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1Co 3:1-23. Paul Could Not Speak to Them of Deep Spiritual Truths, as They Were Carnal, Contending for Their Several Teachers; These Are Nothing but Workers for God, to Whom They Must Give Account in the Day of Fiery Judgment. The Hearers Are God's Temple, Which They Must Not Defile by Contentions for Teachers, Who, as Well as All Things, Are Theirs, Being Christ's.
1. And I—that is, as the natural (animal) man cannot receive, so I also could not speak unto you the deep things of God, as I would to the spiritual; but I was compelled to speak to you as I would to MEN OF FLESH. The oldest manuscripts read this for "carnal." The former (literally, "fleshy") implies men wholly of flesh, or natural. Carnal, or fleshly, implies not they were wholly natural or unregenerate (1Co 2:14), but that they had much of a carnal tendency; for example their divisions. Paul had to speak to them as he would to men wholly natural, inasmuch as they are still carnal (1Co 3:3) in many respects, notwithstanding their conversion (1Co 1:4-9).
babes—contrasted with the perfect (fully matured) in Christ (Col 1:28; compare Heb 5:13, 14). This implies they were not men wholly of flesh, though carnal in tendencies. They had life in Christ, but it was weak. He blames them for being still in a degree (not altogether, compare 1Co 1:5, 7; therefore he says as) babes in Christ, when by this time they ought to have "come unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Eph 4:13). In Ro 7:14, also the oldest manuscripts read, "I am a man of flesh."
3. envying—jealousy, rivalry. As this refers to their feelings, "strife" refers to their words, and "divisions" to their actions [Bengel]. There is a gradation, or ascending climax: envying had produced strife, and strife divisions (factious parties) [Grotius]. His language becomes severer now as He proceeds; in 1Co 1:11 he had only said "contentions," he now multiplies the words (compare the stronger term, 1Co 4:6, than in 1Co 3:21).
carnal—For "strife" is a "work of the flesh" (Ga 5:20). The "flesh" includes all feelings that aim not at the glory of God, and the good of our neighbor, but at gratifying self.
walk as men—as unregenerate men (compare Mt 16:23). "After the flesh, not after the Spirit" of God, as becomes you as regenerate by the Spirit (Ro 8:4; Ga 5:25, 26).
4. (1Co 1:12).
are ye not carnal—The oldest manuscripts read, "Are ye not men?" that is, "walking as men" unregenerate (1Co 3:3).
5. Who then—Seeing then that ye severally strive so for your favorite teachers, "Who is (of what intrinsic power and dignity) Paul?" If so great an apostle reasons so of himself, how much more does humility, rather than self-seeking, become ordinary ministers!
Paul … Apollos—The oldest manuscripts read in the reverse order, "Apollos," &c. Paul." He puts Apollos before himself in humility.
but ministers, &c.—The oldest manuscripts have no "but." "Who is Apollos … Paul? (mere) ministers (a lowly word appropriate here, servants), by whom (not "in whom"; by whose ministrations) ye believed."
as … Lord gave to every man—that is, to the several hearers, for it was God that "gave the increase" (1Co 3:6).
6. I … planted, Apollos watered—(Ac 18:1; 19:1). Apollos at his own desire (Ac 18:27) was sent by the brethren to Corinth, and there followed up the work which Paul had begun.
God gave the increase—that is, the growth (1Co 3:10; Ac 18:27). "Believed through grace." Though ministers are nothing, and God all in all, yet God works by instruments, and promises the Holy Spirit in the faithful use of means. This is the dispensation of the Spirit, and ours is the ministry of the Spirit.
7. neither is he that … anything … but God—namely, is all in all. "God" is emphatically last in the Greek, "He that giveth the increase (namely), God." Here follows a parenthesis, 1Co 3:8-21, where "Let no man glory in men" stands in antithetic contrast to "God" here.
8. one—essentially in their aim they are one, engaged in one and the same ministry; therefore they ought not to be made by you the occasion of forming separate parties.
and every man—rather "but every man." Though in their service or ministry, they are essentially "one," yet every minister is separately responsible in "his own" work, and "shall receive his own (emphatically repeated) reward, according to his own labor." The reward is something over and above personal salvation (1Co 3:14, 15; 2Jo 8). He shall be rewarded according to, not his success or the amount of work done, but "according to his own labor." It shall be said to him, "Well done, thou good and (not successful, but) faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord" (Mt 25:23).
9. Translate, as the Greek collocation of words, and the emphasis on "God" thrice repeated, requires, "For (in proof that "each shall receive reward according to his own labor," namely, from God) it is of God that we are the fellow workers (laboring with, but under, and belonging to Him as His servants, 2Co 5:20; 6:1; compare Ac 15:4; see on 1Th 3:2) of God that ye are the field (or tillage), of God that ye are the building" [Alford]. "Building" is a new image introduced here, as suited better than that of husbandry, to set forth the different kinds of teaching and their results, which he is now about to discuss. "To edify" or "build up" the Church of Christ is similarly used (Eph 2:21, 22; 4:29).
10. grace … given unto me—Paul puts this first, to guard against seeming to want humility, in pronouncing himself "a WISE master builder," in the clause following [Chrysostom]. The "grace" is that "given" to him in common with all Christians (1Co 3:5), only proportioned to the work which God had for him to do [Alford].
wise—that is, skilful. His skill is shown in his laying a foundation. The unskilful builder lays none (Lu 6:49). Christ is the foundation (1Co 3:11).
another—who ever comes after me. He does not name Apollos; for he speaks generally of all successors, whoever they be. His warning, "Let every man (every teacher) take heed how," &c., refers to other successors rather than Apollos, who doubtless did not, as they, build wood, hay, &c., on the foundation (compare 1Co 4:15). "I have done my part, let them who follow me see (so the Greek for 'take heed') to theirs" [Bengel].
how—with what material [Alford]. How far wisely, and in builder-like style (1Pe 4:11).
buildeth thereupon—Here the building or superstructure raised on Christ the "foundation," laid by Paul (1Co 2:2) is not, as in Eph 2:20, 21, the Christian Church made up of believers, the "lively stones" (1Pe 2:5), but the doctrinal and practical teaching which the teachers who succeeded Paul, superadded to his first teaching; not that they taught what was false, but their teaching was subtle and speculative reasoning, rather than solid and simple truth.
11. (Isa 28:16; Ac 4:12; Eph 2:20).
For—my warning ("take heed," &c. 1Co 3:10) is as to the superstructure ("buildeth thereupon"), not as to the foundation: "For other foundation can no man lay, than that which has (already) been laid (by God) Jesus Christ," the person, not the mere abstract doctrine about Him, though the latter also is included; Jesus, God-Saviour; Christ, Messiah or Anointed.
can—A man can not lay any other, since the only one recognized by God has been already laid.
12. Now—rather, "But." The image is that of a building on a solid foundation, and partly composed of durable and precious, partly of perishable, materials. The "gold, silver, precious stones," which all can withstand fire (Re 21:18, 19), are teachings that will stand the fiery test of judgment; "wood, hay, stubble," are those which cannot stand it; not positive heresy, for that would destroy the foundation, but teaching mixed up with human philosophy and Judaism, curious rather than useful. Besides the teachings, the superstructure represents also the persons cemented to the Church by them, the reality of whose conversion, through the teachers' instrumentality, will be tested at the last day. Where there is the least grain of real gold of faith, it shall never be lost (1Pe 1:7; compare 1Co 4:12). On the other hand, the lightest straw feeds the fire [Bengel] (Mt 5:19).
