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Caroline van Eck, Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 225; ills. 54. ISBN 978-0-521-84435-2. $80.00.
Reviewed by David Cast, Bryn Mawr College
Caroline van Eck is well known and well respected for her studies in the history and theory of architecture and it is nicely appropriate that an image of Sir John Soane's wonderful, picturesque façade at Pitzhanger Manor graces the outside cover of this book. But here she cuts a wider swathe to include painting and sculpture in her examination of the role of rhetoric and the practices of classical rhetoric within what she calls the visual persuasion of the arts in Early Modern Europe. In classical philosophy there had always been a language to speak of the arts as depiction, "the visual representation of the thing" as the English humanist George Puttenham put it in 1589. But such an account of art, as Erwin Panofsky so memorably explained, measuring painting and sculpture against the concepts of cognitive truth, "i.e. correspondence to the Ideas", was unable to do them justice and allowed no room for what he described as an aesthetics of representational art as an intellectual realm, sui generis. Yet always also there was rhetoric; and if within classical epistemology this might also be called into question for its value as truth, oratory as a practice known from the writings of Aristotle and Cicero and Quintilian was always there in the Renaissance to fill the gap left by the loss of almost all classical writing about art and to suggest structures of expression, adaptable to the tasks of art, whether these were terms to define secular authority or the description and justification of the doctrines of religion.
It is this topic, the relationship between such rhetoric and the visual arts of the Renaissance, that van Eck examines in this intelligent and suggestive study. As van Eck acknowledges the subject itself, however variously defined, has been a focus of scholarly attention for many years now. But here, taking up her brief in what she calls a series of case studies to show how this worked in practice, van Eck is able to examine in a number of instances how rhetoric, or more particularly the training in rhetoric that was a standard part of the educational curriculum in the Renaissance, informed the processes of design and theory and the interpretation in the arts of Europe between about 1400 and 1800. This text is not a historical survey of the roles rhetoric played then, nor is it, to borrow the phrase van Eck herself uses, a contribution to the many debates now about the distinction between words and images, whether to argue for the textual nature of all objects of art or for what she calls the irreducibility of the visual character of the visual arts. Rather the subject here is persuasion and how works of art acted or were thought to act on viewers, whether in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries or then, extending the material beyond the figurative arts and further afield culturally, to architectural practice in France and England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries where, within the context of the appropriation and transcription of the style of Italy beyond its first national boundaries, many such questions of meaning and effect were considered and commented upon.
The materials here are divided into three sections; theory; invention; interpretation. And if, so obviously and necessarily, van Eck begins with Leon Battista Alberti and the text of the De Pictura (1435/6) to speak of the figurative arts, when then she turns to the more elusive subject of the rhetorical persuasiveness of architecture it is later and less familiar names that she invokes, Daniele Barbaro, Vincenzo Scamozzi and Gherardo Spini, all of whom in varying degrees of specificity attempted to draw parallels between the selection of appropriate and affective ornaments for a building and the figures of speech chosen by an orator. At one level, architecture can be considered essentially as science and indeed, as Vitruvius so openly stated, in the operation of his business the architect must be equipped with a knowledge of many branches of study. Yet it is also an art of persuasion, establishing and defining society in ways that can be considered close enough to all the social functions of rhetoric, a form of design, as Barbaro suggested, as particular and differentiated in its effects as oratory, whether elegant or vehement or grandiose or severe. It is at this juncture that van Eck considers in some detail how such activities were realized in practice, to suggest that all art in the Renaissance worked by creating a common ground between audience and object, whether in linear perspective where a continuity exists between the space of the viewer and the space as pictured or then, within architecture, from the persuasive effects of beauty or power, whether in the iconicity of the gesture of the piazza before St. Peter's, mimicking the arms of the mother Church, or in the gracefulness of design and ornament which, as Alberti put it, can influence even the enemy, preventing the destruction of the building itself.
In the final section here van Eck considers how far rhetoric provided strategies of interpretation or what she is prepared to call a hermeneutics, noting here the traditional etymological association of the Greek root for this term with Hermes, the messenger of meaning. For Aristotle, such an activity, such hermeneia, was semiology, rhetoric serving to teach the mind how to express itself and find the fitting formulations for every thought or mental image. And here van Eck, searching for one instance of interpretation fostered within rhetoric, turns to the interesting account of a discussion between Bartolommeo Maranta and his friend Scipione Ammirato of Titian's Annunciation in San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, written in the 1560s, which is full of references to the meaning of gestures and to the effect such gestural attitudes could carry. And then she identifies some of the terms of criticism used to describe the effects of art, that of vivacity for example, or then the parallel so often seen between art and the theater, the pictorial plane, as she puts it, becoming a stage on which the key moments in a story could be represented, as if frozen in time. The final section here, when she turns to architecture, considers the expression of meaning by typology or by the optical effects of buildings or the character and style of designs, especially as described in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Charles Perrault and Germain Boffrand. She ends with a coda to question how far this whole tradition could survive the onslaughts against rhetoric by Kant and the definition of a different domain, that of the aesthetic, where the Enlightenment subject was allowed, in new and exciting ways, to enjoy a freer play of the cognitive and emotional faculties, set in the disinterested contemplation of art. This possibility, van Eck notes, is a very recent Western invention and rhetoric, when we look around, can be seen to be as widely found as is the making of images. For using art to get in touch with fellow humans, so van Eck concludes almost triumphantly, is a universal phenomenon.
