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- Michael Feyfar (Tenor)
- Gabriela B�rgler
- Dominik W�rner (Bass Baritone)
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In 'Le Devin du Village,' The shepherd Colin, who has taken to courting a noble lady, grows weary of a life of luxury and returns to his simple country life with the shepherdess Colette. Rousseau could not have come up with a better plot for the impressive and urgent proclamation of the motto that turned the eighteenth century around and upside down: Back to Nature! Tragic subjects from antiquity would no longer monopolize the dramatic realm; the plain, simple, and everyday would finally find a welcome place on the stage. Rousseau's little opera is endowed with charming, deliberately simple music more than meriting a new recording with historical instruments.
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Works Details
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques : Le devin du village- Performers: Gabriela Bürgler; Michael Feyfar (Tenor); Dominik Wörner (Bass Baritone)
- Conductor: Andreas Reize
- Ensemble: Cantus Firmus
- Running Time: 3 min. 49 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1752
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Too Much Money for Tourism updated: Jul 17, 2014, 11:15 AM
By Tom Lewis
I have read in the news this week that our Santa Barbara City Council approved approximately $1.3 million dollars of our tax money to go towards tourism. This is a waste of our money and is ruining the integrity of Santa Barbara. Our schools, our roads, our parks, our non-profits, and our small businesses should receive these funds instead.
The reason people used to like visiting Santa Barbara was because of our small town charm and the stark difference and escape from over developed towns like Newport Beach, LA, and San Diego. Now it appears that our money hungry City Council is looking to ditch the small town feel and move towards another LA suburb.
KEYT states that "... Visit Santa Barbara, Old Spanish Days and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival are recipients of big money." These are the biggest organizations in town that generate a large amount of revenue already. Did they really need our tax dollars to further denigrate Santa Barbara's reputation?
Here is the list of money to be received:
Visit Santa Barbara is said to promote Santa Barbara as a tourist destination. Why do they need $1 million dollars to do that? All it will go to are ridiculous commercials and Facebook account management! They are the part of the reason why television shows from Los Angeles are now starting to film in our town. Remember the Bachelorette reality show shooting? How much money do you think the City received from that show alone? They were here for what seemed like 4 days!
This video is on the Visit SB youtube account. About how much do you think was spent on it? Is this where our money is going?
And remember when they spent $10,000 on a hideous logo? There were over 100 edhat comments about it.
Erik Davis of Old Spanish Days said, "Fiesta brings in $34 million to the region compared to the weekends prior and after the Old Spanish Days event." Why do you need an extra $100k?
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is the worst representation of Santa Barbara. It should be called "Northern LA International Film Festival that snubs locals unless you have $$ to pay for highly inflated movie ticket prices." The Film Festival could not be less involved in our community if they tried.
I suggest the City Council reviews their funding to these tourism organizations for visitors and instead puts the money back into the community for the people who actually live here! Roads, schools, jobs, etc. We live here and we should be able to enjoy the fruits of our labors, not visitors.
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Michigan State University: Admissions Q&A
After Jeff McNish, director of admissions for the full-time MBA program at Michigan State University, received his MBA from Michigan State's Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, he got a job in the automotive industry.
That was common when he was a student. This year, he'd be an anomaly.
It's been a while since MBA graduates from the Broad School—located near Detroit, the nation's struggling automotive capitol—flocked to executive positions with the Big Three automakers. In recent years they've broadened their horizons and found places at a wide array of companies, McNish says, aided by a strong knowledge base in supply chain management.
In a conversation with BusinessWeek's Anne VanderMey, McNish talks about why a degree from the school that pioneered supply chain management is widely applicable, what Detroit's uncertain future means for students, and why the word "Broad" isn't pronounced the way you probably expect. An edited portion of the conversation follows.
Have there been any big changes to the application process in the last couple of years?
There have—two, in fact. The first is related to an essay question that really focuses on a candidate's life experiences and how those life experiences have shaped the candidate as an individual and shaped his or her leadership abilities. The second change to our application process is the addition of a new member to the admissions committee. That's our new director of MBA career services. His name is Joe Garcia and he's new to the business school and new to our admissions committee. His voice on the committee is really helpful, given his management and leadership experience as well as his background in sales and marketing. His role really helps us focus on what I consider to be the employability of an applicant—how successful this candidate will be in the post-MBA career search.
On that subject, do you have any sense of how Broad graduates are doing in terms of career placement right now?
We just came back from spring break, our students just returned on Monday, and I know our career services team is working really hard to sort of make an assessment of where our students are right now. Before spring break, we were a little bit behind where we were this time last year in terms of our internships and job offers. I would argue that this might be still the case. We have a little process here, though. Whenever an applicant receives a job offer, whether it's for an internship or full-time work, the student comes up and we have sort of a recognition ceremony. We have a set of glass vases and a student with an offer drops a ping-pong ball in—a green one or a white one—and we've been dropping a lot of ping pong balls in the last couple of weeks. I'm hopeful that once we get through this assessment after spring break that we'll be on par with where we were last year. I think everybody's saying it's a pretty tough market and people are having to work very hard to find jobs.
There's actually a big glass vase in your office filled with green and white ping pong balls?
There are two gigantic glass vases that we have, and one is for internships and one is for full time offers. Whenever a student secures an offer with a company, they come up and all of us in the office gather round. They talk about their offer and they ceremonially drop the ball into the vase and we cheer them on, I guess. It's fun because it helps us collect data, but at the same time the intangible benefit is that corporate recruiters see it and perspective students see it. It gives them something real to look at: Recruiters see how many balls are in the vases and perspective students will see the accomplishments of our current students. So it's kind of a fun thing we do around here and it's especially fun in these trying times.
Would you say the vases are reasonably full right now?
They are. They are reasonably full so that's another exciting part of it, too.
How has the collapse of the auto industry affected students' career trajectories?
When I was a student here back in 1999, a lot of people took jobs in the automotive industry. I even took a job in the automotive industry; I worked for Delphi. So my perception as a student was that lots of Broad MBAs end up in the auto industry. To my surprise, when I came to the admissions department four years ago, that had completely changed. For at least the last four years, the automotive industry hasn't taken as many Broad MBAs. They are taking MBAs, and we do have interns who are going to the car companies, but I think the real change in the automotive industry hires happened well before the recent economic situation. I'm delighted to know that we have a set of students—more than two I think—who are going to one of the car companies this summer because they recognize us for our talent. So it is concerning but at the same time, it's also hopeful.
