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The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
Explaining Hermeneutics
A Commentary on The Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics Articles of Affirmation and Denial
by Norman L. Geisler, Dean of the Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina
The Cambridge Declaration of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
April 20, 1996 • The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals • www.alliancenet.org
Beliefs Held by Americans in Regard to the Bible
From Barna Research Online. Copyright by Barna Research Group. (Ventura, CA 5528 Everglades, 93001)
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Bible Literacy: Restoring Character in the Culture
From BreakPoint, 10/15/01, copyright 2001.
Reprinted with permission of Prison Fellowship, P.O. Box 17500, Washington, DC, 20041-7500
Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible
A sad commentary from the Times Online, October 5, 2005.
Developing Our Family Bible Time
by Omar C. Garcia, Fall 2001, LifeTruths Learner guide, Used by permission. LifeWay Christian Resources.
A Leadership Meeting? You've Got to Be Kidding!
by Omar C. Garcia, Spring 2003, LifeTruth Leader guide, Used by permission. LifeWay Christian Resources.
Actually, that's not in the Bible
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Jean Bouin
(December 24,1888 – September 29, 1914)
Jean Bouin was a French high level athlete; record holder of the 5 000 meters, 10 000 meters and 3 miles.
He began competition in 1904 when he was only 15 and was noticed by Arthur Gibassier, a sports reporter for the "Petit Provencal" newspaper who enrolled him in the "Phocée Club" of Marseille.
His records:
1905: he won the first race in Genoa, Italy
1906: he won the coastline championship and is 4th at the national cross in Meudon
1907: 3rd at the national cross at 15 meters of the 1st, Jacques Keyser
1909: - 1st at a famous cross in Lyon and 1st of the national cross in Amiens
- 2nd at the International Cross on March 20th
He won the Nice-Monaco on April and had the hour record: 18km 267 m on May 30th at Colombes Stadium in Paris.
1911: he improved the record of France of 10 000 meters in 30:58 sec (championship of France) as well as the 5 000 meters: 14 min 36 sec in 1912, and also record of France.
The following year, Jean Bouin beats the world hour record in 19,021 km) on July in Stockholm, facing 30 other competitors including the Olympic champion Hannes Kolehmainen. In the same French tour, he also beats three runners relaying over 10,000 meters. This record predicted a bright future for Jean Bouin, but the Great War ended his dreams for the Olympic title.
He was incorporated as 2nd Class in the 163rd Infantry Regiment and was killed on September 29th 1914 by a German attack at the "Mont Sec", not far from Saint Mihiel during the 1st Battle of the Marne. His body was brought back on June 27th 1922 with 39 other soldiers and he was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Pierre in Marseille (square 30 N° 81)
Joseph Guillemot
(1/10/1899 – 09/03/1975)
Joseph Guillemot, a French athlete, discovered athletics when he was in the 16th of "Hunters on Foot" Battalion in Bellac (Limousin). In 1918, he became champion of a military competition at Colombes. He returned to the front for a few months until the Armistice but was victim of a gas attack, which will cause him an atrophy of a lung. However, this did not change his mind and his will and determination to run.
During the 1920 Olympic Games in Anvers, Joseph Guillemot became the Olympic champion of 5 000 meters (14 min 55 sec). His record is incredible for he was gazed during the 1st World War and had he had his shoes stolen just before the race, and had to run with oversized shoes.
In 1922, he won the Cross of nations and held the 2 000 meters 'world record.


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Jewish World Review March 3, 2014 / 1 Adar II, 5774
Back to the '30s: The great American retreat
By Paul Greenberg
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It happens after every war. America disarms. And so invites the next attack, and next war. The same haphazard pattern is emerging now -- even before the wars in
On both those fronts, the enemy is rushing to fill the vacuum left by the American withdrawal. This country's retreat has allowed al-Qaida, its branches and assorted allies and successors, whether the Taliban in
Under this just-proposed budget, the country's active-duty forces are to be reduced by more than a tenth and the reserves by 5 percent. Military pay and veterans' benefits would be pared accordingly. (Thank You For Your Service, Vets. The line for unemployment benefits begins just outside the door.)
