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Earlier this week, Nvidia updated its Tegra Note 7 tablet platform with new features and capabilities. The company introduced the Tegra Note, a reference platform for Android based tablets in September this year with Tegra Zone gaming, stylus support, front facing speakers offering the widest frequency range in a tablet, a camera with 100-frame-per-second slow motion recording and up to 10 hours of battery life while playing HD video. Powered by the Tegra 4 processor, the company claims that the device will be the world's fastest 7-inch tablet.
Our price estimate of $16.42 for Nvidia is almost in line with the current market price.
Tegra Note Update
With the recent update, Tegra Note now supports the Android 4.3 Operating System and offers the always on HDR feature, which enables users to snap a real-time HDR shot without waiting several seconds for the camera to process it. Additionally, the tablet now provides: 1) an enhanced stylus experience (adding support for left-handed users) and improvements in overall response; 2) DirectStylus enhancements; 3) video stabilization; and, 4) the ability to move applications and data files from internal memory to an external microSD card. Nvidia promises that Tegra Note will have all the additional features in the same price range (starting $199).
Unlike its gaming device Shield, Nvidia does not build and sell the Tegra Note directly. Though the platform is designed by Nvidia, its partners have the opportunity to further build on the reference design and sell the final product in the market under their own brand.
Tegra Revenue Declines in 2013
Having seen its Tegra processor revenue climb by approximately 200% and 30% in 2011 and 2012 respectively, Nvidia anticipates the same to decline by $200 – $300 million this year. Much of the decline can be attributed to the ramp down of Tegra 3 products and the company's conscious decision to delay the launch of Tegra 4 by one quarter, in order to pull up the production of Tegra 4i chips.
Tegra 4 is the world's first quad-core processor based on Cortex A15 and while the delay in its launch will impact its short term growth, we believe it will be an important factor in expanding Nvidia's presence in the mobile computing space. Nvidia has already received Tegra 4 orders for Xiaomi Mi3, Microsoft's second-generation Surface RT, as well as Asustek, Toshiba and HP tablets.
Tablet shipments are estimated to grow by 78.9% between 2013 – 2017, increasing from 227 million units to 407 million units by 2017. Research firm IDC expects lower-cost devices to drive global demand.
Tegra Revenues to Reach $1 Billion in Long Run
Nvidia lost out on Google's second generation Nexus 7 tablet to Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro and faces competition from the iPad Mini. Nevertheless, since the tablet market is expanding at a rapid pace we believe that Nvidia will manage to expand its footprint in the market. With Tegra 4, in addition to mobile and tablets, the company aims to expand its reach to other large markets where visual computing matters, such as auto navigation systems, TV set top boxes and new desktop form factors like all-in-one and smart monitors.
We forecast Nvidia's Tegra revenues to cross $1 billion over our review period.
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A moment of class from Roman Bednar set West Brom on their way to a 2-0 win over Scunthorpe that helped them move to the top of the Coca-Cola Championship table.
The Czech striker's delicate goal early in the first half, coupled with Gianni Zuiverloon's late striker, helped the Baggies take full advantage of Newcastle's shock defeat at Derby as they extended their unbeaten run to six games.
Albion enjoyed the majority of the possession in between the two goals but were unable to create too many clear-cut chances against a Scunthorpe side that had captain Cliff Byrne sent off late on.
West Ham teenager Frank Nouble was given his Baggies debut from the off, but it was experienced striker Bednar who was the first to go close, seeing his six-yard drive blocked by David Mirfin.
Scunthorpe responded well and Sam Togwell flashed a drive over the bar from 25 yards after Joe Mattock slipped when trying to clear, while Bednar passed up another chance when he fired over after Nouble had played him in.
The chances continued to flow and Mattock sent a low effort just wide of Joe Murphy's post, while the former Albion keeper did well to palm away Nouble's strike.
Albion's early pressure made it almost inevitable that they would score, and the goal duly came after 13 minutes through Bednar.
Robert Koren made it, getting to the byline before crossing for Bednar who back-flicked home on the turn for his ninth of the season.
Scunthorpe's hopes of an instant response were hit when Brendan Moloney was forced to limp off, but Matt Sparrow went close to getting them back on terms with a volley that edged wide.
The Iron were fortunate not to be two behind at the break, though, with Rob Jones inadvertently stopping Chris Brunt's strike from evading Murphy.
The home crowd were becoming increasingly agitated at their side's failure to add to Bednar's goal, but they went close to doing so three times inside the space of a minute after the restart.
First Graham Dorrans saw his strike blocked by Togwell, before Gabriel Tamas had two follow-up efforts well shielded by Sparrow and Jones.
Gary Hooper fired over the bar from the edge of the area to keep Scunthorpe interested, while at the other end Brunt and Dorrans again took aim from distance as Albion were unable to break down Scunthorpe's stubborn rearguard.
They did manage to put the seal on the win eventually, though, when Zuiverloon latched on to Bednar's 86th-minute pass and lofted a finish over a hapless Murphy.
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Having been born and raised in Kenya,
I know exactly what to expect when I stay at the parish community of St Peter's that my charity supports,
in the harsh, remote, semi-arid area in NE Kenya:
the heat, dust, grinding poverty,
virtually impassable roads, power cuts, no clean water,
a simple, but demanding subsistence existence –
I take it all as a given.
But when coming from that environment, I wondered what Fr Frankline, the parish priest, whom we brought over this summer to visit all our supporters, was going to make of us on his very first visit to England?
"At a glance, England is a very blessed country.
When we started coming down to land at Bristol airport, reaching at the heights I could view the ground, I first marveled at the organisation of the country.
Settlements, farms, forest reserves, roads network, all fabulous."
So far so good! We packed a lot in during his 18 day visit – in and around Somerset, London, Berkshire – talking and preaching to church congregations and schools, meeting and thanking our lovely supporters, seeing all the sights – probably massive sensory overload for him!
But as we went round I began seeing things through his eyes that we all take so much for granted.
He was amazed that people cycle and walk for pleasure;
flabbergasted at the sizeable aisles given over to Pet Food in the supermarkets;
mystified at seeing the fresh roses flown from Kenya on sale;
puzzled at the effort we put in to growing flowers (which can't be eaten);
ditto tending lawns with such loving care on which maize could be grown.
"you bathe in and flush toilets with water that is drinkable?!"
But what took his imagination most was the 'ant holes' of all the frantic activity of the London Underground, and he was constantly impressed by our extensive and well maintained road network – "you are able to drive right up to the front of your houses!".
But there was no doubting that he absolutely loved and appreciated his visit:
"For the eighteen days I have stayed in England, I have enjoyed a Kingly treatment. I have met with people who have been very kind and loving to me".
For me it was a salutary reminder of our starkly opulent life styles that we all take so much for granted, particularly at this time of our abundant harvest.
But…. running through all those eye-openers, there was that one reassuring and common theme wherever we went – we all speak and understand the same language of Christ, and worship in that universal manner of our "one holy, catholic and apostolic Church" – absolutely seeing eye to eye there!
"People of England, I love you all on behalf of the community I serve, and leave you with our local community saying, 'Saying goodbye does not bar us from meeting again at God's appointed time'."
I know all who came in contact with Fr Frankline during his visit are looking forward again to that 'appointed' time!
