text: Commentary on Luke 3:7-18 David Lose | 2 CommentsFacebook-twitter-g+-LinkedIN-EmailPrint It would appear, according to Luke, that John is an "old school" preacher, delivering in these verses a sermon composed of "three points and a poem." Point 1: Eschatological warning (verses 7-9). Point 2: Ethical exhortation (verses 10-14). Point 3: Messianic expectation (verse 15-17). Poem -- Okay, this is from the pen of Luke, not the mouth of John: All of this is "good news" (verse 18). Luke varies little from Matthew in his first and third points, except that in Luke's account John preaches not to the Pharisees and Sadducees but to the "crowds" (a point that will take on greater significance later). Otherwise, John's message is standard prophetic fare, material that one would anticipate from any prophet worthy of the name. Regarding eschatological warning: judgment is near, and that judgment will not be determined on the basis of religious, cultural, or ethnic identity but rather on the conduct of one's life. Regarding messianic expectation: one who is greater and who baptizes not with water but with the Holy Spirit and fire is coming, and his coming will initiate the eschatological judgment. In both of these regards, John stands as the latest -- and, according to the New Testament authors, last -- in a long line of Israel's prophets. In narrating for us John's second point regarding ethical exhortation, however, Luke goes far beyond Matthew. Rather than either shrink back from or be angered by John's warning (common responses to prophetic discourse), the crowds instead ask a refreshingly pragmatic question: "What then shall we do?" It is the same question the crowds listening to Peter on Pentecost ask (Acts 2:37) and, as in Acts, Luke uses it to provide the preacher an opportunity to get to the heart of his sermon. In Acts, Peter invites the crowd to repent, be baptized in the name of Jesus, and receive the Holy Spirit. In these verses, John gives concrete ethical instruction to those gathered, and the content of that instruction is rather surprising. After announcing impending eschatological judgment with some vim and vigor, John's counsel seems fairly ordinary, even mundane. To the (presumably poor) crowds: "Share." To the tax collectors, "Be fair." To soldiers, "Don't bully." This feels more like the stuff of Kindergarten than Apocalypse. Which may be Luke's point. Fidelity does not have to be heroic. There are opportunities to do God's will, to be God's people, all around us. These opportunities are shaped by our context: the roles in which we find ourselves and the needs of the neighbor with which we are confronted. But make no mistake, opportunities abound. John may have come from the wilderness, but the crowds -- and we -- live in the towns, villages, and marketplace, and these, too, can be places of testing and the arenas in which we offer our fidelity to God through service to neighbor. More surprising than the content of John's ethical instruction is his audience. They are more than ordinary; they are, at best, the riff raff: poor crowds with little to offer, despised tax collectors who profit from the oppression of their countrymen, mercenary soldiers known for extorting the vulnerable. Yet they are not excluded from John's attention or the possibility of "bearing fruits worthy of repentance." This explains Luke's variance from Matthew in his depiction of John's unlikely congregation. Luke is less interested in contrasting the ministry, mission, and message of John and Jesus with that of the Pharisees and Sadducees than he is of stressing that their message is for all people. If John instructs, rather than condemns, the lowly poor, the corrupt tax collector, and the bare knuckled mercenary, then who, one might reasonably ask, is excluded. The answer, as it turns out, is no one. John preaches to all, Jesus comes for all. Apparently, when Luke quotes Isaiah as saying that "all flesh shall see the salvation of God," (3:6), he really means it. Most peculiar still, perhaps, is the "eschatological location" of the good fruits. Tax collectors are not called to sever their relationship with Rome, nor are the soldiers exhorted to lives of pacifism. Even in light of impending eschatological judgment, they are called to serve where they are; to take their stand for neighbor amid, rather than apart from, the turbulence and trouble of the present age; and to do good because, rather than in spite, of their compromised positions. By sandwiching such ordinary instruction amid eschatological warning and messianic expectation, Luke's John hallows the mundane elements of daily life. In the city museum of Braunschweig, Germany, hangs a painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger depicting just this scene. Cranach's John is a hairy, muscular, roughhewn man who stands on a gnarled and burnt tree stump pointing toward Christ with one hand and lecturing the crowds with the other. But while John is portrayed fiercely, those listening to him are eager, even glad, to receive what John offers. Why? Cranach explains by stretching a banner beneath the scene that contains the verse that inspired his work: "And soldiers also asked him, 'And what shall we do?' And he said to them, 'Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages." Caught between eschatological judgment and messianic consummation, the crowds hear John speak of a role in the coming kingdom they can play. It demands neither renunciation nor asceticism, neither pilgrimage nor sacrifice. Rather, participating in God's new kingdom is available to them where they are, requiring only the modicum of faith necessary to perceive the sacred in the ordinary. It is, in short, entirely within their reach: "Share. Be fair. Don't bully." It may not be heroic, but it is something they can do. It is something, when you think about it, that anyone can do. Which means that it is something we can do, too. "So with many other exhortations, John proclaimed the good news to the people." Good news, indeed.David Lose | 2 CommentsFacebook-twitter-g+-LinkedIN-EmailPrint


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Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo is the current FIFA World Player of the Year
Born in 1985 on the Portuguese island of Madeira, the 23-year-old cut his teeth with Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon, where his amazing skill and dribbling ability alerted a host of top European clubs.
However, it was Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson who nipped in before his rivals to sign Ronaldo for a reported fee of $19 million in 2003.
With Manchester United he has won three Premier League titles, two Football League Cups, the FA Cup, the World Club Championship, and the Champions League.
After a phenomenal 2007/2008 season, in which he scored 42 goals for Manchester United in all competitions, he was voted FIFA and FIFPro World Player of the Year and European Player of the Year.
That season his 31 Premier League goals won him the Golden Shoe award, making him officially Europe's most prolific goal scorer, and he was also the leading scorer in the Champions League, with eight goals.
He capped a remarkable campaign by scoring the opening goal, before also netting from the penalty spot, as United beat Chelsea in a dramatic Champions League final in Moscow.
Tall, elegant and powerful, Ronaldo is as good in the air as he is with the ball at his feet, as he proved with his header against Chelsea in last year's final.
He also possesses a remarkable and unique free-kick technique, managing to bend and swerve the ball to devastating effect, notably with the goal that effectively ended Arsenal's challenge in the semifinals of this year's Champions League.
