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Nanotechnology to fight hospital superbugs
|(Nanowerk News) Each year, twice as many people die in Europe from hospital acquired infections than from road accidents. These infectious diseases have developed antibiotic resistance and spread despite the best efforts of staff, mainly through textiles like bed linen. But the technology developed by a European research project helps fight back against the so-called superbugs, by using a revolutionary nanotechnology to treat bed linen and other textiles.
|The European Nanobond consortium consisted of six companies and two scientific partners. It developed durable antimicrobial textiles with a polymeric coating in the nano range thickness – in other words, of a few layers of polymeric molecules. The textiles have been clinically tested to withstand industrial-strength laundry cycles, and the treatment lasts for the entire lifetime of the product.
|The technology is all the more timely since the role of textile surfaces as ubiquitous hosts to bacteria was underestimated until recently, when it was assumed a wash alone would disinfect. But, even in the journey from laundry to the hospital, there are all sorts of opportunities for new infections.
|The World Health Organisation (WHO) now warns that textiles act as a microbial harbour for superbugs. In the Netherlands, 6.6% of all patients catch a hospital acquired infection (HAI); France now reports 750,000 HAI cases a year, and Germany puts the annual cost of fighting HAI at €2.5 billion. New born children, the old and the weak are the most vulnerable to them.
|Yet Nanobond has shown the superbugs can be beaten. "We proved that even in bacteria rich environments, these anti-microbial textiles will resist, and not spread the infections," says Nanobond project coordinator Patrice Vandendaele, from Belgium-based Devan Chemicals, one of the firms involved in the project consortium.
|Vandendaele said Nanobond sought to develop easy-to-clean textiles that last long, use few chemicals, keep patients healthy and avoid cross-contamination. The breakthrough came when the consortium discovered a molecule that sticks to other molecules. "This molecule was helping organise the antimicrobial molecules, so they would glue better to the surface of the textiles," Vandendaele says.
|The antimicrobial surface effectively acts physically rather than chemically. It has two distinct parts: a glue system to attach to the textiles, and an antimicrobial part to pierce the membrane of any bacteria cell that it touches. "It works like a spike bursting a balloon," says Vandendaele. "While other antimicrobials give bacteria time to adapt, this kills it immediately."
|Both natural and artificial fibres can be treated. And the application itself is a simple dip in a bath followed by drying and curing. Nanobond's tests show that it kills 99.99% of all micro-organisms after the first treatment, a figure that stays as high as 90% even after 70 washes.
|And once the application attaches to textile, it does not leach out into the environment. Nor does it attack good micro-organisms on the skin that help protect people. It only kills what lands on the textiles. "It also means that articles treated with the new technology will have a longer natural lifetime through protection against damage and spoilage," Vandendaele says.
|The project, backed by a European Union (EU) grant of € 1.68 million, ran for three years from September 2009 to August 2012. Now the businesses involved in the consortium are promoting products under a common brand, Maedical. Their goods range from bed sheets to hospital gowns, socks, mattress protections, bandages, upholstery and carpets.
|Source: European Commission
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 10, 2006) - Former ETSU basketball great Calvin Talford (Castlewood, Va.), a player known for his electrifying dunks and contributions to the most successful four years in ETSU's program history, will be honored during "Calvin Talford Night" when the Bucs' meet former Southern Conference rival Chattanooga on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Tip is set for
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Known for his high-flying dunks and his contributions to the most successful four years in ETSU men's basketball history,
Wearing the Blue and Gold from 1988 to 1992, Talford chose to attend ETSU despite a great deal of interest from larger programs. Their loss was certainly ETSU's gain, as Talford spent those next four years rewriting the record books and ultimately finishing his career third on the Bucs' all-time scoring list with 1,872 points. While he now ranks fourth on that list behind recent star Tim Smith, as well as former teammates Greg Dennis and Keith "Mister" Jennings, Talford's name still stands at the top of several categories, including career field goals made (3rd - 661) and career free throw percentage (6th - .793). In addition to the 99 games ETSU won during Talford's era, no record book can adequately list the countless dunks he slammed home in mid-air thanks to passes from
A player who wrapped up his career by winning the 1992 NCAA Slam-Dunk Championship in front of a nationally televised audience on ESPN, Talford went on to play professionally overseas before returning to Northeast Tennessee to make his home in Johnson City. But his legacy will be the many wonderful memories he left behind for ETSU fans both young and old.


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Testing Fuels The NVMe Revolution
Game-changing technologies are exciting. In a recent blog, Jim O'Reilly wrote that Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) was about to "revolutionize" the solid-state drive (SSD) industry in as radical a change as introduced by Fibre Channel in the 90s and SCSI in the 80s.
Revolutions, however, can be tricky to manage. To benefit from new technologies, an industry needs to harness their power. In the case of a new protocol such as NVMe, the interested parties first must collaborate on writing it. Then comes testing and further documentation. Here are five ways the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) is supporting NVMe.
Integrators list: With any disruptive technology, it helps to have a single record for products to interoperate across platforms and conform to the new specification or standard. That is the role of the UNH-IOL's NVMe Integrators List.
