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Lady Gaga Brings S+M to Italian Vanity Fair
Lady Gaga is featured in Italian Vanity Fair, no doubt a special spread for her since she is proudly of Italian heritage. The Mother Monster goes S+M in one of the photos, showing off her dominatrix side in a studded, strapped leather bra with a neck harness.
She's also paying homage, intentionally or not, to Amy Winehouse with extreme winged eye liner that stretches out past her eyebrows.
Her tri-color hair is also like a windmill of strands surrounding her head, with blonde, red and brown hues. It's like an autumn harvest of hair!
Is there any look that Gaga can't pull off? She has shown herself to be fearless with her fashion choices, and this photo is no different. There's a wild, whirling dervish energy to this image, and it radiates off the screen.
Amen fashion, baby.
In case you missed or forgot all about her American Vanity Fair cover from about a year ago, check out the couture photos and quotes here.
PopCrushers and little monsters, what do you think of this strong and sexy image of the Mother Monster? Hotter than lava, right?
Watch Lady Gaga's 'The Edge of Glory' Video


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Junior Golf Alive and Thriving at The Orleans Country Club
ORLEANS-Despite a threatening sky, OCC's Jr. Golf Outing proceeded with a lot of golf and only a slight sprinkling of rain!For six Saturdays, clinics were held for our area youth. Over 100 kids attended the clinics, with an average of 35-40 coming out each week. The season culminated with a Junior Golf Outing on Saturday, August 2nd, with approximately 30 youth attending. For the Full Story, See the Express on Friday 8-9-13.

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gyrkin , falconhood here, we could skype one another if you're interested?
hello my name is juan I just notice that Island girl is going to come very close to your place( check 2009 northern migration in the falcon research group blog)
could you think that you could help in having her photographed?
or do you know any one that could?
if it is possible please don't hesitate to send me a message I'll try to provide you with all possible information
thank you
Hey you don't sleep either!!


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With all its advantages, plastic optical fiber still can't do all the things glass fiber can do.
Plastic optical fiber, or POF, is finally making its way into the optical fiber market. It requires no special tools, no expensive training, and no long procedures. You can cut it with side-cutters, a razor blade, or a pair of scissors. A maker of POF connectors even claims you can terminate a plastic fiber in 30 sec!
If you have any experience with glass optical fiber, you're probably thinking, "This sounds too good to be true." Well, in a way, you're right. While having all these advantages, POF cannot do all that glass fiber can do.
For some applications, POF is ideal; for others, it's useless. How do you know which is best for your application? Let's look at a general overview of the plastic fiber technology and how you can apply it.
So, what are POF limitations? The biggest limitation of POF is its high attenuation—not a distortion of the signal, but a loss of light. Plastic optical fiber doesn't transmit light as well as glass fiber. While glass fiber can transmit light for tens of kilometers without difficulties associated with loss, POF is seldom useful in lengths over 100 m. Attenuation for glass fiber is generally in the range of 3 dB/km or less. Attenuation for POF is generally in the range of 50 dB/km to 100 dB/km or more.
Where can you use POF? Since plastic fiber is virtually useless for long runs, you can't use it for most telephone transmissions, cable TV, or building-to-building links. For short links, however, POF is best. Some common applications include local area networks (LANs) and point-to-point links, as shown in Fig. 1 (original article).
LAN cabling is probably the more important application. In the past ten years, optical fiber has taken over almost every facet of the data communications industry with one big exception—the last link between the communications closet (telephone closet) and the desktop. Even vertical runs in multistory buildings are now almost always fiber. Only the horizontal runs (those contained on one level of a building) are still copper.
Obviously, most network administrators would love to have the bandwidth advantages of optical fiber, but fiber costs more than copper. Regardless of the reasons for a premium on fiber (among other advantages, you don't have to replace it in a few years), new fiber installations still cost more than copper installations. Since initial cost rules the data cabling market, fiber won't be widely used until it's priced equally with copper wiring.
Ideally suited to compete with copper Category cabling for the horizontal run market, POF is cheaper than Category cabling and easier to install. The only thing still standing in the way of fiber-to-the-desk is the cost of the network interface card (NIC). This is the electronic board in any computer connected to a network. Basically, it connects the computer to the system.
An NIC card for copper wiring costs about $100, while a fiber card (which translates optical signals into electronic signals) is about $150.00. The question now is whether the cost saving per run of plastic fiber makes up for the extra $50.00 for the NIC.
Point-to-point links, if short and simple, are also ideal applications for POF. The only links exceeding POF's current signal capacity of 3 Gb/sec are those used for long-distance telephone and Internet traffic. For almost everything else, POF will work.
Industrial data transmission is perhaps the most common use of point-to-point links. Fiber is especially important in factories because it's immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI). Since POF installs easily, factory electricians can install it with a minimal training.
Consumer equipment digital links are ideal for POF because of its unlimited signal transmission, superb signal quality, and easy installation.
Optical interconnects are another point-to-point link suitable for POF. For example, patching signals between pieces of equipment is easier with plastic than glass.
Vehicle links are also suitable for POF. Modern cars, trucks, and airplanes use signal transmission and light transfer. Plastic makes it cheap and easy. Your car may already have POF in it.
Medical equipment manufacturers are changing over to POF because the necessary links are short and transmission quality is very important.
Developing plastic fiber. Because of glass fiber's difficulties with terminating, splicing, etc., people began searching for ways to make it easier to install. One of the first ideas was using clear plastic rather than glass. Motorola developed plastic fiber in the 1980's, but never put much effort into marketing it. The first generation of POF transferred light correctly, but the attenuation (loss of light) was so high, only very short runs proved viable. Consequently, its production stopped quickly.
In the past several years, some fiber manufacturers (primarily Japanese) worked on new types of plastic fiber with much lower attenuation. Two big developments resulted: Graded-index fiber and low-NA POF.
Graded-index POF contains many layers of plastic, each with a lower index of refraction (the most dense plastic in the middle, and less-dense layers as you move toward the surface of the fiber). Since light travels faster in the less-dense layers of plastic, the light rays refracted to the outside of the fiber race to match those traveling in the center. The result: a capability for high-speed data transmission over a long distance.
Fig. 2 (original article) shows three types of glass and plastic optical fibers. At the bottom is graded-index POF. At the top is step-index POF, the original (discontinued) type of POF. Step-index fiber has only two densities of plastic—one for the core and one for the cladding. Because of this arrangement, any light sent through them bounces through the fiber. Since some rays travel down the middle of the fiber while others bounce from side to side, some of the rays reach the far end before the others. We call this signal distortion modal dispersion. Dispersion refers to the spreading of the data pulse (some parts arriving before the others), and mode refers to the light's path.
Although designed to eliminate the problem of modal dispersion, graded-index plastic fiber is not easy to make and was not available until recently.
Low-NA fiber is based on the development of fibers with low numerical apertures (NAs) . NA is a measurement of the angle at which light can enter the core of an optical fiber. If the light enters at too great an angle, it passes through the core/clad boundary and is lost in the cladding.
Fig. 3 (original article) shows the difference between high NA fiber and low NA fiber. Notice the high NA fiber allows light to enter (and remain) in the core from much larger angles. This leads to an increase in pulse-spreading. You can see why having a fiber with a low NA is advantageous—there is less modal dispersion. So, plastic optical fiber with a low NA allows for higher bandwidth (the amount of signal sent through the fiber). Low NA fiber allows less light to enter the fiber. Most transmitters are more than powerful enough, so this isn't a problem.
The current state of POF. Engineers now know the right types of plastics and manufacturing techniques to develop graded-index and low-NA plastic fiber with transmission rates of 3 Gb/sec in runs exceeding 100 m.
Referring to Fig. 2 again, look at single-mode fiber. This type of fiber has incredibly high transmission capabilities. Until recently single-mode POF didn't exist. But today, single-mode POF may make longer transmission distances possible, while making signal boosting easier and cheaper.


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A 63-year-old man is in critical condition Friday night after he and his car were doused with a liquid and set on fire outside a Long Beach convenience store hours earlier.
"This is an unsettling crime, a horrific act," said Sgt. Aaron Eaton, with Long Beach Police Department.
