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Here's what we know — Wall Street's expectations for Apple are definitely, FINALLY, lowered. That doesn't mean that those expectations can't go much lower, as we've hardly scratched the surface of the 27 buys and 21 strong buys out of the 57 total sellside analysts out there who cover the stock. But, iPhone sales and iPad Mini sales are still what matter.
Let's put some of these Apple /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL fundamental numbers in perspective for you.
Last quarter, Apple sold a total of about 2.1 million iPhones 4S's in China. Last night, the company announced that it had sold 2 million iPhone 5s in the first three days of sales in China over the weekend. They sold a total of 27 million iPhones of all kinds last quarter. The company sold a total of 44 million iOS devices, including every iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad of any kind last quarter.
This quarter, analysts have become worried because some of them think Apple might sell fewer than 48 million iPhones this quarter. Analysts are looking for 26 million iPads Minis and normal iPads this quarter. A few million more iPod Touches this quarter, and we're talking about more than 75 million iOS 6 devices being sold this quarter. Vs the 44 million last quarter.
Are you panicked out of this stock that's yielding 2%, trading at about 7x next year's earnings when you subtract out the $125 billion in net cash per share on the balance sheet, and will probably be rolling out some new TV platforms, and other form factors of the iOS devices, creating a new subscription-based music solution, and who knows what else in the next 12 to 18 months?
No? Me neither. I've got a ton of Apple common from much, much lower levels still, and I'm continuing to slowly but surely scale into more Apple calls.
One last Apple perspective for you — 12 months ago today, Apple was trading at $380 a share. If you can pretend for a moment that the momentum lovers, day traders and amateur investors never drove the stock up from that level to $700 plus just a few months ago, you'd be looking at a stock that's up $130 a share or 35% on the year. I know it sucks when you look back at the $700 level and wonder why you didn't sell every last share and load up on Apple puts, but that's neither realistic or even optimal for the long-term. I sold calls as outlined here on The Cody Word back in September and trimmed down my AAPL exposure as we were near and above that $700 level. Realistically, that's the only way to manage this stock — scale into more in major weakness and trim out of exposure on major spikes. You'll end up missing big moves up if you try to catch every last top and bottom in a stock like this.
I remain an Apple bull and still have a $1,000 price target for it sometime in the next 12-24 months, as I have since the stock was a small fraction of even today's reduced price. Could Apple get back to $700 a share in the next few months? Doesn't seem plausible any more does it? Well, did $500 a share seem plausible when the stock hit $700 just a couple months ago? Exactly.
And in the meantime, don't forget — maybe the investor you in your life would love the gift of a subscription to TradingWithCody.com – sign up now for the holiday special now and get 40% off the regular price until the end of the year.
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com, which is not affiliated with MarketWatch. At time of publication, Cody was net long Apple and Google. Follow Cody on Twitter at twitter.com/codywillard.


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The cost of insurance and retirement benefits for school district employees now outpaces the growth of funding in New York state. This means that unless the tax cap is raised, or unless these benefits are exempted from the cap to a greater degree than they are now, every school in the state will eventually join the decline.
"All 700 school districts in the state are lined up facing a cliff," Dr. Herbert Brown, superintendent of Oceanside schools said recently. "The question is not if they will fall off the cliff, but when."
The savings the tax cap creates play well during elections. It sounds great when a politician tells you you're going to have an extra $700 in the bank on tax day. But these are false savings. The costs of declining school districts are far larger. Homes values drop; more police are needed to deal with underserved youths; additional substance abuse and gang control programs are required; unemployment rises.
It's a lot more expensive to solve problems than to prevent them. The tax cap looks good on paper, but it will cost all of New York dearly in the long run.

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[Hodges, William] 1744-1797 :[Kohekohe. 1773?]
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A branch of kohekohe (disoxylum specatabile) in flower
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Kiss and Motley Crue Release Teaser Trailer and Poster for 'The Tour'
KISS and Motley Crue fans have been salivating since news first broke that the two rock 'n' roll powerhouses were joining forces for a full-blown tour this summer. With the official announcement just hours away, the bands have released a teaser trailer and poster for what is being dubbed simply as 'The Tour.'
Starting in July, Kiss and Motley Crue will head out for a co-headlining tour where both acts will bring their full stage shows. "You are going to see two huge headliners at the same time," Crue singer Vince Neil explained of the joint venture. "It's going to be one of the biggest tours of the summer, if not the biggest."
While official details have yet to be announced, a countdown clock — that is set to expire at 5PM ET today (March 20) — has appeared on the official websites of both KISS and Motley Crue. Presumably the dates and full details for 'The Tour' will be announced once the clock expires, as further evidenced by a teaser video posted by concert promoters Live Nation. The nearly minute-long trailer teases the Twitter hashtag #TheTour as a viral promotional tactic before displaying today's date.
Stay tuned for news regarding 'The Tour' after the two doomsday clocks have counted down to zero.
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Saturdays in Franklin County are full of youth sports.
Both the youth football and soccer teams play games at the Franklin County Sports Complex throughout the day. See the Sept. 20 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for the Youth Football and Soccer scores.


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NEW YORK —The paparazzi lying in wait for Katie Holmes, tabloid bait after her getaway divorce from Tom Cruise, may be the ideal group to review her performance in Theresa Rebeck's "Dead Accounts" at the Music Box on Broadway. Let's just say she looks fabulous in that just-bumming-around-but-still-gorgeous way that helps TMZ make its payroll.
This isn't to suggest that Holmes' acting is only skin deep. She's charming, natural and, yes, about as fresh-faced as a moisturizer model. But there's only so much that can be done with a Rebeck play that has more topical urgency (greed, ethics and banking funny business) than dramatic finesse.
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Sharing the stage with Holmes is two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz ("Catch Me If You Can," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"), who pulls out all the stops in the play's leading role. He may not have a swanlike neck or a pixie smile, but he delivers a performance of frenetic gusto as Jack, the city-slicker son who returns to his parents' home in Cincinnati after siphoning $27 million in unclaimed (i.e., dead people's) accounts from the New York bank where he works.
Butz practically ricochets off the walls of the simple Midwestern kitchen that's the setting for "Dead Accounts," but not even he can transcend the contrived nature of a character who is really nothing more than a collection of manic playwriting impulses. It doesn't help that Jack, who has arrived with stacks of cash and a desire to lavish his family with comfort food, is such an irritating presence. A divided soul in a flashy Armani suit with a school jersey nostalgically worn underneath, he's an urban showoff one minute, a heartland enthusiast the next.
When not breathlessly riffing on the ice cream, cheese coneys and pizza he's bringing into the house in quantities large enough to feed an entire Little League division, he's firing off diatribes about New York (he hates everything but the city's Italian restaurants and glittering luxuries) or sentimentally extolling the homespun glories of his hometown. All his sister Lorna (Holmes), mother Barbara (Jayne Houdyshell) and old buddy Phil (a commendably understated Josh Hamilton) can do when Jack is in the grip of one of his garrulous passions is gape in nervous amazement.
Rebeck, whose comedy "Seminar" was recently at the Ahmanson Theatre, is a prolific playwright with a facility, no doubt sharpened through her years as a TV writer and producer, for cooking up semi-satiric dramatic situations, seasoning them with up-to-the-minute social minutiae and concluding with a dollop of cautionary wisdom. She's not the supplest of dramatists, but she's a solid craftsman with worthy ideas who is turning out to be something of a Broadway regular.
"Dead Accounts" is her third play to reach the Great White Way, but the slapdash quality of the writing makes me wonder if she's in danger of becoming the female David Mamet — the playwright Broadway producers seem willing to gamble on no matter how flimsy the current script is. Rebeck's latest takes a while to set up, and when it finally gets going another issue comes to the fore: Are the characters meant to be comic targets or empathetic figures?
Rebeck can't seem to decide, and director Jack O'Brien, Tony-winning Broadway veteran and former artistic director of San Diego's Old Globe, isn't able to sort out the problem through his staging. His production draws out the sharpest colors in the cast, magnifying the characters' most salient qualities in an amped-up TV sitcom manner.
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It's hard to take anything too seriously. Jack's father, who never appears, is being nursed at home, and his kidney stones are a cause of major concern for Barbara and Lorna. Jack, eager to be the hero, offers money for the best doctors and "magic" pills that will take the pain away. But he can't resist playing a joke on Lorna about the dosage.
Rebeck wants the profundity of mortality and her easy laughs too. She comes up empty-handed.
