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Siemens has launched its next generation of controllers for high-end plant automation. The Simatic S7-1500 are aimed at increasing performance and efficiency, as well as improving plant communications, safety, and security. (Source: Siemens)
The levels of protection on the "blocks" raises a big question. How rampant is design theft or tampering on the assembly line? Or is this specifically for keeping the same revision current across the design chain?
It's exciting to think that corporate espionage tactics are at play somewhere. A James Bond style thief, under the guise of a machine operator, houses a micro computer in his jacket. When no one is looking, he copies the memory card with a card reader in his sleeve. The process a mere five seconds. Completed, and in a magicians like grace, he turns puts the original card into the production machine. No one ever knew.
The company that I formerly worked for manufactured equipment with the majority of the machines going to China. We dared not to ship any machines with unlocked PLC programs, as the IP theft stories were not just rumors....
Even if the chips are locked, you are only delaying theft marginally. De-capping chips is a fairly easy, practiced, and documented procedure for getting at the data. If it is worth it to a person, they will go through great lengths to obtain the data.
It's amazing how Moore's Law is transforming the benefits of advanced automation control. A next generation line of controllers from Siemens basically offers high performance, enhanced security and the ability to integrate add-on applications such as safety within the framework of the single controller. More processing power=greater flexibility for automation engineers to implement advanced solutions. It will be interesting to see moving ahead what types of additional applications (condition monitoring, for example) end up becoming widely implemented because of these continuing increases in fundamental processing power.
We looked at a number of sources to determine this year's greenest cars, from KBB to automotive trade magazines to environmental organizations. These 14 cars emerged as being great at either stretching fuel or reducing carbon footprint.
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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It can be easy to feel that we are denying ourselves the pleasure of food when we are following a calorie controlled diet, but this needn’t be the case.
A few simple ideas can help you achieve your weight loss goals, while still enjoying the food you eat. A balanced variety of foods is important for health and choosing low-calorie versions of your favorite foods is now quite easy to do.
- Simply using low-fat milk and cheese along with replacing meat with tasty non-meat substitutes like Quorn can help cut down the calories without cutting down on the taste.
- As food is a visual as well as a flavor experience, using smaller sized plates can help you to reduce portion size while still giving you a ‘full plate’ of food. The mind can be surprisingly quick at accepting that it has had ‘enough’.
- Accompanying meals with colorful salads can also have the same effect.
- Making time to savour your meals whenever possible is also a good strategy for weight loss. Many of us eat on the run, or while watching tv and therefore hardly notice either what we’re eating or how much. A bit of extra time spent really taking in the colors, flavors and textures of your meal can really help you feel more satisfied with your food and also give the body time to register how much has been eaten.
- When time is short, or you just fancy a change, you could also include a nutritionally balanced meal or snack replacement food, formulated for weight loss.
Maxitone’s Sculptress range has a tasty shake, snack sized bars and nutrient balanced weight loss capsules. Used as part of your weight loss plan these foods can ensure that you are getting the best balance of nutrients, vitamins and minerals you need to remain healthy as well as lean.
This article was brought to you by my friends at Maxitone.
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The Historic Dugout. No, Really.
In the first expansion of the Greenwich Village Historic District in 36 years, yesterday the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to expand the boundaries of the Historic District another three blocks west and to create the stand-alone Weehawken Street Historic District. This action immediately places another five full blocks (sixty buildings) under landmarked/historic protections, shielding them from demolition or inappropriate alterations.
As bears around the world already know, Weehawken Street, the shortest street in Manhattan, is also the home of the Dugout, located on the corner of Weehawken and Christopher. Many was the afternoon spent drinking beer under the shading trees of Weehawken Street, back when patrons were allowed to do such a thing. Scroll down this page (pictures take a minute to load) to see some of the now landmarked buildings. They are mostly unremarkable structures, hell, one of them is a ramshackle dirty bookstore, but this new designation effectively ends the peril of yet another row of glassy postmodern loft towers. Suck THAT, Richard Meier! (See below) And congratulations to the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and Executive Director Andrew Berman!
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Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of coke overnight? This title presents a collection of some of the most mind-bending facts.
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Russia is expressing concern about an airstrike by Israeli warplanes inside Syria.
The Russian Foreign Ministry says such action, if confirmed, amounts to "unprovoked attacks" against a sovereign nation, in violation of the United Nations charter.
Differing accounts of the Wednesday airstrike have emerged, with Syrian authorities saying Israeli jets fired on a military research facility near Damascus, killing two people.
Israeli and Western news media reported an Israeli airstrike at a different location close to the Syrian-Lebanese border. They say the target was a convoy delivering missile parts to Hezbollah, the strongly anti-Israel Shi'ite militia based in Lebanon.
The conflicting reports could not be resolved or independently confirmed by early Thursday and it remains unclear whether one or two separate strikes occurred. Israel routinely declines to acknowledge preemptive military actions and refused all comment Wednesday.
In recent weeks, Israeli officials have warned that they will not tolerate any transfer of Syrian weapons to militants such as Hezbollah.
The former head of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, Amnon Sofin, says Israel's greatest concern is that Syrian chemical weapons could come under control of Hezbollah militants dug in along the Lebanese border.
Sofin told reporters Wednesday that Hezbollah already has rockets and launchers and there are fears that such missiles could be fitted to carry chemical warheads.
A statement from Syria's military command describes the early-morning Israeli attack as "a direct strike on a scientific research center." It says the strike followed months of "botched attempts" to seize control of the facility by "terrorist groups" - the government's label for rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad. The Israeli pilots are said to have flown into Syria at low altitude, to evade detection.
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Precious little time to blog of late. Getting ready to head off to Costa Rica on Tuesday, and trying to wrap up a number of odds and ends prior to that, provision for the trip, and STUDY!
Cheryl managed this photo of Green Lawn's Merlin. Looks like it's sitting in the thick, gnarly branches of a Kentucky Coffe Tree. Often rather confiding, the bird doesn't seem to mind an audience. Merlins wintering in urban cemeteries in Ohio are on the upswing, and cemeteries in Cleveland and Cincinnati also host them. The species is becoming more frequent in general in Ohio. I will go out on a limb and predict that by the end of the ongoing Breeding Bird Atlas, they'll have been found nesting in Ohio, probably in a Cleveland-area cemetery or elsewhere in northeast Ohio. I know, not exactly rocket science, but nonetheless having these little falcons as a part of Ohio's breeding avifauna again would be very exciting.
Cherly and Jason also caught a fleeting glimpse of this large dog-like animal - a Coyote. We knew they were in there, as grounds workers report them from time to time and I've seen one or two other photos of Green Lawn Coyotes. Still, they're always exciting to see, and a bit of a surprise in a place like this. Coyotes also have expanded rapidly throughout Ohio in past decades and are now common in all 88 counties.
Thanks, Cheryl, for sharing your photos!
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Jeff Burey and the Midwest Section PGA (Professional Golfers of America) are on a mission to teach the game of golf to kids. “Our game is dying,” said Burey, who managed Wolf Creek Golf Links for 26 years. “We need to grow our game. We have to introduce the game at an early age to the kids.”
PGA professional Matt Murdock added, “Our vision is to introduce the game of golf in the Midwest section. We want to introduce the game of golf to every child.”
The result is the Midwest section PGA’s Golf in School Initiative, called SNAG-a-School.
SNAG stands for Starting New at Golf.
It brought Burey back to Overland Park from Hutchinson, where he retired from managing Prairie Dunes Country Club from 2007 through 2011.
The program started in the Olathe School District in 2011 with the training of the physical education teachers in the district.
“We trained the teachers to teach our game,” Burey said. “We want to reach masses of kids that the game is affordable. And show the teachers that the game is easy to teach and it’s fun and safe.”
The SNAG program contains all of the basic elements of golf, but in a modified form. You might say it falls between miniature golf and regular golf. The program allows for full shots, pitching, chipping and putting.
“The design of the program makes it safe and portable, allowing instruction, practice and play to take place both inside and outside,” Murdock said.
SNAG has its own rules and terminology that makes it fun for the kids to learn and play the game. The Midwest Section PGA purchased all the equipment and other training tools to provide the teachers with the training.
The teachers receive the instructions on SNAG golf and also have the resource of a PGA professional to help them.
This year in the Olathe School District, each school picked several youngsters to represent their school in the Olathe Tournament of Champions. The program has now moved into the Spring Hill and Blue Valley school districts.
A training program for the Blue Valley School District physical education department occurred on Sept. 28.
“Our goal is to introduce the kids to the game of golf,” Burey said. “We want to instill a love of the game.”
Burey, who is in his 60s, noted that golf is a game that can be played for a lifetime. He added that the goal of the Midwest Section PGA is to reach every child in the northern two-thirds of Kansas and from central to western Missouri.
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NIDDK Advisory Council
Established by law and charter, the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Advisory Council meets three times annually to advise the NIDDK about its research portfolio. The Council typically undertakes broad issues of science policy. Members of the Advisory Council are drawn from the scientific and lay communities, are appointed for 4-year terms, and represent all areas within the Institute's research mission. An important role of the Council is to provide second-level peer review of grant applications that have been scored by scientific review groups. The Council members are an important liaison between the research communities they represent and the NIDDK, which supports each community's research efforts.
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I am one of the two people that started this discussion. I also did my NE presentation on Healthy Eating on a Budget. My degree is in Economics and I work actively on our family's food budget (two adults, two 11 yr olds, one 6 1/2 yr old, and one 2 1/2 yr old). The parents are overweight and the kids are all in the 80-95%+ range for weight.
I had some thoughts about what you wrote.
To begin, Amanda has a very different situation than yours. She has two very young children and she has the ability to save money on food using "economies of scale". She can buy in bulk and use leftovers to create another meal. If you read closely, you will see she also gets a decent portion of her protein for free (fish).
In reading what you wrote, you currently spend about $600 per month, with an optimal spending of $700. That works out to $20 to $23 per day.
Before prices went up, I had used a baseline cost per day of $8 per person when working with families. That assumes no eating out. The government uses the same basic figures for their "moderate" eating plan. With the increases in food costs, I am now using a figure of $10 per day per person.
As an experiment, I have been tracking my exact spending since the middle of June. I have a jar that I put every receipt in for that calendar month. I make a receipt from the farmer's market. We basically do not eat out, but if we did, there would have been a receipt and it is in the jar. We are now running a little over $1700 per month, which works out to about $10 per day per person. Our food budget is higher than our rent as well.
It is definitely more difficult when a person has food allergies/ sensitivities/ or aversions. We can't use cow dairy so we buy very expensive goat milk butter and cheese (although we use less to balance out the money).
You mentioned that you are "an extremely active adult male with a high metabolism". That definitely adds to your food expense, as you need more calories than someone else.
I appreciate the details as to how much food you eat each month. I see that you consume 42 pounds of meat and fish per month. That works out to 22.4 ounces of meat per day. That is a lot of meat! You eat 4 dozen eggs per month. That is about one dozen a week, which seems reasonable: 1.6 per day (based on a 30 day month). You go through 4.5 pounds of fruit and vegetables per day which sounds like a lot, but that doesn't count the part you toss, like the skin. You go through 4 pounds of nuts, which is a little over 2 ounces per day. Seems reasonable.
You mention that you cannot tolerate beans and prefer meat and fish as a protein source. You don't eat dairy. Starchy foods are also a source of difficulty.
I would wonder if trying to find some types of grains or carbohydrates that you tolerate and like would help your expenses? Working with an experienced NC here or even a natural chef might open up some options.
Setting that aside, we can work on ways for you to save money immediately using what you already eat. The first idea that comes to mind is your protein budget. Generally people save money in this category by buying in bulk. However, we both know that the stores that are cheap in this category are cheap for a reason: they use meat we would not want to eat. Whole Foods has been advertising the fact that they will give discounts when you buy a larger quantity at one time. Perhaps they would be willing to do this at the meat counter. If you bought meat in a larger quantity and then froze it, you could save money. Some people buy it and freeze it raw for use later. Others prepare it, like portioning it into a ziplock bag or glass container with marinade, and then freeze it. You could also prepare it and cook it and then freeze it (like with meatballs). Amanda talked about purchasing chickens on sale for future use, which is one way she saved money.
Nuts are another item you could buy in bulk, if you aren't already. If you buy at the farmer's market, you could ask for a discount if you bought several pounds at once.
One way that many people here save money on their produce is buy buying frequently (to avoid spoilage) and by going "beyond organic", as Amanda says. Getting to know your growers at your farmer's market will let you know who to buy from. Maybe a grower is not "certified" organic, but maybe their practices fall within your comfort zone. They may have decided not to pursue the formal designation, as it is very expensive to do so. A good book on this subject is "To Buy or Not To Buy Organic" by Cindy Burke (2007). This book includes a discussion of the above plus an actual guide to help us with our decisions.
So, that is my way more than 2 cents.
I hope some suggestions are helpful and that this discussion inspires you. I have been greatly inspired by this topic here at Bauman and thank you for bringing up this very interesting "case study".
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Tourist Information Center:TIC Brda
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Height above sea level
Biljana is one of the most beautiful Brda villages, recognizable from afar by its church with a typical Aquileia-type bell tower in the village center. The bell tower was rebuilt at the end of 19th century by Valentin Vuga, a mason master from Kozana who even depicted himself on the front stone on the bell tower. The Parish Church of St. Michael which is still Gothic in its basic appearance was mentioned for the first time in old scripts from 1233. The star-arched presbytery was built in 1534, while the church itself is adorned by Baroque furnishing. The walls were painted around 1900 by the famous painter Clemente del Neri, while Christ's Resurrection, a wooden sculpture from the first half of 16th century, is a carving work of the South Tirol workshop. Murals behind the side altar prove that the initial church was of the same size and several times larger than other churches in this area. Namely, it had a special function of ancient parish for the major part of the Brda region.
Dorišče with a small tower, firing slits and portals, where the lords of Biljana lived in 13th century, is an interesting building. At the end of 15th century it became property of the Orson family and later it came into hands of the Edling nobles of Gorizia and the lords of Dornberk. Before World War I Austrian army was located in the building and a military hospital was there during the war. Biljana villagers are proud of Kožlin brothers due to their contribution in music (especially singing) in the second half of 19th century and of the physician Lojze Simoniti (1901-1957). The village is also famous for the well-known Fourth Biljana Meeting in 1869.
For some time, the Biljana church attracted curious visitors who came to see "the appearance" in the bell tower - in a game of light and shadow some people claimed to have seen a silhouette of the Mother of God.
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Mastering Your Breath
Louise Beglin could be forgiven for letting her yoga practice slip a bit. After all, she's just turned 70, and four years ago she had her right hip replaced, but the Brighton-based yoga teacher is pushing her yoga practice to new heights - by learning to master her breath.
Louise is now sleeping better. She can hold yoga postures longer and she is more easygoing. Louise reports she has no more ‘down' days, no more arthritis pain in her hips and knees and a more open attitude to her yoga students. She has lost the taste for alcohol and achieved higher states of calm and focus, and all since studying the Buteyko Method. Never heard of it? Read on...
Louise has been practising the Buteyko Method since summer 2009. "She was breathing for three people," explains her Buteyko teacher Christopher Drake, from LearnButeyko, "now she's breathing is in the healthy range." Christopher has trained dozens of yogis, yoginis and meditators with consistent results. "With breath control, you'll find it easier to concentrate, you'll get more energy and all asanas get longer and better," he says.
Christopher likens the Buteyko Method to a type of breath yoga called Kumbhaka. It works by stretching your breath holding abilities, and reducing your breathing throughout the day. You are working directly with the breath to retrain the respiratory centre in your brain, which regulates breathing. "Many yoga postures such as twists are designed to restrict your breathing while you work but the effect is quickly undone by our busy lives," he says. So why is overbreathing a problem? Because it causes a deficiency of carbon dioxide and oxygen in our brain and body tissues. This irritates your nervous system and sets in train a host of chronic diseases.
Chris is visiting Sussex in April to talk about the Buteyko Method how it can improve your state of mind and help reverse over 200 chronic diseases. See www.learnbuteyko.co.uk for details of when and where.
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This is the page for downloading the interactive book by Ioannis Margaziotis that teaches you how to read Byzantine music notation without a teacher. It is interactive because you can hear a recording of each exercise being chanted by pressing a button beside it. Explanations in English are included for those who do not know Greek. If your internet connection is slow, the book may take a few hours to download since it is 41 megabytes. Click here to begin downloading.
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has banned five "fake pot" chemicals, usually sold as incense, that people are using to get high.
The DEA announced on Nov. 24 that the emergency ban would take effect within 30 days of that announcement. The ban will be in effect for at least a year while the federal government determines whether the chemicals should be "permanently controlled."
Meanwhile, owners of shops that carry the products are rushing to move them at slashed prices, and makers are finding loopholes in the DEA's verbiage.
"Spice" and similar products often come in the form of undefined plant material that has been sprayed with a manmade chemical similar to THC, the psychoactive substance found in marijuana.
One of the chemicals, JWH-018, was originally created by Dr. John W. Huffman, of Clemson University, for pharmaceutical research.
These products are being sold in smoke shops nationwide in the form of flavored herbal incense, sold by the gram in small, colorful packets that are often marked with little or no content information—other than the phrase "not for human consumption."
"These bags of so-called incense are being stealth-marketed to young adults, especially the college-aged, for a legal, marijuana-like high," said Dr. Matt Heinz, a physician at the Tucson Medical Center and a Democratic member of the Legislature. "You don't know what you're getting. Maybe that's what's causing some of these adverse effects."
The adverse effects Heinz mentions include seizures, the loss of motor skills, vomiting and feelings of panic. Heinz said that the effects are usually temporary and have not been determined as the cause of any deaths.
On Nov. 19, some members of Legislature, including Heinz, began working on a bill that would add "any and all synthetic THC to a list of controlled and banned substances in Arizona."
Shortly after that meeting came the DEA's announcement, which was no doubt due in part to moves by some states to ban the chemicals.
"It's actually not THC; it's like THC on steroids, six times the concentration per gram (compared to) good-old-fashioned, naturally occurring marijuana," Heinz said about the soon-to-be-banned chemicals. "It's, like, super-charged. Actually, I'm quite supportive of medical marijuana. I'm not a crazy ban-everything sort of a person, but I do not like this thing. It's very unpredictable stuff, and people can get hurt."
Managers at both Moon Smoke Shop and JJ's Smoke Shop declined to speak on the record with the Tucson Weekly about the chemicals. However, employees at Moon, JJ's, Head East Smoke Shop and Glass Bottom Smoke Emporium all said their stores carry or carried the products, which were being sold as incense. Some employees added that they would refuse to sell the products if potential buyers said they intended to smoke them.
However, two patrons of Moon—who would only identify themselves as Chris and Michael, and who both said they were 18—offered their unabashed support for "Spice" and similar products.
"It makes (some) people sick; they'll throw up when they smoke it," Chris said. "Me, personally, I think it's nice to be able to smoke a bowl of 'Spice' in public, and to not have to worry about people smelling weed."
Both Chris and Michael also said that although smoking "Spice" is a new trend, using substances in high school is far from new.
"We live in a wasteland town in the middle of the desert. What have people been doing since the beginning of time, when they started to settle in the West? They were fuckin' outlaws, getting drunk, robbing banks," said Chris. "I'm telling you right now, if you don't smoke weed or don't drink alcohol, it's hard to have friends here. There are good kids who don't do that, but there are so (few) compared to everyone else who's using that it's hard to find those people."
Michael and Chris said that they have not experienced any adverse effects from smoking "Spice." On the night we spoke to them, they'd each bought five grams of "Mystic Fire Extreme."
The five chemicals that will be banned by the DEA are JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497 and cannabicyclohexanol.
Meanwhile, some manufacturers are merely changing the compounds slightly, allowing them to rename the chemicals and making them technically legal.
The Weekly e-mailed one distributor who placed a post on the Facebook page of a local head shop. We inquired about the cost and legality of his product, and whether or not it could be smoked.
The response: "... lol, yes you can smoke it. And you can order however much you want. I can supply it, and yeah—it's legal. The DEA just banned five chemicals that people use in herbal incense, but we only use JWH-250 in ours, and that chemical is still legal."
Some distributors are calling these incense blends "50 state legal blends"—in other words, the products are still legal in all 50 states.
Despite these challenges, Heinz said he'll continue to address the issue.
"The desire to find something that is a marijuana substitute (creates) a significant market for something legal," said Heinz. "As long as I'm in the Legislature, and as long as most of the legislators I've talked to are up there (in Phoenix), we're going to follow this stuff as closely as possible and continue to make sure that it is not allowable. It's that dangerous."
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Days of fog …
Santa Monica has been soaked in fog for so many days I’ve lost count. I have been continuing to work on some abstracts that were influenced by my trip to Portugal. I am posting a couple here that are hanging in an office now. The larger piece took some weeks to complete. I layered paint on it to resemble the way paint is layered on walls in Los Angeles. I often see squares painted over concrete to cover graffiti. The layers start to peel after time, weathered by sun and the moist film left after fog settles in for a night.
Sun bleached tiles
The second painting, the smaller of the two, is a bit creamier, like sun bleached tile near the beach. I’m not sure exactly where I have seen this, but it may have actually been inland Mexico in Cuernavaca. I remember someone saying that Cuernavaca is a city of walls.
To me, walls represented the separateness that plagues communities. Walls keep neighbors from knowing each other, although Robert Frost wrote that “Good fences make good neighbors” in the poem Mending Wall. However, it isn’t Frost’s words, the saying is a 17th century proverb. Frost though ruminates on walls: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out / And to whom I was like to give offense.” I wrote a poem after the visit to Cuernavaca, reflecting on the walled in residents of the city and how it feels to be walled in. It was published in an online at http://www.moriapoetry.com/falin.html …
Walls as art
This work is an attempt to turn the walls I see every day into an inspiration. If you drive around Los Angeles, walls take on various meanings depending on the materials used to create the wall, how its aged and weathered, and what people have added to it.
Walling in or walling out
I had the fortunate experience to live in a neighborhood without fences for a few years. I can remember walking to school through yards. I knew all my neighbors – good or bad – they knew me, too. There was a sense of freedom when I lived without fences and could run through the neighborhood to the park, school or a friend’s house. In spite of the feeling of separateness that a wall can invoke, there are some interesting and even beautiful walls. The second painting makes me think of a beach side wall, creamy colored, but sun bleached – maybe close to a hot tub.
Spring finally did show up
The first day of spring passed and I am flying into autumn with a trip to New Zealand and Australia. I am looking forward to seeing new places, new art, and meeting new people. Look for some new stuff when I return.
As always, my work is for sale and you can contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org if you are interested. All work is copyrighted, and can be used under the Fair Use guidelines (not for profit). If you share this web page, let me know. Thank you for stopping by …
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Latest Updates on Hunt The West
Utah Considers "Big Changes" for 2011
October 21, 2009.
The time of year when you can hunt deer and elk in Utah might change in 2011.
Photo by Brent Stettler
Several months ago, the Utah Wildlife Board directed the state's wildlife agency to:
- Give big game hunters more hunting options to choose from
- Reduce crowding among hunters who are in the field
The ideas the Division of Wildlife Resources has come up with wouldn't be implemented until the 2011 hunts. But the changes are big enough that the DWR wants to get the ideas out now so there's plenty of time for you to comment.
Rules for the 2011 hunts will not be approved until November 2010.
"The ideas we've come up with would give hunters some new options," says Anis Aoude, big game coordinator for the DWR.
Big Game Ideas For 2011
The following are among the ideas the DWR is considering. A calendar that shows when the proposed seasons would be held is available at wildlife.utah.gov/public_meetings/info/09-11-03.pdf.
General deer and elk hunts
Four major general-season deer and elk changes could occur in 2011:
Two general rifle deer hunts
The first idea would keep the number of general rifle buck deer permits the same as it is now (no more than 97,000 permits), but it would split Utah's general rifle deer hunt into two hunts.
Each hunt would be nine days long, just like the hunt is now, but hunters could choose to participate in an early hunt or a late hunt.
The early hunt would be held at the start of October. The late hunt would happen at the end of October.
Having two rifle deer hunts would reduce by half the number of hunters in the field at any one time.
"You'd still be able to hunt the same number of days you can hunt now, but you'd have fewer hunters in the field with you," Aoude says. "We think this change would make your rifle hunt even better."
Hunting deer and elk at the same time
Another idea would let you hunt deer and elk at the same time. The DWR is considering holding the general rifle buck deer hunt and the general rifle bull elk hunt on the same days.
"This change would allow you to hunt deer and elk at the same time," Aoude says. "But you wouldn't have to do that. If you wanted, you could obtain a deer permit to hunt during either the early or the late season, and also obtain an elk permit to hunt during the season when you're not hunting deer.
"This change wouldn't take anything away from you. But it would give you another option you could take advantage of, if you wanted to."
Hold muzzleloader deer and elk hunts at the same time
In addition to holding the rifle deer and elk hunts at the same time, the DWR is considering holding Utah's general muzzleloader deer and muzzleloader elk hunts at the same time too. The general muzzleloader deer and elk season would be held in the middle of October, between the two rifle hunts.
The DWR is also considering adding a second muzzleloader elk hunt a general any-bull elk hunt. That hunt would happen in mid November.
Same start dates every year
A third idea is to start all of Utah's big game hunts on the same calendar days every year. For example, if Aug. 21 was chosen as the day to start the general archery elk hunt, the season would start on Aug. 21 every year, even if Aug. 21 didn't fall on a Saturday.
The only exception would be if a start date fell on a Sunday. Then the season would probably begin on the proceeding Saturday.
"This idea would keep the season dates consistent from year to year," Aoude says.
Limited-Entry Deer and Elk Hunts
The DWR also has two ideas for Utah's limited-entry deer and elk hunts:
Dates for limited-entry elk hunts
One idea would change the dates of the limited-entry elk hunts. It would also give archers first chance at the elk.
Starting in 2011, biologists would like to start the limited-entry archery elk hunt in early September and end it in mid September. That's when the elk are at the peak of their breeding season.
(The breeding season is also known as the rut. During the rut, elk are less wary because they're focused on breeding. That makes it easier for hunters to take them.)
After the limited-entry archery hunt ended in mid September, the limited-entry muzzleloader elk hunt would start the next day. Muzzleloader elk hunters would have the elk to themselves for four days. Then the limited-entry rifle hunt would also begin. Both the muzzleloader hunt and the rifle hunt would end on the same day in early October.
"Because they use rifles, rifle hunters have a better chance at taking an elk than archery or muzzleloader hunters do," Aoude says.
"Even if we move limited-entry rifle hunters to the latter part of the rut, they're still going to be successful," he says. "But allowing archery hunters to hunt during the rut would really increase their success. And their success rate would probably still be lower than the success rate rifle hunters find during the rut."
Hold the general and limited-entry rifle deer hunts at the same time
An additional idea is to hold the limited-entry rifle buck deer hunt at the same time the general-season rifle buck deer hunt is held.
The hunt on some limited-entry deer units would happen at the start of October. The hunt on other units would happen at the end of October.
"Limited-entry deer hunts and general-season deer hunts are held on completely different units," Aoude says. "Holding the hunts at the same time shouldn't create any conflicts between limited-entry hunters and general-season hunters. They'd be hunting on separate units."
Bull moose season
Utah's bull moose season is currently split into two hunts. The DWR is considering combining the two hunts into one hunt. The hunt would be held from late September to mid October.
The bull moose change is the only once-in-a-lifetime species change the DWR is considering for 2011.
"The ideas we have right now are a starting point to get our biologists and sportsmen talking about possible changes for 2011," Aoude says. "We're wide open to the suggestions hunters and other folks have."
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I directed, filmed and edited a series of educational videos for our Project “Klimakids” about Climate Change education in schools. We asked students to explain a scientific experiment they liked and explain the science behind it Read more →
Photo For Life is an innovative web and TV format. It produced for ARTE, a French-German TV channel, by BBC Worldwide France (TV) and Delasource (Web). I was the online community manager for the show. Photo For Life combines a TV Masterclass for talented photographers with an eMasterclass for young photographers on the web. The mentor and the teacher of the Masterclass is Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani. Toscani is best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns with shocking, realistic images for Benetton in the 1980s and 1990s. Photo For Life was inspired by BBC’s former experience with a series called “Design for Life” led by French designer Philipp Starck.
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John Hattie told us the story underlying the data of his huge meta study Visible Learning. There is an enhanced role for teachers, because students seek feedback. And feedback works best when you think first of feedback that is received not given. Together with my colleague and co-author Regine Berger we interviewed John Hattie about “Visible Learning”. We were especially interested to know how to implement his findings schools. And also how to best train the teachers. You can also read the Interview in German on www.visiblelearning.de.
Is Visible Learning equally good for all ages?
Which age specific differences should schools consider when implementing visible learning?
I was interested in 4-20 year olds and for every influence was very keen to evaluate any moderators – but found very few indeed. The story underlying the data seems applicable to this age range.
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I developed a WordPress fullscreen portfolio website for French interior architect and designer Frédérique Mortier d’Aumont. She asked me to conceive and realize a dynamic portfolio website with a fullscreen design, so that she can easily add new content by herself. The website should be beautiful, easy to use and easy to update. The reader should get a quick overview and a great impression of Frédérique’s work and creative process.
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When and where will the next nuclear disaster occur? It will happen and then what? Will we all board huge spaceships, travelling to some distant planet?
lilac and Jennifer, you do realize I hope, that the nuclear plants in Japan were sold to them by US companies and are nearing the end their life span. That includes the ones built here. Whenever there is a review of the plants and problems noticed here, instead of fixing the problems the NRC just lowers the standards so the utility companies can continue to make profits and not waste any money on repairs.
lilac, towards the end of the movie GasLand
one person suggested that with the discovery of water on the moon and Mars that what you jest about will, in fact, become reality. It has since got me to thinking that the moon and Mars may soon become like Australia of old where debtors are sent, not to prison but to new colonies in space. Good slave labor. As 'man' finds this planet uninhabitable the robots can finish the job of mineral extraction while the very rich go to their new homes on planets far, far away. More wealth for them and who cares if a few billion people die here.
I know, I know, I'm not only a pessimist but also have more than a bit of paranoia. Actually a LOT of paranoia.
However, I watched this a while back and was pretty amazed:http://video.pbs.org/video/2157025070
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Mount Airy wants to get tougher on violators of the municipality’s minimum housing codes, but that could come at a high price.
Launching a formal enforcement process against an errant property owner is the easy part. But recovering the costs of such actions can be much harder, officials were told during at an annual city government planning retreat several days ago when enforcement of minimum housing codes was a key discussion topic.
Planning department officials who enforce the codes told the board of commissioners and other officials that the preferred route is obtaining voluntary compliance from owners — but if that doesn’t work, initiating the formal process can get sticky.
This might end up with taxpayers footing the bill for demolition, and even if the city obtains the site through foreclosure proceedings it might not be able to sell the property to recoup that expense.
“It is kind of like an upside-down tree,” said Steve May, a former police officer who deals with housing-related complaints. “Once it gets started it can branch out in all directions.”
The problem might seem simple on the surface: contact the owner of a dilapidated, abandoned house and order him or her to fix it up to comply with housing regulations or tear it down.
“And if the owner doesn’t have the money, what are you going to do next?” said Richard Smith, a planning department official who along with May is associated with Benchmark Inc., which oversees city planning functions through a 2011 privatization agreement.
The situation also can get complicated if more than one owner is involved or the site is part of an estate with multiple heirs who must be contacted as part of any remedying action. “There could be 10 different heirs spread out everywhere,” Mount Airy Finance Officer John Overton said.
City Moving Ahead
Despite all the possible pitfalls, commissioners said at the end of the retreat discussion that they want to proceed with forceful action against housing code offenders.
“I’d like to see him (May) be more aggressive and see the property owners demolish them, or fix them up,” Commissioner Steve Yokeley said of rundown structures. “A lot of property owners are using delay tactics.”
Yokeley added, “I think we need to get started.” He and others also want to strengthen Mount Airy’s minimum-housing ordinance adopted 10 years ago, including extending its provisions to the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) zone, a one-mile area surrounding Mount Airy where land is subject to municipal zoning regulations.
This is not the first time Mount Airy officials have decided to get tough with housing code violators. At another planning retreat in 2012, with Benchmark newly on the job in the planning department, that was identified as a city government objective.
That has led to some demolitions, including a Sept. 20 action by the board of commissioners involving structures at 335 Price St. and 2046 Dyson Place — which cost the city $9,100.
“You can have a couple of them a month if that’s the direction you want to go,” May told the commissioners regarding such demolitions. “I can have you two or three every meeting — it really boils down to dollars and cents.”
Since being given the green light in February 2012 to attack the problem in Mount Airy after years of relative neglect, May said he now has an active caseload of about 10 properties.
Planning officials came to last week’s retreat to ask if the commissioners wanted to continue pursuing a proactive approach, and soon had an answer.
“I think we need to go ahead and get started, be more aggressive — at least until we evaluate the ordinance,” Commissioner Dean Brown said. “It could be that after a few cases come before the board, things will change — people will begin to listen.”
“I’d like to see him get more aggressive with the properties that are already on the list,” Yokeley said of May.
Shirley Brinkley, another board member, said she favored the same approach and also expressed concern about yards being mowed, which are in violation when the grass reaches 12 inches.
“You’ve got a big job, buddy,” she told May.
The discussion indicated that cases involving safety risks should be the priority, such as children living in substandard housing conditions. Rundown structures also can harbor illegal drug activities and pose hazards to firefighters if a blaze occurs, city officials were told.
“Right now, it’s really heavily complaint-driven,” Smith said of the enforcement process. “That, for want of better words, is the squeaky-wheel approach, but it is what it is — again, funding is a big issue with this.”
In response to a question from Commissioner Jon Cawley, Smith said complaints tend to come about a structure on a well-traveled roadway rather than on an out-of-the-way street. “The more people who see it, the more complaints you will get.”
“I’d like to attack it when it’s a safety issue,” Cawley said of the problem, “regardless of where it is.” Cawley also considers piles of debris as safety hazards since they can harbor snakes.
Officials agree that the price tag attached to the enforcement process is a major concern in deciding which course of action to take with a particular site.
Smith said other communities where Benchmark provides services are shying away from enforcing minimum-housing violations because of the costs.
In discussing the local situation, May said he prefers to have the owner(s) correct a problem voluntarily, thus avoiding a formal process that could lead to a public expense.
“You’d be surprised how much cooperation you get,” he said.
Then there are those other cases in which the city ends up picking up the tab, which Smith said includes not only demolition, but hauling away the debris — and extra costs if a hazardous substance such as asbestos is involved.
There are various avenues available for trying to recover those outlays, including foreclosure, or the seizing of the property by the municipality. Yet that is not a viable option, Overton said.
A governmental unit can obtain liens, the finance director said. “But it’s a totally different thing to convert these liens to cash.”
Foreclosures should be looked to “as another tool in the tool box, but it would be costly,” Overton added.
“There’s no guarantee that you’ll sell the property,” City Manager Barbara Jones said.
Yokeley suggested at one point during the retreat that the empty lots be donated to Habitat for Humanity, which at least could ensure they are improved and generated property taxes. He also thinks the city should reserve its right to foreclose on a property.
In pointing to the thousands of dollars spent to raze old houses, ” the only thing we have to show for it is to say we’re prettier,” Cawley summed-up.
“Maybe we can beautify our city without demolition — at least that’s what I hope we can do.”
Reach Tom Joyce at 719-1924 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE ON LABOR
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Under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), Congress provided a comprehensive model for workforce investment initiatives and policies that were intended to increase employment, job retention, and the earnings of participants with the overall goal of increasing occupational skill attainment, thus, improving the overall quality of the nation's workforce. In New York, the State Workforce Investment Board serves as the governance body for the workforce development system under WIA and the Department of Labor (DOL) is the agency charged with the administration of the federally appropriated monies under this Act. By providing oversight for the efforts of the State Workforce Investment Board and the Local Workforce Investment Boards throughout the state, DOL has a critical role in ensuring that the policies implemented by the State to supplement the goals of WIA are effectively implemented.
Chapter 284 of the Laws of 2012 requires the Department of Labor to provide guidance to the state's workforce investment boards to enable them to better educate and inform men and women about higher paying jobs and careers, including those traditionally dominated by men. In keeping with the intended goals of WIA, which are inclusive of those individuals employed in civil service positions, implementation of this new law will require collaboration between the Department of Civil Service and the one-stop career service centers administered by the local workforce investment boards across the state.
This hearing will provide an opportunity for the Committees to obtain an overview of the plans under consideration for the implementation of Chapter 284 and also, to consider the trends being observed by the departments in their adoption of other related policies to advance the goal of achieving a more diversified workforce. It is intended that this hearing will provide insight to a number of issues including, but not limited to, an overview of the existing training and development programs available to employers; an understanding of how New York's workforce diversity profile compares to other states; as well as an indication of the efforts and resources needed to bridge the gaps therein.
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Leonard Downie, Jr., the former executive editor and current vice president-at-large of the Washington Post, kicked off a day of debating old media vs. new media when he called aggregators like the Huffington Post “parasites living off journalism produced by others.”
Speaking at the James Cameron Memorial Lecture at City University in London, Downie touted the Post’s brand of “accountability journalism,” rounded up the changes shaking the industry and then zeroed in on “news aggregators like the Huffington Post” that “confine their costs to minimal staffing necessary to operate websites and edit content.”
“The aggregators fill their websites with news, opinion, features, photographs and video that they continuously collect – some would say steal – from other national and local news sites, along with mostly unpaid postings by bloggers who settle for exposure in lieu of money,” he said.
“Though they purport to be a new form of journalism, these aggregators are primarily parasites living off journalism produced by others. They attract audiences by aggregating journalism about special interests and opinions reflecting a predictable point of view on the left or right of the political spectrum, along with titillating gossip and sex. Revealing photos of and stories about entertainment and celebrities account for much of the highly touted web traffic to the HuffingtonPost site, for example.”
The Huffington Post’s traffic surpassed that on WashingtonPost.com in 2009, and the New York Times’s website earlier this year.
Arianna Huffington, the site’s founder and editor-in-chief quickly responded.
“Once again,” she said, “some in the old media have decided that the best way to save, if not journalism, at least themselves, is by pointing fingers and calling names. It’s a tactic familiar to schoolyard inhabitants everywhere; when all else fails, reach the nearest insult and throw it around indiscriminately.”
She argued that Downie doesn’t understand the difference between aggregation and copyright-violating misappropriation.
“At HuffPost, aggregation goes along with a tremendous amount of original content, including original reporting and over 300 original blog posts a day,” she said. “And we love it when someone links to one of our posts, or excerpts a small amount and links back to us.”
Not everyone was impressed by the originality of the arguments. “Can I fly to London and re-enact 2005, too? Pretty please?” said Hamilton Nolan in Gawker.
But in many ways, the WaPo vs HuffPo conflict is a false one. Last year, Post publisher Katharine Weymouth praised Huffington during a D7 forum, saying, “I think Arianna has built an amazing site and drives a lot of traffic to us, so thank you!” She added that the Washington Post needed to learn from what the Huffington Post does, especially when it comes to headlines.
And her paper, under Downie’s successor, Marcus Brauchli, has been earnest about trying to learn these lessons. Last year, it snagged HuffPo’s senior news editor, Katharine Zaleski, to become the paper's executive producer and head of digital news products. And the paper continues to move into link-filled world of blogs. One of the latest to launch a blog: media reporting institution Howard Kurtz.
At the same time, the Huffington Post is aggressively moving to beef up its credibility in the world of what Downie characterized as “accountability journalism.” It has made two high-profile hires from the mainstream media this month: Howard Fineman from Newsweek, and Peter Goodman, who once worked at the Post, from the New York Times.
"This is an example of how the Huffington Post, because of our traffic and our ability to help shape the national conversation, has demonstrated we can have an impact," Huffington said of Goodman’s hire. "Traditional journalists can come to us and not give up any of that impact. Often they can increase it."
Goodman’s reasons for leaving were perhaps the most revelatory about the direction journalism is going in an increasingly ideologically divided age.
"For me it's a chance to write with a point of view," Goodman said in an interview with Kurtz. "It's sort of the age of the columnist. With the dysfunctional political system, old conventional notions of fairness make it hard to tell readers directly what's going on."
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Infantry comes in many forms and strengths. This section deals only with melee infantry, missile troops are described in a separate section. I will try to describe the most commonly featured types of infantry first and then address various basic tactics.
Swordsmen, Macemen and other one handed weapons except spears
Featuring everything from barely dressed tribesmen to the walking cans known as dismounted knights, these troops are mainly for use against other infantry. They usually have high defence deriving from the shield combined with armour and/or defence skill. They are ineffective against cavalry compared to other infantry. Armour piercing axes and maces generally have an edge over swords later in the game as more and more protection derives from armour rather than skill.
The basic anti-cavalry infantry, ranging from the puny spear militia to magnificent guard units. The spears have a bonus against riders but generally lower attack than other infantry weapons. Most spearmen carry huge shields, although a general lack of armour make most rather vulnerable to arrows anyway. Spearmen are generally useful for holding a line against both infantry and cavalry. Most are too weak to do well one on one against heavy cavalry, at least in open terrain.
Two handed swords and axes
With a generally higher attack and charge than other infantry, most of these units have a lower defence. In many mods they also have a bonus against cavalry. They are however among the most vulnerable to a cavalry charge and to missiles. As armour increases in the game, this infantry is gradually gaining on other infantry. In most mods they are effective against pikemen.
Pikemen and halberdiers
Generally appearing late in the game, these troops have fantastic defence abilities due to the long reach of the weapons and the phalanx/spear wall formation. They can keep much infantry and cavalry away from them in guard mode for quite some time. Pikemen have generally longer weapons and higher bonus against cavalry. Halberdiers often have better defence and pierces armour. Both can stop cavalry better than other infantry, but pikemen do it best. Halberdiers are generally better at killing the cavalry once they have stopped. Both are notoriously vulnerable to missiles since they lack shields and move slowly.
Some units like the janissary heavy infantry are armed with a halberd yet do not form phalanxes nor move slowly. They also charge decently. Their weapons works mostly like a two handed axe but seem to have increased range and better ability to stop cavalry when they brace. I have played with, and looked at these very little so I can’t say for sure.
The strength of infantry is its numbers and constant effectiveness, in the way that they do not depend on a high charge or good view of the enemy. Infantry fights well everywhere but thrive in settlements and woods since it protects against cavalry and missiles. The disadvantages are lack of speed and individual weakness, thereby being dependant on good order and cooperation between units. The infantry is usually relatively stationary in field battles, making up the centre and engaging enemy counterparts. As the game progresses they can fill a more and more active role as more advanced troops become available. Some factions posses’ strong and diverse infantry right from the start.
2.2 Resisting cavalry early in the game
My definition of early is before strong phalanx units appear that can stop cavalry in its tracks all alone. The only troops in that time that are good at absorbing a charge are usually spearmen. Spearmen are defensive infantry and work best when standing still and bracing. If you look at a unit of those you will see that they at first stand idle and relax, then, when the enemy closes, they raise their shields and spears to form a wall. That is when they become effective. I don’t know exactly but my guess is that some of their bonuses are tied to this bracing animation. Spearmen on the move who are hit are very vulnerable in comparison.
First of all, you would want to make enemy charges as ineffective as possible. That can be done in a number of ways which all aim to reduce the number of riders that hit your men with their lance. There are often natural obstacles to take advantage of. Trees work great, bigger rocks can help also. If you fight close to settlements there is often a building or two. Buildings can be used to guard a flank or frontally to disrupt the enemy formation. Position your infantry a little behind a building and the foes cavalry will have to use a narrow space which means that riders will get in the way of each other.
If you don’t have natural obstacles, there may be some cultural ones available. Siege units are actually a great asset in the field even when they cannot fire. Positioned in front of infantry they can block a big part of the passage, restricting cavalry to using narrow passages between them. More about these tactics below. Trebuchets and mangonels are often the best because of their size but take the number of artillery pieces per unit into account as well.
Another way to reduce the impact is to make the target as small as possible. Forming schiltrom reduces the number of spearmen hit but also the number of riders being harmed by the spears. The same goes for all squares without supported flanks. Another option is to form a wedge of two units, pointing against the enemy. The wedge can hardly be hit frontally by more than one unit and the length of the formation makes it hard to outflank. The wedge will also be discussed in detail later.
If you lack spearmen or similar infantry, run. Not away from battle, but to the side, try to escape the charge as much as possible. Run away from a line of obstacles to let the cavalry be trapped and disorganised, then back to attack them while their formation is stretched out and vulnerable. If you have much offensive infantry, like two handed axemen, you may be able to flank a cavalry unit chasing one of the infantry. Try to position your units so that cavalry units get in the way of each other and to surround them so they cannot retreat to charge again.