The attacker approached the victim, tossed a flammable liquid into a green sport utility vehicle and sparked the blaze, Eaton said. Investigators do not believe the victim and attacker know each other.
After running from the 7-11 near Pacific Coast Highway, a 39-year-old man known by many in the area to be homeless was arrested in connection with the attack.
Witnesses used fire extinguishers and water bottles to help extinguish the flames, which consumed the victim as he stumbled from the SUV.
A white sedan was parked next to the SUV. The driver of that car was inside the 7-11 getting a cup of coffee when his car also caught fire.
Steve Cox said he gave spare change to the alleged attacker minutes before the fire.
"He didn't seem like he was going to harm anybody. He wasn't very aggressive or anything. I mean, asking for change, he seemed like a nice guy," Cox said. "I'm really surprised about what happened. It's outrageous."
Neither the victim nor the alleged attacker were identified as of late Friday.


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Also, one commenter noted: "Wasn't there some big debate over bagel slicers at one point and now this? Is that irony I smell?" (Click on the link to read the debate itself, but for the lazies, briefly: Joe had this bad habit of holding his bagels in his palm while cutting them in lengthwise directly into his hand, and I had a problem with that, especially given that he's in a profession where hand tendon injury could be catastrophic. For instance, a minor to moderate hand injury would not necessarily end my career as I know it, but it could almost certainly end his. However, you will be gratified to know that after that last discussion more than a year ago, Joe doesn't cut his bagels employing the "hand taco" method anymore--or at least he doesn't do it in front of me.)
Well, here's the difference as I see it. I slice a lot of vegetables with a vegetable peeler. This most recent event I would classify as an accident. Accidents happen. For example, I try to be cautious at work, but sometimes accidents still happen, like, say, needle sticks in the OR. But accidents happening despite best precautions is different than habitually unsafe practice--like recapping non-blunt needles by hand, or sloppy sterile technique. (This is no one in specific, by the way, just a few easy everyday examples I can think of). Or, to bring it out of the hospital setting and back into the kitchen where it started, let's say slicing bagels using your palm as the cutting board, or rubbing raw chicken all over your countertops. My point being, I would say it's the difference between cutting yourself in the kitchen (it happens to everyone) versus setting up a situation where cutting yourself is much, much more likely to happen.
So no, that's not irony you smell. Just the smell of human flesh and ginger cooking in a delectable mélange.
Oh, and by the way, not that I wish you pain, but if you happen to have cut your hand and if you also happen to work in some kind of germ zone (or at least in a job where you have to wash your hands a lot), here's a great and truly occlusive bandage that will hold up for, I kid you not, a good couple of days.


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On the southern California coast, it's been a reluctant summer. Mornings dawn gray and cool, and colorless skies linger until afternoon. The hallmarks of summer have yet to occur - though I'm longing for beach trips, bike rides, and picnics. And while the sun has only just started to break through this week, I know before long we'll have the kind of weather that can only be abated by tall, cool drinks in the shade.I recently made these cocktail umbrellas for Papermash and photographed them in a picnic style setting. They come together simply with mini doilies, wooden skewers and a few other supplies - a softer more delicate twist on the ubiquitous tropical version. You can find all the details on the free project sheet available for download at Papermash.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Pink Parasols
Labels: Crafts, Downloads, Entertaining, Styling, Tutorial
38 comments:
- Julie Gallagher said...
- July 14, 2010 at 4:11 AM
- Laura@trendinozze said...
You are a genius. It'sa mazing what you can do with such simple material!
- July 14, 2010 at 4:17 AM
- CoccinelleRouge said...
These are absolutely awesome!
- July 14, 2010 at 5:35 AM
- S.L.North said...
so lovely ;)
- July 14, 2010 at 6:50 AM
- Anna said...
these are so sweet and dainty!
perfect for a bridal luncheon.
- July 14, 2010 at 7:09 AM
- Patricia Torres said...
Oh I like.. I like.. the tutorial.. its gorgeously pink!!
- July 14, 2010 at 7:18 AM
- Leslie @ every good and perfect said...
Adorable! And so simple. Thanks for sharing :)
- July 14, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- cecile/detour2Mode said...
wow i love your blog!!
- July 14, 2010 at 9:02 AM
- Dandelion and Grey said...
These are perfection!
I know what you mean about the So Cal weather! I'm glad it's gotten better this week.
I love your work, Livy!
- July 14, 2010 at 10:19 AM
- Georgia @ simplydirtyprettythings said...
awwwww beautiful! xxx
- July 14, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- cindy said...
i love them!
- July 14, 2010 at 4:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
this is the CUTEST thing ever! I adore!
- July 14, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- Charmed Earth said...
Pretty in pink. These are so charming!
- July 14, 2010 at 8:32 PM
- Barbara said...
Oh those are adorable!!!
- July 15, 2010 at 2:48 AM
- Amber said...
Whenever you need a ride and a picnic, you can visit my blog adn come along to Sweden and enjoy the ride with me! Cute brollies!!!
- July 15, 2010 at 5:29 AM
- Natasha said...
These are amazing just what I needed for a party I am planning!! Thank you thank you thank you!
- July 15, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- Olivia said...
this is such a good idea! how pretty!
- July 15, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- Craftiness NOW said...
adorable, so sweet!
- July 16, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Lindsey said...
Goodness, girl, it's now Saturday and it's hot as blazes here in San Diego. No more hesitant summer here! (Although a little thunderstorm last night was fun, it was still ridiculously hot!)
- July 16, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- Imperfectly Perfect said...
these are great! In our wedding we will be having real lace parasols, so these cocktail umbrellas will compliment them perfectly!
- July 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM
- Torie Jayne said...
These are so adorable and cute! Have a sweet day!
- July 17, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- Maisonette said...
These are hands down the prettiest drink umbrellas I have ever seen. I am so stunned.
- July 17, 2010 at 3:03 PM
- Persis Shah said...
these look so pretty!
i LOVE your blog!!!
- July 18, 2010 at 2:44 AM
- thea said...
Oh I LOOOOOOOOOVE these!!!
I'm going to have to talk you into doing a tutorial for Spoonful one of these days...
- July 18, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- Melissa said...
These are awesome. I love the wonderful touch that drink umbrellas add to any drink.
- July 18, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- Crystal said...
The drinks looks so elegant and cute. Love the umbrellas. Your blog is amazing!
- July 20, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Teresa said...
Super cute! :)
♥ Teresa ♥
- July 21, 2010 at 5:16 PM
- Sum said...
My gosh, are you good. I can't get enough of your designs + photos + blog! Jealous that you get to live in southern California!
- July 21, 2010 at 7:53 PM
- Lovely Little Nest said...
Oh my gosh, those are too cute! I'll definitely be using these for my sister's upcoming Bridal Shower. Thanks for the template! :)
- July 23, 2010 at 5:40 PM
- Krishana said...
These are positively too sweet! Looks like July has been a wonderfully creative month for you. Kudos!
- August 1, 2010 at 1:53 PM
- Cynthia L. H. said...
Love these!!! ;^)
Perfect in pink.
- August 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- Romantic Crafts said...
I love these, so adorable!
- August 28, 2010 at 3:29 AM
- brieahnj said...
I stumbled upon your blog and absolutely love it. I have recently found a love for all things timeless and pretty. I've also gotten back into getting crafty around the house so I am always looking for new ideas to add a little something extra. Just Love!
- September 1, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- claire eliza said...
these are so adorable!
- September 8, 2010 at 8:20 AM
- Nikki said...
Do you know about the site pinterest.com? Basically, if you see a picture you like on a website, you can "pin" it to one of your boards, and then other people can repin it if they like it. The first picture in this post is all over that website!!
- January 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM
- Daily Craft said...
Great project! I just wanted to let you know that we featured this project on our Facebook page with over 14,000 fans. We'd love it if you'd use our Featured Blogger button, available at: http://www.dailycraft.com/thank-you-for-crafting/. Our audience loved the project and we look forward to sharing more from you. Please let us know if you have any questions or projects you'd love us to feature! Thanks!
- July 11, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- catherine said...
Well it seems that I am well behind the curve but I love this project! The link to the tutorial is gone, does it exist anywhere else these days? Also, can you tell me where you found doilies in such a lovely color?