How do the UNH-IOL and the NVM Express Organization vet products for this list? First, we collect requirements, often involving company feedback, issues from previous tests, or interest in new features. We discuss those requirements, and if approved, write up and test the procedures. Then the UNH-IOL debuts those procedures at plugfests.
Test procedures: A documented and publicly available test program ensures transparency for NVMe. The program involves an interop and conformance component.
The interop procedure tries to mimic the use of a drive in the real world. It is first installed in a system, which is booted from a non-NVMe boot drive. The visibility of the NVMe drive in the OS is verified, and the drive is formatted. Then a cross-platform tool is used to perform a series of tests, carried out across a series of reboot and shutdown cycles across a variety of OS and hardware platforms. A number of optional or informational tests can also be performed.
The conformance tests are aimed at validating that the SSD is conformant to the NVMe specification. To that end, we use a test tool that acts as an NVMe host to exercise and stimulate the NVMe SSD.
Common test tools: To ensure uniformity in the testing performed at a company's internal lab, UNH-IOL, and at any plugfest, a common set of tools is provided through UNH-IOL's NVMe Consortium. We use two primary test tools to perform the tests.
The first is the IOL Interact PC Edition tool, based on the open source tNVMe tool that the UNH-IOL administers. It can be run using any PC with an Intel PCIe chipset. The second is the IOL Interact Teledyne-Lecroy Edition. This tool is a set of UNH-IOL authored scripts and automation that uses the Summit series of PCIe tools from Teledyne-LeCroy. It can report exactly what is happening on the PCIe bus, and report on NVMe at the packet level.
Plugfests: Industry plugfests serve as a public marker of the progress that new technologies make. NVMe has held two plugfests so far, both hosted by the UNH-IOL.
At the plugfest, SSD implementations are cycled through tests against a variety of host platforms, operating systems, and drivers. Company representatives are present, making debugging easier. The plugfests also serve as a kickoff point for new test procedures and requirements. After the event, the UNH-IOL reviews the results to determine which products have qualified for the Integrators List.
Testing services: Testing that occurs at the plugfest gets a lot of attention, and rightly so. But NVMe test services continue at the UNH-IOL. Some companies may not have been ready for the plugfest, or the event didn't line up with their product release schedule. The opportunity to test and place products on the NVMe Integrators List is still open through testing at the UNH-IOL throughout the year.
Results from these plugfests are promising, and as O'Reilly noted in his column, "justify claims that NVMe has arrived." Recent weeks have yielded additional developments signaling increased support for NVMe, including product announcements, OS support, and support from the test community. Testing can be tedious work; but without it, technological breakthroughs such as NVMe would be less beneficial to the industry at large.
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The Rushers: The Ultimate Quarterback Killer
Dallas Cowboys All-Pro linebacker DeMarcus Ware on violence, bounties, and playing within the rules in the new NFL
DeMarcus Ware doesn't fit the profile of a guy who wrecks quarterbacks for a living. The Dallas Cowboys All-Pro linebacker—one of the most feared pass rushers in the NFL—is a brains-over-brawn kind of athlete, which is a scary thought when you're bringing the kind of brawn he's got. This is a strange time in the NFL to be a sack specialist, though: as most of them will tell you, the league slaps fines on guys for breathing too hard on a quarterback—an unmistakable trend in the rules that often seems at odds with the sport's broader glorification of hard hits and jacked-up highlights. Ware spoke with GQ about the NFL's ambivalence toward violence, how he stays on the right side of the rules—and the moment in his career when he was so scared that he didn't know if he could ever play again.
GQ: Who were the pass rushers you grew up watching?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** The guy I really like is [Rams Hall of Famer] Deacon Jones. When I see Deacon Jones, we sit down and have deep conversations. We just talk about stuff.
GQ: I met Deacon Jones once and five seconds into the conversation, he told me he once had fifty-five sacks in a season, before they officially kept track of sack totals.
** DeMarcus Ware: ** [Laughs] Of course he did. He's a great guy. Every time I see Deacon, I say, "What's up?" and right away he's telling me, "You've got to work on this," or, "You've got to work on that." He says, "You've got to try the head slap" or "You're not trash talking right. You're not a good trash talker." He is straight up. When he talks, he doesn't sugarcoat anything. He's going to tell you straight up what he thinks. And he's ready to get right back out there and play. Like, now.
GQ: Is there a certain technique you've mastered others haven't? Signature moves?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** I'm the Emulator. I'm a technician. Every week, I'm going to have different moves based on the film I watch. I like revealing something totally different every Sunday. I'll get in the film room around 6 o'clock in the morning. I'll watch, say, three hours a day all by myself. I chart who is effective and see what works. Then, whatever that offensive tackle wasn't good at? I make sure I'm going to master it that whole week. I may even be uncomfortable with it, but I'm going to do it. Because I'm going to do all the negative things that you don't like. I'm going to get in your head.
GQ: It's such a chess game, because they're spending their whole week studying your tape.
** DeMarcus Ware: ** It is a chess match, and you know what? I love to play it. I like to know whatever those guys are doing. When people ask me, "How many moves do you have?" I tell them, "Unlimited." Because every day, it changes. Usually pass rushers are like, "Here's what I'm going to do and you'll have to stop me." But I'm like, "You know what? I don't know what I'm going to do." That way, they don't know how to stop me.