Apart from his success at Old Trafford, Ronaldo is a regular figure for his national side, making his full international debut in 2003 and going on to represent Portugal at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008 finals.
However, despite his god-given talent, Ronaldo still gets criticized in Portugal for allegedly failing to replicate his United form in a Portugal shirt.
According to Forbes, Ronaldo was football's fifth biggest earner in 2008. Of his $21 million income, $12m was in salary and incentives from Manchester United and another $9 million came from endorsements with global brands like of Nike and Coca-Cola.

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Dr. Willie Soon: a Career Fueled by Koch, Big Oil and Coal
Written by Cindy Baxter and Kert Davies, crossposted from Greenpeace USA.
When climate denier and astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon wrote a controversial paper in 2003 that attempted to challenge the historical temperature records, we all raised eyebrows at revelations that the American Petroleum Institute funded it.
When he co-wrote a (non-peer reviewed) paper in 2007 arguing that Arctic warming wasn't happening and polar bears were not threatened by the effects of it, we found that ExxonMobil and the billionaire Koch brothers had paid for it.
So we went digging and came up with more – a whole lot more, released today in the new case study: Dr. Willie Soon, a Career Fueled by Big Oil and Coal. Not only did Big Oil punt hundreds of thousands of dollars to Soon, but Big Coal as well – specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the world.
Could this be why Soon (an astrophysicist) has been recently writing op-eds on how mercury is harmless and the mercury emissions from coal are minimal, with a byline saying that he has a strong expertise in mercury and public health.
Southern Company says no in this morning's Reuters story.
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Since then, it's been all about the Southern Company, a Koch brothers' foundation, ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute – totalling over $1 million since 2001. Together with his colleague at the SAO, Sallie Baliunas, they brought in $1,153,000 since 2001 and only $842,000 from conventional sources.
Were these companies working together? The API started funding Soon's work as far back as 1994 (he only graduated in 1991). The API was later joined by the Mobil Foundation, then by the electricity industry's research arm, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The U.S. electricity sector is dominated by coal.
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So when they saw that Willie Soon was writing papers to try to show that it was the sun, not the increase in carbon dioxide, that was causing warming in the Arctic, did they then get together to ensure he got the funding for his work? Did they consider Soon (and Baliunas) a good investment for their corporations?
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Fighting Chance
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In the U.S. Constitution, the right to property ranks right up there with life and liberty. The government may not deprive people of life, liberty or property without due process of law. However, the law also recognizes a legal concept called "eminent domain," which is the right of federal, state and local governments to take private property when it's needed for a public purpose. If a government agency decides to widen a road or build a fire station and needs the property your business is on, there's not much you can do to stop it. With a well-organized strategy and many hours of negotiation, however, you may be able to have the project altered enough to save your business. If not, the agency must pay you for the property. The key question, then, is how much?
The government's goal is to acquire the land for the lowest possible cost. That means paying an amount equal to an appraiser's estimate of the land value, which likely doesn't match the value of the location to your business. When you have a thriving business, it can be enormously expensive to move. You may not be able to find a suitable location nearby, and moving across town could cost you your customer base plus lost income because of the disruption.
Fortunately for business owners, courts have been increasingly sympathetic in recent years to the plight of the landowner or business owner whose land is snatched by the government. "I think the courts are less willing to let the condemning authority trample the rights of the landowner," says Michael Nolan, an attorney with Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch in Morristown, New Jersey, who has represented various businesses in eminent domain cases. Only a fraction of eminent domain condemnation cases ever go to trial, but the trend in the courts makes it more likely that the agency in question will be open to reasonable arguments--and to making a reasonable offer.
Steven C. Bahls, dean of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, teaches entrepreneurship law. Freelance writer Jane Easter Bahls specializes in business and legal topics.
Dueling Appraisers
If a government agency wants your land (or a portion of it), your first official notice is likely to be a letter stating the agency's interest in the property. This letter--or one soon to follow--typically includes the agency's initial proposal for compensation based on its own appraisal. In many cases, you and your attorney have an opportunity to negotiate with the agency, bringing in your own evidence of the value of the property and what it would cost you to relocate your business.
If you refuse the initial offer, the next step might be a hearing, in which a commissioner examines the evidence, hears arguments from both sides and proposes a compromise. If you still aren't happy with the offer, in some states you have the right to a jury trial. Unfortunately, that's often just a battle of experts, with each side trying to convince the jury what the property is worth.
Augustus F. Wagner Jr., an attorney with Nutter, McClennen & Fish in Boston who has represented both businesses and government agencies in condemnation cases, contends that the most important thing a business can do is get organized and start negotiating long before receiving an official notice. Business owners are almost always aware of the government's plans for development soon enough to get involved in the early planning stages, he says, when arguments could have a significant impact in shaping the project. Maybe the agency doesn't really need your whole property, just half the parking lot. Maybe the road could be slightly rerouted so it doesn't go through your assembly plant. By sitting on your hands, you lose the opportunity to do anything more than argue about compensation.
If you lease property for your business, your rights depend entirely on the lease. In a standard lease, Nolan says, the landlord gets all the proceeds of an eminent domain condemnation--and you, as the business owner, are out in the cold. At the opposite extreme, one of Nolan's clients has a 99-year lease that entitles the tenant to all proceeds if the property is taken. Be sure to address this issue when negotiating your lease. The longer the term of the lease, the better your chances of getting a clause that entitles your business to compensation in case of a condemnation.
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- Find a lawyer with experience in the area of government-condemned property. You have a great deal to lose, so don't scrimp on legal counsel. A good lawyer will make sure you don't accidentally waive your rights.
- Get your business records in order so you have proof of your normal income, market base, customers per hour, or anything else that might show how much you'd lose if you had to close your current location.
- If you have dreams about developing the site yourself, have your plans drawn up to show its "highest and best use." What looks to the government agency like a vacant lot might be the property you were on the verge of turning into an office park.
- Have an appraiser assess your property so you'll be prepared in case the agency makes a low-ball compensation offer. Make sure he or she is a qualified appraiser who'll be respected by both sides, not just someone who will say what you want to hear.