- May 28, 2013 at 3:42 PM
- Livy said...
Hi Catherine,
I redid this project for country living a while ago — here's a link to the instructions:
- May 28, 2013 at 3:45 PM


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Okay, good point. Sola Scriptura isn't a panacea but I do believe a 'good' case can be made that Scripture can and is our best revelation of our Lord and Saviour.
Hi there Pedro
Honestly I don't know that anti-incarnationalism is the driving force behind Islam's iconoclasm. Clearly I see anti-incarnationalism in Islam...but I'm not sure where one 'has' to have iconography and statues of angels at the very least. That does appear to 'break' the Commandment against depicting things of Heaven doesn't it?
The question is are these add ons 'necessary' and are they effectual?
Well on first blush I can see why the issues were so troubling in the first place. It might have been nice if negative theology was a little more popular at this point don't you think? Attempting to articulate these mysteries to such finite formulas appears to be more of a Catholic Tradition than Orthodoxy does it?
hmmmm... I find this a bit offensive personally but I see your point. Interesting.
My answer is... I simply don't know! Isn't that the fact of this whole mess we call the State of the Church? Seriously it's a huge mess!
If reason can determine 'truth' and 'truth' can not contradict 'truth' then I believe a rational approach to be the clearest path to it. If reason can not determine 'truth' then we honestly can discuss much at all even revelation.
Great points,
Great attitude.
You honestly should be a Priest Pedro.
Well, chris addressed the "depicting things in heaven" deal, so the Second Commandment's not so cut-and-dry as it would first seem. The whole point, though, is that Christ is God, and He was not, during His earthly life, a thing in heaven, yet He was still God. Now God can be depicted, since humans can be depicted. It's like a reversal of the OT:OT: God's a spirit, so He's undepictable. Any attempt to do so is forbidden.NT: Finally, God provides His own image of Himself in Christ. Images can now (and, in proclamation of this event, should and must) be made to fully show forth the reality of the Incarnation. Each icon of Christ is a reminder of that, as well as the reality of those saints who, though human and material, were filled with and exuded the Holy Spirit and became living, breathing, walking icons of God. They can be depicted as icons of God as well, having become by Grace what Christ is by nature.
As has been said, we agree with this idea of prima scriptura. Yet to go from that to sola scriptura, where it's not only the 'best reveleation' but the 'only revelation,' is premature and uncalled for (even if it is easier, more convenient and 'safer'; it still doesn't make it true).
I, like chris, would be interested in hearing your hot-button issues and, after that, seeing if the Orthodox take on them is different than what you were expecting.
Well, actually, I find apophatic theology to be present in Nicea I, since the doctrine merely affirms that Christ is of the same nature as the Father, yet it doesn't explain how--ie, it doesn't delineate in what way, when, using further philosophical inquiry--this is possible. It only uses the philosophy just enough to get the point across, then leaves it at mystery. We know what we can't say, in other words--that Christ is of a different substance than the Father--but we don't (nor do we need to) know how to explain what we do affirm.
I admire the objectivity.
What, concerning the parallel of alleged pagan influence on Resurrection w/alleged pagan influence on prayer style do you find offensive?
That's true; it's not a neat-and-tidy, one-answer system. Even those of us who adhere to Tradition--Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox--have variants (and therefore are separate communions) with one another.
I just found that using Tradition--the stuff that everyone agreed on, right from the git-go--was a much more logical way and a much more obviously trustworthy hermeneutic, sight unseen, to approach the NT epistles with, being as it was formed over extensive periods of time by the epistles' authors themselves. It "narrowed the playing field," so to speak, and almost immediately eliminated most non-liturgical Protestants from the mix (a huge number of them), and from there kept whittling away until, if one were going to take the Tradition as a whole, it was either Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican or Lutheran for me. The very emphasis on mystery--an emphasis found exclusively in the East today--is, long story short, what pushed me here.
As has been said, this is the medieval/Rennaissance-era approach to knowing (about) God, used (of course), in the West. The eastern approach of knowing God through direct encounter via prayer and ascesis, then using reason to describe it, is the traditional way of the first Christians (East and West, originally). Nevertheless, I would say that logic would dictate which hermeneutic would be more trustworthy regarding Scripture's interpretation, and study of Scripture using said hermeneutic would open up new revelations to you that would be much in harmony with the Christians of the first and second centuries...
So what you guys are saying is that God established the 10 Commandments only to allow us to break them later?
Even if I accepted this rationale I don't see any reason to allow the depiction of Angels.
Are you saying because we can depict Jesus as God and the Saints that we can now depict 'anything' from Heaven or Hell?
Well you may call prima scriptura but Protestants call it sola scriptura because ultimately it is the sole source of all that is revealed.
Do we need to establish an exegesis? Of course but I honestly believe that such is not beyond our ability to reason logically the intent of scripture.
Cultural rationalizations which allow for the complete disregard of the precepts set in Scripture could very well be a 'hot-button' issue for me. I don't think God changes His mind about these things. I am very concerned about the idea that images and statues are 'now' okay.
Could they have been wrong? I'm not talking about the Divinity of Christ here but the details? The necessity of 'two-natures' and whatnot? Is this kind of detailed articulation necessary for Salvation? Would God really condemn individuals over stuff like this?
I don't know how far my objectivity can go. I'm stretching it to it's limits with this dialogue as it is...
I honestly see Jesus as the Messiah and the Suffering Servant and I chaff at seeing individuals trying to project Him as a pagan "God-Man".
Are there parallels? Sure God speaks His truths to everyone in every culture but revelation came through His Son. That is the Fact that we have to deal with.
I think it's dangerous to take the pagan prespective as the proper prespective. I think this could have been a reaction toward the Jews by early Gentile Christians.
Yes this is the real problem, who is 'really' right or are 'any' of them right at all?
Ultimately this could also elevate an orthopraxy which might not be necessary or even legitimate.
This sounds interesting. Could you give me some more info on 'ascesis'?
I just wanted to mention that I've been following this thread and thoroughly enjoying it. As a former member of Evangelicalism, I can feel the concerns and questions chrisb has in a very tangible way. And the great thing about this post is that I don't have anything to add to it: too many great points have already. One thing to say though, many of your objections to Orthodox Tradition are very similiar to those of some Messianic Judaic persons I've known. Are you familiar with the movement?
I think you are being 'amazingly' patient with me on this and I appreciate it a lot.
I'm going to 'reflect' on what you've been saying and I'm going to take to time to offer a more clear response this weekend.
I can appreciate the Orthodox point of view on these matters but I'm not sure they can be taken as binding tradition or teachings but I will try and present my position with some clarity over the weekend.
I'd agree that, boiled down, the gospel message isn't that complicated. What's left, though, is a matter of figuring out which group's "simple message" is the correct one. This can lead to the in-depth debates that folks find "complex" and whatnot.For us (and this is just my version of it), istm that the Orthodox gospel message is this:God made man to share in His life.Man disobeyed God, and therefore rejected the One who was his life. Death (mortality) and corruption was the result, causing man to be in bondage to the fear of death.God--who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--chose the Virgin Mary to be the mother of God the Son, the latter of whom would take human flesh from her, and God would become a man.When God took on mortal flesh, He renewed it, making it immortal by obeying the commands of the Father, dying, and rising again, forever providing us with a human who could not be held captive by death.We now must unite ourselves to Him in a death like His--baptism in water and the Spirit--and unite our flesh and blood to His flesh and blood--done in the Eucharist--so that, only after having lived life to the very end in obedience to His commands, our bodies and souls will not taste of permanent separation by the grave, but will be raised in glory even as Christ's was.Later edit: God will come again to Earth to reign for all eternity. Those of us who unite ourselves to Christ and let Him transform us and fill us more and more with His Holy Spirit in this life will feel the presence of God as perfect joy and peace. Those who do not do so will feel His presence as absolute agony and Hell.
Is there a great deal of diversity among Protestants? Of course there is but we should ask ourselves does man have the right to come to a relationship with His Creator in the manner which he deems appropriate by the gospel? My answer is a very loud and clear 'yes' for...It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Remember, Unity in Essentials, Liberty in Non-Essentials and in all this Love.
