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The Nutrition Thread!
So....let's talk about what we are eating! Goals ya have for this year, or just wanting to get better.
I've heard this is the hardest time of the year to work out, unless you live in SoCal or Florida---and when I weighed in at the doctor a few weeks ago, I found out I could pretty much join the UFC Welterweight division, and I'm a girl
So, I'm not going to be 156 anymore, so I removed bread from my intake and reduced my carbs pretty dramatically. I've been eating a ton of chili, veggie soups, salads, cereal that's whole grain once in awhile, juice, and NO ICE CREAM!!
That is HUGE b/c I LOVE ice cream tons....
I also invested in Muscle Milk b/c Brian13 told me to, and honestly it's pretty great, I drink it after work outs.
So far I'm down 8 pounds and my goal is another 10. 138 was a really good weight for me back during the polo days
What about yall?
Well according to Todd, my hot dog and ice cream diet won't make you a world champ, whatever!!! HAHAHA! I know that cutting down on carbs and such will help, but you also need to cleanse out your liver, it has like 10 thousand functions in your body and unless it is healthy, your body will take longer to lose weight, build cardio fitness, etc. Lots of cranberry juice, 100% juice, not the cran-grape or cran-cherry stuff you get at the store. Unsweetened, pure cranberry juice (4-6oz.) mixed with water (26 to 28oz.) and an organic sweetener called stevia (10 to 15 drops). This makes a light drink that also helps clear that liver out. At first I didn't believe it, but it really does work, at least it did for me. Of course cut out any soda, even diet soda, and all the starchy, yeasty foods and all will be well!! So you can pretty much drink water and eat ice cubes, right??? LOL!! Keep us posted on your success, Kim.
I've got a weird hybrid diet right now. I'm living at home, so I've got my mom's amazing cooking every night, great proteins, solid veggies & some reasonable carb options (rolls, toast, etc.). Then again, I'm a college student & salesman, so I'm on the road all the time & eating 7-Eleven & fast food all the time. I'm hanging right around 200lbs/16% body fat.
just about to start a tried and tested diet, basically its getting carbs only from veg unless I have trained - so no complex carbs like potato/pasta/rice unless I have worked out.
So its eggs for breakfast - a supershake that I will put the mix up son for, salad and protien like cottage cheese or tuna for lunch then a normal dinner and training.
Last time I did this for 4 months and lost 2 stone/ 28 pounds, so getting back to this should get me well on the way to fighting weight of 185, then it will be on to 170
I've managed to add about 9 pounds of muscle in 8 months so I'm quite pleased.
Basically, I just pick and mix meals based on the following...
* Extra lean ground beef (at least 93% lean)
* Extra lean ground turkey breast (I've even seen 99% ground turkey breast)
* Venison (deer - most cuts)
* Buffalo/Bison (most cuts and ground meat are very lean)
* Turkey breast
* Chicken breast
* Fish (virutally all fish are super lean and super healthy)
* Milk
* Fat-free cheese (Kraft and Borden make fat-free sliced and shredded cheese)
* Whey protein
* Cottage cheese/casein protein (casein is the powdered form of cottage cheese)
* I don't recommend pork; maybe only if you're going to eat an extra lean pork loin
* Vegetables (virtually all vegetables are just fine; many are low in calories and high in fiber)
* Fruits (fresh only, but check the GI ratings, some are very low, but some such as dates and cherries are very high)
* Beans (any bean)
* Whole wheat breads (Sometimes, you can look for high-fiber breads; I eat one made by Mrs. Baird's that has 6g of fiber per slice)
* Brown rice (brown rice is preferred, most white rices digest VERY quickly)
* Basmati rice or Uncle Ben's rice (the 2 slowest-digesting rices on the planet)
* Dry oats/oatmeal (no sugar versions)
* Pasta (whole wheat is preferred, but there's nothing wrong with normal pasta)
* Udo's 3-6-9 Oil Blend
* Flaxseed oil
* Extra virgin olive oil
* Chili oil
* Sesame oil
* Sesame chili oil
* Sunflower oil
* Fish oil
* Nuts (virtually any nut is fine)
* Avacado
* Fish (most fish have a great amount of omega-3 fatty acids)
* I don't add canola oil; it's a highly processed oil. Try to avoid processed foods
Oh, and to mention. I eat my weight x20 = daily total calorie intake. 30% of calories from protein, 40% from carbs, 30% from fats, and I eat 6 meals a day. After lifting, I take a 400 calorie recovery shake (75g of carbs, 25g of protein).
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I lost a couple pounds the past few days, so yesterday I ate:
large bowl of Reese's Puffs cereal
1 blueberry muffin
Orange Juice with protein powder
For lunch:
1 small pizza
1/2 box of girl scout thin mint cookies
1 orange
lots of water
After last night's workout I ate a huge slab of lasagna
Drank water mixed with gatorade.
I'm still hungry.
I stopped drinking soda recently, and I eat fruits and vegetables whenever I have them around.
I still eat other bad stuff like chillidogs and burgers though... I'm always hungry.
County Mike made me more hungry. >:[
Oatmeal (whole rolled oats) with sliced almonds & protein powder, or eggs/egg whites with whole grain toast, & OJ
Snack Cliff Builder bar or similar (20g of protein) Skim milk
Turkey Sandwich on flaxseed whole grain bread, lettuce, tomato, mustard
V8 w/supergreens powder mixed in
hand full of nuts (usually almonds) Jumbo red raisins
Protein shake, w/unsweetend almond milk (only 40 calories a serving), banana, blueberries, and non-fat or greek-style yogurt
Lean meat, bison, beef, pork, chicken etc. brown rice or yams/sweet potatoes and a veggie like steamed broccoli
Supplements: Universal animan pak vitamin, flaxseed oil, cod liver oil and wild salmon oil (different oil with each meal)
post-work out drink Universal Torrent
Stay healthy everyone, here's to a great 2009, you're off to a good start mikthehick, keep it up
I have a super high metabolism so I usually just eat what ever I want and try to get 2 protien shakes (45grams per shake)a day. I've been taking creatine for about 3 months and I just ran out so I cycle back on when I can afford some more LOL. I'm 5'11 and 168 pounds. I'd like to get upto 180 but I know I would have to increase the protien and carbs to get there. All I do is lift weights with No cardio. I'm affraid If I do cardio I'll loose alot of weight and size.
2 monster energys (so i can drive my boss nutz)
tigers milk bar
burger fries and a side of mayo
mabey another monster.
gym at 3
8 to 12 12oz cans of keystone light. chilled.
and then go back and forth with the wife "what do you want to eat?" "i dont know, what do you want?" this process takes about 30 mins. then we go to uncle sals and i destroy a calzone and my wife drinks wine till she finds me attractive again. then home.
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al-Fārābī c. 870-950
(Full name Muḥammad ibn-Muḥammad ibn-Tarhkān abu-Naṣr al-Fārābī) Turkistani philosopher and essayist.
Known to Arabs as the "Second Master" (second only to Aristotle), al-Fārābī is considered one of the greatest Islamic philosophers. The author of more than one hundred works of philosophy, al-Fārābī was one of the first important philosophers to write in Arabic. He considered the field of philosophy encyclopedic—not limited only to logic but also inclusive of metaphysics, political science, ethics, psychology, and sociology. Although al-Fārābī also offers original ideas in his own writings, it is for his comprehensive commentaries on the ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and his attempts to reconcile differences in their writings, that he receives most praise. He is credited with helping to disseminate their ideas in the East through his translations of their works, thereby assuring their survival during the Dark Ages in the Western world. He is considered the Father of Islamic Neoplatonism for his attempts to synthesize Plato, Aristotle, and theology. Al-Fārābī's works influenced various philosophers and authors over a period of centuries, including the "doctor of doctors" Ibn Sīnā, known in the West as Avicenna; Maimonides, the twelfth-century Jewish sage; and Thomas Aquinas, the Christian theologian who wrote the Summa theologica. Al-Fārābī's most important works are Enumeration of the Sciences; Reconciliation of the Views of the Two Sages: Plato the Divine and Aristotle; and The Virtuous City—all of which were written sometime in the tenth century.
