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How to configure basic wireless settings of my TP-Link EAP in Standalone mode?
If you are using the Omada Controller to manage the EAP, please refer to How to configure basic wireless settings of my TP-Link EAP via Omada Controller?
- If it is the first time to install and configure your EAP devices, please refer to the Setup Video instead for more detailed guidance.
- To learn the difference between the two configuration modes. Please refer to the setup-video A Quick Overview of EAP Management Methods.
In Standalone Mode, there are two easy methods to configure the basic wireless settings. Here we take EAP245_V3 as demonstration:
Method 1---Via Omada App
- Connect your mobile device to the EAP's Wi-Fi network and launch the Omada App.
- Locate to Standalone APs, the EAP will appear on the Standalone APs page.
- Tap on the EAP device you want to configure, enter the username and password of the EAP that you set in the initial installation to log in.
- Then tap the settings icon on the upper right corner, click SSID configure the wireless settings. You can tap the existing SSID to modify the wireless settings, OR tap the "+" icon on the right bottom corner to add a new SSID.
Here we tap the existing SSID, customize the SSID, select Security as WPA/WPA2-Personal and create the Security Key (wireless password) to secure the Wi-Fi.
5. If your EAP is dual-band, remember to configure the SSID of the 5GHz band in the same way. After you change the settings for both 2.4G and 5G, remember to Save the changes and reconnect to the Wi-Fi network you just set. Enjoy surfing the Internet.
Method 2---Via Web Browser
- Log into the Web GUI of the EAP. If you don't know how to do that, please refer to How do I login to the web management page of the EAP Series products (Standalone mode)?
- After you login, choose the menu Wireless > Wireless Settings . Click 2.4GHz or 5GHz to choose a frequency band on which the SSID will be changed.
Tips: When you change 2.4G SSID or password, we suggest you connect to 5GHz SSID and login the web GUI to change it, vice versa.
3. In the SSIDs section, you can click Edit icon to modify the wireless settings of the existing SSID, OR tap the "+ Add" icon on the upper bottom corner to add a new SSID.
Here we click Edit icon, customize the SSID, select Security as WPA-Personal and create the Wireless Password to secure the Wi-Fi.
4. If your EAP is dual-band, remember to configure the SSID of the 5GHz band in the same way. The configurations for editing the SSID will take effect immediately, reconnect to the Wi-Fi network you just set and enjoy surfing the Internet.
Get to know more details of each function and configuration please go to Download Center to download the manual of your product.
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Wall Street Is Trying to Embezzle Puerto Rico's Hurricane Relief Money
| By LARA MERLING
Research Assistant at the Center for Economic and Policy Research
This article is republished with the permission of Jacobin | ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Glancing over last week's headlines, one might think there's been some sort of significant improvement in the outlook for Puerto Rico's beleaguered economy. With bond prices trading at their highest levels since the hurricanes, the Wall Street Journal referred to Puerto Rico's debt as "the top-performing bond investment of 2018," a development it attributes to "unexpected improvement in the island's economy." This statement is deceptive at best. If anything, Puerto Rico's economic prospects have only worsened. The surge in bond prices comes in response to a new version of the proposed "Fiscal Plan," released by Puerto Rico's government, which predicts a much higher fiscal surplus over the next six years than a previous version, released in February. Creditors are assuming they will be able to claim these funds for debt repayment, which pushed bond prices up. However, the newest plan downgrades growth predictions, prompting the question of where this new surplus is supposed to come from.
As part of the process outlined by the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) passed by the US Congress, the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) is in charge of certifying a long-term fiscal plan for Puerto Rico, giving the Board a final say in all major policy decisions. Prior to last year's hurricanes, the Board had approved a ten-year plan — widely seen as unrealistic by economists — that projected a fiscal surplus of $8 billion over ten years. Despite ensuring a lost decade in terms of economic growth, that surplus would be made available for debt repayment. Now, in the wake of widespread devastation and extensive damage caused by Hurricane Maria, the Board and the government of Puerto Rico are in the process of agreeing on a new fiscal plan.
Since January, Puerto Rico's governor has already released four versions of the fiscal plan ― none of which the Board was willing to certify. One of the most notable differences among the plans has been the gradual increase in the predicted fiscal balance over the next six years. The first version, released in January, predicted a $3.4 billion deficit over the next five years. However, the subsequent versions included a six-year forecast and went on to predict surpluses. The February release predicted a surplus of $3.4 billion, the March version a surplus of $6 billion, and the latest version, released in April, estimated a surplus of $6.3 billion.
While this most recent plan predicts the highest fiscal surplus, it actually forecasts no overall growth. While the initial versions of the plan predicted some sort of GNP growth over the six-year period, according to the latest release GNP in 2023 will barely reach its 2017 level.
Even these already grim predictions need to be taken with a grain of salt. Hidden among an array of euphemisms, every version of the plan includes large cuts to many essential services, cloaked in terms such as "new government model," "right-sizing," and "efficiency." The government is also counting on savings that would materialize from privatizing various government agencies and services, despite past experiences with private operators that have actually resulted in increased costs over time.
Wall Street's Hand in the Cookie Jar
As I and my co-authors argued in the context of the previous fiscal plan, these types of measures and reforms have a track record of significant negative feedback, particularly in a depressed economy, that are likely to push Puerto Rico into a downward spiral of further economic contraction. Puerto Rico has been in a recession for over a decade, and had very bleak economic projections for the future even prior to being hit by an extremely powerful storm that wiped out a large part of its infrastructure. In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Maria, even President Trump was among those who made the case for debt cancellation.
A letter signed by prominent economists explains that, given this context, in order for Puerto Rico to actually recover, there can be no reasonable expectation for the island to make any kind of debt payments until it returns to sustained growth. The letter makes the case for ample relief support and a fiscal plan that allows the island to return to economic growth, explaining that diverting funds from relief efforts to debt repayment would prolong the crisis, accelerate economic decline, and cause more human suffering.
Meanwhile, a close look at the three plans reveals the source of the additional forecasted revenue that caused bond prices to soar: increased federal support. The January plan had estimated about $35 billion in federal assistance, and did not include $5 billion in Medicaid funding Puerto Rico was granted for the next two years. The second, third, and fourth versions all assume almost $50 billion in federal assistance. But only the last two versions account for the increased Medicaid support.
This federal support is clearly earmarked for relief efforts, meant to aid Puerto Rico's recovery. This was made clear to the oversight board in a letter from Representative Nydia Velázquez's office, who has been at the forefront of congressional efforts to secure more support for Puerto Rico, especially after a slow initial response to the island's crisis from the federal government.
Furthermore, the support secured by Puerto Rico is still below its own request for federal funds, which estimated the cost of rebuilding and putting the island back on a path to recovery at over $94 billion. It is clearly not the case that Puerto Rico will receive more money than it needs for recovery, so there will not be any fiscal basis for paying off debt as the bond markets are apparently assuming.
The board's disapproval of the submitted plan proposals is unrelated to any misuse of relief funds for debt payments, or to the fiscal drag on the economy. On the contrary, the Board is demanding further and more severe cuts, many of which directly target welfare recipients, public-sector employees, and retirees, along with other labor reforms that would weaken protections and benefits for workers and that offer little evidence of any resulting increase in overall employment. This approach will prolong the crisis, while allowing creditors to seize a share of the money meant to ease the suffering of the people of Puerto Rico.
The board is aggressively pushing for measures such as cutting Christmas bonuses for public-sector employees ― which have historically been part of their compensation ― so this would effectively entail a pay cut. Yet, while it would punish public-sector employees under the pretense that the estimated $69 million in savings is essential, the Board continues to lavishly spend Puerto Rican resources on hefty consulting and legal fees and on generous compensation for its own employees.