13. Every man's work—each teacher's superstructure on the foundation.
the day—of the Lord (1Co 1:8; Heb 10:25; 1Th 5:4). The article is emphatic, "The day," that is, the great day of days, the long expected day.
declare it—old English for "make it clear" (1Co 4:4).
it shall be revealed by fire—it, that is, "every man's work." Rather, "He," the Lord, whose day it is (2Th 1:7, 8). Translate literally, "is being revealed (the present in the Greek implies the certainty and nearness of the event, Re 22:10, 20) in fire" (Mal 3:3; 4:1). The fire (probably figurative here, as the gold, hay, &c.) is not purgatory (as Rome teaches, that is, purificatory and punitive), but probatory, not restricted to those dying in "venial sin"; the supposed intermediate class between those entering heaven at once, and those dying in mortal sin who go to hell, but universal, testing the godly and ungodly alike (2Co 5:10; compare Mr 9:49). This fire is not till the last day, the supposed fire of purgatory begins at death. The fire of Paul is to try the works, the fire of purgatory the persons, of men. Paul's fire causes "loss" to the sufferers; Rome's purgatory, great gain, namely, heaven at last to those purged by it, if only it were true. Thus this passage, quoted by Rome for, is altogether against, purgatory. "It was not this doctrine that gave rise to prayers for the dead; but the practice of praying for the dead [which crept in from the affectionate but mistaken solicitude of survivors] gave rise to the doctrine" [Whately].
14. abide—abide the testing fire (Mt 3:11, 12).
which he hath built thereupon—which he built on the foundation.
reward—wages, as a builder, that is, teacher. His converts built on Christ the foundation, through his faithful teaching, shall be his "crown of rejoicing" (2Co 1:14; Php 2:16; 1Th 2:19).
15. If … be burnt—if any teacher's work consist of such materials as the fire will destroy [Alford].
suffer loss—that is, forfeit the special "reward"; not that he shall lose salvation (which is altogether a free gift, not a "reward" or wages), for he remains still on the foundation (1Co 3:12; 2Jo 6).
saved; yet so as by fire—rather, "so as through fire" (Zec 3:2; Am 4:11; Jude 23). "Saved, yet not without fire" (Ro 2:27) [Bengel]. As a builder whose building, not the foundation, is consumed by fire, escapes, but with the loss of his work [Alford]; as the shipwrecked merchant, though he has lost his merchandise, is saved, though having to pass through the waves [Bengel]; Mal 3:1, 2; 4:1, give the key to explain the imagery. The "Lord suddenly coming to His temple" in flaming "fire," all the parts of the building which will not stand that fire will be consumed; the builders will escape with personal salvation, but with the loss of their work, through the midst of the conflagration [Alford]. Again, a distinction is recognized between minor and fundamental doctrines (if we regard the superstructure as representing the doctrines superadded to the elementary essentials); a man may err as to the former, and yet be saved, but not so as to the latter (compare Php 3:15).
16. Know ye not—It is no new thing I tell you, in calling you "God's building"; ye know and ought to remember, ye are the noblest kind of building, "the temple of God."
ye—all Christians form together one vast temple. The expression is not, "ye are temples," but "ye are the temple" collectively, and "lively stones" (1Pe 2:5) individually.
God … Spirit—God's indwelling, and that of the Holy Spirit, are one; therefore the Holy Spirit is God. No literal "temple" is recognized by the New Testament in the Christian Church. The only one is the spiritual temple, the whole body of believing worshippers in which the Holy Spirit dwells (1Co 6:19; Joh 4:23, 24). The synagogue, not the temple, was the model of the Christian house of worship. The temple was the house of sacrifice, rather than of prayer. Prayers in the temple were silent and individual (Lu 1:10; 18:10-13), not joint and public, nor with reading of Scripture, as in the synagogue. The temple, as the name means (from a Greek root "to dwell"), was the earthly dwelling-place of God, where alone He put His name. The synagogue (as the name means an assembly) was the place for assembling men. God now too has His earthly temple, not one of wood and stone, but the congregation of believers, the "living stones" on the "spiritual house." Believers are all spiritual priests in it. Jesus Christ, our High Priest, has the only literal priesthood (Mal 1:11; Mt 18:20; 1Pe 2:5) [Vitringa].
17. If any … defile … destroy—rather as the Greek verb is the same in both cases, "destroy … destroy." God repays in kind by a righteous retaliation. The destroyer shall himself be destroyed. As temporal death was the penalty of marring the material temple (Le 16:2; Da 5:2, 3, 30), so eternal death is the penalty of marring the spiritual temple—the Church. The destroyers here (1Co 3:16, 17), are distinct from the unwise or unskilful builders (1Co 3:12, 15); the latter held fast the "foundation" (1Co 3:11), and, therefore, though they lose their work of superstructure and the special reward, yet they are themselves saved; the destroyers, on the contrary, assailed with false teaching the foundation, and so subvert the temple itself, and shall therefore be destroyed. (See on 1Co 3:10), [Estius and Neander]. I think Paul passes here from the teachers to all the members of the Church, who, by profession, are "priests unto God" (Ex 19:6; 1Pe 2:9; Re 1:6). As the Aaronic priests were doomed to die if they violated the old temple (Ex 28:43), so any Christian who violates the sanctity of the spiritual temple, shall perish eternally (Heb 12:14; 10:26, 31).
holy—inviolable (Hab 2:20).
which temple ye are—rather, "the which (that is, holy) are ye" [Alford], and, therefore, want of holiness on the part of any of you (or, as Estius, "to tamper with the foundation in teaching you") is a violation of the temple, which cannot be let to pass with impunity. Grotius supports English Version.
18. seemeth—that is, is, and is regarded by himself and others.
wise in this world—wise in mere worldly wisdom (1Co 1:20).
let him become a fool—by receiving the Gospel in its unworldly simplicity, and so becoming a fool in the world's sight [Alford]. Let him no longer think himself wise, but seek the true wisdom from God, bringing his understanding into captivity to the obedience of faith [Estius].
19. with God—in the judgment of God.
it is written—in Job 5:13. The formula of quoting Scripture used here, establishes the canonicity of Job.
He taketh … wise in … own craftiness—proving the "foolishness" of the world's wisdom, since it is made by God the very snare to catch those who think themselves so wise. Literally, "He who taketh … the whole of the sentence not being quoted, but only the part which suited Paul's purpose.
20. Quotation from Ps 94:11. There it is of men; here it is "of the wise." Paul by inspiration states the class of men whose "thoughts" (or rather, "reasonings," as suits the Greek and the sense of the context) the Spirit designated in the Psalm, "vanity," namely, the "proud" (Ps 94:2) and worldly-wise, whom God in Ps 94:8 calls "fools," though they "boast themselves" of their wisdom in pushing their interests (Ps 94:4).
21. let no man glory in men—resuming the subject from 1Co 3:4; compare 1Co 1:12, 31, where the true object of glorying is stated: "He that glorieth, let him glory in THE Lord." Also 1Co 4:6, "That no one of you be puffed up for one against another."
For all things—not only all men. For you to glory thus in men, is lowering yourselves from your high position as heirs of all things. All men (including your teachers) belong to Christ, and therefore to you, by your union with Him; He makes them and all things work together for your good (Ro 8:28). Ye are not for the sake of them, but they for the sake of you (2Co 4:5, 15). They belong to you, not you to them.
22. Enumeration of some of the "all things." The teachers, in whom they gloried, he puts first (1Co 1:12). He omits after "Cephas" or Christ (to whom exclusively some at Corinth, 1Co 1:12, professed to belong); but, instead, substitutes "ye are Christ's" (1Co 3:23).
world … life … death … things present … things to come—Not only shall they not "separate you from the love of God in Christ" (Ro 8:38, 39), but they "all are yours," that is, are for you (Ro 8:28), and belong to you, as they belong to Christ your Head (Heb 1:2).
things present—"things actually present" [Alford].
23. ye are Christ's—not Paul's, or Apollos,' or Cephas' (1Co 11:3; Mt 23:8-10). "Neither be ye called masters; for one is your Master, even Christ" (Ro 14:8). Not merely a particular section of you, but ye all are Christ's (1Co 1:12).
