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A jury found the former owner of Universal Fitness Center in Stanton, KY, not guilty of murder and first-degree robbery at the conclusion of a recent trial.
The jury returned the verdict on Feb. 16 in a Powell County (KY) courtroom, according to multiple local media reports. Woodie Sons Jr. had been accused in the beating and stabbing death of Charles Maggard on Dec. 14, 2010.
The jury needed about an hour of deliberation after two-and-a-half days of testimony to reach its verdict, The Clay City Times of Stanton reported. While Sons breathed a sigh of relief after the verdict was read, Charles Maggard's mother, who found her dead son in his home after he had not reported for work, cried for several minutes as her prosecution team and family tried to console her, the newspaper reported.
"We don't want to diminish what the other family is going through, but we believed in our client," Lisa Whisman, the director of the local public defenders' office, told the newspaper. "With a jury trial, you never know how it will come out. We felt there was doubt in this case."
Sons was arrested two weeks after Maggard was beaten and stabbed with an Ale-8-One soft drink bottle. Police had said that Sons murdered Maggard for not giving him drugs, the newspaper reported.
Sons was held in Powell County Jail on $1 million bail. After an apparent suicide attempt, Sons was transferred to the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center. He pleaded not guilty on Feb. 9, 2011.
The 50,000-square-foot Universal Fitness Center that Sons owned and operated was destroyed in a fire on Oct. 24, 2010. The building was described as a total loss, the result of an electrical fire, according to investigators. Sons told officials that he had no insurance on the fitness equipment inside the club, the newspaper reported.


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Not the greatest of results, I brought four 1 gallon Fountain Grass plants in February 2010 and put two either side of the house. Im pretty sure the grass on the East side has died and the grass on the West side seems to be doing OK?
If they took off it would be great. A lot of what I do is trial and error and I am learning a lot in general.
Strange that I havnt updated the fountain glass for 2 years. Its struggling on both sides now. and I dont really have any direct photos of it on the worst side, just a picture of the lemon tree where you can see the remains of the grass in the bacground. However, each site is sort of replacable with other plants that are large enough in theory when they mature to take over those spots. By the chimney one clump has almost died away whilst on the other both clumps are barely surviving.
With it being April 2011 that makes it 14 months they have been in. The main challenge has been them being swamped by weeds. The photos below show February 2010 when both sides of the house were first done and April 2011.
One of the photos is really of the Foxtail Palm but you can see the April 2011 Fountain Grass in the bottom right. Wikipedia calls Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum and says that it is native to open, scrubby habitats, is drought-tolerant and grows fast. Well, we'll see. If you do a google image search for Fountain Grass it does show a nice bit clump and if you imagine that in place in the above images it would work, but currently they dont really look like much at all. I guess i'll have to see what summer brings.

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At 67 years old, Steve Martin is at last starring in his own real-life version of Parenthood! The New York Post's Page Six reports that the beloved comic actor has quietly become a father for the first time, with his wife, Anne Stringfield, welcoming a child in December.
The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels star and Stringfield, 41, were recently spotted near their Los Angeles home with their newborn baby — whose gender and name have yet to be revealed. Says an insider to Page Six: "They've had a baby, and how they kept it a secret nobody knows . . . Steve's very private."
Actor, comedian, novelist and musician Martin divorced first wife, actress Victoria Tennant, in 1994 after eight years of marriage. He quietly wed Stringer — a writer and former New Yorker editor — in July 2007 at his L.A. home in a surprise ceremony officiated by former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey. Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels was best man, and other celeb guests included Tom Hanks, Carl Reiner and Eugene Levy.
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The Colts are holding out hope Chuck Pagano can return to the sidelines this year.
And when or if he does, they want him calling all the shots.
"If he comes back," interim coach Bruce Arians said, via Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star, "he'll be the head coach and taking back over."
Pagano's been on indefinite leave since being diagnosed with leukemia in September, and Arians said since taking over his goal was to "extend the season," to give Pagano time to return for the Dec. 30 regular season finale, or the playoffs.
"Each game now has become more important and our goal is in sight,'' Arians said. "As long as we'll stay within the moment we'll be playing when he comes back. That has always been our goal since he got sick, to extend the season.
"His footprints and handprints are all over the team. It's his team.''
Pagano's still breaking down film and talking to players and Arians during his treatment, and has made occasional trips to the team complex. He's been on hand for the last two home games, and told Chappell via text "All is good."
"Very humbling experience on Sunday,'' Pagano texted. "The support has been unbelievable.''
Doctors have declared his leukemia in remission, and Arians said he thinks staying connected to his team is an important part of that.
"Being around football, I think, is one of the things that's getting him well,'' Arians said. "The more he can be in the building and be around the guys when it's not detrimental to his health, it's unbelievable medicine for him.
"Being able to break down film and being able to do all the things he's doing at the house and texting guys, . . . those things are fabulous medicine to help a person get well. You have to have a reason to want to get well. When you have one as strong as this, it's great medicine."
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NEW YORK (AP) — It was a brutal Tuesday morning for some A-list stars on Broadway.
Snubbed for Tony Award nominations were Denzel Washington, James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Michelle Williams, Orlando Bloom, Ethan Hawke, Zach Braff, Billy Crudup, Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig. Daniel Radcliffe struck out for his third consecutive Broadway show.
Neil Patrick Harris, who won a nomination for his brilliant performance in the punk-rock show "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," said he was surprised by the final list. But he's been a Tony host and knows from experience the process is often rough.
"Having been the host in previous years, it's always interesting and surprising," he said. "It's a small group of people that nominate and you're never quite sure what they're responding to. That being said, it does get to showcase the talents of people who often don't get their moment in the spotlight."
One of the winners on Tuesday was unconventional musicals: "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a romp with a leading man killed eight times, led the field with 10 nods. It was followed by "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," a rock concert by a transgender German, with eight, and "After Midnight," a candy sampler of stunning dance and singing acts, with seven.
When the dust settled, the musicals up for the Tony's biggest prize are: "After Midnight," ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," ''Aladdin," and "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical." Not one of the shows has a big movie star.
"It's going to be a really exciting Tony race to watch," said Scott Sanders, who produced "After Midnight," which celebrates Duke Ellington's years at the Cotton Club nightclub. (The nomination happened to come on Ellington's birthday.) "The four shows could not be more different in many ways."
Another big winner was the old master himself — Shakespeare. The Mark Rylance-led productions of "Richard III" and "Twelfth Night" from London together scooped up eight nominations.
Rylance, who played "Richard III," will compete in the best leading actor in a play category with Samuel Barnett, also in "Twelfth Night," Bryan Cranston in "All The Way," Chris O'Dowd in "Of Mice and Men" and Tony Shalhoub in "Act One." Rylance also snagged a supporting nomination playing a woman in "Twelfth Night."
He said he didn't care which role actually won. "My preference is being nominated," he said, laughing. "I find in my experience winning is rather an isolating, lonely experience."
The Shakespeare productions — performed by an all-male cast and seeking to replicate how the plays were produced in the Bard's day — also extended the trend on Broadway toward embracing drag.
Last year, "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda the Musical" featured leading men dressed as women. This year has "Casa Valentina," Harvey Fierstein's play about straight cross-dressers, and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," starring Neil Patrick Harris in a skirt. Even "Gentleman's Guide" features Jefferson Mays playing both genders.
While not all Hollywood stars came away empty-handed — Cranston, as expected, won a nod for playing Lyndon Johnson in "All the Way" — the lack of nominations for Broadway veterans from the film world such as Washington, Radcliffe, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, or first-timers, like Franco and Williams, was striking.
"I'm heartbroken that she wasn't nominated," said Danny Burstein, who got his fifth nod, about his "Cabaret" co-star Williams, who plays as Sally Bowles. "She is so fantastic in the show. And in all my years, I have never seen anyone work harder," he said.