Rather than ask for more cuts, the Board should follow its own core principlesfor a fiscal plan that prioritizes improving living standards and avoiding more out-migration, and that emphasizes the need to rebuild the island's infrastructure. Allowing any relief support to be diverted to creditors, while demanding steep cuts to government services, goes against those principles. The post-hurricane circumstances in Puerto Rico are extraordinarily difficult, and the island still has a long way to go to recover.
Immediately after the storm, it seemed rather odd that some hedge funds were buying distressed bonds in bulk, mostly at huge discounts, given the low probability that they would ever be repaid. Yet, under the latest proposed fiscal plan, it looks like their bet might result in a substantial payout. Those who predicted that Puerto Rico would not be able to make any debt payments in the near future, at least until it fully recovered, were not wrong about the situation on the island, but they did not consider the scenario that relief funds could become a source for creditor bailouts. Indeed, allowing the people of Puerto Rico to continue suffering, while rewarding bondholders ― many of whom purchased their bonds as a speculative investment at a steep discount ― is indefensible.
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Ministry of Power
The Ministry of Power is mainly responsible for evolving general policy in the field of energy. The main items of work dealt with by the Ministry of Power are as below :
- General Policy in the electric power sector and issues relating to energy policy and coordination thereof. (Details of short, medium and long-term policies in terms of formulation, acceptance, implementation and review of such policies, cutting across sectors, fuels, regions and intra country and inter country flows
- All matters relating to hydro-electric power (except small/mini/micro hydel projects of and below 25 MW capacity) and thermal power and transmission & distribution system network;
- Research, development and technical assistance relating to hydro-electric and thermal power, transmission system network and distribution systems in the States/UTs;
- Administration of the Electricity Act, 2003, ( 36 of 2003) , the Energy Conservation Act , 2001 (52 of 2001 ), the Damodar Valley Corporation Act,1948 ( 14 of 1948) and Bhakra Beas Management Board as provided in the Punjab Reorganisation Act,1966 (31 of 1966 ).
- All matters relating to Central Electricity Authority, Central Electricity Board and Central Electricity Regulatory Commission;
(a) Rural Electrification;
(b) Power schemes and issues relating to power supply/development schemes/ programmes/decentralized and distributed generation in the States and Union Territories;
Matters relating to the following Undertakings/Organizations:-a. The Damodar Valley Corporation;
b. The Bhakra Beas Management Board (except matters relating to irrigation
c. National Thermal Power Corporation Limited;
e. National Hydro-electric Power Corporation Limited;
f. Rural Electrification Corporation Limited;
g. North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited;
h. Power Grid Corporation of India Limited;
i. Power Finance Corporation Limited;
j. Tehri Hydro Development Corporation;
k. Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd.;
l. Central Power Research Institute;
m. National Power Training Institute;
n. Bureau of Energy Efficiency;
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For the fiscal year 2024-25, the Ministry has an estimated annual budget of Rs 20,502 crore.


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No matter how careful you are about animals in your home, or how much care you take when you are outdoors, animal and insect bites and stings are sometimes unavoidable.
Fleas, mites, and chiggers often bite humans. But they are not poisonous. It's sometimes hard to know which type of insect caused the bite, or if the rash is caused by poison ivy or other skin conditions.
Symptoms may include:
Small bumps on the skin
Pain or itching
Dermatitis (inflammation of the skin)
Allergy-like reactions such as swelling or blistering
The symptoms of a flea, mite, or chigger bite may be like other health conditions. Talk with your healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Your healthcare provider will talk with you about treatment. Treatment may include:
Cleaning the area well with soap and water
Using an antihistamine to help reduce itching, if needed
Applying cool compresses and avoiding heat to help with itching and possible inflammation
Taking acetaminophen for discomfort if needed
Call your healthcare provider if you have any of these:
Pain or itching that doesn't stop
Signs of infection, such as increased redness, warmth, swelling, or fluid leaking
Call 911 or your local emergency medical service (EMS) if the person has signs of a severe allergic reaction such as:
Trouble breathing
Tightness in the throat or chest
Feeling faint
Nausea and vomiting
Ticks are small insects that live in grass, bushes, wooded areas, and along seashores. They attach their bodies onto a human or animal host. They prefer hairy areas such as the scalp, behind the ear, in the armpit, and the groin. They can also attach between fingers and toes. Tick bites often happen at night. And they happen more in the spring and summer months.
To remove a tick:
DoN't touch the tick with your bare hand. If you doN't have a pair of tweezers, go to your nearest healthcare facility where the tick can be removed safely.
Use a pair of tweezers to remove the tick. Grab the tick firmly by its mouth or head as close to your skin as possible.
Pull up slowly and steadily without twisting until it lets go. DoN't squeeze the tick, and don't use petroleum jelly, solvents, knives, or a lit match to kill the tick.
Save the tick and place it in a secure plastic container or sealed bag so it can be tested for disease, if necessary.
Wash the area of the bite well with soap and water and apply an antiseptic lotion or cream.
Call your healthcare provider to find out about follow-up care.
Bees, wasps, yellow jackets, and hornets belong to a class of insects called Hymenoptera. Most insect stings cause only minor discomfort. Stings can happen anywhere on the body and can be painful. Yellow jackets cause the most allergic reactions in the U.S. Stings from these insects cause many more deaths than poisonous snake bites because of severe allergic reactions. In fact, bees usually cause more deaths per year than any other animal in the U.S. because of allergies. Fire ants are usually found in Southern states. They can sting multiple times, and the sites are more likely to become infected.
The two greatest risks from most insect stings are allergic reaction and infection. An infection is more common and less serious. An allergic reaction may cause death if it is severe.
These are the most common symptoms of insect stings. You may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
Local skin reactions at the site or around the sting such as:
Small amounts of bleeding or drainage
Full-body symptoms may mean a more severe and possibly life-threatening allergic reaction. These symptoms may include:
Tickling in the throat
Breathing problems or wheezing
Nausea or vomiting
Dizziness or fainting
Itching and rash elsewhere on the body
Your healthcare provider will talk with you about treatment. A large local reaction to a sting usually does not lead to a full-body reactions. But it can be life-threatening if the sting happens in the mouth, nose, or throat. This is due to swelling that can close off the airway.
Treatment for local skin reactions only may include:
Remove the stinger by gently scraping across the site with a blunt-edged object, such as a credit card or dull knife. Don't try to pull it out. This may release more venom.
Wash the area well with soap and water.
Apply a cold or ice pack wrapped in a cloth to help reduce swelling and pain. Use this for 10 minutes on and 10 minutes off for 30 to 60 minutes. This will also help with itching.
If the sting happens on an arm or leg, elevate the limb to help reduce swelling.
To help reduce the itching, try 1 or more of these remedies:
Use an over-the-counter product made for insect stings.
Apply an antihistamine or corticosteroid cream or calamine lotion.
Give acetaminophen for pain.
Give an over-the-counter antihistamine, if approved by your healthcare provider. Be sure to follow dosage instructions carefully.
Watch closely during the next hour for any signs of allergic reaction that would need emergency medical treatment.
Call 911 or your local emergency medical service (EMS) and seek emergency care right away if the person is stung in the mouth, nose, or throat area, or there are any signs of a full-body reaction.
Emergency medical treatment may include:
IV (intravenous) antihistamines
Epinephrine auto-injector pen
Corticosteroids or other medicines
Breathing support
To help reduce the possibility of insect stings while outdoors:
Don't wear perfumes, hairsprays, or other scented products.
