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Council Business Plan 2014+
The Council publishes its annual vision and intent in the Business Plan and Budget, based on the Leader's Policy Statement which comes out in June each financial year. It's an important document containing the key priorities and how we are going to deliver them.
Our priorities are to create a fair, prosperous and democratic city, and we are committed to protecting vulnerable citizens and maintaining essential services.
Birmingham faces a future where working together has never been so important. Some services may have to be scaled down or cease altogether as the reductions in government grants continue
This future involves doing things differently to make the most of the resources we have. Birmingham City Council's Business Plan and Budget outlines a vision where we create
Our priorities
The council's highest level priorities are summarised below
A Fair City
- Safety net: People are safe, especially the most vulnerable
- Wellbeing: All benefit from improved health and wellbeing
- Poverty: Children and families will not live in poverty - Birmingham will be a "Living Wage City"
A Prosperous City
- Growing businesses: Businesses will be growing and new ones starting up
- Education and skills: People will have the qualifications they need for work, including qualifications for school leavers and working age population skills
- Youth: Young people will be in employment, training or education
- Unemployment: No groups or areas will be blighted by high employment
- Sustainability: Birmingham will be more environmentally sustainable
A Democratic City
- Engagement and influence: Local people will be engaged in local democracy, and have more influence on local decisions
It is critical that we prioritise how we use our diminishing resources in the years ahead and focus intensely on these core objectives. Due to the scale of cuts to our income and the changing landscape of local government, the focus of our work in the year ahead will be on:
- Protecting the most vulnerable citizens of the city from the impact of cuts to services and benefits
- Protecting the highest priority services and delivering day to day in the most efficient way possible, whilst identifying services of a lower priority
- Taking forward some priority policy development programmes that are most critical to our goals.
- Transforming the City Council so that we can continue to work towards our objectives with significantly reduced resources – implementing the framework set out in the White Paper Planning Birmingham's Future in December 2013.
Shaping the Future of the City Council
During 2013 the council undertook a root and branch review of all its services to radically rethink what services should be provided, how they could be provided and who should provide them. The service review process has started to outline the radical transformation of the City Council that will be needed in the years ahead. During 2014/15 we will be creating our new streamlined structure of just three directorates – Economy, People and Place. An important task will be to ensure that this new structure supports the more integrated approach throughout the organisation that we are seeking to build for the longer term, with clear strategic direction and a focus on priorities. The White Paper showed that there were common themes emerging across the service reviews:
- Working with others – seeking new providers for services either through outsourcing, working with voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises, creating new organisations or shifting provision to the private sector; and developing new partnerships.
- Working differently – joining services up so that they are focused on the "whole person" or the "whole place" rather than requiring people to access lots of different services; reducing the need for services, mainly through preventing the most expensive problems from arising; and stopping the provision of services altogether where necessary and appropriate.
The White Paper also set out a framework for the future role of the City Council and how it would work with others. We call this our "new model of city government" ,based on passing down of powers and funding and joining up of services at three different levels ("triple devolution"):
- The City Region – working in partnership with our neighbouring councils and using pooled funding streams passed down from central government.
- The City – working more closely with other agencies such as health, social care providers and schools, integrating services and ultimately creating a "Place Based Settlement".
- The Neighbourhood – building the role of our devolved district arrangements; bringing together Neighbourhood Services and creating service hubs.
During 2014 the service review process begun in 2014 will intensify alongside a campaign " Standing up for Birmingham" to encourage people and organisations across the city to make a greater contribution to local service and local places.
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Men's Basketball Unveils 2014-15 ScheduleAugust 25, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Anderson University head men's basketball coach Jason Taylor has released the Trojans' 2014-15 schedule, which features six games against four teams that made an appearance in last season's NCAA Southeast Region Tournament and a preseason exhibition contest at Clemson.
As in the past, the Trojans face an early gauntlet of talented teams on their slate, highlighted by the exhibition game versus the Tigers and contests versus 2014 NCAA tourney participants GRU Augusta, Limestone, Lincoln Memorial and Carson-Newman. Taylor, entering his ninth year at the helm of the AU program, has an evenly-balanced schedule of 14 home games and 14 road contests
"I think our schedule takes a backseat to no one," said Taylor. "I cannot imagine anyone in our region having a more difficult schedule. It is going to challenge us every which way we can imagine being challenged."
Five of Anderson's first seven regular-season games are on the road, as the Trojans open the campaign with three of six nonconference contests on the season.
AU visits Clemson for the first time in Taylor's tenure for an exhibition game on Nov. 8 at Littlejohn Coliseum, with the Tigers coming off a 23-13 season a year ago that saw them advance to the semifinals of the 2014 NIT before falling, 65-59, to Southern Methodist.
"Our guys always have good focus," Taylor added. "We are always excited about practice. I am curious to see what our approach will be in our preseason practices knowing that we get to play that game on Nov. 8. It should be a game that all of our guys and everyone in our program are excited about. I am looking forward to how that translates onto the practice floor. We are appreciative of the opportunity that Coach Brownell has given us. It should be a great game for everyone involved with Anderson University."
The Trojans open the regular season less than a week later at the SAC-PBC Challenge in Augusta, Ga., on Nov. 14-15, for the second consecutive season after coming away with a pair of hard-fought wins a year ago. Guard Myson Jones' two free throws with less than six seconds left lifted AU to a narrow, 61-60, win over Lander in the season-opener for both teams and followed up with another nail-biter, as the Trojans outlasted GRU Augusta, 91-86, in the second game of the season at Christenberry Fieldhouse. Then-senior guard Chandler Hash poured in a then career-high 42 points, while guard Myles Daniel added 15 points and Kyle Sledge pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds.
The early-season matchup marked the first meeting between the two teams since the Trojans upset the top-seeded and nationally third-ranked Jags, 75-73, in overtime in the finals of the 2011 NCAA Southeast Regional. The last meeting in March between the two squads resulted in a classic NCAA regional quarterfinal matchup, with Hash burying his fifth 3-pointer of the night with 17 seconds left, as the Trojans erased an 11-point second-half deficit. But Devon Wright-Nelson's layup with five seconds remaining lifted GRU to an 86-84 win. The Jaguars then fell to host USC Aiken in the NCAA regional semifinals. GRU is expected to return Wright-Nelson, Keshun Sherrill, the reigning PBC Freshman of the Year and D'Angelo Boyce, who paced the team with 3.6 assists a game a season ago.
Anderson will look to continue its recent success in season debuts, as the Trojans have won five of its' last seven contests on opening day and are 8-6 over the past 14 seasons. AU squares off against Clayton State to open the Challenge and will be meeting the Lakers for the first time since claiming a 70-69 overtime win in the 2010 SAC - Peach Belt Challenge in the Trojans' first season as a member of the SAC. Clayton State posted a 10-16 overall record last season, including a 5-13 mark in the Peach Belt and missed out on earning a berth in the conference tournament.
The Trojans wrap up the Challenge by facing the host Jaguars for the third time in 12 months. GRU Augusta posted a 24-8 overall record last season, including 15-4 in the PBC, while earning its first NCAA win in three seasons. The Jags have appeared in six of the last eight NCAA Tournaments, including three Elite Eights and made an appearance in the national championship contest during that span.
"Both teams are going to be very good," Taylor stated. "GRU Augusta could possibly be better than they were a year ago. Augusta has probably the best young guard in the Peach Belt and Clayton State is very, very well-coached and they will be extremely tough."