Biographical Information
Al-Fārābī was born in the village of Wasij, in the Farab district in Transoxiana (present-day Turkistan). Since he did not write of his personal life and since no biography was compiled until several centuries after his death, the facts of his life have often been mythologized. His early education took place in Farab and Bukhara. Al-Fārābī's higher education commenced in about 901, when he moved to Baghdad, where he mastered Arabic and studied with the renowned teachers Abu Bishr Matta and Yuhanna ibn Haylan. He reportedly refused a government position, lived as an ascetic, and devoted decades to the study of philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, and music. It was likely in Baghdad that most of his work was written. He traveled extensively from 942 to 948 and, on one of his journeys to Halab (in what is now northern Syria) came to the attention of its emir, the Hamdanid commander Saif al-Daula, who became his patron. The details of al-Fārābī's death are uncertain; according to one account he died in Damascus of natural causes, while according to another, he fell victim to an assault on a road outside of Damascus.
Major Works
Although al-Fārābī's first language was Turkish, he wrote in Arabic. No exact dates of composition are known for any of his works. An unknown number of them are no longer extant, but well over one hundred survive, including volumes on music, medicine, and mathematics. Many of al-Fārābī's texts concern logic, the understanding of which he attempted to simplify by dividing it into the two categories of idea and proof. Many other texts are commentaries on works by Aristotle, including Commentary on "Prior Analytics," Commentary on "The Categories," and Commentary on "On Interpretation." The arguments found in Reconciliation of the Views of the Two Sages: Plato the Divine and Aristotle are somewhat flawed because al-Fārābī considered the fraudulent Neoplatonic Theology of Aristotle an authentic work. Scholars debate the extent to which the spurious Theology of Aristotle influenced al-Fārābī. Compendium of the "Laws" summarizes Plato's laws, as does Philosophy of Plato. Enumeration of the Sciences was immensely popular; it was eventually translated into Latin by Dominicus Gundisalvas as De Scientiis and was used in schools until the sixteenth century. Largely influenced by Aristotle's scientific classifications, al-Fārābī's work examines numerous aspects of science, religion, philosophy, and grammar and their interconnections. The Virtuous City is often thought to be modeled upon Plato's Republic, but critics point out that its Neoplatonic theology makes it markedly different. Al-Fārābī's model city is characterized by the happiness of its citizens, who work together in perfect harmony.
Critical Reception
Scholars are interested in the attitudes that Islamic philosophers of the tenth century demonstrate toward the relationship between intellect, logic, language, and grammar. These philosophers were concerned with deciding upon proper areas of study and used complex classification systems in specifying the aims of their logic. Deborah L. Black (see Further Reading) discusses al-Fārābī's analogy of the art of grammar in relation to logic: "By arguing in this way that logic and grammar are two distinct, rule-based sciences, each with its own proper domain and subject matter, al-Farabi strives to establish logic as an autonomous philosophical study of language that complements, rather than conflicts with, traditional grammatical science." Majid Fakhry discusses the importance of al-Fārābī's contributions, stating he "should be given credit for having laid down the foundation of the Arabic logical tradition, in the same manner he laid down the foundation of Arabic Neo-Platonism in metaphysics." Fuad Said Haddad further explains al-Fārābī's theories of language communication and instruction, while Kwame Gyekye examines al-Fārābī's use of reason and logic.
Al-Fārābī expended much effort in trying to harmonize opposing views held by Plato and Aristotle, but not all scholars agree on al-Fārābī's exact message or beliefs, since he contradicts himself through the course of his voluminous works. Leo Strauss contends that al-Fārābī viewed Plato's philosophy as the true philosophy. He also explores how al-Fārābī attempts to reconcile Aristotle's ideas with Plato's, but Christopher Colmo takes issue with Strauss's interpretation of al-Fārābī's conception of Plato. Majid Fakhry also examines al-Fārābī's approach to discord between the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle; Fakhry contends that al-Fārābī views the problem as one of lack of understanding of the two philosophers' true views. Joshua Parens takes issue with critics who doubt that al-fārābī was as extreme a Neoplatonist as is commonly accepted.
Miriam Galston analyzes al-Fārābī's writing style, which uses a multilevel method, and addresses inherent difficulties: "Some of the hallmarks of multilevel writing—such as inconsistencies, contradictions, digressions, and silences where the reader expects a lengthy discussion—can be deliberate or inadvertent; and even when deliberate, they may be the result of a variety of circumstances surrounding a work's construction." One of the specific concerns of al-Fārābī was that of emanation, the first level of which is the Divine Being. Thérèse-Anne Druart examines his views on this topic and contends that although he is silent on the subject in his popular works, in his serious writing he makes a complex presentation of its nine-layer, timeless nature; Ian Richard Netton also discusses al-Fārābī's views on emanation. Al-Fārābī's political science is scrutinized by Fauzi M. Najjar and by Christopher Colmo, who examine his views on leadership, contrasting them with those of Nicolo Machiavelli. Muhsin Madhi examines how al-Fārābī proposes not only to end the disharmony between religion and philosophy but also have them form a mutually beneficial alliance against dialectic and sophistry. Madhi also examines the terminology used in the Attainment of Happiness. Further, he explains that al-Fārābī's focus is on realization—not simply thinking about something but actually bringing it about. "All of a sudden, theoretical knowledge and knowledge in general become a prolegomenon to action, ethics, and politics." Many of al-Fārābī's texts were not rediscovered until the middle of the twentieth century, and relatively few have been translated into English. As more of his texts are examined and translated, scholars will have better access to al-Fārābī's ideas and his contributions to philosophy will continue to be evaluated.
Principal Works
Falsafat Alfātun [Philosophy of Plato] (essay) 10th century
Falsafat Aristūtālīs [Philosophy of Aristotle] (essay) 10th century
Ihsā' al 'Ulūm [Enumeration of the Sciences] (essay) 10th century
Kitāb al-Huruf [Book of Letters] (essay) 10th century
Kitāb Ihsa al-Ulūm [Classification of the Sciences] (essay) 10th century
Kitāb Iysaghuji ay Al-Madkhal [Commentary on Porphyry's "Isagoge"] (essay) 10th century
Kitab al-Jam' Bayn Ra'yay al-Hakimayn Aflatun al-Ilahiy wa-Aristutalis [Reconciliation of the Views of the Two Sages: Plato the Divine and Aristotle] (essay) 10th century
Kitāb al Milla wa-Nusūs [Book of Religion] (essay) 10th century
Kitāb Qataghuriyas ay Al-Maqulat [Commentary on Aristotle's "Categories"] (essay) 10th century
Kitāb al-Qiyas al-Sāghir [Commentary on Aristotle's "Prior Analytics"] (essay) 10th century
Mabadi' Ārā' Ahl al-Madīnah al-Fādilah [The Virtuous City] (essay) 10th century
Risālah fi al'Aql [Epistle on the Intellect] (essay) 10th century
Sharh li Kitāb Aristūtalis fī al-'Ibārah [Commentary on Aristotle's "On Interpretation"] (essay) 10th century
Tahsīl al-Sa'āda [The Attainment of Happiness] (essay) 10th century
Talkhis Nawamis Aflatun [Compendium of Plato's "Laws"] (essay) 10th century
Al-Farabi's Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle's "De interpretatione" (translated by F. W. Zimmerman) 1981
Al-Farabi on the Perfect State (translated by Richard Walzer) 1985
*Alfarabi: The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (translated by Charles E. Butterworth) 2001
†Alfarabi: Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (translated by Muhsin Mahdi) 2001
*This collection contains Selected Aphorisms, Enumeration of the Sciences, Book of Religion, and The Harmonization of the Two Opinions of the Two Sages: Plato the Divine and Aristotle.
