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Distance Learning Earns U.S.News Rankings
January 17, 2013
MACOMB, IL -- For the second consecutive year, Western Illinois University's distance learning program has been recognized by U.S.News Best Online Education Program Rankings.
This year, Western is ranked 44th out of 160 colleges from across the U.S. in "Best Online Education Degree Programs: Bachelor's" category and is one of two Illinois public universities in the top 50. In the 2012 rankings, Western was listed 76th out of 172 colleges from across the U.S. in the "Teaching Practices and Student Engagement" category. While WIU offers numerous online classes, one program, the Bachelor of Arts in General Studies offers its majors the option of obtaining their degree entirely via distance learning opportunities, or a combination of on-campus and distance learning classes.
According to Richard Carter, executive director of the School of Distance Learning, International Studies and Outreach, the General Studies program was created to serve those who were unable to attend a traditional college program due to family, work or community obligations. Rather than requiring a specific major, the program allows the student to design her or his program to meet individual educational goals. Students are also eligible for academic credit for college-level learning that was done in a non-collegiate setting, such as the military or on-the-job training.
In addition to the Bachelor of Arts in General Studies, firefighters earning a BGS degree from Western also have the opportunity to obtain a certificate in fire administration and management and a certificate in fire prevention technology. Western's General Studies program is just one of seven bachelor's degree programs in the U.S. endorsed by the National Fire Academy (NFA).
"Western's degree program, coupled with the certificate programs, allows firefighters from across the United States to earn their bachelor's degree online and receive certification from the NFA without leaving their job or their community," Carter added.
Western has been offering courses via distance learning since the 1970s, and continues to expand its online and distance learning offerings to reach more individuals who may be placebound, Carter noted. During Spring, Summer and Fall 2012, the University offered 602 online sections, filling 10,688 seats within course selections, compared to 383 online sections of courses (9,165 seats) in 2011.
For more information on distance learning at Western, visit wiu.edu/distance_learning or contact Carter at (309) 298-1929 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Topic: Possible FanMade Canon Characters
Given the opportunity, are there any characters that you would like to make canon in the Star Wars expanded universe? If so, here's the thread to intro them!
Give a standard or deeper character sheet, with a history explaining where in the Star Wars timeline your character would exist and what part he'd play in galactic events.
I'm currently in a Creative Writing class in college, and my teacher gave me some ideas on how to make a much deeper character then I'd considered before. So I'm going to be reworking and diving deeper into the mind and history of my Ralin Drakus character and will post him here as soon as I'm done with it. Until then, here's my current version of him:
Name: Ralin Drakus
Age: 25
Species: Mandalorian
Occupation: Freelance mercenary; but also Bountyhunter for the right price/challenge; Follows a strict Honor code and will only accept missions that fit it
Loyalties: To his Clan and Clan Brothers/Sisters
Weapons: Custom sniper rifle; Light repeating carbine *usually kept aboard ship as a back-up;* Matching Mandalorian heavy blaster pistols(strapped to legs Jango Fett style, but a little higher);Jet-pack mounted rocket, usually a high explosive warhead; Gauntlet mounted weapons/gadgets include: Dart/Rocket launcher; A micro-grenade launcher; two wrist lasers, one in each gauntlet; A fiber-cord line with grappling hook for scaling/descending obstacles ; A two-prong retractable18 inch blades in right gauntlet (like those used in the Predator movies);And a personal cloaking device recovered from ancient weapons catch on Dxon; Strength enhanced
Black Mandalorian armor over gray flight-suite; features a black kama (Dark gray in the inside, made of heat-resistant materials to resist blaster shots and protect against the exhaust from the jet-pack, allowing it to be more powerful); High-thrust Jet-pack with light armor plating, making it heavier but much harder to damage or accidentally start
Appearance:5' 10; Strong build, but still fast; Short military style cut brown hair; usually wears a very short growth of beard
Personality: Calm under pressure; Very blunt and to the point with outsiders, but easygoing and cheerful with Clanmates and friends; Extremely protective of those close to him
Ship: Blood Hawk Modified StarViper Assault fighter; Laser cannons replaced with six long barrel Mass driver rifles (which fire a energized projectiles that pass through shields unhindered); Ship is controlled by a R2 droid intelligence that was installed into the main computer, effectively making the entire ship a droid; Crew:1; Passengers: 2; Prisoners: 1 *modified passenger seat, similar to the one used in "The Chronicles of Riddickâ€Â*
History/Impact on the Star Wars EU: I have two possible canon roles for Ralin.
*For those reading my FanFic, here are some SPOILERS*
1st, if my FanFic were ever to be made canon, Ralin would emerge as the leading character in that story. This is the original place where I invented him, and the preferred place I'd use him.
For those who don't know, Sergeant JC 225 in my FanFic will eventually become Ralin Drakus. I have a couple of theories on how he'll get the name; my new and now primary idea is that he's adopted by Konnar Drakus; more on him in my second history option. It will later become clear that he is one of a series of clones specially created by order of Lord Vader to replace his own clone stormtroopers. Cloned from Kir Kanos, they are only slightly altered from the template; certain loyalties *first to Vader, second to the Emperor* and orders were imprinted into their brains during the incubation process, but little else was changed about them.
Ralin would be a key leader of Boba's resurgent Mandalorian armies. I have his history for up to three more stories, but they're far from being worked out, and I think I've spoiled enough of the story for now
2nd, if he was NOT part of my FanFic, I would take the Konnar Drakus option and alter it. Ralin would be Konnar's literal son. Konnar, one of the few survivors of the Battle of Galidran and later one of Jango's elite training sergeants for the clones on Kamino, would have passed on and left his armor to Ralin at some point during the Ep. III/Ep. IV interim.
Ralin would go on to be the Mando version of Boba Fett. His connection to the ancient Mandalorians and his code of Honor would be much stronger then most consider Boba's to be. He would travel into Wild Space and earn his trade as a Mercenary in the unknown reaches of space for his early manhood years, and return sometime after Ep. VI to take part in the Mandalorian revolt from Imperial rule and the galactic wars of that period
So that's mine, what do you guys have that you'd like to share?

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It's time to meet Sam's mommy on Private Practice!
Dee Bennett (Desperate Housewives and True Blood star Alfre Woodard) will come to town in the Tuesday, Oct. 30 episode (10/9c on ABC), in which she seeks out her son Sam's (Taye Diggs) help after her boss Raymond McCray (Shaft's Richard Roundtree) falls ill. TVGuide.com has the exclusive first look at the episode, which also features Lost's alum L. Scott Caldwell as Jillian McCray, Raymond's wife.
Does Kate Walsh's exit mean the end of Private Practice?
The Sam-centric hour will feature the hot doc embarking on a career in reality television, which will shed some light on issues in his colleagues' personal lives. But based on the tense photo with his mom below, it looks like mother and son have some issues to deal with as well.
Check out the photos below:
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Domino's Has a Kobe Beef Steak Pizza For Just $66
Pizza chains are officially out of control. They're constantly cranking out weird food inventions like crust stuffed with hot dogs and the heart attack-inducing Cone Crust Pizza. It's like they need to up the ante in the game of tomato pies.


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DIXON – The following scholarships were given to Sauk Valley Community College students for the fall semester.
SVCC Criminal Justice Club, $300 to David Rios of Sterling.
SVCC Single Parent Committee, $250 each to Kristina Spaulding of Sterling; Deanna Solis of Milledgeville; SanJuana Escobar of Prophetstown; Melanie Wyatt, Lylie Castle, and Patricia Austin of Dixon; and Christina Lee-Grogan of Polo.
Carol Chandler Nursing to Ramona Summers of Dixon.
Grainger Scholarship to Todd Gillette of Rock Falls.
Ray Thompson Memorial, $250, and Dixon Kiwanis Club, $500, to Amanda Kent of Dixon.
Cancer Federation, $150 to Joseph Catalano of Dixon.
Teddy Nicklaus Scholarship, $350 to Timothy Shaw of Dixon.
Kiwanis Fine Arts Scholarship, $500 to Jacob Felz of Dixon.
Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois, $500 to Jennine Beckman of Sterling.
KSB Hospital Auxiliary, $757.50 to Jinni Waller and Christy DeHaven, both of Sterling.
YWCA of the Sauk Valley to Saline Gurley of Mount Morris and Priscilla Lachat of Rock Falls.
Whiteside County Democrats, $750 to Paula Devers of Rock Falls.
Allied Locke, $500 to Lisa Fridley of Dixon, Kaitlyn Bass of Rock Falls, Tyler Leffelman of Sublette, and Kara Boss of Sterling.
Lawrence E. Viering Memorial, $325 to Shelly Lemay of Sterling. Peter T. Ternetti Scholarship and Sterling Noon Rotary to Megan Leaf of Rock Falls.
Marilyn Casey Scholarship to Sheila Young of Dixon.
Lucille Sudbury Memorial Scholarship, $625 to Derek Flannery of Rock Falls. Broderick Harrison Family Endowment and Bailey Award for Business and Education Endowment to Kerrie Aggen of Sterling.
Dorothy K. Engel Music and Fine Arts Memorial Endowment to Marcus Castillo of Sterling. Margaret Roache Memorial Endowment to Alexander Apple of Dixon and Sarah Woodin of Polo.