Anderson closes out its season-opening three-game road swing with a trip to Young Harris on Nov. 19. The Mountain Lions completed their three-year transition to D-II a year ago with a 17-9 overall record and tied for second place in the PBC West Division with an 11-8 mark. The Wednesday night contest is the third meeting overall between the two programs, with AU looking for its first win against the Mountain Lions.
Three days later, the Trojans open their grueling 22-game South Atlantic Conference double round robin slate with a two-game homestand, beginning with Lenoir-Rhyne. The Trojans and Bears have met nine times, with Anderson holding a 6-3 edge in the overall series, while snapping a two-game skid at the hands of the Bears with a convincing 79-61 win at the Abney Center last January. L-R was 16-11 last season and tied for third with AU in the league last season.
"As always, I expect our league to be as good as anyone's league,"
Taylor added. "[The conference] seems like it gets better every year. It is a league of really good coaches and it is going to be tough. If you have one bad night when you do not compete hard, you are going to lose."
Lincoln Memorial invades the Abney Center on Nov. 25, with the Railsplitters looking to defend last season's SAC regular-season and tournament titles. LMU posted a 28-3 record a year ago and finished the year ranked sixth nationally. AU handed the Railsplitters one of their two regular-season league setbacks a year ago with an improbable 18-point second-half rally, while LMU avenged the loss by edging Anderson in the SAC tournament championship, 76-71. Third-seeded Montevallo defeated the No. 2-seeded Railsplitters, 98-86, in the semifinals of the Southeast Regional a year ago.
Following a seven-day break for Thanksgiving, the Trojans travel to the Tar Heel State on Dec. 3 to face Brevard, which posted a 4-22 mark last season, then visit longtime rival Newberry on Dec. 6. The Wolves posted a 19-9 record last season and claimed fifth in the conference standings with a 14-8 mark. Anderson owns a seven-game win streak versus Newberry, with four of the last five meetings decided in overtime.
AU returns to the Abney Center for a three-game nonconference homestand on Dec. 10, as Limestone visits the Abney Center for the first meeting between the two programs since the Saints defeated AU, 65-55, in Gaffney on Dec. 12, 2012. That matchup marked the first meeting between the Trojans and Saints since both teams were part of the Conference Carolinas in 2009-10. Limestone holds a 17-12 advantage in the overall series that dates back to the 1995-96 season.
The Trojans welcome Peach Belt Conference-member Georgia College and first-year head coach Mark Gainous to the Electric City on Dec. 13 for just the sixth meeting in school history. AU holds a 4-2 edge in the overall series and has claimed wins in three of the last four matchups, including two straight.
Anderson wraps up the nonconference portion of its slate in mid-December versus Erskine, with a Beville Cup point on the line. The Trojans have won six of the last seven and 11 of the last 15 meetings with the Flying Fleet after building a 16-point second-half lead, then surviving a late charge to outlast Erskine, 60-55, last season at Belk Arena.
"It is always a great rivalry," Taylor added. "They are going to be good and they are always well-coached."
The Trojans close out the calendar year by returning to league action at Wingate on Dec. 20. AU has dropped three straight to the Bulldogs, who posted a 14-13 overall record last season and tied for the seventh spot in the league standings. Wingate halted the Trojans' seven-game win streak in their second meeting a year ago, as AU suffered its lowest shooting percentage in five seasons. After winning five of the first six meetings as conference opponents, the Trojans have dropped four of five decisions to the Bulldogs.
Following a two-week break for the Christmas Holiday, the Trojans open the New Year on Jan. 3 by resuming their SAC schedule with the first of two meetings versus Catawba, which notched a 7-19 overall record last season and narrowly missed the conference tournament with a 7-15 mark and a ninth-place finish. Four days later, Anderson wraps up its regular-season series with Lincoln Memorial, as the second meeting of the season occurs on Jan. 7.
Coker, which went 15-13 overall and 11-11 in its inaugural season in the South Atlantic Conference, provides the next road test for the Trojans. AU was unable to find the range from the free throw line in the two teams' first meeting since the 2007-08 season, dropping an 83-81 heartbreaker at home to the Cobras. The Trojans then avenged the setback by defeating Coker twice, including a 100-89 win in the conference tournament behind Hash's career-high 44 points.
Anderson plays host to Mars Hill on Jan. 14, squares off against Lenoir-Rhyne for the second time three days later and wraps up the first half of the SAC double round robin slate with the second meeting of the campaign versus Brevard on Jan. 21 at the Abney Center.
The Trojans' slate includes a pair of two-game conference road swings over the final half of the SAC schedule, with AU playing three of its final four games at home.
The 2015 South Atlantic Conference Tournament will feature the top eight teams in the league squaring off on Wednesday, March 4 at the home sites of the four top seeds, with the tournament semifinals and championship slated to be held on Saturday and Sunday, March 7-8, at Timmons Arena in Greenville, S.C. for the third straight year. Anderson is the designated host school for the event for the second straight time since joining the SAC for the 2010-11 season.


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6 Famous Explorers Who Shaped The World (With Insane Lies)
If you take a list of history's greatest explorers, and hold it up to a list of history's greatest bullshitters, you quickly find out they're the same list.
That's right; guys like Magellan and Marco Polo opened up new frontiers of human exploration and when they returned, told stories that were laugh-out-loud ridiculous. Why? Just for the hell of it, apparently.
#6. Ferdinand Magellan Names an Entire Country After Giants
Ever hear of a little thing called the world? Yeah, Magellan discovered that. Well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration but between 1519 and 1522, Ferdinand Magellan did lead the first successful expedition to sail around the damn thing.
This damn thing.
We use the term "successful" loosely, since he didn't exactly "survive" it, but he was still pretty close. And since history books are like horseshoes and hand grenades in that "close enough" usually counts (we're looking at you Thomas Edison), Magellan gets full credit. He not only found a route to the East, he also took invaluable surveys of his route, documenting things like the Strait of Magellan and the Magellanic Penguin. He, uh... he really took advantage of that whole "if you're the first to see it, then you get to name it" thing didn't he?
Please Magellanites, throw down your Magellan sticks and get off of Magellan Beach!
So What Did He Lie About?
Giants. A race of giants.
While traveling around the southern tip of South America, Magellan and his men claimed that they came across "a naked man of giant stature" who was "so tall that we reached only to his waist."
He was also FABULOUS!!
Not only was the alleged native freakishly tall, he was also "dancing, singing, and throwing dust on his head," which is probably a 16th century euphemism for "acting totally stupid." So Magellan and company recorded meeting the world's first tribe of gargantuan naked ravers and, because the world was a "simpler" place back then, everyone just took his word that enormous dirt-heads populated the tip of South America. And they continued to take his word for 200 years. It gets better when you find out that Magellan dubbed this fictional race of huge idiots the Patagons, a name that stuck for the entire area for quite some time. As in, to this very fucking day.
Patagonia: It's like a whole country of Karl Malones.
What really gets our goat is that Magellan probably did meet a tribe of natives on the tip of South America, but they already had a name. They were the Tehuelche tribe and they probably averaged a towering 5'11. That was slightly tall by European standards of the day, but by no means giant. However, when you came back from traversing the great unknown, and all you have to regale the court with are your tales of people who were "kind of tall" and "didn't have an exceptional amount of dirt on their heads," you're going to lose your audience pretty fast.
#5. Francisco de Orellana Invents Female Amazon Warriors
The Amazon River is the largest river in the world. It was once surrounded by a rainforest full of hostile natives, not to mention some of the most horrifying creatures ever designed by the twisted hand of a mad God. So surely the first person to navigate the entire river was some sort of big-cajoned Adonis, right?
