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Heart (Original Song)
“So you’re gay?” That’s what they say, in a frazzled state.
My hands are tied my mouth is wide they look to me.
There’s confusion I’m improving my way.
Because I’m learning how to reply when I speak.
They always ask me how I know who I am.
As if I need some kind of test or an exam.
My mouth is sure and it’s able, my words on the table,
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Nike Air Presto – Summer 2011 Colorways – New Images
March 8th, 2011 by Aaron Hope | No comments
As part of our coverage of the Nike Free Greater China Media Summit yesterday, Sneaker News showed you a spectrum-ranging white-on-color set of Nike Air Prestos scheduled as summer 2011 releases. Seven different colorways are on tap and today we have new photos of every single one of them! With palettes as simple as the Presto’s unique sizing system, there’s a pair out there for every imaginable outfit and since warm weather should be right around the corner, their lightweight breathable construction will be a welcome addition to your wardrobe. Click through to see the entire collection and let us know which ones tickle your fancy. via Kenlu
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Nike Zoom Kobe VII System iD Samples
December 23rd, 2011 by John K. | 8 comments
With this week’s launch of the Nike Zoom Kobe VII System Supreme as well as Sunday’s debut of the Zoom Kobe VII ‘Leopard’, all the focus is on the revolutionary Attack Fast and Attack Strong cushioning system. Did you know the System is on Nike iD? Here we have a mass collection of Nike Zoom Kobe VII System iD samples in various colorways; both the low-top and the Supreme version are featured in this nice showcase, with some of the standouts being the ‘Blackout’ Supreme with the ice sole and the ‘Snake Pool’ in Varsity Maize and Purple. Check out the rest of the gallery below and head to Nike iD now to get your Kobe VII iD in place.
i definitely think its safe to say that the attack fast insert LOOKS a lot better than the attack strong one, but as far as function goes, this is a very revolutionary shoe design that allows the sneaker to be accessible to more ppl...gotta make that bread. i see u nike.
Black and Red pair FTW
They look good but something about that inside profile look funny to me.
the right colorway REALLY does matter!!
the blue joints are sick, also the all black ones
red on the 2nd page and purple on pg 3 the is dope
All blacks are sick. Dark Knights maybe???
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Air Jordan XVII (17) Low 2002 Original – White – University Blue – Black – Chrome
Color: White/University Blue/Black-Chrome
Style: 303891-141
Release Date: June 1, 2002
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You know Jordan Brand had to make a Carolina Blue version of the XVII and here it is in low top form. The shoe contains white leather uppers and a light blue plastic midsole. Also at the ankle, there is a light blue nylon liner. The sneaker doesn’t have the signature gaiters/covers. Pics via Kixclusive
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Timothy Ray Brown was suffering from both HIV and leukemia, and during the course of treatment for his leukemia, researchers in Berlin realized there might be a way to take advantage of rs333’s ability to resist HIV. After chemotherapy and radiation treatments, the researchers transplanted bone marrow from a donor with 2 copies of the rs333 deletion. These donor cells were able to reconstitute his blood.
The transplant took place in 2007, and doctors waited and watched for years while his body cleaned out the HIV and repaired itself. Finally publishing in 2010 and 2011, they were able to conclude that the 'SNP transplant' cured their patient’s HIV PMID 21148083 “Evidence for the cure of HIV infection by CCR5Δ32/Δ32 stem cell transplantation”.
Now in 2012 a Phase 2 clinical trial has begun recruiting patients. The protocol indicates donors “must be a 7/8 or 8/8 match at HLA-A, -B, -C, and -DRB1”. This is the same sort of donor matching we described five days ago in Do you see what I MHC so perhaps the trial could also record the rs2281389 and rs1800795 genotypes..
Despite the urgent need for a cure for HIV infection, “the risks associated with chemotherapy and radiation, and the relatively low frequency of ccr5
So this type of transplant only directly applies to the fortunately rare cases where a patient has to undergo chemotherapy and radiation to treat their leukemia, enabling a stem cell transplant to repopulate their blood system. It isn’t a practical solution for large numbers of patients. But a ‘SNP transplant’ can be a cure. | http://snpedia.blogspot.com/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Ke. "I cried because he hated."
The ...
Kelly has not fallen off...she's going strong. I stilll hear her music on the radio and it still is so awesome. I thinks she's right by not allowing Clive Davis to bully her. He may be a big time producer and all but I'm sure that there are many music excutives that would put her on their label. Kelly Clarkson has talent. and to be honest I'm not a hard core fan of her's but I think she's has talent. Go Kelly......:)
I think it's horrible how there are so many people who are quick to judge and attack her or anyone else. Don't you all have anything else to do than attack people. you all should be ashame of yourselves. Jealous much?
Not a typical fan of the American Idol collection (Ms. Clarkson and Ms. Underwood aside) I've just recently become a fan of Kelly's because I'm amazed at the strength of her voice and true talent. Kelly may have been on the back burner for a bit but it was due to people like Clive Davis not allowing her to have any say in what direction she wanted to take her career. If she's gonna fail, it will be by her choices and I respect her for that.
@Jasper P - you're an idiot. Kelly SANG (and perfectly) at the inauguration, while Ms. Diva Sasha Fierce (a.k.a. Beyonce) had to lip sync the national anthem.
@Ivana Humpugh, you are correct, Davis is a gross sleazeball and much like Phil Spector. The old coot may have contributed a lot to music but it's time he retire. He sure as hell isn't going to heaven for being so fricking brave to crawl out of his closet with one foot in the grave.
Just because Clive Davis owns the music business doesn't mean he is right. And just because he is that big, this doesn't mean he could get away with everything, not even lies. Kudos to Kelly for standing up to herself. I like Kelly Clarkson and believe that she is a good person.
There were at times when I saw Clive Davis in Am. Idol back then, there is something slimy about him that I don't like. Btw, I wouldn't even buy Clive Davis' memoir anyway b/c he doesn't deserve a cent from me. | http://social.entertainment.msn.com/blogs/pop-spy-blogpost.aspx?post=f546efbd-4ab9-4db2-8b51-68d1cd937d9f | 2013-05-18T10:52:48 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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FEATURED POST
Phillip Phillips, Joshua Ledet rise to the challenge of a two-song performance night
By Carla Patton
Before you get excited, this week's theme, "Now and Then," does not refer to the movie starring Christina Ricci and Rosie O'Donnell, among others. I wish. No, the top 7 (revisited after the Save) are performing twice -- one song from this century/millennium and the other a "soul" hit from yesteryear. It's pretty wide open.
Bing: More about 'American Idol' | Photos: See the top 7 singers
Will Jessica Sanchez enjoy a week of bottom-two backlash in both her judges' feedback and viewer votes? Will Elise choose a song she likes enough to do well this week? Twice? Will we be able to understand more than 90% of the lyrics"!
More: 'American Idol' on BuddyTV | Video: Watch 'American Idol' clips and more
After feeding us some Yoda-level crap about beginnings and endings, on this night.
We're starting with "now," and Hollie Cavanagh is going first. Now! She's singing "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele. Oof. Can she overcome her nerves? She starts a cappella, which was really working for her, given her vocal clarity. This is actually a good song for her, something with some energy behind it! Is she wearing a skirt? Is it pants? Is it long or short? What is that cut this night.?
on this night,!
>>IMAGE what's up with these Cirque du Soleil floating, red umbrellas? Why does Jessica always get the weird, red props. Is she in a French film?
I love her hair but don't care for the grunting and growling on this petite 16-year-old girl. The song is so oversung in mid-song last week because they didn't like her, though. Do you think her necklace weighs more than she does? seven performances. I'm not familiar with this song, but it seems to really fit him well. It's big and.
Hollie Cavanagh got a special message from the hot and sexy Liverpool Football Club right before her second performance. Thank God she has this intro-to-"Soul Train" clip package to get through so she can refocus.. Regarding Hollie's outfit: Barbie does Pepto-Bismol.
Colton Dixon is Colton-ing up Earth, Wind &.
this time,, "Haha, this song is a joke, and it's cheesy aside, what a fun song! Too much growling on this night overall, really. But she was having a good time with the song, and she nailed it. Jennifer recommends that Jessica push herself a bit more. She has the voice, but we need some more heart. That is really the essence of this night's performances, isn't it? We know they can sing. We get it. Now it's about whether they can make us love them and feel human emotions.
Skylar Laine looks a lot more comfortable singing a countrified "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye. This is a really adorable country arrangement, frankly. And Skylar is just giving this song a good old-fashioned spanking. I liked it so much more than "Born This Way." This was more fun and had more personality. This is the Skylar Laine concert! Randy acknowledged that Skylar has a brand and no problems showing us who she is. She is a rock 'n' roll party, and we're all invited. Yay!.
Why did Elise change back into her orange dress? Did something happen to her second outfit? I need answers, Ryan Seacrest!
So, who owned the night? Was "now" or "then" more satisfying for you? Or was Wednesday night just a big, hurried, snooze?
What do you think of Wednesday night's performances? Who's next to go?
"American Idol" airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on FOX.
A new panel of judges is only the beginning in revitalizing a stale, complacent show
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Windows Live Messenger 2011: how to remove the Social/MSN portion
- 2010년 10 5:15
For the love of god, someone please help me. I would like to have messenger just list my contacts...i don't want the giant "SOCIAL MSN highlights recent me photos more" garbage displaying on the left. how do i remove or at the very least hide/minimize that ____? the damn window is so huge.... what are they thinking?... ungh... RAGE!
UPDATE:... after raging and destroying things, i found the icon next to the "Add a friend.." icon which gets rid of the full view mode. Thank god.
모든 응답
- 2010년 10월 25일 월요일 오후 2:29This:
MESSENGER
WEB MESSENGER
- 2011 오후 2:06
There is a little gray square icon in the upper right corner next to "Inbox" you can click to hide the "extra" social stuff. It took me a minute to find it too. After clicking the icon the screen reverts to displaying just the IM stuff.
Matthew
Matthew
- 2011년 2월 6일 일요일 오후 11:34I do not see an icon there. Anyway you can send me a pic of it and exactly where it is.
- 2011년 5월 31일 화요일 오후 8:50right corner next to "Inbox" you can click to hide the "extra" social stuff. That would have been a lot easier to type than that load of crap you took the time to type and link. Im glad i dont work with you
Network Communication Specialist
- 2011년 6:37
Thanks El Allah Bless!!!
- 2011년 8월 10일 수요일 오전 11:02
Dear Friend
It is that i have to click every time i login
do u know how to remove permanently
regards
sy 2:43
If your team has anything to do with the messenger's evolution you should be fired. It has become about the only product I would say anything poorly about. We are a Microsoft shop and IM sucks. It's always going down, it's hard to find needed tools for sending images from one another in our groups, saving anyting requires starting a new path to the target (very frustrating), and its trying to be a social program (not your thing obviously and you're too late).
Give us a utility back and cut out all the other crap that your not good at anyway. | http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/ko-KR/writergeneral/thread/73c88dd8-9579-45cf-b571-7e74dca6e385 | 2013-05-18T10:22:48 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
apologistdave [at] gmail [dot] com
If you would like to join my mailing list, please send me your e-mail address. I won't bother you with "begging and pleading letters"; just updates occasionally about what I'm doing: mostly new books of mine that are coming out.
I provide this address mainly so that I am not "inaccessible" -- and I try to read all letters. But I am unable to answer any "apologetics question" letters (and frequently I am unable to answer at all), due to time limitations and other duties. There are only so many hours in a day and so much work a human being can do. If someone has a business proposal or some important factual information to pass along, etc., then I will in all likelihood reply. But I can't spend hours and hours on correspondence, and often, not even minutes (and it adds up quickly, believe me!).
I do this work full-time, as an apologist and author, and my only income is from book royalties and generous 100% tax-deductible donations. What that means, practically speaking, is that I have to spend most of my time writing new books, in order to maintain an income.
This blog (with nearly 2500 papers) is designed to cover most major questions regarding Catholic apologetics (and a lot of minor ones too). I've also written 31 books for the same purpose. Seek and ye shall almost assuredly find. The thousands of hours for over fifteen years (online) that I have spent producing this material (mostly voluntary free labor) is for the sake of those who want to better understand or more confidently embrace Catholicism, in faith and obedience.
If I don't reply to those sorts of inquiries (which is very likely), it isn't because I don't "care", but because there is only so much energy to go around. My concern for others is shown, I think, in all the work I have put into my existing writing. I've devoted my life to it. I do also have a family (four children). I trust that e-mail inquirers who are looking for apologetic "answers" will understand this (though a small number of folks never seem to). The answers (at least some kind of answer) to apologetic questions almost always can be found in existing papers of mine (and my site is easy to navigate in several different ways, with just a little practice).
For personal assistance and pastoral questions (apologetic or otherwise), along these lines, I highly recommend The Coming Home Network (800-664-5110) and Catholic Answers (619-387-7200: San Diego).
Updated on 14 July 2012.
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Apologetics questions? Onece in a while your priest knows the answer :)
One wold certainly hope so, anyway . . . I've been told that priests learn fairly little apologetics in seminary. Several priests have told me that themselves. So there is a definite place for this specialty, and the laity can lend a helping hand to already very busy priests.
You may be interested to know you are being plagiarized by a so called catholic apologist who is actully a fraud, here:
Very interesting. Thanks for pointing it out on the thread and exposing it. I appreciate it. Though it probably doesn't directly harm me, it is highly unethical and should, of course, be condemned.
I find it rather bizarre. This person needs our prayers.
Ok so I am looking for answers to what I dont know. Bill Schnoebelen seems to be very anti catholiism and statements made by him are very upsetting. Although I do believe that there are some trueths - I saw my brother who was a seminarian in South Africa run his life into ruins and suicide. Tried a search on your blog regarding him and his opinions and would appreciate your assistance and direction to more information
Hi Vanessa,
I never heard of him; sorry. I'm very sorry to hear about your brother.
I would recommend doing a search on Google of his name and "Catholic" to see if there is anything available online. God bless.
I converted to the Catholic church in 1999. My father is a pastor and just recently asked me a question I had never heard before. He asked me if I can prove, through Scripture that Mary conceived at the Annunciation. He seems to think that Mary conceived at the Visitation, at the moment when John "leaped in the womb." Can you point me toward any of the church fathers or any Scripture that could help me answer that? Thank you so much, Dave, for your ministry.
Kerry , why dont you also ask your father , why should the blessed virgin Mary conceive at the visitation? The word of God is effective right away , as soon as the blessed virgin Mary said fiat , let it be done to me according to your word , she conceived . I still dont get the meaning of your father`s question?why would she conceive later?and since your father is the one who dosent believe that she conceived at the annunciation , so he should be the one to find us a church father which agree`s with him and not us .But again , i really still dont believe the meaning of his question?She conceived by the Holy Spirit and she is the mother of God and Jesus is God and she is a virgin before,during and after the birth of our Lord .
GBU
Hi Kerry,
I don't think either scenario can be proven beyond a doubt. In my understanding, it has been understood in all Christian traditions that she conceived at the Annunciation, even though the text may not spell that out explicitly.
Trying to search the fathers for some other scenario would be too time-consuming, I'm afraid. Probably a Google search would be just as efficient. | http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2009/06/e-mail-address-and-explanation-of-my.html | 2013-05-18T10:52:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Anyone who has followed my work closely enough knows that I have an extensive web page devoted to development (one of very few online), have written a book on the topic (since it is my favorite theological subject and was the key reason for my conversion to Catholicism). They may also be aware of my strong admiration for Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman (who is very well-known for his explication of development of doctrine), and my authorship of an upcoming collection of his quotations. Thus, no one think that I would deny that purgatory developed, just as all other doctrines did.
Let's look, for example, at what I wrote in my reply to James White, in my paper, Refutation of James White on 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 and Purgatory (3 March 2007):
Now, of course we won't find a fully-developed medieval conception of purgatory [in 1 Cor 3], but it is foolish to expect that anyway, just as it would be to expect to find full Chalcedonian Christology and trinitarianism in all its glorious nuanced complexity. That is true of all doctrines, so why should purgatory be an exception?
In my article, Development of Doctrine: A Corruption of Biblical Teaching? (published in The Catholic Answer, Sep / Oct 1995 and uploaded to my website on 5 July 2001), I stated:.
Likewise, I stated in my paper, Reflections on Medieval Ecclesiology ("Fallibilist Conciliarism"?) (10 January 2004):
I would say that authority in the early Church was developing just as the biblical canon and Christology and Mariology and purgatory and prayers for the dead and original sin and everything else were developing.
In the Introduction of my book, A Biblical Defense of Catholicism, I wrote about what I meant by "biblical / scriptural evidence" in the first place:). (2003 paperback version, p. xv)
I wrote about purgatory elsewhere in the book:). (p. 128)
I gave the precise reason why some semblance of purgatory must have been presupposed. For the Reformed tradition, as well as for most Protestants, save a few like C. S. Lewis or John Wesley, there is no third state after death (after Christ's death and resurrection and ascension). Only heaven and hell exist, and it is useless and meaningless to pray for souls in either, as I argued in the passage.
Therefore, the question is, why did the Jews "pray for the dead" and "make atonement for the dead" as the passage in 2 Maccabees states? They did because they assumed that the dead were still in some sort of state in which they could be aided by intercessory prayer. And that can only be a third state besides heaven and hell. This is what the people whose practice is described must have believed. It doesn't require a fully developed notion of purgatory; only an intermediate state of some sort besides heaven and hell: a place where they can still be helped by prayer on their behalf.
An argument could be made (over against this scenario) for retroactive prayer (since God is outside of time and can quite arguably apply and answer prayers regardless of whether a person is dead) -- even Martin Luther held to something like this -- but the Reformed Protestant (Calvinist) tradition would reject that outright. That leaves only some kind of third state as an explanation of prayer for the dead as historical Jewish practice.
That I was not holding that biblical descriptions evidence purgatory in its developed dogmatic form, was made very clear in my later commentary on Luke 16:19-31 (Lazarus and the rich man) and three related passages:
At the very least, these passages prove that there can and does exist a third, intermediate state after death besides Heaven and Hell. Thus, Purgatory is not a priori unthinkable from a biblical perspective (as many Protestants casually assume). True, the Hebrew Sheol is not identical to Purgatory (both righteous and unrighteous go there), but it is nevertheless strikingly similar. (p. 133)
It is supremely important in arguing against a position, to understand how the opponent defines his terms, exactly what he deems as evidence, and for what particular position the evidence is produced.
I provided the same nuance in the insert H-2 ("Is Purgatory in the Bible?") from my New Catholic Answer Bible, co-authored by myself and Dr. Paul Thigpen:
(Like "the Holy Trinity," "purgatory" is a term not occurring in Scripture, but the reality it refers to is implied by scriptural truths.)
I habitually either qualify or presuppose doctrinal development or make clear in context that I am not claiming that Scripture "proves" a full-blown doctrine of purgatory. Hence, I used to have a paper up, entitled, "Biblical Evidence For Purgatory and Analogous Processes (50 Passages)". It was removed because I included it as a section of my book, Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths. The very title shows that I was not maintaining that each passage was explicit, and that there were analogies of process that suggested the concept of purgatory.
The Bible indeed provides much evidence or indication of purgatory. I collected 25 passages in A Biblical Defense of Catholicism, complete with massive support of Church fathers, who certainly believed that purgatory was in mind in these passages. But that is different from a position that would deny any development occurred. "Evidence" is not used in this sense to mean "absolute proof."
A hundred times in my writings, I've stated that the Catholic notion of "biblical evidence" is not absolute proof, but rather, consistency and harmony with Scripture and a given doctrine, including implicit and indirect, deductive indications. Here are some of the numerous examples:
As to Tertullian seeking to ground all doctrine in Scripture, or harmonious with Scripture (meaning that there may not always be explicit proofs, as Chemnitz himself later concedes with regard to, e.g., infant baptism) we have no disagreement. Catholics believe the same. (8-29-07)
The tradition of man here is sola Scriptura and the silly notion that absolutely everything Christians believe must be explicitly laid out in the Bible. There is no Bible passage that says that, so it is a tradition of man if there ever was one. Nor is there any passage that lists the books of the Bible. The canon is an extrabiblical doctrine and tradition that requires Church authority to accept. But all Catholic doctrine is completely consistent and harmonious with Scripture. . . . Now you show us where the Bible teaches that every truth has to specifically be backed up by a Bible proof text. I'll save you the trouble. You can't do it. (3-19-11)
This is how we ultimately know what is true: it will be harmonious with Scripture, and it will also be a tenet that the Church has always held, in kernel or more fully developed through time. (7-19-08)
Our Tradition must always be in accord with Scripture, and cannot contradict it. . . . (1-11-99)
Nevertheless, not every doctrine has to rest solely on Scripture. All doctrines need to be harmonious with, and not contradictory to, Scripture (which is a notion distinct from sola Scriptura). Another way to look at this difference is to realize that when a Protestant uses the terms unbiblical or extrabiblical, he usually means “not found in Scripture.” When Catholics, however, use those terms, we mean “not explicitly in Scripture, yet not contrary to it, and fully consistent with it (as all true doctrines must be).” (Introduction to The Catholic Verses, 2004, p. xvi) . . . (3-23-10)
I believe this of all biblical doctrines; therefore purgatory is included.
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I added several new quotations (mostly to the end) and fixed a few typos and improved the paper here and there, as of 12:15 PM EST, Tuesday, 9-20-11.
Thanks, I am a Protestant who is seriously looking into the Catholic faith. This article is helpful.. ...anyways, thanks for your explanation here. It helps.
Hi Dave, This article exemplifies the problem with Mr. Cygnus' approach of attacking orthodox Catholic apologists using the works of non-magisterial authors that run counter to the dogmatic teachings of the Church as opposed to magisterial writings or patristic sources. By focusing on the person, Mr. Cygnus ignores the theology behind Purgatory and only mentions in passing that the dissenting author himself admitted that the doctrine was held by "some" Jews in intertestimental times without explaining why that might be important. The fact that it was held by Pharisees in the time of Jesus is an important group of "some" Jews.."
This passage from the Talmud and the corresponding supplement proves.
Why is this important? This is important because we see St. Paul, a student of Gamiliel who was a Shammaite (as per Jacob Neusner in "The Rabbinic Tradition about the Pharisees before 70"), using Zech. 13:9 in the same manner in 1 Cor. 3:10-17 as the School of Shammai did above.
Cont.
In addition to 1 Cor. 15:29 that you cited to in your book, The Catholic Verses (which I highly recommend to all of your readers BTW) there is another verse in St. Paul's writing that during intertestamental times believed that there were several levels of heavens, seven in all, each having a distinct purpose. Third heaven and Paradise were just two of those levels. Along with this heavenly scheme, they also believed that were also seven levels of the abode of the dead. Purgatory one of those levels. Cf. Phil. 2:10. Dante didn't just make up the notion of levels of heaven, hell and purgatory in his Divine Comedy.
The bottom line is that the better way of dealing with theological issues is discussing the issue, not attack the person.
God bless!
You know Dave? I would like the simple , wise , fantastic true words of G.K.Chesterton which i think should be mentioned right now .
Chesterton said : I never dreamed that the Roman religion (catholic church) was true; but I knew that its accusers, for some reason or other, were curiously inaccurate.
Greatly helpful research, Paul!
The "purgatorial" interpretation of 1 Cor 3S10-17 always seemed the most reasonable to me, but the fact that the school of Shammai, which Paul belonged to, used the same OT allusion in the same way as Paul does in this passage is the clincher, especially when one considers how Paul admired and respected his Shammaite teacher, Gamaliel.
Real in-depth study of the Bible, including influences on authors like Paul, always confirms the Catholic Faith.
Nannykim:
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Can you elaborate? I wanted to bring attention to this so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. Hopefully Dave will be able to address your concerns.
Excellent comments, guys. Thanks!
Hi nannykim,
I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for, by way of explanation. I don't tone down anything in the Catholic faith. I defend it all!
As you probably know, I have over 2600 posts on my site, and have dealt with all these topics you mentioned. Perhaps I could be of assistance to you if you were a little more specific. | http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-biblical-defense-of-purgatory-anti.html?showComment=1316579550088 | 2013-05-18T10:12:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
I’m working on it – I’m trying to create A New Me… on the outside, at least.
Well, actually things are working on the inside and outside because I’m making a conscious decision to live a much healthier, active lifestyle. I’m not really sure what brought it about, but there are definitely a few things that keep me motivated – the idea of getting in a bathing suit this Summer and having it be one that’s actually cute and not just to hide my belly is an important one!
Another huge motivator is the fact that I’m signing up to run a 4 mile race! If you only knew what an accomplishment this is going to be for me – I am not a runner. I’m the girl, even in Middle School and High School, that would look back to see if the coach was looking so I could walk instead of run. I’m the girl that a gym teacher said “Do you need your inhaler?” when we were running in class to which I replied, “I don’t have asthma.” I am not an athlete/runner, but I’m going to do this.
My sweet hubby made me a “Running Program” a few weeks ago and has vowed to get me in shape to finish the 4 miles in under 60 minutes. I don’t care if I’m last – I just want to finish!
Sooo… you’ll be seeing a few more posts following my fitness goals and successes as well as some products that might just help me along the way!
And I’m getting in on some giveaway action coming up at the end of the month too…
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It may have seemed like a long winter this year- but spring is finally on its way.
With widespread ice, snow and howling winds it wasn’t exactly a great start to the year, but it looks as though the weather may be starting to ease off and brighten up as we begin to move into the spring and summer months.
With the sun’s rays finally starting to pierce the clouds, most of us will be starting to think about heading outside and into our gardens, so here at So Interiors we’ve put together a range of garden furniture and outdoor products to help you make the move outside as comfortable and inviting as possible.
Here in the UK good weather is never guaranteed, so we really have to make the most of it while it lasts. Making sure you’re prepared ahead of schedule is one of the best ways of making sure you’re ready to head into the garden as soon as the clouds break and the sun comes out. Purchase everything you need early and prepare for the summer now- there’s no telling when it might come and how long it might last!