"Dead Accounts" builds to a showdown between Jack and his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Jenny (Judy Greer making a strident Broadway debut), a pinched New York snob who trails him to Cincinnati not to reconcile with him but to extort a bundle of money. Rebeck caricatures Jenny's haughtiness to such an extent (poor Barbara overhears her ridiculing her dishes and flatware) that it's hard to understand why Jack would want to get back with her.
Of course "Dead Accounts" is all about the dirty allure of money, the way it encourages us to compromise our values and fudge our sense of right and wrong. Rebeck contrasts the avaricious Wall Street mentality that has contaminated Jack and Jenny with the less grasping, more diffident manner of Jack's Midwestern loved ones, who hardly have all the answers but at least know how to say "please" and "thank you."
Too bad they aren't more complexly drawn. Rebeck doesn't give Houdyshell much more to work with than Barbara's Catholic piety and middle-class respectability. Holmes isn't able to give dimension to Lorna, the all-grown-up pretty girl still smitten after all these disappointing years with Phil, her high school love interest who's still too petrified to ask her out.
No wonder Jack is jumping out of his skin trying to decide how to live his life. His author, pursuing punch lines down exaggerated paths, has concealed the possibility of a middle ground.


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The Rebels continued their hot play, advancing to the Elite Eight for the eighth time in program history. The Rebels took care of business in the ninth Oxford Regional, taking down Marist 4-0 and Vanderbilt 4-1 to advance to the Sweet Sixteen in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, the Rebels beat North Carolina 4-2 before falling to Georgia in the NCAA Quarterfinals. The Rebels finished the season ranked No. 6 in the country. This marked the 13th time in the past 15 years under head coach Billy Chadwick that the Rebel netters ended a season ranked in the top 10 nationally.
In addition to an outstanding team season overall, the Rebels would also have several individuals who saw great personal success. The Rebels made up half of the semifinal field of the NCAA Doubles Championship. Erling Tveit and Jonas Berg teamed together while Bram ten Berge and Matthias Wellermann formed another tandem. Tveit and Berg finished as the runner-up while ten Berge and Wellermann fell in the semifinals. All four players earned All-America honors which tied for most in the country by a single team.
On Wednesday, we will begin our top five with a bang. Stay tuned and check out which Rebel achieved the greatest individual milestone one can reach in all of college tennis.
Follow the Rebels on Twitter, @OleMissMTennis and on Facebook at OleMissMTennis.
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Gunners fight back to win
Arsenal got their Champions League campaign off to a winning start after coming from behind to beat Montpellier 2-1 in France.
Manager Arsene Wenger, serving the first of his three-game touchline UEFA ban, would have been fuming from the stands when captain Thomas Vermaelen gave away an early penalty, which Younes Belhanda chipped in.
However, the Barclays Premier League club responded magnificently and were soon level through a fine finish by German Lukas Podolski. Before the French side, making their Champions League debut following last season's brilliant Ligue 1 campaign, could recover, the Gunners swept ahead on 18 minutes through Gervinho.
Although the hosts rallied after the break, with lively winger Remi Cabella hitting the crossbar and Belhanda missing a great chance late on when he fired straight at stand-in goalkeeper Vito Mannone, Arsenal closed out a battling victory.
The visitors settled well, and soon had the hosts on the back foot. However, Montpellier remained dangerous on the counter-attack - and took a somewhat controversial lead on nine minutes.
Vermaelen slid in on Belhanda at the far right edge of the penalty area, and the Moroccan went down in a heap. However, the assistant indicated the foul was inside the box - much to the disbelief of the visitors. Belhanda got up to take the spot-kick himself, netting Montpellier's first Champions League goal with a nonchalant chip.
Arsenal responded well to trailing for the first time this season - and were behind for less than 10 minutes.
Summer signings Santi Cazorla and Olivier Giroud, playing against his old club, combined with some slick passing on the edge of the Montpellier area to slip Podolski clear - and the German tucked the ball under goalkeeper Geoffrey Jourdren.
Before the home side could regroup, Arsenal struck again on 18 minutes.
This time the damage was done down the right, as the ball was recycled quickly through Gervinho and Giroud out to full-back Carl Jenkinson, who darted toward the line before cutting the ball back across the six-yard box - where Gervinho arrived on cue to bundle it in.


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Los Altos Auxiliary members gathered recently at the beautifully renovated home of Susan and Steven Peterman for their annual holiday party and to celebrate a year of fundraising success on behalf of the boys, ages 6 to 17, in residential care at Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services' El Nido campus.
The auxiliary's efforts will culminate later this month, when members will deliver Target gift cards, homemade cookies and holiday cards to each of the boys.
Hathaway-Sycamores President and Chief Executive William Martone thanked the auxiliary for its continued support.
"It's difficult to express how much we appreciate the year-round support we receive from the Los Altos Auxiliary," he said. "Their generosity is especially appreciated during the holidays, because their efforts really do brighten the lives of the youngsters in our care."
Still going strong, Elks Lodge hits the big 100
Glendale Elks Lodge #1289 members will mark the centennial celebration of providing service to the community during a dinner on Dec. 28.
Exalted Ruler Rick Adams will welcome more than 200 members and special guests, including Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, the Honorable Tom Brazier as well as California-Hawaii Elks, State Assn. President Art Echternacht and Hugh Scanlon, past state president and past exalted ruler of #1289.
The lodge formed in 1912 and was dedicated in 1918, said Gary Linder, public relations chairman and past Elk of the Year. Membership grew to 2,000 strong by the late 1940s. Members participated in such subgroups as the band, drill team, orchestra and bowling team.
After a fire destroyed the original building in 1986, a new lodge was built at the same address, 120 E. Colorado St., in 1994.
Linder says the fraternal organization continues its mission to give back to the community with a focus on children's education.
Member Jack Wright has served for 11 years as chairman of the Scholarship Committee that has contributed more than $260,000 in scholarships to local high school students. Most recently, 28 college-bound seniors from seven area high schools were honored and are representing the lodge in competing for district, state and national honors.
Throughout the year, members have participated in the Annual Luau, Family BBQ coordinated by Jerry Stevens, a Chili Cook Off, an Oktoberfest hosted by Karl and Katrina Burger, Children's Halloween Party, Car Show organized by George McCullough and Christmas Baskets for needy coordinated by Maria LaMasa. In addition, literature on drug awareness was distributed to students at Fremont Elementary in Glendale, and a dinner party raised $2,800 that will buy dictionaries for local elementary schools.
Member John Jolly just organized the annual Basketball Hoop Shoot Free Throw Program for boys and girls, and winners will advance to the national finals in the spring.
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Some forty years ago, in the midst of the Rural Electrification Administration's "power to the people" campaign, wood-burning cook stoves were being scrapped by the thousand in favor of modern and—admittedly—more convenient grid-fed electrical appliances.
Today, however, the old-timey ranges are enjoying a renaissance; you'd be fortunate to latch onto a good one, new or old, for less than $500. In order to help you beat the high cost of cooking with wood (and partly as a result of the great number of unique, practical woodburner designs our staffers were exposed to during MOTHER EARTH NEWS' Scandinavian Crafts Tour earlier this year), we decided to build a stove that would provide an inexpensive baking oven and griddle, effective "local" heating, hot water, and a place to dry a day's worth of fuel.
Putting Scrap to Use
The attractive multipurpose cooker that our researcher Emerson Smyers put together is a combination of three nongalvanized scrap water heater tanks, one 20" and the others 22" in diameter. First, he laterally cut the top portions from the two similar-sized vessels, then rejoined those upper sections—top-opposite-top—with a 1/4"-plate cooking surface welded between. To prevent flue gases from entering the baking chamber (and to provide an impediment to smoke on its way out of the stack, thus retaining heat below and behind the oven, where it's needed most), Emerson fit a 16-gauge contoured baffle wall to the rear of the baking kiln. He allowed it to extend about 4 inches below the griddle plate, thereby creating a crescent-shaped passageway that permits the exhaust vapors to exit between the stove's outer wall and the oven's rear bulkhead.
The entire stove capsule rests on a 23"-high pedestal cut from the third tank. This stand not only brings the oven to a practical working level, but also serves—now that an ellipse has been removed from its face and a retaining screen tack-welded in place— as a storage/drying bin for split wood or kindling.