There is much here to think about here and the very act of bringing this material together in so compact a form serves in itself to enrich the sense we might have of the possibilities and qualities of this tradition of discourse, whether we are thinking of critics, or of the audience, of then of those, the humble artists, who set the subjects of their works into form. But to this reviewer one of the most interesting passages in this study is where van Eck suggests a new way to think about the architecture of Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. They themselves offered little by way of explanation for their art and if later architects, from Soane to Robert Adam and then Denys Lasdun and Robert Venturi recognized immediate meaning in the expressive force of their designs, historians, as van Eck notes, have always found it difficult to deal with this particular moment of English architecture. But here she brings up an obvious if previously unconnected source, that of Longinus, a text indeed known in England in a number of XVIIth century editions, long before Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux and then Edmond Burke made the notion of the sublime so much a part of aesthetics.1 The language of Longinus is shot through with what van Eck calls intensely visual terms; and if we want to find a corresponding philosophical language to set beside the forms in Hawksmoor's churches -- and here van Eck takes note of the work of her student Sophie Ploeg -- it could come from such a passage as that where Longinus speaks of Homer, of his forcing prepositions into an abnormal union not usually compounded, the impending disaster of the parts, "things that ruin the whole by introducing, as it were, gaps and crevices into masses which are built together, walled in by their mutual relationships". This description, van Eck suggests, immediately recalls the abrupt transitions of St. Alphege, Greenwich, the articulation of Christ Church, the disproportional keystones at St. George in the East, the conflicting facades of St. Anne's, Limehouse. This is not to say, she quickly notes, that Hawksmoor, or even Vanbrugh, had read Longinus but merely to suggest that such a text, introduced first in England in 1652 in a translation by John Hall -- there had been some earlier editions in Greek and Latin -- served to open up in the culture new ways to think about architectural design and its perception and how, in a way perhaps unique in those years to England, this architecture, in all its somber imposing grandeur, played out its impact on its beholders. Here also she turns to Soane, at the end of the classical tradition, who in his lectures delivered at the Royal Academy from 1809 onwards, offered a deeply articulated account of how buildings affect the spectator, basing what he said on the annotations he made to so many of the classical writers on rhetoric. Here, beyond these formal lectures, so usefully republished in 1996 by David Watkin,2 for such notions as disposition or the unity of the visual arts van Eck was also able to turn to passages in Soane's manuscripts, still there in his house at 12 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
The description of the forms of art that van Eck offers here in invoking the practice of classical rhetoric is immediately interesting, quite apart from the possibility of how we might think it serves to define what we can see in all the varied visual forms of the Renaissance. And if, to speak of Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, I myself have offered a description of the context for their work that referred more to the psychology of associationism or the interest in England in those years in the very idea of Englishness, the invocation here of this other rhetorical tradition merely adds one more possible layer to the meaning or meanings we might give to all they did in their particular forms of design. But like all art history, this is essentially language about language, and if in this guise it serves to cover well two of the parts of this tradition that van Eck identified -- namely theory and interpretation -- we may always wonder how far it works as a source of the forms of visual art, however so defined, whether those of Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor or Masaccio or Palladio or of any of the many other artists she takes here as her subjects. Art, as Clement Greenberg once remarked in a characteristically snappy sentence, can get along very well enough without art criticism. To which we might add that perhaps art also gets along very well without philosophy or the traditions of rhetoric, even if on some occasions we can indeed imagine the artists themselves knowing something of these subjects. All this accounting, in a sense, comes after the fact of the art, serving the audience, be these philosophers or mere passers by or even historians of art who, by the conventions of their professional practice, revel in suggesting such connections and possibilities and the order they bring upon the immediate experiences of the art. And that, we might say, is enough.
1. It is interesting, in this context, to read the remarks on the significance of Longinus in the eighteenth century in R. Wittkower, "Classical Theory and Eighteenth Century Sensibility" (1966), as reprinted in R. Wittkower, Palladio and English Palladianism, London, 1974, p. 193-204, and especially p. 201.
2. Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures (Cambridge, 1996).

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Dear Rabbi,We are preparing a tour of Jewish artists for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This is a world class museum with very little on Jewish art or artists. One artist mentions "black fire white fire" as the inspiration for one of his paintings. He says it is from the Zohar. Can you please give me some references or some other information on this? I can not find it. Thank You.
Dear Ron Cohen,
In the Zohar we find a statement that the Torah was written with "black fire upon white fire." One explanation of "black fire and white fire" is that black fire denotes Divine Mercy while white fire is Divine Justice. The Maharsha explains that to appreciate G-d one must recognize the fact that both mercy and judgment are Divine attributes.
Interestingly, the concept of colored fire recurs in Midrashic literature. According to the Midrash, G-d showed Moshe the menorah made out of white, green, red and black fire.
- Zohar 3 Parshat Naso page 132a
- Devarim Rabbah Parsha 3
- Tanchuma, Parshat Shemini 10
- Maharsha, Tractate Berachot 33a


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June 5, 2000
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shown that a large gas cloud is being blasted by X rays from the vicinity of a giant black hole which lurks in its center. The observation is of special interest because it shows the disruptive effects that a massive black hole can have over thousands of light years.
The results are being presented today by Drs. Patrick M. Ogle, Herman L. Marshall, Julia C. Lee, and Claude Canizares of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, at the 196th national meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Rochester, NY. The observation also demonstrates that the searchlight beam of X rays from the black hole can be used to probe the environment around a black hole.
The galaxy NGC 4151 is located at a distance of 50 million light years in a direction just south of the Big Dipper. It is a prominent example of a class of galaxies that show unusual energetic activity in their nucleus. This activity is now known to be due to the presence of a giant black hole in the nucleus with an estimated mass 10 million times that of the Sun. As matter swirls toward the black hole, it releases a prodigious amount of energy, much of it in X rays. Previous observations showed that X rays are also coming from an enormous cloud 3000 light years across that surrounds the black hole.
The precise mirrors of Chandra allowed astronomers to make an X-ray image showing unprecedented detail of the massive cloud in the center of NGC 4151. The brightest regions in the cloud correspond to wisps that were previously observed in visible light by the Hubble Space Telescope. The shape of the cloud confirms that X rays from the black hole are collimated into a narrow beam, and illuminate only certain quadrants of the galaxy.
"The black hole is shining an X-ray searchlight which illuminates the clouds in the night sky of NGC 4151" said Ogle.
By using the High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG), astronomers were able to resolve the X-ray spectrum from the nebula surrounding the black hole into emission from its constituent elements. It was found that the gas cloud contains nitrogen, oxygen, neon, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, and iron. However, the atoms of these elements have been stripped of most of their electrons by energetic X rays coming from the center of NGC 4151. This provides direct evidence that the cloud is powered by the giant black hole which resides there. "The cloud is being thoroughly cooked by the powerful beam from the black hole," said Ogle.
In addition, the Chandra HETG spectrum reveals that portions of the cloud are moving away from us at a velocity of 800,000 mph. "We're probably seeing gas that is being blown away from the far side of the black hole by the pressure of the radiation from the black hole," Ogle said.
Chandra data were taken with the HETG in conjunction with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) on March 5-6, 2000. HETG was built by MIT and ACIS was built by Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and MIT.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program. TRW, Inc., Redondo Beach, Calif., is the prime contractor for the spacecraft. The Smithsonian's Chandra X-ray Center controls science and flight operations from Cambridge, Mass.