Warren P. and Joan Wahl Endowment to Stacey Garcia of Dixon.
Glenn J. and Marie Pohly Memorial Endowment to Sherri Garcia of Rock Falls.
John D. and Cora Jurgens Van Bibber Memorial Endowment to Kelly Foster of Dixon.
Doris Welty Memorial Endowment to Christy Fredericks of Amboy.
Edith and Ethel Sanborn Memorial Endowment to Jill Miller of Sterling.
Bob Beelendorf Memorial Endowment to Geoffrey Lemay of Sterling, April Fitzgerald of Dixon, and Jena Queckboerner of Milledgeville.
Everett Burns Memorial Endowment to Felicia Havenar of Amboy.
Bert Fordham Memorial Endowment to Marlon Ortiz of Sterling.
Scott and Vivian Hitchcock Memorial Endowment to Emily VanHoose of Dixon.
Lori D. Nern Memorial Endowment to Kaitlyn Winters of Dixon.
Norma Poole Memorial Endowment to John Hitt Jr. of Lyndon.
Sims-Hilton Nursing Endowment to Kaitlyn Bass of Rock Falls.
Robert Warner Endowment to Valbona Bajrami of Dixon.
The following students received scholarships from various anonymous donors for the fall semester.
$213.45: Cody Berg of Amboy. $250: Kara Schultz of Sterling and Aleatia S. Okerberg of Dixon.
$375: Josh Zigler of Sterling. $500: Linda Lightner, Aleatia S. Okerberg, Patrick Taylor (two), and Ursula Alexander of Dixon; Nick Temes and Shannon McGraw (two) of Amboy; Meaghan Balsley of Rock Falls; Alec Klimson of Morrison; Kara Schultz of Sterling; and Jason VonBruchhaeuser.
$584: Lindsey Inskeep of Prophetstown. $800: Heather Smith of Sterling.
$1,000: Michael Krabbenhoeft of Sterling. $1,250: Allyson Bales of Rock Falls. $2,500: Brandon S. Bush of Morrison.
$3,000: Cassidy Isenhart of Chadwick.
For information on scholarship opportunities, contact Sauk Valley College Foundation at 815-835-6345.


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Utah Legislature Returns for 2014 Session
Utah lawmakers return to the state Capitol on Monday for their annual legislative session.
The Republican controlled-legislature has to pass a balanced budget and address about 500 bills that lawmakers are already working on.
One of the top issues for 2014 is expected to be air quality.
A bipartisan group of legislators planning more than a dozen bills to address Utah's smog, and thousands of protesters descended on the Capitol over the weekend to demand action from state officials.
Legislators are also expected to address gay marriage, tobacco use and campaign laws, in addition to perennial issues such as alcohol and guns.
The whirlwind, 45-day session ends March 13.
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Jordan Shead finalized a glamorous decision in decidedly unglamorous decision – with an email.
Last week, the St. Charles East senior verbally committed to the Notre Dame women's track and field program by sharing her intentions via an email correspondence with Fighting Irish sprints coach Alan Turner.
Businesslike enough, but then again, Shead knows a no-nonsense college career awaits her at a school like Notre Dame, especially with a formidable major such as biology in mind.
"It's going to be a pretty big challenge, I've heard, from when I visited the girls on the team majoring in that," Shead said. "They say it's pretty hard but I really enjoy it, so I don't think it'll be that bad."
Shead finished fourth in the 400-meter run at the IHSA Class 3A Girls Track and Field State Meet as a junior, clocking in at 55.56 seconds.
She's hoping to better that time and place this season, which begins with the start of indoor workouts next week. Shead said Notre Dame is primarily interested in her for the 400 but the 200 and 800 are also considerations.
"Over the summer I did club track (with the Aurora Flyers) and I didn't PR over the summer but I really worked on getting strong and building a good base," Shead said. "I've just been working hard in the offseason in building up, so it's looking pretty good."
With longtime Saints stalwart Britney Williams graduated, Shead's leadership on East's powerhouse 4x400 relay and throughout the team will be all the more crucial.
Shead said she chose Notre Dame over Dayton, Loyola and Wisconsin. Her father, Corey, is a big Notre Dame football fan, and has taken Shead to Irish games in the past.
"It's an amazing experience," Shead said. "There's so much tradition. Everyone just goes crazy. Everyone is all in the schools colors and everyone's so passionate. It's great."
The 6-foot tall Shead played basketball for the Saints as an underclassman before stepping aside to escalate her track training. Shead said she misses basketball "a little bit," but stands by her decision, noting that basketball season overlaps with the start of indoor track.
In October, Shead took an official visit to Notre Dame. She enjoyed the trip but needed time before making what she called "a very tough decision" because of her affection for some of the other schools recruiting her.
"It's a very beautiful campus," Shead said. "I really liked the team. They were all very nice and friendly, and the coach was great. It seems like he had very good vision for the future and for me."
Light at end of tunnel: St. Charles East boys basketball standout Dom Adduci would be looking forward to Saturday's rivalry matchup with St. Charles North no matter what, but the circumstances this week amplify his anticipation.
In the midst of finals weeks – and Adduci is a conscientious student, ranking in the top 10 percent of East's senior class – the prospect of lacing 'em up against North is helping Adduci stave off the finals-week blues.
"It's a little stressful but it's not too bad," Adduci said. "The big game on Saturday is definitely something to help us push through finals and definitely something to look forward to after that."
• Jay Schwab is sports editor of the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5382 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I have a php function that returns an xml output I would use to populate a map with. I know how to do it in Objective C but I am left clueless about how to asynchronously execute operations with the date received from a url response in javascript.
The url is:
and I would like to use the latitudes and longitudes in the response to populate a map by means of the following code:
var marker = new GMarker(new GLatLng(<Latitude>, <longitude>));
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Theo Jackson
With a distinctive voice and inspiring stories, Theo Jackson's skilled songwriting and jazzy and contemporary songs are drawn from the imagination of a natural storyteller and have an ethereal, otherworldly quality while being grounded in reality.
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The Power of mdfindby Andy Lester
Tiger introduced Spotlight, a powerful searching mechanism that indexes the contents of all the files on your Mac, almost like magic. Want to find all the documents that mention Perl? Spotlight will do it for you. Just press ⌘+space bar (Command-space bar), and the Spotlight search box pops up. Type in "Perl" and even before you hit the Return key, Spotlight is searching its magic indices for the results.
Note that the documents found are grouped by type, and even include things you might not consider as documents. In this case, the search for Perl on my iBook found mail messages and Keynote presentations, as you'd probably expect, but also Address Book and iCal entries. It's also reassuring that it found mdfind.html, the working version of this article. Sample results from searching my iBook for "perl" are shown below.
All the Spotlight-related functionality is based on the idea of metadata, or data about data itself. A Word document contains data, but the fact that the document was created on October 18th, 2001 is metadata. (Metadata is abbreviated "MD" throughout.) Keyword searching on contents of files, not just filenames, is the most obvious way to use Spotlight, but it can also search based on date ranges ("Where's that mail message about OSCON that I wrote last week?") and document types ("Didn't I have a PDF that had Perl testing shortcuts on it?"). The full Spotlight search pane, accessed by clicking the Show All option at the top of the mini list, gives all the details.
In addition to the little blue magnifying glass in the upper-right corner of your desktop, Tiger provides the
mdfind and
mdls commands. When I discovered them while working on my updates to Mac OS X Tiger In A Nutshell, I fell in love. I had the power of Spotlight available to me from the Unix shell. Experienced Unix users will find
mdfind's interface familiar. Mac power users who have never used the Unix under the hood of Tiger are in for a treat.
Starting with
I've worked on a number of different books for different publishers. Files relating to those projects are scattered around my hard drive. Let's say I'm looking for a copy of an invoice I sent to Apress for my work on Pro Perl Debugging. The easiest way to start is to ask
mdfind to do a simple keyword search on the word "invoice."
mdfind invoice
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Templates/Business Forms/Invoices
/Users/andy/Desktop/Tape backup.doc
... 102 more filenames ...
What I get back is a list of 110 files that match the word "invoice" somewhere in their contents. The first hit is a directory of templates created by Office, followed by some mail messages about custom work being done for a customer in my day job. Then there's a document proposing a new tape backup server, and then a page from the (unfortunately discontinued) Oracle CD Bookshelf that I've copied to my local hard drive. Digging through 110 filenames, especially if I have to open them to see what's inside, would be tedious.
I'll narrow down the search by adding terms. Since I worked on the book for Apress, I'll add that as a keyword. All words specified in a search term are ANDed together. Since I'm passing multiple words, and I want the Unix shell to pass them as one argument to
mdfind, I need to put them in double quotes.
mdfind "invoice apress"
/Users/alester/pro-perl-debugging/admin/TR.Invoice.Lester.Foley and McMahon.doc
Now we're down to two hits, and it's clear I want the first file.
