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- Model NO.: SCP01
- Size: 2channe 3channel 4channel 5channel
- Color: Yellow and Black
- Service: 24hours 7days
- Export Port: Guangzhou Port or Others
- Matierial: Rubble
- Transport Package: Air Bubble Film or Carton or Bag
- Origin: Guangzhou China
- Application: Events, Concerts, Wedding, Hotel, School and So on
- Certification: TUV Ce SGS
- Feature: Durable
- Lead Time: During 15days
- Advantage: Low Cost and Good Quality From China Truss Factory
- Trademark: SgaierStage
- Specification: 2channe 3channel 4channel 5channel
- HS Code: 4016999000
Dual Channel Cable Protector Straight Ramp
Production Description:
We are a professional China stage equipment factory who manufacture cable protector for 8years,
We cherish our reputation and guarantee every product with high quality and safety enough!
Tell us your requirements, you will get a satisfied product.
Detailed quotation will be prepared as soon as receiving your detailed information.
Applicate in outdoor Playground, Entertainment, sporting events, exhibition halls, squares and so on.
A fast, simple and safety way to protect cables and people.
Material: PVC and rubble
SgaierStage offer different size cable protectors for options:
|1) 2-channel cable ramps:
|Out-shape size: 1000X250X45mm; Channel size: 30*30mm, weight: 8KG/PC
|Loading capacity: 10T/PC, Material: Rubber
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|Out-shape size: 900X500X75mm; Channel size: 65*55mm, weight: 20KG/PC
|Loading capacity: 25T/PC, Material: Rubber
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|Out-shape size:900X500X60mm; Channel size: 45*40mm, weight: 20KG/PC
|Loading capacity: 30T/PC, Material: Rubber
|4) 5-channel cable ramps:
|Out-shape size:900X500X50mm; Channel size: 35*30mm, weight: 23.5KG/PC
|Loading capacity: 30T/PC, Material: Rubber
Highly insulated, without any metal parts, up to 7500V.
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High strength and tear strength
Striking yellow and black color, its warning color which is yellow and black is eye-catching.
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Non-slip surface texture surface
Resistant of Oil and solvents
Operating temperature range: -35-70degree(
Perfect accessories
The surface with safety warning signs
Flexible customized LOGO
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High loading capacity for truck. Forklift truck, container truck and so on
Ramp design, wheelchair can be easily go through
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Cable protector pictures:(2channel.3channel,4channel,5channel cable protector)
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was bored and to tired to think!
followed what Beth did at 1:22!
my teacher has gone completely insane
and scold at me!
but! sometimes i do it anyway!
well there was a question very hard i just answere : God knows
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hweak2 wrote:
o0James0o wrote:
iono if i wrote any dumb answer.... i mostly skipped them if i dont know.... well anyways i got this biology test..... im teh only 1 in class who got 100%.... (i didnt study... i copy from others who print the studyguide in which the teacher gave all the answer and the question is the same... in different orders... and wow... im so intelligent... i mean... i got 100%.... while those i copy from only got 80-90s...)
lol. you're so good. how did you copy?
ummm i ask them for answer... :D... and then i double check the answer slowly :D.. i took my time... and i changed a few answers... and i got 100% :D
lol same here xDD!! i never study i just copy and check from students .. and sometimes the teacher is checking the other class paper infront of me .. the same quiz paper .. and i cheat from it .. in the end im the only one who got the bonus right .. by cheating xD
A virtual party
Q. What is the middle of the eye called?........ A. The Gooey bit
and my favourite
Q. What can you do to make sure milk does not go off? ........ A. Leave it in the cow!
On It!
question: using an altimeter how do you determine the height of building A
answer A): find the building manager and say "I'll give you this neat altimeter if you tell me how tall this building is"
answer B): drop altimeter off the top of the building time its decent then multiply by 210 ft/sec sq.
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mikomiko123 wrote:
krnsoldierofGod wrote:
in one of my spanish quizzes this guy put orange chicken for his answer
and this one other guy put it is against my religion to answer this question on his math test lol
Isnt that the use of the Pythagorean theorem? A squared + B squared = C squared. OMG! Considering, that Im pretty dumb in math and I remembered this, Im joyful. XD
Actually. its A squared = B squared + C squared
Uhh, C is the hypotenuse, and A and B are the lengths of the other two sides. One side squared plus the hypotenuse squared do not equal another side squared. Lol.
In order to find A or B, A in your case, it should be C squared - B squared = A squared (not sure bout this one).
Given: In a right triangle side A = 3, side B = 4, hypotenuse C sq = 25
3 sq + 4 sq = 5sq - Pythagorean theory
9 + 16 = 25 - Associative Property?
25 = 25 - Commutative Property?
C sq = 25 - Transitive Property / Given
(Im not sure about the postulates I used, don't mind them)
Har Har Har
Question: Would you forgive Hitler?
Answer: No.
It was worth 5 marks, but a simple no was good enough for me...
♥♥♫♥Its so good gal turn me on♥♥♫♪
Q: Chose the correct answer and explain why
a) something
b) something else
c) some other crap
d) crap as well
My A: It's C, because it's not A, B or D
Closest I got to stupid. And although it was C, I didn't get a mark
I know it, but why should i tell you?
this is not a status
this was happened when i'm in form 2...i was selected for participating OLIMPIAD MATHEMATICS in the national stage...i didn't know why my teacher choose me eventhough my math was bad...consist of 4 question and i've to answer in 2 hours n we were forbidden to use the calculator...so bcoz my math is not good...i just put the ridiculous answer...hehehe
this is the question:
''explain why 2006 cannot be power of 2?''
my answer:
''bcoz 2006 was a year n it cannot be power of 2''
and the 3 question i just ignore them w/o answer
cr is not like before anymore...
R.E. exam: What is the definition of soul?
answer: music genre.
And you don't even want to know how i answered a history essay question, its just too embarrassing...
No, you add a status message!
History Question: What was the name of the first bank in the United States? (it had something to do with Alexander Hamilton...blah blah blah)
Answer: Bank of America?? (got 10 points off for that one.. )
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History Question: What was the name of the first bank in the United States? (it had something to do with Alexander Hamilton...blah blah blah)
Answer: Bank of America?? (got 10 points off for that one.. )
hahaha i just had a test question on that yesterday. u were really close, it was called the Bank of the United States=.=
i'm not online a lot. D:
i remember on two history questions it asked where these things took place. i put pennsylvania and virginia. the answer was great britian and spain
i'm not online a lot. D:
"Why did these artist become famous?" I put because their dead.

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By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. federal judiciary
on Tuesday warned of the consequences of compulsory budget cuts
on court operations nationwide.
By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. federal judiciary
on Tuesday warned of the consequences of compulsory budget cuts
on court operations nationwide.
If the cuts imposed by the U.S. Congress remain in place,
funding for federal courts this year will drop to about $6.6
billion, down around $350 million, or 5 percent from fiscal year
2012, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the national
management body for the judiciary, said in a statement.
The judicial branch is one of the government entities
affected by the budget stand-off between President Barack Obama
and Congress, which led to a series of automatic spending cuts,
known as sequestration, taking effect on March 1.
The cuts could lead to up to 2,000 employees being laid off
or the introduction of a furlough program that would lead to a
10 percent pay cut for those affected, the administrative office
The impact on the current fiscal year, which runs until the
end of September, would be felt across a number of court
services, including probation, drug testing, mental health
treatment and the processing of civil and bankruptcy cases.
Funding for court security systems would also be cut by 30
percent, the statement said.
The budget issue was the main topic of discussion when the
U.S. Judicial Conference, the federal judiciary's policy-making
body, met in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
Chief Judge William Traxler of the Richmond-based 4th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals, the chairman of the executive
committee, told reporters that the judiciary had to make do with
what it was given.
But, he said, "we worry about it detracting from our ability
to meet our constitutional responsibilities."
Judge Thomas Hogan, the director of the administrative
office, outlined the impact of sequestration in more detail in a
letter to Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley last week.
Hogan said in his letter to Grassley that the measures "will
be difficult and painful to implement."
Beyond the current fiscal year, the judiciary "cannot
continue to operate at such drastically reduced funding levels"
while carrying out its required duties, he added.
Grassley had pressed the judiciary for concrete details on
its plans after voicing skepticism that the cuts would be as
devastating as Hogan had outlined in an earlier letter.
In a statement on Tuesday, Grassley said that the more
detailed review provided by Hogan showed that the court system
"was able to better distribute sequestration cuts without the
drastic measures they originally warned about."