2.3 Countering the cavalry early in the game
Supposing you defend with spearmen, you will likely need a more offensive unit to complement them; otherwise the enemy will be stopped but not very damaged. Among the infantry, two handed weapons are good at this. They can rush in fast and deal huge damage with their large weapons. To maximise this cooperation it is a good idea to leave gaps in the line of spearmen, where the offensive infantry can rush in. They can of course go through the spear formation but it takes time and the cavalry may escape. There is also a chance that cavalry charges into the gaps, enabling you to trap them. Spearmen can also be used in offensive manner but they may need to be ready to absorb another charge and it takes some time to reform the lines.
Once the cavalry retreats to charge again – which it typically will – you have the choice of following them to prevent them from charging again, or to reform your lines and await the next attack. Which option to chose depend on your troops (high proportion of offensive infantry or defensive) and on the battle as a whole. Perhaps you hold a very sound position or you need to check the cavalry to prevent them from attacking other more vulnerable troops. As the cavalry withdraw, it becomes a good target for missile troops, well worth a shot or two because their backs will be exposed.
2.4 Fighting cavalry late in the game
With the pikemen and elite spearmen becoming available later in the game your infantry can feel much safer. With pikemen it is absolutely vital that they absorb the charge in phalanx formation (have them stand still with guard mode and spear wall activated to make them form up) and are not flanked. Once they have been hit, deactivate guard mode to make them attack more and deal damage. Also send some offensive infantry or halberdiers forward to assist. Because pikes offer such good protection, other infantry can wait close to the front among the pikemen without much danger of being trampled.
Other than this, the same basics as before apply. Pikemen should not be overestimated and late cavalry can have tons of armour. Use everything at hand to block their charge. If you make a square of spearmen or pikemen make sure the corners overlap each other. Although soldiers on the flanks sometimes turn to brace against flanking enemies the line as a whole will not do well when being flanked.
2.5 Fighting infantry
Actually all infantry can be good at something versus enemy infantry. Spearmen and pikemen are usually ineffective, but can at least hold the line for a while. Swordsmen excel at it and two-hander’s are good at flanking where they may spread out and to crack armour.
Because pikemen can use the weapons of several of their ranks they are good at supporting other infantry. For example: positioning swordsmen with the first rank just before the first rank of pikemen combines the high defence of the swordsmen with the support and cavalry protection of the pikemen. The most extreme version of this that I know is probably to place gunners at the first rank. In one battle the enemy infantry (dismounted knights if I remember correctly) were unable to get past the pikes, which allowed for the gunners to reload and fire, routing them. Pikemen can also be good at attacking a small portion of the enemy front, where they can outnumber the enemy by being able to bring more weapons to bear (like in the battle of Leuctra in Greece between Sparta and Thebes). Overall they are effective against crowds of enemies like many engaged units in field battles and on crowded city streets. Always support them to keep their flank protected and counter anti-pike units if such exist.
More or less the same things apply here as for pikemen. Halberdiers are generally better against infantry than pikemen are, with more armour and attack. They are less effective as support units since they have shorter weapons.
…with swordsmen and their like
Easily the strongest overall, swordsmen can be used in many ways. They can defend or attack with equal ability and flank as well as penetrate. Their weakness is the short reach of the weapons which sometimes let spearmen and phalanx units keep them at a distance. Because they have generally high defence, they are very good at exhausting the enemy – holding the line for a long time, seeking to make as many enemy units as possible engage and tire rather than going offensive.
…with two-handed swords and axes
These troops can be rather different depending on what mod you play. Mostly, because of the slow attack speed, they do well in open areas where fewer enemies interrupt the attack. With good armour they can be very effective since it compensates for their lack of shield and defence skill. They are often very ineffective in crowded areas like when storming a gate or across a bridge, especially early less armoured versions. A good way to use them in the field is often to allow a more defensive unit to engage the foe and then send two-handers at their flank or at a gap in your line. Their charge can make it worth the time to position them well before striking, as with cavalry. In some mods they are especially good against pikemen.
Against enemy infantry there is much less need to use obstacles and other ways to disrupt their attack. Depending on your strategy you may benefit greatly from these though. Higher ground is also great because infantry move slower and tire quicker than cavalry. First, decide if you want to defend or attack. By this I mean that when you engage the enemy foot soldiers, whether you come to them or they come to you, there are several ways of continuing.
The complete defending is to simply hold the ground until enemies rout from exhaustion or some other troops can make an attack. Here is a situation where obstacles are very important. Your goal will be to engage as many enemy units as possible, with as few of your own and as little effort as possible. It is a good start to make the foe get in the way of each other and be stopped in bottleneck situations. That will reduce the number of soldiers who actually fight and do damage, but their whole unit will still be fatigued. The reduced intensity also means that you can use guard mode (see above) without risking great casualties. Using guard mode further helps conserving the strength of your men. Defensive units are of course best for this kind of tactic. Stretch out their lines as far as you can without risking a breakthrough in order to make them “catch” as many enemies as possible. Using a circular or pointed formation is often good for this, because the ai seems to have trouble with spreading out units properly, thus letting them get in the way of each other.
Flanking the enemy is pretty much the same as with cavalry. The most notable differences are the weaker charge and slower speed of infantry. When you send infantry around an enemy flank, make sure they are formed up properly before striking the enemy side or rear. Infantry do not crash into other infantry like riders do, so they need a wide line in order to be effective and not have the majority of the soldiers forming deep but useless ranks. There are of course situations where a compact formation is desirable, like when you want to maintain mobility or in order to fend off cavalry. Because infantry cannot withdraw quickly, it is often best to send more than one flanking unit around. Then one unit can attack the enemy infantry and the other can cover its back against enemy reinforcements.
Penetrating the enemy line is a manoeuvre where infantry can really shine. This way of attacking is usually associated with cavalry who are also good at it. However, when the cavalry get stuck among enemy troops they are very ineffective, but infantry handles that rather well. In the game the armies are small and one unit can get from one flank to another or to the centre in no time, making it very hard to penetrate the line and avoid being caught up by enemy reinforcements. Therefore infantry is good since it doesn’t suffer from stopping. The force used for this kind of attack needs both good anti-infantry units and preferably something that can deal with cavalry rushing in to reinforce the enemy line and dispose of generals bodyguards (who are often the main target of the attack). In these cramped situations pikemen and halberdiers work great, but watch their vulnerable flanks in the disordered melee. Two-handed weapons may have difficulties in the tightly packed formations but being effective against both riders and foot soldiers is a great asset, especially since the mass of enemy infantry surrounding the penetrating force will stop cavalry charges from reaching them.
If you want to stand your ground but still use offensive infantry to great effect it is a good idea to have open areas in the line of spearmen or whoever is holding it. Both a lot of smaller gaps (like against cavalry, see section 2.3) or a few larger can be effective. Leaving a large gap allow you to lure enemy infantry into it and envelop it almost completely. The enveloped enemies will have much space around them, allowing your two-handers to be very effective.
Example: Enemy infantry (E) deploys in a usual thick line. Allied spearmen and swordsmen (S) form a line with a large hole where offensive infantry (O) wait to strike (1). Both lines engage and the enemy infantry pour into the hole which is large enough to let them pass. Friendly reinforcements form compact formations to be ready to defend the flanks of the friendly first line and to cut off the penetrating enemy unit. The offensive infantry spread out to attack effectively (2). Both sides suffer casualties in the first line where units are reduced to three in each. Allied reinforcing S move in between the two penetrating enemy units and cut off the first of them while the offensive infantry attack from two sides and almost envelop it. One enemy unit is completely enveloped and will have at least one two-hander striking at its back. The second enemy unit is prevented from exploiting its breakthrough by flanking your first line.
The principle here is to penetrate the enemy lines to cut off a smaller part of the enemy army and then use local numerical superiority to quickly destroy it while keeping the rest of the enemy occupied. This can be done in many more ways and both cavalry, infantry and missile troops can find a way to make themselves useful for it.
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Microsoft stirred up a hornet’s nest among US advertisers a couple of weeks ago when it introduced a new version of Bing. Why? Because version 10 of its internet Explorer browser in Windows 8, which accompanied the Bing relaunch, has apparently gone soft on the civil liberties lobby, and set up a nasty precedent for restraint of trade.
Need a bit more unpacking? Fair enough. It’s our old friend behavioural targeting – sometimes called behavioural analytics – that’s causing advertisers’ pulses to race. BT is the new frontier, allowing advertisers to plot an accurate path through our internet interests via specially implanted cookie files (more on this in my earlier post here). Without it, they are flying blind, or rather they are dependent on old-fashioned demographics-based contextual advertising, which is a bit like trying to find your bearings from a soggy map in the open-air cockpit of a pre-war biplane.
Anyway, back to Microsoft. It has embedded a ‘Do Not Track’ functionality in its highly popular browser, with a default setting in the ‘On’ position. And the Association of National Advertisers, the US equivalent of our Incorporated Society of Practitioners in Advertising (ISBA), is very angry about it:
“Microsoft’s decision, made without industry discussion or consensus, undercuts years of tireless, collaborative efforts across the business community — efforts that were recently heralded by the White House and Federal Trade Commission as an effective way to educate consumers and address their concerns regarding data collection, targeted advertising and privacy. We reject efforts by any provider or other group to unilaterally impose choices on the consumer in this critical area of the economy…”
…. says Bob Liodice, president & CEO, of ANA. Just why ‘imposing choices on the consumer’ is such a bad thing is not immediately apparent. Surely choice is at the core of the consumer society? But we know what he means: Microsoft hasn’t exactly been helpful to the cause.
I have yet to discover whether Microsoft will be inflicting a similar burden of choice on consumers in Europe. UK advertisers have been breathing a collective sigh of relief now that the tireless efforts of ISBA, the Internet Advertising Bureau and EASA (European Advertising Standards Alliance), which had been arguing for a laissez allez approach to BT, have finally borne fruit. Privacy regulator The Information Commissioner’s Office (director-general, Chris Graham, pictured) has, after much havering, decided that what the new EU ePrivacy directive actually means is “implied consent” to carry on cookie-tracking. Which comes as a huge relief to thousands of website owners, let alone advertisers, who feared they were going to have to bombard users with innumerable trade-impairing pop-up warnings every time they wanted to activate a cookie. “Implied consent”, in other words, firmly shifts responsibility in law from the advertiser and website owner to the consumer.
Not unnaturally, the industry has praised Graham – former director-general of the Advertising Standards Authority – for his “pragmatism”. But doubts remain about what will happen to the British position – which is, shall we say, a unique interpretation of the ePrivacy directive – once it is tested by case law elsewhere in the Community. Doubtless Microsoft’s decision back in the Land of the Free will not be considered helpful.
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Global markets soar on stimulus hopes
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index surges nearly 9%. European shares rally in morning trading.
LONDON (CNNMoney.com) -- Global stock indexes surged Monday, as investors bet that governments worldwide will keep launching measures to jolt their economies in the face of the financial crisis.
Signs that a deal to keep U.S. automakers out of bankruptcy is close also helped contribute to the upbeat mood.
Major European stocks soared in morning trading. Britain's FTSE 100 climbed 4.7%, while the CAC-40 in France and Germany's DAX both surged 6.4%.
The rally in Europe followed a spike in Asian markets. Japan's benchmark Nikkei index jumped 5.2%. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong rallied 8.7% and the KOSPI in South Korea surged 7.5%.
U.S. futures, which offer an indication of how markets will open when trading begins in New York, rose sharply.
Governments around the world have been unveiling plans to revitalize their economies amid the financial crisis.
Chinese officials are considering new measures to support growth. They are meeting this week to discuss possible new steps to expand the $586 billion of stimulus already planned, according to the Associated Press.
Facing a financial crisis that is "going to get worse," President-elect Barack Obama said over the weekend his top priority is building a recovery plan "equal to the task."
Infrastructure, energy programs, and school construction projects will get people working and ultimately help build a stronger economy, he said.
Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" that his incoming administration would be looking for spending projects that would provide "the most bang for the buck" to stimulate the economy.
Despite the nation's massive debt, Obama said he won't be focusing on building a balanced budget at the start of his administration.
"We understand that we've got to provide a blood infusion to the patient right now to make sure that the patient is stabilized. And that means that we can't worry short term about the deficit. We've got to make sure that the economic stimulus plan is large enough to get the economy moving," he said.
Obama announced support Sunday for a short-term government bailout of the nation's carmakers that is tied to industry restructuring as he accused auto executives of a persistent "head-in-the sand approach" to long-festering problems.
Congressional Democrats and the Bush White House reached an agreement in principle to provide stopgap support for the U.S. auto industry, congressional and industry sources said late Friday.
The deal would keep the most troubled companies out of bankruptcy court at least through the end of March. While the money is less than the automakers were asking for in testimony before Congress this week, the package is designed to keep them operating so that the new Congress and the Obama administration will have at least a couple of months to draft and pass a longer-term solution.
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DICTATED BY CDE. N. S. KHRUSHCHEV ON 10 OCTOBER 1960CITATION SHARE DOWNLOAD
get citationKhrushchev reports on the proceedings at the United Nations in New York and his delegation's travel plans for returning to Moscow. He mentions his approval of plans to purchase buildings in New York for Ukrainian and Belorussian missions to the UN. He also suggests that they purchase an American car to bring back for the benefit of Soviet auto designers. He concludes with criticisms of the United States and New York."Dictated by Cde. N. S. Khrushchev on 10 October 1960" October 10, 1960, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, APRF, Fond 52, Opis 1, Delo 351, List 48-51. Published in ''Istochnik'', (Moscow) No. 6, 2003, pp. 116-117. Translated by Gary Goldberg. http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/113339
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CPSU CC PRESIDIUM
Everything here is moving toward conclusion of the work and we are beginning preparations to depart. We are already beginning to count the days and it seems that it is still long before the day we leave. This is a good sign.
Today there was a speech by [President of the Republic of Guinea] Sekou Toure. His speech was very good - long, but well-developed, logical, and pointed. It had vagueness only on one point, as did others, the one about the UN Secretary General. But evidently Tito, [Prime Minister of the Republic of Ghana] Nkrumah, and Nehru pressured him and it came out neutral. He followed them on this issue. But perhaps [it was] for reasons of having some distance from the Soviet Union so that he not be accused of following the Communists. At this stage this is not the main thing because a definite decision on this issue is not in prospect right now.
Yesterday, as you know from the newspapers, [my] speech was broadcast on television. The comrades who heard the broadcast say that it was successful for our interests.
We are thinking of flying out at midnight on Thursday, 13 October, and according to estimates will arrive in Moscow at 5 P.M., Friday, Moscow time.
We are of the opinion that Cde. Andrei Gromyko ought not remain here and indeed he himself wants to return to Moscow. Let Cde. Valerian Zorin and the other comrades remain here, considering that the other ministers have already departed and the rest are planning to leave, so we ought not leave our own minister.
We were thinking about a meeting after our arrival in Moscow, but came to the conclusion that we ought not decide this right now but we'll come and exchange opinions as to whether it ought to be held, and when and who should attend.
Com. Gromyko is not pressuring me himself but evidently by agreement with him Cde. Zorin, the Ukrainians, and the Belorussians [are pressing] to buy a building for [their] mission[s] in New York. It seems that they have already sent on their ideas through their own channels. I admit that I displayed cowardice and didn't find the strength to resist, and yielded to an evil influence to some degree. We'll come and I will repent and present myself before a comradely court. A decision will be made after questioning and trial.
I'm riding here in an American Cadillac car. It's a good car, seating seven. Five vehicles were bought before our arrival. I convinced the comrades to whom these cars belonged, rather Cde. Zorin and the others, that we will take the Cadillac with us and send them to Moscow on the Baltika and we'll get one more medium-sized car. If you don't object, then in my opinion a small car ought to be purchased so that our designers can familiarize themselves with modern American automobiles and not invent a camel that has been running around the steppes for a long time, but make better use of [the knowledge] accumulated by American automobile makers. But they manufacture good cars.
Maybe we'll send our own vehicles to replace these cars in order not to lose dollars (this will be after checking; possibly they have some surplus ones). First, our cars are not bad and, second, considerations of prestige ought to be taken into account. This probably ought to be done when a steamship is coming to America in order not to waste money on transport again.
Here Cde. Men'shikov raised his voice that the Embassy in Washington also not be forgotten. Obviously his wishes will also have to be taken into account if he will not behave himself properly.
As you see from the content of our telegram, our mood is not bad. We're criticizing the bourgeoisie, capitalists, and imperialists. We're driving when possible, and the more we drive the more we run up America's bill, for fuel, for police, of which there are a great many, etc.
Com. Janos Kdr and his comrades will fly to Moscow with us on the return trip. They are to return with him.
Greetings to everyone from everyone. We're already beginning to count the hours, how many we have left to spend in this goddamn capitalist country and return to our socialist country, how long we have to spend in the den of the Yellow Devil, as Maxim Gorky said of it figuratively, and we will add: not only in the den of the Yellow Devil, but this is a real prison for the American people because the people here are like prisoners in stone sacks: neither greenery, nor the opportunity for a walk crowded with automobiles or walks along dirty sidewalks blackened streets amid constant noise. We inform you of this in order to moderate their passion somewhat if someone suffers from an impatience to see this Yellow Devil.
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You've got your pick of Halloween activities this weekend, with lots of trick-or-treating, haunted houses, a ghost train, pumpkin displays, Halloween parades and festivals, and even some spooky science. So grab your costumes and go!
Parents of young children with language delays may be interested in a free presentation Thursday afternoon by a speech pathologist specializing in "augmented" communication techniques, such as computers that speak or sign language.
Our yard is what you might call squirrel friendly.
Older neighborhood, mature trees, plenty of room for nests, berries everywhere and, most enticing of all, an oak tree loaded with acorns right across the street. The squirrels even eat the smelly fruit that falls from our infamous gingko tree (a behavior I’m happy to encourage).
If you, like me, are desperately planning a fall party for your child's classroom this week -- or just a Halloween party for the kids at home -- here are a couple of websites that might be useful.
Halloween is just around the corner, so take a ghost train ride, check out some cool pumpkin displays or go for a spooky skate this weekend! For a full Halloween calendar of events, check the E3 magazine in Thursday's News-Gazette.
So your son won’t touch broccoli? Can’t choke down green beans? Even turns up his nose at carrots?
Bring him to Urbana’s Market at the Square this weekend, where the last “Sprouts at the Market” event of the season will offer kids a chance to sample locally grown fruits and vegetables and learn about hunger in their own back yard.
Be among the first to play in Mahomet's newest park this weekend at the dedication of Bridle Leash Park! Lots of activities for the younger set, including a Kid-Friendly Haunted Barn. On that theme, you can also decorate a pumpkin in Tolono or enjoy music at the Great Pumpkin Patch in Arthur.
I didn't really plan to spend $18.25 on pumpkins.
We got into Halloween decorating in a big way last weekend, so the kids and I trekked out to Negangard's Pumpkin Patch near Sidney with some friends. The prices are so cheap we sort of went overboard.
I got a letter the other day from my friends at the American Girl company in Middleton, Wis.
Well, it wasn’t to me personally, just all of us poor saps who granted our daughters’ wish for an American Girl doll — in this case, Felicity Merriman and/or her best friend, Elizabeth Cole.
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Small and mid-sized businesses in Colorado are fueling the state’s export industry.
The Colorado Office of Economic Development reports that 3,837 state companies exported during 2005. Of those, 3,374, or 88 percent, were small and mid-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
They generated close to one-quarter of Colorado’s total annual exports of merchandise according to the International Trade Administration and the Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade Division: Exporter Database.
During 2005, foreign-controlled companies employed 72,200 Colorado workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Colorado during 2005 included the United Kingdom, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
About one-fifth (20 percent or 14,600 workers) of these employees were in the manufacturing sector in 2005.
Nearly one of every 10 manufacturing workers (9.6 percent) in Colorado was employed by foreign-controlled companies in 2005.
Foreign investment in Colorado was responsible for 3.7 percent of the state’s total private-industry employment in 2005.
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Remember there are caveats with any tool. Caliper type micrometers with spinner adjustments:
1) only measure the largest piece in the sample, and the sample presented to the tool is very, very small
2) can actually crush the largest piece by using the spinner to close the gap, thereby resulting in a smaller reading than it should be (can compensate for this at some level by having a pressure guage affixed to it)
3) only measure in one axis. ie, if you put a pencil in it and measure the width of it, you'll get a small reading. however, it's unlikely the pencil would be presented in such a fashion as to have the tool 'see' it from eraser to lead - which would be a much, much larger reading. those types of shapes exist in chocolate.
Still a very useful tool, just need to be aware of what it's actually telling you and what it's limitations are 8-)
Muchas gracias Sebastian.
Is there a reasonably priced option that addresses these limitations of micrometers?
It's important to have the right tool for the right job. Each tool has it's limitations, and once you ID the right tool, it's just as important to understand how to use the tool. For the vast majority of folks on this site, a micrometer will likely be the right tool - as long as it's used right. For this group of people, actually, the mouth itself is probably the right tool. Given sufficient experience, I've found that I've been able to 'resolve' down to 15-16 um particle size (largest particle), w/in a +/- 4/5 um range. Most of you making chocolate here aren't going to need a deep, deep understanding of particle size, shape, or distribution, and spending lots and lots of money to get a number that your tongue could probably tell you may not be money well spent.
It's important to ask yourself "why do i need this piece of information, and what will i do with it". If the # itself isn't important to you , and really the information you're looking for is 'do i have a chocolate with a good mouthfeel or not' then just put it in your mouth 8-)
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Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood, and its transition from silent films to "talkies." Although it was not a big hit when first released, it was accorded its legendary status by contemporary critics. It is now frequently described as one of the best musicals ever made, topping the AFI's 100 Years of Musicals list, and ranking fifth in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007.
Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer and stunt man. Don barely tolerates his vapid, shallow leading lady, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), though their studio, Monumental Pictures, links them romantically to increase their popularity. Lina herself is convinced they are in love, despite Don's protestations otherwise. One day, to escape from overenthusiastic fans, Don jumps into a passing car driven by Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds). She drops him off, but not before claiming to be a stage actress and sneering at his undignified accomplishments. At first, she pretends not to know who he is, but later in the film, she admits that she knew who he was all along and is also a big fan. Later, at a party, the head of Don's studio, R.F. Simpson (Millard Mitchell), shows a short demonstration of a Vitaphone talking picture ("...My voice has been recorded on a record...") which pays homage to the original 1921 DeForest Phonofilm demonstration featuring DeForest himself explaining the system, but his guests are unimpressed. To Don's amusement and Kathy's embarrassment, she pops out of a mock cake right in front of him as part of the entertainment; Kathy, it turns out, is only a chorus girl. Furious at Don's teasing, she throws a real cake at him, only to hit Lina right in the face. Later, after weeks of searching, Don makes up with Kathy after he finds her working in another Monumental Pictures production, and they begin to fall in love. After a rival studio has an enormous hit with its first talking picture, 1927's The Jazz Singer, R.F. decides he has no choice but to convert the new Lockwood and Lamont film, The Dueling Cavalier, into a talkie. The production is beset with difficulties that reportedly reflect what actually took place during the early days of talking pictures. By far the worst problem is Lina's grating voice. An exasperated diction coach tried to teach her how to speak properly, but to no avail. A test screening is a disaster. In one scene, Don repeats the line "I love you" to Lina over and over, to the audience's derisive laughter (a reference to a scene by John Gilbert in his first talkie). Then in the middle of the movie, the sound goes out of synchronization. Don's best friend, Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor), comes up with the idea to dub Lina's voice with Kathy's, and they persuade R.F. to turn The Dueling Cavalier into a musical called The Dancing Cavalier, complete with a modern musical number called "Broadway Melody". When Lina finds out, she is furious and does everything possible to sabotage the romance between Don and Kathy. She becomes even angrier when she discovers that R.F. intends to give Kathy a screen credit and a big publicity promotion. Lina, after consulting lawyers, threatens to sue R.F. unless he cancels Kathy's buildup and orders her to continue working (uncredited) as Lina's voice. R.F. reluctantly agrees to her demands. The premiere of The Dancing Cavalier is a tremendous success. When the audience clamors for Lina to sing live, Don, Cosmo, and R.F. improvise and get her to lip sync while Kathy sings into a second microphone while hidden behind the stage curtain, and while Lina is "singing," Don, Cosmo and R.F. decided to do the right thing as they gleefully open the curtain. When Cosmo replaces Kathy at the microphone, the deception becomes obvious. Now exposed as a fraud, Lina flees in embarrassment. Kathy tries to run away as well, but Don introduces the audience to "the real star of the film." The final shot shows Kathy and Don in front of a billboard for their new movie, Singin' in the Rain.
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Paintings & Monotypes
The excitement created from seeing Lisbeth Firmin's urban scenes of people walking down streets or standing on bus and train station platforms is arresting, in quite the same manner when looking at a John Sloan painting. What initially captures your attention is Firmin's light and clarity. There is a respect for using the available light instead of manipulating it to work to her advantage. Firmin states that she is "a contemporary American realist whose imagery explores the relationship between people and their environment...depicting modern life while exploring timeless themes of solitude and isolation; interpenetrating the light and shadow that describe the human form in a specific moment." Firmin's works are as fresh as they are masterful, pulsating with energy. Exhibitions of note include an exhibition of paintings and prints from the last ten years at the Martin-Mullen Fine Arts Gallery at SUNY Oneonta in 2013 and in a retrospective exhibition at the Taft School in Watertown, CT in 2011. Awards include a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for printmaking (Lily Auchincloss Fellow) and a 2007 Community Arts Funding Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, along with a Merit Award from the 2007 Roberson Museum Regional. Firmin has also been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
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In terms of doing things where the "general architecture" handles as much as is reasonable, IMHO, it is quite acceptable to use a Timer object to run your game loop with passive rendering. (I am imagining ra4king with fingers in his ears singing "la la la" while I say this.
With a Timer, one can set a "TimerTask" to repeat indefinitely at a given interval, which circumvents the need to manage cycle time consistency. Quite a few people here don't like this method, but I think it is fine for games where you have some slack, aren't trying to eke the max out of every cpu cycle. Note that there are two different repeating modes, one where TimerTasks go end-on-end (and cycle times can slip), another where the system does its best to keep the starting times absolutely on track.
Basically, one writes a TimerTask that will do the following:
1) call update() on all updateable objects (which could be in a collection)
2) call reprint() on the display screen.
The calling code specifies the duration, in milliseconds, between the calls to this TimerTask. Pretty simple!
"Killer Game Programming in Java" analyzes the Timer as an option (not their first choice either) and concludes that the java.util.timer (as opposed to the swing.timer) has decent resolution, pretty comparable to their regular game loop. The inaccuracy due to the OS/system clock issue still pertains, as does the solution already mentioned. The concurrency issues that arise with util.Timer seem quite manageable to me. Again, some folks strongly disagree. I think that learning to code in a thread-safe way is generally a good thing.
Since Java 1.5, a ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor is considered a superior option to a Timer. This is what I plan to do try in place of my Timer-based game loop, when I'm ready to refactor Hexara.
I haven't dealt with full screen mode, but the Java Tutorials devotes a full section just for demanding graphical applications, which includes info on this. If you haven't seen it yet, you might want to check it out:http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/extra/fullscreen/index.html
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Yesterday, once again, the market is crashed largely due to events in the European Union. President Obama and other policy makers wring their collective hands and say: “It’s not our fault. Our options are limited in preventing the European contagion.”
But Europe’s woes should not be an excuse. If anything, they present an opportunity for the U.S. to capture the capital that is fleeing there, which would fuel job and business growth on our shores. This is exactly what happened 15 years ago, as capital fleeing the Asian crisis helped fuel the U.S. boom of the 1990s.
The problem, of course, is that just as Europe is imploding, we’ve become more like Europe. As I argued earlier this month in National Review
, “As a result of this Europeanization, we are more tied than ever to its woes.
The good news is there is still time to let America be America again and break the chains tying us unnecessarily to the euro crisis.”
As I noted in NR, “In the mere two years President Obama has been in office, America’s workforce has declined in flexibility due to new laws and mandates. The National Labor Relations Board’s actions preventing Boeing from opening a new plant
in right-to-work South Carolina has sent chills through U.S. and international employers that potentially could create nonunion jobs. This undercuts the cost differential that has traditionally existed between U.S. and European workers.”
I also pointed out that this trend toward European stagnation started in the supposedly deregulatory administration of George W. Bush, with the crippling Sarbanes-Oxley Act that makes it difficult for smaller firms to raise capital by going public due to its cost-prohibitive accounting mandates.
But in this administration the costs and sheer number of pages of regulations keep going up, up, up, while job growth prospects go down, down, down.
Regulations cost the U.S. economy roughly $1.75 trillion per year, according to the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy. The 2010 Federal Register, which spells out all new government regulations, stands at an all-time high of 81,405 pages, as counted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual study, “Ten Thousand Commandments” by Wayne Crews.
And then there is the destructiveness of some of the individual pending rules, including one in particular that could completely negate the benefits of capital inflows from foreign investors that could fuel economic growth.
Many economic observers have noted that even after the Standard & Poor’s downgrade, money keeps flowing into U.S. Treasury bills. Compared to the chaos of the Eurozone and the brutality of dictatorship such as Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, the U.S. is still a safe haven.
In fact, there is so much cash sitting here that Bank of New York Mellon on Thursday took the extraordinary step of charging large clients, including foreign depositors, for holding cash in the bank. Under somewhat normal circumstances, the competitive reaction to the fees charged by BNY Mellon could have some good results.
Rich foreigners may wish to deposit part of their cash in regional banks and credit unions on Main Street, where they wouldn’t get charged a fee and may get a slightly higher yield. This in turn would enable these financial institutions to make more loans to entrepreneurs in their communities.
But a proposed rule by the Internal Revenue Service would discourage this by making all U.S. banks the tax collectors for the world. The rule would force banks and credit unions to report interest paid on foreign accounts — interest that by law is not even subject to U.S. taxation — to the IRS. The IRS would then share this truckload of data with their home countries, even if the U.S. does not have a reciprocal tax treaty with that nation.
If this rule goes into effect, sensitive information from U.S. financial institutions could be on an express train to Hugo Chavez’s regime. (See my May testimony before the IRS
for more details, as well as these bipartisan companion bills from Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Bill Posey of Florida to stop this reg.)
And we shouldn’t follow the example of some countries in the European Union who think they can make the bad news go away by banning short-selling. As I point out in The American Spectator, bans on short-selling may actually make stocks fall further during a market panic, because shorts aren’t there to buy stocks to take the profits on their negative bets. This is just what happened here when Bush and Treasury Hank Paulson pushed through a temporary short-selling ban in Fall 2008.
All in all, the best way to inoculate ourselves from the European economic contagion is to move away from European-style spending and regulation and go back to the free-market ideas that made America great and can restore American prosperity and freedom.
© 2013 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
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Hello. I have a 35 or so gallon tank with Khulis and a vampire shrimp, as well as some Australian rainbowfish and a Gourami. The problem is that despite my efforts, I can't get the shrimp or kuhlis to go out of cover. I know the kuhlis are nocturnal but there are several videos of them out in the open while the lights on.
I know that this is partly lighting, and partly the amount of cover they have. My tank isn't particularly well-lit by overhead lights, but light comes in from the (glassed) window during some parts of the day (it's enough to grow algae on the sides of the tank, but the fish don't seem to be bothered by it. However, I have a decent amount of plant cover - there's a large madagascar lace plant
, as well as the gibs of a fairly well-recovered-from-being-torn-apart moss balls
. On their more uppity days, I can find the kuhlis lounging under these somewhat-floating bits of plant; usually, they hide under the rocks I've placed around the tank.
There is one thing I have been considering lately to help deal with the lighting issue, however - purchasing darker gravel. My current gravel is white
(occasionally encrusted with algae), and while this probably reflects a decent amount of light for the plants, it also bleaches out my fish (Or So I Heard) and probably makes my bottom feeders feel much more exposed than they really are.Questions:
-Will getting darker gravel help my bottom feeders feel safer coming out more often? And will it deprive my plants of too much light?
-Should I rinse out this gravel before I put it in the tank? I assume this is a matter of packaging/what kind of gravel I get. In that case, what are your recommendations and for what kind of packaging would I need to perform the most thorough rinsing?
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Dialogue III.—The Impassible.
Orthodoxus and Eranistes.
Orth.—In our former discussions we have proved that God the Word is immutable, and became incarnate not by being changed into flesh, but by taking perfect human nature. The divine Scripture, and the teachers of the churches and luminaries of the world have clearly taught us that, after the union, He remained as He was, unmixed, impassible, unchanged, uncircumscribed; and that He preserved unimpaired the nature which He had taken. For the future then the subject before us is that of His passion, and it will be a very profitable one, for thence have been brought to us the waters of salvation.
Eran.—I am also of opinion that this discourse will be beneficial. I shall not however consent to our former method, but I propose myself to ask questions.
Orth.—And I will answer, without making any objection to the change of method. He who has truth on his side, not only when he questions but also when he is questioned, is supported by the might of the truth. Ask then what you will.
Eran.—Who, according to your view, suffered the passion?
Orth.—Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Eran.—Then a man gave us our salvation.
Orth.—No; for have we confessed that our Lord Jesus Christ was only man?
Eran.—Now define what you believe Christ to be.
Orth.—Incarnate Son of the living God.
Eran.—And is the Son of God God?
Orth.—God, having the same substance as the God Who begat Him.
p. 217 Eran.—Then God underwent the passion.
Orth.—If He was nailed to the cross without a body, apply the passion to the Godhead; but if he was made man by taking flesh, why then do you exempt the passible from the passion and subject the impassible to it?
Eran.—But the reason why He took flesh was that the impassible might undergo the passion by means of the passible.
Orth.—You say impassible and apply passion to Him.
Eran.—I said that He took flesh to suffer.
Orth.—If He had had a nature capable of the Passion He would have suffered without flesh; so the flesh becomes superfluous.
Eran.—The divine nature is immortal, and the nature of the flesh mortal, so the immortal was united with the mortal, that through it He might taste of death.
Orth.—That which is by nature immortal does not undergo death, even when conjoined with the mortal; this is easy to see.
Eran.—Prove it; and remove the difficulty.
Orth.—Do you assert that the human soul was immortal, or mortal?
Orth.—And is the body mortal or immortal?
Orth.—And do we say that man consists of these natures?
Orth.—So the immortal is conjoined with the mortal?
Orth.—But when the connexion or union is at an end, the mortal submits to the law of death, while the soul remains immortal though sin has introduced death, or do you not hold death to be a penalty?
Eran.—So divine Scripture teaches. For we learn that when God forbade Adam to partake of the tree of knowledge He added “on the day that ye eat thereof ye shall surely die.” 1413
Orth.—Then death is the punishment of them that have sinned?
Orth.—Why then, when soul and body have both sinned together, does the body alone undergo the punishment of death?
Eran.—It was the body that cast its evil eye upon the tree, and stretched forth its hands, and plucked the forbidden fruit. It was the mouth that bit it with the teeth, and ground it small, and then the gullet committed it to the belly, and the belly digested it, and delivered it to the liver; and the liver turned what it had received into blood and passed it on to the hollow vein 1414 and the vein to the adjacent parts and they through the rest, and so the theft of the forbidden food pervaded the whole body. Very properly then the body alone underwent the punishment of sin.
Orth.—You have given us a physiological disquisition on the nature of food, on all the parts that it goes through and on the modifications to which it is subject before it is assimilated with the body. But there is one point that you have refused to observe, and that is that the body goes through none of these processes which you have mentioned without the soul. When bereft of the soul which is its yoke mate the body lies breathless, voiceless, motionless; the eye sees neither wrong nor aright; no sound of voices reaches the ears, the hands cannot stir; the feet cannot walk; the body is like an instrument without music. How then can you say that only the body sinned when the body without the soul cannot even take a breath?
Eran.—The body does indeed receive life from the soul, and it furnishes the soul with the penal possession of sin.
Orth.—How, and in what manner?
Eran.—Through the eyes it makes it see amiss; through the ears it makes it hear unprofitable sounds; and through the tongue utter injurious words, and through all the other parts act ill.
Orth.—Then I suppose we may say Blessed are the deaf; blessed are they that have lost their sight and have been deprived of their other faculties, for the souls of men so incapacitated have neither part nor lot in the wickedness of the body. And why, O most sagacious sir, have you mentioned those functions of the body which are culpable, and said nothing about the laudable? It is possible to look with eyes of love and of kindliness; it is possible to wipe away a tear of compunction, to hear oracles of God, to bend the ear to the poor, to praise the Creator with the tongue, to give good lessons to our neighbour, to move the hand in mercy, and in a word to use the parts of the body for complete acquisition of goodness.
Eran.—This is all true.
Orth.—Therefore the observance and p. 218 transgression of law is common to both soul and body.
Orth.—It seems to me that the soul takes the leading part in both, since it uses reasoning before the body acts.
Eran.—In what sense do you say this?
Orth.—First of all the mind makes, as it were, a sketch of virtue or of vice, and then gives to one or the other form with appropriate material and colour, using for its instruments the parts of the body.
Eran.—So it seems.
Orth.—If then the soul sins with the body; nay rather takes the lead in the sin, for to it is entrusted the bridling and direction of the animal part, why, as it shares the sin, does it not also share the punishment?
Eran.—But how were it possible for the immortal soul to share death?
Orth.—Yet it were just that after sharing the transgression, it should share the chastisement.
Orth.—But it did not do so.
Orth.—At least in the life to come it will be sent with the body to Gehenna.
Eran.—So He said “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” 1415
Orth.—Therefore in this life it escapes death, as being immortal; in the life to come, it will be punished, not by undergoing death, but by suffering chastisement in life.
Eran.—That is what the divine Scripture says.
Orth.—It is then impossible for the immortal nature to undergo death.
Eran.—So it appears.
Orth.—How then do you say, God the Word tasted death? For if that which was created immortal is seen to be incapable of becoming mortal, how is it possible for him that is without creation and eternally immortal, Creator of mortal and immortal natures alike, to partake of death?
Eran.—We too know that His nature is immortal, but we say that He shared death in the flesh.
Orth.—But we have plainly shewn that it is in no wise possible for that which is by nature immortal to share death, for even the soul created together with, and conjoined with, the body and sharing in its sin, does not share death with it, on account of the immortality of its nature alone. But let us look at this same position from another point of view.
Eran.—There is every reason why we should leave no means untried to arrive at the truth.
Orth.—Let us then examine the matter thus. Do we assert that of virtue and vice some are teachers and some are followers?
Orth.—And do we say that the teacher of virtue deserves greater recompense?
Orth.—And similarly the teacher of vice deserves twofold and threefold punishment?
Orth.—And what part shall we assign to the devil, that of teacher or disciple?
Eran.—Teacher of teachers, for he himself is father and teacher of all iniquity.
Orth.—And who of men became his first disciples?
Eran.—Adam and Eve.
Orth.—And who received the sentence of death?
Eran.—Adam and all his race.
Orth.—Then the disciples were punished for the bad lessons they had learnt, but the teacher, whom we have just declared to deserve two-fold and three-fold chastisement, got off the punishment?
Orth.—And though this so came about we both acknowledge and declare that the Judge is just.
Orth.—But, being just, why did He not exact an account from him of his evil teaching?
Eran.—He prepared for him the unquenchable flame of Gehenna, for, He says, “Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” 1416 And the reason why he did not here share death with his disciples is because he has an immortal nature.
Orth.—Then even the greatest transgressors cannot incur death if they have an immortal nature.
Orth.—If then even the very inventor and teacher of iniquity did not incur death on account of the immortality of his nature, do you not shudder at the thought of saying that the fount of immortality and righteousness shared death?
Eran.—Had we said that he underwent p. 219 the passion involuntarily, there would have been some just ground for the accusation which you bring against us. But if the passion which is preached by us was spontaneous and the death voluntary, it becomes you, instead of accusing us, to praise the immensity of His love to man. For He suffered because He willed to suffer, and shared death because He wished it.
Orth.—You seem to me to be quite ignorant of the divine nature, for the Lord God wishes nothing inconsistent with His nature, and is able to do all that He wishes, and what He wishes is appropriate and agreeable to His own nature.
Eran.—We have learnt that all things are possible with God. 1417
Orth.—In expressing yourself thus indefinitely you include even what belongs to the Devil, for to say absolutely all things is to name together not only good, but its opposite.
Eran.—But did not the noble Job speak absolutely when he said “I know that thou canst do all things and with thee nothing is impossible”? 1418
Orth.—If you read what the just man said before, you will see the meaning of the one passage from the other, for he says “Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinews, thou hast granted me life and favour.” 1419
And then he adds:—
“Having this in myself I know that thou canst do all things and that with thee nothing is impossible.” 1420 Is it not therefore all that belongs to these things that he alleges to belong to the incorruptible nature, to the God of the universe?
Eran.—Nothing is impossible to Almighty God.
Orth.—Then according to your definition sin is possible to Almighty God?
Eran.—By no means.
Eran.—Because He does not wish it.
Orth.—Wherefore does He not wish it?
Eran.—Because sin is foreign to His nature.
Orth.—Then there are many things which He cannot do, for there are many kinds of transgression.
Eran.—Nothing of this kind can be wished or done by God.
Orth.—Nor can those things which are contrary to the divine nature.
Eran.—What are they?
Orth.—As, for instance, we have learnt that God is intelligent and true Light.
Orth.—And we could not call Him darkness or say that He wished to become, or could become, darkness.
Eran.—By no means.
Orth.—Again, the Divine Scripture calls His nature invisible.
Orth.—And we could never say that It is capable of being made visible.
Eran.—No; for He is not so.
Orth.—No; for He is incomprehensible, and altogether unapproachable.
Eran.—You are right.
Orth.—And He that is could never become non-existent.
Eran.—Away with the thought!
Orth.—Nor yet could the Father become Son.
Orth.—Nor yet could the unbegotten become begotten.
Eran.—How could He.
Orth.—And the Father could never become Son?
Eran.—By no means.
Orth.—Nor could the Holy Ghost ever become Son or Father.
Eran.—All this is impossible.
Orth.—And we shall find many other things of the same kind, which are similarly impossible, for the Eternal will not become of time, nor the Uncreate created and made, nor the infinite finite, and the like.
Eran.—None of these is possible.
Orth.—So we have found many things which are impossible to Almighty God.
Orth.—But not to be able in any of these respects is proof not of weakness, but of infinite power, and to be able would certainly be proof not of power but of impotence.
Eran.—How do you say this?
Orth.—Because each one of these proclaims the unchangeable and invariable character of God. For the impossibility of good becoming evil signifies the immensity of the goodness; and that He that is just should never become unjust, nor He that is true a liar, exhibits the stability and the strength that there is in truth and righteousness. Thus the true light could never become darkness; He that is could never become nonp. 220 existent, for the existence is perpetual and the light is naturally invariable. And so, after examining all other examples, you will find that the not being able is declaratory of the highest power. That things of this kind are impossible in the case of God, the divine Apostle also both perceived and laid down, for in his Epistle to the Hebrews 1421 he says, “that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie we might have a strong consolation.” 1422 He shews that this incapacity is not weakness, but very power, for he asserts Him to be so true that it is impossible for there to be even a lie in Him. So the power of truth is signified through its want of power. And writing to the blessed Timothy, the Apostle adds “It is a faithful saying, for if we be dead with Him we shall also live with Him, if we suffer we shall also reign with Him; if we deny Him He will also deny us, if we believe not yet He abideth faithful, He cannot deny Himself.” 1423 Again then the phrase “He cannot” is indicative of infinite power, for even though all men deny Him He says God is Himself, and cannot exist otherwise than in His own nature, for His being is indestructible. This is what is meant by the words “He cannot deny Himself.” Therefore the impossibility of change for the worse proves infinity of power.
Eran.—This is quite true and in harmony with the divine words.
Orth.—Granted then that with God many things are impossible,—everything, that is, which is repugnant to the divine nature,—how comes it that while you omit all the other qualities which belong to the divine nature, goodness, righteousness, truth, invisibility, incomprehensibility, infinity, and eternity, and the rest of the attributes which we assert to be proper to God, you maintain that His immortality and impassibility alone are subject to change, and in them concede the possibility of variation and give to God a capacity indicative of weakness?
Eran.—We have learnt this from the divine Scripture. The divine John exclaims “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,” 1424 and the divine Paul, “For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more being reconciled we shall be saved by His life.” 1425
Orth.—Of course all this is true, for these are divine oracles, 1426 but remember what we have often confessed.
Orth.—We have confessed that God the Word the Son of God did not appear without a body, but assumed perfect human nature.
Eran.—Yes; this we have confessed.
Orth.—And He was called Son of Man because He took a body and human soul.
Orth.—Therefore the Lord Jesus Christ is verily our God; for of these two natures the one was His from everlasting and the other He assumed.
Orth.—While, then, as man He underwent the passion, as God He remained incapable of suffering.
