text: FAQ's Q: What is the procedure to apply against the vacant posts of NH&MP? NH&MP advertise the vacant post in leading newspapers of the country and detail procedure is mentioned in the advertisement in which the candidates are asked to submit applications on prescribed form. —– Q: What is the sequence of tests for selection? In case the recruitment is conducted by NH&MP itself then:For the Post of JPO Short listing of candidates on the basis of physical test i.e. covering 1.6 KM in 7 minutes and on the basis of chest measurement amongst successfully candidates of running test. Written Test. Driving Test. Interview For the Post of Non-Uniform Staff Written Test Proficiency Test Interview —– Q: In how many ranks, NH&MP makes direct recruitment? There are two categories i.e. Uniform and Non-Uniform Staff in NH&MP.For Uniform posts, there is recruitment in only two tiers i.e. PO (BS-14) and JPO (BS-05). For PO rank, Federal Public Service Commission conducts recruitment process. For JPO rank, NH&MP itself conduct recruitment. Detail procedure is mentioned in the advertisement. For Non-Uniform posts, in case the posts are available in grade BS-16 and above then recruitment is made by Federal Public Service Commission. In case the posts are available in Grade BS-15 and below then recruitment is made by NH&MP and detail procedure is mentioned in the advertisement. —– Q: What is minimum and maximum age limit to apply for the posts? For Uniform post, the candidate must be from 18 years to 25 year and there is no relaxation in age limit.For Non-uniform posts, the candidates are given relation in maximum age limit as per Government rules and regulation. However, the detail s is mentioned in the advertisement. —– Q: What is the minimum and maximum height limits to apply the posts? 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Yes, valid driving license (Car & Motorcycle) is mandatory to apply for the post of PO & JPO. —– Q: Does NH&MP conduct driving test before issuance of appointment order of PO & JPO? Yes, driving test is conducted of all the candidates before call them for interview. —– Q: Who is the appointing authority? The Inspector General of Police is the appointment authority for the post from BS-01 to BS-15. However, the appointment in the rank of BS-16 and above are made on the recommendation of FPSC which is received through Ministry of Communications. —– Q: Does NH&MP observes provincial quota system while advertising posts? Yes, provincial quota is observed while advertising post of fixed by the Government of Pakistan. —– Q: Can women apply for Uniform or Non-Uniform posts? Yes, NH&MP observes 10% quota reserved for women while advertising posts and appreciates the participation of women for direct recruitment. —– Q: Does NH&MP take the services of government employees on deputation? For Uniform posts, subject to the availability of posts, completion of all legal formalities and recommendation of departmental selection committee, NH&MP takes the services of government employees serving in provincial policing setup of the country on deputation.For non-uniform posts, subject to the availability of posts, completion of all legal formalities and recommendations f departmental selection committee, NH&MP takes the services of government employees on deputations. —– Q: What are the criteria of deputation? The candidates should fulfills the following major conditions: Prescribed educational qualification. Physical Standard in case of uniform posts. 03 years length of service in parent department in the rank against which he is taken on deputation. Qualified the prescribed course. Driving capability in case of uniform post. Good service record. —– Q: Can the officers serving Pak Army apply for deputation? Yes, they can apply for the post through their parent department. —– Q: Does NH&MP permanently absorb the deputationist officers? Yes, subject to the recommendations of Departmental Induction Committee and completion of all legal formalities, NH&MP inducts the officers but it does not induct the officers of Pak Army. —– Q: Who is the supervisory officer to deal with career matters? The Assistant Inspector General of Police (Establishment) deals with the career of matters and the phone No. of his office is 051-9262365 —– Q: Can the employee of this department be transferred all over the country? Yes, employees of NH&MP can be posted any where in Pakistan where it is operational —– Q: How to seek help of Motorway Police in absence of Emergency Call Booth? The commuters are briefed to dial 130 Help Line of NH&MP in order to seek help. —– Q: In any circumstances, can someone take U-Turn on Motorway? No one is allowed to take U-Turn on Motorway. The commuter must approach the next Interchange for this purpose. —– Q: Does Highway police and motorway police are different? No, motorway police and highway police are the same department and known as National Highways & Motorway Police. —– Q: Why NH&MP do not speed up the construction work? NH&MP is not responsible for construction work as it comes under the supervision of National Highway Authority (NHA). NHA and NH&MP are two different departments. NH&MP is only responsible for law enforcement on Highways & Motorways —– Q: Do NH&MP officers take 25 % of the amount of fine as commission? No, it is a mere statement often given by the violators as they are not ignored on their violation. They satisfy other people by saying that as NH&MP officer has a share of 25 % in challan amount, so that they do not relax. —– Q: Why not Motorway Police deputed in other big cities? 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Two executives are scheduled to talk about entrepreneurship in Park City during an event on Monday evening.
Bill Marolt, who is the president and CEO of the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, is set to appear with the CEO of Backcountry.com, Jill Layfield. Marolt's organization is based at Quinn's Junction while Backcountry.com is headquartered in the Snyderville Basin.
The event is scheduled at 7 p.m. at the Santy Auditorium in the Park City Library and Education Center. It was organized by Leadership Park City, a yearlong program meant to prepare participants for wider roles in the local public, private and not-for-profit sectors. The event is free and open to the public.
Marolt oversees one of Park City's highest-profile organizations. The Ski and Snowboard Association is the national governing body for the sports, and the organization has a critical role in athlete development and putting on events. Backcountry.com, meanwhile, is seen as one of the Park City's area's business successes as the area attempts to broaden the economy from one that has relied heavily on tourism.
The two will be "speaking and answering questions on how entrepreneurs of various stripes, both public and private, use clarity, vision and perseverance to create value and world class results," a release announcing the event says.
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Hot bulb engines share the same basic components as the vast majority of other internal combustion engines. The detonation, or combustion of gases, pushes a piston housed inside a cylinder. The piston is connected to a flywheel via a crankshaft and connecting rod. This allows the engine to convert heat energy (the combustion) to mechanical energy at the flywheel. The flywheel then drives whatever mechanical component is attached to it.
Unlike gasoline and diesel engines, combustion in a hot bulb engine takes place in a separate chamber referred to as the "hot bulb," or "vaporizer." Essentially the hot bulb extends horizontally off the front of the engine, usually nearest the cylinder. Most hot bulbs looked something like a darning mushroom. The bulb contains a plate of metal, almost like a tea cup saucer, that would heat along with the bulb.
A fuel nozzle, usually a small metered orifice valve, dripped fuel into the hot bulb. The fuel would hit the metal plate, vaporize, mix with air and ignite. A narrow passage connected the bulb and the cylinder. The expanding gases would shoot down the small passage and move the piston in the cylinder.