Soli Deo Gloria (Glory to God Alone): the justification of God's wisdom and power against papal usurpation and religion of human devising, honoring God's sovereign transcendence and providential predestination.
Sola Gratia (By Grace Alone): redemption as God's free gift accomplished by Christ's saving death and resurrection. This was articulated chiefly in Pauline terms as justification by faith alone, as in the Augsburg Confession: "We cannot obtain forgiveness of sin and righteousness before God by our own merits, works or satisfactions, but receive God by grace, for Christ's sake, through faith, when we believe that Christ suffered for us and that for his sake our sin is forgiven and righteousness and eternal life are given to us."
Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone): the freedom of Scripture to rule as God's word in the church, disentangled from papal and ecclesiastical authority and tradition. Scripture is the sole access to Chrsitian revelation. Although tradition may aid its interpretation, its true (i.e. spiritual) meaning is its natural (i.e. literal) sense, not an allegorical one in lue of its natural sense.
The Church as the Believing People of God: constituted not by hierarchy, succession, or institution, but by God's election and calling in Christ through the gospel. In the words of the Augsburg Confession, it is "the assembly of all believers among whom the gospel is preached in its purity and the holy sacraments are administered according to the gospel." The sacraments appointed by Christ are two only - baptism and the Lord's Supper - and may be spoken of as "visible words", reflecting the primacy of preaching in Protestant conviction.
The Priesthood of All Believers: the privileged freedom of all the baptized to stand before God in Christ 'without patened human intermediaries' and their calling to be bearers of judgment and grace as "little Christs" to their neighbors. Pastor and preacher differ from other Christians by function and appointment, not spiritual status.
The Sanctity of All Callings or Vocations: the rejection of medieval distinctions between secular and sacred or "religious" (i.e. monastic) with the depreciation of the former; and the recognition of all ways of life as divine vocations in their own right. "The works of monks and priest in God's sight are in no way whatever superior to a farmer laboring in the field, or a woman looking after her home". None is intrinsically more Christian than any other - an insight obscured by phrases such as "the holy ministry".
Weighing these principles I find Orthodoxy reaching to the same position of authority as Catholicism over the Body of Believers imposing the same dictates and claiming the same superiority through their traditions, ministry of priests and sacraments, adoration of saints and the claims to superior sanctity through monastic practices over the Body of Believers and although they don't claim the position of One Supreme Tyrant non-the-less impose 'little' Tyrants over the Body of Believers through the same means.
I have read and followed many dialogues here to witness first-hand that your traditions, priests, sacraments and ascetics don't establish the unity such it intended to foster...
...but through Baptist Theology we establish the liberty given to man by God to either walk in faith for continued in the bondage of sin under the guidance of a body of equals in both under His Lordship and through His Word.
Now that might sound critical but it is only a means to establish from what prespective Believers stand when looking at Orthodoxy.
I don't even want to get into the fact that your gospel appears to have embraced divinity over atonement. Wasn't that the sin of Adam?
Well, that certainly is one way to interpret that verse, and indeed the way I interpreted it for many years. I would ask this, however: Is the picture one sees of the first Christians--the ones converted by the apostles and the direct spiritual (and often biological) descendents of those converts--a picture of a "live and let live" mentality characterized by individualized worship style and differences in doctrine as seen in much of Protestantism? Or is it more communal, with set worship and set authority for doctrine, as seen in the (little c) catholic traditions? This, I know, does go outside the Bible, but since it is the way in which said Scriptures were immediately received by all those who came in contact with the apostles, it demands our attention. If St. Paul were truly saying that we had the "right" to do what you're proposing (yet the very concept of individual "rights" didn't come along until enlightenment-era Europe), why would every apostolic community, from the get-go, be incredibly similar in worship and quite particular about being uniform in doctrine?
Absolutely! Yet who decides what "essentials" and "non-essentials" are? ISTM that Protestants who subscribe to the idea that there's one invisible Church (in spite of doctrinal differences) have to make a lot of stuff "non-essential" to still be in some form of unity. We would say baptism is an essential (many Protestants say this, too, btw), that one receives grace to save his soul from it. We would say the Eucharist is an essential; that we cannot have life without eating the Body and drinking the Blood of Christ. We would say another essential is the belief that salvation is an ongoing, life-long process, that we are being saved rather than having already been saved. Protestants also disagree on whether or not baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, infant baptism, confession of faith at a known point in time, believers baptism only, communion as more than a symbol, and other things are "essential" or "non-essential." The two categories are pretty arbitrary, depending only on what group you happen to belong to. It is a nice idea, don't get me wrong, but it's meant to deal with one particular communion. In the case of St. Augustine, who is traditionally seen as the author of the phrase, it was the universal Church, w/out denominations, and so "essentials" and "non-essentials" were already ecclesiastically decided.
What does this mean? Really, what is, objectively speaking, giving glory to God, and what is taking away from that glory? Is the institution of bishop and priest of human devising, or does it have as its originator Christ Himself? We would say that, of course, God didn't have to establish a human-run organization to speak for Him on earth, yet since this is what He did (in our opinion), we are indeed bringing Him glory by upholding and honoring said Church, complete with its hierarchs, who have always been the ones charged with rightly dividing the word of truth.
Well, the Orthodox Church could say that we ascribe to sola gratia, but only in the sense that Christ has redeemed all of humanity through His incarnation, and that this redemption, already accomplished through His sovereign grace and mercy, is now to be applied to people individually. The boldfaced terms intend to call attention to the fact that to claim that you are simply using Pauline terminology to support a system of "merits, works, or satisfactions" is ignoring the earliest centuries of Christianity, where the whole idea of making satisfaction to an angry or offended God is completely unknown. It should be said that, in opposition to the corrupted version of Tradition that the medieval Roman Church put forth at the time of Augsburg, this statement makes perfect sense when taken in the light of the theological system it came out of--that of merits, of satisfaction, of appeasing God's justice and wrath. Yet it's beating a dead horse when it comes to Eastern Christianity, for the more ancient of ways to look at this--a way to which Luther himself never really was exposed--was completely devoid of this novel idea, articulated first by Anselm in the 1100s, iirc. Puts a whole new spin on why Christ died, and the significance of grace and works.
And on a side note, Chrisb, have you visited an Orthodox parish for liturgy?
Seriously take a look at [Romans Chapter 14] and then tell me that my local congregation needs to observe some external rule (liturgical, Holy Days, fasting or otherwise). I honestly don't see a case for it at all. Now do I think you are necessarily 'damned' because you do? Of course not! But I see no legitimate rationale to submit to such tradition when Paul is so clear.
Baptist Theology is very big on recognizing an individuals' rights in this most personal and sacred relationship between one and one's Lord and Saviour. Paul holds the same position.
The major difference is the different degrees tradition has been shed for a faith completely biblical.
Baptism [for] instance is not as clear cut a vehicle of the Holy Spirit as Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Anglicanism would have one believe. We have many examples of the Holy Spirit entering an individual before or without any association with the act of water Baptism.
When Jesus commanded the apostles to baptize, he told them first to make disciples and said nothing whatever about infants (Matt. 28:19).
In other words, preaching must always precede baptism, for it is by the Word and not the sacrament that disciples are first made. Baptism can be given only when the recipient has responded to the Word in penitence and faith, and it is to be followed at once by a course of more detailed instruction.
Peter told the conscience-stricken people to repent and be baptized; he did not mention any special conditions for infants incapable of repentance (Act 2:38).
Again, when the Ethiopian eunuch desired baptism, he was told that there could be no hindrance so long as he believed, and it was on confession of faith that Philip baptized him (Acts 8:36-39).
In terms of individual piety, yeah, you're right. The Church may have church-wide fasting disciplines (as did the Judaism and early Jewish Christianity of the apostles), but I still have no business judging the guy next to me who's eating a steak on Great and Holy Friday. But that's individual stuff. The Church has always left it to the bishops to determine corporate worship and observance. Two different animals. Within the larger, corporate disciplines, there is individual personalization if such a thing is needed, but the picture you would paint from Rom. 14 applies not to the Church at large but to individual believers in their own personal lives.
