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July 19, 2012
Updated summer happenings at Woodland Park Zoo
Three little piggies have come to the zoo: kunekunes, warthogs and rare Visayan warty pigs
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Elephant feedings (additional fee), keeper talks and elephant poo papermaking are among the host of summer programs at Woodland Park Zoo through Sept. 30
Photo Credit: Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo
It's the summer of three little pigs at Woodland Park Zoo! The newest pig on the block is the kunekune (koo-nee-koo-nee), a domestic breed that hails from New Zealand. Kunekune means "fat and round" in the Māori language, a name earned by their short legs and pot tummy. The short-snouted pigs are known to be very friendly, sociable and intelligent and thrive on human company. Check out the new kunekunes at the popular Family Farm.
In May, wild pigs made their first-ever appearance at the zoo: critically endangered Visayan warty pigs, native to the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines, and African warthogs, the wild pigs of the savanna. The trio of Visayan warty pigs live in the award-winning Elephant Forest in a broadleaf tropical forest landscape that evokes the endangered species' fragile habitat in the Philippines. The pair of warthogs can be found in the 4.5-acre, award-winning African Savanna that offers sweeping views dotted with giraffe, hippos, patas monkeys and lions.
Summer experience 2012 programs
Programs are effective through September 30, 2012, and are free with zoo admission, except as noted. Locations of programs are posted at the zoo's South Entrance (N. 50th St. & Fremont Ave. N.) and West Entrance (Phinney Ave. N. between N. 55th & N. 56th Sts.) and found on our website www.zoo.org. All programs are subject to cancellation due to weather or animal availability.
Visayan Warty Pig Keeper Talk ‒ 11:00 a.m. Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays. Learn about these curious, clever and critically endangered new residents of Woodland Park Zoo from the keepers that care for them.
Elephant Keeper Talk – 11:30 a.m. daily. Learn about the zoo's magnificent elephants. Discover how Woodland Park Zoo supports elephant conservation in the wild and what you can do to help.
Keeper Talk – 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. daily. Meet a zookeeper and learn more about animal care at Woodland Park Zoo. New programs this year include Visayan warty pigs, warthogs, fruit bats and wolves! Locations vary – see entrance display or website for today's programs.
On Thin Ice! ‒ noon-4:00 p.m. weekends and holidays. Play our giant Don't Break the Ice game, and learn about our changing climate and how our actions matter. Located behind Zoomazium.
Elephant Poo Papermaking – 1:00-3:00 p.m. daily. Take recycling into your own hands while you learn about elephants! Create new, "upcycled" paper to take home using elephant poo, and learn about these remarkable animals and their habitat.
Innovation Station ‒ 1:00-3:00 p.m. daily. Explore climate change through fun activities, like Green Walk, play Tipping Point to measure your carbon footprint, and see innovative alternatives for a changing world. Bamboo underpants, anyone? Our choices do matter!
Nature Exchange Trading in Zoomazium – 1:00-4:00 p.m. daily. Investigate shells, plants, fossils, minerals and the fun of collecting! Bring in your drawings, photos, research or cool nature items. You can earn points to trade for the natural items in our ever-changing collection.
Keeper Talk – 3:00 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays. Meet a zookeeper and learn more about animal care at Woodland Park Zoo. Locations vary – see entrance display for website for today's programs.
Raptor Programs
Raptor Free Flight Program – noon, 2:00 p.m. Wednesdays-Mondays. Here's your chance to learn more about birds of prey. Keepers will introduce you to our resident raptors while demonstrating their impressive flying and hunting skills. A must see!
Raptor Staff Talk – 1:00 p.m. Wednesdays-Mondays. How do zoo staff take care of birds? Learn about bird body language, migration, and how you can help protect wild raptors.
Education Staff Talk ‒ noon, 2:00 p.m. Tuesdays. Even raptors get a day off! Join our Education Staff for fun-filled, audience participation programs about how we excel at animal enrichment and training here at Woodland Park Zoo.
Zoomazium Programs:
Zoomazium – 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily. Kids 8 and under and their caregivers love Zoomazium! The indoor, nature play space offers play and learning in a fun, safe and stimulating environment all year long. Here, kids can connect with animals, habitats and more through the natural language of childhood – play! Crawl through a hidden cave. Climb a giant strangler fig tree. Enjoy daily programs for toddlers and older children. Free with zoo admission.
Creature Feature –10:30 a.m. daily Children can get up close with live, furred, feathered or scaly animals. Meet the star from a puppet story. Practice observation skills to discover who's in the Mystery Box. Design a play space for a curious creature and watch as it explores.
Shake, Rattle & Roar! – 11:30 a.m. daily. Toddlers and caregivers are invited to sing, dance, and play instruments to animal and nature-themed music.
Puppet Show – 4:00 p.m. daily. Animal puppets tell stories and sing songs. Children are invited up to dance and meet the puppets after the show.
Animal Feeding Experiences and Contact Opportunities
Animal Contact Experience – 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. daily. Touch domestic farm animals and learn more about them in supervised areas at the Family Farm.
Giraffe Feeding Experience – 10:00-11:00 a.m., 2:30-3:30 p.m. daily. Get close to giraffes as you feed them on a raised platform in the African Savanna, and learn how you are saving wild giraffes. Due to appetites, giraffes might not feed. Cost: $5 per person, cash only.
Elephant Feeding Experience – 1:30-2:30 p.m. daily. Meet a keeper – and an elephant! Offer some fresh bamboo, and learn how you are helping to save elephants in the wild. Due to appetites, elephants might not feed. Cost: $5 per person, cash only.
Willawong Station – The Bird Feeding Experience* – 9:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. daily.
This popular walk-through bird feeding experience transports you to the world of the Australian parrot – and the Australian grasslands habitat. Willawong Station is a fun opportunity for the whole family to get up close and feed birds in a controlled, safe environment while learning about responsible care for birds both in the wild and at home. The aviary includes approximately 100 free-flying birds, primarily small colorful Australian parrots. Free with zoo admission. Bird sticks: id="mce_marker" each, cash only.
Animal Encounters
Want a close encounter with the animal kind? Here's your chance to meet a lizard, snake or other small zoo animal up-close and personal. Look for the Animal Encounters cart!
Historic Carousel – 9:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. daily
Enjoy rides on the classic, hand-carved wooden carousel horses. Cost: $2 a ride, in addition to zoo admission.
The call of discovery beckons! While visiting Woodland Park Zoo this summer, join docents in an exploration of nature's balance and tools of survival. In these hands-on programs featuring exhibits, biofacts, and fun-filled games, you'll have an opportunity to pursue questions and passions. Plus, discover how you can help save wildlife by taking some simple steps. Swing by a discovery station and indulge your scientific side!
Bug Club (fee based)
Do you jump for joy when you see a spider, tingle with excitement as you roll over a log covered with sow bugs? Then join Bug Club! Bug Club is for children 5-11 years old who love bugs! Bug Club meets one Sunday per month. For information or an application, call 206.548.2424 or see the website at www.zoo.org/bugclub .
Parents' Night Out (fee based)
Dinner reservation? Check. Verified movie times? Check. Babysitter? Uh oh. Don't fret - let Woodland Park Zoo handle childcare for you. Kids ages 4-11 will enjoy a fun-filled evening with zoo staff inside Zoomazium while you enjoy a night out on the town. Supervised activities for kids include games, an educational film, and a live animal encounter, plus a tasty pizza dinner! For information or to register, go to www.zoo.org/education/child-family or call 206.548.2424. All children must be fully potty trained.
Zoo Overnight and Evening Adventures (fee based).
Wildlife Survival Night Time style…The gates are locked, the visitors are gone and the animals are settling down for the night…but you can still prowl the grounds and discover the
wonders of the zoo after hours. Bring your class, troop, group or your family and join us for an "Organized Group" or an "Individuals and Small Groups" Zoo Adventure. Stay all night or
just for an evening adventure. For more information and how to register, visit our website at www.zoo.org/overnights or call 206-548-2424.
Rainy Day Discount
For a Rainy Day Discount coupon, go to www.zoo.org/rainyday and check if it has been posted for the day. Discount coupons, when offered, are good for 50% off on regular admission to the zoo, limit four admissions per coupon. Coupons, if posted online, will appear no later than 4:00 p.m. the day before the coupon is valid. Discounts cannot be combined with other discounts or offers, and are good only for the day indicated on the coupon. If there isn't a coupon, be sure to check back on another day.
General information
Spring/summer hours: May 1-September 30: 9:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. through September 30. The zoo is open every day except Christmas Day. Zoomazium closes at 5:30 p.m.
Spring/summer zoo admission: May 1-September 30: Adult (13-64) id="mce_marker"7.75; Child (3-12) id="mce_marker"1.50; Free for children 2 and under year round. Active and retired U.S. military and their families, seniors and people with disabilities receive a discount and zoo members receive free zoo admission year round.
Quarters for Conservation: Part of zoo admission and membership has always gone to fund conservation programs in the wild. Cast your vote for your favorite conservation project at the Quarters for Conservation kiosks located at each entrance and be sure to hear a Quarters for Conservation keeper talk during your visit.
Parking: $5.25. Parking is limited. Consider taking the bus, biking, walking or carpooling. Conserving resources is one more way to help animals. For bus service to the zoo, visit www.metro.kingcounty.gov.
Eastside shuttle: Through September 2, the Eastside shuttle runs between the Eastside and the zoo on Saturdays and Sundays every 45 minutes from 9:15 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Riders can hop on the zoo shuttle at the east end of Crossroads mall at 15600 N.E. 8th St. in Bellevue. Reservations are not required; availability is first-come, first-serve.