(We're aware that many may question the prudence of placing such combustibles in close proximity to a heat source, but our testing has indicated that, with the oven operating at a steady 350°F and the ambient temperature in the mid-eighties, the storage area experienced a thermal increase of only 15° above the temperature of the surrounding air. This is sufficient to drive a bit of moisture from wood, but about 100° shy of actually igniting it. To be on the safe side, however, you should make tests of your own—under the conditions in which you're most accustomed to operating your stove—to determine whether the temperature will remain within accepted limits over an extended period. And, if any doubt still exists, play it safe by storing your kindling in a more conventional manner.)
To help prevent warping and joint fatigue in the firebox area—and to provide enough thermal mass to absorb and store warmth effectively—our stovebuilder lined the base and walls of the burning chamber with a castable refractory (he used Paco Cast, manufactured by the North State Pyrophyllite Co., Inc.,. but any premixed refractory product should function equally well).
Protecting the firebox's bottom surface was simply a matter of pouring the loose "mud" into the concave base of the hearth to a depth of about 2 inches at the center ... but—to form the wall blocks—Emerson had to cut a 9" X 12" flank section from the unused portion of one 22"-diameter water tank, weld a 1/8" X 1 " strip of flat stock onto one side of the contoured form, hand-trim two thin sheet-metal arcs and fasten them to the top and bottom edges of the same piece, tack a second 1/8" X 1 " strip to the curve's inner face at its lower lip, and use a greased block of wood to serve as the adjustable-for-length fourth wall of the mold. By using this homemade template, our researcher guaranteed not only that the arc of each homemade firebrick would be compatible with the inside of his stove, but that the offset common to the upper seam of most water heating vessels would be accounted for.
Emerson offers some additional construction hints about doors and hardware: "The oven doors are cut, with a saber saw, directly from the walls and top of the stove. Leakage through the small joint gap isn't a problem because the cooking chamber isn't exposed to smoke. The firebox doors, on the other hand, overlap the opening by 1/2" all around, and were cut from the lower section of one of the halved 22" tanks.
"The hinges are 1 1/2"Amerock cabinet pieces, but the sets on the lower door were carefully bent to fit the nonflush surfaces. Since we couldn't find suitable latch sets, I made my own with two short sections of 3/4" flat stock—each one notched to fit behind the head of a carriage bolt that I'd filed the square shoulder from—and installed a pair of heat dissipating coils to serve as handles. The draft controls are simply two 2 1/4" tube sections welded into the firebox doors and sealed with circular caps, each of which is—in turn—fastened to a threaded strut inside its vents with a 1/4" bolt."
Hot Water and a Utensil Rack, Too!
Since Mr. Smyers wanted his stove to be as practical as possible, he went on to fabricate a five-gallon copper water tank that follows the contour of the heater's exterior for maximum heat transference. It rests on three L-shaped brackets and was made from a sheet of 16-ounce (one pound per square foot) dead soft copper.
To put the reservoir together, Emerson first cut a square-ended, curved pattern block from a piece of 3/4" plywood. He trimmed its outer edge along the path formed by swinging a length of string along a 15" radius and marked its inner boundary in the same manner, but used a radius 4 inches shorter to guarantee that the inside wall of the tank would rest close to the stove's skin.
Next, he cut out two curved plates of copper, each about 3/8" larger, all around, than is the template block itself, then trimmed a series of "pie slice" notches—an inch apart and 3/8" deep—in the arced sides of each plate. (The four remaining straight ends are not trimmed in the same manner, but 90° notches should be cut from their corners to assure a smooth fit after the skirts are folded.)
With this done, Emerson sliced out two 12"-wide sections of plate—one 22 3/4" and the other 24" in length—then folded the skirts on the four edges of the top and bottom sections and the two ends of the tank's faceplate. He also made the appropriate bends, 4 inches in from the side borders, to form the narrow walls of the container.
Before soldering the vessel together, Smyers installed a spigot and a fill port. The cap was made from a 1/2" piece of 1 1/2" copper tube soldered to a 2" disk, and its receptacle is simply a strip of 3/8" X 4 3/4" copper formed into a circle and soldered over a 1 1/2" hole in the upper surface of the tank. A small knob and keep chain are fastened to the lid with a brass machine screw. The draincock has a 1/8" pipe thread and is held in place by a bushing nut secured to the back side of the container's faceplate.
Emerson points out that it's wise to position this drain orifice at least an inch above the bottom of the tank so there's always a bit of liquid left in the vessel, thus assuring that the reservoir will never get hot enough to actually melt its solder joints. Of course, since water heated in this tank could be used for hot beverages, the solder must be nontoxic ... and we discovered that the Inweld Manufacturing Corporation makes an FDA-approved solder which is available in the company's Kit No. 330.
Finally, to carry the cooker's practicality one step further, the researcher surrounded it with a tubular copper utensil rack which stands away from the firebox, resting in a series of eyebolts. To bend this circular holder to shape, he first scribed a 25"diameter circle on a wooden work surface, then tacked small blocks of scrap wood every several inches along this ring to serve as a form around which he shaped 80" or so of 3/8" soft copper tubing. Once it's installed on the stove, of course, the eyebolt fasteners prevent it from expanding, so there's no need to secure the free ends of the ring to each other with anything more than a coupling.
Another Job Well Done
After spending several days assembling the cook stove, you can be sure that Emerson was eager to see it do its stuff. So, after dressing it with several coats of heat-resistant paint (and applying a layer or two of high-temperature flat black to the rear surface of the copper reservoir), he loaded the firebox with five pounds or so of split wood and kindling, put another 25 pounds in the lower storage bin, filled the copper tank with water, and set a blaze in the burner. The results were impressive: Not quite three-quarters of an hour later, the oven chamber was holding steady at just shy of 400°, and the stack temperature was in the same range. The reservoir of water reached a maximum of 180°, and—as he had suspected—the refractory mass absorbed enough heat (and subsequently held it in storage) to tone down the fluctuations in temperature which might otherwise render a wood stove's baking oven nearly useless.
In its heating mode, the unit does not, of course, operate as well as an appliance expressly designed to perform only that function, but it certainly is capable of warming an area the size of the average kitchen, and that's probably as much as anyone would hope for from a hybrid design such as this.
With everything taken into account, it'd be difficult to imagine someone in the market for a wood-burning cook stove not giving Emerson's brain child some serious consideration. After all, what else could you make a dime-on-the-dollar (or less) investment in, and still get a world of practical use from?


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"The impact of this decline is no longer invisible. Far too many of the military's top priority development programs are experiencing schedule delays and development risks which are attributed mainly to a lack of adequate funding, not technical problems—funding problems."
The above quote paints a startling picture of the state of American security forces today. Yet the statement was made 13 years ago by then-Congressman Curt Weldon (R–PA). Recent across-the-board defense cuts resemble those during the Clinton Administration's "peace dividend," when the government looted national security accounts to achieve fiscal goals. The military drawdown of the '90s was furthermore predicated on the belief that the U.S. would not engage in a large-scale military operation for the foreseeable future. This proved doubly incorrect when a few years later, U.S. troops were in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
More unsettling is the fact that when the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam in the 1970s, the military fell into a "hollow force" where small-scale missions could barely be performed because resources and manpower were stretched so thin. This culminated in the tragic failed rescue attempt of American hostages in Iran in 1980.
Yet little more than a decade was all it took for U.S. political leadership to forget such tragic results of undercutting defense. Shortly after President Clinton took office, his Administration took swift action to dismantle the robust forces developed throughout the 1980s. Before Congress in 1998, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Gordon Sullivan said, "Smaller is not better; better is better.… We did not foresee the scope of the unstable world and the islands of instability in which the United States of America is using force, nor did we see the consistency or the magnitude of these employments." It is worth noting that the "employments" here refer to operations like those in Kosovo or Bosnia and Herzegovina, which are nowhere near the size or scope of operations in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Today, the writing is on the wall, but it is unclear who is reading it. America cannot take another holiday from sustaining its military. The U.S. continues to have the greatest military in the world, but drastic cuts to defense are jeopardizing that title. The Administration and Congress need to learn from the past and uphold their constitutional responsibility to provide for the common defense.


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Also searching for "connect to admin session" was recognized as "connect to other men sex", which would freak out a homophobe. And now it is in my search history... And I can't delete it because I don't want to lose my thousands of other searches as collateral damage. Why can we only delete everything but not a single item at once. Where is selective history editing?