Gas engines use electricity to fire a spark plug and rotate the crankshaft to get the engine going. Hot bulb engines do not have this luxury. On a mild day -- about 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15.6 degrees Celsius) -- the bulb must be heated for anywhere from two to five minutes, and up to half an hour on cold days or on larger engines. This initial heat, developed with a blow torch in the early days and later through coil and spark plugs, vaporizes the first charge of fuel.
An operator spun the engine's flywheel, the biggest and heaviest part of the entire assembly, (often weighing hundreds of pounds on even the small engines), by hand until the combustion process was going and the engine was up and running.
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Within the extended scope of European history, coauthors of the acclaimed Auschwitz (2000) deliver a rigorously documented positioning of the persecution and murder of Jews prior to and during WWII.
Dwork (Holocaust History/Clark Univ.) and van Pelt (Cultural History/Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario) make judicious use of personal anecdotes plus numerous maps and photos to animate the retelling of events about which much has already been put on record. So contextually enhanced, detailed, and logically sequenced is this version, though, that even readers who have previously delved into the Holocaust may be shocked at how much remains to be dealt with. The ultimate Nazi brutalities, of course, cannot be enlarged upon, but a crucial role in their execution was played by hypocritical governments wedged between inflamed European nationalism and the specter of a new German war machine as Hitler rose to power after WWI. Among bureaucrats in countries threatened or occupied by the Nazis, the authors recount, phrases like "We did it to avoid worse" regularly justified anti-Semitic legislation and measures that would be later explained away as expedients never intended to be fully enacted. This "shield philosophy" thrived during WWII, they contend, "and always with bloody results." Possibly more controversial will be the study's historical groundings. The authors find a Holocaust harbinger in the Catholic Inquisition's systematic, ruthless, and century's-long hounding of such discrete "heretic" groups as "Hussites, Huguenots in France, Calvinists elsewhere." They make an even more direct link to the Reign of Terror, during which French revolutionaries pronounced anyone of noble blood to be an obstacle to social and political change: "The line from regicide to Judeocide is direct indeed . . . foreshadowing Hitler's murder of the Jews, whom he perceived as a barrier to racial utopia."
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Screaming and chanting his name, the 500 women and girls vowed their undying love for one man. Not a pop star or Hollywood actor, but Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.
"Kill all the people in Libya first, then come for Muammar Qaddafi," 14-year-old Fatima Hassan said. "I will kill myself if Muammar Qaddafi is killed. I know our people will kill themselves if he dies."
The event in Tripoli on Sunday was billed as a graduation ceremony for women who had been given weapons training in defense of the regime. About 50 international journalists, invited and escorted by government minders, arrived to find them clapping, singing, ululating, punching the air and waving green flags in a tented hall set up with chandeliers and two colossal flat-screen TVs.
There were elderly women and little girls in the hall, and every age in between. Some held aloft pictures of a luminous Qaddafi, one framed in green tinsel. A woman waved a green flag and wore a sparkly green cape, green scarf and green bandana with badges showing Qaddafi's face. Next to her was a woman wearing a watch that displayed his image.
Reporters pondered whether the event had been stage managed entirely for their benefit. The Qaddafi groupies painted the first dozen rows green, but behind them were hundreds of empty seats. Outside was a rattle of gunfire as some enthusiastic graduates fired their new weapons into the air with little regard for where the ammunition might land.
There was also much idolatry, most of all from the teenager Fatima, who said her father is an engineer and she attended an international school in London.
"We love Muammar Qaddafi and we want to save our country," she said. "He made us happy. He makes us eat and makes the country free to do what we want. Before, we weren't free. My grandparents tell us that before Qaddafi, it was bad, there was no bread. He saved us."
Pledging to fight for the man depicted on her necklace, she said: "There are no women and children now."
Fatima claimed her five brothers have gone to fight for the regime against rebels in Benghazi and Misrata.
Asked how she would feel if they were killed, she replied: "It doesn't matter. I don't care. It's for the leader."
With government minders hovering nearby, there was similar fervor from Habib Abdul Qasem, 39, a nanny dressed in military fatigues.
"Of course I will defend myself and my country," she said. "We are an armed nation, everyone in this country has weapons. I keep a gun in my house. I've never used it, but if the conditions change I will use it against the Crusasders."
The set piece over, journalists were shepherded back to their official bus, but it remained stationary for long minutes as the celebratory gunfire came ever closer. There was growing anxiety on board over the potential for stray bullets.
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Tango Film Series starts this Thursday (7/23)!!!
TANGO NEWS FLASH! A low key, more intimate alternative to 'Music on Main', The Tango Film Series 2015 will be kicking off this Thursday, July 23 at 730pm. We will start the film (Hearts of Tango) at 800pm sharp. It runs for just 64 minutes, so please save the 'work-night' excuses for another time. Hope to see lots of you there, for part or all of the evening!
Tango Film Series (Summer 2015)
Dance is a vehicle not only to express oneself, but also to explore the depths of our being. Social partner dances, like Tango, offer the additional layer of connection with others, which is an important aspect of the human condition that is growing increasingly rare in this age.
Film provides a platform for artists to communicate ideas and express themselves, while offering viewers an opportunity to feel a range of emotions the artist hoped to evoke. Motion pictures also draw our gaze inwards, where we can think carefully about what the film is trying to say, and how each of us interpret that message. Watching a movie together and discussing our responses is a way for us to interact, learn about one another, connect, and potentially share understanding in our community.
This is an invitation to start new friendships, or to deepen connections that have already started on the dance floor. It's a chance to combine Tango and film, thought and community. It'll be fresh, it'll be fun, it'll be as light or as deep as you'd like to make it. Hope to see you there!
Film 1: Hearts of Tango (2014 Canada, Director Miguel Libedinsky)
HEARTS of TANGO is a documentary film produced in Toronto, Canada. It describes the "tanguero" landscape of the city, giving voice to different players of the local scene, who share their passion for this multicultural expression of life. It includes students and instructors, musicians, DJ's, performance dancers, "Milongas", and special events organizers. Searching for answers to what the Tango means to them, the documentary asks: What is its universal attraction? What awakens them to this passion? What makes them live it so intensely, and how do they find expression in it? HEARTS of TANGO also seeks to demonstrate that the typical sound of this music does not belong only to the city of Buenos Aires, but it is somehow connected to the concept of the city itself, through the memory of its past history, and identified in its architecture. In the same way we try on new clothes to see how they fit, this documentary tries on Tango music on the city of Toronto, thus depicting how this new color and vibrancy fits into its multicultural mosaic. Finally, HEARTS of TANGO makes a full conceptual circle when connecting the origins of this music to a key piece of Canadian identity: its immigrants. Tango was a result and product of musical traditions brought to South America by different immigration waves during the first decades of the 20th Century. Now, the time has come to explore its migration to Toronto. In the words of its poetry, in each step of its dance and each note of its music, Tango speaks of love and passion, sadness and longing, and loss and hope.