Don't wear brightly colored clothing.
Don't walk outside barefoot.
Spray your clothing with insect repellent.
Avoid hives and nests. Have the nests removed by professionals.
If an insect comes near you, stay calm and walk away slowly.
If you have a known or possible allergy to stings:
Carry an epinephrine auto-injector (such as an EpiPen) at all times and make sure you know how to use it. These products are available by prescription. If you don't have one, ask your healthcare provider if this medicine is right for you.
Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants when outdoors.
See an allergist for allergy testing and treatment.


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My friend Darrell Grizzle has created a Yahoo! Group which will be reading the entire Bible through in 2006, including the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books. The group is Lectiodivina and you can join just by clicking the link and following the instructions. After you do, you might want to send a short introduction post to let the others know something about you. The "Files" link has the OT and NT reading schedule for the first 3 months.
Yours truly is a member, and I'll be reading the NT with the group, although not the OT. What seems most valuable to me in the Old Testament are the Wisdom books: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, The Song of Songs, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), and Wisdom (of Solomon). In addition, I'll also be reading the major Upanishads, the Tao Te Ching, the Dhammapada, the Bhagavad Gita and Ashtavakra Gita, and the Gospel of Thomas.
The schedule I created for this is deliberately light to allow plenty of time for reflection: no more than two chapters a day, of any book (sometimes just one), with the exception of Thomas, where I'll generally just read three short logions a day. I'm greatly looking forward to reading the NT, Wisdom books, and these Eastern scriptures again, in a slow, more thoughtful way, since some of them I really ripped through when I read them the first time!
Sound interesting? Join us. (P.S. I don't want to steal from the group's thunder, but if you're interested in reading Biblical and Eastern wisdom books in place of the OT, email me and I'll send a copy of my reading schedule.)


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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for COVID-19 in what appears to be a breakthrough infection, the court said in a statement Friday.
"On Thursday evening, Justice Kavanaugh was informed that he had tested positive for Covid-19," the statement said. "He has no symptoms and has been fully vaccinated since January."
His wife and daughters tested negative, it added.
Kavanaguh was due to attend Friday's investiture ceremony for Justice Amy Coney Barrett who joined the court during the pandemic in the last days of the Trump administration. He will now no longer attend the ceremony, the court said.
"Per current testing protocols, all of the justices were tested Monday morning prior to conference, and all tested negative, including Justice Kavanaugh," the statement said.
The news comes just days before the court resumes in-person oral arguments, on Monday.
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Very few people in the world today have any faith or belief in God
Friday, 25 October 2013 @ 23:55
Message 948
My dearly beloved daughter, when people accuse you of spreading fear, through these messages, then they must understand my true intention.
Fear comes from the wickedness of those who are infused with darkness of the soul, who walk amongst you.
Your enemies are my enemies.
They will create such false spirituality in every nation and it will not come from me.
So charming will they be, they will be infiltrated amongst those with high profiles in order to spread the false doctrine of new age, Satanic origins.
Many will consider these terrible actions to be harmless fun, but behind the seemingly innocent façade lies a cunning plan to rid the world of its belief in the Holy Trinity.
Very few people in the world today have any faith or belief in God and so when the servants of Satan present them with false values, false spirituality and paganism, many will be seduced.
They will be attracted to the false, charitable appeals for the rights of those who seek acceptance for their own lives, which defy the laws laid down by My Father.
Because their faith in God is weak, they will be open to lies.
They will adore a false God, the Antichrist, instead.
I tell you these things, for they are the truth.
Why would I not warn you of these things?
I am your Saviour and I am preparing to salvage you all, finally, after this prolonged and painful time.
Man has suffered untold hardship because of Satan.
So many people do not understand how much he destroys lives.
He wrecks your relationships with other people, attracts you to vices, which destroy you, changes you and entraps you.
No matter what he gives you, you will always feel empty.
You will keep falling and falling until you become involved with depraved and unnatural acts and you will find no satisfaction.
Only, I Jesus Christ, can bring you true peace, love and salvation.
As your life on Earth will be changed beyond your comprehension, by the Antichrist, I have to warn you.
I do this, not to bring you fear, but to prepare you for the truth.
Only the truth will free you from the wickedness of those who live, breathe and who will die because of their allegiance to Satan and his demons.
Only I, Jesus, am your way to seek relief from the persecution, which these wicked, cunning and deceitful people will bring to bear on the world.
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[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geek Art, Urban & Street Art. ]
Jumbles of beheaded bodies, limbs entwined, torsos twisting, hands reaching out – in compositions that are both glaringly Asian-influenced and psychedelic – call to mind some orgiastic body painting experiment, until you focus on the strange perspective and profusion of hands in various sizes.
This is no ordinary example of beautifully crafted body painting, and as stunningly realistic as the images appear, they're actually computer-generated. Contemporary Korean artist Kim Joon uses 3D animation software to assemble the perfect body for each piece, building the form and grafting on skin texture before moving on to the intricate designs.
One piece, entitled 'Neverland', pays respects to Michael Jackson, but deeper behind this lies an homage to what Kim admits is his idea of the perfect male body: ebony-skinned and powerful. But the real star of each digital work is the body decoration, which Kim identifies as tattoos. To Kim – who says his single biggest influence is Jimi Hendrix – tattoos are sensual markings that simultaneously represent desire and repression, beauty and scars.
"I would like people to be able to think about their own tattoos and re-examine their lives through seeing my work. Tattoo or tattooing symbolizes the multi-layered composites of desire and will, emotion and action, pain and pleasure of self and other (tattooist) which can be translated as a complex system of complicit activities," Kim told Art Radar Asia.
"This is much like the way in which our lives are conducted in the larger social matrix. I want people to be able to feel the tension between human (in)ability to control desires and situations. That we have less control than we think in defying forces in capital driven society."
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Life is good. You know how I know? The biggest dilemma I was faced with this past weekend was what to do with the rest of my coveted strawberries.
Two batches of jam, three smoothies, and four bellyaches later, there were only a handful of less-than-perfect berries left, crying to be used. Rather then send them into the deep freeze for later use, I threw them into a batch of these delicious-sounding scones.
While the flavors were spot-on, I felt that the texture was not quite as scone-like as I would have liked. Granted, I took them out of the oven sooner than the directions instructed, however if I hadn't I would have ruined another baking sheet with the singed remains of strawberry ooze. As a result, the texture was almost muffin-like, light and fluffy and soft. Good, no doubt, but not what I'd define as a scone.
I loved the sweet buttermilk glaze, though, and so did the cat. We turned our backs for 5 seconds only to find that she'd broken in to the partially open container and was now madly licking the glaze off the top of one scone like her life depended on it.
I take it back. We DO have bigger dilemmas than just strawberries…
Strawberry Almond Scones
For Scones:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour*
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cubed
1 1/4 cups buttermilk, plus more for brushing
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/2 cups sliced strawberries
2 tablespoons turbinado or raw sugar
For Glaze:
1/2 cup sliced almonds
2 cups confectioners' sugar
3 tablespoons buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract
*Whole wheat pastry flour is finer than regular whole wheat flour, and produces a lighter scone overall. If you don't have any, substitute all-purpose instead.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together both flours with the granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using a pastry blender or your fingers, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in the buttermilk until just incorporated, then gently fold in the sliced strawberries.