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March 20, 2007
AMHERST, Mass. (March 20, 2007) - The University of Massachusetts got four goals from Brett Garber and shut out the Sacred Heart Pioneers in the second half to post a 11-4 win Tuesday afternoon at Garber Field. The Pioneers tied the game a 4-4 late in the second quarter but an UMass goal with 1.3 seconds before the half gave the Minutemen the momentum as they posted six unanswered goals and defensively dominated the second half.
The two teams engaged in a defensive struggle in the opening minutes looking for open shots. UMass cracked the scoreboard first at the 6:32 mark as Bobby Hayes fired one past Ricardo Vargas (Falls Church, VA) off a feed from Jim Connolly from behind the net. UMass made it 2-0 as Tim Balise converted in transition. Jordan Hendry forced a turnover by Bobby Karl (Clifton Park, NJ) and Connolly setup the second goal too Balise at 4:53.
SHU (1-3, 0-0 CAA) sophomore Bobby Rushton (West Islip, NY) got the Pioneer offense on the board with 1:11 in the quarter. Rushton fired one in from the right wing while getting hit in traffic. The Pioneers wasted little time in converting the tying goal as senior Joe Cavagnaro (Kinnelon, NJ) took the ensuing face-off and fellow senior Peter Greco (Hamburg, NY) took off and buried a shot in the back of the cage just 13 seconds later (58.5) to knot it at 2-2.
UMass (2-4, 0-0 ECAC) jumped back in front at the 12:50 mark of the second quarter as Brett Garber scored his first to two goals in the period. Balise gave Garber the pass and he deposited in the top right corner for a 3-2 lead. Garber struck again at 3:57, scoring off a feed from Andrew Recchione for a 4-2 advantage. Down two again, SHU responded with freshman Dan Mesler (Branchport, NY) picking up an unassisted tally at 2:11 just over Doc Schnieder's right shoulder.
SHU tied the game again as Rushton scored his second of the game, from Karl, with just 14 seconds left, pulling the Pioneers even at 4-4. UMass stole back the momentum off the ensuing face-off as Connolly answered unassisted with 1.3 seconds left to send the Minutemen into the break up 5-4.
UMass struck first in the third quarter, taking advantage of a SHU turnover. After a good clear, Garber set up teammate Balise for his second of the afternoon at 13:37. The Minutemen opened a 7-4 lead just over two minutes later when Evan Blum scored unassisted. Garber extended the lead at 5:31 in the quarter with his third of the afternoon, the fourth-straight on the UMass run for an 8-4 lead.
The Minutemen made it four unanswered goals in the quarter after forcing a SHU turnover deep in their own territory and following it up with a couple of shots on Vargas, the second by a diving Pat Larmon that found its mark making it 9-4. Garber tacked on his fourth of the day at 10:11 of the fourth to put his team up 10-4 and Basile ended the scoring with his third, a man-up goal, with 4:33 on the clock. UMass dominated the second half, out shooting SHU 24-12; including 20-6 in the third, while winning six of eight face-offs.
The Pioneers are back in action on Sunday afternoon when they open Colonial Athletic Association play at Robert Morris at 1 pm.


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State health officials warn of increase in rabies
March 29, 2012
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports that 13 animals have tested positive for rabies in the state since Jan. 1 and is reminding the public to have their animals vaccinated against rabies by a veterinarian.
Given the high number of rabies cases thus far this year, state health officials say they anticipate an increase in the number of rabid animals this year compared to last year. The 13 rabid animals included four skunks, two bats, two horses, two cows, one cat, one coyote and one raccoon. None of the domestic animals were vaccinated against rabies.
Just four rabies cases were reported during the first three months of the year in 2011. Since 2007, there has been an average of 68 cases of rabid animals a year in Kansas.
Vaccines are available for dogs, cats, ferrets, horses, cattle and sheep. Animals need to have periodic boosters of vaccine to maintain proper protection.
Animal rabies is common in Kansas, and skunks are the animals most likely to have the disease. However, skunks can pass the virus to other animals, such as dogs, cats, cattle and horses. Prevention of human rabies depends on vaccinating domestic animals, eliminating human exposures to stray and wild animals, and providing exposed persons with prompt post-exposure rabies treatment.
KDHE offers these tips to prevent rabies:
• Have your veterinarian vaccinate all dogs, cats, ferrets, horses and valuable breeding stock and show animals (cattle and sheep) against rabies.
• If bitten by an animal, seek medical attention and report the bite to your local public health department or animal control department immediately.
• If your animal is bitten, contact your veterinarian or local health department for advice.
• If you wake up in a room with a bat present, even if there is no evidence of a bite or scratch, seek medical attention.
• Do not handle or feed wild animals. Never adopt wild animals or bring them into your home.
• Do not try to nurse sick wild animals back to health. Call animal control or an animal rescue agency for assistance.
• Teach children never to handle unfamiliar animals, wild or domestic, even if they appear friendly.
For more information about rabies, contact your veterinarian, local health department or the Kansas Department of Health and Environment at 1-877-427-7317.
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- Valdosta, Ga. - May 23, 2012 -
Should college students be allowed to carry firearms to school? Some say yes, but faculty members at Valdosta State University say no.
The Faculty Senate at Valdosta State University is taking a stand against concealed guns on campus. They unanimously passed a resolution May 17th to keep guns out of the classrooms and off university grounds.
"I think it's a bad idea for guns to be on campus because all of us are young adults and I don't think we at this age fully understand the risk assessment of using guns on campus," said Airy Hall, VSU student and president of the VSU student chapter of the NAACP.
The resolution holds no real legal power, it's more a statement. In fact, concealed carry is already banned in its policies.
The Faculty Senate is standing in opposition to House Bill 981. That bill has already been defeated but these faculty members expect it will find its way back on the ballot next year, if only in slightly different form.
The bill proposed allowing citizens the right to carry concealed weapons into bars, churches, college campuses and even go as far as elementary schools.
"Criminals thrive in places where there are no guns. Cause they know there are no guns there and the only people who can stop them are the police," said Davis Day, salesman at T3 Outdoors.
The Faculty Senate's resolution still has to be approved by the president of the university.
Valdosta State is the first university in Georgia to take an aggressive stance against concealed carry.


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PASADENA, Calif.—The City Council is scheduled on Nov. 19 to consider amending the Arroyo Seco Public Lands Ordinance as a preliminary step that would allow a National Football League (NFL) team to temporarily use the Rose Bowl Stadium. The proposed amendment would allow an NFL team to host home games at the Rose Bowl Stadium for no more than five years if, and when, an NFL team moves to the Los Angeles area while a permanent stadium is being constructed elsewhere. The City today (Nov. 9) is releasing the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and related documents that were prepared regarding the proposed amendment to the ordinance. Click on the following links below to review the documents.
Download the entire Final EIR - 115 MB or dowload the Final EIR in segments below.
Notice of Public Hearing Rose Bowl-NFL Monday, November 19, 2012
The potential exists for the National Football League (NFL) to relocate an existing team franchise to the Los Angeles area in the near future. Should this occur, there is a likelihood that the team would need to play in an existing stadium for an interim time period, possibly as soon as fall 2013, while a new stadium is constructed. Currently there are two proposed stadium projects in the greater Los Angeles Area; one in the City of Industry and other in the City of Los Angeles. Should either of these proposals move forward, it is likely that the Rose Bowl could be considered as an interim location. The use of the Rose Bowl Stadium as an interim venue for an NFL team would provide a significant economic impact for the Rose Bowl Operating Company, the City, and area merchants. However, impacts such as increased traffic and noise would also be felt, particularly to neighborhoods surrounding the Central Arroyo. All of which would need to be carefully considered before making any agreement to serve as an interim venue. As the local economy continues to stagnate from the national Great Recession, City staff believes that temporarily hosting an NFL team will provide a significant economic stimulus. ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS In order for the Rose Bowl to be considered, the City Council must amend the Arroyo Seco Lands Ordinance (Pasadena Municipal Code Chapter 3.32) and study the environmental effects of that amendment in an environmental impact report (EIR) pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act.
At any time during this entire process you may inquire about this project by sending an email to David Sinclair
Download the Rose Bowl-NFL Initial Study
NFL FAQs
Download the NFL Frequently Asked Questions PLEASE RETURN TO THIS PAGE OFTEN! AS THE PROCESS MOVES FORWARD, THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND NOTICES OF FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC INPUT.