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Matt Hunwick Can Throw!
Droppin' Justin Williams like he's hot. You have to wait for the last replay to see how great that punch was.
If college guys could fight and not get suspended, it would've been pretty fun having the Hunwick/Mike Brown combo...
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Perception of Visual Targets in
Central and Peripheral Vision
Project Team at Lighting Laboratory
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- Research Scientist, D.Sc. (Tech.) Pasi Orreveteläinen
- Research Scientist, D.Sc. (Tech.) Marjukka Eloholma
- Research Scientist, M.Sc. Jaakko Ketomäki
Project Objectives
The aim of the project was to model the spectral sensitivity of the eye at mesopic and low photopic light levels (0.1 cd/m²
to 20 cd/m²). The measurements were conducted using a large hemispherical surface and a Goldman perimeter.
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Reaction time measurements were conducted with the large hemispherical surface. It was assumed that if a correct spectral luminous efficiency function is applied for the target contrasts, the reaction time would be the same for all target colours. Reaction time measuremens were conducted at target eccentricities 0° and 10°.
Contrast threshold measurements were made using the large hemispherical surface and the Goldman perimeter. In the contrast threshold measurements it was assumed that the contrasts calculated with the correct spectral luminous efficiency function would yield the same threshold contrast for each target colour. Contrast threshold measurements were conducted at target eccentricity 10° with the Goldman perimeter and at 0°, 10°, 30° and 60° target eccentricities with the large hemisphere.


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Marc Köntges received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, in 2002 for his research in thin-film solar cells. From 2002 to 2005 he led the thin-film technology group at Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH), and became 2005 the head of the module technologies group. He is currently working on the development of characterization and production methods for PV modules with a focus on high efficiency PV modules.
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Thrifty Thursday: Best vintage trunk ideas
Now that the car boot sale is well and truly open for business, we're hoping to pick up a vintage trunk or two. Vintage luggage has got such charm. As long as it's in passable condition you can leave it unadorned and proud of its battered edges. Or, if your trunk is way past help you can reinvent it, cover it or transform it. Here are some of our favourite ideas…
The fabric covered trunk above had seen better days, and Jenny Warner has chosen to re-cover it in a stunning vintage roses fabric. The wooden runners are still on show and it looks amazing in her home. Find more of Jenny's vintage and thrifting inspiration at The Custards.
Adore this pretty idea for parties and weddings. We found this on Love My Dress and it features as part of the most stunningly beautiful wedding we have ever seen. We love every bit of this bride's wedding day, right down to the vintage trunk used to show the table plan. Just gorgeous. (Photographed by Natalie Watts).
Okay, not strictly speaking a trunk, but a selection of vintage luggage piled up and topped with a mirror for a very glam bedside table. Designed by Emily from Cupcakes and Cashmere. So pretty, so practical. Just think of all the stuff you could hide in that kind of storage, no-one would ever know and your room would look beautiful and clutter-free. Result.
Last-up. If you're partial to a cocktail, and you're given to DIY, you may like to give this a go… vintage trunk becomes bar trolley. So Mad Men! There's a tutorial over on ReadyMade if you like it.


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The "Nexus phone" has meant many things to many people since the Nexus One rolled off the assembly line nearly six years ago. With the debut of 2012's Nexus 4, it morphed into a super-affordable smartphone for anyone who didn't want to be tied down by a contract. That was succeeded by 2013's Nexus 5, which brought LTE and a more accessible design to become the first Nexus to be embraced by the masses. In 2014 Google arguably "jumped the shark" with the oversized Nexus 6, a Motorola-made phablet that some considered an abandonment of the fundamental principles behind the platform.
This year Google released two Nexus phones: a Huawei-built phablet to follow the Nexus 6, and an LG device many are calling a return to the roots of the program, the Nexus 5X. Did LG build a phone worthy of the Nexus 5 name? Did Google cut too many corners with the specs inside the smaller of this year's pure-Android offerings? We'll dive into all of that after the jump!
Specs & Hardware · Software · Camera · Performance
Pros/Cons · Pricing/Availability · Conclusion
Specs & Hardware
The first thing you notice when you take the Nexus 5X out of its box is how light it is. At 136g, it's slightly heavier than the original Nexus 5, but only slightly. It feels light because we've become accustomed to bulkier and heavier phones, specifically the 184g behemoth of last year's Nexus 6.
The Nexus 5X doesn't sport the aluminum and glass that many of this year's flagships flaunt. Instead, almost as a throwback to two years ago, the 5X uses a matte polycarbonate in one of three colors: Carbon, Quartz, and Ice. The edges feature the subtle tumblehome construction we've seen on other Nexus devices which provides just the right amount of grip, without getting in the way of looks.
On the front of the phone is a 5.2 inch screen under a slab of Gorilla Glass 3. With a resolution of 1080 x 1920, the pixel density is an impressive 423 ppi. Though this is slightly lower than the original Nexus 5, thanks to improvements in screen technology the color saturation, deep blacks, and overall sharpness make the screen on the 5X very crisp and clear, bright when it needs to be, and able to accurately replicate colors even in sunlight and in the dark with the brightness turned down low. Some reviewers disagree with this sentiment when compared to the Nexus 6P, but while those conclusions may be accurate, they're also somewhat unfair. The average user won't be dissatisfied with screen on the Nexus 5X.
At 147.0 x 72.6 x 7.9 mm the Nexus 5X isn't a particularly small phone, but it's not "big" either. It's easily pocketable and can be held securely even in petite hands. It's a little taller than the previous model, but we don't think you'll mind.
Other than color, the Nexus 5X comes in two configurations: 16GB and 32GB, with the latter asking a US$50 premium over the $379 price of the base model. Despite having over 100 apps installed on top of the few that come pre-loaded, our 32GB review unit used only 8.15GB of the 24.89GB available – including just over a gig of images, "other", and "cached data." Even so, we think the 32GB version is well worth the cost of an upgrade; over two years, 16GB will likely be too small for all but the most diehard cloud users.