Eran.—How then does the divine Scripture say that the Son of God suffered?
Orth.—Because the body which suffered was His body. But let us look at the matter thus; when we hear the divine Scripture saying “And it came to pass when Isaac was old his eyes were dim so that he could not see,” 1427 whither is our mind carried and on what does it rest, on Isaacs soul or on his body?
Eran.—Of course on his body.
Orth.—Do we then conjecture that his soul also shared in the affection of blindness?
Orth.—We assert that only his body was deprived of the sense of sight?
Orth.—And again when we hear Amaziah saying to the prophet Amos, “Oh thou seer go flee away into the land of Judah,” 1428 and Saul enquiring: “Tell me I pray thee where the seers house is,” 1429 we understand nothing bodily.
Orth.—And yet the words used are significant of the health of the organ of sight.
Orth.—Yet we know that the power of the Spirit when given to purer souls inspires prophetic grace and causes them to see even hidden things, and, in consequence of their thus seeing, they are called seers and beholders.
Eran.—What you say is true.
Orth.—And let us consider this too.
Orth.—When we hear the story of the divine evangelists narrating how they brought to God a man sick of the palsy, laid upon a p. 221 bed, do we say that this was paralysis of the parts of the soul or of the body?
Eran.—Plainly of the body.
Orth.—And when while reading the Epistle to the Hebrews we light upon the passage where the Apostle says “Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed,” 1430 do we say that the divine Apostle said these things about the parts of the body?
Orth.—Shall we say that he was for removing the feebleness and infirmity of the soul and stimulating the disciples to manliness?
Orth.—But we do not find these things distinguished in the divine Scripture, for in describing the blindness of Isaac he made no reference to the body, but spoke of Isaac as absolutely blind, nor in describing the prophets as seers and beholders did he say that their souls saw and beheld what was hidden, but mentioned the persons themselves.
Eran.—Yes; this is so.
Orth.—And he did not point out that the body of the paralytic was palsied, but called the man a paralytic.
Orth.—And even the divine Apostle made no special mention of the souls, though it was these that he purposed to strengthen and to rouse.
Eran.—No; he did not.
Orth.—But when we examine the meaning of the words, we understand which belongs to the soul and which to the body.
Eran.—And very naturally; for God made us reasonable beings.
Orth.—Then let us make use of this reasoning faculty in the case of our Maker and Saviour, and let us recognise what belongs to His Godhead and what to His manhood.
Eran.—But by doing this we shall destroy the supreme union.
Orth.—In the case of Isaac, of the prophets, of the man sick of the palsy, and of the rest, we did so without destroying the natural union of the soul and of the body; we did not even separate the souls from their proper bodies, but by reason alone distinguished what belonged to the soul and what to the body. Is it not then monstrous that while we take this course in the case of souls and bodies, we should refuse to do so in the case of our Saviour, and confound natures which differ not in the same proportion as soul from body, but in as vast a degree as the temporal from the eternal and the Creator from the created?
Eran.—The divine Scripture says that the Son of God underwent the passion.
Orth.—We deny that it was suffered by any other, but none the less, taught by the divine Scripture, we know that the nature of the Godhead is impassible. We are told of impassibility and of passion, of manhood and of Godhead, and we therefore attribute the passion to the passible body, and confess that no passion was undergone by the nature that was impassible.
Eran.—Then a body won our salvation for us.
Orth.—Yes; but not a mere mans body, but that of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. If you regard this body as insignificant and of small account, how can you hold its type to be an object of worship and a means of salvation? and how can the archetype be contemptible and insignificant of that of which the type is adorable and honourable?
Eran.—I do not look on the body as of small account, but I object to dividing it from the Godhead.
Orth.—We, my good sir, do not divide the union but we regard the peculiar properties of the natures, and I am sure that in a moment you will take the same view.
Eran.—You talk like a prophet.
Orth.—No; not like a prophet, but as knowing the power of truth. But now answer me this. When you hear the Lord saying “I and my Father are one,” 1431 and “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father,” 1432 do you say that this refers to the flesh or to the Godhead?
Eran.—How can the flesh and the Father possibly be of one substance?
Orth.—Then these passages indicate the Godhead?
Orth.—And so with the text, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God,” 1433 and the like.
Orth.—Again when the divine Scripture says, “Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey sat thus on the well,” 1434 of what is the weariness to be understood, of the Godhead or of the body?
Eran.—I cannot bear to divide what is united.
Orth.—Then it seems you attribute the weariness to the divine nature?
p. 222 Eran.—I think so.
Orth.—But then you directly contradict the exclamation of the prophet “He fainteth not neither is weary; there is no searching of His understanding. He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.” 1435 And a little further on “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint.” 1436 Now how can He who bestows upon others the boon of freedom from weariness and want, possibly be himself subject to hunger and thirst?
Eran.—I have said over and over again that God is impassible, and free from all want, but after the incarnation He became capable of suffering.
Orth.—But did He do this by admitting the sufferings in His Godhead, or by permitting the passible nature to undergo its natural sufferings and by suffering proclaim that what was seen was no unreality, but was really assumed of human nature? But now let us look at the matter thus: we say that the divine nature was uncircumscribed.
Orth.—And uncircumscribed nature is circumscribed by none.
Eran.—Of course not.
Orth.—It therefore needs no transition for it is everywhere.
Orth.—And that which needs no transition needs not to travel.
Eran.—That is clear.
Orth.—And that which does not travel does not grow weary.
Orth.—It follows then that the divine nature, which is uncircumscribed, and needs not to travel, was not weary.
Eran.—But the divine Scripture says that Jesus was weary, and Jesus is God; “And our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things.” 1437
Orth.—But the exact expression of the divine Scripture is that Jesus “was wearied” not “is wearied.” 1438 We must consider how one and the other can be applied to the same person.
Eran.—Well; try to point this out, for you are always for forcing on us the distinction of terms.
Orth.—I think that even a barbarian might easily make this distinction. The union of unlike natures being conceded, the person of Christ on account of the union receives both; to each nature its own properties are attributed; to the uncircumscribed immunity from weariness, to that which is capable of transition and travel weariness. For travelling is the function of the feet; of the muscles to be strained by over exercise.
Eran.—There is no controversy about these being bodily affections.
Orth.—Well then; the prediction which I made, and you scoffed at, has come true; for look; you have shewn us what belongs to manhood, and what belongs to Godhead.
Eran.—But I have not divided one son into two.
Orth.—Nor do we, my friend; but giving heed to the difference of the natures, we consider what befits godhead, and what is proper to a body.
Eran.—This distinction is not the teaching of the divine Scripture; it says that the Son of God died. So the Apostle;—“For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son.” 1439 And he says that the Lord was raised from the dead for “God” he says “raised the Lord from the dead.” 1440
Orth.—And when the divine Scripture says “And devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him” 1441 would any one say that his soul was committed to the grave as well as his body?
Eran.—Of course not.
Orth.—And when you hear the Patriarch Jacob saying “Bury me with my Fathers,” 1442 do you suppose this refers to the body or to the soul?
Eran.—To the body; without question.
Orth.—Now read what follows.
Eran.—“There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife and there I buried Leah.” 1443
Orth.—Now, in the passages which you have just read, the divine Scripture makes no mention of the body, but as far as the words used go, signifies soul as well as body. We however make the proper distinction and say that the souls of the patriarchs were immortal, and that only their bodies were buried in the double cave. 1444
p. 223 Eran.—True.
Orth.—And when we read in the Acts how Herod slew James the brother of John with a sword, 1445 we are not likely to hold that his soul died.
Eran.—No; how could we? We remember the Lords warning “Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul.” 1446
Orth.—But does it not seem to you impious and monstrous in the case of mere men to avoid the invariable connexion of soul and body, and in the case of scriptural references to death and burial, to distinguish in thought the soul from the body and connect them only with the body, while in trust in the teaching of the Lord you hold the soul to be immortal, and then when you hear of the passion of the Son of God to follow quite a different course? Are you justified in making no mention of the body to which the passion belongs, and in representing the divine nature which is impassible, immutable and immortal as mortal and passible? While all the while you know that if the nature of God the Word is capable of suffering, the assumption of the body was superfluous.
Eran.—We have learnt from the Divine Scriptures that the Son of God suffered.
Orth.—But the divine apostle interprets the Passion, and shews what nature suffered.
Eran.—Show me this at once and clear the matter up.
Orth.—Are you not acquainted with the passage in the Epistle to the Hebrews in which the divine Paul 1447 says “For which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren saying I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the Church will I sing praise unto Thee. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.” 1448
Eran.—Yes, I know this, but this does not give us what you promised.
Orth.—Yes: even these suggest what I promised to shew. The word brotherhood signifies kinship, and the kinship is due to the assumption of the nature, and the assumption openly proclaims the impassibility of the Godhead. But to understand this the more plainly read what follows.
Eran.—“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same that through death He might destroy him that hath the power of death…and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life subject to bondage.” 1449
Orth.—This, I think, needs no explanation; it teaches clearly the mystery of the œconomy.
Eran.—I see nothing here of what you promised to prove.
Orth.—Yet the divine Apostle teaches plainly that the Creator, pitying this nature not only seized cruelly by death, but throughout all life made deaths slave, effected the resurrection through a body for our bodies, and, by means of a mortal body, undid the dominion of death; for since His own nature was immortal He righteously wished to stay the sovereignty of death by taking the first fruits of them that were subject to death, and while He kept these first fruits (i.e. the body) blameless and free from sin, on the one hand He gave death license to lay hands on it and so satisfy its insatiability, while on the other, for the sake of the wrong done to this body, he put a stop to the unrighteous sovereignty usurped over all the rest of men. These firstfruits unrighteously engulfed He raised again and will make the race to follow them.
Set this explanation side by side with the words of the Apostle, and you will understand the impassibility of the Godhead.
Eran.—In what has been read there is no proof of the divine impassibility.
Orth.—Nay: does not the statement of the divine Apostle, that the reason of His making the children partakers of the flesh and blood was that through death He might destroy him that hath the power of death, distinctly signify the impassibility of the Godhead, and the passibility of the flesh, and that because the divine nature could not suffer He assumed the nature that could and through it destroyed the power of the devil?
Eran.—How did He destroy the power of the devil and the dominion of death through the flesh?
Orth.—What arms did the devil use at the beginning when he enslaved the nature of men?
Eran.—The means by which he took captive him who had been constituted citizen of Paradise, was sin.
Orth.—And what punishment did God assign for the transgression of the commandment?
Orth.—Then sin is the mother of death, and the devil its father.
p. 224 Eran.—True.
Orth.—War then was waged against human nature by sin. Sin seduced them that obeyed it to slavery, brought them to its vile father, and delivered them to its very bitter offspring.
Eran.—That is plain.
Orth.—So with reason the Creator, with the intention of destroying either power, assumed the nature against which war was being waged, and, by keeping it clear of all sin, both set it free from the sovereignty of the devil, and, by its means, destroyed the devils dominion. For since death is the punishment of sinners, and death unrighteously and against the divine law seized the sinless body of the Lord, He first raised up that which was unlawfully detained, and then promised release to them that were with justice imprisoned.
Eran.—But how do you think it just that the resurrection of Him who was unlawfully detained should be shared by the bodies which had been righteously delivered to death?
Orth.—And how do you think it just that, when it was Adam who transgressed the commandment, his race should follow their forefather?
Eran.—Although the race had not participated in the famous transgression, yet it committed other sins, and for this cause incurred death.
Orth.—Yet not sinners only but just men, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and men who have shone bright in many kinds of virtue have come into deaths meshes.
Eran.—Yes; for how could a family sprung of mortal parents remain immortal? Adam after the transgression and the divine sentence, and after coming under the power of death, knew his wife, and was called father; having himself become mortal he was made father of mortals; reasonably then all who have received mortal nature follow their forefather.
Orth.—You have shewn very well the reason of our being partakers of death. The same however must be granted about the resurrection, for the remedy must be meet for the disease. When the head of the race was doomed, all the race was doomed with him, and so when the Saviour destroyed the curse, human nature won freedom; and just as they that shared Adams nature followed him in his going down into Hades, so all the nature of men will share in newness of life with the Lord Christ in His resurrection.
Eran.—The decrees of the Church must be given not only declaratorily but demonstratively. Tell me then how these doctrines are taught in the divine Scripture.
Orth.—Listen to the Apostle writing to the Romans, and through them teaching all mankind: “For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one mans offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ” 1450 and again: “Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” 1451 And when introducing to the Corinthians his argument about the resurrection he shortly reveals to them the mystery of the œconomy, and says: “But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them which slept. For since by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” 1452 So I have brought you proofs from the divine oracles. Now look at what belongs to Adam compared with what belongs to Christ, the disease with the remedy, the wound with the salve, the sin with the wealth of righteousness, the ban with the blessing, the doom with the delivery, the transgression with the observance, the death with the life, hell with the kingdom, Adam with Christ, the man with the Man. And yet the Lord Christ is not only man but eternal God, but the divine Apostle names Him from the nature which He assumed, because it is in this nature that he compares Him with Adam. The justification, the struggle, the victory, the death, the resurrection are all of this human nature; it is this nature which we share with Him; in this nature they who have exercised themselves beforehand in the citizenship of the kingdom shall reign with Him. Of this nature I spoke, not dividing the Godhead, but referring to what is proper to the manhood.
Eran.—You have gone through long discussions on this point, and have strengthened your argument by scriptural testimony, but if the passion was really of the flesh, how is it p. 225 that when he praises the divine love to men, the Apostle exclaims, “He that spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all,” 1453 what son does he say was delivered up?
Orth.—Watch well your words. There is one Son of God, wherefore He is called only begotten.
Eran.—If then there is one Son of God, the divine Apostle called him own Son.
Eran.—Then he says that He was delivered up.
Orth.—Yes, but not without a body, as we have agreed again and again.
Eran.—It has been agreed again and again that He took body and soul.
Orth.—Therefore the Apostle spoke of what relates to the body.
Eran.—The divide Apostle says distinctly “Who spared not his own Son.”
Orth.—When then you hear God saying to Abraham “Because thou hast not withheld thy son thy only son,” 1454 do you allege that Isaac was slain?
Eran.—Of course not.
Orth.—And yet God said “Thou hast not withheld,” and the God of all is true.
Eran.—The expression “thou hast not withheld” refers to the readiness of Abraham, for he was ready to sacrifice the lad, but God prevented it.
Orth.—Well; in the story of Abraham you were not content with the letter, but unfolded it and made the meaning clear. In precisely the same manner examine the meaning of the words of the Apostle. You will then see that it was by no means the divine nature which was not withheld, but the flesh nailed to the Cross. And it is easy to perceive the truth even in the type. Do you regard Abrahams sacrifice as a type of the oblation offered on behalf of the world?
Eran.—Not at all, nor yet can I make words spoken rhetorically in the churches a rule of faith.
Orth.—You ought by all means to follow teachers of the Church, but, since you improperly oppose yourself to these, hear the Saviour Himself when addressing the Jews; “Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was glad.” 1455 Note that the Lord calls His passion “a day.”
Eran.—I accept the Lords testimony and do not doubt the type.
Orth.—Now compare the type with the reality and you will see the impassibility of the Godhead even in the type. Both in the former and in the latter there is a Father; both in the former and the latter a well beloved Son, each bearing the material for the sacrifice. The one bore the wood, the other the cross upon his shoulders. It is said that the top of the hill was dignified by the sacrifice of both. There is a correspondence moreover between the number of days and nights and the resurrection which followed, for after Isaac had been slain by his fathers willing heart, on the third day after the bountiful God had ordered the deed to be done, he rose to new life at the voice of Him who loves mankind. 1456 A lamb was seen caught in a thicket, furnishing an image of the cross, and slain instead of the lad. Now if this is a type of the reality, and in the type the only begotten Son did not undergo sacrifice, but a lamb was substituted and laid upon the altar and completed the mystery of the oblation, why then in the reality do you hesitate to assign the passion to the flesh, and to proclaim the impassibility of the Godhead?
Eran.—In your observations upon this type you represent Isaac as living again at the divine command. There is nothing therefore unseemly if, fitting the reality to the type, we declare that God the Word suffered and came to life again.
Orth.—I have said again and again that it is quite impossible for the type to match the archetypal reality in every respect, and this may also be easily understood in the present instance. Isaac and the lamb, as touching the difference of their natures, suit the image, but as touching the separation of their divided persons 1457 they do so no longer. We preach so close an union of Godhead and of manhood as to understand one person 1458 undivided, and to acknowledge the same to be both God and man, visible and invisible, circumscribed and uncircumscribed, and we apply to one of the persons all the attributes which are indicative alike of Godhead and of manhood. Now since the lamb, an unreasoning being, and not gifted with the divine image, 1459 could not possibly prefigure the restoration to life, the two divide between them the type of the mystery of the œconomy, and while one furnishes the image of death, the other supplies that of the resurrection. We find precisely the same thing in the Mosaic sacrifices, for in them too may be seen a p. 226 type outlined in anticipation of the passion of salvation.
Eran.—What Mosaic sacrifice foreshadows the reality?
Orth.—All the Old Testament, so to say, is a type of the New. It is for this reason that the divine Apostle plainly says—“the Law having a shadow of good things to come” 1460 and again “now all these things happened unto them for ensamples.” 1461 The image of the archetype is very distinctly exhibited by the lamb slain in Egypt, and by the red heifer burned without the camp, and moreover referred to by the Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews, where he writes “Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.” 1462
But of this no more for the present. I will however mention the sacrifice in which two goats were offered, the one being slain, and the other let go. 1463 In these two goats there is an anticipative image of the two natures of the Saviour;—in the one let go, of the impassible Godhead, in the one slain, of the passible manhood.
Eran.—Do you not think it irreverent to liken the Lord to goats?
Orth.—Which do you think is a fitter object of avoidance and hate, a serpent or a goat?
Eran.—A serpent is plainly hateful, for it injures those who come within its reach, and often hurts people who do it no harm. A goat on the other hand comes, according to the Law, in the list of animals that are clean and may be eaten.
Orth.—Now hear the Lord likening the passion of salvation to the brazen serpent. He says: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” 1464 If a brazen serpent was a type of the crucified Saviour, of what impropriety are we guilty in comparing the passion of salvation with the sacrifice of the goats?
Eran.—Because John called the Lord “a lamb,” 1465 and Isaiah called Him “lamb” and “sheep.” 1466
Orth.—But the blessed Paul calls Him “sin” 1467 and “curse.” 1468 As curse therefore He satisfies the type of the accursed serpent; as sin He explains the figure of the sacrifice of the goats, for on behalf of sin, in the Law, a goat, and not a lamb, was offered. So the Lord in the Gospels likened the just to lambs, but sinners to kids; 1469 and since He was ordained to undergo the passion not only on behalf of just men, but also of sinners, He appropriately foreshadows His own offering through lambs and goats.
Eran.—But the type of the two goats leads us to think of two persons.
Orth.—The passibility of the manhood and the impassibility of the Godhead could not possibly be prefigured both at once by one goat. The one which was slain could not have shewn the living nature. So two were taken in order to explain the two natures. The same lesson may well be learnt from another sacrifice.
Orth.—From that in which the lawgiver bids two pure birds be offered—one to be slain, and the other, after having been dipped in the blood of the slain, to be let go. Here also we see a type of the Godhead and of the manhood—of the manhood slain and of the godhead appropriating the passion.
Eran.—You have given us many types, but I object to enigmas.
Orth.—Yet the divine Apostle says that the narratives are types. 1470 Hagar is called a type of the old covenant; Sarah is likened to the heavenly Jerusalem; Ishmael is a type of Israel, and Isaac of the new people. So you must accuse the loud trumpet of the Spirit for giving its enigmas for us all.
Eran.—Though you urge any number of arguments, you will never induce me to divide the passion. I have heard the voice of the angel saying to Mary and her companions, “Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” 1471
Orth.—This is quite in accordance with our common customs; we speak of the part by the name which belongs to all the parts. When we go into the churches where are buried the holy apostles or prophets or martyrs, we ask from time to time, “Who is it who lies in the shrine?” and those who are able to give us information say in reply, Thomas, it may be, the Apostle, 1472 or John the Baptist, 1473 or Stephen the protomartyr, 1474 or any other of the saints, mentioning them by name, though perhaps only a few scanty relics of them lie here. But no one who hears these names which are common to both body and soul will imagine that the souls also are shut up in the chests; everybody knows that the chests contain only the bodies or even small portions of the bodies. p. 227 The holy angel spoke in precisely the same manner when he described the body by the name of the person.
Eran.—But how can you prove that the angel spoke to the women about the Lords body?
Orth.—In the first place, the tomb itself suffices to settle the question, for to a tomb is committed neither soul nor Godhead whose nature is uncircumscribed; tombs are made for bodies. Furthermore this is plainly taught by the divine Scripture, for so the holy Matthew narrates the event, “When the even was come there came a rich man of Arimathæa named Joseph who also himself was Jesus disciple: he went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered, and when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.” 1475 See how often he mentions the body in order to stop the mouths of them who blaspheme the Godhead. The same course is pursued by the thrice blessed Mark, whose narrative I will also quote. “And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathæa, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled if He were already dead; and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether He had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph, and he brought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped Him in the linen, and laid Him in a sepulchre,” 1476 and so on. Observe with admiration, the harmony of terms, and how consistently and continuously the word body is introduced. The illustrious Luke, too, relates just in the same way how Joseph begged the body and after he had received it treated it with due rites. 1477 By the divine John we are told yet more, “Joseph of Arimathæa being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes about a hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews preparation day, for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.” 1478 Observe how often mention is made of the body; how the Evangelist shows that it was the body which was nailed to the cross, the body begged by Joseph of Pilate, the body taken down from the tree, the body wrapped in linen clothes with the myrrh and aloes, and then the name of the person given to it; and Jesus said to have been laid in a tomb. Thus the angel said, “Come see the place where the Lord lay,” 1479 naming the part by the name of the whole; and we constantly do just the same. In this place, we say, such an one was buried; not the body of such an one. Every one in his senses knows that we are speaking of the body, and such a mode of speech is customary in divine Scripture. Aaron, we read, died and they buried him on Mount Hor. 1480 Samuel died and they buried him at Ramah, 1481 and there are many similar instances. The same use is followed by the divine Apostle when speaking of the death of the Lord. “I delivered unto you first of all,” he writes, “that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,” 1482 and so on.
Eran.—In the passages we have just now read the Apostle does not mention a body, but Christ the Saviour of us all. You have brought evidence against your own side, and wounded yourself with your own weapon.
Orth.—You seem to have very quickly forgotten the long discourse in which I proved to you over and over again that the body is spoken of by the name of the person. This is what is now done by the divine Apostle, and it can easily be proved from this very passage. Now let us look at it. Why did the divine writer write thus to the Corinthians?
Eran.—They had been deceived by some into believing that there is no resurrection. When the teacher of the world learnt this he furnished them with his arguments about the resurrection of the bodies.
Orth.—Why then does he introduce the resurrection of the Lord, when he wishes to prove the resurrection of the bodies?
p. 228 Eran.—As sufficient to prove the resurrection of us all.
Orth.—In what is His death like the death of the rest; that by His resurrection may be proved the resurrection of all?
Eran.—The reason of the incarnation, suffering, and death of the only begotten Son of God, was that He might destroy death. Thus, after rising, by His own resurrection He preaches the resurrection of all.
Orth.—But who, hearing of a resurrection of God, would ever believe that the resurrection of all men would be exactly like it? The difference of the natures does not allow of our believing in the argument of the resurrection. He is God and they are men, and the difference between God and men is incalculable. They are mortal, and subject to death, like to the grass and to the flower. He is almighty.
Eran.—But after His incarnation God the Word had a body, and through this He proved His likeness to men.
Orth.—Yes; and for this reason the suffering and the death and the resurrection are all of the body, and in proof of this the divine Apostle in another place promises renewal of life to all, and to them that believe in the resurrection of their Saviour, yet look upon the general resurrection of all as fable, he exclaims, “Now if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen, and if Christ he not risen…your faith is vain, you are yet in your sins.” 1483 And from the past he confirms the future, and from what is disbelieved he disproves what is believed, for he says, If the one seems impossible to you, then the other will be false; if the one seems real and true, then let the other in like manner seem true, for here too a resurrection of the body is preached, and this body is called the first fruits of those. The resurrection of this body after many arguments he affirms directly, “But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of them that slept, for since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead, for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,” 1484 and he does not only confirm the argument of the resurrection, but also reveals the mystery of the œconomy. He calls Christ man that he may prove the remedy to be appropriate to the disease.
Eran.—Then the Christ is only a man.
Orth.—God forbid. On the contrary, we have again and again confessed that He is not only man but eternal God. But He suffered as man, not as God. And this the divine Apostle clearly teaches us when he says “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.” 1485 And in his letter to the Thessalonians, he strengthens his argument concerning the general resurrection by that of our Saviour in the passage “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” 1486
Eran.—The Apostle proves the general resurrection by means of the Lords resurrection, and it is clear that in this case also what died and rose was a body. For he would never have attempted to prove the general resurrection by its means unless there had been some relation between the substance of the one and the other. I shall never consent to apply the passion to the human nature alone. It seems agreeable to my view to say that God the Word died in the flesh.
Orth.—We have frequently shewn that what is naturally immortal can in no way die. If then He died He was not immortal; and what perils lie in the blasphemy of the words.
Eran.—He is by nature immortal, but He became man and suffered.
Orth.—Therefore He underwent change, for how otherwise could He being immortal submit to death? But we have agreed that the substance of the Trinity is immutable. Having therefore a nature superior to change, He by no means shared death.
Eran.—The divine Peter says “Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh.” 1487
Orth.—This agrees with what we have said, for we have learnt the rule of dogmas from the divine Scripture.
Eran.—How then can you deny that God the Word suffered in the flesh?
Orth.—Because we have not found this expression in the divine Scripture.
Eran.—But I have just quoted you the utterance of the great Peter.
Orth.—You seem to ignore the distinction of the terms.
Eran.—What terms? Do you not regard the Lord Christ as God the Word?
Orth.—The term Christ in the case of our Lord and Saviour signifies the incarnate Word the Immanuel, God with us, 1488 both God and man, but the term “God the p. 229 Word” so said signifies the simple nature before the world, superior to time, and incorporeal. Wherefore the Holy Ghost that spake through the holy Apostles nowhere attributes passion or death to this name.
Eran.—If the passion is attributed to the Christ, and God the Word after being made man was called Christ, I hold that he who states God the Word to have suffered in the flesh is in no way unreasonable.
Orth.—Hazardous and rash in the extreme is such an attempt. But let us look at the question in this way. Does the divine Scripture state God the Word to be of God and of the Father?
Orth.—And it describes the Holy Ghost as being in like manner of God?
Orth.—But it calls God the Word only begotten Son.
Orth.—It nowhere so names the Holy Ghost.
Orth.—Yet the Holy Ghost also has Its subsistence of the Father and God.
Orth.—We grant then that both the Son and the Holy Ghost are both of God the Father; but would you dare to call the Holy Ghost Son?
Eran.—Because I do not find this term in the divine Scripture.
Eran.—Because I no more learn this in the divine Scripture.
Orth.—But what name can properly be given to that which is neither begotten nor created?
Eran.—We style it uncreated and unbegotten.
Orth.—And we say that the Holy Ghost is neither created nor begotten.
Eran.—By no means.
Orth.—Would you then dare to call the Holy Ghost unbegotten?
Orth.—But why refuse to call that which is naturally uncreate, but not begotten, unbegotten?
Eran.—Because I have not learnt so from the divine Scripture, and I am greatly afraid of saying, or using language which Scripture does not use.
Orth.—Then, my good sir, I maintain the same caution in the case of the passion of salvation; do you too avoid all the divine names which Scripture has avoided in the case of the passion, and do not attribute the passion to them.
Orth.—The passion is never connected with the name “God.”
Eran.—But even I do not affirm that God the Word suffered apart from a body, but say that He suffered in flesh.
Orth.—You affirm then a mode of passion, not impassibility. No one would ever say this even in the case of a human body. For who not altogether out of his senses would say that the soul of Paul died in flesh? This could never be said even in the case of a great villain; for the souls even of the wicked are immortal. We say that such or such a murderer has been slain, but no one would ever say that his soul had been killed in the flesh. But if we describe the souls of murderers and violators of sepulchres as free from death, far more right is it to acknowledge as immortal the soul of our Saviour, in that it never tasted sin. If the souls of them who have most greatly erred have escaped death on account of their nature, how could that soul, whose nature was immortal and who never received the least taint of sin, have taken deaths hook?
Eran.—It is quite useless for you to give me all these long arguments. We are agreed that the soul of the Saviour is immortal.
Orth.—But of what punishment are you not deserving, you who say that the soul, which is by nature created, is immortal, and are for making the divine substance mortal for the Word; you who deny that the soul of the Saviour tasted death in the flesh, and dare to maintain that God the Word, Creator of all things, underwent the passion?
Eran.—We say that He underwent the passion impassibly.
Orth.—And what man in his senses would ever put up with such ridiculous riddles? Who ever heard of an impassible passion, or of an immortal mortality? The impassible has never undergone passion, and what has undergone passion could not possibly be impassible. But we hear the exclamation of the divine Paul: “Who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto.” 1489
Eran.—Why then do we say that the invisible powers too and the souls of men, aye and the very devils, are immortal?
p. 230 Orth.—We do say so; that God is absolutely immortal. He is immortal not by partaking of substance, but in substance; He does not possess an immortality which He has received of another. It is He Himself who has bestowed their immortality on the angels and on them that thou hast just now mentioned. How, moreover, when the divine Paul styles Him immortal and says that He only hath immortality, can you attribute to Him the passion of death?
Eran.—We say that He tasted death after the incarnation.
Orth.—But over and over again we have confessed Him immutable. If being previously immortal He afterwards underwent death through the flesh, a change having preceded His undergoing death; if His life left Him for three days and three nights, how do such statements fall short of the most extreme impiety? For I think that not even they that are struggling against impiety can venture to let such words fall from their lips without peril.
Eran.—Cease from charging us with impiety. Even we say that not the divine nature suffered but the human; but we do say that the divine shared with the body in suffering.
Orth.—What can you mean by sharing in suffering? Do you mean that when the nails were driven into the body the divine nature felt the sense of pain?
Orth.—Both now and in our former investigations we have shewn that the soul does not share all the faculties of the body but that the body while it receives vital force has the sense of suffering through the soul. And even supposing us to grant that the soul shares in pain with the body we shall none the less find the divine nature to be impassible, for it was not united to the body instead of a soul. Or do you not acknowledge that He assumed a soul?
Eran.—I have often acknowledged it.
Orth.—And that He assumed a reasonable Soul?
Orth.—If then together with the body He assumed the soul, and we grant that the soul shared in suffering with the body, then the soul, not the Godhead, shared the passion with the body; it shared the passion, receiving pangs by means of the body. But possibly somebody might agree to the soul sharing suffering with the body, but might deny its sharing death, because of its having an immortal nature. On this account the Lord said “Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul.” 1490 If then we deny that the soul of the Saviour shared death with the body, how could any one accept the blasphemy you and your friends presumptuously promulgate when you dare to say that the divine nature participated in death? This is the more inexcusable when the Lord points out at one time that the body 1491 was being offered, at another that the soul was being troubled. 1492
Eran.—And where doth the Lord shew that the body was being offered? Or are you going to bring me once more that well worn passage “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up”? 1493 Or with your conceited self-sufficiency are you going to quote me the words of the Evangelist? “But He spake of the temple of his body. When therefore He was risen from the dead His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them and they believed the Scripture and the words which He had said.” 1494
Orth.—If you have such a detestation of the divine words which preach the mystery of the incarnation, why, like Marcion and Valentinus and Manes, do you not destroy texts of this kind? For this is what they have done. But if this seems to you rash and impious, do not turn the Lords words into ridicule, but rather follow the Apostles in their belief after the resurrection that the Godhead raised again the temple which the Jews had destroyed.
Eran.—If you have any good evidence to adduce, give over gibing and fulfil your promise.
Orth.—Remember specially those words of the gospels in which the Lord made a comparison between manna and the true bread.
Orth.—In that passage after speaking at some length about the bread of life, he added, “The bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.” 1495 In these words may be understood alike the bounty of the Godhead and the boon of the flesh.
Eran.—One quotation is not enough to settle the question.
Orth.—The Ethiopian eunuch had not read much of the Bible, but when he had found one witness from the prophets he was guided by it to salvation. But not all Apostles and prophets and all the preachers of the truth who have lived since then are p. 231 enough to convince you. Nevertheless I will bring you some further testimony about the Lords body. You cannot but know that passage in the Gospel history where, after eating the passover with His disciples, our Lord pointed to the death of the typical lamb and taught what body corresponded with that shadow. 1496
Eran.—Yes I know it.
Orth.—Remember then what it was which our Lord took and broke, and what He called it when He had taken it.
Eran.—I will answer in mystic language for the sake of the uninitiated. After taking and breaking it and giving it to His disciples He said, “This is my body which was given for you” 1497 or according to the apostle “broken” 1498 and again, “This is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many.” 1499
Orth.—Then when exhibiting the type of the passion He did not mention the Godhead?
Orth.—But He did mention the body and blood.
Orth.—And the body was nailed to the Cross?
Orth.—Come, then; look at this. When after the resurrection the doors were shut and the Lord came to the holy disciples and beheld them affrighted, what means did He use to destroy their fear and instead of fear to infuse faith?
Eran.—He said to them “Behold my hands and my feet that it is I myself; handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.” 1500
Orth.—So when they disbelieved He shewed them the body?
Orth.—Therefore the body rose?
Orth.—And I suppose what rose was what had died?
Orth.—And what had died was what was nailed to the cross?
Orth.—Then according to your own argument the body suffered?
Eran.—Your series of arguments forces us to this conclusion.
Orth.—Consider this too. Now I will be questioner, and do you answer as becomes a lover of the truth.
Eran.—I will answer.
Orth.—When the Holy Ghost came down upon the Apostles, and that wonderful sight and sound collected thousands to the house, what did the chief of the apostles in the speech he then made say concerning the Lords resurrection?
Eran.—He quoted the divine David, and said that he had received promises from God that the Lord Christ should be born of the fruit of his loins and that in trust in these promises he prophetically foresaw His resurrection, and plainly said that His soul was not left in Hades and that His flesh did not see corruption. 1501
Orth.—His resurrection therefore is of these.
Eran.—How can any one in his senses say that there is a resurrection of the soul which never died?
Orth.—How comes it that you who attribute the passion, the death and the resurrection to the immutable and uncircumscribed Godhead have suddenly appeared before us in your right mind and now object to connecting the word resurrection with the soul?
Eran.—Because the word resurrection is applicable to what has fallen.
Orth.—But the body does not obtain resurrection apart from a soul, but being renewed by the divine will, and conjoined with its yokefellow, it receives life. Was it not thus that the Lord raised Lazarus?
Eran.—It is plain that not the body alone rises.
Orth.—This is more distinctly taught by the divine Ezekiel, 1502 for he points out how the Lord commanded the bones to come together, and how all of them were duly fitted together, and how He made sinews and veins and arteries grow with all the flesh pertaining to them and the skin that clothes them all, and then ordered the souls to come back to their own bodies.
Eran.—This is true.
Orth.—But the Lords body did not undergo this corruption, but remained unimpaired, and on the third day recovered its own soul.
Orth.—Then the death was of what had suffered?
Orth.—And when the great Peter mentioned the resurrection, and the divine David too, they said that His soul was not left in p. 232 Hell, but that His body did not undergo corruption?
Orth.—Then it was not the Godhead which underwent death, but the body by severance from the soul?
Eran.—I cannot brook these absurdities.
Orth.—But you are fighting against your own arguments; it is your own words which you are calling absurd.
Eran.—You slander me; not one of these words is mine.
Orth.—Suppose any one to ask what is the animal which is at once reasonable and mortal, and suppose some one else to answer—man; which of the two would you call interpreter of the saying? The questioner or the answerer?
Orth.—Then I was quite right in calling the arguments yours? For you, I ween, in your answers, by rejecting some points and accepting others, confirmed them.
Eran.—Then I will not answer any longer; do you answer.
Orth.—I will answer.
Eran.—What do you say to those words of the Apostle “Had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory”? 1503 in this passage he mentions neither body nor soul.
Orth.—Therefore you must not put the words “in the flesh” in it,—for this is your ingenious invention for decrying the Godhead of the Word—but must attribute the passion to the bare Godhead of the Word.
Eran.—No; no. He suffered in the flesh, but His incorporeal nature was not capable of suffering by itself.
Orth.—Ah! but nothing must be added to the Apostles words.
Eran.—When we know the Apostles meaning there is nothing absurd in adding what is left out.
Orth.—But to add anything to the divine words is wild and rash. To explain what is written and reveal the hidden meaning is holy and pious.
Orth.—We two then shall do nothing unreasonable and unholy in examining the mind of the Scriptures.
Orth.—Let us then look together into what seems to be hidden.
Eran.—By all means.
Orth.—Did the great Paul call the divine James the Lords brother? 1504
Orth.—But in what sense are we to regard him as brother? By relationship of His godhead or of His manhood?
Eran.—I will not consent to divide the united natures.
Orth.—But you have often divided them in our previous investigations, and you shall do the same thing now. Tell me; do you say that God the Word was only begotten Son?
Orth.—And only begotten means only Son.
Orth.—And the only begotten cannot have a brother?
Eran.—Of course not, for if He had had a brother He would not be called the only begotten.
Orth.—Then they were wrong in calling James the brother of the Lord. For the Lord was only begotten, and the only begotten cannot have a brother.
Eran.—No, but the Lord is not incorporeal and the proclaimers of the truth are referring only to what touches the godhead.
Orth.—How then would you prove the word of the apostle true?
Eran.—By saying that James was of kin with the Lord according to the flesh.
Orth.—See how you have brought in again that division which you object to.
Eran.—It was not possible to explain the kinship in any other way.
Orth.—Then do not find fault with those who cannot explain similar difficulties in any other way.
Eran.—Now you are getting the argument off the track because you want to shirk the question.
Orth.—Not at all, my friend. That will be settled too by the points we have investigated. Now look; when you were reminded of James the brother of the Lord, you said that the relationship referred not to the Godhead but to the flesh.
Orth.—Well, now that you are told of the passion of the cross, refer this too to the flesh.
Eran.—The Apostle called the crucified “Lord of Glory,” 1505 and the same Apostle called the Lord “brother of James.”
Orth.—And it is the same Lord in both cases. If then you are right in referring the relationship to the flesh you must also refer the passion to the flesh, for it is perfectly ridiculous to regard the relationship without p. 233 distinction and to refer the passion to Christ without distinction.
Eran.—I follow the Apostle who calls the crucified “Lord of glory.”
Orth.—I follow too, and believe that He was “Lord of glory.” For the body which was nailed to the wood was not that of any common man but of the Lord of glory. But we must acknowledge that the union makes the names common. Once more: do you say that the flesh of the Lord came down from heaven?
Eran.—Of course not.
Orth.—But was formed in the Virgins womb?
Orth.—How, then, does the Lord say “If ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before,” 1506 and again “No man hath ascended up to heaven but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven?” 1507
Eran.—He is speaking not of the flesh, but of the Godhead.
Orth.—Yes; but the Godhead is of the God and Father. How then does He call him Son of man?
Eran.—The peculiar properties of the natures are shared by the person, for on account of the union the same being is both Son of man and Son of God, everlasting and of time, Son of David and Lord of David, and so on with the rest.
Orth.—Very right. But it is also important to recognise the fact that no confusion of natures results from both having one name. Wherefore we are endeavouring to distinguish how the same being is Son of God and also Son of man, and how He is “the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever,” 1508 and by the reverent distinction of terms we find that the contradictions are in agreement.
Eran.—You are right.
Orth.—You say that the divine nature came down from heaven and that in consequence of the union it was called the Son of man. Thus it behoves us to say that the flesh was nailed to the tree, but to hold that the divine nature even on the cross and in the tomb was inseparable from this flesh, though from it it derived no sense of suffering, since the divine nature is naturally incapable of undergoing both suffering and death and its substance is immortal and impassible. It is in this sense that the crucified is styled Lord of Glory, by attribution of the title of the impassible nature to the passible, since, as we know, a body is described as belonging to this latter.
Now let us examine the matter thus. The words of the divine Apostle are “Had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.” 1509 They crucified the nature which they knew, not that of which they were wholly ignorant: had they known that of which they were ignorant they would not have crucified that which they knew: they crucified the human because they were ignorant of the divine. Have you forgotten their own words. “For a good work we stone thee not but for blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” 1510 These words are a plain proof that they recognised the nature they saw, while of the invisible they were wholly ignorant: had they known that nature they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Eran.—That is very probable, but the exposition of the faith laid down by the Fathers in council at Nicæa says that the only begotten Himself, very God, of one substance with the Father, suffered and was crucified.
Orth.—You seem to forget what we have agreed on again and again.
Eran.—What do you mean?
Orth.—I mean that after the union the holy Scripture applies to one person terms both of exaltation and of humiliation. But possibly you are also ignorant that the illustrious Fathers first mentioned His taking flesh and being made man, and then afterwards added that He suffered and was crucified, and thus spoke of the passion after they had set forth the nature capable of passion.
Eran.—The Fathers said that the Son of God, Light of Light, of the substance of the Father, suffered and was crucified.
Orth.—I have observed more than once that both the Divine and the human are ascribed to the one Person. It is in accordance with this position that the thrice blessed Fathers, after teaching how we should believe in the Father, and then passing on to the person of the Son, did not immediately add “and in the Son of God,” although it would have very naturally followed that after defining what touches God the Father they should straightway have introduced the name of Son. But their object was to give us at one and the same time instruction on the theology and on the œconomy, 1511 lest there should be supposed to be any distinction between the Person of the Godhead and the Person of the Manhood. On this account p. 234 they added to their statement concerning the Father that we must believe also in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Now after the incarnation God the Word is called Christ, for this name includes alike all that is proper to the Godhead and to the manhood. We recognise nevertheless that some properties belong to the one nature and some to the others, and this may at once be understood from the actual terms of the Creed. For tell me: to what do you apply the phrase “of the substance of the Father”? to the Godhead, or to the nature that was fashioned of the seed of David?
Eran.—To the Godhead, as is plain.
Orth.—And the clause “Very God of very God”; to which do you hold this belongs, to the Godhead or to the manhood?
Eran.—To the Godhead.
Orth.—Therefore neither the flesh nor the soul is of one substance with the Father, for they are created, but the Godhead which formed all things.
Orth.—Very well, then. And when we are told of passion and of the cross we must recognise the nature which submitted to the passion; we must avoid attributing it to the impassible, and must attribute it to that nature which was assumed for the distinct purpose of suffering. The acknowledgment on the part of the most excellent Fathers that the divine nature was impassible; and their attribution of the passion to the flesh is proved by the conclusion of the creed, which runs “But they who state there was a time when He was not, and before He was begotten He was not, and He was made out of the non-existent, or who allege that the Son of God was of another essence or substance mutable or variable, these the holy catholic and apostolic Church anathematizes.” See then what penalties are denounced against them that attribute the passion to the divine nature. 1512
Eran.—They are speaking in this place of mutation and variation.
Orth.—But what is the passion but mutation and variation? For if, being impassible before His incarnation, He suffered after His incarnation, He assuredly suffered by undergoing mutation; and if being immortal before He became man, He tasted death, as you say, after being made man, He underwent a complete alteration by being made mortal after being immortal. But expressions of this kind, and their authors with them, have all been expelled by the illustrious Fathers from the bounds of the Church, and cut off like rotten limbs from the sound body. We therefore exhort you to fear the punishment and abhor the blasphemy.
Now I will show you that in their own writings the holy Fathers have held the opinions we have expressed. Of the witnesses I shall bring forward some took part in that great Council; some flourished in the Church after their time; some illuminated the world long before. But their harmony is broken neither by difference of periods nor by diversity of language; like the harp their strings are several and separate but like the harp they make one harmonious music.
Eran.—I was anxious for and shall be delighted at such citations. Instruction of this kind cannot be gainsaid, and is most useful.
Orth.—Now; open your ears and receive the streams that flow from the spiritual springs.
Testimony of the holy Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, and martyr.
From his Epistle to the Smyrnæans:—
“They do not admit Eucharists and oblations, because they do not confess the Eucharist to be flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ which suffered for our sins and which of His goodness the Father raised.” 1513
Testimony of Irenæus, bishop of Lyons.