Shuttle fee is $2 round trip for each rider ages 13 and up; free for 12 and under. The fee is paid at either ZooStore before guests depart for return trip to Eastside. Credit cards and cash are accepted. For more information about the Eastside shuttle, visit www.zoo.org/shuttle.
Gifts/Food: Visit the ZooStores for extraordinary gifts and zoo souvenirs. Stop by the Rain Forest Food Pavilion or other concessionaire locations to quench your thirst or appetite. Open daily during regular zoo hours.
Info: For more information or to become a zoo member, visit www.zoo.org. Or call 206.548.2500 or 548.2599 (TTY).
Accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, award-winning Woodland Park Zoo is famed for pioneering naturalistic exhibits and setting international standards for zoos in animal care, conservation and education programs. Woodland Park Zoo is helping to save animals and their habitats in the Pacific Northwest and around the world. By inspiring people to care and act, Woodland Park Zoo is making a difference in our planet's future. For more information, visit www.zoo.org.
Woodland Park Zoo saves animals and their habitats through conservation leadership and engaging experiences, inspiring people to learn, care and act.
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Say what you will about the state of the Lakers, but there's little denying this was the Jazz's best road performance of the season. The Jazz entered the game 1-7 on the road against Western Conference opponents, and 48 minutes later had shot 54 percent from the field and scored 117 points against a team that features two former Defensive Players of the Year (World Peace, Metta and Howard, Dwight) as well as Kobe Bryant, who is tied for the most appearances on the NBA All-Defensive team (9) ever. So, yeah, it was a pretty satisfying win for the Jazz.
• Derrick Favors missed his fifth game in a row due to plantar fasciitis in his right foot. This time, however, there was a twist. Favors was cleared to play, enjoyed a pain-free practice on Saturday, and went through pre-game warmups. It was there, however, that the trouble began.
"When I was out there," he said, "it kind of hurt a little bit so I decided to shut it down."
The Jazz are 3-2 without Favors, but have won three in a row. The third-year forward said he didn't feel like Sunday was a major setback. The Jazz have two days before they host the Spurs on Wednesday and it seems likely Favors will return for that game.
• What can you say about Jamaal Tinsley? Ty Corbin tried keeping the vet out of the lineup for a few games after Earl Watson returned, but at this point it appears Tinsley has won the backup point guard job. There will likely be games where Watson gets the majority of the minutes, but Tinsley has been superlative when it comes to directing the offense and, inexplicably, knocking down open shots. On Sunday, Tinsley played 15 minutes, scored 5 points and accrued 3 assists (a mere pittance compared to his usual contribution).
• Former Jazz center Jarron Collins spent time pregame and postgame in the locker room, chatting with Paul Millsap, Al Jefferson and Tyrone Corbin. Collins, whom the Jazz drafted out of Stanford with the No. 52 pick in 2001 spent 2001 to 2009 with the Jazz. He livesin Los Angeles and works for the Clippers.
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Screen depictions of male friendship tend to alternate between the quietly serious and the maniacally irrepressible.
Men are either in the midst of The Shawshank Redemption or The Hangover. That separation, thankfully, gets somewhat scrambled in Two Little Boys, an eccentric, and increasingly black, comedy in which being best mates leads to dismembering a corpse with an axe, making bad toasted sandwiches, and other masculine sins.
The film is set in New Zealand's southernmost city - a seemingly deserted Invercargill - in 1993 - a period certified by acid-wash jeans, a Rodney Rude T-shirt and cursory mullets. The halting protagonist is Nige (Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie), a barely proficient adult whose attempts to grow up draw the wrath of his childhood best friend, Deano (Australian comic Hamish Blake), with whom he used to share a flat.
But when Nige accidentally runs down and kills a Norwegian backpacker and panics, he's naturally drawn back to Deano, who has been inconsolable without his best friend and extracts a heavy price for coming to his aid.
Deano, an Australian expatriate (Blake wisely doesn't try for an accent), is so happy to have his best friend back, his glee temporarily obscures a murderous commitment to protect Nige from everything, including the stirrings of his own conscience.
Directed by Robert Sarkies and adapted from his brother Duncan's 2008 novel, Two Little Boys subverts the antipodean belief in friendship, even invoking the Anzac myth to show Deano taking a bullet for Nige on the battlefields of World War I.
It has comic inserts and a rustic aesthetic typical of low-budget independent filmmaking, but it's also the buddy movie lurking in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
McKenzie and Blake are best known as members of comedic duos; their dynamic here pushes them into uncomfortable extremes as Deano plots to bump off Nige's new housemate, Gav (Maaka Pohatu).
McKenzie makes Nige jittery, while Blake's boisterousness verges on the monstrous. The movie doesn't quite know what to do with the pair, too often cycling through Deano intimidating Nige in the guise of saving him and Nige mustering the courage to object.
But with a backdrop of natural wonders and an ironic deployment of familiar Kiwi pop hits, Two Little Boys strikes a fair balance between the outlandish and the recognisable.


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Peter Pilotto Spring 2013
This review could go into painstaking detail, itemizing all the prints in Peter Pilotto's accomplished spring 2013 collection, and how they magically, through expert manipulation and placement, worked together. While valid—the designers behind the label, Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos, have emerged as some of the strongest print exponents in a city crowded with those highly adept at print—it also seems a mite redundant. The point isn't just whatever patterns they plucked out of their imagination and life experience to use any given season; for the record, next spring references everything from baroque scrolling to ornate 1970s diamonds, abstracted Op Art black-and-white cubes to Art Deco–ish intersecting lines, many of which were inspired by a trip they made to the Santa Maria Assumpta cathedral in Siena (imagine Bridget Riley designing the interiors of a place of worship, and you are getting the right idea) and their summer vacation in India and Nepal. It's how those patterns undergo some kind of alchemical reaction with a woman's body, through being worked into increasingly imaginative silhouettes; the total effect—not just a litany of print motifs—creates the impact of what Peter Pilotto does.
For spring, after fall's experimentation with leaner, sportier shapes contrasted with puffer ski jackets, Pilotto and De Vos went in the direction of body-conscious lines whose control would suddenly exhale in soft undulations, in the form of ruffles that would cascade down the front and hem of their below-the-knee dresses, become peplums, or add a fluttery yet graphic movement to a narrow skirt. There were also shapes lifted from the canon of classic fifties haute couture, in the form of full-skirted dresses with nipped waists, in what the guys called "technomesh," embellished with beading stitched on in strict formations. And other times it seemed like Pilotto and De Vos were taking joy in cutting loose, with skirts that flared out into swinging volumes, contrasted with sweaters in curvilinear color-blocking, or tops fretworked to reveal the skin beneath. Backstage, De Vos said that like every collection, this one started with a journey. And if the results of their trips continue to be like this, they're clearly going to the right places.


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Date: January 08 2013
The Australian market has finished lower in line with overseas leads, as investors locked in profits on the busiest trading day of the year.
At the close on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 27.1 points, or 0.57 per cent lower at 4,690.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 25.8 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 4,712.3.
On the ASX 24, the March share price index futures contract was 29 points lower at 4,663, with 24,336 contracts traded.
CommSec market analyst Steve Daghlian said the Australian market defied negative overseas leads in early morning trade before gains were reversed in the afternoon.
"It could have gone either way, but as the day progressed the market went from being slightly higher to around half a per cent lower and there didn't appear to be one particular driver," Mr Daghlian said.
"At the end of the day we're doing a bit of profit taking."
The local market is still sitting at its highest levels in about 18 months following overall gains of more than one per cent since the beginning of the year.
However, Mr Daghlian said the US debt ceiling and upcoming spending cuts would continue to weigh on global markets.
In the US on Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 50.92 points, or 0.38 per cent, to 13,384.29.
In Europe, London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies lost 0.41 per cent to 6,064.58 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 dropped 0.56 per cent to 7,732.66 points, and in Paris the CAC 40 fell 0.68 per cent to 3,704.64 points.
Locally the mining giants were all weaker.
BHP Billiton fell 31 cents to $37.50 and Rio Tinto plummeted 80 cents to $66.60 and Fortescue fell 15 cents to $4.74.
Three of the four major banks were weaker.
ANZ fell 24 cents to $25.17, Westpac finished flat at $26.28, National Australia Bank dropped 21 cents to $25.09 and Commonwealth Bank dived $1.23 to $61.37.
The Australian Industry Group and the Housing Industry Association also released a report showing activity in Australia's construction industry has slowed for the 31st consecutive month, with the home and apartment sector remaining especially weak.
The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1649.30 per fine ounce, down $US12.35 from Monday's local close of $US1661.65 per ounce.
National turnover was 1.3 billion shares worth $3.9 billion, with 386 stocks up, 527 down and 359 unchanged.
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Richard Laermer
About the Author
Richard Laermer is a longtime media guy. His book series, Native's Guide to New York: Advice With Attitude for People Who Live Here and Visitors We Like (Norton) will be released in June in its fifth edition, 15th anniversary ed.
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Richard is well known to radio audiences as the 'Guerilla Consumer,' appearing regularly on Public Radio's Marketplace program, explaining trends to smart consumers who know the way to vote is with your pocketbook!
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RLM is notorious for having launched Kozmo.com, HBO.com and "Sopranos" site, BigStar, Politics.com, SonicNet, Word.com, U-magic, SesameStreet Online, Space.com, Rare Medium, E-Candy, LowerMyBills, The Flatiron Pervasive Fund, Thin Air Apps, FeedRoom, Concrete Media, GirlsonFilm, Bolt, and other profound Web and mid-tech firms.
