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My name is Barry. Not too long ago I was on here after having suffered a crushing blow at an SBC church as a former associate pastor. I actually came across this site looking for people who had been scorned by the church in their past. My scorn was in regards to child safety. There were serious safety issues in the children's program run by a very prominent family in that church and when I went to address them under the direction of the senior pastor, I was quickly threatened and intimidated to keep my mouth shut if I valued my job. They also tried to force me to make my children part of their program even though I was not confident in it at all. This left me with a choice: either tow the church political line and act as if nothing happened, or stand up for children whose safety and well-being was put at risk. The experience left me so emotionally bruised that I wound up resigning in disgust of the church - especially since the senior pastor quickly betrayed me and sold me down the river the moment things got to politically hot for him. His famous last words to me were "Barry, this church is dysfunctional; it's not going to change." This was my cue to exit.
Any way, what I wanted to ask was for a few good atheists to give me their take on the institution we all know as church. If you have roots specifically in the SBC, that is a plus. The reason why I am asking for you to do this is that I intend to start writing about it. There are many problems within the church - starting with the fact that it is an aging, irrelevant, and corrupt institution that is more concerned with power and control than it is with providing freedom, salvation, and enlightenment to humanity.
Oh, and if you are wondering as to whether or not I am a theist? The answer is yes - just not the same one I was several months ago or even years ago, and I am not a pastor anymore. I am not here to debate whether there is a God or not; nor do I wish to convert anyone - the reason why this site exists is because many of you on here have already made up your mind definitively and I would rather respect your position than attack it. You are welcome to ask any question you may have of me if you are skeptical.
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Thank you for this posting! Very similar to a few convesations during my stint at PSU, and our atheist group there. A few of us were less about a theist/atheist war, and more about finding a way to move on into something more positive, sadly that was about 32 years ago. Nice to review the reasons....;p)
I will let you know. I have been swamped a bit to watch the videos, but I will find the time. Thank you.
Let me pose another question along a similar vein to the last: Should the church be dissolved? If so what do you think should take its place (if anything at all) since, naturally, there would be a vacuum of empty space in terms of societal structures? This is much like the last question, but cuts through the language I used in the last one that may have thrown some of you off. Ultimately, in many ways, this is already taking place with people leaving the church and replacing it with activities that involve family and friends as a support structure. What are some of the things you have all done?
I expect that the 'church' might die, but the catholic ideology would continue with a 'reminent' of true believers. Remember, many people think that Christ is still with us, surely a pope could have a similar existence in the abstract. How long the reminent would last is unclear. They might get more desparent to maintain some existence, and become deeply radicalized. Resenting the culture around them, believeing that humans are corrupt and sinful, seeing every indication for themselves that virtue has died, surely would be atleast a little off putting.
I quess, I do, a little, want to look back to my catholic days, I do like the smell of sandlewood...
I'll start with your previous question which I'll paraphrase as (and which may not be what you were looking for): what would you replace churches with?
It's something I've thought about for awhile. It's a pipe dream if you will: a free academy of learning. I'm inspired by the places of learning of old like the library of Alexandria. So much knowledge was stored in one place. I'm also inspired by maker spaces, the hacking movement, open source technology and sustainable practices. It would be a self-sufficient community that would use open source technology to teach mathematics, engineering, coding, mechanics, agriculture, natural sciences, philosophy, ethics, and literature. It would be a place where people could come and work, learn, build, and just enjoy life. The realist in me says that there is so much that could make this be completely infeasible, but I'd love to see it happen. After all what is a church, but a place of learning and community? Granted the learning is about a mythology and depending on where one goes, it's more akin to indoctrination than learning, but one is still taught something. The rituals, hymns, even the preaching becomes a way for people to build social cohesion. By participating, one belongs. A church minus the theologically inspired parts would be a place of learning and community. That's why I see an academy that inspires cooperation as the best candidate.
Should the church be dissolved? Well, that would pose an unprecedented situation of epic proportions. Talk about an existential crisis! Dissolved from without, no. Allowed to fall apart on its own, yes. Some people are simply not prepared to drop their religious beliefs right at this instant. One of the most common questions I hear is how do you find meaning and purpose as an atheist? Many say that they wouldn't know what to do with their lives with out the meaning that their faith gives them. Some people are so entrapped in their beliefs that it would be akin to operating on an inoperable tumor if those beliefs were taken out from under them. It's better to try to treat it than to go an cut it out. You may not succeed, but at least you aren't responsible for what happens if you don't.
As for your original question? My personal experience as I was growing up int eh Catholic church was excellent. I was surrounded by great people. My family was ten times the size it is now because we all felt so connected. I still am close to many of them and could talk to them today as if the ten years that passed hadn't at all. Unfortunately, not all stories are as good as mine. Religious institutions as a whole are bound to a code and a doctrine that can change only as much as literary criticisms and social thought allow. They can try to base it on reason as the Catholic church, but then they are caught building an arcane framework of logical leaps and bounds that is completely unyielding to the needs of the times. The social power that religion wields is as dangerous as the economic and political power that they can gain. They can and have in many ways suppressed thought and knowledge in favor of toeing the line on religious dogma. That being said, they can manage the resources to create monetarily efficient charities. That happens when your people work for free based on principle. Those charities do help those in need around the world in great numbers, but at a cost: acceptance of the beliefs and the spread of it in the communities and the consequences there of. Personally, I see religious thought as a stepping stone to a greater view of reality, one that many people get caught up in and don't escape. In a sense, I see them as a caterpillar trapped in a cocoon and they claim that's all there is. I suppose as a deconvert, I can appreciate how I would not be where I am today if it were not for religion. I learned some useful things such as self-control, wisdom, a sense of justice for instance. At the same time, I wonder if it was a necessary stepping stone or if I could have done as well as I did just as easily without the supernatural trappings. I imagine it's possible, but I don't think I can really know for sure. I like who I am now, and if religion had a hand in shaping that, well, I can't consider it all bad then can I?
"It's a pipe dream if you will: a free academy of learning"
I have found it rather odd, that we must 'pay' for education. I do expect that it needs to be 'funded' from cultural assets, but should the individuals pursueing that path be the ones footing the bill? The culture around us does receive the results of education, in more ways than can be counted. I see education as more a utility or mineably resource, but one that does not pan out, unless be stop valueing it. It seems rather clear, that some theist beliefs, if generalized, would gut our education system and reduce the chances of social advancement. I expect that that would be their 'desired' result.
A few years ago I set up a Facebook working group for 'Microbial Fuel Cell Design'. As of last count there are 28 members, most international. The members post papers, interesting ideas, help with questions and design issues. A few will be posting the results of conferences soon. It is rather clear, that at times, some members are not as forthcoming with data from their experiments, but I did post about 1 MB of data from from first design to help seed the 'willingness' to share. We seem the adding one new member a week now on average.
"Personally, I see religious thought as a stepping stone to a greater view of reality, one that many people get caught up in and don't escape. In a sense, I see them as a caterpillar trapped in a cocoon and they claim that's all there is."
I consider 'religion', as a means to grow abstract reasoning and visualization skills. It is unclear how it might improve mathematical skills, but attempts at 'logical' thought seem obvious. From my readings, it seems clear that some church intellectuals did carry on classical logic and mathematics explorations, Decision analysis as an example. Genetics, Astronomy, and Palaeontology, can also be added. I expect that the desire to understand and pursue 'truth', as a 'sacred' activity could inform such explorations. Seeking the 'hand of god', in nature, can still yield results that might see 'science' as an end in itself.
While many present attempts by Creationists, or Intelligent Design folks, seem rather immature and a betrayal of the method of science, they still, in their small way, desire a science, albeit, only informed by their ideology. If they can pursue an honest science, I expect that they could 'self correct'. Sadly, I and many others only see a retrenchment...
While religion
@ James Cox,
I enjoyed reading that...
While religion
...was there more?