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So f*cking proud!
Press Release – Rainbow Youth
As if getting 27 Kiwi celebs to swear on camera in the name of equality wasnt enough, the WTF campaign is back for a second round of not pulling any punches and calling bullsht on inequality.MEDIA RELEASE 08/02/13
As if getting 27 Kiwi celebs to swear on camera in the name of equality wasn't enough, the WTF campaign is back for a second round of not pulling any punches and calling bullsh•t on inequality.
Originally launched with a star-studded video in May 2012, WTF is spearheaded by youth-run, youth-led organisation Rainbow Youth. The viral campaign is a conversation starter around sexuality and gender discrimination in Aotearoa
New Zealand, framed through thought-provoking — and sometimes controversial — statements.
Today's relaunch kicks off the February Pride season with a bold new statement, SO F•CKING PROUD, and a brand-spanking new website to match at wtfnz.org.
WTF spokesperson Aych McArdle says Rainbow Youth is making no excuses for continuing its audacious use of language.
"The campaign message need to be this strong in order to really change attitudes and behaviours," they said.
While talking about equality and discrimination is key, WTF is also a proud and loud call for donations. Young people are brave and courageous but Rainbow
Youth needs your support to keep supporting them.
McArdle says February is a perfect time to reignite this cause. "Too many young queer and trans* people are still being bullied and that's not right – we all deserve to be f•cking proud of who we are.
So we're asking questions and making our voices heard and what better time to do that than during a month dedicated to Pride and community building."
McArdle says WTF's donation ask of $5 per month will help Rainbow Youth give queer and trans* youth across Aotearoa New Zealand the support they need to celebrate pride too.
During Auckland Pride Festival WTF will be launching several initiatives. Watch out for posters, photos, viral social media campaigns and surprising videos all with WTF's signature new rainbow-flavoured look and unique calls to action.
The revamped website — which went live today — is designed by digital designer and art director Theunis Groenewald, of advertising agency Consortium. It's a vibrant and fresh shake up of the original site that retains the campaign's core messaging.
"We're taking all the elements of WTF and dressing them up to be on par with other international campaigns like NOH8 and FCKH8 and that's something to celebrate!"
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Smoked Turkey with BBQ Gravy
Smoked Turkey with BBQ Gravy
Smoked Turkey with BBQ Gravy
Try this Smoked Turkey with BBQ Gravy recipe
Ingredients of Smoked Turkey with BBQ Gravy
2 tablespoons salt
1 1/2 tablespoons ground sage
1 1/2 tablespoons thyme
1/2 tablespoon black pepper
1/2 tablespoon Neelys Seasoning, recipe follows
Turkey Brine:
1 gallon water
2 cups salt
3 cups apple juice
1 cup bourbon
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 (22-pound) turkey
Olive oil
4 cups hickory wood chips, soaked in water for 60 minutes
BBQ Gravy, recipe follows
For the rub:
Preparation of Smoked Turkey with BBQ Gravy
Mix all ingredients in a small bowl and reserve.
For the brine:
Mix the water, salt, apple juice, bourbon, peppercorn, and sugar into a 5-gallon bucket lined with a resealable bag. Stir until the salt and sugar is dissolved. Add the turkey into the bag with the brine. In a garbage bag-lined ice chest filled with ice, place the bucket in and surround with ice. Keep in a cool place and let brine 6 hours or overnight. Turn the turkey after 3 hours. Remove turkey from the brine and pat dry with paper towels.
Rub the turkey with olive oil and massage the rub onto the Turkey.
Soak wood chips for 1 hour prior to cooking the turkey and drain well. Fill the chimney starter with charcoal and light. Burn until they ash over. Place the burned coals to 1 side of the grill. Place wood chips on top of coals. Line a standard size loaf pan with aluminum foil and fill 2/3 with water. Place in the grill opposite the coals.
Take the turkey and place on the grill over the pan of water. Insert a probe thermometer in the thigh to keep a check on the temperature as it cooks. Place the lid on the grill with the vent open.
The temperature should remain constant at 225 degrees F. You may need to add more coals and chips every few hours.
After 1 hour check the turkey, if the skin is golden brown cover with foil. Continue cooking for 4 to 6 more hours or until a probe thermometer reaches 160 degrees F.
Remove from the oven and let rest 20 minutes before you carve. Serve with BBQ Gravy.
Neelys Seasoning for Smoked Turkey with BBQ Gravy:
3/4 cup white sugar
1 1/2 cups paprika
3 3/4 tablespoons onion powder
Mix ingredients together and store in an air tight container for up to 6 months.
BBQ Gravy for Smoked Turkey with BBQ Gravy:
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Drumstick, from turkey
Neck, from turkey
1 large onion, sliced
8 cups turkey stock or chicken stock
1/4 cup BBQ Sauce (recommended: Neelys BBQ Sauce)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan on medium-high heat. Add the drumstick and neck and sear until brown. Remove from pan and reserve.
Lower heat and saute the onions. Add the stock, scrapping up the fond on the bottom of the pan. Add the drumstick and neck into the saucepan. Cover and let simmer until it comes to a boil; about 1 hour. Sauce will reduce down greatly. Remove turkey parts. Add BBQ sauce to pan and whisk together. Gravy will thicken. Season with salt and pepper.
Smoked Turkey with BBQ Gravy
Cook Time:8 hr 0 min
Level: Intermediate
Yield: 12 servings
Category: Thanksgiving recipes


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Furloughed federal employee David Chambo worries not only for his household budget, but also for the local businesses he says are not getting paid for services because of the shutdown of his employer.
Chambo, of McHenry, has worked since his 2010 retirement from the Army for the Chicago office of the Defense Contract Management Agency, which works with suppliers to make sure supplies for the Department of Defense and related government agencies get delivered on time and to specifications.
While corporate giants such as Northrop Grumman and Colt Defense spring to mind when it comes to military contracts, Chambo said the government contracts with many small businesses – some, he said, in McHenry County – for goods and services from washers to parts for naval vessels.
With the partial shutdown, Chambo said, small businesses that have government contracts are losing money, which means private employees – not just furloughed federal ones – could start hurting, and soon.
"Now you're going to have the assembly lines shut down, because there are no inspections of the quality of the material, and the products can't be shipped and these people can't be paid," Chambo said. "And therefore, the military person isn't going to get their goods and services on the battlefield or wherever to replace deficient or broken equipment."
The shutdown, which resulted in the furloughs of almost 800,000 federal workers, is now in its fifth day. While the House is expected to vote Saturday to restore some federal services, a vote to end the shutdown is nowhere in sight.
Republicans who control the House passed a bill before the Oct. 1 start of the federal 2014 fiscal year to continue funding the government, but only if the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act is delayed a year. Democrats who control the Senate have rejected the idea and have voted to remove the language, pointing out the law was not only approved by both houses when they were under Democratic control, but also was upheld last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.
But the real showdown to watch hasn't been between two parties in the two houses of Congress, but the fight among House Republicans. Tea party Republicans have fought for the anti-Obamacare language, but a number of Republicans support passing a "clean" bill to reopen the government.
Both of McHenry County's representatives in the House, Republicans Randy Hultgren and Peter Roskam, voted to link continued funding to a delay in the health care law's implementation. Illinois' two senators voted along party lines – Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin has voted to remove the language delaying the individual mandate while Republican Mark Kirk has voted against its removal.
Attempts since Thursday to reach Hultgren and Roskam, exacerbated by the furloughing of congressional office staff, were not successful. Both have taken to their websites and social media to say they are standing fast.
"We have heard loud and clear that Americans want to keep the government open and push the pause button on Obamacare. Our votes carried out their will," Hultgren said in a statement after the Monday vote before the shutdown.
Polls show a sizable majority of Americans are unhappy with the government shutdown, with more of them blaming Republicans over President Obama and the Democrats.
House Republicans will likely vote Saturday on a number of bills reinstating spending to undo service cuts affecting border security, Head Start and other programs. The House voted Friday, as Tropical Storm Karen headed for the Gulf coast, to reinstate funding to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The bills are similar to attempts in the first days of the shutdown to restore funding for national parks and veterans affairs. Senate Democrats have rejected piecemeal restoration of government funding.
Woodstock-based Community Action Agency Head Start should be adequately funded because its fiscal year starts in August and is therefore on the previous federal fiscal year, Executive Director Karin Nuelle said. However, she heard from another Head Start program Friday that it could not access the federal payment management system to pay its employees.
Nuelle said her agency has enough money in reserve to pay its 59 employees next week should the shutdown continue. After that, she said, she will have no way to pay them.
"We hope that's not going to happen. Hopefully Congress will get this resolved," Nuelle said.
Chambo said he does as well. The lost wages are on top of the $3,200 he estimates he lost as a result of the ongoing set of budget cuts known as sequestration – he had to take one unpaid day off a week for six weeks. He said the DOD memo he and his co-workers received upon the start of the partial shutdown warned not to expect to receive back pay once the shutdown ends, but bills have been filed in both the House and Senate to pay federal workers for lost days.
Chambo's family has savings to fall back on, but he is also paying for college for his two adult children. Just in case, the family scratched its plans for the Columbus Day weekend.
"We're already changing plans. We had to, because we don't know the outcome or how long this is going to last," Chambo said.


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Obama Shifts Subtly on Civil Rights
President Speaks More Forcefully in His Second Term About Need for Equal Economic Opportunity
AUSTIN—One hundred days into his first term, President Barack Obama was asked whether the government should target aid to black communities hit hard by the recession. "My general approach is that if the economy is strong, that will lift all boats," he responded.
When Mr. Obama speaks Thursday at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidental Library ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he likely will show how his approach has subtly shifted during his second term....