But not all interactive. RLM has also represented lots of non-Web companies such as FitLinxx Fitness, FieldWorks Rugged computer and one of the firm's first success stories, Lumatec, the Texas-based makers of the NiteOwl book light. Oh and let's not forget the British juggling firm More Balls Than Most (front-page WSJ and magazines in every city and nation). The firm had quite a huge media success in '01 with SportBrain, the first wearable item to chart everyday movement as exercise! Fortune, Oprah, Rosie, New York Times, Us, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, and hundreds of other outlets featured this thing over the last years.
RLM was the PR firm for I-Village's Armchair Millionaire site; Investorama; Flatiron Partners; Cognitive Arts; and oh boy are they well known for having launched fucked company and Nerve Magazine, two wildly overexposed sites.
RLM current represents, among others, E*TRADE Financial, Barnes & Noble, Allergan., Mandalay Pictures (Peter Guber), Reed Expo, Audible.com, and the book trendSpotting, one of our favorite clients….
The firm's expertise is the basis for Richard Laermer's next book, due out in late 2002, titled Full Frontal PR: Getting People Talking About You, Your Business, or Your Product, from Bloomberg Press.
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It's hard to stand out in Los Angeles, a city teeming with terrific residential architects. But Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA) manages to do so. Founded by Lorcan O'Herlihy, FAIA, the firm was chosen as the American Institute of Architects' L.A. chapter's 2010 Firm of the Year. It consistently wins design awards for its housing, single-family, commercial, and institutional projects, and the Architectural League of New York named it an Emerging Voice in 2004.
The firm has long been known for its innovative custom homes, particularly O'Herlihy's own much-published, light-filled residence on a narrow site in Venice, Calif. But in recent years LOHA also has gained widespread attention for its groundbreaking multifamily work. At boutique condominium projects such as Habitat 825 and Formosa 1140, both in West Hollywood, Calif., O'Herlihy and his team have worked with their client and the city to redefine the boundaries between public and private space, a feat he hopes will affect other urban planning efforts. "We're very excited about the idea of change," says O'Herlihy, who currently teaches at the University of Southern California's School of Architecture. "We're a design-driven firm that strives for social relevance."
In-the-works projects include a series of 360 bus shelters for the city of Santa Monica, Calif., with Bruce Mau Design, and a mixed-use development in West Hollywood with 28 residential units plus office and retail space.
What is the most gratifying aspect of residential practice?
The opportunity to speculate on design and the great patrons involved in each individual project.
What is the most frustrating aspect?
It has not been a frustrating experience for us to do residential projects.
What is your mission statement or firm goal?
The work of LOHA is motivated by the possibility of real change. We believe that a contemporary society is one that is constantly evolving and see architecture as a potential catalyst for effecting new growth and new ways of thinking. By harnessing these opportunities through architectural innovation, the work aspires to attain the highest artistic and technical achievements.
LOHA's work is informed by rigorous research, delving deeply into the unique and complex issues underlying each design problem. While our decision making adheres to the resolution of these issues, we remain flexible, constantly on alert for opportunities of the unexpected. Through this heightened awareness, we aim to create connections across multiple scales and levels, and search for ways to manifest these ideas and relationships into actual experiences.
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Whichever medium is necessary to bring forth great ideas.
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I am sorry that my first post here is about simple installation, but I didn't found similar problem as I have here.
I am working on laptop ASUS A6Km (pre installed XP) I used Patriot 8GB USB. I managed boot load via Unetbootin and Universal USB Installer.
When I boot with Unetbootin It pops up the blue menu where can I choose If I want to run default, 800x600, text mode, live cd etc
If I choose any of them it lags in 1 sec and nothing change no text just that freezed blue menu.
If I use Universal USB installer - it pops up original BT4 menu whre I can choose same things. If I choose something graphical It freeze same as Unetbootin. But when I try text mode only it gives me theese two lines and then freeze.
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x4760d0]
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I was wondering to flash bios for new one . But there is no newer version on asus web site.
The flash is formated as FAT32.
Strange is that it works perfectly on my second laptop Toshiba Tecra and also on WMware.
Does anybody has idea how to solve this?
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Friends of East Rock Park Summer Youth at Work Team clean up the Scenic Overlook at College Woods. This hard working group of young people are tackling a number of improvement project throughout out East Rock this summer and improving the park for the all in New Haven to enjoy. This program is a joint effort of the New haven Park's Department and the Friends of East Rock Park.
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Ever thought about using your laptop as a synthesizer or digital effect-box? Did you notice there's some delay related to the computer's sound processing?
The USB Audio ASIO driver is the solution. It enables buffersizes down to 32 samples (0.73 ms) and creates an ultra highspeed USB audio connection, bypassing the operating system's audio.
This does not only give you low latencies, but better sound quality also.
SoundManager (Mac) and MultiMedia Extensions (MME / Win) use non-highend sample rate conversion in order to sync the different audio signals from applications to the sample rates used on the external soundcard. And sometimes there's not even a way to control the rate to be the prefered one. (E.g. 48kHz instead of 44.1kHz.)
Using ASIO it's possible to do direct "one to one" hardware connections and even use higher bitrates (e.g. 20bit or 24bit) if supported by the device.
But of course, you need an ASIO compatible application like Audition, Cubase, Wavelab, Logic Audio, Reason, Live, Studio One, Digital Performer, Sonar, BPM Studio, etc. If the app supports ASIO2 you'll be able to benefit from more features.
Companies including Access, AKAI, Alesis, Allen&Heath, Alva, American Audio, CME, DirectOut, DJ-Tech, Elektron, ESI, Infrasonic, Lexicon, Numark, Reloop, SIMS, Sound Devices, SPL, Steinberg, Swissonic, Tascam, Terrasoniq, Terratec, Voxoa, Yamaha and Yellowtec decided to license and bundle this driver. So fully functional custom drivers are available for Access Virus TI, Access Virus TI snow, AKAI EIE pro, AKAI MPC Rennaissance, Alesis Multimix 8 USB2.0, Alesis Multimix 16 USB2.0, Allen&Heath Wizard USB Audio Option, Allen&Heath XONE:23C, Allen&Heath XONE:43C, Allen&Heath XONE:2D, Allen&Heath XONE:4D, Allen&Heath XONE:DX, Allen&Heath XONE:DB2, Allen&Heath XONE:DB4, Alva Nanoface, American Audio Versa Port, American Audio Encore 2000, CME XCORPIO, DirectOut i64.USB, DJ-Tech Reloaded, Elektron Analog Four, Elektron Analog Keys, Elektron Analog Rytm, ESI ESU1808, ESI Gigaport AG / DG, ESI Maya 44 USB, Infrasonic Amon, Lexicon I-ONIX U22, Lexicon I-ONIX U42S, Lexicon I-ONIX U82S, Mindprint DI-MOD USB, Numark 4Trak, Numark DJ IO, Numark NS6, Numark NS7-II, Numark Omni Control, Numark V7, Reloop Digital Jockey, Reloop Jockey 3ME, SIMS Primus, Sound Devices USBpre, Sound Devices USBpre 2, SPL Creon, SPL Crimson, Steinberg MI2, Steinberg MI4, Swissonic Easy USB, Tascam M-164UF, Tascam UH-7000, Tascam US-122L, Tascam US-144, Tascam US-122mkII, Tascam US-144mkII, Tascam US-200, Tascam US-600, Tascam US-1200, Tascam US-1641, Tascam US-1800, Tascam US-2000, Tascam US-322, Tascam US-366, Terratec Area 61, Terrasoniq Phase X64, Terratec Phase 26 USB, Voxoa S60, Voxoa A50, Voxoa C60, Yamaha UW10, Yamaha UW500, Yellowtec PUC2 and many others.
There's also a commercial version of the USB ASIO driver supporting Alesis' USB 1.1 mixing desks, ART USB, Audiotrak EX / EX5 / Maya 5.1 USB (48kHz only), Audiotrak EX7 / Maya 7.1 USB, Audiotrak OPTOPlay, Creative Audigy 2 NX (48 kHz only / not on Mac OS X yet), Creative Extigy (48kHz only), Creative MP3+ (48kHz only), Creative SoundBlaster Live 24bit external, Digidesign Mbox, Elektor USB audio, Event EZBus, Edirol UA-1A (44.1kHz only), Edirol UA1-X, Edirol UA-3(D), Griffin iMic, Griffin PowerWave, HHB Portadisc, Hercules MusePocket (48kHz only), Lexicon Omega, M-Audio Audiophile USB, Opcode DAT-/SonicPort (optical), Onkyo MSE-U33(HB), Onkyo SE-U55(X(S)), Philips Aurilium (48kHz only), Roland-ED UA-30, Sitecom's 5.1 Audio Adapter (48kHz only), Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB (48 kHz only), Vivanco 5.1 Audio Converter (48kHz only), Waveidea UASC-1, Yamaha USB mixing desks and a number of more devices available at the online shop. Please download the demo.
Limitations using Creative Extigy with this driver: 48 kHz, stereo output, line or mic input (digital input only while output is muted), no MIDI, no remote control functionality. We worked hard to change this, still it seems to be impossible at the moment. But low latency at least...
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Brushes are made out of carbon and are integral in completing the circuit in the power tool so that it operates. The brushes make contact with the tool's motor, specifically the commutator on the armature. When the brushes make contact with the commutator, electricity can travel from the power source, to the motor and operate the tool. Brushes wear down and need to be replaced periodically; if the tool is intermittent or doesn't shut off, first inspect the brushes as this is the simplest solution.
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For additional parking assistance, please call Customer Relations at (949) 252-5200.
Parking data updated every five minutes.