Oh! That actually wasn't disappointing! All right then!
This grizzled motherfucker right here is Fransisco de Orellana. Charged with exploring the Coca River, Orellana and his men decided, much like The Grateful Dead, to just keep on truckin' even when the Coca ran out. As a result of their audacity, they navigated the Amazon River in two months.
So What Did He Lie About?
His violent encounters with characters from Greek mythology.
In ancient Greek stories, the Amazons were an entirely female nation of warriors who disposed of male children and cut off their right breasts in order to shoot bows and spears better. So how did a river on the other side of the planet get named after Mediterranean femi-Nazis? Simple. Francisco de Orellana fought some dudes with long-hair on his voyage.
Not large, one breasted women. Not even a tribe composed entirely of women. Likely not even a single woman, actually. The warriors that he mistook as savage tribes of mythological female warriors were most probably Icamiabas, a tribe of South American natives who didn't take kindly to white guys establishing a Spanish colonial presence on their river. Which wasn't, obviously, called the Amazon at that point. Orellana named it that later, because he was the kind of guy you didn't fuck with. Because if you did, he'd convince the entire world that your band of fierce, macho warriors were just angry Greek lesbians.
"I'm sorry, did you say something? I can name this river Fagtonia if you want. Yeah? Thought not."
#4. Sir Walter Raleigh Makes All of Europe Believe That South Americans Don't Have Heads
Are you from America? Do you speak English? If so, you have Sir Walter Raleigh to thank.
English, motherfucker! Doth thou speaketh it?
In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh decided that it was England's turn to get a piece of the Americas. He was given permission to establish the colony of Roanoke, the first English settlement in the New World. Despite being a hilarious failure, America may have been completely taken over by the Spanish or French without it.
Oh dear God, no!
So What Did He Lie About?
A race of freakshow monstrosities, and a city made entirely out of gold.
Once he was done adventurin' in the Colonies, Raleigh wandered down to Orellena's River of Fancyboys, the Amazon. Rolling with the joke, he confirmed de Orellana's fantasy that the forest was populated by one-breasted man-haters, then straight made up his own creatures to get the folks at home super excited about the strange and magical place he hoped to get lots of funding to visit over and over again.
The people he reported finding there were equal parts Marvel Comics' Modok and Clive Barker's Cenobites; he called them the Ewaipanoma and described them as having "eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair groweth backward between their shoulders."
And lo, did they loveth BDSM as much as they hateth Captain America.
To compare:
An example of a modern South American. Notice the existence of a head and absence of horror.
On top of headless, chest-faced Humpty Dumpty looking aberrations, Raleigh's account of his expedition was riddled with El Dorado references. As in, "he was totally there and saw it" kind of references. As in, the kind that might just send royalty into a voyage-funding greed-frenzy.


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lenovoZ570, i7 x64,8GB, 700GB, Nvidia Optimus+intel, 1366x768, win7+11.10 ubuntu+kubuntu. Until now nvidia isn´t installed or used.
Some problems, which may relay one on another or interact:
* two grub2, one inactive on the ubuntu partition and one at MBR really on kubuntu
* after running startup to configure grub2 strange things happen during boot or at
* 14 entries in grub, 6 ubuntu(30012,30014,30015) 4kubuntu(30014,30015) 2win7 and 2
At PC-paper COM was written, it is best to run win boot manager, as long as there is win on the machine. But i work more with linux and remember "lilo" from suse doing a nicely job.
Is it possible to remove this boring grub2 safely and install lilo, despite it is from a rival business?


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5 Self-Destructive Ways People Accidentally Cured Themselves
Sometimes people do things that are less than brilliant. For every Joseph Lister developing important advances in sterile surgery, there is a Randy Quaid sticking lit firecrackers into his own urethra.
Not to mention jamming airplanes into the massive space urethras of alien invaders.
But every now and then the fates grant those who flagrantly disregard their own well-being with a second chance.
#5. Suicide Cures Depression
Meet The Major, a 55-year-old British army veteran and known asshole who, after returning to civilian life, became "bad-tempered and depressed" (which seems to indicate that he was probably Irish). He began drinking excessively and slid further and further into debt until one morning he got out of bed, dressed himself sharply, combed his hair neatly and shot himself through the brain with a .38 revolver.
Then he cooked breakfast.
His wife found him later that morning (either he used a silencer or she is totally deaf) eating calmly with blood leaking out of both sides of his head. She called a doctor, but there wasn't a whole lot more he could do other than swab out the bullet holes and try to keep the Major's brain from sliding out like a Go-Gurt stick.
To help you fully visualize that horrifying analogy.
The Major was kept at the hospital as an inpatient for five months, during which time he recovered nicely but was a bit disoriented, which is to be expected after a piece of metal rockets through your skull at the speed of sound.
Once he was released, the Major no longer suffered from his previous symptoms of depression, moodiness and delusions. He didn't even remember shooting himself and denied it had ever happened.
In a twist that you would call bullshit on if you saw it in a movie, his attempt at suicide had apparently cured his mental disorder and he lived happily ever after. Seriously, what are the odds?
Well, now that you mention it...
Whatever they are, they're not high enough to prevent it from happening a second time. A 45-year-old widow living by herself in Maine with a severe case of depression laid her chin on the end of a shotgun one day and pulled the trigger, removing her tongue, nose and part of her brain. After somehow managing to not die from this, her doctors remodeled her face and her depression completely vanished.
Furthermore, her doctor went on record to say, "Today, the patient is practically as good as new physically. Mentally, she is much better." That's right--the woman shot herself in the face with a shotgun and a fucking medical professional said it was an improvement.
#4. Boob Job Saves Life
Elena Marinova is a girl who believes in the old Mae West adage that "too much of a good thing is wonderful," and since we're talking about too much boobs right now we tend to agree with her.
Elena had breast augmentation surgery to a heroic 40-DD, giving her a chest so large that her shoulders actually have cleavage. Anyone with a basic knowledge of gravity and weight distribution would come to the conclusion that unless Elena is a Brachiosaurus, trying to walk with implants that size without them snapping her back in half would be just about impossible without the help of a dark wizard and/or the power loader from Aliens.
Or both.
Eastern Bloc nations aren't exactly known for their scrupulous plastic surgeons, so it's doubtful anyone told her this might be a dangerous idea (we certainly wouldn't have). As it turns out, that borderline-criminal negligence actually wound up saving her life.
While driving in the Northern Bulgarian city of Rousse, Elena was involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle, presumably because she couldn't see the road over her prehistoric tits.
Both cars were totaled and the other driver was taken to the hospital with severe injuries, but Elena managed to walk away from the accident. Why? Because of her cartoonishly oversized breasts, of course.
Police believe they cushioned her from the impact in exactly the same manner as an airbag (something cars in Bulgaria evidently lack). Unfortunately, the force of the impact that threw her against the steering column was so great that the silicone in her chest fucking exploded.
Despite that, um, setback, Elena was relatively unscathed, her boobs having gallantly defended her internal organs from damage. Meanwhile, Cracked is hard at work trying to figure out how to replace the airbags in our 1997 Ford Aspires with a set of giant deployable breasts.
#3. Obesity Crushes Virus
Clair Robinson, a 23-year-old woman from Victoria, Australia, had the self-inflicted, life threatening condition of being morbidly obese (clinically defined as "Doritoverdose"). It is one of the leading preventable causes of death worldwide, so naturally Clair wanted to take action by going into the hospital to have a completely unrelated surgery to remove some ovarian cysts.