From his third book against heresies (Chap. xx.):—
“It is clear then that Paul knew no other Christ save Him that suffered and was buried and rose and was born, whom he calls man, for after saying, If Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, 1514 he adds, giving the reason of His incarnation, For since by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead, 1515 and on all occasions in reference to the passion, the manhood and the dissolution of the Lord, he uses the name of Christ as in the text, Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died, 1516 and again, But now in Christ ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ, 1517 and again, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a p. 235 curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.” 1518
Of the same from the same work. (Chapter xxi.):—
“For as He was Man that He might be tempted, so was He Word that He might be glorified. In His temptation, His crucifixion and His dying, the Word was inoperative; but in His victory, His patience, His goodness, His resurrection and His assumption it was co-operative with the manhood.”
Of the same from the fifth book of the same work:—
“When with His own blood the Lord had ransomed us, and given His soul on behalf of our souls, and His flesh instead of our flesh.”
The testimony of the holy Hippolytus, bishop and martyr.
From his letter to a certain Queen:—
“So he calls Him The firstfruits of them that slept, 1519 and The first born of the dead. 1520 When He had risen and was wishful to show that what had risen was the same body which died, when the Apostles doubted, He called to Him Thomas and said Handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.” 1521
Of the same from the same letter:—
“By calling Him firstfruits He bore witness to what we have said, that the Saviour, after taking the flesh of the same material, raised it, making it firstfruits of the flesh of the just, in order that all we that believe might have expectation of our resurrection through trust in Him that is risen.”
Of the same from his discourse on the two thieves:—
“The body of the Lord gave both to the world,—the holy blood and the sacred water.”
Of the same from the same discourse:—
“And the body being, humanly speaking, a corpse, has in itself great power of life, for there flowed from it what does not flow from dead bodies—blood and water,—that we might know what vital force lies in the indwelling power in the body, so that it is a corpse evidently unlike others, and is able to pour forth for us causes of life.” 1522
Of the same from the same discourse:—
“Not a bone of the holy Lamb is broken. The type shews that the passion cannot touch the power, for the bones are the power of the body.”
Testimony of the holy Eustathius, bishop of Antioch, and confessor.
From his book on the soul:—
“Their impious calumny can be refuted in a few words; they may be right, unless He voluntarily gave up His own body to the destruction of death for the sake of the salvation of men. First of all they attribute to Him extraordinary infirmity in not being able to repel His enemies assault.”
Of the same from the same book:—
“Why do they, in the concoction of their earth-born deceits, make much of proving that the Christ assumed a body without a soul? In order that if they could seduce any to lay down that this is the case, then, by attributing to the divine Spirit variations of affection, they might easily persuade them that the mutable is not begotten of the immutable nature.”
Of the same from his discourse on “the Lord created me in the beginning of His ways”: 1523 —
“The man Who died rose on the third day, and, when Mary was eager to lay hold of His holy limbs, He objected and cried Touch me not. 1524 For I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God. 1525 Now the words I am not yet ascended to my Father, were not spoken by the Word and God, who came down from heaven, and was in the bosom of the Father, nor by the Wisdom which contains all created things, but were uttered by the man who was compacted of various limbs, who had risen from the dead, who had not yet after His death gone back to the Father, and was reserving for Himself the first fruits of His progress.”
Of the same from the same work:—
“As he writes he expressly describes the man who was crucified as Lord of Glory, declaring Him to be Lord and Christ, just as the Apostles with one voice when speaking to Israel in the flesh say Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus, Whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. 1526 He so made Jesus Christ who suffered. He did not so make the Wisdom nor yet the Word who has the might of dominion from the beginning, but Him who was lifted up on high and stretched out His hands upon the Cross.”
Of the same from the same work:—
p. 236 “For if He is incorporeal and not subject to manual contact, nor apprehended by eyes of flesh, He undergoes no wound, He is not nailed by nails, He has no part in death, He is not hidden in the ground, He is not shut in a grave, He does not rise from a tomb.”
Of the same from the same book:—
“No man taketh it from me.…I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. 1527 If as God He had the double power, He yet yielded to them who were striving of evil counsel to destroy the temple, but by His resurrection He restored it in greater splendour. It is proved by incontrovertible evidence that He of Himself rose and renewed His own house, and the great work of the Son is to be ascribed to the divine Father; for the Son does not work without the Father, as is declared in the unimpeachable utterances of the holy Scriptures. Wherefore at one time the divine Parent is described as having raised the Christ from the dead, at another time the Son promises to raise His own temple. If then from what has previously been laid down the divine spirit of the Christ is proved to be impassible, in vain do the accursed assail the apostolic definitions. If Paul says that the Lord of Glory was crucified, clearly referring to the manhood, we must not on this account refer suffering to the divine. Why then do they put these two things together, saying that the Christ was crucified from infirmity?”
Of the same from the same work:—
“But had it been becoming to attribute to Him any kind of infirmity, any one might have said that it was natural to attach these qualities to the manhood, though not to the fulness of the Godhead, or to the dignity of the highest wisdom, or to Him who according to Paul is described as God over all.” 1528
Of the same from the same book:—
“This then is the manner of the infirmity according to which He is described by Paul as coming to death, for the man lives by Gods power when plainly associated with Gods spirit, since from the preceding statements He who is believed to be in Him is proved to be also the power of the Most High.”
Of the same from the same:—
“As by entering the Virgins womb He did not lessen His power, so neither by the fastening of His body to the wood of the cross is His spirit defiled. For when the body was crucified on high the divine Spirit of wisdom dwelt even within the body, trod in heavenly places, filled all the earth, reigned over the depths, visited and judged the soul of every man, and continued to do all that God continually does, for the wisdom that is on high is not prisoned and contained within bodily matter, just as moist and dry material are contained within their vessels and are contained by but do not contain them. But this wisdom, being a divine and ineffable power, embraces and confirms alike all that is within and all that is without the temple, and thence proceeding beyond comprehends and sways at once all matter.”
Of the same from the same work:—
“But if the sun being a visible body, apprehended by the senses, endures everywhere such adverse influences without changing its order, or feeling any blow, be it small or great; can we suppose the incorporeal Wisdom to be defiled and to change its nature because its temple is nailed to the cross or destroyed or wounded or corrupted? The temple suffers, but the substance abides without spot, and preserves its entire dignity without defilement.”
Of the same from his work on the titles of the Psalms of Degrees:—
“The Father who is perfect, infinite, incomprehensible, and is incapable alike of adornment or disfigurement, receives no acquired glory; nor yet does His Word, who is God begotten of Him, through whom are angels and heaven and earths boundless bulk and all the form and matter of created things; but the man Christ raised from the dead is exalted and glorified to the open discomfiture of His foes.”
Of the same from the same work:—
“They however who have lifted up hatred against Him, though they be fenced round with the forces of His foes, are scattered abroad, while the God and Word gloriously raised His own temple.”
Of the same from his interpretation of the 92nd Psalm:—
“Moreover the prophet Isaiah following the tracks of His sufferings, among other utterances exclaims with a mighty voice And we saw Him and He had no form nor beauty. His form was dishonoured and rejected among the sons of men, 1529 thus distinctly showing that the marks of indignity and the sufferings must be applied to the human but not to the divine. And immediately afterwards he adds Being a man under stroke, and able to bear infirmity. 1530 He it is who after suffering outrage was seen to have no form or comeliness, then again was changed and clothed with beauty, for the God dwelling in Him was not led like a lamb to death p. 237 and slaughtered like a sheep, for His nature is invisible.”
Testimony of the Holy Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, and confessor.
From his letter to Epictetus:—
“Whoever reached such a pitch of impiety as to think and say that the Godhead itself of one substance with the Father was circumcised, and from perfect became imperfect; and to deny that what was crucified on the tree was the body, asserting it on the contrary to be the very creative substance of wisdom?”
Of the same from the same treatise:—
“The Word associated with Himself and brought upon Himself what the humanity of the Word suffered, that we might be able to share in the Godhead of the Word. And marvellous it was that the sufferer and He who did not suffer were the same; sufferer in that His own body suffered and He was in it while suffering, but not suffering because the Word, being by nature God, was impassible. And He Himself the incorporeal was in the passible body, and the body contained in itself the impassible Word, destroying the infirmities of His body.”
Of the same from the same letter:—
“For being God and Lord of Glory, He was in the body ingloriously crucified; but the body suffered when smitten on the tree, and water and blood flowed from its side; but being temple of the Word, it was full of the Godhead. Wherefore when the sun saw its Creator suffering in His outraged body, it drew in its rays, and darkened the earth. And that very body with a mortal nature rose superior to its own nature, on account of the Word within it, and is no longer touched by its natural corruption, but clothed with the superhuman Word, became incorruptible.”
Of the same from his greater discourse on the Faith:—
“Was what rose from the dead, man or God? Peter, the Apostle, who knows better than we, interprets and say, and when they had fulfilled all that was written of Him they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a sepulchre, but God raised Him from the dead. 1531 Now the dead body of Jesus which was taken down from the tree, which had been laid in a sepulchre, and entombed by Joseph of Arimathæa, is the very body which the Word raised, saying, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 1532 It is He who quickens all the dead, and quickened the man Christ Jesus, born of Mary, whom He assumed. For if while on the cross 1533 He raised corpses of the saints that had previously undergone dissolution, much more can God the everliving Word raise the body, which He wore, as says Paul, For the word of God is quick and powerful.” 1534
Of the same from the same work:—
“Life then does not die, but quickens the dead; for as the light is not injured in a dark place, so life cannot suffer when it has visited a mortal nature, for the Godhead of the Word is immutable and invariable as the Lord says in the prophecy about Himself I am the Lord I change not.” 1535
Of the same from the same work:—
“Living He cannot die but on the contrary quickens the dead. He is therefore, by the Godhead derived from the Father, a fount of light; but He that died, or rather rose from the dead, our intercessor, who was born of the Virgin Mary, whom the Godhead of the Word assumed for our sake, is man.”
Of the same from the same work:—
“It came to pass that Lazarus fell sick and died; but the divine Man did not fall sick nor against His own will did He die, but of His own accord came to the dispensation of death, being strengthened by God the Word who dwelt within Him, and who said No man taketh it from me but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. 1536 The Godhead then which lays down and takes the life of man which He wore is of the Son, for in its completeness He assumed the manhood, in order that in its completeness He might quicken it, and, with it, the dead.”
Of the same from his discourse against the Arians:—
“When therefore the blessed Paul says the Father raised the Son from the dead 1537 John tells us that Jesus said Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up…but He spake of His own body. 1538 So it is clear to them that take heed that at the raising of the body the Son is said by Paul to have been raised from the dead, for he refers what concerns the body to the Sons person, and just so when he says the Father gave life to the Son 1539 it must be understood that the life was given to the Flesh. For if He Himself is life how can the life receive life?”
p. 238 Of the same from his work on the Incarnation:—
“For when the Word was conscious that in no other way could the ruin of men be undone save by death to the uttermost, and it was impossible that the Word who is immortal and Son of the Father should die, to effect His end He assumes a body capable of death, that this body, being united to the Word, who is over all, might, in the stead of all, become subject to death, and because of the indwelling Word might remain incorruptible, and so by the grace of the resurrection corruption for the future might lose its power over men. Thus offering to death, as a sacrifice and victim free from every spot, the body which He had assumed, by His corresponding offering He straightway destroyed deaths power over all His kind; for being the Word of God above and beyond all men, He rightly offered and paid His own temple and bodily instrument, as a ransom for all souls due to death. And thus by means of the like (body) being associated with all men, the incorruptible Son of God rightly clothed all men with incorruption by the promise of the resurrection, for the corruption inherent in death no longer has any place with men, for the sake of the Word who dwelt in them by the means of the one body.”
Of the same from the same work:—
“Wherefore, after His divine manifestations in His works, now also on behalf of all He offered sacrifice, yielding to death His own temple instead of all, that He might make all men irresponsible and free from the ancient transgression, and, exhibiting His own body as incorruptible firstfruits of the resurrection of mankind, might shew Himself stronger than death. For the body, as having a common substance—for it was a human body, although by a new miracle its constitution was of the Virgin alone—being mortal, died after the example of its like; but by the descent of the Word into it no longer suffered corruption, according to its own nature, but, on account of God the Word who dwelt within it, was delivered from corruption.”
Of the same from the same work:—
“Whence, as I have said, since it was not possible for the Word being immortal to die, He took upon Himself a body capable of death, in order that He might offer this same body for all, and He Himself in His suffering on behalf of all through His descent into this body might destroy Him that hath the power of death.” 1540
Of the same from the same work: 1541 —
“For the body in its passion, as is the nature of bodies, died, but it had the promise of incorruption through the Word that dwelt within it. For when the body died the Word was not injured; but He was Himself impassible, incorruptible, and immortal, as being Gods Word, and being associated with the body He kept from it the natural corruption of bodies, as says the Spirit to Him thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.” 1542
The testimony of the holy Damasus, bishop of Rome: 1543 —
“If any one say that, in the passion of the Cross, God the Son of God suffered pain, and not the flesh with the soul, which the form of the servant put on and assumed, as the Scripture saith, Let him be anathema.”
Testimony of the holy Ambrosius, bishop of Milan.
From his book on the Catholic faith:—
“There are some men who have reached such a pitch of impiety as to think that the Godhead of the Lord was circumcised, and from perfect was made imperfect; and that the divine substance, Creator of all things, and not the flesh, was on the tree.”
Of the same from the same work:—
“The flesh suffered; but the Godhead is free from death. He yielded His body to suffer according to the law of human nature. For how can God die, when the soul cannot die? Fear not, He says, them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul. 1544 If then the soul cannot be slain how can the Godhead be made subject to death?”
Testimony of the holy Basilius, bishop of Cæsarea:—
“It is perfectly well known to every one who has the least acquaintance with the meaning of the words of the Apostle that he is not delivering to us a mode of theology but is explaining the reasons of the œconomy, 1545 for he says God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ. 1546 Thus he is plainly directing his argument to His human and visible nature.”
Testimony of the holy Gregorius, bishop of Nazianzus.
From his letter to the blessed Nectarius, bishop of Constantinople:—
“The saddest thing in what has befallen the churches is the boldness of the utterances of Apollinarius and his party. I cannot understand how your Holiness has allowed them to p. 239 arrogate to themselves the power of assembling on the same terms with us.”
And a little further on:—
“I will no longer call this serious; it is indeed saddest of all that the only begotten God Himself, Judge of all who exist, the Prince of Life, the Destroyer of Death, is made by him mortal and alleged to receive suffering in His own Godhead. He represents the Godhead to have shared with the body in the dissolution of that three days death of the body, and so after the death to have been again raised by the Father.”
Of the same from his former exposition to Cledonius:—
“It is the contention of the Arians that the manhood was without a soul, that they may refer the passion to the Godhead and represent the same power as both moving the body and suffering.”
Of the same from his discourse about the Son:—
“It remained for us to treat of what was commanded Him and of His keeping the commandments and doing all things pleasing to Him; and further of His perfection, exaltation, and learning obedience by all that He suffered, 1547 His priesthood, His offering, His betrayal, His entreaty to Him that hath power to save Him from death, His agony, His bloody sweat, His prayer and similar manifestations, were it not clear to all that all these expressions in connexion with His Passion in no way signify the nature which was immutable and above suffering.”
Of the same from his Easter Discourse (Or. ii.):—
“Who is this that cometh from Edom? 1548 and from the earth, and how can the garments of the bloodless and bodiless be red as of one that treadeth in the wine-fat? Urge in reply the beauty of the garment of the body which suffered and was made beautiful in suffering, and was made splendid by the Godhead, than which nothing is lovelier nor more fair.”
Testimony of Gregory, bishop of Nyssa.
From his catechetical oration:—
“And this is the mystery of the dispensation of God concerning the manhood and of the resurrection from the dead, not to prevent the soul from being separated from the body by death according to the necessary law of human nature, and to bring them together again through the resurrection.”
Of the same from the same work:—
“The flesh which received the Godhead, and which through the resurrection was exalted with the Godhead, is not formed of another material, but of ours; so, just as in the case of our own body, the operation of one of the senses moves to general sensation the whole man united to that part, in like manner just as though all nature were one single animal, the resurrection of the part pervades the whole, being conveyed from the part to the whole by what is continuous and united in nature. What then do we find extraordinary in the mystery that the upright stoops to the fallen to raise up him that lies low?”
Of the same from the same work:—
“It would be natural also in this part not to heed the one and neglect the other; but in the immortal to behold the human, and to be curiously exact about the diviner quality in the manhood.”
Of the same from his work against Eunomius:—
“Tis not the human nature which raises Lazarus to life. Tis not the impassible power which sheds tears over the dead. The tear belongs to the man; the life comes from the very life. The thousands are not fed by human poverty; omnipotence does not hasten to the fig tree. Who was weary in the way, and who by His word sustains all the world without being weary? What is the brightness of His glory, what was pierced by the nails? What form is smitten in the passion, what is glorified for everlasting? The answer is plain and needs no interpretation.”
Of the same from the same treatise:—
“He blames them that refer the passion to the human nature. He wishes himself wholly to subject the Godhead itself to the passion, for the proposition being twofold and doubtful, whether the divinity or the humanity was concerned in the passion, the denial of the one becomes the positive condemnation of the other. While therefore they blame them who see the passion in the humanity, they will bestow unqualified praise on them that maintain the Divinity of the Son of God to be passible. But the point established by these means becomes a confirmation of their own absurdity of doctrine; for if, as they allege, the Godhead of the Son suffers while that of the Father in accordance with its substance is conserved in complete impassibility, it follows that the impassible nature is at variance with the nature which sustains suffering.”
The testimony of the holy Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium.
From his discourse on the text “Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth my p. 240 word and believeth on Him that sent me hath everlasting life”: 1549 —
“Whose then are the sufferings? Of the flesh. Therefore if you give to the flesh the suffering, give it also the lowly words; and ascribe the exalted words to Him to Whom you assign the miracles. For the God when He is in the act of working wonders naturally speaks in high and lofty language worthy of His works and the man when He is suffering fitly utters lowly words corresponding with His sufferings.”
Of the same from his discourse on “My Father is greater than I”: 1550 —
“But when you give the sufferings to the flesh and the miracles to God, you must of necessity, though unwillingly, give the lowly words to the man born of Mary, and the high and lofty words becoming God, to the Word who existed in the beginning. The reason why I utter sometimes lofty words and sometimes lowly is that by the lofty I may show the nobility of the indwelling Word, and by the lowly make known the infirmity of the lowly flesh. So at one time I call myself equal to the Father and at another I call the Father greater; and in this I am not inconsistent with myself, but I shew that I am God and man; God by the lofty and man by the lowly. And if you wish to know in what sense my Father is greater than I, I spoke in the flesh and not in the person of the Godhead.”
Of the same from his discourse on “If it be possible let this cup pass from me”: 1551 —
“Ascribe not then the sufferings of the flesh to the impassible God, for I, O heretic, am God, and man; God, as the miracles prove; man as is shewn by the sufferings. Since then I am God and man, tell me, who was it who suffered? If God suffered, you have spoken blasphemy; but if the flesh suffered, why do you not attribute the passion to Him to whom you ascribe the dread? For while one is suffering another feels on dread; while man is being crucified God is not troubled.”
Of the same from his discourse against the Arians:—
“And not to prolong what I am saying, I will shortly ask you, O heretic, did He who was begotten of God before the ages suffer, or Jesus who was born of David in the last days? If the Godhead suffered, thou hast spoken blasphemy; if, as the truth is, the manhood suffered, for what reason do you hesitate to attribute the passion to man?”
Of the same from his discourse concerning the Son:—
“Peter said, God hath made this Jesus both Lord and Christ 1552 and said too, this Jesus whom ye crucified God hath raised up. 1553 Now it was the manhood, not the Godhead, which became a corpse, and He who raised it was the Word, the power of God, who said in the Gospel, Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. 1554 So when it is said that God hath made Him who became a corpse and rose from the dead both Lord and Christ, what is meant is the flesh, and not the Godhead of the Son.”
Of the same from his discourse on “The Son can do nothing of Himself”: 1555 —
“For He had not such a nature as that His life could be held by corruption, since His Godhead was not forcibly reduced to suffering. For how could it? But the manhood was renewed in incorruption. So he says For this mortal must put on immortality and this corruptible must put on incorruption. 1556 You observe the accuracy; he points distinctly to this mortal that you may not entertain the idea of the resurrection of any other flesh.”
Testimony of the holy Flavianus, bishop of Antioch.
On Easter Day:—
“Wherefore also the cross is boldly preached by us, and the Lords death confessed among us, though in nothing did the Godhead suffer, for the divine is impassible, but the dispensation was fulfilled by the body.”
Of the same on Judas the traitor:—
“When therefore you hear of the Lord being betrayed, do not degrade the divine dignity to insignificance, nor attribute to divine power the sufferings of the body. For the divine is impassible and invariable. For if through His love to mankind He took on Him the form of a servant, He underwent no change in nature. But being what He ever was, he yielded the divine 1557 body to experience death.”
Testimony of Theophilus, bishop of Alexandria.
From his Heortastic Volume:—
“Of unreasoning beings the souls are not taken and replaced: they share in the corruption of the bodies, and are dissolved into dust. But after the Saviour at the time of the cross had taken the soul from His own body, He restored it to the body again when He rose from the dead. To assure us of this He uttered the words of the psalmist, the predictive exclamation, Thou wilt not p. 241 leave my soul in Hell nor suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” 1558
Testimony of the blessed Gelasius, bishop of Cæsarea in Palestine:—
“He was bound, He was wounded, He was crucified, He was handled, He was marked with scars, He received a lances wound, and all these indignities were undergone by the body born of Mary, while that which was begotten from the Father before the ages none was able to harm, for the Word had no such nature. For how can any one constrain Godhead? How wound it? How make red with blood the incorporeal nature? How surround it with grave bands? Grant now what you cannot contravene and, constrained by invincible reason, honour Godhead.”
Testimony of the holy John, bishop of Constantinople.
From his discourse on the words “My Father worketh hitherto and I work”: 1559 —
“What sign shewest Thou unto us seeing that Thou doest these things? 1560 What then does He reply Himself? Destroy this temple, He says, and in three days I will raise it up, 1561 speaking of His own body, but they did not understand Him.”
And a little further on:—
“Why does not the evangelist pass this by? Why did he add the correction, But He spake of the temple of his body? 1562 for He did not say destroy this body, but temple that He might shew the indwelling God. Destroy this temple which is far more excellent than that of the Jews. The Jewish temple contained the Law; this temple contains the Lawgiver; the former the letter that killeth; the latter the spirit that giveth life.” 1563
Of the same from the discourse “That what was spoken and done in humility was not so done and spoken on account of infirmity of power but different dispensations”:—
“How then does He say If it be possible? 1564 He is pointing out to us the infirmity of the human nature, which did not choose to be torn away from this present life, but stepped back and shrank on account of the love implanted in it by God in the beginning for the present life. If then when the Lord Himself so often spoke in such terms, some have dared to say that He did not take flesh, what would they have said if none of these words had been spoken by Him?”
Of the same from the same work:—
“Observe how they spoke of His former age. Ask the heretic the question Does God dread? Does He draw back? Does He shrink? Does He sorrow? and if he says yes, stand off from him for the future, rank him down below with the devil, aye lower even than the devil, for even the devil will not dare to say this. But, should he say that each of these things is unworthy of God, reply—neither does God pray; for apart from these it will be yet another absurdity should the words be the words of God, for the words indicate not only an agony, but also two wills; one of the Son and another of the Father, opposed to one another. For the words Not as I will, but as Thou wilt, are the words of one indicating this.”
Of the same from the same work:—
“For if this be spoken of the Godhead there arises a certain contradiction, and many absurdities are thereby produced. If on the contrary it be spoken of the flesh, the expressions are reasonable, and no fault can be found with them. For the unwillingness of the flesh to die incurs no condemnation; such is the nature of the flesh and He exhibits all the properties of the flesh except sin, and indeed in full abundance, so as to stop the mouths of the heretics. When therefore He says If it be possible let this cup pass from me and not as I will but as Thou wilt, He only shews that He is really clothed with the flesh which fears death, for it is the nature of the flesh to fear death, to draw back and to suffer agony. Now He leaves it abandoned and stripped of its own activity, that by shewing its weakness He may convince us also of its nature. Sometimes however He conceals it, because He was not mere man.”
Testimony of Severianus, bishop of Gabala.
From his discourse on the seals:—
“The Jews withstand the apparent, ignorant of the non-apparent; they crucify the flesh; they do not destroy the Godhead. For if my words are not destroyed together with the letter which is the clothing of speech, how could God the Word, the fount of life, die together with the flesh? The passion belongs to the body, but impassibility to the dignity.”
See then how they whose husbandry is in the East and in the West, as well as in the South and in the North, have all been shewn by us to condemn your vain heresy, and all openly to proclaim the impassibility of the divine Nature. See how both tongues, I mean both Greek and Latin, make one harmonious confession about the things of God.
p. 242 Eran.—I am myself astonished at their harmony, but I observe a considerable difference in the terms they use.
Orth.—Do not be angry. The very force of their fight against their adversaries is the cause of their seeming immoderate. The same thing is to be observed in the case of planters; when they see a plant bent one way or another, they are not satisfied with bringing it to a straight line, but bend it still further in the opposite direction, that by its being bent still further from the straight it may attain its upright stature. But that you may know that the very promoters and supporters of this manifold heresy strive to surpass even the heretics of old by the greatness of their blasphemies, listen once more to the writings of Apollinarius which proclaim the impassibility of the divine nature, and confess the passion to be of the body.
Testimony of Apollinarius.
From his summary:—
“John spoke of the temple which was destroyed, namely the body of Him that raised it, and the body is entirely united to Him and He is not another among them. And if the body of the Lord was one with the Lord, the properties of the body were constituted His properties on account of the body.”
“And the truth is that His conjunction with the body does not take place by circumscription of the Word, so that He has nothing beyond His incorporation. Wherefore even in death immortality abides with Him; for if He transcends this composition, so does He also the dissolution. Now death is dissolution. But He was not comprehended in the composition; had He been so, the universe would have been made void; nor in the dissolution did He, like the soul, suffer the deprivation which succeeds dissolution.”
“As the Saviour says that the dead bodies go forth from their tombs, though their souls do not go forth thence, just so He says that He Himself will rise from the dead, although it is only His body that rises.”
In another similar work he writes:—
“Of man is the rising from the dead; of God is the raising. Now Christ both rose and raised, for He was God and man. Had the Christ been only man He would not have quickened the dead, and if He had been only God, He would not on His own account apart from the Father have quickened any of the dead. But Christ did both; the same being is both God and man. If the Christ had been only man He would not have saved the world; if He had been only God He would not have saved it through suffering, but Christ did both, so He is God and man. If the Christ had been only man or if only God He could not have been a Mediator between men and God.”
And a little further on:—
“Now flesh is an instrument of life fitted to the capacity for suffering in accordance with the divine will. Words are not proper to the Flesh, nor are deeds. Being made subject to the capacity for suffering, as is natural to the flesh, it prevails over the suffering because it is the flesh of God.”
And again a little further on:—
“The Son took flesh of the Virgin and travelled to the world. This flesh He filled with the Holy Ghost to the sanctification of us all. So He delivered death to death and destroyed death through the resurrection to the raising of us all.”
From his tract concerning the faith:—
“Since the passions are concerned with the flesh His power possessed its own impassibility, so to refer the passion to the power is an impious error.”
And in his tract about the incarnation he further writes:—
“Here then He shews that it was the same man who rose from the dead and God who reigns over all creation.”
You see now that one of the professors of vain heresy plainly preaches the impassibility of the Godhead, calls the body a temple, and persists in maintaining that this body was raised by God the Word.
Eran.—I have heard and I am astonished; and I am really ashamed that our doctrines should appear less tenable than the innovation of Apollinarius.
Orth.—But I will bring you a witness from yet another heretical herd distinctly preaching the impassibility of the Godhead of the only begotten.
Eran.—Whom do you mean?
Orth.—You have probably heard of Eusebius the Phœnician, who was bishop of Emesa by Lebanon. 1565
Eran.—I have met with some of his writings, and found him to be a supporter of the doctrines of Arius.
Orth.—Yes; he did belong to that sect, but in his endeavour to prove that the Father was greater than the only begotten he declares the Godhead of the depreciated Son to be imp. 243 passible and for this opinion he contended with long and extraordinary perseverance.
Eran.—I should be very much obliged if you would quote his words too.
Orth.—To comply with your wish I will adduce somewhat longer evidence. Now listen to what he says, and fancy that the man himself is addressing us.
Testimony of Eusebius of Emesa:—
“Wherefore does he fear death? Lest he suffer anything from death? For what was death to Him? Was it not the severance of the power from the flesh? Did the power receive a nail that it should fear? If our soul suffers not the bodys infirmities when united with it, but the eye grows blind and yet the mind retains its force; and a foot is cut off and yet the reasoning power does not halt—and this nature evidences, and the Lord sets His seal on, in the words Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul (and if they cannot kill the soul, it is not because they do not wish, but because they are not able, though they would like to make the soul share the suffering of the body yoked with it)—shall He who created the soul and formed the body suffer as the body suffers, although He does take upon Himself the bodys sufferings? But Christ suffered for us, and we lie not. And the bread that I will give is my flesh. 1566 This He gave for us.
“That which can be mastered was mastered; that which can be crucified was crucified, but He that had power alike to dwell in it and to leave it said Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit, 1567 not into the hands of them who were trying to hasten His death. I am not fond of controversy; I rather avoid it; with all gentleness I wish to enquire into the points at issue between us as between brothers. Do not I say truly that the power could not be subject to the sufferings of the flesh? I say nothing; let him who will say what the power suffered. Did it fail? See the danger. Was it extinct? See the blasphemy. Did it no longer exist? This is the death of power. Tell me what can so master it that it suffered and I withdraw. But, if you cannot tell me, why do you object to my not telling you? What you cannot tell me, that it did not receive. Drive a nail into a soul and I will admit that it can be driven into power. But it was in sympathy. Tell me what you mean by in sympathy. As a nail went into the flesh, so pain into the power. Let us understand was in sympathy in this sense. Then pain was felt by the power which was not smitten. For pain always follows on suffering. But if a body often despises pain while the mind is sound, on account of the vigour of its thought, then in this case let some one explain impartially what suffered and what suffered with or was in sympathy. What then? Did not Christ die for us? How did He die? Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit. 1568 The Spirit departed; the body remained; the body remained without breath. Did He not die then? He died for us. The Shepherd offered the sheep, the Priest offered the sacrifice, He gave Himself for us. He that spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all. 1569 I do not reject the words, but I want the meaning of the words. The Lord says that the bread of God came down from Heaven, 1570 and though I cannot express it more clearly on account of the mysteries, He says in explanation It is my flesh. Did the flesh of the Son come down from heaven? No. How then does He say, and that in explanation, the bread of God lives and came down from Heaven? He refers the properties of the power to the flesh, because the power which assumed the flesh came down from heaven. Change the terms then; He refers to the power what the flesh suffers. How did Christ suffer for us? He was spat upon, He was smitten on the cheek, they put a crown about His brow, His hands and feet were pierced. All these sufferings were of the body, but they are referred to Him that dwelt therein. Throw a stone at the Emperors statue. What is the cry? You have insulted the Emperor. Tear the Emperors robe. What is the cry? You have rebelled against the Emperor. Crucify Christs body. What is the cry? Christ died for us. But what need of me and thee? Let us go to the Evangelists. How have you received from the Lord how the Lord died? They read Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit. 1571 The Spirit on high, the body on the Cross for us. So far as His body is attributed to Himself He offered the sheep.”
Of the same from the same book:—
“He came to save our nature; not to destroy His own. If I consent to say that a camel flies, you directly count it strange, because it does not fit in with its nature; and you are quite right. And if I say that men live in the sea you will not accept it; you are quite right. It is contrary to nature. As then if I say strange things about these p. 244 natures you count it strange; if I say that the Power which was before the ages, by nature incorporeal, in dignity impassible, which exists with the Father and by the Fathers side, on His right hand and in glory, if I say that this incorporeal nature suffers, will you not stop your ears? If you will not stop your ears when you hear this, I shall stop my heart. Can we do anything to an angel? Smite him with a sword? Or cut him in pieces? Why do I say to an angel? Can we to a soul? Does a soul receive a nail? A soul is neither cut nor burnt. Do you ask why? Because it was so created. Are His works impassible and He Himself passible? I do not reject the œconomy; on the contrary, I welcome the ill-treatment. Christ died for us and was crucified. So it is written; so the nature admitted. I do not blot out the words nor do I blaspheme the nature. But this is not true. Very well, then let something truer be said. The teacher is a benefactor, never harsh, never an enemy, unless the pupil be headstrong. Have you anything good to say? My ears are gratefully open. Does any one want to quarrel? Let him quarrel at his leisure. Could the Jews crucify the Son of God and make the power itself a dead body? Can the living die? The death of this power is its failure. Even when we die, our body is left. But if we make that power a dead body we reduce it to non-existence. I am afraid you cannot hear. If the body die, the soul is separated from it and remains; but if the soul die, since it has no body, it altogether ceases to exist. A soul by dying altogether ceases to be. For the death of the immortals is a contradiction of their existence. Consider the alternative; for I do not dare even to mention it. We say these things as we understand them, but if any one is contentions, we lay down no law. But I know one thing, that every man must reap the fruit of his opinions. Each man comes to God and brings before Him what he has said and thought about Him. Do not suppose that God reads books, or is troubled by having to recollect what you said or who heard you: all is made manifest. The judge is on the throne. Paulus 1572 is brought before Him. Thou saidst I was a man; thou hast no life with Me. Thou knewest not Me; I know not thee. Up comes another. Thou saidst I was one of the things that are created. 1573 Thou knewest not My dignity; I know not thee. Up comes another. Thou saidst that I did not assume a body. Thou madest light of My grace. Thou shalt not share My immortality. Up comes another. Thou saidst that I was not born of a Virgin to save the body of the Virgin; thou shalt not be saved. Each one reaps the fruit of his opinions about the faith.”
You see the other sect of your teachers, in which you supposed that you had learnt the suffering of the Godhead of the only Begotten, abhors this blasphemy, preaches the impassibility of the Godhead, and quits the ranks of them who dare to attribute the passion to it.
Eran.—Yes; I am astonished at the conflict, and I admire the mans sense and opinions.
Orth.—Then, my good Sir, imitate the bees. As you flit in mental flight about the meads of the divine Scripture, among the fair flowers of these illustrious Fathers, build us in your heart the honey-comb of the faith. If haply you find anywhere herbage bitter and not fit to eat, like these fellows Apollinarius and Eusebius, but still not quite without something that may be meet for making honey, it is reasonable that you should sip the sweet and leave the poisonous behind, like bees who lighting often on baneful bushes leave all the deadly bane behind and gather all the good. We give you this advice, dear friend, in brotherly kindness. Receive it and you will do well. And if you hearken not we will say to you in the word of the apostle “We are pure.” 1574 We have spoken, as the prophet says, what we have been commanded.
Gen. ii. 17217:1414
The vena cava, by which the blood returns to the heart. The physiology of Eranistes would be held in the main “orthodox” even now, and shews that Theodoret was well abreast of the science accepted before the discovery of the circulation of the blood.218:1415
Matt. x. 28218:1416
Matt. xxv. 41219:1417
Matt. xix. 26; Mark x. 27219:1418
Job x. 13, lxx.219:1419
Job x. 9-12219:1420
Job x. 13, lxx.220:1421
Cf. note on Page 37. From the middle of the IIIrd century onward we find acceptation of the Pauline authorship. Among writers who quote the Ep. as St. Pauls are Cyril of Jerusalem, the two Gregories, Basil, and Chrysostom, as well as Theodoret.220:1422
Heb. vi. 18220:1423
2 Tim. ii. 11-13220:1424
John iii. 16220:1425
Romans v. 10220:1426
cf. note on page 155.220:1427
Gen. xxvii. 1220:1428
Amos vii. 12220:1429
1 Sam. ix. 18221:1430
Heb. 12:12, 13221:1431
John x. 30221:1432
John xiv. 9221:1433
John i. 1221:1434
John iv. 6222:1435
Isa. 40:28, 29. cf. Sept.222:1436
Isaiah xl. 31222:1437
1 Cor. viii. 6222:1438
The text of John iv. 6 is κεκοπιακὼς ἐκαθέζετο, i.e., after being weary sate down. κοπιῶν ἐκαθέζετο would = “while being weary sate down.” The force of the passage seems to be that Scripture states our Lord to have been wearied once,—not to be wearied now; though of course in classical Greek λέγει (historicè) αὐτὸν κοπιᾶν might mean “said that he was in a state of weariness.”222:1439
Rom. v. 10222:1440
Acts xiii. 30222:1441
Acts viii. 2222:1442
Gen. xlix. 29222:1443
Gen. xlix. 31222:1444
“The Machpelah,” always in Hebrew with the article הלפֵכְטַּהַ = “the double (cave).”
It is interesting to contrast the heathen idea, that the shadow goes to Hades while the self is identified with the body, with the Christian belief, that the self lives while the body is buried e.g. Homer (Il. i. 4) says that while the famous “wrath” sent many heroes souls to Hades, it made “them” a prey to dogs and birds. cf. xxiii. 72. “ψυχαὶ εἰδωλα καμόντων.”223:1445
Acts xii. 2223:1446
Matt. x. 28223:1447
Vide note on Pages 37 and 220.223:1448
Heb. 2:11, 12, 13223:1449
Heb. 2:14, 15224:1450
Rom. 5:15, 16, 17224:1451
Rom. 5:18, 19224:1452
1 Cor. 15:20, 21, 22225:1453
Rom. xiii. 32225:1454
Gen. xxii. 16225:1455
John viii. 56225:1456
The sacrifice of Isaac so far as his fathers part in it is concerned is regarded as having actually taken place at the moment of his felt willingness to obey. In the interval of the journey to Mount Moriah Isaac is dead to his father.225:1457
It is to be noted that Theodoret thus apparently regards the divine image as consisting in the intelligence or λόγος. And in the implication that Isaac had the divine image, he expresses the Scriptural view that this was marred, not lost, by the fall.226:1460
Heb. x. 1226:1461
1 Cor. x. 11226:1462
Heb. xiii. 12226:1463
John 3:14, 15226:1465
John 1:29, 36226:1466
Is. liii. 7226:1467
2 Cor. v. 21226:1468
Gal. iii. 13226:1469
Matt. xxv. 32226:1470
Gal. iv. 24et seqq.226:1471
Matt. xxviii. 6226:1472
St. Thomas was buried at Edessa. Soc. iv. 18, Chrys. Hom. in Heb. 26.226:1473
Vide p. 96.226:1474
St. Stephens remains were said to have been found at Jerusalem, and widely dispersed. cf. Dict. Christ. Ant. II. 1929.227:1475
Matt. xxvii. 57-60227:1476
Mark xv. 42-46227:1477
Luke xxiii. 50 et Seqq.227:1478
John xix. 38-42227:1479
Matt. xxviii. 6227:1480
Deut. x. 6227:1481
1 Sam. xxv. 1227:1482
1 Cor. 15:3, 4228:1483
1 Cor. 15:12, 13, 17228:1484
1 Cor. 15:21, 22228:1485
1 Cor. xv. 21228:1486
1 Thess. iv. 14228:1487
1 Peter iv. 1228:1488
Matt. i. 23229:1489
1 Tim. vi. 16230:1490
Matt. x. 28230:1491
Heb. x. 10230:1492
John xii. 27230:1493
John ii. 19230:1494
John 2:21, 22230:1495
John vi. 21231:1496
Matt. 17:26, Mark 14:22, Luke 22:19, 1 Cor. 11:24Matt. xvii. 26. Mark xiv. 22. Luke xxii. 19. 1 Cor. xi. 24231:1497
Luke xxii. 19231:1498
1 Cor. xi. 24231:1499
Matt. 26:28, Mark 14:24Matt. xxvi. 28 and Mark xiv. 24231:1500
Luke xxiv. 39231:1501
Acts 2:29, Ps. 16:10Acts ii. 29 et seqq. and Ps. xvi. 10231:1502
Ez. xxxvii. 7 et seqq.232:1503
1 Cor. ii. 8232:1504
Gal. i. 19232:1505
1 Cor. ii. 8233:1506
John vi. 62233:1507
John iii. 13233:1508
Heb. xiii. 8233:1509
1 Cor. ii. 8233:1510
John x. 33233:1511
Vide note on page 72.234:1512
See the Creed as published by the Council. p. 50.234:1513
The quotation is not quite exact, “᾽Εὐχαριστίας καὶ προσφορὰς οῦκ ἀποδέχονται” being substituted for εὐχαριστίας καὶ προσευχῆς ἀπεχονται. Bp. Lightfoot (Ap. Fath. II. ii. 307) notes, “the argument is much the same as Tertullians against the Docetism of Marcion (adv. Marc. iv. 40), Acceptum panem et distributum discipulis corpus suum illum fecit. Hoc est corpus meum dicendo, id est figura mei corporis. Figura autem non fuisset, nisi veritatis esset corpus, ceterum vacua res quod est phantasma, figuram capere non posset. The Eucharist implies the reality of Christs flesh. To those who deny this reality it has no meaning at all; to them Christs words of institution are false; it is in no sense the flesh of Christ.” Cf. Iren. iv. 18, 5.234:1514
1 Cor. xv. 12234:1515
1 Cor. xv. 21234:1516
Rom. xiv. 15234:1517
Ephes. ii. 13. Observe slight differences.235:1518
Gal. 3:13, Deut. 21:23Gal. iii. 13 and Deut. xxi. 23235:1519
1 Cor. xv. 20235:1520
Coloss. i. 18235:1521
cf. Luke xxiv. 39. And for the application of these words to St. Thomas cf. page 210.235:1522
The effusion of water and blood is now well known to have been a natural consequence of the “broken heart.” On the rupture of the heart the blood fills the pericardium, and then coagulates. The wound of the lance gave passage to the collected blood and serum. cf. Dr. Strouds “Physical Cause of the Death of Christ,” first published in 1847.235:1523
Prov. viii. 22, lxx.235:1524
i.e. literally, try not to lay hold of me.235:1525
John xx. 17235:1526
Acts ii. 36236:1527
John x. 18236:1528
Rom. ix. 5236:1529
Isa. 53:2, 3. Sept.236:1530
Isaiah liii. 3. Sept.237:1531
The quotation seems to be a confusion between Acts 2:24, Acts 13:29Acts ii. 24, and Acts xiii. 29. Sic in Athan. Ed. Migne. II. 1030.237:1532
John iii. 19237:1533
But “after his resurrection” appears to qualify the statement “arose” as well as “appeared” in Matt. xxviii. 53237:1534
Hebrews iv. 12237:1535
Malachi iii. 6237:1536
John x. 18237:1537
Acts xiii. 30237:1538
John 2:19, 21John ii. 19 and 21237:1539
John v. 26238:1540
Heb. ii. 14238:1541
This passage is not found in the discourse on the Incarnation, but a similar passage occurs in the third oration against the Arians. Ed. Ben. p. 606.238:1542
Ps. xvi. 10238:1543
Epist. iii. Ad Paulinum.238:1544
Matt. x. 28238:1545
cf. note on p. 72.238:1546
Acts ii. 36239:1547
cf. Heb. v. 8239:1548
Isaiah lxiii. 1240:1549
John v. 24240:1550
John xiv. 28240:1551
Matt. xxvi. 39240:1552
Acts ii. 36240:1553
Acts ii. 24. The citation is loose.240:1554
John ii. 19240:1555
John v. 19240:1556
1 Cor. xv. 53. Observe the inaccuracy of the quotation.240:1557
The Latin translator, as though observing the apparent impropriety of the epithet, here renders θεῖον “sanctissimum.”241:1558
Ps. xvi. 10241:1559
John v. 17241:1560
John ii. 18241:1561
John ii. 19241:1562
John ii. 21241:1563
cf. 2 Cor. iii. 6241:1564
Matt. xxvi. 39242:1565
Eusebius, bishop of Emesa (now Hems, where Heliogabalus received the purple, and Aurelian defeated Zenobia) c. 341–359 is called by Jerome “Signifer Arianæ factionis.” Chron. sub ann. x Constantii. Theodoret also mentions writings of his against Apelles (Hær. fab. i. 25.)243:1566
John vi. 51243:1567
Luke xxiii. 46243:1568
Luke xxiii. 46243:1569
Romans viii. 32243:1570
John vi. 51243:1571
Luke xxiii. 46244:1572
i.e. Paul of Samosata.244:1573
τῶν ὄντων in the original; lit: of the things that are, which might have an orthodox interpretation, tho strictly speaking there is no such thing as “τὸ ὄν;” there is only “ὁ ὤν,” i.e. God. But Schulze is no doubt right in explaining τῶν ὄντων here to refer to created things.244:1574
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College of Agriculture Launches Groundbreaking Doctoral Program
The program will prepare graduates for academic leadership roles in agricultural communications and education.
Written by Norman Martin
Doerfert said the new degree program provides opportunities for advanced studies in the human dimensions of agriculture.