- Get bids on relocation costs, such as moving furnishings, signs and equipment. Do you have grandfathered machinery that you'd have to replace to meet current regulations?
- Begin negotiating with the agency as soon as possible. Take documentation to show what this move would cost you and how you'd suggest the project could be altered so you wouldn't have to move.
- Find out if part of the property would be enough. In some states, the government must pay business interruption costs if they take part of the property but not if they take all of it--so it's in the government's interest to force you out completely. By putting a face on the business and making reasonable requests, you might be able to avoid this problem.
"Small businesses have to recognize that they're not going to get fair market value unless they fight for it," Nolan says. "Get in the ballgame and work it out."
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team fell to Bryant on Saturday afternoon in Smithfield, RI. The Blue Devils (9-12, 3-8 NEC) will return to action on Monday night at Detrick Gymnasium. Bryant (12-10, 7-4 NEC) earned an 81-50 victory behind a quality team shooting performance.
Freshman Aleah Epps scored a career-high 15 points to lead the Blue Devils. Epps came off the bench to spark CCSU late in the first half with nine points. Her play helped the Blue Devils climb back into the game after a slow start to the first half.
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The Blue Devils shot just 23.9% (16-67) for the game, while the Bulldogs connected on 51.7% (30-58).
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Over the past year and a half my focus has been on continuing to develop business ventures, help clients grow theirs, and train myself physically and mentally. All of my activities have been extremely fun, and I'm seeing great progress in both the business world and fitness. I've done my first Powerlifting competition, and now preparing for the next with significant growth and improvements. I share some of these improvements in video blog/vlogs on YouTube as some readers may already ...Read More »
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Nine bars of capacity is not doable for me, and I know I am not alone. I intend to use the original pack (or just the modules) as grid storage for my home, softening the financial hit.
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I like this I may have another interesting bit for you: in the very long future, in TA we could very possible remake the FMV (since we recreate environments in 3d, and we'll just have to add in the 3d models such as Kaldarasha's). Obviously, it's in the very very far future because of how immense and complex the 3d environments are on most of these FMVs (example: oh, you want to recreate the intro FMV? Then you have to make a whole recreation of Midgar). I believe SpooX has been working on this for years, because most of his modelling efforts have been aiming at remaking the whole Sector 8, making the whole exterior of Junon, the Highwind, making train animation, etc... and most importantly he has a proof of concept right here. That being said, we'll eventually need all the animation work on the characters, which is what you'll be looking into. Hopefully in 10-20 years we'll be able to merge both projects
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Worked great.Looks good so far, some criticism (constructive of course)dumcrushTifa's fall looks so unfluid, even for a 15FPS (which i think was the frame rate of all the videos in FF7) video. clouds colors also seem a bit.. off, I know he has Mako sickness, but his face looks so, Off.gold3:Looks great to me!hiwind0He seems to rise and fall while the video just raises. Anyway to fix that? Otherwise looks greathiwindflySeems there are bubbles around Barret and Tifa unlike in others, Understand if thats not correctablemonitor:His hair is very very shiny, Anyway to correct just his hair?ontrain:His face is still too dark :/southmk:Minor white lines around the charaters, Otherwise it looks amazing!
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Yes! Always wanted something like this, just annoys me when it shows those old Lego blocks in fmv's before lol thank you for this awesome mod!
Some of the video descriptions say you cut out some of the frames. As much as I hate the low-poly field models, I'd rather have them in a few problem frames then have those frames removed altogether.
By the way, there's a video enhancement project called SVP, that can convert videos from 24 fps to 60 fps on the fly. Does it seem like a good idea, or would such high frame-rates be unrealistic for such an old game engine?
Good work so far dumcrush: Between the 8 and 9 seconds, the scene cuts to another but it shows Tifa still running (arm motion obvious) for a split second before she starts her falling animation.Suggestion: When it cuts to the next scene, have the falling animation start right away. This would make the transition between scenes as fluid as possible.fallpl: I can notice the transparent cloaking you gave to the running citizen. Is there anyway to eliminate it completely?highwind0: Between the 8 and 9 seconds, the screen turns gray and flashes until the end.highwindfly: Someone commented about the bubble blurs around Barret and Tifa. I can still notice them, but perhaps this is the best that can be done. I didn't read through the entire thread, so sorry if you've already addressed it.ontrain: Give Cloud more time to prepare his setup before he jumps. You can hear a *thud* right around the start of the 3 second mark. In the original, this thud noise was exactly when Cloud landed on the train. Is there any way to have him crouched on one knee and leaning his arms forward onto the train? Standing straight up would seem difficult with the wind resistance.
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Phillip Phillips may have been crowned the winner of "American Idol" last year, but the 22-year-old crooner has definitely left his talent show roots behind — in fact, he doesn't even watch the beleaguered show.
Since his stint on reality television, the Georgia native's debut album, "The World From This Side of the Moon," has gone multi-platinum and his single, "Home," shot to number one on the U.S. charts. His latest hit, "Gone, Gone, Gone," was recently used in a PSA for Zumba's "The Great Calorie Drive," which will raise money for Feeding America and the United Nation's World Food Programme. The catchy tune has already cracked the top 10 on U.S. charts.
Despite his breakout success, Phillipps is still a country boy at heart. The guitar slinger dished to omg! about his upcoming tour with John Mayer, his girlfriend, Hannah Blackwell, and the hilarious ways he used to have fun in high school.
Have you been watching "American Idol"?
No. I have not. (Laughs.)
Well, you have performed on this season — what do you think of Nicki Minaj?
Well, that's not my season anymore — I'm done. I don't have anything to do with it.
Would you want Nicki Minaj to have been a judge on your season?
It wouldn't bother me. Either way, it's just three or four people's opinions. That's how I took it. I would always take their opinions and see if it was right or not in my eyes. I wouldn't let it bother me at all just because – how is she going to – ehhh, nevermind.
You're headed out on tour with John Mayer. Are you excited about that?
Yes. That's starting in July. I am really looking forward to it. I like some of his work. He's an amazing guitarist and a great songwriter. I'm looking forward to hopefully getting to know each other a little bit. Maybe he can teach me a couple things, not just musically, but business-wise. He seems like a really smart guy.
You know Mayer is a bit of a lothario, right?