One of the spots that likely may have gone to a Hollywood star instead went to Andy Karl, who transformed his body over three years into a fearsome boxer to play the title role in "Rocky."
"It's nice to know it was worth the time and effort," he said. "I've never done anything quite this extensive. It's truly an acting piece, it's truly a musical piece, it's truly a physical piece."
Five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald earned a leading actress in a play nomination for "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill." That's the one female acting category in which she hasn't already notched at least one win, meaning she is in a position to make history as the Tonys' first grand-slam performance winner.
McDonald, who plays Billie Holiday, goes up against Tyne Daly from "Mothers and Sons," LaTanya Richardson Jackson of "A Raisin in the Sun," Cherry Jones from "The Glass Menagerie" and Estelle Parsons in "The Velocity of Autumn." Parsons' nomination couldn't save the play; it announced it would close this weekend after weeks of poor box office receipts.
The best new play category has James Lapine's "Act One," Terrance McNally's "Mothers and Sons," Robert Schenkkan's "All the Way," John Patrick Shanley's "Outside Mullingar" and "Casa Valentina."
Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel, the "Frozen" singer who got a dose of attention when John Travolta mangled her name at the Oscars, got a nomination for her role in "If/Then." The show itself didn't get a best musical nomination, though the music did.
"I'm disappointed. I won't lie. I'm disappointed, but I'm also really excited about being nominated. Being back in the Broadway community is where I feel at most home. I didn't come back for many years because I wanted to find something that I felt really strongly about."
She will compete in June with a very impressive group of women: Mary Bridget Davies in "A Night with Janis Joplin," Sutton Foster in "Violet," Mueller in "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" and Kelli O'Hara of "The Bridges of Madison County."
Some 870 Tony voters — members of professional groups such as The Broadway League and Actors' Equity Association — will decide the final awards, which will be handed out June 8 at Radio City Music Hall.
One actor who will be there with a smile is James Monroe Iglehart, who plays the rambunctious genie in Disney's "Aladdin."
"I know it sounds cliche, but I'm so happy to be nominated. I get to sit down at the Tonys. I'm not in the back. I'm not watching it on television. I get to sit. There's a ticket with my name on it," Iglehart said. "And I don't have to pay for it!"
Associated Press National Writer Jocelyn Noveck in New York contributed to this report.
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BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) - China has earned praise from international scientists for its handling of an outbreak of a deadly new bird flu in humans, but a history of public health cover-ups means the Chinese public is harder to win over.
Even as global authorities have said the new H7N9 bird flu strain that has killed eight and infected 28 is no cause for panic, memories of past health scandals continue to undermine the government's credibility at home in dealing with outbreaks.
Those suspicions have driven anxiety about the human cases in eastern China, and put the government's response under the microscope as much as the bird flu virus itself.
"People aren't fundamentally worried about the bird flu, but about cover-ups and the lack of transparency. The mistrust of the government is far more frightening than H7N9," wrote one user on China's Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo.
Such fears stem from a long list of attempted cover-ups, including that of an epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which emerged in China in 2002 and killed about one in 10 of the 8,000 people it infected worldwide.
Suspicions are also tied to an HIV/AIDS scandal in the 1990s, when officials tried to suppress information of thousands of villagers who were infected through blood donation stations.
But both of those scandals came before the advent of popular local microblog sites; these now have millions of Internet-savvy users who, despite heavy online censorship, have managed to whip up public awareness over galling health and food-safety issues.
The difficulty of keeping a lid on information is one reason China has increased transparency about H7N9, said Jia Xijin, an expert on civil society at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
"Concealing the information is impossible," Jia said. "If they keep the information it will only increase criticism."
Still, Chinese Internet users and newspapers question why it took weeks for the government to announce cases of the bird flu strain, especially as two of the victims fell ill in February.
Health officials said it took time to identify the virus, which was previously unknown in humans. Senior officials are acutely aware of the mistrust, and on Monday Vice Premier Liu Yandong called for greater transparency surrounding the virus.
In a sign of the intense public concern surrounding H7N9, people in China are making a record number of online searches for "bird flu", according to a Google tracking tool. Search volumes are higher now than at any time in the past nine years.
The results, calculated on a comparable adjusted basis, take into account growing Internet use in the country. More Chinese people use the Chinese-language search engine Baidu, but the spike in Google searches is still significant.
With the Internet at their fingertips, many Chinese are not holding back. Jia, the Tsinghua professor, said the government's tight grip on information made transparency seem unattainable, leading to constant criticism and occasional wild rumours - among them talk of the flu being the result of a U.S. attack.
Listening to the public, Chinese authorities have been quick to counter speculation that the H7N9 outbreak is related to more than 16,000 pig carcasses found dumped in rivers around Shanghai. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said some dead pigs from the rivers tested negative for influenza infection.
State media reported some Chinese consumers are making their own decisions, leading to a rush on pharmacy sales of isatis, a herb used in traditional Chinese medicine to cure fever.
While sceptics in China have taken to social media to speak their minds, flu scientists and global public health experts are heaping praise on Beijing for its efforts so far.
Chinese doctors and officials, they say, appear to have learned in the past decade that seeking to cover up a public health threat is more likely than not to backfire and create more panic and worry than publicising what is known.
"Things have improved tremendously," said Ab Osterhaus, a flu expert at the Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands.
"What's important is that communication with the WHO and the international scientific community is happening."
Michael O'Leary, the WHO's representative in China, confirmed his team was getting at least daily updates from China's National Health and Family Planning Commission and from the country's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
Within a day or two of the first cases of the new strain being identified and reported in humans, scientists had posted gene sequence data from virus samples on the website of GISAID, the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data, which makes such data available to flu researchers worldwide.
That swift publication has allowed flu experts in laboratories across the world to start picking through the DNA sequence data to try to assess H7N9'S potential for developing into a human pandemic.
China's official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday that the H7N9 virus had not triggered an epidemic among poultry. With no evidence of transmission between humans, experts say the H7N9 flu outbreak merits close watching, but so far does not present an immediate pandemic risk.
Jeremy Farrar, a leading expert on infectious diseases and director of Oxford University's research unit in Vietnam, told Reuters that China had done "a fantastic job" so far: "In a way, the West could perhaps learn from the way they have truly integrated the public health and clinical response to this."
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With football practice starting today some of you may think Duke is putting recruiting on the back burner but that is not the case for the Blue Devils landed a solid defender just hours ago. Atlanta's Chris Tavarez [5-10, 192 West Lakes HS, Atlanta, Georgia] committed to Duke University citing their early interest as a key factor. Tavarez is known for dishing out some rattling hits on the gridiron and his abilities allow him to play several different positions. Without further ado take a listen to what the latest Duke Blue Devil has to say about his decision -
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A downloadable expansion pack is in the works for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which will include ten new characters, three new maps and a new difficulty mode, Activision announced this morning.
The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 pack, which is being developed by Luxoflux, hasn't yet been priced.
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More than ten new multiplayer characters including ultimate fan favorites such as G1 Starscream and movie favorites like Sideswipe.
Three new multiplayer maps.
Play new characters in both the Autobot and Decepticon single player campaigns.
New Expert difficulty mode with a fresh set of leaderboards to challenge more experienced gamers in the single-player campaigns.
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Missionalia (Online) vol.41 no.1 Pretoria ago. 2013
Missionary diaconate: Hope for migrated people
Hannes (JJ) Knoetze1
This paper will discuss migration from a missional diaconate ministry with specific focus on koinonia and the importance thereof for the Kingdom, church and society. The point of departure being that migration is not a foreign concept to the Bible or Christianity. From the earliest days in the Old Testament and throughout the Bible, believers in the Trinitarian God are described as "strangers in this world" (1 Peter). The paper will focus on the concepts of kyrugma/mission, diaconia and koinonia, as the three dimensions of mission (Kritzinger 1998:34-36) and the relation between them. Lastly, the missionary deaconate as a ministry of hope is discussed.