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Video Red Hat's Diane Mueller Talks About OpenShift (Video) 21
The OpenStack demo video (slides) Diane mentioned
Tim: Diane, could you introduce yourself?
Diane: Hi. I am Diane Mueller also known as @pythondj on Twitter and I am the Red Hat Cloud Ecosystem evangelist which is a big title of nothing. I am actually working on the OpenShift Origin open source project which is a Platform-as-a-Service, which is now hosted on OpenShift Online and available as OpenShift Enterprise. But the project that is near and dear to my heart is the open source project and that is what we are here at LinuxFest talking about Origin upstream feeds the Red Hat offerings.
And Origin is a Platform-as-a-Service. If you don't know what a Platform-as-a-Service, maybe I should step back and say what that is too. If you've ever deployed a website or an application to the cloud, you probably use Amazon or Rackspace or Dreamhost or one of those many pieces and then you build the stackup of everything that your application needed like maybe MySQL, Drupal, some plugins for Drupal, and your content, you know, all of that stuff, and you had to build that stack for yourself on that hosting service.
And with the advent of cloud computing, that got a little bit cheaper and easier because it was more elastic but you still had to build that stack. Well, then, about two, maybe three years ago, some public PaaS, or PAAS, Paas, however you want to do it, the acronym is P-A-A-S, or Platform-as-a-Service, there are lots of 'as-a' services but this particular one, what it did was automate the building of those application stacks.
So say I have a Jangle app and I use it to install Python for Jangle packages, I need Postgres, I need Nginx and all of those things. What it does is it deploys all of that into a secure space on an instance on the cloud and automates all of that being connected to your application. So I may build I do a Bottle or a Flask application (which are two Python frameworks) it will pull the Bottle Flask framework, it will set up the database I need underneath and automate all of the deployment.
But it is much more than just deploying. It is about the deployment, the administration, and the management of that application as well and the scaling of it. So Platform-as-a-Service is kind of, in our terms at OpenShift, we have what's called a broker and nodes. And the broker is sort of, think of it as the cloud controller. It is watching all the nodes and so there are lots of people, it's a multitenant world, so your application you deploy on one of those nodes and you are sharing it actually with lots of other people. That's what starts to compress the number of resources you need to spin up, because in the old days, you'd spin up maybe a small instance on AWS and your credit card would get zinged to that.
But now you go to a Platform-as-a-Service and we can do some resource management and so it gets cheaper and cheaper. And that's what the public PAASes did so a public PAAS provider like Heroku, or Dotcom or Engine Yard or even Google App Engine, they all are sort of middlemen that have deployed PaaS software on to cloud, AWS, HP Cloud or whoever it is, and they are doing this service for you.
Now that's all going good, and they help drive the adoption of PaaS right up, and they did some, lots of great open source projects came out of that, of the pieces and parts, but what we are doing at Red Hat is we've actually taken it to the next generation, and we've open sourced everything under the hood. And we call it Origin. It is OpenShift Origin. You can find it at openshift.github.io. All of the source code that you need to deploy your own PaaS is there - it is really cool.The ethos at Red Hat is 'anything we build, we are going to make it open', right? We really are very strongly committed to that.
And so all of the pieces and parts you need to deploy your own private PaaS whether it is on premise, behind your enterprise firewall or you want to host your own for some niche specific purpose or your own private minecraft servers or quake you can do that on AWS, and you don't have to have that middleman any more. And the reason I call it the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service is Platform-as-a-Service as a concept has been around for (I don't know) for four or five years, and Sirocco launched and all these things, and NIST, the national standards for it defines cloud like a layer cake.
At the bottom layer is IaaS, or Infrastructure-as-a-Service which you will hear things like open source projects like OpenStack or CloudStack is the software that will run and manage all the machines and spin up an instance on that machine. So that's the bottom layer. The next layer up is what we call (you might have in the old days called it middle web) but we call that the Platform-as-a-Service one that helps deploy your application.
So IaaS is about deploying and spinning up machines elastically. Platform-as-a-Service is about spinning up your application and scaling that elastically. And the applications on top of that, you might have heard of another acronym called SaaS or software-as-a-service, and the famous one Salesforce.com, they bought Heroku, so that's a big example of one, but there are lots of little examples of them too. And you can come to OpenShift.com and host your own there too.
One of the other things we are doing here, is if you come to OpenShift.com you can actually use Origin in its public facing version which is hosted at OpenShift.com, and sign up and launch and try out using PaaS for free for three years which is basically enough to do three small web applications or you can combine it to make something that is a little bit bigger and more robust. So the idea behind Platform-as-a-Service is, in our concept, as I mentioned before, the broker layer, that is an instance that is running that is managing all the nodes that are underneath it.
And the nodes are where you can have districts of nodes too, so there are lots of new terminologies, (we'll show some slides afterwards, and you can edit, and you can see what the diagram looks like) but on those nodes that's where your application runs. And the broker and the Platform-as-a-Service software is what's managing scaling up and scaling down. So say, you've launched a Wordpress site, and you used just x from underneath and there are no big hits on hit.
So your resources are going to go down. We may have the potential to allocate up if say, you write a very interesting blog post and it goes boom! And everybody in the universe will scale that application up for you. But on the other hand, if you are doing something like a Python financial application or using ARPI and doing some weird number crunching, trying to figure out the stock market or something for instance, you can have your application lying fallow and not using much, and then when you use it for the two or three or four hours that you need, it will scale up, do the number crunching, and then scale back down.
And so it is all about resource sharing. And that is really a cool thing. And that's what cloud computing, or elastic computing is all about. And Platform-as-a-Service makes that really easy to do for your application. Now the thing you might wonder is in a multitenant world like that, this is why I say (points to her T-shirt) "I've got 99 problems but SE Linux is not one of them", Security, you think about multitenant, you think about 'is there a good enough firewall between everybody on that same instance?'
And that's one of the things that Platform-as-a-Service does, especially OpenShift Origin does very very well as we are using SE Linux so the resources and the labeling is all in there, very securely keeping people from jumping across walls, or getting access to things that they shouldn't. It is all very securely containerized, so the coders are set, and the resources are set, and all managed by the PaaS itself, so if I can't consume all the resources, I can't be a greedy guy, there are coders and business rules that we set up.
And you can't go past your allocations – it is a really cool universe. And what I always like to say is: I am a bad developer, so if you see me check something in, check it twice in GitHub. But I gave up on merely doing production quality, dev development that I would put it out on the web for people to consume, because building those stacks is hard, and it is versioning, and maintenance, and patching nightmare. And so I hated that. Like I love coding. I love Python. And I am beginning to love PHP (I didn't say that out aloud) and noJS and all those new languages – they are great and are lots of fun to play with.
But I hated building the stacks. And that's was causes me to trade for development fun again. Because it is really simple to version, like if I get to deploy a new version of MySQL without taking my entire thing down, I can push that change across my application without it coming down, I can upload patches or the PaaS administrator if it is a public Paas like OpenShift.com, whoever controls that, can push new versions of 'cartridges' which is a metaphor that we use for plug in methodology.
A cartridge, you can have a cartridge for say, Mungo or MySQL or PHP; I have one for Drupal 7 now. And you can push a new cartridge without affecting everything on it, it is a very easy metaphor for patching and maintaining. So I always say it makes deployment easy, makes administration simple, and compliant. And it makes managing. So it is like a damn' good thing.
Tim: I want to ask you one thing about the business model which is, one of the things that people have always complained on the outside about open source is it's hard to sell, hard to make money with open source software, now at the level of hosting you are offering some free services, but at the same time, ____9:55 somewhere, so what is your business model in terms of do businesses subscribe for a month today.
Diane: It is a very very good question. Right now, Red Hat being the open source lovers that we are, and we are hosting this free tier in some ways so we get all the bug fixes and we learn about making sure that it is scales and get all that feedback into it. But we do like to make money. I think we made $1.3 billion last year, so it is not like we don't make money. And so the three years that you get for free is enough to really get a decent application running but it is not going to scale you to the sky.
And I think, next week the pricing tier is being announced, if you want to go and scale huge systems and create your own SalesForce.com, we can host that and service that kind of thing as well. But our business model is an interesting one, I think. One, because (and this is my humble opinion,) Origin and its architecture, and this again why I call it the next generation PaaS, has done some really interesting things in terms of resource management and being able to get a whole lot more, it is the MBase Platform-as-a-Service, many of them are, but we've done a lot especially because we are using SE Linux.
Being able to manage the number of resources and get more applications and more users on an instance than any other PaaS on the planet. So we are really we've been concentrating on making sure it is the most cost effective PaaS to run. And that it is the most secure. So while other PAASes public PAASes have to charge _____11:33 bucks, we will probably charge some place in the same range, but we are probably doing a better high volume low cost ratio at Red Hat than any other Platform-as-a-Service on the planet.
So I believe that when we monetize OpenShift online we will probably be the more profitable of the ones. But at Red Hat it is not really about having the most successful public PaaS on the planet, like that's not where our revenue stream is coming from, our revenue stream is for people who want to develop on-premise, firewalled private platforms within their enterprises.
So big government agencies, Fortune 500's, all those kinds of folks are actually some of them if you look into the contributors list to Origin they are already there, they are already contributing to Origin, because they trust Red Hat, they trust our certification programs, they trust,they want to run it on RHEL, and I should say also OpenShift runs on RHEL, it runs on Fedora and also on Centos as well. And we are always looking to do improvements.
So my pitch to everybody out there in Slashdot-land is that if you want to get involved and you want to start working in building the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service come to openshift.github.io. If you want to build the next generation of cloud, start talking to us now because what we are doing at Red Hat is really interesting. Because not only do we have this PaaS layer that I am deeply involved with but I am also deeply involved in the OpenStack community as well.
And so what I am seeing is this convergence of those two layers. So some people will still be pushing out PaaS software and things like that, proprietary, sort of open source stuff, all kinds of that, but I really truly believe that when you build a private cloud, if you build it with say, OpenStack, that it ought to come just with a PaaS embedded into it.
And to that end we've been doing a lot of work with the OpenStack community and the Heat community (which is a service for orchestrating that is now out in the OpenStack community, I think the official release will be in Havana, but you can play with it in Grizzly), and so Heat basically lets you do an orchestration template and we built one for OpenShift to deploy like that on OpenStack. And we were demoing it last week, or the week before last at the OpenStack Summit (now I will give you a URL I can't remember the YouTube URL off the top off my head, but that will be under my comparison).
Tim: What about people who are currently using other providers, is there a migration path?
Diane: It is so simple, to migrate your applications like this weekend while I am here at this conference in the background I have been migrating my Drupal 6.26 website to Drupal 7 on my old Dreamhost server, and then I am going to export it and just install Drupal 7 on OpenShift.com, import my database, import my content, there are a few other tweaks look for blog posts shortly, because everything I do I end up having to write about. But it is so simple to do it. And right now, I no longer have to pay, sorry Dreamhost, my fee at Dreamhost because I am hosting it for free, because it is just a simple Drupal site, and it is so dead easy. I am not going to say it is so dead easy your dad could do it, but maybe my mom.