David Baldwin is CTS author and Guest Blogger


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New Year's Resolution Wrap-Up
December 31, 2009
A time for new beginnings… I spent some time this morning peaking in on some fellow homeschooling bloggers. Here's a quick wrap-up of some interesting New Year's posts: Miscellaneous Musings of a 5X Mom points us to a 90-day Bible Challenge. What a great way to fire up a study plan that may have fallen by the →
The Secret to Teaching Honesty
December 29, 2009
Quick Cookies for the Cooking Impaired
December 23, 2009
Some homeschoolers are culinary greats. Others, not so much. If you are anything like me, the kitchen is not your best friend. I admire people who can crank out 3 batches of 6 different kinds of cookies without knocking a hair out of place. My friend, Erica, can do this. She make batches of Christmas →
Be the Best of Whatever You Are
December 18, 2009
Stop Procrastinating Today – A Simple 5-Step Process
December 14, 2009
"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." ~William James Is that not so true?! Procrastination has three major affects on homeschoolers. It sucks your precious energy, lessens your credibility in front of friends and family, and is a bad example to your kids. Motivation can seem →
Be a Better You: The Five Minds of a Mom
November 3, 2009
I was reading an article in Harvard Business Review that caught my eye. (Yes, I subscribe to Harvard Business Review and probably will until my death… you can all stop laughing now:-) The article is titled "The Five Minds of a Manager" by Jonathon Gosling and Henry Mintzberg. By looking at the juxtaposition that the →
The Old Scholhouse Magazine Holiday Digital Supplement is Here! – FREE
October 31, 2009
Our friends at The Old Schoolhouse Magazine have created a beautiful 175-page holiday magazine with lots of tips and templates for crafts and activities, articles on making Christmas this year a beautiful and peaceful experience for your family. They share ideas for freezer meals to ease your workload during the busy holiday season, and for those especially ambitious, this resource →
Why Lesson Planning is Important
October 29, 2009
I know there are some of you out there who aren't big on lesson planning and others who are addicted to it. However, even if you aren't big on structure, you can still benefit from incorporating some consistent lesson planning techniques into your homeschool. Someone once said that 'failure to plan is planning to fail.' →
Letters to Your Kids – Professor Mom's Free Book Challenge
October 28, 2009
I have a free book challenge for all you moms out there. The purpose of this challenge is to inspire you during a time of the year when we can all get a little overwhelmed. First, read this absolutely terrific post at "Our Report Card." Cry, laugh, go hug your kiddos. Then, let it inspire you to write your →
Three Keys to Raising Leaders
October 21, 2009
In a time of cultural degeneration and societal turmoil, our responsibility to raise children who can lead, and lead rightly, is huge. I don't think I need to tell this audience of the importance of teaching children integrity and intelligence, as well as what it means to live in a true republic. The goal is →


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New Book Challenges Conventional Vision Of Nihilism
Controversional author Brett Stevens, who was interviewed here some time ago, has released his first book, Nihilism: A Philosophy Based in Nothingness and Eternity on Manticore Press. This book attempts to understand nihilism in a way our culture has up to now been afraid to.
The summary of the book states:
Most people see the world in binary categories. They believe that there is either an inherent moral good that we must all obey, or there are no rules and life is pointless anarchy. Nihilism argues for a middle path: we lack inherent order, but are defined by our choices, which means that we must start making smarter choices by understanding the reality in which we live more than the human social reality which we have used to replace it in our minds.
A work of philosophy in the continental tradition, Nihilism examines the human relationship with philosophical doubt through a series of essays designed to stimulate the ancient knowledge within us of what is right and what is real. Searching for a level of thought underneath the brain-destroying methods of politics and economics, the philosophy of nihilism approaches thought at its most basic level and highest degree of abstraction. It escapes the bias of human perspective and instructs our ability to perceive itself, unleashing a new level of critical thinking that side-steps the mental ghetto of modernity and the attendant problems of civilization decline and personal lassitude.
While many rail against nihilism as the death of culture and religion, the philosophy itself encourages a consequentialist, reality-based outlook that forms the basis for moral choice. Unlike the control-oriented systems of thought that form the basis of contemporary society, nihilism reverts the crux of moral thinking to the relationship between the individual and the effects of that individual's actions in reality. From this, a new range of choice expands, including the decision to affirm religious and moral truth as superior methods of Darwinistic adaptation to the question of human survival, which necessarily includes civilization.
Inspired by transcendentalist thinkers and the ancient traditions of both the West and the Far East, the philosophy of nihilism negates the false intermediate steps imposed on us by degenerated values systems. In the footsteps of philosopher Friedrich W. Nietzsche, who called for a "re-evaluation of all values," nihilism subverts linguistic and social categorical thinking in order to achieve self-discipline of the mind. As part of this pursuit, Nihilism investigates thought from writers as diverse as William S. Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Schopenhauer and Immanuel Kant. For those who seek the truth beyond the socially-convenient explanations that humans tell one another, nihilism is a philosophy both for a new age and for all time.
Where this differs from most is that it does not view nihilism as a type of moral relativism, but a style of extreme realism that rejects the idea of human-centric visualizations of reality. Instead, it posits that all is choice. We can choose to know more of reality, and to push our minds through self-discipline to see more of the abstract truths and structures behind matter, or we can choose another path. But our choices define us.
This escapes the normal trap of thinking that we can define an objective reality that everyone can understand, which is nonsense given that language is interpreted by the individual with varying degrees of accuracy because individuals are not equal. Instead of relying on tools like language, law, and morality to guide us as interpreted by human individuals, Nihilism argues that should measure all humans by cause-to-effect results of their actions and derive intent from those.
Most people fear nihilism because it kicks out the supports that they rely on. Those are usually social illusions, or those comprised of what a group of humans can compromise on in order to keep the group together. Stevens' conception of nihilism is antisocial and operates on the level of history and mythology, rejecting the narcissistic individualism that represents the true evil, or error, inherent to humanity.


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Ah, delirious Delirium, one of the Sandman's sisters in the Sandman series of graphic novels.
DELIRIUM 1. A state of temporary mental confusion and clouded consciousness resulting from high fever, intoxication, and shock characterized by anxiety, tremors, hallucinations, delusions, and incoherence. 2. A state of uncontrolled excitement or emotion.
So says my ancient (1982) copy of The American Heritage Dictionary. For an updated definition on my birthday in 9 months you could send me a new dictionary. Just throwing that out there.
Who among us has not experienced delirium, especially that intoxication one. Who? Me? And people wonder why I don't drink anymore.
There's high and low delirium. High is when my novelette Hell Cop: Sneaker had 146 downloads in 3 days when it was free for the Kindle from Amazon. Now a 146 downloads is barely a drop in the proverbial 5 gallon bucket of the e-book world. But 146 of something is better than a zillion of nothing. I was positively giddy as I stared at the report, counting along with the numbers. Two, even three, an hour! Ah the delicious intoxicating delirium of low expectations met.
Low is now, as I try to write a sequel to my An Accidental Vampire story which is doing well (the next step up from barely a drop) as an e-story. Like the vampire it's about, it's kicking ass (mine) and searching for names (All those 17th Century French people weren't named Smith? Who knew?) I have a good start and I know the ending, it's all that stuff in the middle that's giving me an anxious, finger twisting, typing incoherent, delirium of failure. I mean, how hard can it be for a Young Blood vamp to find the murderer of a Duchess?
Love is high Delirium. Or low depending on which end of the relationship you're on. Are you at that point where you bump into things, ignore your friends, and generally walk about in a daze of happy delirium with pictures of your sweet Honey Bun dancing in your head and you can't wait to feel them in that intimate way unique to you two of all people on Earth?
Or, are you in that low delirium state of having been dumped where you bump into things, ignore your friends and generally walk about in a daze of sad, painful, disillusioned, angry delirium, and ripped up pictures of that lousy, lying, bitch/bastard beat against the inside of your skull, and the only thing you want to feel is either your hands around sweet Honey Bun's neck or that whiskey burn in your throat, or the blissful nothing of head to pillow and the blankets pulled over your head?
Which ever level you're at, wait, don't do anything stupid, especially those of you in the high delirium state, and it will all be better in the (some future) morning. Unless your (temporary?) bout of delirium causes some nasty form of Destruction, (next post) in which case you're screwed and you might as well settle into Despair (last post.) Unless, Destiny, (next next post) should you choose to accept it, has something else in store for you.
What if somebody did you wrong (broke your heart, broke your bank, broke your psyche) and rendered you suicidal? You were about to martyr yourself to your sad delirium when you realized that the only action that would make life worth living would be to destroy (murder the bitch/bastard!) the person who wronged you. And you do, and you get caught. Can you claim self-defense? Compare and contrast the two obvious sides of the question in a gripping, can't put it down, fictional form. Extra credit if it gets made into a movie.
What if you were in a blue funk delirium brought on by disappointment, failure, loss, humiliation or any of the thousand other things that might bring on such a state of Why me? or What now? And then, you saw the future. Not some daydream or hypnosis induced fantasy – The Real Thing. You were happy and successful and… and.. HAPPY. You had everything you wanted – except it came at the expense of someone you knew. A friend, a family member, maybe that nice man down the block who always said "Hi" and had returned your new puppy when it got lost. All you had to do was carry on as usual and you were gold and they were fools gold. They wouldn't die or anything so severe, but as you went up, they went down. You could change it, but that big Happy wouldn't happen. What would you do? Something? Nothing? Or try and finagle a compromise? What would make you happy?