Keywords: Migration, missionary diaconate, kyrugma/mission, diaconia, koinonia, hope
Migration is accepted as a part of life and as a solution to negative circumstances. Although there are many positive attributes to migration, migration is the result of negatives, people in search for "something better". Migration may even lead to more negative experiences, especially in a social2, economic and emotional way. It brings people's needs to the local congregation's doorstep and in many instances, congregations ignore the need of those who are not (yet) part of the congregation in their community. The problem is: How does the local church help migrating people to come home in a foreign land? And how does the local church help migrated people to live with hope through their negative circumstances?
The hypothesis of this article is that the church's diaconal ministry is focussed mainly on those who are part of the congregation. A plea will be made for a missionary diaconate that understands that diaconia should focus also on those who are not (yet) part of us. Missionary diaconate differs from the deeds of mercy and from NGO's in the sense that it strives to build relationships and help people feel at home because they share our koinonia. "We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you may also have fellowship (koinonia) with us. And our fellowship (koinonia) is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ" (1 John 1:3).The motivation for missionary diaconate is to glorify God (leitourgia) by taking care of His creation. The unconditional link between mission, diaconia and koinonia will be discussed.
The way in which society and the faith community will look at migration and the way that people will experience it, will depend on our ecclesiology3 and our view of humanity. Erickson (1992:164-165) named three different views on humanity: humans as machines4, humans as animals5 and humans as pawns of the universe6- all of which impacts our views on migrating people. Our understanding of ourselves and of humanity might even give us insight in the reasons for migration. The view of this paper is "that humanity is to be understood as having originated not through a chance process of evolution, but through a conscious, purposeful act by God" (Erickson 1992:165). Secondly, that the image of God is intrinsic to humankind and that we will not be human without it.
Migration, mission and the Church
Migration and mission, making God known to the world, is inseparably intertwined throughout the Bible. It started with God's covenant with Abram: "The Lord had said to Abram, 'Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you'" (Gen. 12:1). God's initiative is primary. God binds himself to a human being, a stranger from a foreign land. Throughout the Old Testament God uses the migration of Israel to make Himself known to the nations (Wright 2006:75-104). God made Himself known through the foreigners, His covenant people, in Egypt and in the Promised Land. This mission continues with the incarnation and ministry of Jesus (Wright 2006:105-135). It is in Christ that God confirms His commitment to people in a unique way. He demonstrated His own love for us when Christ died for us while we were still sinners (Rom. 5:1-8)7, or foreigners. With the coming of the Spirit and the establishment of the Church in the New Testament (Green 1970), this truth acquired validity. God lives in people. They are His temples (1 Cor. 3: 16) and they are strangers in this world (1 Pet. 1:1).8 What was started in the covenant is decisively continued in Christ and the work of the Spirit in and through the Church. God is the God who "migrated" from heaven to this earth through the incarnation of His Son Jesus Christ (Phil. 2:6-11) and the giving of His Holy Spirit.
When God made a covenant with Abram, the purpose of the covenant was that "all peoples on earth will be blessed through you" (Gen. 12:3b). People will be blessed because they come to know God as the only God. Through His covenant God wants to become known to a person and his descendants, not only for their sake, but by means of them. This promise is quoted by Peter in Acts 3:25 with reference to his Jewish listeners, Abram's physical descendants. And in Gal. 3:8, Paul quoted the same promise to his Gentile listeners, Abram's spiritual descendants. The nations, those who do not (yet) know, love and serve God, are His goal.
In view of the above we may say that migration is part of God's mission to make Himself known to the world. The relational dealings of God with man and creation are given a covenantal character. This is much more than a free relationship. In the covenant, God wants to say to man that His dealings with creation, man included, are dealings directed at the salvation of creation and migration is part of this. Biblically speaking, we must be positive about migration regardless the circumstances9 because circumstances don't define people. God's relationship, His commitment to humans defines us. From the perspective of the covenant and mission, it might be possible to say that migration is the way in which God makes Himself known. Therefore the church is a migrating movement; we live with the hope of a new life and a new earth, an eschatological hope.
Looking at migration from a socio-economic or earthly perspective, we are confronted with the negative circumstances: poverty; discrimination; racism; etcetera. From this perspective, migration is not viewed in a positive way. Migrating people, especially in Africa and South Africa are usually people in need, looking for a "new" beginning, looking for hope. My conviction is that we cannot talk about migration from one perspective only, either from the Word or from society. To bring hope to migrated people we must be Word-centred, community-centred and contextual-centred. We must be God-centred, Christian/Kingdom-centred, and society-centred.
In this paper migration is understood in the widest sense of the word. Migration includes physical, spiritual and even emotional migration. Migration is usually closely linked to unhappiness with circumstances or a specific calling or conviction. Whenever migration is discussed, it always involves socio-, economic-, and/or political circumstances. In some instances migration might happen because of religious or spiritual reasons.
At an information session of Afriforum (21-02-2001), it was made known that about 40% of foreign job opportunities of South Africans fail. In many of the cases, the local workforce was negative about foreign colleagues. About 80% of migration is unsuccessful as a result of family problems.
Freier (2010)10 highlights the lack of reliable data on migration, especially in Africa and makes the following observations:
In most developing African countries, migration and development are seen as separate policy issues.
The ostensible links between migrants and crime, HIV/AIDS and unemployment are academically unfounded.11
Local government is encouraged to ensure access to markets, accommodation and critical social services for all city residents to avoid economic exclusion, resulting in the loss of migrant investments.
Conventional theories, which see rural-urban migration as unidirectional urbanisation, are challenged. It is shown that urban households are increasingly dependent on food transfers from rural areas.
The above mentioned observations might as well be true of the Church, because we don't look at migration from a theological perspective. Sometimes the Church forgets that we ourselves are migrated people who live by the grace of God. Therefore we do not see the opportunities that migrating people have to offer in the building of the Kingdom. We usually only see migrated people as a threat to us and our environment.
Spiritually, people also migrate inwards or between denominations and even between faiths when migrated people are experienced as a social-, economic-, and political threat.12 The last theological study relating the influences of population, migration and mission within the South African context was done by Kritzinger (1988). In this study he describes the context in typical South African scenarios, which are still applicable today. Kritzinger (1988:95-116) ends his study with three topics related to this paper: The incomplete evangelical task; the incomplete social calling and the incomplete Church. These three topics will be discussed in this paper as kyrugma/mission, diaconia and koinonia, which are the three dimensions of mission (Kritzinger 1988:34-36). However, mission will be incomplete if it does not lead to worship (leitourgia). Wright (2006:133) quoted Piper: "Mission is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Mission exists because worship doesn't".
Missional or missionary diaconate: Terminology Missional or missionary
Missiologists have wonderful definitions of mission, but regardless of our definitions, the people understand mission13 in general as: "(a) Propagation of faith; (b) expansion of the reign of God; (c) conversion of the heathen and (d) the founding of new churches" (Bosch 1991:1).