GQ: Tell me about a particular play from last season that you'd use as an example of this chess game.
** DeMarcus Ware: ** Week 3 versus the Redskins. Monday Night Football. It was a play with me and [fellow Cowboys outside linebacker] Anthony Spencer in the fourth quarter. All game, I kept going inside, going inside, going inside. Every time I'd come inside, the quarterback, Rex Grossman, would boot outside of me and the tackle and just flip it over to his running back in the flat. So, it's the last play of the game. I said, "Spencer, he's going to run out of the pocket outside of me. All I want you to do is run outside from your side and keep chasing him. Just run the loop. Run around your tackle and run really wide and keep chasing him." I saw it. I knew what would happen. I'd come inside and Grossman would go outside of me, looking to scramble and he'd flip the ball off to his back like he'd done the whole entire game. This time, though, Spencer would chase him down from behind.
GQ: And?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** I come inside and Grossman rolls outside thinking, "Well, I have a lot of time now. It's the last play of the game. I've got a lot of time and I'm going to make a play." But on the other side of the field, Spencer's going all the way around his man. Grossman's running from me, but he doesn't see Spencer coming. Boom—blindside. Spencer makes the play. Strips him. We recover the fumble. Game over.
GQ: Is that even more rewarding than being the guy who makes the hit?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** Oh, absolutely. I saw it! Just being on the same page, I told him what was going to happen and Spencer actually said, "I'm going to force the ball out. I'm going to make him fumble." He said that. Before the play. And it happened. We're like, "Man, it worked!" And the key there was the mental, not the physical. We had to think. We had to see it. Chess game.
GQ: Is there a quarterback you lose sleep over?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** No, but I think a guy that's very hard to prepare for is Michael Vick. He has a very good offensive line, and when you do get back there, it's a rabbit chase. You can't just catch him. You have to corral him. The cornerbacks can't even catch him. Another guy is Cam Newton. We play him this year. He's the same way. I've talked to some of the pass rushers and they say he's very hard to take down. And boy, he's fast, too. He can run. And there's only room for improvement. His mental capacity is only going to improve.
GQ: Your career nearly ended in 2009, during a game against San Diego. You went down with that neck injury and were lying on the carpet motionless. What were you thinking about at that moment?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** You never think that you'll be the guy who's on the stretcher. It's usually a special teams guy, because they have those big impact hits. But the guys on offense and defense, we don't have enough speed built up to have that impact. When I went down, everything just stopped. I thought, "Why am I here?" I actually thought that my body was moving. I thought I was moving my arms, I thought I was moving my legs. But I wasn't. I couldn't move. Mentally, I was moving. But physically, I wasn't. I'm sitting there, just thinking. I was thinking, "I'm that guy." Everyone was watching me, just lying there, unable to do anything. I felt embarrassed, actually. They strapped me up, and I wasn't able to move my neck or arms or legs, but I said, "I'm alright. I'm alright." Then it finally hit me when they took my facemask off. When they took that facemask off, they took something out of me.
GQ: You were no longer this warrior. You were human.
** DeMarcus Ware: ** Yes. I still had my helmet on, but not my facemask. They were rolling me out on the stretcher, and I was sitting there, and I gave my thumbs up. I got into the ambulance and we rode to the hospital, and I was in so much pain. All those nerves. When I got to the hospital, they put me into the wheelchair and I had a big neck brace on and I took all the tests. All the strength tests, the MRIs. Everything was fine. I passed them all. They said, "You can leave." When I finally got home, I just was frozen. I was thinking, "Do you realize what just happened?" Then my neck stopped hurting. Around four or five in the morning, I woke up and took my neck brace off. I came to the facility the next day without it on. Everyone was saying, "What are you doing?!" I told them I felt all right. I felt good. I passed all the tests again. Everyone said, "You're not going to play this week, are you?" And I said, "I don't know".
GQ: Because of the physical pain?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** No, because I was scared. I was so scared. I started thinking about my family. I thought, "I might have to give football up." I really thought I might have to retire, because I just couldn't imagine going through something so traumatic again.
GQ: Who were you guys playing that next week?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** The Saints. They were 13-0, and I forget what our record was [9-5], but we needed the win. What was crazy was that up until kickoff, I didn't know if I was ever going to play football again. My head was screwed up. Then, the craziest thing happened. I walked into the Superdome and something just came over me. I put my helmet back on. I put that facemask back on. And I said, "Okay, I think I'm going to try it out." Deon Henderson—he was our little bulldog, the guy who was always smashing people's heads, he pumped guys up before the game—I had him hit me, and I thought, "Okay, my neck feels good." Then, I looked at the team. And when I looked at the team, they all asked me, "Are you going to play?" And I said, "I don't know, guys." I just went and prayed. I went up to Coach and I said, "I can play on third downs." I went out there on the first third down of the game, and they ran the ball and hit me. Now, the Saints don't ever run the ball on third down. They did that to get me. And you know what? That ticked me off. I was like, "Oh, you guys want to try to hurt me again, don't you?" So then I told Coach to put me in on first downs. And then, second downs, too. And each play, I got more and more confidence about it.
GQ: They pissed you off.