I'm getting delirious trying to come up with ideas that haven't been done a 100 times before, like going through strange adventures then finding out "It's all a dream." Or finding out the strange stuff was real and the surreal boredom you thought was your life is actually your delirium, a refuge from all the strangeness. Sort of a reverse Walter Mitty effect. Or a strange person touches you and you experience a time of incoherent hallucinations and when you wake up you're some – body, where, time – else. Or when you wake up you're part of an unrotten Alien Zombie undercover army bent on taking over the world one bite at a time. clichés like that.
So, enjoy, or at least accept, your delirium, embrace it, wrap yourself up in it, because you never know if it might be the highlight of your life. Just to leave you with a pleasant thought.
An historical delirium of Vampires awaits my attention. Until Destruction comes, don't let any strangers bite you.


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From the Ground Up in Acrylic
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From the Ground Up in AcrylicBehind the Art
by Melissa Acker
I can't even remember the last time I'd done an acrylic tutorial -- years, at least -- so I thought it was about time I did another one. And with the sad passing of Frank Frazetta last month, I decided to do something more in that style than in my usual one.
This was also the first small acrylic painting I've done in months; I've been working on a rather gigantic mural project since November, and I was curious to see how it might have affected my style.
You begin an acrylic painting in the same manner you begin any other: with drawing. This painting is done on a nine-by-twelve inch stretched canvas. The pencil lines are actually quite dark, and I've even blocked in some of the shadows. I use acrylic in a very opaque manner, and so I know every one of those lines will be obscured soon enough. Some artists rough in their drawings in acrylic for that reason (the mural I am working on right now is done in this fashion).
Unless I'm painting in watercolor (and, heck, sometimes even then), getting rid of the white is the first thing to do; it banishes the apprehension that the glaring, intimidating white of the surface sometimes conjures.
In this case, I used a thin but rather dark coat of burnt sienna over the whole painting, making no attempt to even hint at the form of the characters, although some parts of the background are darker than others. I also wasn't worried about brush strokes showing or obscuring a few of the pencil lines. The most wonderful, freeing aspect of acrylic is that you can paint over anything. ANYTHING. So go crazy.
It looks like an awful happened between this next step and the last, but it really isn't. Almost all the paint colors I used for this painting were opaque, and for this step it was mostly yellow ochre, raw umber, titanium white and cadmium red deep. For later steps I also sometimes used hansa yellow light, payne's grey and cobalt blue.
As a side note, while all acrylics can certainly be applied opaquely, some are better suited for glazing than others; these are known as transparent colors. It is usually noted on the tube of paint whether it is opaque or transparent, or, better yet, you can create your own test swatches to check.
Basically, this step was about building form. I filled in the light and dark areas on the creatures. I kept the brush strokes going either in the direction of the fur, or had them contouring the shapes to better illustrate form (note the strokes on the cat's forelimb in particular). There is no fine detail at all.
This is only one coat of paint, applied rapidly and rather thickly. Very little of the undercoat shows on the cat, some shows on the woman, and a great deal of it shows through the background.
The spots, oh dear, the spots... They are unpleasant to paint. But there is work to be done, and the sooner you get started the sooner it will be finished.
The key to painting pattern, on any creature, is to ensure that pattern changes in value as the light source dictates that it should. This is well illustrated on the cat's torso: the spots in the light are lighter and warmer in color than the spots hidden in shadow nearer the forelimb.
Most of the this step involved painting the spots on, darkening the shadows, and adding fur texture, especially to the head. Fur texture it easiest to do by painting the dark shadows within the fur, and laying several (or dozens, depending on your style and the level of realism you wish to achieve) of thin layers of hairs over.
Some of the details of the face have also begun to show themselves. For the woman, I tightened up the lights and darks on her back.
When doing details like this, you may be tempted to thin the paint out to make it easier to control. Be careful when you do this; you should never thin acrylic with more than about 25% water. Any more than this, and the molecular structure of the paint begins to break down, and once dry it will not be as sturdy and permanent as it otherwise should have been. If you need really thin paint, you can add a medium to the paint, such as the matte medium that is my personal favorite (although I did not use any in this painting). It tends to effect any colors you mix with it, particularly lighter colors, in a similar although much more subtle way than white paint. Not only will you get thinner mixes, but you will get longer drying times for your paint, as well. Highly recommended for painting detailed fur and feathers.
Fine-tuning is always the last step, and often the hardest one; it can very difficult to tell when it's time to put the brushes away and leave it be.
Most of the work on the cat was done on the face, and the highlighted areas of the fur: adding texture, darkening shadows, tightening up and refining the details. Similar touches were added to the woman, including some jewelry. I made certain to darken the reflections and shadows on the gold with the colors used in the cat and in the background. Note that the background has not been touched since step three at all.
And it looks like we finished yet another one, folks! Hope you enjoyed my first acrylic tutorial since... 2007? My goodness, it's been awhile. Have a great summer!
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Seventeen people have died and twenty five others injured in a bus accident in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri district this morning. An investigation into the accident suggests that the driver of the bus was speeding when the vehicle hit the road divider and overturned. The accident happened in Mainpuri's Danhara area.
- 17 dead in bus accident in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri
- Driver was speeding when bus hit divider and overturned, say police
- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath condoled the death of the passengers
The bus, traveling from Jaipur and heading to Farrukhabad in UP, had around 60 passengers on board. The accident happened near Tirathpur village at around 5:30 am.
Sixteen people died on the spot, while one of the passengers critically injured, died at Saifai hospital. Those remaining people who were injured have been taken to hospitals nearby. Three of the twelve injured are in critical condition. The driver of the bus was also injured severely, and lost his left leg in the accident.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath condoled the death of the passengers in the bus accident. He expressed his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family of the departed people. The chief minister also instructed officers to take all measures possible for the appropriate treatment of those injured.
Mr Adityanath has also announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the family of those who died, and Rs 50,000 to those who were injured severely.
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Recently USGBC and the LEED Rating system have come under a barrage of attacks from lobbyists fearful of the next generation of the rating system, LEED v4, and what it might do to the status quo. Chemical trade groups and timber industry executives are rallying together, pushing back against maintaining comprehensive guidelines for the sustainable harvesting of wood and the addition of credits to limit and disclose harmful chemicals in our building materials.
Rick Fedrizzi, founder and CEO of USGBC, recently published a must read article on the Huffington Post calling out those with narrow view points, defending the status quo, intent on taking down the LEED rating system. Here is a quick excerpt where he outlines the two perspectives:
"Make no mistake: these scoundrels can't have it both ways. If USGBC is on the side of sustainability, that could only mean that those who oppose us are ultimately on the side of exploiting the earth's non-renewable resources.
If we're on the side of protecting the environment from careless and short-sighted decision-making, that could only mean those who oppose us are for subjecting you and your family to the kind of short-sighted decisions that lead to eco-disasters like Love Canal, the Gulf oil spill, and mountaintop coal removal."
With the demand for green building growing as seen in the graph above the question is who will join, not fight against, USGBC in the marketplace to accomplish this mission and meet demand?
– Mark Schrieber, LEED AP BD+C | Homes


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Ways To Let The Cat Out Of The Bag
There are quite a few ways to let the cat out of the bag. Sometimes it will shoot out, at other times it may slowly push out a single paw to feel its way around, and there may even be occasions when the cat just doesn't want to leave the bag – it's safer inside, and it doesn't want to reveal its existence. On such occasions, it might unintentionally show a tail or a paw, thus giving itself away.
That preamble refers to a comment made on the JC blog-site by John Gold on the post "Manis Friedman's Non-Jewish Friend" by Yehuda A Holz, dated March 4, 2010.
John Gold has already been mentioned on JCWatch in the post "How Israel treats Palestinian children [sic]" as one who appears to be Christian but refuses to admit this, prefering to appear Jewish (all that glitters is not Gold?) so as to further his opinions as those of someone Jewish, "one of the fold".
But in Gold's above-mentioned comment on the post by Holz, he has inadvertently shown some paw, revealing his true, Christian identity. And let me make this clear: I am not in any way attacking Christians, only imposters.
I'm only quoting what I need here to make my point , read the full post for complete context.
