah’s day. Most who hold to this latter view find further support in 2 Peter 2:4-6 and Jude 6-7.7 Still others believe they refer to despots, powerful rulers. Ross writes:
The incident is one of hubris, the proud overstepping of bounds. Here it applies to “the sons of God,” a lusty, powerful lot striving for fame and fertility. They were probably powerful rulers who were controlled (indwelt) by fallen angels. It may be that fallen angels left their habitation and inhabited bodies of human despots and warriors, the mighty ones of the earth.8
The Angel of the Lord
The second difficulty concerns the identity of “the angel of the Lord” as it is used in the Old Testament. A careful study of the many passages using this term suggests that this is no ordinary angel, but a Theophany, or better, a Christophany, a preincarnate appearance of Christ. The angel is identified as God, speaks as God, and claims to exercise the prerogatives of God. Still, in some passages He distinguishes Himself from Yahweh (Gen. 16:7-14; 21:17-18; 22:11-18; 31:11-13, Ex. 3:2; Judg. 2:1-4; 5:23; 6:11-22; 13:3-22; 2 Sam. 24:16; Zech. 1:12; 3:1; 12:8). That the Angel of the Lord is a Christophany is suggested by the fact a clear reference to “the Angel of the Lord” ceases after the incarnation. References to an angel of the Lord in Luke 1:11; and 2:8 and Acts 5:19 lack the Greek article which would suggest an ordinary angel.
The Origin, Nature, and Number of Angels
Angels Are Created Beings
The Fact of Their Creation
That angels are created beings and not the spirits of departed or glorified human beings is brought out in Psalm 148. There the Psalmist calls on all in the celestial heavens, including the angels, to praise God. The reason given is, “For He commanded and they were created” (Ps. 148:1-5). The angels as well as the celestial heavens are declared to be created by God.
Since God is Spirit (John 4:24) it is natural to assume that there are created beings who more closely resemble God than do the mundane creatures who combine both the material and immaterial. There is a material kingdom, an animal kingdom, and a human kingdom; So it may be assumed, there is an angelic or spirit kingdom. However, Angelology rests not upon reason or supposition, but upon revelation.9
The Time of Their Creation
Though the exact time of their creation is never stated, we know they were created before the creation of the world. From the book of Job we are told that they were present when the earth was created (Job 38:4-7) so their creation was prior to the creation of the earth as described in Genesis one.
The Agent of Their Creation
Scripture specifically states that Christ, as the one who created all things, is the creator of angels (cf. John 1:1-3 with Col. 1:16).
The Son’s Creation includes “all” things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. These indicate the entire universe, both material and immaterial. A highly organized hierarchy of angelic beings is referred to with the word “thrones” (qronoi), “powers” (kuriothtes), “rulers” (arcai), and “authorities” (exousiai). This not only indicates a highly organized dominion in the spirit world of angels, but shows that Paul was writing to refute an incipient form of Gnosticism that promoted the worship of angels in place of the worship of Christ (cf. Col. 2:18). In this, Paul demonstrates superiority and rightful place of worship as supreme (cf. Eph. 1:21; 3:10; 6:12; Phil. 2:9-10; Col. 2:10, 15).10
The Nature and Number of Their Creation
The angels were created simultaneously as a host or a company. God created man and the animal kingdom in pairs with the responsibility and ability to procreate. Angels, however, were created simultaneously as a company, a countless host of myriads (Col. 1:16; Neh. 9:6). This is suggested by the fact they are not subject to death or any form of extinction and they do not propagate or multiply themselves as with humans. Hebrews 9:27 says, “… it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment.” While fallen angels will be judged in the future and permanently confined to the lake of fire (Matt. 25:41; 1 Cor. 6:4; 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6), there is never any mention of the death of angels (see Luke 20:36). Nevertheless, they are an innumerable host created before the creation of the earth (cf. Job 38:7; Neh. 9:6; Ps. 148:2, 5; Heb. 12:22; Dan. 7:10; Matt. 26:53; Rev. 5:11; with Matt. 22:28-30; Luke 20:20-36).
Angels Are Spirit Beings
Their Abode
Statements like, “the angels which are in heaven” (Mark 13:32) and “an angel from heaven” suggest that angels have fixed abodes or centers for their activities. However, due to the ministry and abilities given to them in the service of God, they have access to the entire universe. They are described as serving in heaven and on earth (cf. Isa. 6:1f; Dan. 9:21; Rev. 7:2; 10:1).
Though fallen angels seem to have an abode other than heaven itself, no specific location is given except that Satan will be bound in the “Abyss” for the thousand years after the Second Coming before he is released (Rev. 20:3). Likewise the plague which seems to be demonic is spoken of as coming from the Abyss (9:1-30). Fallen angels also have a king who is referred to as “the angel of the Abyss” (vs. 11). The destiny of fallen angels is the lake of fire (Matt. 25:41). The holy angels will dwell in the new heavens and new earth described in Revelation 21-22.11
The reference to “the Abyss” brings up another important element regarding the abode of the fallen angels. Ryrie writes:
The Scriptures clearly indicate two groups of fallen angels, one consisting of those who have some freedom to carry out Satan’s plans, and the other who are confined. Of those who are confined, some are temporarily so, while others are permanently confined in Tartarus (2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6). The Greeks thought of Tartarus as a place of punishment lower than hades. Those temporarily confined are in the abyss (Luke 8:31; Rev. 9:1-3, 11), some apparently consigned there to await final judgment while others will be loosed to be active on the earth (vv. 1-3, 11, 14; 16:14).12 (emphasis mine)
Jude also speaks of an abode for angels:
While the meaning of this passage is debated, it does show us that angels not only have a domain or area of authority assigned to them, but a dwelling place.
The most likely reference here is to the angels (“sons of God,” cf. Gen. 6:4; Job 1:6; 2:1) who came to earth and mingled with women. This interpretation is expounded in the pseudepigraphical Book of Enoch (7, 9.8, 10.11; 12.4), from which Jude quotes in v. 14, and is common in the intertestamental literature and the early church fathers (e.g., Justin Apology 2.5). These angels “did not keep their positions of authority” (ten heauton archen). The use of the word arche for “rule,” “dominion,” or “sphere” is uncommon but appears to be so intended here (cf. BAG, p. 112). The implication is that God assigned angels stipulated responsibilities (arche, “dominion”) and a set place (oiketerion). But because of their rebellion, God has kept or reserved (tetereken perfect tense) these fallen angels in darkness and in eternal chains awaiting final judgment. Apparently some fallen angels are in bondage while others are unbound and active among mankind as demons.13
Their Immaterialness
Though at times they have revealed themselves in the form of human bodies (angelophanies) as in Genesis 18:3, they are described as “spirits” in Hebrews 1:14. This suggests they do not have material bodies as humans do. This is further supported by the fact they do not function as human beings in terms of marriage and procreation (Mark 12:25) nor are they subject to death (Luke 20:36).
Mankind, including our incarnate Lord, is “lower than the angels” (Heb. 2:7). Angels are not subject to the limitations of man, especially since they are incapable of death (Luke 20:36). Angels have greater wisdom than man (2 Sam. 14:20), yet it is limited (Matt. 24:36). Angels have greater power than man (Matt. 28:2; Acts 5:19; 2 Pet. 2:11), yet they are limited in power (Dan. 10:13).
Angels, however, have limitations compared to man, particularly in future relationships. Angels are not created in the image of God, therefore, they do not share man’s glorious destiny of redemption in Christ. At the consummation of the age, redeemed man will be exalted above angels (1 Cor. 6:3).14
Millard Erickson writes:
That angels are spirits may also be inferred from the following considerations:
We are told that our struggle is not against “flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12).