†This collection contains Attainment of Happiness, Philosophy of Plato, and Philosophy of Aristotle.
Leo Strauss (essay date 1945)
SOURCE: Strauss, Leo. "Farabi's Plato." In Louis Ginzberg: Jubilee Volume: On the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, pp. 357-93. New York: The American Academy for Jewish Research, 1945.
[In the following essay, Strauss examines al-Fārābī's exposition of Plato's philosophy and al-Fārābī's own views on the relationship between philosophy and happiness.]
Eben derselbe Gedanke kann, an einem andern Orte, einen ganz andern Wert haben.
Lessing, Leibniz, von den ewigen Strafen.
It is generally admitted that one cannot understand the teaching of Maimonides' Guide for the...
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Fauzi M. Najjar (essay date 1958)
SOURCE: Najjar, Fauzi M. "Al-Farabi on Political Science." Muslim World 48, no. 2 (1958): 94-103.
[In the following essay, Najjar explains that, in al-Fārābī's view, political science is another term for practical wisdom and cannot be separated from philosophy and metaphysics.]
Al-Fārābī discusses the subject matter as well as the function of political science in Chapter 5 of his Iḥṣā' al-'Ulūm, or "Classification of the Sciences".1 In the same chapter he treats the Islamic religious sciences of fiqh (Jurisprudence) and kalām (Theology). That fiqh and kalām should be treated in a chapter devoted to...
(The entire section is 5220 words.)
Majid Fakhry (essay date October-December 1965)
SOURCE: Fakhry, Majid. "Al-Farabi and the Reconciliation of Plato and Aristotle." Journal of the History of Ideas 26, no. 4 (October-December 1965): 469-78.
[In the following essay, Fakhry details al-Fārābī's argument that alleged discrepancies between statements made by Plato and Aristotle are merely the result of an inadequate understanding of their teachings.]
The chequered history of Neo-Platonism, following the imperial edict ordering the School of Athens to be closed in 529, is one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the diffusion of Greek culture in the Middle Ages. As a result of its progressive defeat at Alexandria, Greek philosophy...
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Muhsin Mahdi (essay date fall 1972)
SOURCE: Mahdi, Muhsin. "Alfarabi on Philosophy and Religion." Philosophical Forum 4, no. 1 (fall 1972): 5-25.
[In the following essay, Mahdi explains al-Fārābī's position that religion and philosophy are not necessarily opposed to each other and that they can be mutually beneficial.]
The Attainment of Happiness does not begin with an explanation of what happiness is or a description of the way to it. Instead, it enumerates four human things (theoretical virtues, deliberative virtues, moral virtues, and practical arts) whose presence in political communities (nations or cities) indicates that happiness is present in these...
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Thérèse-Anne Druart (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Druart, Thérèse-Anne. "Al-Farabi and Emanationism." In Studies in Medieval Philosophy, edited by John F. Wippel, pp. 23-43. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1987.
[In the following essay, Druart examines al-Fārābī's presentation of emanationism and defends the author's writings against charges of inconsistency by explaining that al-Fārābī's loyalty to Aristotle sometimes led him to shy away from stressing any limitations in Aristotle's views.]
In 1981 Barry Sherman Kogan showed that emanationism had been a very controversial doctrine in Arabic philosophy.1 In The Incoherence of the Philosophers al-Ghazali...
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Kwame Gyekye (essay date January 1989)
SOURCE: Gyekye, Kwame. "Al-Fārābi on the Logic of the Arguments of the Muslim Philosophical Theologians." In Journal of the History of Philosophy 27, no. 1 (January 1989): 135-43.
[In the following essay, Gyekye focuses on a treatise written by al-Fārābī concerning the logical structures used by Muslim philosophical theologians.]
My intention in this paper is to discuss those portions of al-Fārābī's treatise—mistitled by Nicholas Rescher as Al-Fārābī's Short Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics1—which bear on certain methods of logic generally preferred, appropriated and developed by the...
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Fuad Said Haddad (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Haddad, Fuad Said. "Conclusion." In Alfarabi's Theory of Communication, pp. 155-69. Beirut, Lebanon: American University of Beirut, 1989.
[In the following essay, Haddad summarizes and analyzes al-Fārābī's theory of language communication as well as its impact on education.]
We have examined in the previous chapters Alfarabi's theory of language communication and its educational implications by analyzing and interpreting his works on language and logic. In this chapter we will first summarize the theory. Then we will bring forth its prominent characteristics and draw out its significant implications for the purpose of...
(The entire section is 5339 words.)
Ian Richard Netton (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Netton, Ian Richard. "Al-Fārābī: The Search for Order." In Allah Transcendent: Studies in the Structure and Semiotics of Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Cosmology, pp. 99-148. London: Routledge, 1989.
[In the following essay, Netton examines al-Fārābī's description of God as the One in whom essence and existence merge absolutely, his understanding of the concept of emanation, and the structure of his theology.]
The reputation of Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Tarkhān b. Awzalagh1 al-Fārābī (AD 870-950) has come down to us untarnished and undiminished from...
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Miriam Galston (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Galston, Miriam. "Alfarabi's Method of Writing." In Politics and Excellence: The Political Philosophy of Alfarabi, pp. 22-54. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
[In the following essay, Galston analyzes al-Fārābī's writing style—a multilevel method which both conceals and reveals—and his purpose in adopting this method.]
Those who wish to succeed in arriving at answers will find it useful to go over the perplexing points well. For answers successfully arrived at are solutions to the perplexing points that have previously been raised. A person cannot untie a knot if he is not aware of it.
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Christopher Colmo (essay date December 1992)
SOURCE: Colmo, Christopher. "Theory and Practice: Alfarabi's Plato Revisited." American Political Science Review 86, no. 4 (December 1992): 966-76.
[In the following essay, Colmo critiques Leo Strauss's studies of al-Fārābī, particularly concerning the relationship between science and philosophy.]
According to Leo Strauss, knowledge of the best way of life is crucial to political philosophy. In "Farabi's Plato," Strauss asks, assuming that the theoretical life can be known to be the best way of life, what is the status of this knowledge? Is the knowledge of the best way of life itself theoretical knowledge or practical knowledge? Without a...
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Majid Fakhry (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Fakhry, Majid. "Al-Fārābi's Contribution to the Development of Aristotelian Logic." In Philosophy, Dogma and the Impact of Greek Thought in Islam, chapter III, pp. 1-15. Hampshire, U.K.: Variorum, 1994.
[In the following essay, Fakhry discusses the importance of al-Fārābī's continuation of the Aristotelian tradition.]
During the period separating Boethius (d. 525) and Abélard (d. 1142), William and Martha Kneale, for instance, give no significant logician's name in their Development of Logic. Historians of medieval and premedieval philosophy have tended to take it for granted that, indeed, philosophical learning,...
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Joshua Parens (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Parens, Joshua. "Alfarabi's Platonism." In Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's "Laws," pp. 17-27. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
[In the following essay, Parens considers to what degree al-Fārābī should be considered a Neoplatonist.]
This chapter treats the secondary literature on Alfarabi's corpus as a whole rather than just on the Summary, because there is only one substantive treatment of the Summary, namely, a brief article by Leo Strauss.1 The purpose of this chapter, however, is to correct certain common and persistent misunderstandings of Alfarabi. In spite of the readily apparent...
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Christopher Colmo (essay date fall 1998)
SOURCE: Colmo, Christopher. "Alfarabi on the Prudence of Founders." The Review of Politics 60, no. 4 (fall 1998): 719-41.