Boolean Operators
All words passed in a query string to
mdfind are implicitly ANDed together. That is,
"invoice apress" means both words must appear. Spotlight allows other Boolean operators as well:
|, the pipe character, means Boolean OR
-means to exclude a term
()create groups
Working with these operators can be tricky. Whitespace is significant when building queries. To get all documents with "invoice" or "o'reilly", I write
mdfind "invoice|o'reilly"
with no spaces between the terms. If I want to find all documents with "invoice" but not "apress", it's
mdfind "invoice(-apress)"
with no intervening spaces, and parentheses around the term I want to exclude. To get a list of invoices or contracts from O'Reilly, I'd use
mdfind "(invoice|contract) o'reilly"
Note that in all these examples that have more than a single word, I'm using double quotes around the search term. This makes the Unix shell pass our multiple words as a single parameter. Otherwise,
mdfind uses only the last word, so that
mdfind invoice contract
is the same as
mdfind contract
It also prevents the shell from intercepting characters that it would use as special, like the parentheses, and passes them unmolested to
mdfind. This is especially important if I try to search for "O'Reilly". Without quotes, I get this:
mdfind O'Reilly
The angle bracket is the shell telling me "You started a quoted string, and now I'm waiting for you to finish it." It will sit and wait for input until it sees another single quote, or I type Ctrl-C to cancel. The shell has interpreted the single quote in "O'Reilly" as the start of a quoted string. Instead, I want
mdfind "O'Reilly"
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As part of homecoming week, Yreka High School held its annual Powder Puff Football games on Wednesday, The event consists of the girls playing flag football as the boys cheer them on. The senior girls downed the freshman 6-0 and the juniors 24-0. There was no sophomore team this year due to a lack of players
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Danae Halupnick, daughter of Jack and Janice Halupnick, and Tyler Elliott, son of Bret and Julie Elliott, were married May 18, 2013. The ceremony took place at St. Gabriel Church, Reinbeck, IA. The reception followed at Supervisor's Club, Cedar Falls, IA.
Danae's attendants included Maid of Honor, Morgan Halupnick and Matron of Honor, Danielle Harris. Bridesmaids were Chelsie Elliott, Kim Degner, Katie Devine, and Hannah Karr. Laikyn Ewoldt was the Flower girl. Tyler's attendants were AJ Ewoldt, Best Man, with Groomsmen Wes Ewoldt, Micah James, Kyle Wieck, Justin Pippert, and Josh Kruger. Junior Groomsmen were Austin and Cole Spence and Ring Bearer was Gavin Watterson. Ushers included Nathan Halupnick, Bryant Kucera and Spencer Elliott.
The couple resides in Cedar Falls, IA. Danae works as a loan officer for Veridian Credit Union in Waterloo and Tyler is a Firefighter for the Waterloo Fire Department.


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Today the Masters Tournament officially tees off at Augusta National in Augusta, Georgia! Even though Tiger Woods and the famous 17th hole Eisenhower Tree won't be there, the tournament still promises a lot of drama. Star veterans are returning like Roy McIlroy, Bubba Watson and Phil Mickelson are returning, but this year a record 24 Masters rookies will begin play, including Brookhaven Country Club's Jordan Spieth. We'll see what happens! You can follow the tournament leader board here.
Aside from this morning's exciting tee-off, Augusta also hosted fun junior festivities earlier this week!
Leo Cheng, an 11-year-old representing Porter Valley Country Club, holed a 6-footer on the 18th hole to win his age bracket in the inaugural Drive, Chip and Putt competition! Leo's trophy was presented by Masters Champion Adam Scott.
Falling behind Cheng, Brookhaven Country Club's Kyle Cox placed fourth in the Drive, Chip and Putt competition. We are so proud of our young Members and wish them great future success!
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December 04, 2012 | By John Oreovicz
It started as on-stage banter (or maybe boasting) by Roger Penske at the NASCAR championship banquet.
It's turned into a grassroots movement.
Apparently, where there's Smoke, there's fire. Because it's obvious that people have a burning desire to see Tony Stewart take up Penske's offer to provide a car to compete in the 2013 Indianapolis 500.
"A fast car," in the words of Penske Racing President Tim Cindric, via Twitter.
Stewart hasn't publicly responded yet, but he is expected to when he shows up at this weekend's International Motorsport Industry Show in Indianapolis.
Meanwhile, the fans are speaking – electronically, via an online petition called 'Smoke2Indy' (http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/indy500/news/show/type/news/51994-smoke2indy-petition/) - at the rate of about 100 an hour.
I haven't signed the petition yet, but I believe the prospect of Stewart coming back home again to Indiana to race in the Indianapolis 500 – especially for Team Penske - is great on a number of levels.
In fact, I wrote a list of 33 reasons why I think it's a good idea:
33. Stewart truly appreciates Indianapolis 500 traditions like a 33-car starting field.
32. He can sleep in his own bed near Columbus every night and still drive to work.
31. The last time Penske sprung an 'Unfair Advantage' on the Indianapolis 500 field (1994 with the Mercedes-Ilmor 'pushrod' engine), Al Unser Jr. won the race in car #31.
30. Stew's presence would create a lot of buzz for the Indianapolis 500.
29. It would also create buzz (and lead-in viewers) for NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway later in the day.
28. You know he really wants to do it.
27. It would give the media something to get excited about. Remember the frenzy Stewart created when he showed up on Bump Day a few years ago and led everyone into thinking he was going to jump into a car?
26. How many chances come along in a lifetime to drive for Penske Racing at Indianapolis?
25. He would confirm his standing as the most versatile racecar driver in the world.
24. He could eat breakfast every day at Charlie Brown's Steak & Pancake House on Main Street.
23. He can prove that fitness is more than meets the eye.
22. He might inspire or encourage other NASCAR drivers to try "doing the double."
21. He might inspire or encourage some IndyCar Series drivers to try "doing the double."
20. To remind folks that he raced #20 his rookie year of Indy cars back in 1996.
19. He'll be 42, and he's not going to get any younger.
18. To relive the days of his youth shooting pool at Kelly's Pub.
17. For a little variety from the monotonous 38-weekend NASCAR schedule.
16. To make the storyline of what would be Roger Penske's record 16th Indianapolis 500 victory a lot more compelling.
15. As somebody who drove in the early days of the IRL, he can tell us just how far Indy cars have advanced in the last fifteen years.
14. Because it would make his hero proud. That's A.J. Foyt, if you didn't know.
13. Did I mention how rarely opportunities comes along to drive for Penske at Indianapolis? Or anywhere else, for that matter?
12. Because it will have been twelve years since his last Indy 500 start (6th place driving for Ganassi Racing in 2001).
11. To try to notch up 1,100 miles of racing in a single day, like he did in 2001 when he finished sixth at Indy and third at Charlotte.
10. To give David Letterman material for a Top Ten list. Or a reason to be invited back to The Late Show.
9. So he can experience Indy's 'Fast Nine' Pole Day format for the first time.
8. To re-live the thrill of moonlighting on his boss, something he hasn't been able to do since he became the owner of Stewart-Haas Racing in NASCAR.
7. Because he loves to drive anything with wheels, anytime, anywhere.
6. A Penske tradition, it's the number he would probably run at Indy.
5. Driving for Penske would give Stewart an excellent chance to improve on his career best Indy 500 finish of 5th place in 1997.
4. To add to his IMS legend, which includes two victories in the Brickyard 400 in 2005 and '07.
3. His home of Bartholomew County used to be '3' in the old Indiana license plate numbering system he grew up with.
2. He could drink 2-percent milk in Victory Lane.
And the Number One reason why Tony Stewart should compete in the 2013 Indianapolis 500…
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Groups Defend Florida's Same-Sex Marriage Ban
A coalition of groups supporting Florida's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage want a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to overturn that ban.
The groups say the lawsuit threatens to violate the rights of the Florida voters who approved the ban by a wide margin in November 2008. They're holding a news conference Friday morning to discuss their plans to fight the lawsuit.
The ban passed with 62 percent of the vote.
The lawsuit was filed in January in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court by six gay couples who say the state ban violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and due process.
Judges have struck down same-sex marriage bans in other states.
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T-Pipe Meshing Problem
T-Pipe Meshing ProblemPosted by Rob Wie at October 07. 2011
Well, I was trying to create and mesh a T-Pipe with no luck.
I tried to take advantage of the video http://www.caelinux.org/wiki/downloads/docs/Pipe2007/PipeGeom.htm where an Y-Pipe was created and meshed aswell. But with my version ( 6.3.1. ) it does not work that way.
So I know when I just fuse the two cylinders I do not have (a) solid(s) and cannot mesh it properly.
Is there a quick and easy way to do so? Because "Explode" with "Fuse" to "Solid" does not work.
Thus, multiple areas are not meshed.
See the attachement for the file.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks and have a nice weekend.
Re: T-Pipe Meshing ProblemPosted by Saint Michael at October 07. 2011
You do not say what kind of mesh do you need. You can get a tetrahedral mesh easily: just assign "Netgen 1D-2D-3D" algorithm to Fuse_1 (picture of a result mesh is in attachment).
St. Michael
Re: T-Pipe Meshing ProblemPosted by Rob Wie at October 08. 2011
Re: T-Pipe Meshing ProblemPosted by SMESH expert at October 10. 2011
To be able to get a hexahedral mesh you need to split you geometry into parallelepipeds (i.e. 6-sided solids) using Patrition.
See for example http://salome-platform.org/user-section/salome-tutorials/edf-exercise-3
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I've been a devoted follower of a number of healthy living blogs (see list on the right) and was always a bit envious when the bloggers would receive product samples in the mail. Imagine my delight when a PR person from POM Wonderful offered to send us some pomegranate juice to try!