Texas Tech recently announced the launch of a new doctoral program to prepare graduates for senior academic leadership roles in agricultural communications and education.
Starting in January the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Agricultural Communications and Education will be taught by faculty from Texas Tech’s nationally recognized Department of Agricultural Education and Communications.
“While technology will certainly impact the success of agriculture in the future, it’s within the human dimensions of our industry that we will realize our greatest achievements,” said David Doerfert, a Texas Tech professor of agricultural communications. “Graduates of our program will help lead the way in preparing the future communicators, educators and leaders of our nation’s food, fiber, natural resources and bio-energy industry sectors.”
A Deep Understanding
The degree is designed to equip students with a deep understanding of learning and teaching, as well as research and leadership skills necessary to reshape the American agricultural education sector, he said. Surprisingly high demand for faculty positions in agricultural education, communications, leadership and extension during the past decade prompted the creation of the degree.
“New faculty members need to be able to teach and conduct service-related activities in multiple contextual areas, while having a singular programmatic focus to their research efforts,” said Doerfert, who also serves as the department’s graduate studies coordinator.
According to Doerfert, the new degree program provides ample opportunities for advanced studies in the human dimensions of agriculture. Within the program, Texas Tech students will have access to a variety of combinations among the areas of teacher education, communications, extension education, leadership, international agriculture, distance education and community development.
Experiences such as these are specifically designed to prepare students for the rigors of a faculty position, including successful scholarship in academic and research appointments, he said. Each doctoral candidate is expected to demonstrate competency by completing:
- A final oral examination
- A comprehensive written examination
- A dissertation that demonstrates original, independent scholarship
- A minimum of 10 outside-of-course experiences in the various human dimensions of agriculture including, but not limited to, the areas of teaching, communications, extension, international agriculture and research.
Another contributing factor behind creation of the new advanced degree program in Lubbock is the traditional academic strength of the department, Doerfert said. Texas Tech’s Department of Agricultural Education and Communications was ranked among the Top 10 agricultural education departments in a 2009 national study of the profession.
“This new degree program will position our graduates for success in today’s 21st century university.” he said.
The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources is made up of six departments:
- Agriculture and Applied Economics
- Agricultural Education and Communications
- Animal and Food Science
- Landscape Architecture
- Plant and Soil Science
- Natural Resources Management
The college also consists of eleven research centers and institutes, including the Cotton Economics Research Institute, the International Cotton Research Center and the Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute.
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Poster’s “Block Beauty Quilts”...a lovely pick for any quilter’s library. - 03/15/2010
Reviewer: James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief from Oregon, WI, USA
Donna Poster’s “Block Beauty Quilts” offers five easy blocks for making 20 quilts, offering patterns presented in four different quilt designs and including yardages for seven sizes of each quilt. Quilt makers will find this packed with specific directions and plenty of color photos to inspire, making this a lovely pick for any quilter’s library. --James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review, The Needlecraft Shelf, March 2010.
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Manitoba ordered to pay for all abortions
Court of Queen’s Bench Associate Chief Justice Jeffrey Oliphant has told the Manitoba government its refusal to cover the costs of abortions at private facilities is a “gross violation” of women’s rights.
In a class-action suit filed in 2001, two women who had undergone abortions at Winnipeg’s Morgentaler Clinic (now Jane’s clinic) claimed that having to pay for the procedure themselves violated their Charter rights. The pair alleged that they had opted for a private abortion after being told they would have to wait four to eight weeks for a taxpayer-funded hospital abortion. Justice Oliphant agreed with them that this was indefensible.
He ruled the province must pay for all so-called medically necessary abortions and that women who paid for such abortions on their own in the past should be able to obtain refunds. Earlier this year – after the woman obtained their abortions – Manitoba changed its policy that previously allowed funding only in cases where such abortions occurred in a public hospital.
Critics worry that the decision will open the door to thousands of Manitoba women who paid for their own abortions and will try to get their money back.
NDP Health Minister Tim Sale said his government has not yet decided if it will appeal the ruling. He told the Winnipeg Free Press Justice Oliphant’s decision conflicts with Supreme Court rulings “which seem to affirm provincial rights to allocate health resources as long as the tests of the Canada Health Act are met.”
Winnipeg Sun columnist Tom Brodbeck reacted to the decision, wondering what will judges direct the government to fund next: “Are judges going to tell governments that they must pay for sex-change operations? Nose jobs? What about tummy tucks?” Brodbeck then made a serious constitutional point: “Whether or not government should fund a private clinic is entirely a political matter, not a rights issue.”
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---- — Traverse City has long been known as a town that is relatively friendly to the homeless and those facing problems finding jobs that can sustain a family and provide permanent housing.
Like so many other such places, however, economic realities rule: the more attractive the place, the more expensive the housing, forcing those on the margins to live further from jobs and to settle in places where public transportation is rare. There are few places to shop within walking distance and maintaining a car — and paying for gas — is a major hurdle.
A proposal by Goodwill Industries of Northwest Michigan could help break that cycle for a few dozen families or individuals by creating 36 apartments of permanent supportive housing behind the Cherryland Center in Garfield Township.
The nonprofit group, which already operates the Goodwill Inn Homeless Shelter just off South Airport Road near the Cherryland Center site, proposes to use state low-income housing tax credits to finance the $4 million project. Four two-story buildings will contain 20 one-bedroom apartments and 16 two-bedroom units, plus office space for use by caseworkers and other service providers.
Goodwill appears to have given this project the attention something like this deserves. The organization has proposed a design to help the apartments look more like townhouses than low-income housing. The buildings will face neighboring streets with parking to the rear, a better fit with neighboring single-family homes.
The location makes sense. Federally subsidized low-income housing is often stuck a long way from shopping or schools or jobs. This project, near the Cherryland Center, would allow residents to walk to food retailers and other shops where they can buy food and find jobs. Public transportation is a breeze. The Bay Area Transportation Authority has a route based at the Cherryland Center that can get riders all over town and to connectors to Benzie County, Williamsburg and across the region.
The bus can get students to Northwestern Michigan College, to jobs downtown and to shopping and jobs from one end of town to the other.
Traverse Heights elementary school is nearby.
A case manager will help residents stay in their homes by coordinating services with other agencies, such as community mental health, veterans services, or addiction treatment services.
For many of the people who will likely live there, theirs isn't a housing problem but a life problem, something Goodwill is all too aware of. Having professional advice right next door is a way to ensure those who move here have the best possible chance to make it work. The last thing any of them need is another failed situation.
This is potentially life-changing stuff. The region's homeless now have one more key service to turn to in time of need, from Goodwill's homeless shelter to area churches that open their doors for a meal, a night indoors and even e-mail service.
The timing is excellent. Traverse City has recently had discussions on how to keep homeless and street people, some of whom are drunk, away from pedestrians.
Another option for those people is great for them and good for the community.
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It’s ironic… It seems that political and religious leaders in the East blame all of their society’s ills on the West. Yet the truth is that it is the East that is completely f*cked up. Sure, western societies are not perfect by any means. We have poverty, crime, hunger, disease; you name it, but these are only a fragment of the problems and the scale of which countries such as India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, North Korea (to name a few) experience. And to blame the West for AIDS is ludicrous. Only an ignorant fool would make such a statement.
By the way, the health minister’s facial expression in the photograph doesn’t look very manly at all. Could it be that he’s a homosexual who’s still in the closet? TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s health minister derided homosexuality as an unnatural “disease” from the West at an HIV/AIDS conference, drawing outrage Tuesday from a U.N. official and activists who said the comments set back campaigns for gay rights and against HIV.
In a hastily called news conference Tuesday evening, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said he was misquoted, though video of Monday’s speech has aired repeatedly on Indian television.
“Some people have played with the words. I have been quoted out of context,” he said. “My reference was to HIV as a disease. As health minister, I know (male homosexual sex) is not a disease.”
His original speech echoed a common refrain in the conservative South Asian nation that homosexuality is a Western import.
“It is a matter of concern that, unfortunately, in the world and in our country this disease has arisen, where men are having sex with men, which is unnatural and should not be happening,” Azad said, speaking in Hindi.
Anjali Gopalan, who heads the NAZ Foundation, a rights group that works with HIV positive people and promotes equal rights for homosexuals, said Azad’s initial comments were deeply troubling coming from the health minister of a country fighting a tough battle against HIV infections.
“These comments help no cause. It’s definitely not going to help in our fight against HIV,” she told The Associated Press.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and a slew of government ministers were present at the conference Monday.
Singh should consider firing Azad, said Anand Grover, the U.N. special rapporteur on health.
“His remarks are completely insensitive. It lowers the dignity of the gay community,” he said. “It is unacceptable to have a minister talking like this.”
Roughly 2.5 million Indians have HIV, making it the country with the largest number of people living with the virus in Asia.
Experts say the marginalization of gay people keeps them isolated and makes it harder for HIV/AIDS awareness messages to reach them.
“If you’re not going to invest in community building, then gay people will continue to be marginalized,” Gopalan said.
In 2009, the Delhi High Court struck down a colonial era law — Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code — that made sex between people of the same gender punishable by up to 10 years in prison. While actual criminal prosecutions were rare, the law was frequently used to harass people.
The court ruling was noteworthy in a country where even heterosexual sex is rarely discussed openly.
Over the last decade, homosexuals have slowly gained a degree of acceptance in a few parts of India, especially its big cities. Many bars have gay nights, and some high-profile Bollywood films have dealt with gay issues. The last two years have also seen large gay pride parades in New Delhi and other big cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata.
Still, being gay remains deeply taboo in most of the country, and many homosexuals hide their sexual orientation from friends and families.
“How can the health minister say something so unscientific and irrational?” Nitin Karani, a gay rights activist told a television new channel. “He needs to apologize immediately or he needs to go.”
This is not the first time Azad’s words have embarrassed the government.
A few years ago, he suggested Indians watch television instead of having sex as a means to stem population growth in the nation of 1.2 billion people.
Associated Press writer Nirmala George contributed to this report.
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Introducing Rho, the Interest-Rate Greek
In this back-to-basics series Brian Overby reviews the Greeks, factors to help you gauge the impact of various changes on option contract prices. Today's post discusses Rho, the Greek measuring how interest-rate changes can influence option prices.
Rho measures the amount a theoretical option's price will change for a corresponding one-unit (percent) change in the interest rate used to price the option contract. Rho is less important for those who trade near-term options, but rho does need to be watched by those who trade longer-term options.
Rho mainly addresses cost-of-carry issues, or weighing the opportunity costs of tying up your cash in a long-term option versus other available choices. As a source of steady income available over longer stretches of time, dividends are also very close cousins to interest rates and will similarly affect Rho.
Let’s consider an example: a 50 strike call option, with the stock trading at 50 so it's a perfectly at-the-money (ATM) option. Let’s further assume we have 60 days to expiration, the risk-free interest is 5%, there are no dividends involved with this option, and implied volatility is currently 25%. The price of the option is $2.25 and rho would be equal to .045 or 4 ½ cents. If nothing else in the marketplace changes EXCEPT the interest rate used to price the option increases one percentage point from 5% to 6%, the call option should only increase in value by approximately 5 cents. In other words, a 1% jump in interest rates should theoretically bump the call option's price from $2.25 to $2.30.
That’s theory, but in practice if the Fed were to increase rates by a percentage point, most traders’ prime concern would be where the market was heading next, as opposed to any minimal effect on their option contract.
That said, we're in a historically low interest-rate environment today and finally emerging from a protracted recession. Chances are good that interest rates could move higher in the near-term, so it's worth understanding how such a change might impact your option positions.
Our example above used a call option with positive rho. Typically calls have a positive rho value, while puts have negative rho. That suggests an increase in interest rates will cause calls to become more expensive and puts to become less expensive. Dividends create the opposite effect: if the dividend amount increases, puts will typically increase in price while calls decrease in price. To learn more about how the carry costs of calls and put work please read one of my most popular blogs about early exercise. Carry costs play a big part in early exercise, and this blog goes into great detail as to why.
Using the Options Calculator from our Tools menu, let's review a "here and now" example with 3M (MMM), a large-cap stock with a dividend. You'll notice rho for the call is at 0.0334, or .03 if we round, and the put is -0.0508 or about -0.05.
Right now the put is just in-the-money and trading for $3.00; the call is just out-of-the-money and trading for $1.65. Rho suggests that, in theory, the call would gain 3 cents and the put in theory would lose about 5 cents for a 1% increase in interest rates. To put that into perspective, that's around 1% of the price for these 38-day option contracts. Now let's compare these numbers to a LEAPS option.
These option contracts use the same underlying stock, 3M, and strike price, but it has 647 days to expiration. Because of the time factor, these option prices increased in value to 8.51 for the call and 11.21 for the put. (The reason the put costs so much more is because the stock does pay a decent dividend, and several dividends will be paid over that 647-day time period. It makes sense if you think about it from the put owner's point of view. When a dividend is paid, the stock price is decreased by the amount of the dividend, and puts benefit from a decrease in price. So the actual price of the put increases in anticipation of all the potential dividends being paid over the time period.)
What can you take away from the above? You can readily see how important a dividend can be, but also look at how it affects rho. Rho is larger for the put - around 79 cents - versus the call, around 52 cents. But if we just consider these amounts on a percentage basis, rho accounts for almost 7% of the option's price - in other words, interest-rate swings as measured by rho matter much more to these LEAPS prices than to their 38-day option equivalents. You see why LEAPS option traders need to focus much more on interest rates and dividends than near-term option traders.
Next week's post will round off our series on the Greeks with a closer look at rho. We'll discuss rho's close relationship with vega, the volatility Greek, and explore other factors to keep in mind when interest-rate changes are afoot. Stay tuned!
Regards, Brian Overby
TradeKing's Options Guy
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Gordon Brown pledges that the Labour Party will offer super-fast broadband to all by 2020 should they remain in power.
The Prime Minister is to promise super-fast broadband for all at a speech this week on the proposed Digital Economy Bill and is set to refer to fast internet access as "the electricity of the digital age" which "must be for all - not just for some."
Brown is set to warn of a "new digital divide" if super-fast broadband access is left to the free market to decide.
Brown is set to say the following: "We can allow the market to provide a solution on its own terms and according to its own timetable.
"The result would be super-fast broadband coverage determined not by need or by social justice, but by profitability. The alternative is our vision: ensuring, not simply hoping for, universal coverage."
Jim Knight, the minister responsible for digital inclusion, told BBC Radio 5 live: "You offer incentives to the market to get to those areas that otherwise they're not going to be able to make a profit out of going to.
"By having universal access to this very high bandwidth which allows more streaming video, allows people to watch TV and listen to radio online, it means that we can also release the business and employment potential of this.
"If you just leave it up to the market it'll only go to into the cities, it won't get out into rural Cornwall for example without some form of public subsidy."
The government is still planning a 50p-a-month levy on landlines to ensure rural areas get equal broadband access in the long run.
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The newly formed Keep Ashe Beautiful (KAB) group has only one objective – to keep Ashe beautiful; something that’s easy to say, but harder to do.
“Everyone appreciates that Ashe County is one of the most beautiful counties in North Carolina (some may even say the USA). However, each of you has travelled around this wonderful area and seen trash lying around,” said Gwynita Steele, Keep Ashe Beautiful’s project director.
“Why is there trash on our highways, in our fields, in the parking lots, especially when we have so many easily accessible trash and recycle centers?” asked Steele.
According to Steele, Keep Ashe Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, a nationwide nonprofit group that focuses on making communities “cleaner, greener, and more livable.” Steele said the Keep Ashe Beautiful team plans to beautify the county in two ways.
The first “proactive” approach is to make sure everyone knows the locations of garbage and recycling sites.
For the second “reactive” approach, the KAB team plans to organize litter sweeps and encourage Ashe County residents to participate.
Steele said the KAB project has made “tremendous strides” so far.
In just three months, the Keep Ashe Beautiful campaign has already organized two litter sweeps, received a small grant from Sonoco, distributed awareness literature to the Ashe Chamber and the library presented materials to the Westwood, Blue Ridge, and Mountain View Elementary schools, secured recycling bins for West Jefferson Park, and publicized garbage and recycling locations.
The KAB project has also provided free tarps at local convenience centers to encouraged pickup truck owners to secure the trash on their truck beds. Steele says this will combat one of the major sources of the county’s litter - items that blow off of pickup truck beds.
According to Steele, the KAB project is more important than just making Ashe County look better for locals. There is an important financial aspect to the project as well.
“Tourism plays a big in our economy now, so it’s increasingly important to put our best foot forward so people will want to come back,” said Steele.
In addition, the KAB team actively supported the national and state sponsored “America Recycles Day” in November, engaging students and others to promote recycling.
“One of our goals is to make recycling easier for the people in Ashe County. I would like to see it become second nature for people,” said Steele.
With these accomplishments over the past three months, the KAB team sets its sights on the next year.
“From March through October 2013, we will support litter sweeps every month with resident participation,” said Steele.
To do this, the KAB team has asked locals to nominate areas that need attention.
KAB plans to provide safety vests, gloves and water for everyone willing to participate in the litter sweeps next year. Steele said these litter sweeps will make a good opportunity for Ashe County High School students who are trying to fulfill their volunteer hours.
Steele also said KAB plans to publicize the progress they are making, and how citizens can help make this effort possible, through newspapers and radio.
Anyone who wants to nominate an area for a litter sweep in 2013, please contact Steele at 846-8276, and KAB will work out all of the details with you.
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Imagine you live in a location where wildfire danger is a real threat to your home.
Or a hurricane, a tornado, or even a volcano about to erupt: in any of these situations, if you were only given short notice to evacuate for the safety of your family, what from your home would you try to save, after your family?
I live in the great Pacific Northwest. We are subject to floods, landslides, forest fires and volcanic activity, though fortunately, our home is in a fairly safe zone from all of those dangerous situations, though go a few miles in any direction, and that safety can change.
If a fire were bearing down on my town and we had to evacuate, what would I try to save, if time were that short?
*I’d try to get my cats into carriers and in the car.
*I’d try to get my laptop and hard drives
*I’d try to grab us all a few pieces of clothing, at least a coat
*Passports, ID, safe deposit box keys, mobile phone, purse with wallet
While I’d miss the sentiment of wedding photos and baby books, most of our pictures are on those hard drives, or copies exist elsewhere – online or with a family member. And burned to cd’s, but I don’t think I’d stop to grab those.
Currently in our Debate Team group, they’re discussing what they would save in the event of a wildfire, as the first poster lives in Australia and is potentially facing this very danger.
Some of the responses include:
**Getting my pets out is my number one concern. If I had time I would go back and grab legal documents, but everything can be replaced, my pets can not.
**I keep one folder of all our important papers, so that obviously, plus the cameras and laptops, my photo abulms and the kids baby books.
**If i were you I would have the most important things already in a bin just in case. But I’m paranoid like that. I would get pictures, laptop, wedding dress and my cat.
**Honestly, the only “things” that’s super important to me are a few weird odds and ends — an ancient mixing bowl with a big crack in it that belonged to DH’s grandma. An end table that’s a family heirloom. A cheesy candelabra we got as a wedding present. The clock on the mantle. Those things — even though they have almost zero practical value — make any place we’ve lived feel like “home.”
As you can see, some things appear to be fairly universal (pictures) and some things are more personal and individual (wedding gowns and heirlooms).
So now it’s your turn: If disaster were imminent, and you needed to leave your home to possible destruction, after your family members: what would you try to save?
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Aug. 14--You wouldn't think a discussion about stop-loss insurance would produce "spirited" debate, but that's allegedly what transpired this weekend when the National Association of Insurance Commissioners met to deliberate on the issue -- its effect on the health insurance marketplace, on federal health care reform and, most especially, on small businesses.
There's a reason most small businesses -- those with 50 or fewer employees -- don't directly pay the health care expenses of their employees -- it's too risky. Instead, small companies that offer employee health coverage purchase group policies from health carriers, allowing the insurer to assume the risk.
But some insurers and the brokers that sell on their behalf are trying to change that, wooing smaller companies with 50 or fewer employees into the universe of "self-insured" businesses by offering ancillary stop-loss policies, which critics say is meant to sidestep federal health care reform measures and could result in higher health care premiums.
"The insurance companies have found a way around the [Affordable Care Act]," especially in states like Pennsylvania where the stop-loss market is largely unregulated, said Timothy Jost, health law professor at the Washington and Lee University law school.
Insurers, meanwhile, say they are simply responding to a segment begging for affordable insurance solutions.
First, some background: In the world of employer-provided health insurance, there are generally two types of companies -- those big enough, with enough risk predictability, to insure themselves and pay their own claims; and those smaller and midsized companies that buy coverage from commercial carriers.
The two types are known as the "self-insured" and the "fully insured," and historically, smaller companies gravitate toward the second classification. They don't insure themselves -- essentially, this means setting aside money to cover their employees' health claims -- because, with too few employees, a couple of major illnesses or surgeries could be financially calamitous.
Or so the conventional wisdom goes. These are unconventional times, though, and with federal health overhaul measures taking effect and a new online insurance marketplace set to be operational in 2014, smaller companies are taking a second look at self-insurance.
Self-insurance becomes possible when a company also buys "stop-loss" insurance. In this case, stop-loss is an insurance policy that pays out in the event that a company's health claims exceed what has been set aside to pay for benefits in a given year.
But some experts are concerned that insurance companies, in trying to win new business, are offering stop-loss coverage at artificially low prices by poaching the healthiest of small groups.
The "artificially" low price comes in the form of a stop-loss policy with a low "attachment point," or the dollar figure, per company or per employee, at which an employer stops bearing risk and paying claims, and the stop-loss insurer takes over.
In other words, the insurers would still be determining who to cover based on health history and risk factors, but because they are selling stop-loss insurance, this type of coverage isn't regulated by the Affordable Care Act, or by most states.
Less-healthy small groups could be dumped into the more strictly regulated exchange marketplace, lifting premiums for everyone. And if a once-healthy small group turns into a bad bet with too many big claims, the insurer could then steer the company back into the exchanges. Stop-loss policies -- unlike commercial health insurance policies -- do not carry a "guarantee of a renewal" quote.
If younger or healthier groups self-insure, "all those prices will jump up," because the risk and cost will be spread less broadly, said Mark A. Hall, a professor of law and public health at Wake Forest University.
Insurers, as well as the brokers that sell the products and stand to make bigger commissions on them, differ on the practice -- many nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers are against offering stop-loss insurance to small groups. One of Highmark Inc.'s subsidiaries, Highmark Casualty Insurance Co., offers stop-loss products only to groups of 100 or more.
Connecticut-based Cigna offers stop-loss policies to groups as small as 25, and grew its stop-loss business 17 percent between the first quarter of 2011 and 2012.
Not only do some insurers do see the potential for new customers, they also see the potential for new profits.
In selling a typical health insurance plan to a small employer, the amount of profit an insurer could make is now bound by the Affordable Care Act's new medical-loss ratio rules: Of the money an insurer makes in the form of premium revenues, 80 percent must be paid out in claims for a small-group or individual policy. The point is to cut down on health insurers' profit and overhead.
Stop-loss policies, on the other hand, are not bound by loss-ratio limits.
The threat of higher premiums and the "poaching" of healthy small groups via aggressive stop-loss pricing has led to calls for regulations. In June, a coalition of health advocates, consumer group and labor unions sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, saying, "We are concerned [with] early indications, including Internet advertisements, that insurers and benefits advisors are aggressively marketing stop-loss insurance to small employers as a means to evading consumer and market protections [under] the Affordable Care Act."
The letter asks the federal government to write new regulations that would better define how stop-loss plans are marketed and under what conditions small employers can self-insure. The letter came in response to a May request from HHS, the Treasury, and the U.S. Department of Labor asking for information about the stop-loss market, "with a focus on the prevalence and consequences of [low] attachment points."
Cigna also responded to that call, said spokeswoman Amy Turkington. "In our view," she said, "the goals of increased accessibility, improved quality, and reduced costs are furthered when consumers have choice ... whether through employer or individual markets. Stop-loss insurance has been very successful in providing these benefits, and in opening an entry point for many Americans who would not otherwise be offered health insurance through their employer."
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners which met in Atlanta last weekend, discussed the issue at length, but put off a vote on proposed revisions to its stop-loss model legislation.
A pro-stop-loss group, the Self-Insurance Institute of America, says it's "disconcerting that [proposed] legislation would severely limit health care options for small businesses."
The proposed legislation in question is a California Senate bill that would increase the minimum "attachment point" contained in stop-loss policies.
Absent federal guidance, about 20 states have either gone the California route or banned the sale of stop-loss insurance to small employers.
Pennsylvania is not one of them, although Pittsburgh, partly because of the extreme pricing competition on conventional policies among the insurers active here, hasn't seen much marketing of stop-loss plans.
Bill Toland: firstname.lastname@example.org or 412-263-2625.
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Most people know that property tax applies to real property, such as land and buildings. However, some may not know that property tax also applies to Business Personal Property. The characteristic that distinguishes Business Personal Property from real property is mobility.Business Personal Property is property that is not affixed to, or part of, real estate.For assessment and taxation purposes, when we speak of Personal Property we are effectively referring to Business Personal Property under current Oregon law. Taxable Business Personal Property includes machinery, equipment, furniture, etc. used by a business, including any property not currently being used, placed in storage, or held for sale. However, Business Personal Property taxes are not applicable to business inventories or intangible property such as copyrights and trademarks. Business Personal Property is subject to the same levy rate as real property. By state law, the county assessor is responsible for the assessment of all taxable Business Personal Property. The Department of Revenue is also involved in the administration of property taxes and advises assessors on how to assess property to assure uniformity of assessment and taxation throughout the state.
If you are a business that owns, uses, or leases taxable Business Personal Property you must complete and file a Confidential Business Personal Property Return by March 1. With your return you must provide a listing of all your taxable Personal Property that was located in the county at 1:00 a.m. on January 1. If you have multiple business locations, you must complete a separate return for each location. As a business owner, you are responsible for filing a Personal Property return each year that you have taxable property, even if you do not receive the form by mail. Oregon law requires that Business Personal Property be valued at 100 percent of its real market value. The assessed value is allocated to the taxing district(s) based on where the property is located. If you need a blank return please refer to the forms section above.Your return will help the Assessor assess your Business Personal Property accurately. In some cases an appraiser may inspect your property. Your return will remain confidential at all times. If the return is filed late, there is a graduated late filing penalty. If the return is postmarked or received after March 1, but on or before June 1, a penalty of 5% of the tax is charged. If it is postmarked or received after June 1, but on or before August 1, the penalty is 25% of the tax. After August 1, the late filing penalty is 50% of the tax assessed. If you do not file, the penalty will be 50% of the tax.
In certain situations, taxpayers may request an extension of time to file until April 15. To do so, an extension request must be filed with the Assessor’s Office by March 1. A blank extension form can be found in the forms section above..
Personal Property is subject to the same levy rate as Real Property. The Assessor depreciates the value of your Personal Property each year based on the list of equipment you have provided, which includes cost new and the original purchase date of each individual item. All of our depreciation schedules are based on guidelines set forth by the Oregon Department of Revenue.
Taxes on Business Personal Property become delinquent whenever any installment is not paid on or before the due date. The tax collector will send a notice of delinquency showing the total amount due, including interest when any tax payment is not made. If no payment is received, the tax collector may:
Issue a warrant for the collection of the delinquent Business Personal Propety taxes
Seize and sell the assessed Business Personal Property or taxable Business Personal Property you own or control
Charge the tax against the real property you own.
Delinquent taxes become a lien on the Business Personal Property of a business. If you are buying a business, it is important that you contact the Marion County Assessor’s office to confirm there are no outstanding taxes due on the equipment you are buying. Anyone buying or starting a business should notify the County Assessor. This will allow an account to be established, and a Business Personal Property return can be sent out the following year. If the taxpayer does not receive a return, they should contact the Assessor to request one.
If you were still in business on the assessment date, January 1, you will need to file a return and indicate on your asset listing the equipment that was still in use at your business on January 1. If you went out of business prior to January 1, you will use your return to report to the Assessor’s office the disposition of your business Personal Property. The section “No Personal Property to Report” on the front of the return is designed for that purpose. Check the box “Business closed” and provide the date closed. Let us know the status of the property on January 1, whether it has been sold, stored or converted to personal use.If you sold your business prior to January 1, please file a return to notify our office of the change in ownership. Check the box “Business sold” and indicate the date sold and provide the name and mailing address of the new owner, along with your instructions as to whether or not we have your permission to forward the current asset list to the new owner.
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Northern legislative candidate makes Red Lake a campaign issueby Tom Robertson, Minnesota Public Radio
A candidate for the District 2B House seat in northern Minnesota is turning the Red Lake Indian Reservation into a campaign issue. Republican Doug Lindgren says if he's elected, he'll work to stop state funding of reservation schools. And he claims the state of Minnesota, not the Red Lake tribe, should control the waters of Red Lake.
Lindgren's claims have angered tribal leaders. His DFL opponent, incumbent Rep. Brita Sailer, says it's nothing more than divisive politics intended to distract voters.
Bemidji, Minn. — House District 2B is a mix of forests and farm country. It includes the towns of Park Rapids, Blackduck and Bagley, and encompasses the Red Lake Indian Reservation to the north. Historically, the district has been solid DFL territory. But since 2000 it's flip-flopped between DFL and Republican control. Republican Doug Lindgren won the seat in 2002. He was narrowly defeated two years later by DFLer Brita Sailer.
Now it's a rematch. Observers believe the seat is in play and could help determine which party controls the House.
It's also drawing attention for a politically charged issue that's become a cornerstone of Lindgren's campaign. Lindgren says the state of Minnesota should not be funding education and social programs on the Red Lake reservation. During a recent debate on Lakeland Public Television, Lindgren said that should be a federal responsibility.
"We are spending taxpayer money, Minnesota taxpayer money, to fund schools that should be getting their money from the federal government," said Lindgren. "We have to contact the people that are in charge of this and get that funding straightened out. I mean that's as clear as it can be."
The federal government typically isn't in the business of educating kids. That role falls to the states. In fact, Minnesota's constitution requires equal education for all Minnesota children, including students living on Indian reservations. Incumbent Rep. Brita Sailer says Lindgren's stance on Red Lake is meant to distract people from more important issues. She says changing the status quo would be up to the U.S. Congress.
"Much of this is actually a federal issue," said Sailer. "And to spend time at the state level and local level, stirring up questions that have actually been settled already and come to the Supreme Court, I'm not sure how helpful that is to any of us to be causing more animosity and just to be dividing people."
The Red Lake Nation is one of only two Indian tribes in the country that retain a unique government-to-government relationship with the U.S. The tribe has full sovereignty, subject only to federal legislation dealing specifically with Red Lake.
It's considered a closed reservation. That means the tribe has the right to limit who can visit or live there. Red Lake has never been subject to state law, even though tribal members are considered citizens of Minnesota and have the right to vote in local, state and national elections.
Red Lake emerged as a campaign issue last spring, when a non-Indian angler strayed into tribally controlled Red Lake waters. Tribal authorities confiscated the man's boat and cited him for trespassing.
It isn't the first time Red Lake confiscated equipment from non-Indians found fishing on tribal waters. But the latest incident angered some people. Doug Lindgren and others began pointing to an 80-year-old Supreme Court decision they claim gives the state of Minnesota jurisdictional rights to all waters in the state, including those on the reservation. Some law experts dispute that claim.
A new Bagley-based organization called Citizens for Truth in Government recently took out a full page ad in the Bemidji Pioneer newspaper. The ad highlights the water rights claim. It also claims the U.S. government should rightfully have full financial responsibility for the tribe. It alleges that state DFL lawmakers over the years have funded Red Lake education and passed laws favorable to the tribe to maintain political support. Typically, about 90 percent of Red Lake voters support Democrats at the polls.
Terry Maddy, treasurer of Citizens for Truth in Government, says the ad supports Doug Lindgren's positions on Red Lake. Maddy says the current relationship between Minnesota and Red Lake is unfair. For example, he says, tribal members can vote for the local sheriff, but that sheriff has no authority on the reservation.
"They've long had a tradition up there of having their cake and eating it, too," said Maddy.
Maddy says the federal government has failed to live up to its promises to the tribe, and the state is paying the price.
"We have the Natives', Indians', whatever, best interests at heart here," said Maddy. "There's a lot of issues. If you look at the reservation way of life and the way it's being perpetrated, it's not doing them any good. We'd like to see them come out of the Dark Ages and join society."
The newspaper ad prompted a response from the Bemidji Pioneer. Opinion page editor Brad Swenson wrote an editorial saying Red Lake is being used as a wedge issue. Swenson says it fuels prejudice and division, and shows an ignorance of tribal sovereignty.
Swenson says Lindgren's use of Red Lake as a campaign issue is a risky strategy. While it might appeal to some, it could alienate others.
"He's almost doing it to the exclusivity of any other issue," Swenson said. "He's tying all of his issues into the same issue that we're spending money at Red Lake. And that's something I guess the voters will have to look at."
Swenson says there's merit in seeking more federal responsibility in funding things like health care and human services, which the U.S. government is directly responsible for in Indian Country. But he says claims that Red Lake tribal members shouldn't have the right to vote or manage their resources won't go far.
"I think they've got a lot of case law and decisions beyond those that are being cited by Doug Lindgren and his supporters that tends to show that the Red Lake Nation does, indeed, have rights to its lands and to its waters," said Swenson. "And I think that any test to that case is going to cost somebody hundreds of thousands of dollars to get that decided if they're going to want to go the court route."
Red Lake officials say they view the newspaper ad as a racist attack. Tribal Chairman Buck Jourdain says attacks on Indian tribal sovereignty seem to happen every election cycle. He says lately they've been getting worse. Jourdain says Red Lake will rigorously defend itself.
"We're always ready," said Jourdain. "That's just the nature of Indian tribes. They're always ready. They're always in a position knowing that someday a fight is going to come."
There's no public polling information to indicate how the District 2B race is shaping up between Lindgren and Sailer. But both political parties are closely watching the race. DFL lawmakers are quietly speculating they have a good chance at gaining control of the House. It's now in Republican hands by just a two-seat margin.
Both parties, along with special interest groups, are pouring resources into the District 2B race in an effort to get their message to voters.
- Morning Edition, 10/31/2006, 7:21 a.m.
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Only 5029 people have joined the federal government's controversial $466 million eHealth system since it was launched on July 1.
Figures obtained from the Department of Health and Ageing show that each individual to take up the personally controlled electronic health record system (PCEHR) has so far cost the government $92,662. The slow uptake had been predicted in May, and confirmed soon after the online database started. A month later, glitches were revealed.
Patients can volunteer to join the system (via the department's website), which stores all their health information, including test results and prescriptions, in a national database. It is the first time patients will be able to access their medical details.
The Coalition's e-health spokesman, Andrew Southcott, compared the slow adoption to the government's problems with the Building the Education Revolution program and pink batts installation.
''The government's own target and benchmark was 500,000 sign-ups in the first year,'' he said.
''At the current rate, if they maintain this pace they will get approximately 60,000 so well short of the 500,000 and they are anticipating 6.8 million within four years.
''The low take-up shows that doctors and patients don't see it as being of much value at this point in time. This is the government that brought us school halls [BER refurbishment] and pink batts and lost control of our borders.''
Dr Southcott said the Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, was avoiding talking about the scheme.
''The government doesn't want to be associated with another disaster,'' he said. ''They championed it before the last election but they don't really seem to have a lot of enthusiasm for it now.''
A spokesman for Ms Plibersek said the service's introduction was a ''marathon, not a sprint''.
''That's the sensible way to deliver this significant reform,'' he said.
The Department of Health and Ageing said the implementation of eHealth was always going to be a staged process. ''We are delighted that without any fanfare or publicity that so many Australians have already registered, and a constant daily growth in registrations, the vast majority online,'' a spokeswoman said.
The Australian Medical Association's national president Steve Hambleton said the sign-up figures were evidence the government should have made inclusion in the system automatic and let patients choose to ''opt out''.
Dr Hambleton said the medical profession supported a one-stop source of medical information, but a critical mass of people was needed for it to function properly.
''There is no health information on the system yet anyway and GPs, for example, still haven't got software in their computers that lets them talk to the system.''
Of the 5029 registered so far 89 per cent of them had registered online while the remainder registered by phone, in writing or in person at a Medicare shopfront.
with Jim O'Rourke
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Senate President Donna Mercado Kim is proposing six bills in her legislative package that directly impact the University of Hawaii after the Stevie Wonder concert hoax.
The bills are based on findings and recommendations from the Senate Special Committee on Accountability’s informational briefings to review the oversight, accountability, and transparency of the operational and financial management of the University of Hawaii System, chaired by Senator Kim in September and October 2012.
“The discussion and call for University of Hawaii flexibility and autonomy has been around since the 1980s. Over the past three decades the Executive and Legislative branches of the State of Hawaii have worked together to provide the University of Hawaii with more flexibility and autonomy. However, that autonomy and self governance has evolved to a point where the Senate feels that, in the interest of statewide concern, the University of Hawaii needs to be held more accountable and operate in full transparency,” explained Kim.
The proposed bills range in topics from procurement for construction projects, to revising the number of University General Counsels, having the Board of Regents undergo annual training on board policies and procedures, requiring the Board of Regents to file annual disclosures of financial interest which would become public record, clarifying how the members of the Board of Regents are selected by the Governor, and revising the makeup of the Board of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii.
For reference purposes, the bills are as follows:
- SB 1383 – Repeals the President of the University of Hawaii’s authority to serve as the Chief Procurement Officer for construction contracts.
- SB 1384 – Limits the Board of Regents to appointing one University General Counsel.
- SB 1385 – Requires the Board of Regents to undergo annual training and certification.
- SB 1386 – Requires the Board of Regents to file annual disclosure of financial interest.
- SB 1387 – Gives the Governor the authority to reject the list of nominees to the Board of Regents presented by the Regents Candidate Advisory Council.
- SB 1388 – Reduces the number of members of the Board of Directors of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii and removes the authority of the President of the University to also serve as the President of RCUH.
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Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the classic romance Katherine features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets - Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II - who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue.
Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king's son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption. This epic novel of conflict, cruelty, and untamable love has become a classic since its first publication in 1954.
©1954, renewed 1982 Anya Seton Chase (P)2011 Tantor
"Seton breathes life into this little-documented historical fact… a glorious example of romance in its most classic literary sense." (The Austin Chronicle)
"Katherine" was the first work of historical fiction that I ever read - when I was about 13 and I discovered it in my high school library. I absolutely adored it, and borrowed it so frequently that I don't think anyone else had a chance to read it! It was the beginning of a life long love affair with historical fiction, especially fiction set in the English royal courts and tinged with romance (though I'm not a " mass market historical romance" fan) .
A few years ago, I found the same hard cover version from my old library in a used book store and bought it, rereading it many times. And the older I get (I'm now 52), the more I appreciate this wonderful story of a love that survives the years.
So, I was delighted to find that "Katherine" is now available as an audio book. And it's terrific. Wanda does the story justice with a lovely reading. Immerse yourself in it, and be whisked back to 14th century England and a great story of politics, family, intrigue, and love. I know you'll enjoy it as much as I did.
I almost didn't get this book because it was written in the 1950s and I was afraid it might be stuffy and dated, but I took a chance and was well rewarded. Excellent historical fiction; just right if you want some romance and a good story with your fiction but not the cheesy bad writing and predictability of a bodice-ripper. My only complaint is that there are no other Anya Seton books available on Audible. I would love to be able to listen to all of them.
If a reader is looking for a love story that is also a solid, interesting piece of history, I recommend this book. I found myself considering the tedious research that obviously went into writing this story, because the details are impressive. Four stars, only because (at times) the details were lengthy, but certainly not to the point of distraction. I really enjoyed listening to this book.
This was one of the most interesting biographies I've read in a long time. Anya Setons is an excellent writer. What make this such a wonderful book is the in-depth research Mrs. Seton did in writing it.
I loved learning that Kathrine Swynford and John of Gauld's love affair and the birth of their illegitimate children were the beginning of the great Tudor dynasty.
"Katherine," the story of Katherine Swynford, the mistress and eventual wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, is a glorious example of historical fiction. Intrinsically romantic, but firmly based on known history, "Katherine" throws light on a great love story that took place during the fascinating period in English history spanning the reigns of Edward III and Richard II. Ms. Seton is a wonderful writer and provides enough detail to allow you to feel a part of the Middle Ages, including the warmth of the nobles' ermine and glitter of the knights' gold-inlaid armor, as well as the reek of the pigyard just outside the castle keep. Moreover, she does not force her protagonists to voice overtly modern sentiments, which is such a common fault in historical novels written today. I'm willing to bet that some of our greatest new authors, like Philippa Gregory, have a treasured copy of "Katherine" in their bookshelves.
A true tale told with life and knowledge.
well researched of a tumultous time in history
McCaddon's nuanced reading brought each of the many complex characters to life.
Real lives of influence in influential times than shaped history and good love story to boot
I visited Katherine's grave in Lincoln and atop the marble effigy was the note, "This is the Katherine of Anya Seton's book Katherine." Seton researched the lives and times so well if you are studying British History this book will give you a wonderful context for understanding the tones and textures of Chaucer's England. (Chaucer was the brother in law of Katherine by the bye.)
I would highly recommend this audiobook. Wanda McCaddon did an excellent job giving a voice to each character in the book. I started the story all over again when it ended. I have never done that with an audiobook before. I didnt want to leave that world.
I liked how Katherine accepted what her circumstances were in life and learned to live with them no matter how difficult.
I liked Katherine and John. The story was about them so it wasn't hard to pick a favorite.
It was not a book I wanted to listen to in one sitting. The material was very heavy at times and I wanted to drag it out so it wouldn't end too soon. I don't think this is something you listen to for light reading.
This is a lovely work of historical fiction, well read and worth listening to. I highly recommend this audiobook for anyone who enjoys history and romance joined together.
I do enjoy historical fiction, but this one was very heavy on the details of the history of the period. I found my mind wandering and simply had trouble staying interested in all the details. I was more interested in Katherine and the other people in the story, but much of the book focused on the political and historical aspects of the time period. I am more interested in the personal side of the story.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
I have not listened to any other books narrated by Wanda McCaddon. She was wonderful! I will definitely look for her as a narrator in the future.
The narration was terrific and it was well researched. It also made me interested in learning more about the lives of Katherine and the other main characters in the story.
While I didn't love this book, it was well written, well researched and well narrated. For lovers of historical fiction who like the emphasis to be on the history and not on the personal, this one is a winner!
I was so thrilled to find Katherine on Audible as it is one of my all-time favorite books. The love story between John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford is told beautifully and Wanda McCaddon reads it with the emotion and depth it deserves. Overall, I'd highly recommend this to anyone who wants to read a fictionalized account of a real-life love story.
This is my favorite book of all-time! I will listen again and again. If you like historical fiction, download this right now! You won't regret it.
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The reason we take off our tefillin before mussaf is
(1) because many say in the kedusha of mussaf, "Kesser Yitnu Lecha", and therefore we need not be wearing the "kesser" of tefillin. (Or I heard once that perhaps it is disrespectful to say "Kesser Yitnu Lecha" while we are wearing our own "crowns" of tefillin.)
(2) Even for those who don't say "kesser etc." in the kedusha, since we try to treat Rosh Chodesh somewhat as a Yom Tov, at least while we say mussaf (which is memorial to the korban mussaf brought in the Bais Hamikdash), we take off our tefillin beforehand.
I have only ever seen people take off their tefillin after kaddish, and it seems this is the proper procedure, since one should have his tefillin on for all the Kaddishes said by the chazzan. Perhaps, though, some people feel they may take them off early as per reason (2).
However, we try not to create a long gap between kaddish and mussaf, and therefore we do not wrap the tefillin until later. In many places, the gabbai or chazzan bang on the amud or bimah to signal everyone to start mussaf, since everyone should begin together.
See Taamei Haminhagim.
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Start inside your body. You should always give your body a strong foundation to build its healthy skin on by hydrating with at least 8 glasses of water a day. All the moisturizer in the world won't help if you are dehydrated and water will flush impurities from your skin. Eat a varied, healthy diet with lots of fruits, vegetables and foods rich in essential fatty acids(omega-3 and omega-6).Drink green tea which studies have shown can slow the aging process due to its antioxidants. Include herbs in your diet for their wonderful antioxidant properties.Get adequate sleep, at least 7 hours a night and remain active during the day. Exercise can relieve stress, improve circulation and you won’t be frowning so much!
Try to use natural or homemade remedies when possible, it is never advisable to slather chemicals on your skin. If you wouldn't eat it why absorb it through your skin? Your skin is the largest organ in the body and can absorb a great deal of toxins which are damaging. Change your routine when the seasons rotate because your skin has different needs as the environment shifts. Keep your makeup light if possible, skin needs to breathe and never forget to cleanse your face in the evening despite being rushed or simply tired. Always use a sun block to protect yourself, beyond premature aging the UVA and UVB rays can cause skin cancer.