Gold says as follows:
" the original teachings of Yeshua were from a Jewish person to Jewish people and the following of the way was established by Jewish people (12 apostles plus thousands of followers, from peasants to high priests), it's not a new 'slimey concept' as you infer…"
Gold is claiming that most members of "Jews for Jesus" are Jewish – a claim that in itself sounds like Christian missionary propaganda. But he gives himself away in just ONE word – "Yeshua" – Yeshua being the way Christians pronounce "Jesus" in Hebrew. Jews NEVER use the name "Yeshua"; they abbreviate it to "Yeshu", which is in fact an acrostic for the way Jews refer to Jesus. (Stephen Pollard is a national expert on acrostics: ask him about his experiences some time – but if you do, wearing a helmet is advised).
In another Jewish Chronicle blog entry dated February 25,
John Gold writes:
"Some orthodox strand are also violently targeting messianic Jews (followers of Yeshua) also…"
– again, "Yeshua", and "messianic Jews".
As long as the JC employs Judeo-ignorants to manage its blogs, subtleties such as the above will always slip by them. But now that the cat is out of the bag, what does the JC intend to do regarding missionary-activist John Gold? (The question, is rhetoric).
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Zoe spotted this pagoda at World Market last night.
I don't remember where I got this little qi pao. I think I bought it to use in scrapbooking, but it makes a great Christmas ornament!
This lantern, and the fan below, are from World Market -- a boxed set with a kimono-clad girl. I really like the fan, since we didn't have one before on our tree.
If you've blogged about special adoption or country-specific ornaments on your tree (with pictures!), add the link in the comments so we can ooh and ahh at your ornaments!


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Mid and East Antrim Borough Council have welcomed over a thousand Primary Seven pupils to events across the borough, highlighting the work of council.
The events, hosted by Council's Good Relations team, ran over three days when pupils took part in a number of events at the McNeill Theatre in Larne, The Braid Arts Centre Ballymena and the Amphitheatre Carrickfergus.
The sessions provided the opportunity for young people to learn more about the role of their local council and engage in sessions around promoting positive, good relations, celebrating diversity and how sport can be a vehicle to build relationships.
Through the Together Building a United Community Strategy, government has the shared aim to create a community where young people have a full and active role in building good relations.
Educational events such as those held borough-wide are seen by the local authority as important in helping to achieve this goal.
Mayor of Mid and East Antrim, Councillor Paul Reid said: "This Good Relations initiative has been about helping equip our Primary Seven pupils as they prepare to move to secondary education. The aim of these events is about ensuring our young participants feel confident and better prepared to engage in good relations. It also helps them to understand the diversity of our borough and what their role, as future leaders, can be in helping to promote good relations in Mid and East Antrim.
"I would take this opportunity to thank Ivy Goddard MBE from the Inter Ethnic Forum of Mid and East Antrim and David McAlinden, Manager of Carrick Rangers FC for their thought provoking presentations as well as the time and commitment to this schools engagement programme. I would also thank the team at Beyond Skin who facilitated the cultural diversity workshop as part of their Arts Dialogue Programme, supported by the Arts Council NI.
"Mid & East Antrim Borough Council wants everyone who lives, learns, works and plays in this borough to feel welcome, safe, respected and celebrated. These events have been designed to enhance those aims. Projects like this Schools Engagement Programme are significant and important to council as we continue to work together to create a better future for all."
These events have been supported by the Arts Council NI, and The Executive Office through Mid and East Antrim Borough Council's Good Relations Programme.
Anyone who would like to find out more more about these events or other Good Relations projects in teh borough can email email@example.com or call 25635036.


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With the addition of pharmacist Lauren Hoban, the Student Health Center pharmacy is now reopened and serving students.
Open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m., the pharmacy can fill any prescription written by a medical practitioner licensed to practice in the state of Texas.
"The pharmacy's convenient location makes the pharmacy easily accessible for all students," said SHC programming coordinator Sarah Hanel.
"The pharmacy is able to purchase certain medications at a substantial discount and pass the savings on to the students," she said. "In some cases, medications are available for less than an insurance co-payment."
Because the pharmacy stocks only certain medications, students are advised to call for availability.
The pharmacy was closed for several months due to the previous pharmacist moving. Hoban, a PharmD, moved to Texas several weeks ago from Cleveland, Ohio.
For more information, or to check the availability of a medication, call the SHC pharmacy at 936.294.1803.
John Francis Burke, professor of political science at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, will present "The Three Paradigms of Mestizo Politics: Purity, Resistance, & Lateral Engagement" on Tuesday (March 3).
The lecture, sponsored by the foreign languages department, will be held from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in Lowman Student Center Room 315.
Mestizaje refers to the mixing of the African, European and Indigenous Tribes cultures, especially in Latin America and the U.S. Southwest that was initiated in the Spanish conquest of the Americas, according to Burke.
"I will show that whereas south of the Rio Grande/Bravo mestizaje tends to be interpreted as the European heritage purifying the black and Indian heritages, north of the Rio Grande/Bravo, mestizaje tends to be interpreted, especially in Chicano studies, as an identification with the subjugated Indian in resistance to the European conquerors," he said.
Burke's book, "Mestizo Democracy," placed second in both the "Religion and Politics" and the "Race, Ethnicity and Politics" sections' "Outstanding Book of the Year" awards in 2007 at the American Political Science Association Convention.
"It's very unusual for a text to place so high in two separate sections," said Debra Andrist, foreign languages department chair.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call the department of foreign languages at 936.294.1414.
Elizabeth Charrier, Counseling Center psychologist, will discuss the role gender has played in the development of mental illness categories and its treatment on Wednesday (March 4).
"Women's Issues," sponsored by the Office of Multicultural and International Student Services, will be held at 3 p.m. in Lowman Student Center Room 304.
"The intent is to educate the audience further about the development of mental health problems and how as a society we contribute to that, particularly as it plays out for gender stereotypes, 'rules' and expectations," Charrier said. "Audience members should also come away with a sense of how to respond with compassion and greater understanding to others in whom they identify mental health problems."
An example of this, Charrier said, is that women are more often diagnosed with depression than men.
"One reason for this might be that anger is a less acceptable emotion for women to express in our culture and sometimes when one cannot express themselves to others, those emotions get focused inward," she said. "The result is often depression.
"Understanding the societal factors, such as our expectations for what is acceptable behavior for women, influences what we see as pathology/bad/negative/ 'crazy' in our society," she said. "We, then, as members of the society have the power to redefine things."
The lecture is being held in honor of National Women's History Month in an effort to raise awareness and greater acceptance of people with mental health issues, particularly as pertaining to gender.
"The social and cultural issues that affect women sometimes go unnoticed or unmentioned," said Ashley McDonough, program coordinator. "I think that this program will be a unique opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to get a better understanding of why we celebrate women during National Women's History Month, as well as the unique societal issues that women deal with on a daily basis."
For more information, contact McDonough at 936.294.3588 or email@example.com.
Christopher Johns-Krull, associate professor in Rice University's department of physics and astronomy, will discuss "Looking for Planets in the First Three Million Years" on Thursday (March 5).
The physics colloquium lecture will be held from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Farrington Building Room 101.
Krull has taught at Rice since 2001. He previously worked in researching at the University of California and taught as a visiting professor for one semester at San Francisco State University.
He also completed postdoctoral research and a fellowship with the University of Colorado and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively.
His current research interests include studying T Tauri stars, which are low mass, young stars that have only recently emerged from their natal molecular cloud cores to become optically visible, according to his Web site.
He earned bachelor's degrees in math and physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and his master's and doctoral degrees in astronomy from the University of California—Berkeley.
For more information, call the physics department at 936.294.1601.
SHSU's Haven committee, the safe zone and support channel for homosexual students, will recruit faculty and staff participants during a training workshop on March 19.
The session will be held from 5-8 p.m. in Lowman Student Center Room 302.
The workshop will cover such things as vocabulary, slang terms, the coming out process and describe sexual/gender identity, heterosexism and the concept of privilege.
"The workshops are very interactive and discussion is highly encouraged," said Chuck Collins, Program Council coordinator and Haven co-chair. "By undergoing a workshop, we hope to educate, clarify misconceptions, and provide participants an environment in which they can ask any question they desire."
Attending the workshop does not commit a faculty or staff member to become a Haven volunteer; they can decide afterward.
To participate as a "safe zone," faculty and staff members volunteer to simply serve as a presence for the university's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning community. After the initial training, "maintenance is very minimal," Collins said.