This feedback tool has a broken text box. The more I edit, the worse it becomes. Clicking out and back in positions my cursor randomly... Sometimes it appends new words inserted in the middle to the end instead. Other times it inserts words in the middle when I clearly clicked at the end and want to type there. A screenshot is available at my website: http://forum.3ice.hu/viewtopic.php?t=895
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VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC may have Young-Pyo Lee back for another year, but he still needs a capable deputy – and there's a chance that man could be Canadian.
Toronto, Ontario, native Andres Fresenga (above right) is set for a January trial with the club after impressing Whitecaps FC staff with a strong showing during Canada's ultimately unsuccessful qualifying campaign for the London Olympics.
As part of that U-23 squad, Fresenga made a string of strong performances at right back, highlighted by shutting down FC Dallas and US U-23 star Brek Shea in Canada's 2-0 win in March.
"We had watched the [Olympic qualifying] games and assumed he was unavailable," Whitecaps FC president Bob Lenarduzzi told MLSsoccer.com recently, in reference to the fact Fresenga is contracted to Uruguayan side Racing Club de Montevideo. "But he had connected with [Canadian Soccer Association technical director] Tony Fonseca, who in turn had talked to us about his interest in coming on trial."
The 20-year-old is hoping for a chance to play in his home country, and has told Canadian soccer website RedNation Online that he anticipates a one-year loan deal if his trial is successful.
"With Y.P. [Lee] re-signing, we know that he's going to be the primary starter in that position," Lenarduzzi explained. "But, what we also want to do is make sure that we don't play him as much as we did last year, especially with the travel, which was something …which took a toll on him."
Lenarduzzi said given Lee's desire to play less matches, especially on long road trips, in addition to the fact he's said this is "99 percent" his last season means Vancouver need someone capable to back him up – and potentially replace him on a full-time basis in 2014.
"You look for defensive strengths and you look for players who can get forward and attack as well, or at least be comfortable on the ball," Lenarduzzi said. "And he's shown that."
It also helps that Fresenga would be playing with fellow young Canadians such as first-teamers Bryce Alderson and Russell Teibert, which should give him a bit of a support network as he tries to make a push for a roster spot this month.
"If there's players he's familiar with, it would make the opportunity a better one from that perspective," Lenarduzzi said. "There's no doubt that it helps to have players that you know when you come into a situation like the one he's coming into."
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st250 needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 53 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Design a sample catalog page
We are looking to create a product catalog of several hundred technology products. The sample pages from the winner will be incorporated into the design of a catalog. Here are some samples of pages. Our pages are going to look just like these pages although the content will be different.
Businesses and Consumers
* Please do not limit your design to the attached logo colors. We are open to changing the branding based on the catalog design.
Here are some requirements for this contest:
• Please do not limit to the colors on our website.
• Feel free to use any colors in the color pallet. We are still working on our website brand. So, we are very open.
• The catalog can look like a cross between consumer catalogs and business catalogs, because both consumers and businesses will receive this catalog. But, the catalog has to look very professional. If necessary, lean towards more corporate and professional.
• The design has to be high-impact and eye-popping
• Design has to look very professional
• A couple of pages need to be submitted for 1-UP, 4-UP and 6-Up. Where 4 or 6 products are displayed on a given page.
• Please show part of pages with charts. We have a lot of charts.
• Permitted fonts are "Standard Adobe" or "Standard Windows" fonts. Please do not use any font that needs to be purchased.
• The same catalog will be output in a few different formats. So, please share your work in a few different formats.
• Header & Footer Details. Each page will have a header and a footer. Here is what needs to be included in header and footer (you can choose, what goes where):
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o Telephone Number
o Catalog Title (Holiday Special, etc.)
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Martina McBride Relies on Teamwork to Juggle Career, Family
Martina McBride has a lot on her plate. Between managing her longstanding country music career, mothering three daughters, and being a good wife to her husband, John McBride, the 'Marry Me' singer has a whole lot to handle. How does she do it? In her words, a lot of teamwork.
"Some days are better than others, honestly," she says (quote via Republic Nashville). "You know I just, I don't know, like every other working mom you just try to do the best you can."
McBride also gives due credit to her husband of 24 years. "I have a great partner," she adds. "My husband is awesome. I couldn't do it without him. We just kind of do it; it's like teamwork, you know?"
All of that teamwork has been paying off for decades now. McBride is currently promoting her new single, 'Marry Me.' Just last week, she kicked off her new theater tour at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. By playing smaller venues, McBride will be able to connect with her audience more intimately -- a task that isn't always possible in sold out arenas.
Check out this list of tour dates to see if McBride is coming to a location near you this summer. The tour will last through August.


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Welcome to the Armstrong State University Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) website. Our mission is to encourage research and creative activities at Armstrong and to procure external funding to support faculty and staff projects. OSP supports the development of projects from the shaping of the initial concept, to submission of the completed proposal, through assistance with the final report. Generally speaking, we are responsible for all activities prior to the establishment of the award in the accounting system. We encourage you to call us or make an appointment to visit as early in the grant writing process as possible. We are looking forward to collaborating with you on any type of grant: government, corporate, or foundation. More about OSP.
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Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM mounted on Canon EOS 5D Mark III : Tests and Reviews
Further readings for the Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
In Part 2 of our best lenses for the Canon EOS 5DS R review, we're looking at the best optics for travel, wildlife, portrait and event photography. Whether you're looking for a versatile zoom for weddings, a prime for the best quality portraits, or a professional sports and wildlife lens, we've got all the data you need. So let's analyze the scores in five different categories — short telephoto prime, long telephoto prime, "fast" telephoto zoom, "slow" telephoto zoom, and super-zoom — to discover the best-performing lenses in each group.
Canon has updated the original 400mm f4 DO lens using its new gapless diffractive optics construction, which promises high image quality. Read on to find out how well this new model performs.
Introduced in July this year, the EOS 70D at first sight seems like a regular update to the maker's mid-range EOS 60D model. It shares a number of features with the firm's existing SLR range including a 19-point cross-type phase detection AF system, a 3-inch (1.040M dot) articulated touchscreen and built-in WiFi connectivity with remote viewing and image transfer. The camera can also shoot at up to 7fps and has 1080/30p video recording with stereo sound using an optional external microphone.
In the lead up to Photokina 2012, Canon announced the new Canon EOS 6D full-frame entry-point model within days of Nikon publicizing their most-affordable full-frame camera to date, the 24-Mpix D600. While the EOS 6D boasted some attention grabbing features including built-in WiFi and GPS and slightly undercut the Nikon on price, it couldn't match its rival in one or two key areas, namely the less populated AF system and lower resolution sensor.
Sony is often quoted as having aspirations to rival Nikon and Canon but, since taking over the SLR business of Konica Minolta, has so far shown only a handful of pro-grade lenses. The SAL500F40G is one such lens, more popularly known as the 500mm f/4.0DG SSM, and with a price tag of $13,000 it's aimed squarely at professionals and well-heeled enthusiasts. We've had the opportunity to assess the new lens at our lab in Seattle, please read on to see how the new Sony performs and if it has what it takes to compete with the current Canon and Nikon duopoly.
With the vagaries of photographing wildlife, the flexibility of a telephoto zoom would appear to be an attractive solution. However, image quality is often a compromise at the maximum aperture and longest focal length, typically the most crucial settings. We've pulled some lens data from our database and put together a round up of popular zoom lenses over the years (and made some comparisons with high performance primes). Read on to find out which models have the best image quality.
Launched in July 1999, the Canon EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM lens has been one of the most popular super telephoto lenses in the Canon range for wildlife and sports photographers alike. As expected for a super telephoto lens with a constant f/2.8 aperture and an Image Stabilizer, it is right at the top of the tree in terms of cost. But does the performance match the price? DxOMark presents the results, including a comparison of the Canon with the Pentax smc DA Star 300mm f/ 4 ED (IF) SDM, a lens also recently tested in our laboratories.
Telephoto lenses such as the Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM are used for professional sports or wildlife photography. How does it stack up against an earlier Canon model? Let's take a look.


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My favorite part was when Jason nearly drowned. It made me feel scared. One time I was at the beach and a crab grabbed my leg and a jellyfish was coming my way. It scared me to death!
I really like the words the author used, like ?grey, whiskery muzzle?. I learned that otters twist the kelp around their feet so they won?t float away while they?re eating.
The pictures are colorful and beautiful. My favorite picture is when Jason is sticking his hand out to the squirrel. It reminds me of when I was six and I stuck my hand out and a squirrel crawled up my arm!