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It's conventional wisdom that the pace of innovation has never been faster. The signs of this seem to be all around us, as we rush to upgrade our smartphones and adopt yet another social media innovation. And yet, there's another view emerging too, that all the easy gains of technological innovation have happened already and that we're entering a period, if not of technological stasis, but of maturity and slow growth. This argument has been made most recently by the economist Tyler Cowen, for example in this recent NY Times article, but it's prefigured in the work of technology historians David Edgerton and Vaclav Smil. Smil, in particular, points to the period 1870 – 1920 as the time of a great technological saltation, in which inventions such as electricity, telephones, internal combustion engines and the Haber-Bosch process transformed the world. Compared to this, he is rather scornful of the relative impact of our current wave of IT-based innovation. Tyler Cowen puts essentially the same argument in an engagingly personal way, asking whether the changes seen in his grandmother's lifetime were greater than those he has seen in his own.
Put in this personal way, I can see the resonance of this argument. My grandmother was born in the first decade of the 20th century in rural North Wales. The world she was born into has quite disappeared – literally, in the case of the hill-farms she used to walk out to as a child, to do a day's chores in return for as much buttermilk as she could drink. Many of these are now marked only by heaps of stones and nettle patches. In her childhood, medical care consisted of an itinerant doctor coming one week to the neighbouring village and setting up an impromptu surgery in someone's front room; she vividly recalled all her village's children being crammed into the back of a pony trap and taken to that room, where they all had their tonsils taken out, while they had the chance. It was a world without cars or lorries, without telephones, without electricity, without television, without antibiotics, without air travel. My grandmother never in her life flew anywhere, but by the time she died in 1994, she'd come to enjoy and depend on all the other things. Compare this with my own life. In my childhood in the 1960s we did without mobile phones, video games and the internet, and I watched a bit less television than my children do, but there's nowhere near the discontinuity, the great saltation that my grandmother saw.
How can we square this perspective against the prevailing view that technological innovation is happening at an ever increasing pace? At its limit, this gives us the position of Ray Kurzweil, who identifies exponential or faster growth rates in technology and extrapolates these to predict a technological singularity.
The key mistake here is to think that "Technology" is a single thing, that by itself can have a rate of change, whether that's fast or slow. There are many technologies, and at any given time some will be advancing fast, some will be in a state of stasis, and some may even be regressing. It's very common for technologies to have a period of rapid development, with a roughly constant fractional rate of improvement, until physical or economic constraints cause progress to level off. Moore's "law", in the semiconductor industry, is a very famous example of a long period of constant fractional growth, but the increase in efficiency of steam engines in the 19th century followed a similar exponential path, until a point of diminishing returns was inevitably reached.
To make sense of the current situation, it's perhaps helpful to think of three separate realms of innovation. We have the realm of information, the material realm, and the realm of biology. In these three different realms, technological innovation is subject to quite different constraints, and has quite different requirements.
It is in the realm of information that innovation is currently taking place very fast. This innovation is, of course, being driven by a single technology from the material realm – the microprocessor. The characteristics of innovation in the information world is that the infrastructure required to enable it is very small, a few bright people in a loft or garage with a great idea genuinely can build a world-changing business in a few years. But, the apparent weightlessness of this kind of innovation is of course underpinned by the massive capital expenditures and the focused, long-term research and development of the global semiconductor industry.
In the material world, things take longer and cost more. The scale-up of promising ideas from the laboratory needs attention to detail and the continuous, sequential solution of many engineering problems. This is expensive and time-consuming, and demands a degree of institutional scale in the organisations that do it. A few people in a loft might be able to develop a new social media site, but to build a nuclear power station or a solar cell factory needs something a bit bigger. The material world is also subject to some hard constraints, particularly in terms of energy. And the penalties for making mistakes in a chemical plant or a nuclear reactor or a passenger aircraft have consequences of a seriousness rarely seen in the information realm.
Technological innovation in the biological realm, as demanded by biomedicine and biotechnology, presents a new set of problems. The sheer complexity of biology makes a full mechanistic understanding hard to achieve; there's more trial and error and less rational design than one would like. And living things and living systems are different and fundamentally more difficult to engineer than the non-living world; they have agency of their own and their own priorities. So they can fight back, whether that's pathogens evolving responses to new antibiotics or organisms reacting to genetic engineering in ways that thwart the designs of their engineers. Technological innovation in the biological realm carries high costs and very substantial risks of failure, and it's not obvious that we have the right institutions to handle this. One manifestation of these issues is the slowness of new technologies like stem cells and tissue engineering to deliver, and we're now seeing the economic and business consequences in an unfolding crisis of innovation in the pharmaceutical sector.
Can one transfer the advantages of innovation in the information realm to the material realm and the biological realm? Interestingly, that's exactly the rhetorical claim made by the new disciplines of nanotechnology and synthetic biology. The claim of nanotechnology is that by achieving atom-by-atom control, we can essentially reduce the material world to the digital. Likewise, the power of synthetic biology is claimed to be that it can reduce biotechnology to software engineering. These are powerful and seductive claims, but wishing it to be so doesn't make it happen, and as yet the rhetoric has yet to be fully matched by achievement. Instead, we've seen some disappointment – some nanotechnology companies have disappointed investors, who hadn't realised that, in order to materialise the clever nanoscale design of the products, the constraints of the material realm still apply. A nanoparticle may be designed digitally, but it's still a speciality chemical company that has to make it.
Our problem is that we need innovation in all three realms; we can't escape the fact that we live in the material world, we depend on our access to energy, for example, and fast progress in one realm can't fully compensate for slower progress in the other areas. We still need technological innovation in the material and biological realms – we must develop better technologies in areas like energy, because the technologies we have are not sustainable and not good enough. So even if accelerating change does prove to be a mirage, we still can't afford innovation stagnation.


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(Frodo) Make it more pbuilder clean
(Frodo) Update of Debian environment for new version
(Frodo) Forgot a few files?!?
(Frodo) Updated all copyright notices for 2005 Changed email addresses Made the examples part of the archive
(Frodo) Prepare for version 0.9.8
(Frodo) Resolved a few spurious warnings
(Frodo) Fixed compilation problem on newer systems: ffs was an already used symbol.
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(Frodo) Update for 0.9.7
(Frodo) Support ImageMagick 6
(Frodo) Pending changes
(Frodo) Bump up the libary version and program version
(Frodo) Keep ImageMagick happy on Solaris It needs a #include <time.h>.