True, yet these individual "rights" have limits. They do not have the "right" to go off and start their own Church if they disagree with Paul. They do not have the "right" to disrupt the worship service "because the Spirit led them" as an individual to speak in tongues without an interpreter. There are limits, and the limit of the individual is the corporate worship of the Church.
You jump to the conclusion that your faith is completely biblical. You may use the same terms, but your understanding of them is worlds away from their original meanings.
And in these rare cases baptism was given directly after. Yet the norm was understood to be that the Holy Spirit was given at baptism. God, we realize, can do what He will do, and we'll just roll with it, but we know what we're to do if no exceptions arise.
Arguments from silence don't work, man. You can't make a case based on what someone didn't say. I could just as easily say that He didn't say anything about infant baptism because it was just assumed that it would happen. Neither you nor I have anyway to prove our respective "reading between the lines" because both would be arguments from silence.
What, then, of the comparison of baptism with circumcision in Colossians 2:11-12?In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins[c] of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
If circumcision was done to eight-day old boys apart from their consent in order to bring them into the nation of Israel, and baptism is the initiation rite into the Christian Church, it stands to reason that, just as circumcision was not witheld from infants, neither is baptism.ÂÂ This is backed up not only by St. Paul, who says he baptized whole households, children and slaves included (both of whom were baptized simply because of the faith of the father/master), but also backed up by St. Peter at Pentecost.ÂÂ It surprised me that you mentioned this:Because the verse that immedately follows that one...oh, heck, here they both are:Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."
Notice a few things here. The baptism is for remission of sins and the reception of the gift of the Holy Spirit, not just repentance. But the baptism was not only for the adults who heard him that day, but for their children. That day. He gave the imperative that they do it immediately, and included the children in this. You may want to remember that, in the culture of the apostles' day, both children and slaves (heck, even women!) were considered the property of the man. As went the man, so went the whole family; individual choice had very little to do with this. This colors St. Peter's statement, to be sure.
Absolutely. It should be said that we Orthodox, in the case of adult conversions, absolutely require that a person make a public statement of faith before being baptized (it's a part of our liturgy of baptism for adults). Yet we should be careful not to take this example of an adult conversion and use it as the absolute rule for all baptisms, saying that because this instance was one of adult baptism, there should be no other kind. As I have (hopefully) explained above, the Scriptures do not rule out infant baptism, but rather quite strongly allude to it as a different animal altogether.
I need to go; I'll finish this later.
The meaning of baptism as developed by Paul in Romans 6 supports this contention. It is in repentance and faith that we are identified with Jesus Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection.
To infants who cannot hear the Word and make the appropriate response, it thus seems to be meaningless and even misleading to speak of baptism into the death and resurrection of Christ. Confessing believers alone know what this means and can work it out in their lives.
Soli Deo Gloria ultimately is what prohibits us from glorifying anything, at all, except God. No angels, no really nice people, no Mary. The Trinity alone.
This of all things is what most frightens me concerning Orthodoxy and trends among some Protestant authors preaching a new "atonement-lite" gospel.
Is it appealing to make God Almighty, who destroyed all men except for Noah and his family due to his wrath toward our sin, a loving God without wrath for our sin? Of course it is brother but my gut cries out to me a warning of 'false gospel'.
When I read the Scriptures I see a price that was paid. A burden, my burden nailed to the cross and added to it daily. I live in shame for who I am and I don't see another way into heaven but through His death for me...I only see propitiation; His Righteousness for my sin.
As I understand it there is only 'one' official day of fasting in Judaism, the Day of Atonement. Any other fasting was individual and thus no corporate.
Could we turn that around and say that corporate demands have limits?
I'm not trying to come across as something 'special' here. Not at all. I'm just saying that one can attempt to avoid traditions which either are unbiblical or at the very least give the appearance of being unbiblical which is a problem either way.
Why do you conclude that examples given in Scripture are the 'rare cases'? Shouldn't we assume these Biblical examples set the 'norms' for our faith?
Because this is in the 'name of Jesus Christ' and not 'in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit' aren't you being a little presumptous to assume this is speaking about 'water baptism'?
On another topic, by your post above are you suggesting that only 'male jews' entered into the covanant of Abraham and not the 'females' because they didn't get circumsion? This is where your line of reasoning leads when you mistake the 'out signs' with the 'inward signs'.
hmmmm... weird but a good point to reflect on. So what you are saying is because the man of the house gets circumsion that the whole family enters into the covanant. If such was the practice then wouldn't make sense that 'only the adult male' of the family was Baptized?
BTW, My wife and I when to the local Greek Festival and got a chance to tour the Cathedral. It was very nice and the people giving the tour were very knowledge. I also picked up a book For They Shall See God by David Beck. They were nice enough to give me a lot of little brochures on Orthodoxy too.
PS: Just remember I'm not here to be hostile I'm just voicing my concerns and seeking answers.
From your post at the top of this page (pt. 2)I disagree:
(vv. 3-11, emph mine): 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.It is through baptism, "the likeness of His death," that we are "united together," not just inner repentance. The passage states that if we were baptized into Christ, it is to say that we were really baptized into His death. If we were baptized into His death, we shall also see His resurrection. He says our old man was crucified with Him. When? When we participated in the likeness of His death--baptism. This takes place in the context of faith, whether that of the individual (in the case of the adult convert) or of the individual's parents/guardians (in the case of infant baptism/circumcision). So when you said in your most recent post that you would argue "that baptism, like circumcision, is not to be seen as effectual outside of 'faith'," I would agree, though hasten to restate that the faith of the parents would be the initial faith exercised at the baptism (as w/circumcision), and that the individual's faith would grow to replace the parents' faith as s/he grows in the grace given at baptism.
I suggest the following: You and I have no idea what actually happens in the mystery of baptism. Just as circumcision united infants to the saving people of God, so baptism does the same, giving them grace to help them work out their salvation from the get-go, since they've already been united to Christ. If they still choose one day to reject that, then that's their choice, but every grace was given to them to help them regardless.
Yes. Our Church Fathers stress repeatedly that no one is to be worshipped save the Holy Trinity alone. What we do to the Theotokos and the saints is not worship, though it may appear to those outside as such.
Quick question: Did you read those two articles on the Orthodox view of the atonement that I posted?
Yeah, this is the hardest thing for many friends of mine to talk with me about, since, as one put it, it's like my trying to convince them that the sky is really red instead of blue. It was hard for me, too, to even allow for the possibility that this different way of looking at what Christ accomplished on the Cross is actually the proper way of looking at it instead of the satisfaction atonement idea that's everywhere in the West. I look at it like this now: the western confessions have heard this one particular train of thought, exclusively, for so many centuries that it's become a sort of truism in their minds that's indistinguishable from Christ's crucifixion. In other words, when the Scriptures talk about the crucifixion, or Christ's death, or Christ's blood, or forgiveness, or sacrifices et al, the western Christian mind is basically trained to see these things in one particular way. If one reads the earliest Christian writings (written during and directly after the NT), however, one will find that particular way of seeing the Cross markedly absent, and the Orthodox view markedly present. Is it at all likely that every early Church bishop not only ditched satisfaction atonement right away, but also picked up the idea of Christ's defeat of death and the deification of mankind as an alternative, all at the same time, all over the world? This is the conclusion that a westerner would have to draw; the alternative is being willing to challenge this most sacred cow, this most assumed view of western Christianity, and say that perhaps our take on it, so woven into our mindset though it may be, is founded on a novel, foreign idea.
Make no mistake: A God without wrath would not be our God. Our God has wrath, but we must be careful not to project a human passion of offense onto the way we view God in His wrath. God will consume the ungodly with His very presence, and it will be the fire of hell to all those who are not united to Christ, but to iniquity. But to say that God will do this because of some offense that He has taken, because of some insecure feeling of vengeance, because of some demand for repayment due to losses perceived...this is not a God of love. The love has been lost somewhere if this is God's motive for His wrath.
From your most recent post:Incorrect. The Didache (a first-century document which means "the teaching of the twelve" and was considered Scripture for many many decades--centuries, in some places--by some in the Church) says that, in contrast to the unbelieving Jews who fast on Tuesday and Thursday of every week, the Christians should distinguish themselves as another community and fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, which we still do.