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pieter needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 112 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
Contest extended and price increased to $ 310.
Here are some fonts we like: http://www.campingkeuze.nl/files/ca…efonts.gif
Clean, simple, bold fonts, we prefer one with rounded corners. We don't want anything that is to playful, the third one in the list would be the max for that.
We would like the logo to be separated from the text. For example:
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Campingkeuze.nl is a (dutch) website with camping profiles. We're looking for a logo with a "family camping holiday" look &feel.
(campingkeuze means "Camping choice")
Like facebook is made for people, last.fm for artists and imdb for movies, Campingkeuze.nl is a (dutch) profile website for campings. Each profile has several "content blocks" like pictures, reviews and links to book your holiday. You can see an example of such a profile at:
- http://www.campingkeuze.nl/Campings…la-Italia/ Our goal is to create the biggest and most complete database of quality campings throughout the world. The main target audience of the website are people looking for family camping holidays.
What are we looking for?
The technical part of our website is mostly done and we are looking for a fresh and clean design. We first started a contest for both website design and logo but its probably better to separate these. After the logo contest we will keep a contest for the website design.
You can have a look at the current website but please keep in mind that we didn't spend much time on the design, so don't let it influence your creative mind.
- A family (camping) holiday look and feel. Clean, simple and recognizable.
- Logo can contain one of the following image elements: sun, swimming pool or tent.
- Unique! Don't use any stock images/icons or something.
- No survival camping look and feel, not to fancy or web 2.0.We like the following colors for the logo:
- Blue (air/sea)
- Yellow (beach)
- Green (nature)
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Dori Jones Yang is celebrating the release of Son of Venice, the sequel to her YA historical novel Daughter of Xanadu. She stopped by the virtual offices to set the record straight about the Mongols.
Weren't the Mongols Bad Guys? by Dori Jones Yang
Imagine a cartoon image of a horde of Mongol horsemen. Galloping on black horses, fierce and ferocious, they are invading a village, eager to rape and pillage.
The Mongols, history teaches us, were barbarians, vicious and cruel, destroyers of all that is good and civilized.
So why on earth did I choose a Mongol as the main character of my novel, Daughter of Xanadu, and the chief love interest in the sequel, Son of Venice? Who would fall in love with a Mongol?
In college, I majored in European history, and the Mongols were remembered as "Tartars" who decimated Hungary and Poland and subjugated Russia for centuries. But any good student learns that every set of people has its own take on history.
The story of the Mongols was mostly written by the people they conquered: the Russians, the Chinese, the Persians. The Mongols were definitely less "civilized" than all these peoples. When they began their conquests, they were nomadic herdsmen with no permanent settlements, no architecture, no written language. They lived in tents and spoke a guttural language no one else could understand. With no farming or manufacturing, they had to raid settled areas to get modern goods: stirrups, swords, fabrics, dishes.
Most of the horror stories about the Mongols are true. In retrospect, it seems almost impossible that Genghis Khan and his primitive hordes could have conquered most of the known world. They did it with "shock and awe" – swooping in on surprise attacks with such ferocity and cruelty that settled people were terrified of them. When one town resisted, Genghis Khan ordered his troops to massacre them with such horrific brutality that the next town would choose to surrender rather than face such a rampage. The Mongol troops cut one ear off each victim and collected them in bags as a way of counting the dead. They stacked up skulls to make sure no one would resist them in the future. The word "horde" even comes from Mongolian!
So it surprised me to read Marco Polo's book. When he arrived in China, it was ruled by Genghis Khan's grandson, Khubilai Khan. Marco would have heard these same horror stories from his father's generation, who lived through Mongol attacks on Europe. And yet, Marco himself wrote nothing but positive things about Khubilai Khan: about his luxurious palaces, his glorious gardens, his large family, his lavish banquets. Marco Polo might as well have been a paid PR guy for the Mongols. Why?
It turns out the Mongol conquests were so swift that they gained control of almost all the land from Russia to China in just two generations. By the time Marco Polo got to China, the Mongols had settled into Chinese-style palaces and were living peaceful, opulent lives. They were commissioning art and poetry, learning good governance, and encouraging trade. They established an Empire that lasted over one hundred years, and most of that time they were not barbarian or brutal at all.
Most of us don't think of our own people as bad guys. We Americans certainly don't see ourselves that way – and the Mongols didn't either. In their own legends, they were heroic, conquering more powerful kingdoms with brilliance and courage and then ruling them wisely.
In my novels, I wanted to make that point. To Emmajin, who grew up in the court of her grandfather, Khubilai Khan, the Mongols were the good guys.
You can find out more about the Mongols and my books at www.dorijonesyang.com.
Thank you, Dori!
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Gender and Marginalization
This past spring, UNESCO published its 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, which offered an in-depth look at the pressing need for countries and donors to focus on Reaching the Marginalized.
Every year, millions of children are shut out of the classroom. Overwhelmingly, those left on the side lines are among society's most marginalized populations -- and in numbers, are disproportionately female.


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Adapted from Bartlett J.G. and Gallant J.E. 2001-2002 Medical Management of HIV Infection. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 2001.
This table is a replacement for the table that was printed with a copy error on page 8 of the November 2001 issue of HEPP News. The entire Antiretroviral Agents Dosing and Administration Recommendations table is available in its correct form at www.hivcorrections.org/archives/nov01/nov2001.pdf (pages 7-8) or by emailing a request to email@example.com.
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the Lauren Jacket pattern is up and for sale! See the button to your right!
IMPORTANT NOTE: When I wrote up the pattern summary for Ravelry, I forgot to list the sizes! Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
** Sizes range from 32 to 54 inch bust!** Woohooo!
It's a very thorough, talkative pattern, based on measurements more than stitch counts. I've done a lot of thinking about how to instruct you to make the best-fitting jacket you can. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments! ENJOY!
P.S. I was in NYC this past weekend, so I can chat about that in my next post. I was with my mom and Beth theotherweaver, so there was epic shopping. See how Beth rocks the Grellow?
I didn't let her keep it, but I might just make her one.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Because all I do is work really hard at New Job and write patterns lately...
Posted by weaverknits at 7:04 PM
3 comments:
- Thea said...
yes! I'll be doing this next!! What is the yarn weight?
- May 2, 2008 at 10:26 AM
- nicole said...
Yay! I've just downloaded my very own copy of your lovely pattern. Now excuse me while I go stash-diving...
- May 3, 2008 at 4:12 AM
- craftivore said...
Love the asymmetrical front. You HAVE been busy.
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Plenty of draft experts peg Manti Te'o as a logical fit for the Chicago Bears or Minnesota Vikings, but the Notre Dame linebacker is spending time with another member of NFC North.
Te'o met with the Detroit Lions on Tuesday, the team announced.
Let's not read too much into a player visit, but like their division foes, the Lions have a need at linebacker.
Stephen Tulloch gives the Lions a veteran in the middle, but with Justin Durant signing with the Dallas Cowboys, the Lions can use help on the strongside, where the unproven Ashlee Palmer currently is penciled in as the starter. Te'o conceivably could be used in the SAM position in Detroit's 4-3 scheme.
The Lions aren't about to consider Te'o at No. 5, and it's unlikely he'll be around for their 65th pick, even after his draft stock suffered following the catfishing debacle and his rough outing against Alabama in the BCS Championship Game.
"It's a little frustrating people judge you on one game," Te'o told the Lions' official site, "but I don't feel it defines my career at Notre Dame."
Fair point, but an actual football game can't come soon enough for Te'o. Few prospects have endured more public speculation leading up to the draft, but Te'o is hoping one team -- perhaps the Lions -- will help him bury the past for what's ahead.
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The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) regulates Virginia's manufactured housing industry through the Virginia Manufactured Home Safety Regulations (MHSR) and the Virginia Manufactured Housing Licensing and Transaction Recovery Fund Regulations (MHLTRFR). Manufactured homes, sometimes referred to as HUD code homes, are built, in a factory, on a permanent chassis, are transportable in one or more sections, are used as single family dwellings and may be sited with or without a permanent foundation. The design, construction and in-plant inspection and certification are done under a federal program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As the HUD-designated State Administrative Agency (SAA), DHCD monitors the manufacturing process, receives and investigates complaints and performs dealer lot inspections to ensure conformance with state and federal regulations. Local code officials handle the permits, inspections and issuance of the certificate of occupancy (CO) for the installation and related site work for manufactured homes under the authority granted to them by the Virginia Construction Code (VCC).