Christ is God's—(1Co 11:3). God is the ultimate end of all, even of Christ, His co-equal Son (1Co 15:28; Php 2:6-11).
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The journey to Falls Creek can take one of two directions, the back of Falls or the front of Falls.
For our ride, we rode up the front, it is one of the Seven Peaks and one of the great climbs in the area. A brief word on the back of Falls Creek… it is not for the faint hearted. For any beginner and intermediate rider, I would strongly suggest tackling the front of Falls Creek before attempting the back. The back of Falls leaves riders with no option other than to work really hard to get over the crippling steepness that makes up the first third of the climb.
You'll need to dress for this climb
The front of Falls on the other hand is much more manageable. It totals 30.9km rising 1,181metres. There are plenty of breaks on offer with quite a few descents and false flats, especially over the first two thirds. The average gradient is 4%, maxing out at 10%, which is almost a perfect number for a recreation climb, not to steep, not to shallow… it's just right.
At just over 30km the climb is long, so be prepared to spend a lot of time with pressure on the pedals and make sure you take nutrition to sustain you to the top. As mentioned above there are lots of things to break up the climb, including many corners and switchbacks allowing you to get up out of the saddle and move around.
Wilier took us up the hill in no time
The scenery up Falls Creek is on a whole other level, switchbacks either open up to reveal sweeping landscapes or lush ferns which seem to carry on for miles. We rode up early in the morning, and the image of the sun breaking through the leafy foliage was enough to make us get off our bikes and take countless photos. As we got further up the climb, burnt out areas of forest became apparent. Huge sections of land had succumbed to fire, leaving these enormous white gums, stripped of their leaves and stark in contrast to the rest of the mountain. This was one of the more beautiful sights we witnessed on our climb. This too was a sight we had to stop and absorb, the sheer size and scale of these towering trees was incredibly moving and a reminder of the fragility of the land despite is vastness.
The view looked even better through a pair of Oakleys
Once you get to the top of the climb there is more epic scenery to take in. Only a short ride from the village is Rocky Valley Lake, a huge body of water on top of the mountain. The lake is surrounded by an open and mostly flat path which offers riders a chance to get their legs back before descending. The lake also offers a huge range of activities for those staying in the Falls Creek Village. We saw a number of fisherman trying to hook a good sized trout, and in the summer time it is a popular area for boating, swimming and kayaking.
It is hard to top the views up Falls Creek, but the highlight of our day was about 10km into the climb when we passed an older gentleman, riding a 20 year old bike (being very conservative with that!), still with gear levers on the down tube, in hiking boots. Turns out he is a local school teacher at Mt. Bogong and commutes up the first half of the Falls Creek climb each day! An extraordinary effort that resulted in the gentleman developing calves of steel that would bring most cyclists to tears.
Visit Falls Creek's website here
I really enjoyed Falls Creek and would recommend it as a must do, whether you are participating in the Seven Peaks Challenge or not, it is certainly a bucket list climb.
Here's more of what we thought, as well as plenty of footage from the climb…

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- About the VIVE Pro Eye HMD
- Putting on the VIVE Pro Eye HMD
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- Can I wear my prescription glasses while using VIVE Pro Eye?
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- Make sure that the base stations are installed outside the play area and securely set up from being accidentally struck, dropped, or bumped to avoid damage or compromised performance.
- Remember to peel off the protective film from the front panel after you've mounted the base stations.
Mount the base stations diagonally at opposite corners of your space and near power outlets.
For details on how to use the mounting kit, see Using the mounting kit.
You can also use tripods, light stands, or cargo poles when mounting the base stations, or even place it on stable book cases. Just avoid using unstable mounting solutions or surfaces that are prone to vibration.
- Adjust the base stations so that the front panels are facing toward the center of the play area.
Attach the power cables to the base stations, and then plug each of the adapter into a power outlet to turn them on.
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sem_remove() shouldn't be part of a normal cleanup/teardown and should be called very rarely due to bugs in the implementation.
It doesn't seem to hurt to leave semaphores lying around and is likely to be more performance-friendly to do so. If you are concerned about having too many semaphores floating around for an application (e.g. a file cache that uses ftok()), you can use some modulus arithmetic and simple addition to create a limited range of values for your semaphores off in the middle of nowhere. For example, ftok() % 101 + 0xBADBEEF. Be sure to replace 0xBADBEEF with your own random value. The example limits the range to 101 semaphores. 101 is a prime number - so if you want more or less, be sure to replace it with a prime number since primes theoretically help distribute values more evenly.


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[Influencing this post – tonight's CNN documentary – Black in America]
I watched Black In America for a lot of reasons tonight. First, much of the documentary was shot at SLA, focusing on the incredible work of the poets of PYPM and one of PYPM teacher / mentors, Vision. Whenever you get to see people you like and care about on television, doing amazing things, you watch. But the show was thoughtful and powerful and explored issues of racial identity and how that racial identity is defined. One of the stories they followed was the evolving sense of self of a young bi-racial woman, raised by her white father.
I've seen a lot of bi-racial students struggle with identity over the years, and much of it has been about the word "or." "Am I black or am I white?" And, in so many ways, that's an impossible question that forces kids to somehow deny some piece of their identity. It strikes me that American racial dynamics — largely defined by a dominant white culture — has been so oppositional for so long that we want these kids to choose a single identity, rather than embracing the complexity of what makes them who they are. It should not be as hard for a kid to say, "I am black and I am white" or "I am Afro-Latino" as our society makes it.
I watch the kids of SLA deal with issues of race and racial identity in ways that both seem familiar to the questions of twenty-five years ago when I was their age and also deeply unfamiliar. I see them engage with the issues of race with an openness and honesty that I would have been unable to do when I was their age. But I see so many of the same challenges and issues still around. And I still see too much pain as kids figure out the complexity of who they are in a world that still wants to put people into too many neat little boxes that rarely represent the complexity of their lives.
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500 grams beef brisket, cut into serving pieces
500 grams beef tendons, cut into serving pieces
1 thumb-sized ginger, grated
6 cloves garlic, minced
2 small onions, chopped
7 cups beef stock
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
3 pieces star anise
a bunch of bok choy, trimmed
3 stalks spring onions, chopped
3 tablespoons olive oil
fish sauce and pepper to taste
1/4 cup cooking wine(optional)
Part 1
1. In a large wok, heat oil then stir fry beef and tendon until brown.
2. Pour cooking wine then toss and let it evaporate.
3. Remove everything from the wok and set aside.
Part 2
1. In a same wok, heat oil then saute ginger, garlic and onion.
2. Pour beef stock, soy sauce, oyster sauce, star anise and sugar then stir and bring to boil.
3. Add tendon then cover and simmer in a low heat for an hour.
4. Add beef then simmer for another hour or until tendon and beef are tender. Add more water if necessary.
5. Adjust seasoning according to taste then add bok choy, spring onions then simmer for a minute.
6. Turn off the heat then transfer to serving bowl. Enjoy!
1. You may add 3 teaspoons of cornstarch dissolved in 1/4 cup water to thicken the sauce.
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Joe Jonas Reveals New Bleach Blonde Buzz Cut (PHOTO)
Joe Jonas is now a blonde!
The "Cool" singer shared a photo of his new hairstyle via an Instagram Story on Wednesday (August 19). The selfie showed the middle Jonas Brother with a bleach blonde buzz cut.
See his lighter new hair, below.
The new father recently celebrated his 31st birthday (August 15). His wife, Sophie Turner, addressed their newborn for the first time while wishing him a happy birthday.
"Happy birthday to my love/bub/baby daddy," she wrote on Instagram alongside a black and white picture of the couple at a restaurant.
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Turner's pregnancy was first reported back in February. Notably, Turner was only photographed wearing baggy clothes throughout the spring, which sparked more speculation. By May, photos of Turner's growing baby bump surfaced. The couple reportedly welcomed their daughter in July.