Mission is under a lot of criticism (Bosch 1991:2, Saayman 2010) and we want to save it through better definitions and altered terminology.14 This might be one of the reasons to change from missionary to missional. Saayman (2010:5) argues that the term "missional" as an adjective, linked to "missional church", has established itself in missiological discourse in the last decade of the twentieth century. It was mainly a term utilised in the First World, especially in North America and Europe. But towards the end of the first decade in the twenty-first century, it has established itself also in the Third World, especially in South Africa. Saayman (2010:9) continues to show that both the terms "missionary" and "missional" originated from the missio Dei.15 When Saayman (2010:10-12) tries to differentiate between the two terms he identifies the following three areas: The first distinctive area is the context within which the term missional originated - specifically Western, North Atlantic, emerging postmodern culture. The second distinctive area is found in the aim or vision of the utilisers of this term, which, among other things, includes the question of the identity of the church and its social relevance in its existing context. The third distinctive area is the relationship to and interaction with the emergent church or emerging church movement.16
For my own understanding we are back at the old distinction of mission, which is understood as centripetal in the Old Testament, and as centrifugal in the New Testament. Missional can then be understood as centripetal, because we want to be a blessing to the community in which we live by our way of living (Wright 2006:24-25). In this sense we live missional -reaching out to our own people and those who come to us for help. Missionary can be understood as being centrifugal - going out not only to our own community but also to other communities. Both centripetal and centrifugal have certain shortcomings and misinterpretations, in the same way that both missional and missionary have some shortcomings and misinterpretations. Therefore I don't think it is an either or but both: missional and missionary. The preferred term will be contextually defined.
Bosch (1991:2) clearly shows that criticism of mission should in itself not be a surprise. We tend to forget that we are propagating change and change always leads to criticism and even conflict. This unfortunate situation is the result of our separation between the different ministries within the church. We have done mission work and diaconia without, or totally separate, from koinonia. I believe that if we take the koinonia seriously, this false differentiation between missional and missionary will disappear.
The problem is that we distinguish and separate the ministries of the Church from its identity. We cannot talk about mission without talking about ecclesiology. The Church is both the fruit of God's mission - those whom He has redeemed, and the agent of His mission - the community through which He acts for the world's redemption (Williams 2004:85). "There is Church because there is mission, not vice versa" (Bosch 1991:390). Migration is all about change, about being on a "mission" for a better life. It is by looking for a better life that the missio Dei and the "mission" of man meet and that the Agogic perspective of the Church as a sphere of change forms an essential part in the bringing of hope (Nel 2000:21-25).
In theology, change can only be understood pneumatologically. This Agogic moment propels all ministries, but we experience this theology especially in the ministry to people who are in any case changing and who experience change dramatically and sometimes traumatically. It is only through a pneumatological17 understanding of change, or more specifically an understanding of the missio Trinitatis Dei, that we can bring hope. Therefore the essence of the Church, of the koinonia, is to be a missionary community. Greenwood (1996:28) asked: "What is mission if not the engagement with God in the entire enterprise of bringing the whole of creation to its intended destiny? A local church cannot claim to be part of this if it only serves itself."
If mission is conceptualised only as missional or missionary, will it bring hope for migrated people?
Diaconia/diaconeo = "to render assistance or help by performing certain duties, often of a humble or menial nature" (Louw & Nida 1993:460).
It seems that migration is one of the main reasons that Noordegraaf (1991:9)19 mentioned for the necessity to reinterpret the diaconate as "dienend getuigen"20 or missionary diaconate. The problem with most of the diaconal studies is that the focus of the studies fall mainly on the faith community because the diaconia come from the faith community. This leads, firstly, to the thinking of many Christians that it is the responsibility of the Government to take care of the society and the Church has no responsibility to make a difference, regardless of the purpose of the Covenant. Secondly, the lack of vision for the diaconia in the Kingdom of God hinders it to make a difference in this world because there is an inherent fear for koinonia. Fear that "they" will want to become one of us and share in our privileges. When diaconia is used in the sense of crossing borders, it must be understood as "dienend getuigen" or missionary diaconate.
In many instances the Church's thinking about diaconia is the same as that of the Greeks who think that diaconia is unworthy. According to Bromiley (1985:152) "...we are born to rule not to serve. Service acquires value only when it promotes individual development, or the development of the whole as service of the state. .the idea of self-sacrificial service finds little place". In the Septuagint we seldom find the word diaconein. We find other words that are translated with "service". For this reason the source of the diaconeo word group, as found in the New Testament, must not be sought at the Greeks or the Jews. Jesus filled it with a specific content. "By exalting service and relating it to the love of God, Jesus both sets forth a completely different view from that of the Greeks and purifies the Jewish concept" (Bromiley 1985:153). If we want to bring hope we must follow in the footsteps of Jesus and relate our diaconia to the love of God. Our motivation for diaconia, Word-centeredness, is the distinction between us and other role players working in the community.
Through the directive in John 12:26, Jesus proclaims to the people what it entails to serve Him. This is a general prescription that is valid for every believer and due to the accumulation of the diacon word group this can be viewed as a definition of what it means to be a diaconos of Jesus Christ. The opinion that diaconia primarily describes the work of service of people with a specific calling in offices of the Church, is questionable based on Jesus' definition of diaconia. It is clear that the author of the Gospel of John was of the conviction that every person who follows Jesus should also be a diaconos (Breed 2011:3). From John 12 Breed (2011) states it is clear that to follow Christ you must come to the decision to glorify the Father by fulfilling the task given by Him, even if this could mean your death. The main purpose of diaconia is then to glorify God. It seems that this purpose of diaconia, glorifying God by fulfilling the task given by the Father, is in reality far from the local church's understanding of diaconia. Our diaconia is more often than not people- centred- focussing only on deeds of compassion and asset-based-focussing only on what we have physically and it is not God-centred-proclaiming the Word and including deeds of faith.
In His diaconia, his death, Jesus reveals the love of God and through this He conquers sin and Satan. This is the Gospel according to John. To be obedient to Jesus and to follow Christ is life to the full (John 10:10). This is the Word that has been proclaimed by the Father, through Jesus, to all people: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). In John 12 and elsewhere Jesus repeatedly refers to the Father who had sent him, the missio Dei. Jesus also refers to Himself as a diaconos (Mark 10:45, John 13). In John 17 Jesus describes the content of the faith of the disciples by saying that they are the ones who believe that the Father had sent Him. The aim of Jesus' diaconia is to attract all to Him, the koinonia. "In John's description of the Gospel the emphasis is on relationships" (Breed 2011:6). Diaconia is closely linked to love for God and God's children and those who are not (yet) children of God (John 17:18-20).
Breed (2011:7) argues that diaconia cannot be separated from the humble and sacrificial love service of Jesus as described in John 13 and the directives to Peter in John 21:15-22. In Peter's case this means to take care of the flock of the Lord (John 21:15-22), but Jesus also clearly says that it can mean something else to another diaconos - John (John 21:20-22). The implication for the diaconia of the Church is that we must focus on relationships, or koinonia. First our koinonia with the Trinitarian God, but also our koinonia in the Church and koinonia with the world, those who are not (yet) part of the Church.
Koinonia = "an association involving close mutual relations and involvement" (Louw & Nida 1993:446)
Koinoneo = "to share one's possessions, with the implication of some kind of joint participation and mutual interest. That which is readily shared -'willing gift, ready contribution'" (Louw & Nida 1993:569).
In 2 Cor. 8:4: " "21. In this verse the Macedonians begged Paul for the privilege () of sharing () in this service (ôiaKoviaç) to aid the Jerusalem Church in its poverty.
According to Martin (1986:254), koinonia signifies the notion of having a share in fellowship in work which is in this case the diaconia of the collection. The key words in this passage are: garis; koinonia and diaconia. In this sense koinonia conveys the idea of participation in the objective reality, the religious good. It is clear then that kiononia is more than mere fellowship. Koinonia and diaconia are an integral part of each other. There can be no real diaconia without koinonia and no koinonia without diaconia. We can distinguish between them but we cannot separate them.