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"[A 'news analyst' has] a very different role than that of a commentator or columnist. News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts, and that's what's happened in this situation. As you all well know, we offer views of all kinds on your air every day, but those views are expressed by those we interview — not our reporters and analysts....Now, NPR is in a position where it must prove that's not a pretext by applying that policy, with comparable severity, to its other on-air personalities. Lefties and righties are getting into this game. The lefties are targeting Mara Liasson. Here's Eric Boehlert at Media Matters:
"... NPR's ethics code [states]: 'In appearing on TV or other media. ... NPR journalists should not express views they would not air in their role as an NPR journalist. They should not participate in shows ... that encourage punditry and speculation rather than fact-based analysis."
"More fundamentally, 'In appearing on TV or other media including electronic Web-based forums, NPR journalists should not express views they would not air in their role as an NPR journalist.'"
[I]f you look at NPR's code of ethics, there's simply no way Liasson should be making appearances on Fox....On the right, at the Weekly Standard, Stephen F. Hayes points at Nina Totenberg:
Liasson is part of the Fox News family. Period. For instance, Liasson appears on the Fox News website as a "Fox News contributor," not as "Fox News contributor to the sorta/kinda serious shows." The only way she'd really be able to defend her continued alliance would be to argue that Fox News in its entirely (i.e. Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity) is a serious endeavor worthy of NPR's status. But if Liasson can't defend all of Fox News, then her half-pregnant approach (i.e. she's only employed by a tiny portion of Fox News) just doesn't fly.
Over the past month, in her regular appearances on "Inside Washington," she has: criticized a ruling of the Roberts Court as scandalous; claimed that Michelle Obama gives people "warm and fuzzy" feelings; called Bill Clinton "the most gifted politician I've ever seen;" and lamented that the Democratic Party is diverse enough to include moderates that want to extend all Bush tax cuts....Hayes goes on, marshaling the evidence. You get the idea. It's open season on NPR news analysts... with 11 days to go before election day. A grisly October surprise.
Her most partisan comment came when Charles Krauthammer pointed out that 31 Democrats in the House had written to Nancy Pelosi to call for extending the Bush tax cuts, Totenberg wished them out of the party. "When a party actually has a huge majority, it has a huge diversity. And that is part of the problem that Democrats have. But would I like it to be otherwise? Of course."


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Thanksgiving Dinner Slated for November 19
November 07, 2011
The University of Mount Union's Ralph and Mary Regula Center for Public Service and Civic Engagement and other volunteers from Mount Union along with guest chef Dennis Devies Jr. will prepare and host a free community-wide Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday, November 19 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Alliance Salvation Army. The meal is free, open to the public and will include activities for children.
In addition to Mount Union volunteers, businesses and individuals throughout Alliance also support the event by providing food and monetary donations.
The Salvation Army is located at 57 W. Main St. in Alliance. For more information, contact Abby Honaker, Ohio Campus Compact Americorps VISTA at Mount Union, at (330) 204-4663 or email@example.com.


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Gotta love the NY Post. Serby article in there today where they already interviewed Idzik's mom. Serby has got a brilliant, witty way about him. Also, the paper uncovered Captain Kangaroo was a Jet Fan and helped Idzik get into Dartmouth. Can't make this stuff up!!!
I am not a Gary Myers fan. In fact I can't stand him. But every once in a while he makes some sense. Like today:
Unless Idzik shakes up the Jets personnel department, the same people who were advising Mike Tannenbaum will be advising Idzik, and isn't how the Jets got in trouble in the first place? Johnson didn't do more than move around the furniture when he really needed a whole new dining room set.
Johnson decided to keep the same organizational model he had with Tannenbaum, which makes little sense. "Business as usual isn't good enough," an NFL source said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/fo...#ixzz2IQbdGo54
Idzik hasn't even started yet. Let's give the guy a chance, for god's sake!
All the garbage I've read in the papers, online, and all the uninformed, obnoxious bluster I've heard on the radio has really pissed me off! Let's see what this guy does before we make any statements about organizational models or cap-guy, personnel-guy crap.
As for me, I'm excited and optimistic about the future. We'll see how it all plays out.
one person connected to Idzik told Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News that Idzik's football IQ is far better than he's being given credit for. "He builds things," the source said. "This is a great day for the Jets."
Again, instead of giving both sides of the discussion fair play for the readers/listeners to decide, we ram home the story line that we decide. In another thread I explained how the narrative was already being formed before Idzik was even hired. No amount of information about his background (like the 11 years he spend on the personnel side in Tampa Bay) was going to get in the way of the story lines.
We will have to wait until may but rest assured that if Idzik does the correct thing and puts his own staff together, the local media will barely acknowledge it. It will be lost in the start of the baseball season and Knicks run. So the perceptions that are created now will linger.
The Jets are a calamity after a 6-10 season? Two years removed from getting to the AFC title game two years in a row followed by an 8-8 season.......The Jets are NOT a calamity....they just have little talent.....some of you truly are caught up in the media hype with the circus talk etc.....lol Calamity???? lol what would you call the lions, Browns etc then???? sheesh


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High-street retailers GAME are teaming up with Microsoft to reward gamers with a series of exclusive midnight launch achievements and more.
Dear Lord, just how far will this go? Exclusive games to exclusive DLC to exclusive 'Achievements'. What next, exclusive box art? Surely we're not going to see GAME advertising on the Dashboard?
Well now im sure the achivement system is actually broken for good!Exclusive achivements for stores sales what stupidity,achivements,trophys should be scratch for the next genaration for good,them actually people will start buying and playing games for the fun of playing and we the player can get back to the old usefull rewards and unlockeds that use to be in games.
Wow. This is pathetic. I am an achievement hunter, and I don't care whether it is included in the 1000g or not (in this case it isn't), but PAYING for achievements is f***ing low. What a dog act on both GAME and Microsofts part.
I hope other 360 gamers are disgusted as I am. Whether it matters to you or not, surely you can see some ethically wrong thing here? This gen is f***ed. Next gen is going to be worse.
GAME are getting desperate. Went in there before Christmas to buy a game or two to take away with me while I was at my mum's.. the cost of games there are crazy. Almost every second hand game I looked at was more expensive than brand new off Shopto/Amazon.. in some cases double the price. Good luck GAME, you're probably going out of business this year unless you offer some damn good deals on next gen consoles when they're released if you can make it that far.