"A safe zone program operates as an open-door policy initiative," he said. "By identifying a location as a safe zone, the person seeking the safe zone location will know that they are approaching an individual who is accepting and empathetic—literally, they enter a safe zone, a place they will be fully accepted without fear of reproach."
Faculty or staff members' participation as a "haven" will be identified through a placard placed outside of his/her office, as well as through the Haven Web site.
Workshops are limited to 20 and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
While the training program is currently open to only faculty and staff, it will eventually open up for graduate and teaching assistants, resident assistants, and possibly select undergraduates as well.
The final Haven training session for the spring semester will be held on April 16. Other sessions will be scheduled at a later date.
For more information on Haven, or to sign up for a workshop, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
The SHSU Rodeo Team will give students the opportunity to participate in one of the most dangerous sports in the world and prove that "fear is the factor" on Thursday (March 5).
The fifth annual "Fear is the Factor Bull Riding" will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Agriculture Complex.
For the event, rodeo team members recruit non-affiliated students, both men and women, to compete by attempting to ride a bull for the traditional eight seconds. The winner will receive a "beautiful" customized champion fear factor buckle, according to rodeo team coach Bubba Miller.
Recruitment will be held in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area on Tuesday, during which time a mechanical bull will be set up for students to get a feel for bull riding.
Participants must be enrolled at SHSU and must sign a liability waiver.
"Safety gear, a helmet and a vest, will be provided for the student to wear, but there cannot be any safety guarantee," Miller said. "We're going to give them easiest bulls we can find, but that's a relative term. They're still going to be full-grown.
"Students must be informed that this is one of the most dangerous sports in the world."
The team will also sell T-shirts the week of the event and at the event.
The entry fee to participate is $30, which must be paid by Wednesday (March 3). Admission is $5, with all proceeds benefitting the rodeo team and its annual rodeo, which will be held March 13-14 at the Walker County Fairgrounds.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
The Indoor Ag Complex is located on the corner of Avenue M and Interstate Highway 45, directly across the interstate from the Raven Nest Golf Course.
For more information on sign up and tickets, contact Miller at 936.264.3867 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Registrar's Office will give upcoming graduates a one-stop 'destination' where all their questions can be answered on Monday (March 2).
"Destination Graduation" will be held from 2-4 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Ballroom.
Departments from across campus will be on hand to answer such questions as "Where do I go for the ceremony," "Is there anything else I need to do," or "What do I do after graduating?"
"We just want to offer students a way to find out what is going on so that there are no surprises at the end of graduation," said Maria Busby, assistant registrar.
The event is open to all students who have applied for May 2009 graduation, including all bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs.
For more information, contact the Registrar's Office at firstname.lastname@example.com.
SHSU alumni and friends will gather at Sam's Boat in The Woodlands on March 17 for an evening of networking and entertainment.
Appetizers and a free beverage will be served during the SamWorks event, which will be held from 6-8 p.m.
"SamWorks is a great way for young alumni to network and re-connect with their alma mater," said Charlie Vienne, director for Alumni Relations. "The alumni office invites university administrators from various departments around campus such as Career Services, admissions and recruiting, Graduate Studies, to answer questions and be there as resource for our alumni. Alumni can visit with these administrators to gain knowledge and insight into various aspects of their careers and into furthering their education.
"SamWorks is also an event in which our Alumni Association board of directors can visit with alumni to access their interest in serving on the board of directors, joining their local alumni club, or providing volunteer support for alumni events in their areas," he said.
Sam's Boat is located at 26710 I-45 North.
For more information, call the Office of Alumni Relations at 936.294.1841 or 800.283.7478 or visit http://alumni.shsu.edu.
Twenty-four police departments and other entities will be on the SHSU campus on Wednesday (March 4) to meet and recruit potential employees during the Criminal Justice Job Fair.
The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Ballroom.
Police departments scheduled to attend the event include those from Baytown, Beaumont, Bryan, Houston, Fort Bend County, Dallas, College Station, Longview, Irving and Huntsville.
In addition, agencies such as the Texas Youth Commission, United Protective Services, Houston's Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Texas Department of Public Safety and its crime laboratory, U.S. Army, Houston's U.S. Marshals Service and the Houston Office of the Attorney General—child support division will participate.
While these entities are generally seeking criminal justice students, opportunities may be available for students from other academic backgrounds, including psychology, computer science, communications and biology, the last of which was specifically requested by the U.S. Customs, according to Candice Williams, undergraduate coordinator and adviser for the College of Criminal Justice.
For more information, contact Paige Andrews, special events and marketing coordinator for Career Services, at 936.294.3616 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Initiative and the SHSU Rodeo Team will encourage students not to get "roped in" to drugs and alcohol with a demonstration on Monday (March 2).
Students can catch the bull by the horns and learn facts and myths associated with alcohol and drugs, as well as their consequences, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area.
"Students sometimes get 'roped in' to doing things they necessarily don't want to do because of peer pressure and the need to fit in," said Lisa Joyner, ADAI assistant. "They will learn that you can fit in without alcohol and drugs, and they will be able to try on the BAC (blood alcohol content) goggles at different levels while trying to rope and ride against someone sober so that they can see how alcohol and drugs will affect them."
During the event students also will be able to enter into a drawing to win tickets to the Houston Livestock Show Rodeo.
For more information, contact Rosanne Keathley, ADAI coordinator, at 936.294.1171 or visit http://www.shsu.edu/~org_aai/.
Huntsville's Oakwood Cemetery is one of the most historically important cemeteries in Texas, according to Patrick Nolan, director of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum.
It is the final resting place of Gen. Sam Houston, more than a hundred confederate soldiers, and other prominent figures of history.
In honoring those that lay at rest, an art exhibit entitled "Tales from Oakwood" will open on March 2, which is Texas Independence Day as well as the birthday of Gen. Sam Houston.
Featuring the work of local photographer Barbara Sloan, the exhibit will be on display in the Katy and E. Don Walker, Sr., Education Center Exhibition Gallery through April 30.
Her photos include historical burial plots and graves, embossed on black and white silver prints that have been stained in an antique tone. Displayed next to each piece of work is a framed narration by Walker County clerk James D. Patton describing its historical value.
Sloan worked for a year to put the exhibit together, she said.
Of the many people of historical importance in the cemetery, Sloan chose nine different families to be featured, some of which include the Gibbs, the Easthams, Henderson King Yoakum and Gen. Sam Houston.
This project is supported in part by funding from the Huntsville Arts Commission and the City of Huntsville.
For more information, contact Barbara Sloan at firstname.lastname@example.com or the Sam Houston Memorial Museum at 936.294.1832.
The School of Music will feature its trumpet and trombone studios, as well as a guest piano artist with four recitals beginning Monday (March 2).
Members of the trumpet studio will perform solos from various time periods and styles, from Baroque to Jazz, during two recitals that day, at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., both in the Recital Hall.
Both programs will also include performances by the SHSU Trumpet Ensemble.
Each recital will be about one hour in length.
On Tuesday (March 3), the trombone class will present an informal recital, during which majors will perform solo pieces accompanied by the piano, at 7:30 p.m. in Music Building Room 202.
"It's sort of a mid-term for performance majors," said Allen Barnhill, trombone professor. "Each student will play approximately three to five minutes.
"There will be several very talented and capable players on the program, too," he said.
On Wednesday, Lina Morita, assistant professor of piano at McNeese State University, will perform a range of contemporary works from such composers as Toru Takemitsu, from Japan, and György Ligeti, from Romania, as well as more classical pieces from composers such as Joseph Haydn and Frédéric Chopin.
The guest piano artist performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
A São Paulo, Brazil, native, Morita has performed in various solo and chamber music performances across the U.S. and abroad.
She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music in piano performance and literature; her Master of Music degree from Rice University; and her Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University.
All four concerts are free and open to the public.
For more information, call the School of Music at 936.294.1360.
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center will help "lost" students find a major and prepare students for the graduate school entrance exams with two upcoming workshops.
The "Help Choose A Major Workshop" will be held on March 18, from 3-4 p.m. and again on March 19, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the SAM Center, in College of Humanities and Social Sciences Building Suite 190.
The sessions are designed to "help students navigate the process of exploring a major" through discussions on the myths of choosing a major, the exploration process, resources to help students choose and possible career options for particular majors, according to Candi Harris, SAM Center staff associate.