When I posted the text, I noticed the 'hanging words'. I expect, that since it was at the end, that it was an idea, that I thought latter to be unimportant. Sometimes, if I seem to have a good chain of thought, I will do a rough outline, then flesh-in as I write.
Sadly, in hindsight, that might be a dead end with no recovery, since I cannot find an association to remind me. Anyway, it might be a bad generalization not pursued!
I know how you folks can chase a quarry, once you smell even a little fresh blood in the water...LOL


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People of the Book (Am ha-Sefer)
A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy
Edited by Rachel Swirsky and Sean Wallace
Introduction by Ann VanderMeer
From Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to Tony Kushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in the supernatural and the fantastic.
In these pages, gathered from the best short fiction of the last ten years, thirty authors prove that their heritage is alive and well — in the spaces between stars that an alphabet can bridge, folklore come to life and histories become stories, and all the places where old worlds and new collide and change.
These are the people of the book. Open, read; the universe is made of words.
We would like suggestions, for Jewish-themed stories from 2000 to 2009, and it can be from anyone, actually. If you want you can either make suggestions here, or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. This will be released at the end of the year.
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Calculating operational value-at-risk (OpVaR) in a retail bank
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The management of operational value-at-risk (OpVaR) in financial institutions is presented by means of a novel, robust calculation technique and the influence of this value on the capital held by a bank for operational risk. A clear distinction between economic and regulatory capital is made, as well as the way OpVaR models may be used to calculate both types of capital. Under the Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA), banks may employ OpVaR models to calculate regulatory capital; this article therefore illustrates the differences in regulatory capital when using the AMA and the Standardised Approach (SA), by means of an example. Economic capital is found to converge with regulatory capital using the AMA, but not if the SA is used.
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2 BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS (BIS), Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. (2005) International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised Framework. November 2005. BIS, Basel, Switzerland. [ Links ]
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The Northern Fellowship Chapel (NFC) in Creighton, Saskatchewan, a member of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference (EMC), began services in 1960 because a schoolteacher, Henry Klassen, saw that the community needed an evangelical church. Services began in a community hall in Creighton in 1960 and a building was constructed in 1962 at 433 First Street West in Creighton. The congregation was formally organized on 1 November 1964 with 11 members. Since 1965 it has been affiliated with the EMC.
Its first worker was Arnold Wiebe in 1960. When Mel and Mary Koop arrived in November 1960 and Arnold Wiebe left unexpectedly, Mel Koop became the organizing pastor. With Creighton located between Denare Beach, Saskatchewan, and Flin Flon (both Saskatchewan and Manitoba ), many of the members came from the wider area. The congregation was known as Creighton Fellowship Chapel prior to 1964 when the name was changed to better reflect the membership. Its first baptisms were performed in May 1967 when George Braun was the pastor. Those baptized were Valerie Rempel, Bev Manns, and Robin Smith.
Northern Fellowship Chapel functions as a community evangelical church. In the 1970s and 1980s when churches in the area were affected by varying views on the Holy Spirit, NFC became charismatic. It grew significantly, but then went into decline.
Northern Fellowship Chapel's early leaders or pastors were Arnold Wiebe (1960), Mel and Mary Koop (1960-65), Dan and Norma Koop (ca. 1966-ca. 1967), George and Elsie Braun, Arnold Leister, Harvey Kroeker (1978-1983), Dan and Lottie Thiessen (1983-85), and Terry and Mary Ann Smith (1985-1996). NFC then had interim pastoral couples, including Henry and Tina Kornelsen and Dick and Tina Unrau (November 1996-April 1997).
In 2001 NFC began to share a pastoral team with Cornerstone Community Church (formerly Flin Flon Mennonite Brethren Church), a Mennonite Brethren congregation established in Flin Flon, Manitoba in 1984. Its joint pastoral couples have been Dale and Marge Warkentin (2001-2003), Alex and Carla Suderman (2003-2004), Scott and Natalie Koop (2004-2009), and Randall and Faith Krahn (2010-present). Retired pastoral couple Lorne and Margaret Moorhead, who served previously at Endeavour Fellowship Chapel and in Baptist circles (including in Flin Flon), are part of the local pastoral care team.
The Northern Christian Academy, an Accelerated Christian Education private school, ran from 1980-1984.
In 2012, the average worship attendance was 10.
EMC Yearbook for 2012: Including a Record of the Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Sessions of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference July 6-8, 2012. Steinbach: Evangelical Mennonite Conference, 2012.
Moorhead, Margaret. "VBS and Pastoral Change." The Messenger 42 no. 20 (17 November 2004): 8.
Schroeder, Sandra. "Scott and Natalie Commissioned." The Messenger 42 no. 20 (17 November 2004): 8.
Smith, Terry. "A Short History of the Northern Fellowship Chapel." Unpublished typescript, 1987, 3 pp. Mennonite Historical Society of Canada collection, Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
Smith, Terry. "At the End of the Road . . . is Home." The Messenger 36 no. 3 (11 February 1989): 6-10.
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Location: 433 First Street West, Creighton, Saskatchewan
Mailing Address: Box 35, Creighton, SK S0P 0A0
Phone: 306-688-4689
Denominational Affiliation:
Evangelical Mennonite Conference
Northern Fellowship Chapel Ministers
|Years of Service
|Arnold Wiebe
|Mel Koop
|Dan Koop
|George Braun
|Arnold Leister
|Harvey Kroeker
|Dan Thiessen
|Terry Smith
|Henry Kornelsen (interim)
|Dick Unrau (interim)
|Dale Warkentin
|Alex Suderman
|Scott Koop
|Randall Krahn
Northern Fellowship Chapel Membership
|Terry Smith
|Date Published
|January 2013
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Smith, Terry. "Northern Fellowship Chapel (Creighton, Saskatchewan, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. January 2013. Web. 15 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Northern_Fellowship_Chapel_(Creighton,_Saskatchewan,_Canada)&oldid=148083.
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Smith, Terry. (January 2013). Northern Fellowship Chapel (Creighton, Saskatchewan, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 15 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Northern_Fellowship_Chapel_(Creighton,_Saskatchewan,_Canada)&oldid=148083.
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Quote from: Arvis on August 25, 2017, 04:04:44 PMI heard the battle system is excellent, thoughYeah, but that alone can't really carry a 60 hour JRPG.
I was going to say so with Star Ocean 5 this the exact same combat system as in Infinite Undiscovery and that was IMO one of the best Tri Ace games... I guess someone mentioned that already.And then I was going to post a picture of Aya's Fayel costume and how cool it was IMO but can't find it ah well, anyway and Aya is in like my top 10 JRPG characters.And it has Capel (LIke Fidel?) going DINNER DINNER in that one scene that cracks me up about as good if not a little better than Lunar Silver Star Story which is one of my fave games for humor.Anyway this is a long way of saying I don't see any SO3 in this game it's all Infinite to me...
Quote from: Rook on March 23, 2017, 09:56:39 PMValkyria Profile 2.The Sega x Tri-Ace crossover I never knew I wanted (maybe Project X Zone 3? (although RoF kinda already fulfills that role)).That said, Valkyrie Profile 2 is better than SO3 by far and probably better than SO2. You just have to know not to dump all of your Einherijar too early and to only bother raising Alicia and Rufus (unless you want gamebreaking weaponry in which case, you'll probably only want to use story characters).
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And then I was going to post a picture of Aya's Fayel costume and how cool it was IMO but can't find it ah well, anyway and Aya is in like my top 10 JRPG characters.
(FF if your lame, Persona if your secretly cool).
On the one hand, I want this game since I never beat the original. On the other hand, I don't know if it will be worth the expense. If the price is right, I'll pick it up.