Paul, in Colossians 1:16, seems to identify the heavenly forces as invisible.
That angels are spirits seems to follow (although not necessarily from Jesus’ assertions that angels do not marry (Matt. 22:30) and do not die (Luke 20:36).15
Angels, though spirit beings and very powerful, are not omnipotent, omniscient, nor omnipresent. They cannot be everywhere at once.
Their Appearance
Since they are spirit beings, they are usually not seen, unless God gives the ability to see them or unless they manifest themselves. Balaam could not see the angel standing in his way until the Lord opened his eyes (Num. 22:31) and Elisha’s servant could not see the host of angels surrounding him until Elisha prayed for his eyes to be opened (2 Kings 6:17). When angels have been seen as recorded in Scripture, they were often mistaken as men because they were manifested in a man-like appearance (Gen. 18:2, 16, 22; 19:1, 5, 10, 12, 15, 16; Judg. 13:6; Mark 16:5; Luke 24:4). Sometimes, they appear in a way that either manifests God’s glory (Luke 2:9; 9:26) or in some form of brilliant apparel (cf. Matt. 28:3; John 20:12; Acts 1:10 with Ezek. 1:13; Dan. 10:6). Consistently, they have appeared as real men, never as ghosts, or as winged animals (cf. Gen. 18:2; 19:1; Mark 16:3; Luke 24:4).
They are occasionally pictured in other forms and in other manifestations as with wings, and as a combination of man, beast, and birds as in Ezekiel 1:5f and Isaiah 6:6. But apparently such manifestations only occurred by way of a vision or special revelation from God. No angel literally appeared in such form.
They also seem to always have appeared as youthful or mature men (Mark 16:5), but never as old men, perhaps because they neither age nor die (Luke 20:36).
In the present fascination of our culture, previously referred to as angelmania, the common conception of angels is that of winged creatures and most times as female.
Some of the commonly held conceptions are not supported by the scriptural witness. There are no indications of angels appearing in female form. Nor is there explicit reference to them as winged, although Daniel 9:21 and Revelation 14:6 speak of them as flying. The cherubim and seraphim are represented as winged (Exod. 25:20; Isa. 6:2), as are the symbolic creatures of Ezekiel 1:6 (cf. Rev. 4:8). However, we have no assurance that what is true of cherubim and seraphim is true of angels in general. Since there is no explicit reference indicating that angels as a whole are winged, we must regard this as at best an inference, but not a necessary inference, from the biblical passages which describe them as flying.16
While angels generally appear as men in Scripture, Zechariah 5:9 may suggest this is not always the case. The two women mentioned in this passage are not specifically called angels, but they are clearly agents of God or forces of Satan, like angels, good or evil.
Their Holiness
All angels were created holy, without sin, and in a state of perfect holiness.
Originally all angelic creatures were created holy. God pronounced His creation good (Gen. 1:31), and, of course, He could not create sin. Even after sin entered the world, God’s good angels, who did not rebel against Him, are called holy (Mark 8:38). These are the elect angels (1 Tim. 5:21) in contrast to the evil angels who followed Satan in his rebellion against God (Matt. 25:41).17
Their Creatureliness
As created beings, they are of course mere creatures. They are not divine and their worship is explicitly forbidden (see Col. 2:18; Rev. 19:10; 22:9). As a separate order of creatures, they are both distinct from human beings and higher than humans with powers far beyond human abilities in this present age (cf. 1 Cor. 6:3; Heb. 1:14; 2:7). But as creatures they are limited in their powers, knowledge, and activities (1 Peter 1:11-12; Rev. 7:1). Like all of creation, angels are under God’s authority and subject to His judgment (1 Cor. 6:3; Matt. 25:41).
Following the revelation given to John, on two occasions the apostle fell on his face in worship, but the angel quickly told John not to worship him and then gave the reason. Angels are but “fellow servants” and called upon to serve God as all God’s creatures should. So John was told to “worship God.” The worship of angels (as with any other object of worship) distracts from the worship of God and attributes godlike powers to the object of worship. Angels are powerful and awesome in many ways, but, like us, they are only creatures and servants of the living God who alone deserves our worship. This means we are not to pray to them or trust in them even though God may use them to minister to our needs in various ways. Our trust is to be in God, not angels. They minister to us at His bidding under His authority and power. Though sometimes the instrument of aid or deliverance was an angel, New Testament believers recognized it was the Lord who delivered them (see Acts 12:11).
In Acts 27:23-25, Luke recounted Paul’s experience with an angel who brought him a message from the Lord, but there was no worship of the angel. Instead, Paul’s faith was in the God he served.
Though writing about their invisibility to mankind, Chafer has an interesting comment:
One reason angels are rendered invisible to human sight may be that , if they were seen, they would be worhiped. Man, who is so prone to idolatry as to worship the works of his own hands, would hardly be able to resist the worship of angels were they before his eyes.18
The church at Colossae had been invaded by false teachers who were teaching a false humility and the worship of angels as a part of the means to spirituality. It seems these teachers were claiming special mystic insights by way of visions in connection with their worship of angels. Concerning this, Paul wrote:
The person attempting to make such judgment is described as one “who delights in false humility and the worship of angels.” The context suggests that he seeks to impose these things on the Colossians and that this is the means by which he attempts to disqualify them for their prize.19
This was demonic because it was an attempt to usurp the preeminent place and sufficiency of Christ as Savior and Lord (cf. Col. 2:10). It is no wonder, then, that the author of Hebrews, in the most extended passage on angels in the New Testament (Heb. 1:5-29), demonstrates the superiority of Christ to even the mighty angels (Heb. 1:2-4, 13). In this he concludes his argument with a question designed to show that Christ, God’s very Son and the radiance of His glory who sits at God’s right hand, is superior to angels for he asked, “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?” (Heb. 1:14).
Their Personalities
There are several qualities common to personality all of which angels possess—personal existence, intellect, emotion, and will. As personalities we see them interacted with over and over again through the Bible. Ryrie writes:
Angels then qualify as personalities because they have these aspects of intelligence, emotions, and will. This is true of both the good and evil angels. Good angels, Satan, and demons possess intelligence (Matt. 8:29; 2 Cor. 11:3; 1 Peter 1:12). Good angels, Satan, and demons show emotions (Luke 2:13; James 2:19; Rev. 12:17). Good angels, Satan, and demons demonstrate that they have wills (Luke 8:28-31; 2 Tim. 2:26; Jude 6). Therefore, they can be said to be persons. The fact that they do not have human bodies does not affect their being personalities (any more than it does with God).20
The fallen angels are even described by actions of personality like lying and sinning (John 8:44; 1 John 3:8-10). Some have considered angels, including Satan, as merely the abstract personification of good and evil, but such is not at all in keeping with the teaching of Scripture.
Their Abilities and Powers
Their Knowledge: Jesus said, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone” (Matt. 24:36). This comment by the Lord suggest two things: (1) The phrase, “not even the angels” implies that angels have superhuman knowledge, but (2) the main statement of this verse shows they are limited in their knowledge, they are not omniscient. That their knowledge is greater is also suggested by the fact they were present at some of the heavenly counsels, were involved in conveying revelation (Gal. 3:19), and were used of God to interpret visions as with Daniel and Zechariah.