Using an ice cream scoop or a spoon, scoop the dough into 16 mounds on the prepared baking sheets. Brush the scones with buttermilk and sprinkle with the turbinado sugar. Bake in the upper and lower thirds of the oven until the scones are golden and cooked through, rotating the pans from front to back and top to bottom halfway through baking. This should take about 20 to 30 minutes, but keep an eye on them as the berries have a tendency to burn. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Spread the almonds in a thin layer on a small baking sheet and toast for about 8 minutes, until just golden. Remove from oven and let cool.
To prepare glaze, in a small bowl, whisk the confectioners' sugar with the buttermilk, almond extract, and salt. Drizzle the scones with the glaze, then top with the almonds, pressing if necessary to adhere. Let dry for 10 minutes, then serve. Scones are best enjoyed the day they are made.
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Oscars 2018: Here are the favorites for the 90th Academy Awards
The Academy Awards offer the most enticing pop-culture betting event of the year. The top achievements in moviemaking from 2017 will face off for gold statuettes in a variety of categories and the Oscars betting odds allow you to cash in on those movies worthy of Hollywood's top honor.
Who better to break down the best bets for the 90th Academy Awards than a film buff from Las Vegas? Film critic Josh Bell gives his insights into which films should walk away with the major awards—and the cash – when the Academy Awards air on ABC Sunday, March 4 at 8:30 p.m. ET
Best Picture
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 7/5
The Shape of Water 2/1
Get Out 13/2
Lady Bird 22/1
Dunkirk 50/1
Call Me by Your Name 50/1
Phantom Thread 80/1
The Post 100/1
Darkest Hour 100/1
What Will Win: The momentum is behind Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, following its wins at the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the BAFTAs - all reliable early Oscar indicators. It also has a social conscience that's timely but not too divisive, which may put it right in the sweet spot of what Academy voters want to promote (or to be seen as promoting).
What Should Win:The Shape of Water also picked up some important early awards from critics groups, as well as the top honor from the Critics Choice Awards, and it boasts the most overall nominations (with 13). Guillermo del Toro's fable about the romance between a mute cleaning woman and a mysterious amphibious humanoid creature is also more ambitious and creative than most of the other nominees, but it may prove too weird to prevail as Best Picture.
Best Actor
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour 1/10
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name 18/1
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread 40/1
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out 50/1
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq. 100/1
Who Will Win: It's pretty much a guarantee for Oldman, whose showy performance as Winston Churchill, covered in heavy prosthetics, is practically the definition of "Oscar bait." Historical drama Darkest Hour may be too staid to win other major categories, but Oldman's scenery chewing is exactly the kind of capital-A Acting that Academy voters typically love. The veteran actor is widely respected, with only one previous nomination and no previous wins, making this a perfect career capper as well.
Who Should Win: Chalamet may only be 22 years old, but his performance as a sensitive teen discovering his sexuality in Call Me by Your Name is mature and accomplished, and stands as the film's greatest strength. And while Phantom Thread is strange and divisive, Day-Lewis is a titan of acting who gives one of his best performances as tortured fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock. He's also claimed that this will be his final role, which may throw a few extra votes his way.
Best Actress
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2/13
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird 16/1
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water 33/1
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya 50/1
Meryl Streep, The Post 80/1
Who Will Win: McDormand has racked up nearly every major award in this category leading up to the Oscars, and it would be a big surprise if she didn't cap that run with a win here, too. She's almost universally beloved with one previous win (for Fargo) among four previous nominations. Even critics of the tone of Three Billboards tend to agree that McDormand's performance as an angry grieving mother is the movie's highlight.
Who Should Win: This is a strong category all the way through, with a range of different performances, from Ronan's low-key turn as a sullen teen in the coming-of-age comedy Lady Bird to Hawkins' wordless, dreamlike performance in the fantasy The Shape of Water. Streep certainly doesn't need yet another Oscar for her typically solid work as Washington Post publisher Kay Graham in The Post, but Robbie deserves a boost for her stellar work as another real-life figure, disgraced skater Tonya Harding. It's an equally hilarious and poignant performance that gives Robbie a chance to showcase the full range of her talents.
Best Supporting Actor
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2/11
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project 10/1
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World 50/1
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water 50/1
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 50/1
Who Will Win: Rockwell has become an unlikely favorite after winning at the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the BAFTAs and the Critics Choice Awards. That seems like it will give him a clear advantage here, even though his role (as a racist, homophobic cop) in Three Billboards is much broader and less nuanced than his co-star Frances McDormand's nominated performance. Dafoe was an early favorite throughout much of the lead-up to awards season, and the Academy may still opt for his more low-key, likable turn in The Florida Project as a kind-hearted motel manager.
Who Should Win: Dafoe's performance is the least showy in this category but it's also the most human, and the one that feels the most like a genuine character. It's a true supporting performance, with Dafoe allowing the mostly non-professional actors in the rest of the cast the chance to shine when acting alongside him. The veteran character actor has been nominated twice before but has never won, and is long overdue for the recognition.
Best Supporting Actress
Allison Janney, I, Tonya 2/7
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird 5/1
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound 50/1
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread 50/1
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water 66/1
Who Will Win: Janney's bracing performance as Tonya Harding's abusive mother LaVona in I, Tonya may be the single award that the underrated self-aware dark comedy will take home, following Janney's previous wins at the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the BAFTAs and the Critics Choice Awards. But don't count out fellow TV veteran Metcalf for her warmer, more sympathetic portrayal of motherhood in Lady Bird. Although she's won only lower-level critics' group awards, Metcalf may just overtake Janney with her less abrasive and thus slightly more Academy-friendly performance.
Who Should Win: In the battle of the moms, Metcalf brings more depth to her role, and seeing the perpetually undervalued supporting actress win an Oscar would be a pleasant surprise.
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water 1/10
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk 20/1
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird 40/1
Jordan Peele, Get Out 50/1
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread 80/1
Who Will Win: Although The Shape of Water may miss its chance at Best Picture, del Toro seems like a lock for this award, with his previous Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Directors Guild and Critics Choice wins. Del Toro has been a visionary filmmaker for many years, but his pulpy genre movies don't always get attention from critics and awards voters. Water combines del Toro's genre interests with a more mature story that highlights romance, sexuality and social commentary, and he brings all of those elements together masterfully.
Who Should Win: For sheer scale, nothing compares to Nolan's accomplishments in the World War II epic Dunkirk, the kind of movie that would have swept the Oscars in past decades. It may not have the contemporary resonance of Water or Jordan Peele's Get Out, but it's a monumental achievement in filmmaking.
Follow Josh Bell on Twitter @signalbleed, Facebook (facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything) and at joshbellhateseverything.com. This piece was originally published on Covers.com, a site also owned by Tribune.


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Many trauma patients require implantable hardware for treatment of their orthopedic injuries. One of the concerns they frequently raise is whether this will cause a problem at TSA airport screening checkpoints (Transportation Safety Administration).
The answer is probably "yes." About half of implants will trigger the metal detectors, and these days that usually means a pat down search. And letters from the doctor don't help. It turns out that overall, 38% are detected when the scanner is set to low sensitivity and 52% at high sensitivity.
Here is a more detailed breakdown:
- Lower extremity hardware is detected 10 times more often than upper extremity or spine implants
- 90% of total knee and total hip replacements are detected
- Upper extremity implants such as shoulder, wrist and radial head replacements are rarely detected
- Plates, screws, IM nails, and wires usually escape detection
- Cobalt-chromium and titanium implants trigger alarms more often than stainless steel
If your patient knows that their implant triggers the detectors, they have two options: request a patdown search, or volunteer to go through the full body millimeter wave scanner. This device looks at everything from the skin outwards, and will not "see" the implant and is probably the preferred choice. If they choose to go through the metal detector and trigger it, they are required to have a patdown. Choosing to go through the body scanner after setting off the detector is no longer an allowed option.