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This has been going on for quite a while. Remember Vanessa-Mae?
article. By "pop music sensibility" I suppose I am talking mostly about sexuality. We are always, it seems, looking for the next young thing, but isn't it the case these days that the next young thing, especially if she is female, just always seems to be extremely good-looking? Here is another young pianist:
Now what is the probability that all the young stars of today also happen to be very attractive? Surely there must be some stupendous young musicians out there who are rather plain? And if there are, then they seem to be being eliminated somewhere along the line? Is it in school, university or conservatory? At Julliard or Peabody? Or does it happen at the competition level? Faced with two brilliant players do the judges tend to choose the more attractive one because they know their chances of a career are better? Based on my experience with competitions I strongly suspect that the most interesting musician will always place second or third just out of the sheer obtuseness of the judges. So a very beautiful competitor with facility will often win the competition over an interesting musician. That seems to be what Buniatishvili has: facility. Oh, and Yuja Wang, too:
Oh, I understand the motivation. You have to do whatever you need to, to get noticed in the very competitive musical world of today. It's the same in pop music. But I think that at some point someone ought to point out that a sexy dress and a moving performance are actually different things.
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A rare kamikaze-style rocket capable of launching a direct hit on Buckingham Palace will go on display in Britain almost 70 years after Hitler had it made in the hope it would help destroy London.
This manned version of the fearsome V1 was developed because the aim of the 5,000 original rockets was so poor.
Fitted with small cockpits, 150 were built so they could be flown accurately into targets.
However, none of the rockets ever flew in anger, largely because flying them was effectively a suicide mission with pilots expected to parachute out into an airspeed of 550mph moments before a target was hit.
The Fieseler Fi103R Reichenberg rocket, one of only six left today, was found by the Allies at the end of the second world war.
Initially, it formed part of an enemy aircraft exhibition at Farnborough in 1945, before it was decided the V1 should be classed as munition rather than an aircraft and was given to the British army's bomb disposal unit.
It was in 1970 that a Kent museum acquired the plane and began to have it restored as part of a £40,000 project.
Specialists in Munich painstakingly sourced missing period instruments in full working condition and gradually restored the rocket to its 1945 condition.
The modified V1s were favoured by Hiter because they could be steered by pilots in the direction of a target.
Trevor Matthews, of the Lashenden Museum near Maidstone, which has now owned the plane for more than 40 years, said: "With a pilot you could aim it at a strategic target, like Buckingham Palace, until the last moment when they were meant to bail out. It was totally kamikaze.
"The Germans dropped the idea in the end, largely because airmen realised it was a suicide mission. Also at the time they were being tested the Allies were overrunning their launch sites."
The original V1 rockets – known as Hiter's vengeance bombs – were launched by Germans from France and Holland to bomb London. The 5,000 that were built killed thousands of people and could carry enough explosives to destroy several buildings.
The other five kamikaze-style doodlebugs are in museums in France, Holland, Germany, the US and Canada.
Mr Matthews said the museum's doodlebug, which is 28ft long, has a wingspan of 22ft and is fitted with an Argus 109-014 pulse jet engine, was "now in full working order".
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Kate Winslet's "Titanic" assets have been deemed too hot for Chinese audiences.
The 3D version of James Cameron's epic film "Titanic" premiered in China this week and was an instant box-office hit. But moviegoers did not exactly get to experience the full picture.
Officials at China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television censored Kate Winslet's voluptuous breasts in a key scene that shows the British starlet in the buff as heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio sketches her body, E! Online reported.
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The day's top national and international news.
In the 3D version of the film Winslet is only shown from the neck up.
"Considering the vivid 3D effects, we fear that viewers may reach out their hands for a touch and thus interrupt other people's viewing," China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said in a statement. "We've decided to cut off the nudity scenes."
Chinese cinema-moviegoers were not thrilled about the censorship, The Times of India reported.
One Chinese man on an Internet forum wrote, "I've been waiting almost 15 years, and not for the 3D icebergs."


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In this post I'll list and give installation instructions for the media applications that I have found most useful on my Linux Mint desktop. That should cover photo management, video and music.
1. Photo Organizer
OK, this may come as a surprise to some, but if I were you… I'd ditch F-Spot! Really, just uninstall it. There's a much better application that actually works, and it's called Shotwell!! It is the default photo organizer in Fedora 13.
I really like the Shotwell project, it does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well. There's also a very helpful on-line manual.
The fastest way to install it, is either via the package manager, or by firing up a console and typing:
$ sudo apt-get install shotwell
If, however, you want to make sure that you'll always have the latest version for your distribution, follow the instructions at their website (check the option for Ubuntu), which are, in short, to fire up a console and enter the code below (you can also drag-n-drop the code, from here to the terminal, line by line!!)
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install shotwell
2. Video Editing
To quote their website, PiTiVi is a free, intuitive and featureful movie editor for the Linux desktop.
For a list of features, take a look at this page. It is a fairly new project, but it shows great potential and it is already full featured and fully usable.
In order to install it, you can use the package manager, or just fire up a console and enter:
$ sudo apt-get install pitivi
In case that you want to use the latest beta version (beware, this may break things), you can add the development repository:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwibber-daily/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pitivi
3. Video Transcoding & Converting
When it comes to video transcoding, there's only one choice on my mind – WinFF. To quote their website:
WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg's, flv's, and mov's, all into avi's all at once.
WinFF has many presets for output targets and it keeps getting better. You can install it using the package manager, but I recommend getting the latest version, following the procedure below (in a terminal):
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paul-climbing/ppa
$ sudo apt-get install winff
This will work just fine for almost everybody. However, in order to get the absolute maximum out of this program, you may need to get the unstripped versions of ffmpeg. These libraries are available at the medibuntu repository (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu). Please note the disclaimer from their website:
Medibuntu is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc), related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues.
Patent and copyright laws operate differently depending on which country you are in. Please obtain legal advice if you are unsure whether a particular patent or restriction applies to a media format you wish to use in your country.
See Ubuntu's Free Software Philosophy and the FreeFormats page for a more comprehensive discussion of these issues.
If you decide to add this repository to your system, give the following commands at a terminal and then do a [code]sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade[/code]
Replace $(lsb_release -sc) by the corresponding release of Ubuntu in Linux Mint (click here for the Mint name corresponding to each Ubuntu release). For example, if you are using Linux Mint Isadora, replace "$(lsb_release -sc)" with "lucid":
$ sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update
$ sudo apt-get --yes install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu
4. DVD Ripping
There are three apps that I like for the task of DVD ripping: AcidRip, DVD::Rip and K9Copy!
For AcidRip, just go to the package manager and install it, pretty straightforward.
To quote SourceForge:
AcidRip is an automated front end for MPlayer/Mencoder written in Perl, using Gtk2::Perl for a graphical interface. Makes encoding a DVD just one button click!
AcidRip is by far the easiest app for ripping DVDs. It's main advantage is that, most of the times, in order to encode a DVD into avi, it really only takes one click!
DVD::Rip is an old-school application, at least as far as appearances go. A newbie may easily be intimidated by the user interface, but all in all, it is the most capable ripper. Anything you can imagine that a DVD ripper should do, it does it. You can install it from the package manager.
Just for the fun of it, check out the features list at their website. It's quite long!!
One final note: in order to get maximum results when handling encrypted DVDs that you have bought and wish to back up, it may do better after you install the library libdvdcss2.
This is a library that you may find at medibuntu, so read the disclaimer and the relevant info further up in the post. You will be able to install libdvdcss2 after you have activated the medibuntu repository.
Another great application for backing up your DVDs is K9Copy. It is very similar in functionality to the windows program DVDShrink.
You can compress a 9gb DVD so that it will fit on a 4.7gb disk, preserve original menus and even choose which languages or subtitles to back up or leave out. You can also set the output to be an avi or an iso file.
5. CD Ripping
There's only one app that I like here: GRip! This is the best app I've ever used in order to back up my CDs.