The Virginia Manufactured Housing Board promulgates the licensing regulations to carry out the requirements for licensing of manufactured home manufacturers, dealers, brokers and salespersons. All licenses, except temporary or special licenses, are issued for a one-year period and must be renewed annually. Manufactured home dealers and brokers must also obtain either a Certificate of Dealer Registration or a Motor Vehicle Dealer License from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The license or certificate is required in order for the dealer or the broker to collect and forward the title fees and sales taxes, collected as part of the sales contract on the home, to DMV. Dealers that include the installation and site work in their sales contracts are required to have a contractor's license from the Board for Contractors in the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR). DHCD has no authority to regulate manufactured home parks. Such parks are subject to the Virginia Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act enacted by the General Assembly as part of the Landlord Tenant Act (LTA). Enforcement of the LTA is through the courts in Virginia. DHCD publishes a Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act Handbook (MHLRAH) for information purposes only.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Mystery Monday - Walter O. Stevens and the Sanitorium
4 comments:
- Wendy said...
I'm not smart enough to offer much insight except to say that the first photo could still be a wedding photo because maybe he married between 1910 and 20 and maybe she died or the marriage didn't work out. That dent in her finger looks like a wedding band. (although in Theresa Wilson Rogers' wedding photos, many couples have their rings on the right hand) But my question is, how did you come to have this man's photo album?
- March 5, 2013 at 12:46 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Thanks for your comment, Wendy! I agree, it does feel like a wedding photo. As to where I got the album, I bought a group of early 19th century photo albums off of ebay many months ago. I can't explain why, but I was drawn to them. I've had a blast trying to determine who they belong to and by posting some of the photos I'm hoping to reconnect them with the families they belong to.
- March 5, 2013 at 4:57 PM
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It is an amazing story.You were suppose to come upon that album and write about Walter.
- March 5, 2013 at 11:11 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Thank you, Magda! I'm really hoping that someone linked to this family will one day come across it.
- March 6, 2013 at 8:17 AM


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A Biblical Theology of Learning Through Service
The Need for a Theology of Learning Through Service
As a theological seminary, the faculty and student body of Dallas Theological Seminary are intentionally moving toward a plan that involves compassionate, sacrificial service and relationally based actions that express the love of Christ. We want to show how these stated aims are grounded in a biblical theology of learning through service (L-S). What follows is a tracing of biblical mandates and examples throughout both the Old Testament and the New Testament that demonstrate a biblical basis for incorporating L-S in the seminary setting. This investigation shows not only how the character of God exemplifies compassion, but what a student involved in L-S will embody. Furthermore, it shows how the "teaching of truth" will affect "loving well" in ways that are demonstrated, commended, and established in the whole of Scripture. L-S is designed to give a foundation for our students as they integrate biblical and theological instruction and actual contact with real individual needs in our local communities and suffering world.
L-S is ministry. It is not peripheral, optional service to poor unfortunates who need help. Rather, it is a personal, direct demonstration of biblical values. It is compassion in action, because compassion without action is not really compassion (Luke 10:25–37). L-S showcases to all the redemption of God through his people, while helping us learn how to respond to affliction, need, and pain in life. It helps us understand suffering, our own and that of others, and how we are to respond to the world's needs in a biblical manner by applying biblical truth we are learning in the classroom setting.
God's Character Exemplifies Compassion
Godly and loving ministry develops from a growing understanding of God's majesty and holiness as the true and living God, who alone is worthy of utmost human worship and devotion (Deut 6:4–9; Ps 119:38; Isa 6:1–4; Jer 10:6–7). God is holy (Ps 99:9; Isa 5:16) and demands that his people be holy (Lev 11:45). This holiness is to be a reflection of God's holiness through our acts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience (Col 3:12). God is love, and his people are to love their neighbors as themselves (Lev 19:18; Luke 10:27; Rom 13:8–10; 1 John 4:7–11). The God of Scripture is just and fair, and his people are to be just and fair to those who have been treated unfairly and with injustice (Deut 32:4; Isa 45:21; Mic 6:8). Because God is righteous (Ezra 9:15; Ps 145:17), he commands his people to be righteous in their dealings with others (1 John 2:29; 3:7). God is good, and goodness and good works are to be a part of the Christian's way of life (Pss 25:4–10; 119:68; Eph 2:10). God is gracious and merciful (Exod 34:6; Ps 116:5; Luke 6:36), the God of compassion who commands his people to be compassionate (2 Kings 13:23; Rom 12:15; 1 Pet 3:8; Col 3:12). This view of God and of ourselves as sinners in need of grace (Rom 3:23; 6:23) convinces us that the objectives of L-S are to reflect God's character toward the real needs of people that can only be accomplished through God's strength and power (Gen 17:1; Exod 6:3; Phil 4:13). Servant-learners are to serve in love and compassion produced by the Holy Spirit, not from our own resources (Isa 41:10; Jer 9:23–24; John 15:5; 2 Cor 2:14–3:6; 2 Tim 2:1–2).
The Old Testament Reveals the Need for Compassion
Loving service toward others is rooted, in part, in God's creation of all things and humanity's responsibility to care for creation and respect all people as made in God's image (Gen 1–2; Jas 3:9–10). The need for such service was heightened by human sin and its many consequences (Gen 3). As a result of Adam's disobedience (Gen 3:6, 11, 12; Rom 5:12, 15, 19) sin, evil, corruption, violence, depravity, guilt, unrighteousness, blasphemy, disease, and death were introduced into the human race (Gen 6:5, 12; 8:21; Ps 51:5; Rom 3:23; 7:18; Titus 1:15). The history of Abraham's descendants and all human beings from Genesis to the last of the prophets reveals the need of humanity for grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love. Human history is full of hatred, murder, immorality, and sin. The Bible faithfully records humanity's failure, but it also records evidence of the redeemed person's response to God's command to care for and love others in need, those who are caught in the results of slavery to sin. The responsibility of those who have a relationship to God can be summed up in the following passages (NASB).
Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;" (Exodus 34:6)
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD. (Leviticus 19:18; cf. Luke 10:27).
Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (Deuteronomy 6:4–5)
I know that the LORD will maintain
The cause of the afflicted
And justice for the poor. (Psalm 140:12)
Is this not the fast which I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
and to let the oppressed go free.
And break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6)
For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great,
You who distress the righteous and accept bribes
And turn aside the poor in the gate. (Amos 5:12; cf. 4:1)
He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8)
Therefore, as the Lord is compassionate and gracious (Pss 72:13; 103:8; 116:5), so his ministers are to be the same (Mic 6:8). God cares for widows, orphans, and strangers, and by implication all who are neglected by society (Deut 10:18-19; 24:17). God clearly gives justice to the needy and requires that of his servants (Exod 23:6–11; Lev 19:10; Pss 70:4-5; 86:1; Prov 14:31). The principle is that we are responsible to carry out what God commands and expects of his people.
The Gospels' and Jesus' Disclosure of the Need for Compassion
Jesus Christ set the standard for L-S in his command in John 13:34–35"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." Christ's instruction and example calls his servants to love God and love people wholeheartedly and sacrificially (Mark 12:28–31; John 13:34–35; 15:12–13). Being Christ's disciples requires us as Christian leaders to serve others in humility (John 13:12–16), to be servants of all (Matt 20:25– 28; Mark 9:35), not to domineer or seek to be served but instead to give ourselves to meet the needs of others (Mark 10:42–45; Luke 22:24–27). All self-focused or self-willed service is out of place when we follow the crucified and risen Lord (Mark 8:34–35; John 12:24–26; Titus 1:7).
Truly Christ-like L-S means responding with direct personal engagement and compassion toward the deep needs of people. In the lead-up to his missionary discourse, Matthew presents Jesus' actions of teaching, preaching, and healing in various places (9:35). Then he states, "Seeing the crowds, Jesus felt compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd" (9:36). The word "compassion" denotes profound sympathy and love coming from the inmost parts of the person (literally, the bowels or viscera pictured as the source of deepest emotion). The phrase describing the crowds, "harassed and helpless" (NIV, ESV), refers not so much to their inward mental or psychological state (i.e., "troubled, bewildered, worried") as to their outward condition, to injuries inflicted on them that have left them helpless and vulnerable (e.g., wounded and abandoned, "mangled and thrown to the ground" [Berkeley]). Because the next phrase adds "like sheep without a shepherd," the initial picture is of sheep ravaged by predators and helpless against further attack. But this metaphor speaks of human spiritual need that a person's physical, economic, or social helplessness is ultimately rooted in. We are lost and wandering from God and this leads to manifold difficulties. The shepherds that humans need are God (Pss 23:1–6; 100:1–3; Isa 40:11), his Messiah (Jer 23:1–8; Ezek 34:22–23; John 10:1–16), and the gifted spiritual leaders (Acts 20:28; Eph 4:11; 1 Pet 5:2) God calls to minister in his name. In the context of Matt 9–10, Jesus' immediate command to pray for God to send workers into his harvest (9:37–38) and his commissioning of the twelve disciples to go and preach, heal, deliver from demons, and minister to the needy (10:1–8) indicate his desire that his followers would serve people in desperate need out of that same heartfelt compassion that he exemplified (9:35–36).