To help keep your gardens feeling comfortable and inviting, even while the evenings are slightly shorter and there’s a nip in the air, we have a range of garden lighting and fire pits to keep your outdoor spaces bright, warm and welcoming even when the sun has started to set.
As the days steadily start to get longer and the weather improves you’ll no doubt want to spend more and more time outdoors. That’s why investing in garden furniture sets early is crucial, so that you can be ready to head outdoors and invite over friends and family whenever the mood strikes.
Our comfortable and long-lasting garden benches are also great to have in the garden all year round, so you can sit back and take a load off whilst you’re gardening or simply enjoying the fresh air.
If alfresco dining is your thing, we also have a wide range of outdoor dining tables and picnic tables so you can enjoy the surroundings of your garden, whether you’re dining alone, with family or entertaining guests.
Make the most of your garden this summer.
For all your garden furniture needs, head to SoInteriors.co.uk. | http://sointeriors.co.uk/blog | 2013-05-18T10:13:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Light of God's Glory
by Paula Gooder | January 2005 Gods glory is most apparent, so the Magi and the first disciples cannot resist being drawn into worship and obedience. Throughout history the people of God have struggled to reveal Gods!
January 2
Summoned by Glory
Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14; Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12
All three readings for Epiphany Sunday speak of the irresistible pull felt by those outside when they see Gods glory revealed in the world. Isaiah 60:1-6 foresees a time when "nations" and "kings" will be drawn to the brightness that emanates from the people of God. This prophecy was fulfilled in the person of Jesus when the Magi came to worship him, drawn from afar by the brightness of a star, but it needs to be taken up once more by the body of Christ- the church - as it reveals Gods glory and wisdom to the world (Ephesians 3:8-10).
In all three passages it is those in authority who are drawn by this brightness - whether they are kings, the Magi, or the "rulers and authorities in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 3:9). When the people of God reveal Gods glory as Christ himself did, these passages tell us, the rulers of heaven and earth will be unable to resist and will fall down in worship as the Magi did before Christ. How different things would be if our churches came close to fulfilling this vision!
January 9
Justice Through Gentleness
Isaiah 42:1-9; Psalm 29; Acts 10:34-43; Matthew 3:13-17
We seem to have little time for gentleness and humility. In our modern world, the person who does not shout and who tenderly nurtures bruised reeds, as the servant does in Isaiah 42:1-9, is likely to be trodden underfoot. The world of Isaiah was one in which vast competing empires fought with each other for rich pickings. The servant was as likely to be trampled by those stronger then as someone would be today. The values espoused by the servant in Isaiah are countercultural whenever they are practiced.
Jesus acts in the same way. We may think that the way to establish authority is to stand our ground and not to defer to people who are popular, as John the Baptist was. Yet Jesus publicly submits to John during his baptism. Gentleness and humility feature in Jesus life alongside passion and proclamation; contrary to what we might expect, they are powerful weapons in bringing in the kingdom. Isaiah promises that Gods servant will not "grow faint or be crushed" until "he has established justice in the earth" (Isaiah 42:4). The way of gentleness is not an easy one to take but, as Isaiah promises and Jesus illustrates, it is the path that leads to justice.
January 16
Which Way to God?
Isaiah 49:1-7; Psalm 40:1-11; 1 Corinthians 1:1-9; John 1:29-42
What counts as a successful ministry? In Isaiah 49:4 we encounter Gods servant struggling with apparent failure: "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity." Anyone involved in ministry of any kind will know how he feels. It can so often seem that the labor is hard and the rewards few. You cant help wondering whether John the Baptist felt the same. John worked hard before Jesus arrived and yet as soon as Jesus came into view, John was expected to step back and point only to him. When he was in prison awaiting execution, did John consider his ministry to be a success or a failure? Its hard to know, but what we see of John in the gospel suggests that he understood the true nature of ministry. Hard as it can be, ministry is not about us and our success, but about God and revealing the glory of God on earth.
John spent his time expecting the coming of Jesus and drew peoples attention to him when he arrived (John 1:29). The servant in Isaiah was called from his mothers womb to be the one in whom God will be glorified (Isaiah 49:3). Whether the servant is Israel, a prophet, Jesus, or anyone else, the point is the same: We are called to point people to God. This is the only criterion for judging whether a ministry is successful.
January 23
Come, Follow Me
Isaiah 9:1-4; Psalm 27:1, 4-9; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18; Matthew 4:12-23
We know the story of Jesus calling of the disciples so well that its difficult to appreciate their amazing response. Matthew tells us that Jesus passed by and called them to follow him. They did, without a seconds hesitation. How many of us can claim such an immediate response to Gods call? Of course, we dont know what the disciples thought later - did they kick themselves for their impetuousness? Were they swayed at all by a distraught father who, in a single swoop, lost both his workforce and his heirs to the business? We cannot tell, but we would be wrong to believe that the swiftness of their response indicated that following Jesus was easy for them.
In the world of Jesus, as in many fishing communities, the possession of nets and a boat with which to fish could mean the difference between life and death. The first disciples were prepared to give up stability and security - for what? Unlike us, they did not know the rest of the story but were prepared to take a great risk in response to those simple words: "Come, follow me." One explanation for their impulsiveness is offered by our reading from Isaiah: "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light" (Isaiah 9:2). When faced with the brightness of God, who could fail to respond?
January 30
Foolish Reversals
Micah 6:1-8; Psalm 15; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31; Matthew 5:1-12
Last week we saw the disciples rush headlong into an unknown future with God. This week we discover a little more about what this future entails"foolishness," according to Paul (1 Corinthians 1:18). How right he is! The kingdom of heaven, described by Jesus in the Beatitudes, ushers in a crazy world that turns everything on its head: The outcasts find a place in the center of things, the lowest in society become the highest, and those who are scorned become honored. In 1 Corinthians 1:18, Paul assures us that while this grand reversal, symbolized by the king dying horribly on a cross, is crazy to those "who are perishing," it is the power of God "to us who are being saved." It would be nice to believe him. Experience suggests otherwise. The mad world of the gospel is as hard for those who are being saved to understand as it is for those who are perishing.
We seem no more able to fulfil Gods radical vision of the world than the ancient Israelites did. As Micah puts it so beautifully, God doesnt want very much. All God asks is that we do justice, love acts of kindness, and walk humbly in faith - so straightforward and yet so difficult to achieve. Kingdom values run against all our natural instincts, but God constantly calls us to bring them about.
Paula Gooder studied at Oxford University before going on to teach in theological seminaries in Oxford and Birmingham, England. She also works as a freelance writer and lecturer in biblical studies.!doctype> | http://sojo.net/magazine/2005/01/light-gods-glory?quicktabs_top_magazine_articles=2 | 2013-05-18T10:23:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Judas, We Hardly Knew Ye
by Rose Marie Berger | August 2006
The 'gospel' of Judas and The Da Vinci Code make Christianity unrecognizable... | http://sojo.net/magazine/2006/08/judas-we-hardly-knew-ye?quicktabs_top_magazine_articles=0 | 2013-05-18T10:42:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Real Reason Americans Love Guns
by Ed Spivey Jr. | April 2013
I felt the same way. When I was 9.
THE DAY BEFORE President Obama's second inauguration (campaign code name: "Neener, neener, neener!"), Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell sent an email to constituents with a message somewhat lacking in a spirit of new beginnings: "The gun-grabbers in the Senate are about to launch an all-out assault on the Second Amendment. They're coming for your guns."
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This is disturbing. I don't have any guns, but I'm looking for places to hide them. And without guns, how will I protect my family from the coming assault? Can I hold off federal agents by flinging small appliances at them? Those I've got. In fact, I just got a new hand mixer. It's black and sleek, like the helicopters that will soon be circling over our homes. (Helicopter tip: Make sure the rotor blades have completely stopped before licking off the icing.)
Under Obama's new proposals, I'll probably have to register my appliances, or at least submit to a background check before I buy another one. Although I've heard you can avoid that if you get them at private appliance shows.
This latest attention to gun control prompted National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre to take the stage and, looking directly into the eyes of the American people, vehemently deny that he is French. Additionally, he helpfully pointed out that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." Or was it the other way around? To be honest I'm not sure what he said, because I got distracted by the wild look in his eyes, and the bits of saliva that gather in the corners of his mouth whenever he talks about guns. This guy really likes guns.
What I would ask Mr. "LaPierre" [giggle]—while keeping both hands out where he could see them—is this: How do you stop a good guy with a gun who's having a bad day? Or what if he's really depressed or angry at his boss for not allowing him to wear camouflage clothing to staff meetings? | http://sojo.net/magazine/2013/04/real-reason-americans-love-guns | 2013-05-18T10:54:41 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Heroes Waiting
for Adoption
Wilkes-Barre Raises the Bar
05/24/12
For the fourth year in a row, the annual MayDay Music Festival in Wilkes-Barre, PA is donating proceeds to Soldiers' Angels. Over the last four years, this event has raised almost $10,000 for SA, with $4,000 coming from last year alone! This year's Festival runs May 26-27 from noon to 10 p.m.
In the past, the festival has been a one day event, beginning at noon and ending at dusk. Due to the festival's success, the city's parks department has given approval to expand it to a two day event with longer hours.
Soldiers' Angels will be in attendance again this year with a table to encourage people to support the troops, and Soldiers' Angels brochures have been included in the packets given to prospective sponsors by the event organizers.
This year, the MayDay Festival includes a large number of national touring musical acts on various stages, as well as food vendors, raffles, a bake sale and a "MayDay PlayDay" section of the park which will feature arts & crafts, kids yoga, and more. Entrance is free.
Thanks so much to Sector One Entertainment, LLC for this tremendous opportunity and their years of generous support. If you are in the Wilkes-Barre area or know someone who is... pass the word! | http://soldiersangels.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1097&cntnt01returnid=206 | 2013-05-18T10:51:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Reddit /ˈrɛdɪt/,[3] stylized. Reddit is based in San Francisco, California.
Reddit was.
Overview
The site is a collection of entries submitted by its registered users, essentially a bulletin board system. The entries are organized into areas of interest called "reddits". Historically, the front page was the main reddit, and other areas were "subreddits". There is now no main reddit, but the term subreddit persists as an informal name for an area of interest.
Registered users, especially those that post new entries, or post comments to entries, are called "redditors", a portmanteau of "reddit editor". Reddit itself is a portmanteau of "read/edit" and of "read it", i.e., "I read it on Reddit".
As submissions post to the site, redditors can vote for or against them (upvote/downvote). Each reddit has a front page that shows newer submissions that have been rated highly. Redditors can also post comments about the submission, and respond back and forth in a conversation tree of comments; the comments themselves can also be upvoted and downvoted.
The home page of Reddit displays front page content from selected reddits. reddits, is determined by the age of the submission, positive ("upvoted") to negative ("downvoted") feedback ratio and the total vote count.[4] Dozens of submissions cycle through these front pages daily.
As of June 2012[update], commentary on the site is particularly active, often running into the hundreds on some submissions. Popular comments have generated many 'memes' within the Reddit community.[citation needed]
Reddits
Any registered user may create a reddit, although a link to do so does not appear on the user's homepage until after thirty days.[5] There are over 67,000 subreddits to peruse, with the default set being (as of October 18, 2011)[6]
Users may customize what is shown on their personal front page by subscribing to individual reddits through a page that shows all reddits available. The site's general front page is also accessible via a link to "all" at the top of the individual user's customised front page.
Reddit meetups
The Reddit community has been known to socialise at local parks and bars around the world,[7] and there are many localised reddits for local meetings.
Reddit IAmA President Barack Obama (while campaigning for the 2012 election), Chris Hadfield (who answered questions from the International Space Station), Bill Gates, Jimmy Kimmel, Ron Paul, Stephen Colbert, Bear Grylls, Deadmau5, Zach Braff, Neil Strauss, and Tim Ferriss.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Barack Obama's AMA is the highest rated on the site, as of February 2013[update].[20] On August 29, 2012, when the AMA occurred, the increased traffic brought down many parts of the website.[21]
Celebrities participating in IAmAs have found the experience a mixed bag, usually depending on how well they understand Reddit and its ethos. Woody Harrelson[22] had a bad experience when he tried to run an IAmA primarily to promote a new movie; the audience wanted to explore other things with him, which caused conflict. In contrast, shortly thereafter, Molly Ringwald[23] ran an IAmA that was received warmly; she explained that she had been lurking for a while, understood more about the community, and proceeded without an agenda. Harrelson's experience became a meme in other IAmAs, with Ringwald's shown as a contrast.
History
Reddit was founded in June 2005[24] by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in Medford MA, both 22-year-old graduates of the University of Virginia.[25], Not A Bug.[26][27] Condé Nast Publications, owner of Wired, acquired Reddit on October 31, 2006, and the team moved to San Francisco.[28] In January 2007, Swartz was fired.[29]
Open source
On June 18, 2008, Reddit became an open source project.[30] With the exception of the anti-spam/cheating portions, all of the code and libraries written for Reddit became freely available on Github.[31]
Growth
By the end of 2008, the team had grown to include Erik Martin, Jeremy Edberg,[32] David King,[33] and Mike Schiraldi.[34] In 2009, Huffman and Ohanian moved on to form Hipmunk, recruiting Slowe[35] and King[36] shortly thereafter.
Reddit Gold
In July 2010, after explosive traffic growth, Reddit introduced Reddit Gold, offering new features for a price of US$3.99/month or US$29.99/year.[37] The revenue and attention got them approval to buy more servers and employ more people.[citation needed]
On February 14, 2013, Reddit began accepting the digital currency bitcoin for its Reddit Gold subscription service through a partnership with bitcoin payment processor Coinbase.[38]
Independence
On September 6, 2011, Reddit became operationally independent of Condé Nast, now operating as a separate subsidiary of its parent company, Advance Publications.[39]
Blackout
On January 11, 2012, Reddit announced that it would be participating in a 12-hour sitewide blackout in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act.[40] The blackout occurred on January 18 and coincided with the blackouts of Wikipedia and several other Internet properties. In May 2012, Reddit joined the Internet Defense League, a group formed to organise future protests.[41]
Demographics
According to Google DoubleClick Ad Planner's estimate, the median U.S. Reddit user is male (72%), 25–34 years of age, and has a college education. The analysis also shows that many of the top ten audience interests are in the tech field, suggesting a computer savvy demographic.[42]
"Restoring Truthiness" campaign.[43] The movement was started by user mrsammercer, in a post where he describes waking up from a dream in which Stephen Colbert holds a satirical rally in D.C.[44]
He writes, "This would be the high water mark of American satire. Half a million people pretending to suspend all rational thought in unison. Perfect harmony. It'll feel like San Francisco in the late 60s, only we won't be able to get any acid."
The idea resonated with the Reddit community, which launched a campaign to bring the event to life. Over $600,000[45] was raised for charity to gain the attention of Colbert. The campaign was mentioned on-air several times, and when the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was held in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 2010, thousands of redditors made the journey.[46]
During a post-rally press conference, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian asked, "What role did the Internet campaign play in convincing you to hold this rally?" Jon Stewart responded by saying that, though it was a very nice gesture, the two had already thought of the idea prior and the deposit on using the National Mall was already paid during the summer, so it acted mostly as a "validation of what we were thinking about attempting".[47] In a message to the Reddit community, Colbert later added, "I have no doubt that your efforts to organize and the joy you clearly brought to your part of the story contributed greatly to the turnout and success."[48]
Technology
Reddit was originally written in Common Lisp but was rewritten in Python in December 2005.[49] The reasons given for the switch were wider access to code libraries and greater development flexibility. The Python web framework that former Reddit employee Aaron Swartz developed to run the site, web.py, is now available as an open-source project.[50]
Reddit currently uses Pylons as its web framework.[51] As of November 2009[update], Reddit has decommissioned their physical servers and migrated to Amazon Web Services.[52]
Reddit uses PostgreSQL as primary datastore and slowly moving to Apache Cassandra, a column oriented datastore. It uses RabbitMQ for offline processing, HAProxy for load balancing and memcached for caching.
In early 2009, Reddit started using jQuery.[53]
Mobile web
On June 7, 2010, Reddit staff launched a revamped mobile interface featuring rewritten CSS, a new color scheme, and a multitude of improvements.[54]
Client interface applications
There are several unofficial applications that use the Reddit API on the Android Market, including Reddit is Fun,[55] Andreddit,[56] F5, BaconReader,[57] and an Android tablet specific application called Reddita.[58] For Apple's iOS, there is an official Reddit app called iReddit[59] as well as a number of unofficial third party client apps. For Windows 8, there is an unofficial Reddit app called Reddit on ReddHub.[60]
Search
On July 21, 2010, Reddit outsourced the Reddit search engine to Flaptor, who used its search product IndexTank.[61] Reddit currently uses Amazon CloudSearch.[62]
Community and culture.[63]
Its popularity has enabled users to take unprecedented advantage of such a large community.. Almost all of the user reviews on Alexa.com, which rates Reddit's monthly unique traffic rating 125th in the United States, mention Reddit's "good content" as a likable quality. However, others raise the negative aspects of the potential for Reddit's communities to possess a "hive mind" of sorts,[64] embodying some negative aspects of group interaction theories like crowd psychology and collective consciousness.
In recent history, Reddit has been known as the instigator of several large-scale projects, some short and others long-term, in order to benefit others. A selection of major events are outlined below:
- In early December 2010, members of the Christianity subreddit decided to hold a fundraiser[65] and later members of the atheism subreddit decided to give some friendly competition,[66] cross-promoting[67] fundraising drives for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and World Vision's Clean Water Fund, respectively. Later, the Islam subreddit joined in, raising money for Islamic Relief. In less than a week, the three communities (as well as the Reddit community at large) raised over $200,000. Most of this was raised by the atheism subreddit,[68] though the Christianity subreddit had a higher donation amount per subscriber.
- In early October 2010, a story was posted on Reddit about a seven-year-old girl, Kathleen Edward, who was in the advanced stages of Huntington's disease. The girl's neighbors were taunting her and her family. Redditors banded together and gave the girl a shopping spree[69][70] at Tree Town Toys, a toy store local to the story owned by a Reddit user.
- Reddit started the largest Secret Santa program in the world, which is still in operation to date. For the 2010 Holiday season, 92 countries were involved in the Secret Santa program. There were 17,543 participants, and $662,907.60 was collectively spent on gift purchases and shipping costs.[71][72][73]
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- Reddit users donated $185,356.70 to Direct Relief International for Haiti after the earthquake devastated the island in January 2010.[75]
- Reddit users donated over $70,000 to the Faraja Orphanage in the first 24 hours to help secure the orphanage after intruders robbed and attacked one of the volunteers, Omari, who survived a strike to the head from a machete.[76]
Controversies involving Reddit
The website has a strong culture of free speech and very few rules about the types of content that may be posted.[77] This has led to the creation of several communities that have been perceived as offensive, including forums dedicated to jailbait (since banned) and pictures of dead bodies; several such subreddits were the focus of an edition of Anderson Cooper 360 in September 2011.[78] However, "Suggestive or sexual content featuring minors" was not explicitly banned until February 2012, after members of the forum Something Awful planned to send correspondence to "Parent Teacher Associations, politicians, churches, news outlets and the FBI" about such subreddits.[79]
In October 2012, a Gawker article published the real-life identity of "Violentacrez", a Reddit moderator prominently involved with a string of controversial subreddits devoted to explicit material.[80][81] As a result of the story, the user, revealed to be a middle-aged computer programmer from Texas, was fired from his job.[81] In response to the exposé, a number of Reddit moderators banned Gawker links from their subreddits.[80]
Following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Reddit faced criticism after users wrongly identified a number of people as suspects.[82] Reddit general manager Erik Martin later issued an apology for this behavior, criticizing the "online witch hunts and dangerous speculation" that took place on the website.[83]
Awards
In May 2010, Reddit was named in Lead411's "2010 Hottest San Francisco Companies" list.[84]
See also
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- Reddit's official blog
- Reddit's source code (hosted by GitHub)
- Alien Logo Archive
- The Culture of Reddit Documentary produced by Off Book (Web series)
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No, we didn't just make the tread thicker. (We already have arguably the thickest, longest lasting tread you can find on a 23c and 26c tires) We mined the brains at Panaracer (while they were sleeping) for the best technology to juice up our Everwears and after a week of sleepless nights we found the mojo.
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Since 1998, we’ve recorded a lot of live radio broadcast mixes.
We’ll see how this goes and hopefully add more.
Matt MacQueen and Dave Siska:
Dub House+Techno Tag Team - Right-click to download
(recorded live Nov. 7, 2003)
Also earlier this year Matt did an mix for the excellent UK crew DeepSoul3. Focusing on a lot of favorite classics and mid-tempo grooves.
Matt MacQueen > In My System for DeepSoul 3 Right click to download MP3 (link fixed! and re-hosted Feb. 2010)
From their website:
We’ve been badgering Matt for an age to do a mix for us. Along with Dave Siska, Matt has kept Chicago’s airwaves alight with for over 10 years with their blend of deep atmospheric techno, house and assortments. For this mix, Matt has dusted off many of his favourite treasures to come up with a superlative blend of boogie, electronics and groove. It’s been well worth the wait..
Thanks Chris for the opportunity!
Nice touch guys……. really glad the site is back and the music of course!!!! Upmost respect to you both for taking the time to do this.
If i get to the usa the drinks are on me !!
Regards
Martin
London England.
Cheers Martin, thanks for dropping a note!
loving this mix! doing my homework and bobbing my head to the music =)
Keep doing what your doing Guys.
It’s always a treat when I see in my inbox that you’ve added a new mix.
BTW the vault is a great idea cheers!
Many Thanks
Paul
Sweet and neat mixing and track selection going on here whenever I come to have a look here!!
Excellent work, just my taste. Thanks a lot for putting up the ancient broadcast’s.
Tell me is there a way of getting a tracklist for the “Dub House+Techno Tag Team” Mix somehow? Would really appreciate that.
Ciao
Matt & Dave
Thanks for another great journey through sound and space.
Peace
M
Thanks a ton Matt and Dave for giving us peeps the opportunity to get more of an education!!
Really appreciate the time and effort to get it out there!
All the best for the year and to the Sonic Sunset entity – kudos and respect.
A.
Great to see and hear you guys are still doin’ the thing- keep it up and hope all is well with both of you. From Chi if you’ve forgotten- we met and was an avid NUR listener.
Greetings and a peacesign from Holland, keep the music playing!
Here is a track list for “Dub Tag Team mix”:
Great mixes!
I still have 69 of these in my iTunes and I always come back to them. Right now I’m enjoying 15 Jul 2005 – Disco at the Edge of the Universe pt. 1
wow, awesome… that’s quite a collection! cheers
Nice work guys, just stumbled across this site. Thanks for devoting your time to spread this amazing music, it’s wonderful!
thanks Kevin, glad you found us
Its great to see you guys back in more regular action. Thanks a heap for making these available – both of them are the business. I’m particularly addicted to the In My System Mix – its keeping me sane while I workon my thesis. Any chanceof a track list?
hi,
is it possible to catch the grusane & cole mix from “It’s in the rhythm”?
thanks a lot,
fred
long time listener from Brazil of Sonic Sunset and older Clinically Inclined, great sets. hey I still love and use MDs……and vinyl…..its forever
man, what was that old mix with “Raised by Snakes” on it? and was that particular track a remix version? i’m not sure, but as i try to recall it in my head, it sounds different than the original version.
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NAN!
Using Names In Fiction
by Guy Haley.
*****
Guy Haley on Twitter, and Web.
The next guest on the blog is Aliette de Bodard, one of my favourite authors from last year. You can check the full schedule in the link up top.
Posted on January 25, 2013, in Debut Authors Guest Series, Guest Posts and tagged Angry Robot, Angry Robot Books, Black Library, Champion of Mars, Fantasy, Guy Haley, Names, Names A New Perspective, Richards and Klein Investigations, Science Fiction, Skarsnik, Solaris Books, Space Opera, The meaning of Names, Warhammer. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
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Matt & Tea Leigh at Bottlecap Restaurant
Jane Shin with SoundCloud iOS on April 08, 2012 05:22
Nice
<3 the little vocal solo here. Felt like I was back on the plains of Kansas!
@shifty teeth productions: I would be ok ok with that!!
Ha, i didn't know this was recorded
yay!
Woah. This is so nice. Wish I'd been there!
nice!!!
check me out also :)
so awesome! did you happen to get my little stint on the piano?
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The British Library The British Library Discussion & words of songs C0999X0005XX-18 1CDR0008163 (copy of C999/5) Item notes: Fragments of words to a song. English sound English folk songs and music (Suffolk) Herring, Desmond Herring, Shelagh Routs, Mrs (female) 1958 "Red Tiles", Rendlesham, Suffolk, England, UK Desmond and Shelagh Herring Collection 44100 16 00:01:08 44100 16 00:01:08 44100 16 192 kbps 00:01:08 44100 16 128 kbps | http://sounds.bl.uk/Item/ViewXmlFile/025M-C0999X0005XX-1800V0 | 2013-05-18T10:13:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Got Okra?
Okra is one of my favorite foods. Yes, I love it fried but also in gumbos, stewed with tomatoes, pickled, and even slow cooked alone for what my mother and I refer to as “slimey okra”. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? When the fresh okra started coming in heavy in our garden, my Mama would prepare a small pot of slimey okra just for her and I to share. It is basically just plain okra slow cooked whole in slightly salted water. The okra releases it’s “goo” (called mucilage) and the entire okra was well, in a word, ‘slimey’. Since none of my other family members would come within 6 feet of it, the slimey okra was all ours. Yum.
If you like gumbo you know it’s this same goo that makes a traditional gumbo thick but if you cook it with tomatoes some of the sliminess is reduced (due to the acidity of the tomatoes). During my childhood, we ate many dinners of stewed okra and tomatoes – seasoned with a little bacon, salt and pepper and usually served over rice. This is very much a South Carolina dish and we ate it often during the summer months when the main ingredients were literally over flowing from our backyard garden. It made a light but filling summer supper during those hot months.