Ryrie suggests three reasons for their superior knowledge:
(1) Angels were created as a higher order of creatures in the universe than humans are. Therefore, innately they possess greater knowledge. (2) Angels study the Bible more thoroughly than some humans do and gain knowledge from it (James 2:19; Rev. 12:12). (3) Angels gain knowledge through long observation of human activities. Unlike humans, angels do not have to study the past; they have experienced it. Therefore, they know how others have acted and reacted in situations and can predict with a greater degree of accuracy how we may act in similar circumstances. The experiences of longevity give them greater knowledge.21
Their Strength: Since man is created lower than the angels with limitations angels do not have, we would expect them to possess superhuman strength as well. That angels have greater strength than man is evident from at least two considerations:
(1) Specific Statements in Scripture: Scripture specifically speaks of their greater power. Psalm 103:20 at least implies their greater strength in the statement, “Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word.” Then, 2 Thessalonians 1:7 refers to the return of the Lord with His mighty angels in flaming fire. Further, 2 Peter 2:11 reads, “whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.” The only question here is who is being compared? The major subject of the context is that of the false teachers (humans beings), however, due to verse 10, some believe the comparison is being made between the “angelic majesties” of verse 10, good angels and evil angels. If so, then the verse is stating that the good angels are more powerful than the evil ones.
(2) Their Activities as Described in Scripture: Though their great power is always a derived power from God, the mighty works they accomplish, as in the execution of God’s judgments, demonstrate their superhuman strength (cf. 2 Chron. 32:21; Acts 12:7-11; and the many references to angelic activities in Revelation). In this regard, Elisha’s confidence and prayer for his servant to see the myriad of angels surrounding them in the face of the human forces, suggests their greater power (2 Kings 6:15-17). His confidence was certainly not simply in their greater numbers. Illustrations of their power are seen in Acts 5:19; 12:7, 23; Matthew 28:2 (the stone rolled away by the angel weighed about 4 tons).
The Psalmist exclaimed, “Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, Who alone works wonders” (Ps. 72:18). All miraculous power has its source in God. As angelic creatures, they are subject to the limitations of their creatureliness. They are mighty, but not almighty. Even Satan, a fallen angel, with his angelic powers must operate under the permissive will of God (Job 1:12; 2:6).
Their Position
In Regard to Man
By creation man is lower than the angels (Heb. 2:7-9). Angels are higher in intelligence, power, and movement, yet angels serve men as ministering spirits (Heb. 1:14) sent forth to serve the saints regardless of their high position and power. As mentioned, men are warned to never worship angels for they are only creatures.
Today believers are experientially lower than the angels, yet positionally higher because of their union in Christ (cf. Eph 1:20-22; with Eph 2:4-6 and Heb 2:9). Christians share Christ’s seat at God’s right hand. One day, however, believers will be both positionally and experientially higher and will judge angels (1 Cor 6:3). This undoubtedly refers to some kind of governmental direction believers will have over angels.
With Reference to Christ
By His essential nature and being, Christ is higher because He is God the Creator (cf. Heb 1:4ff with Col. 1:15-17). By Christ’s incarnation He became lower for a little while (Heb 2:9), but this only applied to His humanity. By Christ’s death, burial, resurrection, and ascension He became far superior to angels as the last Adam and the second man (cf. 1 Cor. 15:45-48; Eph. 1:20-22; 1 Pet. 3:18-22; Col. 2:15). As the glorified and exalted God-man He became the last Adam. Adam was the head of the first race of men, but Christ became the head of the second race of regenerated men. He is called last because there will never be another fall, and because He, as the glorified and exalted Savior, is a life-giving Spirit. As the second man from heaven He is viewed as the head and beginning of a new and exalted race of people.
The Division of Angels—Good and Evil
While all the angels were originally created holy and without sin, there was a rebellion by Satan, who, being lifted up by his own beauty, rebelled and sought to exalt himself above God. In his rebellion, he took with him one-third of the angels (Rev. 12:4). This rebellion and fall is probably described for us in Isaiah 14:12-15 and Ezekiel 28:15 embodied in the kings of Babylon and Tyre.22 Prophesying of a future angelic conflict that will occur in the middle of the Tribulation, John wrote, “And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. And the dragon and his angels waged war” (Rev. 12:7). In other words, there are good angels and there are evil angels. Regarding their fall, Bushwell writes:
We infer that the angels which sinned did so in full knowledge of all the issues involved. They chose self-corruption, knowing exactly what they were doing. They sinned without remedy, and there is no atonement for them (II Peter 2:4; Jude 6). On the other hand, it seems that the holy angels, being faced with the same ethical choice and possessing the same God-given ability to choose, remained and are confirmed in their state of holiness. They have never known the experience of sin.23
As is clear from Revelation 12:7 and many other passages, the leader of these fallen angels, or demons as they are also called, is Satan (cf. Matt. 12:25-27). As the leader of these unholy angels, Satan is a liar, a murderer, and a thief (John 10:10). As God’s great antagonist, Satan hates God and His people and is constantly on the prowl like a roaring lion in search of those he may devour by his nefarious schemes (1 Peter 5:8). As an angelic being, Satan, along with his demon-like angels, is supernaturally powerfully and brilliant, and uses all his powers against humanity. Not only is he a liar, a thief, and a distorer, but one of his chief characterizations is deception. John describes him as the one “who deceives the whole world” (John 12:9). In his cunning, he disguises himself as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14). In view of this, the Apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness …” (2 Cor. 11:15).
The Organization of Angels
The Fact of Angelic Organization
While the Bible’s revelation on the organization of angels is rather meager, it says enough to show us there does seem to be organization in the angelic world. They appear to be organized into various ranks and orders and positions. This is suggested by the fact Michael is called the Archangel or chief angel (Jude 9). Then, in Daniel 10:13 he is called one of the chief princes. Other ranks and orders are suggested by the terms used of angels in Ephesians 3:10; 6:12, and 1 Peter 3:22. Ryrie writes:
The Scriptures speak of the “assembly” and “council” of the angels (Ps. 89:5, 7), of their organization for battle (Rev. 12:7), and of a king over the demon-locusts (9:11). They are also given governmental classifications which indicate organization and ranking (Eph. 3:10, good angels; and 6:12, evil angels). Unquestionably God has organized the elect angels and Satan has organized the evil angels.
A very important practical point emerges from this. Angels are organized; demons are organized; yet Christians, individually and in groups, often feel that it is unnecessary that they be organized. This is especially true when it comes to fighting evil. Believers sometimes feel that they can “go it alone” or expect victory without any prior, organized preparation and discipline. It is also true when it comes to promoting good. Believers sometimes miss the best because they do not plan and organize their good works.24
This is further supported by Jude’s statement regarding the angels who left their “domain” (NASB) or “positions of authority” (NIV) in Jude 6. “Domain” is the Greek arch, which can mean, “domain, rule, authority,” or “sphere of influence.”25
The Classifications of Angels
Paul Enns provides us with an excellent overview of most of the various rankings or classifications of the organized angelic world.
Angels who are governmental rulers. Ephesians 6:12 refers to “ranking of fallen angels”: rulers are “those who are first or high in rank”; powers are “those invested with authority”; world-forces of this darkness “expresses the power or authority which they exercise over the world”; spiritual forces of wickedness describes the wicked spirits, “expressing their character and nature.” Daniel 10:13 refers to the “prince of the kingdom of Persia” opposing Michael. This was not the king of Persia but rather a fallen angel under Satan’s control; he was a demon “of high rank, assigned by the chief of demons, Satan, to Persia as his special area of activity” (cf. Rev. 12:7).
