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RasoolAllah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم is a unique human being
Some people believe the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) to be a human being just like any other human being. The Ahle Sunnah Wal Jama'at believes that besides being Noor (light), the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) is a most unique and perfect...read more
Knowledge of the Unseen (Ilm E Ghaib) possessed by the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم
Some people do not accept that the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) has been blessed by Allah Ta'ala with Ilm-e -Ghayb (Knowledge of the Unseen). The Ahle Sunnah Wal Jama'at believes that the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam), after being...read more
RasoolAllah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم Is Noor
Some persons believe that the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) is only a human being and not Noor (light). They say so based on the reason that the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) had wives, had children, and he used to eat and drink....read more
RasoolAllah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم Is Haazir O Naazir
Some people believe that Allah Ta'ala is "Omnipresent", that is, Allah Ta'ala is Present and Over-looking at every time and at every place. They believe Allah Ta'ala to be "Haazir" and "Naazir". This is not true, as Allah Ta'ala is not bound by time and space. Allah...read more
What is Shirk? (Roman Urdu)
Tauheed k Meaning: ALLAH TA'ALA ki Zaat-e-paak ko uski zaat o siffaat main shareek se Paak maanna, Yaani jesa ALLAH TA'ALA hai, wesa hum kisi ko ALLAH TA'ALA na maanen, agar koiALLAH TA'ALA k hote huwe, kisi dusre ko ALLAH TA'ALA Tassawwur karta hai, to woh...read more
Urs Celebration in Islam
Meaning of the word "URS" from Sahih hadith The literal meaning of Urs is wedding, and it is for this reason that the bride and bridegroom are called 'Uroos'. Word Urs in Sahih Hadith The date of demise of the Friends of Allahعزوجل and Buzurgs is called Urs because,...read more
Duties of Children towards Deceased Parents
Duties of Children towards Deceased Parents by AlaHadrat Imam Ahmad Rida Khan al-Baraylawi Alaihir raHmah A question was asked to the Great Mujaddid AlaHadrat Ash-Shah Imam Ahmad Rida Khan al-Qadiri (Radi Allahu Ta'ala Anhu) regarding the Duties of Children towards...read more
What is Imaan-e-Kaamil (Perfect Imaan)?
All praise is to Allah, the Lord Of The Creation. The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Owner of the Day of Recompense. Who blessed us being the Ummah of His Beloved Rasool Sallallaho Alaihi wa Sallam. Who sanctified our hearts with the Love and Affection towards His...read more
Status Of The Sahabah In Islam
All Praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, our Cherisher and Sustainer. Durood and Salaams be upon the most perfect and unique of creation, our Leader, our Master, Mohammed Mustafa Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Status Of The Sahabah In Islam A Sahabi is anyone who...read more
The Status of Hadith In Religion
It does not need us to explain that the first and foremost primary source of the Sacred Law (Shari'ah) is the Holy Qur'an – the Book of Allah. It is through the clear and explicit commands and teachings of the Holy Qur'an that we are obliged to follow the Messenger of...read more
Asqalani on Ibn Taymiyya
Translated from Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani's biography of Ibn Taymiyya in al-durar al-kaamina fi a`yaan al-mi'at al-thaamina [The Hidden Pearls Concerning the Famous People of the Eighth Century] Hyderabad: Daa'irat al-ma`aarif al-`uthmaaniyya, 1384 H, vol. 1:144-160. An...read more
Position of feet in salah: wahabi mistake
The Feet In Salaah - The Salafi Error Introduction In this fourteenth century of the Islamic era, a recently mushroomed sect known as the Salafis, has invented some new rules which they believe are the Sunnat teachings of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam)....read more


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Republican leaders of the state House and Senate have talked about the need to reform Medicaid, which has a history of price overruns, however haven't agreed on a method. Griffin said Thursday his coalition supports the Medicaid Modernization invoice, which might let teams like those he represents compete with accountable care organizations run by medical doctors or hospital, over the Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina invoice that turns Medicaid over to only the provider-led teams.
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Telehealth utilizes new media instruments to efficiently entry individuals that in any other case might not receive schooling and treatment for continual ailments. McGonigle and Mastrian (2009) mention generally telehealth interfaces permit patients to interact with a virtual doctor (really a pc program) that may ask questions, provide social help, and tailor education to determine patient needs based on solutions to screening questions" (p. sixty three). Telehealth strategies utilizing videoconferencing, the Web, media streaming, satellite, wireless communications, and the plain outdated phone are used to help long-distance scientific health care, client and skilled health-related education, and public health administration (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012).
When you plan to finally return to your old habits, you've got already failed. Your success will probably be as momentary as your efforts. Non permanent solutions offer temporary outcomes. As soon because the previous habits return, so do the kilos. It's essential to bear a life-style change to shed some pounds and preserve it off. It's unrealistic to assume which you can return to your old habits and hold the load off you've worked so exhausting to lose. And let's face it, it's so much easier to gain weight than to lose.

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Intensification is reshaping Toronto's Parliament and Adelaide intersection as new projects promise a major infusion of density in the coming years. Just across the street from home: Power and Adelaide, which just broke ground this morning, construction is already well underway at East United Condos, a 24-storey Giannone Petricone Associates-designed development by SigNature Communities, Berkshire Axis Development, and Andiel Homes.
East United Condos viewed from the east on Adelaide, image by Jack Landau
We last checked in on construction back in February, when the building's four-storey podium was beginning to rise above grade. In the months since, forming has wrapped up for the podium, and has now moved on to the first of the building's tower floors. New photos of the site show that the tower now rises four levels above the podium, with work underway for the 8th and 9th floors.
East United Condos viewed from Parliament and Adelaide, image by Jack Landau
The rising tower is having a growing impact on views from the south as it climbs above the surrounding rooftops and tree canopy. Along the south elevation, the fourth level above the podium, now taking shape, represents the final floor before the tower steps back again to the west.
East United Condos viewed from the south on Adelaide, image by Jack Landau
The introduction of new residential density and street-fronting retail will be joined by the two-storey Christie, Brown & Co. Stables building's preserved facades at 95 Berkeley Street. East United will bring 289 condo suites to the neighbourhood, as well as 824 m² of commercial office space in the heritage frontage on Berkeley, and 207 m² of retail space along the site's Parliament Street frontage.
East United Condos, image courtesy of SigNature/Berkshire Axis/Andiel
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Three years ago, in the March 2010 issue of my high school newsletter, I wrote an argument about the authentic originality of Swiss cheese and the fact that this cheese is the media's cheese, the children's cheese, and the cartoon cheese. I stand by the case that in American culture, we have ironically called Swiss cheese "the cheese" when in actually, we have two issues that defeat our purpose of calling this "the cheese." One, we use Swiss cheese in define our love for cheese when in actuality, we eat and prefer Mozzarella and Cheddar and for those who like "cheese," American and Velveeta. Two, Swiss cheese as we know it is not imported out of Switzerland and is NOT the original Swiss cheese. Why do we all consider Swiss cheese to be our caricature of cheese? Perhaps it's because the holes help it stick out? Probably, but not necessarily sure.
The original Swiss cheese is known as Emmentaler and was named after its village of origin, that village being Emmental, Switzerland. Several Swiss cheeses are named for their village of origin, such as Appenzeller being named after its village of Appenzell, Switzerland. The "holes," which are actually called "eyes," comes from a bacteria known as Propionibacterium freudenreichhii, which releases carbon dioxide to create the "eyes." The only instance in which the cheese truly has holes is if you slice it or if the hole is so large and impactful that it opens up on one end and throughout the other. You will likely see very similar information in my "Swiss Culture" piece or even my original piece, so I will do my best to provide new information as I go along, but at the same time reassure my stance. For the record, though, Emmentaler is the top of the line. Even though eyes in a cheese isn't necessarily my thing, I'll attest to such.
America is not the only country to interpret such a method in creating cheese. Others have engaged in such a practice as well, some even going to the point of naming their cheese for its country of origin. Ireland ("Irish Swiss") and Australia ("Australian Swiss") have done the same. This is not always the trend, however, for how other countries interpret Emmentaler. The most unique interpretation and popular in the United States in the Norwegian Jarlsberg, which is pronounced with a "Y" and not a "J," so it sounds like "Yarls-berg." Jarlsberg can be found in the import section of almost any supermarket and surely at cheese shops. Behind Swiss, Jarlsberg is the next most common "holey cheese" in the United States. Other interpretations are Leerdammer and Maasdam in The Netherlands and even Radamer from Poland is a cheese inspired by the methods used to make Emmentaler. It seems as if these examples are a bit more unique for such a method, because while "Swiss" is respecting the roots of its country of origin, it really doesn't meet up to the quality of its mother product.
Meeting up to the mother product is not something that is new when it comes to cheese. Another example would be how the original and top quality Parmesan is Parmigiano-Reggiano. The key difference is that Parmigiano-Reggiano can only be made in specific areas of Italy. Anything else has to be deemed as Parmesan. In the supermarket, prepackaged cheeses in the dairy section come off as being quite suffocated compared to those in the imported cheese section or closer to the deli that are given a better opportunity to breathe.
Back to the argument of Swiss, what really catches people's attention with the cheese is its appearance. Everything is about appearance, especially in cartoons. Jerry from Tom & Jerry usually has his eye on a Swiss cheese, yellow with recognizable holes. In Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, the "cheese touch" comes from a slice of old Swiss with holes, making it seem like someone has the cooties. It's so disgustingly portrayed that it turned me away even more than I was already turned away, which was by a lot. Writing these sentences makes me cringe. While cheese is usually a mixture of yellowish white, this yellow is so aggressively yellow that it's used to strict imagery. Even other cheeses are portrayed as having holes in them, just to make them stick out. Swiss cheese is also used to describe a poor offensive line in football or a botched project.
The fact that Swiss cheese has holes, which are actually eyes, and it represents cheese as a whole (no pun intended) has really caught the attention of how it stands in American society. In all honesty, it should not. As I mentioned before, there are several better cheeses and "Swiss cheese" is not even the original. Emmentaler cheese is the original, better quality product. There are plenty of other cheeses that will strike satisfaction and all you would need to do is check out some of my previous "Big Cheese" posts.
In March 2010, I made such an argument for the newsletter I was writing for. Three years later, the verdict is that my stance still stands.