Obesity isn't [supposed to be] funny.
The surgery went as planned and she was released from the hospital with a clean bill of health, a term which here means "the cysts are gone, but you're still fat and now you have a flesh eating virus."
It seems that sometime during the procedure, she contracted necrotizing fasciitis, better known as that shit from Cabin Fever and Outbreak that eats your goddamn skin off. She was airlifted to the hospital, presumably by the same helicopter rig that took dinosaurs off of Site B in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and underwent immediate emergency medical treatment.
Artist's rendering.
She was kept in a hyperbaric chamber while surgeons removed infected pieces of skin from her body every three days. Normally the virus is insanely fatal, killing more than half of its victims within the first 24 hours of infection, but her tremendous mass was keeping the virus at bay.
That's right--she was too freaking fat for the virus to eat.
Separated from death by nothing more than two decades of eating peanut M&Ms, Clair was able to survive one of the deadliest infections in history because it was unable to reach any of her vital organs. She made a full recovery after the doctors finally assessed that the virus just "gave up."
"Fuck this, I quit."
The next time a physician tells you to bring your weight down, go get a second opinion from Totino's Pizza Rolls and a stick of butter.


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Now, among algebraic geometers, at least, it is well known that there is an equivalence between locally free O_X-modules of rank n and vector bundles of rank n. So, equivalently, principal GL(n,C)-bundles are given by locally free sheaves of rank n.
So...what about other groups? I guess that SL(n,C) bundles are then locally free sheaves of rank n with top exterior power trivial, but can we phrase everything in terms of the properties of a sheaf and a group?
My guess is that in this context, if we can do it, we'll end up with something that's not quite locally free sheaves of rank n for GL(n,C), but which will be equivalent.
Note: I'm aware that we could just say something like "the sheaf of local sections of a G-bundle" but I'm looking for something intrinsic, a set of properties of the sheaf without reference to the geometric bundle, which can be reconstructed from the sheaf description.


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My server (running ubuntu 8.04LTS server) reports the time as 9:38PM BST right now. BST (British Summer Time) is 1 hour ahead of UTC (or Greenwich Mean Time if you really want to confuse matters)
The act of parliament defines that we in the UK use BST for
the period beginning at one o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the last Sunday in March and ending at one o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the last Sunday in October.
No problems scheduling this in cron but I don't know what date format/timezone I should be using. Do I set it to move forward at 1AM but back at 2AM when it ends? That makes sense if the machine uses BST but then I worry that that cron will not trigger at 2AM because the system clock might get reset back to 1AM before it has a chance to trigger - thus making my script run 1 hour late.
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I'm really glad this forum is here. I've been 6 months in my career in the industry and I'm not sure what to do next.
I work for a startup mobile developer. When my company took me in, I had no experience as a game dev but passed their battery of tests and interviews. Half a year later, most of the office is talking about jumping ship. The long work hours (I expect this anywhere), inadequate compensation and toxic work environment is getting to everyone. There are some days that I get home and start questioning my own self-worth. The company pushes us hard and is quite unforgiving even of the smallest mistakes. I know I sound like I'm whining, but most of the time, I've actually been on the receiving end of these rants at the office.
I've been setting my sights abroad (Canada, Australia, NZ) for the following reasons:
1. Most of the game devs in my country are startups and I want be in a company that actually knows what it's doing and has a definite direction.
2. In relation to number 1, I want to work for a bigger developer that can provide a level of training and specialization that I need to have a career in the industry.
3. I want to work on a AAA game or at least any game that's cool enough for me to care about.
I've scoped out some job boards and feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. Though I've been thinking about applying as a tester, I've already been a sound designer, lead designer, writer and assistant producer on 5 or 6 apps the company has done (Yes, it's been a very compressed 6 months). I can't claim to be a true expert in any of these fields, but I feel like I have a bit more familiarity with what goes on in a cycle than an average QA does (not to put them down or anything cause I've been that too). Oh, and one of the apps I was lead designer for won an award from Samsung this year.
What I want to know is, is my plan of working overseas feasible and if yes, what positions am I qualified for with my variegated experiences in the 6 months I've been working? I'm gunning for assistant producer or junior designer but I don't know if I'm qualified for those jobs. I have minimal knowledge in programming and 2d/3d modelling. Thanks for listening!
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Let $\mathcal{V}$ be an outer measure on $X$, $(A_\alpha)_{\alpha\in I}$ be a chain of increasing subsets of $X$.
- Is it true that $\mathcal{V}(\bigcup_{\alpha\in I}A_\alpha)=\sup_{\alpha\in I}\mathcal{V}(A_\alpha)$?
- If this is not true in general, are there classes of spaces $X$ and outer measures $\mathcal{V}$ (for example Hausdorff measures on metric spaces) for which this holds?


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NW topples Litchfield; Pomperaug beats Newtown
Emma Beltrandi recorded a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds for Northwestern as it earned a 38-31 victory over Litchfield on Tuesday in a BL game in Winsted.
Beltrandi also had three steals.
Rasa Hamel scored 14 points to go along with five rebounds, three steals and an assist for the Highlanders (1-2).
Arielle Oemcke chipped in with five points and six boards.
Isabelle Binstadt led the Cowgirls (0-3) with 10 points and five rebounds, while Tara Shakley dropped 10 points and grabbed four steals.
Sierra Markelon pulled down 13 rebounds with six points.
Pomperaug 57, Newtown 49: Gabbie Holness poured in 34 points, grabbed eight rebounds and swiped six steals for Pomperaug as it defeated Newtown (0-2) in an SWC Colonial Division competition.
Hannah Metcalf scored 11 points for the Panthers (3-0), while Morgan Metcalf recorded eight points, nine rebounds and six assists.
Sarah Therault added three points and 14 rebounds.
Nonnewaug 64, Wamogo 37: Katie Burke poured in a game-high 23 points as the Chiefs outscored the Warriors, 43-20, in the first half en route to the BL win in Woodbury.
Courtney Carlson had 13 points while Aly Rescsanski chipped in with nine points for Nonnewaug (3-0).
Jessica Binkowski scored a team-high 14 points while Hannah LaBonne contributed with nine points and Jenna Lopardo finished with six points for Wamogo (0-2).
Housatonic 50, Shepaug 39: Heather Kearns scored 18 points to lead Housatonic over Shepaug in Washington, Conn.
Katie Heacox added 16 points for the Mountaineers (2-1).
Kate DeWitte netted 18 points for the Spartans (0-3), and Caroline Kelly chipped in with 12.
Thomaston 59, Gilbert 6: Morgan Sanson recorded a game-high 15 points for Thomaston as it defeated Gilbert (0-2) in a BL matchup.
Maggie Eberhardt added 12 points for the Golden Bears (2-0), while Gabby Hurlbert scored nine.
Nicole Schaefer chipped in with eight points.
Bristol Eastern 53, Hall 36: Karissa Smith recorded a double-double with 24 points and 14 rebounds as Bristol Eastern cruised past Hall in West Hartford.
Khadaijia Brooks netted 18 points and pulled down eight rebounds while Cassie Aiken added six points for Bristol Eastern (2-1).
Allison Swaby had 15 points for Hall (0-3).