Burger (1999:231-245) explains that with koinonia, it is about people who give recognition to each other, who care for each other, who take responsibility for each other and who learn to love each other. We must love in the same manner as Jesus and the Father loved us. We cannot only love the people who love us back, our love must incorporate more. Three specific groups that challenge our love are named in the Bible: The strangers or foreigners (Gen 18:1-15; Heb. 13:2); the vulnerable - people that don't belong (Matt 25:31) and our enemies (Matt 5:42-47). Migrated people belong to either one of these groups. Migrated people challenge our love. If the local church just wants to help them by doing some deeds of mercy and we are not prepared to have koinonia with them and let them become part of our community, we won't bring them any hope. Hope is not to be found in material things, which can help, but real hope is found in relationships, in koinonia. Do we want to get involved with them?
The Hope
"(But) have reverence for Christ in your hearts, and honour him as Lord. Be ready at all times to answer anyone who asks us to explain the hope you have in you" (1 Pet. 3:15).
When we talk about hope, the truths of recreation; resurrection and eschatology, help us in our understanding of the hope that lives within us (Botman 2002). The faith community is a community of hope formed by these truths and because they want to be a blessing to migrating people, they share this hope through koinonia. This relationship is built through a missionary diaconate ministry.
The truth of Recreation- a new life.
Migrating people are looking for a new beginning, a new life. The story of the Bible is the story of creation and recreation. Throughout the Bible we read about new beginnings (Gen. 6, 12, Ezek. 36:26) and the promise of redemption. In the New Testament we are called to be born again (John 3). This proclamation is founded in Jesus Christ as the "new Human Being" and "when anyone is joined to Christ, he is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come" (2 Cor. 5:17). The New Testament talks of the new creation, the new heaven and the new earth, and the church is part of this new creation. But the church also takes part in this new creation; it alerts us to the fact that God is doing new things among us, with us and through us in our history. The newness is the Gospel, the Word of God. God creates through His Word (John 1:1-4) a new community of faith. Therefore, the Gospel is recreating a new reality of koinonia. Recreation calls the Christian to a special nurturing task as a responsible citizen of the Kingdom as well as of the state.
The Church needs to fulfil its priestly ministry of kyrugma and diaconia in creating new life possibilities for migrated people. This new life is only to be found in new relations with God, with my neighbour and with myself. It is the privilege of the Church to assist in the creation of possibilities for new relationships with God through preaching the Word and living the Word, by being the body of Christ, especially to strangers and vulnerable people. The Church must take part in creating new possibilities for the relationship with my neighbour; making participation in the economic life possible and in the formation of networks, partnerships and jobs. The Church can help to create a new possibility for the relationship with the self, hereby reinforcing the image of God in individuals and proclaiming the love of God to them.
The truth of the resurrection.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the essence, not only for Christian doctrine, but for the Christian life. 1 Cor. 15 states clearly that if the resurrection did not happen, our Christian faith is false and the Christian life a lie. Therefore, the resurrection is central to Christianity and the Christian life. McCledon (1988) identified the following crucial propositions of the resurrection: Resurrection is the vindication of justice; resurrection is a new way of construing the world and resurrection is the ultimate transformation. These propositions determine the content of the missionary diaconate as a ministry to migrating people.
The Church needs to fulfil its kingly function by working actively against the negative causes associated with migration. The new dispensation is confirmed by the resurrection of Christ. Since the Church has the privilege to take part in the missio Dei, it is our duty to preach good news to the poor; proclaim freedom to the prisoners; help the blind to recover their sight; take part in releasing the oppressed and to proclaim the grace of the Lord (Luke 4:18-19; Matt 25). Resurrection is not a pie in the sky, it is a reality. We must live it. The koinonia, with the resurrected Christ, is the reality that determines our lives.
The truth of Eschatology.
The resurrection cannot stand alone; we have to go beyond it to embrace the eschatological reality. According to Botman (2002), ".the nature of true eschatological ethics is in living 'as if the status quo is not' and in the assumption that the time is short and that the scheme or form of the world is passing by". Therefore, any theology that says "no" to the status quo, must simultaneously shout "yes" for the new creation that is becoming a visible reality in our midst. "Transformative living is living in the presence of the future inaugurated by Jesus Christ" (Botman 2002). John 17:3 teaches us that this eschatological reality is also a relational reality; a knowing of God and the One that was sent by Him.
The Church needs to fulfil its prophetic function by working actively according to the eschatological reality; proclaiming the will of God for a time like this and by living our responsibility in a situation of migration. In this world, the Church must live as foreigners who are migrating to a new world.
The Church as a Sphere of Hope
The migrating people are in many instances like the men who walked from Jerusalem to Emmaus after Easter weekend (Luke 24): "We have hoped." they said. They have not lost all hope, but the little that was left, has been crushed by the facts, by circumstances and by the realities. They have become realists who are satisfied to live with minimal hope. Jesus joined them and He did not leave until they had seen hope again. Real hope cannot be read from papers or statistics; it takes people who can see the resurrection.
In many instances, we, the Church also become realists who are satisfied to live with minimal hope. Hope that is lost leaves a vacuum that one must fill. Some fill it with cynicism. According to the world, the Church filled it with dogma and confessions. Botman (2002) argues that people are changed, not by ethical urging but by transformed imagination. Transformed imagination in this instance must be understood as the development of an imagination of hope. We need a ministry of missionary diaconate which can see God's presence in the predicament and the hand of God in the creation of hope against all hopelessness. We need a ministry that provokes new realities of koinonia in communities and gives birth to new actions in society because it has learnt that God is busy with renewal on this continent. The Church has to understand that when the words one, holy, catholic and apostolic refer to the nature of the Church, they have to be visible qualities of the Church as it actually exists. Because the only way we can measure a church, is by what we can see (Van Engen 2004:60-65). There must be a movement and development from our conception of what the church is, towards our commitment to what the Church must become (Moltmann 1977:2). Looking at the above mentioned three truths, we cannot think of the church only inwardly, we must think of the church in reference to the world. Moltmann (1977:341) calls for a radical missional response: "The church's unity is its unity in freedom. The church's holiness is its holiness in poverty. The church's apostolicity bears a sign of the cross and its catholicity is linked with its partisan support for the oppressed".
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1 Hannes Knoetze lecturers at the Department of Theology at the Mafikeng Campus of the North West University, in South Africa. He can be contacted at email@example.com
2 Think of the xenophobia situation in South Africa.
3 It is not in the specs of this article to look at ecclesiology, but it is worth noticing the fact "...that most ecclesiological thinking and even experimenting has taken place within the confines of classical Christendom..." (Kärkkäinen 2002:9)
4 This perspective on humans is interested only in what they can do, their strength, energy and skills. This view of humanity is closely linked to economic values.
5 In this view there is no difference between human beings and other animals. The only difference is one of degree. This view is most fully developed in behaviouristic psychology.
6 This view portrays the idea that humans are at the mercy of worldly forces which control their destiny but have no real concern for them.
7 may refer to persons who were irreligious in the sense of having no concern for observing the details of the Law. Such people were often treated as social outcasts (Louw & Nida Vol 1, 1993:774).
8 Van Rensburg (1993:1946, 1950) mentions that the stranger-status of the first readers could indicate their political status- that they were without civil rights in the countries where they were living because they were aliens. For instance, they had no right to property and they fall prey to injustice and discrimination.
9 Whenever people migrated, the circumstances are the defining factor. Israel migrated from Egypt because they were slaves. In Acts 8:1 the believers were scattered because of the persecution.
10 In his book review on Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne (2010).
11 There are however academic studies especially on the impact of migration on spreading HIV and Aids. The combination of HIV and AIDS and economic migration in Southern Africa is causing serious depletion of human resources (Morris & Lewis, 2003:8).
12 Examples are: 1986 the establishment of the APK after "Kerk en Samelewing" and the unresolved issues about the Belhar Confession within the Dutch Reformed Church family in South Africa. Or the rapid growth in the AIC's mainly from the mainline churches.
13 "The term mission and missionary as it is generally understood today in Theology, namely as describing the spread of the Christian faith among unbelievers, has a very chequered history" Saayman (2010:6-7).