Last year's class had an admit rate of about 1 in 3. Is that likely to change this year?
No. Our selectivity has pretty much stayed constant. I think it fluctuates between 25% and 30% of our application volume. We're pretty proud of that selectivity. It shows that we have great candidates and our admissions process works to select those great candidates.
How has the application volume changed within the last couple years?
Our application volume is up 30% from when I joined the Broad MBA program back in the 2005-2006 period. Applications are stronger this year than they have been in the past so that number could change when we close the books on 2009.
When is the best time to apply to the program?
Honestly, a person who puts together a competitive application really could be successful in any of our application rounds. We have four rounds. I define a competitive application as a strong GMAT score, clear goals, work experience that contains career progression, a great undergraduate experience, and really a true fit with the Broad School. So our application volume is such that a great candidate may see results at any point in time through the cycle.
But there's a small asterisk that goes along with this. There are more seats and more scholarship dollars available in early rounds. So I encourage applicants to apply as early as they can if they have a competitive application.
And there's another reason to apply early. Applying in a third or fourth round, which is sort of now or through the mid-to-late spring, doesn't give you that much time to prepare. Really, candidates should apply in the early rounds so that they have the most time to be mentally, physically, financially, and personally prepared to do a graduate management education. To me that's why a candidate should apply as early as possible, so they're ready to take on the MBA challenge.
The one thing that I'll note is that a fair number of applicants submit an application that's missing one item or more, and really the advice I would give an applicant is you should submit your application when you can submit it as a complete package. We make that recommendation and it helps with our process so that we can quickly and efficiently assess a candidate's ability.
As a former Broad MBA, what kind of person do you think is a good fit for the program?
That's a great question and I've got a pretty simple answer, but I hope it says a lot. I think a candidate who has a strong work ethic, a candidate who has solid leadership skills, a candidate who has a passion for learning, and finally, a candidate who has a global business perspective is a great fit for the Broad MBA.
With annual in-state tuition at about $20,000 for MBAs, Michigan State is literally half the price of some private schools. Is that becoming more important to students and is it helping the school stay competitive?
I think the students who are attracted to and succeed at Broad have a real sense of value. I've heard many times that students are surprised at where our tuition falls, and generally we explain to them that our tuition structure is part of our land-grant heritage. There are really two types of students: There's the type who actively pursues the value, and who expects a high return on investment and a short payback time, and then there are students who are just looking for a quality program and they're pleasantly surprised when they find us.
Just 22% of students in the last incoming class were women. Are you doing anything to get those numbers up?
We offer a weekend in the fall to attract diverse candidates. I'm going to define diverse candidates as people with all different skills, backgrounds, gender, and ethnicity. Our student organizations—our multi-cultural business students association and our women's MBA student association—invest a lot of time and talent with us in that event so that we can attract diverse candidates. We had a great event last fall and we're planning a similar event this coming fall. I'm going to attribute the success of that event to the time and talent of our two student organizations that really helped us—our women's organization and our multicultural business association.
Michigan State is a highly ranked program, but it fell out of the top 30 in BusinessWeek's last ranking. Can you tell me what might give it an edge over the more highly ranked schools?
The one thing that comes to mind is the value—the return on investment and the payback time—but we've talked about that. I think there are two other things that are sort of equal in importance. The first is our program size. We're small enough that our students can develop relationships with one another and really learn from each other. They can take leadership opportunities and try new things. Also, our program sits inside a very large, top-100 research-based institution, so there are opportunities for our students to be a part of a very large organization.
We also have a very strong family program: We call it Spartan Spouses and Significant Others, or S3. It's a very family-focused student organization and it has grown stronger in recent years. We know that our prospective students really value that organization and the services and the opportunities that it creates.
Last but not least, I truly think that our history in supply chain management, our reputation in supply chain management, really serves students in all disciplines very well. I think there are philosophies and approaches that students learn in supply chain management that can be used in all other business disciplines. Then there's supply chain management and its connection to sustainability—they fit very nicely together. I think any student who's interested in or who has a passion for the concept of sustainability and the triple bottom line will find value and benefit from studying here at Broad.
What are you doing this year to keep yield rates high?
We're watching that very carefully. We're planning a great admitted-students program, so that our admitted students will really come to the Broad School, come to campus, come to Michigan State University, and understand who we are, what we stand for, and what the results of that decision would be. We're planning a great weekend for admitted students toward the end of April.
We're also launching all-new marketing and recruiting material for the fall of 2010. Some of that material may start to work its way into our Web site and our existing strategies and tactics in late spring. And (I know other schools have done this, too) we're going to give our students who aren't close to us the opportunity to sort of see us through video. We're producing those right now.
Then—last but not least—we have a strong group of current students and alums who are willing to work with us to help admitted students make the decision about where they'd like to go this fall.
Last year the yield rate was 59%. Are you expecting that to go up this year?
I'm expecting it to hold steady. If it went any higher it would be great, but at the same time it might complicate our managing expectations. I think a yield of between 50% and 60% is pretty respectable—but sure, I'd like to see it go higher. We'll see.
Are there any misconceptions about Broad that you'd like to dispel?
We're more than just supply chain management here at the Broad School. I truly believe that our students excel in all areas of business—finance, marketing, human resources, management consulting, and the rest. We also have an opportunity in the realm of sustainability that I think is very important. If a student is looking for an MBA in the great state of Michigan, where we have four beautiful seasons, if they're looking for an MBA that's smaller and more intimate, that allows them to be themselves and to try their hands at different experiences, and are looking for an MBA that offers a respectable value, I think that we're a great choice. We're a great choice for anyone looking for an MBA.
How many candidates pronounce Broad (which sounds like "load") "broad"?
It's Broad. We hear "broad." We've tried all kinds of things to fix that, "Broad [the school name] rhymes with road," playing on the whole automotive industry. But the thing I'll tell you is that more than using any of those examples, people get it when we talk about Eli Broad. When we remind them that he is the Broad in the Kaufman and Broad Building Company—KB Home today—people get it very quickly.