Get to the Airport 90 minutes to two hours before your scheduled flight departure to find parking, check luggage and go through the security checkpoint. International travelers should allow three hours prior to flight departure. Passengers who are members of TSA Pre-Check will benefit from an expedited screening process.
While waiting for your flight to depart, enjoy one of our shops and restaurants. Get a sneak preview here: Restaurants | Shops
All terminal parking entrances are located on the Departure (upper) Level only. The parking rate is an economical $2 per hour. After entering Parking Structure A1, B2 or C, drivers picking up passengers at the Airport are encouraged to proceed to the ground level (Level 1) and utilize the 2-hour parking spaces. From there, it's just a short walk to the baggage claim or the elevators to the ticket counter areas where you can greet your party.
Color-coded and numbered columns along the white curb on the Arrival (lower) Level roadway make meeting arriving passengers easy. The white curb is for loading and unloading only. No parking please!
Park and say goodbye in the Terminal
Take some extra time to say goodbye and see your family member or friend off inside the Airport. You may park in a terminal parking structure close to the terminal of the respective airline. All Parking entrances are located on the Departure (upper) Level only. The rate is an economical $2 per hour, and dedicated two-hour parking spaces are available on the ground level (Level 1) of Parking Structures A1, B2 and C near the terminal entrance. From there it is just a short walk to the elevators to the ticket counters and security checkpoints on the Departure (upper) Level where you can say goodbye to your party. Only ticketed passengers are allowed beyond the security checkpoints.
Briefly stop at the white curb
Vehicles may briefly stop at the white curb for dropping off passengers on the Departure (upper) Level roadway — be careful not to stop at a red curb or other restricted areas as citations will be issued. Allowing enough time and parking your car will help make your experience less stressful. Curbside parking is not allowed. Do not leave your vehicle unattended at the curbside!
Go to the Arrivals or Departures section and find a flight by entering flight number, city and/or airline. The results will include more detailed flight information and a link to a visual flight tracker. Family and loved ones can observe the flight route from the comfort of their home or while waiting at the Airport. View arrivals and departures.
To save time at the Airport, visit your airline's website from the convenience of your home or mobile device. With a boarding pass and no baggage to check in, you may go directly to the security checkpoints.
International travelers may not have the option for online check-in, and a visit to the airline's ticket counter is recommended or may be required.
View a list of airlines with their terminal location.
Skycaps are available for selected airlines (American Airlines and Delta Airlines/Delta Connection, Southwest) to assist with checked baggage and printing of boarding passes. Use this option to bypass the ticket counter and proceed directly to the security checkpoints after dropping off your bags at the curb.
For your convenience, self-service kiosks are available for airline check-in and boarding pass printing throughout the ticket counter lobby. With a boarding pass and no baggage to check in, you may go directly to the security checkpoints.
For more personalized customer service or international travel, the airline ticket counters may be your best or required option. Ticket counters are located on the Departure (upper) Level in Terminals A, B and C. View a list of airlines with their terminal location.
TSA Pre✔® is a pre-screening initiative that allows travelers the ability to move through security checkpoints with greater efficiency and ease when traveling. Dedicated TSA Pre✔® lanes are located in Terminals A, B and C at John Wayne Airport.
The TSA Pre✔® Enrollment Center at John Wayne Airport is located on the Arrival (lower) Level of Terminal C, across from the Airport Information Booth, next to the U.S. Customs exit. While walk-ins may be accommodated, travelers are encouraged to pre-enroll and/or make an appointment online at www.TSA.gov or by contacting the Universal Enrollment Services Call Center at 855-DHS-UES1 (855-347-8371) Monday through Friday from 8 am to 10 pm (ET). The on-site Enrollment Center is open Monday through Friday from 6:30 am to 3:00 pm (closed 11:00 am-11:30 am), and on Saturdays 7 am to 2 pm (closed from 12 pm to 12:30 pm).
For additional information including eligible travelers and participating airlines, please visit the TSA Pre✔® website.
Security checkpoints are located in each Terminal (A, B and C) and you can access any gate from any security checkpoint location. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel operate and are responsible for the security screening process and checked baggage searches. A valid government-issued ID and boarding pass are required to pass through the security checkpoints (accommodations are made for children without ID). If you are meeting a child, elderly, or disabled person requiring assistance at the gate, you must contact your airline in advance to make arrangements for a gate pass.
To speed up the screening process, have your boarding pass and ID ready for inspection and place any loose items in your carry-on. Take outer garments and shoes off, remove laptop computers from bags and place them in a bin for screening. Do you want to simplify the screening process? Check out the TSA Pre-Check Program.
The TSA uses Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) at John Wayne Airport. For more information about AIT including privacy and opt-out information and other frequently asked questions please visit www.tsa.gov.
All carry-on items must be screened at the security checkpoint.
Keep baggage organized by layering items; this will increase visibility for the security officers. You are allowed one carry-on bag and one personal item – such as a laptop computer, purse, small backpack, briefcase, or camera case – through security screening and onto the aircraft ("1+1" rule).
Leave your gifts unwrapped. All gifts are subject to screening (including gifts in checked baggage). View TSA guidelines on traveling with food or gifts.
View the U.S. Department of Transportation's rules regarding batteries.
TSA allows you to bring one quart-sized, clear, plastic, zip-top bag filled with 3.4 ounce (100ml) or smaller size containers of these items placed in the security bin. If in doubt, put your liquids in checked baggage. Snow globes that appear to contain less than 3.4 ounces (approximately tennis ball size) will be permitted in carry-on baggage if the entire snow globe, including the base, is able to fit in the same one clear, plastic bag, as the passenger's other liquids. Larger sizes may be packed in checked baggage.
Declare larger quantity of liquids: The items listed below are allowed in reasonable quantities exceeding 3.4 ounces and are not required to be in a zip-top bag. Passengers are requested to declare these items for inspection at the checkpoint:
View more detailed information about TSA Permitted and Prohibited Items.
Never leave your baggage unattended. Do not accept baggage or packages from others you do not know. If you see any unattended baggage or packages report them immediately by calling Airport Police at 2-5000 from a white courtesy phone or 949-252-5000.
Medications, baby formula and food, breast milk, and juice are allowed in reasonable quantities exceeding 3.4 ounces (100ml) and are not required to be in the zip-top bag; however you must declare these items for inspection at the checkpoint. Please view the TSA tips for traveling with children to allow for a more stress-free screening process.
Travelers with medical conditions and disabilities can call toll-free at 1-855-787-2227 prior to traveling to ask questions about screening policies, procedures and about what to expect at the security checkpoints. The helpline is staffed Monday through Friday from 5 a.m. until 8 p.m. Pacific Time, and weekends and Holidays 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time. Travelers who are deaf or hard of hearing can use a relay service to contact TSA Cares or may e-mail: email@example.com. Visit tsa.gov for more information.
For additional parking assistance, please call Customer Relations at (949) 252-5200.
Parking data updated every five minutes.
Four parking structures are conveniently located next to the Thomas F. Riley Terminal. The terminal parking facilities have covered and uncovered parking spaces adjacent to or in close vicinity of the terminal. For those dropping off or picking up passengers, A1, B2 and C offer a limited amount of economical 2-hour parking spaces on the lower level near the entrance to the terminal.
Parking Structures A1 and A2 are located adjacent to and directly across from Terminal A (American, Delta and WestJet).
Parking Structures B2 and C are closest to Terminals B (Alaska and United) and C (Frontier and Southwest).
All terminal parking is accessible from the Departure (upper) Level only.
Convenient curbside Valet Parking is available on the Departure (upper) Level in front of the Riley Terminal. There are two drop-off locations: (1) curbside between Terminals A and B, or (2) curbside between Terminals B and C. On your return, you may call ahead for faster service - (949) 752-5558 or 2-4018 from any White Courtesy Phone.
Ultimate Detailing & Hand Car Wash
Passengers who valet park at John Wayne Airport may have their cars washed and detailed while traveling. Your car will be ready when you return! LAZ Parking, in partnership with Ultimate Detailing & Hand Car Wash, offers a convenient, safe and ecological amenity to valet parking customers.
Ultimate Auto Services and Pricing:
$29 / $34 Deluxe Hand Wash
$89 / $99 Ultimate Interior Detail
$89 / $99 Ultimate Exterior Detail
$55 / $65 Ultimate Wash & Wax
$159 / $179 Ultimate Complete Detail
The most economical option, the uncovered Main Street Parking, is located at 1512 Main Street in Irvine. Courtesy shuttle service to and from the Riley Terminal is available every 15 minutes. Shuttle buses are lift-equipped. Shuttle pick-up locations are located at the Terminal on the Arrival (lower) Level at the third island of the Ground Transportation Center for Terminals A and B, and in front of Terminal C Arrival (lower) Level just north of the crosswalk into Parking Structure B2.Get Directions to Main Street Parking
Cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover Card and American Express are accepted in all parking locations. Debit cards bearing the Visa or MasterCard logos are acceptable.
Ticketless Options: Passengers can park at any parking location without a parking ticket by using the ticketless parking option. When entering any parking facility, simply insert a valid credit card into the entry column's yellow slot or waive your contactless credit card at the entry column - no ticket will be issued to you and no charges will be incurred at entry time. Upon return and exiting the parking facility, proceed to any Express Exit Lane, and insert or waive the same credit card used upon entry for calculation of parking fees and payment. A receipt will automatically be printed. The SAME credit card MUST be for used entry AND exit. This ticketless method eliminates having to keep track of a parking ticket while away on travel, reduces wait time at exit, and eliminates waste from disposal of the paper parking ticket.