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Using the image of light John now describes the incarnation in more detail, but he still does not refer to it explicitly. Nothing in this section, as in the last, need refer to a distinct person at all. Throughout there are analogies to what is said of Wisdom in the wisdom literature. Wisdom was God's agent at creation (Prov 3:19-20; 8:22-31), has come down to earth seeking those who will give heed (Prov 1:20-21; 8:1-11), is rejected by some (Prov 1:22-33; 8:36) and is received by others whom she enables to receive life and favor from the Lord (Prov 3:13-18; 8:35). Thus, John is working with what would be familiar from Judaism to establish the context for appreciating the radically new thing that has occurred in Jesus.
This section begins with the ministry of John the Baptist (Jn 1:6-8), as in the Synoptics. The Baptist is presented in very exalted terms, for the language of being sent from God is also used of Jesus (16:27) and the Holy Spirit (15:26). But John's own identity is not dwelt on, other than to insist that he himself was not the light (1:8). He is described solely in terms of his mission to testify concerning that light (v. 7), a point that will be developed later (vv. 19-28). This mission is universal; it is that all might believe. What is in view, therefore, is not just John's preaching to the Jews who went out to hear him, but the witness he continues to have through his place in the proclamation of the story of Jesus (cf. vv. 15, 31).
This universality is also reflected in the cry in verse 9 concerning the coming of the light that gives light to every man. The phrase coming into the world could refer to the people rather than the light (see NIV margin), but since the focus of the passage is on the coming of the light the NIV text is probably correct. If so, it could be translated "This was the true light that enlightens everyone by coming into the world" (cf. v. 4). In any case, here we have the universal significance of the light for every individual, an important theme in this Gospel and a controversial one. The light of Jesus is as universal as the light of creation. He did not come merely to some Gnostic elite, nor did he come to a single nation or culture. This light is the Word that became flesh in a given time and place. At the heart of Christianity is the so-called scandal of particularity. People of all cultures and times are to receive the light that shines in this first-century Jew--he who has been given authority over all people (17:2). This does not mean the light of God is not manifested to some degree throughout the world's religions and philosophies. But even such light is derived from the one who became incarnate in Israel. Indeed, it is only by his light that we can recognize what is genuine light elsewhere. This is something of what it means that the true light has come. The word true means for John, in part, that which is really real, that which is genuine. John's own example in this Gospel encourages us to recognize that which is of the truth from whatever quarter. But among all the claims to wisdom, revelation and truth, John is claiming that in Jesus we have received the real thing, the truth from which all truth flows and the criterion for recognizing truth wherever it may be found.
God is working out his salvation through one nation, and specifically one person within that nation, but his is a universal salvation. This light shines on everyone (v. 9). The tragedy is the mixed response he gets, for some "wilfully close the eyes of their mind" (Chrysostom In John 8.1). This light was in the world (v. 10), probably referring to the incarnation, since that is the focus of the context. The world in this Gospel usually refers to those who oppose God, but here it is used first of the created order before shifting to a negative sense: the world did not recognize him. When the author appeared in his own story he was not recognized, not even by his own (v. 11), that is, those who knew him not just through the general revelation of creation but through the special revelation of covenant. The Old Testament, especially throughout the Prophets, witnesses to such rejection of God as the common human response. Thus an old familiar pattern is repeated, though the identity of this messenger makes this rejection especially shocking.
Why do some believe and others do not? John has two answers, and they are both found in verses 12-13. If we had only verse 12 the answer would be human response, for it says that after they receive and believe they are given the right to become children of God. The word right (exousia) may be misleading since it suggests a legal claim. Exousia can also mean "power" or "authority." The imagery of coming alive as God's children suggests the focus here is on the power that produces divine life. But it is a power that must be exercised by the person--John does not say "he made them children of God" but "he gave them power to become children of God" (cf. Chrysostom In John 10.2).
On the other hand, if we had only verse 13 the answer would be divine initiative. The general meaning of this verse is clear enough, though the imagery taken from physical childbirth is obscure. Natural descent is literally "of bloods" (ex haimaton). The NIV seems to sug-gest the reference is to lineage (cf. Carson 1991:126), but this usage is extremely rare in Jewish material. More likely, the reference is to the physical contribution of the woman, or of both parents, which is matched with the third expression that refers to the will or desire of the husband. In other words, the begetting of children of God depends on neither human material nor planning. It is Christ's blood and the Father's will that produce children of God (Jn 6:37-40, 53-57). These two elements--human material and planning--are the bookends for the middle expression, which is literally "nor of the will of the flesh." "`Flesh' here is not a wicked principle opposed to God. Rather, it is the sphere of the natural, the powerless, the superficial, opposed to `spirit,' which is the sphere of the heavenly and the real (iii 6, vi 63, viii 15)" (Brown 1966:12). This middle term thus conveys the key point of the verse: This birth owes nothing to the natural sphere of life. The other two images express this thought through reference to childbirth in particular.
So the question of why some believe and others do not is answered by another of John's antinomies. There is no doubt that God's gracious sovereign initiative comes first, for he is the source of all life and it is only by his grace that any life occurs and abides at all. The right (or power) to become children of God must be given by God. The images of verse 13 rule out any role for human power or authority in the process of becoming a child of God. But unlike in natural birth the one being born of God does play a part; this life is not forced on the believer but must be received. Those who are receptive to the Son are offered the gift of becoming children of God themselves.
Throughout this Gospel John will show examples of this receptivity and its opposite. He does not, however, address the further question of why some have receptive hearts and some do not. But by holding fast to these two foci of divine sovereignty and human responsibility John avoids two views common in his day and ours, namely, a fatalistic determinism in which one is an automaton and a merit theology in which one earns or deserves eternal life (cf. further Carson 1981).
On the human side everything depends on one's response to the light who has come. Receiving him is described as believing in his name (1:12), a very striking expression that occurs only in John and 1 John (2:23; 3:18; 1 Jn 3:23; 5:13). For most ancient peoples, "the name is inextricably bound up with the person" (Bietenhard 1976:648). The name is a point of contact between the person and those around, as when we refer to one's name, colloquially, as a "handle." For the ancients this contact goes below the surface, for the name reveals something of who the person actually is. Therefore changing a name means changing one's identity (cf. Jn 1:42). In the Old Testament this tight connection between the name and the person is especially important for God's revelation of himself (Bietenhard 1976:649-50). Indeed, a major element in Israel's claim to know God is the fact that they have received the revelation of his name (Ex 3:13-15). This idea is picked up in John's Gospel (cf. Bietenhard 1976:653) when it is said Jesus has come in order to reveal the Father's name (17:26; completely obscured in the NIV). In Jesus we see the revelation of God himself, for the Father has given his own name to Jesus (17:11-12). God's giving of his name to Jesus continues the theme that the Father has given the Son the divine prerogatives of life-giving and judgment (5:19-30). In this way the "name" is a summary of the gospel itself, and so the missionaries from the later Johannine community go forth "for the sake of the Name" (3 Jn 7).
In our text, therefore, to believe in Jesus' name "implies the acceptance of Jesus to the full extent of his self-revelation" (Schnackenburg 1980a:263), including, especially, his deity. This belief developed slowly among the disciples as Jesus' self-revelation and his revelation of the Father unfolded during his ministry. They apply many exalted titles to Jesus during the first days of their discipleship (Jn 1:41-49), but their belief remains immature until the revelation has been given in its fullness in the cross, resurrection and ascension and until the Spirit comes to guide them into all truth.
Becoming children of God means we begin to share his divine life, without ceasing to be creatures. Believing in Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of God, enables us to have "life in his name" (20:31). Given the significance of the "name," it is clear that "life in his name" is another way of referring to being a child of God because it means sharing in the divine life (cf. 6:40) and reflecting God's character. Thus the revelation of God in Jesus includes a revelation of the type of life we are offered as members of his family.
The story will make clear that believing is not just an intellectual assent to some ideas but a relationship of discipleship to Jesus in which we trust and obey his revelation and receive his ongoing presence through the Spirit.
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Steve Jobs And Apple's Beginnings
Steve Jobs, along with friends Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, founded Apple on April 1, 1976 to sell the Apple I, a personal computer kit that essentially consisted of a motherboard with a CPU, RAM and semiconductors for rudimentary text-visual processing. Carrying a price tag of $666.66, each Apple I was hand-assembled by Wozniak.
Jobs and Wozniak incorporated Apple on Jan. 3, 1977. Wayne sold his share of the company to his partners for $800.


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The early season schedule has tested the Mid-Prairie boys basketball team no doubt and after games with class 3A Washington and on the road against #4 West Branch the Golden Hawks stood at 2-0 entering play Thursday night in Mediapolis. In a game heard on AM and FM KCII the Golden Hawks further cemented their status as road warriors with a 62-46 win over the Bulldogs. The first half saw the teams swap the lead over a half dozen times. Both offenses were able to convert in their end despite turnovers and Mid-Prairie took a slim 34-30 lead into the locker room, led by reserve Nick Stimson who posted 13 points off the bench in the half for the Hawks.
Mid-Prairie made an intensity adjustment with their 2-3 zone defense at the halftime break and held the Bulldogs to just 16 second half points as they slowly pulled away in the second half. After the game Head Coach Chris Kern spoke about the message to his team at the break.
"I did challenge them at half, I said this is a gut check here, we have to come to come out and we have to play defense this half, and our goal was to keep them under 50 and they did that," Kern said. "Halftime we talked about keeping the pressure on them, wear them down and come back to our two defense, and we just felt that if we could do that, and rebound, box out, it would come through, and I just think that our defense paid off."
Spurred by that defensive philosophy and balanced scoring Mid-Prairie took a 47-41 lead into the final quarter and closed the door on the Bulldogs over the last eight minutes allowing just eight points while pulling away for the 16 point win. Mid-Prairie was led by Stimson who finished with 17, Reid Miller had 10 points. Mediapolis was led by 12 from Caleb Gerst. With the win Mid-Prairie is now 3-0 on the young season and will be back in conference action tonight when they travel to Iowa City Regina. You can hear all of the action live on KCIIradio.com with pregame at 5:30 and tip off of the girls portion of the double header at 6PM.