The few hardware accoutrements are laid out in familiar fashion. On the top of the phone is a single microphone port. To the right is the power button above the volume rocker. On the left is the nano-SIM slot. At the bottom is another microphone port, the 3.5mm headphone jack, and the USB-Type C port – a new addition to the Nexus lineup. More on that in a bit.
The front of the phone features a selfie camera that we'll cover in more detail further on, an ambient light sensor, handset speaker, front firing speaker, a third microphone, and a tri-color notification LED hidden within the lower speaker component. Unlike other Nexus devices, despite having two speaker grilles, it's only got one front-firing speaker. The sound it produces is loud and clear, but doesn't have the encompassing volume that we've heard on other Nexii.
It's on the back where things get really exciting. For the first time a Nexus device has a fingerprint scanner, which Google refers to as "Nexus Imprint". It's situated near the top of the phone where the "dimple" on last year's Nexus 6 and some of Motorola's other phones can be found. Also on the back is the reflective "Nexus" logo with fairly prominent LG branding, and the main camera.
As you'd expect with a phone carrying the Nexus label, the 5X runs pure Android, the way Google intends it. The bells and whistles are all stock, but sometimes it's the simplicity, the lack of superfluous features that makes something truly elegant. Such is the case with Android 6.0 Marshmallow on the Nexus 5X.
With Marshmallow, Google continues its foray into ambient alerts with Active Display, which pushes rich but black-and-white notifications to the screen rather than relying on a notification LED to get your attention. Unlike previous generations that may have had an LED but didn't make it accessible, here access to your LED is tucked neatly inside the Sound & notification settings.
Android Pay also makes its debut as a pre-loaded application on the Nexus 5X, replacing Google Wallet which has been a staple of the Nexus brand since its debut on the Nexus S in 2011.
In the "new to Nexus" thread, Google picked the Nexus 5X as the first device to officially support the aforementioned Nexus Imprint fingerprint scanning and security subsystems. Other OEMs beat Google to the punch, offering many of the same features of Nexus Imprint, though in separate and proprietary ways. The fingerprint scanner on the back of the Nexus 5X is perfectly located and is easy to find and use after just a few times to get oriented with it and how it works. How does it work? Very well, and very fast! I have encoded my two index fingers so far, and recognition is all but instantaneous with a very high accuracy rate. If your print can't be matched you'll feel two quick vibrations to tell you to try again. When comparing to a saved fingerprint, when your finger is scanned at an odd angle (or even upside down), the software is smart enough to match your finger, despite the difference in orientation, and quickly unlocks the phone.
Turning on the Nexus 5X is particularly easy using the fingerprint scanner. Simply rest your finger on the scanner and your screen is turned on and your phone is unlocked faster than you can raise it to look at it – much faster than hunting for the power button on the right side of the phone.
In addition to all that, Android 6.0 Marshmallow brings Now On Tap, a renewed permissions model, volume controls that finally work right, and an intelligent Do No Disturb function that does exactly that it's supposed to. We covered these in more detail in our Nexus 6P review, and since they are functionally equivalent on the Nexus 5X, there's no need to repeat all that over here.
For the last two generations of Nexus phones, quality of pictures taken has been at the top of the priority list. Though last year's Nexus 6 had a decent camera, it wasn't "great" – that honor is reserved for the Nexus 5X. The main shooter is housed inside the slight "bump" on the back of the phone (which looks a lot bigger than it actually is) and features a 12.3 MP sensor with 1.55 µm pixels and an f/2.0 aperture and broad-spectrum CRI-90 dual flash. OIS wasn't included because Google claims that the larger pixel size and IR laser-assisted autofocus negate the need.
At 5 MP with 1.4 µm pixels and an f/2.0 aperture, the front-facing "selfie" camera isn't anything to scoff at either.
When it comes to video, the Nexus 5X can shoot 4K at 30 fps, and can capture slow-motion at 120fps.
Despite being technically capable, the camera software on the Nexus 5X is inconsistent. It seems to be "unreachable" at times, doesn't like to rotate once the camera app is fired up, and is overall problematic and slow. When it behaves, however, the pictures and video the Nexus 5X produces are nothing short of beautiful. There was an update for the Nexus 5X which was thought to address some of these issues, but our review unit had not gotten that update as we went to press.
On the whole, this camera's up-sides far outweigh its negatives – and that's something we've never been able to say about the camera on any other Nexus (Nexus 6P notwithstanding, which uses the same camera module as the Nexus 5X).
We've used the Nexus 5X for about a week in the Greater Salt Lake City, Utah area on the T-Mobile network. What's nice about a phone marketed as compatible with any network, though, is that switching carriers is literally as easy as swapping SIMs, and the Nexus 5X should work with virtually any of the major US carriers.
At presstime, T-Mobile customers aren't able to use HD audio or VoLTE, and the phone isn't approved for use on Band 12 yet (though T-Mobile and Google are said to be working on this).
Additionally, despite reports to the contrary, we were unable to get T-Mobile WiFi calling to work on the Nexus 5X, despite it working just fine using the same SIM in our original Nexus 6 running Android Marshmallow. UPDATE: On October 27th, 2015 we were finally able to make and receive calls over T-Mobile's WiFi calling.
Overall the phone is fast and responsive, in fact for the first few days the Nexus 5X performed faster and smoother than any other phone we've reviewed in the Utah offices. However, over the last few days it's begun to hiccup and stutter. Upon investigation, when waking, the phone seems to max out the CPU cores for a short amount of time, slowing everything down. Whether this is the natural consequence of Doze Mode pulling a handful of data updates all at once or the hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor showing its limitations, we're not certain. Most of the time this has just been frustrating, but occasionally it has required a reboot to get things back on track.
Next up is battery life, which has been pretty good. On a full charge of the 2,700 mAh battery (which takes under two hours using the included charger and USB Type-C cable), the Nexus 5X should last you all day and most of the evening before dropping to battery saving mode at 15% battery. The Nexus 5X doesn't include Qualcomm Quick Charge, but does support USB-Type C "rapid charging." Pop the phone back on the charger for 10 minutes and you'll get almost four more hours (according to Google, anyway; your mileage will certainly vary based on usage). To achieve this you'll need to use the included charger, or one of the few compatible replacements. However, if you have access to a USB Type-A to USB Type-C cable (not included), you'll still be able to use your old chargers – they just won't charge as quickly as the one that comes in the box.
+ Outstanding value
+ Best camera yet on a Nexus smartphone
+ Easily pocketable
– Fair battery life
– Lack of support for all of T-Mobile's features
– CPU seems to max out frequently
Pricing and Availability
At US$379 the Nexus 5X is a tremendous value for the price. It's big enough to be functional, small enough to be pocketable, and is everything you've come to expect from the Nexus brand.