I've heard that he's changed a little bit. So we'll see!
Does your girlfriend, Hannah Blackwell, go on tour with you?
Yeah. Most the time she does.
Have you two ever dated long distance?
It sucks! We did it for a little while, like one year, but you gotta talk on the phone every day. You can't text. She's here with me [now]. We used to Skype.
Your song "Home" is a hit. What do you miss about Leesburg, Virginia?
I miss my mom's home cookin': some chicken and dumplings, chicken potpie, cube steak. Oh, meatloaf.
You're a country boy. What's the craziest thing you did in high school?
Those are secrets! Ya know? I got away with quite a bit.
Give me one secret. Did you ever skinny-dip in high school?
Ah, yeah! Skinny-dipping is free. It's nice to go skinny-dipping, but it is not good when you're just by yourself. But I've gone skinny-dipping with other people before. There have been a lot of things, [I've done] I can't even think of!
Have you ever tipped a cow?
That's impossible! I used to go running in the mud. We used to get a lot of people and just go running in the mud and throw the mud. You just get dirty. It's a lot of fun.
Your song is used in Zumba's PSA to end world hunger. Do you Zumba?
We just got some Zumba equipment in, so now I am going to try it. I am not a good dancer, so I am going to try and hopefully I'll get better.
"Gone, Gone, Gone" was used in the PSA. What's the song about?
It's just a love song, but it is not necessarily about a husband or a wife or a boyfriend and a girlfriend. When I made the music video, I didn't want it to be cheesy. It could be about two brothers or a brother and a sister or just two friends. I wanted it to have a wide range.
Are you working on new music?
Yeah. I'm always writing new music. I've always got some songs hidden somewhere – my back pocket – that I can just pull out.
Do you have a favorite place where you do like to write?
Not really. Usually, it's hotel rooms or the bus or the dressing room. It doesn't matter. Wherever I am. I'm not really picky about it.
Is there anyone you'd like to collaborate with?
Oh yeah! Lots of people. I don't know if you've ever heard of the band, Fink? Fin Greenall: dude is a great writer, so maybe him. I've been digging a lot of his work.
What will your next album be like?
I don't know. I try to keep it diverse with some happy tunes, some sad ones, and some that are just about life. I just want to keep it diverse, like this last album.
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Ponderings about the Tech Ed 2007 Keynote
It is good to be back from Tech Ed. I actually go a couple of days early for meeting with additional groups such as INETA and the Microsoft MVP program group.
In all the meetings and time spent at Tech Ed this year, one thing became obvious. We are in a 'catch up' period. There has been a ton of news and products coming out of Microsoft over the past few years, including Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Windows Vista, and .NET 3.0 with its WPF, WCF, WF, and Cardspace. There also have been technologies such as AJAX and a Silverlight beta getting lots of coverage. On top of all this, Microsoft has been beating the drum on Visual Studio "Orcas" and its new LINQ data features as well as on new versions of SQL Server ("Katmai") and Windows Server ("Longhorn"). It is an understatement to say that the days are busy at Microsoft.
With all the cool products in the pipeline, you'd think there would be grand announcements and loud bands playing at Tech Ed. This is, after all, the big show for IT people. It is where Microsoft can make big noise and build the excitement.
Of course, this seems to be a reflection of Tech Eds past.
In one of the most subdued Tech Eds that I can recall, there were no bands before the keynote, no cheering sections, and no real comedians. They did have Christopher Lloyd as "Doc" from Back to the Future. Unfortunately, even the Delorian seemed to have a slow time at rolling onto the stage. Not even Microsoft's Bob Muglia was able to bring the excitement to the stage. Maybe if Steve Ballmer had shown up to yell "IT, IT, IT" it would have gone better.
The Keynote was not without some substance. Granted, there was a lot said that was lacking. Bob Muglia stated he wouldn't talk about "Vision" because that tends to be inapplicable for today's needs. Of course, he did talk Vision. Christopher Lloyd was to interrupt when such "vision talk" happened; however, I think he fell asleep behind the stage because he seemed to have missed the cues.
The "big" topic of the keynote was "Dynamic IT". In a keynote where they talk about things like Microsoft Bob, Clippy, and Hailstorm, you can quickly assess the value of the newest buzz term "Dynamic IT". It can go into the bucket with Microsoft DNA and many other worthless jargon terms. This is not to discredit the concept of a dynamic IT group, but rather to state that this seems to be a naming of the obvious.
There were chances for the keynote to boom out cool information. New names were announced for Visual Studio "Orcas" and SQL Server "Katmai" as well as for Windows Server "Longhorn." With Visual Studio and Windows Server promised for later this year and SQL Server expected in 2008, these were the products to be heralded onto the stage and given great fanfare. These were the products to have their names announced to the media and to the world at large. These were products tob&.
It seems that Microsoft may have realized that a drum roll, confetti machines, or even a band playing could not help to add excitement to the announcement of the names of these products. As you've likely read, each was named as 2008: Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008. Can you feel the excitement permeating from those names?
Although I am giving Microsoft some grief about the Tech Ed keynote, let me clarify one thing. These products actually are worthy of excitement. Each brings some new functionality and features that will be of value to each of us. We've had a number of articles on LINQ on Codeguru already. Additionally, updates to the IDE are going to make doing AJAX and other coding features easier. SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 are also bringing new features that we will talk about in later newsletters. These are products that are bringing more to the market, so they are worthy of more excitement than Microsoft gave them.
Microsoft touched on some smaller items in the Tech Ed keynote as well — items worthy of some attention. One item is "Server Core." In brief, Windows Server 2008 allows you to install just the components of the operating system you want. If you just want to run a Web Server, you need IIS and a few other things — you don't need the entire server. "Core" lets you install just what you need or want.
Other interesting things coming with Windows Server 2008 include the Virtual Machine Manager and Quick migration. These provide functionality for converting VMWare VMs to Windows and functionality for moving VMs from one machine or location to another. With the increased usage of VMs, these tools are worthy of a bit of excitement (unless you work for VMWare).