In my okra research, I recently found out that okra can also be described as a health food since it’s high in fiber, vitamin C, and folate content and contains antioxidants too. The seeds of edible okra also produce oil that is high in unsaturated fats and apparently tastes and smell pleasant, although I’ve never found okra oil for sale. I’ll have research this more. Okra seed oil is also suitable as a biofuel. Okra of different varieties is grown and eaten throughout the world – from Malaysia to Nigeria to Vietnam to the Caribbean.
Of course, here in the South we love our okra. I do believe it is a very under-rated vegetable – obviously it’s good for you and can be prepared in many ways – surely one to suit most any taste. Now frying okra is probably the least healthy but very tasty. My “died-in-the-wool non-southern food eating” husband now loves fried okra. Yes, he told me didn’t like “southern food” when we first met and yes, I married him anyway. I feel one of my goals in life is to undo the wrongs of bad food – so I’ve been converting him slowly over the past 7 years. But that’s a story for another post – or two.
Fried okra is a treat in our house and I prepare it for special occasions and/or when the first local okra comes into harvest, which is about right now. It so happens that I was testing a mustard roasted pork loin recipe when I made some fried okra so I paired them with creamy stone-ground grits. It was a wonderful combination of flavors and texture. I’ll be posting the recipes and images for the entire meal soon but I’ve included one picture now, just to whet your appetite!
Add the cornmeal coated okra to the hot oil. My cast iron skillet is perfect for frying up a pound or so of okra. Too much okra in a small pan would not cook as evenly.
The okra is getting browned. Try to avoid stirring and flipping the okra too much. Having a seasoned skillet and a familiar stove top makes this easier.
The okra is ready…crunchy with a great fresh flavor. Remove to a paper towel lined platter so the excess oil can drain off. Fried okra is best eaten asap!
Here is that fried okra crowning a plate of creamy stone-ground grits and mustard roasted pork loin. Delicious.
Fried Okra
- 1 lb. fresh tender okra, washed
- 1 tbl. grape oil*
- 1/3 cup cornmeal
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp. pepper
- ¼ + 1 tbl. vegetable oil
Trim the stems from the okra and cut each pod into approximately ½ inch slices. Sprinkle the okra with grape oil and stir lightly to distribute the oil throughout. Sprinkle the okra with the salt, pepper and the cornmeal. Stir to coat.
Heat a heavy skillet (I use a seasoned cast iron skillet) and add ¼ cup plus 1 tbl. good quality vegetable oil (I use a canola blend). Heat until very hot, but not smoking. Lower the heat slightly and add the okra all at once. It may splatter, so be careful. Allow to ‘fry” for a full minute or so before turning the mixture over. Adjust temp as necessary so okra cooks at a medium high temp but does not burn. Try not to smash the okra too much and stir only as necessary to allow even cooking. Total cooking time should be 15-20 minutes depending on the size of your pan.
Remove okra to a paper towel lined plate to drain excess oil, season with more sat and pepper to taste if necessary, and serve immediately.
* Grape oil has a higher burn temp than most other oils such as olive oil, so I use it when I know I will be cooking in high heat.
I just tried Okra recently … love your recipe!
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There was fraud in many home mortgages. We should see more of these cases but California is one of the few states where there have been prosecutions.
It is difficult to convince me that with Countrywide’s vast portfolio that this practice was uncommon. One of the best ways to defraud a homeowner is to sell him on the idea of cheap credit, lowering his monthly payments, knowing all along the loan will revert to a floating rate. That new interest rate produces a devastating increase in monthly payments forcing foreclosure. This is fraud. Conning people into home loans is what the great lecturers on personal responsibility claim was a rare event.
I don’t think so.
Here is one of my articles on this subject – Bank of America Sued Over Countrywide Mortgage Related Investments
James Pilant | http://southwerk.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/california-ag-to-use-6-5m-settlement-to-help-foreclosed-homeowners-via-loaning4less-com%E2%84%A2/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Old School by Tobias Wolff.
“I pictured the black-beamed dining hall loud with voices. The chapel windows blazing red on winter afternoons. The comradely sound of the glee club practicing, the scrape of skates on the outdoor rink, a certain chair in the library, the deep peace of the library…” The voice is that of the
nameless narrator, a scholarship boy from the Pacific Northwest who finds himself adrift in the chilly waters of WASP privilege.
As today’s reader knows, in just a few years that world of certainties would fracture, and though the old order would eventually knit itself back together again, the iron imperatives of class would not be quite the same again. But the assassin’s shot had not yet rung out. Socialites had not yet hosted Black Panthers at radically chic gatherings, and the children of privilege had not traded their Brooks Brothers duds for velvet rags. The protagonist must come of age in a world of rules no less binding for being unarticulated. .”
But the school has its routes to earned success as well. All the boys worship at the shrine of literature in a way that would be unthinkable today (but that I can attest, having come along a scant five years later, was a reality in some circles at the time). The whole school is mad about writing and writers and all the boys are dying to excel in the literary contests held periodically by the school. In their dorm rooms the boys toil away into the wee hours at poems and short stories. Drawing on their connections, the headmaster and teachers invite leading lights in the field of letters to campus to address the student body – and to meet with the boy who submits the winning entry to writing contests judged by the authors themselves. Some of the funniest scenes in the book describe the visits of Ayn Rand and Robert Frost to the school and their peculiar egotistic responses to the boys’ literary efforts.
Like his fellows and like adolescents everywhere, the protagonist desires both to conceal his inner self and to reveal himself in a burst of authenticity. In this charged state, he enters upon a quest to write something that will demonstrate his superiority and win him an audience with the most thrilling celebrity author of all: Ernest Hemingway. The plot turns on his ambition and the lengths it drives him to. As the headmaster of the school says when introducing Frost to the student body: “Make no mistake… a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.”
The title Old School, both ironically reverent and dismissive toward the citadels of WASP culture, expresses the deep duality in the book. Like Fitzgerald’s Midwestern dreamers before him, Wolff’s narrator is more than half in love with gothic chapels and the fine green lace of New England woods edging into spring. But the longest shadow the book casts is into the future – into the protagonist’s tour as a soldier in Vietnam, into years of work transforming himself into a writer, into a reconfigured totally unexpected world. The most compelling aspect of this complex successful novel is its artful positioning at a turning point in time, when for a moment the Old School still reigned.
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Mississippi @ Birmingham (AA):
Pitches-strikes: Molina 102-70, Kloess 17-15.
Groundouts-flyouts: Molina 9-2, Kloess 1-1.
Batters faced: Molina 28, Kloess 7.
Molina has a 16 K / 2 BB ratio in 23.2 innings (4 games). Jared Mitchell went 2-5 with a Home Run and 2 K. He is hitting .298/.420/.544/.964 with 20 K and 11 BB in 57 AB. | http://soxbronzetitan.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/nestor-molina-struck-out-5-walked-1-tonight-april-20/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=ca8cc7cdd9 | 2013-05-18T10:42:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
/////// every day is a beautiful day /////// John Cage
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
If still boring, then eight.
Then sixteen. Then thirty-two.
Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
Music is Everywhere, we just have to look for, [a program that generates the I Ching numbers, available for downloading on the Net]. With respect to the source material, I am in a global situation. Words come first from here and then from there. The situation is not linear. It is as though I am in a forest hunting for ideas.
.
~ from "An Autobiographical Statement"
— How do you feel about the intrusion of technology with art or the intrusion of art with technology?.
— In other words, art should eventually become magic?
Yes, if, for instance, I could telephone without bothering with the telephone.
This post was originally inspired by squashed's third installment of Three Lists For The Lover (After Love) at motel de moka. And on that note...
Love is memory. In the immediate present we don't love; life is too much with us. We lust, wilt, snort, swallow, gobble, hustle, nuzzle, etc. Later, memory flashes images swathed in nostalgia and yearning. We call that Love. Ha! Better to call it Madness.
Amazing what discoveries one often makes whilst following a tangent!
I was looking for an image of John Cage and came across a fascinating virtual collage of Cage-related information and media, created by Ralph Lichtensteiger, whose diary contains a wealth of enlightening entries. But that's only part of the main site (and here's his latest project).
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 Permanent link
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I had AVG, but then took it off because I found out that when my Norton told me it had expired, it didn't mean that my total Norton coverage had expired, it just meant that my Norton wasn't updating itself. However, I had already deleted Norton when I installed AVG, and so when I uninstalled AVG, I was left without any sort of protection.
Naturally, I did not stop going online. As I'm sure everyone here with half a brain can imagine, my computer is now rather fucked up.
I don't want a lecture on how stupid I was. To me, this seems a lot like unwanted pregnancy. People know how to prevent them, and have access to the means to prevent them, they just don't bother. Anyways, now I'm trying to get Norton back on my computer but I'm not having much success. My Norton tried to download, but then it popped up with "An unrecoverable error has occurred. Please click Technical Support for more information." Naturally, Technical Support was not helpful at all.
WTF do I do now? I was able to download malware, or antimalware, or whatever it's called, but I guess I don't have an antiviral program? How do I make my Norton install and work? How do I get rid of anything that might have been installed on my computer? When can I stop freaking the fuck out about things?
All I want to do is watch the Office. Not kidding. That's all I want to do. | http://spacefem.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=40137 | 2013-05-18T10:12:45 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) today won a $440 million contract with NASA to develop the successor to the Space Shuttle and transport American astronauts into space.
SpaceX expects to undertake its first manned flight by 2015 - a timetable that capitalizes on the proven success of the company's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft combination. While Dragon is initially being used to transport cargo to the International Space Station, both Dragon and Falcon 9 were designed from the beginning to carry crew.
Under the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative's base period, SpaceX will make the final modifications necessary to prepare Dragon to safely transport astronauts into space. These include:
-Seats for seven astronauts.
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-A breakthrough propulsive landing system for gentle ground touchdowns on legs.
-Refinements and rigorous testing of essential aspects of Dragon's design, including life-support systems and an advanced cockpit design complete with modern human interfaces.
SpaceX.
© 2012 Spaceflight Now Inc. | http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1208/03ccicap/spacex.html | 2013-05-18T10:53:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Program Management:
Getting Started
Requirements Definition guidelines
Functional Block Diagram Examples
A link to a free Schedule tool called Open Project
Example Project Budget and tracking
This budget is fairly complex and tracks cost per system. Use as is or modify for what you need.
Reviews
Example PDR Presentation from DANDE
What should be in a design review. Goddard guidelines.
Simple Design Review Template
Example CDR review Package (55MB HASP March 2008)
Additional Sources
Mission Phase Overview from NASA
Fantastic overview from solar system basics to mission planning and operations
Ideas about what a small mission might include, data analysis
Great Example of what is due when table form | http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/statewideprograms/space-grant-university/space-grant-university-program-management | 2013-05-18T10:32:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Edited by Daniel S. Friedman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011)
“Tom Kundig’s architecture possesses the relaxed and unpretentious air of American pragmatist vernacular (from farmhouses and barns to anonymous industrial spaces), layered with traces of Miesian structural classicism, the ideal of flowing space and the fusion of outdoors and indoors. This architecture is rigorously organized and aesthetically refined and elegant, but at the same time tough, rough, and matter-of-fact. Kundig’s steel is warm and invites touch, in contrast to the cold steel of today’s high-tech rationalism.”
– Juhani Pallasmaa, from the Introduction
As a follow up to the 2006 monograph Tom Kundig: Houses, Princeton Architectural Press gives us another monograph on the award winning architect, whose body of work continues to push the envelope of the otherwise mundane typology that is the single family residence. With a short and lyrical introduction by Juhani Pallasmaa, book-ended by Daniel S. Friedman’s more in depth project-by-project essay, the seventeen houses beautifully photographed for Houses 2 represent the Seattle-based architect’s continuing fascination with the paradigm of the single family home.
Whether through the gizmo of a door handle on one house or his hot rodding of another – to use the term Friedman writes of in his essay (and Dung Ngo wrote of in the previous book), where the front door of the house simultaneously opens a large window – Kundig has persisted in his exploration of architectural gadgetry, while broadening the geographic locations in which his explorations have typically taken place. Along with the more typical Seattle buildings, the projects for Houses 2 also include a beach house in Hawaii, as well as a private home in Sitges, Spain.
What is clear from all the projects is the client’s recognition of Kundig’s ability to infuse a site with his uncanny appreciation of its most intimate characteristics and details. Whether carving a powder room out of a boulder, or defining an axis in an otherwise nondescript site, Kundig is a wizard of architectural evocation, as he renders his material spaces sublime in their detailing.
Of the seventeen breathtaking projects, four of them stand out: the Pierre on Lopez Island in Washington (also the cover of the book) for its surreal inhabitation of its site; Shadowboxx, also on Lopez Island, for its Kundigesque gadgetry, including a roof on its bath house which lifts completely off; Sitges Studio, which puts a spin on the otherwise banal contemporary inner city home, including a door made of Corten steel that would make Marcel Duchamp blush; and a country home in Idaho, built in the vast plain of its high desert. The book’s opening project, a California stand-alone residence in Montecito, is perhaps Kundig’s most perfect representation to date of the modern home in the natural landscape.
As with any sequel however, bigger and better is always accompanied by the loss of freshness and novelty, the inevitable dumbing down that accompanies commercial success. As such, a smattering of it is evident here. Much of the playfulness evident in his Houses remains, though for reasons unexplained, it seems as though it is hidden just beneath the surface. Such as one can see in the beautiful claw marks in the boulder of the Pierre residence, or the glowing hearth at Shadowboxx – this is all muted compared to the free reign exhibited in his earlier work such as Studio House and Chicken Point Cabin.
The Pierre could perhaps be described as a modern iteration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, certainly in the way it occupies its site with a mighty thunderclap, choosing as it does to inhabit an excavated boulder, rather than simply building on top of it. The effect of the evening light in the cavity of the rock is eerie to say the least, and is one of many striking features Kundig has built into the residence, including a mirror in the ground floor powder room which disappears into a skylight of rough carved stone – itself a juxtaposition to the exposed bare concrete walls of its living room.
Shadowboxx is as its description denotes a playful composition of folding steel with a strong vertical hearth element, including the characteristic Kundig detail of gadgetry in which the entire roof of one structure folds open like a large door. This is reminiscent of his early Chicken Point Cabin picture window in which one whole wall opened in one impossibly large gesture. Of all the residences in Houses 2¸ this one is the most austere in its finishing, demanding a material ascetic in the steel walls and rough sawn timber ceilings and floor, with an exposed structure of steel I-beams. Here is a tectonic honesty typically left unseen, creating a universe of tactile possibilities traditionally banished from the contemporary residence.
The Outpost residence in Bellvue, Idaho is a response to the remoteness and harshness of the landscape, with a modest wood structure and side yard making a formidable gesture in the vastness of the prairie space. With a band of vertical and horizontal windows on its south face lining up with the building’s main stair, its structural honesty is conveyed with its exposed ceiling joists and becomes a part of the building’s exterior elevation. The majesty of the landscape is harnessed by Kundig through framed views out of the building’s generous glazing, with all the modern accoutrements of the modern outpost cabin, including the space for a grand piano next to the hearth.
Sitges Studio may very well be home to one of the book’s most whimsical architectural details – a steel door that has multiple ways of being opened and closed. Much like Marcel Duchamp’s famous door, here again is another Kundig gizmo in which larger and smaller doors can be opened and closed into each other on the same central hinge. This is clearly a client that allows Kundig’s imagination free reign, and it shows in the artfully rendered interior details – reminiscent of Antonio Gaudi and Charles Rennie Mackintosh – that are effectively balanced with the larger composition of the house’s spaces. Even more than the other city home’s featured in the book – one in Portland and another in his home city of Seattle – the Sitges home is perhaps made more evocative in its removal from the American vernacular. A wonderful inner courtyard and pool, along with a covered garage, are in themselves all carefully sculpted compositions, while its material expressions of concrete and Corten steel give it a striking street presence.
But as mentioned already, it is Kundig’s California Monticeto residence that is the most sublime expression of the modern home. With precedents like Mies’ Farnsworth house and Wright’s Robie House, the Monticeto residence is at once a sculpture in the landscape while fulfilling the functions of the modern day home. With its site next to the sea, the house responds to its context by lifting its roof to allow clerestory lighting throughout, with its lower windows fixed on the horizon line. A reflecting pool captures rainwater off of the structure’s evocative steel roof, while its austere black painted steel structure and mullions are a striking counterpoint to the open sight lines to the sea, sky, and plain.
Tom Kundig is undoubtedly one of the most responsive architects today working on the continued reinvention of the modern, single family home. With a tenure of working on larger institutional projects as a partner at Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen – such as the Mission Hill winery near Kelowna – it is interesting to see how his architecture has evolved with its own particular set of rules, including the artistry of invention he evokes. Perhaps as a result of the success of his first book, his architecture has now become sought out by a more well-heeled clientele, and while the houses may get larger, the rigour of his expression bears the scrutiny this entails when set against the demands of the modern home.
Houses 2 will certainly not disappoint the architect and curator alike, as Kundig’s push into the comfort zone of the single family residence represents perhaps the profession’s final frontier – an enterprise that explores the most fundamental values of any architectural pursuit, something inhabiting the space between survival and domestic comfort. Kundig also reminds us that this pursuit need not be so serious – it is this opportunity for playfulness in architecture that can collectively set our imaginations free, a fact which clearly has not gone overlooked by his clients.
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To read a review of Tom Kundig: Houses, go here.
For information on the Tom Kundig: Houses 2, you can visit the Princeton Architectural Press website. | http://spacing.ca/vancouver/2011/10/25/tom-kundig-houses-2/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Reviewed by Sarah M. (age 9)
I loved this book because of all the little surprises! Also, because of all the ordinary things that go wrong! I could almost hear the wagon. Rose seems a lot like me because when Rose finds out she's moving it is like when I moved! She doesn't want to go just like me! She doesn't want to move because she had to say goodbye to her Grandma and Grandpa!
I recommend this book to anyone who likes little surprises. They would like it because there are a lot of twists and turns of this book. I also recommend it to people who like characters that long for something to happen. This book is for people who read the Little House series. It's about Laura's daughter!
Clickety-Clack! | http://spaghettibookclub.org/review.php?review_id=5451 | 2013-05-18T10:22:45 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Magnetic Rush
SpaceGravity2:Hardcor mod
MLP Hentai: Milkmare
Colliderix Level Pack
484
playchilla
A difficult skill/puzzle game that requires good keyboard skills. Stay in the darkness. Be quiet.
Use ARROWS to move. Use MOUSE to throw pebbles. Use 'R' to restart level and ESC to get back to the main menu. | http://spamtheweb.com/play/shadowess | 2013-05-18T11:01:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
I have been up to my elbows and eyeballs in annual reviews. I’m doing a bunch of my own this week, as well as acting as LEA for several others. Some teachers have reviews that go smoothly and amazing well. Some need a bit of help. And some are absolute disasters. It is this last category that results in headaches for everyone and unfortunately it happens all too often. There are many reasons why an annual review can go poorly, but I find the single biggest factor is in preparation. The more preparation, the better the meeting goes. The less preparation, the worse it goes.
The most hideous meetings I ever attended was at a middle school. I was the high school representative and drove half way across the county to get there. Once I got there, I had to wait nearly an hour because other meetings were running late. Fortunately the parent was not there, as the teacher was anxious to postpone which I thumbed down. I made her call the parent and get permission to hold it, which the parent was happy to do. Then the IEP was not filled out. We had to bang it all out there. Oy. Or another middle school meeting where I arrived, and the parent and itinerants and everyone was there except the caseload teacher. Where was she? In her classroom trying to type the goals and other parts, thus making us all wait. Or, yet another middle school meeting where I was late because the one I was attending across the hall ran late. When I walked into the crowded room, the parents were visibly fuming and the tension was so thick everyone was about ready to suffocate. This was because the teacher had made some careless comment and now the parents were loaded for bear.
In each of these situations, even though none of these were my students and this was not even my school or my meeting, I managed to help salvage the situation from potential disaster. Even the middle school LEAs and graduation coaches seemed at a loss as to how to handle these situations. In the first case, we were able to bang out the IEP in about an hour once I overcame the team’s reluctance. It was the last meeting of the day and everyone wanted to go home. But my general rule is the death is about the only reason to postpone…or an attorney, which is practically the same as death. It takes an enormous amount of coordination to get all the players in the same room at the same time. Don’t blow it. In the second instance, I got the teacher to just print out what she had plus the previous year’s IEP….after problems with the printer. This is why waiting until the last minute courts disaster, and Murphy WILL move in and take up residence. In the final case, I discovered there were things in the IEP that were negotiable enough for the parents that they could walk out less mad. They still did not like that teacher, but at least felt better about high school transition.
An IEP is often treated like a court case just waiting to happen. And it is not a bad idea to view it as such when writing one. But you can not become so paralyzed with fear that you end up avoiding it. It must be done, so you might as well grab it and run with vigor to get it done. It is daunting but not impossible to write a decent IEP that will serve the student well without causing either the school or the parents to feel like they have been robbed. I have suggestions right here in my blog that might be useful for both parents and teachers.
This is one field where experience really does count as long as it is good experience. Someone who can write a proper, legal IEP can save the school thousands in litigation costs. A teacher who knows how to talk to parents without ticking them off can save an administrator countless headaches. A competent teacher who can actually teach the students can help the school meet its goals and the all important AYP. I have seen all too often what happens when a teacher is incompetent. People get frustrated, corners are cut and then parents are ready to go to an attorney.
An experienced, competent teacher is also more likely to stick around, as long as minimum efforts are made to retain him/her. I’ll talk about retention in a future post, but experience does help endure future obstacles and deteriorating conditions at least up to a point. I was able to handle a caseload larger than any other SID/PID teacher in the county with less help than any other teacher by virtue of my experience and tenacious commitment to NOT allow anything to happen that would endanger the students. Over time I developed experience enough to keep little things from turning into big things and when a big problem came along I learned how to handle a fair number of those. And finally, I learned to recognize when something was too big for me to handle and that I needed to ask for assistance fro m people paid to handle the bigger problems. Those are all skills that you can learn only through experience. In special education, there are a ton of judgment calls that we are called on to make because there is not a set textbook way of handling our students. That is what makes it “special!”
Excellent topic for this time of year….well prepared “stuff” about the child/student is the key to maneuvering through an IEP meeting….I also think that too many Indians at a Pow-Wow can confuse a good outcome.Thanks, Kathy
Hehe…oh yes! I know what you mean about too many people. I have a couple of huge meetings coming up and know they will be overly long just because so many therapists and agencies are involved. And it can muddy things in a big hurry, ESPECIALLLY if one is not prepared.
In our school I am currently the only elementary sped teacher. It has been a goal to have a draft copy of the IEP sent home a week before the IEP. This helps for several reasons. It makes me get it done well before the meeting. It gives parents a chance to review that draft, I make sure to send a letter with it so that they know it is only a draft and not final. The parents seem more at ease as they know what is likely to come up. I have a chance to go back and review and make corrections and changes. Unfortunately, I have failed miserably at keeping this goal this year. My caseload was crazy this year. I have a few other responsibilities I didn’t have last year. I still have managed to have some very good meetings, but I am still prepared even though I haven’t gotten the paperwork done as far in advance as I prefer. I am a total believer in preparation for IEP meetings. It signals to the parents that you care enough to do your job well. Next year I will do better on getting those draft copies sent home.
Thanks for reading and commenting, Tandy! And you are absolutely right about the benefits of having things done ahead of time. And like you, I have not always been so far out front as in the past. However, I am still way in front of everyone else,just like you are. Because with a more advanced timeline you still have more room for things to pop up. If the internet goes down or you get sick, you feel stressed, but not so much as if you were doing the IEP the night before or day of.
Hello Dan, I am a Special Education media specialist working on a Master’s in Library and Information Science. I am currently working on a project about Web 2.0 and Digital Stories written by people with special needs. I found your name on the TarHeel Reader website and tracked you here. I am interested in how you used Tar Heel reader with your students. If you can help please email me at caf06d@fsu.edu. Thanks, Cathy. | http://specialed.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/whay-is-a-good-teacher-worth/ | 2013-05-18T10:51:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I just read the article by Jeffrey Lord, and wanted to say how refreshing it is to read something that so squarely hits the mark of what conservatism really stands for, truth. Principles and conviction, but truth is the driver. Understanding the real human desire to stand for something and be true to that basic human instinct. Exactly why I have never understood, nor accepted Beltway speak, such as bi-partisanship. Actually, I really have learned to understand Beltway linguistics, that is why bi-partisanship is a loser strategy.p>I live in Tulsa, and am going to keep a close eye on the confab in Norman, where a real bi-partisan, David Boren, President of OU, will most certainly be prominent. br> — Tom Shupper br> Tulsa, Oklahoma
office pro 2007 VS office ultimate 2007 ! | http://spectator.org/archives/2008/01/16/mccain-migraine/13 | 2013-05-18T10:54:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Five weeks and one vice-presidential debate after joining the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin is not going away. As she proved Thursday night in St. Louis, for those who hoped to make her Dan Quayle, she is not obliging. Already she is rewriting the conventional wisdom that says running mates can only hurt, not help a ticket. Her appeal recalls that of Harry Truman, another vice-presidential selection whom opponents discounted at their peril.
Not long to politics, Palin’s story is relatively short. She was a two-term city council member and then two-term mayor of small town Wasilla, Alaska. In 2006, she was elected Alaska’s first female governor. A reform thread runs through her political career. But until John McCain chose her as his running mate this August, she captured little national attention
Her quick rise has left the Left aghast. By various contrived measures they claim she is unqualified. In doing so, Palin’s critics conveniently forget Harry Truman, another vice president whose qualifications were heavily discounted, yet is now remembered as a popular president and claimed as a liberal icon.
Truman did not attend college. During early adulthood he ran his family’s small farm and was his town’s postmaster. After serving as a captain of an artillery company in WWI, he owned a small clothing store that failed — taking 15 years to pay off.