Source: Detection of orthopaedic implants in vivo by enhanced-sensitivity, walk-through metal detectors. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2007 Apr;89(4):742-6.


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Comedy Of Art
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means
never losing your enthusiasm." Alders Huxley
Our vision is to help adults to get in touch with their inner child.
To do this we employ techniques from Commedia dell'arte or Comedy Of Art a traditional Italian Improvisational theatre, whilst at the same time, we are giggling due to the fact that we've put fart into a domain name.
Comedy Of Art has creating spectacle, joy and exuberance as a theatre troupe at festivals attended by over 50000 people, going undercover as Insecurity Officers, travelling across space and time as Future Scientists and playing Adult Charades to name a few...and now, we feel like it's time to share it with even more, namely Sydney Fringe Festival, where we want to set a World Record For The Number of Spinning High Fives.
Why and how do we do it? It's s all to do with a well of joy bubbling in our minds. That we want to share.


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- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can't Win If They Won't Fight
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Check out this excerpt for SOMEONE ELSE'S OCEAN by Kate Stewart! Tell us what you think and don't forget to add it to your TBR!
I absolutely adored this book!!
Contemporary Romance
Stand Alone
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Cover Designed by: Amy Queau- Q Design Cover and Premades
Goodreads: http://bit.ly/2HGkqIn
Book Description:
The first time I met Ian Kemp in the sparkling blue waters of St. Thomas, I was six years old and we shared a summer beneath the stars.
The second time I met Ian Kemp, he was a shell of the boy I once knew. Turbulent and infuriating, he refused my friendship at every turn. Like me, he was a casualty of life's cruelty, but we were planets apart.
We'd both sought refuge on the island, hoping to find our anchor. Instead, we found each other and managed to reclaim our stars...until we both got swept away.
"Fack!" It was another one of the hundreds of curses that erupted from the Kemp kitchen.
With wide eyes, I watched the wood fly across the porch and onto the sand and heard another loud crash as I stalked the house next door with my phone pressed to my ear.
"So how is my son?" His mother asked as I saw more of Rowan Kemp's kitchen fly over the railing, off the porch, and into the sand. "Is he adjusting well?"
"Damnit! Oh, fack your motha," Ian's voice rang out in frustration. Giggling, I covered the mouthpiece of the phone as another cabinet door hit the sand. He'd been at it for a few hours. It started with an explosive phone call that I managed to avoid mostly due to my taking cover in the shower and ended with a bang.
"He... is. It looks like he's remodeling the kitchen."
In a flash, Ian stood on the porch only in shorts, his chest heaving, a bottle of the red in his hand. He studied the wood in the sand before he glanced at my house. I ducked out of his line of sight and answered her before more banging started. "He's fine."
"Oh, that's wonderful news. Maybe you could put him on the phone?"
More growling ensued and then a clear, "Damn you! EISH!"
"Well, at the moment, I think it would be impossible, he's in the midst of demolition."
I cringed at the ripping sound and poked my head out of my screen door just as he hurled more wood over the railing.
"You know he's always been so good at things like that. He built his father a beautiful bookshelf for his study."
"That's wonderful," I said, as Ian unloaded an entire can of lighter fluid on the discarded wood. I raced around the bottom floor of my house and collected every fire extinguisher I had before I sat them next to my front door. Seconds later I heard the whoosh of the wood go up in flames. The rising inferno seemed to fuel him as he added more of his mother's kitchen to it piece by piece.
Rowan went on, speaking of her pride and joy. "From boy scouts all the way through college, my boy excelled at everything he did. Honor student, swimming, tennis. I had to beat the women away with a stick."
Ian chose that moment to snap another cabinet door in half over his knee and used his empty wine bottle to bat it into the burning pile.
"You don't say."
"Oh, yes, he was such a ladies' man before he met Tara, his ex-wife."
Only mildly prepared, I walked out onto my porch at the same time Ian returned to it. He had several photo books in his hand. Rowan whispered in my ear as if he could hear her. "I was never really that fond of her, she seemed a little cold compared to his warmth."
Ian pulled pictures from the books and began to burn them one by one. Something in my chest split as he walked around Rowan Kemp's burning kitchen cabinets, tossing away what I was sure were irreplaceable pictures.
He had lost his shit. It was, without a doubt, Ian's doomsday.
"Don't!" I screamed from where I stood.
Ian ignored me as he tossed an entire book into the fire before shaking another so that the pictures fed the flames.
"Koti? What is it?" Rowan said anxiously on the phone.
"Oh nothing, I was just..."
"Is everything okay?"
"Oh, fine," I said, as I paced the porch watching her son destroy his mother's memories. He must have found the pictures in the linen closet. The Kemps had very few of their own things in the house.
"Rowan, I'm going to ask him if he needs any help."
"Okay," she said hesitantly. "But please ask him to ring me."
"Will do." I was already running toward the small bonfire just as Ian tossed another picture into it.
"What are you doing!?"
"Privacy," he said through thick lips. "That's all I asked for."
"Kind of hard to ignore you, Ian. Since you've gone all Tom Hanks Castaway—me man, me make fire!" I reached for the picture in his hand as he tossed it in. I watched it burn. It was a shot of a woman in her wedding dress who I assumed was Tara. She looked beautiful as she smiled at her groom. I was only able to admire Ian in a well-fitted tux for seconds before the fire engulfed the photo.
Jesus, what could have happened?
"Ian, if you want to talk about it…"
He picked up another book and took a few pictures out shoving them into his pocket before he tossed it into the pile.
"Please stop. You don't understand what you're doing."
Blazing eyes scoured me before he looked back at the fire. "I know exactly what the fuck I'm doing."
Sweat pooled on his forehead. He was covered in splintered wood. Ian Kemp had cracked, and he wasn't coming back until he was ready.
Way too far into his headspace, he ignored me standing next to him.
I walked back to my house and watched him dismantle years of memories as he stared at the fire until it went out.
And then the house next to mine went completely quiet.
About the Author:
A Texas native, Kate Stewart lives in North Carolina with her husband, Nick, and her naughty beagle, Sadie. She pens messy, sexy, angst-filled contemporary romance as well as romantic comedy and erotic suspense because it's what she loves as a reader. Kate is a lover of all things '80s and '90s, especially John Hughes films and rap. She dabbles a little in photography, can knit a simple stitch scarf for necessity, and on occasion, does very well at whiskey.
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In addition to all the new stone and tile collections on display, Surfaces/StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas will offer an extensive educational program. Select sessions qualify for credit with AIA, AIBD, IDCEC (ASID, IDC, IIDA), IICRC, WFCA and CFI. This is a great way for the architecture and design community to earn their credits and also have the opportunity to view the numerous product introductions.
As a way to further entice architects and designers to attend the exhibition, Surfaces has formed a partnership with Las Vegas Market to co-locate their events. Las Vegas Market is an international home furnishing showcase. By offering both exhibitions at the same time in one location, show organizers are hoping to increase attendance among the members of the design community.
Surfaces/StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas is not the only exhibition working to draw more architects and designers to its show. Coverings, a large tile and stone exhibition which will be held in Atlanta, GA, in April, also offers many seminars in the design track. Moreover, the show sponsors an Installation Design Showcase where architects and designers pair up with installers to create a finished room on the show floor. The idea behind the event is to illustrate the importance of teamwork to produce a quality design and installation.