Throughout his ministry Jesus confronted human need in all its complexity—spiritual, physical, emotional, social, economic (Luke 4:16–21; 6:20–26)—with heartfelt personal concern (Matt 8:3, 15; 14:14; 15:32; 20:34; Mark 9:20–29; Luke 7:11–15). His healing of physical disease and casting out demons symbolized the larger spiritual deliverance he came to provide (e.g., Mark 2:1–10) and in many ways provided a platform for his preaching. But he reached out to people in their manifold needs not limited to the spiritual realm only and instructed his disciples to do the same (Mark 6:7–13; Luke 10:29–37). Jesus' ministry often displayed a "word and deed" pattern, where his preaching was reinforced by the care he gave to people in need (e.g., Luke 4:14–41: word, 4:14–30; deed, 4:31–41).
The Epistles Declare the Need for Compassion
The early church served people at various levels of need (Acts 2:37–47; 3:1–9; 4:32– 37; 6:1–6; 9:32–43; 11:27–30). Mirroring Jesus' teaching, James likewise calls for Christian action in response to physical, emotional, social, economic, as well as spiritual problems (Jas 1:19–27; 2:1–9, 14–17; 5:1–6, 13–16). Paul also modeled a concern for a wide range of human needs (Rom 15:25–27; 1 Tim 5:3–16) and loving personally engaged ministry to people whatever their situation (1 Thess 2:7–8; 5:14–15).
Paul often reflects indirectly on the ways in which he was confronted with his own weakness and inadequacy for the demands of ministry and through that came to see God's complete sufficiency at work through his efforts. In Paul's personal sufferings and afflictions God provided comfort to enable him to help others in their affliction (2 Cor 1:1–7) and taught him not to trust in himself but in God (2 Cor 1:8–11). His hard experiences in life and ministry taught him that our only adequacy as ministers of the new covenant comes from God by the Spirit (2 Cor 2:14–3:6). We are like fragile clay pots, but we carry a great treasure, the gospel of Christ, and we know that its surpassing power is from God and not from ourselves (2 Cor 4:1–12). Paul learned not to evade or deny his weaknesses but to allow God's sufficient grace and strength to show itself through his insufficiency (2 Cor 12:7–10). This illustrates the interactive and mutually beneficial process that can occur when leaders who may not be aware of their inadequacies come into contact with real people whose troubles and weaknesses are undeniable.
The epistles regularly call for acts of love and compassion toward brothers and sisters in Christ (Rom 12:9–13; Gal 6:2; Jas 2:15–16) and connect our love for people directly to our love for God as Jesus did (1 John 2:7–11; 3:14–18; 4:7–21). But they also command us to do good works toward all people as we have opportunity and so represent God's mercy and compassion in the wider world (Rom 2:10; 12:14–18; Gal 6:10; 1 Thess 5:15; 1 Pet 2:12; Titus 3:1–8). Perhaps John simplifies the duty of the servant–learner best when he writes, "Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth" (1 John 3:18).
The Book of Revelation And Compassion
One of the most meaningful lessons a servant-learner can take from the Book of Revelation is that suffering, evil, sin, and all that plagues our world today will end. Believers who suffer now will not suffer forever. They will one day be free from all pain, tears, sorrow, and the curse of the sin nature. This wonderful condition will continue throughout eternity. So believers can look forward to the future with hope and enthusiasm.
The end of suffering is part of the final aspect of salvation that God will provide for Christians, namely, their glorification and glorified bodies. As surely as he has declared believers righteous by faith in his Son in the past and delivers believers from present temptation in the present, he will complete his salvation and deliver them from all suffering and death in the future: He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away. There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bondservants will serve Him (Rev 21:4; 22:3). How does this apply to L-S? The servant-learner is involved in alleviating and dealing with the aspects of suffering and injustice that dominate our present world, projecting hope and assurance through Christ.
Concluding Reflections
A valued element of L-S is the process by which even imperfect ministers can over time develop traits of real love toward God and others. Jesus' actions show that verbal instruction or exhortation alone is not enough. Learning to engage the deep needs of others with compassion and with dependence on God requires direct experience with such needs. After instructing his disciples, Jesus sent them out to serve directly (Mark 6:7–13; Luke 9:1–6; 10:1–16). He also helped them afterwards to reflect on their successes and failures (Mark 6:30–32; 9:28–29; Luke 9:10; 10:17–24). Jesus did not wait for the beginning of the Church in Acts 2to involve his followers in service to others. Service was integral to the learning process as an application of the knowledge Christ taught his disciples. Likewise, implementing L-S at DTS is grounded in the belief that service should be integrated in the training of servant–leaders aimed for ministry. Direct hands–on involvement as well as reflection and assessment are needed to complete the process.
This interactive character of L-S will directly contribute to students' personal growth in the areas the seminary has targeted in its slogan, "Teach Truth—Love Well," and in "equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide." In this regard the books of Moses, the historical books of the OT, the wisdom literature, the Psalms, the Prophets, Jesus in the Gospels, and the rest of the NT give a biblical theological base for L-S at Dallas Theological Seminary. All of these speak about Christian instruction and its potential benefits to our world as well as dangers. The goal of all teaching and learning in Christian circles is "love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith" (1 Tim 1:5). Such love is the cardinal Christian virtue (1 Cor 13), the fulfillment of God's Law (Rom 13:8–10; Gal 5:13–14), and the identifying mark of being Jesus' followers (John 13:34–35). But it is also possible to gain knowledge and act in unloving ways: to become arrogant toward others rather than building others up (1 Cor 8:1–3), to judge or belittle someone else who thinks differently (Rom 14:10), to be argumentative rather than patient and winsome about our teaching (2 Tim 2:24–26), or to be hardened to the truth and aloof from the needs of others (Heb 10:24–25). These are great dangers in the academic setting of DTS. Student involvement with people in need will help to direct classroom learning toward the goal of habitually living-out the love of Christ, offering students opportunities to apply classroom instruction by meeting genuine individual needs in a relational, compassionate, and scripturally-based manner.


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The Enûma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), is the Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words). It was recovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), and published by George Smith in 1876.[1] The Enûma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Old Babylonian on seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script. Most of Tablet V has never been recovered but, aside from this lacuna, the text is almost complete.
This epic is one of the most important sources for understanding the Babylonian worldview, centered on the supremacy of Marduk and the creation of humankind for the service of the gods. Its primary original purpose, however, is not an exposition of theology or theogony but the elevation of Marduk, the chief god of Babylon, above other Mesopotamian gods.
The Enûma Eliš exists in various copies from Babylon and Assyria. The version from Ashurbanipal's library dates to the 7th century BCE. The composition of the text probably dates to the bronze age, to the time of Hammurabi or perhaps the early Kassite era (roughly 18th to 16th centuries BCE), although some scholars favor a later date of c. 1100 BCE.[2]
When the seven tablets that contain this were first discovered, evidence indicated that it was used as a "ritual", meaning it was recited during a ceremony or celebration. That celebration is now thought to be the Akitu festival, or Babylonian new year. This tells of the creation of the world, and of Marduk's victory over Tiamat, and how it relates to him becoming king of the gods. This is then followed by an invocation to Marduk by his fifty names.[3]
The title, meaning "when on high", is the incipit. The first tablet begins:
|e-nu-ma e-liš la na-bu-ú šá-ma-mu
|When the sky above was not named,
|šap-liš am-ma-tum šu-ma la zak-rat
|And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
|ZU.AB-ma reš-tu-ú za-ru-šu-un
|And the primeval Apsû, who begat them,
|mu-um-mu ti-amat mu-al-li-da-at gim-ri-šú-un
|And chaos, Tiamat, the mother of them both,
|A.MEŠ-šú-nu iš-te-niš i-ḫi-qu-ú-ma
|Their waters were mingled together,
|gi-pa-ra la ki-is-su-ru su-sa-a la she-'u-ú
|And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
|e-nu-ma dingir dingir la šu-pu-u ma-na-ma
|When of the gods none had been called into being.