As a developer, one thing that I noticed that wasn't announced in the keynote is a new edition of Visual Studio. In 2008, there will be an additional edition called Visual Studio 2008 Shell. This edition will allow you to freely extend Visual Studio. This has been done in the past to add additional languages to Visual Studio. It has also been used fto include add-ins within Visual Studio. In addition to the extending, you also can use parts of the Shell functionality to create your own product. This "isolated mode" usage allows you to use parts of the IDE and extend them into your own tools or products. For example, you could use the code editor to create your own editing tool. Microsoft stated that such isolated mode usages can even be done royalty free.
In a lot of ways, the use of Visual Studio Shell is similar to the Eclipse framework. A number of companies have already started looking into the use of this new approach. For example, Brian Feldman, CTO of GrafX Software, stated that the company made the decision to use Visual Studio Shell so that they could focus on creating the features specific to their tool rather than focusing on building an IDE. Additionally, the familiar user interface gives heir customers the ability to use existing skills.
Other things mentioned in the keynote were more details on SQL Server, a very brief demo of Silverlight, and SaaS. One of the biggest tidbits I noted was that the Xandros Linux distribution has also signed an agreement with Microsoft. This means people can't be mad at just Novell any longer!
In addition to the products I've mentioned, Microsoft also commented on a number of other products that have recently been released or that are due out over the next year. It was clear the Microsoft has been very busy. What wasn't clear was whether they were taking time to be excited about all of it!


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On July 2, 2014 20 year old Ryan Ronquillo was repeatedly shot by Denver Police in the parking lot of the Romero Family Funeral Home in Northwest Denver during a funeral service.
While attending a friend's funeral service, Ryan stepped out to decompress and sit in his parked car. Police stormed the area, speeding several unmarked cars into the parking lot. In a matter of seconds, Ryan was dead, shot nearly a dozen times by multiple officers.
Police allege that they were in the process of serving a warrant for "auto-theft and other felonies", and that Ryan "started to back the car in the direction of officers". Statements from witnesses are at odds with the police statements. Witnesses at the scene describe a horrific chaotic mess. Many in attendance did not even know who the individuals shooting at Ryan were, let alone that they were even police officers.
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"My car was stolen and the insurance company won't pay me." This is a phone call I get too often – considering I do not advertise that I handle insurance claim denials. People only call me because they heard I handle "car cases." Close enough.
This area of the law disturbs me far more than the lemon law . I understand that a defective car gets made every now and then. But when your car gets stolen and you had insurance coverage for that, well – you expect the claim to be paid. That seems reasonable to me.
The vast majority of the calls I get on this are from minorities or from people who live in "bad" parts of town. You know, where cars are more likely to be stolen. Except that's not how most insurance companies view it. The insurance companies figure that you are more likely to have staged your theft to scam them if you are 1) poor, 2) a minority, or 3) live in a bad part of town.
So if 1, 2, or 3 describe you, bear in mind that the insurance you are paying good money for right now might be an illusion. The first case I ever handled on one of these was on behalf of an older woman who lived in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Detroit. Her station wagon had been stolen from in front of her house and recovered a few miles away, burned to a crisp in an alley. An insurance investigator combed through the ashes and decided that the car had been inoperable and rather than pay to have the engine fixed, my client had put the car in the alley, lit it on fire and walked home. My client was 67. They also theorized that – since they said the car did not run – she had pushed the car there. Her husband was an invalid. You do the math. We sued and after some ugly litigation, they paid her.
Another client's car was stolen near Mt. Clemens, north of Detroit, and recovered a few miles away, missing its license plate, battery, radio, steering wheel (presumably for the airbag), spare, and all four wheels. That case went to trial. The only witness for the insurance company was their investigator who testified that he had recommended the claim be denied because "nothing of value" was taken from the car. On cross examination I asked him, "The license plate was missing?" Yes. "The battery was missing?" Yes. And so on down the list. At the end of the list I asked again, "And it's your testimony that 'Nothing of value' was missing from the car?" To which he answered Yes.
The judge actually stopped us – held up his hands at the witness and me like a traffic cop – and asked the attorney for the insurance company, "Is this all you have?" This was a bench trial and the judge was going to be the one picking a winner. When they told him it was he said we could make closing arguments if we wanted to but they weren't necessary. He ruled in our favor.
In another case, an insurance expert witness testified that Corvettes "are impossible to steal." He had a lot of faith in the transponder key system and spent his entire direct talking about how they made cars "impossible to steal." On cross I asked him, among other things, "Couldn't I just bring a flatbed tow truck up behind the car, grab it and haul it away?" He said that was also impossible since someone would see me doing it.
Every attorney I know who handles these claims has seen the same thing I have: Insurance companies deny more claims made by minorities, the poor, and those who live in bad neighborhoods. Why? Michigan (like many states) has no "bad faith" law. If you sue the insurance company and win, they pay you the same amount of money, at best, that they would have paid you originally. They have nothing to lose by denying the claim. And if a person doesn't sue, then they come out ahead. In other words, it is in their best interest to deny claims if the odds are that some of those denied won't sue.
Why do they overwhelmingly deny claims of minorities and the poor? Because they are the least likely to be able to afford an attorney. And very few attorneys handle these cases. As we have discussed before, Michigan follows the American Rule in insurance cases – the litigants bear their own legal costs. The insured has to pay an attorney to fight one of these cases, usually out of the proceeds. So, your claim is denied. You sue and win. You get two-thirds of the recovery (after deduction of the costs of the action) and the attorney gets his/her one-third. You call that winning? You just lost a huge slice of the money you were entitled to.
My advice? If you suffer a loss try not to be poor, a minority or living in a bad part of town. If that's not something you can control, then I suggest avoiding insurance companies that price advertise. "We cost less!" Who cares? A better question is: Do you pay claims? Buy from companies with a better record of paying claims, even if they cost a little more. After all, if they aren't going to pay your claim, their "coverage" is worthless even if Anthony saved you enough money to buy a new purse.
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Steve Lehto has been practicing consumer protection and lemon law for 23 years in Michigan. He taught Consumer Protection at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law for ten years and wrote The Lemon Law Bible. He also wrote Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation and The Great American Jet Pack: The Quest for the Ultimate Individual Lift Device. Follow him on Twitter if you liked this post. Twitter: @stevelehto


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I am supposed to be preparing a talk, but some tunes – na na na, na na, na nan na – you just cannot get out of your head. Having seen "Mary and the Boy" play their cover of the 'Kellis' Milkshake track live the other week (well sort of live, the track is slowed down to a death dirge, and there was a rabbit hole aspect where the rabbit was called k-), I've just not been able to get this ditty displaced from my frontals. I am not the only one afflicted I know, but even humming Beethoven's pastoral symphony didn't help as we are so adept at mixing these days that both tunes could merge into each other in a kind of perfect syncopation, and who knows what people thought as we walked down a street making noises that would bug most people (as they do me).