Angels who are highest ranking. Michael is called the archangel in Jude 9 and the great prince in Daniel 12:1. Michael is the only angel designated archangel, and may possibly be the only one of this rank. The mission of the archangel is protector of Israel. (He is called “Michael your prince” in Dan. 10:21.) There were chief princes (Dan. 10:13), of whom Michael was one, as the highest ranking angels of God. Ruling angels (Eph. 3:10) are also mentioned, but no further details are given.
Angels who are prominent individuals. (1) Michael (Dan. 10:13; 12:1; Jude 9). The name Michael means “who is like God?” and identifies the only one classified as an archangel in Scripture. Michael is the defender of Israel who will wage war on behalf of Israel against Satan and his hordes in the Tribulation (Rev. 12:7–9). Michael also disputed with Satan about the body of Moses, but Michael refrained from judgment, leaving that to God (Jude 9). Jehovah’s Witnesses and some Christians identify Michael as Christ; this view, however, would suggest Christ has less authority than Satan, which is untenable.
(2) Gabriel (Dan. 9:21; Luke 1:26). His name means “man of God” or “God is strong.” “Gabriel seems to be God’s special messenger of His kingdom program in each of the four times he appears in the Bible record … He reveals and interprets God’s purpose and program concerning Messiah and His kingdom to the prophets and people of Israel.” In a highly significant passage, Gabriel explained the events of the seventy weeks for Israel (Dan. 9:21–27). In Luke 1:26–27 Gabriel told Mary that the One born to her would be great and rule on the throne of David. In Daniel 8:15–16 Gabriel explained to Daniel the succeeding kingdoms of Medo-Persia and Greece as well as the untimely death of Alexander the Great. Gabriel also announced the birth of John the Baptist to Zacharias (Luke 1:11–20).
(3) Lucifer (Isa. 14:12) means “shining one” or “star of the morning.” He may have been the wisest and most beautiful of all God’s created beings who was originally placed in a position of authority over the cherubim surrounding the throne of God.
Angels who are divine attendants. (1) Cherubim are “of the highest order or class, created with indescribable powers and beauty … Their main purpose and activity might be summarized in this way: they are proclaimers and protectors of God’s glorious presence, His sovereignty, and His holiness.” They stood guard at the gate of the Garden of Eden, preventing sinful man from entering (Gen. 3:24); were the golden figures covering the mercy seat above the ark in the Holy of Holies (Exod. 25:17–22); and attended the glory of God in Ezekiel’s vision (Ezek. 1). Cherubim had an extraordinary appearance with four faces—that of a man, lion, ox, and eagle. They had four wings and feet like a calf, gleaming like burnished bronze. In Ezekiel 1 they attended the glory of God preparatory for judgment.
(2) Seraphim, meaning “burning ones,” are pictured surrounding the throne of God in Isaiah 6:2. They are described as each having six wings. In their threefold proclamation, “holy, holy, holy” (Isa. 6:3), it means “to recognize God as extremely, perfectly holy. Therefore, they praise and proclaim the perfect holiness of God. The seraphim also express the holiness of God in that they proclaim that man must be cleansed of sin’s moral defilement before he can stand before God and serve Him.”26
Regarding the governmental rulers in the angelic world, Ryrie described this as follows:
1. Rulers or principalities. These words, used seven times by Paul, indicate an order of angels both good and evil involved in governing the universe (Rom. 8:38; Eph. 1:21; 3:10; 6:12; Col. 1:16; 2:10, 15).
2. Authorities or powers. This likely emphasizes the superhuman authority of angels and demons exercised in relation to the affairs of the world (Eph. 1:21; 2:2; 3:10; 6:12; Col. 1:16; 2:10, 15; 1 Peter 3:22).
3. Powers. This word underscores the fact that angels and demons have greater power than humans (2 Peter 2:11). See Ephesians 1:21 and 1 Peter 3:22.
4. Place of rule. In one place demons are designated as world rulers of this darkness (Eph. 6:12).
5. Thrones or dominions. This designation emphasizes the dignity and authority of angelic rulers in God’s use of them in His government (Eph. 1:21; Col. 1:16; 2 Peter 2:10; Jude 8).27
Some question whether the Seraphim and Cherubim are actually angels since they are never clearly identified as angels, but due to the nature of angels and their service as superhuman servants of God, this is the most logical place to classify them. It would be helpful to also consider Ryrie’s explanation of these angelic beings:
Cherubim: Cherubim constitute another order of angels, evidently of high rank since Satan was a cherub (Ezek. 28:14, 16). They seem to function as guardians of the holiness of God, having guarded the way to the tree of life in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:24). The use of cherubim in the decoration of the tabernacle and temple may also indicate their guarding function (Ex. 26:1ff.; 36:8ff.; 1 Kings 6:23-29). They also bore the throne-chariot which Ezekiel saw (Ezek. 1:4-5; 10:15-20). Some also identify the four living ones of Revelation 4:6 as cherubim, though others feel these represent the attributes of God. Representations of the cherubim will also be a part of the millennial temple (Ezek. 41:18-20).
Seraphim: All we know about this rank of angelic beings is found in Isaiah 6:2, 6. Apparently the seraphim were an order similar to the cherubim. They acted as attendants at the throne of God and agents of cleansing. Their duty also was to praise God. Their description suggests a six-winged humanlike creature. The word may be derived from a root meaning “to burn” or possibly from a root which means “to be noble.”28
Three other classification of angels remain:
1. Elect Angels: In 1 Timothy 5:21, Paul speaks of “the elect angels.” These are the holy angels who are somehow included in the elect purposes of God. These are angels who did not follow after Satan in his rebellion. There is little revealed about their election, but apparently there was a probationary period for the angelic world and these, being the elect of God, remained faithful and are confirmed in their holy state in the service of the Lord. As Chafer writes, “The fall of some angels is no more unanticipated by God than the fall of man. It may be implied, also that angels have passed a period of probation.”29
2. The Living Creatures: These are angelic creatures who seem to be involved with revealing the glory of the God of Israel in His omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence (Ezek. 1:5f; Rev. 4:6; 6:1). Ezekiel 10:15, 20 reveal them as cherubim. Through the four faces, they may also anticipate what God would do to bring salvation to man through His Son: (a) The face of the man suggests wisdom, compassion, intelligence and pictures Christ’s humanity as the Son of man, the special focus found in the gospel of Luke; (b) the face of a lion speaks of kingly appearance and pictures Christ as King which is Matthew’s emphasis; (c) the face of a bull or ox portrays a servant, the emphasis seen in Mark; and (d) the face of an eagle speaks of heavenly action and portrays the deity Christ, which is John’s emphasis.
3. Watchers: “Watchers” is an Aramaic word which means, “vigilant, waking, watchful.” Verse 17 may infer this is a special type of angel (if a special class is intended). It seems to describe holy angels who are constantly vigilant to serve the Lord and who watch over the rulers of the world and the affairs of men (Dan. 4:13, 17, 23). The added description, “a holy one” in verse 13 may imply there are unholy watchers, i.e., demonic forces who are watching the affairs of men and seeking to influence and destroy.
Special Angels
Angels Associated With the Tribulation
In Revelation a number of angels are specifically associated with certain judgments that will be poured out on the earth like the seven trumpets and the seven last plagues (Rev. 8-9; 16). In addition, some angels are related to special functions given to them, at least in these last days. There is the angel who has power over fire (Rev. 14:18), the angel of the waters (9:11), the angel of the abyss who will bind Satan (20:1-2).