[In the following essay, Colmo examines al-Fārābī's advice to rulers in the Book of Religion, comparing and contrasting it with the advice given by Nicolo Machiavelli in The Prince.]
The founder of a religious community can use religion to bind the community together, uniting it towards a single goal.1 To affirm this truth while placing prudent limitations on the universal claims of religion is Alfarabi's intention in the Book of Religion.2 Machiavelli's teaching on...
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Muhsin S. Mahdi (essay date 2001)
SOURCE: Mahdi, Muhsin S. "The Foundation of Islamic Philosophy." In Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy, pp. 47-62. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001.
[In the following essay, Mahdi explains the uniqueness of al-Fārābī's political works and their thematic concern with the salvation of civilization.]
Alfarabi established the main tradition of Islamic philosophy as we know it today. The respect with which he has been regarded by his successors has not always been matched with a clear understanding of his role as a founder or with a comprehensive appreciation of his achievement as a philosopher. Great philosophers like Avicenna,...
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Further Reading
Abed, Shukri B. "Particulars and Universals: An Introduction to Alfārābī's Logical Lexicon." In Aristotelian Logic and the Arabic Language in Alfarabi, pp. 1-34. Albany: State University Of New York Press, 1991.
Explains the meanings of terms used by al-Fārābī in his writings on logic.
Black, Deborah L. "Al-Fārābī." In History of Islamic Philosophy, Part I, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman, pp. 178-97. London: Routledge, 1996.
Examines numerous works by al-Fārābī and describes the approaches he takes in writing about logic, philosophy, psychology, and metaphysics....
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In this tutorial you will learn how to insert a binary file into a CUBRID database. Before we continue you should remember that LOB data in CUBRID is stored outside the database on the external storage while the references to those files are stored in database columns. For more info, refer to Working with CUBRID BLOB / CLOB Data Types.
This example assumes the following database schema.
CREATE TABLE images( id INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, image BLOB );
Notice that our BLOB column does not have NOT NULL or UNIQUE constraints because in CUBRID LOB columns (both BLOB and CLOB) cannot set these constraints.
The example below is written in Java although it is possible to accomplish the same task using other APIs.
import cubrid.jdbc.driver.CUBRIDConnection; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.sql.*; public class Basic { public static CUBRIDConnection connect() { Connection conn = null; try { Class.forName("cubrid.jdbc.driver.CUBRIDDriver"); conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:cubrid:localhost:33000:demodb:dba:"); conn.setAutoCommit (false) ; } catch ( Exception e ) { System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage()); } return (CUBRIDConnection)conn; } public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { CUBRIDConnection conn = null; PreparedStatement preStmt = null; conn = connect(); try { String fileName = "/path/to/binary/file.gif"; File file = new File(fileName); if (!file.exists()) { throw new IOException("File " + fileName + " cannot be found."); } else{ FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file); // create a prepared statement to insert BLOB data. preStmt = conn.prepareStatement("insert into images (image) VALUES ( ? )"); // create a BLOB object which will store our binary file Blob blob = conn.createBlob(); byte[] b = new byte(int) file.length(); // read all bytes from the file stream to our binary array, // and make sure we read all the bytes from the file assert fileInputStream.read(b) == file.length(); // now set these bytes to our BLOB object blob.setBytes(1, b); // finally bind our BLOB object to the prepared statement preStmt.setBlob(1, blob); // execute the prepared query preStmt.executeUpdate(); preStmt.close(); } // since we have set auto_commit mode to false, we need to manually commit the changes. conn.commit(); conn.close(); } catch ( Exception e ) { conn.rollback(); System.err.println("SQLException : " + e.getMessage()); } finally { if ( conn != null ) conn.close(); } } }
That is all you need to read a binary file and send it to the database. CUBRID will store the file in a LOB directory, which was set when the database was created. By default it is located in the same directory where the database volume files are located. For more info, see --lob-base-path option for cubrid createdb utility.
Once the file is stored into the disk, the path to the binary file (LOB Locator) is stored in the image BLOB column in our table.


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Alewife Linear Park/Somerville Community Path
2 miles
Alewife Linear Park is a beautiful paved trail stretching 2 miles east from the Alewife T-station in Cambridge to Cedar Street in Somerville. The park came about after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (the "T") put its Red Line ...
Amesbury Riverwalk
1.3 miles
A lovely, albeit short, rail-trail in northeastern Massachusetts, the 1.3-mile Amesbury Riverwalk (a.k.a. Powwow Riverwalk) is the first completed section of the Coastal Trails Network, linking the four communities of Amesbury, Salisbury, Newbury ...
Ashburnham Rail Trail
1.3 miles
More than a mile of the Ashburnham Rail Trail opened in 2015 from a point just south of Ashburnham's center to Turnpike Road. The rustic route, planned to be paved in the future, offers a natural-surface course through dense woodlands, providing ...
Assabet River Rail-Trail
5.6 miles
The Assabet River Rail-Trail provides a forested escape from the surrounding urban bustle. Traveling 5.6 miles (with plans to expand it) the trail connects the towns of Hudson and Marlborough and parallels the scenic Assabet River. As of autumn ...
Barker Road Trail
0.9 miles
Barker Road Trail begins on the town line between North Andover and Boxford in northern Massachusetts, not far from the New Hampshire border. From there, the pathway continues through dense woodlands and farm fields on a straight northeast course ...
Bay Colony Rail Trail
1.7 miles
The Bay Colony Rail Trail will one day span 7 miles connecting the Boston suburbs of Newton, Needham, Dover, and Medfield along tracks once used by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. In May 2016, 1.7 miles of the pathway opened between ...
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Bedford Narrow Gauge Rail-Trail
3.1 miles
The Bedford Narrow-Gauge Rail-Trail shares its trailhead at Depot Park in Bedford with the Minuteman Bikeway and Reformatory Branch Trail. Serving mainly as a commuter route, this trail extends just over 3 miles north, past woods and residences ...
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Blackstone River Greenway (MA)
3 miles
The Blackstone River Greenway (previously known as the Blackstone River Bikeway) is a 3-mile trail that represents the first open segment of the Massachusetts portion of a pathway that will eventually link Worcester, Mass. with Providence, RI. The ...
Boxford Rail Trail
2.1 miles
The Boxford Rail Trail is a short, rustic pathway open on a former rail corridor in rural Essex County. Now home to overhead electric wires owned by National Grid, the trail is open via a license granted from the utility to the Town of Boxford ...
Bradford Rail Trail
1.3 miles
The newly open Bradford Rail Trail occupies the former Pan Am rail lines, beautifying an area that once lay strewn with garbage and weeds. The city and numerous dedicated volunteers created the mile-long path for pedestrians, cyclists, joggers ...
Bridge Street Bike Trail
1 miles
The Bridge Street Bike Trail begins near Curtis Park and travels south through downtown Salem, closely following the Bridge Street Bypass. The short trail runs through residential, retail and commercial areas, offering views of the North River ...
Bruce Freeman Rail Trail
6.8 miles
The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail follows the route of the former Framingham and Lowell Railroad. It begins at the Lowell/Chelmsford city line, about 30 miles northwest of Boston, near Cross Point, a major office complex. From there, it travels nearly ...
Center Trail
0.6 miles
The Center Trail runs for less than a mile from Hopkinton's downtown to its high school and middle school, providing a safe route to school for thousands of students. The wooded trail, which once suffered from a rough surface and poor drainage, ...
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Cheshire Rail Trail (Cheshire Branch Rail Trail)
32.8 miles
The Cheshire Rail Trail stretches for nearly 33 miles between Route 12 near Bookseller Road and the New Hampshire–Massachusetts state line at Route 12. In Keene, the trail includes a beautiful stone arch bridge over the Ashuelot River. There ...