Students also will be able to sign up for individual help sessions after the workshop if needed.
Because seating is limited, students are encouraged to sign up beforehand.
On March 20-21, the center will help students with strategies to master the Graduate Record Exam and the Graduate Management Admission Test with a weekend mini-prep session.
Led by assistant professor of mathematics education Mary Swarthout and associate professor of English Tracy Bilsing, the workshop will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. It will be held at the University Center in The Woodlands.
"There are many prep sessions out there for the GRE/GMAT that could cost anywhere from a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars," Harris said. "While the SAM Center sponsored course may not be as extensive as these, it is an excellent opportunity to give students an inside scoop on how to take the exam.
"Instructors look at ways to approach each section of the exam and tips on how to perform at your best," she said. "Students are expected to have completed a majority of the recommended 50 hours of individual study time before they attend this course."
Because the Feb. 23-26 on campus prep course reached capacity, registration is mandatory for the GRE/GMAT prep course. The program will be offered again in the summer and fall.
Registration is free for both workshops.
For more information, or to sign up, contact Harris at firstname.lastname@example.com or call the SAM Center at 936.294.4444.
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Please include the date, location and time of the event, as well as a brief description and a contact person.
All information for news stories should be sent to the office at least a week in advance to give the staff ample time to make necessary contacts and write the story.
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Brian Domitrovic, assistant professor of history, appeared on Book TV (C-SPAN) May 1-2, speaking about his recent book "Econoclasts: The Rebels Sparked the Supply Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity" (www.econoclasts.net).
Houston Chronicle education writer Jeannie Kever recently turned to Regents Professor of English Paul Ruffin for his views on university presses moving toward "digital books" as opposed to traditional ink-on-paper."We're fulfilling the ancient role of the university press, and that is to produce books," said Paul Ruffin, the Texas poet laureate for 2009 and director of the Texas Review Press at Sam Houston State University. "I don't want to give up the book because it is an art."
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Going Left to Center – A personal journey
For a long time I have been a proponent of the Two State Solution (and I still am). I started with accepting the basic premises of the Israeli Peace Movement that land for Peace was the main ideal in any peace settlement. I penned a few pieces that advocated solutions presented at Taba based on Ending the Occupation and by Shalom Achshav. I really thought that in my heart, Peace between Israelis and Palestinians (and Arabs) in general was possible due to a philosophy that by simply granting dignity and working to find a "middle road" to some would get the same response in turn. When I lived in Israel, the Arabs (Palestinians) that I met there were generally folks just like most Israelis in the sense that they simply wanted to live their lives and get on with things in peace and quiet, as well as take care of their families the same way everyone else in the world wants to do.
I actually still believe that premise built into the last sentence regarding the average Palestinian family. AND while I still believe that the average Palestinian family just wants to be left alone to raise their kids, or go to work or do a hundred other things that don't involve destroying Israel, their leadership and the activists who take their side have exactly the opposite agenda. So really, what I no longer believe is the first premise that simply by trying to meet people half way there could be a rapprochement of sorts.
Sadly, I have come to the conclusion (along with seemingly the majority of the Israeli population) that any peace solution has to be viewed through the lens of security and what will create the most defensible situation for Israel. I don't believe that the Palestinians and their supporters / advocates, will ever accept Israel as it was conceived (to be the National Homeland and State of the Jewish People). It is not until very recently that I have truly come to this sad conclusion. I have always had hope, but, now… not so much.
Why is that? Well, I look at social media and I see what is happening in the West Bank and Gaza. I read Palestinian Opinion Polls and I look at a small but growing Jewish anti-Zionist / Self hating contingency. More than that, I look at the vilification of Israel in the International Community while seeing nothing of distaste for the extremism and maximalist demands of the Palestinians and Arab communities regarding this issue.
All of this leads me to the inescapable conclusion that as far as Israel's security policy goes, any solution that would lead to peace should and would have to be substantial enough to ensure that the State and the Jewish people would not face any significant weakening in terms of security.
Where have I changed? Previously, I had espoused a division of Jerusalem (with Israel maintaining control of the Jewish Quarter, the Kotel (of course), the long standing neighborhoods built right after the Six Day War, and the corridor up to Hadassah Hospital and Har-HaTzofim). I thought that would be a reasonable place to meet. But no… It seems the Palestinians and their supporters would / will have none of that. So, that being the case, if they don't want to meet halfway then too bad. They get nothing. I can now say that I do not support any split of Jerusalem. The only concession that I can see as reasonable (because in realistic terms it would most likely start a war if it did not happen) is that Al-Aqsa, still be run by the Waqf. This said, I do believe that the Arab areas of Jerusalem should have a certain amount of autonomy within the structure of a United Jerusalem but should ultimately be answerable to Israeli authority.
Where else have I changed? Well… I believe that any land swaps at all should be based purely on security considerations. I still do believe that the Palestinians should have their own State but, in my mind, Israel is under no obligation to sacrifice it's own well being to establish said State. I believe that any Israeli plan that includes security considerations also considers resource security. After all, national viability is dependent in part on resource availability.
So, what does that mean. It means that Israel does need to be able to exercise military control over the Jordan River Valley and viable water sources. It means that the wall needs to remain as a permanent fixture AND be expanded to cover Israeli territorial interests (but only from a security perspective). It means that the Golan above the Kinneret is non-negotiable. It means that in the West Bank any Palestinian State needs to be a de-militarized one.
But it also means that the Palestinians have to have real responsibility for managing their own territory. That means that they have to take responsibility for the actions of militants within their State. If they can't control the actions of their populace then those actions should be given all of the considerations of international incidents. For example, IF Palestinian militants decide that they want to shell Israel, then Israel has the right to now to strike back at the offending State.
I think that this also means that Israel as a more viable economic entity should reach out to the new Palestinian State and offer favorable trading terms and economic incentives tied to peace. Generally states that are in strong economic relations have less tension and thus will in turn create more of a secure atmosphere.
Does this mean that I support the continued settlement of the West Bank? The answer is no. I don't support that because there is simply no way for Israel to incorporate the territory and remain a functional, Western Democracy. Now some people will say that they simply don't care about remaining as a functional, Western Style Democracy and that is fine but personally I believe that goes against the foundations of the State as articulated in the Israel's Declaration of Establishment.
Honestly unlike the Rightists, I simply don't care about the theoretical what is "our land" and what is "their land". I am not overly religious. I personally don't let my religion dictate my politics. I care that an independent Israel exists as part of the historical area that was once "Jewish land". That there is a functionable democratic state that is the National Homeland of the Jewish people, with secure borders is all that I care about.
I guess the big change is that I have always at least thought to take into account the wishes of the Palestinian Polity as necessary to the peace process. That said, I have to say that at this point and given their (and their supporters) maximalist demands, I simply no longer care. There seems to be no indication that the Palestinian Polity or its supporters will ever accept the presence of Israel.
Really, until they do (accept the presence of Israel) on our terms, then honestly there is nothing more to say. They have rejected peace offer after peace offer. I hope that we keep making them offers even if they continue to reject them. I think it is always worth a try. However, I strongly believe that the offers themselves should be vetted through the IDF Command and if they feel in the long run that peace can be maintained… I say Kol Ha'Kvod.
So yes, I guess that moves me firmly out of the "Peace Camp" and into a Centrist position on this one issue. We all have different ways of getting to where we are going. At this point I think the Left has failed because of the fact that it simply is not looking at what the Palestinians are saying or doing in real terms. At the same time I think the Right fails us because they simply have no long term reasonable plans for dealing with the reality of the Palestinians or the international implications of their actions.
SO in the end, that is my move from Left to Center. Has anyone experienced something similiar. In other terms. What's your move been?


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To promote Digital marketing in the country, the Management of AKG Global Multiservice Company LTD has called on the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Corporate to seek collaboration in area of capacity building, translating into a knowledge-based economy.
The call was made by the Managing Director, Mrs Aisha Kabir Gaya when she paid a courtesy call on the Agency. She stated that the company provides a broad range of services and solutions in digital marketing, training and consultancy to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors worldwide.
Mr Jibril Bawa Marketing Manager, of the company while corroborating his boss, stated that "digital marketing will provide a platform for wealth creation and serve as an alternative source to oil revenue. E-commerce will aid the smooth exchange of good and services in the country, and collaborating with the regulatory Agency of the sector will aid in the achievement of ICT goals and objectives, promote wealth creation and diversification from an oil dependent to a knowledge-based economy".