Angels Associated With the Church
In Revelation 2-3, each of the seven letters to the seven churches is addressed to “the angel of the church of …” In addition, they are each seen to be in the right hand of Christ in the vision of chapter one (Rev. 1:16, 20). However, since the term for angel means “messenger” and is also used of men, there is debate over whether these references refer to angelic beings or to the human leaders of the seven churches. It could refer to a guardian angel over these churches or to those men who function in the capacity of teachers of the Word, like the human pastors or elders.
The Ministry of Angels
The most basic characteristic of the good angels is seen in the way they are described in Hebrews 1:14 as ministering spirits and in the accounts of their many and varied activities of ministry as described in Scripture. Essentially, they function as priestly messengers (leitourgika pneumatata) in the temple-universe of God.30 From the account of their activities in the Bible, their service can be summarized as that of (1) the worship of God (Isa. 6:3; Rev. 4:8), (2) as messengers of God (Dan. 9:22; Luke 1:11, 26; 2:9; Rev. 1:1), (3) as soldiers in spiritual combat (Dan. 10:13f; Rev. 12:7), and (4) as ministers to God’s people (Heb. 1:14). Regarding their activity as ministering spirits, Bushwell comments:
The question may be asked, if we are not to worship the angels, or in any way pray to them, what is the value of the doctrine that they are “ministering spirits”? In answer we can say at least that the Scriptural teaching in regard to the ministry of the angels is a beautiful enrichment of our conception of God’s government of the world.31
As God’s celestial servants who carry out His purposes, we may observe that their ministry falls into several different relationships:32
In Relation to God: In their service to God, they are seen as attendants around His throne, waiting to serve Him and do His bidding (Ps. 103:20; Isa. 6:1f; Job 1:6; 2:1; Rev. 5:11; 8:1f), as worshippers in praise of Him (Isa. 6:3; Ps. 148:1-2; Heb. 1:6; Rev. 5:12), as observers who rejoice over what He does (Job 38:6-7; Luke 2:12-13; 15:10), as soldiers in battle with Satan (Rev. 12:7), and as instruments of His judgments (Rev. 7:1; 8:2).
In Relation to the Nations: In relation to the nation of Israel, Michael, the archangel, seems to have a very important ministry as their guardian (Dan. 10:13, 21; 12:1; Jude 9). In relation to other nations, they watch over rulers and nations (Dan. 4:17) and seek to influence their human leaders (Dan. 10:21; 11:1). In the Tribulation they will be the agents God uses to pour out His judgments (see Rev. 8-9 and 16).
In Relation to Christ: with the plan of God centering in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, they naturally perform many services for the Savior.
• In relation to His birth, they predicted it (Matt. 1:20; Luke 1:26-28) and then announced his birth (Luke 2:8-15). An angel warned Joseph to take Mary and the baby Jesus and flee into Egypt (Matt. 2:13-15), and an angel directed the family to return to Israel after Herod died (vv. 19-21).
• In relation to His suffering, angels ministered to Him after His temptation (4:11), in His stress in the Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:43), and Jesus said He could have called a legion of angels who stood ready to come to His defense if He so desired (Matt. 26:53).
• In relation to His resurrection, an angel rolled away the stone from the tomb (28:1-2), angels announced His resurrection to the women on Easter morning (vv. 5-6; Luke 24:5-7), and angels were present at His ascension and gave instruction to the disciples (Acts 1:10-11).
• In relation to His coming again, the voice of the archangel will be heard at the translation of the church (1 Thess. 4:16), they will accompany Him in His glorious return to earth (Matt. 25:31; 2 Thess. 1:7) and they will separate the wheat from the tares at Christ’s second coming (Matt. 13:39-40).
In Relation to the Unrighteous: Angels not only announce and inflict judgment (Gen. 19:13; Rev. 14:6-7; Acts 12:23; Rev. 16:1), but they will separate the righteous from the unrighteous (Matt. 13:39-40).
In Relation to the Church: Hebrews 1:14 describes their ministry as “ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation.” In this, however, Scripture points to a number of specific ministries: they bring answers to prayer (Acts 12:5-10), they help in bringing people to the Savior (Acts 8:26; 10:3), they may encourage in times of danger (Acts 27:23-24), and they care for God’s people at the time of death (Luke 16:22).
In Relation to New Epochs: Ryrie points out that angels appear to be unusually active when God institutes a new epoch in the sweep of history and then outlines this for us:
A. They Joined in Praise When the Earth Was Created (Job 38:6-7)
B. They Were Involved in the Giving of the Mosaic Law (Gal. 3:19; Heb. 2:2)
C. They Were Active at the First Advent of Christ (Matt. 1:20; 4:11)
D. They Were Active During the Early Years of the Church (Acts 8:26; 10:3, 7; 12:11)
E. They Will Be Involved in Events Surrounding the Second Advent of Christ (Matt. 25:31; 1 Thes. 4:1)33
Of course, the ministry of angels occurred at other times, but the question naturally arises, especially in view of our present day fascination with angels, is there biblical evidence these varied ministries of angels continue to function in the present age of the church?
Whether angels continue to function in all these ways throughout the present age is uncertain. But they did perform these ministries and may well continue to do so even though we are not aware of them. Of course, God is not obliged to use angels; He can do all these things directly. But seemingly He chooses to employ the intermediate ministry of angels on many occasions. Nevertheless, the believer recognizes that it is the Lord who does these things whether directly through using angels (notice Peter’s testimony that the Lord delivered him from the prison though God actually used an angel to accomplish it, Acts 12:7-10 compared with vv. 11 and 17).
Perhaps an inscription I once saw in an old church in Scotland states the balance well.
“Though God’s Power Be Sufficient to Govern Us,
Yet for Man’s Infirmity He appointed His Angels to Watch over Us.”34
Hebrews 13:2 reads, “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it” (NIV). Entertaining angels unawares brings to mind Abraham (Gen. 18:1ff.) and Lot (Gen. 19:1ff.), but even this statement does not prove angels function today as in Old and New Testament times. As Ryrie points out, ‘The word “angel” may refer to superhuman beings (see Gen. 18:1-8 for an example of such entertaining) or it may refer to a human being who is a messenger from God (see James 2:25 for an example of such entertaining).’35
Perhaps no aspect of their ministry to man is more talked about than the idea of “a guardian angel.” People often ask, “Does everyone have a guardian angel?” The concept that every person has a specific guardian angel is only by implication from the statement that angels do guard or protect as Psalm 91:11 declares. But this passage is directed to those who make the Lord their refuge.
The psalmist explained that no harm or disaster can befall those who have made the Lord their refuge (mahseh, “shelter from danger”; …) because He has commissioned angels to care for them. Angels protect from physical harm and give believers strength to overcome difficulties, pictured here as wild lions and dangerous snakes. Satan, in tempting Christ, quoted 91:11-12 (Matt. 4:6), which shows that even God’s most marvelous promises can be foolishly applied.36
Some would claim that this Old Testament passage should not be applied in modern times, but in Hebrews 1:14 the author of Hebrews does not seem to draw that distinction. That they are ministering spirits who minister to the saints is presented as a general truth of the Bible and should not be restricted to Bible times.
Surely it is comforting to know that God may protect, provide, and encourage us through His angels, but this fact does not always guarantee such deliverance, and certainly we should never presume on this provision of God. So having considered the various ways angels minister, we should keep in mind that God does not always deliver us from danger or supply our needs in miraculous ways whether by angels or by His direct intervention. For His own sovereign and wise purposes, the opposite is sometimes His will as life clearly illustrates and Scripture declares (see Heb. 11:36-40).
