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million were not aware of their condition and about 22 million either chose not to take medication or were on inadequate treatment, according to the report, which surveyed adults between 2003 and 2010. "I think there's clearly a lot of room for improvement," Frieden said, noting that controlling blood pressure often me... |
one's life. High blood pressure can be prevented through diet, exercise and taking drugs such as beta blockers and ACE inhibitors -- which widen arteries. Lowering blood pressure can cut the risk of stroke, heart attack, heart failure and other conditions. Risk factors include obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, a... |
Register New Player Welcome to our world of fun trivia quizzes and quiz games: Weather Occurrences of "Biblical" Proportions "This quiz will deal with the usually normal subject of weather. But weather can take on miraculous traits when dealing with God and the Bible. Here are ten events listed in the Bible that involv... |
Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit According to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus Christ was involved in some weather a few times in his lifetime. One occurred when he was approaching the disciples. The disciples were attempting to fish in a storm when they saw Jesus walking on the water toward them. When he reached ... |
boat, the storm subsided. What body of water did this miracle occur on? Sea of Galilee Probably the best known event involving weather in the Bible is the Great Flood. Through studying the Bible, theologians have determined the length of time that Noah, his family, and the animals were on the ark. What is the time fram... |
scholars tend to agree on as the length of Noah's captivity on the ark? Weather happenings were prevalent during the ten plagues of Egypt. One of the plagues featured a horrendous hailstorm, accompanied by fire. Of the ten plagues, which number plague was this? God and Moses also used the weather to actually END one of... |
is stated they used a "mighty wind" to drive out this particular plague's results. What was it that the mighty wind was getting rid of? Blood on the Water In Exodus 19, Moses had another occurrence with Biblical weather when he went up the mountain to receive God's Ten Commandments. What mountain was surrounded by "thu... |
"veil of clouds" during Moses' climb upward? Mount of Olives This person experienced some dangerous sea storms upon his attempted fleeing from God's request to go to Nineveh and try and convert the people there. Who was this reluctant evangelist who had a whale of a time surviving the sea storm? Two people are document... |
dying. One was Enoch, who was taken up to Heaven in Genesis 5. The other was this prophet, who according to II Kings 2, "went up by a whirlwind into Heaven". Who was this servant of God who was whisked to Heaven on a chariot of fire by way of a whirlwind? According to Joshua 10, while Joshua was holding |
camp in the large city of Gibeon, five kings of surrounding areas banded together to wage war upon Joshua's people. This would prove disheartening to them, as God was with Joshua's men and they were forced to flee after losing the battle. But the weather played a part afterwards. Before they had made the complete retre... |
were nearly wiped out by what weather phenomenon brought on by God? According to the book of the same name, this man of God had a vision that featured some unique weather. From the opening verses of the first chapter: "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding its... |
and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire." The vision gets even more intense after that. Who was this godly man? In the King James Version, along with several other translations, "Peace, be still" are famous words used to stop a storm while riding |
on a boat. What transpired previous to those words frightened all the passengers on the boat, as the strong wind was threatening to capsize the boat. Who was it that ended this weather malady with three simple words? John the Baptist Copyright, FunTrivia.com. All Rights Reserved. Legal / Conditions of Use Compiled Nov ... |
Catholic and Protestant reformers in the 16th century occasionally spoke scornfully of Anabaptists as "new monks," referring to Anabaptist insistence on holy living and intense spiritual life (e.g., TA Elsaß |
1, 110-13). Anabaptists occasionally accepted the comparison (Klassen, William and Walter Klaassen, eds. and trans. The Writings of Pilgram Marpeck, Classics of the Radical Reformation, vol. 2. Scottdale, PA: Herald |
Press, 1978: 217) but more frequently rejected it (Klassen & Klaassen: 215-16; Menno, Writings, 369, 401), in part because monks often came from the socially privileged classes. Several scholars have |
used monastic history as an aid to interpret Anabaptism (Troeltsch, Ritschl, Davis, Snyder, Martin). Many Anabaptists and Mennonites, beginning with the Hutterite chronicle, pointed to quasi-monastic sectarian medieval movements, especially |
Waldenses, as forerunners of Anabaptism (these theories are promulgated or discussed by Keller, Gratz, Verduin, Durnbaugh). One of the most extensive efforts to relate monasticism and Anabaptism drew on both |
monastic and quasi-monastic traditions (Davis). Most scholars have carefully limited their interpretations to pointing out "intellectual parallels" or general similarities; some have argued for direct continuity and influence. The crucial |