AKG solicited for the use of NITDA's Digital Capacity Building Centers, to enable the deployment of IT across the country.
Director General of NITDA Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami while expressing his delight by the visit, stated that the Agency will review the proposal brought forward with a view to identifying areas in need of collaboration and intervention to enable the swift deployment of IT in the country. He also informed the delegation that the Agency has launched and transferred an e-Agric portal to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to enable a swift growth in the agricultural sector.
"The agency as an IT regulatory body is having a paradigm shift to aid the growth and development of IT that will serve as a platform for wealth creation and serve as an alternative revenue flow for the country". he said.
Dr Agu Collins Agu Director Information Technology Infrastructure Solutions (ITIS) at NITDA said that the Agency has forged a successful partnership with the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) skill acquisition entrepreneurship Development (SAED), channeled towards capacity building and wealth creation


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Two member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) from Reformed and Lutheran traditions have united to become the United Protestant Church of France.
The merger of the Reformed Church of France and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of France was celebrated at a joint national synod from 8 to 12 May in Lyon, France.
The synod adopted revised texts for the constitution and rules of the new church. The revisions reflect inputs gathered from parishes in 2011. Public education and a communication campaign have been accompanying the merger process.
WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, who attended the celebration in Lyon, praised the efforts of both churches in creating one transformative structure.
He said that this undertaking "reminds us that the unity to which we are called in Christ can be hard work as well as joyful. For many of us in places far away from France your union gives hope that our own work may also bear fruit."
"Your new church is a fruit, a harvest, of ecumenical work in the past. I want to encourage you to continue to be generous in taking up your ecumenical role locally and nationally in the sometimes quite complex ecumenical landscape," added Tveit.
He said that the way in which Christians from diverse confessions have managed to work together in France is an inspiration for Christians elsewhere. "I am also encouraged by how your church, now united, has been so well-represented also by lay people and women in many ecumenical gatherings," said Tveit.
• Full story at the World Council of Churches.
French Cardinal dreams of Christian unity
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the Archbishop of Lyons, surprised leaders of France's new United Protestant Church by speculating aloud about daring ecumenical leaps forward that the two Churches might make to further Christian unity.
Addressing the synod marking the fusion of France's small Presbyterian and Lutheran Churches, Cardinal Barbarin declared, "I have a dream" in English, adding: "Sometimes, my mind soars to imagine a totally unexpected scenario that will come from God and advance by leaps and bounds to the unity we so want."
Noting intercommunion is a frequent issue between denominations, he said the view that this would be the culmination of a unity process should not be a reason to do nothing.
Revd Laurent Schlumberger, the head of the United Protestant Church in France, described Cardinal Barbarin's suggestions as a "major advance".
• Full story at The Tablet.


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AUBURN – Auburn University's College of Liberal Arts will co-sponsor a free public forum, "Making Community Decisions About Alabama's Dropout Situation," at Auburn University Montgomery's Taylor Center, Wednesday, June 22, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The forum is for citizens interested in creating and sustaining more effective civic engagement in local communities on the issue of high school dropouts. Participants will learn what Alabamians are thinking and doing about the dropout situation in their local communities and also about successful local programs around the state.
The event is sponsored by the David Mathews Center for Civic Life and co-sponsored by the University of Alabama's New College. The Community and Civic Engagement Initiative in the College of Liberal Arts works collaboratively with the Mathews Center on programs that foster infrastructure, habits and capacities for more effective civic engagement and innovative decision-making.
Information on what people throughout the state are thinking and doing about the problem comes from a report on the Mathews Center's program Alabama Issues Forums, which has included more than 600 citizens in over 25 forums around the state to date.
The luncheon keynote speaker will be Deputy State Superintendent of Education Tommy Bice. Auburn University student and Mathews Center intern Stephanie Grant will introduce Bice.
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Matt asked me a while back if I could look at what it would take to utilize libcouchbase from node.js. When I initially designed libcouchbase one of the requirements was that it should be fully asynchronous, so from a design perspective it should fit very well for node.js. Another design goal of libcouchbase was that it should be modular so that I could swap out the underlying methods that does all of the network communications. This API isn't something the average developer would see / use, but I added it to (hopefully) make it easier to port to new systems. I've been using libevent for a couple of years now, and I have to admit that I had that mindset when I designed that API. Unfortunately it doesn't map that well to lets say IOCP or libuv, so I'd like to refactor the API. In order to get full integration with node.js I have to do this refactoring (the current version use it's own event loop and block the global event loop). Mordy implemented a version that allows you to use libuv, but it's not merged into libcouchbase yet. I think I'd prefer a refactor of the current io model before merging the patch.
Anyway. When I started to look into the details I quickly realized that this was a completely new territory for me. I've never done anything with Javascript before, so I had no idea what kind of API the hard-core Javascript folks would like. Instead of waiting for someone to come up with an API specification for me, I started playing around trying to figure out how to create a Javascript binding to libcouchbase. I'm a strong believer of that an API should feel natural in the language it's been used (instead of a "port" of the underlying API), but no matter what I would need to know how to integrate it. If I had a "working skeleton" I could always refactor the API into something the user would like at a later time.
It turns out that building a basic extension for node.js in C++ isn't hard at all. The one I've built got doesn't qualify as a real extension for node.js (given that it "blocks" the global event notification loop by using it's own), but it works as a good "proof of concept". I don't think looking at the API is that interesting, but given that it was so easy to build the extension I figured I could walk you through it to give you a head start if you want to build your own.
You can find the entire source code I'm talking about at https://github.com/trondn/couchnode. The code examples you'll find here will probably not match entirely to the code you'll find there because I may have removed stuff here to make the example smaller and easier to read (so the stuff you'll find here might not compile ;)).
The first thing we need to do is to set up the boilerplate code:
#define BUILDING_NODE_EXTENSION
class Couchbase: public node::ObjectWrap {
static void Init(v8::Handle
static void init(v8::Handle
target) {
NODE_MODULE(couchbase, init)
The above fragment defines the class I'm going to use for the API (Couchbase), and the NODE_MODULE() macro registers the module name "couchbase" and tells node.js that it should call the function named init() to initialize the module. As you can see in init(), I'm calling the Init method in my Couchbase class to let the class initialize itself:
void Couchbase::Init(v8::Handle
v8::HandleScope scope;
t = v8::FunctionTemplate::New(New);
s_ct = v8::Persistent
NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD(s_ct, "get", Get);
target->Set(v8::String::NewSymbol("Couchbase"), s_ct->GetFunction());
So what does the above code do? It defines the JavaScript API to my class and maps the JavaScript functions to a C++ function, so that when someone writes couchbase.get("foo"); in JavaScript we're calling Couchbase::Get() in C++.
Now let's look at the Get() method. When I "defined" the API I allowed for get to be called in multiple ways. In the C version of libcouchbase you typically set up a global callback that is called whenever you receive a response for a get call. Originally I made it the same way for JavaScript as well, but that clearly isn't the "node.js-way" of doing stuff. Instead you would write the following JavaScript:
cb.get(function onGet(state, key, value, flags, cas) {
if (state) {
console.log("found \"" + key + "\" - [" + value + "]");
} else {
console.log("failed for \"" + key + "\"");
}, "foo", "bar");
Given that I was doing all of this as part of my learning curve (I wouldn't be defining the real API now anyway), I decided to support both ways of calling the command. So let's take a look at the method:
Couchbase::Get(const v8::Arguments& args)
if (args.Length() == 0) {
const char *msg = "Illegal arguments";
return v8::ThrowException(v8::Exception::Error(v8::String::New(msg)));
v8::HandleScope scope;
Couchbase* me = ObjectWrap::Unwrap
void* commandCookie = NULL;
int offset = 0;
if (args[0]->IsFunction()) {
if (args.Length() == 1) {
const char *msg = "Illegal arguments";
return v8::ThrowException(v8::Exception::Error(v8::String::New(msg)));
commandCookie = static_cast
(new CommandCallbackCookie(args[0], args.Length() - 1));
offset = 1;
int tot = args.Length() - offset;
char* *keys = new char*[tot];
libcouchbase_size_t *lengths = new libcouchbase_size_t[tot];
// @todo handle allocation failures
for (int ii = offset; ii < args.Length(); ++ii) {
if (args[ii]->IsString()) {
s = args[ii]->ToString();
keys[ii - offset] = new char[s->Length() + 1];
lengths[ii - offset] = s->WriteAscii(keys[ii - offset]);
} else {
// @todo handle NULL
// Clean up allocated memory!