Still, we feel obliged to remind potential buyers of the old adage about getting what you pay for. If you want a top of the line flagship, the Nexus 6P is a better buy – if you've got the money and don't mind the phablet form factor.
The Nexus 5X is very much like its 2013 predecessor in that it delivers a lot of capability for a very competitive price point, and it manages to do so while still looking fairly sharp. But the 5X is no show horse. It's the phone you toss around without worrying about scratching it up; the one you buy because it's a good deal, not because it's delivering a premium experience.
There are a few T-Mobile specific issues that haven't been worked out just yet. Those and the unexplained processor utilization issue are minor inconveniences, but they're still troubling on a new smartphone – especially one carrying the Nexus name-brand. We'll keep an eye on them and report back when the Nexus 5X gets our After The Buzz treatment.
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A judge was set to hear closing arguments on Wednesday in the bankruptcy trial of the California city of Stockton.
If the judge accepts Stockton's Chapter 9 application, it would become the most populous U.S. city to enter bankruptcy.
The judge could decide immediately after closing arguments whether to accept the filing. Lawyers for the city have said Stockton has cut its budget and services to the bone and has no choice about entering bankruptcy.
The city's creditors counter that Stockton officials have failed to cut enough spending or seek a tax increase to avoid Chapter 9.
They complain that Stockton has not negotiated cuts in the money it pays into the state pension fund, which represents its largest debt.
They want to keep Stockton out of bankruptcy, which would likely allow the city to avoid repaying debts in full.
The city appeared to be riding high in the early 2000s. The population had grown by nearly 20 percent between 2000 and 2005, and real estate tripled in value. Then the real estate bubble burst and home prices fell 70 percent, wiping out much of the tax base.
Within two years, Stockton had accumulated nearly $1 billion in debt on civic improvements; money owed to pay pension contributions; and the most generous health care benefits in the state.
Coverage had been provided for life for all retirees plus a dependent, no matter how long they had worked for the city. Last summer, the city began negotiating with creditors a requirement before entering Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
Ten employee unions have agreed to temporary wage and benefits cuts. The biggest share of the debt is held by companies that in 2007 insured nearly $165 million in pension bond obligations to allow the city a lower interest rate and create stability for investors.
The city proposed repaying 17 cents on the dollar.


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Amazon Web Services launched the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a new persistent storage feature for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can be programmatically created, attached to Amazon EC2 instances, and if even more durability is desired, can be backed with a snapshot to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). To get started using Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS today, visit http://aws.amazon.com/ec2.
Prior to Amazon EBS, storage within an Amazon EC2 instance was tied to the instance itself so that when the instance was terminated, the data within the instance was lost. Now with Amazon EBS, users can choose to allocate storage volumes that persist reliably and independently from Amazon EC2 instances. Additionally, for even more durable backups and an easy way to create new volumes, Amazon EBS provides the ability to create point-in-time, consistent snapshots of volumes that are then stored to Amazon S3.
"For over two years, we've focused on delivering a cost-effective, web scale infrastructure to developers, giving them complete flexibility in the kinds of solutions they deliver," said Peter De Santis, General Manager of Amazon EC2. "Persistent block storage has been among the top requests of developers using Amazon EC2, and we're excited to deliver Amazon Elastic Block Storage designed specifically for our cloud-based, elastic computing environment."
Amazon EBS is well suited for databases, as well as many other applications that require running a file system or access to raw block-level storage. As Amazon EC2 instances are started and stopped, the information saved in your database or application is preserved in much the same way it is with traditional physical servers.
"First, Amazon EC2 rewrote the rules of cloud computing, offering companies an intuitive and reliable means for accessing unlimited computing power. With Amazon EBS, Amazon has turned the industry on its head again, providing unlimited storage potential," said Paul Fisher, Manager of Technology for Wired.com/CondéNet. "At Wired.com, we're leveraging Amazon EC2 to power our embeddable widgets and Wired Product Reviews. Using EC2, we've been able to build and deploy applications more quickly and reliably. EBS is the missing link -- the last piece in the cloud computing puzzle -- that enables start-ups and large corporations alike to conjure the resources they need to build any application possible. Persistence is key to most applications, and EBS provides more flexibility in this area than anything previously available. We are developing a platform in the semantic web space with requirements for unlimited, fast, reliable persistence. EC2 and EBS not only make this application feasible, they make it cost-effective and scalable."
"ShareThis has received tremendous benefits from working with Amazon Web Services for our leading sharing platform," said Manu Murkerji, Senior Software Developer for ShareThis, a service providing a one click way to instantly post, tag and send content via email, instant messaging and text messaging. "Amazon EBS has enabled us to create large-scale, enterprise-level databases that allow us to run and maintain various, disparate applications. EC2 and EBS together provide a cost-effective, flexible system that allows us to crunch data faster than we had been previously able – giving us a much needed advantage for our business."
"Sun's MySQL is the one of the most popular databases on Amazon EC2. With the introduction of EBS, MySQL users will be able to increase the durability and portability of their database applications deployed in the cloud," said Juan Carlos Soto, VP of Global Market Development at Sun Microsystems. "With Sun also recently making the OpenSolaris platform available on EC2, Web companies can now access the unique features of the ZFS file system--such as Rollback and 128-bit checksum capabilities--to enable the highest level of data integrity on EC2."
"With the release of Amazon Elastic Block Store, the ability to deploy any application, anywhere, including the cloud, is a reality. By providing a persistent and consistent compute environment, both on-premise and in the cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss EAP on Amazon EC2 will help achieve the vision of the virtual datacenter," said Scott Crenshaw, Vice President of Platform Business Unit, Red Hat. "Now with the highly anticipated release of Amazon EBS, our enterprise EC2 customers have the ability to persist virtual machine configuration and application data across instantiations and manage their cloud solutions in as consistent a manner as their on-premise deployments."
"Amazon EBS adds significant value to the product development effort at Elastra. We're able to provide our customers with seamless, automated database recovery, and an enhanced persistent data solution with faster throughput, all without their needing to manage cumbersome scripting," said Nate Smith, Vice President of Product Management for Elastra. "These are the types of capabilities our customers, especially the ISVs and enterprises, are looking for. Amazon EBS functionality allows our team to focus on delivering more advanced capabilities for our offering where scaling relational databases is essential. The resulting benefit to our customers is that they save time and can in turn devote their resources to business-differentiating activities, which drive innovation and new revenue streams."
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Headline of the Day: "Darth Vader, Biff Tannen And Other Famous Bullies 'Support' Christine Quinn."