Clipper City Rail Trail & Harborwalk
1.1 miles
The 1.1-mile, multi-use Clipper City Rail Trail and Harbor Walk connects the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail station and the Merrimack River near downtown Newburyport. Though short, the trail traverses a mix of ...
Cochituate Rail Trail
1.1 miles
The Cochituate Rail Trail (CRT) is a developing, multi-use trail that will run from the Village of Saxonville in Framingham to Natick Center, a distance of 4 miles. Currently, its northernmost mile in Framingham is complete. Due to its close ...
Common Pathway
6.5 miles
Common Pathway runs for nearly 7 miles from the south end of Peterborough north to Hancock. The trail is a combination of asphalt and gravel and follows an old railroad right-of-way along the Contoocook River. Begin the trail just south of ...
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Concord River Greenway
2 miles
The health and fortunes of Lowell have been intimately tied to the Concord River for hundreds of years. This tributary of the more famous Merrimack River continues to be at the heart of the local economy; the town of Lowell was a textile milling ...
Danvers Rail Trail
5.1 miles
Danvers Rail Trail follows the historic Newburyport Railroad that used to carry goods and passengers between Danvers and Boston in the late 1800s. The abandoned corridor extends just over 5 miles from Peabody north through the heart of Danvers ...
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Derry Rail Trail
3 miles
Stretching 3 miles north from Windham through woodlands to Derry, the Derry Rail Trail runs on the same former rail bed network on which the Rockingham Recreational Trail is built. This section of trail, which extends from the Windham Rail Trail, ...
Dover Community Trail
3.8 miles
Dover Community Trail, which will one day stretch 8 miles along the former Newington Branch Railway, is currently half-way complete. It begins at Fisher Street and heads north, connecting residents in Dover's southern neighborhoods with the ...
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Dr. Paul Dudley White Bike Path
13.6 miles
Nestled in Boston's Charles River Reservation, the Dr. Paul Dudley White Bike Path offers a pleasant walk or ride along both sides of the river from the city's Museum of Science to Watertown. To reach both shores, the Charles River can be crossed ...
East Boston Greenway
1.4 miles
The East Boston Greenway, a linear park made possible by the donation of a disused rail corridor by Conrail in 1997 and the 'Big Dig' project in later years, links Boston Harbor with new parks created as a result of the I-90 extension to Logan ...
Farmington Recreational Rail-Trail
6 miles
The Farmington Recreational Rail-Trail runs for 6 miles between the towns of Rochester and Farmington. The trail parallels the Cocheco River and State Route 11 through a wooded corridor. The trail is popular with snowmobiles in winter.
Gloria Braunhardt Bike Path
1.2 miles
Although short, the scenic Gloria Braunhardt Bike Path travels through forests and pastures full of birds and wildlife. The asphalt pathway parallels the eastern side of the present-day Interstate 95 while following the old interstate roadbed. ...
Goffstown Rail Trail
5.5 miles
The Goffstown Rail Trail is open, but still in development. About half of the Goffstown Rail Trail has hard packed gravel surface. Goffstown Rail Trail stretches just over 5 miles in length. A bridge connects the Goffstown Rail Trail with the ...
Granite Town Rail-Trail
3 miles
Mile 0.0 - DPW Garage Cross the bridge in the parking area, the trail starts behind the fence, crossing over Great Brook on a old dam. Mile 0.53 - After crossing Union St. you will come to a concrete span over Great Brook. Mile 0.66 ...
Haggetts Rail Trail
2 miles
The Haggetts Rail Trail is a short, but sweet unpaved trail located on the periphery of Haggetts Pond, the local reservoir for the nearby town of Andover. Built on part of the former line of the historic Lowell and Lawrence Railroad, the trail ...
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Hanover Branch Rail Trail
2.6 miles
In the southeastern outskirts of Boston, the Hanover Branch Rail Trail connects the communities of Abington and Rockland. (Locally, the trail's east and west halves are sometimes referred to as the Abington Rail Trail and the Rockland Rail Trail.) ...
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Harrisville Rail Trail
1.6 miles
The Harrisville Rail Trail runs for just under two miles between the outskirts of Harrisville and Hancock in rural New Hampshire. The former railroad bed is located on lands conserved by the Harris Center for Conservation Education, and the ...
Heritage Trail (Manchester)
0.9 miles
The Heritage Trail is managed by the state of New Hampshire to provide access to recreational and historical attractions across the state. Eventually, the north-south route along the former Boston and Maine Railroad corridor will stretch more ...
Hillsborough Recreational Rail Trail
7.8 miles
Hillsborough Recreational Rail Trail connects three communities in south-central New Hampshire: Hillsborough, Deering, and Bennington. The unpaved trail winds along the Contoocook River through rural and wooded landscapes for nearly 8 miles. ...
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Hooksett Rail Trail
1.75 miles
Hooksett Rail-Trail follows a portion of a right-of-way of the Portsmouth & Concord Railroad. This section of the railroad was abandoned in 1862, leaving behind an attractive corridor for the trail. The trail provides access to Heads Pond and ...
Independence Greenway
8.1 miles
Independence Greenway offers 8 miles of trail in three disconnected segments through western Peabody. The rail-trail follows the abandoned Salem and Lowell Railroad and offers nice views. It passes by wetlands and ponds that are home to herons, ...
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Jay McLaren Memorial Trail
2 miles
Nestled in the woodlands on the northern end of Merrimac in the far northeastern corner of Massachusetts, lies the beautiful Jay McLaren Memorial Trail. The town, once known as West Amesbury, had a thriving industry of horse-drawn carriage shops. ...
Lake Winnisquam Scenic Trail
1.8 miles
The first phase of Belmont's Lake Winnisquam Scenic Trail, nicknamed the Winni Trail, opened September 2016. Stretching just shy of 2 miles, the paved trail winds through woodlands and the Leslie Roberts Recreation Area along the beautiful Lake ...
Londonderry Rail Trail
3.1 miles
The Londonderry Rail Trail will one day stretch 6 miles across Londonderry from Derry to Manchester, New Hampshire's largest city, along the former Manchester and Lawrence Railroad. As of December 2015, 3 miles of the trail are paved and open, ...
Lowell Canal System Trails
1.9 miles
Lowell's Canal System Trails are part of Lowell National Historical Park in Lowell, Massachusetts. The park preserves some of America's industrial past: its 19th-century textile mills formed the first large-scale planned industrial city in America. ...
Marblehead Rail-Trail
4.1 miles
Shaped like a Y, this 4.1-mile rail-trail connects Marblehead, Salem and Swampscott. From the trail junction in quaint Marblehead, one branch meanders through conservation areas and past harbor overlooks to Salem, notorious for its 1692 witch ...
Martin H. Burns Wildlife Management Area Trail
3.4 miles
The rail-trail through the Martin H. Burns Wildlife Management Area begins at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail station near downtown Newburyport, a coastal Massachusetts city northeast of Boston. On the other ...
Mason Railroad Trail
6.7 miles
The Mason Railroad Trail runs for nearly 7 miles from near the New HampshireMassachusetts border (nr. Townsend, MA) to Greenville, NH. The trail follows a heavily wooded corridor through Russell State Forest and Coyne Wildlife Sanctuary. There's ...
Mass Central Rail Trail
31.9 miles
A 104 mile rail line was shattered by hurricane in 1938. Now, more than 60 years later, dedicated volunteers in 33 communities are working to reconnect it. Instead of trains there will be cross-country skiers, bicyclists, hikers, and joggers. It ...
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Mattapoisett Rail Trail Extension
12 miles
From Narragansett Bay Wheelmen Bicycle Club website: Beginning in Fairhaven, which opened its initial 3.5-mile segment in November 1998, this rail-to-trail and on-road mix will provide bicycle (and equestrian) links between the three town ...