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- Premier League
Fergie: Utd need a player like Nani, he's not for sale
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has insisted that Nani will not be leaving the club in the near future.
The Portuguese winger has fallen out of favour at Old Trafford in recent times and has struggled to command a regular first team place - a turn of events that has seen him widely tipped to depart United at some point in the next six months, with Arsenal mentioned as one potential suitor for his services.
But Ferguson has denied that he wants to offload Nani, stating that the former Sporting Lisbon player will get a chance to play his way back into United's first-team reckoning once he fully recovers from a hamstring injury that has hampered him over the past few weeks.
Ferguson confirmed that negotiations between Nani and club chief executive David Gill over a new contract are ongoing, with his current deal due to expire in the summer of 2014.
"He's injured," Ferguson told United's official website. "His contract's not up for a year and a half.
"Yes, absolutely [he has a future at the club]. Why would I want to let him go? Obviously his people have been negotiating with David about a new contract but I don't know what stage we are at with that. But we won't be letting him go.
"We need a Nani. He offers something different from the other players. He's an incredible talent, the boy's a great talent. Unfortunately, he's injured at the moment so we sent him over to Dubai for a break and hoping a bit of warmth will help him in his recovery.
"He's not far away but he's far enough away. I don't think I'll get him back until probably the middle of January."
The Scot added: "It's a hamstring injury he's got. A player like Nani has never had a hamstring injury ever - I don't think he's ever had many injuries with us. But he's got it right in the top and it's a bad one."
Ferguson also dismissed reports that United are set to sign Borussia Dortmund forward Robert Lewandowski as "absolute nonsense".
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Many thanks to December for her help with this chapter!
1. Is it selfish of Bella to ask Edward to sit out the battle, knowing that it will increase the danger to the rest of his family?
2. When Bella asks Edward to sit out the battle for her, he looks into her eyes for a long time. She sees his eyes "tighten with some emotion I couldn't read" before he picks up the phone to call Alice and make the necessary arrangements. What do you think was going through his mind?
3. Do Edward and Alice really believe the danger from the newborns is as trivial as they say, or are they trying to make Bella feel better?
4. Why do you think Bella feels it's more like being with the old Jake -- "easy, effortless, as natural as breathing in and out" -- when he is in wolf form?


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Walkman part
The phone is all about the Walkman and Photo capabilities. The Walkman part is impressive. One to two GB of music should be enough for your daily usage and it is very easy to navigate the music, pause or play the tracks. The built in speaker is not that great as it is missing a lot of bass, but it will be enough for the beach. If you want to listen music we would advise you stick to the headphones or connect some external speakers.
The left hand side hides a Walkman button and you will start a music player by firmly pressing this side button. The headset bundled with the phone looks good and the media player is nice, very easy and does its job. The best part is you can play music for 17 – 18 hours. This is better than most of the MP3 players around.
The phone comes with a file transfer application and it is very easy to transfer the music or pictures from the computer to a phone and vice versa. The included USB cable takes care of the connection, but you can also use Bluetooth, but of course transfer via Bluetooth will be slower. We are impressed with the music part of the phone and it definitely beats the previous W800i model. It is almost three times thinner then the previous phone.
The sound quality on the phone is good and the network reception is good. We didn't have a single issue with this phone while using it as a phone. The vibration is not that strong but it should be enough to feel it in your pocket. If you are lady and have this phone in your bag you can simply forget about hearing it vibrating. The ring tones are loud if you want them to be as this can be adjusted as well as many other features.