** DeMarcus Ware: ** They did. But even after that game, I was still skeptical each week after that. I'd have pain in my neck and it was a whirlwind that whole year. I feel good now, but it's a blessing.
GQ: Have you ever heard any talk of bounties in the Cowboys locker room?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** You know what, if it's true, I've never heard of anything like that. You might say, "Hey man, if you cause this fumble—thousand bucks." Or you'll say, "Who's going to make the big play? Thousand bucks." But when you start talking about another man's livelihood? No.
GQ: I assume you heard the Greg Williams audio.
** DeMarcus Ware: ** Have you ever heard anything as specific as that? No. I mean, I'm a guy who got knocked out. I nearly broke my neck.
GQ: Were you surprised none of the Saints players spoke out against Williams?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** [Laughs] Crazy. It's like if I told you that if you went out and knocked out this other reporter, you'll get the cover story. I've never seen or heard anything like that before. We were all like, "Hold up. What?" But you know, coaches talk. And just because coaches talk, you don't have to listen to it.
GQ: Last year, you were fined $15,000 for a hit on Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. How much did that fine bother you?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** I told the league: I've got 99.5 sacks in my career—I don't remember a single time I've ever rushed the quarterback and really "roughed the passer." So how are you guys going to fine me? Every single play, I'm the guy that's singled out. It's me and that quarterback. If I really wanted to spear him, trust me, I can. I didn't hit him head-to-head. I could have exploded on him. I could have flipped him upside down if I wanted to. But you know what? I have respect for the game. I'm not going to try to take him out of the game. So, they fined me, and I appealed it. And then it went away.
GQ: I imagine it's hard to turn it on and off. You go out there trying to pursue the quarterback, but you can't be too violent or you'll be slapped with a fine. How do you manage that switch?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** It's always on. It has to be. If you try to play soft, you're going to get hurt. If you slow down for a second, Bam! If you're that guy they're going after, I can promise you—their motor's not going off.
GQ: Does that carry over to the way they market you guys? Do you feel as though defensive players are demonized?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** If they want to put you in that circle, they'll put you in that circle. We don't get any breaks, man. That play in that game against the Bills—that's worth more than $15,000. If it's third-and-fifteen with two minutes left in the fourth quarter, and I don't hit that dude—I just gave him four more downs to score. And if they score? Trust me, that's worth a lot more than $15,000 to my team.
GQ: Do segments like ESPN's "Jacked Up", where the announcers hoot over big hits, bother you?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** Well, the guys that are getting "jacked up" are usually defensive guys. Why don't the offensive guys get fined? When we get crack-backed, there are no fines. I'm working one-on-one with a tackle, and a guy comes in on my legs and chops them—it could be career-ending. A little wide receiver comes in and Bam! Takes out your legs. But that's "just part of the game," because he's a little morsel. But some of these wide receivers are big dudes. Look at Calvin Johnson. But they let those plays go on, so the offense can score.
GQ: After James Harrison was fined a ton of money for a hit last year, they sold the image of the tackle on the league's web site, NFL.com. Do you guys ever see that stuff and think it's ridiculous?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** _[Laughs] _I have no comment on that.
GQ: Are there any guys that everyone recognizes as the "dirty" players?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** You know, I really don't pay much attention to that. Because when I'm out there, man, I don't care what you do. If you're going to be dirty, I'm going to be dirty, too. And trust me, I'm going to take everything out of the bag.
GQ: What's that bag got in it?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** There are guys who want to cut your legs. So, what can the defensive player do as a response? You can power him and put him on his back. If you put an offensive tackle on his back—they're all big dudes—it's degrading. And then you just walk over him slowly. And you turn around and stare at him while he's on the ground. You just beat him up so bad, they know they did something wrong. They woke the beast.
GQ: The beast?
** DeMarcus Ware: ** Yeah, then they're like, "Oh, shit," because they know that every play, I'm coming. I'm not going to stop. At first, I'll smile at you. I won't say nothing to you. I'll just keep beating on you, and beating on you, and beating on you. And if you say something, I won't say anything back. I'm just going to come back harder the next time. I'm going to prove a point: "You fucked with the wrong one. You wake the beast, you're going to get it."


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If it's true that change is good, then 2010 ought to be a banner year for software developers, at least according to a new report entitled The Top Five Changes For Application Development In 2010 from Forrester Research.
So what kind of change can programmers expect? According to analysts Mike Gualtieri, John Rymer, and Jeffrey Hammond who authored the report, five changes will trump all others:
- Developers need to embrace cloud computing as an emerging platform. In particular, developers need to focus on public clouds like that from Amazon Web Services and salesforce.com right away. Why? Because public clouds will let you:
- Speed delivery of custom applications.
- Scale up and down.
- Access clouds from three entry points -- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
- Cloud computing is well suited to big data and many Web apps.
Moreover, according to the report, access to clouds like Microsoft Azure, included with the Visual Studio 2010 license, are available now and don't cost anything but time to get up to speed with.
- Even big shops need to think -- and act -- like little shops. Enterprise-level application development groups need to operate like startups. Successful startups:
- Have limited resources, focus on what is most important, and have little room for missteps, and every line of code they produce needs to solve a business problem and be linked to revenue.