On the international front, both Tile of Spain and Ceramics of Italy sponsor competitions that award architects and designers trips to Cevisama — held annually in Valencia, Spain — and Cersaie, which takes place each year in Bologna, Italy. The idea behind bringing U.S. architects and designers to these two large international tile exhibitions is to introduce them to the Spanish and Italian tile with the hope that they will use these products in their future designs.
For those of you who won't be able to make it to any of the stone and tile exhibitions this year, you can certainly learn about many of the new product introductions in upcoming issues of Contemporary Stone & Tile Design. Our staff will be attending all the major events, and we will be sure to share our findings in the pages of this magazine.
Beginning on page 38 of this issue, you can find a focus on Architectural Installation Products. This includes a series of case studies that point out a specific design challenge and what installation products ended up being the most appropriate solution. While Contemporary Stone & Tile Design primarily focuses on reasons for designing with stone and tile, it is important to educate architects and designers on installation and maintenance products to ensure a successful design.


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Chase Expands Grant Program to Help Families Buy a Home and Stabilize Minority Communities
Chase expands program to offer $5,000 for upfront costs as part of its $30 Billion Path Forward commitment.
February 17, 2021, NEW YORK — Chase Home Lending today announced the expansion of its grant program to $5,000 to help more customers cover closing costs and down payment when buying a home in 6,700 minority neighborhoods nationwide.
Qualified customers can receive an additional $500 by completing a certified education course and getting a DreaMaker mortgage through Chase.
Increasing the grant to $5,000 and expanding it geographically is another step in the firm's $30 billion Path Forward commitment to help close the racial wealth gap. That includes helping an additional 40,000 Black or Latinx families buy a home over the next five years.
"This grant will help stabilize and revitalize communities across the country," said Cerita Battles, head of Community and Affordable Lending at Chase. "We've hired more people to reach Black and Latinx communities and are redesigning our mortgages to help more families achieve homeownership."
The grant is designed for properties in the 6,700 communities identified by the U.S. Census as majority Black because that is where the lowest homeownership rates are. For example, in 2019, the Black homeownership rate fell to 42.1 percent, the lowest among all minority groups. We will continue to expand our programs to help increase homeownership nationwide.
Chase's 2021 Homebuyer Grant:
- Available on DreaMaker, Standard Agency, FHA and VA mortgages
- $5,000 can be used toward closing costs and down payment
- Can be combined with $500 Chase homebuyer education benefit (available on income-based DreaMaker mortgage)
- Based on property Census tract requirements, in compliance with fair lending requirements
- Eligible for purchase mortgages on a primary residence only
These tips can help consumers as they begin the homebuying process:
- Research grants and other down payment assistance; there may be more options than you think
- Build a team of trusted advisors to help you throughout the process – such as a real estate agent, home lending advisor and friend or family member
- Assess your current financial situation to understand what you can afford
- Use free digital tools to build your budget, understand your credit and calculators
For more information or to find a Chase Home Lending Advisor in your area, please visit www.chase.com/communitylending.
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Chase is the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.4 trillion and operations worldwide. Chase serves more than 60 million American households with a broad range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. Customers can choose how and where they want to bank: More than 4,700 branches in 38 states and the District of Columbia, 16,000 ATMs, mobile, online and by phone. For more information, go to chase.com.
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namamisvaram sac-cid-ananda-rupam
lasat-kundalam gokule bhrajamanam
yasoda-bhiyolukhalad dhavamanam
paramrstam atyantato drutya gopya
rudantam muhur netra-yugmam mrjantam
karambhoja-yugmena satanka-netram
muhuh svasa-kampa-trirekhanka-kantha-
sthita-graivam damodaram bhakti-baddham
itidrk sva-lilabhir ananda-kunde
sva-ghosam nimajjantam akhyapayantam
tadiyesita-jnesu bhaktair jitatvam
punah prematas tam satavrtti vande
varam deva moksam na moksavadhim va
na canyam vrne 'ham varesad apiha
idam te vapur natha gopala-balam
sada me manasy avirastam kim anyaih
idam te mukhambhojam atyanta-nilair
vrtam kuntalaih snigdha-raktais' ca gopya
muhus cumbitam bimba-raktadharam me
manasy avirastam alam laksa-labhaih
namo deva damodarananta visno
prasida prabho duhkha-jalabdhi-magnam
krpa-drsti-vrstyati-dinam batanu-
grhanesa mam ajnam edhy aksi-drsyah
kuveratmajau baddha-murtyaiva yadvat
tvaya mocitau bhakti-bhajau krtau ca
tatha prema-bhaktim svakam me prayaccha
na mokse graho me 'sti damodareha
namas te 'stu damne sphurad-dipti-dhamne
tvadiyodarayatha visvasya dhamne
namo radhikayai tvadiya-priyayai
namo 'nanta-lilaya devaya tubhyam
1) To the Supreme Lord, whose form is the embodiment of eternal existence, knowledge, and bliss, whose shark-shaped earrings are swinging to and fro, who is beautifully shining in the divine realm of Gokula, who I (due to the offense of breaking the pot of yogurt that His mother was churning into butter and then stealing the butter that was kept hanging from a swing) is quickly running from the wooden grinding mortar in fear of mother Yasoda, but who has been caught from behind by her who ran after Him with greater speed–to that Supreme Lord, Sri Damodara, I offer my humble obeisances.
2) (Seeing the whipping stick in His mother's hand) He is crying and rubbing His eyes again and again with His two lotus hands. His eyes are filled with fear, and the necklace of pearls around His neck, which is marked with three lines like a conch shell, is shaking because of His quick breathing due to crying. To this Supreme Lord, Sri Damodara, whose belly is bound not with ropes but with His mother's pure love, I offer my humble obeisances.
3) By such childhood pastimes as this He is drowning the inhabitants of Gokula in pools of ecstasy, and is revealing to those devotees who are absorbed in knowledge of His supreme majesty and opulence that He is only conquered by devotees whose pure love is imbues with intimacy and is free from all conceptions of awe and reverence. With great love I again offer my obeisances to Lord Damodara hundreds and hundreds of times.
4) O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of benedictions, I do not pray to You for the boon of impersonal liberation, nor the highest liberation of eternal life in Vaikuntha, nor any other boon (which may be obtained by executing the nine processes of bhakti). O Lord, I simply wish that this form of Yours as Bala Gopala in Vrndavana may ever be manifest in my heart, for what is the use to me of any other boon besides this?
5) O Lord, Your lotus face, which is encircled by locks of soft black hair tinged with red, is kissed again and again by mother Yasoda, and Your lips are reddish like the bimba fruit. May this beautiful vision of Your lotus face be ever manifest in my heart. Thousands and thousands of other benedictions are of no use to me.
6) O Supreme Godhead, I offer my obeisances unto You. O Damodara! O Ananta! O Vishnu! O master! O my Lord, be pleased upon me. By showering Your glance of mercy upon me, deliver this poor ignorant fool who is immersed in an ocean of worldly sorrows, and become visible to my eyes.
7) O Lord Damodara, just as the two sons of Kuvera–Manigriva and Nalakuvara–were delivered from the curse of Narada and made into great devotees by You in Your form as a baby tied with rope to a wooden grinding mortar, in the same way, please give to me Your own prema-bhakti. I only long for this and have no desire for any kind of liberation.
8 ) O Lord Damodara, I first of all offer my obeisances to the brilliantly effulgent rope which binds Your belly. I then offer my obeisances to Your belly, which is the abode of the entire universe. I humbly bow down to Your most beloved Srimati Radharani, and I offer all obeisances to You, the Supreme Lord, who displays unlimited pastimes.