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Beddgelert (Wales)Long ago in the highlands of North Wales there lived a large black hunting dog called Beddgelert. Beddgelert lived with his master in a cottage by a river at the edge of a small town. The town was situated in a beautiful valley, surrounded by woods and rugged mountains. Everyday Beddgelert and his master would go into the forest or up into the mountains to hunt for game. Every evening they would return home laden with a wild deer, or a wild boar, or very often with rabbits, hares, pheasants or grouse.
People marveled not only at their success as hunters but also at the unique friendship that existed between Beddgelert and his master. Without question, a strong bond existed between the two friends. Beddgelert was a fierce and aggressive hunter with powerful limbs and strong teeth sharp enough to tear away the flesh of any creature. Nevertheless, he showed great affection and devotion to his master. In fact, Beddgelert would follow his master's every move. When his master sat, he sat, and when his master walked, he walked. The two friends were inseparable.
As time passed, Beddgelert's master fell in love and married a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, a year later, while giving birth to a baby boy, the mistress died leaving her husband in great sorrow. However, despite the tragic circumstances of his birth, the beautiful baby boy brought great happiness to the lives of Beddgelert and his master.
One day, news spread throughout the little town of the appearance of a hungry wolf on the prowl in the area. Sheep had been found slaughtered in the fields and the people were afraid. Beddgelert's master was worried about the safety of his young son, so when he set out to go hunting he ordered the dog to stay at home to protect the child. Each day the child played happily in his cot while Beddgelert guarded the door of the cottage, carefully watching for the wolf. Then one warm summer's afternoon, the wolf finally came. As the child lay sleeping in his cot, the wolf leapt in through the window; his eyes fixed firmly upon the boy. Quick as a flash Beddgelert jumped up and lunged forward, placing himself between the wolf and the young child. The two animals fought, relentlessly tearing at each other's flesh. The wolf was determined to get to the child while Beddgelert was determined to prevent it from doing so. After a long and bitter fight the wolf retreated, wearily limping away and licking his wounds while Beddgelert lay exhausted upon the child's cot. He was seriously wounded and very weak.
When the master returned home, the young child was sleeping soundly. Beddgelert, however, was barely alive. Nonetheless, he found the strength to wag his tail and to raise his head from the bed to greet his master. Seeing blood splattered about the room, in the cot and around the dog's mouth, the master was convinced that Beddgelert, perhaps in a fit of jealousy, had killed his son.
The master cried out, "Beddgelert, my faithful friend, how could you betray me like this?" He was so distraught that he immediately raised his rifle and shot Beddgelert dead. Then the master stumbled out of the door of the cottage and fell to his knees, weeping helplessly. Suddenly, he heard the tiny sobs of his son. The master leapt to his feet and rushed back into the cottage amazed to find his son alive and well, indeed without even the smallest scratch on his body.
The master suddenly realized his terrible mistake. All too late, he realized that the blood he saw was that of the wolf and his devoted dog, Beddgelert. Filled with remorse, he carried Beddgelert to the oak tree in the garden and buried him. The remains of Beddgelert lie there to this very day. The story of his loyalty and bravery is written for all to read on a beautiful headstone erected in his honor. Beddgelert was laid to rest in the shade of a large oak tree, situated by a babbling river, on the edge of the town which is now called Beddgelert.


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The 2019 Silverado Performance
We reviews the 2019 Silverado where consumers can find detailed information on specs, fuel economy, transmission and safety. The 2019 Silverado did not receive any significant changes for the 2018 model year.
2019 Silverado Redesign
Moving up to the 2019 Silverado EX-L trim adds a power operated passenger seat, a 10-speaker audio system, memory function for the driver's seat, a leather-wrapped shift knob, leather upholstery, and an optional navigation system. The range-topping 2019 Silverado Touring grade adds 19-inch alloy wheels, a head-up display, adaptive dampers, full LED headlights, ventilated and heated front seats, wireless charging, heated rear seats, and parking sensors.
In a 2018 First Test, we noted that when the midsize sedan is equipped with the optional 2.0-liter turbo-four, the 2019 Silverado offers strong acceleration, making it slightly quicker than its V-6-powered predecessor. The 2019 Silverado provides more cargo room than most in its class and has easy-folding second-row seats. We like the modern design of the 2019 Silverado but wished the center screen was a little larger and was canted toward the driver.
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But this time, we have no hesitation in recommending the 2019 Silverado to enthusiasts as well as our automotively apathetic friends and family. Road noise, on the other hand, continues to be an issue in the 2019 Silverado. The interior is a class above with high-quality materials everywhere.


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They believe suspects shown in surveillance videos stole an elderly woman's wallet and charged $4,600 to her credit card.
The following is an adapted news release from the Flagler County Sheriff's Office:
Detectives are asking for the public's help identifying two women they believe stole a 72-year-old woman's wallet, then — within an hour — ran up $4,600 in fraudulent charges on her credit card at the Target in Palm Coast and a Best Buy in Daytona Beach.
The victim, Palm Coast resident Lillie Keeton, was shopping at the TJ Maxx in Palm Coast Sept. 14 when a woman asked Keeton to help her pick out pillows for her mother. Keeton left her purse and wallet in a shopping cart out of her sight for several minutes while she talked with the woman, Keeton later told deputies.
The woman decided not to buy any pillows and walked away, but when Keeton got to the cash register, she discovered her wallet was missing, along with her driver's license, checkbook, credit cards and cash. The thieves quickly used the cards, first at the Target in Palm Coast at 4:17 p.m., and then at a Best Buy in Daytona Beach at 4:50 p.m.
All three stores gave detectives surveillance footage, which shows a suspect using one of Keeton's credit cards in multiple transactions.
One suspect is described as a dark-haired Hispanic or Asian woman wearing a gray sweatshirt, blue jeans and large aviator sunglasses. Video shows her walking from the parking lot to the store with two other people: a Hispanic male wearing a dark baseball cap, dark shirt and blue jeans; and a woman wearing a brightly colored shirt who appeared to come from TJ Maxx.
The footage shows all three of them exiting and entering a white minivan, possibly a Toyota Sienna or a Dodge Caravan.
Video from TJ Maxx shows both female suspects entering the store, though each was wearing different clothes from when they appeared in the Target and Best Buy surveillance video.
Deputies have asked anyone with information about any of the suspects to call the Flagler County Sheriff's Office Investigative Services Division at 386-586-4801 regarding Case No. 15-95040, or to call Crime Stoppers at 1-888-277-8477 (TIPS). Crime Stoppers tipsters may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000.