Methuen Rail Trail
2.4 miles
Methuen Rail Trail connects three communities in northeastern Massachusetts as it follows the route of the former Manchester and Lawrence Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The rail-trail's northern end begins in Salem at the state's ...
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Minuteman Bikeway
9.7 miles
You won't get lonely on the Minuteman Bikeway. The nearly 10-mile rail-trail through suburban Boston is one of New England's most popular trails. Warm summer weekends in particular bring folks of all ages and abilities elbow to elbow along the ...
Monadnock Branch Rail-Trail
7.2 miles
The scenic Monadnock Branch Rail-Trail travels for just over 7 miles from Webster Street in Jaffrey near the ball field to the New HampshireMassachusetts border. From Jaffrey to Rindge the trail is packed gravel, except for a paved section ...
Nanamocomuck Trail
12 miles
The Upper and Lower Nanamocomuck Trails in White Mountain National Forest are accessible from Kancamagus Highway (SR 112) west of Conway. The trails are open for hiking in summer and cross-country skiing (ungroomed) in winter. The lower trails ...
Nashua Canal Trail (Mine Falls Park)
6.05 miles
The Nashua Canal Trail is part of a series of loop trails in Mine Falls Park, Nashua. A total of 6 miles of trails wind along the canal and river in this beautiful, wooded park. Only 1.2 miles of trail are paved, while the rest are hard-packed ...
Nashua Heritage Rail-Trail
1.3 miles
The Nashua Heritage Rail Trail begins adjacent to City Hall on Main Street in downtown Nashua. It is a short trail that takes you through one of the first neighborhoods that was planned and built in conjunction with the creation of the textile ...
Nashua River Rail Trail
12.3 miles
The Nashua River Rail Trail is a beautiful and peaceful rural trail extending through the Massachusetts communities of Ayer, Groton, Pepperell and Dunstable. The trail continues into New Hampshire just south of the town of Nashua. In autumn ...
Neponset River Greenway
5.2 miles
Although the Neponset River Greenway totals more than 5 miles in length, it's currently open in several short disconnected sections on the southern outskirts of Boston. The trail is paved and provides a variety of scenery from urban wilderness ...
New Boston Rail Trail
3.9 miles
The New Boston Rail Trail follows the old railroad line of the same name, running along the Piscataquog River between the Hillsborough County Youth Center in New Boston and Route 114, about 4 miles to the north. The trail is heavily wooded ...
North Bank Bridge
0.5 miles
The North Bank Bridge, which opened in 2012, provides a safe and convenient pedestrian and bicycle connection between Cambridge's North Point Park and Paul Revere Park in Charlestown. Spanning 690 feet, it heads under the Zakim Bridge and over ...
North Central Pathway
11.4 miles
The North Central Pathway will one day stretch 16 miles between the cities of Winchendon and Gardner in northern Massachusetts, primarily along a former railroad right-of-way. Three open sections currently offer just over 11 miles of paved, ...
Northern Rail Trail
58 miles
At 58 miles, the Northern Rail Trail spans Grafton and Merrimack counties and is the longest rail-trail in New Hampshire. Along with grass, the surface is dirt, crushed gravel, and cinders in Grafton and crush gravel in Merrimack; both easily ...
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Northern Strand Community Trail
5.6 miles
Nearly 6 miles of the Northern Strand Community Trail, which follows the former Boston and Maine Railroad, are open to the public. Although this includes two disjointed trail segments, once Revere completes its portion of the Northern Strand ...
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Old Eastern Marsh Trail
1.4 miles
The Old Eastern Marsh Trail (a.k.a the Salisbury Rail Trail) runs for 1.4 miles between the north bank of the Merrimack River and Mudnock Road in Salisbury. The beautifully landscaped trail was built in 2009 and adds to an already impressive ...
Peanut Trail
1.5 miles
The Peanut Trial is a distinct trail in the town of Newton that spans one-mile. This rail-trail runs on the same corridor as the Jay McLaren Memorial Trail. However, due to a controversial lawsuit by land owners, this segment is separate and ...
Pine Tree Brook / Popes Pond Path
2 miles
The Pine Tree Brook Trail travels alongside the brook in Milton, Massachusetts. The path travels through woods and residential neighborhoods for a distance of about 1.8 miles, and it connects to the Milton High School, and almost to the Pierce ...
Piscataquog Trail
2.1 miles
The Piscataquog Trail runs for 2 miles between the east bank of the Merrimack River and Pinard Street at Electric Street. On the east end, the trail begins near the New Hampshire Fisher Cats baseball stadium along an abandoned right-of-way of ...
Quarries Footpath
1 miles
50 Quarries have operated in Quincy, "The Granite City", since 1826. This trail provides a short tour of the railway corridor where the stone was carried from the Quarries.
Ramblin Vewe Farm Trails
5 miles
The Ramblin' Vewe Farm Trails are part of the Ramblin' Vewe Farm Trust property, a non-profit organization that protects and preserves the farm, while conserving the heritage of working farms and rural landscapes. Part of their mission is to ...
Reformatory Branch Trail
4.5 miles
The rugged and beautiful Reformatory Branch Trail meanders more than 4 miles through three natural areas: Elm Brook Conservation Area, Mary Putnam Webber Wildlife Preserve, and Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. It is the perfect route ...
Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail (Fremont Branch)
16.5 miles
The Fremont Branch of the Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail follows a diagonal, 16.5-mile path from Windham to Epping in the southeastern corner of New Hampshire. As the trail is unpaved (dirt with areas of heavy sand), it's best suited for ...
Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail (Portsmouth Branch)
26.5 miles
New Hampshire's largest city, Manchester, boasts relatively quick access to one of the state's longest rail-trails: the 26.5-mile Rockingham Recreational Trail (a.k.a. Portsmouth Branch). The rustic trail is rich in railroad structures left ...
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Salem Bike-Ped Corridor
0.15 miles
When complete, the Salem Bike-Ped Corridor will run for more than 5 miles on a former Boston and Maine Railroad corridor from connections with the Windham Rail Trail (north) and Methuen Rail Trail (south) in their respective towns. The completion ...
Salem-Beverly Canal Path (Grand Wenham Canal Path)
2 miles
Although only a grassy, hard-packed dirt pathway, the route along the Salem-Beverly Canal (also known as the Grand Wenham Canal), is scenic and peaceful. The old canal, built in 1917, lies between two towns, Topsfield and Wenham, in northeastern ...
Salisbury Beach State Reservation Trail
0.6 miles
Although less than a mile, the trail running through Salisbury Beach State Reservation offers lovely views of the beaches off the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, just a few miles south of the New Hampshire border. As the Merrimack River ...
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Salisbury Point Ghost Trail
1.8 miles
Currently 1.8 miles, the Salisbury Point Ghost Trail provides a peaceful walk or bike ride through the woods on a well-maintained stone-dust trail. The route is one part of the larger Coastal Trails Network of rail-trails linking the coastal ...
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Salisbury Rail Trail Connector
0.3 miles
The Salisbury Rail Trail Connector, also known as the Gillis Rail Trail Connector, is a 0.3-mile link between two rail-trails: Salisbury's Old Eastern Marsh Trail and Newburyport's Clipper City Rail Trail and Harborwalk. The paved 10-foot-wide ...
Sanford Railroad Trail
4.8 miles
The Sanford Railroad Trail goes by two other names: the Deering Pond Trail or just plain "Railroad Trail." The trail runs for nearly 5 miles between the town of Lebanon and the University of Southern Maine in Sanford. The trail is popular with ...