Here are some great natural skin care ideas if you are looking for a healthy change:
- Olive oil has many uses in beauty treatments and has been utilized for centuries by beautiful vibrant women in the Mediterranean and Middle East. The oil can be massaged on pretty much any inch of skin for wonderful results. Hands, cuticles, face, heels, elbows and lips benefit from the application of olive oil. You can also massage it into your hair to make your locks shine and scalp dryness disappears. Coconut, almond and sesame oil also have nice results but can leave a scent on your skin.Add a couple drops of your favorite essential oil for a heady fragrance.
- Egg whites can have a wonderful effect on wrinkles either applied alone or mixed with other ingredients. You simply apply on problem areas such as under the eyes, let dry and wash off. Mix the egg white with glycerin, cucumber or lemon juice for wonderful anti wrinkle masks.
- Create easy homemade masks at least once a week for lovely results, varying the ingredients for whatever you are trying to achieve. Basically you apply the mask, leave it on for 15 minutes and wash off with warm water. Use mashed banana to moisturize and reduced oily areas. Use a honey oatmeal yogurt mask to sooth sensitive skin. Try avocado and honey for dry mature skin. Use mashed cucumber and sugar, chilled, for smooth refreshed skin.
- Try a cucumber chamomile steam facial for gorgeous soft skin.Simply place 2 or 3 chamomile teabags in a bowl of boiling water, add a couple drops of chamomile essential oil and sliced cucumber to the water. Drape a cloth over your head and drape the edges of the bowl to create a steam tent. Relax for 10 minutes and then cool your face down with some fresh water and pat dry. massage a little moisturizer or almond oil into your skin and enjoy the results!
- Make yourself a refreshing spritzer for your face on hot days or when you feel less than fresh. Simply put spring water or mineral water and your favorite essential oil(lavender or lemon) in a spray bottle and mist it on your face or body for freshness. avoid the eye area.
- Exfoliating is also very important to clear luminescent skin. Some commercial exfoliants can actually damage the skin because people use them too vigorously. Try a homemade exfoliate instead with less abrasive ingredients and wonderful results. Try smoothing olive oil on your face and then dipping your fingers into plain granulated sugar then apply in small gentle circles all over. This buffs your skin leaving it smooth and clear.
- Lemon has many uses in natural beauty products. Lemon is a natural exfoliating agent and can be combined with other ingredients for masks, moisturizers and toners. Lemon contains alpha hydroxy acids which are actually ingredients in many commercial products. The simplest application of lemon is mixed with water and wipes over the skin as a toner. Don't use lemon juice undiluted, it is too strong.
Natural homemade skin products have been used for centuries due to necessity and because they work. While creating an environment dedicated to health and wellness in your home it is important to carry this practice over to your body. Chemicals in any form are damaging and your skin deserves to be pampered in natural quality products.
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“œIf we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another. Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restre such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself so that you too will not be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another. For each one will bear his own load“ (Gal. 5:25 – 6:1-5).
I heard this passage faithfully exposited by Dan Wilson from Harvest USA (www.harvestusa.org) in the context of several sessions on biblical masculinity and the call to fight the fight of faith at our church’s men’s retreat earlier this year.
I have to confess that I’ve often glossed over this passage, reading it (through the lens of our cultural feminism that is so hard to escape) as a “œwarm fuzzy” reminder that we’re not in this alone, that we should support each other in the faith. It’s so much more than that, however. A little contextual reading and a little Greek exegesis can help us see what Paul is really saying here.
Galatians, it has been said, is “œRomans written while Paul was angry.” He covers many of the same themes as are addressed in Romans (i.e. – justification by faith, struggle against sin, etc.) in a much more terse fashion, punctuated with refrains of ”do you not know“ or “œbut you know“œ”“this was material they had already covered, and Paul is firmly reminding them that these truths should have a hold on their lives. The immediate context of this passage is a discourse on circumcision (more specifically, the spreading heresy that it was necessary to follow the Jewish law to attain salvation), the bondage to sin that comes from the rejection of grace, and the freedom that comes when we crucify our flesh with Christ. Paul here reminds the Galatians how to flesh out grace-filled living in a Christian community”“he tells them to take sin seriously and contend for one another’s spiritual health.
The word translated “œwalk” in 5:25 is the verb stÅichÄ•Å, which speaks of marching in cadence and conformity to a leader. The NIV’s translation of this phrase as “œkeep in step with the Spirit“ is a more correct rendering of the meaning. Often Paul uses the verb pÄ•ripatÄ•Å to refer to our spiritual walk, but his use of a different verb here sets a military tone to let us know that we should listen to the Spirit as soldiers listen to a commander”“that failure to hear and obey quickly and accurately can have disastrous results. Therefore, as we listen to the Spirit’s leading, we should be alert to the dangers of sin and contend for those who succumb to temptation, lovingly but firmly restoring them to right relationship with God and the Church.
The “œburdens” that we are to bear together (6:2) are the Greek word baros, which always has the connotation of weight pressing down upon someone or something. Temptation and sin are a crushing load that individual believers should not have to (and indeed, are not able to) deal with alone. There is a definite call to brotherhood and mutual accountability among believers in dealing with sin in the Body. The command is a two-way street: brothers are not to let an individual struggle alone, nor is an individual to attempt to. If he thinks he can handle sin on his own, he is deceiving himself (6:3).
The apparent contradiction of the statement that “œeach one shall bear his own load“ (6:5) so soon after we are told to “œbear one another’s burdens“ is resolved in the Greek. The word for “œload” is phÅrtiÅn, meaning “œsomething carried”. The idea of weight and struggle is not attached to this term”“it is the word Christ used when saying that His “œburden is light.” The concept here is that while a body of believers is necessary to confront the baros of sin, each individual is responsible for his own phÅrtiÅn of the spiritual disciplines (prayer, study, and meditation on God’s Word); phÅrtiÅn is like a soldier’s pack that contains his provisions, ammunition, and everything he needs to participate in battle and neglects at his own peril. Other believers are not accountable for our personal devotion”“that’s between us and the Lord”“but they are called to rescue us from the pits we fall into when we neglect our responsiblity.
Living this out is tough (we don’t like confronting our fellow men about their sins, and we like it even less when the shoe is on the other foot), but it is an absolutely crucial command for the Church. We cannot live for Christ in a vacuum”“without brothers to encourage us and chastise us, our witness is shot full of holes by “œthe sin which so easily entangles us“ (Heb. 12:1). I pray that more men of the valiant faith that Paul describes will be raised up in our churches to rescue them from the mire of irrelevance, cowardice, and unfaithfulness that so often characterizes them today.
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While Six in Ten (64%) Global Citizens Say They Need to Live Better, Most (81%) Wish They Had a Recipe To Do So
Seven in Ten (73%) Think Living Better Needs a Plan, Three in Ten (27%) Say Life Isn’t Something You Can Plan
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
New York —Six in ten (64%) global citizens think they need to live better, finds a new survey by global research company Ipsos on behalf of Reuters News, but eight in ten (81%) say they wish they had a recipe or plan for living better.
The poll of 19,216 respondents in 24 countries finds that a majority (73%) think living better requires a plan, but a substantial minority (27%) thinks life just happens and that it is not something you can plan.
A Desire to Improve but Not Sure How to Get There
A majority (64%) disagree (27% strongly, 38% somewhat) that ‘my life is fine the way it is, I don’t need to live better.’ Those appearing to most feel they need to live better and disagree with this statement are from Hungary (89% disagree strongly+somewhat), South Korea (81%), Russia (78%), South Africa (77%) and Turkey (74%). Those most likely to agree their life is fine the way it is are from Saudi Arabia (64% agree strongly+somewhat), India (60%), Sweden (57%), Germany (48%) and Canada (46%).
While they would like to live better, global citizens seem unsure of how to accomplish the goal. The poll finds that eight in ten (81%) agree (42% strongly, 39% somewhat) ‘I wish I had a plan or recipe for living better.’ Those most likely to agree they wish they had a plan for living better are from Indonesia (96% agree strongly+somewhat), China (92%), Brazil (90%), South Korea (90%) and Hungary (89%). Only half (53%) in Sweden feel this way, followed by 64% in Germany and Great Britain, 65% in Australia and 67% in Canada.
Perhaps they are looking for this recipe because a similar proportion (79%) agrees (41% strongly, 38% somewhat) that ‘living better is more difficult than ever before’. The French are most likely to agree with this sentiment (90% strongly+somewhat), with Hungary (89%), Italy (89%), India (87%) and Belgium (86%) next in line. Respondents in Sweden are split on this measure (51% agree), while Indonesia (67%), Canada (72%), Australia (73%), Germany (73%) and Great Britain (74%) join them at the bottom of the list but still hold majority support for the statement.
Some Plan, Some Roll with the Punches
Though a majority (73%) say ‘living better requires a plan,’ three in ten (27%) say ‘living better just happens, it’s not something you can plan.’ This second group of people seems to prioritize taking life as it comes. Those in France lead on this measure by a considerable margin; 67% of French respondents agree living better is not something you can plan. They are followed by half of those in Belgium (49%) and Germany (46%) as well as four in ten of those in Poland (44%) and Spain (41%). Those most likely to seek more control in their lives are in Indonesia, where 94% are planners when it comes to living better. They are followed by South Africa (92%), South Korea (90%), Hungary (87%) and Sweden (87%).
Hints on How to Improve Well-Being
Global citizens were given a list of potential factors in ‘improving your own personal well-being – your general health and quality of life.’ Of these, ‘a stronger economy in my country’ (89% - 56% very important, 33% somewhat important), ‘better living conditions’ (84% - 50% very, 34% somewhat) and ‘strengthen my family relationships’ (84% - 49% very, 35% somewhat) come out as the top three important factors.
Eight in ten respondents say the following factors are also important to their personal well-being: ‘eat better’ (81% - 42% very, 39% somewhat), ‘more or better sleep’ (80% - 41% very, 39% somewhat), ‘learn something new/find a new challenge’ (79% - 40% very, 39% somewhat) and ‘do more exercise/play more sports’ (77% – 37% very, 40% somewhat).
Whatever the priorities, global citizens agree living better requires a well-rounded approach. Eight in ten (80%) agree (35% strongly, 45% somewhat) that ‘for me, living better is defined more holistically today - it's no longer just about physical or mental health.’ This opinion is held most strongly by those in China, where nearly all respondents (97% strongly+somewhat) agree. They are followed by those in Indonesia (95%), France (90%), Hungary (90%), Poland (88%) and South Korea (85%). Even in Sweden, where support for the viewpoint is lowest, a majority (63%) still agree with the statement. They are preceded at the bottom of the list by the United States (64%), Great Britain (68%), Canada (71%) and Australia (71%).
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These are some of the findings of an Ipsos Global @dvisor poll conducted between on behalf of Reuters News. The survey instrument is conducted monthly in 24 countries via the Ipsos Online Panel system. The countries reporting herein are Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United States of America. An international sample of 19,216 adults aged 18-64 in the US and Canada, and age 16-64 in all other countries, were interviewed between February 7-21, 2012. Approximately 1000+ individuals participated on a country by country basis with the exception of Argentina, Belgium, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden and Turkey, where each have a sample 500+. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics and ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to the most recent country Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. A survey with an unweighted probability sample of this size and a 100% response rate would have an estimated margin of error of +/-3.1 percentage points for a sample of 1,000 and an estimated margin of error of +/- 4.5 percentage points for a sample of 500 19 times out of 20 per country of what the results would have been had the entire population of the specifically aged adults in that country been polled.
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With offices in 84 countries, Ipsos delivers insightful expertise across six research specializations: advertising, customer loyalty, marketing, media, public affairs research, and survey management.
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Articles About power take-off
At Muncie Power, the objective of noise and vibration testing is to develop effective ways to eliminate power take-off (PTO) gear rattle, with specific emphasis on PTO products. The type of sound of largest concern in this industry is tonal.
The objective of this study was to investigate the limits concerning possible reduction of lubricant quantity in gears that could be tolerated without detrimental effects on their load carrying capacity.
In the majority of spiral bevel gears, spherical crowning is used. The contact pattern is set to the center of the active tooth flank and the extent of the crowning is determined by experience. Feedback from service, as well as from full-torque bench tests of complete gear drives, has shown that this conventional design practice leads to loaded contact patterns, which are rarely optimal in location and extent. Oversized reliefs lead to small contact area, increased stresses and noise, whereas undersized reliefs result in an overly sensitive tooth contact.
Question: What is functional measurement and what is the best method for getting truthful answers?
Let's face it. The Internet is still, to many of us, exciting, confusing, terrifying and frustrating by turns. The buzzwords change so fast that even the most high tech companies have a hard time keeping up. Cyberspace. Firewall, Java. E-commerce. The list goes on.
In July of 1996 we introduced the gear community to the Internet in these pages through the Gear Industry Home Page (GIHP). This electronic buyers guide for gear machine tools, tooling, accessories and services has proven to be more popular than we could have envisioned. In our first month, we had over 3,000 hits, and in our third month, we have over 4,500. By our fourth month, we topped the 7,000 mark, and we are on our way to 11,000 hits in November. As our advertisers develop their own home sites in order to offer layers of information about their companies, their products and services, we expect this activity will increase even more.
Publisher Michael Goldstein describes the success of Gear Technology's new e-mail newsletter programs.
Capitalizing on a burgeoning new technology where gears are of great import, the gear community gathered en masse at the American Wind Energy Associationís Windpower Expo 2010.
In most transmission systems, one of the main power loss sources is the loaded gear mesh. In this article, the influences of gear geometry parameters on gear efficiency, load capacity, and excitation are shown.
Itís not too often a trade show so far surpasses organizersí expectations for size that it must be relocated. This was just the dilemma the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) faced with the Windpower 2009 Conference and Exhibition, which was originally scheduled to take place in Minneapolis, but will now be held at McCormick Place, Chicago.
In the field of large power transmission gear units for heavy machine industry, the following two development trends have been highly influential: use of case hardened gears and a branching of the power flow through two or more ways.
For a high-speed gearbox, an important part of power losses is due to the mesh. A global estimation is not possible and an analytical approach is necessary with evaluations of three different origins of power losses: friction in mesh contact, gear windage and pumping effect between teeth.
This article reviews mathematical models for individual components associated with power losses, such as windage, churning, sliding and rolling friction losses.
News Items About power take-off
1 NexxtDrives Variable Speed Power Take-Off Provides Micro Hybrid-Functionality (April 2, 2006)
The NexxtPTO is a compact, variable speed mechanical power take-off that can be configured to act as an engine starter and alternator, pr... Read News
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Picture from UPPERCASE found via Russell's FFFFound! Usual stuff applies.
Is this the definitive description of good design?
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Nov 05, 2007 at 12:51
I wonder if "respects IT'S materials" is quite the right sentiment when we're thinking on a more global and green scale? I like to also think about environment around a design too.
I always like to think design can effect other peoples as well
Nov 05, 2007 at 14:13
anything that tries to summarise design simultaneously limits design... and is by definition BOLLOCKS (in the true sense of the word)
Now, that's pretentious.
Nov 05, 2007 at 15:40
we have "respects its materials" but no "respects its users". that alone is the crux of bad design.
Nov 05, 2007 at 16:09
"we have "respects its materials" but no "respects its users". that alone is the crux of bad design."
I would think that "fulfills its function" would include respecting users. To disrespect the user is a failure of function, in my opinion.
Nov 07, 2007 at 15:16
I think it is!
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Nov 07, 2007 at 17:19
I wonder if it isn't belied by the sign itself. If this sign were intended to serve the purpose of informing the reader how much it costs to check the list with the prices available from the guard, you'd find that it seems to fulfill the four tenets listed. But it would be a terrible sign for that purpose.
Nov 08, 2007 at 04:52
Good Design visually aligns its type and doesn't use a ruler to do it, it also kerns, rather than using equal measures between character, and chooses a word space that suits that kerning. Above all it wouldn't mix typefaces in a simple message without a damned good reason, running out of Es is not a good reason.
Nov 08, 2007 at 14:55
barring the excessive knitpicking, I think YES, this covers it for me.
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Hopeful turning point, or descent into chaos?
Sunday's ballot could make a big difference, but only if a new Iraqi government and the Americans rethink their failing strategy
IT WILL probably be one of the messiest and most dangerous elections in living memory. In four of Iraq's 18 provinces where the Sunni Arab insurgency is strongest, including parts of Baghdad, there may be mayhem on January 30th or, very probably, a derisorily low turnout. In at least another four provinces (see map below), fear of bombs and bullets is rife. The insurgents, who have promised to kill voters and make a mockery of the polls, may seek to “play away from home”, as a British diplomat puts it, by perpetrating terror in previously quieter areas.
Yet there is a surge of hope amidst the terror. While the fifth of Iraqis who are Sunni Arabs are largely but by no means entirely opposed to the election, nearly all Kurds and a very large majority of Shia Arabs, who make up another fifth and around three-fifths of Iraqis respectively, are fiercely in favour. Even if most of the Sunni Arabs voluntarily boycott the polls or are frightened away, the chances are that two-thirds of Iraq's 14m-odd eligible voters, in a population of some 25m, may vote in a genuine multi-party election—a dazzling rarity in the Arab world—for the first time in half a century.
No fewer than 84 parties and 27 candidates running on their own are stuffed into a national list from which voters may choose their members of a national assembly. In truth, no one knows who will prevail. The likeliest outcome is that the United Iraqi Alliance (better known by Iraqis as “the Shia house”, “the clerics' list” or simply “169”, after its number on the vast ballot paper) will do best without winning an outright majority: the country's most influential clergyman, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, helped draw up the list, though without formally blessing it.
A catch-all Kurdish Alliance is sure to sweep up the vast majority of Kurdish votes. And a list headed by the interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia whose party was funded in exile by the CIA and who has also reached out to members of the former ruling Baath Party and assorted Sunnis, may do better than was once expected, thanks to an image of toughness and steadiness burnished by him during his past six months in office.
Seats for the 275-member assembly will be allocated by pure proportional representation, so that any party polling at least 1/275th of the total number of votes cast will get a seat. According to the interim constitution, a new government must be formed within a month of the poll. The new assembly must first vote for a president and two vice-presidents who, in turn, as a presidential council, must unanimously choose a prime minister. He must then choose a government, which must be endorsed by a simple majority of the assembly's members. At least one-third of candidates in every party have been required, by law, to be women.
Perhaps more important, the assembly must oversee the writing of a new and final constitution, to be drafted by mid-August, endorsed in a referendum by mid-October, leading to a full general election under new rules by mid-December. The interim constitution provides for a six-month slippage in the timetable if the constituent assembly gets stuck in argument. And if two-thirds of the voters in just three provinces reject the new constitution, the process must start again. That means that the Kurds, who control three provinces, in effect have a veto. But so do the minority Sunni Arabs.
The likely outcome of the election is that a coalition will emerge, involving the Shia house, the Kurds, Mr Allawi's lot and several Sunni Arab-led parties. The likeliest sort of constitution, provided that the three main components of Iraq (Sunni and Shia Arabs and Kurds) accommodate each other, is a strongly federal one in which Islam is a main—but not the sole—source of law. There must also be a guarantee that the country's natural resources, meaning mainly oil, are equitably shared between all provinces.
But the violence blocks the lot
All this, however, seems immaterial while the insurgency rages (see chart 1). The number of attacks on Americans, though not as frequent as in November, is more than four times the rate of a year ago; the death rate is nearly twice as high; and more than three times as many Americans are being wounded than a year ago, according to data collected by the Brookings Institution, a think-tank in Washington. American officers say their troops are subjected to some 70 attacks a day. Since the American invasion, nearly 1,100 have died in combat and another 250 or so in accidents.
Even more grimly, the tally of Iraqi civilian deaths continues to rise inexorably. According to IraqBodyCount.com, an anti-war but fastidious American group, between 15,000 and nearly 18,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the American invasion in March 2003; other human-rights organisations have suggested twice as many, or even more.
By a Brookings estimate based mainly on Pentagon briefings, some 32,000 insurgents have been killed or captured since the conventional phase of the war ended in April 2003. Yet the number of active insurgents, though hard to count, is plainly swelling. The head of Iraq's intelligence service suggested last month that there were 40,000 hard-core rebels, with another 160,000-odd Iraqis helping them out. That is several times the standard, albeit rough, estimate of a year ago.
It is plain that many units of American troops, who now number 150,000 out of an allied total of 175,300, adopt a “shoot first, ask questions later” approach. Some 8,000 Iraqis are currently detained on suspicion of insurgency. Photographs of the mistreatment and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by American and British soldiers have seared themselves into the Iraqi national consciousness. Virtually every opinion poll (however rough and ready) and a heap of anecdotal evidence suggest that most Iraqis, bar the Kurds, place the overwhelming burden of blame for their misfortunes on the Americans.
As the Americans have sought to build up the pro-government Iraqi army, national guard (a civil-defence force) and police, the insurgents have begun to single out perceived collaborators as targets. In the last four months of last year, around 1,300 Iraqi policemen were killed, compared with 750 in the first nine months of the year; some 1,500 recruits have been killed, nearly 800 of them in a four-week period towards the end of last year. Though the new Iraqi forces are ethnically mixed, the targeting of some units by the insurgents hints at a deliberate stirring of sectarian hatreds.
More than two-thirds of American deaths have occurred in just two provinces: Anbar (including Fallujah and Ramadi) and Baghdad. But Iraq's four biggest cities—Baghdad, Basra, Mosul and Kirkuk—all echo daily to gunfire and explosions. Though it is the biggest city of the supposedly quiescent Shias, Basra is highly dangerous too. Since the Americans recaptured the insurgents' hotbed of Fallujah in November, their enemy has switched his focus to the northern city of Mosul, a religiously and ethnically explosive city now starkly divided on either side of the Tigris river. For electioneers, western Mosul—the Sunni side—has been a no-go zone.
Moreover, the current relative calm among the Shia Arabs could be illusory. The notion that all but four provinces are safe is false. Armed gangs and a vast criminal underworld hold sway in many parts of the country. A rebellious young clerical firebrand, Muqtada al-Sadr, and his thuggish militia, known as the Mahdi Army, have been lying low since Mr Sistani talked them out of their rebellion against American occupation late last summer. But they control swathes of the centre and south, and the Americans have consistently underestimated the Sadrists' power and reach. Though Mr Sadr himself is staying out of the election fray, he might well urge his men to rise up again if he or his group were cut out of a power-sharing deal.
The safest part of Iraq is Kurdistan, which has ruled itself since Saddam Hussein lost his first Gulf war against the Americans in 1991. But even here, tension is growing. The disputed city of Kirkuk and its oil-rich, ethnically mixed surroundings are a tinderbox. After bitter pre-election wrangling, it has been agreed that Kurds displaced by Mr Hussein in his brutal Arabisation campaign will be able to vote, so tipping the demography back towards them. Again, Sunni Arabs are furious.
Meet the likeliest candidates
Across Iraq, campaigning has been largely by poster, with only the more prominent and better-funded politicians appearing on state television and even satellite channels. Awareness of the candidates is pretty hazy. Still, there is plainly a choice. Of the biggest two Shia-led parties, the main difference is on Islam: the tint of Mr Allawi's group is more secular and less sectarian, while the picture of the bearded Mr Sistani on the United Iraqi Alliance posters conveys its more Islamist tone—though its proponents stress that they do not want Iraq to go down an Iranian path towards theocracy. “We will have no turbans in the government,” says one of its leaders.
Of the two best-known parties within the “Shia house”, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a clergyman, is taking pains to distance itself from its past as an Iranian-backed group that would impose sharia as the law of the land. The older Dawa party, led by Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a medical doctor, likewise is seeking to stress its unsectarian tolerance.
The most notable and surprising new star in the Shia house is Ahmad Chalabi, once the darling of America's ruling neo-conservatives, who had hoped (before they ditched him) that he would become the leader of a new, western-oriented, secular-minded Iraq. Once excoriated by his Iraqi rivals as an American and (worse) an Israeli stooge, Mr Chalabi is an astute fixer who may well play a part in post-election coalition-building.
Two able technocrats who have been mentioned, among others, as possible prime ministers are Hussein Shahristani, a former nuclear scientist who labels himself an independent within the Shia house and is a confidant of Mr Sistani, and Adel Abd al-Mahdi, the interim finance minister, a SCIRI man. But it is conceivable that the emerging three-man presidential council may propose to keep the stoical Mr Allawi as prime minister.
It has not all been unremitting gloom and doom. The totalitarian clamp of Mr Hussein has been lifted. The notion of a federal state has been broadly accepted. A new currency has stayed steady, and workers in the public sector, including teachers and doctors, have seen their wages rise as much as 40-fold. But virtually everything is being kiboshed by the insurgency. Unemployment is stuck, officially, at 30-40%, though some economists say that in fact more than half of Iraqis are jobless. Basic utilities are still wretched. Last week, nearly half of Baghdadis had no running water. Motorists are again queuing, sometimes for 12 hours, to fill up with petrol.
Above all, oil production and exports are still far below hoped-for levels, knocking 15% off expected revenues. In December, some 2.2m barrels a day were being pumped, against a projected 3m b/d, the pre-war figure. Shortfalls are largely due to war and sabotage. Last year saw 146 officially recorded attacks on the oil system.
The spectrum of insurgency
The mantra of Mr Allawi and his American sponsors has been that, provided the Americans do not cut and run, the insurgency can be contained, if not beaten. Their main plan is to beef up the home-grown Iraqi forces (now totalling 127,000 against an eventual goal of 273,000), enabling the Americans and their allies, numbering 28 countries, to wind down steadily from their present troop numbers.
This, within the next few years, is a false hope. The Iraqi forces are utterly feeble. At present, only some 5,000 of them are a match for the insurgents; perhaps as many as 12,000 are fairly self-sufficient. Most of the rest are unmotivated, unreliable, ill-trained, ill-equipped, prone to desertion, even ready to switch sides. If the Americans left today, they would be thrashed. Indeed, as things now stand, politically and militarily, the war is unwinnable.
For sure, the steady “Iraqisation” of the forces is vital for any new government. But it is more vital still that it acts at once on the political front, to bring as many as possible of Iraq's Sunni Arabs into the new order. It is vital, too, that one of the presidential council is a Sunni Arab. The new assembly is likely to empower a committee to start drafting a new constitution: Sunni Arabs must be well represented on it.
The new government must also reach out to spokesmen for the insurgency, which is far from monolithic. Indeed, no one is sure how to configure it. A year or so ago, the CIA reckoned that 40-60 groups were acting more or less independently of each other, though they now seem to be co-ordinating their attacks more than before. But there is a spectrum of rejectionists. The new government must try to pick away those who might talk from those who are bent on eternal war against western civilisation.
At the wild end of the spectrum is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who aligns himself with Osama bin Laden. In terms of the overall insurgency, his role is probably much exaggerated, though his blood-curdling website and penchant for suicide-bombings and for beheading victims puts him in a league of his own. The next-most-obdurate, along the insurgent spectrum, are the Baathist professionals, especially those who were in the Mukhabarat (the secret service), for whom any deal with the new order is probably anathema.
Though there is a trend towards an Islamist world-view, most insurgents are above all nationalists. The government might accommodate many of them if they could be convinced that the Americans were certain to leave: at least soon, if not immediately.
The nearest thing to a voice of the insurgents has been the Muslim Scholars' Board, which speaks for some 3,000 Sunni mosques in the Arab parts of Iraq. Several of the board's members, while urging a boycott of the general election, have also urged Sunni Arabs to take part in the post-election constitutional debate and in provincial elections also being held on January 30th. A number of anti-occupation, anti-election academics and sheikhs have made similar suggestions. Getting such Sunnis on side is an early challenge for whoever becomes Iraq's new leader.
The question of America's withdrawal
The trickiest issue that bears upon the insurgency—and on the ability of a new government to divide the rebels and draw some of them back on board—is the question of American and foreign troops. If these clearly seemed part of the problem more than the answer, a new government could ask them to leave; but that is barely conceivable in the short run, because any government is bound, for now, to rely heavily on American force for its mere physical survival.
A new government could, however, spell out a rough timetable for a foreign-troop drawdown, dependent on the build-up of Iraqi troops and on a reduction in the level of the insurgency. But that might make the government still more patently hostage to the insurgents. Some voices in the Sunni rejectionist camp have aired the possibility of a ceasefire if the Americans promised, in principle, to leave in, say, six months. That is unthinkable for the moment, but may offer a chink of light for negotiations.
There is no sign that President George Bush or his generals are contemplating a rush for the exit. But they and their executives on the ground, principally the ambassador in Baghdad, John Negroponte, appear so far to have no clear alternative plan, beyond waiting to see whether the hoped-for sense of greater legitimacy accruing to the new government will give it more clout to fend off the insurgents.
Other counsellors in Washington, who broadly supported the Iraqi venture but have grave doubts about the efficacy of present political and military policy, such as Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, both former secretaries of state, are urging the administration to recruit other countries as intermediaries, as happened over the Balkans. The UN still sounds wary of deeper involvement. Yet there is a growing sense in Washington that, for one thing, the war as it is presently being conducted is unwinnable and that, for another, a new government in Baghdad must change political tack to survive.
For the past year, chaos has increased, along with ordinary Iraqis' hatred of the American occupation. But they also hate “the beheaders”: the likes of Mr Zarqawi. The emergence of a new government with a popular mandate will not change the situation overnight. It may be too late for any government seen to be sponsored by the Americans to establish itself. Nothing is certain—except that much more blood will be shed, and even more if Iraq's Sunni Arabs continue to feel disenfranchised.
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News Corp paid $580m (£361m) for MySpace in 2005, but users and advertisers left the site for rival social sites like Facebook and Twitter.
The sale terms were not disclosed, but there were unconfirmed reports that price paid was as low as $35m.
Specific Media said: “We look forward to combining our platforms to drive the next generation of digital innovation.”
Specific Media was founded in 1999 by three brothers – Tim, Chris and Russell Vanderhook – and is based in Irvine, California.
MySpace was a leading social networking site when it was bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
But the business was eclipsed by rivals, and despite attempts to revive MySpace’s fortunes the site has been a financial millstone.
The Reuters news agency cited a News Corp-owned blogging site as reporting that MySpace was sold for $35m.
News Corp’s chief operating officer Chase Carey said in November that the losses at MySpace were “unsustainable”.
Although News Corp does not publish specific results for MySpace in its accounts, the “other” segment, which includes the social network, reported a second quarter operating loss of $156m – $31m worse than a year earlier.
According to tracking firm comScore, MySpace had 21.8 million unique monthly US visitors in August 2005 compared with Facebook’s 8.3 million.
In May, Facebook’s monthly US visitors had risen to 157.2 compared with MySpace’s 34.9 million, comScore said. Facebook has nearly 700 million members worldwide.
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Progressive Keynesian Myths Debunked: The Coming Redistribution of Political and Economic Power Among the States
Ongoing effective economic experiments among the 50 states are sharpening, and definitive results will pour out in the real world, editorial and opinion fallacies to the contrary notwithstanding.
Seventeen states have formed an alternative to the federally run National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA).
Throughout the debate over ObamaCare—and back to HillaryCare and beyond—the fundamental question in health reform has always been this: Who will control our choices—government or individuals?
President Obama's re-election impacts the domestic policy future of the United States in a number of meaningful ways, but particularly in the arena of health care policy, where the law that bears h
Vermont is on a path to become the first state in the nation to have a government-run health care monopoly, as a result of a health care bill signed Democrat by Gov. Peter Shumlin in May.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) has signed into law a $40.1 billion budget that includes the largest tax hike in the state’s history.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts could cut more than a billion dollars from its annual education spending without measurably affecting the performance of public schools, according to a study by th
Workers around the nation envy Connecticut state employees, according to their lead negotiator.
Illinois lawmakers have placed a huge bet on gambling to boost the state’s economy.
It’s a bet the chairman of the Illinois Gaming Board calls “garbage.”
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Athenodora was one of the oldest vampires in existence. She met Caius when he recently fled from the Romanian coven's attack that dominated his territory, and traveled with him until they met Aro and Marcus. Together, they formed the Volturi coven.
After the loss of Marcus's mate and Aro's sister, Didyme, she and Sulpicia - Aro's wife - became prisoners in their tower, though they are accompanied by Corin, who frequently uses her gift to make them feel content with their situation. She and Sulpicia rarely leave the tower, even during important times of vampire history, such as the hunting of the immortal children.
Athenodora only appears at the end of the Breaking Dawn, but plays no role in the action. In the book, it is mentioned that during the confrontation between the Volturi and the Cullens, that there appeared to be "two hooded figures, definitely women, flanked by two hulking bodyguards." These women were Sulpicia and Athenodora, and are often mentioned together.
Throughout the confrontation, she and Sulpicia remain in the background while observing the occasion. In Alice's battle-vision, they are forced to watch their husbands get killed, but it is unknown if they would have survived if the a fight had commenced.
Athenodora is described as a drifting waifish figure with no special powers. She is fair-haired, and has the powdery skin and red eyes and wears a black cloak similar to the other Volturi leaders. In the movie, Athenodora's hair appears to be ashy-blond.
Caius is Athenodora's mate. They met and began travelling together as nomadic couple before they formed the Volturi with Aro and Marcus. It is assumed she remains totally loyal to Caius. She remains in the tower and is so closely guarded in Volterra she has become a prisoner. However, Corin is sent by Caius to keep her company. Corin's gift allows Athenodora to feel content and happy despite her prison-like circumstances. Athenodora stays in the tower and the few times she does leave she never leaves without him and he has her heavily guarded, suggesting the two depend on each other.
Sulpicia is Aro's wife and Athenodora's company in the Volterra tower. The two of them spend the majority of their time together as they are both trapped in the tower in Volterra and well-guarded by the Volturi guards. Because of Corin's gift, however, they are content and perfectly at ease with their situaton. With Corin as part of their personal guard, the wives have never objected to their incarceration.
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Filed under: Drugs,Inside Burma,News
Police in southern Shan state’s Pinlaung township seized more than 900kg of raw opium during a raid at a cave in the area after being tipped off that the site was being used to produce narcotics. Pinlaung Police, along with officials from the anti-narcotics task force, confiscated 912kg of raw opium and 14.2kg of brown opium along with chemicals and equipment used to produce illicit drugs, according to the Burma Police Force’s website.
Pinlaung Police Commander Tin Maung Lay said this was the largest narcotics seizure in the area in the past 10 years. He said four people have been detained for questioning in connection with the raid.
According to a UN Office for Drugs and Crime report that was published last October, opium production increased by 17 percent in the last year in Burma, with approximately 300,000 households growing poppy.
For decades, the production and smuggling of opium and amphetamines have provided a steady source of income to ethnic militias in northeastern Burma where rebel armies have battled against government troops and amongst themselves for greater autonomy.
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The Lafayette Park development is a large park and complex of apartments and housing cooperatives just east of downtown Detroit, Michigan. The area is part of the Mies van der Rohe Residential District listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The 78-acre urban renewal project was originally called the Gratiot Park Development. Planned by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Alfred Caldwell it includes a landscaped, 19-acre park with no through traffic, in which these and other low-rise apartment buildings are sited. The apartment buildings of Lafayette Park are classic examples of Mies' International Style, with their simplicity, clean proportions, and cladding of tinted glass and aluminum.
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This three-year training programme prepares students for the Diploma in Nautical Studies (DNS) and their first professional sea-going qualification - the Class 3 Deck Certificate of Competency. It is the first career step for the holder to sail as a junior deck officer, and later, as master of a ship.
The course comprises three phases. Phase 1 commences at the start of the SP academic year whilst Phase 3 is conducted each semester.
Phase 1 - Pre-Sea Induction (18 months)
This three-semester Pre-Sea Induction course at the Singapore Polytechnic prepares students as cadet officers aboard ship. Students are taught the fundamental knowledge and skills required for a deck officer. During this period, the student also attends the approved STCW Basic Safety Training course.
Phase 2 - Sea-Training / Correspondence (12 months)
During this phase the students undergo shipboard training and follow a structured training programme, which includes a correspondence course package and the completion of a training and assessment record book. As cadet officers, students are groomed to shoulder the responsibilities of a Navigating Officer. A minimum sea service of 12 months is required for the award of Diploma in Nautical Studies and the Class 3 Certificate of Competency.
Phase 3 - Full-time study at Singapore Polytechnic (6 months)
This final phase of study (one semester) for the Diploma in Nautical Studies course includes the Class 3 Certificate of Competency Preparatory Course. The holder of the diploma may be granted exemption from the written part of the Class 3 Certificate of Competency examination conducted by MPA Singapore. The student will be required to attend the approved STCW Medical First Aid on Board Ship course as an ancillary.
Click here for Information about DAE (Direct Admissions Exercise)
Click here for Online Application via Singapore Polytechnic Course Application Service & Enquiry (SP CASE)
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Nigel Keay - Symphony in Five Movements (1996)
Total Duration: 24 minutes. Movement 1; Introduction - Moderato 3'53", Movement 2; Andante 3'32", Movement 3; Scherzo - Vivace 5'09", Movement 4; Andante 6'17", Movement 5; Allegro Moderato 5'28".
Listen to the performance of the Auckland Philharmonia recorded by Concert FM, a network of Radio New Zealand Movement 1: Movement 2: Movement 3: Movement 4: Movement 5:
Instrumentation: 3 Flutes (3rd doubling Piccolo), 2 Oboes (2nd doubling Cor Anglais), 2 Clarinets (2nd doubling Bass Clarinet) 1 Bassoon, Contrabassoon, 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in C, 2 Tenor Trombones, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Timpnani, 3 Percussion (Snare Drum, Tom toms, Bass Drum, Triangle, Suspended Cymbal, Bell Tree, Chinese Cymbal, Cymbals, Tam tam, Castanets, Maracas, Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Tubular Bells), Harp, Strings.
Symphony in Five Movements was composed in Auckland in 1995/96 for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra as part of its Composer-in-Residence programme. It was first performed on the 1st August 1996 in a concert at the Aotea Centre, Auckland as part of a Main Series programme.
A central idea to the Symphony concerns aspects of timing. Its form was partially inspired by the martial arts treatise Go Rin No Sho (A Book of Five Rings), which considers timing and its relationship to strategy. The five books are: Ground, Water, Fire, Wind & Void. There is a loose correspondence between the inspiration behind some of the movements and each of the “books.” Thus, the third movement refers to the book of tradition “wind,”and consequently, is modelled on a scherzo, not only paying tribute to Beethoven, but in a broader sense indicating the desire to give the entire work a historical reference.
The Introduction or first movement is analogous to the “ground” book (the path), outlining the Symphony’s musical ideas.
The fifth movement (“void”) has a strongly rhythmic structure with contemporary influence throughout, reflected in, and overlayed with its violin-based lyrical stream.
This strongly linear work was described by Denys Trussell in a subsequent review for Quote Unquote after its Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra performance in 1996 (conducted by Enrique Diemecke) as being "rich with feeling and atmosphere."
Denys Trussell's review published in the February 1997 edition of Quote Unquote after its Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra performance in 1996:
"Nigel Keay's Symphony In Five Movements... is an introspective work of primeval musical struggle, its aural shapes emerging from that undifferentiated state of sound before it broke out of the mass of the uncreated to become figures of vibrant air. This important, proto-musical zone was explored at times both by Bruckner and Wagner. The five movements relate to five chapters of The Book Of Five Rings, a martial arts treatise. These chapters "Ground", "Fire", "Water", "Wind" and "Void" - have a loose correspondence to the music, particularly "Void" with the last movement. Within its primordial nothingness lies tremendous potential. It was this potential I felt the work attempted to map, using the flux of sound. ....it was rich with feeling and atmosphere."
The fourth and fifth movements were given a reading by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hamish McKeich at the NZSO - SOUNZ Readings in October 2001 in Wellington.
Peter Mechen reviewed this event, and wrote:
"Nigel Keay’s Symphony in Five Movements (1996) was the first featured work, the composer submitting the final two movements of the piece for rehearsal and performance. Keay drew some of his inspiration for the Symphony from a treatise on martial arts which considers the relationship of timing to strategy, loosely correlating sections of the book with the movements of the Symphony. The fourth movement uses scherzo-form, acknowledging the traditional sonata-structure, while the fifth movement’s strongly rhythmical character intersperses a string-based lyrical flow with contemporary colouristic influences.
The composer obviously enjoys the full orchestral palette enormously, and prefers to blend rather than « block in » the colours at his disposal. A clarinet solo begins the scherzo-movement, breathing life into slumbering, subterranean matter whose string-infused textures are galvanised by the sharper glint of the brass. The music’s deep-toned and lushly-harmonised aspect contrasts well with the last movement’s breezy, « out-of-doors » quality, with soaring string lines and clarion brass calls at the opening. The movement’s undulating aspect seems to be achieved by a piecing-together of surprisingly volatile individual voices - evident when Hamish McKeich rehearsed the string section separately - and some intricate dovetailing of rhythms through and around the central « lyrical stream ». I particularly enjoyed a beautiful coalescing episode involving different strands of colour, just before an abrupt coda put an end to all argument."
Source; Peter Mechen's New Zealand Music Reviews under the section "Live Performances (Events)".
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wipers and heating fan slow down. radio stops turn signals stop and all gauges stop working. Warning lights come on, ABS,check engine, parking break, stability control, low tire pressure. While all of this is happening the engine looses power and even in neutral will not rev as per normal. Then the engine stops. Sometimes symptoms disappears and vehicle will resume running normally other times the engine stops running and will not start until battery is recharged. Battery has been tested and is good. HELP!!!
After driving approx 10 miles and stopping.The car makes a clunking noise when executing a tight turn going forwards or in reverse from a stop. Noise goes away when driving straight. Feels like something binding.
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On Monday, the Information Overload Research Group (IORG) hosted a virtual literary salon on the topic of Information Overload entitled “Five Authors, Five Books, A Dialogue on Information Overload.” The event featured authors who have written recent books related to the subject of Information Overload. They were asked to discuss why they wrote their books, and what issues they feel are most relevant today.
Dave Crenshaw, author of The Myth of Multitasking, spoke about the problem of switch tasking, which describes what happens when people switch back and forth rapidly between tasks, lowering their productivity. Crenshaw suggested several strategies for dealing with Information Overload, including setting definite start and end times for work in order to increase the productivity of work-designated times, learning to say no to new projects, and avoiding the “Double Q” (just one quick question). The Double Q is particularly vexing as those kinds of questions cause multiple small interruptions. The best way to deal with the problem is to group all the little question into a single one-to-one meeting, avoiding the steady stream of small interruptions.
Daniel Forrester, author of Consider, mentioned that he was motivated to write his book in part by reading about how Bill Gates would schedule “Think Weeks” for thought and reflection twice a year. At the time, he was also questioning how multitasking was affecting his own life and reading research that proved that multitasking was largely impossible. Forrester went on to outline how he began looking at information-related military issues in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the leadership style of different leaders such as David Petraeus and Colin Powell. He noted that we are still not spending enough time thinking and reflecting, saying that he believes the most successful companies and individuals will be those who engage in what he called “group reflection” as opposed to group think.
Next, Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted, outlined her argument that we risk heading into a Dark Age due to our lack of deep thinking, excessive work/life balance degradation, and a drop in listening skills. She outlined the three types of attention, namely focus, awareness, and executive attention, and how people can be trained either to be distracted or to be focused. She finished with a call to action to question our assumptions and values about how we think about attention, with a shift back to emphasizing focused thought and setting up our environments to support deep thought and reflection.
William Powers, author of Hamlet’s BlackBerry, spoke about his realization of how the medium through which we consume information, namely screens, shapes our lives. Prior to writing his book, he had begun to notice that it became difficult to get through more than a few pages in a good novel before feeling the urge to look at a screen. Powers discussed how he went back to historical moments when humans faced technological challenges, and found practical examples of people dealing with information consumption and striking healthy balances in their lives. He concluded that we all have to realize the benefits of finding a healthy balance and setting limits on information consumption.
To finish the discussion, Jonathan Spira, author of Overload!, discussed the evolution of his research into Information Overload over the last 20 years. His starting point emerged from his observations of the problems that occur when knowledge workers share information and collaborate, almost all of them Information Overload-related. This led him on a 20-year journey to address these issues and help people deal with the problem. He outlined the phenomenon of recovery time, which is the time it takes a knowledge worker to return to the task at hand after an interruption (five to ten times the length of the interruption itself). Jonathan also shared some statistics on how widespread the problem is: for example, 94% of knowledge workers have felt overwhelmedto the point of incapacitation by the amount of information they encounter on a daily basis. His parting thought was that we can all do something about Information Overload by taking personal responsibility for the problem and taking action in whatever ways we can, such as by sending clearer e-mail, or by valuing our colleagues’ time as if it were our own.
Jonathan, who was also serving as moderator, ended the event three minutes early and told attendees that he was hereby returning three additional minutes to them for the purpose of thought and reflection.