Now I guess you're probably wondering how pomegranate juice fits into the TwoDC theme. Well, this blog is a space for us to share our life in DC and a big part of our life is one that you don't often read about: what we eat when we're not eating out. Though it might seem like we eat out every day, we actually spend a fair amount of our time cooking meals, packing lunches, and trying our best to incorporate healthy foods into our diet. In the last year I've transformed my diet by eliminating most uber-processed foods and high fructose corn syrup. I've been attempting to stick to the "eat real food" mantra as best I can, and I've never felt better. It just so happens that pomegranate juice fits rather nicely into TwoDC - the home edition.
Our package of POM Wonderful arrived containing 8 adorable little bottles of 100% pomegranate juice and a letter explaining the health benefits and antioxidant power of the pomegranate. I once read an article in an airplane magazine that told the story of POM Wonderful's founders, and their quest to find a somewhat economical way to juice such a funky fruit. I was also fascinated by their determination to create a distinct "double bulb" packaging design after countless packaging producers told them that a stacked pomegranate design was too difficult to mass produce.
While I don't know if POM Wonderful is the medical miracle that some claim, I do think it is a tasty way to get a dose of antioxidants. Pomegranate juice can be very tart (think cranberry juice) so it might not appeal to everyone. For those that don't like the juice plain, the people at POM Wonderful have developed a comprehensive website with a huge collection of recipes featuring the juice or the pomegranate itself.One thing that scares a lot of people (including me) away from POM Wonderful products is the price. I think the steep cost is likely due to the fact that it can't be cheap to juice a pomegranate and POM Wonderful doesn't use inexpensive fillers such as grape juice. While it is a bit pricey to become an every day staple in our house, I am likely to pick up a bottle or two from time to time. Plus, it's hard to resist those cute bottles....
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Coming to DC has been a wonderful adventure for both of us, and becoming TwoDC was another step in that journey. We've alluded to it before but let me further the point; starting the blog has been one of the best things that we could have done as a new couple in a new city.
At a time when the city was a dauntingly large and foreign place, we stumbled across a way to connect with it. But at the same time, we connected with each other by sharing in this creative outlet. The blog has become a central force in our lives in Washington, and really, in our life together.
So what a bonus that people - perfect strangers and companies alike - care about what we have to say! Cynics might say that we are just being bought or used by "the man" to perpetuate a marketing campaign through social media. For the price of a pizza, Domino's got us to encourage readers to give their new recipe a shot (see post here). And now, in exchange for a case of POM, we're telling you about the wonders of pomegranate juice.
Some offers and products are better than others. Granted. But doesn't the effort alone say something fundamental about a company that is nimble enough to adapt to new ways to market their products? I would argue that this out of the box innovative thinking is not exclusive to the marketing department. Instead, it is likely to be present in all aspects of the company, which makes it reasonable to assume it is reflected in the products that we consume.
Of course, there is no free lunch and it is no mystery why we're being sent these products. It is all part of the new, and ever evolving, marketing shift that has come with the web. And we're happy to be a part of it. Not because we get free stuff (well, maybe a little), but because this is who we are, and consequently, what our blog is about. This is our life in DC.


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The search is on for a new police chief in Philadelphia. Chief William Cox, who was appointed in November 2012,
handed in his resignation Tuesday night, He's the second chief to leave the position within the last year.
As with his predecessor, Chief Richard Sistrunk, Cox says he was very happy with the department and is only leaving for personal reasons.
"This was not me looking for another position, or shopping for jobs. I was content where I was. It was just an opportunity that opened to me and I just felt like it was the best thing to do."
After a month of contemplating, Cox accepted an offer to return to the department where he started his law enforcement career. In September he will return to North Mississippi and the Olive Branch Police Department as the head of the investigative unit.
"It's a surprise to me and the rest of the administration," says Mayor James Young, "but a man has to do what a man has to do when it comes to a man and his family and his profession, and I think Chief Cox made that decision."
Looking to the future, Mayor Young plans to recommend Assistant Chief Julian Greer for the position.
"Assistant Chief Greer was the second choice about a year and a half ago. From where I sit, I think he should be given the opportunity to step up to that position," says Young.
It will ultimately be up to the Philadelphia Board of Alderman to decide whether or not to accept the mayor's recommendation for the position. At this time there's no word on when a final decision will be made.
"A year and a half ago we saw what the market brought us. We interviewed several quality men; for some our salary was too low. Right now we have to look at that issue as we go back out," says Young.
Chief William Cox's resignation will take effect August 30th. As for Assistant Chief Greer, he's a 20-year-old veteran with the department. The salary for police chief in Philadelphia is roughly $41,000 a year.


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Experts at University College London say the new nose will look exactly the same as the man's original one, and hope it will even have a sense of smell.
The trial marks the first time a full nose has been grown from scratch, and could in future be used as a therapy for patients such as soldiers and car crash victims, the Daily Mail reported.
The first stage of the process was to create a glass mould of the unnamed man's nose, and to spray it with a honeycomb-like material to form a biological scaffold for new cells to attach themselves to.
Once the scaffold had been built, the glass mould was removed and the biological frame was coated with millions of stem cells which can be coaxed into forming cartilage using chemicals.
At the same time, researchers inserted a small balloon beneath the surface of the man's arm and gradually inflated it to stretch the skin, making it loose enough to accommodate the new nose.
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Two months ago, the framework bearing the stem cells was inserted under the skin in place of the balloon, and now resides in the man's arm where it is growing new networks of nerves, blood vessels and skin.
After three months beneath the man's skin, the nose will be ready for removal and can be surgically reattached to his face, allowing the arm to be sewn up and returned to normal.
The project is similar to a famous 1990s experiment in which American researchers attempted unsuccessfully to grow ears on a mouse for use in transplants.
Professor Alex Seifalian, who is leading the experiment, said the man's nose has been designed to look exactly like the original slightly crooked.
He told BBC Focus magazine: "His nose was a little bit bent to the left and we asked if he wanted it straight but he said no, he wanted it exactly the same."


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Ok, so it's time for a run on the bank.
Get in before the rush!
the war has begun (?)
I wouldn't worry too much however if Assange does have a B of A harddrive means he is in position of stolen goods which is a crime.
Or perhaps it was imaged and sent back to it's owners.
Or perhaps someone working for B of A sent a drive to wikileaks to leak information.
I see no reason to hang on to the drive either way.
Well unless that person from Bank of America had permission to give away the drive then they stole it and Assange revived stolen property. When you knowingly or in many places negligently (ie you should have suspected enough to check things out) receive stolen property its a crime.
Assange has effectively confessed to a crime here if Bank of America can show a drive missing from the inventory or some IT guy improperly disposing of one.
Fortunately the US law doesn't apply where Mr. Assange has his mailbox.
When you close your account, be sure to note that it is because you have reasonable belief that Bank of America may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with your internal policies for a bank-customer relationship.
And would that be because of BoA's recent behaviour with Wikileaks, or the fraud and corruption of which Wikileaks claims to have evidence?
You don't need Wikileaks or
Municipal bond bid-rigging
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-24/bankers-rigging-municipal-contract-bids-admit-to-lying-to-cover-up-tracks.html [bloomberg.com]
Failing to transfer mortgage notes into MBS trusts . . . but not keeping them on the balance sheets either? Hmmmmm.
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/11/countrywide-routinely-failed-to-send-key-docs-to-mbs-trustees.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+(Economist's+View+(EconomistsView)) [typepad.com]
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-02/bofa-drags-balance-sheet-confidence-backward-commentary-by-jonathan-weil.html [bloomberg.com]
These are great because a senior BofA executive testified under oath that BofA routinely never trasnferred mortgage notes to the mortgage trusts when they were sold as "Mortgage Backed Securities" i.e. they were really "Nothing Backed Securities"
Now, the funny part is that BofA is Disavowing the testimony of its own executive.
http://www.bankinvestmentconsultant.com/news/bofa-mortgage-2670073-1.html?zkPrintable=1&nopagination=1 [bankinvest...ultant.com]
If you need any further evidence of fradu and corruption, "4closurefraud.com" also has a mountain of dirt and evidence of fraud, forgery and corruption bu BofA and the other the big banks.
Anyone still doing business with these scumbags is either completely apathetic to the idea of "voting with your dollars" as a form of social activism, or just a fool.
Hah... anyone who was waiting for THIS news to leave BoA has had their head in the sand...
If the government can declare something "illegal" and pressure private companies to not do business with a particular entity... does it really matter if they can "make no law" abridging freedom of speech? Isn't the first amendment completely worthless?
All bad laws do is lower respect for all laws. Here's the solution:
It would cut down on excess verbiage, legalese, and get some outdated laws off the books.
You silly guy. The Supreme Court figured out that all these years we really didn't need an amendment to prohibit alcohol sales. Congress had the right to do that under the commerce clause all along! In fact, Congress has the right to do just about anything they want under the commerce clause.
In fact, if it wasn't for the 18th (and later, 21st Amendments) Congress would have probably set the drinking age at 21 based on commerce clause powers a long time ago. Unfortunately for them the 21st spells out that this right is reserved to the states -- but only for alcohol. A congressional ban on tobacco would be fully in line with current jurisprudence.
"I don't get it. If congress can't set a federal drinking age how can they outlaw drugs?"