interpretive question revolves around the nature of monasticism: is it a nonconforming sectarian development critical of the institutional church (Workman) or an intensified institutional core of the ecclesiastical establishment? Or, |
did monasticism begin as a charismatic, lay, "sectarian" movement in the 4th century but become fully integrated into the sacramental, ecclesial, institutional church by the early Middle Ages (Rousseau, Martin)? |
How central the critical, separatist aspect of early monasticism is to monastic identity is disputed, even by those within the monastic community (Eoin de Bhaldraithe). Particularly significant in this regard |
is the distinction between contemplative monastic orders (Benedictine, Cistercian, Carthusian) and more lay-oriented, urban mendicant orders and houses of regular canons of the late Middle Ages (Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinian Friars, |
Praemonstratensians, Augustinian Canons). The latter orders were associated with the middle class and were visibly and pastorally active; the former were often but not always associated with the nobility and |
lived in secluded and rural areas. Most Anabaptist links to "monks" appear to have been with the mendicants and canons regular. Michael Sattler is the main exception to this generalization. |
Most interpreters agree that Anabaptists rejected the sacramental and institutional "culture-church" of the Middle Ages in favor of a voluntary, non-institutionalized, even anti-clerical church of the faithful few, in effect, |
reducing the church to a devout "monastic" core. At issue among scholars is whether the label "monastic" should properly be applied to a sectarian, pure church vision such as that |
held by Anabaptists, since most monks did not believe that the church was made up solely of monastics, rather, they believed that monks and nuns were part, perhaps the most |
important part, of the church. The qualities and virtues prized by Anabaptists and Mennonites (hospitality, humility, community, Gelassenheit, obedience, repentance, nonresistance, etc.) were also prime monastic virtues, although all medieval |
Catholics were exhorted to practice these same virtues. Significant parallels to monastic spirituality are found in the Mennonite period of post-Anabaptist history in which Anabaptist first-generation identity was transformed into |
a sacramental, ecclesial, institutional, cultural (ethnic) faith, even though Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites avoided the language of sacramental and institutional Christianity (Cronk, Martin). During the 1980s growing Mennonite concern about |
the role of single adults in the church has not yet taken account of the traditional Christian monastic theology, with its implications for both marriage and singleness. Recent scholarship on |
monasticism emphasizes the social role of celibate communities, which enhanced the role of marriage while creating a sphere of activity for those remaining unmarried (Brown, Leclercq). Further research is needed |
in all these areas of Anabaptist and Mennonite history and culture. Cronk, Sandra. "Gelassenheit: The Rites of the Redemptive Process in the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite Communities." |
PhD dissertation, U. of Chicago, 1977. See also Mennonite Quarterly Review 65 (1981): 5-44. For Ritschl, Gratz, Verduin, Keller, and others: see Davis, Kenneth R. Anabaptism and Asceticism: A Study |
in Intellectual Origins. Scottdale, 1974: 27-31. de Bhaldraithe, Eion. "Michael Sattler, Benedictine and Anabaptist." Downside Review 105 (April 1987): 111-131. Durnbaugh, Donald F. "Theories of Free Church Origins." Mennonite Quarterly |
Review 41 (1968): 83-95. Martin, Dennis D. "Monks, Mendicants and Anabaptists: Michael Sattler and the Benedictines Reconsidered." Mennonite Quarterly Review 60 (1986): 139-64. Reply by Snyder, C. Arnold. "Michael Sattler, |
Benedictine: Dennis Martin's Objections Reconsidered." Mennonite Quarterly Review 61 (1987): 251-79. Martin, Dennis D. "Catholic Spirituality and Mennonite Discipleship." Mennonite Quarterly Review 62 (1988): 5-25. Martin, Dennis D. "Nothing New |
under the Sun? Mennonites and History." Conrad Grebel Review 5 (1987): 1-27. Snyder, C. Arnold. "The Monastic Origins of Swiss Anabaptist Sectarianism." Mennonite Quarterly Review 57 (1983): 5-26. Snyder, C. |
Arnold. The Life and Thought of Michael Sattler. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1984. Troeltsch, Ernst. The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches. Translator: Olive Wyon. New York: Harper and Row, |
1960: 239-46, 332-33. For general information on monastic history, see: Brown, Peter R. L. "The Notion of Virginity in the Early Church." Christian Spirituality: Origins to the 12th C. Editor:Bernard |
McGinn and John Meyendorff. New York: Crossroad (1985): 427-43. Gründler, Otto. "Devotio Moderna." Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation. Editor: Jill Raitt. New York: Crossroad (1987): 176-93. Knowles, David. |
Christian Monasticism. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. Leclercq, Jean. Monks and Love in 12th-C. France. Oxford: Clarendon, 1979. Novak, Michael. "The Free Churches and the Roman Church." Journal of Ecumenical Studies, |
2 (1965): 426-47. Rousseau, Phillip. Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian. New York; Oxford, 1980. Workman, Herbert B. The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal |
from the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Friars. 2nd edition. London, 1927, reprinted with introduction by David Knowles. Boston: Beacon, 1962. Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, |
Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, pp. 601-602. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website. ©1996-2013 by the Global Anabaptist |
Young People's Conference Young People's Conference was a youth movement in the Mennonite Church (MC) which flourished for a short time between 1920-23, and led in part to the creation of the Young People's Problems Committee. It had its origin in a "General Conference of Mennonites in France in Reconstruction |
Work" held at Clermont-en-Argonne, Meuse, France, 20-22 June 1919. This conference was organized on an intended permanent basis with a constitution whose name was tentatively chosen as "Mennonite Young People's Movement," and which was to meet annually. Its clearly stated purpose was constructive and progressive, and i... |
programs represented in effect a Christian Life Conference with accent on the problems of youth. The movement also represented dissatisfaction with the rather slow-moving general church leadership and program, and also a determination to work out a larger and more influential place for the more mature young people in t... |
work and leadership of the church. Since much of the older leadership of the church reacted with skepticism and even suspicion to the new movement, opposition and tension developed. Differences were sorted out in the end and the movement got started in America, changing its name to the Young People's |
Conference. Three annual meetings were held: West Liberty, Ohio, 28-30 August 1920; Sterling, IL, 15-18 June 1922; Middlebury, IN (Forks church), 14-17 June 1923. General tensions in the church at this time, resulting in the closing of Goshen College for the year 1923-24 and divisions in a number of congregations |
in Indiana, Ohio, Ontario, and Eastern Pennsylvania, led to confusion in the ranks of the leadership of the Young People's Conference, and ultimately to the discontinuance of the annual meetings. The committee in charge for the 1923 conference listed Harold S. Bender, chairman; Walter E. Yoder, secretary; John L. Yoder... |
treasurer; Payson Miller, and Vernon Smucker. Some of the energies of this group were channeled into a biweekly periodical, The Christian Exponent, established on 4 January 1924, and discontinued on 11 September 1928, edited by Vernon Smucker. Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo,... |
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name. - This means the newspaper archive search engine automatically finds occurrences of the first and last names within two words of each other. - This helps to find occurrences |
of middle names or initials in the newspaper articles, without having to enter or remember them. - The "near2" search command is not order specific—meaning your newspaper search will retrieve |
the person's name no matter in what order it is mentioned: the first name then last name or the last name then first name. - This search default is intended |
to bring you the most occurrences of the name you are searching for in the online newspaper archives. - However, if the person's name is popular, like Smith, try using |
some of the available search options such as location, date range, and keyword, in order to narrow your search to the specific Smith you are looking for (see below). Using |
Advanced Search in the Newspaper Archive Database - There are two keyword search boxes to narrow your search for newspaper articles: "Include keywords" box and "Exclude keywords" box (see below). |
- Use the Date search box to enter a specific date or date range of the newspaper content you want to search online. Using Keywords & Quotation Marks to Search |
Newspapers - All the searches for historical newspaper articles are full-text keyword searches against OCR-generated ASCII text. - By using the "Include keywords" box and/or "Exclude keywords" box, you can |
narrow or expand your online newspaper article search. - Put phrases in quotes like "John Adams" in the "Include" keyword box to limit the newspaper article search to that exact |
name—versus using the last/first name search that brings back results matching John near2 Adams. - If you find too many names in the newspaper archive search results, narrow your search |
even more by typing names or places you do NOT want in your search in the "Exclude" box. Using Boolean Operators to Search Newspaper Archives - Use AND, OR, ADJx |
(order specific), NEARx (order non-specific) and Wildcards, such as "?" and "*") Broaden or narrow newspaper search queries - by emptying filled-in fields to broaden your search, or filling in |
empty fields to narrow your search. Display newspaper search results in different ways, such as: - Best matches (this is the newspaper search default) - Oldest items (based on newspaper |
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If you know the date of the newspaper content you are seeking, then use the "Date" search box. - Enter a specific date or a date range—a variety of date |
formats are accepted. - Examples: June 2, 1804, or 1804 - 1849, or June 1804 - August 1949. Using Colonial English Variant Spellings to Search Old Newspapers - Many of |
the newspapers in the historical newspaper archives are very old, and the searches must deal with Colonial English. - The long "s" character was almost identical to the "f" in |
many texts. - When searching old newspaper articles on words containing the letter "s," use the "?" wildcard in place of the "s." - Note: this can occur whether it |
is the first letter, a letter within a word, or at the end of a word. - The double "s" is in words like Massachusetts needs to be replaced with |