(Frodo) And after the Solaris changes, it now works again on Linux Don't you love shell scripting?
(Frodo) Solaris /bin/sh compatibility updates /bin/sh on Solaris is just braindead, if you are used to bash (or even Sun's ksh)
(Frodo) Solaris build fixes * gen_image fixes (didn't I do these before?!?) * Building shared libs
(Frodo) Fixed compat directory LIBOBJS handling Mandated by newer autoconf/automake/libtool versions.
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(Frodo) Final 0.9.5 commit
(Frodo) Fixed bug that made compiling with gcc 2.95.x impossible
(Frodo) Fix in color generation algorithm * Update version to 0.9.5 * Update patch level of library * For greyscale pictures, white was translated as black. Not good.
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(Frodo) Final 0.9.4 commit
(Frodo) Sync
(Frodo) Added forgotten function free_word_style_list
(Frodo) Bug fixes * Image colors correction (scale 0.0 to 1.0, instead of 0.0 to less-than 1.0) * Bullet and indentation docs update * Update version number
(Frodo) Simplify routine a bit by using the new psiconv_unicode_from_list
(Frodo) Version nrs, case-insensitive applid * Bump library patch level up by one * Update version number to 0.9.4 * Make applid comparison case-insensitive
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(Frodo) Final 0.9.3 checkin
(Frodo) Stupid typo-mistake
(Frodo) And even more error work.
(Frodo) Even better errors and progress/debug info
(Frodo) Progress information while generating update Much better progress information now, and better error reporting.
(Frodo) Modify debugging level The noise from parsing pictures was ridiculous. Now you have to edit the C code and #define LOUD to have it shout at you like that.
(Frodo) Fix on previous commit
(Frodo) AbiWord work * Update version to 0.9.3 * Update library version * New functions psiconv_unicode_from_list and psiconv_unicode_strstr
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(Frodo) Final update for release 0.9.2
(Frodo) Ouch. Forgot to add the -c arg to psiconv at the right place
(Frodo) Solve a few small buglets
(Frodo) Remove Debian from make dist
(Frodo) Buglets
(Frodo) Added configuration file for formats Alls formats docs are now generated with a sane configfile.
(Frodo) Buglet in configfile parsing solved * Typo: eovar instead of eoval in one check
(Frodo) Psiconv program work * Added -c option
(Frodo) Default configuration bug fixed * Now properly initialize default_configuration
(Frodo) UTF8 work (it should now actually work!) * Replaced psiconv_unicode_from_char with psiconv_unicode_read_char and removed psiconv_unicode_from_chars * Replaced psiconv_unicode_to_char with psiconv_unicode_write_char and removed psiconv_unicode_to_chars * Rewrote psiconv_parse_text_section to be more sane, easier to read and to work with the above updates * Updated all places where the psiconv_unicode_from/to_char calls were used * Updated psiconv.conf.eg to reflect the correct character set numbers * Fixed a buglet that made it impossible to set verbosity to 5 in config * Removed strange code in make_printable * Rewrote the ENCODING_PSION option in the psiconv program to work with the new definitions.
(Frodo) Work around CDPATH bash bugs, as reported by Reuben Thomas
(Frodo) Debian stuff * psiconv-doc is now independent of other packages
(Frodo) Debian stuff * Changed psiconv-dev to libpsiconv-dev * Bumped up the version number
(Frodo) Forgotten file
(Frodo) * Bumped version numer to 0.9.2 * Fixed error handler bug (returned void * instead of void)
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(Frodo) Final 0.9.1 commit * Added psiconv-config manpage * Updated Debian build
(Frodo) A few last-minute deb changes
(Frodo) Several (smallish) memory leaks resolved
(Frodo) Last fixes for the extra directory move
(Frodo) Move extra dir under programs
(Frodo) Add support in debian stuff for the new psiconv-config program
(Frodo) psiconv-config program plus bugfixes * Bumped up the version number to 0.9.1 * Bumped up the library version to 0.6.1 * Added the psiconv-config program (for autoconf use by third parties) * Added the psiconv_config_free function * Fixed the installation ($includedir/include/general.h)
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(Frodo) Last commit for 0.9.0. * Correct `make dist' * Correct Debian stuff
(Frodo) Update example psiconv.conf to correctly document latest settings
(Frodo) Documentation updates. Removed fatals.
(Frodo) Nice Changelog
(Frodo) Added Makefile.am
(Frodo) Configuration file installation and location * Add the --with-etcdir configuration option * Install psiconv.conf.eg and (if not yet present) psiconv.conf
(Frodo) Copyright dates update
(Frodo) Format documentation work * Uploaded newest Format documentation * Split generate_html.sh into xhtml and html4 specific versions * Changed gen_xhtml and gen_html4 to combine spans that have the same layout codes * Changed gen_xhtml and gen_html4 not to emit empty spans
(Frodo) Oops, forgot to add these files
(Frodo) Make the formats stuff work again * Amend the configure.in to select the right targets * Remove RTF support (it never worked anyway) * Update the links creation scripts And in the psiconv program and library: * Some fixes to reduce compiler warnings * Emit tabs as spaces in the HTML4/XHTML generators
(Frodo) Psiconv program update * Created html4 target * Update of xhtml target (print entities if ASCII, and others) * Made everything static that should not be exported * Renamed stuff to xhtml were appropriate * The fileformat data does now contain the supported Psion files to convert * This is also printed in the help text * ENCODING_ASCII_HTML introduced (only used internally) * Replaced debug, silent, verbose options with noise option * Default targets are XHTML and TIFF
(Frodo) XHTML output complete
(Frodo) XHTML work
(Frodo) Update
(Frodo) Oops, forgot about image.c
(Frodo) Image generation active again in psiconv program
(Frodo) Fixed autoconf problem with newer versions
(Frodo) Psiconv program rewrite start * Add support for different encodings * Restructure some things * Only ASCII support at the moment
(Frodo) Unicode transition Note: this commit breaks psiconv. The programs in the extra directory should work properly. * Change all datastructures to use unicode for character encodings * Added psiconv_error function * Called psiconv_error at places where a warning was stupid * Added psiconv_progress in all generate functions * Added lev parameter to all generate functions * Removed general.h from CVS (we have general.h.in, after all) * Probably other stuff I forgot
(Frodo) More preparations for the Unicode change. Use psiconv_string everywhere possible (no more char * stuff)
(Frodo) Move fontnames to psiconv_string type
(Frodo) Preparation for the conversion to Unicode.