Features list:
- Full-featured CD player with a small screen footprint in "condensed" mode
- Database lookup/submission to share track information over the net
- HTTP proxy support for those behind firewalls
- Loop, shuffle, and playlist modes
- Ripping of single, multiple, or partial tracks
- Encoding of ripped .wav files into MP3 files (as well support for OGG and FLAC)
- Simultaneous rip and encode
- Support for multiple encode processes on SMP machines
- Adding ID3v1/v2 tags to MP3 files
- Cooperating with DigitalDJ, my SQL-based MP3 jukebox
6. Audio Editing
In my experience, there is no sound editor with so many features, that is so easy to use, at the same time, as is Audacity.
The features list is too long to post!!
7. Music Player & Organizer
For a long time, Amarok ("Wolf" in Native American) had been the only reason for which I had KDE libraries installed on my Gnome machine. Up until 2008. That's when version 2.0 came out, which I then thought was the worst thing that could happen to the project. Partly because it was completely unusable, partly because I could really not see where the poet was going with it (coding is poetry, right?).
I then tried several other solutions, among which I have to say that Exaile was the next best thing.
Over time, however, Amarok got back on track, and it is now, once again, the only reason for which I keep KDE libraries installed on my Gnome machine.
With Amarok, you will really rediscover your music. Really.
Oh, and by the way, it also has a built-in equalizer!!!
You can install it from the package manager and you're good to go. However, what kind of geek would you be, if you did not follow the instructions below?
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install amarok
$ sudo aptitude install phonon-backend-xine
In case you have a "need for expeditious velocity", you can follow the instructions from this excellent post, in order to have Amarok use MySQL as a back-end database. Combined with the embedded help from Amarok itself (in database settings), you get the following example. Replace with your own data and run in a terminal:
[code]sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client[/code]
This will install the database. Make sure you set an administrator password when asked. Then, enter these commands (don't you just love how efficient the terminal is? :P)
[code]mysql -p -u root
CREATE DATABASE amarokdb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON amarokdb.* TO 'amarokuser' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Finally, fill in the same data in Amarok's database settings, restart MySQL, then restart Amarok set it to completely rescan the music folder.
Amarok's functionality can be expanded by scripts. For example, in order to have a nice list of Greek radio stations streaming through Amarok, you can install this script. Just go download and then install through Amarok's script manager.
Update, November 2010
8. MKV muxer
MKVToolnix — Cross-platform tools for Matroska
Just found out about it, you can follow the instructions here to set it up!!
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A woman threw a 3-month-old baby toward an Okaloosa County sheriff's deputy in the Santa Rosa Mall parking lot after he tried to stop her for suspected shoplifting on Monday, according to the sheriff's office.
MARY ESTHER - A woman threw a 3-month-old baby toward an Okaloosa County sheriff's deputy Monday in Santa Rosa Mall�s parking lot after he tried to stop her on suspicion of shoplifting, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The baby was in a carrier and was not hurt.
Ashley Taylor Wright, 23, of Pensacola, hid two pairs of jeans and a shirt valued at $261 in a baby stroller and left Dillard�s, the Sheriff's Office reported.
When a deputy approached Wright�s vehicle in the parking lot, she started yelling for her husband to leave, the Sheriff's Office reported. Two children were in the car.
The deputy tried to get Wright out of the car. She put the carrier in front of her and yelled, �You will have to shoot through the baby to get me,� according to the Sheriff�s Office.
She then ran from the vehicle and threw the 14-pound infant in her carrier toward the deputy, the Sheriff�s Office reported.
Wright fell and fought the deputy when he tried to control her. She was taken to Fort Walton Beach Medical Center for a cut on her head.
She was charged with petty theft, child abuse without great bodily harm and resisting an officer without violence. She was taken to Okaloosa County Jail and placed on $7,000 bond.


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Wyoming Braced for Impacts of CO Pot Law
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming is bracing for increased marijuana crimes because of Colorado's new constitutional amendment allowing anyone over 21 to use the drug.
The Associated Press reports Tuesday that police officers predict increased cannabis flow through Wyoming because of the Colorado pot law. The newspaper points out that no point in Wyoming is more than 180 miles from Colorado or Montana, which allows marijuana for people with certain medical conditions.
Under the current Wyoming state law, anyone arrested for possessing up to an ounce of the drug could face up to a year in jail or up to a $1,000 fine.
Wyoming lawmakers say they're not expecting any change to state marijuana laws to be proposed in the upcoming legislative session.


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All About Stranding with Anna ZilboorgThis basic stranding workshop covers knitting with two colors, one in each hand, two in your left hand, or two in your right hand. We'll make and cut steeks without a sewing machine and carry colors over long distances.
SuppliesYarn in 2 contrasting colors, preferably one of white; appropriate dpns or two circulars; tapestry needle; scissors.
Sharp scissors, notebook, pen or pencil with an eraser, stitch markers, blunt tapestry needles (large and small), flexible tape measure, small calculator, and needles & crochet hooks of various sizes.


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1 CLOTH FACE MASK + 1 DONATED, Child Color 26
Ash & Rose
Masks are in-stock and ship next business day!
Stay safe with the face covering you need, help us rebuild our business after devastating flooding, and give back to the community all at the same time.
With each purchase we'll ship one to you, and donate one to a local organization in need, including Rosie's Place, the Pine Street Inn, Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, and Horizons for Homeless Children.
These are non-medical, double-layer, reversible cloth masks. The material is 100% cotton, either organic cotton or designer remnant/salvage. All pre-washed and machine washable.
All masks are adult unisex sized, except for child masks as indicated. The child masks fit most 3-8 year olds. Bigger kids will need the adult size. You can thread a piece of ribbon through the elastic loops and tie behind the head to make adult size fit a smaller head.
Through these mask sales, we've been able to offer work-from-home opportunities to seamstresses who would not otherwise be working right now.
***These masks are made with home sewing machines, and will have minor flaws and imperfections, which will not interfere with the functionality of the mask.
***BULK ORDERS of 20 masks or more, contact us for special pricing at firstname.lastname@example.com. We can design a custom mask for your small business too!
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FREE Curbside Pickup is now available every Sunday from 10-4.
Returns to our brick-and-mortar store will be extended to 30 days beyond our re-opening date, which is TBD.
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Consumer Reports Survey Again Reveals That It Won't Be on AT&T's Christmas Card List
Consumer Reports is out with its ratings of cellphone service providers and once again AT&T finds itself at the bottom of the pack while Verizon ranked highest among the big four national carriers.
That's the same overall conclusion the magazine has been coming to for a while now.
That said, there was some good news for AT&T this year as its high-speed 4G LTE network got the highest marks in the survey, above rival Verizon Wireless whose network has been around longer and covers more places.
Verizon, though, had the top overall score when including voice and data service quality as well as customer-support marks.
Consumer Reports also pointed out that customers looking to save money can often do better by going with a prepaid carrier, even when factoring in the fact people have to pay more initially for their device. Two-thirds of prepaid carrier customers surveyed said they were saving $20 or more each month.
"Some smaller carriers that scored respectably in our Ratings and offer low-priced plans, such as Straight Talk and Virgin Mobile, now offer fairly sophisticated smart phones," Consumer Reports electronics editor Paul Reynolds said in a statement. "And you can even save by switching a phone from a major carrier that's coming off contract to a prepaid plan."


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This article applies to KVM SSD servers only.
Apart from our pre-made templates clients have acces to cd/dvd images also called ISO.
ISOs available to install from client area are:
FreeBSD 11
NetBSD 7.1
OpenBSD 6.3
Ubuntu 16
Ubuntu 17.04
Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Debian 9
Fedora 26
Fedora 27
Fedora 29
CentOS 7
CentOS 6
CentOS 5
OpenSuse Tumbleweed
pfSense 2.4.2
OPNsense 18.1
Slackware 14.2
Devuan GNU+Linux
Proxmox Mail Gateway 5
Zorin OS 12.4
Windows 2016 ( on selected servers only)
If the ISO you are looking for is not in our library, we will be more then happy to add it.
Please open a ticket on our helpdesk supplying us with a link to the ISO, and we will make it available to you within 48 hours.
For a turotial on how to install your server via ISO please follow this tutorial
ISO Library
This article applies to KVM SSD servers only.