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A century ago today, seven hostages taken from the German pre-Nazi Thule Society were executed by the short-lived Munich Soviet just before it was crushed by right-wing militias.
The Thule Society (logo at right) was a Bavarian volkisch club with a profound interest in stuff like crackpot race theory and Teutonic mythology; its very name alludes to a legendary territory hypothesized since antiquity to lie at the fringes of the world, often associated with Scandinavia and with the origins of the Aryan race.*
Society members figured in the founding of the German Workers' Party (DAP), the party which became the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), better known as the Nazis. Former Thuler Hans Frank was among those eventually hanged via the postwar Nuremberg trial.
One will readily imagine where this lot stood in relation to the Soviet Republic that was declared in Bavaria in early April, and the sentiment was fully returned. As right-wing Freikorps paramilitaries intent on destroying the Red Bavarian statelet surrounded Munich, the Communists seized seven Thule Society members — notably Countess Haila (or Hella) von Westarp and Gustav Franz Maria, Prince of Thurn and Taxis and held them in the basement of the Luitpold Gymnasium.
On April 30, 1919, all these seven were executed by order of the Communist sailor Rudolf Egelhofer, together with either two or three captured Freikorps prisoners, an affair known as the Münchner Geiselmorde ("Munich hostage-murder").
Countess Haila von Westarp
The very next day, the Freikorps broke through Munich's defenses and commenced the bloody rout that destroyed the Munich Soviet.
The Thule Society as a body survived and briefly prospered after its brush with the revolutionaries' muzzles — the eventual Nazi party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter was previously a Thule Society-owned periodical called the Münchener Beobachter — but it fizzled out into a memory during the 1920s.
Still, this esoteric nursemaid to the infancy of national socialism features prominently in histories of Third Reich occultism; aficionados might wish to browse some of its iconography in this Pinterest gallery, or just punch their distinctive name into your search environment of choice and feel that third eye opening.
* The element Thulium is named for Thule, because it was discovered by a Scandinavian chemist; the U.S.'s Thule Air Base in Greenland developed from an Arctic Circle trading post established and named by a Scandinavian explorer. (From which he launched a series of early 20th century "Thule Expeditions".)
More recently, the word made the news when astronomers controversially christened the most distant observed trans-Neptunian object "Ultima Thule".
On this day..
- 1731: Elizabeth Needham fatally pilloried
- 1389: Fra Michele Berti, "Cristo povero crocifisso"
- 1944: Four Italian fascist saboteurs
- 535: Amalasuntha, daughter of Theodoric
- 1963: Jorge del Carmen Valenzuela Torres, Chacal de Nahueltoro
- 1574: Joseph Boniface de La Mole, La Reine Margot's lover
- 1513: Edmund de la Pole, rearguard pretender
- 1671: Zrinski and Frankopan, Croatian conspirators
- 1689: Patrick O'Bryan, like a dog to his vomit
- 1591: John Dickson, "broken on ane rack"
- 1611: Louis Gaufridi, sorceror-prince
- 1315: Enguerrand de Marigny, on Montfaucon


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Another beaut from our man Dexter. This one originally appeared in the Philly Daily News on June 2, 1980. It is collected in Paper Trails, a must-read if there ever was one, and is featured here with the author's permission.
"Dead Dogs and Manhood"
By Pete Dexter
The year I turned 5 my family moved to a little town in central Georgia called Milledgeville where my father taught physics at the military college. Our house was on a red clay road, next to a pine woods and a saw mill. The plums came off the trees hot from the sun, and I had a cocker spaniel puppy that followed me everywhere I went. And nobody wore shoes all summer long, except to Sunday school.
The puppy was almost grown when he was killed. A city garbage truck hit him and left him where he stopped rolling, beside the road on a hill half a mile from the house. I heard about it from a kid named Kenny Durkin, who was the kind of kid who would spend half the afternoon looking for you to be the one to tell you your dog was dead.
He is probably working for a newspaper now.
Anyway, Kenny found me down at the saw mill, walking around the inside edge of a round cement building where they burned scrap wood. The building had a clay floor, dug out into a pit, and if you fell off the edge that's where you ended up, in there burning with the wood.
My friends and I went there once or twice a week and waited for the watchman to chase us out. We wanted to see it when he fell off the edge.
Kenny Durkin stuck his head into the open door and yelled at me. "Peter," he said, "the city truck done run over yer dog and kilt him dead."
We ran from the saw mill to the hill where the city truck had left my dog, stopping every now and then for Kenny Durkin to get his breath. I was scared and excited at the same time – I'd never seen a dead dog before.
By the time we got to place on the hill, the sun had baked one side of the dog's coat so hot you could hardly touch him. The flies were all over his ears and eyes, and I brushed them away and picked him up. He had never seemed so heavy before. I told Kenny Durkin to go away.
I carried the puppy up the hill, stumbling under the weight. I fell in some stones, and he rolled into the ditch. I pulled him out by a leg, and there was a trail of blood and bubbles where his mouth had slid along the ground. It was cool in the ditch and I thought about leaving him there, but there was something worse in that than in what had already happened.
I picked him up and started for home again. I moved him from one shoulder to the other, trying to get rid of the ache in the muscles. But the ache got worse and worse and the next time I fell I couldn't pick him up again, so I
dragged him home by the leg.
And I was crying as much from the ache as for the dog.
A neighbor woman came out from behind her screen door and told me to leave the puppy out in the street. "Come on in and have some ice tea," she said.
"Your daddy'll be by directly."
But I was dizzy from the heat by that time, watching my feet move, one in front of the other against the red Georgia dirt, and I didn't answer.
I didn't have anything to say, and I had something to do. And a long time went by before I got the puppy home.
I remembered all that last week. I was driving some back roads near Elmer, N.J., when I came on a kid carrying a dead dog.
He was older than I had been – he might have been 9 or 10 – but you don't pick the times you grow up, they pick you. The dog was a mongrel, maybe 35 pounds, and the kid was trying to balance it in front of him on the frame of his bicycle.
He'd pedal a few yards, then the handle bars would get away from him. He'd reach up to steady himself and the dog would fall off onto the road. I stopped the car behind him and asked what had happened.
"He got run over," he said. The dog was lying at his feet and boy couldn't control his voice any more than the handle bars. Everything was falling apart all at once.
I said, "Maybe I can help you get him home."
He said, "I can do it." He picked up the dog and lay him across the bicycle. The eyes swung in the air. The boy got back on the bicycle and tried again, the dog fell off again. "Oh, Goldie," he said.
"How far do you live?"
The kid kept his face away when he answered, so you couldn't see him crying.
"Just a little bit up the road. I can do it."
"Close enough to walk? " He nodded, still keeping his face away. I said, "Then hold her on the bicycle and walk her home."
The kid put his dog across the bicycle, held her there with one hand and began to walk toward a red and white farm house a long ways down the road. From the back you could see the crying take over his body. Maybe if I'd asked him again, he would have let me drive him home.
But I didn't ask.
He was finding out about himself, and tonight, after the dog was buried, that would be all he would have to take her place.
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During the session, the Committee adopted the reports on its ad hoc visits to Bulgaria (August 2020), Croatia (August 2020), France (July 2020), Malta (September 2020) and Ukraine (August 2020). These reports will be transmitted in due course to the respective authorities. In accordance with Article 11, paragraph 2, of the ECPT, the CPT's reports and related government responses are published only at the request of the authorities (on a case-by-case basis or through a so-called "automatic publication procedure").
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Typically, we dedicate a lot of the Israeli's team time to doing ongoing support and maintenance tasks. So a lot of the work are things that show up on the mailing lists. We usually triage them to one of four levels:
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- Feature requests / ideas – usually go to the issuer tracker and wait there until assigned / there is time to do them.
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It is obviously a bit more complex, because if we are working on a particular area already, we usually also take the time to cover the easy-to-do stuff from the issue tracker.