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spoiler:T3 went with the Exile in the Ebon Hawk to find Revan, after TSL, in the Unknown Regions.
spoiler: I'm still curious about Bao Dur's fate, and how it related to HK-47 getting to Malachor V. Did he survive the fight at Telos or not? Wasn't he also supposed to have been able to learn higher lightsaber forms from the Exile because he'd possibly need them?
spoiler:is only referred to in the Revan novel but not actually explained.
spoiler: One character you fight in SWTFU learned from it.
spoiler: That's everybody who did not appear in K1. Atton, Michal, Brianna, Mira, Bao-Dur, Hanharr.
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Transportation Services operates a few shuttle routes for the convenience of students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Beyond these scheduled shuttles, the Department of Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness provides a security-focused escort service. It is called SLU Ride. The program provides safety escorts to assure our people can move safely around our campuses and areas adjacent to our campuses, including the MetroLink. Escorts are mostly accomplished via University vehicles, with walking escorts being provided for shorter distances.
SLU Ride is primarily operated and managed by student workers employed by DPSEP. These students operate the vans and also perform the dispatch function. If you are interested in such employment, look for an application on the Safety Escorts and Rides page of the DPSEP website. Actually, student workers in DPSEP provide a variety of services, and a member of DPSEP would discuss the job with you.
Here is some information about using SLU Ride.
To request an escort, call 314-977-RIDE (314-977-7433). SLU Ride operates most of the time, but there will be times it is out of service - this does not mean that security escorts are unavailable. At these times, security escorts will be provided by the Public Safety Officers of our Department. If, when you call the above number, you get a message indicating SLU Ride is not operating, you can press 0 and you will be forwarded to DPSEP dispatchers. You do not have to wait until the message has played through; you can press 0 at any time.
When you call for the escort, provide the following information: your name, phone number, location, destination and the number of riders.
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my account was hacked recently can someone help plz microsoft wont do anything my account name is Gazboi08
xbox live account hacked can anyone help
soory guys it was my hotmail but i still cant get on live my hacked address is firstname.lastname@example.com
Do you know who did it? Have they contacted you at all?
nope i made a free silver account and some random guy added me s i think it mit be him i will put his gamertag in this thread asap
I need some advice... My son just had his xbox live account hacked. The guy said he brought his gamer tag and info on Ebay for $10. He signed in and statrted playing as him with his friends. His friends called the guy out and he gave them a phone number to call him. Now i have contacted microsoft and they have frozen the account and are investigating. Am i right in thinking that this guy has my email info? is this a form of identaty theft? How can my son get his profile back? and is it now compromised?
If anyone can give me advice or help that would be great...
If anyone can give me advice or help that would be great...
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Just a quick post tonight. The past week has been absolutely insane. First, the trustees are trying to shut down the boys' school--the oldest continually operating elementary school in northern Ontario. We have hosted several meetings (with plenty of vegan baking to go around), and have spent a lot of time organizing, writing letters, etc. Here is the website dedicated to saving the school if you are interested. In the midst of it all, our basement flooded with all the melting snow. That was fun. Of course, today we had a snow storm and the temperature has dropped below zero. Ah, spring. And then there are the stacks of essays to grade . . . . There is no better time for fast and easy food. I made these potatoes to accompany the maple barbecue tofu.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Creamy Dijon Dill Potatoes
15 comments:
- VeganWoman said...
Absolutely delicious! My partner will love to put this together. I love anything Dill. Thanks for sharing!
- April 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM
- Alexis said...
Even in the midst of chaos you turn out beautiful-looking, easy food. You are such an inspiration!
I'll have to try these later this week with my many potatoes. Good luck with the school and the basement.
- April 6, 2009 at 10:52 PM
- Janet said...
dill + potatoes = yum, but dijon dill?!??! extra yummy!!
- April 6, 2009 at 11:50 PM
- Vegetation said...
Delicious!! And good luck with the school. I went through the same thing a couple of years back with my daughters school.
- April 7, 2009 at 3:49 AM
- Macie said...
Yummy! I just bought a big bag of 'taters last night, and I'm always looking for new ways to prepare them (baked potatoes are fun, but get boring after a while).
- April 7, 2009 at 8:02 AM
- Tami (Vegan Appetite) said...
Those potatoes look delicious.
Best of luck with the school situation.
- April 7, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Kelly said...
I'm sorry to hear about all the drama in your world right now. I hope things calm down soon. In the meantime, those are some fantastic looking potatoes.
- April 7, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- Bianca said...
Sorry to hear about the boys' school! Would the students be transferred to another school? I hate it when school systems try to consolidate. It really messes up the student's experience.
- April 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM
- lifeglutenfree said...
sounds awesome! I love dill!
- April 7, 2009 at 6:30 PM
- Jenna said...
Yum! This sounds great! I'm going to try it tonight.
- April 8, 2009 at 1:27 PM
- susan said...
Just finished frying these bad boys up, they look so delicious! Can't wait to eat them, good thing I don't have to since they are done!
I really appreciated how easy these were to throw together. Thanks!
- April 8, 2009 at 7:43 PM
- Vegan Nutritionista said...
I love dill and potatoes! I make a recipe that's very similar to this, but with olive oil instead of butter and lemon juice added in and it's fabulous as well!
- April 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM
- Dynah said...
I enjoyed these- really simple but tasty. Thanks!
- April 9, 2009 at 10:47 PM
- Englann said...
I mostly despise the taste of mustard but I figured if you make it, I am willing to try it! These are outstanding! Next time I will make a bigger batch so I don't look angrily at my husband finishing off the batch. These will be great for a potluck! Thanks again.
- May 25, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- Susan (peebsmama) said...
What a great way to dress up boiled potatoes. Very tasty and so easy to make. I served these with your maple balsamic bbg tofu.
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SPARTANBURG, SC - Behind eight singles and doubles wins, the Charlotte 49ers (6-5) cruised past Wofford (2-5), 7-0, on the road.
The 49ers won two of the three doubles matches to claim the doubles point. At number one doubles, Charlotte's Paul Cisti and Alex Calott had their match suspended with Wofford's Rob Galloway and Walker Heffron due to the 49ers already claiming the doubles point. Cisti and Calott were trailing 7-6. At number two doubles, Charlotte's Jack Williams and Jordi Massalle Ferrer improved to 6-1 on the season with an 8-4 win over Wofford's Jackson Keith and Parks Thompson. At number three doubles, Charlotte's Krzysztof Kwasniewicz and Kamil Khalil improved to 7-2 on the season with an 8-4 win over Wofford's Graham Duncan and David Sklar.
The 49ers won five of the six singles matches to claim the overall victory. At number one singles, Charlotte's Massalle Ferrer won his 18th singles match of the season with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 over Wofford's Galloway. At number two singles, Charlotte's Cisti won his 12th singles match of the season with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Wofford's Drew Superstein. At number three singles, Charlotte's Calott won his 12th singles match of the season with a 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 win over Wofford's Keith. At number four singles, Charlotte's Kwasniewicz defeated Wofford's Heffron, 7-6, 6-2. At number five singles, Charlotte's Khalil defeated Wofford's Duncan, 6-4, 7-5. At number six singles, Charlotte's Nate Shanok defeated Wofford's Thompson in three hard fought sets, 3-6, 6-3, 10-7.
Charlotte returns to action with a double-header at the Halton-Wagner Tennis Complex against Catawba and Wingate on Monday, March 11.


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Held before fall classes start, Welcome Week introduces you to Ball State's vibrant campus life and helps you make connections within our supportive campus community. The program will help you make a fun, smooth transition to college life.