South Manchester Rail Trail
0.89 miles
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MP3 players will hardly surprise anyone today. After the legendary Diamond Rio 300, which has become a kind of pioneer in this very popular field, the market of MP3 devices and the like started growing incredibly fast. Every time a manufacturer introduced a new MP3 player, he claimed that only his new device was the one to represent a new generation of MP3 players. However, most enhancements dealt with adding new features such as microphone recording or a built-in electronic organizer. The major component of the player, the storage unit, remained unchanged. Usually it was the Flash memory of difference size. However, taking into account the price-to-performance ratio, Flash memory appeared a pretty expensive thing, even today its cost is quite high. That's why it's been really hard to provide an MP3 player with a large amount of Flash memory. At the same time, the memory size turned into the main bottleneck of all MP3 players, because it didn't allow storing enough MP3 music. This is one of the reasons, which pushed the developers towards CD-players capable of playing CD disks with MP3 files. But it isn't our today's topic.
The hero of our today's discussion is a new MP3 player from Creative, NOMAD Jukebox (D.A.P. Jukebox for Europe), which deserves being called a new generation MP3 payer. The feature that distinguishes this product from all the other PM3 players is a HDD used for files storing. Due to this fact as well as to a number of other exclusive cool features, NOMAD Jukebox can become a very popular digital audio-player. Especially since it looks much more attractive from some viewpoints than its existing mini-disk and CD brothers. However, very often a brilliant idea can be brought down to naught by inaccurate implementation and hence lose all its unique advantages. So, we decided to take a closer look at NOMAD Jukebox to find out what it was worth.
Creative NOMAD Jukebox specifications look as follows:
The package includes the following stuff:
And now let's take a closer look at this product, at its advantages and drawbacks.
Creative NOMAD Jukebox looks just like an ordinary CD player and is of nearly the same size.
However, this is just the exterior looks. And inside hides the major advantage of NOMAD Jukebox over other MP3 players - a hard disk drive. The today's Jukebox features a 6GB ATA/66 Fujitsu MHK2060AT HDD, just the same as you can see in some notebooks.
The HDD of high capacity like that allows storing up to 100 hours of music in MP3-files recorded with CD quality (at the bitrate of 128Kbit/s, or 50 hours at 256Kbit/s, which is now getting more and more popular).
As a result, Jukebox can become a portable music library, where you store not only your favorite music tracks, but just everything you may ever need. In other words, once uploaded to Jukebox, the MP3 files do not need to be removed every time you wish to upload something new. And this is an indisputable advantage of this player compared to other MP3 players featuring little memory. By other players you have to upload the album anew if you want to listen to it, since most of them do not have enough room to store all your favorites. As for Jukebox, you can have over a hundred of albums stored and hence have a really rich choice. So, with the entire music collection on a single player, you will connect it to the PC not too often, only if your favorite singer records a new track or launches a new album.
The files are uploaded to the Jukebox via the USB bus. No wonder, since this is the today's fastest bus for external devices. Moreover, it's a really hard task to stuff 6GB of your Jukebox memory with music. The data is transferred from the PC to the player at approximately 500KB/sec.
To upload the files you can use a special utility from Creative, PlayCenter 2.0, which allows uploading ready files from the PC hard disk drive as well as grabbing the tracks directly from the CD disk inserted into the CD ROM drive of your PC. It takes about 10 minutes to read, encode and upload to the Jukebox an average CD with music.
The interface of Creative PlayCenter 2.0 is very simple: two clicks are more than enough to move the files from the PC to the player.
Since one day your Jukebox may be filled with over 1000 tracks, the classification issue appears quite acute. We have to admit that the developers coped with this task really well. Even though the file system of the Jukebox is not hierarchical, there are three main criteria for sorting the tracks: albums, artists and genre. Creative PlayCenter 2.0 borrows these data from the CD Internet database, CDDB2. If you like, you may fill in the necessary infos manually, no problem. Besides, the player also allows searching the tracks simply by name. All in all, you will hardly get lost in the bunch of files you have in your Jukebox.
The player has all the required controls, which are pretty cleverly implemented. The only thing it lacks is the possibility to rewind fast the track being played. All the info about the player status, hints and system notifications are shown on a seven-string LCD-display. Even at night you will be able to see what is going on there, because the display is provided with the backlight.
As far as the playback and decoding quality are concerned, Jukebox surely proves not bad at all. However, some of you may be not very happy with the MP3 algorithm and the files compressed following this method. If you are that hard to please, Jukebox can offer you the ordinary WAV format. With the 6GB HDD you will be able to store over 10 CDs in this primitive format. The same Creative PlayCenter 2.0 utility can also grab CD-tracks in WAV format.
One of the coolest advantages of the first MP3 players was the absence of moving parts in the player construction, which allowed giving up shock protection issue. As for Jukebox, it cannot boast the same thing. Even though its HDD can stand the shock of 150G, shock protection is badly needed. So, the manufacturer had to provide Jukebox with the appropriate memory resources, namely with an 8MB DRAM buffer, which prevents the playback from interruption in any situation. This buffer is more than enough not only when listening to MP3 files, but also when playing the WAV-files.
We have to point out that even compared to CD and MD players, Jukebox still appears more attractive. The thing is that this player is also equipped with a digital signal processor (DSP), which allows adding sound effects in real time. First of all, we should mention the equalizer used to change the level of high, medium and low frequencies separately within the interval from -12dB to +12dB. Secondly, the player features surround sound option. Thirdly, you can adjust the play speed (note that this function is typical only of professional dictaphones). And finally, we should also mention Creative brand feature: changing environmental settings like by Sound Blaster Live! sound cards (EAX).
However, when designing its Jukebox, Creative didn't want to offer the world just a primitive player, but aimed at creating an additional MP3 device for your home stereo system. That's why Jukebox is provided with a four-channel line Out, so that you could connect it to five- or six-piece acoustic systems. Besides, NOMAD Jukebox also has a line-In. With the help of this Input port you can save incoming sound signals in WAV format to your Jukebox player. There is also an infra-red port, which isn't used now. However, Creative promises to design a remote control unit for this player, so the infra-red port got involved. As for headphones supplied together with the player, they are definitely of much higher quality than those accompanying other MP3 players.
An important peculiarity of NOMAD Jukebox is the possibility to update the player firmware. So, Creative has the chance not only to eliminate errors if there are any, but also to add some extra features and EAX effects.
Unfortunately, Jukebox is not ideal and it also has its disadvantages. The major drawback of this device is the increased power consumption because of the HDD used in it. That's why 4 AA batteries will last Jukebox only an hour listening at the most. Therefore, Creative accompanies its offspring with two sets of high capacity AA rechargeable batteries, which last the player up to 4 hours. At first sight the problem seems to be solved, but... After about 40 minutes playing the batteries lose so much power that the player stops responding adequately to the external impacts, in particular it stops responding to button pressing though the music keeps playing fine. That's why it is a really difficult task to stop the player after 1.5-2 hours of continuous playback: all the buttons as well as the volume regulator stop working. The only thing that can help in this case is the "reset" button, which we were lucky to find on the player. Fortunately, there are no problems like that when using the player connected to the AC.
Although the DSP used in Jukebox allows implementing a number of interesting effects, it causes noticeable volume decrease if activated, i.e. if you activate the equalizer, surround sound or environmental audio extensions. As a result, you can listen to the sound with some effects applied to it only via the external speakers or audio system. To our great disappointment with the headphones on we could listen to music only in a quiet room in this case, and as for listening to music outdoors or in a bus, it appeared absolutely impossible because of the extremely low volume.
Since Creative NOMAD Jukebox isn't just a consumer electronic appliance, but a mini-computer, it can boast its own operation system. Although, this system is quite a slow one: it takes the player a bit long to respond to button pressing, and it takes the system about 15-20 second to load completely. Besides, the developers also remembered about such an important thing for systems with a HDD, as file defragmenting. So, with the time your Jukebox threatens to become as slow as a snail.
Moreover, Jukebox doesn't allow downloading the files from the player HDD back to your PC. Of course, the developers intended to eliminate the problem of music copyright violation. However, as a result your player turns out unable to serve as a removable storage unit which appears a definite drawback for it, since it has a 6GB HDD.