His political career began when he was elected county overseer of roads. He lost reelection. For the next two years, he held a series of jobs, including being a partner in a bank that also failed. Elected county public works supervisor, the local Democrat machine picked him to run at age 50 for the U.S. Senate. He improbably won and later won reelection. Again, he was fortuitously picked, this time to be vice president, by FDR for his unprecedented fourth term.
Nothing in Truman’s past particularly qualified him to be vice president. In fact, nothing in any of Truman’s previous incarnations ever seemed to particularly qualify him for anything that followed. All this caused opponents to continually underestimate him. Yet he became one of the vice presidency’s greatest success stories — a story culminating in his 1948 presidential election, perhaps the most storied comeback in presidential politics.
THERE IS A STRIKING similarity between Palin and Truman. Both have been underestimated politically. Both struck a chord running against Washington. To shouts of “Give ‘em Hell, Harry!” Truman famously ran against a “do nothing” Congress in 1948. Palin has scored points running against a Congress with historically low approval ratings — precisely because she is removed from Washington (the only such person on either ticket).
More important than their political comparison however, is their personal connection. Few people today could tell you what Truman did or stood for. He is memorable for who he was. He had an “everyman” quality, Midwestern and middle class, a life story that most could relate to far more easily than to the aristocratic FDR. He did not just seem to support the common man, he was the common man.
Palin too stands for, and with, a large segment of the electorate that is much discussed, often courted, but rarely represented. Her life story, both victories and challenges, have elements middle class America knows directly. She embodies the “Reagan Democrat” — even more so than Reagan himself, who was long-removed from his Midwestern roots by the time he was elected president.
In all these qualities, but particularly her personal ones, she confounds the Left. They are not simply uncomfortable with Palin, they are offended by her. It should not be surprising. Palin vividly reveals how little rapport the Left has with middle class America. In it, the Left sees a group only to be led, not one to be followed.
It is fitting that the vice presidential debate took place in Truman’s home state of Missouri. The parallels of his and Palin’s popular appeal are as clear as they are understandable. If the Republican ticket wins in November, she will certainly be seen as the most politically potent VP pick since Lyndon Johnson in 1960. She has already succeeded beyond all expectations in drawing attention and energy to McCain’s message and campaign. Who would ever have thought that the Republican VP speech would be only slightly less watched than, and that McCain’s would actually exceed, Obama’s?
At the heart of Palin’s appeal is her mainstream and main street quality. While the Left is extremely uncomfortable with who she is and what she represents, she is extremely comfortable with both…and so is a very large section of the electorate. Her non-resident status in any elite group antagonizes them all, but it endears her to far more. Implicit in their support is a “Give’em Hell, Sarah!” quality. Harry would know exactly what, and who, they? | http://spectator.org/archives/2008/10/06/when-sarah-met-harry | 2013-05-18T11:03:25 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This is why we can't have nice robots: on the American consumer
An article in PC magazine last week called "Robot Consumers, Grow Up!" explains why US consumers just aren't ready for the kinds of robots that Asia will be producing. The conclusion is that the consumer robotics market will not take off with things like Roomba or Aibo. Instead, robotic technology will be embedded into everything we use every day and the consumers will never notice that "the robots have won." I think the article is overall a little pessimistic, but here are a few interesting comparisons:.
American consumers fixate on anthropomorphism and generally find androids and even android pets grotesque. You won't find a lifelike robot receptionist in the U.S., but there are already many at work in Japan.
If iRobot had made a 4-foot-tall Roomba with a face and a hand to hold a vacuum hose, the company wouldn't have sold more than ten units. Instead, it sold more than two million Frisbee-shaped, personality-free bots.
There's also an interesting statement later in the article that "American robot consumers have yet to comprehend the cost of the programming and mechanical complexity necessary to create effective, realistic, interactive robots." So that's something to think about, especially when, as a robotics geek, I'm always so involved with how cool the thing I'm making is that I don't stop to think whether others appreciate how it came to be. And it also leads me into another article...
Network World talks today about a robot "amusement park" opening in South Korea. From the article:
"[O]fficials said they consider robotics to be one of South Korea's key growth industries, emphasizing "service robots" that can clean homes and offer up entertainment. The robotics industry has grown about 40% a year since 2003, officials said. ... The parks will feature a number of attractions that let visitors interact with robots and test new products."
So the first question is whether or not this would be successful in South Korea -- obviously, the government and a group of investors think it will be no problem. But if we step back and consider the first article about American robot consumers, would something like this ever fly in the US (or in the Western world, for that matter)? | http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/this_is_why_we_cant_have_nice | 2013-05-18T10:32:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Mindstorms Not Just a Kid's Toy
Grownups are gleefully turning smart Lego bricks into autonomous gadgets
Photo: Lego
A Mindstorms robot's brain: a programmable Lego brick.
Robotic.
TOP LEFT & BOTTOM RIGHT: ANDREW EVANS; TOP RIGHT & BOTTOM LEFT: MARIO & GIULIO FERRARI
From these relatively simple parts, hobbyists have managed to build a mind-boggling array of widgets. The list includes robotic trash trucks that pick up and deposit miniature dumpsters, rolling and walking robots, a light-bulb changer, and maze-following robots [see pictures]. Hundreds of Web pages put up by fans around the globe supply the details for building these creations.
That Mindstorms is such a hit with adults does not strike Fred Martin as strange. Said the former MIT researcher, who played a pivotal role in the programmable brick development, "It's the toy I would have wanted to have" when he was younger, and he still wants it today. The goal of MIT's research, Martin said, was to create "materials that make ideas accessible," and the programmable brick does exactly that for robotics and for computer programming. People who use Mindstorms learn by building something tangible.
Above all, Mindstorms makes ideas about robotics accessible to people without sophisticated mechanical-engineering skills or access to a machine shop. "Lego has changed from a childhood toy to a viable mechanical prototyping system," said hobbyist John Barnes, who lives in upstate New York. With Mindstorms, anyone can build computer-controlled mechanisms by simply snapping parts together.
Where an earlier generation of hobbyists struggled to build parts to the submillimeter tolerances required for a working robot arm, "Lego parts are made to exact lengths," with an accuracy measured in tens of micrometers, noted widget-builder J.P. Brown of Chicago.
A hacker's dream
Pleased as many would-be roboticists were with the idea of Mindstorms, they were often less than satisfied with the reality. Among their complaints is Lego's simplistic programming language. It allows a mere 16 variables for holding sensor values or other data, and gives only coarse control over motor speeds. Its subroutines for handling repetitive tasks such as navigating around obstacles are quite limited. Multitasking is slow, as is response to sensor inputs.
Unlike youngsters, who might well toss a disappointing new toy back in the closet, some adults had the tools and training to bring Mindstorms more in line with their desires. Besides, they had the hacker ethos: if it doesn't work, fix it; if it does work, take it apart.
Kekoa Proudfoot, a graduate student at Stanford University in California, was the first to pry off the cover of his RCX and tell the world what was inside. He quickly decoded what commands its built-in firmware could carry out. David Baum, in real life a software engineer at Motorola Inc., cracked the communications protocol for the IR link. Mindstormers exchanged information through mailing lists hosted by hobbyist Russell Nelson, and through LUGnet, Lego Users Group Network, which had already been in operation for some years.
Development during those early days was fast and heady, recalls Markus Noga, now a doctoral candidate in computer science at the University of Karlsruhe, in Germany. In one rapid exchange, he and David Baum posted versions of a new program download protocol on the Internet every few hours, culminating two days later in a version that was four times the speed of the original.
Baum also quickly devised a new programming system to develop RCX code in a dialect of the C language he called Not Quite C (NQC). Instead of programming by manipulating graphical blocks within Lego's PC software, Mindstorms' hackers using NQC could write code with a conventional text editor in a familiar language. Baum's compiler then produced byte-codes that could be downloaded and interpreted by the RCX firmware. Besides making it easier to write and exchange code, NQC offered somewhat better control over the RCX hardware than did Lego's simple programming blocks.
Meanwhile, Ph.D. student Noga decided to ditch Lego's firmware and write his own. He devised a set of more efficient routines for controlling the brick's behavior, which he called LegOS. It can be used to write C programs that can be compiled to H8 machine code and downloaded for direct execution by the CPU, potentially running hundreds of times faster than the interpreted byte-codes.
In another application, Ralph Hempel, an embedded-systems engineer in Owen Sound, Ont., ported a variant of the Forth language to the RCX. He called it pbForth. Unusually for a Mindstorms programming system, pbForth does not create a program on a PC and download it to the RCX. Instead, the PC is treated as a simple terminal connected to the Forth development system running on the Hitachi H8 CPU inside the RCX brick. The system takes less than 10 kB of memory, leaving plenty of room for user programs. Hempel gave two reasons for writing the system: Forth is well suited for programming CPUs that communicate directly with the real world, and other fun projects (like reverse-engineering the brick or writing LegOS) were already taken.
Misjudging the market
Pent-up demand from would-be robot hackers transformed a toy originally designed for the 12-year-old-and-up home and educational market into one with more adult than adolescent buyers. Lego was not entirely surprised by the prevalence of Adult Fans of Lego (or AFOLs, as they're known within and without the company) or by its voracious appetite for the $200 toy, said Russell Stoll, creative director of Lego's community Web site. Still, the depth and breadth of the fans' continuing interest has been remarkable.
In response, the company is offering extra documentation, such as the details of firmware inner workings in its robotics Software Development Kit (SDK) and a Web site on which AFOLs can exchange information or post pictures and text describing their inventions.
Some Mindstorms hackers were unprepared for this corporate support, which included Lego's sponsorship of the first Mindfest conference, a gathering of academics and hobbyists at MIT in October 1999 to celebrate the product's first anniversary. As David Baum told IEEE Spectrum, for the first few months after he released NQC, he half-expected to find a letter from Lego's lawyers in his mailbox, telling him to cease and desist from meddling in the company's intellectual property. Instead, he ended up meeting Lego designers and forging friendships with some of them.
That might not have been the case earlier. Lego has a history of aggressively defending its designs and trademarks, particularly when other companies have produced plastic bricks that interlock with Lego's own. At the Mindfest conference, said Noga, one Lego official commented that even a few years earlier, the company might have considered legal action against the hackers, instead of responding with open arms and a Web site.
Besides encouraging adult inventiveness, Lego has also responded with new releases that it hopes will be easier for children to use, said Lego public relations manager Michael McNally. As was pointed out by hobbyist and engineer Michael Gasperi in Milwaukee, children often find the current product difficult. He recalls buying the Mindstorms kit in hopes of helping his eight-year-old daughter understand what he did at work every day. The two worked through the initial tutorials together, but by the time their first robotic creation was ready to be debugged, said Gasperi, "I was alone."
The newest RCX programming system, according to McNally, contains more sophisticated functions: for example, a single command will move an RCX-powered vehicle forward or back, right or left, rather than requiring a user to send individual forward or reverse commands to the RCX motor outputs. The company also has released two series of similar but simpler products, the Cybermaster and Scout, which offer built-in motors, less flexible programming, and hence perhaps a less bewildering array of choices. The idea, said McNally, is to provide a compelling "out-of-box" experience for both sides of Lego's diverse market.
These new products do not water down the original Lego design, according to Lego's Web site director Stoll. He pointed out that the next release of the RCX programming environment, RIS 2.0, also includes a text-based scripting language, so that users can type programs without first downloading onto their PC an entirely different set of programs (such as NQC or LegOS). The company has also released the Vision Commander, a combination of camera and PC software that can send messages to the RCX over its IR link, based on changing events within the camera's field of view.
Meanwhile, the hacker community has been producing new hardware as well. Gasperi, for one, has published on the Web designs for a series of simple homemade sensors for conditions ranging from touch and temperature to relative humidity and skin conductivity. John Barnes, an image-processing programmer in real life, has made a small business of supplying more-complex input devices, all built into hollowed-out Lego bricks so that they will snap together with other Lego parts (and so that Lego's legal department will have less of an incentive to come after him).
One of Barnes's staples is an ultrasonic range finder that plugs into an RCX input port and tells the RCX how far it is from the nearest solid object. At the top end of his line, he has built a prototype camera brick that tracks an object in its field of view and reports x and y coordinates back to the RCX. That unit, he notes, includes a microprocessor and several 50-MHz field-programmable gate arrays with more than 10 times the computational horsepower of the H8. "It can be a bit of the tail wagging the dog," he told Spectrum.
Barnes has also begun work on possible replacements for the RCX. He is using 18 I/O ports instead of three, a 1-Mb/s RF connection to a PC instead of a lowly IR link, and external power connections so that users will not be limited by the life of AA batteries. "Power is a real challenge," he gripes, even as he agrees with others that the RCX designers probably made the best tradeoff available among ports, battery life, and weight. Barnes has also eliminated the LCD, trading it for a PC-based virtual front panel connected to his brick by RF.
While Barnes and his ilk are taking the complexity of Mindstorms to new heights, others are working on simplifying the programmable brick even further. Former MIT researcher Fred Martin has moved to a spin-off company in hopes of commercializing one of his more recent research projects, a gizmo known as Cricket. Martin believes an 8-bit processor with 32KB of RAM is overkill. His Crickets use a less powerful controller with only a few hundred bytes of RAM to do almost the same job at a fraction of the price.
The Cricket design has only two sensor inputs and two motor outputs, but individual Crickets communicate with one another through IR links, so that any number of them could be used in a single system. For example, Martin said, a toy robotic arm might have a Cricket-style controller at each joint and several at the gripper, rather than a single massive CPU trying to control all the motions and drive all the motors.
Building tools or building toys?
Ironically, many builders of the most complex software and hardware additions to Mindstorms have found that answering questions and exchanging information with other AFOLs leaves them with little time to build new Lego creations. Baum, for example, has spent his spare time re-engineering NQC to improve its performance and make it possible to add new features requested by his fellow hackers. Hempel, Gasperi, and Barnes report similar experiences. Barnes, in fact, is trying to find a company to take over his sensor designs, which he currently handcrafts from printed-circuit boards made to order by an Internet-based prototyping service.
But there are plenty of AFOLs out there willing to make use of new Mindstorms tools to build gadgets of ever-greater complexity. Consider Bob Fay, a Southern California technical worker who has spent his career repairing numerical controllers and other aerospace manufacturing equipment. He now builds lathes, milling machines, and solar-powered trucks out of Lego parts. (Fay's milling machine cuts nothing harder than dry toast, but it's a worthy successor to the pen-plotters and printers others have built.) Or there's Mike Onorato on Long Island, N.Y., whose RCX-based vending machine dispenses cans of real soda in exchange for coins or bills, which it stores in a cash box locked with a Lego key. And Japan's Jin Sato has created a pet that displays various eye expressions.
Another inventor is J.P. Brown, whose Rubik's Cube-solver takes two RCX modules and thousands of pieces. Although Brown had last looked at a Lego brick when he was 10 years old, he caught the bug again two years ago after running into a 14-year-old Mindstorms addict at a party in Research Triangle Park, N.C. On his return home to Chicago, he checked out the toy, discovered NQC, and promptly built a robot to solve the Towers of Hanoi problem. In this computer-science chestnut, a series of disks of different sizes must be moved from one "tower" to another (by way of a third "tower") without a larger disk ever being placed atop a smaller one. Then, after building a few walking robots, Brown was in a neighbor's apartment and noticed a disarranged Rubik's Cube. The sight triggered a memory of an article he had once seen in Byte Magazine about solving the cube in 60 moves, and he was off.
The cube-solver illustrates many of the issues that an aspiring builder must solve to create working widgets out of child-grade plastic. For example, when building the robotic grippers that hold the cube in place and turn it to realign its faces, Brown had to trade speed for torque to avoid wrenching his Lego bricks apart. Each turn of the cube's faces takes 30 seconds.
Even with the machine moving that slowly, Brown said, he went through six iterations of the gripper design before he found one that could hold the cube securely. In addition, the robotic arm flexes too much to give accurate readings at the "elbow," so that the sensors that tell when a turn is completed had to be mounted at the "wrist," right next to the gripper.
On the computing side, the RCX is relegated to controlling the grippers. Brown's PC calculates the shortest possible sequence of moves--usually less than 20--using a table of cube permutations that requires several megabytes of memory. (A camera zeroes in on the cube's faces to determine which of the millions of possible disarranged configurations the cube is displaying.) Brown commented that a 60-move solver would probably fit on the RCX, but "at 30 seconds per move, no one is going to watch the thing."
Is the cube-solver of any use? According to Brown, several acquaintances who have heard about his device have brought him their old cubes to be set shipshape.
Similarly whimsical is Denmark-based Søren Rolighed's Party Optimizer. This Mindstorms robot uses the vision module to study an adjacent dance floor and determine whether anyone is moving on it. If not, a subrobot moves across the face of Rolighed's CD player to skip to the next track; continued inactivity leads it to change the CD for another, hopefully easier-to-dance-to selection.
Rolighed, a software engineer and database administrator who, like most Danes, has been playing with Legos almost since birth, has also built an RCX-controlled typewriter [previous page] and an RCX-controlled slot machine. The slot machine, he said, had been on his list to build from conventional Lego parts for many years, but it was only when the RCX came out that he could make it work. The typewriter uses a combination of fixed and moving sensors to figure out which key has been pressed, with a rudimentary pen plotter and paper feed to print out letters in a 5-by-7-dot matrix. (The slot machine is somewhat simpler, because it must merely sense the position of its three wheels when they stop rotating, and then count the coins it pays out accordingly.)
Feeding community spirit
From Lego's point of view, encouraging the Mindstorms community to invent makes good marketing and product development sense. The new RCX firmware benefited from more than a year of thorough examination by beta testers, who put it through paces undreamed of by its designers. And Lego marketing executive McNally points out that the company is releasing a new builder's kit with which customers may recreate at least a couple of the gadgets that Lego's master designers put together for trade shows and marketing tours.
But the individual participants get a great deal back as well: information, recognition, and support. Brown laughs about his "odd, god-like status" among a select group of 15-year-olds, and said it was "a little scary" when the son of a fellow Lego hacker suddenly recognized him as the creator of the legendary cube-solving machine.
When Rolighed found people like Brown, Baum, and Noga on-line, his immediate reaction was relief that he was "not the only not-so-young person still playing with Lego." He quickly became part of the on-line community, impressed with the time that older, more experienced builders spent with their younger compatriots.
Indeed, when there's new information to be exchanged, dozens of articles a day may be posted at Lego's Forums, or at the 1100-member LUGnet site, or in the usenet rec.toys.lego newsgroup. Tens of thousands of users have downloaded the NQC compiler, and even as arcane a programming language as pbForth finds hundreds of new users every month. What's more, user groups meet in cities around the world, from Seattle and Toronto to Tokyo and Sydney.
Some Mindstorms gurus have even found that their work on software and hardware for a like-minded community has changed how they approach their real jobs. NQC taught David Baum that his interests lay more in software research than in product development. "I realized that I like to try new things and see what takes," he told Spectrum. Repeated redesigns of the program's internals have also honed his software-engineering intuitions.
Hempel reports a similar evolution. Writing pbForth and supporting the people who want to use it, he said, has turned him from a design engineer into an educator. Using none other than the RCX, he is training other software engineers in embedded-systems design. (Even as a learning tool, Mindstorms seems to have found a firmer niche in college-level and graduate education than in secondary schools.)
Looking for convergence
Where will Mindstorms go from here? With version 2.0 of the RCX firmware due this fall, the original hardware may have gone as far as its designers can take it, and what directions it should take next are unclear. Lego is mum about its detailed plans. Even so, marketing executive McNally suggests that more RF communications links are in the offing, while Web site director Stoll is already looking forward to Mindstorms 3.0, which he claims will make even the most demanding professional users happy.
LegOS inventor Markus Noga has abandoned the RCX for a career in XML software tools, but hopes that hobbyists will soon see an RCX with an expansion bus of the kind once found in the Acorn BBC Model B or Amiga home computers. That way, he said, third-party developers would have full access to the internal architecture of a programmable brick.
Some Mindstormers, meanwhile, like the RCX just the way it is. The fun part of designing Mindstorms projects, said Baum, is figuring out how to do what you want despite the brick's constraints. Rolighed goes even further, limiting himself strictly to Lego-produced parts and eschewing homebrew sensors or motors. He has always made it "a point of honor," he said, "to use only the facilities available."
As Barnes puts it, there are all levels of observance among adherents of the Lego religion, from the ultra-orthodox to the agnostic. Some of his products even blur the line between computer control and conventional Lego wires and switches: he has built radio-controlled modules that contain tiny microprocessors, and making them programmable would be a simple step. (Lego has announced that it, too, would produce generic radio-controlled bricks.)
Perhaps, as the price of microcontrollers and communications links continues to fall, the boundary between dumb and smart components will blur even further. It would be a strange twist of fate if the "ubiquitous computing" future that computer pundits have predicted for the past 20 years makes its most pervasive initial appearance in the form of intelligent, interlocking toy bricks.
Tekla S. Perry, Editor
About the Author
PAUL WALLICH is a science and technology writer living in Vermont. Someday he hopes to retrieve his Lego collection from a niece and two nephews.
To Probe Further
Lego Co.'s official company site, at, displays construction tips, project galleries, contests, and new product information.
A clearinghouse for all kinds of Lego fans, at. lugnet.com, includes galleries, discussion groups, software, and member Web sites.
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HAARP: not just death beams and mind control!
PHOTO:Edward Kennedy/ U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Nature magazine has what might be the first-ever definitive report on the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility that the U.S. Department of Defense runs up near Gakona, Alaska.
HAARP has been a magnet for conspiracy theorists since the Pentagon started building it about 2 decades ago. Its purpose is to defend, by way of radio waves, against hypothetical killer electrons released by an even more hypothetical nuclear blast by, say, North Korea. Of course the researchers there mostly undertake much more reasonable experiments, but visions of nuclear armageddon helped fund the ionospheric research lab.
Part of the reason HAARP is shrouded in mystery is that the Naval Research Lab, one of the entities that runs the show, is an impenetrable fortress-- for years, all you could glean about the place was what the conspiracy theorists were telling you.
The reason for this silence, as usual, was secrecy for secrecy's sake, as is often the case with government. Apart from occasional press blitzes, NRL has refused for years to do interviews, answer questions, or do anything more than maybe toss a few insults at the few journalists who have dared to ask why there's a giant space heater sitting in Alaska.
The good news? The government is not trying to control your mind. The bad news? They made me type that. | http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/haarp_not_just_death_beams_and | 2013-05-18T11:03:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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You know him from Nervous Patterns, Lost Sounds, The Reatards & more.?? Well, this Reatard has gone solo as of late and here???s his latest power pop new wave singles.?? Happy go lucky & peppy.?? Acoustic guitars, keys, drums & fun sing along lyrics.?? Not raucous, distorted or gung ho as previous projects but still worth a spin or two on this one sided vinyl.
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Remember those spoilery photos from "Iron Man 3's" Cape Fear River set that hit the web last week? Well, some new images have debuted that might show what happened right before that scene occurred.
ComicBookMovie.com has posted several new images and a video that show what looks to be a big aerial action scene in the movie. Keep reading after the jump to find out more. Be warned, there will be potential spoilers.
In last week's images, we saw Iron Man seemingly saving a bunch of people from a plane crash. CBM says that these new photos -- which show people falling to the ground with parachutes -- detail what takes place before Iron Man shows up. The photographer who snapped the pictures told the site that Air Force One is the plane that goes down, seemingly by the attack helicopters that can be seen in some of these images. The survivors are supposed to be flight attendants (as we already saw) and some high-ranking military officials.
It seems like that should be fellow government official James "Rhodey" Rhodes' job to save these people now, especially since we know he's going to be the character wearing the Iron Patriot armor we've seen on set. When we talked to Don Cheadle at Comic-Con, he said that Rhodey's new military-commissioned Iron Man suit is going to be a point of contention between him," Cheadle said.
"Iron Man 3" hits theaters on May 3, 2013.
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Hello! Eva here today for Tutorial Thursday! Don't worry, we'll have Top Crop Thursday back next month but thought we'd still sneak in a tutorial here and there. Today I thought I'd share how to make a simple interactive card that could be fun for your kids or for those who are just young at heart.
I made this card with Hallo Witch but thought it would be extra special if she moved like she was flying into the night.
These are the items I used. I cut all my paper and cardstock, colored up Hallo Witch with Copics, found 2 flat beads from my kids' collection and cut some twine to the length that I thought I'd need.
I laid out my pieces with the twine and beads to get a general idea of where I wanted to tape the twine and glue the beads to Hallo Witch. I ended up just using one piece of twine instead of two.
I taped one end of the twine to the back of the owl paper.
Then I added the beads and taped the other end of the twine so that it would be hidden by my sentiment circle. I pushed my beads to where I wanted them to be glued under Hallo Witch. The beads I used have holes which are just large enough for the twine to fit through. And they are flat, not rounded so the paper lays nicely on top.
I added some glue (I actually used glossy accents) just to the top of the beads and placed Hallo Witch on top and waited for it to dry which wasn't very long.
And that's it! Pretty simple.
Oh, and I used the sketch over at Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #170. Hope this inspires you to create some interactive cards too! Thanks for reading!
5 comments:
Great Eva, I remember you have made a moonman card like this once!!
Thanks for sharing the tutorial,
Hugs Blankina
Thanks for such a great idea :) Wonderful
Donna x
What a great card. Thanks for the tutorial.
Oh this is very clever and your card is very Beautiful!!!! Hugs!!!
Totally cute Eva!! You're brilliant!
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Money Bomb on April 15! Ron Paul 2012: Restore America Now
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[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, April 12th, 2012.]
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Witness the Power of an Idea: Ron Paul Massive Rallies 2012
Labels: Ron Paul, Truth, US Election News, USA
4 comments:
spook,
I've been to rallies for politicians with enthusiastic followers. But, they didn't win elections. They didn't win because they were marginalized candidates. They were "peace" candidates made to look like traitors to America who wouldn't look out for America's interests or people.