14 Because of the negative perceptions and connotations to mission and missionary, Saayman (2010:7) shows how it became fashionable to talk about inter-church aid and fraternal workers.
15 Mission is understood as ultimately proceeding from a Trinitarian God. The ecclesiology functioning in this backdrop is an understanding that God the Father, through the redemption of the Son and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, sent the church. The classical formulation of missio Dei affirms that mission is God's way of sending forth (See Bosch 1991:389-393).
16 For reflections on missional ecclesiology (in South Africa) see Niemandt (2010:397-412)
17 In the Nicene Creed we confess: "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father, and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified;."
18 For more comprehensive arguments compare Knoetze (2002:49-77).
19 He does not refer to migration specifically but to the circumstances that cause migration like socio-economical influences, one worldwide economy and from Christianity the role of the ecumenical movement.
20 Service and witness
21 Cor. 8:4 "They begged us and pleaded for the privilege of having a part in helping God's people in Judea."


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Stocks finished in negative territory Thursday, dragged by techs, amid ongoing concerns over Cyprus' ability to get a bailout.
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Stocks finished in negative territory Thursday, dragged by techs, amid ongoing concerns over Cyprus' ability to get a bailout.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 90.24 points, or 0.62 percent, to end at 14,421.49, led by Cisco and IBM. The blue-chip index tumbled more than 120 points at session lows.
The S&P 500 fell 12.91 points, or 0.83 percent, to finish at 1,545.80. The Nasdaq slumped 31.59 points, or 0.97 percent, to close at 3,222.60. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, jumped near 14.
Most key S&P sectors ended lower, led by techs and materials. Telecoms eked out a small gain.
"It looks like the rally's gotten tired—we've been up 13 in the last 16 weeks so we may be due for a pullback," said Jeff Kleintop, Chief Market Strategist for LPL Financial. "In the last few years, late March and early April's been a time when the market tends to peak and sees a 5 to 10 percent pullback. But we'll see a bounce after that, so individual investors can use this market to their advantage and look to buy on the dips."
In the latest development, the Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus put out a statement to outline a plan to save the nation's struggling banking system and is seeking an immediate vote on it by the House of Representatives. The plan includes protecting bank accounts under 100,000 euros.
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In Europe, the ECB told Cyprus it has until next Monday to agree to a bailout plan, threatening to cut off funding to the nation's cash-strapped banks. Earlier this week, Cypriot lawmakers voted against a levy on bank deposits. Banks will remain closed until next Tuesday and Cyprus is considering some form of capital controls to prevent capital flight once they re-open. The country's stock exchange will also be closed on both Thursday and Friday.
Meanwhile, troubled Cyprus Popular Bank imposed a 260 euro per day limit on ATM withdrawals in an effort to deal with high demand. Anxious customers formed long lines at ATM machines to withdraw funds amid rumors that the bank was to be closed down, later denied by the central bank.
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The head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem, told CNBC that while he was confident an agreement could be found over Cyprus, Russia might not be the source of the aid.
Adding to woes in Europe, business activity in Germany slowed in March. European shares finished lower.
"We're seeing the core economies of Europe like France and Germany, which had been growing for years despite the peripheral countries, all in recession now. The economic malaise in Europe is expected to continue," warned Kleintop. "Cyprus is the least of Europe's problems right now."
Among earnings, Oracle slumped nearly 10 percent, its biggest drop in 15 months, after the software company reported earnings and revenue that missed forecasts as software sales and subscriptions dropped 2 percent compared to the company's estimates for a gain of 3 to 13 percent. At least three brokerages slashed their price target on the company.
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Lululemon posted a profit that topped expectations, but the yogawear maker said it expects earnings to decline in the current quarter due to the see-through yoga pants recall earlier this week.
KB Home gained after the homebuilder posted a narrower-than-expected loss and a gain in new home orders.
Nike and Micron are expected to post earnings after the closing bell. (Read More: Nike Earnings: 3 Things to Watch)
Among techs, Hewlett-Packard boosted its quarterly dividend by 10 percent to 14.52 cents a share. The news came a day after H-P's board members were re-elected, but shareholders remained disappointment over the company's $11 billion purchase of British software firm Autonomy.
Cisco slumped after FBR Capital cut its rating on the networking equipment maker to "underperform" from "market perform" and lowered its price target to $17 from $22.
Meanwhile, Yahoo bucked the negative trend after Oppenheimer boosted its rating on the company to "outperform" from "perform" and lifted its price target to $27 from $22.
On the economic front, weekly jobless claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 336,000, according to the Labor Department, while a trend reading dropped to its lowest in five years, signaling an ongoing recovery in the labor market.
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Also on the economic front, leading indicators gained for a third month, according to the Conference Board. And factory activity in the mid-Atlantic region grew in March after contracting for two months, according to the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank.
In Washington, the U.S. House passed a bill to extend funding for the government through September, avoiding a shutdown that loomed at the end of the month.
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Generic polyvariadic printf in Haskell98
This generalization of Text.Printf.printf is inspired by the message of Evan Klitzke, who wrote on Haskell-Cafe about frequent occurrences in his code of the lines like
infoM $ printf "%s saw %s with %s" (show x) (show y) (show z)
Writing show on and on quickly becomes tiresome. It turns out, we can avoid these repeating show, still conforming to Haskell98.
Our polyvariadic generic printf is like polyvariadic show with the printf-like format string. Our printf handles values of any present and future type for which there is a Show instance. For example:
t1 = unR $ printf "Hi there" -- "Hi there"
t2 = unR $ printf "Hi %s!" "there" -- "Hi there!"
t3 = unR $ printf "The value of %s is %s" "x" 3 -- "The value of x is 3"
t4 = unR $ printf "The value of %s is %s" "x" [5] -- "The value of x is [5]"
The unsightly unR appears solely for Haskell98 compatibility: flexible instances remove the need for it. On the other hand, Evan Klitzke's code post-processes the result of formatting with infoM, which can subsume unR.
A bigger problem with our generic printf, shared with the original Text.Printf.printf, is partiality: The errors like passing too many or too few arguments to printf are caught only at run-time. We can certainly do better.
Version: The current version is 1.1, June 5, 2009.
- The complete source code with the tests. It was published in the message posted on the Haskell-Cafe mailing list on Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:57:00 -0700 (PDT) http://okmij.org/ftp/typed-formatting/GenPrintF.hs
Needed only for the sake of Haskell98 If we are OK with flexible instances, this newtype can be disposed of
A very simple language of format descriptors
convert_to_fdesc :: String -> [FDesc]Source


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|Banthai Beach Resort & Spa
is located at the centre of Patong Beach, Phuket
Thailand and situated on 5 acres of land amid lush tropical gardens
facing the turquoise waters of the Andaman Sea.
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Ian Heys
Format: PAL
Duration: 60 minutes
First Pasture Price: £9.95
Status: In Stock
The Hayling Island Branch was one of the Southern Railways most famous due to the use of LB&SCR Terriers as its motive power owing to weight restrictions until the line closed in 1963. The branch not only provided a lifeline to local people but also carried generations of holiday makers to the seaside. To try to recapture the lost charm of this delightful branch line, we have brought together over 20 minutes of high quality cine film, most of it in colour.
Each of the stations at Havant, Langstone, North Hayling and Hayling Island are explored in depth. Coupled to this we have photographs from the famous collection of A.A.F Bell. Alan's vast knowledge of the line allows us to see not only the railway but allows a unique insight into the people who worked the line.
The programme also visits Havant Signal Box and the remains of the engine shed at Fratton. Whilst filming at Fratton we captured Merchant Navy Pacific, Clan Line, the first steam locomotive to reach Portsmouth for over 20 years. Finally we have memories from many of the men who worked the line.