(Frodo) Add configuration file parsing support To do: install config file on installation of psiconv, also in Debian install
(Frodo) Revamped and expanded image (paint data section) parsing Color images are now supported Colordepths besides 2 bit are now supported RLE12,16 and 24 are now supported All of the above are experimental Parsing of images takes some more memory, but the code structure is much simpler.
(Frodo) Enhancing image parsing * Preparations in parse_image to do a pass-based decoding with support for all image formats * Moved some stuff to image.h/image.c that is used both for the generation and parsing of images * image.h is not installed
(Frodo) Configuration file template. Not installed yet, not parsed yet.
(Frodo) Picture generation now supports all RLE's and many more config items. Mostly untested, though.
(Frodo) RLE16/24 support, but not yet used
(Frodo) Clipart generation
(Frodo) Move error_function to the config struct
(Frodo) NEWS update
(Frodo) Support MBM output format
(Frodo) Generating of Sketch files, both stand-alone and as objects, works! No RLE encoding yet, we have to test higher colordepths.
(Frodo) NEWS update
(Frodo) config stuff and image generation stuff * All parse and generate functions have a new config parameter * New files configuration.[ch] in the psiconv lib * Some image generation stuff (not ready, but won't do any harm)
(Frodo) Embedded object generation works! Not too useful though, we also need sketch or sheet generation; the only thing actually working at the moment is embedding word docs within word docs. Oh well. It's a good start.
(Frodo) Generation change: psiconv_write_*_file no longer generates the header section This is now done in psiconv_write. This will help us create objects.
(Frodo) Explain rewrite syntax
(Frodo) Updated Debian to new major lib number
(Frodo) Some more work on objects: * Bumped up major library version * Corrected parsing of sketch_section, changed struct * parse_sketch_section does not have the is_object flag anymore
(Frodo) Parsing of embedded objects in Word complete
(Frodo) More embedded object work. Everytihng except the object data itself is now safely parsed.
(Frodo) More work for embedded objects (not finished yet)
(Frodo) Data structures for (Word) objects created.
(Frodo) Add function psiconv_buffer_subbuffer
(Frodo) Better shared libs deps in debian build
(Frodo) 'make dist' includes Debian files too now
(Frodo) Debian update
(Frodo) New manpage and Debian support
(Frodo) Correction autogen.sh
(Frodo) Many build updates: * Automake 1.6 and 1.7 support * Autoconf 2.5x support * ImageMagick 5.4.x and 5.5.x support * Format documentation will now be installed
(Frodo) Buglet fixed in style section parsing, when number of hotkeys is not equal to the number of styles.
(Frodo) Update
(Frodo) Compile on non-Linux platforms: Keitha Kawabe <firstname.lastname@example.com>
(Frodo) Update to version 0.8.4
(Frodo) UTF-8 support (Keita Kawabe, email@example.com)
(Frodo) Fixed lib version
(Frodo) Update
(Frodo) Another smallish memory leak
(Frodo) Two memory-leaks fixed
(Frodo) DMALLOC support
(Frodo) Fix memory leak
(Frodo) Fixed possible dangling pointers when no header/footer text was present, and added test to see whether any is present.
(Frodo) Update
(Frodo) Update for newest ImageMagick
(Frodo) Synchronisation.
(Frodo) Update libversion
(Frodo) Update for version 2.8 of Psion_Files
(Frodo) Sheet grid section support
(Frodo) Added unknown section
(Frodo) Long strings now parsed correctly
(Frodo) Fixed info section parse
(Frodo) Whitespace cleanup
(Frodo) Many new sheet things * Variable section and formula variable parsing * Info section * Name section * Better parsing of vararg functions
(Frodo) Sheet line defaults added
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(Frodo) Preparation for release 0.8.2
(Frodo) New function psiconv_get_function
(Frodo) Forgot one file to add?
(Frodo) Not needed anymore
(Frodo) New example sheet
(Frodo) Default cell layout will now be used
(Frodo) Fixed segfault
(Frodo) Example graphic files
(Frodo) Now compiles again with newest ImageMagick.
(Frodo) Make us depend fully on autogen.sh
(Frodo) Update to libtool-1.4, autoconf-2.50
(Frodo) Sync
(Frodo) Last updates for 2.7
(Frodo) Update to version 2.7 of datafiles
(Frodo) Gert-Jan de Vos' patch for checkuid
(Frodo) Many changes to sheets
(Frodo) Thomas Decsi's major sheet patch
(Frodo) Jim Ottaway's gen_latex module, and two example files
(Frodo) Fixed formula numbers
(Frodo) Latest formula additions of Decsi
(Frodo) Vararg arguments now work. Formulas are complete (except for name references)!
(Frodo) Preparations for vararg functions
(Frodo) Applied Decsi's patch for wraps
(Frodo) Added strings to formulas
(Frodo) Added cell references and cell blocks
(Frodo) Added floats
(Frodo) Forgot to add parse_formula.c in the previous patch
(Frodo) Most formula work is completed
(Frodo) Base formula work
(Frodo) Another small Sheet improvement: sheet formula list
(Frodo) Update to libtool 1.4
(Frodo) A little more sheet work. Added a Sheet Workbook section, though nothing is really put into it yet.
(Frodo) Start of Sheet support: base types defined, page and status section parsed, supporting definitions in data.c
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(Frodo) Corrected Decsi's name.
(Frodo) Make sure the Psion docs are up-to-date
(Frodo) Abstracted screenfont into enum
(Frodo) Sanitaized the input for layout section generation; it should now work more often.
(Frodo) Empty Word and TextEd documents work!
(Frodo) Added psiconv_empty_* routines
(Frodo) Update of format description. Added some obscure layout codes.
(Frodo) Life is beautiful: Word documents now seem to be generated flawlessly!
(Frodo) Fixed super/subscript generation, fixed border warnings in parsing
(Frodo) Fixed a couple of bugs with bullets and styles - even in the parser
(Frodo) Not yet perfect; but we actually rewrote a Psion Word file!
(Frodo) Some forgotten files
(Frodo) Many changes. Layout sections now work! * Added list_empty, list_replace * Added relocation to buffers, removed base address * Added buffer_resolve, buffer_add_reference, buffer_add_target, psiconv_unique_id functions * Modifified other buffer functions to work with references * Added comments to buffer.h * Added write_offset function * Added reference support in functions where needed * Corrected extra/rewrite error message * Corrected numerous bugs to make layouts work.