But there is another truth regarding angels that needs to be kept in view. Just as people usually do not think of the punitive ministry of angels, so people, in their popular ideas about angels, often ignore the Scripture’s teaching about the deception of Satan’s evil angels (2 Cor. 11:14-15). That society is ignorant of this is not without reason. The reason lies in Satan’s deception and in the vacuum of man’s heart as he continues to seek answers apart from God and Scripture’s revelation of God and His plan of salvation in Christ. As the arch deceiver and antagonist to God, to the church, and to mankind as whole, Satan is the master of disguise. Much of how society thinks today in its enchantment with angels is clearly a product of his masquerade as an angel of light with his angels who also disguise themselves in keeping with his purposes. Investigate what is being written in books and said in seminars and you will find numerous publications and teaching filled with what is nothing less than pure demonic deception. For more on this whole issue as it applies to today’s fascination with angels, see the study, “Angels, God’s Ministering Spirits” on our web page in the theology section.
The Watchfulness of Angels
The Fact of Their Watchfulness
Significantly, a number of passages speak of the angels as observers. Some are surprised by this truth, but the Bible teaches us that angels are spectators of God’s activities in the world and that they are especially keen on observing the unfolding of His plan of redemption. Since a number of passages specifically address the fact angels are spectators of what God does, we would be remiss to ignore this biblical truth for there is certainly a reason and a lesson to be learned from this (Job 38:7; Luke 15:10; 1 Cor. 4:9; 11:10; Eph. 3:10; Tim. 3:16; 1 Pet. 1:12).
The Objects of Their Watchfulness
As indicated previously, they observed God’s creation and rejoiced (Ps. 38:7). At seeing the birth of Christ, the angels rejoiced in praise to God (Luke 2:13-14) and they witnessed the entirety of Jesus’ life on earth (1 Tim. 3:16). They also observe God’s joy when a sinner repents (Luke 15:10).37 Angels are keenly interested in man’s salvation in Christ and carefully observe God’s manifold wisdom in the unfolding of His redemptive plan (1 Pet. 1:12; Eph. 3:10). In the statement, “things into which the angels long to look,” “things” are those things that belong to our salvation (vs. 10), and “long to look” is the same word used of the actions of John and Peter and Mary when they stooped down to peer into the empty tomb (Luke 24:12; John 20:5, 11). The verb, parakuptw, “to bend over,” conveys the idea of bending over to see something more clearly or to look intently (see also Jam. 1:24).
The Reasons for Their Watchfulness
The Two Kingdoms and the Angelic Conflict
A question that naturally arises is why are angels so deeply interested and observant of what is happening on this earth? First, as holy creatures they are concerned for the worship and glory of God that is His due as the holy and infinite Creator. This is clearly evident in Isaiah 6:3 where, in antiphonal chorus, seraphim sing of God’s holiness, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.” John states that in their devotion to God’s worship the living creatures never stop saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come” (NIV). Their devotion to God’s glory becomes exceedingly prominent and specific in Revelation. In Revelation 4:8-11, their continuous praise evokes the praise of the twenty-four elders which is aimed at God’s worthiness as the Sovereign Creator. Then in chapter 5:8-14, angels, accompanied by the twenty-four elders (representatives of the church), direct their praise toward God’s gracious work of salvation through the Lamb in view of His worthiness to open the seven seals. He alone is found worthy to open the seven-sealed book and break its seals (cf. Rev. 5:1 with 5:9f).
Though we are not told the exact contents of the seven-sealed book, written inside and on the back, it undoubtedly contains the story of man’s loss of his lordship over the earth (Gen. 1:26) to Satan, the usurper, and its recovery through the God-man Savior, the Lion who is also the Lamb. This Lamb is alone able to accomplish what no one else in the universe is qualified and able to do. The following three truths form an important element of God’s revelation:
(2) God’s Purpose Delayed: Because of the fall, as recorded in Genesis 3, Satan wrested the rule away from man (cf. Heb. 2:5 with 2:8b). God’s intention was for man to rule over this earth, never angels, much less the fallen angels.
One of the key features of Revelation concerns the two kingdoms: the kingdom of the world (Satan’s kingdom) and the kingdom of God. The words “king, kings, kingdom,” etc., occur thirty times in twenty-five verses in this book. In view of the struggle between the two kingdoms, there is a joyous celebration of voices raised in heaven at the sounding of the seventh trumpet in anticipation of what the seventh trumpet would accomplish.38 This surely includes the holy angels:
The issue of Satan’s rebellion to God’s authority may well explain Paul’s statement in 1 Corinthians 11:10 that a woman is to have a symbol of authority on her head because of the angels. This suggests that one of the areas angels observe is that of submission to authority. Submission glorifies God while rebellion dishonors God and promotes Satan’s goals. At the root of the angels’ keen interest in what God is doing today is the rebellion and fall of Satan. As observers, all the angels were present when Satan, in his quest to be like the Most High, sought to usurp God’s sovereign rule (see Isa. 14:12-15). This was an offense to the glory of God. It appears from Revelation 12:3-4 that one-third of the angelic hosts chose to follow Satan. Because of Satan’s sin, he was thrust out of his exalted place and became the great adversary of God and God’s people (see Ezek. 28:11-19).39 In addition, the Lord also explicitly tells us that the lake of fire was prepared for Satan and his angels (Matt. 25:41). Though a defeated foe (cf. Col. 2:15), Satan is not confined there now, but he and his fallen angels will be and this is a great point of anticipation in the Bible (cf. Rom. 16:20; Rev. 20:10).
Satan’s Characterization as the Slanderer
An understanding of one of Satan’s names is helpful here and is loaded with implications. The term, devil, as used so often of Satan, means, “slanderer, defamer, one who accuses falsely.”40 This name reveals him in one of his key characterizations in Scripture. As “the slanderer,” he is one who defames the character of God and one of the ways he seeks to do this is by accusing believers (Rev. 12:10). The book of Job gives us a good illustration of his defaming accusations against believers and how, at the same time, he seeks to malign the character of God. When you read the first two chapters of Job, the true purpose of Satan’s accusations become quickly evident. Satan’s claim was that Job only worshipped God because of all God had given to him; it was not because Job loved God for who He was or because God deserved to be worshipped as the Holy and Sovereign Creator. Just take away all that he has and he will curse you, was the essence of Satan’s accusation (cf. Job 1:6-11; 2:1-6).
Satan’s Characterization of God
A Reason for Man
The Scriptures disclose the truth that the angels learn much about God from His activities through the person and work of Christ and through the church, especially in the unfolding of God’s plan of redemption. Concerning the sufferings of Christ, the glories that will follow, and the things announced to believers through those who preached the gospel by the Holy Spirit, Peter declared, “things into which angels long to look” (see 1 Pet. 1:11-12). Then, along a similar line Paul wrote,
Consequently, the church becomes a means of unveiling both the manifold wisdom and grace of God to angels, for in Ephesians 2:4-7 Paul wrote:
Chafer quotes Otto Von Gerlach who pointed out:
Victory Anticipated
Revelation 4-5 sets forth heaven’s perspective in preparation for the judgments that will follow on earth as described in chapters 6-19. It is these judgments that defeat Satan and his world system and establish God’s Son on His throne on earth. In these two chapters, however, there is a strong emphasis on the holiness of God, His worthiness to receive glory and honor, and on the worthiness of the Lamb, the Lord Jesus, to open and pour out the seals and to reign and receive glory and honor. And who are also prominent in these two chapters? The angels!