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Cincinnati, OH
This coming Friday – Sunday May 16-18, the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium Conference (GLBIO) is being held at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital at the University of Cincinnati. The Program and Conference Committees of GLBIO 2014 have put together an outstanding conference program that has something for everyone and includes a rapid-fire series of keynotes, tutorials, paper talks, flash presentations, and recent-publication short format highlight talks that encompass the analysis of data and the development of software platforms for nexgen genomics, systems biology, systems chemistry, drug screening and testing, and human, microbial, and comparative genomics.
The first day of the conference includes two simultaneous tutorial tracks including introduction to bioinformatics and genomics, diseasomics, data visualization and programming, cloud computing-based large-scale data analysis methodologies and large-scale chemical biology data set analyses. The first keynote and barbeque dinner are on Friday night and the different conference modules include renowned speakers Tanya Berger-Wolf, Charles Brooks and Gary Bader, speaking on a wide range of topics, such as systems and computational chemistry, neurogenomics, biological network analysis, and algorithms for high dimensional data analysis. The program also includes nearly 100 cutting-edge research posters and 30 oral presentations from some of the best bioinformatics people coming in from Japan, Europe, and more than 10 states!
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BEGINNER IRONMAN 36 week (50 yrs+) plan includes email access to Coach, reusable, HR based
Structured Workouts automatically sync with compatible devices and guide you through workouts in real time.
Learn More about Structured Workouts.
Steven Moody, Triathlon Ireland Coach of the year, Training Peaks and Ironman U certifiedAll plans by this Coach
36 Weeks
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This plan is protected by our Refund Policy and may, with the author's approval, be exchanged for a plan of equal value from the same author.Still have questions about this plan?
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Plan Description
"After self coaching for a few years I decided to put some purpose and organization into my Ironman training, signed up with a plan from Steve and am very impressed with the layout and attention to detail in the plan. Steve also responds to questions quickly and addresses the issues almost immediately.
Highly recommended , if you want to step it up a level "
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Click here to read my growing list of testimonials from satisfied clients
Plan outline
This 36 week plan is designed for an beginner athlete who has between 6 - 14 hours available to train for their IRONMAN.
It is specifically designed for athletes over 50 years of age - as it uses a 2:1 recovery cycle that should minimize risk of over training injuries
Each swim/cycle/run session is clearly laid out in terms of what the athlete needs to do and when best to do the sessions and is based primarily on HR zones that the athlete should train in.
Base or fitness/stamina development = 20 weeks
Build or race specific training = 14 weeks
Taper or readying yourself for race day = 2 week
2 week progression:1 week recovery cycle
What do you get in this plan?
• FREE 30 day access to training peaks premium subscription
• FREE strength and conditioning guide
• Unlimited email access to the author
• Training zones using feel, heart rate or pace
• Includes test sessions to map out your specific zones and monitor/re-evaluate throughout plan
• Includes race specific sessions such as bricks and open water swimming sets
• Session details up-loadable to Garmin Connect, Trainer Road, Rouvy and/or Zwift from compatible device
• Ability to re-use your plan as many times as you require
Kick off Emails During checkout, you can check a box to share your email address. By selecting this – this helps me send you an introduction/kick off email with hints/tips and your free 30 day Training Peaks premium coupon. It also gives you access to the best email to ask any questions you have on your training journey!
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Average Weekly Breakdown
|Weekly Average
|Longest Workout
|2:21 hrs
|1:30 hrs
|2:51 hrs
|2:36 hrs
|4:47 hrs
|6:45 hrs
|Workouts Per Week
|Weekly Average
|Longest Workout
|2:21 hrs
|1:30 hrs
|2:51 hrs
|2:36 hrs
|4:47 hrs
|6:45 hrs
Training Load By Week
This plan works best with the following fitness devices:
- Heart Rate Monitor
Sample Day 1
Warm Up 400 easy freestyle
- 200 fins as 50 choice drill, 50 freestyle
– 4 x 50 freestyle (25 fast + 25 easy) +10 seconds rest
then 4 x 100 freestyle (20 seconds rests)
Do these 100's at what you perceive to be the AVERAGE pace that you can sustain for a 400 Time Trial.
Main Set 400 time trial
Take 5 to 8 minutes easy swimming/stretching and 100m easy swim.
Feel fully recovered, then:
200 time trial
Warm Down 100 easy choice of stroke
To calculate your CSS which will be used in other sessions - take the result of the 400 tt and subtract the 200 tt - then divide the result by 2 to get your pace
400m TT of 7:44 = 464 secs
200m TT of 3:27 = 207 secs
464 - 207 = 257/2 = 128 secs or 2 mins 8 secs CSS
Sample Day 2
Aerobic Zone 2 paced run focus on good running form (engage core, slight lean forward from hips to ensure mainly landing on ball of foot when making contact with ground) with a Stride every 5mins
Stride: 30s of fast running focusing on good form: quick cadence, landing quietly, tall
This is a zone 2 run which until HR zones are mapped from week 1 should be based on perceived exertion/effort of being conversational in nature i.e. you should be able to talk throughout!
Sample Day 3
Assumes 50 m pool - please adjust lengths accordingly to ensure distance covered
Option to download/print off session detail to bring to pool from paper clip in top right corner
Endurance sets are designed to build stamina and strength in the water so you can go for longer distances without any issue
Warm Up [200, 200 total]
200m = 100 freestyle, 100 backstroke
Drills [400, 600 total]
Single arm: 2 x 50 (1st Left, 2nd right), 10 sec Rest
Pull Buoy: 2 x 50, as 25 Fists, 25 swim 10 sec Rest
Increasing effort: 1st 50 easy, 2nd 50 moderate, 3rd 50 hard, 4th 50 recovery
Main Set: [600, 1200 total]
1st 300m no swim aids 1 min rest
2nd 300m with pull bouy & paddles 1 min rest
Cool down: [200, 1400 total]
200m = 200 backstroke
Sample Day 3
Turbo sets are a great way to improve cycling and stroke efficiency as you remove the other variables such as road surface, weather and traffic!
This session can also be substituted for an outdoor easy 60 min spin
Session details
10 min easy zone 1 warm up
30 mins zone 2
10 mins cool down zone 1
The exact turbo set details for HR will be available from workout builder below after bike test is completed and details entered in your profile
If you have a compatible version you should also be able to upload the session details to your device
Sample Day 4
Tempo runs are an excellent way for triathletes to work on building their speed and strength. They are runs that are done at a steady effort level, usually just a little slower than your 10K race pace.
Exact details for HR will be available from workout builder below after run test is completed and details entered in your profile
If you have a compatible version you should also be able to upload the session details to your device
Session details
1km warm up zone 1
6km @10km pace or zone 3
1km cool down zone 1
Sample Day 6
To ensure your training is tailored to your current fitness/abilities - the first block requires you to complete a run and bike test to get baseline HR zones which we use to direct sessions and monitor progress
This is the first of these tests - working out your run specific HR zones
NB needs GPS device and HR monitor device
Please ignore the target distance - indicative only - the actual distance will be determined by you
Best done on flat out and back course
Warm up gently for 10 mins (including stopping to stretch hamstrings/calves/glutes)
For the actual test you need to accelerate to a tempo which you believe you can sustain for 30 min continuous running, but not longer. This should feel difficult!
10 min warm down please
Once you have the HR data uploaded to this session - open via the analyse icon in the top right hand corner and follow the following steps outlined in the below link
Sample Day 7
Long endurance based bikes in the base period are to build your endurance and should be in the z1/z2 HR range
This session involves an easy warm up of 5km (zone1) and then main set of 30km (zone2) and a cool down of zone1
Until HR zones are mapped in week 2 - use a perceived exertion/effort of the cycle should feel easy


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Mike Di Paola
Wednesday, 08 February 2012 02:29 PM
One of the animals did keel over, kicking its feet in spasms. A couple of days later, a calf was fighting for its life, the farmer said. It died.