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Better Error Messages
Good error messages make for more productive developers. This page is a place to collect error messages that could stand improvement, or which are misleading or confusing in certain contexts. Most of us have had the experience of getting a "weird" message, puzzling it out (perhaps with help from django-users or #django) and then moving on.
Some of these may seem like quick patches but others will take a bit of consideration -- that's why the wiki page rather than individual tickets. Some are more along the lines of "Django Lint" than simple changes to error output.
For now, let's try dividing them into sections by major module. Within those sections suggested format is: error message, explanatory context (often important -- a message that is very helpful in one context can be confusing in another), suggested improvements/changes.
Also see:
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_field_sets'
Context: One or more models that are referenced by ForeignKey from another model are missing their inner
Admin class. Possible other causes as well. See ticket #1808.
Suggestion: Check relevant Admin settings during model validation?
- Ticket #3219 -- suggestion for better error messages for invalid Admin attributes
Please correct the error below.
Context: This error may appear on the admin screen after trying to save a form, even though there is no error below that is highlighted.
Suggestion: Check to see if you have listed the desired fields in ModelAdmin, but then misspelled one while trying to use a custom form field in an associated ModelForm.
TypeError at ... string indices must be integers
Context: A FileUploadField is being validated but the form did not have enctype="multipart/form-data" set.
Suggestion: Check form enctype during validation? Show FILES in addition to GET and POST on error pages?
- Ticket #3221 -- patch for better error message for faulty URLconf
File "c:\django\django\core\urlresolvers.py", line 255, in _get_urlconf_module raise ImproperlyConfigured, "Error while importing URLconf %r: %s" % (self.urlconf_name, e) ImproperlyConfigured: Error while importing URLconf 'reports.urls': tuple index out of range
Context: A Trying to load my home page and it is evidently finding something wrong with my urls.py
Suggestion: Output which tuple it is trying to index, and perhaps even the entire 'patterns'
- Ticket #6537 -- Unhelpful error message: 'tuple index out of range'
Error: cannot import name FooBar
Context: You get only this error line starting the developer server. But this doesn't help to find the real error.
Suggestion: e.g. one model can't import because you have a import loop. Use the patch from Ticket #11667 to get a full traceback and bugfix your models.
- Ticket #11667 -- Full traceback if import error before model validation
AttributeError: WSGIRequestHandler instance has no attribute 'path'
Context: This error gets raised when a server started by runserver is (by accident) accessed via
https://. Details here.
Suggestion: runserver does not support https, please use it only via http.
OperationalError: Unable to close due to unfinalised statements
Context: SQLite file permissions are incorrect (directory or DB file lack write permission)
Suggestion: Check file permissions when running with SQLite backend and warn user if they seem incorrect
ProgrammingError: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
This pyscopg2 (PostgreSQL) error usually signifies that some previous database query was incorrect (e.g., you tried to
order_by() a field that doesn't exist, or put a string in an integer column, etc.). That previous error aborted the transaction, causing all subsequent database access to fail with this message.
If you get this while at a shell, you can fix your database connection by executing a rollback:
from django.db import connection connection.cursor().execute('rollback')
If you get this from a view, it probably means the immediately previous query had a problem (but was caught by an over-eager exception handler).
In certain situations with PostgreSQL, a bogus error message about SET TIME ZONE may be returned. See #3179 (which is closed, but has a description of the problem). The real error message can probably be found in the postgres log file.
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'widget'
(in BaseForm.full_clean)
A ModelForm refers to a nonexistent field.
If you create a ModelForm but neglect to indicate the model in the Meta, you get:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
In django.forms.models line 240 there could be a check to make sure the options instance has a valid model declaration and if not warn the user more explicitly ("ModelForm <classname> does is missing the model") This is covered by #12285.
#15126 describes a common class of problem -- users with a single-item tuple forgetting the trailing comma. This was reported in the context of ModelForm.fields, but is a general problem that can (and should) be caught and reported.
AttributeError: Http404 instance has no attribute 'has_header'
Context: Http404 is
returned instead of
Suggestion: Check type of HttpResponse before attempting to use (perhaps unPythonic?) or possibly give Http404 a clearer name like Http404Exception
Invoking .render() with a <coconut> object instead of a HttpRequest as the first argument invokes AttributeError with the message: "'<coconut>' object has no attribute 'META'". Better will be something like, "render() takes a request object for the first argument."
- See this thread on the django-developers list for discussion of suppression of TypeError in the template engine
Using an invalid template tag results in the generic 'list index out of range' error which doesn't show any information about the offending file or expression. E.g., if a template contains:
... {% invalid_template_tag %} ...
An error occurs at line 279 of django.template.__init__.py:
278 try: 279 compiled_result = compile_func(self, token) 280 except KeyError: 281 self.invalid_block_tag(token, command) 282 except TemplateSyntaxError, e: 283 if not self.compile_function_error(token,e): 291 raise
What seems to be happening is that self.invalid_block_tag(...) raises an error which gets caught by TemplateSyntaxError and which eventually leads to the generic 'list index out of range' error being reported in the Django error page.


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Nonlinear and Magnetooptic Control of Light in Metamaterials and Superfocussing
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This talk is part of the International Workshop "Novel Ideas in Optics: From Advanced Materials to Revolutionary Applications" hosted by Purdue University.
Allan is a Fellow of the SPIE and is also a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He is well-known both in the UK and globally for his work on surface plasmons and guided wave optics, especially nonlinear waves and solitons. He is the leading theorist looking at nonlinear guided magnetooptic waves in metamaterials and is a new co-Chair of the globally leading SPIE Photonics Europe held biannually in Brussels. This is in addition to being the co-Chair of SPIE Annual Optics and Photonics meeting in San Diego, USA each year. He is Professor of Applied Physics and holds a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham UK. He has organized many conferences and been a Director of a number of NATO Advanced Study Institutes. He is Vice-President of the United Kingdom Consortium for Optics and Photonics (UKCPO), Chair of the UK Optics and Photonics division of the Institute of Physics. He was also Secretary of the European Physical Society, Quantum Electronics and Optics Division for a while. His principal research activities cover linear and nonlinear surface waves, both electromagnetic and acoustic, on negative index and more complex metamaterials, solitons in nonlinear gyroelectric media, nonlinear electromagnetic modeling, nonlinear microwave magnetics, complex microwave materials, magneto-photonic band gap phenomena, dissipative solitons and electromagnetic modeling for mm-wave devices and EMC problems. He is the author of more than 280 papers with 3498 citations and h=26 in major journals, the presenter of 293 conference papers, the author/editor of 7 books, a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Nonlinear Optics and editor of Advances in Nonlinear Optics.
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Security Clearances >> Browse Articles >> Enforcement & Investigation
Looking for a Homeland Security Job? Be Patient
Allan Hoffman / Monster.com
October 16, 2007
The US may be pouring billions into homeland security, including funds to target cyberterrorism, but these outlays don't necessarily translate into easy pickings for information technology professionals seeking work in this sector.
Those with security clearances and expertise in a security niche, such as encryption or biometrics, have an edge in seeking employment on homeland-security projects. But even for those with years of security experience, the field is difficult to break into, because:
1) Government bureaucracy slows hiring.
2) Jobs may be contingent on federal contracts being awarded to private-sector employers.
3) Security clearances may be necessary, whether for employment at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or companies working on government contracts.
4) The work isn't concentrated in one place. Jobs exist at the federal, state and local levels of government, as well as at small businesses and corporations.
- Looking for scholarships to take your skill set to the next level? Find one here.
Michael Fitzgerald, principal consultant at staffing firm Winter, Wyman & Company, sees homeland security as a "growth area" for IT workers, yet notes that the complications of job hunting in the field can be discouraging to techies accustomed to faster hiring processes.