In view of this scenario, we can see why God’s holy angels are so keenly interested in our salvation because in it they observe the manifold wisdom, love, grace, and holiness of God (Eph. 3:10; 1 Pet. 1:12). This becomes even more of an issue when one considers the rebellion and accusations of Satan in light of the condescension of Christ whose entire life they witnessed (1 Tim. 3:16). To witness the submission and condescension of God incarnate, even to the death of the cross, was an awesome declaration of God’s character as holy and immutable.
But what about the fallen angels? Evidently, there was a time of grace and testing for the angels before Satan’s fall, but they now remain confirmed in their fallen state just as those who die without Christ will remain in their fallen state to face the Great White Throne Judgment and eternal separation from God.
The Angelic Conflict
and the Moral Problem of Evil
Understanding the above scenario provides us with part of the answer to the age old question of how a God who is good could permit evil, especially if He is omniscient and omnipotent. Contrary to Scripture, which declares the omnipotence and omniscience of God, some have sought to answer the problem by claiming that though God is good, He was helpless to stop evil from happening. Though it is only by implication, the Bible alone gives us an answer to the problem of evil, which lies, in part at least, in the angelic conflict briefly described in the preceding paragraphs. Certain things are basic to a discussion of this issue.
Scripture reveals God to be perfect in holiness, love, benevolence, grace, and mercy. This means God cannot do evil because evil is contrary to His Holy character. For instance, God cannot lie (Tit. 1:2). Further, He cannot tempt the creature to sin (Jam. 1:13). He cannot be the author of sin because He has judged all evil and to author sin would be contrary to His perfect justice and righteousness. God could not judge sin in the creature if He was the author of the creature’s sin. Therefore, though allowed by God, evil did not originate from God. It originated from something outside of God.
According to the Bible, the original human sin as recorded in Genesis 3 is not the first sin in the universe. The Bible reveals the moral problem is related to: (1) the fall of Satan and his angels into sin; (2) Satan’s characterization as the slandering adversary of God; (3) God’s purpose for man to rule on the earth with the loss of that rule through man’s temptation and fall into sin; and (4) man’s redemption and the recovery of that rule through the sinless God-man Savior who bore the penalty for our sin.
In the study of this moral problem certain facts emerge. It is clear that God in creating angels and men created them as moral creatures with the power of choice. The sin problem is present when a moral creature chooses sin instead of righteousness. This is the explanation for the fall of angels and the fall of men.45
Scripture’s revelation of Satan’s fall, man’s fall, and the ensuing angelic conflict envelops us in things far beyond our comprehension. Nevertheless, the Bible teaches that God created the angels and man. As suggested by the fellowship that can be observed in the Trinity between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, God’s very being necessitated that He bring forth creatures for fellowship, but He did not create these creatures as robots who have no choice. There would be no fellowship or glory with a mechanical robot that had no choice. God gave both angels and human beings personalities with intellect, emotion, and volition. By the exercise of this personality, both mankind and angels could have fellowship with God and bring glory to Him. But, though created perfect and without sin, freedom of choice also meant the possibility, known from eternity by God, that Satan and mankind could choose against God, which both did. So why did God allow it? Perhaps the answer lies in the aftermath of sin since God’s glory is displayed even more. Just as nothing displays the splendor of a diamond in the light more than a backdrop of black velvet, so nothing could display the glory of God’s mercy, goodness, grace, and love as much as the blackness of man’s sin.
Because this perplexes the human mind, many reject the whole idea of God or postulate weakness to God or in some way find fault with God. But the Bible has some important words of warning regarding such a response and the story of Job, his trials, the activity of Satan and the good angels as mentioned in Job are instructive here. The book of Job is significant to questions regarding the moral problem of evil and the presence of suffering because of the insight it gives us into the adversarial activity of Satan and the activities of angels called “sons of God” (see Job 1:6-13; 2:1-7; 38:4-6).
Angels are mentioned as present and giving praise to God when God created the earth (Job 38:7), but in Job 1:6 and 2:1, the “sons of God” appear before God, undoubtedly as His attendants and submissive servants in adoration and praise of the Almighty. But then Satan is suddenly introduced into the picture as the slandering accuser. Though the specific reason for Satan’s appearance is not stated, the questions God asks of Satan makes the reason clear. He is there to carry on his slanderous activity in his ongoing conflict against the character of God.
Briefly, then, what the Bible teaches us about Satan and sin and suffering provides us with an answer to this moral dilemma. The book of Job with its revelation about Satan, the angels, Job’s trials and his responses to his suffering add important insight to our understanding and response to the moral problem of evil.
Job was a man who suffered tremendously. His losses and pain were awful. So along came three friends who sought to counsel him, but with friends like these, who needs enemies? In essence, their counsel was that his suffering was caused by sin. And, of course, sometimes that is the cause of suffering, but personal sin is only one of the reasons Scripture gives for suffering. In the process of Job’s dialogue with his three friends, Job sought to vindicate himself against their accusations. He sought to show he was innocent of any wrong that had caused his pain. And in essence, he was. But as this dialogue and Job’s suffering continued over a prolonged period, Job began to become angry with God and he developed a demanding spirit. This seems evident by God’s words to Job seen in chapters 38-40, but especially in the following verses:
Job 38:2-4 Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge? 3 Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me! 4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding,
In other words, how absurd to think that a creature should become the critic of the Creator or of what He is doing as the Sovereign Lord of the universe. The next two chapters, then, develop this theme of God’s wisdom and power.
Job 40:1-2 Then the LORD said to Job, “Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answer it.”
Job then answered and said,
Job 40:4-5 Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth. 5 Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; Even twice, and I will add no more.
Though this was a start in the right direction, it is clear from what followed that Job was humbled but not yet repentant so God questioned him further. Why? May I suggest that when Job criticized God’s ways or became demanding toward God he was in effect following in the footsteps of Satan in both finding fault and usurping God’s position as governor of the world. In the next paragraph (vss. 6-14), one full of irony, God asks if Job can really perform those things that only God is able to do. Note verses 7-9:
Job 40:7-9. Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm, and said, 7 “Now gird up your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you instruct Me. 8 Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you may be justified? 9 Or do you have an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His?”
Though the problem of evil and Satan baffles the human mind, only God’s Word gives us a reasonable explanation as to the cause, course, and ultimate destiny of evil. Our need is to recognize that God is not only sovereign and infinitely wise, but submit in faith to the plan of God. The book of Revelation, a book filled with references to angels, gives us the end result—the final defeat of sin, death, and Satan with his fallen angels, and with paradise regained. Then God will wipe away every tear and the universe will know permanent joy and peace beyond our wildest dreams.
The very nature of the complexity of creation not only demands an adequate cause, a Creator, but it demonstrates His infinite wisdom and power (Ps. 19:1-6; Rom. 1:18-21). God is infinitely wise. He is the omniscient One in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. And though God has revealed some things to us, He has obviously left much that is not revealed. We would simply not have the ability to grasp it in our present state (cf. Deut. 29:29). Regardless, it is vital for faith and practice that we come to the point where we not only recognize our thoughts and ways are far different from His, but that in faith we accept what He has revealed. Note the focus in the passage below.
Does this mean we should not ask questions and look for answers to the mysteries of the universe? Of course not. But where God has given us revelation or where we find God’s answers in the Bible, whether by explicit statement or by strong implicit arguments, our need is to humbly submit to what it teaches and put the things that still perplex us on the top shelf for later understanding. This, of course, is the crucial issue. What does the Bible really teach on any of these questions? Our tendency is to look at the Bible’s answers through human reason and logic. Then, when it seems contrary to human reason, our tendency is to reject it or at least question it or twist the truth to suit our human logic. For instance, the doctrine of the trinity is not explicitly taught in the Bible, but it is clearly taught implicitly in Scripture. Other doctrines, like the incarnation, are beyond our ability to grasp but it is a doctrine explicitly stated in the Bible. So Isaiah wrote, “But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word” (Isa. 66:3b).