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The PENTAX Positioning System SMT888-3G is a high precision satellite receiver and communication unit specifically designed for the surveying market. Integrated with state-of-the-art technology, the SMT888-3G provides surveyors high productivity, performance and flexibility.
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Surveyors have a choice of communication options that are all integrated into the single rugged housing. The communication options include: a GMS/GPRS modem for connecting to Real Time Reference Station Networks, a choice of either digital Spread Spectrum (900 MHz) or digital UHF (406-470 MHz) radios for local data transmissions, or the option to use an external radio through a serial port.
A rugged, lightweight single housing, mounted on a pole or tripod, the wireless SMT888-3G receiver works seamlessly and is recognized as the most powerful and easy-to-use field data collection software on the market. Complete with a "Ready To Go" equipement package.
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The SMT888-3G houses two batteries that may be hot swapped for continuous operation. The efficient SMT888-3G provides a full day's operation from the two internal rechargeable Li-Ion batteries (7.2V, 5000 mAh). Re-charging is done within a few hours with the included charger. All PENTAX batteries integrate fuel gauge technology to display current battery status. The unit may also be powered from an external battery for extended operation.
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For ultra portability and data management, the SMT888-3G logs raw data onto a removable SD card that is accessed easily through a convenient door. With the SMT888-3G, getting data to the PC for post processing is simply a matter of inserting the SD card into the office PC, eliminating the need for cable download and additional software.
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Texana Center officials were delighted to receive the news that Spencer Reitz had not only earned his Eagle Scout award but also received the Bronze Palm.
To earn this distinction the Scout must be active in their troop for at least three months after becoming an Eagle Scout and earn five additional merit badges beyond those required for the Eagle Scout Award which requires 21 merit badges.
Reitz, of Troop 1631, chose Texana Center for his Eagle Scout project. The project was to enhance an existing playground area at the Children's Center for Autism. He was asked to paint a track around the play area for bicycles and scooters, a basketball semi-circle by the basketball hoop and also to include several games; hopscotch, hangman, tic-tac-toe and four square.
Spencer had to use a lot of math to workout distance, size and symmetry. Texana also requested that these be painted in bright primary colors, so he went to Sherwin Williams who donated one gallon of paint for every gallon he purchased and gave him a discount on the paint he bought, he was very grateful for that break. He came to Texana many times, as he first had to power wash the area and fill in several cracks in the concrete before beginning the painting.
The weather did not cooperate and he was rained off a couple of times but he persevered and completed the project. When everything was finished he held a grand opening for the play area, bringing refreshments for the children and presented Ellen Catoe, senior manager of the Children's Center for Autism, with chalk and bean bags for the games.
Children with autism may enjoy playing, but they can find some types of play difficult. It is common for them to have very limited play skills; playing with only a few toys, or playing in a repetitive manner. Play often does not come naturally to them, so they have to be specifically taught these very important play skills that seem to come easily to most typically developing children.
The Children's Center for Autism uses applied behavior analysis to carefully assess each child's individual skills and then develop a program to specifically teach these important activities. They are taught to ride bicycles, scooters and play games so the painted playground is perfect for this task.
"It was a pleasure working with Spencer and we are delighted with the way playground turned out; it is bright, colorful and very helpful for teaching the children with autism how to play which is often the first place we learn many skills," Catoe said.


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Re: Issues when pasting into RTEEdward Masson Nov 4, 2013 8:01 AM (in response to 31063)welcome to the world of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors.
Copying form Word can bring with it microsoft HTML code and formatting and Marketo does its best to reformat.
Best thing if you need to copy and past copy from word is to paste it into Note Pad then copy again and paste into Marketo editor. Doing so will strip out microsoft formmatting and code.
Re: Issues when pasting into RTE8442 Nov 4, 2013 8:02 AM (in response to 31063)Pasting directly from any desktop-based editor such as MS-Word to Marketo's editor (TinyMCE) transports all hidden characters.
The correct process is gathering the HTML source, opening Marekto's editor, clickling the HTML button in the toolbar and paste the HTML content.
Copying from desktop-based editors is not recomemnded though.
Re: Issues when pasting into RTEDan Stevens. Nov 19, 2013 11:03 AM (in response to 31063)We're experiencing the same issue. We're not pasting HTML – but rather the plain text (from Notepad) into an editable region of an email template (or a cloned email based off of an email template). As soon as we paste the plain text, every paragraph gets a bunch of inline CSS code added to it (including the existing text) - and these aren't even styles that are defined in the HEAD of the template. All I want to do is paste plain text into a template and just include the typical <p> tags around each paragraph.
Using the approach from @bgomes is fine when the ENTIRE email is produced in an authoring tool like Dreamweaver. But that's not the approach we're using – our field isn't staffed to completely design their emails out of Marketo. Thus the reason for using Marketo templates.
BTW, we're using Chrome as our web browser.
Re: Issues when pasting into RTEDan Stevens. Nov 19, 2013 12:27 PM (in response to 31063)I just received this response from support - which I find troubling. What then is the purpose of using Marketo email templates? And why is this considered a "feature"?
"Unfortunately, inline CSS will be added if text is pasted into the editor as this is a feature of TinyMCE. I asked engineering about any future plans to update or change our current WYSIWYG editor and they said there are no plans."
Re: Issues when pasting into RTE31063 Nov 19, 2013 12:48 PM (in response to 31063)So what is being said is that the only way to avoid the CSS is to type your email directly into the Marketo WYSIWYG editor or use a program like dreamweaver?
Re: Issues when pasting into RTEDan Stevens. Nov 19, 2013 1:06 PM (in response to 31063)That's correct. But if using the latter (e.g., Dreamweaver), you'd need to compose the ENTIRE email and base the email in Marketo off of the "blank" template so that you can replace the entire HTML - not just a portion of the email, like the body copy.