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by Gordon Franz
This article is dedicated to my Maltese and American friends searching for the Apostle Paul's shipwreck on Malta.
St. Paul's Day – February 10, 2013
Have you ever watched a news broadcast where the meteorologist says that the next day there would be clear blue skies and it would be sunny all day? The presenter shows the radar screen, the forecast, and boasts how accurate their equipment is, so you plan a picnic at your favorite park for that day. Halfway through the picnic, however, the weather turns nasty with thunder and lightning and a torrential downpour! Forecasting weather is very unpredictable, more an art than science, even with sophisticated equipment.
Robert Cornuke presents a weather-related computer model of Paul's shipwreck on Malta in his book, The Lost Shipwreck of Paul (2003: 184-193). I offer this objective critique of this model because of the serious nature of the issues involved.
During a Parliamentary debate on Malta in 2005, the Honorable Gavin Gulia asked the Prime Minister of Malta a Public Question (PQ 14720) about an affidavit that was sent to the United States Federal District Court in the state of Colorado for a trial between the former US Ambassador to Malta, Kathryn Proffitt, and Robert Cornuke. The reply to the Public Question states that:
"[The] Honourable Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said that he is informed that the affidavit was sent to safe-guard the reputation of the Armed Forces of Malta and of its officers because these had been misquoted in Bob Cornuke's publication." (emphasis and highlight mine).
Since the issue has required the involvement of the government of Malta, let me add some additional analysis to the discussion that I hope will be helpful to interested parties.
The Computer Model on Malta
On Robert Cornuke's third trip to Malta he gained access to "a very expensive and sophisticated computer program" at the Rescue Coordination Center of the Armed Forces of Malta on May 29, 2002. It was his hope that the data from this specialized computer model would "objectively speak to us across the millennia and trace the, until now, uncertain path of the biblical event of Paul's journey from Crete to Malta" (2003: 184, plates 14-15; cf. Acts 27:8-28:1).
After the computer model was run on the hypothetical Alexandrian grain ship that carried the Apostle Paul and Dr. Luke, the course was shown approaching Malta more from the southeast, rather than directly from the east, the normal approach from Crete. The ship's path line on the computer screen then intersected the East side of Malta, supposedly at the Munxar Reef and St. Thomas' Bay preferred by Cornuke, not the traditional site for Paul's shipwreck on the North side of the main Malta island, in the St. Paul's Bay area. The model, it seemed, had overthrown tradition.
But Cornuke claimed the computer supported the Bible because Major Manuel Mallia, the Maltese officer in charge of the model, had agreed "that only St. Thomas Bay possessed all the physical, nautical, and geographical conditions that aligned perfectly with the Bible's description [of Paul's shipwreck]" (Cornuke 2003: 192-193; bracketed material and emphasis mine). Was this one of the misquotations by Cornuke in his book that required the involvement of the Maltese government? If this computer model is correct, however, it would help confirm Cornuke's idea that the traditional location of Paul's shipwreck was wrong.
Biblical Conflict with Cornuke's Ideas
But there is a problem and it is a bigger one than tradition, it is a Biblical conflict: The East side of Malta, with the Munxar Reef and St. Thomas' Bay, was familiar to Alexandrian ship captains as the side of the island they always saw on approach to Malta coming from the east. If sea captains could not make it back to Rome before the sea-lanes closed for the winter, the Alexandrian grain ships would dock in the Marsa Port on Malta (within the Grand Harbor of Valletta), off-load the grain and store it in granaries for the winter (Gambin 2005: 122-132; cf. Acts 28:11).
In Paul's case they shipwrecked on a part of the island the crew did "not recognize" in fact so unfamiliar they did not even know they were on Malta until a native told them so (Acts 27:39; 28:1-2a, NKJV, emphasis added). So they had to have landed on some other part of Malta, not the familiar and recognizable East side. The traditional location on the unfamiliar North side of Malta makes sense in light of the puzzlement of the sailors on Paul's wrecked ship. Computer or not, shipwrecking on the familiar East side makes no sense. This has always been a fundamental Biblical and logical stumbling block for Cornuke's theory of Paul's shipwreck because the seamen would have recognized the Munxar Reef and St. Thomas Bay, contrary to the Biblical text which states they did not recognize the island (Acts 27:39)! A computer model cannot overcome this fatal defect without simply throwing the whole Biblical account overboard in the process.
Two Principles of Computer Modeling
Even if we set aside the contradiction to the Biblical account for the moment, there are still major problems with the computer model and Cornuke's use of it.
Two principles are important here:
- The computer model's output will only be as good as the data inputted. There is a widely known axiom in the computer world, "Garbage In = Garbage Out," which simply means that the computer results that come out are only as good as the data put in. If bad or mistaken data are put in, then the results will be bad or mistaken.
- Using a computer model beyond its design limitations and for purposes not intended will not produce trustworthy results. This could result in totally spurious results or results that can be easily manipulated to say almost anything, even unintentionally.
A computer model designed to assist search and rescue missions in the recent past hours or days of a modern-day storm causing a ship to go astray in AD 2002 (the year the model was run for Cornuke) obviously is not designed to reconstruct historical events from some 2,000 years ago – when there were no meteorological data from satellites and scientific instruments to plot shifting winds and currents. Even the ocean bottom can, and has, changed in two thousand years due to earthquakes and deposited silt.
The first step in understanding the design limitations of a computer model is to find out what model it is and what instructions it has for inputting data. Even better would be to have the developers' design statement. Unfortunately, Cornuke did not even identify what computer model was used by the United States Coast Guard and the Maltese military!
Was the program purposely designed to recreate an actual past historical event and if so, what weather data were used for input? Cornuke does not provide the specific weather data inputs nor does he inform us where the input data came from. It would be impossible to know, for example, exactly what time the ship left Fair Haven on Crete, or precisely when and where the ship got caught in the Euroclydon (Northeaster storm) on its way to Phoenix on Crete (Acts 27:14) because the Bible does not state this information. Did the storm strike as soon as they left Fair Haven, or several hours later, right before they were to dock at Phoenix? Or, was it somewhere in between the two places? Each of these unknown variables would affect the geographic location of where the ship ended up in the output of the computer model.
Data Input for the Computer Model
According to Cornuke, the modelers used five types of input data for the model (Cornuke 2003: 187-188). These included:
1. The "general parameters of a grain freighter"
One nautical archaeologist has pointed out, however, that "the precise appearance of great grain ships like those mentioned in the Book of Acts and the writings of Lucian" are unknown (Fitzgerald 1990: 31) because nautical archaeologists have never recovered an actual first century AD Alexandrian grain ship in an underwater archaeological excavation. Was the grain ship a two-mast or a three-mast ship? What was its draft? How much did it actually weigh? Cornuke said they put in "the approximate size of the ship" (2003: 187, emphasis mine), yet a variation in size and weight would affect the outcome of the calculations for the computer model.
2. Wooden hull was a factor entered into the software
But was only wood exposed on the hull of Paul's ship or was there lead sheathing on the hull? Ancient lead sheathing has been found on the seabed of Malta. If there was lead sheathing on the grain ship that would affect the outcome of the calculations.
Also, the ship was undergirded, probably with heavy rope or cable (Hirschfeld 1990: 26-27), to secure it during the storm (Acts 27:17). What effect would the rope or cable have on the drag of the ship and thus on the computer calculations?