The entire event, including a question and answer session, can be heard in its entirety here.
This Analyst Opinion is also available online at
Cody Burke is a senior analyst at Basex. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org
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Workers' Compensation laws are generally a comprehensive system for employees whose employers carry and are covered under workers' compensation insurance. If an employee is injured on the job, recovery for statutory benefits should be available from the employer. The employee should be able to recover medical expenses and disability payments without having to show fault. However, a 'trade-off' exists because the employee is usually prevented from suing the employer in court if the employer is covered by workers' compensation insurance. For more information on Workers' Compensation, contact a qualified attorney.
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Who remembers Arkady Gaidar? At some point in my childhood, when the sky was full of stars, I happened to read the adventures of Chuck and Geck, their long journey on the Trans-Siberian railway and on a sledge across the hoary taiga in search of their adventuring father.
It was probably the best children's book from the Soviet era: it found a readership across continents, and touched the hearts of many eight-year-old kids who lived in cramped Indian cities. Alongside heroes and villains of Indian and British-American persuasions, their good friends were the brave Chuck and Geck, Vasilisa the beautiful, Ivan the dragon-slayer, and Makar the unlucky Yakut. They dreamed endlessly as they stared across muddy roads and dusty alleys that they knew led to exotic lands filled with adventures: they talked to their friends in their dreams. It was such a good book written in wonderful prose, and beautifully illustrated in black and white.
Now that's all far, far away, and the eight-year-old children have all grown up. For those of them who are still alive, the Soviet Union has become a dull and disturbing subject filling many history books while the publishers of these wonderful books (Mir, Vostok, Raduga) have ceased to exist. Most of these children live like old people now: their adult selves uneasy with the horrors perpetrated in the name of communism; uneasier still, witnessing the way commodities nastily distort the dreams of the children they see around them.
But in the middle of the night, in the strangest moments of reminiscing childhood, those older children--the readers of Arkady Gaidar-- have curious dreams.
They dream of a thousand lives, they dream of lonely death. From the darkened hovels where they live in, from the smoggiest zones of some Indian city lit with a thousand neon signs, they dream of strange loud bells ringing in faraway Moscow on a Christmas night. On a hot sweaty summer night, they smell the snow falling on the fir trees of the endless Taiga, and breathe at ease. They see the bear and the wold leap across their windows: they are not afraid. But as they drift off to sleep, they wonder: what do children read now?
For those like me still searching for the works of Arkady Gaider in the ether, here are the download links to three pdf files: three books from the forgotten master. It's still a great pleasure to read them, but ah, the pictures and wonderful illustrations, the dog-eared pages of a book thumbed breathlessly a thousand times, and the eight-year-old mind are badly missed:
Chuck and Geck
Timur and his Squad
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Kawther Salam, VIENNA, 12 March 2012. At the opening of the 55th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) which is meeting in Vienna from 12 to 16 March, the President of Bolivia, Mr. Evo Morales Ayma, asked the international community to assist his country in correcting a historical error that was committed against the Bolivian people when the government of dictator Banzer ratified the International Convention Against Narcotic Drugs of 1961 without reservations. He explained that his Government is vigorously combating cocaine trafficking and has destroyed tons of the drug. He said that his country needs more international assistance to combat the scourge, particularly equipment and technology.
However, Bolivia has decided to “denounce” (withdraw from) the 1961 Single Convention on Illicit Drugs in order to “correct the historic error” concerning the indigenous uses of the coca leaf and the stigmatization of the Coca plant. Bolivia will re-accede to the Convention but this time including a reservation allowing the traditional consumption of coca leaf, which is a tradition which his people has kept for thousands of years, he said.
President Morales stated: “I want to stress that at no time Bolivia has acted untimely or irresponsibly. Instead, our request for re-accession to the treaty with reservation seeks to normalize our relations with the convention and the institutional mechanisms that result from it, including the INCB (International Narcotics Control Board) so that international cooperation and the country can focus on substance, on what is important, ie. on the progress and challenges related to the fight against drug trafficking”.
The Opening Session was attending by several hundreds of diplomats and high government officials from many countries. Among them was the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, the Vice President of Honduras, the Vice Minister in the Ministry of Narcotics Control of Pakistan, the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Ruth Dreifuss, the former President of Switzerland, Victor Hugo Barnica, the Counter Narcotics Minister of Afghanistan, Zarar Ahmad Moqbel-Osmani, the Justice Minister of Brazil, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, the Interior Minister of Iran, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, the Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Soubanh Srithirath, the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Health of Spain, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, and the Counter Narcotics heads of the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Peru, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Germany and France amongst others. Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand will also be attending the CND.
UN Drugs Chief Calls for Stronger Cooperation Frameworks and Attention to Health as Way Forward for International Drugs Policy
UNIS -Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said during the opening session: “We face a transnational threat of extraordinary proportions that amounts to US$320 billion or some 0.5 per cent of global GDP”.
He added: stronger regional cooperation networks are vital for confronting the threat of illicit drugs. Fedotov stressed, Ministers and anti-drug officials from the 53 CND Member States will consider issues of concern, including the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes and preventing the diversion of chemicals for the manufacture of illicit drugs. The CND is the central policy-making body within the United Nations system dealing with illicit drugs.
The Executive Director urged States to intensify prevention strategies as part of a comprehensive response to drug demand, supply and trafficking. “At present, the balance between our work on the supply and demand sides stays firmly in favour of the supply side. We must restore the balance. Prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, reintegration and health have to be recognized as key elements in our strategy,” he said. “Overall, our work on the treatment side must be considered as part of the normal clinical work undertaken when responding to any other disease in the health system.”
Mr. Fedotov exhorted States to recognize that drug dependence was an illness; evidence shows that treatment is more effective than repression in addressing a public health challenge that takes some 250,000 lives annually. He noted that children were vulnerable to the effects of drugs and to protect them it was important to use family-based prevention methods.
In this, the centenary of the signing of the International Opium Convention in 1912, the first legal instrument on drug control, the Executive Director said it was important to recognize the gains made over that time but more needed to be done. He said the international drugs conventions provided the best way to mitigate the negative effects of illicit drugs on individuals and communities, while ensuring that those in need can obtain life-saving medications.
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Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell paid a visit to Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday in order to assist with the introduction of a new mental health act to Congress.
The actor and director, who are both up for Academy Awards for "Silver Linings Playbook," which centers on a former teacher struggling with bipolar disorder.
Biden, Cooper, and Russell meet at the White House.
The two met with Biden to discuss the Excellence in Mental Health Act, which will make mental health treatment more accessible.
According to Politico, Biden's office tweeted a photo of the three meeting at the White House.
The bill is part of the Obama administrations's reevaluation of mental health polices following the Sandy Hook Massacre.
On December 14, the mentally ill Adam Lanza shot 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The tragedy marks the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
Some have argued that if Lanza and other mass shooters had had better mental health treatment, they would have been less likely to carry out the crimes they committed.
Mental illness has become the prime focus of the "Silver Linings" promotional campaign.
In an interview with the Today show earlier this week, Russell spoke candidly about his son Matthew's battle with mood disorders.
"Nothing comes easily to him, and that makes your heart bigger," he said of his son. "It was a very healing thing to have written the movie ... I learned a great deal about resilience and about the relationship between the father and the son."
Last week, Cooper visited the Center For American Progress to advocate improving services for those suffering from mental illnesses.
“I think that’s the real key to this illness—that it's something we can all relate to," Cooper said. "It’s hard to confront yourself, it’s hard to confront actions that occur that we may not want to deal with. But if we have a dialogue about it, then we can understand it and make change for ourselves."
As Oscar hopefuls make the promotional rounds in a last minute bid for the coveted gold statue, it's difficult to tell whether or not these appearances and emotional interviews are genuine or part of the "Silver Linings" awards campaign.
While the odds aren't exactly in Cooper of Russell's favor, DeNiro--who last won an Oscar in 1980--has a shot at winning.
It was reported on Friday that Cooper is set to portray Chris Kyle in the upcoming film adaptation of "American Sniper." According to USA Today, the project, which was first announced last May, is being fast-tracked in the wake of Kyle's death.
The ex-Navy SEAL was shot and killed by post-traumatic stress victim Eddie Ray Routh at a Texas shooting range on Saturday.
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In the rough and tumble world of the National Hockey League, George Parros and Mike Brown have no problem sticking up for a fellow teammate on the ice.
However, for the month of November these two American tough guys stuck up for a new teammate by joining forces with Movember, a global initiative that raises awareness and funds for men’s health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.
Parros and Brown decided to go nose to nose in hockey’s first facial hair face off in what became known as the “The Greatest Mo Battle of Them All.” For the month of November, the pair joined more than 1.1 million men by growing out their mustaches to raise money to battle a disease that will affect one in six men in their lifetimes.
“It’s always awesome to help out where you can,” said Parros, who spent most of his career with the Anaheim Ducks before signing a two-year deal with the Florida Panthers in the offseason.
“It’s a great and worthy cause that is something that doesn’t get all of the attention that other charities might. The pink ribbon is everywhere for breast cancer, and we can’t ignore the fact that men have their own cancer problems and issues. The mustache is kind of our ribbon.”
The former Ducks teammates had to get creative to raise awareness for their fundraising campaigns primarily because of the NHL lockout, which banned players and teams from interacting with each other. Thus the birth of “The Greatest Mo Battle of Them All.”
“We figured it would be fun and different and something to gain a little interest during the downtime here,” Parros said. “Brownie and I have been teammates, so we know each other really well. He’s obviously good competition mustache wise and a good guy as well. It couldn’t of worked out better.”
“We kind of turned it into a fun competition this year,” added Brown, who now suits up for the Toronto Maple Leafs. “Everyone’s brains got together and kind of put together everything in a roundabout way.”
Once a Mo Bro registers at Movember.com, he begins the month clean-shaven before spending the rest of the month perfecting the art of moustachery. As men continuously work towards perfecting their ’staches and raising awareness along the way, they’re also joined by the support of women, referred to as Mo Sistas.
Brown, who shaved his iconic beard for a fresh baby-face start on Nov. 1, enjoyed participating in his first Movember after gaining notoriety in Toronto for his Fu Man Chu.
“After being a part of this you kind of get the feeling that this is a great cause,” Brown said. “Just for me to grow a mustache and raise the awareness and raise some money is no problem at all. It was kind of a no-brainer.”
This was Parros’ third year participating in Movember, and he has enjoyed raising money for the foundation over the years.
“Me and Movember were on parallel paths, and it was about time our paths have crossed,” Parros said. “Given the fact that I have gotten so much popularity for my mustache it made sense that we would join forces.”
The money raised by Team Parrosmos, along with the rest of the United States Movember campaign, will support programs run by Movember and its health partners, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG Foundation. Team #Brownbeauts efforts went to support the Movember Foundation and Prostate Cancer Canada.
All told, the 2012 Movember campaign raised a record $113 million globally for men’s health.
“It’s something we need to be aware of and people need to be aware of,” Brown said. “I didn’t know a lot about it before and I didn’t know a lot about the statistics of men’s health.”
Parros, with his straight push-broom 'stache and Team Parrosmos raised $8,330 to defeat Brown and his #Brownbeauts, who chimed in with $7,635.
“I think we both did a great job,” Parros said. “We raised a fair amount of cash by any means. The monetary aspect was great, and I think we got some great pub for it and raised awareness.”
To help out the cause, Brown and Parros recruited a variety of friends, family and other NHL players such as Shawn Thornton ($1,280) and Al Montoya ($550). They also autographed about 300 posters and gave them away to those who donated $50 or more.
“I was pretty excited, but he had me guessing at the last minute,” Parros added. “I had no idea if I was going to win or not. I am glad I pulled it off, and I couldn’t be happier.”
Brown was obviously disappointed in the defeat, and as a consequence of coming up short in the fund-raising competition will have to have to wear an ugly tie of Parros’ choosing for the first game of the NHL’s regular season, whenever that may be.
“I have had guys from near and far that have joined the cause,” Parros said, “and they all are going to benefit when they see Brownie wear something awful come the first game.”
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The Giving Tree and The New York Times
The other day I read The Giving Tree to my son as I was tucking him in to bed. I remembered the book from when I was a kid.
The book tells the tale of a relationship between a boy and a tree. In the early days, the relationship is wonderful. The boy and the tree are great friends – and the boy enjoys climbing the tree’s trunk, swinging from it's branches, eating its bountiful apples, and sleeping in it’s shade. But then time passes. And as the boy gets older, the relationship changes. The boy comes back to the tree when he needs money, and the tree gives him its apples to sell in the city. Years pass. The boy needs a house, and the tree gives him its branches to build a house. Years pass. The boy wants a boat, and the tree gives him its trunk to make a boat. The boy returns one more time, this time as an old man. And the tree, which is now just a stump, has nothing more to offer him. But all the man wants to do is sit down to rest. And he sits on the stump...
Many people have written about the book, and there is much debate as to whether the tree is "selfless or merely self-sacrificing, and whether the boy is selfish or reasonable in his demands of the tree".
As I finished the book and put my son to bed, a thought hit me. We’re watching a real-time unfolding of The Giving Tree right now. It’s called the implosion of the NY Times. In this story, the role of the boy is played by the Internet...
In the Internet's youth, it looks up to the big tree (the NY Times) -- and they play nicely together and become friends. But, the tree didn't understand the true cost of a friendship with the boy. And as time passes, the NY Times is going to be forced by the Internet to sell it’s building. It will sell it’s stake in the Boston Red Sox. It will ultimately sell it's stake in the Boston Globe and About.com. It will charge a subscription for web users.
And in the end, the New York Times will just be a stump.
It may be a few years off, but I'm pretty sure I will be reading the "NY Times Edition" of the Giving Tree in the next few years. But in the meanwhile, it does provide a cautionary tale about disruptive technology. And all CEO's around the world should ask themselves: Does my company have any relationships (with other companies -- or with new technologies) that are starting off friendly (and mutually beneficial) but could evolve to be one-sided?
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Englishman had stroke and wakes up speaking Welsh to doctors
Similar case to Englishman who spoke with Irish accent after brain surgery
An Englishman who woke up after a stroke and started speaking Welsh is the most recent victim of “Foreign Accent syndrome,” a rare complication of brain damage.
Alun Morgan, 81, was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War but during his time there he never picked up the native tongue.
When he woke up from his recent stroke, his wife Yvonne was the only person who could understand him and she had to translate for doctors.
Morgan, from Somerset, stated: "I don't remember anything from the time of my stroke.”
His case recalls another one from 2009 when the person who woke up spoke with an Irish accent and began singing “Danny Boy.”
When Englishman Chris Gregory went for a brain operation, he knew it would be a life altering event.
But he could never have imagined that it would be nationality-altering.
When Gregory woke up he stunned doctors, nurses and his wife when he started speaking with a strong Dublin accent and singing “Danny Boy.”
Gregory, who had the operation after rupturing a blood vessel in his brain, had the extremely rare condition known as “Foreign Accent Syndrome.”
The condition can be triggered by a stroke or head injury, when the tiny parts of the brain that control speech and language are damaged.
The man, who has spent all his life in Sheffield, Yorkshire, had no family ties with Ireland, and never even visited the country, woke up after having been on a life support machine for three days.
After waking up, the 30-year-old landscape gardener told his wife, Mary, "You're the fabbest girl I know,” and said “It's da broid” (Dublin-ese for “it’s the bride”) in a strong Dublin accent.
His wife, Mary, told a British paper: “'I couldn’t believe it when I walked on to the ward and heard someone singing Danny Boy really loud. It sounded like a drunken Irishman, and all the racket seemed to coming from the direction of Chris’s bed.
“I thought to myself: 'It can’t possibly be him…' But when I pulled back the curtains Chris was sitting up in bed belting out the tune with all the right words and the thick Irish accent like he’d grown up in Dublin and lived there all his life.
“All the nurses were trying really hard not to laugh, and I was too. I just couldn’t take it in at first, it seemed so comical, but it didn’t matter at all because I’d been so worried about losing him altogether.
“Chris’s Yorkshire accent had vanished completely, and he was talking like an Irishman all the time.
Chris said: "I just don't a remember a thing about it -- I wish I'd been able to listen to it all, but I don't have any recollection of what happened when I came round.
"I've never had any connection with Ireland or the Irish people, that's what makes it so odd, but I'm looking forward to going over there for the first time."
The syndrome was first noticed in the 1940s, when a Norwegian woman who was hit by shrapnel in the head following a German bombing raid developed a German accent.
- Government minister calls for investigation...
- Young Irish woman turned in to U.S. authorities
- Irishman John Downey arrested for 1982 IRA...
- Amnesty International says Ireland’s abortion...
- New book ‘John F. Kennedy - Among the Germans’.
- One in seven people on social welfare in...
- Irish finance minister says US Senate are...
- Top bishops clash over excommunication of...
- Calls for Irish Justice Minister to resign...
- Nigerian migrants send $653 million a year...
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News Analysis: How Will the Supremes Rule on Marriage Equality?
The world will not end on Dec. 21, 2012, but for gay families it might get considerably more complicated... or blessedly more equal, or perhaps even both at once... once the Supreme Court issues its rulings on two monumentally important cases, with rulings expected sometime in mid-2013.
The two cases involve the constitutionality of the anti-gay federal law, the "Defense of Marriage" Act," which then-President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1996. DOMA takes vicious, pitiless aim at same-sex couples and their children by singling them out for blanket denial of all federal recognition, including benefits like tax breaks and Social Security benefits.
The plethora of complications this raises for gay families is staggering; States are free to ignore the marital status of wedded single-gender couples from marriage equality states, and similarly opens the door for parents to be rendered legal strangers to their own children simply by crossing a state line.
Married couples in the states that recognize their unions know firsthand how the federal tax code punishes them. I should know: Every year my husband and I file jointly for state taxes in Massachusetts, and thenhave to prepare separate filings for Uncle Sam. It usually costs us between $600 to $1,000 in additional taxes that we would not have to pay if DOMA did not deny us equal treatment before the law on a federal level.
If one of us were to die, the other could be left facing a hefty -- perhaps even confiscatory -- tax bill. Irony of ironies: If the Tea Party had not become so blatantly homophobic, just think of the appeal it would have had for families like ours thanks to its stance on taxation issues!
What Being ’A Suspect Class’ Means
President Barack Obama single-handedly delivered to our families a huge and potentially game-changing gift by deeming gays and lesbians a "suspect class." No, not suspect as in somehow untrustworthy or menacing or criminal -- that’s the stance of anti-gay groups like the National Organization for Marriage (It was NOM, remember, that insisted that all the GOP hopefuls for the 2012 presidential election sign a pledge to investigate gays on the basis of allegations that marriage equality advocates had threatened violence against supporters of Proposition 8, the anti-gay law that stripped gay families of their then-existing marriage rights in 2008.)
No, this "suspect class" refers rather to a class of people who, through their essential and unalterable identities, are different from the majority and are, as a result, persecuted for their differences. Gays and lesbians have known for decades that this description fits us, and we’ve spoken out about it for decades too.
It was only when Obama put us in that "suspect class" category and refused to defend DOMA in federal courts, where the law has been taking a beating, did we gain official recognition that we are who we say we are: People who were born to be sexually and romantically attracted to those of our own gender. In other words, we didn’t "choose" the "lifestyle" of gays and lesbians in order to piss people off or make some kind of political statement. It’s who we are -- and who we are supposed to be.
Hearing Prop 8: A Mixed Blessing
The Supreme Court will also be ruling on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which was a terrifying benchmark in the politics of big-money cynicism. The anti-gay side spent around $80 million lying to California’s parents, telling them that marriage equality for gay adults would somehow translate into classroom pressure to turn innocent children gay. (More of the same "choosing to be gay" baloney, in other words.) Our rights should never have been subject to popular vote in the first place, but for the voters of California to yank existing marriage rights out of the hands of gay families is, the courts have so far agreed, a violation of our rights under the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
The court could simply have declined to hear the Prop 8 case, with the result that the appeals court decision upholding the original ruling against Prop 8 would have stood and marriage rights would have been restored in California. It’s either deeply troublesome that the Court agreed to hear the case, or cause for jubilation.
Here’s the problem: If the court wants to roadblock social progress and family rights for gays for decades to come, then agreeing to hear the case with an eye to striking down Judge Vaughn Walker’s original ruling against Prop 8 is one way to do it. There would be the possibility of all sorts of collateral damage.
Once a fundamental right of one minority can be rescinded at the ballot box, the reasoning goes, what protects the rights of any other minority group? But this, in turn, could pave the way for endless, expensive and stressful challenges to marriage equality in any or all of the nine states and the District of Columbia where marriage equality either is a reality now, or soon will be.
On the other hand, a Supreme Court finding that upholds Walker’s original ruling, and the ruling that the appeals court handed down affirming Walker’s judgment, could potentially rid the entire country of the anti-gay language now enshrined, via plebiscite, in the constitutions of 31 states. That seems a little unlikely, given that the Supreme Court does not tend to make extraordinarily radical rulings.
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How to control my hamster? ?
i have a 6 month old long hair hamster. every time i try to pick her up she tries ti bite. what do i do.
But she is similar to a month and a half old.
i recommend you let her sniff your finger and permit her adjust to your scent and she will get used to you eventually. take her with you to your (empty) hip bath and sit in it with her and let her obtain to trust you.handle her lightly and maybe pilfer some treats and let her run around in the tub and she will be fine. i did this with my hamster for a while. if this doesn't work then google taming hamsters and you will find helpful info!
First, you need to leave it alone for a while. Never pick up your hamster when it is consumption, drinking, spinning, or sleeping. Especially sleeping. He will think you are a predator attacking him. Talk soothingly to your hamster. Offer him food by sticking you hand in the shut within with a treat. Always wash your hands until that time picking him up. If he smells food on your hands, he will want to eat it (even though its not physically there) and he will bite. If you hold him too tightly he will bite, obviously. To grasp him out, use treats to lure him or put treats in a cup and get him to climb in. Leave him contained by the cup and stroke his back. When he finishes, offer him treats but make him climb into your mitt to get them. Eventually, he will know that you mean no harm. Play next to him daily. Good luck!
i went to the pet store to ask they said when he bites you tap himon the trunk or blow on him they dont like that and they will learn to no bite
it will take some time though
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Little Guy is just learning how to hold the scissors, how to coordinate both hands together when cutting, how to open and shut the blades of the scissors to cut smooth lines, and how to stay on a line when cutting.
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In 1973, with the passing of the S.C.V. Act (1) Toorak Teachers' College became part of a federation of colleges which was to form a third stream of tertiary education in Victoria along with the universities and technologically oriented colleges of advanced education.
The ensuing greater autonomy from the Education Department and improved resources allowed the construction in 1975 of the McInerney building (pictured left); a three story construction designed by Yuncken Freeman Pty Ltd. Meanwhile, throughout the 1970s major refurbishment works were carried out on the main building of Stonington.
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The district is planning for a worst case scenario with their Title I and II grants.
The federal government is legally bound to give at least ninety percent of allocated Title I money, which funds low income development.
However, they are allowed to cut all Title II funding, which goes to professional development.
They say they could lose over two million dollars a year.
The district discussed possible scenarios at Monday night's school board meeting.
They plan on coming up with a number of budgets to prepare for any scenario.
District Spokesperson, Chris Coplan, said, "We'd have to build a couple different budgets around federal funding to determine that and decide how to move forward. We'll wait to see if this is an issue at all on Friday,"
The district also mentioned the possibility of having Title II become a competitive fund.
That means they would compete with other districts for the funding, much like the Rise to the Top program.
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NEW DELHI—She called him "a perfect man." He still keeps her number stored in his cellphone, under the name Jewi, derived from a Sanskrit word meaning life.
"She was the closest person to my heart," says the young man. Soon he is expected to tell a judge about the night she was raped aboard a private bus here, an attack that left his friend dead and the world horrified.
"I find myself surrounded by the pictures in my mind of the incident of that night in the bus," says the 28-year-old information-technology specialist, who was himself badly injured in the Dec. 16 attack. Broad-chested and plain-spoken, he now walks with a cane.
Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, he gave new details of the assault and described his close and complex relationship with his friend, a petite recent college graduate who was 23 at the time of her death. Both her name and his are being withheld due to Indian law governing the identification of the woman as a rape victim.
The case has stirred widespread protest and calls for justice. Five men face charges including rape, kidnapping and murder. Lawyers for the five say they are innocent. A sixth person accused, a juvenile, faces proceedings in juvenile court. A lawyer representing him couldn't be reached.
In many ways, the young man and his friend were a modern dating couple, yet still bound by caste and tradition. Living away from home, the two were making their way in India's widening professional class—she was a physiotherapist looking for her first job, he leads a team specializing in Internet voice technology for corporations.
They shared their problems, took vacations together and consulted each other even over the purchase of a pair of shoes. She once talked him out of investing in a company that turned out to be a fraud. He gave her the login details to his Facebook account.
Their families were aware of their closeness and didn't interfere, the young man and her family said. But the two friends felt their relationship would always be a friendship and not a marriage, he says. He came from a high-caste Brahmin background. His father is a prominent lawyer. His family lives in a three-story home with servants' quarters.
By contrast, his friend hailed from a Kurmi agrarian caste that is lower on the Hindu hierarchy. Her family lives in a small concrete-and-brick house near the Delhi airport, where her father works as a laborer.
Differences like these worked against a union. And the young man says he was loath to go against his family's strong wishes that he find a traditional match from within his Brahmin community.
"We just didn't talk about it because it would sour our relationship," he says of his friend. "We were of equal status as friends."
In an interview, the young woman's mother said to the question of marriage: "You can't really say what could have happened in the future."
The young man's father says the subject of marriage never came up, but had their son made a fervent case, the family "might have given it a thought."
The two first made contact in December 2010. It wasn't exactly a success. A mutual friend had suggested that the young man might help her with her studies, and gave her his number.
"Hi, how are you?" she texted him. "What's going on?"
He thought it was the mutual friend, playing a prank.
"I know who you are, man," he replied. "Is this your new number?"
"I am not a boy, I am a girl," she responded.
The mutual friend intervened to end the confusion. Two months later, when the young woman was visiting New Delhi from her college in Dehradun, about five hours' drive away, he went to meet her for the first time at the bus station.
He approached the person he guessed was her. She was wearing a red top, a blue skirt and high heels, he says.
By way of breaking the ice, he walked up and asked: "Where do I get a bus to Dehradun?"
On Dec. 16, a group of men allegedly beat a young woman and her friend and raped the young woman as they rode around south Delhi in a bus.
Tracking Sexual Assaults
A look at statistics on reported rapes and conviction rates of rape cases in India in 2011.
Without even looking up, she pointed away. So he had to introduce himself.
Over lunch at McDonald's and an afternoon tour of Delhi's ancient Red Fort, they started getting to know each other. "I told her that I am from Gorakhpur," a city in northern India, he says, recalling that day. "That I am from a Brahmin family. I have two brothers and three sisters. I am very close to my mother. That my father is a lawyer. That I worship God daily. That I am a foodie and like to go for movies. I drink milk daily. I am fond of wristwatches and have a good collection of them."
It would grow into a welcome friendship as he found his way in New Delhi, where he moved in 2006 after graduating in engineering from a technical college. Back home in Gorakhpur, he had founded a group that he intended to focus on women's empowerment and child development. But his family advised him to "first prove yourself, then work for others," he says.
He joined HCL Infosystems, his current employer, in 2008. "He is a professionally very efficient person, a quiet worker, very responsible and hardworking," says his boss there.
As the friendship grew, he and the young woman spoke frequently on the phone. "She was that friend for me with whom I can talk about my financial status and family problems openly," he says. At times, he says, she called him "a perfect man."
They started taking trips together to see holy sites. On May 10, 2011, her birthday, they met in Haridwar, a Hindu pilgrimage center on the Ganga river, about an hour's drive from where she studied.
They traveled on cable cars to hillside temples before watching devotees take evening dips and worship the river.
By then, her family knew and liked him. He was the friend she spoke to most, her mother says. "We thought of him as a gentleman," she says. "He was safe."
Five months later, the couple visited Vaishno Devi, another popular pilgrimage spot in the Himalayas. "It was very cold. We took the Shalimar Express train from Dehradun," he says.
They climbed about seven miles to the sanctuary, worshiped there that evening, and hiked back to the hotel the following morning. "We bought some medicines for our legs that were aching severely," he says, smiling sheepishly at the memory. "She also provided some physiotherapy treatment to my legs," he said, pantomiming a rub on his leg.
In March, they went together to a shrine devoted to the Indian spiritual guru Sai Baba in the state of Maharashtra. A few months later, he gave her some inspirational books when they traveled to Rishikesh, another Hindu holy site famously visited by the Beatles in 1968.
Her last gift to him was a gray tie. It remains in an envelope in his New Delhi apartment. "I tried to do things that made her happy," he says. "It's because that's how I could be happy, too."
On their trips, they would share a hotel room. They held hands and hugged, he says, but didn't go further. "Regarding the man-woman relationship, I have conservative views," he says. They sang, joked and played cards and chess. He thought about her often when they were apart.
When they met on Dec. 16, the day of the attack, the two hadn't seen each other for several weeks. "It was a strange and boring day," he says.
That evening, after watching the movie "Life of Pi" at a mall, they strolled by a fountain and snapped some pictures. He wanted to linger, but she was eager to get home, he says.
They hailed a motorized rickshaw to a bus stop where she could catch a ride home. A bus was there waiting, and someone on board called out to them, he says: "Didi, where do you have to go?" Didi means elder sister. The person calling out was the juvenile defendant later accused in the crime, the young man says.
The young man says the two boarded the bus and sat in the second row. The row in front was occupied by two men who appeared to be passengers, as did two other men seated across the aisle, he says.
Things were normal for about five minutes, he says, and he began to relax. "It's OK for today, but don't board these kinds of buses in the future," he says he told his friend.
Then, three of the men asked the couple what they were doing with each other out at night, he says. That is when he knew they were in trouble.
He and his friend started shouting. She tried to call the police, but one of the men snatched her phone away, he says. He got into a struggle with one of the men. He says he heard shouts of "Bring the rod, bring the rod!"
He was struck repeatedly on the back of the head, and pounded on his legs, he says. Dizzy and bleeding, he fell to the floor. Police have accused the assailants of using a metal rod from the bus's luggage rack in the assault.
She was dragged to the back of the bus, he says. The lights were off. He heard her crying for help, but he was pinned to the floor by one or more men, he says. Police allege she was gang-raped and sexually assaulted with a metal rod.
"I go to that moment again and again," he says. "Just an hour before, everything was fine, and all of a sudden, everything had gone horribly wrong."
Finally, he says, he heard the words, "She's dead, she's dead."
The couple was thrown off the bus at the side of a highway, according to the young man and the police. The two had been stripped naked. His friend was still alive. Eventually, they were brought to a hospital.
A lawyer for the driver of the bus has said his client acknowledged that a rape happened on his bus, but is innocent of all the charges. A lawyer for two of the accused has said his clients weren't on the bus at the time of the incident. A lawyer for another of the accused has said his client was tortured into making a false confession; police have declined to comment on that allegation. That lawyer has requested that the trial be moved outside New Delhi, arguing that his client won't get an impartial hearing locally. The Indian Supreme Court dismissed that request Tuesday. A lawyer for the fifth accused has said his client is innocent, too.
The father of the dead young woman, speaking of her friend's efforts on the night of the attack, says: "We are eternally thankful to him." If he hadn't been there, he says, his daughter might have disappeared without a trace.
Five days later, the young man visited his friend in the intensive-care unit of Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital. She had been so violently raped and beaten that much of her intestines had been surgically removed.
He says he apologized to her for letting her down. She replied, if only we had stayed longer by the fountain at the mall, as you had wished, perhaps we would have missed the bus.
She reminded him that it was exactly two years since they had first texted, he says. She tried to hug him, but she couldn't get up because of the medical equipment attached to her body. "She made a gesture of a hug," he says.
Later, she was transferred to Singapore for treatment. The young man says he learned of her death from a television report.
Today, he says, he weighs what might have been between the two of them. "I would have been with her all my life," he said in one interview recently. "Even if that meant taking the extreme step of going against the wishes of my family."—Saurabh Chaturvedi contributed to this article.
Write to Krishna Pokharel at firstname.lastname@example.org
A version of this article appeared January 30, 2013, on page A1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: India Rape Victim's Friend Describes Their Love Story.
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Drone technology is advancing and their use is proliferating exponentially, as the public and the law lag behind
by John Glaser
Antiwar Forum October 19, 2011
Drone technology is advancing faster than the public or the legal system has time to catch up to their now ubiquitous use inAmerica’s many war zones. US troops inAfghanistanwill soon be able to deploy what’s called the Switchblade, a miniature drone that can be stored in a backpack and be launched from the ground to surveil or kill targets.
A California-based company, AeroVironment, Inc., developed the Switchblade to be fired from a small tube and can transmit wireless live color video, confirm a target, and arms itself at the operator’s demand, and shoot. The company’s website says it “is designed to provide the warfighter with a ‘magic bullet,’” that is “difficult to detect, recognize, and track even at very close range.”
The U.S. Army awarded a $4.9 million contract to AeroVironment this past June for deployment, and it is to be used very soon on an upcoming mission in southern and easternAfghanistan.
Drones are fast becoming the weapons of choice forAmerica. In the first nine months of 2011, US-led spy drones conducted nearly 23,000 surveillance missions inAfghanistan. At nearly 85 flights a day, that figure is almost double the daily amount from only two years earlier. The unmanned aerial vehicles are also used inLibya,Yemen,Somalia, andIraqand are being sold to various governments all around the world.
Part of the heralded appeal of the Switchblade and of drone vehicles generally is that they are precision vehicles that reduce the potential for collateral damage. But notably, twoUSsoldiers were recently killed by a mistaken drone attack in a case of friendly fire.
Over the years, the drone war along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has killed literally hundreds of civilians, including at least 168 children. Investigative journalist Noor Behram, on the ground inPakistanfor years counting civilian casualties from drones, estimated that for every 10 to 15 civilians, drone attacks kill one militant.
Ominously, military drone technology is increasing for domestic use as well. Expecting budget cuts, the defense industry has begun to shift the sale of the high tech drones from the Pentagon to local police departments.
Republican Presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry in a debate this week urged for the use of Predator drones along theUSborder withMexico. “You use Predator drones that are being trained right up here at Creech Air Force Base inNevada,” Perry said, “to use that real-time information to give those boots on the ground that information, and they can instantly move to those areas. And that is the way to shut that border down, to secure that border.”
The use of drones has dangerously permitted the government to disregard the sovereign borders of other countries and skirt their legal obligations to inform the American people of their aggressive actions abroad. Drones have eased the process of making war, and it doesn’t bode well for targeted countries, or for theUS.
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Daily Dose - Google Searches Don't Hurt Your IQ
Some people say that low amount of effort required for a Google search is making people less intelligent. However, in a recent survey of 895 internet "experts," 76% said it won't make people stupid. That 76% also said that it helps people become smarter and make better decisions. 21% of the experts don't see the same benefits of Google searches and they believe that Google will make users less intelligent over the next ten years. The minority group believes that while Google improves utilitarian intelligence, it degrades our contemplative intelligence. The majority group said that contemplative intelligence is also enhanced with Google searching because of the creativity and critical thinking required to synthesize search data.
An iWedding in the Apple Store
A happy couple said "iDo" this month at the first unauthorized Apple store wedding. An Apple store is where Josh and Ting Li first met and they decided that it would be the best place to say their vows. The rings were carried in attached to two first generation iPods. Since the couple was not religious, Apple was next closest thing for them.
Windows Phone 7 Leaks
Since the rebranding and unveiling of the next version of Windows Mobile OS, many interesting tidbits have leaked out on several blogs. Just a few days after the announcement, Windows documents, which contained development specs, were leaked onto the internet. The documents may have revealed what wasn't supposed to be known until Microsoft's Las Vegas conference in March: that WP7S will be built on Silverlight, XNA, and the .Net compact framework. Another blog reported that version 6.5 of Windows mobile would be rebranded as "Windows Phones Classic".
Opera's Dragonfly Lands in BitBucket
Opera's Dragonfly, a debug tool similar to Mozilla's Firebug, has been under an open source BSD license for two years. Now the company has finally moved the code onto BitBucket's hosting service. Opera has also improved the Scope Protocol within the tool since the previous release. The company said that the move to BitBucket was prompted by a more stable underlying protocol.
Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation has written an open letter to Google asking it to consider releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to YouTube to "free the web" from proprietary codecs like Flash and H.264.
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has officially established IMEC Taiwan in the Hsinchu Science Park.
IMEC Taiwan initially starts as a representative office but is expected
to grow into an R&D center within the coming 6 months.
IMEC Taiwan aims to set up a win-win situation by facilitating
the access for Taiwanese semiconductor companies to IMEC's R&D
programs and tap into the local high technology skills. The
establishment of IMEC Taiwan follows several memoranda of understanding
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R&D institutes and universities, with the strong support of the
National Science Council Taiwan.
IMEC intends to reinforce its collaborations in Taiwan by
focusing on semiconductor process technology research with foundries,
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"Taiwan is worldwide recognized as the core of semiconductor
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Blizzard that buried Maritimes and central Canada takes aim at Newfoundland
The Canadian Press,Published: Saturday, February 09, 2013
HALIFAX - A winter storm warning is in effect for Newfoundland as the blizzard that hammered the Maritimes on Saturday takes aim at Canada's easternmost province.
Environment Canada is forecasting 25 to 55-centimetres of snow for central and eastern Newfoundland by tonight, and up to 35-centimetres for the southwest part of the province.
Making matters much worse, forecasters say the snow will be whipped by winds of more than 100-kilometres an hour in many places.
Alex Mullin shovels snow from the lodge entrance of Poley Mountain ski resort, on Saturday Feb. 9, 2013 in Waterford, N.B. The resort closed because of high winds. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David SmithMore pictures: < Prev | Next >Email to a friendPrinter friendly
Several departures and arrivals have already been cancelled at St. John's International Airport. And, Marine Atlantic has suspended ferry service between North Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Port aux Basques, Newfoundland.
On Friday the same storm clobbered Ontario and Quebec, and yesterday it blanketed much of Nova Scotia, as well as parts of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
Nova Scotia Power said more than 20-thousand customers were without electricity at one point on Saturday, but by early Sunday morning all but a handful had been re-connected.
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President Barack Obama has racked up such a huge debt that Americans have been forced to concede that even Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was right when he warned that America could potentially collapse due to its mounting debt.
Iran's official news agency, IRNA, reported on Thursday Ahmadinejad said America's impending debt would lead to the downfall of the "U.S. empire."
“How long can a government with a $16 trillion foreign debt remain a world power?” Ahmadinejad asked at a press conference with Kuwaiti media personnel, according to The Jerusalem Post. "The Americans have injected their paper wealth into the world economy and today the aftermaths and negative effects of their pseudo-wealth have plagued them.”
Ahmadinejad is known for saying crazy things and making even more insane pronouncements but, unfortunately, his comments about the U.S. debt reflect what many other analysts have concluded.
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Tagline: The story of controversial civil rights lawyer William Kunstler as told by his daughters.
Synopsis: One of the most infamous lawyers of the twentieth century, William Kunstler liked to shake things up. Filmmakers Emily and Sarah Kunstler explore their father’s life and legacy: from middle-class family man to celebrated radical activist to “the most hated lawyer in America.”Kunstler’s resume is one for the storybooks. He fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and catapulted to the world stage by defending the Chicago Seven. Soon Kunstler became the go-to guy for the radical left. When inmates rioted at Attica prison or Native Americans took on the federal government at Wounded Knee, they chose Kunstler as their lawyer. In the 1970s, when Emily and Sarah were growing up, their father transitioned away from civil-rights cases. Lured to the limelight of high-profile criminal cases, Kunstler represented accused rapists, terrorists, and Mafia bosses. Being on the unpopular side of the infamous Central Park jogger trial was perhaps the linchpin that triggered his fall from grace. Was the real William Kunstler a hero or a villain? A defender of the defenseless or an egomaniac drawn to fame? Eschewing white-hat, black-hat simplicity, Emily and Sarah Kunstler share a provocative and deeply personal journey as they paint a complex portrait of a man whose life mirrors the battles that forever defined our history. [Synopsis courtesy of Sundance]
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February 04, 2003, 9:23 AM — Microsoft Corp. has pulled a security patch for Windows NT 4.0 because installing it can cause the operating system to crash, the software maker said Monday.
The patch, released on Dec. 11 last year, is to fix a privilege elevation vulnerability deemed "important" by Microsoft. A malicious user could gain administrative privileges on a system by exploiting a flaw in the WM_TIMER Windows function, Microsoft said in security bulletin MS02-071.
However, some system administrators were confronted with random crashes and reboots on their NT 4.0 systems after installing the patch. The problem was solved by removing the patch, according to postings about the issue in online discussion groups.
Also, one user complained of trouble using Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server. When a user was signed off using Terminal Server Administrator, their processes showed as still running. This was also resolved by removing the security patch.
Regina Baker, a systems programmer at First Federal Bank in Charleston, South Carolina, stopped rolling out the patch after installing it on six machines.
"I quit installing after that. They started getting the blue screen of death. This would happen randomly, it didn't matter what application they were using," said Baker in an e-mail response to questions.
Baker contacted Microsoft via its Web site, but "never heard anything back." She then searched the Web and found other users having the same trouble and who also narrowed it down to the specific patch, she said.
"After I removed the patch, we stopped having the problem," she said.
Microsoft is investigating the issue and will release an updated patch shortly, the Redmond, Washington, company said in a revised version of its security bulletin.
There are no problems with the patches for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, also affected by the vulnerability detailed in the bulletin, Microsoft said.
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Tom Doeppner's Underwater Photos
I got started in underwater photography in 1986, when I acquired a Nikonos V system. This is a viewfinder, non-SLR camera which is great for wide-angle photography, but not for "fish portraits" and other close-up work. I started using a housed camera in 1992: a Nikon 8008s in a Tussey housing. I replaced this in 1997 with a Nikon F4 in a Nexus housing and used Ikelite Substrobe 150 and Substrobe 200 strobes. In January 2005 I switched to digital and to a Nikon D70 in a Nexus housing. In the summer of 2006 I replaced the D70 with a Nikon D2x in a Seacam housing. I replaced the strobes with Ikelite DS125's. All of my photos shown here were taken with the housed cameras, mostly with either a 60mm macro lens or a 105mm macro lens. In some of those shot with the latter I've used a +2 wet diopter that allows me to get closer to the subjects. In January 2010 I acquired a SubSee +10 diopter from ReefNet, which allows me to get even closer. A few photos were taken with a 20mm lens and some with a 35mm lens. Almost all the photos shot on film were with Fuji Velvia.
If you find any errors in my identification of the subjects, please let me know! Contact me at email@example.com.
The photographs are organized by location:
- Bay Islands, Honduras: these photos were taken off Utila and Roatan in January 2011.
- Placencia, Belize: these photos were taken off Placencia, Belize in August, 2012.
- Bonaire: these photos were taken in 1998, 2001, and 2002, all in January.
- Curacao 1: these photos were taken in January 2003.
- Curacao 2: these photos were taken in February 2010.
- Los Roques, Venezuela: this is a small group of islands off the coast of Venezuela (and not far from Bonaire and Curacao). The photos were taken in July 2001.
- Papua New Guinea: these photos were taken in Milne Bay in July 1995 and off the coast of New Ireland in July 2000 and August 2002.
- Solomon Islands: these photos were taken in June/ July 1998 and in July 2003.
- Lembeh Strait part 1, Lembeh Strait part 2, Lembeh Strait part3, Lembeh Strait part4: this is a narrow strait off
the northeast corner of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The first set of photos was
taken (on film) in July 1997 and April 1999. The second set is a collection of
digital photos taken in July 2005. The third set is a collection of digital
photos taken in July 2007. The fourth set was taken in July 2011.
- St. Vincent 1: these photos were taken in St. Vincent in June 2004 and January 2005.
- St. Vincent 2: these photos were taken in St. Vincent in January 2006.
- St. Vincent 3: these photos were taken in St. Vincent in January 2007.
- St. Vincent 4: these photos were taken in St. Vincent in January 2008.
- St. Vincent 5: these photos were taken in St. Vincent in January 2010.
- St. Vincent 6: these photos were taken in St. Vincent in January 2013.
- Turks and Caicos Islands 1: these photos were taken in July 2008.
- Turks and Caicos Islands 2: these photos were taken in August 2010.
- Cayman Islands: these photos were taken in June and July 2009.
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Every time I hear something about John McAfee, which, given this crazy man's predilection for nonstop publicity, is too often, I think about how Intel paid $7.7 billion a little more than two years ago for the software security company that this oddball created. And I wonder which actions, John McAfee's or Intel's (INTC) are more stupefying.