Contactless Credit Cards: With the implementation of JWA's state-of-the-art Parking Access and Revenue Control System (PARCS), passengers can waive their contactless credit cards such as MasterCard PayPass and American Express Pay at entry and exit lanes in lieu of inserting them into the machines, making for a quicker transaction.
Express Exit Lanes: Passengers paying by credit card can use dedicated Express Exit Lanes and avoid waiting for a cashier. A receipt will automatically be printed. Cash is not accepted in Express Exit Lanes.
Pay-on-Foot Stations (Parking Structure C only): Pay-on-foot stations allowing for credit card payment of parking fees, prior to returning to one's vehicle, are now available in Parking Structure C on levels 1 and 3. Pay-on-Foot stations allow passengers to pay parking fees and exit Parking Structure C using Express Exit Lanes without waiting for a cashier. Cash is not accepted at pay-on-foot stations.
Lost Ticket or Credit Card: Passengers will be charged the maximum daily rate from date of entry.
Extra wide accessible parking spaces are conveniently located in all parking facilities at the Airport. Vehicles parking in accessible spaces must display a valid Disabled Person Parking Placard or License Plate. Valet Parking has wheelchair access.
The transportation options below operate on a pre-set schedule. Please visit their websites for schedule information.
The Disneyland® Resort Express bus stop is located on the Arrival (lower) Level in the Ground Transportation Center.
Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) buses, Routes 76 and 212, and the i Shuttle, Route A, service John Wayne Airport. Their bus stop is located on the Arrival (lower) Level, curbside, in front of Terminal B. The closest Greyhound stop is located in the Santa Ana train station.
The nearest train stations are located in Irvine, Santa Ana and Tustin, all approximately 10 miles from John Wayne Airport.
The iShuttle, Route A, connects the Tustin Metrolink Station to John Wayne Airport via Von Karman Avenue.
Over 500 limousine companies provide service at John Wayne Airport. All limousine service must be arranged in advance. Please check your local telephone directory for a listing of companies or visit www.yellowpages.com and search for "Limousines" in the "714" or "949" area codes.
License To Pick Up
Be sure to verify with the limousine provider that the company is licensed to pick up passengers at John Wayne Airport. Any state-licensed limousine company is allowed to drop off passengers on the Departure (upper) Level roadway without restrictions.
On-site rental car companies offer convenient services at the Terminal. Their rental car counters are located on the Arrival (lower) Level, between Terminals A and B, right across from the statue of John Wayne. The rental car return is located on the lower level of Parking Structures A2 and B2 accessible from the Ground Transportation Center.
The following off-site rental car companies are licensed to pick up passengers from the terminal and shuttle them to their off-site locations.
Shuttle vans and buses operated by private companies are a popular and convenient transportation option. Shuttle service is available on the Arrival (lower) Level in the Ground Transportation Center. Look for shuttle coordinators who can assist you with your ground transportation needs.
John Wayne Airport Yellow Cab offers convenient taxicab service to travelers from the Ground Transportation Center (GTC) on the Arrival (lower) Level between Terminals A and B. Passengers arriving in Terminal C can call Yellow Cab from the Taxi Phone in Terminal C (near Baggage Carousel 5), for pickup at Column 14 on the Arrival (lower) Level. Taxicabs include standard 4-passenger vehicles, large capacity 7-passenger vans, and wheelchair access vans, and because Compressed Natural Gas powers the cabs, you'll be riding in some of the greenest yellow vehicles in Orange County! Look for the taxi coordinators who can assist you and get you on your way.
All taxicabs operating at John Wayne Airport are licensed through the Orange County Taxi Administration Program (OCTAP), a voluntary association of Orange County Agencies created to centralize taxicab regulation, coordinate taxicab services, and provide other administrative functions, under the direction of the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA). The OCTAP site allows customers to:
Visit the OCTAP website at www.octap.net for more information.
Transportation network companies operated by private companies are available by reservation only. The following companies are permitted to pick up curbside at John Wayne Airport. Please visit their website for details.


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Anaheim Police Shootout
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Police say Anaheim officers shot and killed a man who fired on probation officers and later shot and badly wounded a police dog.
Police Lt. Tim Schmidt says the officers were looking for a man and found him on a street corner with two others Thursday.
Schmidt tells the Orange County Register the other men fled and one of them fired three times on an officer who followed him. No officers were hurt.
Police began searching door-to-door and by helicopter for the suspect.
A police dog found him in an apartment-complex courtyard, and the man shot the dog twice.
Police then shot him, and he died at the scene. It was not clear how many officers fired, or how many times.
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Chef's Video Exposes Golden Corral Dumpster Food
A video taken by a Golden Corral employee showing mass quantities of food being stored by a dumpster has gone viral on Reddit and YouTube. In the video, Brandon Huber, a chef at the Port Orange, Florida location, explains that the company has hidden food by the dumpsters outside the restaurant during health inspection. Golden Corral released a statement claiming the manager (not Brandon) of the Port Orange location was fired for the indiscretion. Gross! Check out the full Golden Corral videos on Brandon's YouTube page: http://bit.ly/12dTzYY


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Innovation Strategy › Background
Why an innovation strategy?
OECD research and analysis show that innovation is a key driver of growth performance
The OECD Innovation Strategy draws on significant work carried out by more than 15 Committees and their working parties across 10 OECD Directorates, including numerous analytical projects, workshops, conferences, a series of country roundtables with policymakers and stakeholders. A specialist, high-level expert advisory group has provided guidance throughout the development of the project.
A growing number of countries are faced with stagnating or declining populations, and therefore labour inputs, and investments in physical capital face diminishing returns. These economic problems coincide with increasing political need to make progress against a number of social challenges, many of which are global in nature (such as climate change) or require global action (global health, food security and the growing scarcity of clean water).
Innovation in goods, services, processes and practices can help accelerate the recovery and put countries back on a path to sustainable – and greener – growth.
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While that might support the belief in other countries that a low amount of alcohol during pregnancy is okay, in the United States there is a different sentiment. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) maintains that the only certain method of protecting fetuses from the dangers of alcohol is abstention. Other countries are less concrete.
There is no certain answer as to whether alcohol is safe or not during pregnancy. Medical professionals both in the US and abroad fall on both sides -- some saying that occasional drinks are safe while others say that alcohol is never okay during conception or pregnancy. They all, however, agree that drinking a lot of alcohol is unacceptable.
"The evidence is clear that significant amounts of alcohol are harmful. There is no evidence to show whether small amounts are harmful or harmless. The cardinal rule of toxicology is that the poison is in the dose; i.e., if the amount is small enough, even the worst toxins are harmless; in large enough amounts everything is toxic, even water," says Harriet Hall, MD, of The SkepDoc.
Psychologist Raymond Shred points out that there are many behaviors with potential risks that people avoid, so alcohol during pregnancy should be no different. "On the other hand, alcohol is a poison -- it has its affects by altering brain function -- inhibits and/or kills brain cells. It may or may not affect the fetus. But, I don't understand why anyone would want to take a chance. If you do a cost benefit analysis of the situation you get the following. Drink wine -- chance of harm to the fetus -- above 0%. Don't drink wine -- chance of harm to mother and fetus = 0%," says Shred.
No one is certain what the magic amount that is okay to have is. Having a drink - one drink - on a few occasions while pregnant is considered light drinking. Even having a glass of wine a few times a week is light drinking. But drinking every night or to the point of drunkenness? That's heavy drinking and can lead to serious problems with a fetus.
"One thing is clear and that is that dose matters. The more a woman drinks and the frequency has an effect. So a woman who has 2 glasses of wine 3 times/week through out pregnancy has more of a cumulative exposure than a woman who drinks a few cosmos 1-2 times in her pregnancy," says Nurse Practictioner Barb Dehn. "It's controversial because when a baby's born, most who've been exposed to small to moderate amounts of alcohol look normal. It's not until children are older, perhaps having social or cognitive issues, that the effects might be seen."
Given the uncertainty of how much is too much and how little is okay, some moms-to-be choose to avoid alcohol all together while pregnant. But the relaxing properties of a glass of wine, as well as the health benefits of red wine, lead other moms to indulge in a glass here and there.
"People who are very risk-averse will bend over backwards to avoid even the smallest possibility of risk; other people will conclude that the pleasures and nutritional benefit of an occasional glass of wine outweigh the small possibility of risk. It is an individual decision based not on science and evidence but on one's individual philosophy about the risk/benefit ratio and about playing the odds," Hall said.
When asked if they indulged in wine while pregnant, the resounding answer for many moms was yes. In fact, many said that their doctors and medical professionals advised them -- particularly late in the third trimester -- that a glass here and there was perfectly fine.
"Yes, I did drink wine when pregnant (4oz of red) 3-4 times a week. This WAS recommended by my nurse practitioner as I was on bed-rest for pre-labor contractions for the last 3 months of my pregnancy," says mom Susie Shina, a fitness lifestylist.
So did mom Shari Cashman. "The second of my pregnancies was high risk due to a full placenta previa. And absolutely I drank red wine during both pregnancies. My doctor encouraged it more so during my second pregnancy. He often told me he would rather me have a glass of wine to relax myself from the stress of a full time job, being pregnant AGAIN and taking care of an infant than cause myself any undue stress potentially resulting in bed rest. That was more than enough incentive. I do have to say that one glass did the trick," said Cashman.
For moms who decide to drink while pregnant, there is a stigma that can be difficult to stomach. From waiters who won't serve them to friends who feel the need to add their two cents, the perception that any alcohol at all is bad is particularly pronounced.
For mom-to-be Lizz Stendera, the negative reaction came at her own home during a dinner party.