It's interesting because if people understand sort of the business history behind Eli Broad, they make a connection with the name, but if they don't have the connection with it, then we have some work to do in helping them out. It is tricky, I do admit that.
So do candidates get bonus points if they pronounce it right during the interview, or do they usually have it down by then?
Not everybody has it down, and sometimes it takes a little while to get it. But certainly by the time candidates join us, they've got it right.


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Hometown: | Cape May, NJ |
High School: | Wildwood Catholic HS |
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Major: | Mathematics |
Competed in a career high 15 games for the Lions…Compiled a career high 1,346 minutes of playing time…Recorded 49 saves with a .681 save percentage…Gave up 23 goals with an average of 1.54 goals a game.
Appeared in four games in goal for Saint Leo...Amassed 123 minutes of action…Earned first collegiate win in first start over Tennessee Temple (09/03/10).
Scott competed at Wildwood Catholic HS and played under head coach Mike Saioni…While at WCHS, he earned the Mathematics Achievement Award in 2007 and 2008…He played club soccer with the South Jersey Barons and the Ocean City FC under the tutelage of Neil Holloway.
Born January 27 in Cape May N.J. …Mathematics major…His hobbies include going to the beach, playing soccer and spending time with friends and family…His career goals are to become an engineer and become a professional goalkeeper…Believes his communication and work ethic are his best assets to the team…He names Tim Howard, Peter Cech, and Lionel Messi his favorite athletes and Chelsea his favorite team…He chose Saint Leo because it provided a great opportunity to become a better player and individual…Son of Kenneth and Rowena Scott…Has three siblings, Weston, Andrew and Nikkole…His father, Kenneth, ran track & field (pole vault) at Stockton College.


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Jim Kern
Jim Kern | |||
Pitcher | |||
Born: Gladwin, Michigan |
March 15, 1949 |||
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September 6, 1974, for the Cleveland Indians | |||
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May 30, 1986, for the Cleveland Indians | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Win–Loss record | 53–57 | ||
Earned run average | 3.32 | ||
Strikeouts | 651 | ||
Saves | 88 | ||
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James Lester Kern (born March 15, 1949 in Gladwin, Michigan) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. A three time American League All-Star (1977–1979), Kern went 13-5 with a 1.57 ERA and 29 saves out of the Texas Rangers' bullpen in 1979 to finish fourth in American League Cy Young Award balloting.
Cleveland Indians[edit]
In 1967, Kern signed with the Cleveland Indians out of Midland High School in Midland, Michigan at eighteen years old. He went 4-7 with a 4.93 earned run average for the Gulf Coast League and Rock Hill Indians in 1968, then missed the 1969 season serving in the United States Marine Corps.[1] He had an even 47-47 record over six seasons as a starting pitcher in the Indians' farm system when he received a September call-up in 1974. In his major league debut, he pitched a complete game in which he held the Baltimore Orioles to just one run. The Indians were, however, held scoreless by Orioles pitcher Mike Cuellar.[2]
Kern went 0-6 despite a modest 1.82 ERA as a reliever in 1975 before he was moved into the starting rotation. He was 1-2 with a 4.79 ERA as a starter when the Indians traded Gaylord Perry to the Texas Rangers for Jim Bibby, Rick Waits, Jackie Brown and $100,000 on June 13. In order to make room on the major league roster for the two additional pitchers acquired, Kern was optioned to the triple A Oklahoma City 89ers.[3]
He returned to the Indians in 1976 as a full-time reliever, making just two spot starts, and was 10-7 with a 2.37 ERA and fifteen saves. Early in the 1977 season, the Indians traded closer Dave LaRoche to the California Angels, opening the door for Kern to inherit the job.[4] He was 2-3 with seven saves and a 2.84 ERA in his new job at the All-Star break to be named to his first All-Star squad. He pitched a perfect inning, striking out two.[5] For the season, he finished fourth in the American League with eighteen saves, one ahead of LaRoche.
He was the Indians' sole representative at the 1978 game in San Diego.[6] After the season, he and Larvell Blanks were traded to the Texas Rangers for Bobby Bonds and Len Barker.[7]
Texas Rangers[edit]
Kern was dominant from the moment he arrived in Texas. He was 10-2 with a 1.48 ERA and sixteen saves at the 1979 All-Star break to earn his third consecutive selection to the AL squad. With the American League leading 6-5, Kern gave up an eighth inning home run to the New York Mets' Lee Mazzilli, allowing the National League to tie the score. Mazzilli returned to the plate an inning later with the bases loaded and two outs. AL manager Bob Lemon pulled Kern in favor of New York Yankees ace Ron Guidry. Guidry walked Mazzilli, allowing the winning run to score, and giving Kern the loss.[8]
Despite his short-comings in the All-Star game, Kern remained hot in the second half, going 3-3 with a 1.72 ERA and thirteen saves. His 29 saves for the season were second only to the Minnesota Twins' Mike Marshall. He was selected The Sporting News and Rolaids Relief Man of the Year, as well as being named the right-handed pitcher on The Sporting News AL All-Star Team that season.[9]
Kern pitched 143 innings over 71 games in 1979, both career highs. The heavy workload effected Kern as he struggled with injuries[10] and ineffectiveness in 1980. Back-to-back poor performances against the Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles saw his ERA reach 5.25 at the start of May. With his record sitting at 2-7 with a 4.56 ERA and just two saves, Kern made his first start in four years on June 5 against the Kansas City Royals. He was tagged for five earned runs, and was unable to get out of the fifth inning.[11] A poor performance in his next appearance against the Milwaukee Brewers saw his ERA reach a season high 6.19.