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When meeting Mary Cushing Doherty for the first time, you get the immediate sense that you're in good hands. With over 30 years of experience in practicing family law, she exudes the confidence, passion, and energy necessary in this demanding, complex field. She has earned the reputation as one of Montgomery County's and Pennsylvania's most recognizable and highly respected domestic relations attorneys. She is the calm within the storm. A model of civility and integrity to colleagues and opposing counsel alike, she is also a forceful advocate for her clients.
Mary's ability to connect with people comes from her background as one of eight children, raised in her native Chicago. As a young person, she loved school and also embraced the world of theater. At one time she harbored thoughts of one day becoming a teacher. Instead, she decided to enter the field of law, following the footsteps of her father and three of her siblings. Yet she maintained and brought with her the interests in teaching and the arts, along with her strong sense of family. No surprise that she chose to concentrate on matrimonial and family law, all while building her own family of three with husband Jim.
Mary began her career practicing under and being mentored by the renowned family lawyer, Albert Momjian at his well respected firm, Abrahams and Lowenstein. She also counts the Honorable Emanuel Bertin, Master Frederick Cohen, and Madam Justice Sandra Shultz Newman as key mentors who played important roles in guiding the early development of her career. Having balanced her successful legal career with the demands of raising her three children, Mary can readily relate to the challenges of balancing work and family. She has faced personal losses, and these challenges and heartbreak have given her an even greater understanding of and empathy for those she represents, as she guides them through the upheaval in their own families.
Mary believes that to be effective and achieve optimal results for her clients, she needs to be a creative strategist, a good listener, a careful planner, and a trustworthy and supportive advocate. She is adamant that teamwork, between herself, her family law group at High Swartz and her clients, is essential to achieving favorable resolutions, in a timely manner, and with reasonable legal fees. Mary's love of teaching led her to develop her career and her practice in a fashion that she is more than an advocate, she has become that teacher and mentor, educating her clients in order to get the best outcome for them, but also guiding her associate attorneys on the best ways to procure positive results. Her approach emphasizes listening to her clients, developing an understanding of their issues and desires, empowering them to assist in the success of their cases, and working as a team to seek creative, outside the box solutions.
If you'd like to know more about Mary's education, legal association memberships, publications, etc., feel free to visit her formal biography on the High Swartz website.


text: In these topsy-turvy days of volatile markets, who knows what's up or down? The Dow could be up 250 today, and down 300 tomorrow. It's a fool's game playing market direction, and every diehard index fund investor knows it. One thing we can count on, though, is the index effect. When a stock goes into the S&P 500, its price will rise - when one exits, look out below. With over one trillion dollars indexed to the erstwhile index, the effect, even on large-cap stocks, is not unexpected. Trading frenzies, coupled with the actual sales and purchases made by the index funds themselves, can drive prices up or down significantly in a short period of time. And with a not insignificant turnover of a little over 10%, there are plenty of opportunities over the course of a year. There were 58 stocks in and 58 out in 2000. So far there have only been a handful in 2001. And as you'll see below, Merrill Lynch expects there to be at least 13 additions and subtractions by the end of the third quarter. So mortgage the house, load up on options . . . fabulous riches await you. OK, so the devil's in the details: buy at the announcement and the odds are you'll get front run yourself. Buy before the announcement and the stock you picked might not even make the cut . . . and its price might therefore actually fall after the announcement. Buy after the announcement and line up with the fund managers desperately seeking to track the slippery index. Well, maybe mortgage your dog's house, and leave it up to Gus Sauter to outsmart the hedge funds. While it is true that beating the rebalancing prices is as futile as beating the market, it's an interesting phenomenon. First of all, what is "index effect?" In my mind, it means either one of two things. The phenomenon that the above described effect has on index performance. Because stock prices move higher when they enter the index for no other reason than that they are entering the index, the index's performance is artificially augmented. or (Much more entertaining and cataclysmic) If the whole world converted to Boglism, like so many Moonies, the market would become a senseless blob, rendering Efficient Market Hypothesis dead in the water. Now that I've convinced you, here are the contenders: Potential lotto shots . . . these are all promising mid-caps primping in the foyer: Source: Merrill Lynch Could be like slugs in Mississippi mud: Source: Merrill Lynch And just for fun, here's who's been in and out: Source: Standard and Poor's Source: Standard and Poor's Front Run The S P 500: Vanguard InvestorsHedge Your Bets - Jim Wiandt Previous Article Next Article All Articles About Index Fund Advisors Index Fund Advisors, Inc. (IFA) is a fee-only advisory and wealth management firm that provides risk-appropriate, returns-optimized, globally-diversified and tax-managed investment strategies with a fiduciary standard of care. Founded in 1999, IFA is a Registered Investment Adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that provides investment advice to individuals, trusts, corporations, non-profits, and public and private institutions. Based in Irvine, California, IFA manages individual and institutional accounts, including IRA, 401(k), 403(b), profit sharing, pensions, endowments and all other investment accounts. IFA also facilitates IRA rollovers from 401(k)s and 403(b)s. To find out more about the value of IFA click here. To determine your risk capacity, take the Risk Capacity Survey.


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Singer and actress Siyasanga Kobese appeared in court recently on charges of malicious damage to property after she apparently went a little crazy on a friend's car.
According to Sunday Sun, Siyasanga, who plays the role of Siphokazi on the popular TV show Zabalaza, apparently got angry with a friend after the friend's daughter took a picture of her.
Siyasanga is said to have got really upset at her friend and her daughter and had to be calmed down. The friend woke up the next day to find her car windscreen broken, rubber stripes removed from the vehicle and the bonnet dented.
Her court case was postponed to next month.
Don't mess with this chick!
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1-2-3 Spyware isn't missing anything, it has all that is necessary to be a good antispyware application: a quarantine zone for suspicious files, an enormous database, nearly daily automatic updates, real-time protections and a series of other features that make it one of the best applications in its category.
The real-time protection works against spyware and adware, in such a way that no software that is slightly suspicious of being malware of this type will be capable of entering your system without you knowing, because 1-2-3 Spyware will detect it.
What's more, during the system analysis, it will also provide the user with information about the Windows Registry file, so that the user solves the problems that may arise with specialized software.
Thus, you know, if you want an antispyware application that is simple, easy-to-use and that has a very comprehensive interface, don't think twice, download 1-2-3 Spyware.


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The word Magento is well-known to everybody who deals with e-commerce. E-commerce store owners utilize this platform for their online stores do not know much about this solution. It is the most functional, difficult and the elaborative platform in e-commerce. If someone is motivated to get success, the Magento can provide you with everything that you require.
Customization of the Cart
Magento development is growing quickly, its extensions may differ and the community is also getting expanded. This application involves an open source platform to provide you with more space to customize and modify the cart as per your requirements.
Where can you Get Magento?
The best place to get this application is its official website. You may search on the Internet to get the official website and gather useful information about the application. Magento Connect is known as a platform for the extensions that are produced by the developers.
Community Forum of the solution is another important place to get the solution. It is possible to acquire suggestions, information and assistance. You will get the chance for sharing your experience and also receive the answers to the questions.
A Good Source of Latest News and Tips
A number of useful blogs and websites are made by the professional developers. This will provide you with helpful tips, overviews and the latest news. The community version of the solution is free and the commercial version is cheaper. This platform has variable impacts on the buyers. It is suggested to manage the application with extensions and you require the assistance of the Magento development professionals.
Take Time for the Installation Process
You need much time and energy to install this application since this is quite different from other e-commerce applications. Numerous resources are there for getting knowledge and experience about this solution. By checking the Internet, you will be able to visit the events that were planned by the developers across the world.
Browse for Future Conferences
It is recommended to search on the Internet to know about the future conferences like Bargento, Magento Imagine ecommerce, Meet Magento etc. You may or may not have an online business. It is an amazing experience to meet renowned businessmen. This way, it will greatly impact to the development process.
Amazing Flexibility for Handling the Ratings
If you have an online business, you need to take care of numerous factors like good-quality packaging, product quality and punctual delivery. By doing these things successfully, you can ask your customers to give rate to your services or products. You require entering into the dashboard of the application, and click on catalogue tab. Afterward you need to hit on reviews and ratings tab. You will get the suitable way to include the new rating.
Besides this, the timeout of admin session is another important thing to consider. The owners of Magento consider this as a common thing. It is useful for editing the product descriptions at their e-commerce site. Including the timeout limit for a particular session will allow you to enhance the lifetime of the session.