Something awful is happening over the Marcellus Shale, the vast geological formation in eastern North America where energy companies are looking for natural gas.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process for extracting gas by injecting high volumes of water and chemicals into deep wells, has sparked complaints about ruined landscapes and fouled groundwater. Increasingly there is evidence, mostly anecdotal, that animals are suffering.
A new study by veterinarian Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, a professor of veterinary medicine at Cornell University, chronicles case studies of dozens of farmers and pet owners in six states over the Marcellus Shale.
Their findings, published in "New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy," are a harrowing account of sudden deaths of cattle, as well as reproductive and neurological problems in horses, cats, dogs and other animals.
The Pennsylvania farmers I spoke with have lost cows, calves, a horse, a couple dozen chickens. Many of the animals succumb in the same way: seizure-like symptoms, gasping for breath and a quick wasting away. A Rottweiler and a Dalmatian also fell ill and died.
Crops Lost
These farmers are getting out of the beef business, in part over concern that their animals will become delivery systems for contaminants.
An organic farmer from southeast Ohio told me he has abandoned his cash crop, ginseng, for now, concerned that contaminants would enter his product. He began noticing changes around his 20-acre property in 2007, when a fracking operation began dumping wastewater nearby. He lost quite a few deer that were drawn to the brine and antifreeze in the fluid.
Energy representatives dismiss the veterinarians' study. They say that health indicators have actually improved in areas with shale development.
"The paper is little more than a collection of personal testimonials that cannot be independently assessed or verified," says Steve Everley, a spokesman for industry group Energy in Depth. "The paper is full of bold assertions about oil and gas development, but empty of any facts or scientific evidence to support those opinions."
Causal Link
Establishing a causal link between fracking and specific health threats is tricky. Energy companies are not required to disclose the composition of fracking fluids for proprietary reasons, so they don't.
Like a lot of people who live near fracking operations, many of the farmers I interviewed are in litigation with an energy company and wish to remain anonymous.
"We don't know what the chemicals are in a lot of these cases," says Bamberger. "It gets very frustrating when you start saying: What was in the tissue? What killed these animals exactly?"
In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture quarantined 28 head of cattle after they drank wastewater from a fracking site in Tioga County. The fear was that a radioactive contaminant in the water, strontium, would end up in beef.
In December 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency linked water pollution to fracking for the first time, after examining contaminated water in central Wyoming.
Note to New York
Last month the federal agency announced it would test water in dozens of homes around Dimock, Pennsylvania, a hotbed of fracking activity. It also told New York it would need to improve safeguards for drinking water before tapping into the Marcellus Shale.
New York placed a moratorium on fracking in 2010 so it could revise the rules governing the practice. Bamberger and Oswald are among those who contributed to the tens of thousands of public comments on the draft regulations, which were closed last month.
Bamberger submitted the published study; Oswald contributed 15 pages of his own to denounce the inadequacy of the proposed rules.
"There are so many flaws in the document," he says. "It is unlikely to be able to protect us from the industrialization of our landscape and hydraulic fracturing."
Now, New York's Department of Environmental Conservation will review comments and revise regulations as necessary. It seems inevitable that the state will be fracking eventually, so the question is whether the industry can proceed safely -- for humans and animals.
New Yorkers should listen to the stories of farmers, hunters and vets before making the same fracking mistakes that are being made elsewhere.
(Mike Di Paola writes on preservation and the environment for Muse, the arts and culture section of Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Here's an image I did a while ago. I wanted to upload a larger res version with a clay render to show more detail...
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Talking non-stop about hybrid power and even zero emission vehicles, premium automotive brand Audi painted a rich picture for electric propulsion in a future line-up. Promoting e-tron and even prepared to display a bold ultra light Urban Concept at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, the environmentally conscious luxury car fan has probably become unsettled that an electric-assist production car had yet to come to materialize.
Finally, the promise of the Audi A6 hybrid brought partially electric propulsion to German luxury car line. Introduced for Europe and recently announced for the United States, the Audi A6 hybrid is eagerly anticipated for what will be an expanding product selection of vehicles. Audi's second production vehicle inflates not only the hybrid car portfolio but expands to the A8 flagship promising more than 36-mile per gallon driving.
Moving the big 2012 Audi A8 hybrid sedan is the same gasoline/electric powertrain combination being demonstrated on the newly released hybrid-equipped A6. Main power will be sourced from the 2.0 TFSI four-cylinder gasoline engine. Along producing 211 horsepower, the TFSI engine works in concert with a 40-kilowatt electric motor. A permanent magnet synchronous motor, the electric assist unit for the Audi A8 hybrid is packaged securely between the two-liter engine and the eight-speed tiptronic transmission. Combined, the gasoline and electric powerplants generate a sufficient amount of momentum to move the over 202-inch long sedan. The Audi A8 hybrid maximum performance output is 245 horsepower with a total 345 pounds-feet of torque.
Though horsepower may not be as impressive as the 4.2 liter V-8 or the 6.3 liter W-12 powerplants, the 2012 Audi A8 hybrid's configuration is calibrated for robust fuel economy. Burning less than 6.4 liters per 100 kilometers, the Audi A8 hybrid's fuel consumption for an American road translates to 36.75 miles per gallon in average driving. Compared to the current V-8 powered Audi A8 sedan, the hybrid model delivers average gas mileage allowing the large four-door to roll 14 miles longer after every gallon of gasoline.
Thanks to the heavily modified 8-speed transmission of the Audi A8 hybrid, a special wet, multi-plate clutch acts as an intelligent conductor between the two power units. Using ideal coordination between the TFSI engine and the electric motor, the Audi A8 hybrid operates under five operating modes. Of these propulsion options is an electric only mode that draws power directly from a lithium-ion battery. Through acceleration, the Audi A8 hybrid can be pushed to 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour) purely on electric power. At speeds of 60 kilometers per hour (37.3 miles per hour), battery capacity will allow the sedan to move 3 kilometers (1.86 miles per hour). A water-cooled lithium-ion battery, the electrical storage for the powertrain is climate-controlled for optimal performance.
With all the changes performed out of sight, this latest hybrid is nonetheless a typical 2012 Audi A8 sedan. Unique touches to the Audi A8 hybrid (for the most part) is low-tone at first glance with only 'hybrid' badges immediately informing observers. Astute Audi fans will be able to identify some A8 hybrids through an optional Arctic White colour available only on the 2012 hybrid sedan model. Turbine blade design 18-inch and optional 19-inch alloy wheels spin will exclusively spin the A8 hybrid sedan's tires. The Bose audio system, three-zone automatic climate control and LED headlamps are standard equipment catered not only for luxury enjoyment but also to optimize the A8 hybrid's energy usage.
Announced only for European markets for sometime in 2012, this ultra-efficient Audi A8 hybrid could be in the United States in just a matter of time due to stricter CAFÉ fleet fuel economy standards.
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Duty and Desire: The Best Hope for Our Children's Education
There are very few absolutes in this life. What kind of school our children attend is not one of them.
Home schools, private schools of kinds, public schools, each in their different ways are places where good parents hope for a good education, knowing that at the end of the day they are responsible for teaching their children to love God and his world. We have chosen all three along the way, raising our five children, and each one has blessings and curses. None is a tragic choice, but none are perfect choices either.
Almost 25 years ago, we were involved in the beginning of a private school called Rivendell. Eventually all of our children went there, and graduated at eighth grade. Born of an entrepreneurial hope for a different kind of education, the little community of parents who brought it into being worked very hard for many years to create an educational culture that prized a creative, responsible learning. A literature-based curriculum focused on thematic study was its heart, along with a requirement that parents actively involve themselves in the week-by-week life of the school.
Committed to teaching our children to "learn about God's world and to discover their place in it," we were a family, with all the good and bad stories of families everywhere. But when all was said and done, we wanted our children to learn to learn, and to love learning.