Techies may also have the misconception that working in homeland security, even for the DHS itself, is like working for a spy agency. It's not, Fitzgerald cautions. Tackling the innovative challenges of the post-9/11 world certainly makes up a portion of the IT work available on homeland security projects, but not all of it, he says. "There's a lot of work that is just humdrum IT work," such as updating and maintaining computer systems and other such functional tasks, he notes.Look Down the Private Path
But the hiring situation may be improving, especially as DHS awards IT-related contracts to companies. "There's a lot of activity," says Jacob Goodwin, editor-in-chief of Government Security News. "It's not a slam-dunk [for job seekers], but it's a growth opportunity."
Furthermore, the security concerns spawned by 9/11 have created opportunities beyond those classified strictly as homeland security. Brian Drum, president and CEO of recruitment firm Drum Associates, says that major companies must often retool their IT systems and data centers to cope with the possibility of power-grid problems, terrorist attacks and other unforeseen events.
Such work can entail:
1) Developing biometric identification for smart cards.
2) Sharing information between government agencies through databases, intranets and other communication systems.
3) Protecting the Internet and other networks from attack.
4) Designing back-up systems.
5) Bring It All Home
If you're seeking work in homeland security, keep the following in mind:
Be Prepared for Bureaucracy: Don't discount the power of government bureaucracy to create obstacles to hiring. That is particularly true for those seeking work at DHS, says Fitzgerald, who notes the "long and trying process" many job seekers will face. "You need to examine whether you're patient enough to make this happen," he says.
Look Beyond the Government: Don't make the mistake of thinking that the DHS is where all the action is. "The best and most important IT work is not done by government employees who are on the government payroll," Goodwin says. "It's done by contractors."
Follow the Contracts: Because many jobs in homeland security exist outside government, follow the trail of government contracts to find which private-sector employers are working on DHS-related projects. Check out articles at Government Security News, Government Technology and Washington Technology for leads. Conferences, such as the RSA Conference, is another way to learn about who's working on homeland security projects.
Use Your Clearance: If you have a security clearance, you will have a much better chance of finding work in homeland security. "Security clearances are normally required to be an applicable candidate for this space," Fitzgerald says.


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Wireless broadband communications company LightSquared Inc is splitting its proposed $3 billion senior secured exit term loan into a $2 billion first-lien loan and $1 billion second-lien tranche, sources told Thomson Reuters LPC. The loan originally consisted of a single tranche.
Proceeds are to fund the company's emergence from bankruptcy. Jefferies is arranging the first lien portion. Lender commitments are due at 4 p.m. July 9.
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The now $2 billion first-lien portion will offer coupons payable in cash and in kind.
As reported, price guidance on the four-year first-lien tranche is set at LIB+650 with a 1.5 percent Libor floor. Pricing now includes an additional 3 percent payable-in-kind coupon, bringing the total coupon to 11 percent, said sources. The loan is offered at a discount price of 98.5, as proposed at launch.
Lenders will receive upfront warrants, immediately vested, for 10 percent of fully diluted ownership. The company had previously offered warrants amounting to 5 percent of fully diluted ownership.
Jefferies declined to comment on the transaction.
The loan contains the following ticking fees until creditors fully fund the loan: 0 percent of the spread for the first 30 days, then 50 percent of the spread for the next 60 days and 100 percent of the spread thereafter.
If LightSquared fails to secure regulatory approval on certain disputed network spectrum, lenders would not fund the exit loans.
After receiving complaints from numerous users of global positioning systems regarding potentially disruptive interference from LightSquared's network transmissions, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in February 2012 tentatively suspended the company's attempts to build the land-based portion of its wireless network.
The company entered Chapter 11 to create breathing room to address the FCC's concerns
Harbinger Capital Partners, which owns 96 percent of LightSquared, is handling syndication of the $1 billion second-lien loan.
Although pricing guidance and terms are not yet available on the Harbinger-led loan, the interest payments on that debt would be entirely pay-in-kind, according to an investor.
The combined $3 billion of first and second lien loans would retire the pre-bankruptcy loans at LightSquared LP, the company's main operating subsidiary; loans and preferred equity at LightSquared's holding company; and the company's debtor-in-possession loan.
At a June court hearing, the company stated that this financing represents "the cornerstore of a Chapter 11 plan" that has yet to be filed.
LightSquared's exclusive deadline to put forth a restructuring plan expires on July 15.
LightSquared filed for Chapter 11 protection last May and is testing a proposal to swap some of its suspended spectrum with that currently used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
While the results of this proposal are not yet known, LightSquared LP creditors, including billionaire Charlie Ergen who is chairman of U.S. satellite company Dish Network, seek to enforce this exclusivity period. Without a third extension of this key deadline, creditors can propose their own restructuring plan.
Failure to raise exit financing to repay creditors such as Ergen, whose investment affiliates own close to 50 percent of LightSquared LP loans, in full could increase this possibility of a competing plan, sources said.
Ergen has publicly expressed his desire to acquire additional spectrum and lost out to Sprint last month in a contested bid for Clearwire.
LightSquared declined to comment.
(Additional reporting by Leela Parker and Natalie Wright of Thomson Reuters LPC.)
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Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
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|Production Country
|United States of America
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Paul RuddScott Lang / Ant-Man
Michael DouglasDr. Hank Pym
Evangeline LillyHope van Dyne
Corey StollDarren Cross / Yellowjacket
Bobby CannavalePaxton
Anthony MackieSam Wilson / Falcon
Judy GreerMaggie
Abby Ryder FortsonCassie
Michael PeñaLuis
David DastmalchianKurt
Wood HarrisGale
Hayley AtwellPeggy Carter
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It's fitting that this month's MxMo should be about orange. Some of the first mixed drinks I ever quaffed had orange juice as an ingredient. In fact, I'll let you in on an embarrassing secret, one that will no doubt get me 86'd from any bar that any of you might happen to tend or haunt… one of those orangey drinks was <cough>fzynvl</cough>. What can I say?! I was 14!
As an adult I traded up to the screwdriver, but it wasn't long before that just seemed boring. I mean, voddy and OJ? Let me tell ya something, buddy–that crap's just watered-down fruit juice.
And now, unfortunately, although I love orange juice, I seldom mix with it. Mrs. Bitters is allergic, I'm afraid. She can have neither orange nor grapefruit. Luckily, other citrus is clear, and that's a good thing because without lemon or lime at my disposal, I wouldn't bother with this site.
But that brings us to today's MxMo, hosted by the zodiacal intoxicant herself, Gwen. The theme, orange.
Now, what I wanted to do for this was make up a batch of homemade orange bitters. Unfortunately, the oranges I want to use, Seville oranges, aren't in season apparently, and that tossed Plan A out the window.
Plan B sounded like great fun–the Monkey Gland! Lucid is back on store shelves in the city and since I've never mixed with absinthe, I was excited to try that. But the weekend got away from us; the closest liquor stores with Lucid are either two subway lines away or two long bus trips away.
So plan C. Life had handed me oranges and what's there to do but twist Satan's Whiskers. What a delightful name for a drink! The earliest mention of this drink is in the Savoy, but the measures are fiddly–two parts this and this, one part that and that and that. Doing the math required to craft a 3½-ounce cocktail seemed a pain, so I searched around and found Robert Hess's recipe. I won't reproduce it here (you can click the link for the proportions), but if you look to the right at my pic, you'll see my ingredients.
My judgment? A little sweet. It mellowed as it warmed up a bit, but I didn't find it as satisfying as I'd hoped. Part of that may have been the orange juice. I could find only gnarly, shriveled oranges at the nearest produce stand, so I chose Tropicana Pure Premium, which is usually a very sweet juice. This cocktail deserves a tarter orange. I also wonder whether a bigger gin might have helped.


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