const char *msg = "Illegal argument";
return v8::ThrowException(
me->lastError = libcouchbase_mget(me->instance, commandCookie, tot,
(keys), lengths, NULL);
if (me->lastError == LIBCOUCHBASE_SUCCESS) {
return v8::True();
} else {
return v8::False();
In order to build the plugin you need to create a file named wscript with the following content:
def set_options(opt):
def configure(conf):
def build(bld):
obj = bld.new_task_gen("cxx", "shlib", "node_addon")
obj.cxxflags = ["-g", "-Wall"]
obj.ldflags = ["-lcouchbase"]
obj.target = "couchbase"
obj.source = "src/couchbase.cc"
And set up the build environment by running:
$ node-waf configure
You can now build and "install" your pugin by running:
$ node-waf build install
You should now be able to test the plugin by creating a JavaScript file and run:
$ node myscript.js
Happy hacking


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eBay is all grown up. As the online marketplace celebrates its 20th birthday, weird and wonderful facts have been popping up all over the web – did you know that a 'lunch with Warren Buffet' sold for $2.3m this year?
But in a market saturated with other big boys Etsy, Amazon and Alibaba, where does eBay stand?
Etsy, the youngest of the big four e-commerce players, may be the newest addition to the game but that hasn't stopped it playing hard and fast. Now worth over $3bn, the arts and crafts marketplace is expanding across the globe. Its USP is the intimacy of each sale. From dollhouses to handmade wedding rings, usually with a note from the seller, Etsy entrepreneurs can create a personalised experience for the customer.
But Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and online Godfather, has seen Etsy's creative realness and raised it with Amazon Handmade: a new store on Amazon for invited artisans to sell their unique, handmade goods to the internet titan's millions of worldwide customers.
When it comes to innovation, Bezos knows best. The e-tailer's one hour delivery option Prime Now piggybacks off an idea that was originally eBay's: eBay Now. The latter's same-day local delivery service allowed mobile customers to shop and receive items from nearby retailers for an additional $5 in the States but after two years, it was killed off.
Then there's Jack Ma, the other Godfather of the internet, who has harnessed the power of Chinese e-commerce to create Alibaba.
The interesting thing about Ma is his customer-first approach. On multiple occasions the 51-year old has essentially said he does not care for shareholders: "It's customers No.1, employees, two, and shareholders, three. It's the customer who pays us the money, it's the employees who drive the vision, and it's the shareholders who when the [financial] crisis comes, these people ran away. My customers and my people stayed."
Your move eBay.
Now credit should be given where credit is due. Although the etail giant may be starting to show its age, it shouldn't be forgotten that eBay has played a massive hand in igniting entrepreneurial spirit across the world. In the UK alone, 200,000 sellers leverage the platform and globally, it's 25m.
"From its humble beginnings in 1995, to selling millions of goods every day in 2015, eBay has been part of revolutionising the way consumers browse and shop for goods," comments VoucherCodes MD Claire Davenport.
It pioneered the optimisation of service for mobile devices and has helped retailers in all shapes and sizes marry online and offline shopping.
"eBay is an enabler of opportunities," Sarah Calcott, Senior Director of Operations at eBay, tells Retail Gazette in-between meeting sellers at an eBay seller conference.
One should certainly recognise former eBay boss John Donahoe's early bet on mobile, which current Chief Exec Devin Wenig is ready to build on. Last week, Wenig announced Seller Hub, a new product which includes a suite of information and tools that can help all sellers, including info on how categories of products are performing on eBay, suggestions on pricing and more. The new offering is also designed to help sellers better manage inventory.
In addition, he's introduced a united and flexible returns process designed to take complexity and cost out of the process. It seems eBay is ageing gracefully.
eBay, the vibrant marketplace that it is, can provide granular customer insights and offer mentorship for sellers using the trading platform. "The best eBay businesses are really nimble," Calott says. "The ones that have seen rapid growth are the ones who have responded to consumer demand by tapping into, for example, the success of The Great British Bake-off".
On the flipside, the company releases a monthly barometer outlining the most popular searches, and by analysing what shoppers ar


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We hear about it all the time, especially since ours is so big and getting bigger with every tick of the clock. Debt is bad. Debt will bankrupt the U.S. Debt will steal the economic futures of our (o.k., your) children for generations to come. Bad, bad, nothing but bad. Like a misbehaving cur.
But, really, what's not to like? After all, money is money and borrowed money feeds the bulldog the same as earned money. In fact, earning money is losing its appeal. These days, we're learning that entitlements are much better even if we have to be force-fed to understand. Why work when you can skip down to the mailbox and pick up your Federal freebies every couple of weeks.
And since our entitlements are H-U-G-E, they require deficit spending because there aren't enough rich people to pay the tab. It would be different if we could each have a rich person or two of our own. Kind of like a pet, only they support us. But, there's a shortage of them right now, what with the recession and all. So, the Feds have to borrow a lot of money, not just to protect entitlements, but to make sure they keep growing. And growing. And growing.
And with every borrowed dime, the amount we owe gets bigger. The time bomb ticks louder. The tsunami of financial collapse rolls ever closer. Today, our total debt is $12,686,249,797,715. But, let's call it $12.69, because all those gargantuan Government numbers just seem meaningless. Using our approach, by the end of this year, the debt will grow by another $1.50.
Is $14.19 in debt bad? Let's compare it with the value of all goods and services produced by U.S. workers in 2009. That figure was $14.25. If we work for an entire year, trading all the fruits of our labors to pay down the debt, we'll have 6 cents to spare. Of course, the economy would come to a stand still and we'd all starve to death, but the debt would be history, too.
Now we all know the debt won't be fixed that way. In fact, under current budget forecasts through 2020, it won't be fixed at all. According to the latest CBO analysis of the Obama budgets, by 2020 the total debt will stand at over $25. The annual interest owed on it will quadruple to about $1.60 while tax receipts for that year will be $4.56.
With interest payments alone equaling 35% of revenue, something will have to give. We'll either default on our interest payments or just start printing money to make them. Defaulting means the debt will be called with no money to retire it. And printing money means galloping inflation, making all we've worked for worthless. Either way, we'll lose our credit-worthiness, which means no more borrowing to finance our hooked-on-entitlements life style.
So, what do you say? Shall we let a tsunami of debt wash us away? Or shall we tighten our belts and work together to reverse the tide? You decide before Uncle Sam's plans build the wave of fiscal irresponsibility so high that none can escape its reach.
See you on the left-side.
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On Thursday 25th September, The Spine Surgery London's Mr. Peter Hamlyn took part in the Spinal Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Initiative with other spinal surgeons operating out of The Princess Grace Hospital. The meeting, organised by The Spine Surgery London's own Special Project Lead, Joe Carey, brought together an elite team of spinal surgeons, pain management specialists, osteopaths, sports medicine physicians, and the surgical nursing staff, to discuss a staggering 17 of the most complex, challenging and rare medical cases, receiving the specialist input of The Princess Grace Hospital's most renowned men and women.
What this means for the reader, whether you are a current patient of The Spine Surgery London or considering undergoing treatment with us, is that when you visit one of our specialists, you not only receive the care, dedication, and level of excellent treatment that we pride ourselves on delivering - you may also benefit from the additional experience of the Spinal Multidisciplinary Team (numbering over 200 years of combined knowledge!).
In addition to the discussion of these complex cases, the MDT also provided an open forum to debate the future of spinal surgery at The Princess Grace Hospital, including acquisitions of state of the art operative technology that may well benefit you in the future.
MDT Participants from left to right: Dr. Ade Adejuwon, Dr. Sujit Vaidya, Mr. Alaggapan Sivaraman, Mr. Colin Natali, Mr. Peter Hamlyn,
Mr. John R. Johnson, Joe Carey, Mr. Hilali Noordeen, Sue Chanterou, Dr. Dean Halfpenny, Shirley Laver, Dearbhla Coffey and Mr. Nick Potter
Our MDT meetings will continue to be held each month, complemented by a smaller session each week. Current patients are encouraged to speak with their consulting specialist at The Spine Surgery London at their next visit for more details.


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