If anyone knew the lyrics of any of the other M&tB tracks, such as the one about that Laura trauma moment that Zizek speaks about, they'd have been fairly justified in crossing to t'other side of the road.
So listen to this aural virus. We saw Mary and the Boy at the Stimulus Respond 'launch'. The third track here is Milkshake, the first is well rude.


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I went with maybe. Anybody with a character arc should be somebody already established. Cannon fodder, on the other hand (eg Saurod), is ok.
Maybe, depending on the situation/character
I went with maybe. Anybody with a character arc should be somebody already established. Cannon fodder, on the other hand (eg Saurod), is ok.
No. There are way too many characters already and the need for new ones isn't there. Tell the story as it was intended...
Yes, not too many, maximum of two, but yes. It is sad that now, it is like "forbidden" to create a character in a movie of comic/toys/animation series, be imaginative.
I am fine if they create characters in the movie, but only if it helps the story in some way. They have a multitude of characters to choose from already and I would love to see them used before creating new ones.
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Absolutely not. We've already have a movie featuring almost exclusively new characters outside of the core heroes and villains. Not that I minded it then, as I loved Karg and Saurod. But MOTU and POP have a gigantic catalog of amazing characters, each of which already have devoted fans. It's time we have a film that exploits this vast catalog of characters, and does justice to the already established canon.
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We're in a slightly different situation now in that when the last movie was filmed, MOTU was still in full swing, (despite being on the way out as it's fan-base grew up, I mean business wise) bringing out new characters, toys, and merchandise all the time. So at that point putting new characters in the film was a great idea as new characters was one of the staples of MOTU.
However nowadays, there's not a toy/comic/book/cartoon line with regular new characters. The only toy line they are bringing out is old characters. The reason for the movie would be completely different. I.e. it's not part of the MOTU machine in the same way it was back then.
So there's certainly no need for new characters, but it would be nice to chuck a couple in to recapture some of the excitement of what MOTU once was. So in that respect, I'm indifferent as to whether they add new characters or not. It would be cool to see some new characters, but just seeing the old characters brought to life would be cool too. Especially with some fresh new designs to fit a movie.
In terms of using characters that were in the '87 film, well, they're just MOTU characters aren't they! Whether their first debut was in the movie, rather than the cartoon, or a mini-comic, or a ladybird book, etc. is irrelevant. Seems strange to segregate them into some kind of sub-section.
Absolutely not.
The MOTU universe has so many characters that we don't need new ones.
At least not in the first movie.
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Not! For me the characters must be the same of original story!
I think that by and large new characters are not needed to fill any hero/villain roles. We have plenty of characters already established. What may be needed however is civilian type characters..
Maybe in the further on sequels but for the early films no. Not needed. He-Man has a lush history behind it that a new character isn't needed.
My personal opinion is that a new character shouldn't be needed. I understand that if a script calls for a new character - blah, blah, yeah, yeah, but there's like twenty different heroes and twenty different villians we eventually want to see on film. It's hard enough to justify more than about five on each side per movie (unless some are just going to lack much personality), but who are you going to invent that can't be handled by one of the other characters? A match for He-Man? Let's just make Skeletor stronger for the film (at least as a sorcerer), two barbarians bashing on each other doesn't seem quite as interesting to me as the master sorcerer versus the barbarian. Just because Faker may have been done poorly before doesn't mean a good writer couldn't fix that... Would even be a cool subplot for a sequel that had He-Man leaving Eternia to find his sister Adora... Faker could be used to cover for He-Man until something goes wrong, then Skeletor gains control and gives us the action figure version for a battle where He-Man smashes Faker to bits. There's almost too many heroes and villians unless the story is fleshed out over a three to five film saga. But it's just my personal opinion that you not add new characters... I could though maybe see like an Eternian soldier that kind of stood out, at least a reference character for the Eternian army... Maybe Teela's better off handling that role... Anyway, what kind of new character do you want to see that would have to potentially replace a classic character?
I put maybe, but with all of the hundreds of characters available, I would hope they would throw some of them in....
MOTU has SO many characters to choose from, there`s no need to create new ones.
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Not yet, but then again Sony is gonna want a piece of the pie and definitely urge to have someone or something that would allow them some proprietary ownership and profit form the line which is why they even bothered to green light it so I hope it DOES NOT become a MAJOR factor for the movie!
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If the character(s) work within the context of the story, I have no objections. If they are shoe-horned in or have the same abilities as an already established MOTU character and are used over them, then no.
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Yes, but only minor characters, in addition to classics! (I want toys of new characters too!)
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Not only do I think they should have all original characters, and no new characters, for the live action film, but I think they should keep the original characters as authentic to the original artists concepts, as possible.
Not only did I not like the addition of new characters, in the original live action film, I strongly disliked how they changed familiar characters. For example, the Teela did not feel like Teela, in the original film. She's such an important character, and it felt as though she was a throw-away character, in the film. They spent more time casting the young human girl (Cortney Cox), than they did casting Teela.
What I loved about the animate films, was it felt like watching an episode of the cartoon. Even when they introduced She-Ra, it felt like an extention of the familiar toy-line and cartoons.
They messed-up the first film. They messed-up the New Adventures of He-Man, and to some degree they messed-up the 200x series, although, the 200x series had a lot of depth in the story arc, but all of the characters seemed a bit hunch-back, and dark.
The Classics toy-line is a return to the Master's of the Universe, of yester-year, and has renewed interest in the series, in a way that, even the 200x series, couldn't do. There would not be a film, if not for the Masters of the Universe Classics toy line. Yeah, I know, there have been comics, and other things, since, but its the MOTUC, that's really given new interest, to this old franchise.