- Successful startups don't adopt elaborate processes and expensive platforms. They have just enough business-focused process and technical tools and platforms to get them to a solution as quickly as possible.
- Respond quickly to changing customer requirements and competition, sometimes making big shifts very quickly.
- Flexibility and cost are more important than platform loyalty. .NET and Java EE are the top dogs, but Forrester is seeing low-cost alternatives like Adobe Flex, Apache Tomcat, The
Dojo Foundation, Drupal, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Open Source Matters Joomla!, Red Hat JBoss,
Ruby on Rails, SpringSource, and the Zend Framework gaining traction. Dev shops need to assess existing projects and determine whether they are overbuying software and hardware in the name of standardization.
- User experience will be increasingly important. Users increasingly expect and demand an experience that's valuable, easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, and emotionally satisfying. The user experience has definable business benefits, including:
- Customer will be willing to purchase. Forrester Research has found that, on average, companies that provide a superior customer experience have 14% more customers who are willing to consider them for another purchase.
- More customers will resist doing business with competitors. Compared with companies that offer a poor experience, companies that offer the best experience in their industry have 16% fewer customers who are likely to consider doing business with a competitor.
- More customers will recommend you. Companies with the highest experience scores have 17%
more customers who are likely to recommend their products or services compared with their
lowest-scoring competitors.
Forrester suggests that developers immediately start making user experience design best practices part of their app development process.
- Find, coach, and keep the best software developers. Forrester has found that the top qualities of great developers is their understanding of the business domain and their technical skills. Great talent has both. You find top developers by:
- Raising your standards beyond just skills. You need application developers who know how to devour business requirements, break down a problem, find creative solutions, and write clean code.
- Finding talented application developers who may be hiding in plain sight. Review your current application development professionals through the lens of both skills and the other skills they bring to the table.
- Assessing smarts, not just skills and experience. Smarts can often trump experience and skills.
- Empowering application development talent in the business.
According to Forrester, each of these five changes will force considerations of broader change, but lead to a more efficient application development organization.


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Wax Cocktail
3 Dashes Orange Bitters. (3 dashes Regan's Orange Bitters.)
1 Glass Plymouth Gin. (2 oz Hayman's Old Tom Gin.)
Shake (I stirred) well and strain into cocktail glass.
This Savoy Cocktail probably originated from Robert Vermiere's "Cocktails: How to Mix Them," in which he notes, "This cocktail is well known in Vancouver and also in British Columbia."
Did you hear that, Matt and Darcy? Yer ancestors were drinking cold gin and not much else to keep themselves warm up there on the tundra, not some sort of fancy drink with your Canadian so-called "Whisky".
Yeah, this will warm you up, that's for sure.
I don't know why I made this with the Hayman's, some sort of Brain Fart, I guess. I should have stuck with my usual 1 oz Plymouth, 1 oz Bols, it probably would have been tastier. But it isn't bad with the Hayman's, either. I think I just didn't feel like drinking high proof Gin, so the 80 Proof of the Hayman's seemed, oh, comforting, compared to the hard justice of the 94 Proof Plymouth.
Some evenings just aren't Film Noir evenings.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Is America Christian?
[N]o two people calling themselves Christians view Christianity the same way. Being Catholic he's likely not even reading the same Bible you read. In fact, he may not read it at all. Many Catholics chuck the entire OT, except of course for hating homosexuals and original sin. Without a doubt, given your doctrinal differences each of you is heaven-bound by your own lights, and each of you has reserved a ticket for the other on the bus to hell. You do not accept each other's dogma, so his choice for apologetics will be different than yours. Get it through your thick skull: you do not represent all things Christian and to suggest that you do is intellectually dishonest. You do not even speak for a large fraction of Christians.
Americans in general are reading less and less. Some interesting numbers in that regard:
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
(Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)
Americans don't do much reading and those who do don't read the Bible or religiously related material. Americans read more of psychic Sylvia Brown and New Agey Deepak Chopra than they do Christian-themed books. Americans embrace all kinds of superstitions, not just religious superstitions. They spend far more time watching TV shows about mediums, psychics, and non-religious supernatural entities than they spend in all their religious activities. They read astrology columns far more faithfully than they engage Christianity. To ignore, deny, or reject this is to be out of touch with what's called Christianity in America.From the website [http://www.theologicalstudies.org/page/page/1572910.htm].
According to the Barna Research Group, those who read the Bible regularly spend about 52 minutes a week in the scriptures. (Barna, "The Bible," 1997.
It's even less now in 2009. Those who do care about it, don't care much.
Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines. (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker)
American Christians intentionally give many things far greater priority than they give their religion. More to the point, that they don't read much of anything also means they do not read books on Christian apologetics.
Here's a link to a wonderful article that underscores the lack of concern Americans have for Christianity. [http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/06/18/america-s-real-literacy-crisis-it-s-the-bible-stupid/]
Please read it and think it through. The numbers cited in it are supported independently elsewhere.
12 percent of Americans believe Noah's wife was Joan of Arc.
Only 50 percent can name even one gospel.
Only 37 percent could name all four.
Most do not know that someone named Jesus delivered the sermon on the mount.
More than half do not know that the first book in the Bible is Genesis.