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Instructions for Sterling Precision Slide Rule
Instructions for Sterling Precision Slide Rule
- Description
- ID number 1988.0807.01 was received with this flyer, which is marked on the front: STERLING SLIDE RULE A QUALITY INSTRUMENT FOR (/) STUDENT OR PROFESSIONAL (/) OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS (/) A complete course in use and operation of slide rule [sic]. The instructions cover multiplication and division, the CI scale (which is called the C1 scale), squares (the A and B scales) and square roots, and the K, L, S, and T scales. The back of the flyer is marked: STERLING PLASTICS CO. (/) MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY SCHOOL SUPPLIES (/) 1140 Commerce Avenue, Union, New Jersey. The company logo (the letters SP inside a clear circle that is in turn inside a square formed of horizontal lines) is to the left of the mark. Sterling Plastics, whose main factory was in Mountainside, N.J., sold a variety of inexpensive plastic slide rules for students in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1961-1972
- maker
- Sterling Plastics
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Mountainside
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 28.5 cm x 19 cm; 11 7/32 in x 7 15/32 in
- ID Number
- 1988.0807.05
- accession number
- 1988.0807
- catalog number
- 1988.0807.05
- Credit Line
- Gift of George A. Norton
- subject
- Mathematics
- Rule, Calculating
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- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
There are two special markings, I would like to know the use of. On the S scale 1 degree 11 minutes has a special marking as does 1 degree 59 minutes has a quote mark and a longer demarcation line (as long as the 2 degree line) What is significant about these two angles?
Rose Yi
Fri, 2019-03-08 09:00
Hi, my name is Oscar and I was interested in this flyer because I recently came across a Sterling silver rule and I wanted to learn how to use it. I had absolutely no idea how old this mathematics tool is and it's amazing to me that it was manufactured in the early seventies. Thankyou for allowing the public to see these amazing parts of history that we all seem to forget.
Oscar valdeZ
Mon, 2017-12-04 15:24


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The truth that salvation is by grace means that salvation is unmerited – it is unearned. Since salvation is by grace and is unmerited or unearned then that means that salvation is unconditional. There are no conditions that one must meet that would merit or earn salvation or else salvation is not by grace but by works. Romans 11:6 says, "But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace." Let's state it another way which still means the same thing: But if it is by grace, it is no longer conditional but unconditional, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
Paul has been teaching the truth of unconditional election unto salvation which forever proves that salvation is by grace and not of works so that no man can boast. There is nothing in any person that would merit God's choice of him or her for salvation. The only thing that any of us have merited or ever will merit is the wrath of God. There is nothing in us that can change that. We can't start living a good life to merit God's mercy for that would be salvation by works. We can't rehabilitate ourselves in order to cause God to choose us for salvation for that would still be salvation by works. None deserve to be saved. And yet God saves undeserving sinners according to His purpose, His choice, and His desire (Romans 9:11).
An improper response to this truth is given in Romans 9:14 – that this means that there is injustice in God. Unconditional election is viewed as being unjust because men cannot get over that God would save by grace and not by merit. God is accused of being an unjust God if He chooses to save some men by grace while leaving others in their sin. The response is: "That isn't fair" or "that isn't just." So in order to remove what appears to be an injustice in God or unfairness in God, men devise a scheme of salvation that is conditional rather than unconditional and they remove the offensiveness of the Gospel by making election unto salvation conditional. Under the false notion of conditional election unto salvation this improper response isn't given because it no longer exists. This is one of the ways we know whether or not we are preaching the Holy Spirit inspired explanation of the Gospel of salvation by grace (unconditional and unmerited) which Paul preached or if we are preaching a false gospel of salvation by works (conditional and merited).
Those who teach conditional election are in error. Even if that condition is that God looked down through the corridors of time and saw who would have faith and who wouldn't – it is still salvation by merit which turns that faith spoken of into a work. What those who teach this have forgotten is that faith is a gift (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 6:65; John 12:39-40), and that faith is generated in man and is not innate in man (Romans 10:17; John 6:45, 63). They have also forgotten that their explanation of conditional election isn't election at all but ratification. In their scheme of things God isn't choosing based on His purpose or desire but is consenting to man's choice. This would mean that God chose you because you chose Him, that God loved you because you loved Him and that God drew you because you drew Him. This is a reversal of the Biblical record. We didn't choose Him, He chose us; we didn't love Him first, He loved us first; and we didn't draw Him, He drew us to Himself.
Since all men are sinners and have earned God's wrath then of necessity it means that there is nothing in us that could ever earn God's favor. So if God decides to show His favor on any sinner then the choice is totally His according to His purpose and His desire. That God would choose any undeserving sinner for salvation has nothing to do with any cause within the sinner but has everything to do with that which is in God Himself – the desire to make known the riches of the glory of His grace (Romans 9:23; Ephesians 1:3-14).
It is the Gospel of salvation by grace that is offensive to man because it establishes man's total inability – not partial inability but total inability – to merit God's favor. This is the error of conditional election – it teaches partial inability but not total inability and therefore leaves man in his pride believing that his being elected by God was based on some condition that he met.
The Jews who believed in conditional election so understood the implications of the Gospel of grace which Paul was preaching that some of them slanderously reported that Paul was preaching that men must do evil that good may come (Romans 3:8). The Jews reasoned that Paul was saying that God didn't elect on the basis of their ability to keep the Law so he must be preaching that God elects on the basis of doing evil. They could not grasp the truth of unconditional election as the necessary grounds for salvation by grace.
Since election is unconditional, men believe that there is injustice with God for choosing some and not all for salvation. At the heart of this response is still the embedded false notion that those whom God didn't choose deserved to be chosen. If one deserved it then all deserve it. It's the attitude that if you're going to do it for one then you've got to do it for all. That's simply just not true and there is no injustice in giving mercy in a manner that upholds the Law or giving wrath to uphold the Law. So dispensing grace is God's sovereign prerogative. Grace is sovereign in its administration.


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We left home about 10:30 this morning and didn't return until 7:30ish! We took our time – stopping for lunch, potty breaks, drink breaks and just resting on shaded park benches to people watch. Long day! My feet, ankles and back are TIRED!! Oh my!
We walked the Texas Star Trail Walking Tour which winds its way around downtown San Antonio pointing out historic buildings in the area. It's a 2.6 mile walk with 79 historic buildings listed on the tour. The walk starts at the Alamo and if you go in numerical order (which we did) pretty much ends there as well.
We started at the Alamo (first stop on the trail), paying $6.00 each to follow the audio tour which was helpful in learning the history of the Alamo and it's buildings. Touring the Alamo took us almost 2.5 hours…yes, we're very slow! The audio tour was hard to follow at time as the numbers we had to follow were sometimes out of order so we had a hard time finding where we were supposed to be…but we made it and enjoyed it!
After touring the Alamo we continued onto the 2nd star on the walking trail which was once the Medical Arts Building, built in 1926. It has housed the Emily Morgan Hotel since 1985. The Emily Morgan is known for being one of San Antonio's most haunted places.
I took several pictures of the Riverwalk along the way as we passed over it several times. We're still planning to do some more walking on the Riverwalk…it's so pretty.
The oldest residential structures remaining downtown, The Spanish Governor's Palace and the De La Garza Homestead are stops 38 and 42, respectively, along the trail.
Continuing on the trail…
If you're in San Antonio, enjoy walking and history this tour might just be for you! Our walking tour took us about 4 hours…but it could be done in much less time…we REALLY took our time!


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28 January 2017 to 30 January 2017
Kalpataru Chapter II - Safe Spaces for victims of Witch Hunt in Ranchi, Jharkhand
The Kalpataru project for survivors of Witch Hunt at Asha Ngo Jharkhand, trained 35 Sa?ghar?asila women who came from Bokaro, Ranchi, Pegs, Gumla and Lohardaga to be a part of this three day project. The project aims at transforming lives through yoga and wellness practice, clay work, painting and dancing.
When hope brings light into the lives of forgotten, love brings courage. New Light Kolkata Asha Ngo Jharkhand and Storydancer Zuleikha from the The Storydancer Project joined hands to restore dignity to brutalized women among the tribal communities of Jharkhand.