3. The "veering characteristics of a northeaster"
Cornuke suggested the drag of the windsock affected the speed and direction of the ship (Cornuke 2003: 190). What ancient sources describe – or archaeological remains show – that a windsock sail was part of a rigging for an Alexandrian grain ship and used as a sea anchor in an emergency? I am not aware of any. Perhaps Cornuke can enlighten us with this information.
4. The "leeway of time"
What margin of error or maximum variation (leeway) in the "time" is meant – and is it maximum variation in the time of day or the time of year? It is unclear. How was the possible variation of time factored in? Did they run the computer with every possible choice of time? What were the results?
Cornuke had the rescue software run on May 29, 2002. The question is then: Did they run the software model with the current date of May 29, or did they think to change the date to the Fall season? (Shipwreck occurred at least 14 days after Yom Kippur and before winter, thus most probably October-November: cp. Acts 27:9, 27, 33; 28:11.) In fact, does the computer model even differentiate a year as well as the day of the year, and if so, was the year AD 2002 run or a year around ca. AD 60 when Paul's ship wrecked?
The ocean currents in the Fall were programmed into the computer model (see item 5 below) but it is unclear whether a Fall date was also entered for wind speeds and directions. If they did change the computer model date to the Fall, what date in the Fall did they choose? There is no explanation given to clarify any of this.
5. The currents during the Fall season for that part of the Mediterranean Sea
Although Cornuke listed five types of data inputted into the computer model including ocean currents, he strangely failed to list winds even though powerful storm winds are far more important than ocean currents. Wind directions and speeds are the critical factors in a storm of this apparent magnitude. The exact wind speeds and directions are unknown and any increase or decrease in speed, or change of wind direction, from hour to hour and day to day, would affect the outcome of the computer model over the 14 days the grain ship was adrift.
Unfortunately, the specific information that was put into the computer was not given in the book, perhaps because it is a popular-level book. But the specific input data were not provided on Cornuke's websites or in any peer-reviewed scholarly article either (none have been published). Researchers who would like to follow up or try to duplicate this computer exercise would need the specific information inputted into the computer software, such as the wind speeds and directions and ocean currents hour by hour, what alternative dates, times, winds and currents were used and with what results, etc.
The Computer Model's "Line of Drift"
Plates 14 and 15 of The Lost Shipwreck of Paul display photographs of the computer experiment at the Rescue Coordination Center of the Armed Forces of Malta. On the bottom of Plate 14, the line of drift for Paul's Alexandrian grain ship is drawn. I enlarged the photograph on a photocopy machine to 200% and examined the "line of drift." It appears to be drawn by human hand with a felt tip pen or magic marker, not by computer. The thickness of the line seems to vary slightly and at one point the line seems to be redrawn over a short segment where it is a bit thicker. At another point the line does not have an even, smooth flow to it. This seems to suggest that the line is hand-drawn and not computer generated.
I also observed that the line of drift was not drawn through the last datum point but rather above it. Why was this? This last datum point also seems to fall far short of reaching the Malta area so it would be interesting to know, if the computer had generated one more datum point, just where that last point would have been located. When I redrew the line (see chart below) through the last datum point that is shown, and not above it as represented in the book, the line of drift misses Malta entirely, by about 5 miles to the south of the island! Thus it does not hit the Munxar Reef and St. Thomas' Bay as Cornuke claims.
Technical, Peer-Reviewed Article is Needed
For Cornuke's research to be evaluated by scholars, it must be published in a peer-reviewed scientific publication, perhaps a meteorological journal, identifying the software program that was used and the specific input information used to simulate the storm. An explanation is also in order as to why the "line of drift" did not go through the last datum point and if there was one more computer-generated datum point. If there was another datum point, where was it?
If independent researchers could replicate his research using the same or similar software then Cornuke's research would have added credibility and congratulations would be in order. Or, perhaps with slight variations in the different variables, the computer model might have the grain ship run aground in the traditional St. Paul's Bay area or completely miss the island, as presently appears to be the case!
It would also be helpful if Cornuke could have Major (now Colonel) Manuel Mallia of the Rescue Coordination Center, who ran the model for Cornuke, provide a letter indicating the model's appropriateness for the task, some of the key data input, and stating whether he agreed or disagreed with the conclusions Cornuke drew from the output.
The Conclusion of the Matter
A word of caution is in order. Computer models are great tools for predicting the outcome of various data sets entered into the model. But while they are excellent modeling tools, they are simply that – tools to generate possible outcomes. They are seldom the final word on what will certainly happen in the future, and for sure, not the final word on what did happen in the unknown past.
The weather prediction by the meteorologist is based on a large volume of recently obtained weather data from instruments put into a computer model. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explains the procedure on its official website:
The [computer weather-prediction] models, using many millions of numbers that represent weather [observation] parameters such as temperature, pressure, wind, etc., attempt to represent current weather conditions and then make a prediction of the future state of the atmosphere….
Data Assimilation is the process whereby weather observations are incorporated into a computer model that predicts the weather. After billions of calculations, the supercomputers that are now used to run weather models, project how the current weather conditions are expected to change.
But for Paul's shipwreck, we have zero weather instrument data, there were no weather instruments in that era and only fragmentary records of human events and occasional weather events such as major once-a-century type storms. Any "data" is invented by extrapolating current conditions and data back in time 2,000 years and assuming that past weather was exactly the same as today. Needless to say this is highly speculative at best and non-verifiable.
Consider how many computer weather models have predicted hurricanes that never materialized or missed significant weather events that actually took place. How often have you noticed that your local weather forecast has been right?! (Or wrong, and it ruined your picnic!). Today's weather forecasts attempt to project a few hours or days into the future. In this scenario, a meteorologist's forecast has everything in its favor, yet sometimes it is still incorrect. By contrast, a computer model of the possible location of Paul's shipwreck attempts to project conditions back nearly 2,000 years into the past. It is far from definitive given so many unknown variables and factors. Thus, we should not put too much stock in such fantastic extrapolations!
Also, depending on the input, the same model could have easily produced a completely different location for the shipwreck, including even the traditional location of the St. Paul's Bay area. Perhaps the most difficult data to input for this, or any model, is the sovereign Hand of God controlling the speed and direction of the wind and thus, the precise, final destination of the Alexandrian grain ship!
For links to other critiques of Cornuke's ideas, see:
How Accurate Are Bob Cornuke's Claims?
Cornuke, Robert
2003 The Lost Shipwreck of Paul. Bend, OR: Global Publishing Services.
Fitzgerald, Michael
1990 The Ship of Saint Paul. Comparative Archaeology. Biblical Archaeologist 53/1: 31-39.
Gambin, Timothy
2005 The Maritime Landscapes of Malta from the Roman Period to the Middle Ages. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation University of Bristol [England].
Hirschfeld, Nicolle
1990 The Ship of Saint Paul. Historical Background. Biblical Archaeologist 53/1: 25-30.
About the author
Gordon Franz is a Bible teacher who holds an MA in Biblical Studies from Columbia Biblical Seminary, SC. Since 1978, he has engaged in extensive research in Biblical geography and archaeology and has participated in a number of excavations in and around Jerusalem, including Ketef Hinnom and Ramat Rachel as well as the excavations at Lachish, Jezreel, Hazor, and Tel Zayit. He has taught the geography of the Bible and led field trips in Israel for the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies, the Institute of Holy Land Studies, and the IBEX program of The Master's College. He also co-teaches the Talbot School of Theology's Bible Lands Program. He has also visited Malta on a number of occasions since January 1997 doing research on the history, geography, and archaeology of the island, as well as the location of Paul's shipwreck. Gordon is on the staff of the Associates for Biblical Research.


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