Christians are so poor at articulating a clear message that half of high school seniors in one survey thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were married, and a 2000 survey showed 60 percent of evangelicals thought Jesus was born in Jerusalem instead of Bethlehem. "Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem" seems never to have sunk in.
Think about this when you fall into using the word "Christian." Is this your Christianity? Can you name the four gospels? Most other American Christians can't.
On this site, [http://www.centerforbibleengagement.org/index.php?Itemid=7&id=23&option=com_content&task=view], we read,The Christian community in the United States is in a major crisis and for the most part is unaware. Our research indicates that if current trends of Biblical disengagement among youth and men, especially, continue, within the next 30 years the Bible will be a "thing of the past" for most people who claim to be Christ-followers.andMost Christ-followers do not engage (read or hear) from God (the Bible) on a daily basis because it simply is not important to them-thus, establishing a habit of Bible reading is not (statistically) a probability using current methodologies.Wow! Statistics and probabilities!
Your fellow American Christians don't read much at all, and, again, that includes Bibles and books on Christian apologetics. Your fellow American Christians don't look at Christianity the same way you do and they do not care about Christianity the way you appear to. So, it is intellectually dishonest to contend that you speak for them.
The numbers also provide insights when we look at the site Religious Tolerance. [http://www.religioustolerance.org/rel_rate.htm]. The article at this link is "How many North Americans attend religious services (and how many lie about going)?"
As the article points out, Christians lie a lot when it comes to their religious practices. The polling data says 40 percent go to church, but actual counts show only about half that attend church services. Barna showed that while 17% say they tithe, only about 3% actually do. If they lie about church attendance, and they lie about how much they give to their churches, we certainly have good reasons to question their self-assessments in other areas.
Looking at the rest of the world, we see many cultures that have no religion and many that have had it and subsequently rejected it. Your religious views offer these people, these cultures, nothing. The Amazonian Piraha and the Tanzanian Hadza people have no religion and no gods. They are completely self-reliant and need nothing at all from modern civilization, especially Christianity.
Telling these people they are inherently afflicted with original sin by your religion due to errors by others in ancient times does no one any good. Their languages don't have words for times too far past or future. They remain unimpressed by human sacrifice since it's such a stupid thing for a father to do. Here's a link to a lecture about one man's experience with the Piraha, [http://fora.tv/2009/03/20/Daniel_Everett_Endangered_Languages_and_Lost_Knowledge]
It's called, "Daniel Everett: Endangered Languages and Lost Knowledge." He also authored a book called, "Don't Sleep: There Are Snakes."
For cultures like the Scandanavian ones, neither they nor those their generosity and compassion aids stand to gain from Christianity's yarns and tall tales. Read the United Nations Human Development Reports. They're online. You can discount them all you like, but the numbers should put anyone back on their heels who thinks that Christianity is a panacea - it's not, or that Christianity makes people better than their fellow man - it doesn't. That's only a Christian delusion.
Christians, including clergy, are provably liars. Christians lie about science. Christians lie about the natural world. Christians lie about answered prayers. Christians lie about their own church attendance. Christians lie about their giving to their own church. Christians lie about miracles. Christians lie about atheists and other non-Christians. Christians lie to the poor and destitute. Simply put, Christians lie, and, so should not be trusted.
Today's fast reacting information systems promise a well-spring of troubles for Christianity. Any group or person unable to demonstrate that their claims lead to observable benefit for mankind will be held to account by observers. Those same information systems will fell the protective barriers behind which the absurd and profoundly stupid like Pat Robertson, and the profane and vulgar like the current pope and his legion of rapists find safe haven.
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M. C. of Alachua asks, "What's the deal with the new marijuana law? Someone told me that it didn't apply to too many people. Is that true? So what is being voted on in November? Is that something different?"
Dear M. C.:
Dear friends and neighbors,
I want to extend a sincere thank you from myself and my family to all of you for your prayers, flowers, cards and expressions of concern during my recent hospital stay. By the grace of God, I am at home and becoming stronger each day. Your good wishes remind me daily of the power of prayer and the value of loving and supportive family and friends.
For years we've heard about a hospital coming. Money raised. Hopes raised, but over the years (7), nothing!
Now, another raised hope. Ameris has $3.7 million invested.
Big Deal! Less than a small winning lottery ticket.
The City of Chiefland should not contribute one penny toward what will be another unfulfilled promise.
Thank God for the VA in Gainesville.
Herbert Graham
According to June 4th edition of the Chiefland Citizen the Tri-County Hospital may be revived by Ameris Health systems. Commissioner Ryan Bell of Chiefland (R-District 4), who is up for re-election this year, seems to have a golden ear on these developments by Mr. Schupp and the unnamed forum of community leaders. Mr. Bell is to be commended for this.
Commissioner Bell should also be commended for not having a Golden Eye for researching Ameris Systems record of financial responsibility and management skills.
By Bob Denny
My friend's blood pressure jumped to 160/110! He told me he thought he was going to explode! It was a serious clash with a dominating supervisor. That was one of the most painful and challenging times of his life! It hurt so bad that he took a month off of work. With some helpful counseling, he worked out a good solution with the employer, and was able to return to his job and stay on until a happy and successful retirement. (His supervisor was transferred and given appropriate training on "management skills.")