The New York Daily News had each candidate fill out a fun survey. Among the revelations, Speaker Christine Quinn and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio actually appear to agree on the little things more than other Gracie Mansion contenders–despite their policy disputes–sharing a favorite pizza place and president. Additionally, the mayor George McDonald most admires first took office in 1802 and Adolfo Carrión's claimed favorite book is a famous Tea Party tome. And there's always Gothamist's take on Comptroller John Liu's favorite movie: "John Liu Enjoys Watching Brad Pitt Waste $175 Million For Three Hours."
Ms. Quinn has been rapidly increasing her number of veto overrides as she pursues her mayoral campaign. In the past 15 months, she has went over Mayor Michael Bloomberg's head 15 times, compared to once in 2011 and none in 2010. But her rivals aren't amused. "When Mayor Bloomberg demanded a third term, Speaker Quinn rolled out the red carpet," argued a de Blasio spokeswoman. "Her recent change of heart rings hollow." And Mr. Thompson's new campaign manager proclaimed, "Everything she does is personal politics."
While The New York Times profiled the mayoral candidates' backstage behavior: "Once inside, the candidates gravitate toward preferred locations, not unlike actors or dancers accustomed to hitting their masking tape spots on stage. At the poverty forum in Harlem, Mr. de Blasio occupied a corner, while Adolfo Carrión Jr., an independent, was seated, professor-like and leafing through his briefing materials. Mr. Thompson, Tom Allon, a Republican who later dropped out, and Ms. Quinn, meanwhile, were laughing amiably in the center."
The paid sick day discussion isn't finished yet, and the Quinn-backed compromise legislation has at least one trigger to push the City Council to consider expanding mandated sick leave to more businesses in 2016. "The City Council today, 2013, obviously can't tell the City Council of 2017 what to do," explained Councilwoman Gale Brewer, the author of the bill. "We can't say to them, 'OK, so if the economy is doing better you need to pass a new law.' Or if the economy is not doing better, blah blah blah. By law, we can't do that."
Mayor Bloomberg's feud with the State Senate Republicans–whose campaign committee he regularly gives $1 million contributions to–has apparently hit a fevered pitch. "It was a good idea to save kids' lives eight years ago and now it's chutzpah? I don't understand," Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson charged over Mr. Bloomberg's push for speed cameras in the city. "This is a Republican conference that voted to raise taxes, to legalize marriage equality and to ban assault weapons, but they draw the line on speed cameras?"
While New York Post columnist Fred Dicker isn't done taking shots over Governor Andrew Cuomo's bow. In his latest piece, Mr. Dicker says Mr. Cuomo is "paralyzed with indecision" over the hydrofracking issue, which he "developed cold feet" on. "Many say that the governor — who has taken a radical turn to the political left since the start of the year — is being guided by political considerations alone," wrote Mr. Dicker, who constantly touts the benefits of drilling on his radio show.
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In brief: Ellie Collier interviews several librarian-editors about the publishing process, with a focus on "call for chapters" style books. By Ellie Collier Introduction: I began working on In the Library with the Lead Pipe in 2008 as a founding editor and author, despite hating to write. The prospect seemed too exciting to let my own dislike…
On Scholarly Communication and the Digital Humanities: An Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick2015–01–14 | 5 comments
In Brief: At Temple University Libraries (TUL), librarian Fred Rowland began conducting interviews and sharing them as streaming audio through TUL's website in 2007. The following interview transcript with digital humanities scholar Kathleen Fitzpatrick offers insight into her work and a discussion about the future of scholarly communication. An introduction has been added to the…


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Give them direction. If I am supposed to "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness" as Jesus tells me in Matthew 6:33, how do I do that? Carey and I spend almost every morning talking with God. We read Bible verses, watch or listen to podcasts, read devotionals, and/or talk about the dreams … Continue reading Where to Go
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Make a covenant. When Carey and I moved three and a half weeks ago, we had a brand-new, still-in-the-box, end table. Friends gave me money to buy a new living room suite over seven years ago. But after the other furniture was all in place, before I unpacked or assembled the end table, I realized … Continue reading End Table
Give them a sense of home. Well, we did it. Carey and I moved from our house in Fieldstone Farms. I lived fourteen and a half years – the longest I've lived anywhere - in that house. I loved that house. Two of my kids were raised there. I was baptized in the Holy Spirit … Continue reading Upsizing
Let them know. I worked in a pie factory from 1972 to 1986. I started washing pots and pans in the afternoon after high school and worked my way up to Vice President of Marketing, learning lots of things about business. I worked all areas of production: purchasing, receiving, pre-mix, mixing, baking, line operations, packaging, … Continue reading Pie Factory
Give Him your plan. I wanted to do something special for Carey's birthday (January 29.) It comes right on the heels of Christmas so it's kind of difficult to top all that excitement. But I try to see the silver lining of every cloud. I remembered the Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and … Continue reading His Plan
Give them your dream. I guess it started May 23 this year when Carey and I had lunch with our eighteen-year-old daughter Darcy and her boyfriend Nick. After lunch, I casually asked Nick what he was going to do for the rest of the afternoon, he said he was going to find a house. I … Continue reading Lookout Mountain
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Sacha Baron Cohen and David Letterman Say "Vassup!" to Diversity Jurisdiction
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Known for his outrageous and controversial movie characters, Sacha Baron Cohen has become a pro at dodging legal bullets. Because of his penchant for crossing the line, it should come as no surprise that he is now embroiled in another lawsuit. However, this time there is an unexpected twist — David Letterman is playing a supporting role as a co-defendant in the suit.
So what is the basis for this odd legal coupling? None other than Cohen's blockbuster hit comedy, Brüno. The film is a "mockumentary," and one in which Cohen, playing the flamboyantly homosexual title-character, engages in painfully uncomfortable interviews with unsuspecting participants. One such participant, and the plaintiff in the current lawsuit against Cohen and Letterman, was Ayman Abu Aita. In the interview at issue, Brüno portrays Aita as the terrorist group leader of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an alliance of Palestinian nationalist militias in the West Bank that has been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the Secretary of State. Similarly, while promoting the film on The Late Show with David Letterman, Cohen and Letterman bantered about the experience of interviewing the terrorist, Aita. The dialogue eventually segued into Letterman showing a clip of the interview with Aita, which contained a caption that read, "terrorist group leader al-aqsa martyrs brigade."
In December 2009, Aita filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against Cohen, Letterman, NBC Universal, and a variety of other media conglomerates alleging three counts of libel and slander for falsely branding him as a terrorist, and seeking damages of at least $110 million, as well as an injunction against further commercial distribution of the film by whatever means.