Of course, its important to note, that even MOTUC has added new characters. In-fact, there are fan-created characters, in the MOTUC line, including my favorite Standor. :-) Alright, I wouldn't mind seeing Stan Lee have a walk-on as Standor, lol. That would be pretty cool. I highly doubt he'd do it, but, if they could get Stan Lee to play Standor, I may make an exception to my no new characters rule.
Any new live action MOTU movie should be able to incorporate new characters into the mythos as well as featuring existing characters.
If the choice was between radically changing the nature of an existing character or creating a new character, I definitely say go with the latter!
MOTU fans are well used to new characters turning up in various media without detracting from the appreciation of the existing cast. Usually these new characters were representations of new waves of toys, but not always (looking at you Karg and about 200 Filmation characters).
Seems to me adding new characters via a movie alongside the existing cast is far preferable to creating new characters via the mini-comics that exist only in some far future era and/or dimension whereby said new characters cannot be easily (if ever made into MOTUC figures) displayed alongside figures of the existing cast of 'contemporary' characters - or indeed alongside even the Preternia era figures.
Saurod and Blade were excellent additions to MOTU. The lamentable failure of the 1987 movie to feature Trap Jaw, Mer-Man and Tri-Klops does not detract from the merits of these characters being added to the mythos.
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I voted Maybe but honestly don't see the need. The cartoons and comics have all proven that it is impossible to work in most of the existing cast in regular and compelling ways yet we know that there is a character currently in cannon that meets almost any situation. Use what is known - even if that means making popular characters into nothing more than a cameo in the film.
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Negative. Lets just see if they can get it right with the many characters that already exist first.
You guys are setting yourself up for disappointment because it is pretty much guaranteed to be NEW characters in the live action movie. That is a given.
In the cartoon Skeletor was always getting new henchmen and He-Man always needs a new face to save. It will most likely be a woman though to balance out the over abundance of male roles. People complain about Karg and Blade but consider how much screen time Courtney Cox had in the original 1987 movie. The plot of the movie practically revolved around her character.
Just a brain fart plot here BUT what IF:
- A random NEW female character saw Adam transform in to He-Man. (Only Man-at-arms, Orko, and the Sorceress are supposed to know)
- The new character then falls in love with He-Man and black mails him with the secret by threatening to "out" him.
- This is then used to build a farcical love triangle between He-Man/Adam, Teela, and the new character. (Hollywood loves this kind of thing)
Jar jar binks would fit pretty well meesa thinks
All kidding aside, new characters can be cool. They just need to be done right.
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I said yes, but it comes with a lot of qualification. It is okay for a new movie to add new characters, so long as there isn't an existing character within the MotU canon that could fill that role, and given the expanse of that canon, there isn't much that can't be handled by an existing character. As a blatant example, it would not be okay for them to introduce "Feral-Guy," an animalistic henchman of Skeletor, with secret ambitions to overthrow his master. There is Beast Man, and that is his thing.
But, I don't want to see them change a canon character so much that it is unrecognizable, just to use the name. I don't want Tri-Klops to be a mystic shaman with two regular eyes and a supernatural "third eye" that can see into the future. I don't want Beast Man to be a human that just controls animals through telepathy.
If the writers have a good story with a plot that an existing character fits into reasonably well, then use an existing character. If it would require completely changing a character, make a new one.
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prior to the 80's movie I didn't want new characters but Blade, Gwildor, Surod and Karg worked out great!
was delighted to have em as classics figures and Blade particularly I consider a highlight of the film.
so as long as the characters are well done I say let's keep expanding the motu universe.
Hoping for figures of: King Hsss slave girl, Major Header, Hans Hammerholder, Bubblor, Lady slither, Redeye, grr, Kayla, Gorgonne and the myp giants.
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If You're Feeling Sinister1996With intimate storytelling, intricate orchestration, and catchy melodies, If You're Feeling Sinister established the Scottish collective among the most eloquent indie bands of the '90s. Using a breezy mix of influences (mid-century French pop, Brit folk, and '80s indie pop, to name a few) songwriter Stuart Murdoch creates characters who cast the mould for Wes Anderson's twee, bookish heroes—they're pensive and precocious, maudlin and mischievous. But ultimately it's the shimmering melodies of songs like "Dylan in the Movies" and "The Fox in the Snow" that make the album an unforgettable triumph.
Tigermilk1996Tigermilk was the end result of a vocational school's class project from B&S leader Stuart Murdoch. The album's initial pressing of 1,000 on their own Electric Honey Recordings in 1996 quickly sold out and became a much sought-after collector's item as the band's critical reputation subsequently grew. It was re-released in 1999 and confirmed all rumors of the Glasgow group's superior melodic instincts. From the opening shuffle of "The State I'm In" with Stuart Murdoch's earnest, childlike, mournful croon, the band were set to redefine the meaning of "Twee Pop" for an entire generation. Imagine Donovan tickling Nick Drake's funny bone with nods towards the orchestrated pop of the High Llamas and a random skiffle craze or two. "Expectations" jams a brass accompaniment into its cramped quarters (the album was recorded in a rushed five days). "She's Losing It" soft-shoes love through a Parisian rain shower. "Electronic Renaissance" shuttles over to dense synth-pop, while "I Could Be Dreaming" uses a garage rock crudeness to pine for the youthful days of old that "We Rule the School" recalls with gentle empathy.
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A band that takes its name from a French children's television series about a boy and his dog would almost have to be precious, and to be sure, Belle and Sebastian are precious. But precious can be a damning word, and Belle and Sebastian don't have the negative qualities that the word connotes: they are private but not insular, and pretty but not wimpy; they make gorgeous, delicate melodies sound full-bodied. Led by guitarist/vocalist Stuart Murdoch, the seven-piece band has an intimate, majestic sound that is equal parts folk-rock and '60s pop, but Murdoch's gift, not just for whimsy and surrealism but also for odd, unsettling lyrical detail, keeps the songs grounded in a tangible reality.
Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Belle and Sebastian released their first two albums in 1996 at the peak of the chamber pop movement. At first, some critics in Britain's music weeklies tied the band into the subgenre, yet the group was too pretty, too delicate, to bear that label. Through their first two years of public existence, the bandmembers shielded their personalities, submitting publicity photos featuring a girl that wasn't in the band and reluctantly posing for photo shoots. Furthermore, they performed in odd venues, playing not only the standard coffeehouses and cafés, but also homes, church halls, and libraries.