I would just say that corporate rules are not the same as individual rules. One should not see something that is ultimately a matter between a man and God (and, we'd also say, his/her spiritual father) as something that must be interfered with by corporate rules, but neither should corporate rules be trumped by an individual who feels s/he is "led by the Spirit" to do something that completely contradicts the experience of Christ that has been experienced by the rest of the people of God throughout the ages.
Well, unbiblical traditions were accepted in the Church since the beginning. So are you talking about un-biblical, or anti-biblical? The former--it's nowhere found in Scripture--was part of the "traditions passed down to you...by word" that the apostle Paul talked about and were to be held to. The latter--it goes against the Scripture--would be rejected outright by the Church, as Christ rejected the Corban rule of the Pharisees for not honoring mothers and fathers.
We should assume nothing. Rather, we should ask ourselves, are there other places where other practices are mentioned? I've given you several places in Scripture where infants, apart from their own individual faith, were baptized for the remission of their (anscestral) sin and united to Christ, and I've shown how, in Romans 6, it is stated by St. Paul that water baptism, as the image and likeness of Christ's death and resurrection, is where we die to sin and rise alive again in Christ. Since St. Paul was speaking to an entire congregation via a general epistle--as opposed to the historical account of individual cases, which is what Acts concerns itself with--it would stand to reason that the rule would be in Romans, the exceptions in Acts.
In light of Paul's discussion of the value of circumsion in his Epistle to the Romans how can you hold this view? [Circumcision] doesn't appear to hold the same level of power over the recipient as you appear to exercise in your view.
Yes, I've read the difference between worship/adoration and worship/veneration but you have to admit that these really 'blur' the edges don't they?
eek... Not yet... But I will.
Was the love lost during the flood? I'm just interested in your reaction...
Just as the Pharisees practiced fasting weekly so did the early Church but you'll be hard pressed to find 'any' fasting commanded in the Law outside of the Day of Atonement. It's just not there.
This was ultimately a piety movement which was adopted by many as an individual act of piety.
You appear to be saying that worship cannot evolve but it has.
Ever since the being of the Church pastors, like Paul, have been fighting to keep the tradition pure from adulteration. Should we simply accept a practice because it is old?
Just as the Pharisees practiced fasting weekly so did the early Church but you'll be hard pressed to find 'any' fasting commanded in the Law outside of the Day of Atonement. It's just not there. This was ultimately a piety movement which was adopted by many as an individual act of piety.
Sorry for jumping in. Pedro's fingers must surely be hurting by now.
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Haryana pose questions for tourists
Haryana 172 for 4 (Dewan 77*, Singh 55) trail England XI 521 (Pietersen 110, Cook 97, Compton 74, Bell 62, Patel 67) by 349 runs
If England had any illusions about the enormity of their task in India, they would have largely been dispelled on the second day against Haryana.
Having lost their last five wickets for 14 runs in the morning session, England's bowlers then spent the rest of the day toiling under a hot sun, claiming just four wickets in 61 overs. Matt Prior was forced off the pitch suffering from a stomach upset and, perhaps more worryingly, the Haryana offspinner, Jayant Yadav, delivered a less than glowing review of England's performance against spin bowling.
While England's total of 521 underlines the ease with which the batsmen flourished for the main, it is worth noting that against 40.1 overs of spin they lost eight wickets for 177. Yadav, an unremarkable bowler playing only his fifth first-class game, finished with 4 for 110, the best figures of his career to date.
It may be wrong to read too much into that. In the latter stages of the innings, with the total over 500 and the lack of intensity in the match situation producing lethargic cricket, England played some carefree strokes. But, given England's recent history against spin bowling, and bearing in mind that this surface is offering precious little help to bowlers of any type, those statistics will be just a little unsettling.
England's top-order looked comfortable against Yadav. Several batsmen, notably Ian Bell, Nick Compton, Prior and Kevin Pietersen, quickly took advantage of the lack of spin to come down the pitch to drive him over the top. But, far from being impressed by such confidence, Yadav interpreted it as a sign of insecurity.
"They looked very uncomfortable against spin," Yadav said. "That's why they resorted to playing that way. If you are comfortable you play from the crease. You would use your feet once or twice. But from the outset they had a mindset to attack the spinners, because they were unsure how to play them. The wicket was not offering much to the spinners. It was very slow and didn't turn much at all. There were uncomfortable."
Whether that is fair or not, it is certainl that England's tail - without Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad - folded quickly. After Bell fell early, attempting to run one to third man but edging to slip, Samit Patel and Prior added 69 in 12 overs. Both looked in fine form, with Patel registering his third score over 50 in succession on the tour. He could hardly have done more to nail down the No. 6 position for the first Test.
But when Prior, perhaps already feeling unwell, skipped down the pitch and missed one, it precipitated a sharp decline. Tim Bresnan and Patel, unwilling to grind out runs with the total already over 500, both slogged down the throat of long-on, before Stuart Meaker's drive was sharply taken by Amit Mishra in his follow through and Graham Onions was bowled playing back to one that skidded on. So, it was five quick wickets, but a far cry from the hopeless displays that characterised the trip to the UAE earlier in the year.
England's bowlers were also made to work hard. While Nitin Saini, unsettled by a good bouncer, soon steered Bresnan to point, Rahul Dewan and Sunny Singh added 97 for the second wicket. At one stage Singh, a man with a first-class triple century to his name, took Bresnan for three successive boundaries and also skipped down the pitch to drive Patel for successive fours, while Dewan, cutting particularly well, hit Onions for two boundaries in a row and looked a well organised, patient batsman. He enjoyed only one moment of fortune when Prior, clearly unwell by this stage, dropped a tough chance down the leg side off Meaker's second delivery.
Poor Prior was obliged to make two emergency dashes for the bathroom, but England's initial request to use a substitute wicketkeeper from outside their playing XI was declined by the umpires and match referee. While the convention in English domestic cricket permits a substitution on the grounds that the ECB believes that county cricket could be lessened as a spectacle by the use of a make-shift wicket-keeper, the Laws of the game (Law 2:3 specifically) actually forbid it. Ultimately, however, the BCCI, in an admirably magnanimous gesture, were contacted and made a special dispensation towards England. Jonny Bairstow took the gloves and Prior retired to a dark room.
England did eventually break through - Jonathan Trott clinging on to the first of two sharp catches in the slips - but Bresnan later rated the wicket the best for batting he had ever experienced.
"That wicket out there is possibly the best I've ever bowled on," he said. "It's unbelievable. It's easy-paced, has nice bounce and just comes on to the bat lovely. You get the feeling you're in an 'indoor school' scenario. It's not doing much off the straight, not seaming, not really bouncing much - and it's not spinning at all. So it's difficult."
All three of England's seamers worked up a decent pace - Meaker in particular - but the line was just a little too wayward to build any pressure. Monty Panesar, in stock bowler mode, gave away little and, on a warm afternoon against determined but limited batsmen, the game drifted in somnambulant fashion. Indeed, it will tell you much about the day that the most entertaining moment came when play was briefly suspended while two monkeys ran across the pitch and enjoyed a romantic liaison at third man. You don't see too much of that sort of thing at Lord's.
There was better news off the pitch for England, though. Steven Finn has improved more than expected and was able to bowl off his full run-up in the nets and, while Stuart Broad continued to rest and Graeme Swann remains in the UK, both are expected to be available for the first Test.
"Finn is off his full run now," Bresnan said. "That's a very good sign. With six days to go, there's no reason why he shouldn't be fully fit. If he can bowl at 90mph plus consistently, and get that bounce and lift, he's going to add to any team. He would probably get in any side in the world at the minute."
George Dobell is a senior correspondent at ESPNcricinfo


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The Theory:
If you are a reader of the Moonkin Repository you may remember a post that RandomSmo made a month and a half ago regarding when is the best time to cast Moonfire and Insect Swarm. The question he asked was: Is it better to cast the DoTs outside of Eclipse or is it better to only cast Moonfire at the beginning of Lunar Eclipse and only cast Insect Swarm at the beginning of Solar Eclipse?