Lessons From the Angels
A study of the angels, both good and bad, furnishes us with a number of lessons as to how we should and should not live both negatively and positively. The apostle Paul provides a precedent for this in his warning regarding selecting novices for elders in 1 Timothy 3:6-7.
Negative Lessons
Satan, as the anointed cherub, was not only created perfect, but he was exceedingly beautiful. His high position and beauty, of course, were the products of God’s grace and creative powers, not Satan’s. Nevertheless, he became puffed up with pride over his own beauty and power. He forgot his creatureliness and wanted to become like God (cf. Ezek. 28:11-15; Isa. 14:12-13). For his pride and rebellion, he was judged and cast from his exalted position as the anointed cherub and sentenced to the lake of fire, the place of his eventual doom. As such, Satan not only becomes the classic illustration of the temptation and foolishness of pride in the creature, but pride becomes one of his chief snares by which he seeks to cause trouble among the people of God who are so prone to become puffed up over their own abilities or roles or over the abilities and roles of others, all of which are gifts of God. In view of this ever present danger, Paul warned against selecting a new convert to a position of authority, “lest he become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil. And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil” (1 Tim. 3:6-7).
Satan and his fallen angels also warn us against the evil nature and the dangers of rebellion in contrast with submission and obedience. Perhaps there is no place where this is more clearly stated than in 1 Samuel 15:22-23. Here the seriousness of disobedience (vs. 22), which is essentially defined as rebellion (vs. 23), is underscored by the comparisons made to divination and idolatry. Samuel compares it to divination (Hebrew, qesem, a general term for various occult practices or spiritism. For some of the various forms of divination see Deuteronomy 18:10-11.). Divination like idolatry is demonic (see 1 Cor. 10:19-22). Behind the occult and idolatry is the work of Satan, the rebel of rebels.
Ultimately, Satan and his evil angels, the demons, furnish examples of all that is evil along with the hideous consequences of evil. Satan is a rebel, a liar, a murderer, a deceiver, a slanderer, a tempter, a distorter, and one who opposes all that is good, righteous, and holy. As a murderer from the beginning and the father of lies (John 8:44) who tempted Eve in Eden, he ultimately becomes the father of all that is evil.
This, of course, does not abdicate man from his responsibility to choose what is good nor can we blame Satan for our own sin, though he is always on the prowl to promote sin and to deceive and tempt us. Though Satan tempts us constantly, our temptation to sin ultimately stems from our own lusts that wage war in our souls (Jam. 1:14; 1 Pet. 2:11; Eph. 2:3).
Positive Lessons
The many references to God’s holy angels in the Bible are chiefly records of their many activities, but two things quickly standout. They are constantly seen in the activities of worshipful adoration of God and in humble service, totally submissive to the will of God. If these celestial beings, with all their strength, holiness, and knowledge of God are so committed, should they not be a motivation and an example to us?
It was after Isaiah saw the holy seraphim in worship and humility (suggested by the covering of their feet) exalting the Lord, that he then saw and confessed his own sinfulness and became a willing servant. It was then, in answer to the Lord’s question, “Whom shall I send?” that the prophet said, “Here am I, send me” (see Isa. 6:1-8). Following the joyous news of Messiah’s birth, the experience of seeing Jesus in Bethlehem, and hearing the heavenly hosts of angels praising God, it was the shepherds who, following the example of the angels, went back “glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as had been told them” (Luke 2:20).
A consciousness of the reality of the vast hosts of angelic being—the benefit derived from the good, and the opposition of the bad—can be gained only through meditation upon the Scriptures that record these truths, and through prayer.46
1 William Evans, The Great Doctrines of the Bible, Moody Press, Chicago, 1912, p. 215.
2 Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology, Victor Books, Wheaton, IL, 1987, chapter 17, electronic media.
3 Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, 1983, p. 434.
4 “Kindred Spirit,” a quarterly publication of Dallas Theological Seminary, Summer 1995, pp. 5-7.
5 Gangel, p. 5.
6 Gangel, p. 7.
7 For an excellent discussion and support for this view, see Deffinbaugh’s study on Genesis 6 in his study of the book of Genesis on our web site.
8 The Bible Knowledge Commentary, OT, John F. Walvoord, Roy B. Zuck, Editors, Victor Books, Electronic Media.
9 Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology, Vol. 2, Kregel Publications, 1993, p. 3.
10 The Bible Knowledge Commentary, NT, John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck, Editors, Victor Books, 1983, electronic media.
11 Lewis Sperry Chafer, Lewis Sperry Chafer Systematic Theology, Vol. 1, Part 3, Abridged Edition, John F. Walvoord, Editor, Donald K. Campbell, Roy B. Zuck, Consulting Editors, Victor Books, Wheaton, Ill., 1988, p. 284.
12 Ryrie, p. 159.
13 Frank E. Gaebelein, General Editor, The Expositors’ Bible Commentary, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, electronic media, 1997.
14 Paul Enns, The Moody Handbook of Theology, Moody Press, Chicago, 1996, electronic media.
15 Erickson, p. 439.
16 Erickson, p. 440.
17 Ryrie, p. 124.
18 Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology, Vol. 2, Kregel Publications, 1993, p. 8.
19 Gabelein, Expositor’s Bible Commentary, electronic media.
20 Ryrie, p. 125.
21 Ryrie, p. 125.
22 The terms and descriptions given there certainly go far beyond that of any human monarch. Further, other passages clearly teach us that there are often angelic or demonic forces behind the reign of human kings or kingdoms (cf. Dan. 10; and Eph. 6:10-12).
23 James Oliver Bushwell Jr., A Systematic Theology of the Christian Religion, Vol. 1, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 1962, p. 134.
24 Ryrie, p. 128.
26 Paul Enns, The Moody Handbook of Theology, Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press, 1996.
27 Ryrie, p. 129.
28 Ryrie, pp. 129-130.
29 Chafer, p. 17.
30 Ryrie, p. 131.
32 The material covering the ministry of angels in their various relationships is adapted from Ryries, Basic Theology, pp. 131-132.
33 Ryie, p. 131.
34 Ryrie, p. 133.
35 Charles Caldwell Ryrie, Ryrie Study Bible, Expanded Edition, Moody Press, Chicago, 1995, p. 1964.
36 The Bible Knowledge Commentary, OT, John F. Walvoord, Roy B. Zuck, Editors, Victor Books, 1983, 1985, electronic media.
37 The main point of verse 10 is that there is great joy in heaven (cf. vs. 7) when a sinner repents. Some would argue that the text does not say that angels rejoice, only that there is joy in their presence. They observe God’s joy, but surely, angels who are devoted to God’s will, also rejoice as we see them praising God in Luke 2 at the birth of Christ.
39 “This section, with its superhuman references, apparently describes someone other than the human king of Tyre, namely, Satan. If so, Satan's unique privileges before his fall are described in verses 12-15 and the judgment on him in verses 16-19. You had the seal of perfection (v. 12). I.e., Satan was the consummation of perfection in his original wisdom and beauty.” (Charles Caldwell Ryrie, Ryrie Study Bible, Expanded Edition, Moody Press, Chicago, 1995, p. 1306).
43 Chafer, p. 25.
46 Chafer, p. 27.
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