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Great features! Thank you for hosting again dear friend. Big hugs,
Sherry that Tee is lovely! I have never sewn with knits before though.
Yours looks easy enough that I might try and I could always do it on an old food stained kind of shirt first with cheap lace as practice and then do a nice one afterwards. ( With sewing, I never do anything right the first time! :)
I love Trudy's white blog. Yummy stuff here. Thanks so much Sherry! Have a great weekend!
Great features! I really love the dining room one. Thanks as always for hosting your great link party. ~ Jamie
Thanks so much for hosting each week!
Love that lace insert Tee Shirt..
Great features and I love your wonderful lace teeshirt. I need to make one. Thanks also for hosting. Hugs, Marty
Thank you for hosting, Sherry! What a lovely bunch of features - so inspirational! Greetings from Australia♥ ~Pernilla
Hi Sherry! Found your party through Cabin & Cottage and just linked up! following you now via Bloglovin'! Thanks for the party!
Gorgeous tablescape, Sherry, and love your summer roses! That olive oil lemon cake also looks divine! Thanks for hosting!
Love joining in, thanks for hosting. Your first summer roses are so lush and beautiful.
Those all look like great features! Thanks for hosting.
I like your Memorial Day tablescape, Sherry and I am impressed by the lace backed tee! Today I am sharing how to make lilac-scented sugar. Thank you for having me at Home Sweet Home.
Love the features! Thanks for hosting!...hugs...Debbie
Thank you so much for the party, Sherry! I always enjoy it.
Sherry thanks again for hosting...Awesome features too!!! Christine from Little Brags
Hello Sherry, It is such a joy to join your party - LOVE your patriotic tablescape! I do appreciate you sharing ad hosting,
Hi Sherry! I'm always so excited to come to your party! Thanks always for hosting.
be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
Hi Sherry, love that lace back tee! just linked up, thanks for having us!!
Thanks so much for having me again today. Hope your Friday is wonderful. It's looking pretty good already over here in Oz!
Best wishes,
Natasha (In Oz!)
Beautiful features! I want to try that cake. ~ Sarah
Thanks so much for hosting, Sherry!!!
Your roses are gorgeous! Thanks for hosting, Sherry.
Thanks for hosting! Enjoy your weekend.
Thank you for the party Sherry!
Big Hugs,
Susan and Bentley
The t shirt you made is adorable! Thank you for hosting and have a great weekend!
Love that lace tee! Thank you for hosting.
Sherry, I'm thrilled to be joining you this week. Lot of so many great and inspiring posts! Thanks for being a lovely hostess!
Thanks so much for hosting, I have to go check out the features...have a great weekend!
Thanks for letting me join in.
Thank you Sherry for featuring my Dining Room this week! I'm so excited you liked it too! x Julie
Love the glamping! And I want to try that cake.
Thanks so much for hosting!
Sherry, another beautiful Friday party with beautiful features! Thanks for hosting!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Linda and Jeannie at The French Hens Nest
Happy Friday! Thank you for the party!
Always such pretty posts. I hope your roses survived the weather. Mine took a beating last night, I ran out and picked some this morning before the next round comes through. I have a yard full of petals.
Gorgeous roses Sherry and this weeks features are wonderful! Thanks for hosting.
Sherry! Your roses are just GORGEOUS. Great job with them!
Thank you so much for hosting and thank you so very much for featuring my Olive oil Lemon Chiffon Cake...!
I see you next week.
Thank you so much Sherry for featuring me!!
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At Wallin & Klarich, we place high value on the privacy of our website's users. Our law firm works hard to make sure that you have safe access to the most updated and relevant legal information presented on all five of our websites:
This privacy policy discloses the practices for each of the five aforementioned websites in regard to:
- Personal information we collect through each of the five websites;
- Other information collected to enhance functionality of our websites;
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- How policy changes will be communicated; and
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By utilizing any of our five websites, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy.
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Wallin & Klarich will only collect the personal information that you provide us through our online form, an email or a phone call. Such personal information may consist of your name, phone number, physical address, email address and details about your case. The personal information collected is used solely for the possible delivery of our legal services to those that provide such information. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to inform you about our legal services, or new court rulings or changes that may pertain to your legal matter. If you do not want us to contact you, please email us at [email protected].
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Wallin & Klarich uses third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage and related technology. We take appropriate physical, electronic and other security measures to help safeguard personal information from unauthorized access, alteration or disclosure.
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Equal Access to Political Candidates Policy
Kingsborough Community College, a college of The City University of New York, will provide for equal access to all candidates for public office to use its facilities.
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Notice: This Wiki is now read only and edits are no longer possible. Please see: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan for the plan.
WTP: Consumer Control of Access Rules
Access rules are an important part of declaring and documenting a component's API. This is typically done by marking packages as x-internal in the manifest.mf file, and in some cases, declaring your known "friends" with the x-friend directive. In WTP things should be "friends" only if they are in the same feature-component, according to our defined "build features", and as documented in Subsystems and Features.
This conservative approach is done to be useful to adopters, making clear what is not API (yet), but is problematic for WTP itself, since we still have not evolved all our intended API, so even our own code "violate" our API. Of course, these are not very bad violations for WTP, since we'll be releasing everything "in sync" for at least another release or two.
In the mean time, this approach causes too many warnings in the development environment, so the discouraged access warnings have to be turned off or filtered out ... which means we miss important warnings, where we violate someone else's internal packages.
The Solution
There is a capability in the Eclipse Development environment that we in WTP should take advantage of. While, normally, access rules are defined "from below" by the supplied plugins, there is a capability in the IDE to tweak the access rules "from above" so that we, as consumers, can accept certain risks, but still be informed of other violations.
One easy example is that everything in JST can, for now, pretty safely use anything in WST, even though we would not want to declare the WST methods as API (at least yet). So, JST classes using WST classes is an acceptable risk for WTP.
Please note, this technique is not a long term solution for proper API specification. Is does not solve runtime problems if someone wants to run in strict mode. It is intended only to help developers focus on the worst of access violations, since there is a difference between different types of 'discouraged access warnings'.
The Method
To tweak the access rules from the consumers point of view, there are two methods:
- modify the build path properties using the Access Rule UI, or,
- directly edited the .classpath file
The UI method is usually recommended, as the .classpath is a system file, and normally users should not be hand editing those. But, the .classpath method is easier if you are doing the same modification is several projects.
The Edit Access Rule UI
Pretty easy once you see where it is, and get used to the slash syntax.
Editing the .classpath file
In some cases, it may be easier to try "hand editing" the .classpath file. It is recommended to use the UI approach at least once, and then once that's working, mimic the changes it made to your .classpath file. The end result would look something similar to the following (this example is from the jst.jsp.ui plugin, which depends on a lot from WST).
Best Practices and Policy in WTP
First, and most important, it would never be appropriate to "hide" discouraged access warnings from any plugins outside of WTP. That is, in WTP, we should not hide discouraged access warnings, from, say, org.eclipse.core.runtime.
Second, it's highly recommended to make the rules as specific as you can ... preferably right down to the specific class or interface. Technically, any JST plugin could simply use a pattern of "org/eclipse/wst/**" but this would not be very informative to others reading your code (and there are others that read your code :), but more important, using the more specific patterns prevents you from making an accidental use of non-api from another plugin. For example, using the JSP UI classpath patterns above, you can see we rely heavily on the other editing components, both UI and core, since this itself is a UI plugin, but we do not depend on many non-API in wst.common.componentcore ... just one Interface, so we list it explicitly. That way if someone should happen to write some code that happened to use another non-api class form wst.common.componentcore, we'd still get a warning about it right away, and make a considered decision if that was the right thing to do, or not. If not, we'd find another way, if worth the (slight) risk, we'd modify the access rules at that time.
Extending to PDE builds
While it is not built in to PDE build, our vast and brilliant release engineering team :) has written the code to tweak the JDT compiler arguments during the build process, based on the .classpath found in the bundle. (so ... be sure your .classpath files are checked into CVS ... which should always be true ... that's nothing new, but not sure it's mattered until now).
This allows the output from our batch builds to be just like our development environment warnings.
Note, at the time of this writing, this batch build tweaking does make some very general assumptions, so we can get "clean" output quickly. If a .classpath contains no custom access rules, we do assume very general rules ... such as anything in WST can use anything else in WST, and anything in JST, JSF, or JPA can use anything in JST or WST. Probably, after teams have time to get used to tweaking their own access rules, we will, probably, remove this general assumption.
The code itself for the ant task, is in the CustomizeAccessRules class in our org.eclipse.wtp.releng.tools project, which is buried in our cvs repository in releng.builder/tools/org.eclipse.wtp.releng.tools.
The ant task is ran during the postGenerate task in our customTargets.xml files. Invoking the task says we want to use our customized access rules, and the defaultRules attribute gives the default pattern to use, if the .classpath contains no access rules at all.
<target name="postGenerate"> <customizeAccessRules bundleDirectory="${buildDirectory}/plugins" defaultRules="+org/eclipse/wst/**/*, +org/eclipse/jst/**/*" /> </target>
Comments welcome
I think this customization of access rules will help us take advantage of an Eclipse feature that so far we have not been able to use, since there has been too many warnings in our IDE environment to read.
In principle, it should give roughly the same information that is in our API Violation scans. But, the API scans are not quite as built-in to Eclipse as access rule warnings are.
Plus, one thing those API Violation scans do not pick up is the use of non-api constants, since those constants are usually inlined, and our API violation scans are based on byte codes, not source.
Plus, it does seem to list a few things I would have thought the API Scans would have caught ... so, it is a nice redundancy check ... please report any bugs you see (in either scans, or the access rules).


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php[tek] was once again upon us, so we did our annual live show! Special guest Paul Reinheimer of WonderNetwork joins us for much frivolity!
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Medbribe, and the Diary of Gilt
I've been having strange feelings lately. Mainly at work. I don't know what to make of them, but I hope writing in this diary will help.
So hello diary.
I took the subway into work today, and the first thing I heard when I walked into my office was the very loud voice of my boss, Mr. Grant.
"Gilt?!!!" he yelled, menacingly.
"Yes Mr. Grant?"
"I just got a call from Ransom Pharmaceuticals. They are not happy!"
"Did you say Janssen?"
It was hard to hear him because he was on the other side of the Glassdoor. You see, the ACCME came up with this new policy saying that Medbribe's advertising department had to be separate from our CME department. One day, management installed a Glassdoor between the departments to maintain compliance with the new regulation. It's a little annoying. My voice has gotten awfully hoarse lately.
Anyway, Mr. Grant told me to read the latest issue of BusinessDay, saying that we had gotten burned by that "infernal do-gooder," Dr. Care-a-lot, again.
"And guess what, Gilt: It's your fault!"
"Wait boss," I protested. "I don't get it."
"Aren't you the one who wrote that article on Ransom's antidepressant, Inveigle?"
"Actually, it's an antipsychotic."
"Whatever it is!"
"Yep, that was my assignment."
"Sweet. Then maybe you can explain why Ransom's educational grant guy just chewed me out for the last half hour. He said the article was too obvious. Said you used only one case, and that the multiple choice questions all led to Inveigle."
I thought for a moment. I remember having had a "through-the-Glassdoor" meeting with marketing two weeks earlier. Some guy in sales came up with the idea of making up a case of a patient with schizophrenia and liver disease. He said a Ransom exec had told him this was the best way to highlight Inveigle.
"But I was just following instructions, boss."
"INSTRUCTIONS?!!! Can't you see this door! I don't give you instructions, remember? You're CME, I'm marketing."
I think Mr. Grant could see the sweat on my forehead.
"All right Gilt. Settle down. It's not a big deal. Just…show me the damn article next time before you post it to the site. Or better yet, give someone at Ransom a call…a call, mind you, remember we don't email anymore…and run it by them before posting it."
"Yes, boss."
"I'm just saying, Ransom pays us $100,000 for each of these little articles, and our job is to make sure they get a return on their investment, minus the PR headaches. Got it, Gilt?"
"All right, boss."
"And Gilt?
"Yes, boss?"
"Read our mission statement before you get started on that Lire project."
"I will, boss."
I swiveled my chair around to face our five-point Medbribe Mission Statement.
1. Another Day, Another Million.
2. Our Customer's Message drives our Mission.
3. Stock Options Matter.
4. Keep your HG's Happy.
5. We are Medbribe. We are CME.
I sighed, and turned on my computer. Lire has a new drug for ADHD. I had to come up with a case to highlight it. But not too obvious this time. Got it: how about a guy who has comorbid bipolar disorder. First we get him treated with Seroquel or something, some therapeutic class that Lire doesn't compete in. This unmasks his ADHD and then we treat him with Lire's new drug, Lievanse. I felt good about this one, and finished it lickety-split. I sent it off to the HG (Hired Gun) on the project by the end of the day. I knew this doctor--he would sign off on it right away for his $2000 honorarium.
Oh, diary, I think I'm really good at this job. I hope I don't disappoint Mr. Grant this time!
(To be continued....)
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Dr C:
I have read this posting 4 times now and am still baffled by it. If tongue and cheek, it has its place, but it is wierd nonetheless.
Have to say at least off the beaten path for all you have posted of late. Levity is needed! - August 12, 2008 at 7:15 PM
- Daniel Carlat said...
I wouldn't read much into it. It was an experiment, actually a satirical fantasy of what must go on in the CME department of Medscape.
Sometimes things work, sometimes they don't! - August 12, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Hillarious! Well done, I work at medscape and I can tell you that the wall is not glass, its cellophane!
The Boss is not Mr. Grant, its Mr Needs-a-Grant-Approved! This is a brilliant expose' and very very accurate. One gets the sense that physicians don't really get all that goes on behind the production of their reading materials.
Let me ask you this one question...If pharma decides that institutions are the only ones that can submit for funding, how long will it be before they require those same institutions to provide the content as opposed to MECCs? I need to know because I will be looking for new job.
Hey, why not check out PriMeds NYC city meeting coming up? I hear they put on quite a show when it comes to dumbing down Psychiatry CME for the average Primary Care Physician. Do you think that's necessary? You do know they make more money than even my company, right? What exactly is the "primed institute?"
Are you looking for a good writer for your blog? I may be available...Don't tell Mr. Grant. - August 20, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Sounds very similar to my father's experiences he wrote about in his own book years ago. He's a pharmaceutical sales rep and I learned early that doctors are bought quite easily with offshore fishing trips, cash, expensive dinners, and resort vacations. There are bans in place, of course, but they still get around them to buy doctors.
- August 21, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Brilliant job, Daniel.
Why don't we just eliminate the marketing departments at pharmas? That might take care of everything!
Or at least find marketing types who will tell the straight story--roses, warts, and all?
That way, scientists who work so hard to produce these life-giving medications and the patients who need them can cut out the noisy middle man. And everyone is better off. - August 24, 2008 at 3:59 PM


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- Fix: When logged out, the autocomplete dropdowns didn't always have styling.
- Code: Changes for code readibility and easier maintance with higher standard requirements.
- Fix: Security fix for searching.
- Fix: After a quick search with two words, don't include a "+" in the advanced search.
- Fix: Reduce the number of API calls to speed up admin area and reduce throttling.
- Fix: In URL fields, use WordPress functions to handle auto adding the http if missing for more reliability.
- Code: Improve code consistency for doc blocks and phpcs.
- Increase minimum PHP version required to 7.0
- The minimum WordPress version required is now 5.9
- New: If a listing doesn't have an email address, don't show the contact form since we have nowhere to send the notification
- Fix: The contact form on a listing wasn't showing on mobile screens
- Fix: The drag handle wasn't showing for ordering plans in the admin area
- Fix: Exported files were showing /n for line breaks with WYSIWYG editor
- Fix: In some cases, the category was required twice when going back and forth between pages when creating or editing a listing
- Fix: Only use advanced search in the widget if fields are selected
- Fix: Set defaults to avoid errors if nothing is selected in a widget
- Performance: Cut out an extra API call to fetch themes in the admin area
- New: Update the front-end search and create listing appearance.
- New: Use colors and styles from block themes for buttons.
- New: Add a plan selection layout when submitting a listing.
- New: Add wpbdp_minimum_backend_role hook to override the default 'manage_options' role required for access to the admin area.
- Fix: The listing appearance option was showing as HTML.
- Fix: Updates for better PHP 8.2 compatibility.
- Fix: Russian characters were causing fatal errors in some cases.
- New: Allow editors to edit listings from front-end.
- New: Update Twitter logo to X.
- New: Add edit listing link on payment confirmation page. This is espeically helpful after a listing was claimed.
- Security: The payment history on a listing could be cleared by non-admins.
- Security hardening: Check nonce and user role with all back-end ajax calls.
- Rename a few social site settings to make them more clear.
- Improve the layout of social icons.
- Switch from using roles to capabilities. Now a custom role could have access by using the 'manage_posts' and 'edit_others_posts' capabilities.
- Change the wording above the contact form so it makes sense for any directory type.
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- Fix: WP 6.4 compatibility. The category page lost its content with some themes.
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Plain and Parochial Sermons, Sermon 5, vol 2. 51-60
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God." 1 John iv. 7.{51}
ST. JOHN the Apostle and Evangelist is chiefly and most familiarly known to us as "the disciple whom Jesus loved." He was one of the three or four who always attended our Blessed Lord, and had the privilege of the most intimate intercourse with Him; and, more favoured than Peter, James, and Andrew, he was His bosom friend, as we commonly express ourselves. At the solemn supper before Christ suffered, he took his place next Him, and leaned on His breast. As the other three communicated between the multitude and Christ, so St. John communicated between Christ and them. At that Last Supper, Peter dared not ask Jesus a question himself, but bade John put it to Him,—who it was that should betray Him. Thus St. John was the private and intimate friend of Christ. Again, it was to St. John that our Lord committed His Mother, when {52} He was dying on the cross; it was to St. John that He revealed in vision after His departure the fortunes of His Church.
Much might be said on this remarkable circumstance. I say remarkable, because it might be supposed that the Son of God Most High could not have loved one man more than another; or again, if so, that He would not have had only one friend, but, as being All-holy, He would have loved all men more or less, in proportion to their holiness. Yet we find our Saviour had a private friend; and this shows us, first, how entirely He was a man, as much as any of us, in His wants and feelings; and next, that there is nothing contrary to the spirit of the Gospel, nothing inconsistent with the fulness of Christian love, in having our affections directed in an especial way towards certain objects, towards those whom the circumstances of our past life, or some peculiarities of character, have endeared to us.
There have been men before now, who have supposed Christian love was so diffusive as not to admit of concentration upon individuals; so that we ought to love all men equally. And many there are, who, without bringing forward any theory, yet consider practically that the love of many is something superior to the love of one or two; and neglect the charities of private life, while busy in the schemes of an expansive benevolence, or of effecting a general union and conciliation among Christians. Now I shall here maintain, in opposition to such notions of Christian love, and with our Saviour's pattern before me, that the best preparation for loving the world at large, and loving it duly and wisely, is to {53} cultivate an intimate friendship and affection towards those who are immediately about us.
It has been the plan of Divine Providence to ground what is good and true in religion and morals, on the basis of our good natural feelings. What we are towards our earthly friends in the instincts and wishes of our infancy, such we are to become at length towards God and man in the extended field of our duties as accountable beings. To honour our parents is the first step towards honouring God; to love our brethren according to the flesh, the first step towards considering all men our brethren. Hence our Lord says, we must become as little children, if we would be saved; we must become in His Church, as men, what we were once in the small circle of our youthful homes.—Consider how many other virtues are grafted upon natural feelings. What is Christian high-mindedness, generous self-denial, contempt of wealth, endurance of suffering, and earnest striving after perfection, but an improvement and transformation, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, of that natural character of mind which we call romantic? On the other hand, what is the instinctive hatred and abomination of sin (which confirmed Christians possess), their dissatisfaction with themselves, their general refinement, discrimination, and caution, but an improvement, under the same Spirit, of their natural sensitiveness and delicacy, fear of pain, and sense of shame? They have been chastised into self-government, by a fitting discipline, and now associate an acute sense of discomfort and annoyance with the notion of sinning. And so of the love of our fellow Christians and of the world at {54} large, it is the love of kindred and friends in a fresh shape; which has this use, if it had no other, that it is the natural branch on which a spiritual fruit is grafted.
But again, the love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. The love of God is not the same thing as the love of our parents, though parallel to it; but the love of mankind in general should be in the main the same habit as the love of our friends, only exercised towards different objects. The great difficulty in our religious duties is their extent. This frightens and perplexes men,—naturally; those especially, who have neglected religion for a while, and on whom its obligations disclose themselves all at once. This, for example, is the great misery of leaving repentance till a man is in weakness or sickness; he does not know how to set about it. Now God's merciful Providence has in the natural course of things narrowed for us at first this large field of duty; He has given us a clue. We are to begin with loving our friends about us, and gradually to enlarge the circle of our affections, till it reaches all Christians, and then all men. Besides, it is obviously impossible to love all men in any strict and true sense. What is meant by loving all men, is, to feel well-disposed to all men, to be ready to assist them, and to act towards those who come in our way, as if we loved them. We cannot love those about whom we know nothing; except indeed we view them in Christ, as the objects of His Atonement, that is, rather in faith than in love. And love, besides, is a habit, and cannot be attained without actual practice, which on so large a scale is impossible. We see then how absurd it {55} is, when writers (as is the manner of some who slight the Gospel) talk magnificently about loving the whole human race with a comprehensive affection, of being the friends of all mankind, and the like. Such vaunting professions, what do they come to? that such men have certain benevolent feelings towards the world,—feelings and nothing more;—nothing more than unstable feelings, the mere offspring of an indulged imagination, which exist only when their minds are wrought upon, and are sure to fail them in the hour of need. This is not to love men, it is but to talk about love.—The real love of man must depend on practice, and therefore, must begin by exercising itself on our friends around us, otherwise it will have no existence. By trying to love our relations and friends, by submitting to their wishes, though contrary to our own, by bearing with their infirmities, by overcoming their occasional waywardness by kindness, by dwelling on their excellences, and trying to copy them, thus it is that we form in our hearts that root of charity, which, though small at first, may, like the mustard seed, at last even overshadow the earth. The vain talkers about philanthropy, just spoken of, usually show the emptiness of their profession, by being morose and cruel in the private relations of life, which they seem to account as subjects beneath their notice. Far different indeed, far different (unless it be a sort of irreverence to contrast such dreamers with the great Apostle, whose memory we are today celebrating), utterly the reverse of this fictitious benevolence was his elevated and enlightened sympathy for all men. We know he is celebrated for his {56} declarations about Christian love. "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." [1 John iv. 7, 12, 16.] Now did he begin with some vast effort at loving on a large scale? Nay, he had the unspeakable privilege of being the friend of Christ. Thus he was taught to love others; first his affection was concentrated, then it was expanded. Next he had the solemn and comfortable charge of tending our Lord's Mother, the Blessed Virgin, after His departure. Do we not here discern the secret sources of his especial love of the brethren? Could he, who first was favoured with his Saviour's affection, then trusted with a son's office towards His Mother, could he be other than a memorial and pattern (as far as man can be), of love, deep, contemplative, fervent, unruffled, unbounded?
Further, that love of friends and relations, which nature prescribes, is also of use to the Christian, in giving form and direction to his love of mankind at large, and making it intelligent and discriminating. A man, who would fain begin by a general love of all men, necessarily puts them all on a level, and, instead of being cautious, prudent, and sympathising in his benevolence, is hasty and rude; does harm, perhaps, when he means to do good, discourages the virtuous and well-meaning, and wounds the feelings of the gentle. Men of ambitious and ardent minds, for example, desirous of doing good on a large scale, are especially exposed to the temptation of sacrificing individual to {57} general good in their plans of charity. Ill-instructed men, who have strong abstract notions about the necessity of showing generosity and candour towards opponents, often forget to take any thought of those who are associated with themselves; and commence their (so-called) liberal treatment of their enemies by an unkind desertion of their friends. This can hardly be the case, when men cultivate the private charities, as an introduction to more enlarged ones. By laying a foundation of social amiableness, we insensibly learn to observe a due harmony and order in our charity; we learn that all men are not on a level; that the interests of truth and holiness must be religiously observed; and that the Church has claims on us before the world. We can easily afford to be liberal on a large scale, when we have no affections to stand in the way. Those who have not accustomed themselves to love their neighbours whom they have seen, will have nothing to lose or gain, nothing to grieve at or rejoice in, in their larger plans of benevolence. They will take no interest in them for their own sake; rather, they will engage in them, because expedience demands, or credit is gained, or an excuse found for being busy. Hence too we discern how it is, that private virtue is the only sure foundation of public virtue; and that no national good is to be expected (though it may now and then accrue), from men who have not the fear of God before their eyes.
I have hitherto considered the cultivation of domestic affections as the source of more extended Christian love. Did time permit, I might now go on to show, besides, {58} that they involve a real and difficult exercise of it. Nothing is more likely to engender selfish habits (which is the direct opposite and negation of charity), than independence in our worldly circumstances. Men who have no tie on them, who have no calls on their daily sympathy and tenderness, who have no one's comfort to consult, who can move about as they please, and indulge the love of variety and the restless humours which are so congenial to the minds of most men, are very unfavourably situated for obtaining that heavenly gift, which is described in our Liturgy, as being "the very bond of peace and of all virtues." On the other hand, I cannot fancy any state of life more favourable for the exercise of high Christian principle, and the matured and refined Christian spirit (that is, where the parties really seek to do their duty), than that of persons who differ in tastes and general character, being obliged by circumstances to live together, and mutually to accommodate to each other their respective wishes and pursuits.—And this is one among the many providential benefits (to those who will receive them) arising out of the Holy Estate of Matrimony; which not only calls out the tenderest and gentlest feelings of our nature, but, where persons do their duty, must be in various ways more or less a state of self-denial.
Or, again, I might go on to consider the private charities, which have been my subject, not only as the sources and as the discipline of Christian love, but further, as the perfection of it; which they are in some cases. The Ancients thought so much of friendship, that they made it a virtue. In a Christian view, it is {59} not quite this; but it is often accidentally a special test of our virtue. For consider:—let us say that this man, and that, not bound by any very necessary tie, find their greatest pleasure in living together; say that this continues for years, and that they love each other's society the more, the longer they enjoy it. Now observe what is implied in this. Young people, indeed, readily love each other, for they are cheerful and innocent; more easily yield to each other, and are full of hope;—types, as Christ says, of His true converts. But this happiness does not last; their tastes change. Again, grown persons go on for years as friends; but these do not live together; and, if any accident throws them into familiarity for a while, they find it difficult to restrain their tempers and keep on terms, and discover that they are best friends at a distance. But what is it that can bind two friends together in intimate converse for a course of years, but the participation in something that is Unchangeable and essentially Good, and what is this but religion? Religious tastes alone are unalterable. The Saints of God continue in one way, while the fashions of the world change; and a faithful indestructible friendship may thus be a test of the parties, so loving each other, having the love of God seated deep in their hearts. Not an infallible test certainly; for they may have dispositions remarkably the same, or some engrossing object of this world, literary or other; they may be removed from the temptation to change, or they may have a natural sobriety of temper, which remains contented wherever it finds itself. However, under certain circumstances, it is a lively token of the {60} presence of divine grace in them; and it is always a sort of symbol of it, for there is at first sight something of the nature of virtue in the very notion of constancy, dislike of change being not only the characteristic of a virtuous mind, but in some sense a virtue itself.
And now I have suggested to you a subject of thought for today's Festival,—and surely a very practical subject, when we consider how large a portion of our duties lies at home. Should God call upon us to preach to the world, surely we must obey His call; but at present, let us do what lies before us. Little children, let us love one another. Let us be meek and gentle; let us think before we speak; let us try to improve our talents in private life; let us do good, not hoping for a return, and avoiding all display before men. Well may I so exhort you at this season, when we have so lately partaken together the Blessed Sacrament which binds us to mutual love, and gives us strength to practise it. Let us not forget the promise we then made, or the grace we then received. We are not our own; we are bought with the blood of Christ; we are consecrated to be temples of the Holy Spirit, an unutterable privilege, which is weighty enough to sink us with shame at our unworthiness, did it not the while strengthen us by the aid itself imparts, to bear its extreme costliness. May we live worthy of our calling, and realize in our own persons the Church's prayers and professions for us!
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The Rings of Jupiter
You may think Saturn is the only planet with rings. It is not! Jupiter has rings, too. They aren't as easy to see as Saturn's, but they are there!
Saturns rings are made of ice and are very bright. Jupiter's rings are dark. They are made of tiny pieces of dust.
Jupiter's rings were discoverd by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979. The Galileo spacecraft helped us figure out how Jupiter's rings are made. Meteors that hit some of Jupiter's moons knock dust into orbit around Jupiter. That dust forms the rings.
Jupiter has three rings. They are called the Halo Ring, the Main Ring, and the Gossamer Ring.


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Friday, June 25, 2010
Meeting Miss Ella Fitzgerald
Starting a new series of summer posts.
Boston, 1982.
It is a steamy Massachusetts August evening, and I've just returned to my Beacon Hill apartment after a long weekend at the shore. The phone rings. It is my energetic and fun-filled friend, K.
"Hi, Poll. What are you doing tonight? Are you free?"
I'm always a sucker when questions are phrased this way. I forget to ask "Hmm, what did you have in mind?" Instead, I quickly mentally prioritize the probabilities and give a hasty yay or nay.
"Oh, K, I'm just exhausted. I was with [new beau] at the beach house all weekend. And I simply have to go to Lewando's and do my laundry. Can we get together some other night?"
Then the killer.
"Oh... sure," says K. Then, slyly, "It's just that I have two free tickets to Concerts on the Common, and Ella Fitzgerald is singing." Pause. "Do you like Ella Fitzgerald?"
My heart hurtles out of my forehead or somewhere, and my voice catapults from exhausted to panicked. "OH-GOD-OH-GOD!! I'd love to see Ella Fitzgerald in person! Forget laundry and everything else, this is a dream come true!" After all, I'd been faux-scat singing along with Ella at least since I was 12. I knew all of her songs. I owned most of her Verve records on vinyl. She was my idol.
K sighs or snickers or harrumphs faintly on the other end of the line, I think. Like, "Oh thanks, you wouldn't want to get together if it was just me, but you will if it's Ella Fitzgerald?"
But wouldn't you?
So we hastily arrange to meet in half an hour in the middle of the Boston Common, outside the enclosed area for the concert.
"Concerts on the Common," to me, sounds like a picnic-and-blanket affair, so I stuff my red canvas LL Bean rucksack with an old tablecloth, some Triscuits and cheese, a swiss army knife and a bottle of wine, and climb up the hill to the concert area, wearing tennis shoes, ragged old shorts, and a faded polo shirt, my salty hair pulled quickly into a high pony tail to keep cool in the hot summer evening.
I circle around the chain link fence, looking for K. Finally I spot her, outside a gate marked "VIP entrance." She is bubbly and blonde and wearing chic summer whites. "C'mon," she admonishes, "we're the last to arrive."
She steers me over to the rows of seats (seats?? where on earth are our fellow picnickers and blankets? I'm wondering.)
But no. Are we to be sitting in an anonymous 18th-row seat where my abominable outfit will go unnoticed?
No, we are not.
Are we on the fourth or fifth row where I could at least attempt to hide my grungy get-up? No, we are not.
Are we in the second row of the VIP section, with the silk-and-linen-clad dignitaries from the City of Boston? Yes, we are.
Is it dark enough so that no one can see me? No, it is not.
Can I hide under a rock?
Not if I want to see and hear Ella.
K, um, has neglected to tell me that her father is Ella's Boston PR agent. There is no escaping.
I try to sit demurely on the folding chair and be incognito until the concert begins. Covering myself with the vintage tablecloth is a fleeting option that I quickly abandon. Blessedly soon, the lights go on, and the show cranks up. Oscar Peterson warms up the crowd, then Ella -- MY Ella -- arrives on stage. I am in heaven. She is dazzling, warm, fabulous.
-- to be continued
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At the City of Harker Heights, we are a high performing, customer focused organization who believes that teamwork is a vital element of the City's operation. We provide our employees with competitive pay and benefits, as well as career development opportunities. To find out how you can become a part of our dynamic organization, please view our job opportunities and follow the links!
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text: 19:1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 19:2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the limits of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 19:4 And this [is] the case of the slayer, who shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoever killeth his neighbor ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; 19:5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand maketh a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and falleth upon his neighbor, that he dieth: he shall flee to one of these cities, and live: 19:6 Lest the avenger of blood shall pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. 19:7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. 19:8 And if the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy limits, as he hath sworn to thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give to thy fathers; 19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besides these three: 19:10 That innocent blood may not be shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and [so] blood be upon thee. 19:11 But if any man shall hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally, that he dieth, and he shall flee into one of these cities: 19:12 Then the elders of his city shall send and bring him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 19:13 Thy eye shall not pity him, but thou shall remove [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee. 19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in thy inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth; at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. 19:16 If a false witness shall rise up against any man to testify against him [that which is] wrong; 19:17 Then both the men between whom the controversy [is] shall stand before the LORD, before the priests, and the judges, who shall be in those days; 19:18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and behold, [if] the witness [is] a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his brother; 19:19 Then shall ye do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shalt thou remove the evil from among you. 19:20 And those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. 19:21 And thy eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


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Time for a quick cuppa? When the final whistle blows, demand for electricity usually soars, causing a headache for energy companies.
Researchers at the University of Leeds and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have now found a way to manage these short-lived draws on the electricity grid that could halve the fuel needed.
The amount of electricity drawn from the national grid varies enormously at different times of day. It usually peaks in the early evening for a couple of hours after the mass exodus from school and work. Short-lived spikes are also common after major televised sporting events, during commercial breaks and in the morning hours.
But matching the highs and lows in demand with a steady supply is a major challenge. Energy companies typically top up a 'base' supply of energy with electricity from power plants that are just switched on to cope with the peaks. However, the gas-fired generators often used to feed these peaks are notoriously inefficient, expensive to run and sit idle for long periods of time. In short, the system wastes both energy and resources.
University of Leeds Professor of Engineering, Yulong Ding, and colleagues are proposing a more environmentally friendly system that would also be cheaper to run. Crucially, the system would store excess energy made by a plant supplying the 'base' demand and use this to supply the 'peaks' in demand - as and when they happen.
"This integrated system is truly novel," said Professor Ding, who led the research. "Because we are storing the excess energy for later, there is less need to ramp up the output of gas-fired plants whenever a peak in demand is expected, generating electricity that may simply not be used."
The key idea is to use excess electricity to run a unit producing liquid nitrogen and oxygen - or 'cryogen'. At times of peak demand, the nitrogen would be boiled - using heat from the environment and waste heat from the power plant. The hot nitrogen gas would then be used to drive a turbine or engine, generating 'top up' electricity.
Meanwhile, the oxygen would be fed to the combustor to mix with the natural gas before it is burned. Burning natural gas in pure oxygen, rather than air, makes the combustion process more efficient and produces less nitrogen oxide. Instead, this 'oxy-fuel' combustion method produces a concentrated stream of carbon dioxide that can be removed easily in solid form as dry ice.
Using such an integrated system, the amount of fuel needed to cater for peak demand could be cut by as much as 50%. Greenhouse gas emissions would be lower too, thanks to the greatly reduced nitrogen oxide emissions and the capture of carbon dioxide gas in solid form for storage.
"This is a much better way of dealing with these peaks in demand for electricity. Greenhouse gas emissions would also be cut considerably because the carbon dioxide generated in the gas-fired turbine would be captured in solid form."
"On paper, the efficiency savings are considerable. We now need to test the system in practice," Professor Ding said.
Full details of the system will be published in the International Journal of Energy Research.


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Many freelancers have questions about what is SEO; what is SEO copywriting; what is SEO writing. This article explains – in detail – what this is. And, how to make money from it as a freelance writer.
What is SEO?
SEO is an acronym for the phrase "search engine optimization." Search engine optimization is all about doing specific things to your website to drive more traffic to it so that you can increase online sales – and traffic.
What are some of these "things?"
There are many, but here we will discuss what it is as it applies to freelance writers. And, this means writing text in a certain way so that web surfers (ie, internet users) can land on a particular site.
What is SEO As It Relates to Freelance Writers?
What freelance writers need to be concerned with is keywords. What are keywords? Keywords are the words and phrases that web surfers type in when they search for things online.
For example, let's say you were interested in starting a foreclosure cleanup business. You may not know anything about it other than foreclosures are hot in the news right now and you are interested in starting this kind of company.
So, you log onto your favorite search engine, (eg, Google, Yahoo! MSN, etc.) and type in the keywords "foreclosure cleaning business" or "foreclosure cleaning" or "foreclosure cleanup" or some other relevant keyword phrase.
Note: When you type words into a search engine to find something on the internet, the words you type in are called a keyword (one word) or a keyword phrase (two or more words with commas in between).
How Businesses Get to the Top of Search Engine Results
When you type in these words and hit "ENTER", a bunch of sites pop up and you start to surf (ie, click on the results) and start investigating the sites to see if they have the information you need.
The sites that pop up are the results that search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, et al think are the most relevant to the keyword phrase (aka search phrase) you typed in. Companies pay a lot of money to be among the first two or three pages in the results that search engines return.
Why SEO Copywriters are So In Demand and How They Make Their Money
One of the ways they get to pop up in the first two or three pages of results is to have relevant text that contains the proper keyword phrases. And, this is where you as an SEO copywriter can make a lot of money. You write the text that their site needs to pop up high in search engine results.
Many times, companies will simply give you a bunch of keyword phrases and let you write what you want — as long as it's a certain length (usually 300-500 words).
There are many freelance writers – hundreds of thousands, if not a few million. BUT, only a tiny minority know what SEO is and how to write this type of copy. And, this is why they're so in demand.
SEO copywriters have an in-demand skill. And, as more and more companies move larger portions of their advertising budgets to internet marketing, there is an even greater demand for their skills.
In the SearcheEngineWatch article, The SEO Copywriter: Wordsmithing the Web, William Flaiz, underscores the importance of an SEO copywriter. He writes:
"The role of the agency SEO copywriter is unique because…. Suddenly, the writer must optimize press releases, craft articles for social news, monitor social network communications, and develop wiki content…. a strong SEO copywriter is adaptable and capable of internalizing a lot of new information extremely quickly. These unique individuals have fast become the backbone of many SEO engagements. If content is king, then they [SEO copywriters] are the kingmakers."
And this is why SEO copywriters can charge a premium for their services. If you're looking for a way to start or maximize your income as an online freelance writer, then SEO copywriting is they way to go.


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Weed Control Planning
We're still in the dead of winter, but Mississippi State University's Rocky Lemus already is reminding cattleman to protect their pasture grasslands from runaway broadleaf infestation this coming spring.
Lemus, who joined the university's staff of extension forage specialists seven years ago, urges producers to avoid the understandable temptation caused by other pressing early spring tasks to eliminate pasture weed control monitoring chores or cut corners by relying upon "drive by" scouting. He said producers can't gauge the severity of weed infestation without thoroughly walking pastures throughout the growing season.
"One producer told me that he thought his broadleaf population was under control when he checked the pasture's edges," Lemus remarked. "But he was wrong. He returned three or four days later to discover severe weed infestation."
Weeds Steal Nutrients
If highly competitive broadleaf weeds seize control, nutrition-rich grasses are crowded out, robbing grazing cattle of inexpensive and nutritious forage essential to achieving optimum performance. As a rule of thumb, research data reveal up to a pound of forage is lost per pound of weeds.
That loss comes at the expense of the producer's profit margin, Lemus observed. Poor scouting or failure to pay attention to weed control can become a very costly issue. Data show a 450 to 500 pound calf can achieve around 800 pounds feeding on good pasture forages.
In warmer Southern regions where winter grazing exists, scouting is a year-around job. Elsewhere, cattle producers should regularly walk their pastures starting in early spring and continue until the first hard frost. Scouting fosters early detection of correctable environmental conditions that favor troublesome weeds.
Early Warning Protection
Early evidence of so-called "indicator" broadleaf plants can help identify looming weed control problems, much like coal miners once used canaries to guard against odorless and deadly gasses. Broom sedge plants, for example, provide an early warning of low pH conditions or fertility deficiencies that inhibit vigorous grass growth. Other correctible problems where weeds gain a critical toehold in early spring range from poor drainage to overgrazing.
Lemus, who earned his PhD from Virginia Tech, said pasture grasses require the right pH level. Therefore, he recommended that producers conduct soil testing in early spring and again in early fall. Furthermore, sample timing must be consistent to prevent skewing results due to different seasonal weather conditions. Lemus said producers can get by with soil testing once every two or three years in pastures, but hay fields should be tested annually due to higher nutrient removal.
If producers don't control weeds in early spring, the undesirable plants will steal precious nutrients and moisture needed by pasture grasses and grazing cattle, leading to losing a season-long struggle. Lemus said 50-60 percent of summer's pasture foliage is produced from May through July.
Either mowing or spraying herbicides provides another opportunity to halt encroachment of aggressive weeds this spring. If producers elect to spray broadleaf herbicides, Lemus stressed the need to be certain the chemical's label permits forage application. If mowing is preferred, Lemus suggested that producers not clip shorter than four to six inches in height. Tall grasses can outshine competitive weeds by capturing sunlight while shading out normally shorter stature broadleaf weeds.
If time permits, Lemus said the seemingly endless winter months represent an excellent season to check and calibrate spray equipment, be certain you're using the right nozzle pressure and map out your entire pasture weed control strategy.
"A producer can really benefit financially by having his equipment and plan in order now," Lemus concluded, "and by getting off on the right foot in early spring."
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How to Start an Online Arts Store Business on Shopify
Want to build your own online store but don't know where to start? I recommend you should use Shopify for your business.
Why is Shopify the Best eCommerce Platform For Selling Arts?
With Shopify, you don't need any technical or design experience to create a beautiful online store. Shopify is flled with tools enabling one to launch an online store within mere minutes, without ever worrying about hosting or buying a domain name. The pricing plans offered by Shopify are catered for everyone, from a starter store to a multi-million shop. You can safely call Shopify a perfect out-of-box solution.
The reasons why Shopify is loved by so many store owners very. One of them is that unlike others ecommerce platforms, one does not need any sort of development knowledge or skill to run a Shopify store smoothly. And it is much easier to scale up a Shopify store.
Complete beginners can create a perfectly functional and modern store with no help from third parties, while more advanced users get access to CSS and HTML fles and can gain more sophisticated features.
Another great thing about Shopify that everyone loves - there's a wonderful choice of themes for every taste and every type of store you might imagine.
If you are looking for an eCommerce solution, that can easily be used to its fullest by a novice Arts store owner, you should defnitely give Shopify a try.
How to set up a website to sell arts on Shopify?
- Create your Shopify account.
- Pick a theme and customize your online store.
- Create key pages for your store
- Customize your shipping settings
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- Set up your payment gateway and payouts
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- Launch your store.
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Submitted to: Plant and Animal Genome VX Conference Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 1/15/2011 Publication Date: 1/15/2011 Citation: Rinehart, T.A., Reed, S.M., Scheffler, B.E. 2011. Genomic resources for valuable woody ornamental landscape plants such as hydrangea macrophylla. Plant and Animal Genome VX Conference Abstracts. W396. Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: New and improved ornamental landscape plants are typically produced by conventional breeding. Unfortunately, long generation times for woody plants can significantly slow progress. Incorporating genomic and biotechnology resources provides more information when designing breeding strategies and accelerates screening and selection of new plants. The ultimate goal is marker-assisted breeding, which provides the opportunity to screen plants at a young age for multiple traits of interest. Genomic resources may also be powerful tools to address challenges such as potential invasiveness, environmental tolerance, emerging diseases and insects, and rapidly changing consumer preference. We developed SSR markers for hydrangea to assess the genetic diversity of available germplasm, create a roadmap for wide hybridization, verify inter- and intraspecific crosses, and generate a preliminary linkage map for Hydrangea macrophylla. We are currently assembling transcriptome sequences from 454 GS-FLX Titanium sequencing of leaf, stem, and flower transcripts, which will allow us to develop SNP markers for high resolution mapping and a reference set of expressed genes for functional studies. There are upwards of 100 woody genera grown in nurseries as ornamental landscape plants. As the cost of genomics methods decrease, we will apply these methods to other economically important crops such as Cornus, Lagerstroemia, Cercis, and azalea. |


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Blog Tour:
Cold As Ice
Maggie Adams
Mar 10th - Mar 17th
He wants her to be his lover…she wants to be his forever.
Nick Coalson is abrasive, arrogant, and an absolute dynamo in the bedroom. Problem is, he knows it.
Rebecca Morgan is sweet, shy, and immensely attracted to Nick, but he's trouble in tight jeans and she knows it.
When Nick saves Rebecca from an assassin's bullet, he sets his sights on the shy partner of a detective agency. But he mistakes her kindness for weakness, and learns the hard way that although she may seem submissive, she's a voluptuous bundle of intelligence and determination.
Rebecca tries to hide her feelings for Nick because he's the kind of man that makes a smart girl do stupid things. After a sensual encounter, Nick grows distant, stating he wants a lover, not a wife. Rebecca realizes she's going to need to keep her wits about her if she wants Nick forever because it's too easy to lose herself to his dominant personality.
When a stranger offers to help her win Nick back, she accepts although she wonders what's in it for him. But Nick thinks it's too late for his love when he witnesses a tender moment between Rebecca and another man. His head tells him to step aside, but his heart aches for her tender touch.
And as the killer closes in on the Coalson family, Nick wonders if it will be too late to save not only their love, but their very lives?
Maggie Adams is an Amazon Best Selling contemporary romance author. Her first book in the Tempered Steel Series, Whistlin' Dixie, debuted in Amazon's Top 100 for Women's Fiction, humor, on November, 2014 and then again at #61 in 2016. Since then, she has consistently made the Amazon best seller 5-star list with Leather and Lace, Something's Gotta Give, Love, Marriage & Mayhem, and Forged in Fire. She is also the recipient of the Dayreader Review's Best New Series Award for 2015. Her series has launched the tiny town of Grafton, Illinois, into International recognition with sales in Mexico, Ireland, Scotland, Australia and the UK.
Maggie's books can be found on eBook and paperback at these links:
http://goo.gl/62rVI7 - Whistlin' Dixie, Book One in the Tempered Steel Series
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http://goo.gl/D6n7EU - Something's Gotta Give, book three
http://goo.gl/2zAsQt - Getting Lucky, A Tempered Steel Novella
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https://goo.gl/iR1rem - Forged in Fire, book five
http://goo.gl/OrQHpm - The Tempered Steel Series, Books 1-3
http://www.maggieadamsbooks.com - website
https://www.facebook.com/maggieadamsbooks - book page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/maggiesminxes -fan club page
https://www.amazon.com/author/maggieadams - author page
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9867300.Maggie_Adams - goodreads
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Bernadine Solberg papers
Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.
Bertha Korn Tucker papers
Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.
Best Ever Club (Percival, Iowa) records
A women's study club in Percival, Iowa that was founded in 1922.
Church Women United (Johnson County, Iowa) records
Johnson County, Iowa chapter of Church Women United.
Clara Steen Skott papers
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
De Jong Family papers
Dutch immigrants who settled in Iowa in the 1910s, and four generations of their descendants.
Dorothy Clark papers
Methodist Episcopal deaconess who later worked with the Mahaska County Historical Society to found the Nelson Pioneer Farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Edith Edmund Johnson papers
Longstanding member of Fairfield, Iowa clubs including the Fancy Work Circle and the Good Cheer Society.
Edna Means papers
Characterist and dramatic reader, and chatauqua performer from Tama, Iowa organized her own talent agency.
A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Four Seasons Garden Club Records
This collection contains meeting minutes, annual reports, and scrapbooks of club activities.
Friendly Circle Club (Washington, Iowa) records
A Washington, Iowa women's social club which was founded in 1934.
Gwendolyn Fowler papers
The first African American woman pharmacist licensed in Iowa and presidential appointee to the United States Foreign Service in the 1950s.
Helen Lee Hensleigh Wenger papers
University of Iowa graduate and teacher whose papers include correspondence and scrapbook files relating to her work on a variety of social issues.
Iowa City Area Christian Women's Club records
The Iowa City Area Christian Women's Club holds Friendship Bible Coffees and monthly luncheons. The ICCW formed in 1967 as an offshoot of Stonecroft Ministries.
Iowa City Women's Press records
Iowa City publisher and printer of lesbian and feminist books that existed from 1973 to 1985.
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs records
Nondenominational and nonpartisan organization bringing Iowa women's clubs together.
Irene Hoover papers
Farmwoman, 4-H leader, and volunteer who was active in the Farm Bureau and the Master Farm Homemakers Guild.
Josie Thurston papers
Journalist who worked for the Des Moines Register between 1947 and 1957 and was later a freelance writer.
Joyce Beisswenger papers
Social worker and civil rights activist from Osage, Iowa.
Judy Klemesrud papers
Nationally recognized journalist whose reporting included coverage of the women's movement.


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The Department of Computer Science produces a large number of research papers, books and technical reports every year, most of which can be found and downloaded from these pages. You can either find details of the publication from an author's personal page, or you can search for it directly here.
Technical reports
- Computer Science by year from 2003
- Monographs by year from 1970 to 2000. Published by The Programming Research Group. These were printed as A5 booklets but are now out-of-print.
- Research reports from 2001 to 2008
Text books
Staff of the Department of Computer Science have authored or co-authored a number of textbooks. Teaching materials are available to accompany some of the most recent publications.
PRG Archive Index
The Computer Science Library holds the archive of the Programming Research Group (PRG). It is contained in 240 box-files which hold papers and technical reports produced by PRG members and allied computer scientists between the early 1960s and 1980. The index is arranged by author.
If you wish to consult the archive please contact email@example.com
Search the publications database
Please enter a search term. You can narrow your search using the drop-down box on the right. The records of technical reports start from 2003 and monographs start from 1970.
Inspired Research Newsletter
The Inspired Research Newsletter is published twice-yearly by the Computer Science Department of Oxford University.


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That close reason
Yes, I believe it was condescending and somewhat rude. However there is a mass of questions that fall under a crystal clear criteria:
- They're poorly written.
- They have formatting issues.
- They don't show any research attempts.
- They don't show any attempt at solving the problem.
- They might be salvageable through extensive editing.
Just as importantly:
- They're crystal clear. There is nothing ambiguous about them.
- They're not too broad, there is a clear, although often very (too) specific solution to them.
- They're not an exact duplicate, although combining two or three other questions could easily lead to their solution.
- They're not opinion based. They represent a specific problem.
- They're not a library request, though sometimes they're a library request in disguise.
- They're about programming.
- They're not about a typo.
Here are some example titles, these are all real questions but I did not want to link to them explicitly to not affect their course. I'm pretty confident we've all seen them:
- jQuery parallexUiSlider plugin problem, can't find the bug.
- Why if statement failing in Python?
- Regular expression for telephone not working.
- JS function in jquery bug.
- Button click not working.
- pop is not working properly.
- Java program in course not working.
- This list goes on, but you get the idea.
All these have uninformative titles, formatting problems, about 30 lines of code with no context in the question. They're all likely to never help anyone in the future, but all have crystal clear solutions experts in their respective tags would know.
In a lot of these (and countless more) the OP has no idea what they're doing, they've found code on the internet, mixed it around and got something. They don't understand why that something doesn't work.
Usually, in these questions, the original poster is rather clueless, helping them on the question is only spoon feeding them, and there is little to no chance the question will help anyone in the future.
None of the current close reasons fit these particular questions
So here's my suggestion: Let's have a close vote reason that makes closing these questions easier. I think it can help reduce the signal to noise ratio and make closing these questions easier.
However, like I started, I believe "Lacks Minimal Understanding" is a rather harsh title. Too specific fits a lot of these, but I don't think it nails it.
Please suggest a close reason that fits these questions.
- It should not sound rude like "lacks minimal understanding". It should guide OP.
- It should be clear, that the question is closed because it is poorly written, has formatting issues and is too specific.
- Most of these questions are "debug my code", or "why does this very specific code not work" questions with no future potential, however they're rarely typos.
- These are not just "lacks research" questions. That's just one aspect of them. The other aspects are equally important.
I'd like to think we can come up with something better than "Lacks Minimal Understanding" that still conveys why these questions are problematic so that we can better close them.
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Justin Moore Weighs in on Life Off the Road: 'Something Is Missing Inside of Me'
As a husband and a father and a country music star, Justin Moore always seems to have a lot on his plate. But then, you throw the coronavirus pandemic on that already-crowded plate, and it's enough to bring even the strongest man down.
And it takes a strong man to even admit to something like that.
"Something is missing inside of me," Moore tells Taste of Country during a recent interview. "I miss the road. My creativity outlet has been stripped from me just like so many other artists. It's tough."
Indeed, for a road warrior such as himself, the adjustment that comes when a tour schedule is wiped clean in a matter of days due to the spread of COVID-19 is enough to leave anyone feeling a tad uneasy. But when it comes to the financial stress of it all, Moore says he and his family are blessed in the fact that they don't necessarily need to worry about things like that. But they are worried for all those who might not be as blessed with such circumstances.
"I came off the road on March 11, and ever since then I have been worried about so many people," says Moore, whose wife Kate owns a couple of children's boutiques. "There are a lot of people out there who are in much more difficult situations than me and my family. I feel very blessed to be able to do things like afford groceries when I can't work. But I'm definitely sensitive to the ones that can't."
For now, Moore says he is trying his best to bask in the unexpected break alongside his wife and their four children. Rarely going out other than the occasional grocery run, Moore and his family have been laying low at their Arkansas home until recently, when they traveled to their beach home in Florida.
"We may still be looking out of the window, but at least it's a different window for a little while," explains Moore, who recently reached the Top 15 on the charts with his single "Why We Drink." "It's somewhat trying at times. With four kids 10 and under and with obviously three of them in school, it can be a tad stressful."
Especially when it comes to his kids' math homework.
"They don't do it like we used to," Moore says with a laugh. "My 10-year-old will be like, 'Dad, how do we do this?' and I'm like, 'I literally don't know.' I mean, I can give him the answer, but I have no idea the way I'm supposed to tell him how to do it."
The singer has still been working during his time away from the road. He has put together a new podcast that shares insights into his life both at home and on the road. The Justin Moore Podcast is a 15-episode weekly series that launches on Tuesday (May 19). Moore is co-hosting the show with his tour manager J.R., aka "The Handler." New episodes will debut every Tuesday.
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Update (2/18/2014): This afternoon, a federal judge in Knoxville, Tennessee, sentenced Sister Mary Rice to 35 months in prison. Her accomplices, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, each received 62 months. "For now, their bodies remain in prison," said Rice's friend Ralph Hutchison, "but their voices are free, reminding us that…as long as the government continues to produce thermonuclear weapons of mass destruction in Oak Ridge or anywhere, people are required to resist."
Nestled behind a forested ridgeline on the outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the sprawling Y-12 National Security Complex, America's "Fort Knox" of weapons-grade uranium. The complex's security cameras and machine gun nests are designed to repel an attack by the world's most feared terrorist organizations, but they were no match for Sister Megan Rice, an 83-year-old Catholic nun armed with nothing more than a hammer and bolt cutters.
In the dark morning hours of July 28, 2012, Rice and two fellow anti-war activists bushwhacked up to the edge of Y-12, cut through three separate security fences, and sprayed peace slogans and human blood on the wall of a building that is said to hold enough weapons-grade uranium to obliterate human civilization several times over. (Click here to get the backstory on the blood.) They remained inside Y-12 for more than an hour before they were detected.
"The security breach," as the Department of Energy's Inspector General later described it, exposed "troubling displays of ineptitude" at what is supposed to be "one of the most secure facilities in the United States." At a February hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, multiple members of Congress thanked Rice for exposing the site's gaping vulnerabilities. Eleven launch officers were targeted in a separate investigation of illegal drug use. But that didn't deter federal prosecutors from throwing the book at Rice and her accomplices: Greg Boertje-Obed, a 57-year-old carpenter, and Michael Walli, a 63-year-old Vietnam veteran. They now sit in Georgia's Irwin County Detention Center, awaiting a January 28 sentencing hearing where a federal judge could put them in prison for up to 30 years. (See update above.)
In May, the three activists were convicted of willfully damaging federal property and, more seriously, sabotaging national defense material—a charge that precludes them from being released on bail. It was the latest in a string of heavy-handed crackdowns on activists who've dared to engage in vital acts of civil disobedience. In 2011, for example, federal prosecutors charged internet activist Aaron Swartz with 11 violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act carrying a maximum sentence of 35 years after he uploaded millions of papers from the scientific database JSTOR in a ploy to "liberate" publicly funded research; he hanged himself last January. Since September 2012, the journo-activist Barrett Brown has been imprisoned on a 17-count federal indictment related to his work exposing the surveillance of other activists by private government contractors. He faces a maximum 105-year prison sentence.
Even if the judge gives Sister Rice a more lenient sentence, as seems likely, she could still end up spending the rest of her life behind bars. "It's of absolutely no consequence to her," says her friend Ralph Hutchison, coordinator for the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. "As a nun she believes strongly that she is called to be a servant of God wherever she is."
Rice broke into the complex to bring attention to what she sees as its unlawful production of nuclear weapons. The Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed by the United States in 1969, commits nations to "pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament." Yet rather than phasing out nukes, the United States is refurbishing them at Y-12 and building a new $19 billion nuclear weapons production plant adjacent to the uranium facility. "You cannot simultaneously pursue nuclear disarmament credibly before the world," Hutchison says, "while you are investing tens of billions of dollars in a new facility that is solely and exclusively dedicated to producing nuclear weapons."
Regardless of whether US nukes are legal, Rice's break-in underscores the frightening difficulty of securing them. The military has a troubling history of nuclear mishaps and security lapses, some of which it has lied about to save face. Just today, the Air Force announced that it had suspended and revoked the security clearances of 34 missile launch officers at its Malmstrom base in Montana after it came to light that they were cheating—or complicit in cheating—on monthly exams to ensure that they were capable in safely overseeing nuclear warheads.
The National Nuclear Security Administration spends $150 million a year on security at Y-12, but somehow failed to detect an incursion by three elderly people. The incident "represented multiple system failures on several levels," noted the Inspector General's report. Multiple security cameras, for instance, were on the fritz for months, and the facility's guards often disregarded motion sensor alarms, which were constantly being tripped by wildlife. "It shows that if you throw a lot of money at stuff like this, it doesn't necessarily solve the problem," says Hans Kristensen, the director of the Federation of American Scientists' Nuclear Information Project.
The nun incident is far from the first example of the mismanagement of America's nuclear weapons stockpile. In 2007, as the investigative journalist Eric Schlosser reveals in his recent book, Command and Control, six hydrogen bombs went missing for a day and a half before the Air Force figured out what happened. It was "an incredibly serious security lapse," Schlosser told one of my colleagues. "The fact that nobody was asked to sign for the weapons when they were removed from the bunker, the fact that nobody in the loading crew or on the airplane even knew that the plane was carrying nuclear weapons is just remarkable."
A few years ago, Schlosser added, the Air Force lost communication with an entire squadron of 50 Minuteman nuclear missiles for more than an hour. In 2013, 17 missile launch officers were removed from duty for safety violations and a maintenance crew was decertified at the New Mexico base where the Air Force stores most of its nukes. "There's a sense of a lack of direction, and mismanagement right now—particularly in the Air Force," Schlosser said. "And it's intolerable. It's unacceptable."
These kinds of lapses point to the fundamental irony of using a nuclear stockpile as a tool for national security: "You have to aim for perfection when you deal with nuclear weapons," Kristensen says. "On the other hand, you can't have a safety or inspection system that ever claims to be 100 percent. It will never happen."
The three imprisoned activists are members of the Plowshares Movement, a Christian peace initiative founded in 1980 when the brothers Daniel and Philip Berrigan and six others trespassed onto the General Electric nuclear missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and hammered on the nose cones of missiles. The movement takes inspiration from Isaiah 2:4: "And they will hammer their swords into plowshares"—the part of the plow that tills the soil. Plowshares actions typically involve the pouring of blood and the symbolic gesture of hammering weapons—in this case, the walls of the Y-12 uranium warehouse.
"They feel that nuclear weapons are the single greatest threat to God's creation that exists in the world today," Hutchison says. "They think that there is a faith imperative. Nuclear weapons represent the ultimate anti-God. Anything that God is for—compassion, hope, promise of a future, health, security—they think are completely contradictory to the idea of nuclear weapons."


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Cycling is an extremely repetitive sport that involves long duration and high-intensity training which can ultimately lead to injury.
Much like changing your car's oil allows it to perform better and last longer, these five injury prevention techniques can help you perform at a higher level and reduce your risk of overuse.
1. Pre-workout: Perform dynamic stretches for 5–10 minutes, such as leg crossovers and scorpions to open up the hips and spine. They will help reduce joint and muscle stiffness prior to hopping on the bike.
2. During the workout: Keep your cadence at 90 rpm or greater to reduce stress on the knee, specifically the patellofemoral joint (kneecap area). High-intensity training at lower rpm may have rewards but also comes with greater injury risk.
3. Post-workout: Use the foam roller to reduce muscle soreness and tightness. Focus on the iliotibial band, quadriceps and piriformis (a deep gluteal muscle).
4. Gear: Assuming that a professional bike fit has been done, keep well-documented measurements of saddle height and fore/aft position. Always check measurements when traveling with the bike and after a bike crash.
5. Shoes: Tighten cleat screws/bolts, as they sometimes loosen and cause the cleat to shift. Once you have the cleat in the ideal position, make sure you outline the cleat in permanent marker. Overuse injuries can be created if the cleat shifts too far forward or back, increasing stress on the knee.
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Julep Hailee (2 coats)
Busy night, so this is going to be a quick post. Doesn't Hailee look a lot like Nora from yesterday? The silver is so prominent in these Julep suede polishes that it makes it hard to see what the base color is supposed to be. Well, I think it's supposed to be more of a green color, but I could be wrong. Again, this is a color that looks nice on my husband. Someone mentioned how chiptastic these are, and they are not wrong. I could barely get a day out of them before getting some chips (most of that time was spent sleeping, too). Some people say not to wear a basecoat with these, but I did, so perhaps that was part of the problem. I think the problem is the lack of a protective topcoat.
This is the last color I have from the It Girl November box because the third was a matte topcoat (boo, I want another color). Overall, I really wish I didn't get this box.