The theory behind the question is that moonkin DPS is driven by Eclipse uptime. Therefore you want to do everything possible to maximize the uptime of Eclipse. Casting a DoT while Eclipse is down just delays procing the next Eclipse, and therefore reduces the uptime of Eclipse.
I agree that the theory is very counterintuitive. If moonkin DPS is so driven by Eclipse then why cast something that is not affected by Eclipse?
There are a couple of possible reasons. First, in the case of Moonfire casting a DoT doesn't necessarily prevent a Starfire cast from getting Eclipse. If you have 1.5 seconds left on Eclipse there is no way that Starfire will benefit from that remaining buff. It would have been better to have Moonfire ticking the entire duration and gotten the same number of Eclipsed Starfires. Second, in the case of Insect Swarm there were synergies to consider. Wrath does 3% more damage when Insect Swarm is on the mob. So, it is possible that if you combine the 3% buff with the added uptime of Insect Swarm that you would make up for the lost Eclipsed Wrath.
Admittedly there were some problems with the simulations RandomSmo ran. However, when I ran some quick tests in July correcting for his mistakes I got smaller, but similar results. I then accepted the results, but as I said before was recently challenged regarding some of the strategies I was using. With that I desided I would redo the tests to see if the results had changed.
What SimulationCraft Says:
All simulations were run using Graylo with full raid buffs, as a 5 minute fight, and with 10,000 iterations.
A quick look at Starfall and the default set up: I ran 17 different rotations through SimulationCraft. In those tests I was primarily changing when and how DoTs were applied, but I do want to make a quick comment about the default set up for SimulationCraft.
If you import your toon right into SimulationCraft the default rotation assumes that you don't cast Starfall during Eclipse. When I ran Graylo using the default rotation I had a DPS value of 12,304. When I had it cast Starfall when ever it was off cooldown I had a DPS value of 12,351. This indicates that it is better not to delay casting Starfall to cast it out side of Eclipse. However, I would like to present a couple of reminders first.
First, the SimulationCraft tests I ran assumed a Patchwerk style fight, and 7 out of 12 ICC bosses have specific add phases where it is better to use Starfall. Second, big delays over long fights will add up quickly. If you delay Starfall 3 or 4 times for 10 seconds or more over a long fight you've probably lost a Starfall cast in that fight. Shorter delays and delays on shorter fights will have less of an impact.
Here is the general rule I would use. On a Patchwerk style fight try not to delay Starfall too much, but feel free to delay it a few seconds if it becomes available at the end of an Eclipse buff.
When is the best time to cast DoTs?
In all of the simulations below I assume that Starfall is cast when it is available.
These are some of the measures I used when I asked some similar questions last December.
|Never Skip
|Skip on Opposite
|Skip Always
With "Never Skip" the tests refreshed the DoTs when ever they were down. Even if Eclipse is up with only a few seconds left. With "Skip on Opposite" DoTs were only refreshed during Eclipse if they take advantage of Improved Insect Swarm. Therefore, if Lunar Eclipse is up you would refresh Moonfire but not Insect Swarm. With "Skip Always" the tests skip both DoTs if either Eclipse buff is up.
If you remember that post you can see that the results are a bit different this time around. In December there was an obvious advantage to trying to keep a 100% uptime on DoTs. Now our DoTs are relatively week and it is better in some cases skip them in favor of Eclipse buffed nukes.
Smo's Theory: So how does RandomSmo's theory stack up against these baseline values?
|Only at Start of Same Eclipse
When tested against my toon, Smo's theory comes about 106 DPS behind the Skip Always strategy above. That means the Skip All Strategy provides about 0.86% more damage. That isn't a huge difference but it is clear to me that it is an inferior strategy.
Can we improve on the Skip Always Strategy? Now that it is clear that Smo's theory is an inferior strategy, the question is: Can the Skip Always strategy be improved upon? As I said before I ran about 17 different rotations through the simulator. Here are the most telling results.
|Cast Either DoT if Eclipse is Down or has more then 4 sec remaining.
|Cast MF for 100% Uptime, Cast IS only when Eclipse is down.
|Cast IS for 100% Uptime, Cast MF only when Eclipse is down.
|Cast DoT if Own Eclipse has more then 4 sec remaining or if Eclipse is down
|Cast MF if Lunar Eclipse has more then 4 sec remaining or if Eclipse is down, Cast IS if Eclipse is down
|Cast IS if Solar Eclipse has more then 4 sec remaining or if Eclipse is down, Cast MF if Eclipse is down
Judging from these results there doesn't appear to be a way to significantly improve on the Skip Always Strategy. There do appear to be some slight improvements when casting Moonfire at the beginning of Lunar Eclipse, but these differences probably fall within the margin of error and are very slight even if they don't.
In my most recent testing Smo's theory of casting DoTs only at the beginning of Eclipse does not appear to be beneficial. I was able to get noticeably better results from SimulationCraft using a strategy where you always skip DoTs during Eclipse. SimulationCraft did show slightly improved results using a strategy that would cast Moonfire at the start of Lunar Eclipse, but the results probably fall within the margin of error.
For Starfall, SimulationCraft defaults it to only be cast when Eclipse is down. However, I got better results from SimulatonCraft if Starfall was cast when it was off cooldown. However, I would be careful when applying these results. It is probably advantageous to make small delays in casting Starfall during shorter fights because you are unlikely to reduce the number of Starfalls you will get in the encounter. Making longer delays, or delays during longer fights is more risky because you risk losing a Starfall cast during an attempt.
Do It Yourself: If you would like to run this analysis for yourself. Here is how you do it.
Go download SimulationCraft from here. The Import tab will allow you to download your toon from the Armory, Rawr, or WoWhead if you have a profile set up there.
The Default Setting for Moonkin in SimulationCraft does not cast Insect Swarm unless you are moving. So for the first simulation you run you will want to add a line for Insect Swarm below the line for Moonfire. For every test after that just replace the Moonfire and Insect Swarm lines with the lines I provide below.
For 100% DoT uptime (Never Skip Strat), replace the lines with:
actions+=/moonfire,if=!tickingFor the Skip Always Strat, replace the lines with:
actions+=/moonfire,if=!ticking&!eclipseFor the Skip on Opposite Strat, replace the lines with:
actions+=/moonfire,if=!ticking&(buff.solar_eclipse.down)To run Smo's Theory, replace the lines with:
actions+=/moonfire,if=!ticking&(buff.lunar_eclipse.react)&buff.lunar_eclipse.remains>10For the Cast DoT if Own Eclipse has more then 4 sec remaining or if Eclipse is down Strat:
actions+=/moonfire,if=!ticking&(buff.lunar_eclipse.down|buff.lunar_eclipse.remains>4)&(buff.solar_eclipse.down)From here you can mix and match the different bits of code to get the other results I had. One thing to remember is that this is a simulator so you may not get the same results each time you run it.


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The India Post Payment Bank Limited is an India's largest banking networks. It is a State-owned commercial bank in India headquartered at New Delhi. It incorporated as a Public Limited Company under the DOP with 100% GOI equity. This is a new model of banks conceptualized by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). This organization can accept a restricted deposit which is currently limited to 1 lakh per customer account.
They cannot issue loans & credit cards but can issue services like ATM Cards, Debit Cards, Online Banking and Mobile Banking. Their 04 (four) key features are Financial Literacy, Financial Inclusion, Streamlining Payment, and Ease of Accessibility. It will set up on a lean operating model and make the focus on financial inclusion by harnessing low-cost technology based solutions. To achieve the target, the Indian Post is going to establish more than 650 payment banks by September 2017 at all major district headquarters. Now, to appoint more than 3.5 lakh people for these 650 branches, they have started publishing employment news updates at their site.
Earlier, the board has released notification for recruitment of 1737 administrative officers and other key posts. Recently, the registration process completed and now officials are planning to start the online test in upcoming days.