Or they were environmentalist candidates who were made to look stupid for associating with bomb throwers.
Yes, Paul has an idea, and he has enthusiasts, but he is not making arguments to the majority of people who are out there voting for Romney and Obama.
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S,
I still believe he is making some good basic arguments, and that it is catching on, but the media is marginalising him and discouraging wider support for his campaign via propaganda (and censorship).
I would certainly not be voting for Obama or Romney.
I will keep pushing the Ron Paul message here.
Spook !
spook,
I appreciate that and share your position on Dr. Obama and Mr. Romney. However, Paul has to make better arguments.
I don'ytt think he has to change the content. I think he has to point out how current policies pushed by both Obama and Romney will effect individuals and specific groups.
Less patriotic doesn't he have great audiences kind of videos, and more pointed stuff like his ad about "what if the Chines army was in Mexico...." kind.
I understand that he has a money problem...? What do you hear about his campaign contributions?
S,
I know that Paul's campaign gains most of their contributions from the average citizen - and not big corporations. Famously they get more money from military people than all of the other candidates put together.
The problem is that without momentum, like any campaign, even ones with corporate backing, it is difficult to keep those dollars coming in.
The media blackouts and ridicule do have an impact making fund raising difficult.
On the other hand, Romney and his massively funded Superpacs can afford to run zillions of TV ads. This helps the corporate media, already on his side, to spin the Romney story and also helps to drum up real support for this guy.
At the moment, Paul's campaign needs to raise 2.5 million to compete with the advertising in Texas.
If 100,000 people gave 20 bucks each then you get 2 million. These are the sorts of numbers that must be considered.
Anyway, there is a strong likelihood they will raise the money. I'd certainly pay 20 bucks to see Paul's campaign continue- hopefully to win, or at least juxtapose the phoney Romney and Obama.
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My boys had an absolute blast tonight walking around the neighborhood with friends “trick-or-treating”. They took a few pieces early on just for fun, but just left them in their treat bags and then just enjoyed the night. When we got home, we looked over the candy to see if there was anything they could eat. They each got a packet of raisins and were totally fine with that.
For everyone who says if you deny your kids junk, they’ll revolt… it just isn’t true. My kids were excited to dress up, walk around the neighborhood at dusk, see friends, and play with their glow sticks. The candy that passed right under their noses was not an issue. It doesn’t have to be all about the candy. | http://spoonfedblog.net/2012/10/31/a-halloween-psa/ | 2013-05-18T10:41:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The Oklahoma City Thunder don’t have their starting point guard or any kind of offensive system, but they do have Kevin Durant playing his best basketball. The Memphis Grizzlies are quite methodical on both ends of the floor, but lack that superstar who can take the game on his shoulders in the final minutes. Will it cost them a second consecutive time? More
Without Russell Westbrook, it seemed like the Oklahoma City Thunder were doomed. But Kevin Durant just happens to be one of the most unstoppable players in the NBA, even when he’s on his own. Kevin Martin remembered he used to be a big time scorer, and over the last two games has carried the Thunder along with Durant, helping set up the ground for the fourth quarter turnaround and snatching game 1 away from the Memphis Grizzlies. More
One team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, are arriving in the conference semifinal as the top seed in the Western Conference, but reeling for their first round series and missing their second best player, while the Memphis Grizzlies, winning four consecutive games to climb out of a 0-2 hole, might actually be considered the favorites. More. More
It took LeBron James a little while before getting recognized as the best player in the world, but there was little doubt about his ability to carry a team without too much talent around him to playoff success. Kevin Durant, realizing life without Russell Westbrook isn’t a all its cracked up to be, might dream of becoming the best player in the world, but he’s someway off that “title” at the moment. More | http://sportige.com/tag/oklahoma-city-thunder/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Final
Coverage: CBS
7:15 PM ET, March 22, 2012
TD Garden, Boston, MA
BOSTON --.
O'Neil: Cuse Wins 'By Any Means'
The Orange may have been inspired by the slogan on their T-shirts: "By Any Means." They lived up to that by finding a way to win Thursday night, Dana O'Neil writes. Blog
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• More Sweet 16 upsets? Vote! of 27 from the field over a six-game stretch. The Orange had been struggling offensively as well, failing to reach 60 points three times in their past.
Orange Control the Paint
Syracuse outscored Wisconsin 30-10 in the paint during its win over the Badgers on Thursday. The Orange are now 33-0 this season when they score at least 20 points in the paint. Wisconsin only scored two paint points in the second half and did not attempt a shot in the paint in the final 14 minutes of the game.
Syracuse-Wisconsin in the Paint
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Stokley out at least three weeks, opener in doubt
Indianapolis Colts: Wide receiver Brandon Stokley dislocated his
left shoulder Thursday during practice for the American Bowl in
Japan and could be sidelined up to four weeks.
Stokley, who caught Peyton Manning's record 49th touchdown pass last year, might miss Indianapolis' regular-season opener against Baltimore on Sept. 11.
"It's going to be tight, it sounds like," Colts coach Tony Dungy said.
As Manning's third option last season, Stokley caught 68 passes for 1,077 yards and 10 touchdowns.
The Colts play the Atlanta Falcons in the exhibition opener in Tokyo on Saturday.
-- The Associated Press
New York Jets: Quarterback Chad Pennington
was held out of the team's afternoon practice Wednesday after
throwing passes for five straight days.
Coach Herman Edwards said Pennington had no soreness in his surgically repaired right shoulder, and just wanted to give the quarterback a day to rest.
Pennington injured his shoulder Nov. 7 against Buffalo and played the final seven games of last season with a tear in the muscle of his rotator cuff. He had surgery Feb. 8 and missed minicamps and offseason training activities while rehabbing.
The Jets had a walkthrough in the morning and a full practice in the afternoon. Pennington participated in afternoon practices the past five days, but just watched while the plays were run during Wednesday's session.
"He could have went and he wanted to go, but I told him, 'You're taking off today,' " coach Herman Edwards said.
Edwards expected Pennington to be back throwing passes during the Jets' next practice Thursday night.
Defensive end Shaun Ellis and center Kevin Mawae also were held out of practice to rest.
San Diego Chargers: Outside linebacker Ben Leber, who has started in all but two of his 48 appearances for the Chargers during his three-year career, has undergone arthroscopic surgery to remove a bone spur on his right ankle and will likely be sidelined about two weeks.
Leber, 26, missed much of the offseason program with a bruised right foot. The injuries are not believed to be related. Chargers officials expect that Leber, a third-round choice in 2002, will be recovered in time for the start of the regular season. His injury probably means that first-round choice Shawne Merriman, who signed his contract on Tuesday, will get more snaps in camp.
In three seasons, Leber has 187 tackles, 10 sacks and four forced fumbles.
-- Len Pasquarelli
Oakland Raiders: Jerry Porter could be out as long as two weeks with a hamstring injury, coach Norv Turner told the Contra Costa Times on Tuesday.
Porter left practice early Monday with a strained right hamstring and did not participate in Tuesday's workouts, though an MRI on Monday evening revealed only a strain, no tears, the paper report.
"It's going to be a little while [until Porter returns]," Turner told. "I can't tell you right now, but it could be a couple of weeks. I hate to put a time on that, it's just how he feels. He was sore this morning. He won't do anything until next week for sure. ... A strain is actually technically a tear, it's just not a real serious one. But it's serious enough for him to miss some time."
Porter started all 16 games for the Raiders in 2004, catching 64 passes for 998 yards and nine touchdowns. In five NFL seasons, he has 163 catches for 2,273 yards and 19 TDs.
Kansas City Chiefs: Wide receiver Freddie Mitchell has decided not to undergo arthroscopic surgery on his injured knee after a second opinion, his agent, Matt Couloute, told the Kansas City Star on Tuesday.
Couloute told the paper that Mitchell was told that if the slight tear in his right meniscus mended as anticipated, the receiver coudl return to practice in seven to 10 days.
The Chiefs had planned on Mitchell missing 2 1/2 weeks after surgery, which was originally scheduled for Monday, but Couloute told the paper doctors told Mitchell it could have taken closer to four weeks for him to return after surgery.
"All he wants is to get back on the field," Couloute told the Star. "The doctors gave him the option of getting back on the field sooner than he was initially told and he took it."
Pat Summerall to meet the family of liver donor
Former NFL kicker and NFL commentator Pat Summerall will visit Little Rock next week to meet the family of the organ donor whose liver he received in an April 2004 transplant.
Summerall suffered from liver disease for years before receiving a liver from 13-year-old Adron Shelby. Summerall, a recovering alcoholic, qualified for a transplant through blood tests that rank potential recipients anonymously.
On Aug. 10, Summerall will thank the family for the decision to donate Shelby's organs.
After playing in the NFL from 1952-61, Summerall worked as a broadcaster for the next 40 years. He also teamed with John Madden to call eight Super Bowls together, while Summerall did a total of 16.
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Parrish unhappy with benching
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- First, Roscoe Parrish couldn't persuade the Buffalo Bills to trade him. Now, the NFL's leading punt returner has more reason to be unhappy because he can't even get on the field.
Careful in saying he didn't want to "bad-mouth" coach Dick Jauron after practice Thursday, Parrish questioned the team's decision to strip him of his punt-returning duties by leaving him inactive against the Jets last weekend.
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"I'm frustrated, very frustrated," Parrish said. "To be honest with you -- not to bad-mouth nobody, not to bad-mouth Jauron, you know -- my resume speaks for itself."
Parrish was referring to the numbers he's put up since taking over the return duties midway through his rookie season in 2005. In that time, Parrish tops the NFL career list by averaging 13.1 yards on punt returns, has the franchise record with 1,385 return yards and has also scored three touchdowns.
"When you see my resume, and you see me not returning punts, it's kind of like 'Wow, what is going on?'" Parish said. "You know what I mean?"
Backup running back Fred Jackson has taken over the duties and is expect to keep them as Buffalo (2-4) prepares to play at Carolina (2-3) this weekend.
The benching is the latest blow for Parrish, who was already unhappy with his decreasing role as a wide receiver. He dropped to fourth on the depth chart after the Bills signed Terrell Owens in March.
Parrish, who has two years left on his contract, had asked for a trade this offseason. The chances of that happening ended Tuesday, when the NFL trading deadline passed.
"It's been a frustrating offseason. It's been frustrating during the season," Parrish said.
As difficult as it's been, he said, he's staying positive and will assist Jackson if he can.
Parrish's demotion came a week after he struggled returning punts in a 6-3 loss to the Cleveland Browns. He muffed a rolling punt, which led to the Browns scoring the decisive field goal in the final minute.
Parrish was also faulted earlier in the game. Fielding a punt at his own 42 and with his path blocked up the right sideline, Parrish reversed course and wound up losing 15 yards.
Jauron said the decision to bench Parrish was made in order to get Jackson more involved now that he's playing a secondary role behind starter Marshawn Lynch, who missed the first three games while serving an NFL-imposed suspension. Another reason, Jauron said, was his decision to activate second-year receiver Steve Johnson, a decision that left Parrish the odd-player out.
"Both Roscoe and Freddie are terrific returners. We didn't feel like we were losing much quite frankly," Jauron said.
Jauron refused to say whether he's lost confidence in Parrish, but acknowledged the player might be trying too hard. He has 12 returns for 73 yards and has fumbled twice this season.
Parrish said he's received no explanation as to why he's been demoted, and didn't find out about it until he looked at the team's depth chart prior to the Jets game. He hopes it isn't because of what happened against the Browns.
"I made a bad decision in the Cleveland game. But every guy makes mistakes," Parrish said. "If Dick Jauron feels like Fred's the guy to be back there, he's the head coach. So I can't say much about that but just keep working and hopefully in the future -- if it's not here then on another team -- I'll get my opportunity."
NotesStarting QB Trent Edwards missed his second straight practice since sustaining a concussion against the Jets. Without providing details, Jauron said Edwards met with team doctors and is feeling better. ... Third-string RB Xavier Omon was added to the Bills injury report after he missed practice due to an illness. ... CB Terrence McGee returned to practice after missing Wednesday's session with a knee injury. 7 PREVIEW
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Berwick 1 Rangers 1: Gers escape with a point after late Townsley goal disallowed
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Fraser McLaren (left) celebrates scoring the equaliser for Berwick half-way through the second half
MATCH FACTS
Berwick Rangers: Bejaoui, Droudge, Townsley, Brydon, Hoskins, Notman,
Janczyk (McLaren 58), Currie, McDonald, Lavery (Gielty 58), Addison
Subs not used: McCaldon, Lancaster, Ferguson
Goal: McLaren 62
Booked: Currie, Janczyk
Rangers: Alexander, Perry, Emilson Cribari, Bocanegra, Argyriou, Little, McCulloch, Macleod (Naismith 77), Black, McKay (Crawford 64), Sandaza (Kyle 64)
Subs not used: Gallagher, Faure
Goal: Little 45
Booked: Bocanegra
Referee: Mike Tumilty
Attendance: 4,140.
Little (centre) smashes the ball home to give Rangers the lead in first half stoppage time
Little (centre) is mobbed by his teammates after opening the scoring, but his goal wasn't enough for the three points.
Lee McCulloch (right) challenges Lee Currie during the Third Division match
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"I did? Is that a club out there?" Ortiz said. "Let's go there now then."
The Boston Red Sox and their slugging first baseman were in a mood to celebrate Wednesday night after beating the Miami Marlins 10-2.
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Sterling Moore doesn't know yet if he'll watch the game at home in Dallas, or meet up with a couple teammates and head for "a Buffalo Wild Wings or something like that.''
But wherever he takes in Sunday's AFC Championship game rematch, it can't possibly rival the unique vantage point he had last year, when Baltimore and New England met at Gillette Stadium with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. Now with the Cowboys, Moore was the Patriots rookie cornerback who memorably saved the day for New England against the Ravens last January, stripping the ball from Baltimore receiver Lee Evans in the end zone with 27 seconds remaining, wiping out what looked to be a game-winning 14-yard touchdown pass.
In a wild swing of emotion and momentum, the Ravens went from appearing to have pulled off a shocking upset of New England for a split second, to utter heartbreak two plays later, when kicker Billy Cundiff shanked the 32-yard field goal attempt that would have tied the game at 23-23 and brought on overtime..''
Moore said he has thought of or been reminded of that play "a countless number of times'' in the subsequent year, but never more than this week, as the Ravens and Patriots head for another showdown in Foxboro, with the same prize at stake: A Super Bowl berth.
While Evans and Cundiff will forever be remembered as the goats of that game in Baltimore, Moore will probably never have to buy his own beer or clam chowder in New England after the "slap heard around the world.''
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Can you imagine being Moore this Sunday? Watching the Ravens and Patriots go at it again, knowing you've lived this rivalry not once, but twice in the past year? Moore spent the first three months of the 2012 season as a Patriot, playing in eight games for New England, including its 31-30 loss at Baltimore in Week 3, which was decided on a 27-yard field goal at the final gun by Ravens rookie kicker Justin Tucker. Baltimore had a rookie kicker this year in large part due to Cundiff missing that chip shot in the AFC title game, a failure he was never going to completely live down among Ravens faithful. Evans, too, did not remain with Baltimore in 2012, signing with Jacksonville but failing to make its regular-season roster.
Moore was cut by the Patriots on Halloween, and then added to their practice squad, where he languished until the cornerback-needy Cowboys signed him on Nov. 30. The former SMU standout wound up playing in Dallas' final five games of the season, including the Cowboys' painful Week 17 NFC East championship loss at Washington. He was a Patriot far longer than he was a Cowboy this season, and that gives him a vested interest in the outcome of Sunday's game.
"It's definitely a lot different, not being in the game this time, but I'm still happy for them and I'll be rooting for them as well to win,'' Moore said. "Right now, at this moment, I don't foresee it feeling weird or anything, but it might during the game, especially since I was there for so long this past season, and the fact that I played quite a bit when we played at Baltimore in Week 3. I can see where some feelings may come up during the game, but I kind of just look at it like that's the way life in the NFL is.''
Moore said his Twitter account this week has been full of people reminding him of his pivotal play in last year's AFC Championship game, almost as if his followers would think it escaped his notice that the Ravens and Patriots had both made it back to the cusp of the Super Bowl. As the rematch gets closer, his memories from that day grow a little more vivid.
"For me it seemed like that play took forever, because I didn't know whether or not he had caught the ball,'' Moore recalled. "I was just trying to reach in there and knock it away at the end, and I wasn't quite sure until I saw the ball come free after a few steps and a few swats at it.''
Moore was a bit desperate even before the play began, because he said he and safety Devin McCourty never got the defensive play call before the 2nd-and-1 snap at the New England 14, so they were playing somewhat blind, unaware of what coverage the Patriots sideline wanted them in.
"The thing a lot of people don't realize is that we were on the far side of the field, on the Ravens sideline, and we had no clue what the defensive play call was,'' Moore said. "Literally, I was looking back to the safety, like 'What's the play call?' And he's looking at me, and he doesn't know, and then the ball's snapped. At that point I was just hoping [Evans] would run straight, and in a sense he did. But he kind of gave me a double move, which was kind of what got me in transition. But I was just trying to stick with my man, no matter what.
"I don't even know if we got the play call from the sideline or not. I remember talking to the defensive coordinator [Matt Patricia] after the game and he came up to me and was like, 'The only thing I could think of on that play was, oh, he doesn't know what the play call is,' and we didn't.''
Watching the play live, Evans seemed to have the ball in his possession for a heartbeat, with the Gillette Stadium crowd falling silent, before Moore's quick reaction changed the outcome of the play and very likely New England and Baltimore's 2011 seasons.
"I wasn't aware of what the stadium was doing at that moment, but I've seen a lot of NFL Films from the Ravens sideline, where they all started cheering for a split second, until they realized I knocked the ball out,'' Moore said. "So I can only imagine the opposite of what that was like, and what the people in the stands were thinking at first. Even the TV announcers said he caught it for a second, and then they realized the ball was out.''
There was debate after that game on why the officials didn't ensure the play was reviewed upstairs, given it came in the final two minutes of action. But the replay was not called for, and so questions about whether Evans held the ball long enough to constitute a catch, or had his second foot down before the ball came out were voiced in the aftermath of the Patriots' thrilling win.
"I didn't have any thought about whether or not it was going to be reviewed or if he got his second foot down,'' Moore said. "At that time I was just trying to get the next play call, because I did not want to go through that again, where I didn't know the coverage call.''
Moore actually made the game's next big play, too, breaking up a 3rd-and-1 pass to tight end Dennis Pitta at the 5, on the ensuing snap. Then Cundiff came on and missed the field goal way wide left, and New England only had to run out the final 15 seconds to claim its fifth Super Bowl trip in 11 seasons. Bedlam ensued in Gillette Stadium, and the next two weeks of Moore's life became a series of appreciative moments, coming at him from every direction.
"It was funny, because I'd walk into the facility and whoever I saw, they'd shake my hand and be like, 'Thank you, thank you,' '' Moore said. "And it'd be some of the same guys every day. I'd say, 'You guys shook my hand after the game, and like every day since.' But they just kept doing it.''
What about notoriously gruff Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, the man in the hoodie? What did he say to the cornerback who nearly cost him a Super Bowl trip, but then recovered and helped ensure it?
"I know we shared a hug after that game, and after that play,'' Moore said. "But I don't think he said anything all that memorable. I know when I left for Dallas he said I had made a lot of great plays and helped them get as far as they had last year. That was special.''
Moore's play, to many, was the quintessential example of the Patriots way of playing. You play until the whistle, until the play is over, you never give up on a play, and you don't take anything for granted.
. And that's what came up late in that game, with the game and the season on the line. For me, it was the only time throughout the season that situation came up. That moment was the only chance I had to do that all season.''
Even though the Patriots went on to lose their Super Bowl rematch with the Giants, Moore said his offseason was filled with reminders of his play, including a chance meeting with Ravens rookie cornerback Jimmy Smith at a charity event.
"I talked to Jimmy Smith, and he was like, 'You cost me my ticket to the Super Bowl,' '' Moore said. "I told him I was just trying to survive out there, and if I didn't make that play, I may not even be playing any more.''
It was either going to be Moore or Evans as the goat, and that's the dog-eat-dog world that exists in the NFL, especially in the high-tension setting of the playoffs. It's that reality, Moore said, that has never led him to feel sorry for either Evans or Cundiff. It easily could have been him to wear the blame.
"Honestly, I really haven't thought about what the flip side was like for them, because it was either them or me,'' he said. "I've thought about what it would have been like for me if [Evans] had held onto that ball. But I'm definitely glad I made that play, and went to the Super Bowl because of it.''
As he watches Sunday's AFC title game unfold, he's hoping his claim to fame from last year's championship isn't the only moment of real consequence in his NFL career.
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For those who are looking for the SSS loan form - ISL-101 Salary Loan Application form is what the technical term for it. You find the download at the official SSS site. Goodluck and have a great day.
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Here is a step-by-step tutorial with pictures:
1. Cut out the template pieces: Trace the template pieces onto your paper and cut them out. You can also print the template directly onto the backside of the paper you want to use, since you’ll be able to make sure that the side with words and cut/fold lines doesn’t show on the finished shoe.
2. Upper: Make little cuts where indicated on the shoe upper. The cuts allow you to bend and mold the edges to fit around the edge of the sole.
3. Adhere the shoe upper to the sole: Fold over the little cut edges of the shoe upper and adhere them along the edges of sole - top layer (the larger one). A strong, quick-dry glue like Beacon’s Fabri-tac or Zip Dry glue works well. This step is a little bit tricky because the edges of the upper don’t fit perfectly onto the sole, so you have to play with the paper a bit until you get all the edges glued down evenly along the edge of the sole.
4. Bottom sole: Glue the sole - bottom layer (the smaller one) underneath the shoe to cover up the cut edges and to give the shoe more stability.
5. The heel: Make the folds where indicated on the heel and fold them inward. First glue the side flaps together, then glue the top flap over onto the heel. Glue the heel onto the bottom of the shoe.
6. Finishing the shoe: Make the folds in the shoe where indicated by the dashed lines on the template. Your shoe is done and ready to embellish! I used Prima papers, flowers, felt and crystals on these:
If you make a pair of these shoes, I'd love to see them! Please come back and post a link or email me. Have fun!!
31 comments:
Ohhhhhhhhh Stacy you are a star !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! xxx♥ Tina
OMG...how gorgeous are these and how clever are you!! Thanks for sharing.
Kerry
DIVINE!!! Thanks! :*
Wow - this template is awesome - I can't wait to make a pair of "shoes" for my mom - she will LOVE them!! Thanks for sharing your template and your project!
Wow, stunning. Thank you so much for sharing.
Lindo!Parabéns!
Love these and thank you soooo much for the HOW TO!!!
Wishing you a wonderful day!!!
Thanks Stacy for the template. I can't wait to create one myeself :)
So so SOOOOOOOOOo cute!!! When I first saw it I thought they were real. Beautiful!
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Oooooooh, I MUST send a link to this post to my non-scrapbooking, shoe-a-holic friend. I'll betcha this'll get her paper-crafting!
Hi...I loved this tutorial. Thank you so much.
Val
Oh my goodness Stacey these are ADORABLE!!!
ahhh, ohhh!!!! those are totally gorgeous!!!
Thank you for sharing this!!! Love your shoes!!!
Sooooo cute!!! Thanks, thanks!!!
I love shoes!! :)
loooooove these! so happy to have a template for them now! I am creating two different ones tonight, hope to post a link or picture to you soon!
Jenn Post
How sweet of you to share this with all of your followers (of which I am now one!) These are going to be alot of fun !
Thanks you for the template.
I love shoes I will for sure be making a lot of these thanks for sharing with all of us....super excited....
Thanks for the template! Here's mine shoe :)
Jen
Thx so very much for this tutorial.. I have tried and made a little shoe.. you will find it her...
Love LindaSS from Norway..
Your shoes are beautiful and you tutorial is great! Thanks for sharing the template! I made 40 pair so weren't as fancy as yours, but it was fun! Here's the link to see them on my blog...
these are gorgeous, thanks for the template x
These look fabulous. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
I just love this template! I have a shoe fetish and have made several paper shoes. Here's a link to my shoe using your template:
I'm a new follower - I love your blog and your work! Thanks so much for sharing this template!
Hugs,
Leslie
Hi, I did a google search for Paper Shoes and your template came up. I adored it so made a Pretty Fariy Shoe. Thanks for the inspiration, Hazelxo
So cool! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to share.
Hi Stacy,
I'm not so good at righting in English, sorry about that... I liked this shoe's so much that i made 2 kinds of them with your tutorial & template. you coud sea them here if you'd like:
Greets
Daisy
xxx
Thanks for sharing. I used the template to create a shoe decoration for my daughter's birthday party. It will be featured on my blog tomorrow along with a link back to your post about making them.
Thank you for sharing this darling shoe template and tutorial.
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And you've caught me watercoloring again. I really find it so soothing. And in particular, I think it looks so wonderful with these sweet little Pure Innocence images, no?
I've paired "My Balloon" with the new "Bling Bers" set for a birthday greeting for a very sweet little girl that I know who will be turning seven in a few days.
Just like its sister set "Bling Bet", this new set "Bling 'Bers" is made specifially for 4mm crystals.
I used some of my Chocolate Kiss Crystals in each of the holes, and then added a little dollop of Stickles to the top of each little crystal. I love it, it looks like rock candy!
In addition to the numbers themselves, the sent has loads of great sentiments for putting together great number based cards.
Be sure to hop all around the Design Team today so see lots of inspiration featuring Bling Bers as well as an amazing new Calendar set titled "Make the Date!"
Don't forget!! You'll find links to all the participating team members on Kim's blog today after 11 am.
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so cute Joanne
joanne...this is just spectacular! great colors, papers, stitching, coloring, ribbon...i LOVE it ALL, girl!
Super sweet!!!
EEK!!! I love it!!! SO precious!
ACK!! This is SO sweet! I could just eat it up (excuse me while I get the bling out of my teeth)!!
so super fab jo!!! loveeeeeeeee it!!!