When our children finished at Rivendell, we searched the city of Washington for something similar, and found nothing that satisfied. Eventually, intrigued by the more personal pedagogy of private schools, we entered into the life of St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School, an Episcopal day school in Alexandria.
From our first conversations with the headmaster we knew that the school was sympathetic to transcendence, but did not believe in truth. A hard judgment, perhaps, but knowing that to be true kept us from expecting the school to be something other than what it was. What it was was its own gift to our children. A small school with small classes, it offered them an opportunity to know their teachers as they were learning within the disciplines of a demanding curriculum. That is never small.
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Los Angeles will not have David Beckham to kick around — or to watch kick around the ball — any more. Well, actually they might next year.
Reports out of Italy say that powerhouse club AC Milan has hammered out a deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy to load the legendary English midfielder from January through the end of Milan's season. That is pretty much the same deal that was struck last summer, and it should allow Beckham to be part of the English national team that comes up short again in the 2010 World Cup.
At the end of his last stint with AC Milan, Beckham and his people tried to pull every string they could short of getting the Pope involved to keep Beckham in Italy. And if he knew the Pope, he would have played that card, too. But it didn't work because the MLS had too much marketing money invested to let Beckham walk after one year.
So instead, he came back to a stadium full of fans who called him a traitor and booed him in his return match. And Beckham, class act that he is, tried to get in a fight with said fans. Then there was fellow teammate Landon Donovan calling out Beckham as a leader. Those events drew the only headlines the MLS has gotten this season. Yup, it was great the MLS got him back across the ocean.
When Beckham leaves this January, the handful of Los Angelinos that notice will say, "Good Riddance."
Except that it is not.
Yes, Beckham can opt out of his deal with the MLS after this season, something he would have done last year if he could have. However, because Beckham is 34 — ancient in soccer terms — nobody in the highest levels of the sport wants to give him a long-term deal. So it is entirely possible that Beckham will not get any offers that strokes his ego enough, leading to his return to Los Angeles next year (working around his World Cup commitments).
Sorry, Los Angeles. You may not have seen the last of David Beckham.
Beckham Back to AC Milan … for Now
David Beckham will be leaving for Italy again. But don't assume he's gone for good.
Los Angeles will not have David Beckham to kick around — or to watch kick around the ball — any more. Well, actually they might next year.


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So as you can tell, I have recently found the time to blog, hence being able to post two days in a row.
For the past 18 months I had the opportunity to work with an amazing team at The Engine Company. We have done some amazing stuff with Loom, innovating on workflow, making cross-platform deployment incredibly easy. I'm really proud of the work that we have done. I'm super excited that the Loom SDK is open source, and I believe that Loom Turbo is the BEST offering out there on the market for cross-platform 2D games.
Recently I have decided that I would like to pursue other interests. As such, I have resigned from The Engine Company. The team will continue to make huge strides in building the Loom SDK into amazing platform to develop on. They're doing an amazing job, and will continue to do so.
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Stage 1 - Gain all three skill bonuses (destroy all gun carriers until neon signs, then destroy red carrier after signs; destroy all neon signs; destroy only bottom saucer section of mid-boss.) When you reach the boss, do not attack him as normal. Instead, wait for him to move toward you (with the side-scrolling view.) One of his attacks is a gun pod from his back. Once in every 10 or so time, this weapon is the Juno.
Stage 4 - A large boat will pop out of the water. Destroy the body only. The tower will fly off. Dodge and kill this tower before it leaves the screen. It will drop the Juno and give you a skill bonus.
Similar to the Cannon, can kill any non-boss enemy in fewer than 3 shots.
Stage 3 - After spider mid-boss, destroy the large pylon at the top of the screen, and then destroy every item that falls from it. Use a Juno or Vulcan for greater success. This will award a skill bonus and the Flash.
Stage 5 - Take apart the mid-boss piece by piece before killing him. This earns the Flash and a skill bonus.
Similar to the Wasp, fires missles which are guided by the control pad. A little stronger than the Wasp's missles.
Stage 4 - At the small maze-like section, move as quickly as possible down the tunnels, and pick up the Spreader on the way. Switch the Spreader to your top slot. A couple of floors straight down will be an enemy and a set of barrels directly behind you. Destroy the barrels to obtain the Mosquito.
Powerful mines, similar to Hedgehog. Very hard to use.
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BERLIN – A 2-percent increase in the electric power base rate could show up in Berlin power bills as early as January, if the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) signs off on the change.
The higher rate would be instituted to recover over $400,000 in under-collected power cost fees.
The PSC will issue a written response in a few weeks to the town's proposal, which also seeks to reduce the impact of the unrecovered funds by absorbing half, and spreading the recovery effort out over two years.
Berlin electric bills will likely include the base rate increase in the January bills, if the town's request is approved.
The average home, using 867 kilowatt hours, would see its electric bill rise by $4.46 a month with the new base rate, said Berlin Finance Director Jo-Ellen Mason-Foley. Without the town's attempt to soften the blow, the average house would face an increase of about $20 a month. The difference is half a cent per kilowatt-hour more, as opposed to two cents per kilowatt-hour more.
"It is quite a savings to the consumer," Mason-Foley said.
The base rate could have been increased by as much as 11 percent, according to Mayor Gee Williams, if the town had not made this particular proposal to the PSC.
The PSC must also approve the town's request to absorb half the bill for the recovery and to spread the recovery of the $400,000, half the actual power costs to customers, over the next 24 months instead of the usual 12 months.
The Power Cost Adjustment (PCA) charge will remain unknown until a power purchase agreement contract is concluded, at which point Berlin will know the difference between the base electric rate, and the cost per kilowatt-hour under the contract.
"There's a lot to this. It's not the simple little operation people have believed all this time," Williams said.
The town asked for the special treatment to reduce the impact of high power costs on electric customers.
"The Mayor and Council feel that the electric ratepayers have already been burdened enough from the extremely high costs in purchased power we experienced this past year. The request we made of the Public Service Commission pushes to the limit what we can do within the framework of state regulations and responsible financial stewardship," Williams said.
Williams said that the PSC's hearing examiner expressed support for the proposal, as did the attorney for the Maryland People's Council.
Berlin's ongoing efforts to find a reasonable power purchase agreement were also mentioned at the hearing in support of Berlin's request to show that Berlin is taking steps on its own to reduce costs to consumers.
"We are optimistic that our request to mitigate the under-recovery to the maximum and minimize the impact on town electric ratepayers, as much as the regulatory system will allow, will be looked upon favorably by the Public Service Commission," said Williams.
Berlin is looking for power cost relief through a power purchase agreement that would lock-in power costs for one or two years.
With at least two bids for a power purchase agreement in hand, Berlin officials said this week they are anxious to assess the bids and award the contract.
"Time is of the essence. Bids have started to come back," said Williams. "I know the BUC [Berlin Utilities Commission] wants to start reviewing those bids and find out where we stand."
The town requested bids from three power companies; if none of those bids are satisfactory, Berlin would need to cast a wider net.
The council debated the cost of the specialist attorney necessary for power contract negotiations Monday night, with Council member Paula Lynch balking at attorney Gary Newell's fees.
"We promised people we'd get something done. We have to have legal representation to negotiate any of those agreements," Williams said. "We can't not do it."
Asking for an estimate of hours or setting a not-to-exceed figure would be counterproductive, the council concluded.
"We are in such a box here. We've got to get moving," Lynch said.
The power purchase agreement could be in place as early as late January or the beginning of February.
Electric customers will see some immediate relief in their December bills, which will drop about $38 for the average household based on a lower actual power cost, shown as the ACA on electric bills. The ACA dropped from 11.4 cents per kilowatt-hour to 6.5 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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The Vancouver Sun's book club is discussing Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's All The Broken Things. We will be chatting online with Kuitenbrouwer at noon on Monday, March 31. Plan to join the conversation at www.vancouversun.com/books.