IPPB Admit Card 2016-17 Download Process
In the official notification, the board officials have not mentioned India Post Payments Bank Officer Exam Date. As per recent updates, authorities are planning to conduct IPPB Recruitment 2016 Exam for filling up 1710 vacancies of manager posts at various branches. Those candidates have submitted applications can start their preparation for the competitive written examination. This examination will organize in the online mode at venues located in many centers. The list of examination centers for the Preliminary Exams available on this page at the bottom. For Scale-I Officer posts, the selection process will consist of Preliminary Examination, Main Examination, and Interview. For MMGS Scale II & III Officer jobs, the authority will appoint candidates based on their performance in the Online Test, Group Discussion, and Personal Interview. According to the structure, prelims going to hold for total 100 marks with 100 objective type questions. In the main examination, there will be 200 questions for 200 marks. Applicants will get further details about exam from the Information Handout. Along with the IPPB Officer Scale Call Letter, contestants can download the Information Handout from a link available on the official website.
IPPB Officer Scale Exam Syllabus/ Pattern 2016-17:-
Assistant Manager (Territory) Scale-1 Officer Preliminary Examination Scheme:-
Prelims will have Objective Type Questions.
- Contestants will get negative mark for the wrong answer marked in the Objective Tests.
Scale-II, III & V Officers Online Examination Structure:-
The Medium of Mains Examination will be English and Hindi.
- Negative Marking System is applicable for the main test.
There are a huge number of candidates have applied for these selection tests and to crack sarkari naukri they must do the preparation well. All the necessary details like Applicant's Name, Photo, Signature, Roll/ Seat Number, Exam Dates, Schedule, Venue Address, etc. will be available in your hall ticket. The recruitment board will upload India Post Bank Admit Card download link to their official website i.e. indiapost.gov.in. So, all aspirants are advised to keep their e-mail ID alive for receiving advice regarding the hall ticket. Contestants can start downloading their call letter to attend IPPB Assistant Manager Exam in Dec-2016 or Jan-2017 from the concerned site whenever declared. Eligible applicants can generate their admit card 10-12 days before the exam date. The date of IPPB online test will communicate through the authorized website. Here we notify you all to collect Indian Post Payments Bank Hall Ticket 2016 much before the prelims and mains examination date. Those who miss the last date to download call letter will not able to participant in the test. The IPPB Exam 2016-17 Admit Card can be downloaded only by inserting the Application Number and DOB/ Password in a login page.
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- Aspirants will not get permission for the online test without the following documents:
- Valid IPPB Admit Card
- Photo Identity Proof (Aadhar Card, e-Aadhar Card, PAN Card, Driving License, Election Card, Bank Passbook, Passport or ID Card issued by School/College)
- Photocopy of Photo Identity Proof
- Reach the venue 02-03 hours early for completion of various formalities.
- Those contestants reporting late after a specified time will not be allowed to take the test.
- Any misbehavior by the applicant in premises may result in cancellation of candidature from future exams conducted by this department.
Through authorized IPPB website, the authority will issue hall ticket for every contestant. Aspirants are requested not to wait for a hardcopy of their call letter via postal or couriers. All those applicants want to download India Post Payments Bank Officer Scale Exam 2016-2017 e-Admit Card from an official site can follow the guidelines given below. A direct link for IPPB Manager Call Letter is also available at the end of this article. You can use the quick links given on this page to get your hall ticket by taking less time.
Name of the Organizer: India Post Payments Bank Limited
Job Type: Central Government
Kind of Page Category: Call Letter/ Admit Card/ Hall Ticket
Total Number of Posts: 1710 vacancies
Vacancy Names: Officer Scale Posts
Type of Exam: Online Test (Objective Type)
India Post Bank Examination Dates:-
- Assistant Manager (JMG Scale-I) – 07th & 08th January 2017 (Saturday & Sunday)
- MMGS Scale II & III Officer Exam Date – 17th December 2016
IPPB Call Letter Download Date:-
- Officer Scale II & III Admit Card – 01st to 17th December 2016
- Assistant Manager Hall Ticket – 18th Dec 2016 to 08th Jan 2017
Cut-off Score: Update Soon
Name of the Examination Centers: Andaman & Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
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Are you waiting for IPPB Assistant Manager (Scale-1 Officer) Admit Card and Exam Date?? Ok, kindly note JMGS-I preliminary exam dates have released. It will conduct on 07/01/2017 & 08/01/2017. The call letter download process will continue from 18/12/2016 or 08/01/2017. We will update further details if any released by the board at the official site. Candidates can use the quick link attached below to download their call letter from the IBPS official page. Stay tuned for more information.
Procedure to download India Post Payments Bank Admit Card 2016-2017:-
- Log on to the official website or open a link available below.
- Go to the News Section placed in a middle of a homepage.
- Click a link titled as "Download Call Letter for IPPB Officer Scale Exam 2016-17".
- Now, you will get diverted to a login page.
- Insert your Registration ID Number, Application Number, User ID, Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy), Password, etc. whichever required.
- After verifying the registration details, click on "Submit" option.
- Finally, your admit card will download to the device after a valid submission of necessary information.
- On your screen, the hall ticket will appear in PDF file format.
- Check out the details given in a call letter.
- Download and save it to the desktop.
- Take a print out for usage during the examination.
- Call Letter is mandatory to carry along on the examination day.
Important Points:
- Must bring Call letter with photo affixed thereon and photo ID card in Original and photocopy.
- Visit the venue one day before the On-line Examination to confirm the location. It will help you to report on time on the examination day.
Good News!! As soon as we get any information related to IPPB Assistant Manager exam date, it will update to this article. Keep visiting www.techufo.in for updates and additional details of IPPB Admit Card 2016-17 for Online Test, Prelims, Mains Examination and Interview. Candidates can bookmark this website to their browser for easy navigation. Soon we will come up with information on Answer Key, Paper Solution, Cutoff Marks, Result and Final Merit List through this page. Those who have any query regarding hall ticket can contact authority through the official site. Follow us for upcoming updates on central govt job, Bank Recruitment, etc. Keep your watch on this page for upcoming news related to hall ticket. ALL THE BEST Guys and Thanks for reading this article!
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India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has published Call Letters for the post of Assistant Manager (Territory) JMGS Scale-I , As per the newly released notice, the IPPB Scale I Officers Online Exam will be held during 7th & 8th January 2017.Check below for more details.
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What's the fastest way to go to jail in Egypt?
By having a political activist friend ask you to join their newly formed committee that will represent the independents in the Youth for Change movement in the Kefaya conference on the 23rd, and you say "Sure".
Absolutely no comment. Abit funny actually! They obviously haven't read my blog. I doubt that I'll last for more than a meeting.


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When mentoring our pre-service and in-service teachers we need to describe and model both research-based and clinically tested best practices, and demonstrate how these best practices can be applied in the real (i.e. physical) and virtual (i.e. online) classroom for both teaching and teacher training. The combination of face to face instruction in a physical setting and online learning is called blended learning. In this section of the blog we will describe how the internet can serve as a supplemental resource for instruction and the mentoring of pre-service and in-service Jewish educators. In this post we will begin our discussion of how NeatChat, a web tool that facilitates student and team collaboration, can be used for Judaic instruction and the mentoring/teaching of pre-service and in-service Jewish educators.
Assumption: The teacher or mentor teacher has an interactive white board (i.e. SMART Board, Promethean, etc.), a Tablet PC (also called a Slate or Blade), a computer presenter or computer with internet access attached to an LCD projector in the classroom. It would be ideal if students or mentees had access to their own laptop computers or Ipads. Given parental and school approval, and the development of specific guidelines, smartphones can be used to enhance instruction as well.
Note: Although NeatChat can be applied in the Judaic Studies blended learning classroom, it can be also be used for training pre-service and in-service Jewish educators for professional or staff development. It is our hope that Jewish educators around the globe will form an online community of practice, a CoP, a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession, to enhance the delivery of instruction and training of Jewish educators. For example, here is a CoP you might want to join.
Note: NeatChat can be used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
What is NeatChat?
NeatChat is a web tool that facilitates student and team collaboration.
Where is NeatChat located on the internet?
Where can I find tutorials demonstrating how to use NeatChat?
Click on the links below to find tutorials on using NeatChat:
- http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/neatchat-quick-chat-rooms/
- http://www.acljohn.com/communication/neat-chat
- http://www.screencast.com/t/2N9PWFNp
- https://youtu.be/_dbbMHvtxSk
On the next blog post we will discuss how NeatChat, a free web tool that facilitates student and team collaboration, can be used to promote instruction in the blended learning classroom.


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