Injuries limited Kern to just seven innings pitched in the first half of the strike shortened 1981 season. However, he returned strong in the second half, going 1-2 with a 2.74 ERA and five saves in seventeen appearances. At the 1981 Winter meetings, he was traded to the New York Mets for Dan Boitano and Doug Flynn,[12] however, before he could make an appearance with his new club, he was packaged with Greg Harris and Alex Treviño, and sent to the Cincinnati Reds for slugger George Foster.[13]
Kern pitched respectably in Cincinnati, going 3-5 with a 2.84 ERA and two saves, however, he was unhappy with the Reds' rule against facial hair, and asked to be traded. The Reds accommodated Kern's wish, and sent him to the Chicago White Sox for two minor leaguers.[14] After finishing out the 1982 season in Chicago, Kern made just one appearance in the second game of the 1983 season before he was placed on the disabled list with an elbow injury.[15] Kern accused the White Sox of using him improperly, and causing him to tear two tendons.[16]
Decimated by injuries to their pitching staff, the Philadelphia Phillies signed Kern in June 1984. Facing the Pittsburgh Pirates in extra innings, Kern gave up seven runs (six earned) in just one inning of work to take the loss in his first appearance with his new team.[17] He was released on July 27 to make room on the roster for Tug McGraw, who was returning from a shoulder injury. He signed a minor league deal with the Milwaukee Brewers shortly afterwards. He was called up that September, and appeared in six games without giving up a run.
He also appeared in five games with the Brewers early in the 1985 season. He pitched three hitless innings in his first game of the season,[18] but pitched poorly afterwards and was released on June 17 with a 6.55 ERA. The highlight of his 1985 season was when he pulled off an unassisted double play against the Seattle Mariners on May 6. He became the first pitcher to pull off this feat since Jim Umbarger in 1975.[19]
Kern returned to the Cleveland Indians as a non-roster invitee to Spring training in February 1986.[20] On May 12, Kern suffered one of the worst outings of his career against the Texas Rangers. In a little over an inning pitched, Kern gave up eight runs (seven earned) to see his ERA balloon from 3.46 to 7.53. On his way off the field, frustrated Indians fans began throwing garbage on the field, hitting Kern with a bottle.[21] After a poor performance against the Brewers on May 30,[22] Kern sat unused in the Indians bullpen until his release on June 17.[23]
An outdoor enthusiast his entire life, in 1987, Kern started the "Emu Outfitting Company" (after his major league nickname, the "Amazing" Emu) in Arlington, Texas, an outdoor adventure company that booked and operated hunting, fishing and photographic trips in North and South America.[24] In 2007, he worked as on-site general manager of the Rainbow Bay Resort near Anchorage, Alaska.[25]
Kern also did color commentary for college and Major League Baseball games for Fox Sports, Home Sports Entertainment and Prime Sports. In 1994, he created and hosted Nolan Ryan's First Spring Turkey Hunt for Fox Sports.[26]
In 2006, Kern was named as one of the greatest Texas Rangers pitchers of all time.[27]
- ^ "1977 Topps Baseball #41 – Jim Kern". 1977 Baseball Blogspot. December 16, 2011.
- ^ "Baltimore Orioles 1, Cleveland Indians 0". Baseball-Reference.com. September 6, 1974.
- ^ Bob Sudyk (June 14, 1975). "Indians Trade Gaylord Perry to Texas Rangers, Then lose 6th in Row, 2-1". Youngstown Vindicator.
- ^ "Cleveland Trades LaRoche". Toledo Blade. May 12, 1977.
- ^ "1977 Major League Baseball All-Star Game". Baseball-Reference.com. July 19, 1977.
- ^ "1978 Major League Baseball All-Star Game". Baseball-Reference.com. July 11, 1978.
- ^ "Bobby Bonds Dealt to Cleveland Indians". Montreal Gazette. October 4, 1978.
- ^ "National League Wins All-Star Squeaker". Bangor Daily News. July 18, 1979.
- ^ Patrick Mondout. "The Sporting News All-Stars". Baseball Chronology.
- ^ Herschel Nissenson (July 26, 1980). "Rangers' Kern Finds 1979 Form to Beat Chisox". Waycross Journal-Herald.
- ^ "Kansas City Royals 8, Texas Rangers 0". Baseball-Reference.com. June 5, 1980.
- ^ "Mets Trade Taveras, Flynn". Milwaukee Sentinel. December 12, 1981.
- ^ Hal Bock (February 5, 1982). "Reds, Mets Agree In Principle to Foster Trade". Daily Times.
- ^ "Chisox Get Jim Kern". The Bryan Times. August 24, 1982.
- ^ "Piersall Fired". Wilmington Morning Star. April 7, 1983.
- ^ "Waived Kern Blasts Chisox for Treatment". Warsaw, Indiana Times-Union. March 2, 1984.
- ^ "Pittsburgh Pirates 12, Philadelphia Phillies 6". Baseball-Reference.com. June 10, 1984.
- ^ "Oakland A's 5, Milwaukee Brewers 3". Baseball-Reference.com. May 2, 1985.
- ^ "Moore's No-hit Bid Fails, Seattle Wins". Palm Beach Post. May 9, 1985.
- ^ "Indians Send Players to Minor Camp". Lewiston Journal. March 28, 1986.
- ^ Ross Newhan (May 18, 1986). "Wally World Goes Crazy Over Joyner". Anchorage Daily News.
- ^ "Milwaukee Brewers 11, Cleveland Indians 7". Baseball-Reference.com. May 30, 1986.
- ^ "Indians Sweep A's". Bryan Times. June 12, 1986.
- ^ "Jim Kern "Emu"". JimKernPhotography.com.
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Oh well. Crustle got two wins. The facial expressions are amazing!
I would have hoped Stunfisk to at least tie with Swanna. Hopefully Stunfisk gets a win later on.
Oh well. Crustle got two wins. The facial expressions are amazing!
I would have hoped Stunfisk to at least tie with Swanna. Hopefully Stunfisk gets a win later on.
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Was not expecting that at all to be honest! I thought Dento was gonna was gonna lose, but the battle was gonna be really intense, and Fuuro was gonna be all like: "Hey that was a good battle and you put up a heck of a fight!" But no. I love how they "tease us" by not showing us what Pokémon as picked. but we all know.
I weep for my generation.
I actually agree with you for once. I'm getting tired of Crustle winning all the time; when will Stunfisk get a turn to shine?