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- We generally don't pay attention to releases, unless we have one pending for a product (for example, upcoming stable release for RavenDB).
- We don't usually try to prioritize issues. Most of them are just there, and get picked up by whoever gets them first.
We following slightly different workflows for Uber Prof & RavenDB. With Uber Prof, every single push generate a client visible build, and we have auto update to make sure that most people run on the very latest.
With RavenDB, we have the unstable builds, which is what every single push translates to, and the stable builds, which have a much more involved release process.
We tend to emphasize getting things out the door over the Thirteen Steps to Properly Release Software.
An important rule of thumb, if you are still the office by 7 PM, you have better showed up at 11 or so, just because zombies are cool nowadays doesn't mean you have to be one. I am personally exempted from the rule, though.
Next, I'll discuss pairing, testing and decision making.


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Verity Stob
Back in the day, Dr. Dobb's Journal ran a humorous column written by a programmer in the United Kingdom under the pseudonym Verity Stob. In this installment from 2002, Verity took aim at critics of Microsoft's .NET and its treatment of C++.

Back in the day, Dr. Dobb's Journal ran a humorous column written by a programmer in the United Kingdom under the pseudonym Verity Stob. In this installment from 2002, Verity took aim at critics of Microsoft's .NET and its treatment of C++.
"Everybody hates us, we don't care"
-Motto of Millwall United FC fans.
Some top C++ people are cross. Microsoft (yes, yes, you do remember, that Microsoft) has dared to add some proprietary extensions to Visual C++ to make it work with the Windows .NET system. At a recent UK C++ conference, Bjarne Stroustrup himself publicly nailed, as it were, the 14 new keywords to the door of Microsoft's church. In an open debate, he and other luminaries aggressively questioned unlikely Softees Stan Lippman and Herb Sutter. These illustrious gentlemen put up a steadfast, if embarrassed, defence of their employer, but I can't help but wonder if everybody was missing the point.
For one thing: What else could MS do? Even if the High Council of C++ Syntax were sympathetic to MS's proposals, one can see that the standardisation route wouldn't seem attractive to those impatient little monkeys at Redmond. It was but a fleet decade or so before the C++ elite put a string class in their beautiful-if-baffling library. At the next round of standardisation, perhaps complete by the time time_t wraps negative, they might condescend to include--gasp!--a function to deliver an uppercased string. Change at this pace is not much use if you want to get a fix into the next version of Windows.
And I do wonder if Dr. S & Co. have raised their eyes from the Standard for a moment to notice what Microsoft is actually up to. Far from annexing C++, which is what the C++ folks say they fear, Microsoft has taken away its first class citizenship of the Visual Studio package (for example, where are the wizards to connect C++ code into the new .NET forms? They are available for C#, VB, and, for heaven's sake, even the J thing). Microsoft is now treating Visual C++ about the same way that it used to treat MASM in 1990-as a sort of strong but unpleasant glue, suitable only for emergency use. It seems to me that we don't hear very much about MASM these days. If you want to smother something, first dub it "for systems programming."
Now a leap from C++ to, cough, a rather distant part of this biz we call "prog." Many years ago, I wrote a column in A. N. Other magazine that listed my least favorite Visual Basic features: the compiler directive that changes the first index of arrays from 0 to 1, the 16-bit integer type in a 32-bit language implementation, a frankly bizarre use of a static keyword (betcha can't guess what a static procedure is). When I recently stumbled upon a similar but much more extensive list--try http://www.mvps.org/vb/index2.html?rants/vfred.htm--I first assumed somebody else was playing the same game.
Exactly wrong. This is a protest site, started by one Karl Peterson during an early .NET beta. It objects to Microsoft's vile and underhanded attempt to remove subtle traps from VB.NET, to clean up baffling and ambiguous syntax, and to erase pointless inconsistencies. What do we want? Parameter-passing defaulting to call-by-reference! How long do we want it? Forever!
All right, I'm being unfair. Mr. Peterson and his fellow VBers, of course, have shed-loads of old code that won't work with the VB.NET compiler, and they are quite reasonably skeptical of the porting tool that Microsoft has supplied to update source automatically. But they have overreacted. It is surely better to have one's language of choice brought up to date than abandoned in a pre- .NET ghetto.
If the appearance of .NET has confused the C++ people and driven some VBers to contemplate flight to Delphi, it has produced a rather different effect on the Javans-a kind of incandescent indifference. Here is James Gosling, no less, exhibiting this oxymoronic emotion in The Register: "[C#/.NET] would have been much more interesting if they [Microsoft] had done something creative. But it was so derivative" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24582.html).
The biggest bone that the Java people have to pick with C# is not that the columnist Robert Cringely thinks it will run faster than Java, nor that it comes from Microsoft, nor even that it is a Java knock off. The real problem, about which very little is said, is that C# is a fixed-up knock off of the Java language: better scalars, proper properties, sensible facilities for event handling, a thought-out syntax for method overrides. Javans have been confronted by their own mortality. Could it be that the so-called language of the Internet is actually merely the voguish language of the .COMs?
Look. I hate the Beast as much as anybody. Honestly, you can check. But this off-target mithering and moaning is pretty feeble. There must be some worthwhile things to complain about. (I'm not sure what. My best effort is that, for all the boasting of language neutrality, any .NET language implementer appears to discover that he must produce another version of C#, albeit with different keywords. In a sense, this is the underlying cause of the C++ and VB woes; for a much more dramatic example, read Mark Hammond's white paper on an attempt to make a Python.NET; http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/dotnet/PythonForDotNetPaper.doc.)
However, in the absence of some well-founded objections, the terrible murmur that I keep hearing, the one with apocalyptic consequences for the thinking programmers of the world, will come to be accepted as Gospel. You know, the one that says that, in .NET, Microsoft has made a pretty good implementation of a rather elegant design...
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WelcomeWelcome to PS3SACD.com. This site aims to be the most extensive Super Audio CD resource for PlayStation3 users. Considering it seems to be the only dedicated SA-CD site for PS3, we're confident it actually is. We also cover other aspects of the versatile media player that PS3 is, other SACD-compatible BD players, DSD, audio-only Blu-ray Discs, and other high-resolution multi-channel music formats, especially for pop/rock music. Recently we've started covering PlayStation4, as far as media playback, especially audio, is concerned. NewsSony and Oppo launch new generation of universal disc players Èarlier this year, at CES, Sony announced its first truly universal disc player – the UHP-H1. Besides Blu-ray Disc, DVD-Video, SACD and CDDA, like so many Sony players before it, this also supported DVD-Audio – the first Sony model to do so. Since then however, an important change has taken place: A new optical disc format has been launched – Ultra HD Blu-ray. With this, the definition of 'universal' has changed. The first Ultra HD Blu-ray players by Samsung, Panasonic and Philips focused on video playback. Although the Panasonic DMP-UB900 has some good audio features including DSD playback and analog multichannel outputs, none of these players supported SACD or DVD-Audio. At CEDIA, this has changed. Sony unveiled its UBP-X1000ES while Oppo Digital did the same with its UDP-203. Both players can handle the complete range of disc formats including Ultra HD Blu-ray, BD 3D, regular BD, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, SACD and CDDA. Presumably even Video CD, although that probably willl not look nice on an Ultra HD TV. The Sony UBP-X1000ES, previewed a week earlier at IFA, looks just like the UHP-H1, but looks can be deceiving. A lot more has been added than merely the triple-layer format with 66 and 100GB capacities: It also features Quad DSD processing, RS-232C, IP control, an IEC power cord and more to appral to the tier 1 CE segment. In fact, the player will only be available through Sony-certified retailers and custom installers. It may not look like the ES Series of old but it does come with 3-year warranty. It will be available from Q1 2017. The Oppo unit will be available sooner: "late 2016", according to the company. This player, with a custom-developed MediaTek processor, will be the first UHD BD player to support Dolby Vision HDR in addition to the mandatory HDR10. It will also have 7.1-channel analog outputs. In the area of games consoles meanwhile, Microsoft has launched the Xbox One S, which adds an HDR video option for gaming, and supports UHD+HDR video from streaming platforms as well as Ultra HD Blu-ray. Naturally, this raised expectations for Sony's reported PlayStation 4 UHD/HDR update, codename PS4 Neo. Eventually however, Sony has taken the quite unbelievable decision not to equip PS4 Pro, as the product is actually called, with an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive. A thorough analysis of this debacle you can find here. Sony starts supporting DVD-Audio for the first time Around the same time that SACD was launched – at the turn of the century – competing format DVD-Audio came to market. For years, there has been what many perceive as a format battle, and this may have hampered mass market success of both. There is of course an elegant solution to such issues: Hardware supporting both formats. Pretty soon, universal DVD players and Home Theater Systems came to market from various brands, followed later by universal Blu-ray Disc players. The one notable hold-out has of course been Sony. Their players were near-universal but lacking DVD-A support. The same held true for PlayStation 3: Technically, all units were probably perfectly capable of handling DVD-Audio's multichannel, high-resolution PCM streams but not enabled to do so. Until 2016, that is. Even Sony has apparently become more pragmatic. At CES 2016, reports suggested Sony's new premium A/V player UHP-H1 would accept DVD-Audio as well as Super Audio CD. However unlikely that seemed after all this time, close-ups of the player that is now becoming available reveal it's actually the case.