A couple of years into my cowboying in Marion County I got a call from a man who was living on the Castro farms, northwest of Ocala on Highway 27. He told me he managed the cattle operation for Bernard Castro and he had heard that I was day working and had some good dogs. He had a similar arrangement with Castro that I had with the Double F Ranch out at Moss Bluff - we could day work on the side on our own time.
The Double F at Moss Bluff in Marion County was like about every other ranch I ever worked on; it had one or two bad cows that would go out of their way to hook your pants off. Once we identified them, we made it a practice to tip their horns, so they couldn't do as much damage.
One time while receiving cattle from Dixie County for the Perry Brothers at the Baseline cow pen at Belleview, one of the semi-drivers told us to watch out for a little scrub cow and don't turn your back on her. She had killed a horse back in Dixie County.
By Bill Roberts
I was day-working in Marion County for a group of cattlemen that had cattle in several pastures, including the Ocala National Forest, where the cattle, more or less, roamed over a large area.
This was the end of the open range, as encounters with automobiles became more frequent, especially of Highway 40 from Ocala to the East Coast.
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 16:24
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Starkit, Tcl's answer for application delivery and update
I've been a very active member of the Tcl community for more than 10 years now. It's beginning to become very clear to me that the Puppy community and the Tcl community would both have a lot to be gained from a strengthening of ties between the two groups.
Tcl has been a major component of Puppy since its birth, as far as I can tell. In fact, I first heard about Puppy when someone posted a page about it on the Tclers' Wiki
. For the last several years, the hottest area of development in the Tcl Community has been an application development, packaging, and deployment system called Starkit.
, created by Tcl luminary Jean Claude Wippler. An excellent paper about the technology, though a bit out of date by now, was presented at the 2002 Tcl Conference, by Steve Landers (of Perth, Australia).
Since this forum topic relates to Pups and stuff, I'd like to focus here on Tcl's answer for automated application delivery and update. One of the coolest features of the Starkit system is StarSync, which a Starkit user can use to automatically update the content of a Starkit-based application.
Starkits and Starsync greatly simplify the deployment, installation, and updating of Tcl-based applications. The efficiencies of this system, would go a long way towards making Puppy even sleeker and faster than it is now, and keeping it that way.
I'd like to propose that Puppy move to this system for all Tcl-based applications. To do so would be so incredibly simple, that it's almost silly. First of all, the existing Tcl 8.4.9 subsystem of Puppy would be removed, then the single-file Tclkit 8.4.9 runtime would be put into /usr/bin, as well as a Starkit file containing the various Tcl extension libraries, such as Img, Snack, etc., needed to support the existing Tcl apps in Puppy. Then, file extension associations would need to be created for the .tcl and .kit extensions, so that files with those extensions would run on Tclkit. That's it! You're done. With such a change, Puppy will have saved a lot of space, and dramatically improved its capabilities in one fell swoop.
You can download the current single-file-binary release of Tclkit for Linux here
. If you'd like to give it a whirl, just copy it to any directory on your system, rename it to something like "tclkit," make it executable, and download any of the cross-platform Starkits from the Starkit Distribution Archive, lovingly maintained by Steve Landers
. Then all you have to do is set the Rox run action for the .kit file to run with Tclkit, and you're off and running. Now any .kit files you download will 'just work' whenever you click on them. It's so easy.
With a coordinated effort between the Tcl folks and the Puppy mavens, Puppy could become a showcase for the power of the Tcl platform, putting the other bloated Linux distributions out there to shame in the process.
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 19:48
Post subject: Tool Command Language
Excellent post and suggestions.
We have these pages developing in Tcl - showing how to get started in this useful language:
Internal Tcl Tutorial
External tutor link
One way to show, develop and strengthen this relationship is in developing a tcl project for Puppy
The one that comes to mind is a configuration / control panel in Tcl. I have been attempting this with Ash and widgets but it is clear that a complete language would be more sensible (recently lost my work through not backing up . . . )
For long term flexibility and different presentation methods I feel the data is best stored in
Is this the sort of thing that would showcase Tcl?
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 21:39
Post subject: Tcl tutorials
Clif's TclTutor application is pretty good (I know him quite well), but it's pretty out-of-date, and doesn't cover Tk, as far as I know. There's quite an extensive and up-to-date tutorial available at
, on the other hand, but it doesn't cover Tk either.
The Tclers' Wiki has a page devoted to online tutorials at:
. It has an extensive list of links to various tutorial information.
David Welten is working on another tutorial that sounds promising:
On the subject of a Tcl-centric Puppy project, I'm floating the idea with a few other Tclers. I think that I'll have something promising to post about this within the next week or two.
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And of course with Unleashed you can build your own custom Puppy very easily ...so can create a "tickle Puppy" to demonstrate the ideas.
The bottom line is the size of the ISO file. If you come up with a new concept for Puppy and have it ready to go in a 60 - 61M ISO live-CD, then we are "cookin with gas"...
I don't know if this is an overstatement or not, but Puppy is looking like he could be the saviour of tcl/tk, or at least a factor in a resurgence of interest.
You may have noticed Pup 1.0.3 has ical, yet another tcl/tk app!