Though the previous Creative player, NOMAD II, featured a built-in FM-tuner, NOMAD Jukebox cannot boast this attractive trifle. The developers probably thought that 100 hours of music could replace the radio completely.
Certainly, we can't disregard the poor info displayed on the LCD-panel during the music playback. Jukebox doesn't show the bitrate, track format and the current bpm, while a lot of MP3 players from other manufacturers do provide this info.
The only thing that can justify this decision, is the possibility to update the player firmware. So, this gives us some hope that the drawbacks will be eliminated in the nearest future.
In conclusion we would like to touch upon the price issue. The recommended price for Creative NOMAD Jukebox makes $500, while the players with 64MB memory cost $200 at the most. We doubt that Jukebox owes this huge price difference to the DSP and HDD. The most logical explanation here is Creative's ambitions. So, we think that the price should undoubtedly drop in the nearest future, when the company skims the first sales.
All in all, Creative NOMAD Jukebox is a very interesting and original device. However, unfortunately, this beautiful idea wasn't put into practice that beautifully and the player has a lot of significant drawbacks, which prevent you from enjoying it as a portable device. As for the stationary usage, Jukebox proves really cool.
Nevertheless, EAX support, huge storage capacity (up to 100 hours of music) and some other interesting features, make Jukebox an important stage in the development of digital audio players. That's why we really hope that new firmware versions will help remove some of the drawbacks and Jukebox wins the hearts of numerous MP3 fans.


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Lite-On IT, a leading producer of optical disc drives (ODDs), is conservative about the market growth of Blu-ray disc (BD) standard this year. Nevertheless, despite of uncertain prospects of BD in China now that CBHD format outsells Blu-ray, the company has no plans to enter the market of CBHD optical drives.
Chief executive officer of Lite-On, Guang-chung Chen, said at a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan that considerable expansion of the global BD player market depends on price drops of BD movie discs and penetration of high-definition TVs, reports DigiTimes web-site. While the pricing of HDTVs has been going down for several years now, the cost of Blu-ray movies remains rather high. As a result, Lite-On maintains rather conservative predictions of Blu-ray disc market expansion.
Despite of high cost, the end of format war and gradual decrease of Blu-ray players' prices have helped the format to capture relatively tangible market share in the U.S. Therefore, it is crucial for Lite-On and other ODD manufacturers not to be too conservative. While DVD remains de-facto standard both for home video and data archives, the Blu-ray is becoming more and more popular.
At present movies on Chinese CBHD format (which is largely based on HD DVD technology) outsell movies on BD three to one in China and it will be hard to push Blu-ray to that market, according to Mr. Chen. But Lite-On IT has no plans to manufacture CBHD players for the time being, the head of the company stressed.
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Michelle Lynn Markham, 51, of Absolut of Westfield, Westfield, N.Y., passed away with her loving family by her side late Tuesday morning, April 30, 2013, at Absolut of Westfield, following an ex-tended illness.
Michelle was born in Westfield, N.Y., on May 15, 1961, and was the daughter of the late Willis and Dorothy Genung Markham.
She spent most of her life in Brocton, N.Y., and was a graduate of the Brocton Central School district, where she loved and participated on the softball team.
Michelle was employed for many years as a nurse's aide for The Chautauqua County Home and Infirmary of Dunkirk, N.Y. She also had moved to Bradenton, Fla., in 2007, where she worked for five years as a nurse's aide for The Bradenton Health Care Center of Bradenton, Fla.
She was a member of the Fellowship Church of Brocton, N.Y. Michelle also found great enjoyment in working with various arts and crafts.
She is survived by her one son, Kyle Markham of Brocton, N.Y.; her foster mother, Mary Jane Perkins of Portland, N.Y.; a brother, Dale Markham of Brocton, N.Y.; three sisters: Cheryl (Edward) Overstreet of Bradenton, Fla., Wanda (James) Hall of Brocton, N.Y., and Phyllis Raynor of Brocton, N.Y,; and several nieces and nephews.
Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her foster father, Carl Perkins; and two brothers: Larry Markham and James Markham.
The funeral service will be held on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at 4 p.m., from the Morse Funeral Home, 51 Highland Ave., Brocton, N.Y. The Rev Sandy Ball of the Fellowship Church of Brocton will officiate. Friends are invited to call at the Morse Funeral Home from 2-4 p.m. prior to the service.
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On November 28 I posted about our efforts to get more volunteers into Mozilla IT. A lot has happened in the background since and I want to let you know what's happening (and why it's taking so long!).
The response and interest has been overwhelming.
I listed five different positions volunteers could "apply" to. I chose to use our exising applicant tracking system, Jobvite (I already have enough wheels, don't need to invent another) and many of you have already expressed interested and applied.
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Metcalf, the captain of the U.S. squad, tallied 75 kills on 161 attempts for a tournament-leading 46.6 conversion percent. She also produced a .366 hitting efficiency with only 16 hitting errors. The U.S. finished fourth in the tournament as it lost back-to-back heart-breaking five set matches to Dominican Republic in the semifinals and Cuba in the bronze-medal match.
Dominican Republic's Prisilla Rivera was elected the Most Valuable Player of the tournament as she led her country to its first NORCECA Championship title with an emotional five-set victory over host Puerto Rico. Dominican Republic, which saved five match points against the U.S. during the semifinals on Sept. 26 to win in five sets with the final set being 21-19, saved four more match points in the gold-medal match on Sept. 27 against Puerto Rico to win.
Dominican Republic teammate Brenda Castillo was heralded as the Best Libero, Best Digger and Best Receiver.
Cubans Yanelis Santos and Nancy Carrillo were selected as Best Server and Best Blocker, respectively. Cuban teammate Wilma Salas received the Rising Star Award honoring young players making an impact on their team.
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To the editor:
I want to preface this piece by saying that I am completely, 100 percent, warm blooded American. I eat apple pie and read Playboy like everyone else. I was born and raised here, and have no plans to leave.
However, even from my limited view of the world from rural Minnesota I have found that my entire life we have been dancing to the symphony of destruction in this country. I'm am 30. Let us take a long look in the mirror. We call ourselves "The Land of the Free." Let's dissect this for a moment. What freedoms do we truly have? I will make a partial list just for illustration. It is by no means comprehensive.
You have the freedom to follow the laws of the land, which you had no say in either their creation or enforcement. You have the freedom to pay taxes. You have the freedom to be a loyal consumer. You have the freedom to believe what the government tells you. You have the right to participate in a legal system which determines penalties not by guilt or innocence, but how much money and political clout you have attained. You have the right to vote in a political system which is totalitarian and a de facto two party system. You have the right to watch on TV as third party candidates are arrested for trying to debate the two dominating parties. You have the right to choose between a president who gave away billions of dollars away to little Eichmanns in places of financial power who caused a financial crisis while 20 percent of African American children go to bed hungry, and a religious lunatic who believes in wearing holy underwear, that he will someday become a god, and that he will get to have unending sex in order to populate his own "private" planet; in addition to the fact that he pioneered the concept of outsourcing jobs to China.
Finally, following in the fine tradition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, we have the freedom to force our form of democracy on anyone we chose, even at the cost of silencing their own voices.
Why would any foreign country oppose such "freedom?" Could it be that in the process of practicing these freedoms we are in fact subjecting ourselves and others to slavery? Could it be that in addition to the reasons listed above other countries are completely disgusted by our culture? Is it that hard to fathom that other countries do not want Snooki, J Wow, Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, and the Kardashian girls as spokesman for their generation?
Is this Democracy? Is this what the founding fathers fought for? More importantly, is this what our troops are fighting for? Maybe, if we let the troops come home long enough to see what a sham our country has become they would think twice about risking their lives for it.
Amir Zal


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