So sweeeeeeet!!! Love that "rock candy" effect!
So adorable...and I love the papers too!!
love the paper, the sweet girl (of course) and the Whole card-it's FABulously cute!!!
Fabulous card! It's so cute and perfect for the age!
Seriously Cute Joanne! Love the stickles on top of the crystals!
GREAT job, I just dont get the whole shading with water colors... I better get to tryin in on something that is NOT a project... LOL
Happy Birthday in a few days to that special lil girl you happen to know... :)
I just LOVE your style, Joanne! This is just so adorable!
gorgeous card and if you stick a 5 in front of the seven you can send to me as a belated card!
And the secret word I have to type to post this "havit" so does that mean I have the card coming in the mail?
This is darling!! I love how you did the sentiment. :)
Beautiful card, great image and papers. I LOVE this layout!
I am little late to the festivities today...
She is so sweet Joanne, your coloring is FAB-O! Perfect little card!
This is SO cute! This is such a perfect kids birthday card! I LOVE it!!!
Oh how sweet Joanne.
Love this!
JOANNE!!!! This is super cute and love the watercolouring. I haven't done it for so long, I think I must do it soon! LOVE THIS ONE!
Too Cute! I love how you colored her!
Joanne, the layout and coloring on this are awesome! I love how the words curve around the circle layer!
What a BEAUTY!! Love the colors and patterns! And your sentiment treatment is so fun!
Another stunner! Your watercolouring is such an inspiration. LOVE the way you did the sentiment.
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I saw this great challenge at ColourQ this week.
They’re not colours I would generally put together but I loved the look of the inspiration photo so much I just had to give it a try.
Friday was daffodil day in Australia and I made some little daffodils from punches, coated them with crystal effects and made them into brooches for my daughters to wear to school. They were having a yellow day to raise money and awareness about cancer.
I made an extra one too so that I could put it on a card and use it for this colour challenge.
The blue is a new in colour called island indigo and it looks so beautiful with the yellow. Actually, I didn’t have crushed curry unfortunately and used daffodil delight instead. Amazingly it’s the perfect colour to make daffodils with, ha ha :)
After using the framed tulips embossing folder on the indigo I used my white craft ink to go over the top of the embossing and a little on the inside panel which gave it a kind of distressed (shabby chic) look.
I stamped the foliage in daffodil and then also embossed some with white embossing powder.
Ingredients :
Stamps : Just believe, for everything
Card : confetti white, white, daffodil, island indigo, pumpkin pie
Ink : white, stazon, daffodil, versamark, pumpkin
Other : old olive ribbon, white brad, big shot, tulip folder, blender pen, crystal effects, 5 petal flower punch, 3 flower punch, white embossing powder
I think these colours work great for a bright and happy card. I am so glad I entered this challenge, I will definitely use these colours again.
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The New Hampshire located.
"Addison decision not expected for at least a year," by Dale Vincent in the New Hampshire Union Leader.
New Hampshire Supreme Court Justices had many and pointed questions Wednesday about the issues raised in the appeal of Michael Addison's first-degree murder conviction and death penalty sentence..
And:.
The Concord Monitor reports, "Addison’s lawyers dispute death sentence before state Supreme Court." It's by Tricia L. Nadolny.
Lawyers for Michael Addison disputed six.
Earlier coverage of the unique New Hampshire Supreme Court session begins at the link. | http://standdown.typepad.com/weblog/2012/11/the-new-hampshire-supreme-court-oral-arguments.html | 2013-05-18T11:03:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
November 28, 2011
Brian Perroni
Rivals.com Football Recruiting
Though teammate James McFarland gets more attention, West Monroe (La.) DE Terrell Lathan appears to have more of an upside, according to Brian Perroni in this week's Southwest wrap. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
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Tzielan Lee
Publication Details
Do adult disease severity subclassifications predict use of cyclophosphamide in children with ANCA-associated vasculitis? An analysis of ARChiVe study treatment decisions.
J Rheumatol. 2012; (10): 2012-20
To determine whether adult disease severity subclassification systems for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) are concordant with the decision to treat pediatric patients with cyclophosphamide (CYC). | http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=16695521&fid=4072 | 2013-05-18T10:33:38 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
'US/Iraq/Afghanistan: Accountability for Detainee Abuse.
The US Army in January ordered the court-martial of Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Jordan, a key official allegedly implicated in detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Jordan is the first military officer to be charged under the doctrine of command responsibility, whereby officers can be held responsible for the crimes of their subordinates if they knew or should have known about the crimes but failed to prevent or punish them. Human Rights Watch has long pressed for the investigation and prosecution of abuses against detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay. We released a report showing that since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, the military has failed to hold any officers accountable for detainee abuse under the doctrine of command responsibility. In the same report, we also documented the utter failure of the US Justice Department to prosecute civilians implicated in cases of detainee mistreatment. In February, in a step forward, a US federal court sentenced CIA civilian contractor David Passaro to eight-and-a-half years in prison for the 2003 beating of an Afghan detainee, who died of his injuries. To date, Passaro is the only civilian who has been held accountable for detainee abuse in Afghanistan, Iraq, or at Guantanamo Bay. Read More.'
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Events
Teeny Tykes & Tunes
- April 26, 2012 at 10:00am until 10:45am
Next 5 Upcoming Occurrences:
- No upcoming occurrences.
Location: Grace Point Church of the Nazarene - Room 36
Cost: Free
Teeny Tykes & Tunes is a ministry for infants, toddlers and an adult. It is the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month in Room 36 from 10:00 to 10:45 am. The primary objective of Teeny Tykes & Tunes is to provide a time that will help make music and spiritual activity a part of your child’s life. This time together will feature carefully selected action songs, bounces (for babies), finger-plays, Bible songs and stories that will give children the opportunity to wiggle, giggle, and learn about God! For more information, contact Grace Point Church of the Nazarene at (260) 485-2110.
For more information, contact:
- Trey Brooks
- Phone Number: (260) 485-2110
- Website: | http://star883.com/events/event/teeny-tykes-tunes/2012-04-26 | 2013-05-18T10:12:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The recently unveiled HP Pavilion p6687c-b piano-black-colored desktop pc sports a 2.9GHz AMD Phenom II X4 840T quad-core CPU processor, 8 GigaByte DDR3 system RAM module, a large 1000 GigaByte (1 TeraByte) 7,200rpm HDD storage, an integrated ATI Radeon HD4200 graphics chip, and a pre-installed Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.
This mainstream HP Pavilion p6687c-b multimedia mid-tower chassis desktop pc includes features such as a Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW optical drive, two 1X PCIe slots, one 16X PCIe slot, six USB 2.0 ports, legacy PS/2 ports, SPDIF audio jacks, VGA-out, and Ethernet connector port. This p6687c-b Hewlett-Packard model pc comes bundled with a 25-inch HP 2509m monitor with 1,920×1,080 resolution capable to play high definition 1080p movies. Market retail sale price costs $999. Check out the price details in various countries & locations. | http://starapplet.com/hp-pavilion-p6687c-b-25-inch-specs-sale-price.htm | 2013-05-18T10:13:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Looking In
The Opportunity rover, which recently completed its seventh year on Mars, has been examining a small impact crater, Santa Maria, since December. The top image shows a true-color view of the crater floor from the rover, while the bottom image is a view of the crater from orbit with Opportunity visible as a small dot on its rim. The rover's trail is visible as a horizontal line from the top left part of the crater. Sometime in February, Opportunity will leave Santa Maria and head toward a much larger crater, Endeavour, which is about four miles away (its rim is barely visible as small hills on the horizon of the top image). [NASA/JPL (2)] | http://stardate.org/astro-guide/gallery/looking | 2013-05-18T11:01:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The STF-8300 Self-Guiding Package includes the new ST-i autoguider and new low profile, wide field Off-Axis Guider (OAG), which allows self-guiding. The OAG is designed with a 7-element relay lens system that places the position of the guide camera to the side of the main camera and filter wheel, which minimizes the impact on overall backfocus. The same lens. The OAG can be used on both mono and color cameras (with appropriate adapter) and is 100% backward compatible with all ST-8300 cameras.
The Self-Guiding | http://starizona.com/acb/STF-8300C-Self-Guiding-Package-wMono-ST-i-P3393C93.aspx?UserID=23671237 | 2013-05-18T10:16:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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First light image from HyperStar on ISS
The first image from Starizona's HyperStar-equipped telescope in the International Space Station has been released! Click for details on the image and the optical system we developed that captured it.
Close Pass of Asteroid 2012 DA14
Watch a time-lapse video of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 captured from Starizona with a HyperStar C11. The asteroid passed within 17,000 miles of Earth about 6 hours before we could see it from Arizona. It was about 100,000 miles away during this video, still less than half the distance to the moon!
New Starizona Filter Slider
Check out our new Filter Slider, the perfect way to use filters with HyperStar! The thin design and round profile make it ideal for HyperStar imaging.
Starizona Power Pack II
An updated version of our popular portable Power Pack is now available. The Starizona Power Pack II is more powerful yet much lighter than our previous version.
Space Shuttle Endeavour Flyover of Tucson
Check out a quick video on the StarizonaTV YouTube channel of the space shuttle orbiter Endeavour piggybacked on NASA's 747 shuttle carrier making a low pass over Tucson on its way to California.
S&T Hot Products 2012 from Starizona
Sky & Telescope magazine has put out their annual list of Hot Products, and two of Starizona's innovations made the list! First is our SCT Corrector, a focal reducer and coma corrector that can turn any standard Schmidt-Cassegrain into a flat-field f/7.5 photographic instrument. The other product is our Cool Edge, and SCT cooler made for Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrains, including the new Edge HD models. Filtered air is blown through the scope to bring the optics to ambient temperature quickly, improving image quality.
New ATIK Cameras - Perfect for HyperStar!
ATIK has announced the new 4-Series CCD cameras. They feature small-diameter bodies and small-pixel sensors, making them perfect cameras for HyperStar-equipped SCTs. All models are available in color or monochrome versions, and include capture and processing software.
HyperStar Demo on YouTube
Check out a video demonstration of how easy it is to setup and take images with HyperStar on our YouTube channel, StarizonaTV.
Near-Earth Asteroid Flyby
Asteroid 2005 YU55 passed within 200,000 miles of Earth on the night of November 8th, 2011. See a video sequence of the asteroid's motion captured from Starizona with an 11" Celestron telescope and HyperStar lens. to share the sky with 150 school kids. We took two HyperStar-equipped telescopes.
See pictures here.
Starizona Accessories for Celestron EdgeHD Telescopes!
HyperStar Website
for HyperStar info plus a user gallery and forum! | http://starizona.com/acb/index.aspx?UserID=21528736 | 2013-05-18T10:35:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Quick Recap: Stars 2, Red Wings 1
Kari Lehtonen stopped 39 of 40 shots and Michael Ryder scored two goals as the Dallas Stars defeated the Detroit Red Wings, 2-1, at Joe Louis Arena Tuesday night. Center Cody Eakin, bumped up to the second line, chipped in two assists for the Stars, who improved to 2-1-0 on the season. The Red Wings, who were playing their home opener, fell to 1-2-0.
Line juggling pays off
Stars coach Glen Gulutzan juggled his lines to open the game, moving Cody Eakin up the lineup to center the second line with Ray Whitney and Michael Ryder. It paid dividends early as Eakin and Ryder won a puck battle along the boards and Ryder scored the game’s first goal, beating Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard with a wrist shot from the slot 5:41 into the game. It paid off again in the third as Ryder scored again with Whitney and Eakin picking up assists. Whitney sent a cross-ice pass to Ryder, who scored off a one-timer at the 5:41 mark to give the Stars a 2-0 lead.
Lehtonen stellar
To read more, visit StarsInsideEdge.com with Mark Stepneski | http://stars.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=651959 | 2013-05-18T10:21:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Long, Bad DayTalk7
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"The Long, Bad Day" is a 2-page comic that first appeared in Star Wars Tales 16 and was collected in Star Wars Tales Volume 4. The script was written by Mike Denning, art was by Lucas Marangon and letters were by Steve Dutro. It takes place in 0 BBY.
Plot summaryEdit
As Darth Vader attempts to return to the first Death Star in his TIE fighter following the battle of Yavin, he is confronted by the mocking spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Furiously, Vader thumps his fist on the control panel where Kenobi has appeared, causing one of his wings to fall off. Again Vader attempts to strike the spirit of Kenobi, this time causing him to fire a torpedo into Grand Moff Tarkin's escape pod. After causing another wing to fall off, Vader is picked up by the Star Destroyer Xamaural, as Kenobi sarcastically tells him to "Sit up straight." | http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Long,_Bad_Day | 2013-05-18T10:13:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks at the screening of the Aung San Suu Kyi Biopic “The Lady,” at the Motion Picture Association in Washington, D.C. on April 9, 2012. [Go to for more video and text transcript.]
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Fayette Methodist planning community meals 2011.12.14
When it comes to having dinner with friends—and even strangers—no one beats the members of the Fayette United Methodist Church.
The church opened for a free community meal last Easter and again on Thanksgiving. Now it’s time to plan the Christmas dinner.
“Originally, we were targeting families who might not be able to provide dinner or those who were eating alone,” said Rev. Kathy Currier. “As the dinners have evolved, we have found that many people in the community who just want to share the holiday with others have come out to enjoy great food and fellowship in the church basement.”
At the recent Thanksgiving meal, 75 dinners were served to residents of Fayette and the surrounding area—many more than the 20-some meals served at Easter.
“We were thrilled to see folks in the community who might not have other plans on the holiday come out and enjoy each others’ company,” Rev. Currier said.
She figures that some people had their holiday celebrations the week before or after the holiday, and found themselves with nowhere to go on Thanksgiving day.
“The basement was full and we delivered about 25 meals to others in the community who could not get out,” she said.
Church members and friends will provide the Christmas Day dinner, which will include turkey and ham, mashed potatoes, vegetable, cranberry salad, rolls and fresh pies.
“A Christmas feast!” Rev. Currier says.
Her husband, Jim, organizes the event, and volunteers from the church help serve and greet guests as they arrive.
“We would love to see this community meal grow each year,” she said. “Perhaps in the future we will partner with other Fayette area churches, if it becomes too big for our basement.”
The Christmas dinner is planned from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Christmas day. The church is located at 305 E. Main St.
For additional information or to help with meal delivery, call 419/237-2974 or 237-2322. | http://statelineobserver.com/morenci/news-in-brief/262-2011-december/4953-fayette-methodist-planning-community-meals-20111214 | 2013-05-18T10:52:32 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
How Community News is Faring
By Michael Remez of the Pew Research Center
In 2011, the landscape of community news websites reached a new level of maturity. Some seed grants ran out, there were more startups, some highly publicized closures and a clearer sense of what is needed to succeed.
Some of the larger and better-established sites – such as The Texas Tribune and MinnPost – continued to build on early successes. Others struggled to gain stability, including The Bay Citizen, which has announced plans to merge with the Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting and its California Watch site. Some didn’t make it. NewWest.net, once a highly praised regional site that covered the Rocky Mountain states, shut down, and the Chicago News Cooperative, which had a partnership with The New York Times, announced early this year that it was suspending operations.
The emerging world of community online news, less than a decade old, can be difficult to assess. It is diffuse and varied. There are well-known sites in large cities partnering with major news organizations and one-person operations in small towns.
To get a sense of what transpired in the last year, we interviewed five experts who watch the industry closely, examined the newest research and talked to several operators in the field. A number of common themes emerged.
- To survive now, community news sites need to develop multiple revenue streams. The end of many initial startup grants from national foundations represents a kind of inflection point for the sector. Replacement grants are hard to find. And no obvious single alternative revenue source has emerged, either in the for-profit arena or for nonprofits. The most successful sites have developed multiple revenue sources and have dedicated resources to aggressively pursuing them all.
- The initial skills that many site founders brought to their new enterprises — often these were journalists leaving old media — are insufficient now. Sites need people dedicated to the business side, as well as financial plans and technical capability. Providing some of these skills has increasingly become a focus of groups trying to nurture the field, such as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and J-Lab – the Institute for Interactive Journalism.
- At the hyperlocal level, sites are beginning to try to make up for what they lack in scale by sharing knowledge. Last year, owners of 45 sites launched a national organization called Authentically Local, in part to highlight their local roots in the face of competitors such as AOL’s network of Patch sites.
- Experts predict more local sites with niches or special areas of interest will become a trend, focusing on topics such as health care, education and state government.
- Journalism schools are becoming a larger part of local digital news. A number of college journalism programs have launched hyperlocal sites as a way to give real-world training to their students and to serve neighboring communities. Some, such as Intersections South LA in Los Angeles, are in what have been under-covered areas.
- The future for local and regional sites probably will see increased use of news networks and partnerships – with public radio, local television, even local daily newspapers that may have resisted such alliances just a few years ago.
Last year, Jon Funabiki, executive director of the Renaissance Journalism Center at San Francisco State University, conducted a survey of community news editors and publishers to get a better sense of the challenges they face on the business side. He concluded that at this point many sites “need expertise and assistance in developing diverse revenue streams because they can no longer rely solely on grants from foundations.”
“We are starting to see evidence that a shakeout is coming,’’ Funabiki said. “There was this rush of entrepreneurship as mostly journalists, many laid off, looked to reinvent themselves.”
At the same time, as traditional news outlets continue to shrink, the new community news sites are also becoming a more critical source of news. For now, their audiences remain small, but time suggests that will change, both through the growing number of partnerships with larger news operations and through demographics. According to a survey by PEJ and the Pew Internet and American Life Project last year, 24% of internet users go to local community news websites at least several times a month now.
Revenue Streams
Some of the shakeout Funabki forsaw has begun. Among the larger sites, the closure of New West and the suspension of the Chicago News Cooperative are two examples. Among smaller startups, there has always been a significant amount of churn. Publishers may choose to shut down for a multitude of reasons, ranging from the viability of the business to the driving person behind it landing a more secure full-time job.
The most successful (and therefore sustainable), sites are those with a range of revenue streams, which can include local foundations, advertising, subscriptions, special events and membership campaigns, for example. The more varied the sources of revenue, the better, said Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The Knight Foundation helped shepherd many sites with startup grants, but Newton said they must be able to stand on their own. “Local media must have local support to survive,’’ Newton said. He said that Knight works to encourage community foundations to support local startups with a matching grant program. “If you establish a relationship with the community, that is ultimately the most powerful economic engine,” he added.
MinnPost in Minnesota is one example of a site with varied revenue streams that is faring better than most. A nonprofit, MinnPost’s annual report for 2011 shows strong growth in visits to the site and in memberships, and a 19% increase in revenue to $1.5 million. About a quarter of the revenue came from advertising and sponsorships, another 25% came from individual and corporate memberships, 21% came from foundation grants, 20% from a capital campaign and 9% from special events.
Texas Tribune is another successful example of the multiple-revenue source model. Started in 2009, the site has focused on covering the state government in Austin and has specialized in providing data to readers on state salaries and campaign contributions. Its founders have done well in raising money from a range of sources – including foundations, philanthropies, memberships and large conferences that also help bring attention to the site’s work.
Another well-known site, the Voice of San Diego, also has diverse funding sources, though its year was more complicated. The site has enjoyed significant growth in recent years, but it laid off four staffers – including three in its newsroom – at the end of 2011. In a letter to readers, managers said that the site was projecting a slight decrease in revenue for 2012 as it reduces its reliance on grants from national foundations.
Scott Lewis, chief executive of the Voice of San Diego, said, “We had to give ourselves breathing space with payroll.”
But it continues to do well, Lewis said, because its revenue, too, comes from a range of sources: small individual donors, major donors, local community foundations, advertising and media partners – such as the relationship with the local NBC station. In their news coverage, editors try to limit the scope of what they provide both to meet community needs and play to their strengths. The site emphasizes investigative reports and news about local government, education, the arts and quality of life.
Lewis argues that online-only community operations have one distinct advantage over legacy news organizations, such as newspapers that have a hard time escaping costs for printing and distribution. “These operations are not that expensive,” Lewis said. His nonprofit, nonpartisan site, started in 2004, now has a budget of about $1 million and a full-time staff of 10.
Eric Newton of the Knight Foundation said these operations also must diversify how they deploy their resources. While spending on news is critical, he said, publishers must make sure not to ignore the technology, business and community engagement sides of the equation, factors that all will help bring sustainability.
“The more diverse the pies are the better,’’ Newton said, referring to both revenue and expenses.
Learning New Skills
Many of the online news sites launched in recent years were started by journalists, often people with little business training. To survive now, most experts told us, these operations must either develop business skills or bring in people with that expertise. That is true for both the larger statewide or regional sites and the hyperlocal ones.
“I am convinced that the revenue is there in most communities,’’ said Michele McLellan, a journalist and consultant who developed a program to help these startups when she was a fellow with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. “It is the lack of business focus and expertise that is holding them back.”
The Block by Block program she started offers business training and coaching for site publishers, as well as opportunities to share experiences and ideas at annual conferences, the first held in 2010. Universities also are looking at how to how to help these journalists get the needed skills. Jan Schaffer, who runs the J-Lab, which is at American University, said the school is planning to launch a new master’s degree in media entrepreneurship this fall. The program will be a part-time one in partnership between the school of communications and the business school and aimed at working professionals. “Our preference is get people in with a vision for a project,’’ she said, so they can work on specific strategies while earning the degree.
The critical need to bring both journalistic and business skills to the table is a common refrain from those watching this new business model. When the Chicago News Cooperative announced it would suspend operations this February, several analysts noted that its top managers had focused on the journalism – including producing regular copy for The New York Times – but had not made real progress on creating a sustainable business.
A Part of the Community
At the hyperlocal level, some now see greater benefits in going the for-profit route rather than the nonprofit.
McLellan, who co-wrote a report last year for the Knight Foundation entitled “Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability,” said she sees a viable business model for smaller, hyperlocal sites that rely heavily on local advertising – if publishers bring the right skills to the task.
One example of this is DavidsonNews.net in Davidson, N.C. With an intensely local approach to news, the site’s owners started a companion site in nearby Cornelius last year and hope to be able to launch more in the years ahead. Founder David Boraks said the dynamics of his small community, a college town not far from Charlotte, required a different economic calculus than the nonprofit approach adopted by some regional sites. He felt he needed to look at his startup as a small business reaching out to people and other businesses in the community.
“My research convinced me for-profit was the only way to go,’’ Boraks said. He sees nonprofit status as more advantageous in areas where a site owner can tap into community foundation money and a larger potential base of paying members. “In a small town like Davidson with 10,000 people, that won’t work,” he said. “At the very local level, that kind of money is hard to come by.”
But he found he could make his business model work by keeping expenses low – he works out of his home, by selling local advertising, soliciting contributions from readers, holding fund-raisers and offering extra services such as web design. With strong local ties to the community, the site is growing. Boraks used his own money to open the second site last year. He hopes he will be better able to borrow money to start additional sites as the business grows.
Another development is that to make up for limited resources these small sites are organizing to share information. Some 45 sites, including DavidsonNews, Baristanet in New Jersey and NoozHawk in California, banded together in May 2011 to start Authentically Local, a trade association that promotes the virtues of local ownership.
The group’s founders also launched a branding campaign emphasizing that member sites are locally produced and financed, and stressing that the best local journalism emerges from people deeply engaged in their communities.
One key motivation for the organization is to fend off competition from Patch, the hyperlocal news operation run by AOL. The Patch model was designed to match the best of hyperlocal news — content produced at the neighborhood level — with a national sales force that would leverage that local content for national advertisers. So far, most Patch sites are not turning a profit, despite some optimistic projections in 2011, but the company says it expects revenue to grow substantially in 2012.
More Niche Sites
Those watching this landscape seem to agree that there may be opportunity in specialization — or focusing on a single topic. In a sense, hyperlocal is another form of that. “You will see people picking slivers of the ecosystem that they think are important,’’ Newton said.
Funabiki agreed, saying that it is likely to be easier to raise the needed revenue when promoting coverage of specific issues and beats – such as the statehouse, schools, the environment or investigative reporting – than a general news site. “I think you can really start to narrow your operation,” he said. “The public is often very interested in specific issues and funders are often interested in specific issues.”
Schaffer said niche sites are coming on strong, offering a list of examples, including thenotebook.org, which focuses on public education in Philadelphia, Health News Florida and Oregon Arts Watch. Health News Florida focuses on health issues and policy in the state and is a member of the Investigative News Network, a national consortium of nonprofit news sites started in 2009. Oregon Arts Watch started in 2011 with 11 arts organizations in the Portland area as partners.
Another area of growth is sites covering state governments, McLellan said, citing NJ Spotlight as an example. The site, which is focused on New Jersey state government, won an award for general excellence last year from the Online News Association.
Student Journalism
The industry watchers also see an increase in news operations – both hyperlocal and those with a broader focus – affiliated with colleges and universities. Journalism students at schools such as the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Miami and the University of Southern California all provide news to nearby communities as part of training for student journalists.
In Florida, Miami students produce Grand Avenue, a site that focuses on community news for Coconut Grove. In Los Angeles, U.S.C. students tackle local news for the diverse communities of South Los Angeles with their Intersections site. At the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, students have created websites to cover two underserved communities. And the list is growing.
Professors at U.S.C.’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism thought their students could get real-world experience in an under-covered community not far from their campus. Started in 2009, the site has been funded by the university and grants.
But there are challenges to these university models as well. The funding equation is not easy, said Willa Seidenberg, the Annenberg professor who directs the site. Making matters more difficult, broadband access in the community is limited, forcing website managers to consider other ways of reaching readers – whether through mobile devices such as smartphones or possibly a print quarterly to showcase the students best work.
“We are kind of at a crossroads,’’ Seidenberg said, “trying to think about what we can and what we should do.’’
Partnerships and Social Media
Finally, two other trends appear to be growing in importance: partnership and gravitating to new technology, particularly social media.