(Frodo) Added a complete buffer abstraction
(Frodo) Added compare functions for layout elements
(Frodo) Completed generate_routines.h
(Frodo) Added word-specific generation routines
(Frodo) Several things: * Added the extra directory to the build process, added a README. * Made checkuid compile cleanly * Added rewrite utility
(Frodo) New list functions fread_all and fwrite_all
(Frodo) We should now have enough to generate TextEd sections!
(Frodo) New generation routines in generate_layout
(Frodo) First generate routines! Reshuffled a few things to make it all work out
(Frodo) Fixed style inheritance from Normal
(Frodo) Fixed error in not setting default linespacing
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(Frodo) 0-7-0 release
(Frodo) All formats tested, with a little luck most problems are now caught
(Frodo) First typos eliminated. Word files seem to work now. Need to test other types.
(Frodo) Massive update: theoretically, all return codes are now checked. Untested - may have many typos.
(Frodo) Updated all copyright notices
(Frodo) Several important changes: * Created new misc.c, error.c and error.h files * Split parse_aux.c among them * Made list.c, data.c, error.c, checkuid.c and misc.c failsafe.
(Frodo) Error printing can now be captured by another program
(Frodo) psiconv_verbosity was undefined!
(Frodo) Now formats generation works too in the new structure
(Frodo) Revamped directory structure, rescues a few files from CVS limbo
(Frodo) general.h is now installed
(Frodo) Changed all struct definition to make them C++ compatible
(Frodo) Added C++ extern statements
(Frodo) Important X-encoding-related bug that made psiconv fail on large documents
(Frodo) YES! Fixed everything - ImageMagick should now finally work!
(Frodo) Now finally ImageMagick 5 works correctly.
(Frodo) Styles bug fixed
(Frodo) ImageMagick support should work now; at least, we have now a GetMagickInfo check. Now we wait for the new ImageMagick release.
(Frodo) First stab at ImageMagick 5 support. Still problems with listing all filetypes, though.
(Frodo) Patched compile-without-Imagemagick bug
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(Frodo) Final commit for 0.6.1 New formats files
(Frodo) Clip Art files now working correctly.
(Frodo) Clipart generation done. Pictures are still offset a bit. To fix...
(Frodo) Clipart file parsing completed
(Frodo) Renamed jumptable_mbm_section to jumptable_section Typecast buglet removed from data.c
(Frodo) Some base work for ClipArt files
(Frodo) Multiple images in a file are now supported.
(Frodo) Multiple pictures conversion should be in. But no test-MBMs yet :-(
(Frodo) Preparations for multiple images output
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(Frodo) Release 0.6.0. Several minor things found when compiling.
(Frodo) New file forgotten in last commit
(Frodo) Full ImageLib support! To do: * More than one picture in a file * Special features like clipping
(Frodo) Force commit to update timestamps of autoconf/automake generated files
(Frodo) Yet another forgotten file. This is getting boring...
(Frodo) And yet another file...
(Frodo) Added several files that were forgotten in the compat section...
(Frodo) Added acconfig.h file; I had forgotten about it :-(
(Frodo) Corrected outline level definition
(Kevin Wheatley) 5MX patches, mostly outline stuff
(Frodo) Changed TODO and AUTHORS to include latest work and mention Wolfgang Szoecs
(Frodo) Parsing of both MBM and Sketch files finished and correct! To do: * Need to ask ImageMagick what output formats are available; * Need to display those formats in --help, and understand them on the command-line; * Need to generate the correct type of file; * Need to take a look at some special Sketch options (size, cuts, etc) * Sometimes, the file seems to be negative. Probably an ImageMagick problem. * Need to handle several images in one file elegantly
(Frodo) Sketch files are now supported. That is, they are parsed, and generated, but generating still needs a lot of work. Untested.
(Frodo) Fix for SUNs: libcompat.a is now always created.
(Frodo) Fixed `make dist' to include latest additions in compat/
(Frodo) Added getopt_long support for systems without it, as well as a minor typo.
(Frodo) Some IRIX compatibility issues fixed, as well as some compiler warnings
(Frodo) Added configuration options for more warnings
(Frodo) Several changes in header parsing The definition of header section is changed to exclude the long with the offset of the Section Table Section. This allows easier integration of Data-like file formats. psiconv_parse_{texted,word,mbm}_file now do not parse the header section. This will allow easier integration for objects-within-objects. They start at the long with the offset of the Section Table Section. psiconv_file_type now returns the read header section, and its length.
(Frodo) Crude ImageMagick output Invoke with -T IMAGE. No selection of image types yet.
(Frodo) Added ImageMagick detection and configuration. No code to use it yet.
(Frodo) Latest parse_paint_section changes It still is not perfect, but it is certainly coming along
(Frodo) Moved generation stuff out of the library into psiconv
(Frodo) Current status images: Parsing kind of works, but the number of pixels does not match. What am I doing wrong?
(Frodo) Full MBM support - untested
(Frodo) Now image stuff compiles. Only psiconv_parse_paint_data_section is defined at this moment, it is not yet called.
(Frodo) First stap at image parsing. Won't compile yet - too bad
(Frodo) Perhaps even slightly functional RTF generator Most stubs are in, and it should even do something. The generated code is not validated yet, so it will probably not work. Still many things to do.
(Frodo) Small bug fix Instead of the contents of `font', the font pointers were compared; so they were often inequal, leading to too many font emitions.
(Frodo) Added --enable-rtf-docs flag in configure, and scripts needed to generate RTF docs No substitution of links is done yet.
(Frodo) Start of RTF generator Font tables and color tables are generated.
(Frodo) Stubs for RTF output
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Architecture and Landscape as Art
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introduction by Franklin Kelly
paperback, 8 ½ x 11, 104 pages, 74 photographs (31 full-color), isbn 9781883789282, $21.95.
"Almost an hour this side of Albany is the Center of the World—I own it."----Frederic Edwin Church in a letter to Erastus Palmer, 7 July 1869. (The collection of the Albany Institute of History & Art)
Olana, the Persian-style house and romantically-designed grounds built high on a hilltop just south of the city of Hudson by Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) draws 150,000 visitors annually and has been one of the most recognized landmarks along the Hudson River for over 125 years. It has been called "the single most important artistic residence in the United States."