Two shots of the rear connection panel with decent resolution are in circulation and although the position of the DVD logo differs, in both cases it's the DVD-Audio/Video logo. (Actually there's a third one; see the inside on Inside CI.) The Sony UHP-H1 specifications include support for Blu-ray Disc, 3D BD, DVD-A/V, SACD, CD, DSD (DSDIFF/DSF), FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, HEAAC v.1 / v.2 / level 2, MP3, LDAC, DLNA and PlayStationNow. Sony's own page even lists the two separate DVD logos, to eliminate any possible doubt. Ironically, the definition of universal has just shifted, making this versatile player still not qualify for that designation – Ultra HD Blu-ray has come to market and the UHP-H1 does not support the new format; it merely upscales HD to '4K' UHD.
Times have changed, and although Sony was the driving force behind the original Blu-ray Disc fornat and one of the first brands to launch '4K' consumer products back in 2013 and covering pretty much the whole 4K content production chain, Sony was not ready, or rather not prepared, to be among the companies launching the ultimate optical disc standard, leaving that honor to Panasonic and Samsung. In the meantime, Sony has committed to introducing an Ultra HD Blu-ray player within the current fiscal year FY 2017 i.e. by end of Q1/March 0f the next calendar year. Let's hope that one will also support SACD. And maybe DVD-Audio as well. PS: The UHP-H1 is not Sony's only SACD-capable player in 2016; Sony confirms also the more affordable and compact BDP-S6700 plays SACD. First surround sound music recording using Dolby Atmos In classical music news, the Choir of King's College has recorded a performance at the King's College Chapel in Cambridge – 13 pieces of Gabrieli's posthumously published collections from 1615. The recording. The acoustic recording has been mastered for stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos. The latter is only available on Blu-ray Disc. The disc in this case uses msm Studios' Pure Audio Blu-ray format, like other albums written about here previously. The BD comes bundles with a hybrid SACD. There's a video of the recording here and a review here. The album is available here. New Sony SACD/BD player: UHP-H1 Sony continues its line of near-universal Blu-ray Disc players with SACD support in 2016, with a brand new design. Many observers had been expecting an Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc player but according to TWICE, Sony is waiting until that market is a little more mature and is going to release such a player later this year or early 2017 (still better than earlier statements). For now they're leaving the market to Samsung, Panasonic and Philips, and release a 4K-upscaling BD player, the UHP-H1. This unit handles not only Blu-ray, 3D BD, DVD-Video, CD and Super Audio CD but also high-resolution audio including DSD (DSDIFF and DSF but up to what frequency Sony hasn't specified yet) and PCM up to 24-bit/192kHz. Other audio formats include FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, HE-AAC. Other new features are support for the SongPal Link app, Spotify and Deezer. Amused to Death actually out now on SACD (and BD) Never mind the time it's taken from the first announcement to the next one until actual release. What matters is that Roger Waters' album is available now for purchase on Hybrid SACD and Blu-ray Disc, both with the stereo mix and a 5.1 mix in high resolution. The BD comes bundled with a CD. The SACD is available in the UK through Amazon; in the US it seems to be sold only through Acoustic Sounds. You can also order it from CD Japan. Most successful Beatles songs released in 5.1 multichannel sound 9 years ago George Martin and his son Giles made new high-resolution digital transfers of all Beatles multi-track master tapes and remixed them into Love – an 80-minute megamix blending together elements from the band's entire reportoire. The compilation, in 5.1-channel audio and stereo, was released on DVD-Audio + CD (the latter being 2 minutes shorter). Now, Giles Martin and Sam Okell (with support from Jeff Lynne and Steve Jay) have given the multi-channel high-resolution treatment to the 2000 compilation album '1', that contains all 27 US/UK number-one hits as full tracks. The new reissues come in eight variants, some of which include a disc with all associated music videos, which have been carefully restored in 4K from the original 35mm films. The '1+' Deluxe editions come with a second video disc containing 23 additional videos, a 124-page hardcover book and special box set packaging. The CD contains new stereo mixes; the audio on the video discs is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS (HD on the BD). The various editions will be available through Amazon. Below are the links for the US and UK releases. The new reissues are also going to be available in Japan but with an interesting twist: Instead of a regular CD they will contain an SHM-CD (Japan links for cdJapan).