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NOTHING is as liberating as engaging in outdoor activities, taking in the sun and all of God's fresh air. Sometimes, there's rain, but that's not all bad. There's always a cool vitality and calm serenity that envelops you when the rains clear. That's where the outdoors teach us to appreciate Mother Earth, reminding us all to be kind to her. How are we, for instance, reducing our carbon footprint?
When you're out there in your skis, a tiny lone soul, under the vast skies in the company of majestic mountains, as I was in Zermatt last winter, I can't help thinking about how we urbanites forget the wondrous gifts of Nature. Such reminders are good for us. They teach us the value of gratitude, not just for nature, but all that life has to offer us.
So when I got selected to be part of the Outward Bound Singapore Challenger Program last March, I got many lessons in gratitude—not exactly the Zermatt kind, but the ones that got me thinking about how blessed I am to have so many good things in my life. Out there sleeping in the tent with four other boys, one of whom was an incorrigible snorer, I was screaming in my heart for my own bed. I felt like kicking this grunting boar, nudging him awake, but what good would that have done?
And so, on the fourth and final night, having chalked up only two hours of sleep each night, I walked out towards the beach and lay myself down on a bench, sleeping a good stretch of four hours, but only after having been kissed on my upper lip by some strange bug. Creature comforts, where art thou? But it's precisely from the lack of them that we learn to be tougher boys. Which is what the army does to us. Ah Boys to Men, as local filmmaker Jack Neo has aptly observed.
Here at this grueling camp, we sweat hard, we play hard, we sleep little, and we wish we didn't have to visit the toilet so often. We learn very quickly how rationed food, like pre-packed buns and Digestive biscuits, tastes surprisingly good. And for us boys, we learn the gentle art of chivalry and experience the heroic high of rescuing damsels in distress.
Once, I switched canoes to relieve this one girl, the back rower to a down-and-out, menstrual-cramped front rower. Her arms had totally given out and her spirit had nearly given up. And there I was, jumping in, rather than zooming ahead.
That was the other big lesson from the outdoors: teamwork. You never get ahead until you've looked back to make sure every sheep is accounted for, even though you may not be the default shepherd. I guess that's not so much teamwork as caring and consideration and kindness. You don't have to be a leader to help the weaker and slower ones.
Really, I'm not bragging about my leadership qualities or my rowing prowess, given how I had this ten-minute lull, ripping open a juicy orange while waiting for the struggling slower pokes to catch up. Then the gratitude theme hits you again: why was that one orange the sweetest you've ever eaten?
Ah, the outdoors! If only we had more time to face the elements, instead of our books and our smartphones. Surely, we'd all be better boys for it, and I'm sure in time, better men.
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Chester Chua, Secondary Four
October 2016
For more essays by Chester, visit Chester Writes.
This essay was written in response to the question:
Describe some activities that you enjoy outdoors. How have these helped in your development?


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How should we read the Bible?
Christian Smith, 2011, The Bible made impossible: Why biblicism is not a truly evangelical reading of scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press.
In his introduction Christian Smith explains, 'By "biblicism" I mean a theory about the Bible that emphasizes together its exclusive authority, infallibility, perspicuity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability.' (There is a short blog post on a related topic here.)
Smith's book is a critique of biblicism, an analysis of what it is and why it exists (the author is a sociologist) and of the harm it does to evangelicalism in the USA by rendering it less Christ-centred than it could be. Central to his critique is the fact that biblicists try to treat the Bible as a book of rules, resulting in distorted readings of its texts. Ironically, given the claims of biblicists, different biblicist groups draw different conclusions from it, a problem that Smith labels 'pervasive interpretive pluralism' . It has resulted in the fragmentation of US evangelicals into a plethora of denominations, each claiming biblical truth. As Smith argues forcibly, this outcome alone is enough to tell us that the Bible is not a rule book and is being read in the wrong way.
What is the right way to read the Bible? Smith answers, 'Chistocentrically'. The whole Bible, he says, looks forward to or at Jesus. From creation to its final consummation in Revelation it is a narrative that culminates in Jesus. Smith is clear that this places the Bible in a different theological role than the one it occupies in biblicist theologies. In the latter, the Bible is taken as the starting point. In a Christ-centred theology, Jesus is the starting point and the Bible is a testimony to who he is.
This assertion initially took me by surprise. I have spent much of my life in the company of English and Australian evangelicals whose biblicism has been tempered by other ways of reading the BIble and is less extreme than its US counterpart (or so it seems to me). Nonetheless, I have inherited, almost without thought, the Bible-first precept as part of my intellectual baggage. With a little thought, however, its flaws become obvious. Smith makes the point that the first Christians had only their relationship with the risen Jesus, consolidated by the Holy Spirit's work at Pentecost, along with the Old Testament scriptures to guide them. They did not have 'the Bible', and the way they read the Old Testament scriptures, to judge from the way Paul cites them, was not biblicist. Even the Old Testament canon (i.e., which books belong in the Old Testament) still had no formal definition, and it would take another 300 years before the leaders of the various Christian churches would agree on which of the documents circulating among them should form the New Testament. In the church's history, then, the Bible did not come first: Jesus did.
As I read The Bible made impossible I wrote a sort of summary of it for my own use, as at the age of 75 I find that I often don't retain what I would like to. It is a 'sort of' summary because it majors on the things I want to come back to and ignores the parts that interested me less. It is located here.
In some ways, I found the book mildly annoying. It is rather repetitive, sometimes forcible to the point of overkill, and at times too didactic for my taste. But this perhaps reflects its US context and the author's passionate dismay. Sadly, I doubt that the book will have much impact on those who need to change their approach to the Bible, since, as Smith points out, their biblicism is a means of security. For others, though, who like me are at least vaguely aware of the difficulties of biblicism but haven't come to terms with them, the book enables one to be clearer about certain aspects of what is amiss with biblicism (a little more on this below) and in particular to define a better way of reading the Bible. I have been travelling along this path for quite a while, particularly in the company of Tom Wright, whose books I have referred to in various posts, but Smith's work introduced me to numerous other biblical scholars who have thought very seriously about post-biblicist evangelical Christianity (and how a post-biblicist reads the Bible). A number of them are mentioned in my summary, and references listed at the end. One of them is Karl Barth, who in many ways led the evangelical charge against 19th-century liberal Christianity, but did so without the over reaction that resulted in biblicism.
There are a few more respects in which I think the book could have been improved. I missed (or is it there and I missed it?) analysis and discussion of the text genres represented in the Bible, and how an understanding of these contributes to their post-biblicist reading. The conventions of Jewish apocalyptic literature, for example, must temper the way we read Daniel and Revelation. But perhaps Smith rightly feels that this has been dealt with thoroughly enough in various guides to the Bible.
Smith rightly says that a well-founded approach to reading the Bible requires an adequate philosophy. In the section entitled Breaking from modern epistemology in chapter 7 he recommends Critical Realism. Unfortunately I found his explanation of Critical Realism rather opaque, and I was unable to see how he relates this philosophy to his theology.[1] In the same chapter, the section Understanding different ways of doing by saying discusses the relevance of the terms locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary to the way we read the biblical texts. I found the analysis here frustrating, although the author's intention is laudable. I have discussed this briefly in my summary.
This brings me to what concerned me most—and this obviously reflects my own area of scholarship, linguistics—namely, the absence of language-related reasons why biblicism is, in the words of the book's subtitle, impossible. All language depends on the hearer's or reader's inferences for its interpretation and understanding. It depends on the assumed shared knowledge of speaker/writer and hearer/reader and on its interactional, textual, social and cultural context.[2] In daily spoken language we scarcely notice this, because the interactional context is obvious and because intonation provides indicators of known versus new information. Interactional context and intonational indicators are missing from written text. Furthermore, the more distant the text is from the reader socially and culturally and the less shared knowledge can be assumed to be present to writer and reader, the more difficult it is for the reader to determine what the writer intends to communicate—especially when the subject matter is quite abstract. Understanding the biblical text entails careful study of the knowledge and contexts that a reader contemporary with the writer would have brought to it.
To take two fairly trivial examples drawn at random from Matthew's Gospel, when Jesus speaks to the crowd about John the Baptist in 11:17-18, he asks, "What did you go out into the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings' palaces." The reference to the reed makes little sense if we do not know that Herod's symbol on coins was a Galilean reed blown by the wind.
Another example is in 8:21–22, where a disciple says to Jesus, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father [before I follow you]." This man is not saying that his father is dead (corpses were and are buried very quickly in the Middle East). He is saying that he wants to live at home until his father has died and he has inherited from him, then he pursue discipleship at his leisure. Jesus' response, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead," then means, "Let the spiritually dead live together at home." It is also helpful to know that the only duty that rabbis regarded as more important than saying the 'Hear, O Israel' prayer was burying one's father. Hence Jesus' words were deeply shocking for his Jewish listeners.
Understanding these nuances of the text (and there must be many nuances that will always elude us) brings back something of the living context that it had for its first readers and draws me, the 21st-century reader, more closely into the first-century context and into Jesus' presence.
There are other more detailed issues regarding the text we read. English-language readers often forget that the text they read is a translation. A well known example occurs in 1 Samuel 24:3, where the King James Version tells us that Saul went into the cave where David and his men were hiding 'to cover his feet', a literal and incomprehensible translation of the Hebrew which means 'to relieve his bowel'. Much of language consists of idioms that are not obvious from the individual meanings of the words that make them up, and translators need to know Hebrew and Greek idioms. Smith does allude briefly to this fact in the section The reality of multivocality in chapter 2 where he discusses kephalē 'head' in Ephesians 5:23. Furthermore, we need to be aware when we are reading poetry, with its wealth of simile and metaphor.
A more significant translation challenge occurs in Romans 3:21-22. In the New International Version (1984) this reads:
But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
The New English Translation (NET Bible, 2005) is
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed—namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe.
The differences in translation (italicised) have an important bearing on what these verses contribute to a theology of justification.[3] The translation of the two phrases (the first occurs twice in this passage), depends partly on one's interpretation of the Greek genitive case. The two phrases are dikaiosunē The-ou (righteousness God-of) and dia pisteōs Iēs-ou Christ-ou[4] (through faith[fulness] Jesus-of Christ-of). By default the Greek genitive case, here -ou, is translated as 'of', as in the NET Bible, but it is polysemous (= has several meanings) and its interpretation depends hugely on context. In this instance the context includes a large chunk of Romans (and Paul's argument here is notoriously complex), and scholars do not agree on how it affects these two phrases. In addition, the terms dikaiosunē and pisteōs are ambiguous. The former may be translated into English as 'righteousness' or as 'justice', the latter as 'belief', 'faith', 'trust' or faithfulness'. At issue here, then, is whether Paul is talking about God's or the believer's dikaiosunē and Jesus' or the believer's pisteōs.[5]
The diluted biblicism with which I grew up completely ignored the writers of the biblical texts, presumably because acknowledging them would detract from the claim of divine inspiration. But, for example, I can't read John's gospel without being awed by it as a work of literature. From its extraordinary beginning, 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,' alluding to the first verse of Genesis and implying that a new creation is in the making, to Jesus' 'It is finished' (19:30) marking the end of his new-creation accomplishment, via a series of 'signs' that Jesus is indeed who he says he is and the beautiful prose of Jesus' discourses in chapters 14–17, John's gospel is a magificent and remarkable piece of literary narrative—a fact that we miss if we search for proof texts or treat it simply as an account of Jesus' ministry. For me, it is this magnificence that speaks of divine inspiration, not biblicist fiat.
These linguistic and literary considerations tell me that one may not with integrity declare that the biblical texts have, in Smith's short definition of biblicism, 'exclusive authority, infallibility, perspicuity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability.' Instead, we need to constantly come back to the texts with the goal of fathoming more deeply what God is saying to us through them, and inspecting them in the ways mentioned above makes the achievement of that goal more probable (and more fascinating). We need the humility to acknowledge that in these circumstances our own interpretations may be wrong, and to listen to those who disagree with us. If our approach to the Bible doesn't allow us intelligently to take account of such issues, then the future of evangelicalism looks a bit bleak, and unity remains far off.
- [^1] But I will be intrigued enough to delve into this sometime soon.
- [^2] A fact implicitly recognised in the amazingly Byzantine efforts of past writers of English legalese to tie down their text so that only one reading was possible.
- [^3] A majority of translations I have looked at favour something like the first reading; others, like the Jewish New Testament and the Kingdom New Testament favour the second.
- [^4] δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ and διὰ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.
- [^5] German translations have further twists. Luther's 1545 translation has die Gerechtigkeit, die vor Gott gilt 'the righteousness that counts before God' and durch den Glauben an Jesum Christum 'through faith in Jesus Christ'. The Gute Nachricht (2000) paraphrases as die Gerechtigkeit Gottes, nämlich seine rettende Treue, 'God's justice, that is, his saving faithfulness' and im Glauben, das heißt im Vertrauen auf das, was Gott durch Jesus Christus getan ha 'in faith, that is, in trust in what God has done through Jesus'.