"My most interesting encounter was with a women five years my junior who is neither married or has children, but felt the need to tell me, 'You're not having a glass though." ... I, the hostess, was being informed by a guest that I could not possibly have any wine. I feel it's important that women, even if they feel they can't support one another's decisions, not judge each other," says Stendera.
Cashman ordered wine in a restaurant and could feel eyes upon her. "I ordered wine while visibly pregnant in a restaurant and I still remember a few of the glaring looks. Mostly from older women which really struck me as odd considering women my mothers age seemed to always have a martini and cigarette in their hands while they were pregnant," said Cashman.
Mom Nina Birnbaum says that the issue of occasional glasses of wine or even a beer is blown out of proportion by American society. In her opinion, "the whole issue of drinking while pregnant is overblown in the particularly absolutist American way. Yes, being a drunk is certainly bad for your fetus. However, having a glass of wine every so often with dinner probably does not cause irreparable harm. As usual, the authorities seem to feel that women can't be trusted to make competent decisions about our own bodies in this regard," said Birnbaum.
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Edge of Tomorrow (M, 113 mins, ★★★☆) Read Philippa Hawker's full review
This is an entertaining alien invasion movie with neat narrative wrinkles and glancing references to some classic SF-action films. Its scenario is impending doom, in a very near future that has some curious historical echoes – of a planned landing in Normandy, for one. At times, it takes a playful approach to desperation and annihilation, and it also takes liberties with our expectations. Tom Cruise, for example, doesn't start out as the action hero with Mission: Impossible abilities. He presents as a fairly dubious character – a cynical military spin doctor with the rank of major who has never seen a minute of combat, and doesn't intend to. Emily Blunt – not an obvious Amazon – makes a plausible super-warrior.
The Rover (MA15+, 103 mins, ★★★) Read Paul Byrnes' full review
David Michod's second feature, after the superb surprise of Animal Kingdom, is once again about the darker side of humanity, but this time, he doesn't bother explaining his characters or their predicament. Three criminals (David Field, Tawanda Manyimo, Scoot McNairy) are on the run in a ''post-collapse'' Australia after a shootout. We don't know what they stole or why they shot a soldier. They grab a car belonging to a wizened and limping Guy Pearce. There's a great and funny shot as the bad guys' original car skids past the cafe window at speed on its roof. That's as close as the film comes to humour.
The Fault In Our Stars (M, 126 mins, ★★☆) Read Jake Wilson's full review
There's a pleasing straightforwardness to this teen cancer drama, especially in the earlier, more upbeat scenes. As romance blossoms, the film literally brightens, with swathes of the cheery primary colours you might expect to see in an actual teen cancer ward. Needless to say, the director, Josh Boone, is softening us up for the final act, designed to tug at our heartstrings extensively, repetitively and without remorse. I felt my own heart hardening by the time of the third tear-jerking setpiece but sniffles all round me continued to the end. The emotional manipulation would be harder to take if not for Shailene Woodley, who has quickly and deservedly become a new "young adult" star.
Omar (M, 98 mins, ★★★☆) Read Jake Wilson's full review
This punchy social melodrama from Palestinian writer-director Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) grabs attention from its first scene. The long-limbed young protagonist Omar (newcomer Adam Bakri) is shown in wide shot, using a rope to scale the separation wall running through the West Bank. When he reaches the top, gunshots sail past him: blam, blam! Quick as he can, he slides down the rope on the other side and flees. Only when he's safe does he pause to look, ruefully, at his bloodied palms. The symbolism is typical of Abu-Assad's bluntly ingenious approach: Omar will soon have blood on his hands in another sense.


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Arcade Fire asks concertgoers to wear formal attire
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Arcade Fire fans may need to spend a little extra time getting ready for one of the band's upcoming concerts.
According to a special note on the Ticketmaster site for the Canadian indie rockers "Reflektor" tour, they're asking everyone attending the shows to wear "formal attire or costume."
They've made similar requests at earlier gigs this year, including their hometown performance in Montreal back in September. They sent out a tweet explaining that formal attire or costumes were mandatory, adding that by "formal" they mean a "suit, dress, or fancy something."
Tickets for Arcade Fire's "Reflektor" trek go on sale this Friday, with the outing scheduled to start March 6th in Louisville, Kentucky.
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2010 NFL Draft Prospect Scouting Report:
Brandon Graham, OLB, Michigan
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FaLcons, don't pass on this guy at 19th, althought the defense is changing to the 3-4 defense i still think Graham would be a asset to rush the passer, something Atlanta despritely needs to help the young secondary.
Senaca 03/04/10 02:40 PM
Graham is going to be a very good NFL outside linebacker. He should go anywhere between 15 and 25.
MikeLock 02/24/10 08:28 PM
I'd be ecstatic if the Dolphins drafted him!! They can trade down a few and still grab him.
All those tackles for loss and sacks; he is great vs the run and as a pass rusher. That makes him a great candidate for LOLB in a 3-4 who can play every down. Elvis Dumerville led the league in sacks as a 3-4 OLB and he is 5'11''. Graham has consistently dominated for 2 straight years, if he was a few inches taller he'd be a consensus top 10 pick.
Have you watched Graham play? I think he's got the best motor for a DE in the draft. He might slip to the 2nd, but no way he goes to the 3rd... 1st round talent on a bad team.
B atch 02/23/10 12:51 PM
He had a great Senior Bowl but he shouldnt go from a rnd 2-3 Prospect to rnd 1
nflmaster 02/23/10 09:24 AM
True hybrid who is as tough and tenacious as they come in terms of pass rushing in college football. If the Jets drafted this kid I would do cartwheels
Eddie DiGio 02/17/10 01:40 PM
If a team drafts him to play OLB, it is a mistake. He has a Dwight Freeney skillset and about the same size. Great pass rusher but a force in the run game. Why is he put on the OLB's list? Because he's only 6'2''? I don't get it...
B atch 02/15/10 11:47 PM
Most impressive player on the field at the senior bowl. He will be a force in the NFL in the right system.
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Clean catch urine sampleUrine culture - clean catch; Urinalysis - clean catch; Clean catch urine specimen; Urine collection - clean catch
A clean catch is a method of collecting a urine sample to be tested. The clean-catch urine method is used to prevent germs from the penis or vagina from getting into a urine sample.
How the Test is Performed
If possible, collect the sample when urine has been in your bladder for 2 to 3 hours.
You will use a special kit to collect the urine. It will most likely have a cup with a lid and wipes.
Wash your hands with soap and warm water.
Girls and women need to wash the area between the vagina "lips" (labia). You may be given a special clean-catch kit that contains sterile wipes.
- Sit on the toilet with your legs spread apart. Use two fingers to spread open your labia.
- Use the first wipe to clean the inner folds of the labia. Wipe from the front to the back.
- Use a second wipe to clean over the opening where urine comes out (urethra), just above the opening of the vagina.
To collect the urine sample:
- Keeping your labia spread open, urinate a small amount into the toilet bowl, then stop the flow of urine.
- Hold the urine cup a few inches from the urethra and urinate until the cup is about half full.
- You may finish urinating into the toilet bowl.
Clean the head of the penis with a sterile wipe. If you are not circumcised, you will need to pull back (retract) the foreskin first.
- Urinate a small amount into the toilet bowl, and then stop the flow of urine.
- Then collect a sample of urine into the clean or sterile cup, until it is half full.
- You may finish urinating into the toilet bowl.
You will be given a special bag to collect the urine. It will be a plastic bag with a sticky strip on one end, made to fit over your baby's genital area.
If the collection is being taken from an infant, you may need extra collection bags.
Wash the area well with soap and water, and dry. Open and place the bag on your infant.
- For boys, the entire penis can be placed in the bag.
- For girls, place the bag over the labia.
You can put on a diaper over the bag.
Check the baby often and remove the bag after the urine collects in it. Active infants may displace the bag, so you may need to make more than one attempt. Drain the urine into the container you were given and return it to the health care provider as directed.
Screw the lid tightly on the cup. Do not touch the inside of the cup or the lid.
- Return the sample to the health care provider.
- If you are at home, place the cup in a plastic bag and put the bag in the refrigerator until you take it to the lab or your health care provider's office.
Norrby SR. Approach to the patient with urinary tract infection. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 292.
Sanford KW, McPherson RA. Preanalysis. In: Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al, eds. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2011:chap 3.
Review Date: 8/30/2012
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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Lesson Outline:
1. Review and Overview
A. Reading the Last Book
B. Promised of Old
C. The New Son of David
2. To the City of David
A. The Blind See the Son of David
B. Making a King's Entrance
C. Enemies in the Temple
3. The Son's Identity Revealed.
A. The Lord of His Lord
B. The Son of God
C. Gathered Against the Anointed
D. The Nations Are His Inheritance
4. Study Questions
I. Review and Overview
A. Reading the Last Book
In this final lesson, we're going to be looking at the last of the "five books" of Matthew's Gospel (see Matthew 19-25) and what we identified as the Gospel's "epilogue" - Matthew's narrative of Jesus' Passion, death and Resurrection (see Matthew 26-28).
In these sections, Matthew uses his literary skill and his deep and nuanced understanding of the Old Testament to bring together a number of the themes he has sounded throughout the Gospel.
We're going to focus on one of those themes: Matthew's use of Old Testament traditions and expectations concerning the Davidic covenant.
B. Promised of Old
This is a them we pointed out in our first lesson and reintroduced in our last lesson. To review: God's "everlasting covenant" with David (see 2 Samuel 23:5; Psalm 89:4-29;132:12), marked the pinnacle of the Old Testament.