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Video At Home with Tim O'Reilly (Videos 3 and 4 of 6) 6
Tim O'Reilly: DRM, when I look at the publishing industry, the insistence on DRM has played into the hands of turning Amazon into a monopoly because effectively Amazon has a proprietary file format, which effectively is DRM and you can only run it on Amazon devices. And if publishers – yeah I guess they could have done a DRM, a lightweight DRM solution, that was industry standard, offered from multiple providers, but they didn't. And I do think that at this point, when I look at say the Amazon/Hachette conflict, if Hachette were saying well we're going to make our e-books available in an industry standard format that were DRM-free, I think they would have a real leg to stand on because they'd get a lot of users who would do good things for it. And I guess I would say, I've always felt that when people value what you do, they don't mind paying you. And the people who don't wanna pay you wouldn't have paid you anyway and that's sort of been our driving force for a lot of things that we've done.
When we used to get back stickered books from Barnes & Noble because they were shuffling around their inventory and they return it from store A and then it's like you can't resell the stickered ones it's too much work. We would send them off to Africa and this is effectively the same thing, somebody who wants to get a DRM-free book and they're going to pirate it, they probably wouldn't have paid us anyway but a lot of people actually do pay and it's a competitive advantage, people say you've given me more rights than if I buy it from Amazon. I can look at it on my device, I can do all kinds of things with it I couldn't do, it's worth it to me to pay more, right? And so it's a competitive advantage.
Timothy Lord: Yeah, when they buy their next book, they're probably going to think a little bit more about it.
Tim O'Reilly: That's right and all I know is we have a very good business and we're probably one of the only publishers who can say that Amazon is our third largest digital channel after our direct sales on Safari. And you kind of go, that's kind of a testament to what happens if you put the actual customer first instead of saying: well what do we need to do to preserve our business model.
Timothy Lord: Now Tim let me ask you one more question about your book publishing, one of our readers asked: Of all the books you've published which one do you keep in a prominent place on your bookshelf and why?
Tim O'Reilly: Well, I have to say that I probably don't have any of them in a prominent place on my physical bookshelf because I'm travelling around so much and I have stuff in my office.
Timothy Lord: We'll take figurative.
Tim O'Reilly: Figuratively I have UNIX Power Tools, it still sort of looms large in my consciousness, mainly because it was probably the most fun book I ever worked on and it was this early attempt. We did it in 1992. The web was just out there and I was kind of going, "What would the web look like if we tried to do it in print?" We'd have all these little bits of knowledge that were cross linked, we sucked it in from Newsnet and it was just this wonderful crowd-sourced. We took things out of a lot of our other books. There were like 500 authors in that book, I mean there were three of us who put it together and we probably wrote about a third of the content but really it was this curated book and while we did a couple of updates, we never really created a corresponding work for the internet era. All the little hacks and tips and tricks and cool programs that make up the life of somebody who knows what they're doing today and I've always thought, given enough time I would like to do that. And if anybody wants to work with me on it, I'd be happy to hear proposals because what are the power tools of today's users?
Timothy Lord: Hopefully someone will leave that comment below this video.
Tim O'Reilly: And I've been thinking, again I mentioned earlier, I've been thinking about what would the equivalent be of a speech shell and so I've been kind of looking again at some of the shell programming stuff that we've done, just thinking about what aspects of shell programming would you want to bring over into that speech environment?
Timothy Lord: Well, a short hand would really make dealing with something like a smart watch far more useful because now we've got the tools for interacting the inputs: you can use speech, you can use touch, but actually getting a personalised useful result, that's something still being worked on.
Tim O'Reilly: Well, the thing that I'm already thinking about here is – what I'm looking for is an extensibility mechanism, because right now there's some verbs that my watch and my phone understand when I talk to them but I can't make new verbs. I can identify new nouns for it to act on and I think it would be revolutionary, the first player that does that, it can be a bunch of geeks who do that but what they're gonna do is they're gonna at the end show the vendor, what are all the things that are possible that they can then encode into, well this just comes with the platform for users who aren't so adventurous, so I'd love to see somebody take that up and I've toyed with, I should just go and get a whole team together and build it. But anyway those are two areas that I've been thinking about quite a bit.
In terms of other areas, I'm spending a lot of time reading some of our stuff on DevOps and user experience because I'm really – my fiancé was at the Whitehouse when the healthcare.gov thing came down and I got a – not a bird's eye view but certainly a second-hand view of some of the goings on. I met some of the people who were involved in that and what really struck me and also through the work we've done at Code for America. It really struck me how much of what went wrong in healthcare.gov and how much of what goes wrong in a lot of enterprise software and government software is really how do we actually think through the correct role of humans in this process? And it's so user centred design, DevOps as they increasingly talk about it, it's really about – somebody wrote a post called 'Empathy, the essence of DevOps'. It's like how do you get the people who are developing over here to understand what the constraints the operations people are going to be under. How do you actually get them working together and that's what Mikey Dickerson did at healthcare.gov.
It was like: okay you said you'd do this thing, why weren't you able to do it? Okay, you need this thing, what happened? And it was debugging the human processes and making them line up. And then you go look at some of the work that Code for America did for example in San Francisco last year, debugging the food stamp system, why were people falling off the rolls? It's like, oh they got this letter they didn't understand, now how about we send them a text message that says: there's a problem with your benefits, call the office, instead of this legal letter that makes your eyes glaze over. It's like user experience, it's all about humans and understanding how they interact with technology and then you go all the way out to something like Uber. The fact is, this great tweet that I saw from Erin Levy and Box where he said "Uber is a lesson in building for the way the world ought to work rather than just copying the way it does work".
And that notion of: okay, we have these new technological capabilities, what are we going to do with them to put people back in the process in the right way? And it strikes me that everything from DevOps to Lean Startup are really about refactoring the human machine interface. And that's this huge opportunity for us all to think about and where I think a lot of the breakthroughs are going to come because we are still building the equivalent of the taxi app that replicates all the steps that you did before rather than saying, well what steps can we take out of the process now because of the new capabilities and how do we make this a totally different experience. And there were so many cases where we're just still duplicating what went before.
Timothy Lord: Right. That ties really well into a question that a reader asked about discoverability for programmers, not from the up looking down at, how the system works, but how does a programmer figure out sometimes just the one thing? He writes 'So much of a coder's time is spent searching through stacks of code books just to find how to do one thing that he knows the language can do' and his question is, how do we make categorically better coding instruction tools? How do we improve the education that programmers have to make this complex of language? Languages can do so much these days and it's a big library to enter into and how do they find most efficiently how to do particular tasks that they really want to do?
Tim O'Reilly: Yeah, no I agree. That's a real challenge and there's two answers. One is I do think we need to have more modular content. If you look at what we did years ago with UNIX Power Tools and then with our cook books, it's like: okay, here's a problem, here's a solution. But once you have that, it really strikes me that you eventually want to be able to have much more of that Google Now like functionality that says: okay you're probably looking for this, you know, and...
Timothy Lord: How do we do that without it becoming Microsoft Bob is the problem.
Tim O'Reilly: Well you know...
Timothy Lord: How do we make the tools smart enough that...
Tim O'Reilly: Yeah. I think it's probably a long way off, but if you look at a lot of domains, we are seeing machine learning make real progress. And so, for example, in medical diagnostics it's like: okay, we're gonna look at a thousand images and we're gonna tell you: take a closer look at these six, rather than you go look through the thousand and maybe miss something, right? We have the whole notion of Watson in healthcare is, it's read all over the scientific literature, you're presenting a bunch of stuff and it's in a position: 'hey! have you looked at this paper?'. We thought about this.
So I do think that there's starting to be some proof points that we are going to have AI like assistance on some of these things. Now I don't see anybody actually working on this for programming yet and I'm sure it's a very, very hard problem because everything's always being updated, you have lots and lots of news. It's not like – yes there are new diseases but there's a big enough body of things that you can start to say: okay we can work from this one to that one. But anyway somebody will do something one day and we'll go "Holy shit, why didn't we think of that!?" It's something I think about a bunch. I don't have any easy answers. I do know that one thing that probably a lot of people do wrong is they focus on what they have to offer, here's all the things that this language does and that's the organising principle as opposed to: what we try to do in at least some of our content is, here's what people want to do and here are all the ways to do it.
Because I was just talking to somebody at Google recently, I was saying there's so much documentation, how do we get better at _____34:14. Well, try triage on what are people trying to accomplish? And again it comes back to a user-centred design. And they're very influenced by these UK government design principles and the first one is start with needs and then parenthesis says "user needs not government needs" and the same thing, just substitute some other word for government, like this person from Google saying, "We've got thousands of pages of API documentation, how do we get people to find it? I go, well don't start with how do we get people to find our wonderful new feature, start with what are they trying to accomplish and work back from there.
And, one of the things that you find is, in the case of the UK government, they got rid of something like 2000 government websites and replaced them with one that was focused on: okay what do you want to do? And they looked at the data and said: okay here's most of what people want to do, so there's a way, like if I think about that, now that you're raising that question I haven't really thought about it that much, but we should be kind of doing a lot more analysis on what are people trying to accomplish? And doing an organization of all the content we have that's totally driven by: okay, here's most of what people want, okay here's the next most common thing that they want to figure out. Now obviously if it's super easy, if you do that too far, then all the stuff you leave with is the stuff that doesn't need any, if you will, any help with. So you have to kind of prioritize that.
Timothy Lord: There's a problem with recreating voice trees where it's always that our menu options have recently changed and it's never the one that you want.
Tim O'Reilly: Yeah, but we got to be...
Timothy Lord: It's hard to...
Tim O'Reilly: And you certainly can do a lot more adaptive stuff.
Timothy Lord: Right.
Tim O'Reilly: And I do think that, again I'm going back to this UK government thing and we copied that in a project we did at Code for America, working with the city of Honolulu where it was like: okay what are the things that people look for answers for most often? Let's organize the site around that.
Timothy Lord: Right.
Tim O'Reilly: And you have that data in the search logs and so it was like: okay, it's like they literally went from this huge section on drivers licenses that had everything from, 'here's our new scanning machine, our digital machine at City Hall to' it's like: 'and here's what you have to do if you're returning a service member', it was like all kinds of crazy ass shit and literally how do I get a driver's license for the first time was number 22 or 23 on the FAQ. I was like, okay, that's the most common question, why isn't the answer at front and center? And if you kind of think through user experience I think there really are some interesting opportunities and like there would be a really interesting service now that you mention it.
It's like, okay, here's a common task let's not organize the answer by –it's like I think about like we have the Pro Cookbook, the Python Cookbook, we got the Java Cookbook, but you know, it's just on and on and you well what if it was just like: I want to do this thing and here's a hundred ways to do it, here's the most popular, we've actually scanned all the code on GitHub and we're finding that where we've done performance analysis and there's like six ways to do it and this one actually clearly out performs. You can easily imagine a machine learning assisted set of tools. And again if I were in the programming tools business, I would definitely be thinking about something that was much more data driven and less: Oh yeah we're going to make a slick UI, because that again kind of goes back to like what's one of the fundamental arcs in computers? And it really is towards the machines doing more of the work.
And one of the things that I still remember very vividly, it sort of shaped my thinking about big data and machine learning. I was once watching the book buyer at Borders, when I was at Borders, reordering. And it looked like somebody playing a game of Tetris, she'd flash up a screen, it would show – they had these five layers of stores, the A stores, the B stores, whatever and for each title it would be here's how it's sold in each of the level of stores. Well this one we only had in A and B stores, this one we had at all five levels and she'd make this quick decision of and it automatically allocated between the five levels but she would go okay based on that sell-through, I'm going to take a hundred more, based on the sell-through I'm going to take five hundred more and she'd just flash the screen, flash, flash, flash. And it sort of struck me and then you hear later about how Walmart automatically reorders that somebody scans, you go that's the automated way and the visualization part I'm sure in the Walmart process is somebody working on the algorithm. They're doing that Borders Tetris thing, to kind of look at the data, all the visualizations in support of them tuning the algorithm not in supporting of them actually making the decision.
And that sort of struck me as – that's why I once said and got some flak for 'visualization is a halfway house'. At the end of the day, we're still in this thing where we're going to visualise this data, we're going to show it to you and then you're going to make a decision. No. We're going to visualize that data, we're going to show it to a programmer who's going to make a decision, embody in some software algorithm and then it will just happen.


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"We were an early adopter of Web technology and our legacy site reflected that," says Karl Wadensten, VIBCO president. "VIBCO.com contained a ton of great information, but so much of it was hidden or difficult to locate because the site had grown organically since its inception in the mid-90s. We offer over 1300 different products for use in more than 600 SIC codes, so the accessibility of our information is key to our site. The new VIBCO.com is streamlined, has a great online product database, and enhances access to our great media library and all of the information on the site."
In addition to a slick new look and enhanced navigation, the site now features a dynamic online product catalog, an interactive, 360-degree virtual photography gallery, and an online video library. The site is organized to provide quick and direct access to these resources for all users. Product catalogs, product information including technical and dimensional data, service manuals, and installation instructions are readily available from the product page – a dramatic improvement over the legacy site.
The new "On the Job" interactive virtual photography gallery shows users how vibration is used in a variety of industries. It reinforces the depth and breadth of VIBCO's vibration expertise and engineering expertise. From the top floor of a high-rise concrete construction project to the depths of the East Side Access Tunnel Project, "On the Job" gives visitors a completely new perspective.
Also new to the site, the "True North" and "Lean Manufacturing" sections provide information about VIBCO's award-winning Lean Transformation including Lean FAQs, a Lean Reading List, and links to a variety of online Lean resources and partners. VIBCO offers these resources as part of its commitment to "yokoten" – a Japanese term that means the sideways sharing of information.