I'd argue that federal drug laws are blatantly un-Constitutional, but if you ask the feds what gives them the power to do something blatantly un-Constitutional, the answer will always be one of:
> Interstate Commerce
> The General Welfare
> National Security
The Supreme Court struck down the California medical marijuana law in the case of "Raich v. Gonzales" on the ridiculous grounds of "Interstate Commerce
You know moe, after your little insulting reply to my divest Israel comment, I was thinking of lighting you up (or down as the case may be) with my mod points.
But I actually agree with most of your other comments. In a quick reading, I can't decide whether or not you are liberal or libertarian, but on the off-chance you are liberal or left-leaning, I'd like to point out that the only dissenters in Raich v. Gonzales were from conservative members of the court (specifically, Thomas & Rehnquist, with the
August/2010 A warrant for Assange is issued by the Swedish Prosecution Authority.
August/2010 The law firm of Borgstrom and Bodstrom quickly volunteer to represent the two accusers, Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen.
Thomas Bodstrom, former Justice Minister, has an interesting background: he came under investigation four times by Sweden's constitutional committee while Justice Minister after arresting members of the Pirate Bay file-sharing operation. He was also instrumental in pushi
accepted any manner of shady transactions regarding
-Bernie Madoff
-mortgage derivatives
-selling mortgage securities without proper paperwork
The problem, anymore, is that banks and ISPs aren't content to just be carriers. They have to judge the content of your transactions, too.
Though this isn't the best fit, I came across a quote by Thoreau in a short story called "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman that seems like a good fit for the whole thing in general so I thought I'd share.
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly,
but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army,
and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc.
In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the
judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves
on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men
can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well.
Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt.
They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs.
Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens.
Others--as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers,
and office-holders--serve the state chiefly with their heads;
and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as
likely to serve the devil, without _intending_ it, as God.
A very few--as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the
great sense, and _men_--serve the state with their consciences
also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and
they are commonly treated as enemies by it.
That quote is from Civil Disobedience. It's a short read and and very much worthwhile. You can find it with a search engine.
You could just call it extortion - someone from any other country would.
Even wonder that the show might be on the other foot, that the Bank of America knowingly dealt with criminals of all sorts including terrorists and that is what they really fear.
Even wonder that the show might be on the other foot, that the Bank of America knowingly dealt with criminals of all sorts including terrorists and that is what they really fear.
You mean like how the KKK can still use their BofA VISA to support the boys in the hoods [dailykos.com].
Well in that case the term 'terrorist' really gets fuzzy doesn't it?
A terrorist uses VIOLENCE to further a political agenda.
I'm sure you'd be more than happy to argue that wikileaks has a political agenda but where, pray tell, is the violence?
Because if this were to happen it would set precedence for pretty much any journalistic entity that doesn't tow the party line as 'terrorist'.
I'd be very careful about that one.
If Federal regulators even SUSPECT you have been allowing terrorists to receive payment
Sorry to spoil it for you but that would include every single American tax payer.
I know I will eventually get moderated down to the middle of the world for saying so. But I put no label on the tax payers as such or claim that the American government would be anything special in this regard. Just stating the facts. Or isn't it terrorism just because the government are in charge?
What else than terrorism can you call the first helicopter attack video Wikileaks leaked?
Though I have no idea who the photographers where, or if the people in the helicopter know them, or why they shoot in the first place.
Oxford American dictionaries:
"terrorism |?ter??riz?m| noun the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims."
"our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities
Shut up. You're a bank. Just move people's money around for them and don't try to have an opinion.
But it's really not funny that there doesn't seem to be an inch of daylight between government and big business.
And, no, it hasn't always been that way. There have been times historically the situation was similar, but it hasn't always been that way.
you folks had it good for a long time.
btw, you're generally a religious group, right? (conservatives generally are.)
go back to your bible and re-read the david and goliath story.
sweet dreams banksters....
"We will no longer process payments to them because they are not consistent with our policy for who we process payments to."
This tautology neatly covers the fact that Wikileaks has been charged with precisely zero crimes over Cablegate. These upstanding organizations all like to pretend that they are following the law, but they are actually taking the law into their own hands. I hope they get the shit sued out of them.
"We will no longer process payments to them because they are not consistent with our policy for who we process payments to."
This tautology neatly covers the fact that Wikileaks has been charged with precisely zero crimes over Cablegate.
Yet they have specifically threatened BoA with the leakage of sensitive information belonging to BoA. If somebody told you they were going to air your dirty laundry, would you still do business with them?
If somebody told you they were going to air your dirty laundry, would you still do business with them?
If the "airing" caused or was a result of abuse of contract, then I would stop doing business with the party in question. That doesn't happen to be the case with Wikileaks.
https://www1.bankofamerica.com/foundation/index.cfm?template=contact_us_here [bankofamerica.com]
Let them know what you think of their decision and that you'll be closing all your accounts with them.
All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly


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Russo won in a sing-off over Charles Stayduhar Jr. of Pittsburgh, Pa., after the two had tied following judges' voting. Russo's rendition of "Come Fly with Me" clinched the victory for him.
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UH College of Business Administration's Kipapa Lecture Series Brings Renowned Entrepreneur Back to HawaiiUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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On Thursday, January 30, 2003 the Kipapa i ke Ala Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Hawaiʻi College of Business Administration, will feature prominent entrepreneur Richard J. Heckmann. Heckmann is founder of USFilter, the world's largest water treatment company, which was acquired by Vivendi. He is chairman and chief executive officer of K-2 Inc., a manufacturer of sporting goods equipment. He is also chairman of the Listed Company Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange.
Heckmann will speak at the U.H. Manoa campus, where he attended classes as an undergraduate. He will discuss challenges entrepreneurs face in building a company in today's economy. The topic of his remarks will be "Then and Now: Growing a Company in the Post-Bubble, Post-Enron Environment."
The lecture is free of charge and will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the UH School of Architecture Auditorium. To RSVP, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Parking will be available on campus for $3. For more information, visit www.uhcbakipapa.com.
Richard J. Heckmann founded USFilter on July 16, 1990 and embarked on a series of acquisitions aimed at building the world's largest water treatment company.
In 1990, USFilter had annualized revenues of approximately $17 million, reporting multi-million dollar losses in its previous two years. USFilter's revenues for fiscal year 1999 were approximately $5 billion. Heckmann was named 1993 Entrepreneur of the Year in the Master Entrepreneurial category for the Inland Empire Region of Southern California. In 1999, USFilter was acquired by Vivendi S.A. of Paris France for $8.2 billion in cash and debt assumption.
Heckmann presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of K2 Inc., a manufacturer of sporting goods equipment, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Vivendi Environmental, the world's largest environment company, both listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Heckmann is also Chairman of the Listed Company Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. He was director and owner of Smith Goggles (Sun Valley, Idaho), and is a founding shareholder of Callaway Golf, Inc.
He was appointed associate administrator for finance and investment of the Small Business Administration (SBA) in Washington, D.C. from 1978 to 1979, where he was responsible for small business lending and venture capital investments made by the United States Government. He also served as the White House liaison from the SBA and is a former director of the Advisory Board of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
In 1971, Heckmann founded and became Chairman of the Board of Tower Scientific Corporation, which grew into the largest manufacturer of custom prosthetic devices in the United States. In 1977, the company was acquired by the Hexcel Corporation.
Heckmann is a Trustee of the Eisenhower Medical Center and the University of California, Riverside and a member of the Business Council of the University of Notre Dame Business School. The Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management, Palm Desert, UC-Riverside campus is funded by a donation from Richard and Mary Heckmann with additional funding from the State of California, and is currently under construction on a 20-acre campus donated by the City of Palm Desert.
Heckmann attended the University of Hawaii and completed the Small Company Management Program at Harvard Business School. He is married with six children.
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SevenUp Live is an application written for the monome and Ableton Live's MaxForLive that places 7 unique pieces of functionality into any number of 8x8 grids. With it, your monome is fully integrated into your Ableton workflow, allowing you to sequence beats, chop up loops, record melodies, and send control signals. Each SevenUp component is represented as a device in Live that retains all of Live's native functionality like preset saving/loading and automation.
Check out some videos to see what you can do with SevenUp.
If you're looking for SevenUp 1.0 which launched as a separate Java application and does not require MaxForLive, you can find it here.
In order to use SevenUp Live you'll need:
- One or more monomes (any models will do)
- Ableton Live 8.2.2 or greater with MaxForLive installed
- Max 5 or 6 installed
- SerialOSC installed and running. Be sure to follow the instructions and install all necessary prerequisites. The zeroconf MAX external must be installed for your monome to be discovered.
- Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or greater (most people will have this installed already)
Download and Installation
Download the latest version (2.0.5d) of 7up .
- Unzip the package to a directory of your choosing
- Copy all the files in the "Supporting" folder into Max's ".../java/lib" folder. If you are upgrading your instance of SevenUp, be sure to clear out any existing SevenUp .jar files first.
- For Windows this will be C:\Program Files\Cycling '74\Max 6.0\Cycling '74\java\lib
- For Mac this will be /Applications/Max6/Cycling '74/java/lib
- Install the included Live pack "SevenUp 2.0.5 Template.alp" by opening Ableton Live and choosing "Install Live Pack..." from the file menu.