McAfee (MFE), the company, had been shopped for ages, apparently about as long as the ignominious Autonomy was, before Intel gave shareholders a 62% premium when it snapped up the company. At the time, it was a real head-scratcher.
What was the point of the semiconductor company moving aggressively into security software when the real issue it faced was the mobility challenge and the secondary issue it faced was the Apple (AAPL) challenge, meaning how would it be able to get more content into the fastest-growing tech gadget company on the planet?
At the time, Apple had made a decision that it was going to base its new mobile products on chips designed by Arm Holdings (ARMH), not Intel, even as Intel had some exposure to iMacs and we thought that the two companies had a decent working relationship.
Subsequently, we have learned two things. First, Steve Jobs didn't care for Intel. We know from Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography that even though Jobs was friendly with former Intel CEO Andy Grove, he thought the company was stodgy and very difficult to work with. Just different DNA. Second, Jobs was constantly trying to stop the battery drain, believing, correctly, that the longer you could go without recharging the more satisfied you would be, and Arm Holdings' chips gave you a longer battery life than Intel's.
Now here's the irony. Intel could have paid roughly the same price for Arm Holdings as it did for McAfee. Since then, Arm shares have doubled, as the Apple orders keep flowing. Intel? It's done almost nothing, and the McAfee acquisition almost seems like an afterthought when the company talks.
The real tragedy for Intel here is that Samsung, Apple's chief rival globally, is also a major chip supplier to Apple. They are suing each other all over the place. There is palpable dislike. You would think that this would be the moment that Intel could step up and make the chips that Apple needs, and it has mobility chips which are used in white label Intel phones in emerging markets all over the globe.
But it lacks the foothold that Arm would have given them, and McAfee certainly can't.
Worse now, yesterday, we heard rumors that Apple may replace Intel in its Mac line. Again, if Intel owned Arm it would be far more difficult for the company to be dislodged from the Apple food chain.
McAfee, the, man is a total conundrum. McAfee, the company, remains one, too. A botched acquisition and an overpay instead of one that would have levered Intel to the greatest tech company of all time.
Just baffling moves all the way around.
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Policewoman Targeted with Bomb as Northern Ireland Tensions Rise
About 32 police officers were injured in the past week's violence
Laura Smith-Spark and Peter Taggart CNN
December 11, 2012BELFAST, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- A policewoman narrowly escaped injury when a petrol bomb was thrown at a police car in Belfast, police said, as tensions in Northern Ireland prompted by a vote on the flying of the Union flag continue to simmer.
At the time of the attack, the car was stationed outside the office of Alliance Party lawmaker Naomi Long, who received a death threat last week. The Police Service of Northern Ireland is treating the incident as an attempted murder.
Long, the Alliance Party's sole lawmaker in the UK Parliament at Westminster, has called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene.
The violent outbreaks were prompted by a decision on Monday of last week by Belfast city councilors to stop flying the Union flag year-round, restricting it instead to certain days.
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson condemned the attack, saying: "The attempted murder of a police officer in East Belfast was a despicable act of terror.
"The masked men responsible do not act in the name of our Union flag. They are bringing shame on it. My prayers are with the police officers at the center of this attack."
Robinson, of the Democratic Unionist Party, said he defended the right to peaceful protest, but "those intent on violence should stay at home."
About 32 police officers were injured in the past week's violence, Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton said. There have been 38 arrests in connection with the loyalist disorder.
"It is completely unacceptable that officers who were carrying out their professional duty on behalf of the community should be subjected to a potentially murderous attack," Hamilton said of the petrol bomb attack. "This was a planned attempt to kill a police officer which also put the lives of the public in danger, and it is fortunate there were no injuries."
Clashes also broke out between groups of nationalist and loyalist youths in east Belfast, police said.
Addressing Parliament, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers condemned the violence and appealed for calm.
"There can be absolutely no excuse or justification for this kind of thuggish and lawless behavior," she said.
"Nobody can be in any doubt about the government's support for the union and its flag. But those people engaged in the kind of violence we have seen in the past few days are not defending the Union flag. They are dishonoring and shaming the flag of our country."
A number of properties linked to the cross-community Alliance Party, which backed the decision to restrict the flying of the Union flag, have been targeted in the week since the vote.
Alliance Party councilor Linda Cleland said the windows of her car were smashed and several windows in her home broken over the weekend. "This violence must stop," she said. "There is no justification for the attack on my home or the homes and offices of my colleagues."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness last week in condemning the threat to Long and the outbreaks of violence.
Robinson and Mike Nesbitt, the Ulster Unionist leader, met Monday to discuss political proposals to address widespread concerns across the community, and agreed to hold further talks Tuesday.
Police said Saturday that loyalist paramilitaries were behind some of the violence in Belfast and elsewhere.
The vote on the Union flag followed a summer of heightened tensions between Northern Ireland's Catholic and Protestant communities. Riots in September left dozens of police officers injured.
Just more than a month ago, a prison officer was killed in a suspected dissident Irish Republican Army attack, the first such attack in years. In recent days, a number of suspected dissident IRA members have been arrested.
The recent disorder follows more than a decade during which Northern Ireland has made steady progress toward lasting peace and stability.
The majority of the island gained independence in 1921, following two years of conflict. But six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster chose to stay in the United Kingdom, eventually becoming the country of Northern Ireland.
In the late 1960s, the conflict between mainly Protestant unionists, who want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, and largely Roman Catholic nationalists, who want it to be reunited with the rest of Ireland, exploded into a political and sectarian war, known as the Troubles.
The three decades of ensuing violence between loyalists and the IRA claimed more than 3,000 lives, most of them north of the border. While the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 effectively ended the conflict, distrust remains between Catholics and Protestants.
™ & © 2012 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.
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|Spending the summer in "the other Georgia"|
|June 18, 2011|
By BRUCE KIRKBY
This summer, the best-selling adventure travel author is heading deep into the Georgia Caucasus, with family in tow. Week one of a series:
Tell someone you're spending the summer in Georgia, and their eyes invariably light up.
Visions arise of the fabled subtropical American state, setting for Gone With the Wind, land of palmettos and tobacco estates, former home of the Atlanta Thrashers.
Of course, there is another
Georgia, but come on, who goes there? So common is the misunderstanding that our four-year-old son, Bodi, now routinely describes our upcoming destination as “the other Georgia. You know… the Republic of!”
Earlier this week, my wife and I packed up our two young sons and flew to Tbilisi. Our plan is to soak in the famous hot springs (where Alexander Pushkin claimed to have the best bath of his entire life), to buy a packhorse and wander for the next 2½ months through the remote pastoral valleys of the High Caucasus. The reports we send back to Globe Travel each week will be our only contact with home.
Some, upon learning of our plan, seem genuinely excited. A few toss out Georgian tidbits: birthplace of Stalin, among the world's fastest-growing economies, unrivalled drinkers. Many grimace, their unspoken question clear to see: Why, on God's good earth, that Georgia? Are you nuts?
Such trepidation is understandable, for this tiny nation is as maligned as it is mysterious. Tucked between the Black and Caspian seas, with Russia to the north and Turkey to the south, Georgia and the neighbouring Transcaucasian states of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been overlooked by the modern world. These are the lands in between, delineating a hazy border between Europe and Asia, between Christian and Muslim, between ancient and modern, between democracy and dictatorships.
Recently, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia plunged into poverty. What was once the USSR's richest republic, famous for feting visitors to their Black Sea resorts with caviar and champagne, suddenly found itself among the most impoverished nations, unable to supply even the basic essentials of heat and electricity to residents. Independence also brought the horrors of civil war and mass migrations, as South Ossetia and Abkhazia struggled to break away.
In the years since, with the eyes of the world focused elsewhere, the country has gradually risen from the ashes. After the so-called Rose Revolution of 2003 – named for the flowers carried by the peaceful demonstrators – U.S.-educated lawyer Mikheil Saakashvili has steadily steered the country toward security and prosperity. While tourism remains in its infancy, things are changing fast. In January, The New York Times ranked Georgia a top 2011 destination, ahead of Oahu, Australia, Singapore and, yes, even Whistler.
With a varied geography (from a prolific, yet little-known, wine district to glaciated peaks higher than anything in the Alps) and complex ethnicity (more languages exist in the Caucasus than the European Union), the one thing every visitor seems to agree on is this: Georgians may be the most welcoming people in the world.
So legendary is their hospitality – and affinity for spontaneous day-long toasting sessions – that my biggest concern is not the bears, brigands or high mountain passes, but remaining sober enough to set up our tent each night. With Christine nursing our infant son, I alone must face the bottle-toting farmers and villagers mano a mano.
But this doesn't completely answer the question: Why Georgia? For that, I need to introduce my children.
When Bodi (now 4) and Taj (just 10 months) arrived, Christine and I – like every other parent in the world – had no real idea what the future held. Rather bull-headedly, I declared kids were not going to slow us down. So off we set, with them in backpack and canoe, to the heights of the Bugaboos and the coasts of Chile and Vancouver Island. By the time Bodi was 16 months, he had spent a quarter of his life in a tent.
While my motivations were terribly self-interested, one fundamental truth quickly emerged: Kids arrive in our wired-wimpy-latte-sipping world as natural and very able little outdoors people. Both our boys spring to life in fresh air – eating well, sleeping better, whining less and imagining more.
Just as marked are the benefits to our family. Gone are the distractions of the modern world; e-mails, tweets, televisions. Together day and night, we are a small team navigating a strange world, and the sense of camaraderie and intimacy that arise are profound. I unreservedly believe we are all – as individuals and a family – better for our sojourns together.
After a friend suggested Georgia for our next adventure, I hauled out the atlas and was soon ordering crates of antiquarian books online, and drowning our local librarian with inter-branch loan requests, as I read everything possible on the Caucasus.
The landscape appears staggeringly beautiful and untrammelled. Dotting the countryside are castles, churches, mosques and palaces. The leafy, balconied cities – most thousands of years old – now boast thumping nightclubs and modern architecture. Best of all are the reports that Georgians simply love children.
John Steinbeck, who travelled through Russia in 1947, hinted at the treasures waiting in this southern republic: “Wherever we have been, the magical name of Georgia came up constantly. People who had never been there, and who possibly would never go there spoke of Georgia with a kind of longing and great admiration. They spoke of Georgians as supermen, as great drinkers, great dancers, great musicians, great workers and lovers. They spoke of the country in the Caucasus as a kind of second heaven. Indeed we began to believe that most Russians hope, if they live very good and virtuous lives, the will go not to heaven, but to Georgia, when they die.”
Our plan for the summer is purposefully vague. We'll start in the western mountains, and wander east, following our nose. If something doesn't feel right, we'll turn around. We'll trust our instincts.
So we start in the Caucasus as we have on every other journey in our lives: heads brimming with visions that almost certainly will bear little resemblance to reality. It is the discovery of what is, rather that what is imagined, which remains the essential gift of travel, and its greatest joy.
Special to The Globe and Mail
© 2011 The Globe and Mail Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Teens may feel like Easter egg hunts are fun but too young for maturing minds and bodies. Keep teen family members and their friends busy over the Easter holiday with a special Easter-themed scavenger hunt. By focusing on things they enjoy, such as movies, picture-taking and hanging at the mall, you can create an Easter-related activity that will get them moving and making memories.
Entertainment Scavenger Hunt
Send teens out to the library, video store, neighbor's homes or your own entertainment room for movies with a rabbit theme or appearance. List movies like "The Matrix" (the white rabbit tattoo), "Donnie Darko," "Fatal Attraction," "Harvey," "Wallace and Gromit," "Roger Rabbit," "House Bunny" and "Night of the Lepus." Winners of the hunt receive movie rental gift cards, and the whole gang can enjoy a rabbit movie-marathon for the rest of the day.
Photo Scavenger Hunt
Provide each group with a pair of rabbit ears or a giant egg cutout and a digital camera, and then create a list of places or objects they have to have their picture taken with, along with either the ears or the egg. List places such as the local mall or Gap store, with a cup of coffee or tea at the Starbucks, in the play area at the McDonald's and in front of their high school. Add some tougher photo items as well, such as in front of the local courthouse, with a police officer on a Segway and with the bra-measuring lady at the local department store or Victoria's Secret.
A safe alternative to having your teens running around town is to create a scavenger hunt inside the mall. Walk around the mall to get an idea of what opportunities you may be able to take advantage of. Be creative and include items like a picture with the Mall Easter bunny, a piece of green Easter grass from a window display, a pink bead or ribbon from a jewelry kiosk, a novelty Easter pencil from the mall's Walgreens or Hallmark store, pink or green shoelaces and a chocolate bunny. Provide each group with a few dollars in cash and arrange a time to meet up at a fast food restaurant to go over the finds.
Easter is a religious holiday, and although the Easter bunny and all the candy is lots of fun, families who celebrate their faith may want to make a scavenger hunt more religiously minded. Create a list to include items such as a palm leaf; church bulletin from a few churches in your area; 40 of something, like pink M&M's; a white candle; a medium-sized rock; a photo with your favorite priest (get the OK ahead of time); and a colored Easter egg.
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I don’t think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day
-- William Eggleston
If you want to change your photographs, you need to change cameras. Changing cameras means that your photographs will change. A really good camera has something I suppose you might describe as its own distinctive aura.
-- Nobuyoshi Araki
Cameras are wonderful little contraptions.
By making photographs, they are tools with which one can express their personal taste and private sensibilities. At the same time they physically exist as expressions of these same concepts. The relationship one has with their cameras affects their approach to making a picture.
People who shoot film simply do because they choose to, and the Photo Culture of Tokyo is full of film camera users. When I meet them out on the streets I ask to photograph their camera, and usually post it here the same day. All of the photos were shot with a Ricoh GRDII. I trust that this irony is not lost on anyone.
These photos are meant for sharing. By all means, re-blog away. Clicking on the images will present you with a version 900 pixels wide to further enjoy.
I also take other kinds of photographs as well.Flickr
Contact / メール
tokyocamerastyle (a) gmail.com
Worldwide Camera Styles
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By John Stark
After the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, some people feared that unregulated contributions would pour into politics and buy elections.
NPR has a report outlining several key Senate races in which massive amounts of SuperPAC money failed to buy the desired outcome for SuperPAC contributors.
I don’t want to minimize the impact that money has on our political processes. But the fear that advertising money will buy voters’ allegiance has always seemed more than a little elitist. At its core, that argument boils down to “Political advertising will sway the ignorant masses.” Nobody making this argument claims to be a part of the ignorant masses. Nobody ever says, “I’m afraid political advertising will hypnotize me into voting Republican.” The fear is that some other guy–that dumb guy down the street–won’t be smart enough to do his own thinking and is at risk of political hypnotism.
Advertising may get me into a car company’s showroom but it won’t make me buy the car. Advertising may get me to try your brand of beer or eat at your restaurant, but if I don’t like your beer or your restaurant I won’t be back.
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- The Enterprise
- The Recorder
Retailers can start passing swipe fees along to customers, but not many — if any — in Maryland are doing so.
“I haven’t heard of any retailers that will charge the surcharges,” said Patrick Donoho, president of the Maryland Retailers Association. “About the only place I’ve ever seen it being done in any form is with gas stations that offer a price reduction if you pay in cash. But those are discounts and not really surcharges.”
Retailers were allowed to begin passing along the swipe fees last week due to a settlement reached in a lawsuit filed in 2005 against MasterCard, Visa and some financial institutions. Retailers have been essentially eating the 1 percent to 3 percent charges by banks to process credit card purchases, or already including them in their prices.
In 2011, the Federal Reserve System limited what banks could charge to process debit card payments to 21 cents, plus an additional 1 cent for fraud prevention in most cases. Credit card swipe fees, on the other hand, were not capped.
Retailers and their customers are saving as much as $18 million a day due to changes from the debit card reforms, according to the National Retail Federation.
Many are passing along savings, such as furniture giant Ikea, which is offering vouchers to customers who pay by debit cards, and gas stations that accept debit cards at the same discount prices as cash, officials with the retail trade group said.
The credit card issue comes down to who should “pay to support our nation’s incredibly efficient payment system,” according to the American Bankers Association. “Retailers, not consumers” benefit from last summer’s legal deal, according to an association statement.
Ten states have laws restricting any type of swipe fees: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas.
Retailers who add swipe fee charges must post signs saying they are doing so and inform Visa and MasterCard that they plan to add the surcharge at least 30 days in advance.
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I should have given this project a different name. It is called Animus because when I started writing this code, I was trying to simulate some of the effects of the Assassins Creed memory interface, called Animus. Somehow, I got distracted and ended up making a snake. One turned into two, two turned into fifty, and suddenly this project was an exercise in learning how to make solid bodies (like snakes) keep from intersecting each other while still maintaining a natural movement.
Magnetism to the rescue, yet again. I gave each node along the snakes body its own magnetic force. Each node repels other nodes. It now is possible for a snake to tie itself in a knot, but it generally will not self-intersect.
Eventually, I stuck a couple dozen snakes in the water, attached their heads to each other, added a sine-based undulation force, and voila! Reasonably ugly jellyfish. They may be ugly, but they are audio responsive.
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Architectural Apocalypse, Photographs by Ryuji Miyamoto. Text by noted architect Arata Isozaki. Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1988/1991. 121 pp. Large quarto. Second printing. Hardbound with illustrated boards and printed label. Second issue gold-colored obi. Original acetate jacket. Black-and-white reproductions. Chronology, bibliography and exhibition history. All text and captions in Japanese and English. |
"Over the years, Ryuji Miyamoto has kept a watchful eye on Japan's cities as they underwent vertiginous changes. His intention has been to photodocument the demolitions and reconstructions of whole quarters of the cities. Although he tries to photograph the architectural qualities of the cities, he often focuses on the aspect of destruction: the pictures of Kobe after the 1995 earthquake are his most renowned series. Miyamoto completes his Japanese photographs with several pictures taken in other countries such as the demolition of the Schauspielhaus theatre in East Berlin. 'All I can do is train my eyes and keep watching the world as it goes on changing, scene after scene, again and again.'"--Steidl Verlag
A few areas of wear to board edges; trace of foxing, preliminary pp.; otherwise Fine-.
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Need for safeguards
There is scope for abuse of the gadgets and the safeguards need to be inbuilt in procurement and operating procedures.
Contrary to breathless news reports, cut motions in parliament are not unique but commonplace though unsuccessful in bringing down governments. However, the Left Front-BJP 13 party cut motions on a budgeted increase in fuel prices, was lost by 88 votes, destroying the rosy calculations of an unprincipled opposition and leaving the Left and the BJP red-faced.
The idea of bringing the government down was not altogether absent. However, several factors weighed. Had the government fallen, there was no credible alternative. The UPA would have remained a caretaker pending fresh polls that would have been unpopular and probably seen an opportunistic opposition alliance fall apart and likely to lose further ground.
The RJD, SP and BSP too were not ready for a fresh poll and bought peace. In the result, the abstentions and crossovers were predictable and Shibu Soren’s crude somersaults in keeping with his past. The Congress too made its deals. But when you win in politics, much is forgiven and forgotten.
Rising prices are worrying. But ignoring the global recession and severe drought and demanding more pro-poor expenditure without corresponding fiscal prudence and measures to restore growth was unconvincing. Meanwhile, the repeated blocking of the House on issues the government was willing to discuss, such as phone-tapping and the IPL controversy, was downright objectionable and undemocratic. In the result, many of the budget grants, as usual, had to be guillotined. An opposition that seeks accountability has become an enemy of accountability through such unparliamentary antics.
Reports of sleaze in the IPL are still unfolding. Tax and other investigations are in progress. But the way it was hyped, reduced to titillation and innuendo and grabbed the headlines was astonishing. IPL ‘culture’ is no longer cricket, whatever the branding. Notwithstanding its merits and appeal, it has become a manipulative combination of greed money, film stars, politicians, businessmen, the underworld, advertising, sales promotion, entertainment and, allegedly, match fixing and betting. The current inquiries into financial and other misdemeanours must be pursued and the process cleaned up and subject to transparent regulations.
Other matters of the moment, concerning security and corruption, intruded thick and fast. ‘Outlook’ magazine broke a story regarding ‘phone-tapping’ of Sharad Pawar, Digvijay Singh, Prakash Karat and Nitesh Kumar by the National Technical Research Organisation. This body was established after Kargil to strengthen the nation’s defences against subversive and terrorist elements.
The charge of political spying is exaggerated and any suggestion of deliberate abuse on government orders was strongly refuted by the home minister who promised to make a statement in parliament after due inquiry. The opposition and sections of the media cried foul with some insisting on a Joint Parliamentary Committee to look into the matter. This was justifiably dismissed by the prime minister as excessive and the motion of privilege sought to be moved against him for making this ‘policy’ statement outside parliament another bit of theatre.
What the episode tells us is that there is scope for abuse or even innocent misuse in such gadgetry and that safeguards need to be inbuilt in procurement and operating procedures, now that these devices have been obtained by several police and intelligence agencies and perhaps by private parties.
Privacy is an (inferred) fundamental right and must be protected against an intrusive or vindictive state. Whistleblowers too must be legally protected. But perilous times, with unscrupulous state and non-state actors on the prowl, also call for stout defences against catastrophic mischief.
People cannot demand that the government do everything possible to prevent terror attacks, economic sabotage and other subversive acts and cry foul the moment something is done to prevent dire hazards. Intelligence must be accountable and appropriate checks and balances built into the system and reviewed from time to time. Hopefully, this is now being done.
With regard to the Madhuri Gupta spy case too, one should best await the result of investigations without jumping to extreme conclusions flavoured by party-political bias. Not everything should be treated in a partisan manner at the cost of national interest. What the enemy cannot do is often achieved by warring ‘nationalists’ out to prove their patriotism and discredit the other. This must stop.
When it comes to corruption, the nation must band together to fight a growing menace pervading politics, commerce and institutional life. The sordid story of the Medical Council of India president, Dr Ketan Desai, found selling certification to sub-standard medical colleges for gratification is particularly disgraceful.
Likewise the appointment by the new Meghalaya chief minister, Mukul Sangma, of 17 legislators as parliamentary secretaries with the rank of ministers of state, in order to prevent this rabble turning against his ministry, is not merely absurd but open bribery.
The conduct of the ministerial Reddy brothers, Karnataka’s iron ore kings, and the Union telecom minister, D Raja, in defying the prime minister in setting questionable 2-G spectrum auction is shameful. Such actions should be promptly investigated and coalition partners told that there can be no connivance or coalition in crime.
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Sexual Dysfunction in Women
Publications International, Ltd.
With the arrival of Viagra, Levitra, and other similar drugs on the market, male sexual dysfunction became a hot topic -- and at the very least, men can take comfort in knowing there are millions of other men with similar problems.
The media hoopla over sexual dysfunction drugs has certainly helped educate the public: We have a much better understanding of the psychology and physiology of male sexual dysfunction, and we finally accept the simple fact that ED does not mean a man is a failure. And, even if men don't quite have their "magic bullet," they at least know that there is an array of treatment options.
So where does that leave women? In the following article, you'll find out. Here are the topics we'll cover:
- Defining Female Sexual Dysfunction
There still are a lot of myths associated with the sexuality of women -- it is not clearly understood. However, modern medicine has made a lot of progress on this front. Female sexual dysfunction is defined as an inability to experience pleasure during intercourse, but it now is noted that this isn't abnormal. Most women's sexual problems are not a cause for grave concern. In this section, we'll separate fact from fiction when it comes to defining female sexual dysfunction.
- Physical Causes of Female Sexual Dysfunction
In many cases, there is a physical cause of sexual difficulties for women. Hormones are the most common factor -- estrogen levels, for instance, play a large role in determining a woman's sexual drive. Certain prescription drugs also can interfere with how a woman functions sexually, including antidepressants, antibiotics, and diet aids. We'll examine all of the primary factors contributing to female sexual dysfunction, from those we mentioned above to fatigue and age-related changes.
- Psychological Causes of Female Sexual Dysfunction
Sometimes the reasons for female sexual dysfunction are mental, not physical. Depression, guilt, and conflicting emotions about your body all can lead to bad sexual experiences. There are, however, ways to combat this type of sexual dysfunction. For instance, couples need to have an open line of communication in order to maintain a healthy and vibrant sexual relationship. We'll explore the psychological causes of female sexual dysfunction and provide some possible solutions.
- Sexual Dysfunction Drugs for Women
For men, drugs such as Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis have been godsends -- these medications have produced sexual rejuvenation. But what about women? Are there drugs that can help them function better sexually? So far, studies have been inconclusive. In theory, drugs such as Viagra should work for women, too, but more data needs to be compiled in this area. Read this page to find out whether medication can be a realistic solution for sexual dysfunction in women.
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“It really amazes me that dog owners go to all the admittedly gross effort (which I exert several times a day) to pick up feces in a little plastic bag, and then just leave it there, rather than carrying it and depositing it in the garbage,” he writes.
“As I walk Claremont canyon and many other routes around Berkeley, I’m continually astounded by a seemingly popular habit people have — bagging their dog s*** and then gently placing it in its bag alongside the trail,” he says. “And to presume that somebody else is going to happily clean up after you adds insult to injury. Who are these people? Well, I guess they are us, Berkeley residents…”
When hiking recently with his two dogs, Saldich says he passed about six or seven bags on the way up and then down Claremont Canyon and Panoramic Way, and he snapped the photographs above as evidence. (What the New York Times thinks of its distinctive blue bags being used for such a purpose is a whole other question.)
“It’s simultaneously amazing and disgusting,” he said.
Update 11:20 am: Apparently the city of Berkeley is growing more concerned about loose dogs and their leave behinds, as evidenced by this flyer put up recently at Grove Park.
Hat tip: Brandon Williams
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William Makepeace Thackeray. (18111863). Vanity Fair.
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1917.
X. Between Hampshire and London
SIR PITT CRAWLEY had done more than repair fences and restore dilapidated lodges on the Queens Crawley estate. Like a wise man he had set to work to rebuild the injured popularity of his house, and stop up the gaps and ruins in which his name had been left by his disreputable and thriftless old predecessor. He was elected for the borough speedily after his fathers demise; a magistrate, a member of parliament, a county magnate and representative of an ancient family, he made it his duty to show himself before the Hampshire public, subscribed handsomely to the county charities, called assiduously upon all the county folk, and laid himself out in a word to take that position in Hampshire, and in the Empire afterwards, to which he thought his prodigious talents justly entitled him. Lady Jane was instructed to be friendly with the Fuddlestones, and the Wapshots, and the other famous baronets, their neighbours. Their carriages might frequently be seen in the Queens Crawley avenue now; they dined pretty frequently at the Hall (where the cookery was so good, that it was clear Lady Jane very seldom had a hand in it), and in return Pitt and his wife most energetically dined out in all sorts of weather, and at all sorts of distances. For though Pitt did not care for joviality, being a frigid man of poor health and appetite, yet he considered that to be hospitable and condescending was quite incumbent on his station, and every time that he got a headache from too long and after-dinner sitting, he felt that he was a martyr to duty. He talked about crops, corn-laws, politics, with the best country gentlemen. He (who had been formerly inclined to be a sad freethinker on these points) entered into poaching and game preserving with ardour. He didnt hunt: he wasnt a hunting man; he was a man of books and peaceful habits: but he thought that the breed of horses must be kept up in the country, and that the breed of foxes must therefore be looked to, and for his part, if his friend, Sir Huddlestone Fuddlestone, liked to draw his country, and meet as of old the F. hounds used to do at Queens Crawley, he should be happy to see him there, and the gentlemen of the Fuddlestone hunt. And to Lady Southdowns dismay too he became more orthodox in his tendencies every day: gave up preaching in public and attending meeting-houses; went stoutly to Church; called on the Bishop, and all the Clergy at Winchester: and made no objection when the Venerable Archdeacon Trumper asked for a game of whist. What pangs must have been those of Lady Southdown, and what an utter cast-away she must have thought her son-in-law for permitting such a godless diversion! and when, on the return of the family from an oratorio at Winchester, the Baronet announced to the young ladies that he should next year very probably take them to the county balls, they worshipped him for his kindness. Lady Jane was only too obedient, and perhaps glad herself to go. The Dowager wrote off the direst descriptions of her daughters worldly behaviour to the authoress of the Washerwoman of Finchley Common at the Cape; and her house in Brighton being about this time unoccupied, returned to that watering-place, her absence being not very much deplored by her children. We may suppose, too, that Rebecca, on paying a second visit to Queens Crawley, did not feel particularly grieved at the absence of the lady of the medicine chest; though she wrote a Christmas letter to her Ladyship, in which she respectfully recalled herself to Lady Southdowns recollection, spoke with gratitude of the delight which her Ladyships conversation had given her on the former visit, dilated on the kindness with which her Ladyship had treated her in sickness, and declared that everything at Queens Crawley reminded her of her absent friend.
A great part of the altered demeanour and popularity of Sir Pitt Crawley might have been traced to the counsels of that astute little lady of Curzon Street. You remain a baronetyou consent to be a mere country gentleman, she said to him, while he had been her guest in London. No, Sir Pitt Crawley, I know you better. I know your talents and your ambition. You fancy you hide them both: but you can conceal neither from me. I showed Lord Steyne your pamphlet on malt. He was familiar with it: and said it was in the opinion of the whole Cabinet the most masterly thing that had appeared on the subject. The Ministry has its eye upon you, and I know what you want. You want to distinguish yourself in Parliament; every one says you are the finest speaker in England (for your speeches at Oxford are still remembered). You want to be Member for the County, where, with your own vote and your borough at your back, you can command anything. And you want to be Baron Crawley of Queens Crawley, and will be before you die. I saw it all. I could read your heart, Sir Pitt. If I had a husband who possessed your intellect as he does your name, I sometimes think I should not be unworthy of himbutbut I am your kinswoman now, she added with a laugh. Poor little penniless I have got a little interestand who knows, perhaps the mouse may be able to aid the lion.
Pitt Crawley was amazed and enraptured with her speech. How that woman comprehends me! he said. I never could get Jane to read three pages of the malt-pamphlet. She has no idea that I have commanding talents or secret ambition. So they remember my speaking at Oxford, do they? The rascals! now that I represent my borough and may sit for the county, they begin to recollect me! Why, Lord Steyne cut me at the levee last year: they are beginning to find out that Pitt Crawley is some one at last. Yes, the man was always the same whom these people neglected: it was only the opportunity that was wanting, and I will show them now that I can speak and act as well as write. Achilles did not declare himself until they gave him the sword. I hold it now, and the world shall yet hear of Pitt Crawley.
Therefore it was that this roguish diplomatist had grown so hospitable; that he was so civil to oratorios and hospitals; so kind to Deans and Chapters; so generous in giving and accepting dinners; so uncommonly gracious to farmers on market-days; and so much interested about county business; and that the Christmas at the Hall was the gayest which had been known there for many a long day.
On Christmas Day a great family gathering took place. All the Crawleys from the Rectory came to dine. Rebecca was as frank and fond of Mrs. Bute, as if the other had never been her enemy; she was affectionately interested in the dear girls, and surprised at the progress which they had made in music since her time: and insisted upon encoring one of the duets out of the great song-books which Jim, grumbling, had been forced to bring under his arm from the Rectory. Mrs. Bute, perforce, was obliged to adopt a decent demeanour towards the little adventuressof course being free to discourse with her daughters afterwards about the absurd respect with which Sir Pitt treated his sister-in-law. But Jim, who had sate next to her at dinner, declared she was a trump: and one and all of the Rectors family agreed that the little Rawdon was a fine boy. They respected a possible baronet in the boy, between whom and the title there was only the little sickly pale Pitt Binkie.
The children were very good friends. Pitt Binkie was too little a dog for such a big dog as Rawdon to play with: and Matilda being only a girl, of course not fit companion for a young gentleman who was near eight years old, and going into jackets very soon. He took the command of this small party at oncethe little girl and the little boy following him about with great reverence at such times as he condescended to sport with them. His happiness and pleasure in the country were extreme. The kitchen garden pleased him hugely, the flowers moderately, but the pigeons and the poultry, and the stables when he was allowed to visit them, were delightful objects to him. He resisted being kissed by the Misses Crawley: but he allowed Lady Jane sometimes to embrace him: and it was by her side that he liked to sit when, the signal to retire to the drawing-room being given, the ladies left the gentlemen to their claretby her side rather than by his mother. For Rebecca seeing that tenderness was the fashion, called Rawdon to her one evening, and stooped down and kissed him in the presence of all the ladies.
He looked her full in the face after the operation, trembling and turning very red, as his wont was when moved. You never kiss me at home, Mamma, he said; at which there was a general silence and consternation, and a by no means pleasant look in Beckys eyes.
Rawdon was fond of his sister-in-law, for her regard for his son. Lady Jane and Becky did not get on quite so well at this visit as on occasion of the former one, when the Colonels wife was bent upon pleasing. Those two speeches of the child struck rather a chill. Perhaps Sir Pitt was rather too attentive to her.
But Rawdon, as became his age and size, was fonder of the society of the men than of the women; and never wearied of accompanying his sire to the stables, whither the Colonel retired to smoke his cigarJim, the Rectors son, sometimes joining his cousin in that and other amusements. He and the Baronets keeper were very close friends, their mutual taste for dawgs bringing them much together. On one day, Mr. James, the Colonel, and Horn, the keeper, went and shot pheasants, taking little Rawdon with them. On another most blissful morning, these four gentlemen partook of the amusement of rat-hunting in a barn, than which sport Rawdon as yet had never seen anything more noble.
They stopped up the ends of certain drains in the barn, into the other openings of which ferrets were inserted; and then stood silently aloof, with uplifted stakes in their hands, and an anxious little terrier (Mr. Jamess celebrated dawg Forceps, indeed,) scarcely breathing from excitement, listening motionless on three legs, to the faint squeaking of the rats below. Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground: the terrier accounted for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret.
That was a famous sight for little Rawdon. At half-past ten, Tom Moody, Sir Huddlestone Fuddlestones huntsman, was seen trotting up the avenue, followed by the noble pack of hounds in a compact bodythe rear being brought up by the two whips clad in stained scarlet frockslight hard-featured lads on well-bred lean horses, possessing marvellous dexterity in casting the points of their long heavy whips at the thinnest part of any dogs skin who dares to straggle from the main body, or to take the slightest notice, or even so much as wink, at the hares and rabbits starting under their noses.
Next comes boy Jack, Tom Moodys son, who weighs five stone, measures eight-and-forty inches, and will never be any bigger. He is perched on a large raw-boned hunter, half-covered by a capacious saddle. This animal is Sir Huddlestone Fuddlestones favourite horsethe Nob. Other horses, ridden by other small boys, arrive from time to time, awaiting their masters, who will come cantering on anon.
Tom Moody rides up to the door of the Hall, where he is welcomed by the butler, who offers him drink, which he declines. He and his pack then draw off into a sheltered corner of the lawn, where the dogs roll on the grass, and play or growl angrily at one another, ever and anon breaking out into furious fight speedily to be quelled by Toms voice, unmatched at rating, or the snaky thongs of the whips.
Many young gentlemen canter up on thoroughbred hacks, spatter-dashed to the knee, and enter the house to drink cherry-brandy and pay their respects to the ladies, or, more modest and sportsman-like, divest themselves of their mudboots, exchange their hacks for their hunters, and warm their blood by a preliminary gallop round the lawn. Then they collect round the pack in the corner, and talk with Tom Moody of past sport, and the merits of Sniveller and Diamond, and of the state of the country and of the wretched breed of foxes.
Sir Huddlestone presently appears mounted on a clever cob, and rides up to the Hall, where he enters and does the civil thing by the ladies, after which, being a man of few words, he proceeds to business. The hounds are drawn up to the hall-door and little Rawdon descends amongst them, excited yet half alarmed by the caresses which they bestow upon him, at the thumps he receives from their waving tails, and at their canine bickerings, scarcely restrained by Tom Moodys tongue and lash.
Meanwhile, Sir Huddlestone has hoisted himself unwieldily on the Nob: Lets try Sowsters Spinney, Tom, says the Baronet, Farmer Mangle tells me there are two foxes in it. Tom blows his horn and trots off, followed by the pack, by the whips, by the young gents from Winchester, by the farmers of the neighborhood, by the labourers of the parish on foot, with whom the day is a great holiday; Sir Huddlestone bringing up the rear with Colonel Crawley, and the whole cortége disappears down the avenue.
The Reverend Bute Crawley (who has been too modest to appear at the public meet before his nephews windows), and whom Tom Moody remembers forty years back a slender divine riding the wildest horses, jumping the widest brooks, and larking over the newest gates in the country,his Reverence, we say, happens to trot out from the Rectory Lane on his powerful black horse, just as Sir Huddlestone passes; he joins the worthy baronet. Hounds and horsemen disappear, and little Rawdon remains on the door-steps, wondering and happy.
During the progress of this memorable holiday, little Rawdon, if he had got no special liking for his uncle, always awful and cold, and locked up in his study, plunged in justice-business and surrounded by bailiffs and farmershas gained the good graces of his married and maiden aunts, of the two little folks of the Hall, and of Jim of the Rectory, whom Sir Pitt is encouraging to pay his addresses to one of the young ladies, with an understanding doubtless that he shall be presented to the living when it shall be vacated by his fox-hunting old sire. Jim has given up that sport himself, and confines himself to a little harmless duck or snipe-shooting, or a little quiet trifling with the rats during the Christmas holidays, after which he will return to the University, and try and not be plucked, once more. He has already eschewed green coats, red neckcloths, and other worldly ornaments, and is preparing himself for a change in his condition. In this cheap and thrifty was Sir Pitt tries to pay off his debt to his family.
Also before this merry Christmas was over, the Baronet had screwed up courage enough to give his brother another draft on his bankers, and for no less a sum than a hundred pounds, an act which caused Sir Pitt cruel pangs at first, but which made him glow afterwards to think himself one of the most generous of men. Rawdon and his son went away with the utmost heaviness of heart. Becky and the ladies parted with some alacrity, however: and our friend returned to London to commence those avocations with which we find her occupied when this chapter begins. Under her care the Crawley House in Great Gaunt Street was quite rejuvenescent, and ready for the reception of Sir Pitt and his family, when the Baronet came to London to attend his duties in Parliament, and to assume that position in the country for which his vast genius fitted him.
For the first session, this profound dissembler hid his projects and never opened his lips but to present a petition from Mudbury. But he attended assiduously in his place, and learned thoroughly the routine and business of the House. At home he gave himself up to the perusal of Blue Books, to the alarm and wonder of Lady Jane, who thought he was killing himself by late hours and intense application. And he made acquaintance with the ministers, and the chiefs of his party, determining to rank as one of them before many years were over.
Lady Janes sweetness and kindness had inspired Rebecca with such a contempt for her ladyship as the little woman found no small difficulty in concealing. That sort of goodness and simplicity which Lady Jane possessed, annoyed our friend Becky, and it was impossible for her at times not to show, or to let the other divine her scorn. Her presence, too, rendered Lady Jane uneasy. Her husband talked constantly with Becky. Signs of intelligence seemed to pass between them: and Pitt spoke with her on subjects on which he never thought of discoursing with Lady Jane. The latter did not understand them to be sure, but it was mortifying to remain silent; still more mortifying to know that you had nothing to say, and hear that little audacious Mrs. Rawdon dashing on from subject to subject, with a word for every man, and a joke always pat; and to sit in ones own house alone, by the fireside, and watching all the men round your rival.
In the country, when Lady Jane was telling stories to the children, who clustered about her knees (little Rawdon into the bargain, who was very fond of her)and Becky came into the room, sneering with green scornful eyes, poor Lady Jane grew silent under those baleful glances. Her simple little fancies shrank away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. She could not go on, although Rebecca, with the smallest inflection of sarcasm in her voice, besought her to continue that charming story. And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers. I have no taste for bread and butter, she would say, when caricaturing Lady Jane and her ways to my Lord Steyne.
So these two ladies did not see much of each other except upon those occasions, when the younger brothers wife, having an object to gain from the other, frequented her. They my-loved and my-deared each other assiduously, but kept apart generally: whereas Sir Pitt, in the midst of his multiplied avocations, found daily time to see his sister-in-law.
On the occasion of his first Speakers dinner, Sir Pitt took the opportunity of appearing before his sister-in-law in his uniformthat old diplomatic suit which he had worn when attaché to the Pumpernickel legation.
Becky complimented him upon that dress, and admired him almost as much as his own wife and children, to whom he displayed himself before he set out. She said that it was only the thoroughbred gentleman who could wear the Court suit with advantage: it was only your men of ancient race whom the culotte courte became. Pitt looked down with complacency at his legs, which had not, in truth, much more symmetry or swell than the lean Court sword which dangled by his side: looked down at his legs, and thought in his heart that he was killing.
When he was gone, Mrs. Becky made a caricature of his figure, which she showed to Lord Steyne when he arrived. His lordship carried off the sketch, delighted with the accuracy of the resemblance. He had done Sir Pitt Crawley the honour to meet him at Mrs. Beckys house, and had been most gracious to the new Baronet and member. Pitt was struck too by the deference with which the great Peer treated his sister-in-law, by her ease and sprightliness in the conversation, and by the delight with which the other men of the party listened to her talk. Lord Steyne made no doubt but that the Baronet had only commenced his career in public life, and expected rather anxiously to hear him as an orator; as they were neighbours (for Great Gaunt Street leads into Gaunt Square, whereof Gaunt House, as everybody knows, forms one side) my lord hoped that as soon as Lady Steyne arrived in London she would have the honour of making the acquaintance of Lady Crawley. He left a card upon his neighbour in the course of a day or two; having never thought fit to notice his predecessor, though they had lived near each other for near a century past.
In the midst of these intrigues and fine parties and wise and brilliant personages Rawdon felt himself more and more isolated every day. He was allowed to go to the club more: to dine abroad with bachelor friends: to come and go when he liked, without any questions being asked. And he and Rawdon the younger many a time would walk to Gaunt Street, and sit with the lady and the children there while Sir Pitt was closeted with Rebecca, on his way to the House, or on his return from it.
The ex-Colonel would sit for hours in his brothers house very silent, and thinking and doing as little as possible. He was glad to be employed of an errand: to go and make inquiries about a horse or a servant: or to carve the roast mutton for the dinner of the children. He was beat and cowed into laziness and submission. Delilah had imprisoned him and cut his hair off, too. The bold and reckless young blood of ten years back was subjugated, and was turned into a torpid, submissive, middle-aged, stout gentleman.
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Back before high-speed Internet, way back in the 1990s, Thomas Tobin signed up with AT&T for dial-up service.
He was assigned an att.net email address, which followed him through several moves.
Eventually, he switched from dial-up to a faster, more 21st-century method of Internet access, through a high-speed cable.
When he made the technological leap, Tobin called AT&T and asked if it was possible to keep his att.net email address.
A representative at the telecommunications giant said sure, but it would cost him $7.95 per month.
It seemed like a hefty price to keep an email address, but for Tobin it was worth it. After almost 20 years, the address has become the primary way he stays in touch with friends and relatives.
Tobin paid the monthly charges with nary a thought. Then a few years ago, he heard that AT&T had begun offering its email accounts for free.
He called AT&T's customer service line and asked if his email account should, in fact, be free. Tobin said he was told yes, and that he should not have to pay the $7.95 per month anymore.
The Oak Park resident was given a separate AT&T number to call to cancel the payments, he said.
When he called the second number, he was told a slightly different story. Yes, AT&T had begun offering free email accounts and he was eligible. However, to take advantage of the free account, he would have to set up a new email address, Tobin said he was told.
To keep his decades-old email address, he would have to continue paying the $7.95 a month as a maintenance fee. If he quit paying, the account would be disconnected, Tobin said he was told.
So, he kept paying.
But the monthly payments gnawed at him.
Looking for answers, he emailed What's Your Problem? in mid-December.
He said his primary concern was keeping both his and his wife's email addresses.
"All of our other accounts are tied to them and we've had them for so long they're a part of our communications with family and friends," he said. "But we also don't want to be paying this monthly fee if we no longer need to."
Tobin said he simply wanted a straight answer.
"I realize this is a first-world problem," he said. "If the answer is you have to pay, we'll pay. But it sure would be nice to put that $8 a month toward something else."
The Problem Solver called AT&T spokesman Jim Kimberly.
The next day, an AT&T representative called Tobin and said the company had, in fact, converted the email accounts to free accounts in March 2010.
"(She) mentioned that I should not have been told that it was required for us to continue paying the $7.95 per month fee in order to keep our att.net addresses," Tobin said.
The AT&T rep promised to halt the monthly charges, and refund his payments for the past 19 months, dating to the day he first complained about the charges. A credit of $150 has been issued to his credit card, Tobin said.
"To be frank, I wasn't expecting a refund to begin with," he said. "I'm just happy to not have to pay the $8 per month anymore, and to be able to keep my email address."
"Customer service is our highest priority," Kimberly said. "We were happy to work with the customer to resolve this matter."
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