“In the old days, we talked about convergence: the same information on different platforms,’’ said Schaffer. “Now we are talking more about networks – repurposing content or giving content a bigger megaphone.”. These sites need content. The new operations need audience.
This is the path that helped make ProPublica among the most successful of the nonprofit news operations in the country. ProPublica, which does investigative reporting, generally partners with a traditional news organization to produce and disseminate the work.
In the community news realm, partnerships are becoming routine. The Voice of San Diego’s relationship with the NBC station in San Diego is a source of revenue for the site, but it also gets its work in front of more people who then might come to the website or become supporters. One newspaper, The Seattle Times, links to a range of hyperlocal news sites, both community and ethnic, on its website. Many local site owners also are providing insight about community news on local public radio stations.
The other element of expanding dissemination is new technology, particularly given the low cost of social media.
Joaquin Alvarado, until recently the senior vice president for digital innovation for American Public Media, talks more specifically about the importance of using the new technologies to grab the attention of younger adults, who often do not track news closely. “How do we get Millennials invested in news in a way that is important and relevant?” Alvarado asked.
Part of that involves making the best use of new technologies as people increasingly get information on their mobile devices or through social media. It also involves finding ways to make newsgathering more of a two-way street. For example, American Public Media encourages listeners to serve as sources for its journalists through its Public Insight Network.
Many local sites are already using these tools to engage their audiences, encouraging community involvement and feedback. Sites like the Voice of San Diego send out daily e-mails to subscribers highlighting new and breaking stories. Oakland Local has gained a reputation for using its Facebook page well and even offers social media training as a way to bring in additional revenue.
McLellan said the sites need a variety of ways of interacting with their communities.
“One of the biggest challenges for these sites, especially the smaller ones, is how do you get visible?” she said. “How do you establish yourself? Some of that today is through social media.” From McLellan’s perspective, site publishers and editors must consider every tool available. “The big challenge isn’t starting a site,” she said. “The big challenge is making it sustainable.”
That push for sustainability is highly variable from market to market. Still, the industry watchers expect many of the trends of 2011 to continue in 2012 – new sites will open, others will shut down, the lines will become increasingly blurred between different media sources, social media will play a growing role and publishers will look for promising niches to fill.
J-Lab’s Schaffer said the successful sites continue to take an entrepreneurial approach, despite the tricky business environment.
“You figure out the job that needs to be done and you do it,” Schaffer said. “You can have a business out of that. I think there is no doubt the evolution is ongoing and I think there is no question there is good journalism being produced.” | http://stateofthemedia.org/2012/how-community-news-is-faring/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Spring Integration's JPA (Java Persistence API) module provides components for performing various database operations using JPA. The following components are provided:
Updating Outbound Gateway
Retrieving Outbound Gateway
These components can be used to perform select, create, update and delete operations on the targeted databases by sending/receiving messages to them.
The JPA Inbound Channel Adapter lets you poll and retrieve (select) data from the database using JPA whereas the JPA Outbound Channel Adapter lets you create, update and delete entities.
Outbound Gateways for JPA can be used to persist entities to the database, yet allowing you to continue with the flow and execute further components downstream. Similarly, you can use an Outbound Gateway to retrieve entities from the database.
For example, you may use the Outbound Gateway, which receives a Message with a user Id as payload on its request channel, to query the database and retrieve the User entity and pass it downstream for further processing.
Recognizing these semantic differences, Spring Integration provides 2 separate JPA Outbound Gateways:
Retrieving Outbound Gateway
Updating Outbound Gateway
Functionality
All JPA components perform their respective JPA operations by using either one of the following:
Entity classes
Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL) for update, select and delete (inserts are not supported by JPQL)
Native Query
Named Query
In the following sections we will describe each of these components in more detail.
The Spring Integration JPA support has been tested using the following persistence providers:
Hibernate
OpenJPA
EclipseLink
When using a persistence provider, please ensure that the provider is compatible with JPA 2.0.
Each of the provided components will use the
o.s.i.jpa.core.JpaExecutor
class which in turn will use an implementation of the
o.s.i.jpa.core.JpaOperations
interface.
JpaOperations operates like a
typical Data Access Object (DAO) and provides methods such as
find,
persist,
executeUpdate etc. For most use cases the provided
default implementation
o.s.i.jpa.core.DefaultJpaOperations
should be sufficient. Nevertheless, you have the option to
optionally specify your own implementation in case you require custom
behavior.
For initializing a
JpaExecutor
you have to use one of 3 available constructors that accept one of:
EntityManagerFactory
EntityManager or
JpaOperations
Java Configuration Example
The following example of a JPA Retrieving Outbound Gateway is configured purely through Java. In typical usage scenarios you will most likely prefer the XML Namespace Support described further below. However, the example illustrates how the classes are wired up. Understanding the inner workings can also be very helpful for debugging or customizing the individual JPA components.
First, we instantiate a
JpaExecutor using an
EntityManager as constructor argument.
The
JpaExecutor is then in return used as
constructor argument for the
o.s.i.jpa.outbound.JpaOutboundGateway
and the
JpaOutboundGateway will be passed as constructor
argument into the
EventDrivenConsumer.
<bean id="jpaExecutor" class="o.s.i.jpa.core.JpaExecutor"> <constructor-arg <property name="entityClass" value="o.s.i.jpa.test.entity.StudentDomain"/> <property name="jpaQuery" value="select s from Student s where s.id = :id"/> <property name="expectSingleResult" value="true"/> <property name="jpaParameters" > <util:list> <bean class="org.springframework.integration.jpa.support.JpaParameter"> <property name="name" value="id"/> <property name="expression" value="payload"/> </bean> </util:list> </property> </bean> <bean id="jpaOutboundGateway" class="o.s.i.jpa.outbound.JpaOutboundGateway"> <constructor-arg <property name="gatewayType" value="RETRIEVING"/> <property name="outputChannel" ref="studentReplyChannel"/> </bean> <bean id="getStudentEndpoint" class="org.springframework.integration.endpoint.EventDrivenConsumer"> <constructor-arg <constructor-arg </bean>
When using XML namespace support, the underlying parser classes will instantiate the relevant Java classes for you. Thus, you typically don't have to deal with the inner workings of the JPA adapter. This section will document the XML Namespace Support provided by the Spring Integration and will show you how to use the XML Namespace Support to configure the Jpa components.
Certain configuration parameters are shared amongst all JPA components and are described below:
auto-startup
Lifecycle attribute signaling if this component should
be started during Application Context startup.
Defaults to
true.
Optional.
id
Identifies the underlying Spring bean definition, which
is an instance of either
EventDrivenConsumer
or
PollingConsumer.
Optional.
entity-manager-factory
The reference to the JPA Entity Manager Factory
that will be used by the adapter to create the
EntityManager.
Either this attribute or the entity-manager attribute
or the jpa-operations attribute must be provided.
entity-manager
The reference to the JPA Entity Manager that will be used by the component. Either this attribute or the enity-manager-factory attribute or the jpa-operations attribute must be provided.
<bean id="entityManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.SharedEntityManagerBean"> <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactoryBean" /> </bean>
jpa-operations
Reference to a bean implementing the
JpaOperations interface. In rare cases
it might be advisable to provide your own implementation
of the
JpaOperations interface, instead
of relying on the default implementation
org.springframework.integration.jpa.core.DefaultJpaOperations.
As
JpaOperations wraps the necessary
datasource; the JPA Entity Manager or JPA Entity Manager Factory
must not be provided, if the jpa-operations
attribute is used.
entity-class
The fully qualified name of the entity class. The exact semantics of this attribute vary, depending on whether we are performing a persist/update operation or whether we are retrieving objects from the database.
When retrieving data, you can specify the entity-class attribute to indicate that you would like to retrieve objects of this type from the database. In that case you must not define any of the query attributes ( jpa-query, native-query or named-query )
When persisting data, the entity-class attribute will indicate the type of object to persist. If not specified (for persist operations) the entity class will be automatically retrieved from the Message's payload.
jpa-query
Defines the JPA query (Java Persistence Query Language) to be used.
native-query
Defines the native SQL query to be used.
named-query
This attribute refers to a named query. A named query can either be defined in Native SQL or JPAQL but the underlying JPA persistence provider handles that distinction internally.
For providing parameters, the parameter XML sub-element can be used. It provides a mechanism to provide parameters for the queries that are either based on the Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL) or native SQL queries. Parameters can also be provided for Named Queries.
Expression based Parameters
<int-jpa:parameter
Value based Parameters
<int-jpa:parameter
Positional Parameters
<int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter
All JPA operations like Insert, Update and Delete require a transaction to be active whenever they are performed. For Inbound Channel Adapters there is nothing special to be done, it is similar to the way we configure transaction managers with pollers used with other inbound channel adapters.The xml snippet below shows a sample where a transaction manager is configured with the poller used with an Inbound Channel Adapter.
<int-jpa:inbound-channel-adapter <int:poller <int:transactional </int:poller> </int-jpa:inbound-channel-adapter>
However, it may be necessary to specifically start a transaction when using an Outbound Channel Adapter/Gateway. If a DirectChannel is an input channel for the outbound adapter/gateway, and if transaction is active in the current thread of execution, the JPA operation will be performed in the same transaction context. We can also configure to execute this JPA operation in a new transaction as below.
<int-jpa:outbound-gateway <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:transactional </int-jpa:outbound-gateway>
As we can see above, the transactional sub element of the outbound gateway/adapter will be used to specify the transaction attributes. It is optional to define this child element if you have DirectChannel as an input channel to the adapter and you want the adapter to execute the operations in the same transaction context as the caller. If, however, you are using an ExecutorChannel, it is required to have the transactional sub element as the invoking client's transaction context is not propagated.
An Inbound Channel Adapter is used to execute a select query over the
database using JPA QL and return the result. The message payload will be either a single
entity or a
List of entities. Below is a sample xml snippet that shows
a sample usage of inbound-channel-adapter.
<int-jpa:inbound-channel-adapter
<int:poller <int:transactional </int:poller> </int-jpa:inbound-channel-adapter><int:poller <int:transactional </int:poller> </int-jpa:inbound-channel-adapter>
<int-jpa:inbound-channel-adapter <int:poller </int-jpa:inbound-channel-adapter>> <int:poller </int-jpa:inbound-channel-adapter>
The JPA Outbound channel adapter allows you to accept messages over a request channel. The payload can either be used as the entity to be persisted, or used along with the headers in parameter expressions for a defined JPQL query to be executed. In the following sub sections we shall see what those possible ways of performing these operations are.
The XML snippet below shows how we can use the Outbound Channel Adapter to persist an entity to the database.
<int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter
As we can see above these 4 attributes of the outbound-channel-adapter are all we need to configure it to accept entities over the input channel and process them to PERSIST,MERGE or DELETE it from the underlying data source.
We have seen in the above sub section how to perform a PERSIST action using an entity We will now see how to use the outbound channel adapter which uses JPA QL (Java Persistence API Query Language)
<int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter
<int-jpa:parameter<int-jpa:parameter
<int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter><int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter>
The parameter sub element accepts an attribute name which corresponds to the named parameter specified in the provided JPA QL (point 2 in the above mentioned sample). The value of the parameter can either be static or can be derived using an expression. The static value and the expression to derive the value is specified using the value and the expression attributes respectively. These attributes are mutually exclusive.
If the value attribute is specified we can provide an optional
type attribute. The value of this attribute is the fully qualified name of the class
whose value is represented by the value attribute. By default
the type is assumed to be a
java.lang.String.
<int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter ... > <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter>
As seen in the above snippet, it is perfectly valid to use multiple parameter sub elements within an outbound channel adapter
tag and derive some parameters using expressions and some with static value. However, care should
be taken not to specify the same parameter name multiple times, and, provide one parameter sub element for
each named parameter specified in the JPA query. For example, we are specifying two parameters
level and name where level attribute is a static value of type
java.lang.Integer, where as the name attribute is derived from the payload of the message
In this section we will see how to use native queries to perform the operations using JPA outbound channel adapter. Using native queries is similar to using JPA QL, except that the query specified here is a native database query. By choosing native queries we lose the database vendor independence which we get using JPA QL.
One of the things we can achieve using native queries is to perform database inserts, which is not possible using JPA QL (To perform inserts we send JPA entities to the channel adapter as we have seen earlier). Below is a small xml fragment that demonstrates the use of native query to insert values in a table. Please note that we have only mentioned the important attributes below. All other attributes like channel, entity-manager and the parameter sub element has the same semantics as when we use JPA QL.
<int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter
We will now see how to use named queries after seeing using entity, JPA QL and native query in previous sub sections. Using named query is also very similar to using JPA QL or a native query, except that we specify a named query instead of a query. Before we go further and see the xml fragment for the declaration of the outbound-channel-adapter, we will see how named JPA named queries are defined.
In our case, if we have an entity called
Student, then we have the following in the class to define
two named queries selectStudent and updateStudent. Below is a way to define
named queries using annotations
@Entity @Table(name="Student") @NamedQueries({ @NamedQuery(name="selectStudent", query="select s from Student s where s.lastName = 'Last One'"), @NamedQuery(name="updateStudent", query="update Student s set s.lastName = :lastName, lastUpdated = :lastUpdated where s.id in (select max(a.id) from Student a)") }) public class Student { ...
You can alternatively use the orm.xml to define named queries as seen below
<entity-mappings ...> ... <named-query <query>select s from Student s where s.lastName = 'Last One'</query> </named-query> </entity-mappings>
Now that we have seen how we can define named queries using annotations or using orm.xml, we will now see a small xml fragment for defining an outbound-channel-adapter using named query
<int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter
<int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter <int:poller/> <int-jpa:transactional/>> <int:poller/> <int-jpa:transactional/>
> <int-jpa:parameter/>> <int-jpa:parameter/>
> </int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter>> </int-jpa:outbound-channel-adapter>
The JPA Inbound Channel Adapter allows you to poll a database in order to retrieve one or more JPA entities and the retrieved data is consequently used to start a Spring Integration flow using the retrieved data as message payload.
Additionally, you may use JPA Outbound Channel Adapters at the end of your flow in order to persist data, essentially terminating the flow at the end of the persistence operation.
However, how can you execute JPA persistence operation in the middle of a flow? For example, you may have business data that you are processing in your Spring Integration message flow, that you would like to persist, yet you still need to execute other components further downstream. Or instead of polling the database using a poller, you rather have the need to execute JPQL queries and retrieve data actively which then is used to being processed in subsequent components within your flow.
This is where JPA Outbound Gateways come into play. They give you the ability to persist data as well as retrieving data. To facilitate these uses, Spring Integration provides two types of JPA Outbound Gateways:
Whenever the Outbound Gateway is used to perform an action that saves, updates or soley deletes some records in the database, you need to use an Updating Outbound Gateway gateway. If for example an entity is used to persist it, then a merged/persisted entity is returned as a result. In other cases the number of records affected (updated or deleted) is returned instead.
When retrieving (selecting) data from the database, we use a Retrieving Outbound Gateway. With a Retrieving Outbound Gateway gateway, we can use either JPQL, Named Queries (native or JPQL-based) or Native Queries (SQL) for selecting the data and retrieving the results.
An Updating Outbound Gateway is functionally very similar to an Outbound Channel Adapter, except that an Updating Outbound Gateway is used to send a result to the Gateway's reply channel after performing the given JPA operation.
A Retrieving Outbound Gateway is quite similar to an Inbound Channel Adapter.
This similarity was the main factor to use the central
JpaExecutor class to unify common functionality
as much as possible.
Common for all JPA Outbound Gateways and simlar to the outbound-channel-adapter, we can use
Entity classes
JPA Query Language (JPQL)
Native query
Named query
for performing various JPA operations. For configuration examples please see Section 18.6.4, “JPA Outbound Gateway Samples”.
JPA Outbound Gateways always have access to the Spring Integration Message as input. As such the following parameters are available:
parameter-source-factory
An instance of
o.s.i.jpa.support.parametersource.ParameterSourceFactory
that will be used to get an instance of
o.s.i.jpa.support.parametersource.ParameterSource.
The ParameterSource is used to resolve the
values of the parameters provided in the query. The
parameter-source-factory attribute is ignored,
if operations are performed using a JPA entity. If a
parameter sub-element is used, the factory
must be of type
ExpressionEvaluatingParameterSourceFactory,
located in package o.s.i.jpa.support.parametersource.
Optional.
use-payload-as-parameter-source
If set to true, the payload of the Message
will be used as a source for providing parameters. If set to
false, the entire Message will be available
as a source for parameters. If no JPA Parameters are passed in,
this property will default to true.
This means that using a default
BeanPropertyParameterSourceFactory, the
bean properties of the payload will be used as a source for
parameter values for the to-be-executed JPA query. However, if
JPA Parameters are passed in, then this property will by default
evaluate to false. The reason is that JPA
Parameters allow for SpEL Expressions to be provided and therefore
it is highly beneficial to have access to the entire Message,
including the Headers.
<int-jpa:updating-outbound-gateway <int:poller/> <int-jpa:transactional/> <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:updating-outbound-gateway> <int:poller/> <int-jpa:transactional/> <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:updating-outbound-gateway>
<int-jpa:retrieving-outbound-gateway <int:poller></int:poller> <int-jpa:transactional/> <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:retrieving-outbound-gateway> <int:poller></int:poller> <int-jpa:transactional/> <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:retrieving-outbound-gateway>
This section contains various examples of the Updating Outbound Gateway and Retrieving Outbound Gateway
Update using an Entity Class
In this example an Updating Outbound Gateway
is persisted using solely the entity class
org.springframework.integration.jpa.test.entity.Student
as JPA defining parameter.
<int-jpa:updating-outbound-gateway
Update using JPQL
In this example, we will see how we can update an entity using the Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL). For this we use an Updating Outbound Gateway.
<int-jpa:updating-outbound-gateway <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:updating-outbound-gateway> <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:updating-outbound-gateway>
When sending a message with a String payload and containing a header rollNumber with a long value, the last name of the student with the provided roll number is updated to the value provided in the message payload. When using an UPDATING gateway, the return value is always an integer value which denotes the number of records affected by execution of the JPA QL.
Retrieving an Entity using JPQL
The following examples uses a Retrieving Outbound Gateway together with JPQL to retrieve (select) one or more entities from the database.
<int-jpa:retrieving-outbound-gateway <int-jpa:parameter <int-jpa:parameter </int-jpa:outbound-gateway>
Update using a Named Query
Using a Named Query is basically the same as using a JPQL query directly. The difference is that the named-query attribute is used instead, as seen in the xml snippet below.
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Science minus women equals biology?
Rebecca Goldin, Ph.D, June 15, 2010
New evidence fails to prove that gender disparity in the sciences is biological
In the June 7 edition of the New York Times, reporter/columnist John Tierney drew attention to “new evidence supporting Dr. [Lawrence] Summers’s controversial hypothesis about differences in the sexes’ aptitude for math and science.” The piece generated hundreds of comments, reflecting the controversial nature of Tierney’s view. The article nonetheless raises the important question: is there (new) evidence that biology drives the differences in performance between the sexes in math and science?
STATS has waded into this issue before, and previously documented that Dr. Summers, a former President of Harvard University, was at least partly misunderstood in the conflagration that followed his remarks: he didn’t say that boys are better than girls at math on average, or that there are no exceptional women in math and science; instead, he said that the variance is greater in boys and men than in girls and women. The average scores on standardized tests may well be the same between boys and girls, and yet the standard deviation may be much larger for boys. This would have an impact on the tail end of the curve -- the top 0.1 percent – which may be populated more by boys than girls.
But does the new evidence Tierney cites really support the notion of a biological basis for differences in male and female performance? It consists of a new study appearing in the journal Intelligence, which finds that top performance on standardized math tests is dominated by boys, in this case, talented seventh graders who take the SAT. It is fair to ask whether such evidence is actually biological. For example, was an actual mechanism identified? Was a controlled experiment or observational study conducted, in which social mechanisms were held constant or rendered irrelevant? These are the kinds of evidence that are traditionally viewed as necessary to confirm the existence of a biological agent acting on human behavior. Conversely, as we discuss below, there are severe limitations on any effort to assign a biological cause solely on the basis of differences in standardized test scores.
The new research in question explores data, collected over a 30- year period, on young adolescents who display mathematical talent on standardized tests. It finds that the ratio of boys to girls among the top-scoring students went from 13 to 1 in the early 1980s to just under 4 to 1 in the early 1990s, where it has since hovered for almost 20 years. But the study provides no additional evidence to justify an assignment of biological cause, except for the fact that there hasn’t been a significant improvement in the past 20 years. It is by no means clear that, after 12 to 13 years of exposure to social forces, these adolescents’ scores would necessarily be expressing something innate rather than something cultivated through social influences.
Does Scoring at the Top of the Top Matter?
Tierney also points to “other research” showing that top scores on the SAT predict academic success, even within the group of top performers, based on a 2005 paper published in the Journal of Educational Psychology. He summarizes this research as showing.” This finding is used to support the argument that SAT scores are a valuable surrogate marker for understanding biological differences between boys and girls. In fact, the findings are more equivocal on this point.
This paper asks whether kids who score in the top quarter of the top 1 percent on the SAT at age 13 fare better (measured in terms of PhDs, income, patents, and tenure at a top-50 U.S. university) than those who score in the bottom quarter of the top 1 percent. The paper actually shows that this is the case for men, but not necessarily for women. Further, the paper highlights the difficulties of such a study: the outcome (academic success, for example) is not independent of the measurement (the SAT scores). In other words, the result (which does not exist for women in any case) may reflect the societal value of the SATs rather than the underlying intelligence reflected in the SATs.
First, to the biological question: the fact that these test scores -- even the small distinction of being in the top .1 percent compared to the top .9 percent -- also correlate with academic success and accomplishment may reflect the way society values test scores. If society (in the form of parents, educators, employers etc.) believes that this difference in score has meaning, then the difference will have an impact on which colleges and graduate schools the kids attend, which postdoctoral opportunities they have, and which jobs they eventually land. Any ultimate differential in success may not reflect an innate difference that independently leads to academic success as much as the fact that the score itself leads to such success. In other words, we cannot use SAT as a surrogate for what leads to academic success if access to academic success (such as college admittance) is based in part on SAT scores.
While the findings do suggest that the SAT has some predictive ability in this category, they also illustrate the limits of such a study. Among girls identified in the 1972-1974 talent search, there were no PhDs subsequently earned in math or science (out of 151 women) among those in the bottom quarter of this top group, and there were two (out of 130 women) in the top quartile. One can interpret this to mean that there were huge advances for women who scored at the top end of the top group -- or one might dismiss the numbers as being too small to say much of anything. By the time the second cohort of kids entered the picture, the situation had changed a little, but the benefit of being in the top of the top group went away for women. In the 1976-1979 cohort of identified “talented” girls, there were two out of fifty who got PhDs in math or science in the bottom quartile, and the same number in the top quartile.
With two PhDs obtained in each group, what can actually be said about the predictive power of the SAT at age 13 to determine the ability of women to get tenure at a top-50 university? Obviously, this is a small pool of subjects, and the question arises as to how many of these women even wanted an academic job. The outcome was that one of the women in the top quartile of the top one percent did ‘make it’ to a top-50 tenured position, while the other three in the top 1 percent did not. (The article does not report on how many tried to enter academia.) In the earlier cohort, neither of the two women in the top quartile received tenure at a top-ranked university at the time of the survey.
For men, these numbers were very different: The overall number of identified mathematical talent judged by SAT scores was higher, as was the identified number of PhDs in math or science, and the PhDs conferred on those in the top quartile was higher than those in the bottom quartile. Reflecting the time-frame for obtaining tenure at a top-50 university, there were relatively few men – 17 in all -- who had received tenure at a top-ranked university. Few as they were, however, their number was still 17 times that of the women.
It should also be mentioned that this survey of the career trajectory of talented young men and women had some built-in bias that reduced the number of “successful” outcomes, possibly more for women than for men. The survey was based on the accomplishments of these individuals by age 33. Yet most academics who gain tenure at a top university do not obtain it by age 33. A PhD in science typically takes five to seven years of post-undergraduate education, bringing a person to his or her late 20s before beginning a postdoctoral fellowship. Three years as a postdoc is standard fare for consideration by a top-ranked university for hire, and it takes typically another six years for tenure to be conferred. Thus, most successful applicants do not attain this status until they are at least their mid-thirties. Of course any time off due to having children would delay that age further.
To summarize, the claim that the top scores on SATs are predictive of success has little basis for women. The success that it does predict (in men) may reflect social norms (such as using standardized scores to allow people opportunities that lead to other opportunities). The study itself has nothing to say about biology per se.
The Robustness of Test Scores: Does It Suggest Biology?
As Tierney notes, the strongest argument against the idea that high-end performance on the SAT is itself biologically founded is the fact that the ratio of men to women in the “tail” of the statistical curve has changed over the years. It was 13 boys to each girl in 1983 but dropped to 4 to 1 in 1991, where it has since hovered for two decades. Tierney concludes, “Since [1991], however, the math gender gap hasn’t narrowed, despite the continuing programs to encourage girls.” Actually, this is not quite true. There is evidence on other tests, referenced below, that the ratio of top performers is not constant. (And, of course, there is more room for improvement when there is more disparity.)
If a difference is not robust over many years and many different cultural settings, then it is typically dismissed from consideration for having a biological basis. There are many instances in which this trend is bucked, which means that either social forces can counteract against the purported biological strength of boys in math, or they are less biologically driven than claimed. In reference to data from the Minnesota state assessments, and from the International Student Assessment exam, professors Janet S. Hyde and Janet E. Mertz noted:
“At the 99th percentile, the M:F ratio was 2.06, again close to theoretical prediction. However, the M:F ratio was only 0.91 for Asian-Americans, that is, more girls than boys scored above the 99th percentile. Analysis of data from 15-year-old students participating in the 2003 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) likewise indicated that as many, if not more girls than boys scored above the 99th percentile in Iceland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.”