- Open the newly installed project, SevenUp 2.0.5 Template.als, navigate to File ->
Manage Files.... You should now see a column on the right with some
options. Press "Manage Project" and then the "Export" button which
is located at the bottom. This is important in order to install the
SevenUp presets and devices into your device library.
- If you are upgrading your installation, as opposed to installing from scratch, delete your existing "SevenUp" folders under "Max Instruments" and "Max Effects" first before exporting.
Getting Started
Now that you've exported the SevenUp devices, samples, and presets into your library, you can add SevenUp into any new or existing project. Open up a new project and we'll walk through creating a basic set.
- Open Ableton Live, open your device list and navigate to Instruments -> Max
Instrument -> SevenUp and drag the SevenUpCore device into a new track.
- This is the brain of 7up and should always be loaded first before any other SevenUp components. Only load one "SevenUpCore" into any set at a time.
- You should now see the following in your device chain:
- Choose the monome you would like to connect to from the drop-down and press "Connect"
- Once your monme is listed as "Connected", press the "Start/Stop" button to enable 7up on the monome. You should see the monome light up at this point.
- Next, we'll try using a simple component, the Stepper. The Stepper allows you to create patterns of samples, typically beats.
- In order to do this, Navigate to Devices -> Instruments -> Drum Rack -> SevenUp -> "Stepper Drum Rack" and drag it into a new track.
- Next, navigate to Devices -> Midi Effects -> Max Midi Effect -> SevenUp -> Stepper and drag it in front of the "Stepper Drum Rack".
- Press play and you should notice that the rows of your monome are blinking in time with Ableton.
- Try pressing the buttons of the *first 7 columns* of the monome and notice that they'll each play a corresponding sample in the drum rack. You should be able to hear sound at this point and your setup should now look something like this:
Great! Now you're using 7up Live. Read on to learn more about navigating through 7up and using the remaining components.
SevenUp Concepts
0. Navigation
Learning how to navigate through SevenUp is simple as soon as you understand that the right-most column of any 8x8 grid is *always* a navigation column that allows you to enter into different modes of SevenUp. There will be at most 1 solid light in that column and it's location designates which mode you're in. Blinking lights in that column indicate sub-functions specific to that mode. In order to change from one mode to another, simply press the solid light once, and then choose a different mode to enter.
It's also important to know how to navigate throught the components in Ableton Live. The important thing to know is that the SevenUp component that you dragged in first is the "Core". All other components communicate through it. In some cases, components are configured entirely from the core, in other cases, components are configured from their individual interface.
1. Stepper
|Nav Position
|MaxForLive Component?
|Saves with Presets
|Saves with Patches
The stepper is the first mode that you enter after initializing SevenUp. It's purpose is to sequence patterns of samples to be triggered. Once you've laid out a group of samples to trigger, also known as a pattern, they will be triggered from top to bottom in time with Ableton's transport. You have the ability to store up to 7 different patterns by clicking on any sub-menu in the nav menu (sub-menu buttons are those that are NOT solid in the nav menu). The layout of the stepper interface is shown below:
In order to add a stepper to your set, make sure you have already added the SevenUp Core to your set (see the "Getting Started" section) and follow these instructions:
- Navigate to Devices -> Instruments -> Drum Rack -> SevenUp -> Stepper Drum Rack and drag it into a new track.
- Next, navigate to Devices -> Midi Effects -> Max Midi Effect -> SevenUp -> Stepper and drag it in front of the "Stepper Drum Rack".
- Press play and you should notice that the rows of your monome are blinking in time with Ableton.
- Try pressing the buttons of the *first 7 columns* of the monome and notice that they'll each play a corresponding sample in the drum rack (Notes C3-F#4)
Additional Notes:
- You can copy 1 pattern to another by holding down the first pattern and then pressing another pattern.
- You can clear a pattern by holding down that pattern's button for 3 seconds.
- When you press a sample trigger, it will first be flashing to indicate low velocity, pressing it again will make it solid to indicate a high velocity.
- Tip: Try placing a "Pitch" or "Chord" midi effect after the stepper. Now you can add samples to additional slots in the drum rack and trigger them using the same Stepper.
Patterns stored in the Stepper are meant to be sequenced using Sequencer mode which is explained next.
2. Sequencer
|Nav Position
|MaxForLive Component?
|Saves with Presets
|Saves with Patches
|Sequences of Patterns
The Sequencer allows you to sequence groups of patterns. This is helpful in order to break up the repetetiveness of an 8-step pattern. In this mode, each column on the left-side corresponds to one of the seven possible patterns. Each row then corresponds to playing one measure of that pattern. The diagram below shows a sequence that plays: Pattern 1, Pattern 2, Pattern 1, Pattern 3, Pattern 1, Pattern 2, Pattern 1, Pattern 4.
This mode does not have a corresponding MaxForLive component and is simply controlled using the second mode of SevenUp. Your arrangements of sequences will be stored in SevenUp patches but NOT in SevenUp presets.
Additional notes about the sequencer:
- You can trigger individual banks of sequences from the Masterizer mode
- You can trigger an individual pattern row to play by pressing it's solid button in the left area
3. Controller
|Nav Position
|MaxForLive Component?
|Saves with Presets
|Saves with Patches
|Alternate Components
The Controller allows you to MIDI map 7 banks of 7 sliders to various knobs in Ableton for a grand total of 49 unique sliders. When used in conjunction with the "Tilt" tab of the SevenUp Core component and the SevenUpADCController component, the monome's ADC ports and accelerometer can be used to control knobs as well. While in the Masterizer mode, you can re-trigger the banks of controllers that you have positioned.
In order to use the controller you'll need to do the following:
- Open Ableton Live's MIDI preferences for a single virtual midi device, enable its "Track" output and its "Remote" input ONLY. An example is shown below:
- Navigate to Devices -> Midi Effects -> Max Midi Effect -> SevenUp -> Controller and drag it into a new track.
- Navigate to Devices -> Instruments -> External Instrument and drag it into the
same track and select the MIDI device from step 1. At this point your device chain should look like this:
- Enter "MIDI" mode by clicking the "MIDI" icon in the top right. Select a knob, slider, or button and press a control slider on your monome. You should notice that the parameter is mapped to a MIDI control.
Tilt Control
If your monome has an accelerometer, you can use the values being sent over the ADC ports in order to control knobs in Ableton. In order to do this:
- Make sure that you have your ADC ports enabled in monomeserial
- Navigate to the "Tilt" tab in the SevenUp Core component and click the "Calibrate" button.
- On the monome, navigate to "Controller" mode (nav slot 3). In order to send ADC or Accelerometer values, you must hold down a sub-nav button while in Controller mode (the ones that are blinking quickly in the right column) you should see the tilt sliders move in SevenUp Core. Depending on which sub-nav button you hold down, different MIDI control values will be sent.
- In order to get a full range of motion, tilt your monome 360 degrees on both the X and Y axis so that SevenUp can learn where the min and max values lie.
- Once you've finished calibration, click the "On" button.
- In order to send these values to knobs in Ableton, the process is very similar to the steps above for the normal controller except you'll want to use a new MIDI channel so that the control values don't conflict with the normal controller. Drag an SevenUpADCController component into a new track, then add an external instrument, then send select a virtual midi device with which to receive midi signals. See the steps above for more detail.
Additional notes about the controller:
- You are able to push out the current values in a single bank from the Masterizer
- By default, when using tilt it may be difficult to MIDI map the X axis and Y axis independently because their values are sent at the same time. You can mute one axis at a time in monomeserial by unchecking it's ADC port.
4. Looper
|Nav Position
|MaxForLive Component?
|Saves with Presets
|Loop length, loop type
|Saves with Patches
The looper mode allows you to play up to 7 different loops at any offset. This allows you to chop up loops similar to MLR. Each column on the left hand side corresponds to a loop. If you press any row in a loop column, the loop will play at that offset. Each column also has a corresponding row in the right nav column which can also be used to start and stop the loop.
It's important to understand that loops loaded into the looper must already match your BPM (which may require consolidating a loop). Also, because SevenUp has no way of knowing how long your loop in Ableton is, you must use the Looper interface to assign each loop's length measured by bars.
In order to use the loop, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Devices -> Instruments -> Drum Rack -> SevenUp -> Looper and drag it into a new track
- Navigate to Devices -> Midi Effects -> Max Effect -> SevenUp -> SevenUpLooper
and drag it into the same track before the drum rack. Your device chain
should now look like this:
- Notice that when you turn the knobs on the looper device, the macro knobs of
the drum rack also move and change the "Start Offset" knobs of the individual
Simpler devices held within. By pressing different rows and columns on the
monome, you'll be starting different loops at different offsets respectively.
- Please note that because the loops provided in the preset were consolidated at 70bpm, they will only sound correct at 70 (or 140) bpm.
Additional notes about the Looper:
- In order to change the loop mode and loop length of the Looper while in "Slave"
mode, you'll need to navigate to the SevenUpLive core and click on the "Looper"
- The master/slave button is covered in the "advanced topics" section. It's recommended that you leave it in "Slave" mode if you are just starting with SevenUp
- The interface gives you the option to add loops to different choke groups. Only 1 loop in a particular choke group can be playing at once. For instance if loops 2 and 3 are both part of choke group 1, playing loop 2 will stop loop 3 and vice versa.