Anyways, I really disliked how Mistralton City looked; it looked like every other city in the anime, aside from the runway. As for the battle - it was exactly what I expected it to be. Cilan ranted about how Skyla's methods were "wrong" and he babbled on for several minutes (minutes that could've been used for something important). Also, I hated how Cilan was surprised that he lost; he really has gotten too arrogant for his own good. Skyla on the other hand, seemed humble and even likable. I've never really liked her - I've even called her overrated - but she showed more maturity than Cilan.
This episode looks amazing, im looking forward to seeing it later.
I know people will hate but I like how Crustle is a major powerhouse for Cilan, another 2 wins is fine with me.
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So Skyla made her appearance in the anime. Its been a long time since I've battled her in my Pokemon Black version game. I never expect Cilan battles her.
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Which is exactly the problem.
Hence the fact we coined the nickname "Zeustle".
He didn't lose a single battle so far which is unfair towards Pokémon like Pansage or Stunfisk. I get it, it's okay for Pokémon to be strong, but would it be so bad to have Crustle lose and let someone else win for a change? I am happy that Crustle finally lost but must he have had two wins before finally going down? That's what's bothering me. :/
That's exactly what the writers want to do with Crustle, I'm sure it will lead to something interesting. Besides that I'm really appreciating such powerhouse!!
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I've never heard this until now...Hence the fact we coined the nickname "Zeustle".
I understand what you think, personally I don't mind, but yeah it would be great if Pansage and Stunfisk got some wins to.He didn't lose a single battle so far which is unfair towards Pokémon like Pansage or Stunfisk. I get it, it's okay for Pokémon to be strong, but would it be so bad to have Crustle lose and let someone else win for a change? I am happy that Crustle finally lost but must he have had two wins before finally going down? That's what's bothering me. :/
There's no reason why Pansage/Stunfisk can't be Cilan's fighter for once instead of Crustle, that seems to be the main problem with people then.
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I want to watch the episode, but I can find it, so I just looked at the photos. Looks good, but the battle result disappointed me. I mean, I'm glad Cilan lost, but Crustle getting two wins, really?
It's not a problem. It's not like it's actually Crustle's fault. He is supposed to be strong, and Crustle have pretty good defenses anyways so...(I'm trying to look at the battle realistically) I just wish Pansage faught a bit longer. :/
I don't care what people say. Dento's expression when he lost was epic. It made my day.
Yeah, just read it and weep :P
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I'm sorry that I have to see Cilan lose but Ash will duel Skyla next.
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In all fairness from what i've seen, Cilan losing has set Ash up perfectly to get a more satisfying win showing that Ash is obviously getting better as a trainer.
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Crustle is overshadowing Cilan's other Pokemon with his power - particularly Stunfisk. The writers need to tone Crustle down a bit so that Cilan's other Pokemon can get some victories. I'm honestly surprised that only a few people are upset considering how many people complain about balance and equality when we're talking about Ash's team: :|
Don't you see that all this about Crustle and his god skills have a point? We just need to wait and see what the writers have in mind for this Pokemon and Cilan.
Loved this one. After a long string of weak episodes this one really bowled me over. I liked how they portrayed Skyla as being a lazy slacker who doesn't care about her job and acting a bit arrogent as well. Having her grampa try to get her back to work was also an interesting concept. I for one did not see this as being sexist at all, if Skyla was male he would have been treated the same way. Yeah, I was a little annoyed that Zeustle got 2 wins and Stunfisk got none, but at least we got to see the little guy battle.
Seeing Cilan freak out after he lost was icing on the cake for me. Also, stop wearing those clothes Skyla, you look like an idiot.
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Where is everyone watching the episode? I can't find a RAW. Can someone link me to it, please? ;__;
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You appreciate mindless, senseless unbalancing of a main character's team; you like it that Stunfisk hasn't won a single battle, yet is portrayed to be powerful and creative when it's fighting. Stunfisk's way of battling is much more interesting than "Rock Wrecker!Shell Smash!lol Rock Wrecker! Shell SmashScissor!"
He's a perfectly fine trainer. His problem is the air leaves his head sometimes, and he forgets the basic crap drilled into him for 400 seasons.In all fairness from what i've seen, Cilan losing has set Ash up perfectly to get a more satisfying win showing that Ash is obviously getting better as a trainer.
No offense, but you just completely contradicted yourself. You demonstrated how she uses type advantages and was correct in her appliance of them, then turned around and tried to claim she ignores type.No she didn't give them a chance. How does she know that she can beat a Leavanny, Sewaddle, and a Darumaka. Sure logic would state that Leavanny and Sewaddle would lose easily to either Unfezant or Swoobat, while Darumaka could easily lose to Swanna (though apparently to Skyla, her Unfezant was the one who beat Darumaka).
There's no logic to her simulations in her mind. She ignores most of the typings, and uses her own weird logic to justify whether she'll win or lose.
Clay initially refused to battle him because something had been discovered at a mine he owned. He was leaving the Gym to conduct personal business and refusing challengers.Unlike Fantina, at least Clay was at his gym, and merely refused to battle Ash most likely for legitimate reasons.
For one thing, the revival herbs might have been a life or death thing, or maybe just for safety, and I don't think we know why Clay didn't battle Ash the first time we meant. For all we know his loving brother died, and was on the funeral. He clearly went somewhere since Nurse Joy had to tell Ash that he returned.
I think it was just Ash coming at the wrong time, not that Clay just plain didn't want anything to do with Ash.
I worded that poorly. What I was trying to say was that the entire problem presented in that episode was because of Forrest acting as the Gym Leader while Brock was still in title the Gym Leader.How was he forced to not be a gym leader? He didn't want to be a gym leader any more. There was no "Damn, I can't be a gym leader because I screwed up, wonder what I should be now."
You just lost all credibility, even though you were making a relatively good case to this point. I haven't connected the innate sexism in this episode's premise directly to Cilan at all. Cilan's obnoxious behavior, which I haven't actually mentioned in this thread until now, did not affect at all the depiction of Skyla and what's wrong with it.Those actions are wrong. You're just so wound up believing that Skyla is doing the right thing, merely because you believe Cilan can't have a personality and be his own character.
From what I remember all about your hating of Cilan, just revolves around the fact that he's not Brock standing in the background, making constant redundant/obvious facts about Pokemon.