Without a consistent difference resistant to change over time and over cultural differences, biological arguments are weak at best. Other studies examining very young children -- not discussed in the New York Times piece -- found no differences between boys and girls in numerical representations and reasoning, geometrical reasoning, the construction of natural numbers, and map reading, even in the top performing groups of kids. While age and “male hormonal” exposure might lead to pronounced (biological) differences in mathematical ability, there is little evidence of gender-based biological differences among children young enough to be relatively free of social conditioning. This does not dismiss the possibility of biological differences leading to ability, but it does point to the dearth of hard evidence to support this conclusion.
We have to be wary about what data can say, and what it cannot. There are differences among many groups in performance on the SATs, including between wealthy and poor kids, kids whose parents went to college versus those whose parents did not, and African American and Hispanic kids versus white and Asian kids. Such differences have also persisted over decades of attempts to close the gap, and many studies document the dearth of kids in the less privileged groups who scored in the top one percent on the math portion of the SAT; in the 2005 SATs, for example, whites were nine times as likely to score in this top group compared to blacks (based on a percentage of each population). Yet, it would be fallacious to argue based on the test scores that the differences are biological.
Research that speaks more directly to the possible biological differences has not found consistent differences. For example, there are natural, consistent stages at which babies and young children develop mathematical notions of counting, one-to-one correspondence, volume and quantity, abstract notions of “one more,” and representations of large numbers. There is no evidence of the development favoring one sex or the other. According to Elizabeth Spelke of Harvard University, an expert in the biological basis of mathematical reasoning in humans, these developments are founded in human biology, and they apply equally to boys in girls.
The social arguments
In addition to the flaws of making biological conclusions based on SAT data, there is widespread evidence that social factors do have an impact on performance in mathematics. A good example of this is that parents of young children are more likely to say their sons, as opposed to their daughters, are talented at science or good at math. These parental perceptions have an impact on how parents, caretakers, and other family members react to a young child.
Another social phenomenon consists of “stereotype threat,” which occurs when people perform worse after their gender or race is called to their attention. For example, girls perform worse when they are asked to state their gender before rather than after taking a test. A 2009 article published in Psychological Science that, for both women and African Americans, test scores on standardized test such as the SAT consistently go up with reduced psychological threat (while those for white males do not).
There remains substantial evidence that women are actually discriminated against in real terms. A 1999 MIT investigation of their own faculty found that “differences in salary, space, awards, resources, and response to outside offers between men and women faculty with women receiving less despite professional accomplishments equal to those of their male colleagues. An important finding was that this pattern repeats itself in successive generations of women faculty. The Committee found that, as of 1994, the percent of women faculty in the School of Science (8%) had not changed significantly for at least 10 and probably 20 years.” More recently and more systematically, the National Academy of Science finished a report in 2006 documenting systemic bias that hurt women’s chances of success in a scientific career. The culprit is not, for the most part, explicit sexist actions, but unconscious bias and arbitrary and subjective evaluative processes. The good news consists of pockets of gender parity, but gender inequality is not only a reflection of self-perception.
In addition, the rapid intellectual pace of work in highly mathematical scientific fields may weed out women who take a break for mothering, a thesis supported by Ceci and Williams in their book, The Mathematics of Sex: How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls.All these social factors might affect how competitive a career someone chooses and how they perform in tests, which in turn affects their chances to be admitted to elite colleges and graduate schools.
With regard to academic freedom, Tierney is right to suggest that this subject should be open to discussion and decided on the basis of evidence rather than emotion. I have argued that the evidence he cites does not warrant the conclusion that he reaches. But we cannot address the question of why gender inequality exists while ignoring the documented evidence of past and present discrimination against women in the sciences, and the equally well-documented evidence that societal conditions and self-fulfilling expectations add to the difficulties faced by the talented girls and young women who strive for these careers. Along these lines, Elizabeth Spelke attributes the dearth of women in science to “biased perceptions by fellow scientists, unequal opportunity, biased perceptions earlier in life, and gender gap in facilities leading women to view science as a man’s world.”
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On 18/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 18/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 18/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 30/12/2000.
Insurance Intermediaries Act
(CHAPTER 142A)
(Original Enactment: Act 31 of 1999)
REVISED EDITION 2000
(30th December 2000)
An Act to regulate insurance intermediaries carrying on business in Singapore.
[31st December 1999]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
2.
—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
“accounting period”, in relation to any registered insurance broker, means the period for which the insurance broker makes up the accounts of the business carried on by him as an insurance broker in Singapore; but unless in any particular case the Authority allows those accounts to be made up for a longer or shorter period, every accounting period shall be a period of 12 months beginning from the commencement of that business or from the end of the preceding accounting period;
“Authority” means the Monetary Authority of Singapore established under the Monetary Authority of Singapore Act (Cap. 186);
“direct general insurance broker” means a person who is for the time being registered under Part III in respect of general business but not any reinsurance business;
“direct life insurance broker” means a person who is for the time being registered under Part III in respect of life business but not any reinsurance business;
“general business” means all insurance business which is not life business, and shall include the effecting and carrying out by any person, not being a person licensed under the Banking Act (Cap. 19), Finance Companies Act (Cap. 108), Futures Trading Act (Cap. 116), Monetary Authority of Singapore Act (Cap. 186) or Securities Industry;
“general reinsurance broker” means a person who is for the time being registered under Part III in respect of reinsurance of liabilities under insurance policies relating to general business;
“insurance agent” means a person who is or has been carrying on insurance business in Singapore as an agent for one or more insurers;
“insurance broker” means a person who is or has been carrying on insurance business in Singapore as an agent for insureds or intending insureds;
“insurance intermediary” means a person who —
(a)
for reward; and
(b)
as an agent for one or more insurers or as an agent for intending insureds,
arranges contracts of insurance in Singapore and includes an insurance broker;
“insured” includes reinsured and “insurer” includes reinsurer;
“life business” means all insurance business concerned with life policies and, in relation to an insurer, includes any type of insurance business carried on as incidental only to the insurer’s other life business;
“life reinsurance broker” means a person who is for the time being registered under Part III in respect of reinsurance of liabilities under insurance policies relating to life business;
“Lloyd’s underwriter” has the same meaning as in section 34(7) of the Insurance Act Cap. 142);
“registered insurer” means an insurer who is for the time being registered under section 8 of the Insurance Act.
(2) The definition in the First Schedule to the Insurance Act (Cap. 142) shall have effect for the construction of references in this Act to policies of insurance, policy owners and policy moneys.
(3) For the purposes of this Act, the reinsurance of liabilities under insurance policies shall be treated as insurance business of the class and type to which the policies would have belonged if they had been issued by the reinsurer.
(4) Notwithstanding anything in subsections (1) and (3),.
(5) The operation, otherwise than for profit, of a scheme or arrangement relating to service in particular office or employment,.
(6) For the purposes of this Act, references to carrying on insurance business, or any class of insurance business, in Singapore include, but include only, the receipt of proposals for, or issuing of, policies in Singapore or the collection or receipt in Singapore of premiums on insurance policies. | http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/aol/search/display/view.w3p;orderBy=date-rev,loadTime;page=0;query=DocId%3A%22964a278b-df32-4c01-963e-5b50811f4d5e%22%20Status%3Apublished%20Depth%3A0;rec=0 | 2013-05-18T11:02:54 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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TALLAHASSEE — Boxed in by some of their own rules and regulations, state child welfare authorities hope to attract 1,200 new foster parents in the next year with a program that allows them more freedom in making decisions for their foster children.
About 5,800 Florida youngsters are in foster homes now with another 2,200 in licensed group homes and nearly 12,000 being cared for by relatives after being removed from their homes.
“We want people who are to commit their lives to make a difference in children,” said David Wilkins, who leads the Department of Children and Families, an often beleaguered state agency tasked with dealing with many of the state’s social ills.
Just last month, four Miami men were charged with operating an underage prostitution ring by luring vulnerable foster girls from a group home into the sex trade with cell phones, clothing and attention they did not get elsewhere.
“They preyed on group home children,” Wilkins said at a Thursday news conference where the agency introduced its “Childhood Only Happens Once” initiative. “That’s logical because our children are more vulnerable than others. So there’s a little bit more risk.”
And another reason for a strong foster parent system in the state.
“Too many children are in group homes and overcrowded foster homes,” added Tanya Wilkins, the wife of the DCF chief and a foster care advocate in her own right.
A big part of the new program will be empowering foster parents by eliminating some of the bureaucracy that makes it as difficult for children and parents as it does the agency that tries to keep up with monitoring a system taxed with too much regulation.
“Let kids be kids,” Wilkins said.
One of the rules being eliminated is a requirement that a background check be done before foster parents are allowed to let a child in their custody spend the night with a neighbor or friend.
“It’s extremely valuable for them to be social, to have a rich cultural life as well as an education and be able to do it is that they want to as individuals,” said 20-year-old Samantha Rogers, who spent eight years in a foster home and now works at DCF.
“Some of the rules and background checks ... should be done away with so that kids can have fun and explore their childhood and spend the night, go to the movies,” Rogers said.
“It should be up to the foster parents to parent these children and have an opportunity to really make an impact on their lives.”
Nurturing People Please Apply
There have been many children who have been fortunate to be placed with nurturing foster families but many have horror stories to tell of their life as a ward of the State of Florida. The system has improved in checking the background of the applicants so there are fewer who are applying. It is a difficult job to try to nurture a child who has been abused and neglected and few are up to the challenge.Today many support systems are funded by the State and most of the children are given the opportunity to seek Mental Health counseling as well as other support services. The future of the children of Florida who have been abused and neglected could be a positive one with nurturing parents. They need love and support so they don't occupy the jails and prisons as adults. | http://staugustine.com/news/2012-07-12/state-recruiting-more-foster-parents-needs-1200 | 2013-05-18T10:33:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
MARRIAGES
Scott David Acheson, 46, and Melissa Mary Marlar, 47, both of St. Augustine.
Troy Adam Gingrich, 45, and Linda Marie Stauffer, 49, both of Bad Axe, Mich.
Mark Robert Anderson, 24, of Jacksonville and Brittany Lynn Stephens, 21, of St. Augustine.
Frank Thomas Willis, 42, and Cari Ann Wells, 42, both of St. Augustine.
Richard John Mathiesen, 76, and Naula Mary Sinsel, 65, both of St. Augustine.
James Edward Morrison, 54, of Elkton and Johnnie Dell Wright, 55, of Hastings.
Alexander Nicholson, 77, of St. Augustine and Larisa Nicholson, 61, of Ponte Vedra Beach.
Ian Everett Millard, 21, of St. Augustine and Sophia Alexandria Groom, 21, of Jacksonville.
Frederick Calvin Edwards Jr., 39, and Syaki TyJuana Bess, 37, both of Middleburg, Fla.
Billy Jene McCormack, 54, of Cross City, Fla., and Jeanne Eileen Smith, 37, of Hawthorne, Fla.
Richard Anthony Whipkey, 23, and Morgan Brittany Canada, 22, both of St. Augustine.
Terry Wayne Abern Jr., 49, and Sarah Elizabeth Schaeffer, 43, both of St. Augustine.
Kenneth Bradley Strickland, 26, and Mikayla Kristine Bristol, 22, both of Jacksonville.
Michael John Ferreer, 68, and Silvia De Araujo, 49, both of Ponte Vedra Beach.
Keith Alan White, 45, of Flemingsburg, Ky., and Stacye Dawn Duncan, 39, of Paris, Ky.
Mark Marion Proctor, 49, of Ponte Vedra Beach and Kimberly Ann Prucha, 47, of Jacksonville.
Timothy Dwayne Justus, 22, and Chelsea Nichole Hammitt, 22, both of Green Cove Springs.
Adam Michael Dunn, 28, and Amy Joanne Felcon, 28, both of St. Augustine.
Kelly Christopher Philbin, 32, of Jacksonville and Allison Elizabeth Warnock, 28, of Orange Park, Fla.
John Crockett Ball, 32, and Deborah Jo Klocko, 52, both of Ponte Vedra Beach.
John Manuel Souto, 44, and Julie Alexandra Ewald, 45, both of Brooklyn, N.Y.
DIVORCES
Ashley Furnal and Dustin R. Furnal.
Darren Shewchuk and Kerry Shewchuk.
Jeffery Lee May and Patsy Ann May.
Tricia Claire Ross and Jeffrey Alan Ross.
Russell Leigh Dirlam and Joanne Marie Dirlam.
Shadeidra Lookadoo and Emanuel Lookadoo Jr.
Margaret C. Gebert and John T. Gebert.
Ashley Holland and Dan Holland.
Matthew Thomas Bogert and Michelle Elizabeth Bogert. | http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2012-02-18/marriage-licenses-divorces-publisher-feb-19-2012 | 2013-05-18T10:55:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
ORLANDO -- Hedo Turkoglu scored 24 points, Dwight Howard overcame a slow start to collect 19 points and 14 rebounds, and the Orlando Magic beat the Toronto Raptors 102-87 on Tuesday night..
Warriors 135, Hawks 118
ATLANTA Baron Davis scored 35 points and Stephen Jackson had 29 to lead the Warriors to their fourth straight victory, beating the Hawks.
The Warriors, who lead the NBA in scoring, set their season high for points. Golden State improved to 16-12 on the road, its most victories away from Oakland since 1993-94.
Bobcats 109, Timberwolves 89
MINNEAPOLIS Jason Richardson had 25 points and eight rebounds, Emeka Okafor added 19 points and 11 boards, and Charlotte snapped a nine-game road losing streak with a victory over the Timberwolves..
Spurs 81, Nets 70
SAN ANTONIO Tim Duncan had 29 points and 12 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the New Jersey Nets for their 10th straight victory.
Manu Ginobili added 12 points for the Spurs, who sit atop a competitive Western Conference, where just a handful of games separates them from the eighth-place Golden State Warriors.
Vince Carter led New Jersey with 19 points and reserve Marcus Williams scored 16. New addition Devin Harris added 13 points.
The Nets have lost two in a row.
The Spurs dispatched the Nets with ease for the second time in three days, winning the season series 2-0. San Antonio won 93-83 on Sunday night in New Jersey.
Bulls 112, Grizzlies 97
CHICAGO Drew Gooden and Luol Deng scored 21 points apiece, and the Bulls beat Memphis to extend the Grizzlies' losing streak to nine games.
Gooden had his best game since the Bulls acquired him and Larry Hughes from Cleveland in the three-team trade that sent Ben Wallace to the Cavaliers.
He was a force inside, hitting 10 of 15 shots and grabbing 14 rebounds.
Kirk Hinrich added 19 points and 12 assists, while Andres Nocioni scored 20. Ben Gordon chipped in 16 points for Chicago, which had dropped four of five.
Kyle Lowry scored 24 for Memphis, which is on its longest losing streak since an 0-13 start in 2002-03 and has dropped 15 of 16.
Pistons 100, Sonics 97
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. Tayshaun Prince scored 24 points, Chauncey Billups added 20 points and nine assists, and the Pistons overcame a slow start to beat the SuperSonics.
Seattle shot 82 percent in the first quarter on its way to a 41-28 lead, but that fell to 32 percent in the final three periods as the SuperSonics lost for the fifth time in six games. The Pistons have won five of six and have defeated the Sonics seven straight times. | http://staugustine.com/stories/030508/sports_txt01_034.shtml | 2013-05-18T11:06:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA Case No. DR06-1873 Division: 57 IN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF ANETT BALI, WIFE AND STEPHEN MICAEL HARMON, HUSBAND NOTICE OF ACTION TO: STEPHEN MICHAEL HARMON ADDRESS: LAST KNOWN ADDRESS 1210 FOUR MILE RD ST. AUGUSTINE, FL 32084 YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE has been filed against you, and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to the petitioner's Attorney, whose name and address is FRANCIS JEROME SHEA, 1916 ATLANTIC BLVD., JACKSONVILLE, FL 32207 17, 2006. CHERYL STRICKLAND As the Clerk of the Court Toni Witherspoon Deputy Clerk L3437-6 Nov 23, 30, Dec 7, 14, 2006
Posted from 23-Nov-06 to 14-Dec-06 | http://staugustine.com/stories/121106/leg_30158954.shtml | 2013-05-18T10:54:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
“roses are dead, violets are too.
i’m still inlove, but not with you.
you completely destroyed me, you made me cry.
but now i’m inlove with another guy.
it was simple cause you had no class,
all there’s left to do is kiss my ass.
what my man does, you can’t do.
one day you’ll want me,
and i won’t want you.
you said you loved me, and it wasn’t true.
well guess what, douche bag, i played your ass too.” | http://staycalmkeepsmiling15.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Whizzinator Fails to Fool Parole Officer, Who Seizes Device
Man is charged with forgery for attempting to submit fraudulent urine sample.
A man on parole used a Whizzinator, a fake penis prosthetic device, in an attempt to provide a fake urine sample to the Missouri Probation and Parole Office, St. Charles police said. A parole officer "seized the device during the procedure," according to court documents.
The man, Lawrence Hefele, 30, of the 3900 block of Fairview Street in South St. Louis, was charged Nov. 29 with forgery for attempting to submit the fake urine sample. Hefele was on probation for possession of a controlled substance.
St. Charles police said the defendant attempted to provide a false urine sample, "knowing that it had been made so it purported a genuineness it did not possess." He tried using the penis prosthetic at the Missouri Probation and Parole Office at 211 Compass Street in St. Charles, police said.
Bail was set at $10,000 for Hefele.
For more crime information on St. Charles Patch, see the following articles:
Sscott
2:52 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
how far they go to stay dirty
congrats to the person who
SEEN his Whizzinator.lol
cant fix stupid
Rusty Boersma
8:06 am on Tuesday, January 1, 2013
What a waste of tax $$$. We need to follow CO and WA and legalize it. | http://stcharles.patch.com/articles/whizzinator-fails-to-fool-parole-officer-who-seizes-device?logout=true | 2013-05-18T10:12:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This tea is DELICIOUS! I think it could definitely be considered as a dessert tea. Reminds me of eating strawberries with fresh (liquid) cream. It is a very relaxing tea. I am drinking it for breakfast and it seems to fit perfectly. The strawberry taste is slightly artificial but is not disappointing at all. The liquid feels thick, like drinking real cream. I did not need to add any sweetener, but I think I could get away with putting some in next time. I definitley can see if you steep it for too long the strawberry taste would get bitter. Pleasantly surprised by this one. | http://steepster.com/Lala1/posts/156542 | 2013-05-18T10:14:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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4. Brought to God.
God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. The compassion of man rejoices over the freed slave. It is a solace to him to think of the 'street' children of our great cities taken out of their degradation, rescued from their friendless lives, and nurtured in a home. Who would take the starving, evil-taught child out of his vile misery, and bring him into his own family to dwell amongst the children there? No, a moral barrier between man and man seems to say, thus far shalt thou come and no further. Christ died not only to cleanse us and to bring us out of our degradation and our sin, but to bring us to God — not as the starving child — not in the corruption of sin — not in the rags of our former alien state. No, by grace we are bought out of our old state, and far more than this we are brought into a new one.
The prodigal's reception:
The prodigal returning from the far country approached his father's house with the thought that there he should find bread, and a place amongst the servants. Such were not however his father's thoughts, for there was a feast prepared for the son, and a place for him at his father's table. The young man left his home with that portion of the goods which fell to him. He came back penniless, ragged, and starving. And to find the best robe and all things new and suited to his father's thoughts about him. We do not read that when in his father's presence the son said a word about the servant's place, which he had mentally assigned to himself: the love of his father prohibited the rising of such thoughts in his mind. The father's heart and the father's welcome henceforth occupied his soul. And we are so perfectly fitted for God by the work of His Son, that His presence is our dwelling-place.
How Israel was brought to God:
The mercy of God towards Israel did not cease when He saw the blood upon their door-posts, and passed over them. It did not cease in saving them from judgment, but He brought them up out of the land of Egypt, and from the house of bondage. And well did they realize this, for upon the wilderness shore of the Red Sea they lifted up their voices in mighty chorus, singing, “Thou in Thy mercy hast led forth the people which Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them in Thy strength unto Thy holy habitation.” (Ex. 15:13.)
They were no longer in Egypt or of Egypt, but clean out of it; and, by faith, they saw themselves guided by Jehovah's strength unto His holy habitation.
How often do we hear a newly-converted soul speak of himself as if he were delivered from judgment in order to find his way to heaven. But though we are not yet brought to heaven, we are already brought to God.
A moral change is effected in the soul when being “brought to God” is known.
There is wonderful repose for the soul in the fact that we are “brought to God.” When this is realized a new view of spiritual things opens before us. Doubtless, Israel, upon the standpoint of the rocks of the Canaan side of the Red Sea, viewed God's good news to them very differently from when waiting with their loins girt within their houses in Egypt, eating the passover. They sang upon the other side of the Red Sea (we read of no song in Egypt), and right glorious is that song; so glorious that God has recorded in His book none other song of praise from human lips before it. There are numerous songs given after this redemption triumph, sweet and tender, victorious and exulting; some sung by men upon earth, and some by men in heaven; time songs and eternity songs, but not one before this grand utterance of perfect redemption. And what is true regarding the book is true regarding our lives. There is no real praise to God from the heart of man antecedent to the praise for perfect redemption.
Israel had groaned and cried upon the Egypt side of the sea. They thought that God had brought them to the borders of their land of toil to make for them a vast grave at the sea; but the grave they feared was for their enemies; for themselves it was the gateway of liberty. “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord” They stood still. They saw His salvation. “The waters were a wall unto them, on their right hand and on their left.” They “walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea.” Within those waters Pharaoh's chariot and host were cast — his chosen captains drowned. “The depths covered them — they sank into the bottom as a stone.”
Satan may pursue — he may make to tremble — as did Pharaoh up to the Red Sea; but as at the sea Pharaoh's power was for ever broken, so at the resurrection of Christ the power of Satan finds its eternal end. God's people are saved, and great is God's salvation. The Lord is risen. He has passed through death for us, though death shall overwhelm the foe. The force of the enemy ceases at the grave of Christ. Resurrection ground he can not reach. The blood of the Lamb of God is our redemption: the resurrection of Christ is our liberty. The virtue of both is ours; and, in Him who died and rose again, we are reconciled to God. “All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ.” (2 Cor. 5:18.) His grave is our gateway of freedom. The powers of darkness cannot pursue the saint beyond the borders of the grave of Jesus. We were redeemed when in the world; but now we are brought out of its judgment; we are brought to God in Christ. | http://stempublishing.com/authors/HF_Witherby/HFW_Gospel04.html | 2013-05-18T10:12:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
All of the following quotes are taken from Father Henri Nouwen’s “Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and Spirit.” It is a little book but feels like a tome because it is so heavy with wisdom and inspiration.
Fr Nouwen is a Catholic priest and has written 40 books on the spiritual life.
Here’s ten of my most favorite Henri Nouwen quotations from his book “Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and Spirit.”
- “The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?”
- “A theology of weakness challenges us to look.”
- “This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.”
- “As long as we imagine and live as if there is no peace in sight, and that it all depends on us to make it come about, we are on the road to self-destruction. But.”
- “God loved you before you were born, and God will love you after you die.”
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- “It is in the passion that the fullness of Jesus’ love shines through. It is a waiting love, a love that does not seek control.”
- “Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.”
- “It is important for us to realize that when Jesus says, ‘It is accomplished’ (John 19:30), he does not simply mean, ‘I have done all the things I wanted to do.’ He also means, ‘I have allowed things to be done to me that needed to be done to me in order for me to fulfill my vocation.’ Jesus does not fulfill his vocation in action only, but also in passion.”
- “Here we glimpse the mystery of God’s incarnation. God became human not only to act among us but also to be the recipient of our responses.”
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Kudos to Fr. Stephen!!! Its very sad that it was only today that ive read ur beautiful posts,,, thanks father…twas very inspiring…and timely,, coz these are the words that I NEED for today… thank u father…. | http://stephencuyos.com/10-henri-nouwen-quotes/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
On 15 Oct 1731, Pierre Gautrot married Agnès LeBlanc in the parish of St. Charles de la Grand Pré de Mines de L’Acadie.
The Marriage Record of Pierre Gautrot and Agnès LeBlanc – 1731
SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. St. Charles de la Grand Pré de Mines de L’Acadie, Acadia, New France, 1731. Marriage Record of Marie Pierre Gautrot and Agnès LeBlanc, front of folio 115 and front of folio 116.
Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Marriage Record of Pierre Gautrot and Agnès LeBlanc. Translated from the French the record reads:
Pierre Gautrot & Agnès LeBlanc
In the year 1731 and the 15th of October, after having made
three publications at the parish masses
the promise of Marriage between Pierre
Gautrot, age 22 years, son of François
Gautrot and Louise Aucoin de Cobesunt,
and Agnès LeBlanc, age about 20
years, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise
Landry, and not finding any
impediments to this marriage, I the undersigned
missionary of the parish of St. Charles
of the Mines, and [?] vicar of the Monsignor of
Sasmos, coadjutant of the diocese of
Québec, having received mutual consent
of the parties present and have
given the nuptial benediction according
to the ceremonies of the Church, in the presence
of the parents and the signed witnesses: François
Gautrot, father, René Aucoin, Jean LeBlanc,
Pierre Landry. Many have signed; the
others have made their ordinary mark
with the groom who has declared that he does
not know how to sign.
Groom:
Mark of + Pierre Gautrot
Mark of + Agnès Leblanc
Pierre Landry, Jean Leblanc,
Mark + of François Gautrot
Mark + of René Aucoin
C. delafondalie g.v.
This record can be found as images 117/166 and 118/166 in the Acadia French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946 on Ancestry.com in the records for St-Charles-les-Mines Mariages 1709-1748. The record appears on the front of folio 115 and the front of folio 116.
Since I’m not familiar with the offices of the Catholic Church in New France, I don’t quite understand the title of the priest, which I translated as “missionary of the parish of St. Charles of the Mines, and [?] vicar of the Monsignor of Sasmos, coadjutant of the diocese of Québec”. | http://stephendanko.com/blog/2434 | 2013-05-18T10:41:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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