I'm personally not all that keen on antialiased fonts, but that's what the majority expect, especially coming from XP. So, the antialised font feature of tcl/tk 8.5 is probably something we should aim for as soon as it looks stable and can run all the apps in Puppy.
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Posted: Sat 11 Jun 2005, 05:48
Post subject: Re: Tool Command Language
Some great links - with some Puppy growth potential built in
Looking forward to what you have in mind. Puppy is beginning to look like an ideal platform for programmers, from beginners to high level Tcl'ers
C (including the idiosyncratic interpreted or compiled tinycc) whole GCC environment in preparation
The Linux batch language (using the standard Bash from version 1.0.3)
Perl for CGI programming (PerlPuplet and Pupget)
Tcl a powerful and simple interpreted language
(try visual tcl - just download, unzip and run http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/)
Lua - anyone exploring this?
Gambas (compiled Basic available as a PupGet)
Was John or someone else working on a small Python possibility for Puppy?
The guiding philosophy for Puppy is "small and simple". The criteria for applications are:
1. They must be written in Tcl/Tk, C or C++.
2. GUI apps must use Xaw/Athena (Puppy actually uses Xaw95), Tk/Bwidget, GTK+ v1.2, GTK+ v2.2, or Qt v3.3.4 widget libraries.
3. They must be open source.
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I am like a Puppy chasing his own tail (well it's a hobby)
Nearly had a look at X11 Basic which someone might like to compile - it is quite small and seems the semi-official BASIC for Puppy . . .
Meanwhile tcl . . .
Barry was kind enough to send me my one and only tcl program (created in visual tcl) which I have added to
in the user contributed dotpups at the wiki
This was from our previous simple forum which contains loads more info
ahem . . . back to tcl . . .
I am trying need more and better tutorial - the one designed for kids should suit me . . .
So eh - what happening in the tickling world?
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Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2005, 17:59
Post subject: X11
Lobster , try this
This is the bineary including examples and manual .
I use it as Qbasic . It has absolute dir path to /root/my-applications/.... .
This would be writeble for anyone . Greating Menno .
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Thanks menno
I am a tkzipping here
and there . . . and a trying
No luck anyone get X11 BASIC working OK?
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Posted: Fri 05 Aug 2005, 07:33
Post subject: x11
You should open a rxvt console and type xbasic . You must see a xbasic in /root/my-applications/bin . I tryed it on a other machine and it seems to work . You cann't click on it . Greatings Menno
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Got it working Menno - many thanks
Will now try writing something . . . (very simple)
Got confused (mind you I get confused by a shoal of fish)
I moved x-11 into my-applications
and xbasic and xbc into the my-applications bin
Should be dotpupped by anyone so inclined
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Jeep Wrangler TJ Coil-Over Conversion - Coil CorrectionPosted in How To: Suspension Brakes on September 1, 2009
The last time we messed with the suspension on Jay Miller's TJ we showed you how to convert to coilovers using top-quality Walker Evans 16-way adjustable shocks, Eibach Springs, and some simple shock mounts from Currie Enterprises. The story is on our web site at jpmagazine.com if you want a refresher. Well, the Jeep is back and this time we're tackling the back end, ditching the factory coil setup for some clean, simple coilovers.
If you do read our original "Coil Correction" story, you'll see that we used relatively short 10-inch Walker Evans shocks up front. Because Miller only wanted a 2.5- to 3-inch lift, it seemed prudent at the time. However, Miller discovered that the shorter shocks tended to top out during hard running. We ordered up some 12-inch Walker Evans coilover shocks and mounted them up front. We used the shorter 10-inch shocks originally in the front for our rear coilover conversion. Check the sidebar "Spec Sheet" for all the part numbers. The Walker shocks offer performance that can only be described as phenomenal. With a huge range of valving adjustments easily reached at the end of the remote reservoir, heavy-duty chrome-moly shafts, a T-6 body with anodized ends, and a 2-inch diameter, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better working, better looking shock for your Jeep. And like before, we tapped Eibach's seemingly infinite selection of coils to hang the framerails above the axles. The Eibach springs are powdercoated for corrosion resistance and are made in the USA to ensure a long, sag-free life.
With the Walker shocks on the way, we did some searching for a simple yet strong mounting solution and found it at Gen-Right Off Road. Gen-Right has been coming on like gangbusters over the past couple of years with a huge arsenal of Jeep suspension, body armor, protection, fuel tank, and any number of other components you can think of. We get lost in buildup dreams whenever we log onto the company's website to check out their latest offerings, so plan a little time in your day before logging on. Follow along as we mooch a rack at TAG Motorsports in Escondido, California, to finish our coilover transformation on this '97 TJ.
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Here's a complete rundown of the parts we used to convert this Wrangler to a full coilover suspension.Front Shocks: Walker EvansPN 700-16-010
Rear Shocks: Walker EvansPN 700-16-012
Spring Isolators: Walker EvansPN 220349
Front Springs: EibachPN 1000-250-0150PN 1400-250-0400
Rear Springs: EibachPN 1000-250-0225PN 1200-250-0400
Front Coil Buckets: Currie Enterprises PN CE-9602
Rear Coil Buckets: Gen-Right Off Road PN RSM 1001