The idiosyncratic approach to building their career isn't surprising given Murdoch's approach toward starting a band. A longtime fan of Felt, Murdoch left Glasgow for London in the early '90s in hopes of finding the group's leader, Lawrence Hayward, but he never found his idol. Upon his return to Glasgow, he enrolled in university and began writing songs and short stories. While at school, he took a music business course where he decided to form a band and release a record for his final project (he had tried to form a band before with no success). For the project, he assembled the seven-piece Belle and Sebastian, featuring himself on guitar and vocals, and choosing and recruiting members by instinct in a local all-night café in late 1995. He eventually found Sarah Martin (violin), Stevie Jackson (guitar), Chris Geddes (keyboards), Stuart David (bass), Richard Colburn (drums), and Isobel Campbell (cello). All seven members were college students, and all agreed that the idea behind the band was to stay on a small scale, to keep it as a project and not let the band run their lives; they even assumed they would release two albums and break up.
In May of 1996, Belle and Sebastian self-released their debut album, Tigermilk, on Electric Honey Records. Only 1,000 copies of the album, which was only pressed on vinyl, were released, but it unexpectedly became a sensation, earning terrific word of mouth throughout England. As a result, the band became slightly more than a school project -- it became an actual band. If You're Feeling Sinister, released on the independent Jeepster label, followed in November of 1996. By the time the album was released in America on the EMI subsidiary the Enclave, it had earned considerable critical acclaim in the U.K. -- not only from music weeklies, but from newspapers like The Sunday Times and magazines like The Face -- and a large cult following; by some accounts, Tigermilk was being sold for as much as 75 pounds. Over the course of 1997, word of mouth continued to grow in America, even as the band pulled out of an American tour because the Enclave went bankrupt and closed.
As the band's cult continued to build in 1997, Belle and Sebastian released three EPs -- Dog on Wheels (May), Lazy Line Painter Jane (July), and 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light (October). Each subsequent EP placed higher on the indie charts and received much critical acclaim. By the end of the year, the group finalized an American deal with Matador Records, issuing The Boy with the Arab Strap in September 1998. The following year saw the eagerly anticipated, wide re-release of Tigermilk, the album that started it all. Following completion of 2000's Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant, Stuart David left Belle and Sebastian to focus full-time on his solo project, Looper. In 2001, the group released two EPs -- Jonathan David and I'm Waking Up to Us -- and recorded the soundtrack for Todd Solondz's film Storytelling. Just before the soundtrack's release in spring 2002, Belle and Sebastian embarked on a comprehensive tour of the United States and Canada before returning to Europe for the summer festival season. Midway through the tour, Isobel Campbell left the band, citing the usual differences.
Another major change soon took place when Belle and Sebastian left Jeepster and Matador to sign with Rough Trade, with their next record, late-2003's Dear Catastrophe Waitress, produced by the inimitable Trevor Horn (who also produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Yes, and scores of others). The record spawned the brilliant "Step into My Office" and "I'm a Cuckoo" singles, the latter of which was the group's biggest U.K. hit, reaching number 14 in early 2004. After a long worldwide tour that found Belle and Sebastian reaching new levels of success, they retired to Scotland and began preparing for the recording of their fifth album. The Life Pursuit was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Tony Hoffer and was released in 2006 by Rough Trade in the U.K. The band was back with Matador in the U.S.
After a tour that included a sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl, the band took a well-deserved break. Apart from the release of The BBC Sessions (by Matador and Jeepster) in 2008, no Belle and Sebastian records were released until 2010. During the hiatus, Murdoch spent time on his God Help the Girl project (which included much of the band as well), and Jackson and Kildea toured and recorded with the legendary Scottish indie pop band the Vaselines, who had re-formed in 2009. After spending the early part of 2010 recording with Tony Hoffer, the group released Write About Love on October 12 of 2010.
Write About Love performed well -- it peaked at eight on the U.K. charts and at 15 on Billboard in the U.S. -- and after its release, the band entered a quiet period. They re-emerged in 2013, touring the U.S. prior to the August release of The Third Eye Centre, a collection of B-sides and non-LP tracks released between 2006 and 2010. A few more shows followed in 2014, along with the release of Murdoch's film adaptation of God Help the Girl -- he turned the side project into a musical -- and the group announced it was beginning work on its ninth studio album. Preceded by the single "The Party Line," the Ben H. Allen-produced Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance appeared in January 2015.
Belle and Sebastian returned in December of 2017 with How to Solve Our Human Problems, the first in a series of three EPs released in succession. All three How to Solve Our Human Problems EPs were released as a collected set in February 2018. In 2019, Belle and Sebastian revisited a handful of old songs as part of their soundtrack for the coming of age comedy Days of the Bagnold Summer. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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This is a question on gauge invariance in quantum mechanics. I do some simple math on a 1D wave-function with periodic boundary conditions, and get that gauge invariance is violated. What am I doing wrong?
Consider one coordinate dimension configured as a ring. The gauge dependent momentum operator can be written:
$p_{op}=-i \frac{\partial}{\partial x} - k$
Units have been chosen so that $\hbar = 1$, $k$ is an arbitrary real constant different for each gauge and $x$ represents the coordinate.
The gauge dependent eigenfunction can be written
$\psi(x)= Ae^{i(n+k)x}$
where A is a constant determined by normalization. As is well known in quantum mechanics, an operator applied to one of its eigenfunctions should yield a real constant eigenvalue multiplying the same eigenfunction: Thus
$[-i \frac{\partial}{\partial x} - k] Ae^{i(n+k)x}= nAe^{i(n+k)x}$
so that the real number n is the eigenvalue, which must be determined by the boundary conditions.
The boundary condition for this periodic system must be that the wave function should join onto itself smoothly everywhere. Thus, if the coordinate is chosen such that x extends from –$\pi$ around the ring to $\pi$ then the eigenfunction in equation 3 must have (n + k) = m, where m is an integer.
Under these conditions, the eigenvalue n in equation 3 will be n = m – k. This eigenvalue depends explicitly on k, and so is not gauge invariant.
I'm assuming this simple situation should be gauge invariant, but I don't see where I goofed. I'd appreciate any help.


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