Here's a visual overview of all the optical disc versions:
Classic pop albums on SACD 4.0 by Audio Fidelity There haven't been any updates here for a while but that's not for lack of news. Those who follow @PS3SACD on Twitter will have noticed a number of postings and retweets about SACD reissues of pop/rock albums by Audio Fidelity, all of them in multichannel – most of them not in 5.1 but in 4.0 'Quad' Surround. Here are some of the highlights:
These titles, as well as the ones covered in January, plus several additional albums, are available from Amazon as well as Audio Fidelity's own site. Simple Minds' Sparke in the Rain reissued in 5.1 Steven Wilson's latest remix project is Sparkle in the Rain, the Simple Minds album. He's remixed it in 5.1 and it's been released in more or less the same configurations as his previous project, Tears For Fears' Songs from the Big Chair. There is no SACD but there are several other high-res options, both for stereo and multichannel. Two other Simple Minds albums, New Gold Dream and Once Upon a Time, respectively the album preceding and the one succeeding Sparkle in the Rain, have been issued on SACD but in stereo only. Both those albums have been issued on DVD-Audio as well, but these releases (stereo + multichannel!) are based on entirely different masterings. The 30th anniversary superdeluxe edition collectors box set consists of 4 CDs and a DVD:
The other editions are:
Multichannel SACDs from Audio Fidelity for the first time Audio Fidelity has been reissung great albums from just about any genre on SACD for a number of years. Until recently, those were stere only. Now AF finally seems to have discovered the wonderful possibilities of SACD and started to issue albums in 5.1 surround sound and, where 'quad' masters existed, in 4.0. Recently released and announced titles include the following:
The channel count is prominently on the cover of each of the new discs. For more details, check Audio Fidelity. New brands launching universal SACD/BD players – Sharp and Arcam Usually this time of the year – at least that how it went the last four years – there are lots of new SACD/BD players to report, following Sony's announcement of the new year's range at the annual CES show in Las Vegas, first week of January. The embattled company will launch just three new models, all of them low-prices 'no frills' players – no displays, and even 3D Blu-ray playback has been left out of the basic model, which is no doubt an artificial limitation for the sake of differentiation between the respective models but surely there are people who don't need that. The models are:
No SACD playback here, but Sony will continue to offer last year's 'top model', the BDP-S7200 (that one might call a no-frills SACD player). Towards the end of 2015 we can expect Sony to introduce however an Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Player. That's the name given to the new standard – possibly the last consumer optical disc format we're going to see. It will offer discs of 2 or 3 layers with 33 GB capacity each, enabling 66-100 GB of storage space, which should be enough for a feature-length movie in 3840×2160 Ultra HD "4K" resolution, up to 60fps frame rate, with 10-bit color depth, a wider color gamut (up to Rec.2020 or BT.2020) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) of some flavor, possible Dolby Vision, encoded in H.265/HEVC, the successor to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. At CES, Panasonic was the only brand showing a prototype player. Sony, Samsung, LG, Philips and other brands will likely follow at IFA and CEDIA 2015, in September. Two other AV brands however have recently joined the fray and introduced universal disc players. The first is Sharp – an early SACD supporter of SACD and DSD, that they typically referred to as '1-bit audio'. Both technologies feature in the new player, the SD-WH100U, with an intersting addition: WiSA or Wireless Speakers and Audio, a new standard that promises high-quality transmission of digital sound. Video of up to 1080p HD is transmitted with the WiHD protocol. Via the USB port it will handle PCM (24/96) and DSD of 2.8 or 5.6 MHz frequency. The other brand to surprise us with its first more or less universal disc player is Arcam. The UDP411 supports at least Blu-ray 3D, DVD-Video, Super Audio CD and CD. DVD-Audio seems to have been left out (as with the Sharp). It uses a TI/Burr Brown PCM1794 DAC and a bespoke power supply, "with discreet sub-regulated power supplies on the drive, audio and DAC board." It supports with UPnP (Universal Plug-and-Play) and CIFS (Common Internet File System) to allow integration into home networks and easy access to stored content. Arcam has two related produdcts: a simpler one – an SACD/CD player with the same DAC and networking technology: the CDS27... ... and one where the multi-format disc player is integrated with an AV receiver: the Solo Movie 'home cinema in a box' system. At the time of writing it's not yet listed on the company's website but What HiFi covered it. In the area of dedicated DSD DACs there has been an overwhelming amount of product news in the past year, with many portable headphone amps now sporting asynchronous DACs that support not only high-res PCM but DSD64 (2.8 MHz), DSD128 (5.6 MHz) and sometimes even higher resolutions such as DXD. As it's uncertain when or whether undersigned will find the time to list them all here, in the meantime best check out the twitter feeds @DSD_Audio and @DXD_Audio. Tears For Fears gets the multichannel treatment Less then 5 months ago, UMG's Japanese branch reissues Tears For Fears' Songs from the Big Chair on SHM-SACD (available on import via Amazon but not part of UMG Japan's upcoming re-reissue program for November.) Now fans who may not have ordered that edition yet are faced with a dilemma, like with the recent Yes reissues: go with the high-resolution but stereo-only SACD or choose the multi-channel mix on a different format, though based on ones personal preferences and playback capabilities that might be easy to solve.
Anyway, after fans of (mostly seventies) Progressive Rock have been treated royally in recent years by a long string of 5.1 remixes by Steven Wilson, now fans of decent eighties pop/rock get a chance to enjoy what he can do with multi-track originals: He's remixed Tears For Fears' second album, and it'll be coming out on DVD-Audio and 'High-Fidelity Pure Audio' Blu-ray Disc (HFPA BD) next month. Steven Wilson writes the following about his latest work (apparently his first for Universal Music Group): The album reissue will be available on various formats in the following five configurations:
The 2-disc Deluxe edition consists of two CDs (the main CD and the 'edits') so if you're mainly after the 5.1 mix you have to go either with the 6-disc box set which includes the DVD-Audio (it's particularly attracticely priced at Amazon UK: £37.99) or with the Blu-ray Disc, which will be available as a stand-alone product (as isn't even included in the Superdeluxe Edition), at least in some European markets: Germany and France. This Deluxe edition should not be confused with the 2006 2-CD Deluxe edition, which you can rcognize by its familiar semi-transparent outer sleeve used on many other Universal deluxe editions:
Neil Wilkes, who did the authoring of the DVD-Audio, DVD-Video and the HFPA Blu-ray Disc, adds the following: The HFPA contains Steven's excellent stereo & 5.1 mixes. Stereo is 24/96 LPCM, 5.1 is defaulted to DTS-HD but does have an LPCM stream as well.
Streams are switchable on the fly using the coloured buttons on the remote and the disc will run completely headlessly (defaults to 2014 mixes) as the bonus stream - the Original Mix - can be accessed from the remote too as well as the individual tracks from the remote numbers, just like regular CD.
I have no knowledge of release date on the standalone HFPA but can assure you that there are 3 mixes included. Video presentation is what it is, so before anybody complains that a couple of the films are smaller than they might be, please remember these were letterboxed in a 4:3 frame & there is sod all I can do about it unless budgets start to run to printing a film from U-matic tape sources (AKA "Pro VHS" if that's not an oxymoron) and then scanning in that negative then blowing up digitally would be the only option & that would look substantially worse, believe me. Most are in 4:3 full frame and will be pillarboxed on a 16:9 display so the "Danny DeVito Effect" is not possible. Audio content is 24/48 LPCM for these films. Also included are a stack of BBC-TV appearances too - mainly TOTP but also a couple from the old "Wogan" show (trivia guide - the old BBC theatre, where that show was filmed, is now the Shepherds Bush Empire) and these are in 16/48 as we had run out of space on the DVD by this time and 24-bit did not fit.
According to Amazon, release dates of the various editions vary between November 3 and November 11 – nicely in time for this year's holiday season... |
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My first day of teaching—15 years ago in a bilingual 2nd grade classroom in Oakland, California—was terrifying, exhilarating, and utterly exhausting. Although I had never felt so unprepared for anything, somehow the first days were smooth. In retrospect, I was really lucky. Those days set the tone for the rest of the year, I later realized.
I have since refined my first-days routines, modifying them based on grade and content, but sticking to the same framework. In order to establish an effective learning environment, all my activities in those first days fall into one of three categories:
• Building community with students and their families.
• Establishing routines, procedures, and classroom management systems.
• Launching the learning.
But dear new teacher, before delving into the details, remember that as you transition into your new teaching life, 75 percent of the work needs to happen before you step into your classroom. And so, prior to the ringing of that first bell, make sure that you have familiarized yourself with school grounds and staff; your classroom is set up with freshly-papered bulletin boards just waiting to display student work; the physical layout of the room allows easy movement; you have a preliminary seating plan and desks are labeled with student names; supplies and student materials are organized and readily accessible; and the letters to send home to parents are ready. That's just for starters.
This really is the secret to teaching: Before the year begins and before each day starts, have the room ready, the work ready, and yourself ready. The rest will be easy. Well, almost.
Building Community
Your first task is to alleviate anxiety. Most kids are nervous on the first day and they each express it differently. The little ones may cry a lot—have tissues ready. Older students can be subdued or may act out. Kids are anxious about who their teacher will be (will she be nice?) and about what might happen. Their parents are wondering the same things. Be kind, welcoming, and smile a lot. This builds community right away.
In lower elementary, anticipate that parents might want to stay in the classroom on the first day. Plan for where you'd like them to sit (have extra adult chairs around), whether you'd like them to do something specific, and if you want to limit how long they stay (hours or days).
Once kids are settled, here are some ways to start building community:
1. Learn student names right away and make sure you're pronouncing them correctly. Plaster large name tags on children and play games until everyone knows each other's names.
2. Take photos of each kid on the first day and print them that night. When they arrive the following morning and see their faces on the walls they'll feel welcomed and a sense of belonging. This really is worth the time it takes.