Frederic Edwin Church was the most famous and successful American painter of the mid-1800s and one of America's most important artists. When Church was eighteen years old, he began studying under Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. Just one year later, he made his professional debut as a painter with the exhibition of one of his works at New York's National Academy of Design. When Church was twenty-three, he was elected to full membership in the Academy—still today the youngest artist ever to be so honored. With fame came wealth. In 1859, when Church was thirty-three, he completed the painting Heart of the Andes and sold it for $10,000.00, the highest price at that time ever paid for a painting by a living American artist.
Church had attained the pinnacle of the art world. But personal tragedy would soon strike. His son and daughter, aged two-and-a-half and five months respectively, died of diphtheria within six days of each other in 1865.
Church continued to paint, but more and more his creative energies went into the transformation of his modest hilltop home into a towering Persian fortress/treasure house and the extensive grounds into what one 1891 visitor described as a "perfect Eden of picturesque beauty." What Church called "the Center of the World" became a personal vision of harmony between people and the American landscape, his "last great work," according to art historians.
The author of Frederic Church's Olana, the late James Ryan, was site manager of Olana from 1979 to 1999. Under his twenty years of directorship, Olana became one of the most significant artist's homes and studios, both nationally and internationally. Ryan's essay on the design and construction of Olana between 1870 and 1891 and the life and work of Frederic Church has been enhanced by an afterword on the subsequent history of Olana from Church's death in 1900 to the present, written by David Seamon, professor of architecture at Kansas State University, and Dr. Karen Zukowski, former curator of Olana.
To say that Olana is the single most important artistic residence in the United States and one of the most significant in the world, is to state the obvious. To say that it is a place of the rarest, most profound, and most moving beauty and complexity and that it is a place that must be experienced to be fully understood and appreciated, is more to the point. In the end, though, one can only say that Olana is unique.
----from the Introduction by Franklin Kelly.
Increasingly, Olana is recognized as Church's last great artistic effort carried out, not in paint, but in landscape, architecture, and interior design. Today, visitors to Olana are also touched by the sense of home they find there, where the creations of people and nature, the human and the divine, merge in domestic and artistic harmony.
----from the Afterword by David Seamon and Karen Zukowski
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Presentation by Jeffrey B. Perry
Dudley Public Library, Roxbury, Massachusetts,
February 15, 2014
The event was hosted by Mimi Jones and sponsored by Friends of the Dudley Library, Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia, and Massachusetts Global Action. Contact people included Mirna Lascano, Umang Kumar, and Charlie Welch in addition to Mimi.
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Note: The presentation and Question and Answer period lasted over 2 hours. The TV station edited it down to this length. There was much more presentation and discussion. Also, the crowd was remarkable since the event was at the highpoint of the winter's big snowstorm, the governor was telling people to stay off the roads, and the public library closed early (only leaving a door open to the auditorium where this event was held). Those who made it to and stayed through the event were determined and this was manifested in their interest during the presentation, the lengthy Q and A period (some of which was cut), and much informal discussion that went on into the evening.
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Have students apply for Oklahoma's Promise (OHLAP), which helps pay for college if the family's income is $50,000 or less.
11th Grade
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We serve Medi-Cal eligible youth who have moderate to severe behavioral health needs. Often the youth we work with have faced challenging circumstances, have unmet behavioral health needs and may be at risk of out of home placement. We partner with youth and families to achieve positive outcomes developing individualized goals for our services that are focused on improving the overall health and emotional functioning of the youth, maintaining and/or strengthening family stability and relationships, and reducing the need for Juvenile Probation involvement, psychiatric hospitalization, and out of home placement.
Services may include assessment and treatment planning, individual, family, and group therapy, psycho-education and when necessary psychiatry services. Services are provided throughout the community in both North and South County. We strive to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
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To request behavioral health services please call the County Behavioral Health ACCESS number at (800) 952-2335 health services as we don't have walk-in screening services for youth. When you call you will be asked your child's date of birth, social security number and the reason you are requesting services and for information on their Medi-Cal card Your call will be received by an ACCESS clerk who will first verify your child's Medi-Cal status and then route the call to our Children's ACCESS Navigator. The ACCESS Navigator will contact you and then refer you to the services that best meet your child's needs.
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It's not fair to blame the masses for the faults of a few. Like, you can't say every Iranian is a numbnut; just the dumdum leaders who use religion to hide behind a fascist regime stuck in the middle ages. Similarly, just because there seems to be an inordinate amount of crap candy out of Mexico, it's not like there is no good Mexican candy. On the contrary, we found a few items worth purchasing again. Unfortunately, these Serpentinas aren't them. Perhaps if I had grown up on these…? M A Ybe if I had been force-fed these as a chillun I could find some semblance of candy satisfaction? As it stands, I couldn't be more putrified.
Serpentinas are terrible. They are inedible. I put them in my mouth and immediately relegated them to the spitter pile. Wanna re-enactment? Watch any Seinfeld episode where Kramer is lauding some kind of fruit and then tries some inferior piece that Jerry bought and immediately spits it out and says, "no – that's no good." Insert me as Kramer. Done.
And this whole 'is it fig is it Tamarind what is Tamarind anyway but jesus this is just ridiculous looking' candy is played out in my book. These Serpentinas are thin, rolled up wagon wheels that if you so chose to eat, I think you'd then peel off and put in your mouth. I just took a bite of the whole wheel since they are so sticky and jelly-ish and such a strange brown that I didn't really want to touch them more then a quick bite. I didn't want remnants all over my fingers.
Simply: bad. Just awful. If you happen to come upon them in some international foods aisle, I suggest you slowly turn back around and slink away.


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06/30/2017 / By JD Heyes
In the future, will the production of meat for human consumption be grown in laboratories and not on millions of acres of ranch land? The answer is yes, say a growing number of experts, as soon as the process can be perfected.
But Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, says in a new video that's not such a great concept, because there is so much that people are not being told about the process that is both eye-opening and disturbing.
"In the vegan utopia, meat comes from plants," Adams says, noting it's "one of the big dreams" of political Leftists and 'progressives' who ask, "What if we could have an artificial meat that's made from plants?"
The goal, the progressives say, is to never have to slaughter livestock again and to cut down on the release of methane gas into the atmosphere they believe is helping to cause 'global warming.'
"I'm here to tell you there's a dirty little secret about artificial meat that no one's talking about," said Adams.