The epic names two primeval gods: Apsû (or Abzu) who represents fresh water and Tiamat representing oceanic waters. Several other gods are created - Ea and his brothers - who reside in Tiamat's vast body. They make so much noise that the babel or noise annoys Tiamat and Apsû greatly. Apsû wishes to kill the young gods, but Tiamat disagrees. The vizier, Mummu, agrees with Apsû's plan to destroy them. Tiamat, in order to stop this from occurring, warns Ea (Nudimmud), the most powerful of the gods. Ea uses magic to put Apsû into a coma, then kills him, and shuts Mummu out. Ea then becomes the chief god, marries Damkina, and has a son, Marduk, greater still than Ea himself. Marduk is given wind to play with and he uses the wind to make dust storms and tornadoes. This disrupts Tiamat's great body and causes the gods still residing inside her to be unable to sleep.
The gods persuade Tiamat to take revenge for the death of her husband, Apsû. Her power grows, and some of the gods join her. She creates 11 monsters (Bašmu, "Venomous Snake"; Ušumgallu, "Great Dragon"; Mušmaḫḫū, "Exalted Serpent"; Mušḫuššu, "Furious Snake"; Laḫmu, the "Hairy One"; Ugallu, the "Big Weather-Beast"; Uridimmu, "Mad Lion"; Girtablullû, "Scorpion-Man"; Umū dabrūtu, "Violent Storms"; Kulullû, "Fish-Man"; and Kusarikku, "Bull-Man") to help her win the battle and elevates Kingu, her new husband, to "supreme dominion." A lengthy description of the other gods' inability to deal with the threat follows. Marduk offers to save the gods if he is appointed as their leader and allowed to remain so even after the threat passes. When the gods agree to Marduk's conditions he is selected as their champion against Tiamat, and becomes very powerful. Marduk challenges Tiamat to combat and destroys her. He then rips her corpse into two halves with which he fashions the earth and the skies. Marduk then creates the calendar, organizes the planets and stars, and regulates the moon, the sun, and weather.[4]
The gods who have pledged their allegiance to Tiamat are initially forced into labor in the service of the gods who sided with Marduk. But they are freed from these labors when Marduk then destroys Tiamat's husband, Kingu, and uses his blood to create humankind to do the work for the gods.[4] Most noteworthy is Marduk's symbolic elevation over Enlil, who was seen by earlier Mesopotamian civilizations as the king of the gods.
Relation to the Bible
The Enûma Eliš was recognized as being related to the Hebrew Genesis creation account from its first publication (Smith 1876).
In one interpretation, Genesis 1:1-3 can be taken as describing the state of chaos immediately before God's act of creation:[5]
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light."[6]
Though most scholarly work on the Enûma Eliš regard its primary original purpose to be the elevation of Marduk, the chief god of Babylon, above other Mesopotamian gods, researchers seeking to remove Babylonian influence onto Judaism assert counter arguments. To address the similarities between the accounts, Christian apologist Conrad Hyers of the Princeton Theological Seminary, stated that the Genesis creation myth polemically addressed earlier Babylonian and other pagan creation myths[7] to "repudiate the divinization of nature and the attendant myths of divine origins, divine conflict, and divine ascent," thus rejecting the idea that Genesis borrowed from or appropriated the form of the Enûma Eliš.[7] According to this theory, the Enûma Eliš was comfortable using connections between the divine and inert matter, while the aim of Genesis was to state the superiority of the Israelite god Elohim over all creation (and subsequent deities).
Reconstruction of the broken Enûma Eliš tablet seems to define the rarely attested Sapattum or Sabattum as the full moon. This word is cognate or merged with Hebrew Shabbat (cf. Genesis 2:2-3), but is monthly rather than weekly; it is regarded as a form of Sumerian sa-bat ("mid-rest"), attested in Akkadian as um nuh libbi ("day of mid-repose"). This conclusion is a contextual restoration of the damaged tablet, which is read as "[Sa]bbath shalt thou then encounter, mid[month]ly."[8]
Editions and translations
- Th. R. Kämmerer - K. A. Metzler, Das babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos Enûma elîsch (= Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Bd. 375). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-86835-036-4.
- The Seven Tablets of Creation, The Babylonian Legends of Creation, by E. A. Wallis Budge, [1921], at sacred-texts.com
- Seven Tablets of Creation, Luzac's Semitic Text and Translation Series, No 12 & 13, ISBN 978-0-404-11344-5 (1973).
- Enûma Eliš: The Seven Tablets of Creation, by L. W. King, Enûma Eliš: The Seven Tablets of Creation, London (1902); 1999 reprint ISBN 978-1-58509-043-3; 2002 reprint ISBN 1-4021-5905-6, at king-of-heroes.co.uk
- Anton Deimel, Enûma Eliš (1936).
- W. C. Lambert, S. B. Parker, Enûma Eliš. The Babylonian Epic of Creation, Oxford (1966).
- D. D. Luckenbill, "The Ashur Version of the Seven Tablets of Creation," The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Oct., 1921), pp. 12–35 .
- Zecharia Sitchin Translation: As a Cosmology of the Solar System with the names of the gods as the Sumerian names of our 9 planets, with Tiamat (as old Earth), a 10th planet called Nibir (Marduk), our Sun, and Earths moon (Kingu). An intruder planet called Nibiru, enters the early Solar System making Uranus turn a 90 degree axis, pulled a moon of Saturn away becoming Pluto, then has a moon impact with Tiamat (old Earth) between Mars and Jupiter. Half of Tiamat becomes the Asteroid belt and Comets. The other half of Tiamat from a second impact is pushed to 3rd from the sun as new Earth keeping Tiamats old Moon (Kingu). Marduk now as Nibir is locked in a counter clockwise 3600 year orbit. From Sitchin's — The Lost Book Of Enki. This translation is an example of a work of pseudo-religion, and Sitchin himself is accused of not being a qualified language scholar.[9]
See also
- ↑ G. Smith, "The Chaldean Account of Genesis" (London, 1876).
- ↑ Bernard Frank Batto, Slaying the dragon: mythmaking in the biblical tradition, Westminster John Knox Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-664-25353-0, p. 35.
- ↑ Jacobsen, Thorkild "The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion".
- 1 2 See:
- Foster, B.R. (1995). From Distant Days : Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia. vi. Bethesda, Md: CDL Press. p. 438.
- Bottéro, J. (2004). Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia. x. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Jacobsen, T. (1976). The Treasures of Darkness : A History of Mesopotamian Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 273.
- ↑ Harry Orlinsky, Notes on the New JPS Translation of the Torah: Genesis 1:1-3 (1969), at voiceofiyov.blogspot.com
- ↑ Richard Elliott Friedman, The Bible with Sources Revealed, HarperOne, 2003. ISBN 0-06-053069-3
- 1 2 Conrad Hyers, "The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science", John Knox, 1984.
- ↑ Pinches, T.G. (2003). "Sabbath (Babylonian)". In Hastings, James. Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics. 20. Selbie, John A., contrib. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 889–891. ISBN 978-0-7661-3698-4. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ↑ Michael S. Heiser, SitchinIsWrong.com, http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/anunnaki/anunnaki.htm
- F. N. H. Al-Rawi, J. A. Black, A New Manuscript of Enūma Eliš, Tablet VI, Journal of Cuneiform Studies (1994).
- H. L. J. Vanstiphout, Enūma eliš: Tablet V Lines 15-22, Journal of Cuneiform Studies (1981).
- B. Landsberger, J. V. Kinnier Wilson, The Fifth Tablet of Enuma Eliš, Journal of Near Eastern Studies (1961).
- Arvid S. Kapelrud, "The Mythological Features in Genesis Chapter I and the Author's Intentions," Vetus Testamentum (1974) (jstor link).
- Alexander Heidel, "Babylonian Genesis" (1951) (google books link)
External links
|Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation on Ancient History Encyclopedia (includes the original text)
- The Theogonies of Damascius
- The full surviving text of the Enûma Elish
- Genesis and Enûma Elish creation mythos comparisons
- A cuneiform text of Tablet I with translation and explanation in detail


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