Wrong. But since you apologized, I forgive you for assuming this.See I believe the only reason why you're defending Skyla, isn't because you're siding with her and condemning the writers for being sexist, but from what I can remember, the only reason why you're siding with Skyla is because it opposes Cilan.
The writers did not call as much negative attention to what Volkner was doing even though it was worse. The only person other than Ash to criticize him (iirc) was Paul, and he even found a (misguided, granted) defender in Barry. When Ash finally met him, he complained, then did something about it and it was over. This entire episode, on the other hand, was completely centered around as many characters as possible - suspiciously all male - slamming it in our faces how horrible what Skyla is doing is.-.- Last episode was "racist" now this episode is "sexist"...gosh I'm a girl and I felt no offense what-so-ever...It wasn't saying that about all girls, they were saying that about only Skyla, unless Volkner is disguising himself as a male I don't get the problem.
THANK YOU. This is exactly my point.I think the sexist vibes come from the fact that the three male characters of the epiosde: Ash, Cilan, and Miles, are all morally outraged at Skyla and her way of doing things and determinned to prove her wrong. Iris, the sole other female character of the episode, has no reaction whatsoever. It may not be intentional sexism, but still....
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Yeah, if Iris had been as angered about what Skyla was doing as Ash and Cilan, and Miles had just stayed out of things entirely, the episode would have been much less sexist-seeming. But no, she doesn't seem to feel a thing about it, indicating that it's just guys who find it so reprehensible....and their side is supposed to be the right one.
Though, I still don't care for Cilan being so angry about it at all, even if he ended up losing and broken in the end. Cilan is abdicating his gym entirely to pursue all sorts of his connossieur hobbies. How is that better than what Skyla's doing....battling or not, at least Skyla sticks around her gym even while pursuing her hobby.
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DAVID THOMPSON is an award-winning chef, restaurateur, and author, and the world's most distinguished scholar of Thai cuisine. His 2002 cookbook, "Thai Food," won both James Beard and IACP awards. His London restaurant, nahm, was the first Thai restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star. He divides his time between London and Bangkok.show more
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Breakfast and morning snacks 37
Kanom jin noodles 59
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Curry shop 151
Snacks and sweets 173
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Restore Sanity: A Report from Waaaay in the Back
By Michael Winship
Mistakes were made.
"Let's face it," a fellow rallygoer admitted. "We committed several tactical errors this morning."
As you may have heard, the worst part of Saturday's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, DC, was getting there.
We probably should have gotten up earlier. A lot earlier. Arriving at the Metro station nearest our hotel, my girlfriend Pat and I stood with dozens of others on the platform as train after train arrived, each so packed with rally attendees, their faces practically pressed to the window glass, it was impossible to get on board.
Finally, Pat suggested we take a train in the other direction, get off in the suburbs, then turn around, trying to get ahead of the mobs -- a good strategy that proved equally futile; there were just too many people. By 3 pm, the city's transit system reported that 350,000 passengers had ridden the system, the normal total for an entire Saturday. As yet another crammed train arrived, a nearby frustrated traveler sighed plaintively, "Is there anyone left in Maryland?"
Forsaking the subway for a bus ride, we finally got within walking distance, dropped off in Foggy Bottom near the State Department. So by the time we trudged over to the Mall to see Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert we were more than an hour and a half late for the big event and the crowd had reached perhaps a quarter million people. Meaning we saw the backs of a lot of heads and only occasionally, dimly could hear what was happening on the podium. Cat Stevens was there, right? (We caught up later, via C-SPAN.)
But it was worth it just to share in the overall exuberance of the crowd, although with Election Day glowering on the horizon sometimes it did feel a wee bit like On the Beach, with all those Australians boisterously singing "Waltzing Matilda" right before nuclear extinction.
And, as reported, the signs and banners were great. Good humored, they ranged from expressions of the silly and benign ("It's Very Nice to Be Here," "I Have a Sign") to the more pointed sentiment ("This Is a Democracy, Not an Auction," "Gay Nazi Mexicans Are Raising Our Taxes") to the intentional non sequitur (my personal favorite: "7-11 Was an Inside Job").
It was certainly the largest gathering I've seen at a DC rally since the anti-Vietnam protests of the late sixties and early seventies. And contrary to the predictions of some, it was not dominated by the young -- seniors were well-represented and stories abounded of planes and trains (including ours from New York) filled with older Americans on their way to Washington, exuberant fans of Stewart and Colbert sharing a message of rationality and wit triumphing over bellicosity and chaos.
But for all the laughs and congeniality on a sunny autumn day, for all the genuine rejection of right-wing cant and hypocrisy, there were a couple of things that seemed slightly askew. For while, as Stewart said of the media, "The 24-hour politico-pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder," unfortunately for us, neither do irony and jokes effect lasting solutions. Nor do they necessarily bridge the gap with those, as journalist James Maguire wrote, covering the rally for The Washington Monthly, "far more displaced by the long recession... Those folks don't want to 'restore sanity,' they want to restore their jobs."
What's more, Maguire asks, "Is this just a comedy skit writ large, a ginormous living diorama of a Daily Show 'live at the scene' report? Or is it, under cover of irony... an effort to influence the course of politics in the direction Stewart's humor so obviously leans?"
Comedians injecting themselves into the American political scene are nothing new. As David Bianculli points out in his book, Dangerously Funny, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Gracie Allen, W.C. Fields, and even Howdy Doody staged mock presidential campaigns. In 1968, Pat Paulson of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on CBS actually had a professional political consultant for his faux White House run ("I don't want to be any more than I am today," the candidate claimed. "A common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.").
Jon Stewart and his superb writing team have claimed to be nothing more than the kids who make wisecracks from the back of the classroom, never to be taken seriously as newsmakers or opinion leaders. But that hasn't really been true for a long time and now Stewart's standing in front of the class, lecturing at the blackboard.
Is that appropriate? And does it matter? Whether or not you agree, he's still the funniest teacher in school. Maybe, as a sign at Saturday's rally declared, "We Should Do This More Often."
Michael Winship is senior writer at Public Affairs Television in New York City


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Bible Studies
Hebrews 11:1 says �Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.�
We can liken faith and hope to the building of a house. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. The substance of a house would be the wood, cement, windows, doors etc. You can have the substance to build a house piled up, but you do not have a house just the substance.