During Welcome Week, you'll have opportunities to explore Ball State's comprehensive resources, meet other students, and attend programs and convocations designed especially for new college students. Past Welcome Weeks have included picnics, service projects, late night entertainment, and more.
Download the schedule (PDF).
Our Welcome Week handbook will provide a listing of all events and activities. If you will be living in the residence halls, you will receive the handbook when you move in. Commuters will be mailed information and a handbook approximately two weeks before the program.
We encourage all first-year students to attend these optional (unless otherwise noted) Welcome Week events! You'll have a great time and you'll get to know your new campus.
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Wildcard support is a great step, however I'd like to propose going a step further. For smaller sites, it isn't as necessary to limit things by tags because you aren't getting overrun by the immense traffic like on SO. For StackExchange.com to truly be a place for aggregation, instead of just one more place to look at, it'd be great to be able to say show me everything from WebApps plus [sushi] on cooking plus [c#] on SO for instance.
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
Done. Just click the add entire site link at the top of the "Add Tags" section to toggle into adding a site mode.
Also, as a counterpoint to Jeff's argument, I believe that this does fit in well with the philosophy of the feature, which is show me all the stuff I'm interested in across a bunch of sites. Jeff's right that if you want to see every question, the right place to go is still that site, but maybe I want to aggregate several smaller sites and watch all of their new questions in one place. Now I can :)
I don't think this fits well with the philosophy of the feature. It's about questions with specific tags, not all questions.
If you want to see every question on a site -- go to that site!
Tag sets are really for the sites you don't live in, but you might like to visit there once in a while.


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Innovations in the treatment of Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors (PNET) and Medulloblastoma (MB) with Radiation Therapy (RT) have run hand-in-hand with those in the surgical, chemotherapeutic, and diagnostic spheres. Improvements in radiotherapy equipment and techniques along with the use of altered fractionation schemes, the optimization of radiation doses, and the administration of other adjuvant therapies have all contributed to improvements in outcome. Results, however, are not measured by survival alone. The long term toxicity that may arise from the administration of therapy can be considerable, and treatment must be adjusted accordingly. Thus, in the last decade, refinements in treatment have focused as much on improvements in quality of life as on survival.
Toxicity caused by craniospinal radiation therapy (CSART) can be formidable, especially in the youngest children. (17, 19) Efforts have been directed at reducing this toxicity by lowering the CSART dose. These reductions have come in the face of some series demonstrating the necessity for doses above 3000 cGy (14, 16, 18) and others demonstrating favorable outcomes in select children treated with considerably lower doses (5, 12, 15).
As a consequence of these experiences, a Pediatric Oncology Group (POG)/Children's Cancer Group (CCG) study was launched pitting reduced craniospinal radiation doses (2340 cGy) against standard radiation (3600 cGy) for patients with low stage disease. This trial closed prematurely due to an increased number of failures in the reduced-dose arm. With time, the differences between the two arms have become less significant, though improved survival is still seen in the full-dose arm (6). In parallel, an unsuccessful attempt at the complete elimination of the whole brain component of the CSART was made in the SIOP the SIOP M4 trial. Results were disappointing, with only 3 of 16 children surviving. (4).
Thus, for patients with medulloblastoma treated with RT alone, spinal and supratentorial RT is mandatory, as is the posterior fossa boost. The craniospinal dose is typically 3600 cGy in 20 fractions, and the dose to the posterior fossa 5400-5580 cGy. Survival after such treatment ranges between 40 and 90% at 5 years, depending on a variety of factors including age, stage and extent of surgical resection. (6, 8, 14, 20, 22)
Chemotherapy is now used routinely in all children with advanced disease. The justification is based on randomized trials from the U.S. and Europe comparing radiation alone with radiation plus chemotherapy. (8, 22) In both of these series, CCNU, Vincristine (and Prednisone, for the U.S. series) were shown to improve survival for children with leptomeningeal disease and advanced local disease.
Platinum-based chemotherapy regimens are now widely utilized. Platinum is highly active against recurrent MB/PNET (9) as well as newly-diagnosed cases (20) In a series from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (20), children with "high risk" medulloblastoma were treated with cis-platinum based chemotherapy following surgery and radiation therapy. In some of the younger children, reduced craniospinal doses were used. Survival for the "high risk" children, ordinarily reported to be less than 50% at 5 years, was is reported to be nearly 90%. A CCG pilot study utilizing 2340 cGy plus the same platinum-based chemotherapy accrued nearly 80 patients in the 2 years it was open. Thus far, actuarial survival ranges above 80% at 3 years (Personal Communications, Roger Packer, MD).
For low-stage patients, the role of chemotherapy remains complex. As a consequence of the excellent results reported for high-stage patients treated with adjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy, an effort was made to study the regimen in conjunction with reduced doses of radiation for children with low-stage disease. Indeed, a pilot study of 10 children treated with 1800 cGy to the craniospinal axis, a posterior fossa boost, and platinum-based chemotherapy achieved long term survival of 70%, without the profound neurocognitive toxicity normally associated with higher doses (11). Ultimately, a POG/CCG trial randomized low-stage patients to either standard RT alone (3600 cGy) or reduced-dose craniospinal axis RT (2340 cGy) plus chemotherapy. The trial remained open for two years but was terminated prematurely because of poor accrual. Too few patients were entered to address any of the study questions. Finally, a recently reported trial mounted by SIOP demonstrated disappointing results from the administration of chemotherapy and reduced dose radiotherapy, with a 5-year actuarial survival of 42% (3). Thus, the question as to whether low-stage medulloblastoma patients benefit from reduced-dose RT plus chemotherapy remains unanswered.
In parallel with reductions in radiation doses, radiation fields have been tailored and refined to conform better to the volumes at risk for disease. These refinements, in turn, have been based on improvements in imaging techniques which have allowed for better definition of the inferior extent of the thecal sac (13) and improved definition of the posterior fossa (21). Whether the improvements in RT techniques will result in decreased toxicity is not yet known.
Hyperfractionated radiotherapy is currently under study for children with supratentorial PNET and high stage medulloblastoma. (CCG-9931. CCG Meeting Book, November 1996). Objectives are to increase control in advanced-stage patients by increasing the radiation dose without increasing associated late toxicity. While single institutional series of children treated with hyperfractionated RT have been published (2, 23), effective comparison with conventional therapy will require larger studies performed over longer periods of time.
Babies with PNET and Medulloblastoma pose a particular challenge to the neuro-oncology team. Such patients are eminently more susceptible to the devastating side effects of radiation therapy, and may have biologically more aggressive lesions (1). Results of two prominent series of children treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy have been reported (7, 10). Patients under the age of three were eligible for entry, and radiotherapy was delayed to the time of progression, to completion of chemotherapy, or to the age of three years depending on the circumstances for the particular patient. In the Geyer series, most children were not treated with radiotherapy as had been prescribed, while in the Duffner series, they were. Results have been discouraging, with event-free survival at 3 years of 32% or less for the children with medulloblastoma, and 19% or less for those with PNET.
Even though the last decades have seen remarkable innovations in the use of radiotherapy against these diseases, room for improvement remains. Advances will need to be directed at increasing survival and decreasing toxicity. Identifying the subgroups of children who require higher doses of radiation, or who can most benefit from altered fractionation and reduced doses will be one of our greatest challenges. Conforming our radiation beams to the volumes at risk, and minimizing doses to normal tissues will be another.