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I've always found great solace in books, probably more so than most people. At times when I've felt most lost, alone, and confused, I've regained a sense of myself by revisiting those books with which I've most identified, a firm reminder of who I am. But when I experienced my first heartbreak – my first real, gut-wrenching, hopeless phase of inconsolable sobbing and impending doom at the thought of being without he who I had come to know so well – no piece of fiction could provide me with even a modicum of comfort. I've always been a lover of music, but never more so than when I was despondent and broken-hearted. It was during these times that songs provided companionship to me, more than any written word or kindly offered shoulder could.
Prior to my first heartbreak, female vocalists generally held little lasting appeal for me. It wasn't that I categorically refused to listen to women singers, but rather that the songs I was most interested in were of a style that doesn't lend itself to the female voice as well. It was mostly indie rock and alternative for me, but not yet the folksy ballads and substantial pop of artists like Laura Marling or Regina Spektor. I wanted music that moved me through beat and rhythm, rather than vocal beauty and lyric. My limited world experience barely resembles that of adult female artists. Since I didn't relate to musicians of my sex, I stuck to what I knew – the omnipotent male voice of independent, alternative rock. Maybe it was my youthful immaturity or maybe I just hadn't yet found the right voice from among the female offerings, but it wasn't until my first broken heart that I could rightfully place any female artist among my favorites.
In the mournful words and music composed by Feist, Rachael Yamagata, and the like, I learned that my feelings of complete despair, false hope, and futile torment were not as unique as I had heretofore imagined. To most, that would seem all the more reason to lose hope, but not I. In finding their songs about unrequited love, imagining one's ex-lover everywhere, and indulging oneself with mythical mental reunions, I learned that my heartbreak was not earth-shattering, in fact it was nothing new at all. I needed to hear a female perspective to recognize that successful and content women could emerge from the wreckage of long-term relationships fully intact. No male voice could cure my lonesomeness, but these distinctive female songs of heartbreaks true and deeply felt allowed the intolerable pain of my experience some meager outlet. I gorged on the music which indulged these emotions without guilt or remorse. Finding these songs was like having arrived upon my own holy grail, a journey on which I never knew I had embarked until I arrived at my destination. These were the people who most fully helped me recover, find my own two feet again, and recognize that my heartbreak was nothing the world hadn't seen before. The world was only going to continue turning and I had to keep up.
In time I was able to heal without fully relying upon those ladies in which I first found such grand solace. From the consolation within and the truth behind these women's songs came the strength of solidarity, no matter how intangible and imaginary. Though I never spoke to these women directly, never confided in or personally encountered them, I drank up their empathy like a magic elixir to stimulate the healing process.
Now when I hear those songs, I grow nostalgic for that time of grief, recovery, and healing. It is not a sadistic notion but rather a longing for those formative months when I thought I was lost and broken. As cliche as the point is, out of heartbreaks come the most pure versions of ourselves. After a thorough period of nurturing and cleansing, we are left with an amazingly stunning picture of ourselves, a more clear and focused image with which we can better understand and identify our own nature. The important part is finding a consolation in someone or something, anything that nurtures and heals, and regaining the clarity of mind of finish that healing process for yourself. And I'd like to thank some of the following ladies for that.