If you went to a contractor and said build me a house he would say �where is your blueprint?� If you told him you don�t have one you just want him to build you a house. He will not talk to you any more. The reason is your idea of a house and his may be two different things. The blueprint is a visual of what your idea of house is.
The Greek word translated hope literally means intense expectancy.
It literally is an inner image or blueprint of what you expect to come to pass.
This is evident in Hebrews 11:17-19 �By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.�
The word figure is an inner image of what he planned to come to pass. He had an inner image of God raising Isaac right up out of the ashes. This was pretty good because all he knew God could do was make you rich and make you have babies.
When Jesus taught he would liken spiritual things to the physical to help people better understand for example the sower sowing the word. So that is what I will attempt to do.
I work in a chemical plant so I work with reactors. Now the word reactor sounds pretty cool, but it is literally just a tank.
It can be big- thousands of gallons or small- one gallon. Now they have a motor on top with an agitator attached to it. It has a pump with piping that allows it to be recirculated to its self and take it to other parts of the plant.
It also has a jacket on it which means it�s like a tank with in a tank. This allows us to run radiator fluid through the jacket to either heat it or cool it.
When we react chemicals one of the first things that go into the reactor is a solvent. Now this can be just water but many times it is flammable solvent like ethanol or methanol. We will also many times heat this up using the jacket on the reactor.
When you heat a flammable solvent up if it is in the presence of oxygen it can ignite which can create a very destructible force called an explosion.
When ever you have heat, fuel and oxygen you have the potential for an explosion. This is represented by a triangle.
If you can remove any one of the three side of the triangle you take away the potential of an explosion.
In the chemical industry they will always work with fuel and heat, but they are very much obsessed with getting rid of the oxygen. They will purge a reactor with an inert gas such as nitrogen to remove the oxygen limiting the potential of an explosion.
In the world of the spirit there is another source of power that can be represented by a triangle. In I Cor. 13:13 it gives the three components to make up this power it says �And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.�
Now there abideth or if you will there remains faith, hope and charity. The word charity is the Greek word agape which means covenant love or I choose to love you no matter what you do.
Now if the greatest of these is agape or covenant love then it is the foundation so I put it on the bottom of the triangle.
Galatians 5:6 says �For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.�
According to this faith can only work by love. Which is interesting because Paul wrote in I Cor. 13:2 ��. and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.� He will also achieve nothing because faith can not work without the presents of love or agape.
The third part of the triangle is hope or if you will intense expectance. These three together causes what the Bible calls power which is the English translation of the Greek word dunamis or dynamic self energized miraculous explosive power. It is the word we derive our word dynamo and dynamite from. Dunamis is the power of God.
In the chemical industry there is what is called fail safe mode. It is where if something goes wrong every thing fails to its fail safe position. Say if you were loading chlorine into a reactor. Chlorine is highly reactive with some chemicals it is also exothermic in other words it gives off a lot of heat when it reacts. The fail safe position of the chlorine valve is closed. If we were to loose cooling on a reactor the chorine valve would automatically fail shut to keep from having an uncontrolled reaction.
In the world of the spirit there is a fail safe mode also. If any one of those sides of the triangle love, faith, or hope is broken it goes into fail safe mode.
To better understand why this is we need to understand the dunamis power of God.
In the Old Testament the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle of God contained the Glory of God. What we could call the Dunamis Power of God. God went to great lengths to keep the power from breaking through on the people. The curtain to the room was something like four inches thick. The High Priest could only enter once a year only after the right preparation. It was said that the High Priest would have rope tied around their leg so if he was not prepared properly they could pull the dead body out of the room.
Moses In exodus 33:18-23 is talking to God �And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. And he said Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.�
From this passage it is quite evident that God went to great lengths to protect Moses from his Glory or if you will the Dunamis power of God.
The reason God had to protect people from his Glory is because God�s Glory is so good that it destroys sin. The problem was it also took along with it what ever flesh the sin was in.
It is also interesting to note in 2 Cor. 4:6-7 says �For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the Excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.�
The Glory of God or the Dunamis power now resides in the born again believers in the form of the Holy Spirit.�
In Mark 11:23-24 it says �For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Now for years you would hear people say �I wish God would turn the power up.� Well Jesus said to speak to the mountain to move and it would move. What if you got everything you said? �I am just thrilled to death�. And you just fell over dead.
You are driving down the road in your car and some one pulls out in front of you and you yell out �I wish my horn was a gun bang". The least you would do is blow them off the road.
It gives new meaning to what Jesus said in Mat. 12:36-37 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.� Our words are important.
God can not allow his power to be used unchecked. So in the world of the spirit there is a fail safe mode if you will. If there is not faith, hope and love there will be no display of dunamis.
In the scenario of the car to say �I wish my horn was a gun� does not proceed from love. Consequently faith will not work because faith worketh by love.
It would be of note that in Mark 11:24-25 Jesus is talking about prayer then all of a sudden he talks of forgiveness �Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.�
The reason for this unforgiveness does not proceed from love. Christ knew this and if you want your faith to work you have to forgive.
When it comes to healing many would never dare say God does not heal, but when it comes to God healing me some times that is a different story. We may pray for healing but we may only have an inner image or intensely expect to remain sick. Faith is the substance of things hoped for or intensely expected. If you are intensely expectant to be sick God will not help you to use the dunamis power to make your self sicker. The system will go to the fail safe mode.
Faith needs hope to work it needs that blue print to bring things to pass.
Hebrews 11:3 talking about how God framed the worlds it says �Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.�
When God said in Genesis �let there be�� He had an inner Image or blue print to What He planned to come to pass. He knew to the very last detail how it would look. The Word of God says that God took a grain of sand in his hand and measured out all the land mass of this earth and He took a drop of water in his hand and measured out all the water that is on the earth also. God knew to the very last detail how this world would be created.
Now some might say �how come we can�t create like God?� First of all we do not know how to create; secondly we do not have the authority to create again it goes into the fail safe mode.
The only authority we have on this earth is to agree with the Word of God. When I Peter 2:24 says �Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.�
If God says in his Word� by whose stripes ye were healed� then we only have the authority and right to side in with the Word of God. If we choose to side against it then the system will go to the fail safe mode.