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LEED Certification Where Energy Efficiency Collides with Human Health, An EHHI Report
Report Summary
LEED Standards Are Being Adopted into Many Laws
Green Building Council standards are being incorporated into federal, state and local laws through legislation, executive orders, resolutions, policies, loan-granting criteria and tax credits. As demonstrated in this report, LEED standards are clearly insufficient to protect human health, yet they are being adopted by many levels of government as law. Thus the Green Building Council, a trade association for the building industry, is effectively structuring the regulations. The number of jurisdictions adopting these standards as law is growing, which will make them difficult if not impossible to change, unless federal law and regulation supersede the "green" standards with health-protective regulations.
No Federal Definition or Regulation of Green Building Standards
There is no federal definition of "green building standards" analogous to federal "organic food standards" or drinking water standards. Given regulatory neglect, many trade organizations have worked to create their own certification programs, hoping to capture growing demand for environmentally friendly and heath-protective buildings.
Energy Efficiency Given Priority Over Health
The LEED credit system is heavily weighted to encourage energy-efficient building performance. Nearly four times as many credits are awarded as energy conservation technologies and designs (35 possible credits) as for protection of indoor environmental quality from hazardous chemicals (8 possible credits).
Green Building Council Board Has Little Expertise in Environmental Health
Directors of the LEED Program are predominantly engineers, architects, developers, real estate executives, chemical industry officials and building product manufacturers. One medical doctor representing Physicians for Social Responsibility was recently appointed to sit on the board, which has 25 directors.
False Impression of Healthy Buildings
The Green Building Council's award of "platinum," "gold", and "silver" status conveys the false impression of a healthy and safe building environment, even when well-recognized hazardous chemicals exist in building products.
Time Spent Indoors
Americans today are spending more than 90 percent of their time indoors. The EPA spends the majority of its resources working to manage outdoor threats to environmental quality and human health.
Tighter Buildings Increase Human Exposure
Energy conservation efforts have made buildings tighter, often reducing air exchange between the indoors and outdoors. Since outdoor air is often cleaner than indoor air, the reduction of outdoor-indoor exchange tends to concentrate particles, gases and other chemicals that can lead to more intense human exposures than would be experienced in better-ventilated environments.
However, the LEED program has been effective in encouraging more efficient heating and ventilation techniques, such as solar panels, geothermal wells, window placement and building orientation.
Toxic Chemicals in Built Environments
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Western theology tends to view atonement as propitiation, while Eastern tends to view it as expiation. What are the primary differences and implications of each perspective? Are they antithetical or complementary paradigms? This is related to this question, which tackles translation issues concerning biblical passages that use these terms.
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What are the primary differences and implications of a propitiatory view of the atonement versus an expiatory view?
I can only answer from the Western bias as I fail to comprehend the Eastern thought even when it is explained. Western thought properly includes propitiation and expiation it does not toss one out for the other or put them at competing sides. It does not exclude either. However the Eastern thought seems to be uncomfortable with the propitiation involved in the cross and does not seem to me to believe that God's wrath was poured out on the Son.
In Western thought propitiation, which is that part of the work of Christ on the cross, that makes 'appeasement' to an offended God, satisfying his wrath for sin. The other side of Western thought is expiation. Expiation occurs on the cross (not only to have the punishment of sin removed through propitiation) but to have sins cleansed and removed as well. Cleansing and deliverance from the actual power of sin is implied by expiation.
Cleary both of these aspects are implied by the scriptural view as the idea started with the Passover lamb and as well as the burned 'red heifer'. Both the concept of propitiation and expiation are clearly established under the Old Testament foreshadowing types. First, God's 'wrath' in killing the first-born of Egypt was avoided by the Passover Lamb. The Jews were not cleansed by putting blood on the doorposts but were avoiding a deadly destruction of anger. Second, on the other hand, the burning of the 'red heifer' and collection of ashes oustide the camp clealry implies the actual ceremonial cleansing of the sacrfificial type. The ashes of the burnt animal were directly used for ceremonial washing buy mixing some ashes with water and sprinkling the unclean. (Ref Leviticus 19, Hebrews 19:13-14))
One can't properly witness the ceremonial sacrifices of the Old Testament without believing both propitiation and expiation as inseparable objects, each meaningless without each other. First the worshipper or priest would lay hands on the animal to be sacrificed, symbolizing the transfer of guilt. Then the shedding of blood and total destruction of the animal would occur, symbolizing the appeasement to an offended God. Then the blood would ceremonially cleanse the worshipper. Clearly all these things support a proper view and cast grave doubts on any view that might try to limit them to only propitiation, or expiation.
Both propitiation and expiation are implied by each other in the removal of guilt. An angry God is no longer angry when guilt is transferred to another in propitiation. The stain of guilt is wiped away from expiation. Both propitiation and expiation are meaningless terms unless the removal of guilt in understood in each.
Both propitiation and expiation are implied by each other in the removal of guilt. An angry God is no longer angry when guilt is transferred to another in propitiation. The stain of guilt is wiped away from expiation. Both propitiation and expiation are meaningless terms unless the removal of guilt in understood in each.
The eastern view is that God changes when he ceases to be angry (according to the Western view) but propitiation does not imply any change in God whatsoever. He still is angry with sin but its guilt has been transferred to another. God can never change or remove his wrath. It must be extinguished on a a subject who bears the guilt of sin.
Given the massively fractured state of Christianity and the widely varied beliefs therein, a cross-denominational examination of soteriology could certainly yield strict, literal, and conflicting understandings of expiation and propitiation. However, I believe Roman Catholicism is a significant example wherein both concepts are used, amongst others, to assist in explaining a salvation plan that is ultimately mysterious. This shows that the concepts, though potentially antithetical by some strict understandings, are often used to present a balanced view of the mystery of salvation.
Consider that the online Bible of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops renders Romans 3:25 as expiation.
Also, consider the latest U.S. Catholic rendering of 1 John 2:2 is expiation:
But, when Pope Pius XII cites 1st John in paragaraph 73 of Mediator Dei, calling the Eucharist (the sacrifice of the cross made fully present again) expiation, propitiation, and reconciliation, the verse from 1st John is translated as propitiation.
He further explains in paragraph 76 that Christ's sacrifice is "payment" for our sins, while at the same time calling it an "oblation" (a "gift" of thanksgiving), another potential for side-by-side antitheticals.
The General Instruction of the Mass calls the Eucharist, which is again the sacrifice of the cross made fully present again, propitiation amongst other things:
And the Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks from multiple angles as well, first acknowledging that salvation is mysterious.
It goes on, in implying that Christ's death was necessary to stave of "punishment", suggests a more propitiatory view.
But, this is immediately followed by an explicitly labeling the cross as expiation. [1]
We could go on. Catholic literature and doctrine is filled with language describing the explaining the mystery of salvation. It's not all consistent. In some respects, each angle on salvation shows something that, if received literally or strictly, can feel ad odds with other angles. And in fact, there may very well be real conflict between the ideas.
It's probable that expiation and propitiation, as understood by some denominations, are incompatible salvation plans. But, in some traditions, such as Roman Catholicism, it's clear that both terms, as well as a variety of other language and "poetry", are used to explain salvation, which is first-and-foremost, a mystery. And, like the other major mysteries of Christian doctrine, the language surrounding it is not necessarily intended to be compatible.
In brief, the terms are both antithetical and complimentary, depending on how they're used and who's using them. There is clearly room for hard disagreement between the denominations. But, we also have at least one significant example wherein both terms are used to paint a fuller image of a single understanding of salvation.