At first glance, it appeared that Cohen would not be able to talk his way out of this one. Thankfully for him, the fine lawyers at NBC paid attention in their Civil Procedure class, and have honed in on an issue that could dismiss the case entirely — subject matter jurisdiction. In his complaint, Aita alleged that complete diversity jurisdiction existed among all of the parties — a requirement under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution. However, in its recently filed motion to dismiss, NBC reminds us that in order for an alien, such as Aita, to invoke diversity jurisdiction, he must show that a dispute exists between "citizens of a State and citizens or subjects of a foreign state." For a foreign national to be considered a "citizen or subject of a foreign state," the foreign national must demonstrate that the country of his nationality is recognized by the Executive branch.
Unfortunately for Aita, who is a Palestinian national, Palestine is unsurprisingly not recognized as a foreign sovereign by the United States. For this reason, NBC argues, Aita does not qualify as a "citizen or subject of a foreign state"; thus, he cannot invoke diversity jurisdiction and his complaint must be dismissed. In the alternative, NBC argues that even if Palestine is recognized as a foreign state by the U.S. government, subject matter jurisdiction is still lacking. NBC points out that Cohen is not a U.S. citizen, but rather a British subject. Therefore, because both Cohen and Aita are aliens, complete diversity is destroyed, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia does not have subject matter jurisdiction to hear Aita's claim.
The judge has yet to rule on NBC's motion to dismiss. However, even if the motion is granted, the result would only be favorable to Cohen, as he would be dropped from the lawsuit. Should Aita choose to re-file, he could still do so against Letterman and NBC.
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Chorazin (/koʊˈreɪzɪn/; Hebrew: כורזים, Korazim; also Karraza, Kh. Karazeh, Chorizim, Kerazeh, Korazin) was an ancient village in the Korazim Plateau in the Galilee, two and a half miles from Capernaum on a hill above the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Ancient synagogue at Chorazim
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Chorazin, along with Bethsaida and Capernaum, was named in the gospels of Matthew and Luke as "cities" (more likely just villages) in which Jesus performed mighty works. However, because these towns rejected his work ("they had not changed their ways"), they were subsequently cursed (Matthew 11:20-24; Luke 10:13-15). The gospels make no other mention of Chorazin or what works had occurred there. According to the two-source hypothesis, this story originally came from the Q document. Despite this textual evidence, archaeologists have not yet been successful in finding a settlement dating to the first century.[citation needed] Due to the condemnation of Jesus, the influential Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius predicted that the Antichrist would be conceived in Chorazin.[1]
The Babylonian Talmud (Menahot, 85a) mentions that Chorazin was a town known for its grain.[2]
Two settlement phases have been proposed based on coin and pottery findings.[3]
Theologian John Lightfoot suggested that Chorazin might have been an area around Cana in Galilee, rather than a single city/village:
- What if, under this name, Cana be concluded, and some small country adjacent, which, from its situation in a wood, might be named "Chorazin", that is, 'the woody country'? Cana is famous for the frequent presence and miracles of Christ. But away with conjecture, when it grows too bold.[4]
In his expeditions to the Holy Land in the nineteenth century, Edward Robinson questioned local residents about the whereabouts of a site matching the description of Chorazin, but no one recognized the name or could provide any information.[5]
Chorazin is now the site of a National Archaeological Park. Extensive excavations and a survey were carried out in 1962-1964. Excavations at the site were resumed in 1980-1987.
The site is an excavated ruin today, but was inhabited starting in the 1st century. It is associated with modern-day Kerazeh.[by whom?]
The majority of the structures are made from black basalt, a volcanic rock found locally.[6] The main settlement dates to the 3rd and 4th centuries. A mikvah, or ritual bath, was also found at the site. The handful of olive millstones used in olive oil extraction found suggest a reliance on the olive for economic purposes, like a number of other villages in ancient Galilee.
The town's ruins are spread over an area of 25 acres (100,000 m2), subdivided into five separate quarters, with a synagogue in the centre. The large, impressive Synagogue which was built with black basalt stones and decorated with Jewish motifs is the most striking survival. Close by is a ritual bath, surrounded by public and residential buildings.
In 1926, archaeologists discovered the "Seat of Moses," carved from a basalt block. According to the New Testament, this is where the reader of the Torah sat (Matthew 23:1-3).[7]
In May–June 2004, a small-scale salvage excavation was conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority along the route of an ancient road north of Moshav Amnun. In the literature, the road is referred to as "The Way through Korazim." It crossed the Chorazin plateau from west to east, branching off from the main Cairo–Damascus road that ran northeast toward Daughters of Jacob Bridge.[8]
The only synagogue visible today was built in the late 3rd century, destroyed in the 4th century, and rebuilt in the 6th century.[9]
An unusual feature in an ancient synagogue is the presence of three-dimensional sculpture, a pair of stone lions. A similar pair of three-dimensional lions was found in the synagogue at Kfar Bar'am.[10] Other carvings, which are thought to have originally been brightly painted, feature images of wine-making, animals, a Medusa, an armed soldier, and an eagle.[11]
Jacob Ory, who excavated the site in 1926 on behalf of the British Mandate Department of Antiquities, wrote about a second synagogue ca. 200 m west of the first one, and he described it in detail. Later excavations, however, have not been able to find the remains noted by him.[12]
The term Korazim block is used to define a geomorphological feature set between the Hula Basin and the Sea of Galilee. It is an elevated pressure-ridge within the Dead Sea Transform (DST) which acted as a barrier towards the waters of the Mediterranean when these flooded the lower-laying part of the DST, between what are now the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea basins, during the Pliocene transgression. The Korazim block as well as the higher elevation of the Hula Basin meant that the latter did not receive any marine water during that process.[13]
See alsoEdit
- Ancient synagogues in the Palestine region
- Archaeology of Israel
- Jesus trail
- National parks of Israel
- Oldest synagogues in the world
- Woes to the unrepentant cities, pronounced by Jesus and which included Chorazin
- ^ Alexander, Paul Julius (1985). The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition. pp. 195–196. ISBN 0520049985.