Julia Denholm: In All the Broken Things, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer bravely presents her take on literary ground that has been previously explored by two of my personal favourite authors: John Irving and Robertson Davies. It's impossible to read Broken Things, which combines bears, wrestling, misfits, Vietnam, the United States, Canada, and a coming-of-age story, without thinking about Irving's extensive explorations of those elements.
And the Canadian "country fair" setting, overseen by Max Jennings and the perhaps-more-fatherly (if only somewhat less predatory) Gerry Whitman, catapulted me smack into the middle of Davies' Deptford trilogy. Despite (because of?) what I would characterize as a less intense approach to the subject matter, Kuitenbrouwer's novel is original and compelling. She plays with language, love, and relationships in a way that drew me in completely. I'm interested to hear what others have to say, because this novel was made bigger for me as a consequence of my love of Davies' and Irving's work. What is this book like for these reading without the particular context I brought to it? I can't wait to find out.
Tracy Sherlock: I haven't read either of those books, so I can certainly speak as someone who didn't have the same context. I found this book very interesting, most particularly for two things: its (what I considered) unique blend of topics and its portrayal of loss. The blend of topics in Vietnam, boat people, refugees, Agent Orange, disabled people, country fairs and, of course, bear wrestling, which is something I had never even heard of before this book. The portrayal of loss is so masterful in the character of Bo that as a reader, I didn't always notice what the author was showing us until it was laid bare. For example, Bo's flashbacks, which were as vivid as Soldier Man's flashbacks.
Ian Weir: There's a whole bunch about this novel that I really love; it's powerful and vivid and audacious. I also love Julia's evocation of the Deptford Trilogy — which actually brings me to my one lingering uncertainty.
In Fifth Business and World of Wonders — the first and third books in the trilogy — Davies achieves a seamless fusion between levels of reality. The characters progress through an archetypal trajectory while remaining wholly grounded as flesh-and-blood human beings. But in The Manticore, the archetypes tend to pull focus, and I confess that I sometimes had this same issue while reading All the Broken Things. The individual elements are terrific — in many ways the narrative is genuinely magical — but I wasn't always completely sure how to sit down with the characters.
Did anyone else feel the same way? Or is this just me tripping over my own limitations as a reader?
Trevor Battye: I haven't read any of the other books noted by others. But I did find it challenging to sit down with the characters. Overall I found I didn't really want to sit down with them. I wanted to run away from them and leave them behind and never look back. Not to say that the book wasn't beautifully written, and I did enjoy the characters, who definitely pulled at the heartstrings, but I found myself in a constant struggle, especially in the early pages of the novel, to return and keep reading. I wouldn't recommend it to a friend, unless they were extremely happy all the time, and needed to be brought down.
Our book club panel includes Ian Weir, author of the novel Daniel O'Thunder; Vancouver young-adult author Melanie Jackson; Daphne Wood, the Vancouver Public Library's director, planning and development; Julia Denholm, division chair, humanities at Langara College; Monique Sherrett, principal at Boxcar Marketing and founder of somisguided. com; Trevor Battye, a partner in Clevers Media; Vancouver Sun books editor Tracy Sherlock; and city editor Bev Wake.


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Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
As the last Stuart monarch of England of Scotland, Queen Anne reigned during a dramatic time at home and in continental European history. Although she had a reserved personality, the Queen left her own mark on British history. In a new biography, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Lady Anne Somerset, Anne's life and the world she lived is told. Originally published in the UK, the book was released here in the US in the fall.
I knew a little bit about Anne from reading Jean Plaidy's reissued novels about the Stuarts a few years earlier. When I saw this book, I was curious to read more about her. The biography is well-written and detailed. The author drew on unpublished sources as part of her research. I was impressed there was more to Anne then what is usually described about her. For example, she could make decisions at crucial times. Anne's inspiration was Queen Elizabeth I, and she liked to emulate the Tudor Queen.
As Queen, Anne attended council meetings regularly. She was able to work well with Parliament which hadn't been easy for her Stuart predecessors. The Whigs and Tories were active during Anne's reign, beginning the two party system. In 1707, Scotland and England became fully united under one crown.
On the European continent, the Queen was involved in the War of Spanish Succession. During this time period, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, became famous for his military achievements. Some early American colonial history is mentioned as well.
For many years, Anne was close friends with John's wife Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough who held important posts in the Queen's household. Their relationship deteriorated because of political differences and petty arguments. Of interest to longtime "Masterpiece Theater" viewers, the Churchills were the subject of the historical drama "The First Churchills" in the 1971-72 inaugural season on PBS.
Anne's husband was Prince George of Denmark (1653-1708) with whom she had a loving marriage. He had a nominal role during her reign. Unfortunately none of their children survived to adulthood. When the Prince died, she mourned him deeply.
There is more to Anne's story so I'll leave it to readers to find out!
Of interest to those live or work in Maryland, Anne and George have places named in their honor.
Queen Anne was awarded the 2013 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in the UK.
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At Hill, we strive to create a joyful and academically robust learning environment for all students that is rooted in relationships.
The Skyhawk Way — S.O.A.R.
We commit to empowering our student Skyhawks to S.O.A.R. by showing social intelligence, organization, academic achievement, and respect. These values are taught through advisement and reinforced in core classes, elective elective classes, and throughout our students' experience at Hill.


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SEQUOIA - 200 Gallon Fabric Tree pot
The Sequoia Large 200 Gallon fabric pot is great for potting trees as well as for raised bed gardening. The large size offers lots of possibilities for backyard gardening, urban gardening, rooftop gardening and balcony gardening.
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The Cardinals Thursday pulled off a deal with the Chiefs. The Cards traded fullback Anthony Sherman to KC, while they get cornerback Javier Arenas back to the Cardinals.
Sherman was a fifth-round pick of the Cardinals back in 2011, and appeared in 28 games in the regular season. He had just one carry for three yards, but caught 13 passes for 111 yards.
For now the Cardinals don't have a fullback on the roster.
As for Arenas, he was a draft choice for the Chiefs in the second-round of the 2010 draft out of Alabama. Last season he had 53 solo tackles and one forced fumble in 16 games played. He also logged 204 yards in kickoff returns and 297 yards in punt returns on special teams.


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House GOP to offer new health plan
A top House Republican on Wednesday said GOP lawmakers will put forward an alternative to the health care reform law after the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the law.
"We will be ready to respond to the Supreme Court decision, which is expected in June, with a replacement package," House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee chairman Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) told a small group of reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday.
Pitts said he personally anticipates that the court could strike the mandate but is unlikely to strike the entire law. He said House leadership is looking to the timing of a likely court decision to make its case against the Democrats' signature health reform law.
"We'll have a window of opportunity to — with everyone looking — to explain that the Affordable Care Act is not fully implemented yet. A lot of people think it is," Pitts said. "So we'll use that opportunity in that window to discuss the full ramifications of the Affordable Care Act and what we'll replace it with."
Pitts pointed to several health policy ideas that Republicans have routinely supported that are likely to be in the plan, such as giving the tax break for health insurance to the employee instead of the employer, medical liability reform, creating high-risk medical "pools" and allowing insurers to sell their products across state lines.
"There are others we will be discussing and will have ready in response to the Supreme Court decision," Pitts said. "We think that a free-market alternative is much better as far as making health insurance affordable and available to everyone."
The timing, Pitts said, is "a decision above my pay grade. We anticipate the leadership acting on the replacement package after the decision."
Any plan would have to be crafted in response to how the court handles the law, Pitts said, as the court could leave the whole law in place, get rid of the whole thing, strike the mandate alone or strike other pieces with the mandate. It could also say that a federal tax law prevents it from ruling on the mandate's constitutionality until after 2015.
The court is planning to hold oral arguments on the health law in March. If the court rules on the mandate, it is likely to do so before the end of its term in June.
Democrats have routinely criticized Republicans for holding numerous votes to repeal the health law without presenting a complete alternative.
This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 2:29 p.m. on January 25, 2012.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated Joe Pitts's title. He is the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee.