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Hi all,
I'm using a 1D cellular automaton (CA) to generate random unsigned ints in OpenCL. Basically, the CA is an array of uchar. And we evolve the CA in iterations such that ca[i] depends on ca[i], ca[i-1] of the previous iteration. Each work item evolves 4 uchar's in a row and writes this (combined) uint to our output array after every iteration.
(alg based on http://home.southernct.edu/~pasqualonia1/ca/report.html).
The point of all this is that a relatively small (but necessary) change makes my GPU code an order of magnitude slower but has no real effect on my CPU code. Note also that the CPU is doing this MUCH faster than GPU. I've tried 1-512 for local_size(0).
In the red section of code, if we change
ca2[ar] = locRules[ca1[a3] + ca1[ar]];
ca2[a3] = locRules[ca1[a2] + ca1[a3]];
ca2[a2] = locRules[ca1[a1] + ca1[a2]];
ca2[a1] = locRules[(a0>=0?ca1[a0]:0) + ca1[a1]];
locRules[ca1[a3] + ca1[ar]];
locRules[ca1[a2] + ca1[a3]];
locRules[ca1[a1] + ca1[a2]];
locRules[(a0>=0?ca1[a0]:0) + ca1[a1]];
the execution time speeds up by at least 10x. Any ideas why? Any ideas how to fix it? ca2 is still a __local variable, so the write shouldn't be that slow. I'm planning to release this code under GNU once it is polished. More details after the code.
ASSERT: This needs to be called on num local cores divisible by lenGlobCAs.
ASSERT: global_size == local_size!
ASSERT: globCA is initialized to random (by burning-in gen or from global source)
Generates nNums random 32-bit unsigned ints and stores result in outNums.
The state of the ith cell at iteration j dependeds on the state of the
ith and (i-1)th cell at iteration (j-1).
__kernel void ca_rng_get_ints (__global uchar *globCA, // the initial state of cellular automaton (ca)
__local uchar *ca1, // local copies of globCA
__local uchar *ca2, // we will swap between ca1 and ca2 for efficiency
int lenCA,
__global const uint *rules, // transition rules from one state to next
__local uint *locRules,
int nRules,
int nRNs, // number of random numbers to generate
__global uint *outNums) {
__global uint *tgon = outNums;
int gid = get_global_id(0);
int nLoc = get_local_size(0);
int nGlob = get_global_size(0);
__local int toSave;
event_t saveRNs;
// load our 'cells' indecies into memory. Every 4 represents one uint
int cright = (gid+1) * 4 - 1; // right idx.
int c3 = cright-1;
int c2 = cright-2;
int c1 = cright-3;
int c0 = cright-4; //ca[c0] is READ ONLY
// load ca into local memory
event_t loadCA = async_work_group_copy(ca1, globCA, lenCA, 0);
event_t loadRules = async_work_group_copy(locRules, rules, nRules, 0);
wait_group_events(1, &loadRules);
wait_group_events(1, &loadCA);
// Note that 1 iteration is one generation of CA state.
int nIters = 1 + nRNs / (lenCA/4); // 4 chars per out number
// run CA and generate rand nums
// idea: bounce back and forth from ca1 to ca2
for (int iter=0; iter < nIters; iter++){
// Eveolve the CA according to rules
for (int offset=0; offset < lenCA; offset+=nLoc*4){
// update cell states using rule table:
int a0=c0+offset; int a1=c1+offset; int a2 = c2+offset; int a3 = c3+offset; int ar = cright+offset;
// for some reason saving to ca2 takes a lot of time!!
ca2[ar] = locRules[ca1[a3] + ca1[ar]];
ca2[a3] = locRules[ca1[a2] + ca1[a3]];
ca2[a2] = locRules[ca1[a1] + ca1[a2]];
ca2[a1] = locRules[(a0>=0?ca1[a0]:0) + ca1[a1]];
// We've finished a complete revolution over every CA cell
// save results to our output random number array (outNums)
if (gid==0)
toSave = min(lenCA/4,nRNs);
if (iter>0)
wait_group_events(1, &saveRNs); // make sure previous iter's save has finished
saveRNs = async_work_group_copy(outNums, (__local uint*)ca2, toSave , 0);
// Reposition pointer and number of rand nums to generate
if (gid==0){
outNums = &outNums[toSave]; // this is a local variable, so all threads get info
nRNs -= lenCA/4;
// swap c1 and c2
if (gid==0){
__local uchar *t=ca1;
ca1 = ca2;
ca2 = t;
// remember that we just swapped ca1 with ca2, so ca1 is most up to date
event_t saveCA = async_work_group_copy(globCA, ca1, lenCA, 0);
wait_group_events(1, &saveRNs);
wait_group_events(1, &saveCA);
CA - 2056 bytes, rules - 256 char rules, nRNs ~ O(million)
running on Macbook Pro i5 with


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When you think of the weeks ahead, do you think that putting the garden to bed means simply raking the leaves and cutting back a few perennial flowers? Or maybe just putting the lawnmower in the garage and the tomato plants on the compost pile?
Then you are a minimalist. To have maximum success in the garden, there are many tasks to do between now and the time when snow flies.
If you moved your houseplants plants outside for the summer, begin bringing them in now. Many don't tolerate even a taste of frost. Wash the leaves on both sides and rinse the surface of the potting mix it's growing in, too.That will help to wash off aphids and aphid eggs. Inside there are no good bugs to keep the ever-present aphids under control.
If you have an amaryllis that you put outside (either in a pot or in the soil), and want to make it bloom again this winter, bring it inside now. Let it rest un-watered in a dark, dry place for 45 days, then re-pot it (if it was in the ground) and put it on a windowsill. If re-potting, use a fluffy potting mix with lots of peat moss. Garden soil will rot the bulb.
If you grew dahlias and the gladiolas, the bulbs will need to be pulled and stored in a paper bag in a cool, dark place until spring. Wait until the tops die back after the first frost — but don't wait until the ground is near freezing. In the bag with bulbs you can put some slightly damp cedar gerbil bedding. That will help to keep them from drying out over the winter.
Fall is the time to get ahead on next summer's weeds in garden. Do this by getting rid of all weeds in the flower beds (hopefully before they drop seeds) and in the vegetable garden, which should be clean and weed-free before snow flies. As you harvest vegetables, also weed and clean up.
Getting rid of the dead plants in the vegetable garden will minimize the overwintering of things like beetles and fungi.
Now is the time to improve your lawn. Got dead spots, worn out spots?
Re-seed in the fall, earlier rather than later. You want to get the new grass plants well established before the soil gets too cold. Germination is quicker now than in the spring — August's warmth is still held in the soil. Just be sure to keep the soil lightly moist. I usually cover grass seed with a light layer of mulch hay or straw to provide shade on the hot Indian summer days.
Fall is also a good time to give your lawn a dose of limestone and organic fertilizer. It will slowly be incorporated into the soil over the months ahead. You can have the lawn soil tested by your Cooperative Extension, or just Google "soil testing" and learn how to take a sample and where to send it. Most lawns will benefit from some compost. Just fling it with a shovel, and spread it around with the back side of a lawn rake (with the tines in the air).
At some point before winter, prepare your beds for planting next year's vegetable garden. That will allow you to plant early crops like spinach and peas much earlier if we have, as we usually do, a wet spring. It's never good to work in wet soil. And rototilling should be avoided until the soil dries out (though I personally don't till anymore). Later, after I've raked up my leaves, I'll spread them over my mounded, raised beds. Raised beds dry out and warm up faster than beds that are flat.
Flower beds get better each year. Or they do if you pay attention to your soil by adding organic matter. If you have mulch on your beds, rake it off and spread some compost or sheep manure over the surface. Then scratch it in a little and put back the mulch. Sheep, goat, llama and rabbit manure is all relatively free of weed seeds and adds organic matter and minerals to the soil. A top dressing of organic fertilizer will improve the soil, too. Unlike many chemical fertilizers, most components of organic fertilizer are not water soluble.
You can divide big clumps of purple cone flowers, blackeyed
Susan, phlox, asters, hostas, iris, daylilies and most other perennials either now or in the spring. The more you do now, the less you will have to do in spring. Moving or dividing peonies is generally recommended for the fall, after the plants have begun to go dormant.
There's plenty more to do before the snow flies, and I will nag you again later to do more including cleaning up your berry patch and cutting back this years' fruiting canes, pruning hardwood trees and deciduous shrubs after leaf drop, planting bulbs and more. Meanwhile, enjoy the crisp days of fall and find time to watch the butterflies feeding on our last flowers of summer.
HENRY HOMEYER is the author of 4 gardening books and a fantasyadventure for children. His Web site is www.Gardening-guy.com.
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I had the same questions in my first job at the Bank of England. I had the same question in my last role at a household name-type brand. I thought it would be different in my new world. My new world is cluttered and tangled in a new way because it has emotion and passion factored in.
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The hubby recently bought Dhruv Baker's book SPICE for me as a thank you. I have been instrumental in helping him (the husband) shed a few KG in weight with some of the lean recipes I have been cooking and in his book Dhruv cooks duck with some of the essences that I have used in the tofu. It works.
Ingredients to serve two
One block of firm tofu
2 tbsp. soy sauce
One medium sized mango, cut into thin strips or julienne
3 tbsp. kecap Manis
1 tsp. Chinese 5 spice powder
150ml water
3 star anise
8 taco shells
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1 tbsp. cooking oil
1 tbsp. rice wine vinegar
1 tsp. galangal paste
3-4 spring onions, finely chopped
- Wrap the tofu in kitchen paper and leave it to stand until the excess moisture has been soaked up before cutting it into large chunks of roughly 3cm cubed.
- Heat the oil in a pan and shallow fry the tofu until it is crisp and lightly golden.
- Add the garlic and cook for another couple of minutes.
- Pour in the soy sauce, then the star anise and rice wine vinegar and mix through. Then add the 5 spice powder, galangal and kecap Manis and combine well.
- Pour in the water and reduce the heat to a medium to low flame and cook until the moisture has been absorbed and the tofu looks well coated and almost crisp.
- Compile the tacos by cooking the shells per packet instructions and adding the fillings as you like. Serve immediately whilst the tofu is still hot.


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Let me clarify, this is not an attack on beliefs in any way. I changed the title as I see how it came off and it is due to my personal frustration with not understanding how things work - I apologize and am a believer - but with many many questions...any clarification into this confusion is greatly appreciated.
Lately, I have been questioning my literal faith about God providing the basic necessities like food and shelter.
I would like to make sure I am not being arrogant or blind by not taking into account the fact that other people do not have basic needs met, when I believe without doubt that God will take care of me.
How can we harmonize a rock solid belief that God Will provide and facts that there are many many people who do not have these needs met?
Does the collective sin, such as economic injustice, war crimes or greed of others override the promise of God for any of these 925 million who may follow Jesus?
Matthew 6:
31 "Don't worry and say, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' 32 That's what those people who don't know God are always thinking about. Don't worry, because your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things. 33 What you should want most is God's kingdom and doing what he wants you to do. Then he will give you all these other things you need. 34 So don't worry about tomorrow. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Tomorrow will have its own worries.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - um.. 'newbie' question.. Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "um.. 'newbie' question.." mrCidejunior memberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 4 Posted: Sat Nov 13, 1999 11:11 am Hey guys, I have a simple lil question for everyone. I know a lot of you are talented, and a lot of you are beginners (or claim to be ("my first drawing" cha-right)), anyhow, for those of you who draw human figures, did you all study books or take classes on muscle placement, and things of that nature? I mean, does everyone just *know* where to put things because they use to read comics when they were younger (or still do)? I've always loved doing things, specially in photoshop, but I've come to an interesting conclusion: I can't draw for sh!t. I learn all these new techniques, and I get the hang of doing things, shading, adding beat up fx to things, things I always wanted to learn, but damn if I have anything to apply it all to. So, tell me guys, what's the scoop? By the way, if you guys tell me that you studied some books on drawing, could you share which ones, maybe recommend something? Thanks a lot guys Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Sat Nov 13, 1999 11:58 am If you happen to be in school, a figure drawing class would probably help. Otherwise, just go to a library or book store, and pick something up. There should be many books on figure drawing, perspective, anatomy, etc. Books I personally recommend are Burne Hogarth's "Dynamic Figure Drawing", and "The Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist" by George Peck (I think). And lots and lots of observation and practice. ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Sat Nov 13, 1999 1:39 pm In addition to that, learn to think abou twhy the human form is the way it is. What purpose the muscles and bones serve, and how they will behave when moved. If you just learn diagrams, you'll hav a hard time adapting that info to anything. ------------------ Affected http://affected.cjb.net Back to top jasonNmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 842Location: Sydney Australia Posted: Sat Nov 13, 1999 2:12 pm For me I've never taken any art figure drawing classes. I do art in school, but I'm only in the 10th grade. It's not like College classes or anything. I haven't really ever gotten a professional book, but once I picked up a cartooning book which was cool But most of the time, everything comes from observation. Things you see in everyday life. And of course, comics. Comics are great because they have cool poses and you can see the way they've been coloured etc.. oh and this relates back to whether traditional skills affect digital results. I guess the answer is YES. Even if you know all these fancy techniques in photoshop, you need to know art fundamentals before you can create anything good digitally. I think just observing things and sketching basic shapes will help a lot. It doesn't even have to be a sketch book, I probably leant most of my figure drawing by doodling in class.... -Jason PS-oh and studying other people's work helps A LOT Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Sat Nov 13, 1999 2:38 pm That reminds me of something.. I've sort of noticed a lot of people taking a very systematic and mathematical approach to using Photoshop and other graphics applications. It's as if some people thought the program was going to do it all for them, but in reality it's just another medium. Sure, there are filters, but if you want to make something original, you'll need to use a lot of other stuff, too. There's no formula to making good graphics, although sometimes it would seem people expect there to be one, judging by all the 'how is this effect done' - posts. How often do you ask people who, say, paint with oils how they achieved some certain 'effect'? There's a plus side to this, though. Since there's no 'make art' button, there are less limitations, as well. I believe that once people stop thinking of making graphics in terms of what techniques and steps you need to use to make an image, and instead develop your own ways of doing things, they'll have progressed a great deal. Sorry to take this so off-topic.. :P ------------------ Affected http://affected.cjb.net Back to top BrainmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 662Location: Brisbane, Australia Posted: Sat Nov 13, 1999 9:11 pm Books are good, and if you can find one of these figure drawing classes (never been or seen one in school yet), go for it. Options I've taken are books, looking at myself in the mirror (can't get enough LOL @;-), and of course, the most fun an art student can have, getting someone to model for you. Femmes love the attention. *grin* Uhhh...*cough* yeah. ------------------ Brain http://brain.gamekey.com/ Back to top ka0zmemberMember #Joined: 10 Nov 1999Posts: 68Location: Forest Hills, NY, USA Posted: Sat Nov 13, 1999 11:46 pm Books? wtf? You dont learn to draw from books. Maybe you can read about art history and shit, but you dont learn to draw from reading books. You want to get good drawing skills, get a notebook, a pencil go to a park or something and draw people. Drawing the human figure is essential, it holds so many possibilities and changes that its amazing. Everybody is different so draw everyone you see . fat people , skinny, old people, kids, even babies, everyone is different. Books are goods maybe to study some new/old techneques but the only real thing is practice and a lot. Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 1:53 am Books are tremendously helpful for learning anatomy, perspective, composition, color theory, and whatever else. Remember, everyone learns differently. I definitely learned most of what I know from books. ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top SPike.CoMmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 194Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 9:14 am I agree with ka0z, but not all books are just history ka0z. Find a way to practice a lot, books with nifty techniques will help you along the way but they are only hints. So be sure to pick up a papers and pencils and draw... A WHOLE LOT. There are some books I got to recommend but I don't remember all of their names, I mostly borrowed books from the library. However I got some here: The DK Art School series. (Plenty of good books there). "The Artist's Guide" by John Wilkinson is a good all-round one. There are many more good ones which I don't know the title of. Cheers and good luck. Back to top SPike.CoMmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 194Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 9:18 am Oh yeah, if you wanna learn anatomy fast, draw nude models. Playboy and other magazines are a good source if you don't have the option to go to a "nude model sketching" class. No, I am serious. Back to top Judasjunior memberMember #Joined: 13 Nov 1999Posts: 11 Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 9:51 am I agree with what Affected said, I sometimes go to the designs by mark board and almost all those people want to make things with photoshop but they all think it's just pushing buttons and bob's your uncle. Some knowhow about photoshop is very handy but your Creativity is what makes you a good 'artist' (i hate that word) Back to top ka0zmemberMember #Joined: 10 Nov 1999Posts: 68Location: Forest Hills, NY, USA Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 9:57 am Oh come on, you're not going to tell me that you learn composition and perspective, etc, from reading a book.. Of course, books are helpful in some way, but they wont grab a pencil for you and they wont trace the line for you. It all comes out of your mind/hand and through a _REAL LOT_ of practice Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 11:15 am As a matter of fact, I did learn perspective from books. Composition is trickier, as I think it's something I already had a sense for, but books have helped me understand it more fully. ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top MongoosememberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 363Location: North Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 7:45 pm ka0z, Do you think we are born with preinstalled knowledge of perspective and anatomy? Maybe we got our knowledge from aliens? Like.. come on, you LEARN from books. No one claimed that books make you a better artist, but they can sure as hell help you achieve that. It's common sense. We don't learn through osmosis. /mongoose Back to top UberGnomejunior memberMember #Joined: 14 Nov 1999Posts: 4 Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 8:30 pm Hold on a minute...you can't "LEARN" anything from a book, at least not to the full extent. Drawing is like any other art out there. Sure I could go grab a book on anatomy and read it but then can I say Im a doctor? lol You learn things by actually DOING them. A book might help but you need to draw every day. Lemme give you a scenario here...You read a portion of a book, go try to draw what the book tells you to, and it turns out like shit. Why? Nothing is done right the first time, you have to do things over and over before it is done right. The more you draw the better you get, you cant go get a book, read it, and expect to be an expert artist. 'nuff said =p Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 8:57 pm No one ever claimed you don't need to practice. Several people, however, totally discounted the knowledge and insight that can be gained from reading. You take two people who don't know how to draw. You put one in a room with a pencil, and you put the other one in a room with a pencil and a bunch of art instruction books. Who do you think is going to learn faster? ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top JeezusmemberMember #Joined: 04 Nov 1999Posts: 142Location: St.albert, Alberta, Canada Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 9:04 pm yes, you CAN learn from books. is this some kind of war of the wits? hah.. like, proportion diagrams and stuff. an artist will begin to keep all that stuff in mind when drawing, therefor LEARNING from the book. i mean, this is commen sense. i cant believe it started an arguement Back to top UberGnomejunior memberMember #Joined: 14 Nov 1999Posts: 4 Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 9:15 pm I know Funfetus I agree with you on that, notice I said books help...but you cant learn it all from a book. Back to top ka0zmemberMember #Joined: 10 Nov 1999Posts: 68Location: Forest Hills, NY, USA Posted: Sun Nov 14, 1999 10:12 pm Mongoose: It seems that you didn't full read my post. As I said books maybe are helpful regarding techniques and/or some tricks, but, again, as I said before they wont grab a pencil/brush and do the work for you. Take a person who reads only books about art and a person who only draws, and put them to draw a person. I highly doubt that the one that reads only books could even draw a straight line. Besides, I never claimed that you aliens gave us the knowledge. BUT, you ARE actually born with ability to draw greater that other people, its a little thingie called _talent_.. Hello, recognize that? Anyway, books are some help, but the real and only thing is practice practice and more more more practice. Dont waste your time reading books about how to draw better, just DRAW and you'll be better. Even people that have no real ability can be better with time through a WHOLE LOT of practice. Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Mon Nov 15, 1999 12:58 am A lot of studying has already been done on the psychological effects of colours,composition etc., so why re-invent the wheel? Back to top mrCidejunior memberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 4 Posted: Mon Nov 15, 1999 5:17 pm Hehe.. thanks guys I'm sorry I caused a lot of 'discussion' over all of this. I should of been more specific. I'm wanting to learn masculinity (right word?), of a male, shape of a women (combine to make a monster :P). I'm on my way to the book store now to look over and pick out some books *to help me learn*, not learn for me . Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I'll keep you updated. 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Denver, Colo., Aug 10, 2013 / 06:03 am MT ().- Although a controversial new book on the "historical Jesus" is topping best-seller lists, claims made by its author are tired when it comes to New Testament scholarship, a Scripture professor says.
"There's basically not a lot new," Dr. Andre Villeneuve from Denver's St. John Vianney Theological Seminary said of Reza Aslan's recent "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth."
"It kind of re-hashes what's been said in the last – not just 20 or 30 years – but the last 100 or 200 years about the search for 'the historical Jesus,'" he told CNA in an Aug. 6 interview.
"He creates this artificial split between the alleged Jesus of the Gospels and the Jesus of history, as if they would be radically different figures. That again is nothing new, it's been done for decades and even centuries."
Aslan's book shot to the top of best-seller lists following a roundly criticized July 26 Fox News interview in which his credibility was attacked because of his Muslim religious identity.
"The critique that he's a Muslim is really out of place," Villeneuve said. "It's not that because you're a Muslim that you can't write a book about Jesus … it's not fair to says he's trying to push the Islamic view of Jesus in the guise of scholarship."
Villeneuve pointed out that Aslan's positions on Jesus do not always correspond with the Muslim perspective – and that he in fact parts with Islamic belief by acknowledging the crucifixion of Jesus and rejecting the virgin birth.
But in that same Fox News interview, Aslan also claimed to be an expert in religious history, calling himself "a Ph.D. in the history of religions" and "a scholar of religions with a Ph.D. in the subject."
His doctorate, however, is in sociology, and while he examined the sociology of religions, his expertise – that is, the subject of his dissertation – is the jihadist movement of 20th century Islam.
Aslan is also associate professor of creative writing at University of California-Riverside, based on his master's degree in fiction. He also holds a masters of theological studies, and a bachelor's degree in religions.
"It doesn't seem like New Testament studies would be his specialty," Villeneuve stated.
Aslan portrays Jesus as the frustrated leader of a rebellion against Roman occupation of Jewish lands, and that he was nothing but a failed revolutionary and zealot.
"That puts Aslan more or less in the liberation theology camp, of seeing Jesus as someone who radically challenged the Roman occupation, and in favor of the poor, the marginalized, the dispossessed – really interested more in social justice than anything else."
Villeneuve said it's "completely fair" to think that the Romans might have perceived Jesus in such a secular way, but that there is a "big difference between how Jesus saw himself, and how the Romans perceived or understood Jesus."
"As far as Jesus' point of view goes, it's preposterous to put him in the Zealot camp."
Villeneuve noted Aslan's contention that Jesus never considered himself to be God, because "that was never heard of in ancient Judaism … he claims the idea of the divinity of the Messiah was completely foreign to Judaism in Jesus' time."
"This is false," Villeneuve explained. Among others, Daniel Boyarin, an Orthodox Jewish scholar, has noted that the idea of the Incarnation, "and even of … some plurality in the godhead, were concepts present in Second Temple Judaism."
Boyarin, he said, points to the book of Daniel and to the apocryphal book of Enoch for the presence of the idea of a divine Messiah being present in the Judaism of Jesus' time, and added that "Aslan does not refer – I'm not sure he's even aware – of these positions."
"The idea that the divine Messiah was present in Second Temple Judaism would be very important to find out and know, before you start dismissing it and saying 'divine Messiah' was a completely Greek, pagan concept."
While granting that "Zealot" is "thoroughly researched," Villeneuve said that it seems to have been researched in such a way that "he's influenced by the Jesus seminar school," which in the 1980s and 90s had proposed Jesus as nothing more than a rabbi, sage and healer.
Aslan's view is dismissive and prejudiced against the very possibility of supernatural occurrences, rejecting the miraculous "because these things just don't happen."
"Be careful of these anti-supernaturalist prejudices," Villeneuve advised, "and these revisionists really following the fad of questioning the Christian faith because it's the popular thing to do."
"There are dozens of good books written about Jesus every year, but whatever will question that will be more readily accepted."
Villeneuve offered Benedict XVI's books on Jesus of Nazareth as resources that "really answer a lot of these claims" and show that "not only in the Gospel of John, but in the Synoptics, you see a man who is definitely taking on this authority that goes way beyond that of the rabbis and scribes of his day."
The irony, he said, is that Aslan "proposes Christianity is revisionist," that the earliest Christian community, as Jews, "were completely willing to go into apostasy" and preach things "contrary to what Jesus actually believed."
"When we really try to think along those lines of what Aslan's trying to make us believe, it's really somewhat preposterous actually: that all these early martyrs and disciples were willing to die as martyrs for what, according to him, was a colossal lie, or myth."
"I would submit that Aslan's book is a fad that will pass away, and he's not the first, not the last, but the Gospels will still be around in 20 years, when everyone will have forgotten his book."
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Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
New American
November 25, 2013
Government isn't content to control public behavior, it is now clamping down on how citizens act at home, as well.
Multiple media outlets are reporting that the city council of San Rafael, California has passed an ordinance prohibiting smoking inside residences with shared walls. This would include, of course, apartments, condominiums, duplexes, and other multi-family dwellings.
The ordinance was passed in October 2012, but did not go into effect until November 14, 2013.
According to a statement made by the city council on the city's official website, the new regulation strengthens "the City's municipal code to further protect the community from secondhand smoke."
In particular, the ordinance "applies to all new and existing properties and does not allow grandfathering rights. Landlords and property owners are required to enforce this ordinance through new lease language or lease amendments as well as posting signage."
The ordinance may be the strictest in the country, and city officials are proud to be out front on the issue. Breitbart News quoted Rebecca Woodbury, "an analyst in the San Rafael's city manager's office who helped write the ordinance," as boasting: "I'm not aware of any ordinance that's stronger."
And the Blaze revealed:
The city's mayor, Gary Phillips, is apparently well-aware of the leadership role San Rafael may have given itself with the decision. He said that the city is "happy to blaze a trail" before the vote took place.
"We're most happy to be in the forefront of the issue because we think it will greatly benefit our residents and those visiting San Rafael, and we think it will set the tone for other cities as well," the mayor proclaimed.
The Breitbart News story reported on the opposition to this alarming intrusion into the sanctity of the home:
"The science for that is spurious at best," said George Koodray, the state coordinator for Citizens Freedom Alliance and the Smoker's Club in New Jersey.
Steve Stanek, a research fellow at the free-market oriented policy group Heartland Institute in Chicago, supported the rights of smokers.
Stanek, a non-smoker, said, "My sympathies aren't with smokers because I am one, it's because of the huge growth in laws and punishments and government restricting people more and more."
Beyond the city's reliance on questionable science, the violation of the "Takings Clause" of the Constitution may actually be actionable.
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, in relevant part, "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Over the years, the U.S. Supreme Court has handed down several decisions aimed at defining the scope of the so-called Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
An article from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law reports:
The Court has had a difficult time articulating a test to determine when a regulation becomes a taking. It has said there is "no set formula" and that courts "must look to the particular circumstances of the case." The Court has identified some relevant factors to consider: the economic impact of the regulation, the degree to which the regulation interferes with investor-backed expectations, and the character of the government action.
By applying the ordinance to owners and renters, an argument can be made that its enforcement will impact the ability of investors to receive a return on their investment in property within San Rafael. Where once owners could sign leases with any citizen, regardless of their smoking preference, that property will now be restricting to renting to those who do not smoke. That may be fine going forward, but considering the "no grandfathering" clause of the ordinance, many of those who have purchased buildings as investment income property will now see their ability to achieve occupancy severely reduced by an overzealous local government.
As the ordinance has only been in effect for about 10 days as this is being written, it seems that local land owners would have a cause of action against the San Rafael city council. Should the owners of apartments, condos, and all other residences that contain units that share walls be able to demonstrate that their property rights have been diminished by the city council without the "just compensation" required by the Constitution, then the ordinance would be subject to being struck down.
Should the ordinance be enforced as written, owners of qualifying property will find themselves unable to use their property as intended and unable to recover for their losses.
There are those opponents of the ordinance who have chosen, unfortunately, to focus on the soundness of the science rather than on the assault on the fundamental right of property.
In the long run, health risks identified by science or by "science" will change. There will rarely be consensus on such issues, particularly when forces on both sides have billions of dollars to pour into competing studies (Michael Bloomberg and the tobacco industry, for example).
What does not change, however, and is not subject to contemporary or corporate manipulation, is the sacrosanct place afforded property in the Anglo-American legal tradition.
Proponents of the law point to the "nuisance exception" that the Supreme Court has established. Put simply, the high court has ruled that the right to injury neighbors is not covered by the Takings Clause, and thus need not be compensated for should the government decided to regulate the injurious behavior.
This has gone too far, however.
Writing for the Cato Institute, Roger Pilon explains the potential for abuse of the nuisance exception to the Takings Clause:
In defining the nuisance exception, therefore, care must be taken to tie it to a realistic conception of rights, which the classic common law more or less did. Thus, uses that injure a neighbor through various forms of pollution (e.g., by particulate matter, noises, odors, vibrations, etc.) or through exposure to excessive risk count as classic common-law nuisances because they violate the neighbor's rights. They can be prohibited, with no compensation owing to those who are thus restricted.
By contrast, uses that "injure" one's neighbor through economic competition, say, or by blocking "his" view (which runs over your property) or offending his aesthetic sensibilities are not nuisances because they violate no rights the neighbor can claim. Nor will it do to simply declare, through positive law, that such goods are "rights."
Indeed, that is the route that has brought us to where we are today. After all, every regulation has some reason behind it, some "good" the regulation seeks to bring about. If all such goods were pursued under the police power—as a matter of right—then the owners from whom the goods were taken would never be compensated. The police power would simply eat up the compensation requirement.
And that is where the citizens of San Rafael find themselves today. The city council has unconstitutionally exercised the police power and has "eaten up" the protected property rights of owners of multi-family dwellings.
Although the fight wouldn't be an easy one, property owners in San Rafael affected by the newly enforced ordinance would be wise to stand against their local government's deprivation of their right to enjoy their property. When regulations run amok, property rights are almost always the victim.
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When I was a kid volunteering was like drinking milk with dinner, you just did it.
I credit my parents for taking it one step further, for recognizing and gently fostering an interest in helping others. They understood when I wanted to donate my Christmas gifts and when I asked to make Easter baskets for those in need at my birthday parties. They encouraged me to volunteer my time as much as I could through the local youth group and as a summer counselor at the Boys and Girls Club.
Life now is clearly very different than it was then. Kids and adults alike are overscheduled, spending less and less time outdoors and it's not surprising that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics report that the volunteer rate in the US continues to decline.
During college I helped build a house with Habitat for Humanity in Georgia for spring break. A photojournalism major, I brought my camera along and documented every step of our experience. A light turned on within me and it's a moment I can easily pinpoint as the first time I felt a deeper purpose in my pursuit of a career in photography. I accepted an offer to join the photography staff at USA Today when I graduated, and as a young professional in Washington, DC, participated in walks to raise money for breast cancer and later photographed them. I count a recent trip to photograph a New England fitness team visiting St Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis among the most moving and rewarding opportunities to volunteer with my camera.
Photographers have a unique ability to help a charity by providing more than just our time. We are historians to the cause, capturing the mundane and the momentous. By sharing our skill, a charity can boost its fundraising campaigns, website and every visual touchpoint within their organization using our professional photographs. No other occupation comes close to such grassroots involvement.
It was in DC that I started my business, emilie inc. photography, but it wasn't until I moved to Maine a few years later that I decided to develop my longstanding annual donation to breast cancer research into a formal organization. Founded in honor of my mother's best friend who passed away from the disease when I was an impressionable 12 year old girl, PinkInitiative was recognized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2008. We are a collection of wedding industry professionals and private donors who share a common dedication to spread awareness and help fund a cure for breast cancer. From caterers and coordinators to photographers and pianists, our membership runs the wedding vendor spectrum.
Each year we select a different recipient for the monies raised. In 2011 we gave to the Triple Negative Breast CancerFoundation, an organization doing great work for this rare subtype responsible for approximately 25% of breast cancer deaths. In 2010 we partnered with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's mobile mammography service and sponsored a van day in a low-income area of Boston, gifting mammograms to 35 women who otherwise couldn't afford this important test. Five of those screenings came back with abnormal results. Gives me chills to think we had a hand in potentially saving five lives!
Members are encouraged to go beyond a cash donation and host an event within their own community to help bring attention to the cause and further our reach on a local level. Chicago coordinators at Engaging Events hosted a charity golf tournament with a raffle, silent auction and awards for best dressed in pink. Houston event planners Event Craze dedicated the launch of their business to Pink Initiative with a swanky party of pink food and drink. Tampa planners Elan Event Studio threw an over-the-top networking soiree including go-go dancers adorned with pink wigs. Corporations have also gotten involved including Prepare to Wed, a national wedding planning resource that donates a percentage of its membership subscription dues to Pink Initiative. InvitationConsultants, an online invitation and stationery store, has a special line of cards whose profit is donated to Pink Initiative. Likewise, Seabags created a custom tote bag from recycled sails featuring our logo for our website's marketplace. Profits from sales are donated back to Pink Initiative.
It's been truly inspiring to see the enthusiasm, involvement and sense of community Pink Initiative has become. It's not all administrative for me, I've enjoyed taking part in the fundraising as well! In addition to donating a portion of the profit from every wedding I photograph, I once raffled off an entire wedding photography package. The winner was a wedding planner in Costa Rica who gifted the prize to two brides marrying on back-to-back days and each shared my travel expenses. I also went on a weeklong 5-city portrait tour from Maine to Virginia a few years ago. Most of the couples, babies, families and their pets were former wedding clients, a great way to stay connected long after their wedding day. I timed it for the early fall and included a set of holiday cards. All of the money I collected was donated, including any additional print sales.
Photographers, we've seen, are the most active within our group. Hosting mini portrait sessions in the fall, for Valentine's Day or for Mother's Day tend to be our members most popular fundraisers. Mini sessions are several 30 minute portrait sessions in succession that take place in one location, usually at a park or beach. A fee is set, likely a reduced rate from a regular portrait session, and is a donation to Pink Initiative. The beauty is that there is very little preparation work involved once you've settled on the logistics of when and where. Announcing mini sessions to take place in two weeks, let's say, creates a buzz of excitement and motivates people to reserve their spot right away. Part of the fun, I think, is the timed element on the day of the fundraiser, and it is communicated very clearly ahead of time that everyone must stay on schedule for it to be a success.
I was recently interviewed for an article and was asked if aligning with a charity boosts business. Indeed it does, but it's certainly not as if I slapped a pink ribbon on my brand to hook clients. I give because I can. It's part of me and I love that I have my business as a platform to share my message with a larger audience. I tend to gravitate towards businesses that give to charity or give back to the community in my own life, and have found the same to be true for our emilie inc. clientele. Including information about my work for breast cancer research prominently on our website is intentional. I want prospective clients to know what is important to me, what I stand for and how they are a part of that process. It also opens the door for couples to share how breast cancer may have touched their lives from the very beginning of our relationship.
My heart aches at weddings when there's an empty chair at the ceremony or the obvious absence of a parent dance during the reception. As a new mom, I could not fathom that scene without me in it and hate that it is so common. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. I have photographed more than 300 weddings. That's at least 37 emilie inc. brides who will come face to face with this disease. Last month we received this email from the first.
Dear Emilie,
I was always struck at how proactive you are in breast cancer awareness and advocacy. I had considered going to your Pink Initiative photo shoot but with a 4 month old daughter I wasn't sure we could make the trek up from Nashua, NH. Little did I know that on November 22nd our lives would change forever when I received the phone call, at the age of 34, that I have breast cancer. I am one month into my four month regimen of chemo to be followed by surgery and radiation. It is a scary time for sure and one that has seen plenty of tears. But I vow to do something like you have. As Lance Armstrong has made it his motto "it is the obligation of the cured."
I'm not even sure why I am emailing you except that I've had this sense that I should and I'm no longer ignoring those little quiet still voices that prompt me as it had when my doctor told me the lump in my breast was nothing to worry about back in August. Thank God my mother prompted me in November to get it checked and that I listened to her voice.
Be well and keep doing amazing things.
With gratitude,
For more information and to join our cause, please visit pinkinitiative.org.


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As I've said many times on here, my wife and I have a small handful of major goals that we share going forward in our lives.
We both want to eventually live in the country with some wooded area and a small barn.
We both want to focus on raising our children as well as we possibly can.
We both want to achieve complete debt freedom (we currently just owe on our mortgage) to give us even more career and personal flexibility in the future.
Here's the interesting part: these goals do not reflect everything I want to do in life, nor do they reflect everything Sarah wants to do in life.
Instead, they're the goals we share together and because we both share them, there's a lot more power and mutual motivation and mutual benefit in achieving those goals.
How did we get there from each having our own goals? Here's the process we went through – and are still going through.
We each sketched a picture of what we wanted our future to look like. What did I want my life to look like in five or ten or twenty years? I spent some time really thinking about that question. I made a list of some of the things I wanted to happen in my life over those timeframes. I had career dreams and family dreams and personal goals I wanted to achieve.
We compared our pictures of the future. What we found is that some of our goals overlapped, some of them did not, and some of them were personal goals that affected our partner in various ways.
So, for example, we both had a dream of living in the country with woods and a small barn. I had a dream of building a fully self-sustaining farm there (with wind power, geothermal heating, and so forth), but Sarah didn't share that vision as strongly: "It'd be cool, I guess, but is it really worth the cost?" I also had career goals that impacted Sarah a little bit (because of the time and energy investment), but not too much.
We agreed to focus on the larger goals we both shared. I listed those above. Those goals are not a list of the goals I came up with – if I listed all of the things I wanted myself, the list would be longer and have a much different flavor.
However, a big lifelong goal that your partner is not on board with is not only much more difficult to achieve, pushing hard for that goal can put problems in your relationship. On the other hand, sharing a goal and both working towards that same goal encourages an environment of mutual support. Focus in on the goals you both deeply share – and you identify those by coming up with your own list of goals on your own, then sharing and comparing them.
Our next step was to settle on a small handful of key goals that we both shared. For us, this was very easy. We had three very obvious key goals that we each individually wanted – a house in the country, complete debt freedom, and strong parenting.
If you find that you're coming up with a lot of shared goals, that's a good thing. I recommend settling on just a few – the ones that are most deeply important to both of you.
If you find that you're not able to come up with shared goals, I would suggest spending more time together and focusing on building your relationship with each others. Not having shared goals is a sign of being on diverging paths in life – and that means if you take your relationship seriously, it needs some work, whether you can see that on the surface or not.
Once you've figured out those shared goals, work together to keep them front and center. Remind each other regularly of the goals you share and the little steps you're both taking to make it happen. If you're not both engaged with a goal and working towards it, it's hard to do it alone. You've got to be together, and if it's a goal you both share, reinforcing each other and helping each other should come somewhat naturally.
A final tip: revisit your goals on occasion. We talk about ours all the time. Usually, it's motivational. Sometimes, we refine the goals a bit – for example, we've been thinking about the location we'd like to move to. The key thing, though, is that we talk about it together, cement our bonds to each other, and motivate each other to move forward.
It's a lot easier to reach for something great if you're doing it together.


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Local doctor helps victims while in Boston
Doctor, wife helped bombing victims
A prominent Lake County doctor talked with WESH 2's Michelle Meredith Thursday about his experience at the Boston Marathon.
Dr. John Cowin and his wife, Anna, went to watch their daughter Lynda, a cancer survivor, run the race for charity. But after the bombs exploded, the orthopedic surgeon and his former state senator wife were both heroes, running toward the devastation and not away.
"Like this one girl, she said, 'I'm all alone.' I said it's OK, sit down, take a deep breath," said Anna Cowin.
Sadly, among the first victims Dr. Cowin saw was 8-year-old Martin Richard who was being cradled by his grieving mother.
"And the lady is on the ground with her arms around her baby and they are getting ready to put a blanket on the baby and they want to take her to a hospital and she said 'Can I just stay with him a little longer,'" said Cowin
Cowin tried to save the woman who was recently identified as the third fatality, the graduate student from China.
"We put an airway in her and I bagged her but it was pretty obvious she wasn't going to make it," said Cowin.
The Cowins moved from victim to victim. At one point Dr. Cowin said he was so bloody that paramedics thought he was hurt.
Anna took pictures, but they said the images barely capture what they saw and felt.
"I am angry. What hit me afterwards is what kind of people do this kind of thing," said Cowin.
In a move he called rare, Dr. Cowin wrote about his experience on Facebook. He said he was really touched by how many people cared -- including one man from Russia.


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In order to make any servers running on andLinux (e.g. sshd, apache2, etc.) accessible from the Internet, you can activate port forwarding on the coLinux slirp network interface (eth0). For example, to open TCP port 22 (ssh), edit the andLinux configuration file C:\Program Files\andLinux\settings.txt as follows: change the line with
and ensure that your Windows firewall settings allow colinux-slirp-net-daemon.exe to open port 22. Then you are able to ssh into your andLinux installation using your andLinux and your Windows IP address. In case your Windows computer is located in a private subnet behind a router, you additionally need to forward TCP port 22 in your router and then use the router's public IP address to access your andLinux installation from the internet. Of course, you should pay attention to the usual security precautions like setting strong passwords etc.
To configure a webserver, the things to do are more or less identical, except that you'll have to use TCP port 80 instead of 22. In case you wish to open multiple ports, they have to be separated by slashes in the configuration file, e.g. like this:


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Tapered Drill Bit - Large 6.0mm
These Japanese Wooden Nails can be used for joining timber together in place of metal fastenings. They can be used on rebates and lap joints, they can also be used for decorative contrasts in different coloured timbers. Perfect for making musical Instruments and for Luthier as the timber nails will not affect the resonance of the instrument. The wooden nails are also ideal for restoring old furniture.
Each tapered drill bit is perfectly matched to a particular sized wooden nail, this allows the surface area of the hole and nail to be completely and perfectly in contact. The small tolerance of this contact allows a great amount of pressure to be applied to the job.
6.0mm Large Tapered Drill Bit to suit Large Wooden Nail
2.5mm diameter at the end and 6mm diameter at the largest point
Postage: $3 for this item.
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great quality
worked great for drilling a hole in a tree for a thread graft.
Excellent tool Although it is designed for the wooden nails I have employed it to create a hole suitable for a batten screw in hardwood Peter
Perfect match..
The 6 mm tapered drill bit is perfect for my large wooden nails..
Tapered Drill Bit - Large 6.0mm
I haven't used it yet (28/12/16) but if it is as good as the small one it should be good.
hi I love my drill
hi I love my drill bit and I am trying to order some more extra small A wooden nails but the website doesn't seem to be working on my computer....can you send me an email so I can order. I use them all the time for my picture frames and need them asap..thank you so mucg from Sue ( Planewoodframe)
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great quality
worked great for drilling a hole in a tree for a thread graft.
Excellent tool Although it is designed for the wooden nails I have employed it to create a hole suitable for a batten screw in hardwood Peter
Perfect match..
The 6 mm tapered drill bit is perfect for my large wooden nails..
Tapered Drill Bit - Large 6.0mm
I haven't used it yet (28/12/16) but if it is as good as the small one it should be good.
hi I love my drill
hi I love my drill bit and I am trying to order some more extra small A wooden nails but the website doesn't seem to be working on my computer....can you send me an email so I can order. I use them all the time for my picture frames and need them asap..thank you so mucg from Sue ( Planewoodframe)