American newspapers and printers did not always have enough pieces of type to include all of the letters in a word. This resulted in letters being omitted, or sometimes letters |
that looked similar were used as substitutions. - Much of this historic newspaper material did not use standard spellings. - Examples of some conventions that were common in old newspapers: |
- Use of name variants - Smith or Smythe - Use of "e" in word endings - Chesapeake or Chesapeak - Dropping the letter "h" - Philadelphia or Philadelpia - |
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use wildcards such as the question mark "?" or the asterisk "*" in your colonial newspaper search. - A question mark is a single-character wildcard and an asterisk multi-character (allows |
A genome-wide association study appearing in PLOS Genetics that involved thousands of individuals of European ancestry identified five genetic loci that appear to be associated with facial features. Among them: variants in and around genes implicated in prior studies of conditions that are characterized by face and/or ... |
researchers behind the study, members of the International Visible Trait Genetics, or VisiGen, Consortium, argue that the new findings could contribute to what's known about facial evolution and development in humans, while at once laying the foundation for forensic tools for predicting facial features based on DNA alo... |
on this study, see this story from our sister publication GenomeWeb Daily News. Investigators from the Cleveland Clinic and elsewhere used post-mortem brain samples to look at the epigenetic and transcriptional profiles associated with autism spectrum disorder. As they reported in PLOS One, the researchers relied on ar... |
sequencing to assess genome-wide gene expression and DNA methylation profiles in two brain regions — the cerebellar hemisphere cortex and the Brodmann area 19 occipital cortex — in samples from nine males with idiopathic cases of autism spectrum disorder and nine unaffected male controls in the same age range. Overall |
brain expression patterns varied from one individual with ASD to the next. But the team did uncover some shared features within the ASD samples, including lower-than-usual expression of genes in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and protein production pathways in the brain samples from individuals with autism and... |
of certain brain-related genes. A PLOS Pathogens study of dengue virus by French researchers explores the basis for the pronounced conservation that's been noted in nucleotides found at the ends of the virus' RNA-based genome. Using chemical synthesis experiments, assays, and other analyses, the group determined that t... |
representative of the Flavivirus genus, relies on an RNA end-repair process that involves the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase produced by a dengue virus gene called NS5. "Our findings provide a direct demonstration of the implication of a viral RNA polymerase in the conservation and repair of genome ends," the study's aut... |
Killing Emacs means ending the execution of the Emacs process. If you started Emacs from a terminal, the parent process normally resumes control. The low-level primitive for killing Emacs is |
This command calls the hook kill-emacs-hook, then exits the Emacs process and kills it. If exit-data is an integer, that is used as the exit status of the Emacs process. |
(This is useful primarily in batch operation; see Batch Mode.) If exit-data is a string, its contents are stuffed into the terminal input buffer so that the shell (or whatever |
program next reads input) can read them. kill-emacs function is normally called via the higher-level command C-x C-c save-buffers-kill-terminal). See Exiting. It is also called automatically if Emacs receives a |
SIGHUP operating system signal (e.g., when the controlling terminal is disconnected), or if it receives a SIGINT signal while running in batch mode (see Batch Mode). This normal hook is |
run by kill-emacs, before it kills Emacs. kill-emacscan be called in situations where user interaction is impossible (e.g., when the terminal is disconnected), functions on this hook should not attempt |
to interact with the user. If you want to interact with the user when Emacs is shutting down, use kill-emacs-query-functions, described below. When Emacs is killed, all the information in |
the Emacs process, aside from files that have been saved, is lost. Because killing Emacs inadvertently can lose a lot of work, the save-buffers-kill-terminal command queries for confirmation if you |
have buffers that need saving or subprocesses that are running. It also runs the abnormal hook save-buffers-kill-terminalis killing Emacs, it calls the functions in this hook, after asking the standard |
questions and before calling kill-emacs. The functions are called in order of appearance, with no arguments. Each function can ask for additional confirmation from the user. If any of them |
US 4884575 A A cardiac pacemaker pulse generator is adapted to .generate electrical stimuli at a first pacing rate, and to selectively increase the rate to a second higher pacing |
rate. A timer triggers the rate increase to establish the higher rate as an exercise rate folloing the passage of a preset period of time after the timer is enabled. |
An external magnet controlled by the patient activates a reed switch to enable the timer to commence timing. The pulse generator is further adapted to respond to a second pass |
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