If you put faith, hope and love to work it will work 100% of the time but, if you have any one of them out of line the fail safe mode will activate 100% of the time. This is why what ever you are believing God for you need to find out what God says about it in His Word first. Again you only have the right and the authority to agree with the Word of God.
Now with that being said we will continue on. Many will say that the devil�s triangle is in Bermuda. I want to introduce you to the real devil�s triangle.
Now in life there is what is known as reciprocals. Now a reciprocal of something means it is the same but opposite. North and South are reciprocals of one another. They are the same in that they are directions on a compass but, they are opposite directions.
In the devil�s triangle hate, fear and despair are reciprocals of love, faith, and hope which we can call God�s triangle.
Love and hate are reciprocals of one another in that they are both spirits. You can have a spirit of love or a spirit of hate but they are opposites of one another.
Faith and fear are reciprocals. They are the same in that they are both faith. Fear is faith perverted if you are afraid of some thing then you have faith in that something�s ability to hurt you. You are either in fear or you are in faith you can not be both.
Hope and despair are reciprocals. You see there is no such thing as no hope you either have hope or you have a negative hope which is despair. Just like there is no such thing as non belief. You are believing something all the time. If you are a believer that means you believe in the bible. If you are an unbeliever that means you believe in something other than the Bible.
Hope and despair are both intense expectancy but, are opposite in that hope expects good to come to pass and despair expects evil to come to pass.
People who have a lot of their lives centered around the devil�s triangle will most assuredly end up dead early in life. It will end up being a very slow painful death. It does not happen all at once. It starts just a little at a time. You see death always starts with spiritual death.
Now Spiritual death for all intensive purposes just means separation from the life of God. That is how it began for Adam and Eve. God said the day you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall surly die. They did not die physically right then Adam lived 930 years afterward but they died spiritually separated from the life of God which slowly led to their physical death.
These people are usually very mentally and spiritually draining to be around. They can be very unhappy and very bitter. A lot of times they will be divorced and remarried numerous times. Basically they might get away with trying to hide their true self for a time but, after the honey moons over look out.
Now these people are not unreachable, but it will take some one who has their life centered around God�s triangle, knows the Word of God and will intercede on their behave through intercessory prayer.
In conclusion we as believers need to understand how things work in the world of the spirit and how to keep our lives centered around God�s triangle. Then and only then can we successfully reach out to the lost. Those whose lives have centered around the devil�s triangle.
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Very good article. Actually it turned out to be a sermon and a very good one. Thank you for sharing this. I really liked your comparisons.
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800357 May 16, 2012 6:07 PM (in response to 936584)That's because of "type erasure": the types are used by the compiler at compile-time to check for errors, but thereafter are "erased", i.e. no information about the generic types exists at runtime (for backwards compatibility with pre-generics Java code). Thus, at runtime, the only thing that's known is that you passed in a List to the method, and you're casting a List to a List. That will work. You might run into trouble when you start to work with items from the list though (since you're expecting them to be Dogs but they are Cats). Check the Generics tutorial for more info on type erasure.
The problem is not detected at compile time, since all separate steps are valid:
- List<Cat> is a List<? extends Animal>
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jtahlborn May 16, 2012 7:48 PM (in response to 800357)1 person found this helpful797354 wrote:
actually, the problem is detected at compile time. This line:
The problem is not detected at compile time, since all separate steps are valid:
- List<Cat> is a List<? extends Animal>
- List<Dog> is a List<? extends Animal>
should be generating an "unchecked" warning. the OP either has warnings disabled or is ignoring them.List<Dog> dogCage = (List<Dog>) someCage;
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800357 May 17, 2012 8:47 AM (in response to jtahlborn)actually, the problem is detected at compile time.
Sorry, you're right. I meant to say there is no compile error. -
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936584 May 17, 2012 4:33 PM (in response to 800357)Hi guys,
Thanks a lot for your answers, they were really helpful.
By the way, Who is or what is OP? The one who is ignoring the warnings.
Best regards. -
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rukbat May 17, 2012 4:47 PM (in response to 936584)933581 wrote:
"OP" is the original poster. That is a term you will see in every forum you might surf to on the Internet.
By the way, Who is or what is OP? The one who is ...
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Hi all,
So my BBM voice stopped working a couple of days ago. Sending messages is fine, but the wee green icon isnt showing and is now grey. When I click on this I recieve the message saying "Your voice chat connection cannot be established". Wifi connection is fine etc.
I have attempted the troubleshoot section on this website; filled out the "contact us" form but have no option to actually submit the form. There is a notification saying that my softwear version doesn't support BBM.
I'm quite new to the whole smart phone thing, so I don't know much about deleting softwear or re installing older versions.
One thing I do know, is that its bloody stupid to have softwear upgrades available on BlackBerry which are not compatible with the rest of the phone!!!
Would much appreciate any info on how to sort this wee issue out! I don't want to go playing around with all the phone settings myself incase I erase everything on the handset!
Hi Ladyjustice83
Before clearing and loading a new OS update.
You checked the wifi connection to connect you will not be limited or nonexistent.
To make calls via BBM Voice is best to be connected to a wi-fi network, it is because your wi-fi is not stable.
I have thoroughly checked all wifi connections and they are all fine. There has never been an issue with the wifi's that I connect too before, only since I updated to the most recent softwear.
The wifi is stable.
I have been using BBM with no issues at all for months,
I have been informed from BB that BBM Voice is not compatible with this newest softwear
Why not try to update the OS on your Blackberry
Taking into account the backup via DM and Blackberry Protect
Thanks for the idea.
Unfortunately there is nothing to upgrade to. It keeps telling me that there are no updates available; That I have the most up to date available.
Everything is backed up, so planning on wiping the current OS and re installing a previous version.
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David Earl Hill
Position: TE
6-2, 229lb (188cm, 103kg)
Born: January 1, 1954 in San Antonio, TX
College: Texas A&M-Kingsville
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 33 (3009th overall since 1960)
Draft: Detroit Lions in the 2nd round (46th overall) of the 1976 NFL Draft.
Relatives: Brother Jim Hill; Son Austin Hill