Loop Modes
Each of the 7 loops may be played in one of five different loop modes: Loop, Shot, Momentary, Hit, and Slice:
- Loop - Triggers the loop once wherever the button is pressed. When a loop reaches the end, it will start back from the beginning automatically.
- Step - At every step, the loop will be re-triggered at the cooresponding offset. When the loop reaches the end, it will start from the beginning.
- Shot - When a loop reaches the end, it will stop
- Momentary - The loop is only played while you continue to hold down the button
- Hit - When used with the Sampler (as opposed to the Simpler) this can play different samples for each button
- Slice - This will play just the section of the loop that was pressed and stop
Importing Samples into the Looper
One caveat when working with the looper is that your samples must be "consolidated" (written to disk) at the tempo you're working with before they will loop at that tempo. (Yes, we are working on solving this which is possible with M4L). This means that if you have a sample that was created at 110 BPM and a project that's at 130 BPM, in the Looper your sample will play at 110 BPM even if it plays at 130 BPM while in arrangement or session view.
In order to consolidate a sample and place it in the loop, follow these steps:
- Drag your sample into Ableton's session view (the horizontal one), right-click your sample and choose "Consolidate" or select it and press "Ctrl-J".
- Select the track with the looper and navigate to the Simpler whose sample you want to replace
- Drag the consolidated track into the sample window of the Simpler as shown
5. Loop Recorder
|Nav Positionon
|MaxForLive Component?
|Saves with Presets
|Saves with Patches
|Recorded sequences
The Loop Recorder mode allows you to record yourself playing the Looper. In order to record:
- Press the currently selected sub-navigation button to arm it for recording. The currently selected sub-navigation button is the on in the right-most column that is blinking quickly.
- Once armed, it should start blinking slowly, this means that it's ready for recording. Start playing some loops in the left 7 columns.
- Once finished recording, press the same sub-navigation button again to stop recording and start playing back what you recorded.
Pressing a sub-nav button while it's recorded track is playing will clear that track and arm it once again for recording. If you want to start and stop recorded sequences without clearing them, use the Masterizer mode explainer later.
6. Melodizer 1 & 2
|Nav Positionon
|6 & 7
|MaxForLive Component?
|Saves with Presets
|Slot #
|Saves with Patches
|Recorded sequences
The Melodizer allows you to record and play sequences of melodies in any key of any scale. This is done by using the monome like a keyboard with only 7 keys moving horizontally and 6 octaves moving vertically.
The interface is split into 3 different areas: sequences, keys, and notes. The sequences are listed out vertically within the navigation column and represent banks that can hold a recorded sequence of notes. To begin recording, press the currently selected sequence once to cue, start playing your pattern, and then press again to stop and playback. The keys area at the bottom allows you to switch the key of the scale you chose in the SevenUp interface (for example D major instead of C major which is the default). Pressing within the notes area allows you to play the notes of the currently selected scale and key with each row representing a single octave.
In order to use the melodizer, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Devices -> MIDI Effects -> Max Effects-> SevenUp -> SevenUpMelodizer and drag it into a new track.
- Select "Slot 1" and "Melodizer 1" within the interface of the Melodizer
- Drag any instrument after the Melodizer. Your device chain should now look
like this:
- Check to ensure that your monome is currently using Melodizer 1 (the 6th navigation row should be solid) and that you're using sequence 1 (the 1st navigation row should be blinking quickly).
- Press any buttons in the top left quadrant and you should hear sound coming out of your VST or instrument. If you want to record these notes, first press your sequence slot to cue it and then press it again when you want to stop recording.
- In order to change the current scale, recording mode, and other options, navigate to where you
placed the SevenUpLive core device and click the "Melodizer 1" tab:
The SevenUpLive core interface provides a number of options for how you want the Melodizer to record and play back sequences. These are covered in the "Advanced Concepts" section.
7. Clip Launcher
|Nav Positionon
|MaxForLive Component?
|Saves with Presets
|Saves with Patches
|Recorded sequences
The SevenUp Clip Launcher component allows you to launch clips with your monome and receive feedback on the state of your clips as either cued, stopped, or playing. "Clip mode" is only available for Melodizer1 and there can be only 1 "ClipLaunch" component in your set, otherwise they will conflict with each other. By dropping it into your set, Melodizer 1 will switch to clip mode automatically.
Please note that once you drag in the Clip Launcher you should first remove any Melodizer 1 components or turn them off. Also, if you have recorded patterns in Melodizer 1, these notes will fire clips now instead of playing notes.
In order to start using the Clip Launcher:
- Navigate to Devices -> Midi Effects -> Max Effects -> SevenUp -> Clip
Launcher and drag it into a new Midi Track
- This should switch Melodizer 1 into CLIP mode automatically. Go to the Melodizer1 tab pane in SevenUpLive core to make sure that the Toolmode is set to "Clip".
- Switch your current mode to Melodizer 1 (6th row in nav column). When the active pattern slot (the fast blinking pad in
the nav column) is 1, then you are viewing tracks 1-6 as columns, and clips/scenes 1-7
as rows.
- The bottom-most row of the pads is used to stop clips in each track column, except for the bottom pad of the 7th column which is used to stop all clips.
- The 7th column from left is used to trigger scenes 1-7.
- If you were to move to the second pattern slot in the navigation column, you'd be
working with Tracks 1-6 and Scenes 8-14. It all breaks down like this:
Pattern Slot Tracks Scenes 1 1-6 1-7 2 1-6 8-14 3 1-6 15-21 4 7-12 1-7 5 7-12 8-14 6 7-12 15-21 7 n/a (reserved) n/a (reserved)
- Now make sure you have pattern slot 1 selected and drag an audio or midi clip the first track and first scene of your set.
- After a few seconds, you should see the clip positions reflected on the monome. Idle clips are shown on the monome blinking quickly, cued clips blink slowly, and playing clips are solid. If you press the pad on the monome representing your clip, it should play. If you press the pad at the very bottom of the column, it should stop the clip.
- Now if you add 2 more clips to tracks 2 and 3, you should see 3 lights on your monome. By pressing the first row of the 7th column, you can launch the entire scene, thus playing all 3 clips at once.
- By pressing on a blinking pattern slot, you can cue the Clip Launcher to record your button presses just as you would with the Melodizers or the Loop Recorder.
Please note that it's recommended you turn the Clip Launcher power button OFF to stop polling for new clip positions when it's not necessary in order to save on processing time.
8. Masterizer
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|MaxForLive Component?
|Saves with Presets
|Saves with Patches
The purpose of the masterizer is to provide an interface where you can control what is going on in each of the other modes. It's for this reason that the Masterizer interface is the least intuitive. The left side of the Masterizer mode uses each column to control another mode as such:
- Column 1:
- This column shows the current sequence that is playing. You can change sequences by pressing a button in this column. Notice that the sequence waits for the current pattern to finish before changing
- This column allows you to trigger control banks 1-7. Any control bank that has values set will show as flashing.
- Column 3:
- This column allows you to start or stop loops.
- Column 4:
- This column allows you to start or stop looprecorder sequences
- Column 5:
- This column allows you to enable or disable melodizer 1 sequences. If there is a recorded sequence, it will show up as a flashing light.
- Column 6:
- Same as column 5 but for melodizer 2.
- Column 7:
- This column displays the current location of the Ableton Live track. This is useful when using effects that rely on the position of the Live song.
- Column 8:
- The sub-nav buttons of the Masterizer send MIDI notes C4-G4 on Channel 8 in order to allow transport control. For instance, the top most button could be mapped to "Play", the second button to "Stop", and the 3rd button to "Locator 1". Each of these buttons must be pressed TWICE to activate. This is to prevent accidentally pressing transport buttons which could potentially make a big mess out of a performance. Because there is no Masterizer component itself, these notes are sent through the Controller
Saving Patches and Presets
Patches and presets are two ways of storing information about your SevenUp Live set and it's important to understand the difference between them.
Presets - Presets are a pre-existing concept in Ableton Live that allow you to store the current configuration of a device into your project library. Presets store things like the current drop-down options of a device, or the positions of its knobs. In order to store a preset, click on the "Save" icon in the top right of any Ableton or SevenUp device. Presets, however, do NOT store things like the patterns of sequences you recorded in SevenUp, that's why we need patches.
Patches - Patches are XML files that you can save on your hard disk in order to save and load SevenUp information like Melodzier and Loop Recorder sequences. In order to save a patch, navigate to the SevenUp Live core, click the "Patches" tab, press the "Save Patch" button, and choose a location on your hard drive to save your patch. Loading patches is handled in a similar fashion:
Additional notes about patches and presets:
- If you have previously saved a patch in SevenUpCore...then you save the core as a preset...the preset will load that patch everytime you load it.
If the tips below don't solve your problem, try the Monome forums
Basic Troubleshooting
The best way to trouble-shoot 7up devices is to look at the Max output which can be accessed by right-clicking in title bar of SevenUpCore and choose "Open MAX Window". Here you will see if the 7up Java libraries have not been installed correctly or if you're missing key SerialOSC components.
MIDI Mapping tilt control
When mapping tilt, 7up will send multiple CC values at once which can cause the wrong CC to be mapped to your knob/button of choice. Ableton will map to the last CC message it sees, but you can go back to a previous CC by using the "UNDO" (Command-z) to go back through the mappings till you get to the right one.