[1]: It may also worth noting that the justice, wrath, and punishment of God's is uncertain language itself. Each of these must somehow be framed with respect to a God who is love. And with that perspective, propitiation and expiation may not be different things at all. It seems to be overtly and intentionally confusing and uncertain in any case.


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This double guest room is in a centrally located apartment in idyllic location close to the lakes between Østerbro and Nørrebro.
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The room is bright and spacious and you can always count on a fresh bouquet of flowers on the table and you also have a nice view of the street and Copenhagen everyday life. There is a small kitchen for cooking and a fridge and freezer (Tea-kitchen and coffee maker are provided). The bathroom is right next to the room on the same floor.
The flat is at walking distance from the city center with shopping and food shops. Although for being so central it is a quiet and friendly street with very little traffic. The four lakes in the city are located only 10 minutes' walk from the main square of the city "The city hall square". This location provides a great opportunity to experience this piece of green city on foot. The States Museum of Art is also within walking distance and is definitely worth a visit. Bus 14 to Nørreport Station and the bus 14 and 40 to Central Station.
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LONDON � Five things to know about Thursday, Day 13 of the London Olympics:
Still the man: Bolt leads Jamaican sweep in 200-meter final.
Solo saves the day as American women rack up medals.
U.S. takes top two spots in decathlon, men�s triple jump.
Pistorius, South Africa get another chance in relay final.
Olympic official to AP: IOC to strip Tyler Hamilton of 2004 gold.
Usain Bolt greeted the excited crowd with a royal wave when he was introduced Thursday night.
Turns out the sprint king also was waving goodbye to his competition.
Bolt blew away the field in the 200-meter final, easing up as he crossed the finish line in 19.32 seconds to become the only man with two Olympic titles in the event.
With camera flashes dotting the seats throughout Olympic Stadium, Bolt repeated the 100-200 double he produced at the Beijing Games, leading a Jamaican sweep. Training partner and pal Yohan Blake was second in 19.44, and Warren Weir got the bronze in 19.84, nearly a half-second behind the champion.
The 6-foot-5 Bolt celebrated with a couple pushups and also grabbed a camera from someone in the photographers� well and trained it at the group who were clicking away.
Bolt�s victory dominated the track and field schedule, but American women were on the march all over the London Games.
Carli Lloyd scored in each half, Hope Solo made a couple of big stops and the U.S. women�s soccer team won its third consecutive Olympic gold medal, beating Japan 2-1 in a rematch of last year�s World Cup final and avenging the most painful loss in its history.
Before 80,203 at Wembley Stadium, a record crowd for a women�s soccer game at the Olympics, the teams put on a back-and-forth, don�t-turn-your-head showcase, proving again that these are the two premier teams in the world. Yuki Ogimi scored in the 63rd minute but the U.S. held on for the win behind Solo�s solid performance in net.
American teenager Claressa Shields danced, brawled and even stuck out her tongue. She also managed to win the first middleweight gold medal in women�s Olympic boxing.
The 17-year-old Shields, from Flint, Mich., was too much for Russian opponent Nadezda Torlopova, posting a 19-12 victory in the final.
�This was something I wanted for a long time, even when boxing wasn�t going all right, even when my life wasn�t going all right,� said Shields, who found sanctuary in a boxing gym during a rough childhood.
�All I wanted was a gold medal, and I kept working towards it, even when people were saying I couldn�t do it. I�m too young. I couldn�t do it. There were girls who were going to beat me because of better experience, more experience. I proved them all wrong.�
Maggie Steffens scored five times, and the U.S. women�s water polo team beat Spain 8-5 to take the Olympic tournament for the first time. The American volleyball squad beat South Korea in straight sets and will go for its first indoor women�s gold when it faces Brazil on Saturday in a rematch of 2008�s final.
The big performance for the U.S. women came one day after Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won an All-American final in beach volleyball.
Not to be outdone, the American men took the top two spots in the men�s decathlon (Ashton Eaton and Trey Hardee) and triple jump (Christian Taylor and Will Claye), raising the U.S. track and field total with three days to go to 24 medals.
Among the big track finals on tap for today is the men�s 4x400-meter relay, which took on added intrigue with Oscar Pistorius and South Africa making the field and a gutsy preliminary performance by Manteo Mitchell of the U.S.
The man known as �Blade Runner� because of his carbon-fiber prosthetics will get to run for a medal after officials accepted South Africa�s protest over a collision and awarded an extra spot in the final. Pistorius already is the first amputee to compete on a Summer Games track.
Mitchell was halfway through the opening lap of the relay heat when he felt something pop in his left leg. He managed to keep going and helped the Americans tie for first with the Bahamas in 2:58.87.
A few hours later, doctors told him he had a broken leg.
�I heard it, and I felt it,� Mitchell told The Associated Press. �But I figured it�s what almost any person would�ve done in that situation.�
The IOC is set to formally strip American cyclist Tyler Hamilton of his gold from the 2004 Athens Games and reassign the medals after his admission of doping, according to an Olympic official familiar with the case.
With the eight-year deadline approaching, the official told The Associated Press the IOC executive board will meet today to readjust the standings from the road race time trial and award the gold to retired Russian rider Viatcheslav Ekimov.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision hasn�t been announced yet.
After years of denials, Hamilton told CBS�s �60 Minutes� last year that he repeatedly had used performance-enhancing drugs. The IOC asked for documents from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency before reallocating the medals.
The gold now will go to Ekimov, a former teammate of Hamilton and Lance Armstrong.
Colorado�s Bobby Julich will be moved up from bronze to silver, and Michael Rogers of Australia from fourth to bronze.
The rest of the Olympic action Thursday:
Eva Risztov of Hungary led most of the way in a grueling open water marathon (10k) at Hyde Park, holding off a desperate bid to chase her down by American Haley Anderson.
The big crowd was hoping for a gold medal from world champion Keri-anne Payne, but the British swimmer finished fourth.
Risztov beat Anderson by four-tenths of a second after nearly two hours of racing around The Serpentine. The winner climbed out of the water, smiling and looking fresh. She even flexed for the big crowd.
Risztov retired from swimming after the 2004 Olympics, upset with her results and tired of the pool. She eventually decided to give open water a try, and it sure worked out in a big way.
Chen Ruolin of China won the women�s 10-meter platform gold, easily defending her title from Beijing.
Chen totaled 422.30 points during the five-dive final, winning by a 55.80-point margin. She earlier won gold in the 10-meter synchronized and swept the platform events for the second consecutive games.
China has won six of seven diving gold medals with only the men�s platform remaining.
Synchronized Swimming
Russia led the technical routine of the team event � as expected.
Russia has won this event at the past three Olympics. Featuring Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, the pair that won the duet Tuesday, it collected a near-perfect 98.1 points.
The favorites competed to a Russian dance routine composed by Denis Garnizov, as Prince William�s wife, Kate, looked on from the crowd.
China was next with 97.0 points and Spain finished third with 96.2 points.
Canoe Sprint
The quartet of Tate Smith, Dave Smith, Murray Stewart and Jacob Clear gave Australia a lift with a surprising wire-to-wire win in the men�s 1,000-meter K-4.
It was Australia�s first team gold in canoe sprint � and took its overall tally in London to six after wins by cyclist Anna Meares, 100-meter hurdler Sally Pearson and sailors Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen in the past three days.
Germany collected two more victories, with Tina Dietze and Franziska Weber taking the women�s 500-meter K-2 and Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela winning the men�s double canoe sprint 1,000.
Danuta Kozak won her second gold of the regatta for Hungary, grabbing the top spot in the women�s single kayak 500-meter sprint.