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Random WTF of the evening was discovering that I had to alter /etc/php.d/suhosin.ini in order to have more than 16 menu items in a Wordpress custom menu. WTactualF?:
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3 Ways Rosemary Helps Your Skin Stay Cancer Free
Cancer cells often multiply quickly and the ability for these cells to The ability of cancer cells to evade homeostasis and proliferate uncontrollably is incredibly nerve-wracking.
Rosemary, the nourishing herb rich in calcium, iron and b-6, just might be a part of your skincare prevention team.
Not only is it an anti-inflammatory, an antidiabetic but also, it has anticancerous properties.
In this day and age of Ozone layer thinness, sun damage and the double edge where we need the sun for Vitamin D synthesis (and oddly, we need vitamin D for our immune system including for the prevention of cancer).
What is Rosemary?
Rosemary, "Rosemarinus Officinalis L" is a member of the mint family, which might be why it has an aroma that imparts a gentle but alert reaction when you get a whiff of it.
Two acids within the plant, casnosic (CA) and rosmarninic acid (RA), both are potent anticancer properties, and have shown to be a support to fight both breast and colon cancers, to name a just two. It appears that CA and RA both target the pathways of cancer cells and signal molecules to decrease (cancer) cell survival, while being gentle enough to not harm healthy cells.
According to Medical News Today, Rosemary has been around for centuries as a medicinal plant.
How can Rosemary in your skincare help you?
1. Astringent: Rosemary is a skin balancing natural astringent.
2. Decongest Pores: Rosemary helps to decongest pores and lift bacteria so while nurturing healthy cells, gently.
3. Stimulation: Rosemary stimulates thus, oxygenates the skin, which helps to bring a glow and, whisk away microscopic debris.
Because of Rosemary's hydrating properties, all of this helps to control oil while balancing the skin to leave a dewy complexion.
Because of sometimes our skin has suffered overexposure of the sun, called photodamage, Rosemary helps to restore them with phytonutrients.
In fact, when you massage our skincare formula Sea Your Truth Serum, it helps to soothe, restore and might even reverse premature graying.
However, beyond the scalp, Sea Your Truth Serum and our other Gypsy batch formulas that contain Rosemary, are like medics for your skin struggles and help prevent challenges from cropping up - while also being incredibly pampering.


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In 2015, I developed a scarf with images of my paintings of scenes from Washington DC for trips to Colombia, Norway and Italy. They were very well received, and are now available for private purchase at the Spilsbury Gallery, Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I Street NW.
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How Does Capsiplex Work?
How Does Capsiplex Work?
Capsiplex is getting a lot of attention from the media. It seems to be the new wonder drug in the dieting world. Many people are buying Capsiplex to try it for themselves. But How Does Capsiplex Work?
Chili peppers/hot peppers contain Capsaisinoids, which are what give them their intense spiciness and the burning sensation felt when these foods are consumed. Capsaicin causes thermogenesis, or raising of the body's temperature. Within 70-90 minutes of consuming Capsaicin, the body's metabolic rate is raised considerably.
A recent study revealed that people who consume Capsaicin before they exercise burn infinitely more fat than those who do the same amount of exercise without consuming Capsaicin.
In a concentrated form, Capsicum extract enhances and increases the speed of the metabolic rate, which burns more calories and fat. The extract also helps reduce appetite. Spicy foods are generally more filling and provide energy boosts.
In order to achieve significant weight loss with this method, an impossible amount of chili peppers would have to be consumed. There would be bad effects on your mouth, stomach, bowels and throat. So the manufacture of Capsicum would be a problem – and wouldn't be effective.
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Capsiplex's capsule, however, contains the correct amount of Capsicum for maximum weight loss (about 10 grams) without resulting in any adverse reactions. The coating on the capsule of the pill is formulated to bypass the low PH level in the stomach and to instead deliver and release the Capsicum extract in the intestines where PH levels are higher. This way, there is no pain or discomfort.
The pills also contain a very small amount of caffeine, small enough not to cause side effects. By taking a Capsicum extract pill this way, the Capsicum is undiluted in a powerful, concentrated form, but it's still gentle on the stomach and easy for the body to process. A person who takes the pill can incorporate chili into his or her diet program in a pleasant way.
Researchers have also discovered that Capsicum can improve blood circulation, blood pressure, and respiratory problems, and kill certain types of bacteria and even some cancer-containing cells.
Taking Capsiplex alone will not cause weight loss. Its effects are supported by regular exercise and consistent use.


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Advantages Of Television Advertising
5. By watching recipe channel, we can learn many recipes. 6. Various reality shows ( like singing, dancing, acting) can motivate people, who are interested in that field. What are the disadvantages of television?
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News on the Internet (assuming a broadband connection) has all of the advantages of television news, and at the same time also has most of the advantages of newspapers. There are no artificial content restrictions like word counts and paper and ink costs.


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Why Shop Local?
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"Local & Organic" builds connections and relationships
--- "Local & Organic" begs a fun yet mature question:
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...demonstrates the benefits in strong long-term relationships with your local food & farm economy.
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--- "Local & Organic" supports environment-friendly farming principles:
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- Downtown Grocery.com from its inception has followed and initiated earth-friendly practices
- Regarding sustainability, Co-owner Kevin Korpela was interviewed on WAOW Channel 9 News in
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Perissa Village on the Island of Santorini is located on the eastern cost of the island, Perissa is one of the best beaches on Santorini, long stretches of dark sand and crystal clear cool waters are protected from the summer Aegean winds ("Meltemia") by Mesa Vouno, (the site of Ancient Thira) in the north east and Profitis Ilias to the north.
Perissa is very much a tourist sea-side settlement, 15km from the capital of Fira, much of Perissa is newly built, the architecture of the buildings being less traditional than many of the surrounding villages. It is sparsely populated outside of the tourist period (April to October), but during this time it hosts a good number of hotels, rooms to let, taverns, cafes, beach bars and night-clubs.
Public transport is restricted to bus or taxi and there are few of the latter on the island. Buses are fairly reliable although can get crowded during the peak times. Busses from all the villages terminate in Fira and the Perissa bus turns around at the edge of the village at the beach near Mesa Vouno.


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Team stalling out? Time for a tune-up
If your team members are not as productive, motivated or satisfied as you'd like them to be, it's time to do something about it. Teams require routine maintenance.
Cultivating a strong team environment isn't easy, especially in a society that emphasizes individual performance. But with some team-building effort, you can help the group work toward a common goal and improve creativity, problem solving and productivity. Here are five great ways to build more effective teams:
1. Increase diversity. All members should be proficient, reliable and in a position to work efficiently with each other. They should also provide diverse skillsets to help the group reach its goal. Encourage workforce diversity and help members see the value of individual efforts toward achieving a common objective. Demonstrate how diverse backgrounds, skills and perspectives could help provide more innovative solutions.
2. Set responsibility. Create basic rules as a team and ensure that everyone agrees to them. Clearly specify everyone's individual position and what he or she must do within the team. Set straightforward team goals, timelines and expectations. Everyone should know their own role and responsibilities, as well as those of their team members.
3. Encourage collaboration. As teamwork is built on trust, all members should feel safe asking questions, sharing their ideas and making recommendations. One way to accomplish this is to facilitate communication as a team and between individuals. Each individual's feedback should be valued and you can set an example by being open to suggestions and concerns.
4. Resolve conflicts. Show your position as a team leader by identifying and resolving conflicts. When making an important decision, ensure that all members are up to speed with the team's progress and that everyone has an opportunity to ask questions and express their opinions. Let your team know that it's okay to disagree with one another. Develop relationships with members based on trust and respect and encourage the same among members.
5. Provide rewards. Celebrate achievements and acknowledge the team for their contributions. Reward your team with a special event and help present their success to executive staff. Spotlight their accomplishments in company publications and showcase your group as a model for effective teamwork.
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