The Health Ranger admits that the notion of growing 'meat' from plants sounds good at first, as a reduction in traditional livestock production would definitely have a positive environmental impact. But as a food scientist and author of the best-selling science book "Food Forensics," Adams has been following the rise of the 'fake meat' industry, and he doesn't like what he sees.
Also, as the a multiple award-winning investigative science journalist and lab science director of an ISO-accredited analytical laboratory, CWC Labs, Adams says what he is seeing with the artificial meat companies is that they are all turning to various forms of excitotoxins like MSG (monosodium glutamate) and so on "in order to create the savory taste that you normally get from a [real] meat product."
The end products may resemble meat — like, for instance, a hamburger — but really its a chemical cocktail of poisons and GMOs.
"So people who think they're going to be saving the planet by eating plant-based meat, or artificial meat, are actually being tricked," Adams said. "What they're going to be doing instead is supporting GMO agriculture companies that poison the world with genetic pollution, and they poison the world with herbicides like glyphosate or Roundup or various pesticides."
He went on to say companies like that "are some of the worst actors" when it comes to environmental and agricultural poisoning. "And they are the ones behind the artificial meat push because they want to feed you more of their products, and they realize that no one wants to eat" genetically-modified foods, Adams noted further. (Related: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Becomes The Voice Of EVIL, Narrating New Propaganda Film "Food Evolution" Produced By Monsanto Shills And Pesticide Pushers.)
Promoting clean, unaltered food is more than just a passion for Adams. He is the inventor of the patented "Heavy Metals Defense" breakthrough which eliminates lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury from the human body. And he's the inventor of the EMP-proof, non-GMO, non-electric Mini Food Farm Rising Grow System which grows food without electricity, and without, of course, harmful pesticides.
In the video, the Health Ranger notes that regular meat is a "natural food source" that dates back several millennia. And while not everyone chooses to consume real meat, vegans, he said, are being "tricked" into choosing faux meat that isn't good for them and is not great for the planet, either.
Other vegan products, like vegan cheese, is also produced with harmful, and phony, ingredients, he noted.
"In truth," he says, "it's actually more natural and more friendly to the environment to eat real beef, rather than artificial chemicals that come with GMOs and are sold to you by dishonest, deceptive, anti-science corporations."
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This illuminating study enables the reader to better understand the vocation and message of an extraordinary prophet. The message Ezekiel delivered to the people of Babylon centered on the holiness of God. Even though he foretold doom and judgement, the prophet held out the promise of hope, based on the continuing mercy and forgiveness of God.
Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay's New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.


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It's a tale as old as time: how do you easily tell which headphone goes in your right ear, and which one goes in the left ear (without reading tiny text)? You could always mark them with some tape or nail polish, but reader animatorgeek has a pretty clever solution.
I have a lot of old earbuds and a lot of them seem to have the same shape of silicone thingy that fits inside the ear. You can take that silicone thingy and swap it around between different-colored earbuds and end up with a set with two different colors. Now it's much easier to know at a glance which side is which. For instance, on my set I can easily remember that grey is left and black is right.
Just a small tip for those that have a number of different (colored) pairs.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says rising U.S. exports have been "one of the biggest bright spots" of the U.S. economy.
Obama in 2010 set a goal of doubling exports by 2015, but the country is not on track to meet that goal. However, Obama pointed out the United States now sells more goods overseas than ever before, and those sales have boosted the U.S. economy. Obama says "made in America" means something around the world.
Obama was addressing his export council, an advisory committee on trade with members from a variety of U.S. industries. Thursday's meeting at the White House included seven new members, among them the chief executives from IBM, Marriott, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer and Merck.


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Here we go again.
Just a few months after anti-gay group One Million Moms launched a campaign to remove Ellen DeGeneres as JCPenney's spokesperson because of her sexual orientation, the group is boycotting the department store over a new ad featuring a same-sex couple. The Father's Day ad shows real-life dads Todd Koch and Cooper Smith playing with their children, Claire and Mason. The ad reads:
"First Pals: What makes Dad so cool? He's the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver — all rolled into one. Or two."
One Million Moms, part of the American Family Association, complained that JCPenney was "continuing on the same path of promoting sin" with this new ad, and recommended their supporters write "Refused … Return to sender" on their JCPenney catalog when it arrives. They also advised members to close their JCPenney accounts and talk to their local-store manager about their concerns.
"It is obvious that JCP would rather take sides than remain neutral in the culture war. JCP will hear from the other side so they need to hear from us as well. Our persistence will pay off! We must remain diligent and stand up for Biblical values and truth."
The last time One Million Moms and JCPenney locked horns, the store responded by standing behind its partnership with DeGeneres, stating that "Ellen represents the values of our company" — and with this kind of proequality advertising, JCPenney is "continuing to reinforce its progressive values." It's not the first fight for either of them; in February, JCPenney distributed a Mother's Day ad featuring two lesbian parents and their daughters; One Million Moms also took a stance against Urban Outfitters after the store featured two women kissing in its catalog in April.
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At Holland Law we focus and consumer bankruptcy, debt defense, and have offices throughout Florida. We specialize in defending our clients against debt collectors and filing bankruptcy when the circumstances are appropriate. If you are a named defendant in a lawsuit filed by Credit Corp Solutions your first step should be to call us.
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If a judgment is issued against you, it could follow you for as many as twenty years and will most certainly negatively affect your credit report for seven years or longer. This can make it very difficult for you to do things like purchase a home or a car, open credit accounts, and obtain loans – just to name a few. This is not to mention that, after obtaining a judgment against you, Credit Corp Solutions could:
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Often, junk debt buyers prefer to avoid a legal battle. It is possible, with the number of cases that Credit Corp Solutions files each year, that they do not have the documentation they need to prove your particular case at trial. It is also possible that the statute of limitations has run or that, for any number of other reasons, there may be difficulties proving the case. But it is hard to know whether or not this is true until you contact an attorney with the knowledge and experience necessary to help you wade through the details.
When you contact us, you will be able to talk about your circumstances with an experienced debt defense attorney. You will learn about the law as it applies to your case, what to expect in court, and what legal defenses you may have to the lawsuit.
At the Holland Law Group we understand the complexities of debt defense, experience, and know the best strategies to defend these lawsuits.
We will talk about the amount and circumstances of the debt, the methods Credit Corp Solutions has taken to attempt to collect a debt, any applicable statute of limitations, the possibilities of settlement or discharging the debt through bankruptcy, and any other concerns you may have.
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