In promising to establish David's son as His own son and to give him an everlasting kingdom that would extend over all nations (see 2 Samuel 7:8-16; 1 Chronicles 17:7-14), God declared the Son of David to be the one who would fulfill His promise to Abraham.
God's covenant with Abraham was that he would be the father of many nations and that through his son Isaac, all the nation's of the world would be blessed of descendants (seeGenesis 17:4-8; 22:15-18).
It was to honor that covenant with Abraham that God raised up Moses to deliver Israel, the nation born of the children of Isaac, from Egypt (see Exodus 2:24; 6:5). And it was for "my people Israel" that God established His covenant with David (see 2 Samuel 7:8,10,11; 1 Chronicles 16:14-18).
As we noted in our first lesson, and as Matthew notices in the very first lines of his Gospel, at the time of Jesus' birth God's promise to David seemed to have been left unfulfilled.
The kingdom established by David's son had been destroyed. First it was divided in two by a civil war. Next both rival kingdoms were conquered and the peoples swept off into exile.
Through the prophets, God had foretold the coming of a Messiah, a righteous offshoot, a son of David (see Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 3:8; 6:12). Like David, he would be a shepherd for God's people and would be the sign of a new covenant between God and His people (see Ezekiel 34:23-25; 37:24-27).
This shepherd king (see Jeremiah 23:3-7; Hosea 3:5) would gather up the exiled people, restore the kingdom of David and would reign forever (see Isaiah 9:5-6; Jeremiah 33:15-18).
C. The New Son of David
These are dominant themes, as we have noted, in Matthew's Gospel.
Nine times Jesus is called "son of David" in Matthew (as compared to twice in Mark and Luke and none in John).
Jesus' birthplace, Bethlehem, is recalled as "the city of David" (see Matthew 2:1; 1 Samuel 20:6). Like the Davidic Messiah, Jesus is called God's "beloved son" at His baptism (seeMatthew 3:17; Psalm 2:7).
Jesus first announces "the kingdom" in Galilee, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, to fulfill Isaiah's prophecy that the rebuilding of David's kingdom would begin precisely in the region where the kingdom's destruction began (see Matthew 4:12-17; Isaiah 9:1-2).
The beginning of the end of the kingdom was the Assyrian invasion of these regions (see 2 Kings 15:29). Isaiah had seen the kingdom being renewed in the "Galilee of the Gentiles," with the birth of a king who would sit upon David's throne (see Isaiah 9:7).
II. To the City of David
A. The Blind See the Son of David
We begin our study of Matthew's last book on the road to Jerusalem, as Jesus stops to heal two blind men who have been following Him (see Matthew 20:29-34).
The scene is very similar to one we saw earlier, at the beginning of Jesus' public career - in which two blind men identify Jesus as "Son of David" and beg that He restore their sight (see Matthew 9:27-31).
Here again, Matthew is drawing on the tradition that associated the Messiah, the anointed Son of David, with powers of exorcism and healing, especially related to the "blind and the lame."
Jesus' healing of a demon-possessed blind mute earlier provoked the crowds to question aloud: "Could this perhaps be the Son of David?" (see Matthew 12:22-23). And throughout this Gospel, Jesus' healings are frequently associated with the title "Son of David" (seeMatthew 15:22).
We see this tradition in the other Gospels. In fact, apart from Matthew, the only other places in the New Testament where Jesus is called "Son of David" are in scenes of miraculous healings (see Mark 10:47-48; Luke 18:38-39).
Devout Jews expected the Davidic Messiah to cast out demons and heal the blind, the deaf and the mute (see Isaiah 29:18; 35:5-6; 42:7,16).
This expectation appears to have begun with the power of David's harp playing to exorcise the demons plaguing King Saul (see I Samuel 16:14-23). In traditions attested both in and outside the Bible (see Wisdom 7:20), David's son, Solomon, also received power over demons and infirmities (see Josephus, The Antitquities of the Jews, Book 8, Chapter 2, no. 5).
Matthew, in effect, frames the ministry of Jesus around two miraculous healings of blind men who are able to "see" that He is the Messiah, the Son of David. In the first instance, He sharply commands those He heals: "See that know one knows about this."
Here, He imposes no such restrictions. Indeed, they follow Him into Jerusalem and become part of the crowd that proclaims Him the Savior, the Son of David who comes in the name of the Lord (see Matthew 21:9).
In fact, in the Greek text there are strong connections between the healing story and the story of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem - in both we see:
- "great" or "very large" "crowds" (compare 20:29,30 and 21:8,9,11);
- "following" (compare 20:29,34 and 21:9);
- "on the road[side]" (compare 20:29 and 21:8); and
- people "crying out" (compare 20:30 and 21:9) for Jesus as
- the "son of David" (compare 20:30,31 and 21:9).
B. Making a King's Entrance
Matthew depicts Jesus entering Jerusalem like a king (see Matthew 21:1-11).
He uses a "formula citation" to announce that Jesus is "fulfilling" Old Testament prophecy.
Actually, Matthew brings together two distinct but related prophecies. The first is from Isaiah, who foresaw Israel's "savior" coming down a "highway" to make to take "daughter Zion" as His "bride" (see Isaiah 62:4,10-11). The second is from Zechariah, who also saw the "savior" coming to "daughter Zion" - as a king riding atop a colt and an ass to fulfill "the blood of [God's] covenant" with Israel (see Zechariah 9:9-11; compare Exodus 24:8).
These prophetic expectations perhaps explain why Jesus, upon entering Jerusalem, delivers a parable about a king who calls a wedding feast for his son (see Matthew 22:1-14) and uses the words, "my blood of the covenant" at His last supper (see Matthew 26:28).
The stage for this royal wedding covenant feast is being set by Matthew with his description of Jesus' entrance to Jerusalem.
The scene seems deliberately drawn to evoke the anointing and crowning of Solomon as king (see 1 Kings 1). Jesus is proclaimed "Son of David" (see Matthew 21:9,15) as Samuel was (see Proverbs 1:1).
As Samuel rode King David's mule to Gihon to be anointed by Zadok the priest (see 1 Kings 1:38, 44), Jesus rides a mule into town (see Matthew 21:7). The crowd greets Jesus with an Old Testament gesture of submission to a king - spreading their cloaks on the road before Him (see Matthew 21:8; 2 Kings 9:13).
The coming of Samuel as king caused a tumult of shouting and rejoicing that nearly "split open the earth" (see 1 Kings 1:39-41,45). In Jerusalem, the crowd "kept crying out and…the whole city was shaken" (see Matthew 21:9-10).
Finally, the commotion in Jerusalem provokes questions about who Jesus is (see Matthew 21:10), just as people in Solomon's case asked: "What does this uproar in the city mean?" (see 1 Kings 1:41,45).
Matthew uses this Old Testament memory to communicate to his readers that Jesus is the new Son of David, the new King of Israel.
This is further dramatized by the cries of the crowd (see Matthew 21:9,15). Not only do they proclaim Him the "Son of David," they cry out the lines from Psalm 118 - a familiar hymn of thanksgiving to the Lord as savior of Israel.
The word Hosanna means, "O Lord, grant salvation" (see Psalm 118:25-26) and Matthew's reference to the Psalm here reinforces his earlier allusion to Zechariah and Isaiah and their prophecies of Israel's coming "savior."
Jesus is the Son of David, the King of the Jews - He is also the Lord, the Savior of Israel (see Psalm 188:14).
C. Enemies in the Temple
Jesus, as King, takes possession of His capital peacefully, as Solomon did. His first action is to reclaim the sanctuary, the Temple, and to call Israel's religious leaders back to their original sacred purpose (see Matthew 21:12-16).
We see here another echo of David's career. After establishing Jerusalem as "the City of David," the new king's first act was to return the Ark of the Covenant, the vessel of God's presence, and to restore the sacred order of the Levitical priests (see 2 Samuel 6; 1 Chronicles 15-16).
There is a further Davidic note in Jesus' cleansing of the Temple. Notice the curious detail: the blind and lame approach Him in the temple area and He cures them (see Matthew 21:14). These are His last cures in Matthew's Gospel.
But Matthew here too seems to be invoking deep Old Testament memories.
He hearkens back to David's anointing as king of all Israel. Following his anointing, his first action was to attack Jerusalem in order to make it the capital of his kingdom.
The Jebusites, who occupied the city, mocked David, telling him that even the blind and the lame could his army away. David, for some unexplained reason, pronounced the blind and lame to be "personal enemies" and forbid them to enter the temple (see 2 Samuel 5:6-9).
Although his exact meaning isn't clear, Matthew here seems to be depicting a new conquest of "the city of David" by David's heir - not by military might but by meekness (seeMatthew 21:5). In this new "capture" of Jerusalem, David's curse on the blind and lame is annulled in a miraculous sign that all will be welcome in the Temple of the new king.
III. The Son's Identity Revealed
A. The Lord of His Lord
Matthew began his Gospel depicting three magi wanting to know the whereabouts of the newborn "the king of the Jews" (see Matthew 2:2).
And at the end of his Gospel, the subtext of the drama once again turns on whether Jesus is truly that "king of the Jews" (see Matthew 27:42).
"King of the Jews" is how non-Jews refer to Israel's anticipated Messiah (see Matthew 2:4). In fact, in the New Testament, the phrase is only used by Gentiles (see also Mark 15:32;John 1:49; 12:13).
That is why the Jewish leadership arrests Jesus and demands to know whether He is "the Messiah" (see Matthew 26:63), while Pilate demands to know whether He is "the king of the Jews" (see Matthew 27:11).