- ^ Three Woes
- ^ Jews and Christians in the Holy Land: Palestine in the Fourth Century
- ^ Lightfoot, J., A Commentary on the New Testament From the Talmud and Hebraica: Matthew, accessed 6 January 2017
- ^ The Christian remembrancer
- ^ Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology in the Land of Israel, Rāḥēl Ḥak̲lîlî
- ^ Three Woes
- ^ Kh. Umm el-Kalkha
- ^ Avraham Negev; Shimon Gibson (July 2005). Archaeological encyclopedia of the Holy Land. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-8264-8571-7. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ^ Steven Fine (2005). Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world: toward a new Jewish archaeology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84491-8. Retrieved 15 May 2011. p.190
- ^ Steven Fine (2005). Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world: toward a new Jewish archaeology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84491-8. Retrieved 15 May 2011. p.92
- ^ Anders Runesson; Donald D. Binder; Birger Olsson (2008). The Ancient Synagogue from its Origins to 200 C.E. Brill. p. 32. ISBN 978-90-04-16116-0.
- ^ Uri Kafri; Yoseph Yechieli (2010). Groundwater Base Level Changes and Adjoining Hydrological Systems. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 123. ISBN 978-3642139444.
Further readingEdit
- Z. Yeivin, The Synagogue at Korazim; The 1962 - 1964, 1980 - 1987 Excavations, Israel Antiquities Authority Reports, Israel Antiquities Authority, 2000.
- New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land vols. 1-5. Ed. E. Stern; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Carta (1993-2008).
External linksEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chorazin.
- Chorazin—Sitting in the Seat but Missing the Message from waynestiles.com
- Strong's G5523
- Pictures of Chorazin
- The Ancient Synagogue of Chorazin from a Jewish tourism site
- Chorazin University of Notre Dame, New Testament Professor David E. Aune
- Ancient Chorazin Comes Back to Life by Ze'ev Yeivin of the Biblical Archaeology Society.


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Father Christmas and Matthew Walker Pudding
Matthew Walker, the British Christmas Pudding manufacturer, are promoting their longstanding business record through a tongue in cheek television commercial featuring Father Christmas.
Father Christmas and Matthew Walker, too old timers, appear in the kitchen together, talking about their longstanding friendship, started in 1899 when Christmas got stuck in Walker's chimney while delivering a bag of Turkish currants. The TV advert provides several double entendres that suggest that there could be a sexual angle to the relationship. Or maybe it doesn't. Keep an eye out for the elves walking past the window.
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The Pudding campaign was developed at Mother London.
Filming was shot by director Garth Jennings via Hammer and Tongs with producer Nick Goldsmith and editor Ming.
Post-production was done at Moving Picture Company. Audio post production was done at Factory.
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I was busy in the last couple of days and fixed some bugs/implemented some little things that I always wanted.
1) First I fixed a healing bug, you couldn't heal the 3rd and 4th characters.
2) Changed the main characters Life bar position, and added HP and XP text.
3) I implemented a sliding of main portrait mechanic, so it's easier to switch between characters, without opening the characters menu. If you slide the mouse/finger to the right on the main portrait, then it will switch to the previous character, and if you slide to the left then you'll switch to the next character:
4) Implemented the ability to move constantly in the dungeon by holding down on the arrow buttons (or pressing arrow keys in webplayer), it was frustrating to tap/press for every movement. At first there will be a 0.5 seconds delay, and after that you will constantly move every 0.1 seconds
5) Added movement limitation when there is combat. It was to easy to just run through the rooms filled with enemies without taking any damage. Now you can only move 1 square every combat turn (you move every 1 seconds).
6) Added Sell All button to the Shop Menu in Town, it was boring to double click/tap 40 times if you wanted to sell everything in your inventory. (Yes/No warning added too, so you won't sell everything by mistake)
7) Saving of unopened chests! This one is really nice, before if you left a room with an unopened chest, it disappeared.
8) Redesigned the map! Added 15 pits, 5 teleporters and 4 secret doors + a lot of water.
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There's nothing like the blue tint in the still above to make one hark back to Two Towers-esque imagery; however, The Desolation of Smaug is its 'own' film entirely, not as metaphorically attached to the LoTR film trilogy as its predecessor was.
Apart from the cursory opening scene in Bree (in which Peter Jackson makes a familiar cameo), The Desolation of Smaug picks off nicely where An Unexpected Journey ended, with Thorin and Co. still headed towards the Lonely Mountain to recover the Arkenstone. With Wargs and orcs hot on their heels, the dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf take refuge at Boern's residence before Gandalf - true to form - ditches them on the outskirts of Mirkwood with the warning, "stay on the path."
...So of course the dwarves lose their way; it is only until Bilbo pokes his head out of the trees (at one of the movie's noteworthy 3D effects scenes) that the path becomes clear; unfortunately, it is also at this point that the dwarves are cocooned by giant spiders and nearly consumed. They are saved by Bilbo - who owes it to the ring, Sting, and courage - and the elves.
Yes, LEGOLAS makes quite the entrée from the treetops, slitting several arachnid bellies en route before landing in front of the dwarves - I swear all his action scenes have been fast-forwarded. Sharp, cold and cutting, this younger Legolas seems to have done more in one film than he did in all three LoTR installations put together, and his very presence emphasizes The Hobbit's dependence on its Academy-Award winning predecessors. Having Benedict Cumberbatch voice Smaug and Ed Sheeran sing the film's song, the producers certainly chose wisely in order to maximize the film's profit - it certainly makes skeptics wonder about Jackson's authentic motives for filming the movie.
But of course, Jackson's decision to film The Hobbit is one for which I am infinitely grateful, for in filming another 9 hours worth of Middle Earthian footage, he takes LoTR fans back into Tolkien's world which is stunningly visualized with the aid of 48 FPS and 3D. Featuring members of the original cast, The Hobbit films are extending the vestiges of LoTR legacy into three new films for the old and new generation.
Thus no matter how irked I may be at the length of screen time the Tauriel-Kili-Legolas love triangle takes up (ah, why water the buds of romance when Kili will perish in the Battle of 5 Armies?), I nonetheless welcome every LoTR morsel with open arms and - let's face it - The Desolation of Smaug was 2.5 hours worth of cinematic epicness.
Whether it is during the barrel scene - whoever choreographed that deserves all the best things in life - during which the dwarves' teamwork is as fluid as the rushing waters they traverse (apologies for lame simile), or when Bilbo is sliding in mounds of gold after the blinking Arkenstone, or when Thorin and Co. temper Smaug in order to light up the fortresses, The Desolation of Smaug is brilliantly action-packed, grand-scale and impressive. Newcomers such as Luke Evans (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Bloom) and Stephen Fry (yes!) only further embellish the film.
So the Hobbit trilogy will wrap up in a year's time (The Silmarillion, anyone?), but Tolkien's legacy and the wonders of Middle Earth will be grounded forever.
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- Children and International Criminal Justice
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Symposium: Children and International Criminal Justice
Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 43, no. 3, 2015) contains the proceedings of a conference on "Children and International Criminal Justice." Contents include:
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