3. Do lots and lots of ice breakers.
4. Schedule five kids to "Show and Tell" each day. Ask them to bring in photos of family or special objects. Make sure that you show and tell as well. Share your family, your passions and interests, and why you are a teacher. They need to know about you and be able to connect with you.
5. Create a list of "Experts in the Room." Every kid has some skill, interest, or ability. Discover it and post it big.
6. Send home a letter to parents that first day giving them your contact information and letting them know that you'll be in touch soon.
7. Within the first week, meet with or phone every student's parent or guardian. Keep it positive and ask about their child. ("What does he/she like to do at home? What are you proud of? What concerns do you have?") Communicate that you care about their child, want to know him/her and intend to work together.
8. Within the first couple of weeks, plan a potluck with families. It's a great way to get to know each other and build community.
This is not an exhaustive list of community building activities, but just a few ideas to get you started.
Establishing Routines
1. In the first week you'll need to teach and practice dozens of routines and procedures: This is the key to a smooth classroom. Generate an exhaustive list. (When can we go to the bathroom? Get water? Sharpen a pencil? Where do we line up after recess? How do we go to the rug? Where do we put our homework? Backpacks? Lunch boxes? And on and on.) Then, prioritize them and plan for introducing them over several days.
2. But be careful not to overwhelm kids with routines and procedures—they'll go into overload and forget. Some procedures arise authentically: The principal stops by the class; when she leaves, you teach expectations for what happens when a visitor comes in. Some are taught according to your schedule. Make sure to plan time to practice routines until kids get them down.
3. On Day One, establish how you will get their attention. Some teachers use clapping, raising a quiet hand, or a call-and-response chant. Develop a system and teach it within the first hour.
4. Co-create classroom agreements. Ask students what they need in order to do their best learning. You might supplement their list if they don't mention something essential. State agreements in the positive ("We will use inside voices."), write them large, and have students sign.
5. Explain your system of consequences in case an agreement is broken. Make sure there's also a visual that depicts this system.
6. Ask students what they think makes a good teacher and what they need from you. Use these to create a list of your agreements to them ("I promise not to shout.").
7. Determine a reward system with students. Make sure to point out that if everyone follows the agreements most of the time they'll learn a lot, but what other rewards do they want? Preferred Activity Time? Stickers? Extra recess? You might create different rewards for the whole class, groups, and individuals.
Launch the Learning!
Starting on Day One, do reading, writing, art, and math projects that build community and communicate to students that school is about learning. Make sure that after the first day they can go home and respond to the question, "What did you learn in school today?"
1. A class graph or a birthday chart is a great math activity for any grade.
2. Read children's literature that discusses building community. Judith Viorst's poem, "The First Day of School," is one such piece. After hearing it, students can write their own poems in response.
3. Begin a science or social studies unit. Give them a juicy taste of the learning they'll engage in during the year. Make their brains bubble with curiosity.
4. Hold off on diagnostic assessments until Week Two, but start getting a sense of students' attitudes about reading, books, and math. They can answer surveys or do people-hunt activities. These will build community, get them reading, writing and talking, and give you information.
5. Ask students: What do you want to learn about this year? And chart their answers on a huge piece of paper.
The key to success in the first days of the year is to integrate and balance these three objectives—bonding, structure, and learning—like a dance or a recipe. It's all in the planning, and you can't overplan. Plan for the possibility that you'll suddenly have an extra 10 minutes to fill (have a pile of picture books that students can grab and read). Plan for simple, easy activities that kids can do independently when someone interrupts you and you have to ignore your class for five minutes. And remember that part of planning is getting feedback from experienced teachers and then revising your plans.
No matter how much you plan, there will always be surprises. Make sure that after the first day, and throughout that first week, you debrief with another teacher, mentor, or coach. It's critical that you get support to iron out the little kinks as they appear.
Finally, have fun! Be on the lookout for the delightful moments that make this profession worth it. They will be there every day, but sometimes we miss them in the madness.
I will never forget my first day teaching when I asked students what they wanted to learn that year, and the 2nd grader, who had just said his favorite food was oysters, answered: "I want to learn about why I'm alive and what my purpose is."
I don't think I helped him find a completely satisfactory answer, but I sure enjoyed his witty, thoughtful presence all year long.


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This Shellback Mandolin uses a surprisingly wide range of materials. The top is nicely figured Redwood, and the shellback – based on the Fibonacci spiral found naturally in many shells – is made of Cherry veneer with a Spruce center point. The side rims are Maple, with Wenge, Ebony and Spanish Cedar for the neck joint. The neck itself is birds-eye maple with a Padouk center strip and Ebony for the fingerboard.
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LEGO bricks have a variety of great uses for kids of all ages. For many of us though, the real fun is the challenge of the build rather than owning of the finished project. Pley bridges the gap by letting you rent LEGO sets for a monthly subscription fee.
Similar to Netflix, you set up a queue of sets that you're interested in. Pley's price varies based on the size of the sets you want, ranging from $15 for smaller sets up to $39 for the largest sets (Death Star, Millenium Falcon). As a middle-aged man ordering LEGO sets, I was pleased Pley didn't ask my age.
Pley sets arrive packed in mesh bags, along with the official LEGO build instructions and a return shipping sticker. Pley sanitizes all the pieces before shipment. If you lose a piece, you won't be charged—up to 15 pieces per set. If you later decide to keep the set, they can bill you directly for it at slightly below market price.
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Named for the city's first Parent Teacher Association president, the Minnie Howard campus of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., has been helping ninth-grade students transition from middle school to senior high school since 1993.
In 2008, Alexandria City Public Schools hired the Leesburg, Va., office of Hayes Large Architects LLP and Leesburg-based B2E Consulting Engineers to help turn the Minnie Howard campus into a laboratory for green-building technologies that could be implemented districtwide.
Hayes Large and B2E devised an innovative package of technologies to form one of the most energy-efficient systems in the country. This includes a creative combination of solar and ground-source geothermal energy to significantly lower heating and cooling costs, a water-source variable-refrigerant-flow (VRF) zoning HVAC system to simultaneously cool and heat the building, water-source heat pumps, solar heat exchangers, low-flow plumbing fixtures, and tubular skylights to bring sunlight to classrooms, corridors, and bathrooms.
Synchronizing all of these sophisticated technologies was a challenge.
Forty-two solar collector panels were placed in front of the school to provide active solar water heating and serve as a sun shade, reducing glare and cooling costs. For the new geothermal system, a field of 60 wells was drilled 300 ft beneath the school parking lot.
Well drilling began in April 2009. General contractor Caldwell and Santmyer Inc. of Berryville, Va., first removed the building's 50-year-old HVAC system, which included two locomotive-sized boilers and chillers. Caldwell and Santmyer brought in Shapiro & Duncan Inc. of Rockville, Md., to install six Mitsubishi Electric water-source VRF zoning units next to the backup boilers, solar heat exchanger, and makeup outside-air unit. Shapiro & Duncan also set up the complex plumbing network, which connected 8,000 ft of piping joining the geothermal closed-loop water system to six Mitsubishi WR2-Series inverter-driven units.
The W-Series units fit into the mechanical room's tight spaces.
"The school went from an antiquated chiller that was keeping water at 40 degrees and two huge, inefficient boilers maintaining 180-degree water all the time—even if it wasn't needed—to a variable-speed condensing unit coupled to a geothermal well system that only runs if an indoor air handler needs cooling or heating," Chris Ott, project manager for Shapiro & Duncan, said. "Add to this the ability to cool and heat simultaneously and to zone with multiple condensing units—another energy-saving milestone."
Ott was impressed with the W-Series system's use of water as a heat-exchange medium and the use of the W-Series system in conjunction with the geothermal wells.
"It was a very logical solution for energy conservation," Ott said. "I also like the reduced cost of labor and materials needed for installation because Mitsubishi is the only two-pipe system in the industry. The installation was hassle-free, and the system started up the very first time with no glitches. When you consider there are 8,000 ft of piping, that's amazing."
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