Jesus' "Davidic sonship" - the preoccupation of Matthew's initial chapters - forms the climax of the controversy in his concluding chapters.
We see this in the final question He puts to the Pharisees: "What is your opinion about the Messiah? Whose son is he?" (see Matthew 22:41-46).
They respond - accurately, according to their understanding of the prophetic tradition - that the Messiah is expected to be the son of David.
Jesus takes the question to a deeper level, reminding them that in their own tradition, the Messiah, the Son of David, is also to be the Son of God.
This theme has been quietly developing in Matthew, beginning with His birth by the power of the Holy Spirit (see Matthew 1:1, 20-23).
We have mentioned three places in Matthew's Gospel where individuals (not simply the crowds) have recognized and addressed Jesus as "Son of David" - the blind men at the start of His ministry (see Matthew 9:27-31), the Canaanite woman whose daughter is tormented with a demon (see Matthew 15:21-28) and the two blind men at the end of His ministry (see Matthew 20:29-34).
Return to each of those passages and see if you notice something else. In each instance, the individuals also call Him, "Lord" (see Matthew 9:28; 15:22,25,27; 20:20,31).
B. The Son of God
Notice, too, how subtly Matthew has deployed the phrase "Son of God" in His Gospel. It is never heard on the lips of Jesus, although He does refer to himself as the Son of Man.
"Son of God" is first used by the Devil and persons possessed by the devil (see Matthew 4:3,6; 8:29). Only the Apostles recognize Him by this title (see Matthew 14:33; 16:16), although at both His Baptism and Transfiguration, the voice of God is heard declaring Jesus to be "My beloved Son" (see Matthew 3:17; 17:5).
What Matthew has been subtly trying to show throughout his narrative, Jesus finally reveals at the end. He does this through a skillful interpretation of Psalm 110.
Jesus asks how Psalm 110 could describe David calling the Messiah "my Lord." How could the Messiah be both David's son and David's lord?
To understand His question, we have to know that Psalm 110 was believed to have been written by David and to be a Psalm about the Messiah. It describes the Messiah as begotten by God and seated at His right hand in heaven as both a princely ruler over the nations and as a priest.
Jesus' question is how this Messiah, this royal high priest and son of God, can also be David's son. The answer that the Pharisees cannot give is that David's son, the Messiah, must also be a divine offspring, the Son of God.
Again, Jesus delivers this answer, not by simple proclamation, but by a patient interpretation of Psalm 110 that reveals the inadequacies of the Pharisees' interpretation.
This Psalm, many scholars believe, was composed to celebrate the crowning of a Davidic king. It is ascribed to David and could very well have originated with the crowning of Solomon, David's Son.
Recall that Solomon was anointed king shortly before David's death, causing David to cry with joy: "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has this day seated one of my sons upon my throne, so that I see it with my own eyes" (see 1 Kings 1:48).
Thus, for a brief period, David could have referred to his own son, Solomon, as he is said to in Psalm 110:1 - as his Lord, that is, as his king and superior, his "Lord."
Psalm 110 is referred to more frequently in the New Testament than any other Old Testament passage. That's probably because here in Matthew Jesus essentially declares that the Psalm prophesied about Him - that He is the "Lord" who David refers to as "my Lord" in the opening verse (see Matthew 22:41-45).
And key images from the Psalm resound in the teaching and preaching of the New Testament:
* Jesus enthroned at God's right hand (see Psalm 110:2; Matthew 26:64; Mark 16:19; Acts 2:33-34; Romans 8:34; Ephesians 1:20; Colossians 3:1; Hebrews 1:3; 8:1; 10:12; 12:2).
* The enemies of Jesus put under His foot, made His "footstool" (see Psalm 110:2; 1 Corinthians 15:25,27; Ephesians 1:22; Hebrews 2:8; 10:13).
* Jesus as the new Melchizedek, the mysterious high priest who offers bread and wine and bestows blessings on Abram (see Psalm 110:4; Hebrews 6:20-7:1-3, 15-17; 20-26;Genesis 14:17-20).
C. Gathered Against the Anointed
But there is one more Psalm that lies in the background of Jesus' confrontation with the Pharisees. Actually, it is just one word from the Greek translation of the Psalm.
But in that word, Matthew evokes the eschatological drama about to take place - the death of the Lord's anointed, the Messiah.
Notice the innocuous phrase that begins the story of Jesus' debate. The Pharisees are described as "gathered together" (see Matthew 22:41). In the Greek, that same word (synago) is used in Psalm 2 to describe how the princes of the world "conspire together against the Lord and against His anointed" (see Psalm 2:2).
Matthew is subtly situating the entire discussion in the context of the Pharisees' conspiracy to thwart Jesus. And this showdown marks the end of all His debates with the Jewish religious authorities in Matthew's Gospel.
Clearly, the authorities now know the divine claims that Jesus is making about himself, something that previously only demons and Apostles have recognized. When He is hauled before the Sanhedrin a day or so later, on the last Friday of His life, the High Priest has only one question for Him - Is He truly "the Son of God"? (see Matthew 26:63).
And during the narrative of Jesus' Passion and death, Matthew continues to remind readers that Jesus is being killed for His identity:
* Pilate twice identifies Him as "Jesus called Messiah" (see Matthew 27:17,22);
* The soldiers cruelly mock Him: "Hail, King of the Jews" (see Matthew 27:27-29) and on the Cross they nail "the written charge against Him: This is Jesus the King of the Jews" (see Matthew 27:37).
* The chief priests, scribes and elders, too, mock Him as He hangs on the Cross, taunting Him: "So He is the King of Israel…He said, 'I am the Son of God'" (see Matthew 27:42-43).
D. The Nations Are His Inheritance
Skepticism and cruelty, however, are not the last words in Matthew's narrative of the crucifixion. When the earth quakes upon His death, one of the soldiers concludes what Matthew wants all of his readers to conclude: "Truly this was the Son of God!" (seeMatthew 27:54).
Matthew carries the Son of God and Davidic King images through into the last scene of his Gospel (see Matthew 28:16-20).
Jesus, at the end, is depicted as the son of a king, being "given" his inheritance. In this case, the kingly Father is God, and the inheritance is "all power in heaven and on earth."
Matthew here appears to be recalling the royal, heavenly scene in Daniel's prophecy, where "one like a son of man" is presented before the "Ancient One." The son figure is given "glory and kingship, nations and peoples of every language serve him, his dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not be taken away" (see Daniel 7:13-14).
The language in Daniel recalls God's promises to David - that his "son" will be considered a son of God, that he will reign as king "forever," and his throne shall never be "withdrawn" (see 1 Chronicles 17).
This promise is celebrated in Psalm 2, where God establishes the Messiah as king, declares him to be "my son," and then promises: "As of me and I will give you the nations for an inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession" (see Psalm 2: 6-8).
Matthew's final verses also show Jesus fulfilling God's promise to Abraham (remember that in Matthew's first line, Jesus is called "son of Abraham"). God had promised that all the nations of the earth would be blessed in the descendant of Abraham (see Genesis 12:3;18:18; 22:18)
In commissioning the Church, Jesus, the ultimate son of Abraham, is fulfilling that promise - extending God's blessings to all nations through Baptism and the teaching of the Church.
We also, see at the end of this Gospel, another theme we highlighted earlier in this course - Jesus as the "new Moses."
While in this lesson we've focused on the importance of Jesus as a "new David," throughout this last book Matthew has continued using Mosaiac imagery and allusions to show that Jesus is the prophet-king promised by Moses (see Deuteronomy 18:15,18).
And His commissioning of the Apostles recalls Moses' commissioning of Joshua.
As Joshua was ordered to cross the Jordan and make the land the "domain" of Israel (seeJoshua 1:2-4), the Apostles are sent to claim all the world for the Trinity - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Joshua is commanded to "observe the entire law" given to Israel by Moses, as Jesus commands the Apostles to (compare Joshua 1:7,8 and Matthew 28:20).
Moses tells Joshua that God "will be with you and will never fail you or forsake you" (see Deuteronomy 31:8). The Lord himself tells Joshua: "I myself will be with you" (seeDeuteronomy 31:23; Joshua 1:5,9).
And these are the last words on Jesus' lips in Matthew's Gospel: "I am with you always" (see Matthew 28:20).
IV. Study Questions
1. What is the relation between God's covenant with Abraham and His "everlasting covenant" with David? Reviewing Lesson 1 of this course, describe why at the time of Jesus' birth, it appeared to many that the covenant with David was, in effect, a broken promise.
2. Review the texts of 2 Kings and Isaiah and explain how Jesus' announcement of the kingdom in the Gentile region of Galilee is an announcement of the restoration of the Davidic Kingdom.
3. How is Jesus' entry into Jerusalem compared to the Old Testament coronation of the son of David?
4. In what ways did the New Testament see Jesus as prefigured in Psalm 110?


text: Apparently even though the entire world thinks Jessica Biel is a truly awful actress, you might be surprised that she does not feel that way. I mean she does have a point in that she convinced Justin Timberlake to marry her, but one bad actor to another…Anyway, Jessica thinks she is great and thought that she was going to land Anne Hathaway's role in Les Miserables. Honestly, she really felt that way. Does she sing? I think her reps are enabling her and need to tell her that she needs to go the Jessica Alba route. Find one character in an action movie ensemble cast where you don't have to do much except look good and cash big checks and in the meantime try and find something you like to do when that role disappears and come back in 20 years to start filming some cameos before you play the role of a mom on a sitcom or independent movies. Oh, Jessica also thought she would get the role of Catwoman. Probably not as big of a stretch, but when you audition against people who can act, it is tough to win a role. There is always the infomercial route too.