My loop(s) always play at the same start point no matter where I press on the monome
Loops are triggered at different points because the Looper component controls the macro knobs of the drum rack after it which in turn controls the start offset knobs of the Simplers in the drum rack. If any of the links in this chain become broken, the start offset knobs of your Simplers will stop responding and your loops will always play at the same point. This is fairly simple to fix. If you move your Looper knobs and the Drum Rack macro knobs don't move...
- This may be the case if you either dropped the Looper into the track before you dropped the Drum Rack into the track or if you deleted the Drum Rack and created a new one. To fix this, simply delete the Looper and drag in a new one.
- This may be the case if you replaced one of the Simplers entirely rather than replacing just the sample inside of it or if you didn't use the provided Drum Rack preset. The start offset knobs are controlled using maco mapping, so to fix this simply right click on each Simpler's start knob in order and choose "Map to macro 1", "Map to macro 2", etc. *IMPORTANT* once this is done, you'll need to click the "Map Mode" button on the Drum Rack, go to the "Macro Mappings" window on the left and change each of the "Max" values that you just mapped to "99.2%". Crazy right?
Alternate Components
SevenUp components are modular and extensible. This means that they can be interchanged with components created by us and others in order to extend or radically alter SevenUp's functionality. This documents components outside of the standard set mentioned above.
Controller - Rack Macro Controller (Audio and Midi)
The rack macro controllers are alternate controllers that make it easy to map 7up Controller sliders to the macro knobs of a drum rack or instrument rack. In order to use them, simply drag them immediately before the drum rack or instrument rack.
The MIDI version will drag into a MIDI track and the audio version will drag into an audio track.
This device allows users to create an instance of 7up that connects using MonomeSerial which has been deprecated in favor of SerialOSC. However, one advantage of using MonomeSerial is that you can trick 7up into thinkin that it is connecting to 1 monome when you have multiple monomes plugged in. For more details, see Using Multiple Monomes
Provides support for the Snyderphonics Manta. Must have a v2 Manta with dual color leds. Choose mantav2 from SevenUpCoreClassic pick list. Must drop Manta7up.amxd into your Live set somewhere. Choose "connect" to connect to the Manta first before starting 7up.
Using Multiple Monomes
When using SevenUpCore with SerialOSC, you can use the Griddle app to merge multiple physical monomes into a single virtual monome.
When using SevenUpClassic with MonomeSerial, you can manipulate the start offsets of your monomes in order, for example, to turn two Monome 64's into a single 128. In this fashion, 1 monome 64 could be looking at the Stepper while another could be looking at the Controller.
In order to set this specific example up:
- Plug all monomes you plan on using into your computer
- Open MonomeSerial and configure the "Starting Column" and "Starting Row" of each monome to be unique and consecutive. For instance, if you have 2 64's, set the first's start column/row to 0/0 and the second's to 0/8. This way, they can be uniquely addressed by SevenUp
- Start Ableton Live, load in the SevenUpLive core, and before you press
start/stop connections, choose "Monome128V" from the monome virtual grid size
- In this case we use 128V (which stands for vertical) because we set the start *row* of the second 64 to 8. If we had set the start *column* to 8 instead, we could have selected "Monome128H" (horizontal).
- Press "Start/Stop Connections" and you should see the blinking 7 appears on both monomes
Different combinations of monomes and monome types can be used with SevenUp.
Change Log
- 2.0 - 11/29/2009 - Initial release of 2.0
- 2.0.1 - 12/02/2009 - Fixed timing issue causing double-hits when pressing play. Fixed offset issue when playing sequences in loop recorder.
- 2.0.2 - 12/16/2009 - Bug fixes to loop recorder. Added MindShuffler component.
- 2.0.3 - 1/2/2010 - Tilt support added. Bug fixes to looper. Optional use of midi clock notes to drive SevenUp's clock which allows users to use groove.
- 2.0.4 - 1/24/2010 - Improved MIDI communication with Max 5.1.2. Added auto-configure option which works with monoroute
- 2.0.5 - 2/27/2012 -
- Added Max 6 support
- Split out SevenUpCore and SevenUpClassic. Classic uses MonomeSerial while Core uses SerialOSC. Core is recommended.
- Added velocity support to melodizers
- Multi-level LED support for v2 monomes
- Added tilt support for SerialOSC
- Added Manta Support. Must have a v2 Manta with dual color leds. Choose mantav2 from SevenUpCoreClassic pick list. Must drop Manta7up.amxd into your Live set somewhere. Choose "connect" to connect to the Manta first before starting 7up.
- Changed clip launcher to use solid for stopped clips rather than blinking
- Fixed tilt support for gs128
- Fixed loop recorder bug where choke group interactions were not being properly recorded.
- Fixed SevenUpCoreClass host/listen port configuration did not allow for ports above 9999. Now can go up to 400000.
- Fixed clip launcher being a resource hog by not polling anymore but using observers instead.
Source code is available here: http://code.google.com/p/sevenuplive/For technical support, your best option is to post on the Monome forums


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(CNN) -- She may be a disembodied robot, but Siri has a sense of humor.
Since the introduction of the iPhone's personal "assistant" on October 4, 2011, people have used it as much to provoke witticisms as they have to find out the population of Japan or the location of the nearest Japanese restaurant.
In other words, Siri may not always be all that helpful. But she's been an amusing party trick.
Some of the most common inquiries are based on classic science-fiction movie lines -- "2001: A Space Odyssey's" "HAL, open the pod bay doors" is a favorite -- while others rely on ancient philosophical queries.
The Web being what it is, an entire cottage industry has sprung up around Siri's responses. There's a Tumblr called "S**t That Siri Says" and a collection of Siri posts called sirifunny.com.
Siri doesn't always understand, of course. Like E.T. or WOPR, she's sometimes at a loss when the question has nuance.
On the other hand, you may not want to dig too deeply. When asked if she's affiliated with Skynet -- the people-killing, world-dominating network at the heart of the "Terminator" movies -- Siri suddenly clams up.
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Watch out, world.


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Evangelist: What must & must not change
Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013
By Norm Miller
HOUSTON (BP) -- Three things that are changeless are "the man, the message and the mission," and three that must change are the "mindset, methods and motives," the president of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists said at their annual meeting in Houston.
Eric Ramsey, also president of Tom Cox World Ministries, recapped the message that must not change: that Jesus was fully God and fully man is the only way to salvation.
"He is the Creator, who loved us so much He paid the death penalty for our sins," Ramsey told the crowd of about 200 assembled for a COSBE-led worship service in Houston June 9 prior to the SBC's June 11-12 annual meeting in Houston.
Ramsey said 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 is the Gospel in a nutshell: "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures."
Ramsey said the message that Jesus Christ died and rose again is changeless, as is the unchanging mission to make disciples according to the Great Commission in Matthew 18:19-20.
The phrase, "As you are going," is the grammatically correct way to understand the "go therefore" verbiage in the passage, Ramsey said. "It is assumed we are already going. As we go, we are to make disciples."
The process of discipling is "first we learn, then we emulate and then we become a multiplier -- someone who goes and makes disciples," Ramsey said.
What Christians must change is their mindset. He referred to Philippians 2:5-9, Ramsey said, noting that Jesus was obedient unto death on a cross and thus, "a believer's mindset does not need to reflect self-centeredness."
"Do you spend more time talking about yourself than about Jesus?" Ramsey asked.
Expressing appreciation for those who stand against the encroachment of godlessness in American culture, Ramsey said Christians "must be careful about how much we present Christ against the culture and begin to represent Christ in the culture."
"If I set myself up to represent Christ against culture, then it keeps me from being effective for Christ in our culture," he said. "We need to be louder about Jesus Christ than we are about societal issues because Christians are not the change agents; Jesus Christ is."
A mindset change includes knowing the culture in one's own neighborhood, Ramsey said, but that does not mean the Christian message changes. "How we communicate that message does change," he said.
"We don't need to begin with 'You are a big sinner,'" he said, because "the wall immediately goes up because so many don't know what sin is."
Many in America define sin as breaking one's own moral code, he said, "and many church members believe this."
Jesus knew His culture, Ramsey said, noting that Jesus talked about fishing with fishermen, sheep with shepherds and crops with farmers.
"We must know the audience in our culture and speak their language to keep the mission on point," he said.
Christians' evangelistic methods must change, too, because they "can take on a life of their own," Ramsey said.
The Gospel is successful by itself, and "as we get so broad, the Gospel loses its central message of Christ dying for our sins, and that God wants to transform our lives."
Speaking to motives, Ramsey said if "we work for the rewards of men, then we have our reward."
"If we are trying to please people, we are not pleasing God, and the Gospel is not effective," he added. "Then the church will plateau and become ineffective."
"When we are willing to humble ourselves not just through a worship song but with our lives, then God will exalt us," he said.
"If we keep our mindset right, we can focus on the man. If we keep the methods right, we can focus in the message, and if we keep the motives right, we can focus on the mission," Ramsey concluded.
Also preaching at the meeting were COSBE vice president Richard Hamlet of Global Ministries Fellowship and international evangelist David Stockwell.
COSBE re-elected by acclamation Ramsey and Hamlet to their positions of president and vice president, respectively. Musician Russell Johnson of Conway, S.C., was elected worship leader for COSBE's next annual meeting.
Norm Miller is director of communications at Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, Ga.
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