Out will go various weapons systems good, bad and in-between, including the A-10 Warthog jet and flying fortress, aka the American infantryman's best friend -- well, next to his rifle. Who needs a defense, anyway?
How sum up this retreat from the world and reality in general in a few concise words? A senior member of the
Leave it to our still new secretary of "defense" to rationalize all these cuts.
Mr. Hagel did mentioned in passing that, oh, yes, slashing away at American defenses might entail certain risks, but went on to explain, "We are entering an era where American dominance on the seas, in the skies and in space can no longer be taken for granted."
American dominance can no longer be taken for granted. What heartening news that would be for America's enemies and the enemies of freedom everywhere. Except -- though it may come as a surprise to our ever-new secretary of defense -- there has never been a time when American dominance could be taken for granted. Or should be. Nothing -- nothing -- can be assumed in war. Or in peace, for that matter. That's a tried and tested recipe for defeat.
Even now we can hear our old battery commander chewing out some hapless and hopeless sergeant: "You assumed?!" Question mark, exclamation point. The sergeant wasn't a sergeant for long after that. Unfortunately, our current secretary of defense seems to have tenure. Ditto, the less than commanding figure who is currently commander-in-chief of our armed forces, which are now to be less well armed. (The applause you hear in the background comes from capitals like
American dominance can no longer be taken for granted. As if it ever could have been. There was no taking victory for granted in any of America's wars. Going back to the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, which, to borrow a phrase often attributed to the Duke of
American dominance was scarcely assured during the War of 1812, either, or in our own Civil War, whichever American side you were on. The same goes for the Second World Catastrophe, which this country entered formally only after being caught unprepared at
By then, being caught unprepared had become something of an American tradition. A tradition maintained up to
American dominance can no longer be taken for granted. It certainly couldn't be in the happy-days-are-here-again years leading up to the Korean War, when the Truman administration was so bent on disarming America that our meager forces were woefully unprepared for that war, too. Indeed, the closest parallel to
The result: Our troops paid for those years of deliberate neglect in blood and suffering. At frozen-over places with names like Chosin and
And now The Hon.
It was said, and rightly so, that the previous president was widely hated. And so
It is said in the president's defense that he's really leading -- from behind. There are only two things wrong with that assertion: (1) He's not leading, and (2) he's so far behind he's not even in the picture.
So welcome back to the Carter Years, or even the Twenties and Thirties, the years of Harding and Stimson and the Kellogg-Briand Treaty to simply outlaw war, the years of the Gathering Storm in general. The view from here may be bleak, but it is terribly, terribly familiar.
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Structure and Function of the Kidneys: Overview
Blood performs two essential functions: bringing nutrients and oxygen to the cells of the body and carrying waste materials away from cells. In order to serve these purposes, the chemical composition of the blood must be carefully controlled. Blood contains particles of many different sizes and types, including cells, proteins, dissolved ions, and organic waste products. The largest responsibility for maintaining the chemistry of the blood falls on the kidneys, a pair of organs located just behind the lining of the abdominal cavity. The kidneys remove harmful particles from the blood, regulate the blood's ionic concentrations, and retain essential particles in the blood (Figure 1). They act like dialysis units for blood, making use of the different sizes of the particles and specially maintained concentration gradients. Blood passes through the membrane-lined tubules of the kidney, which are analogous to the semi-permeable dialysis bag used in Experiment 2.
The kidneys have three basic mechanisms for separating the various components of the blood: filtration, reabsorption, and secretion. These three processes occur in the nephron (Figure 2), which is the most basic functional unit of the kidney. Each kidney contains approximately one million of these functional units. The nephron contains a cluster of blood vessels known as the glomerulus, surrounded by the hollow Bowman's capsule. The glomerulus and Bowman's capsule together are known as the renal corpuscle. Each Bowman's capsule leads into a membrane-enclosed, U-shaped tubule that empties into a collecting duct. The collecting ducts from the various nephrons merge together and ultimately empty into the bladder.
Renal Corpuscle
Filtration occurs in the renal corpuscle. Blood first enters the kidney through the renal artery. The renal artery (see Fig 1) branches into a network of tiny blood vessels called arterioles, which carry the blood into the tiny vessels of the glomerulus. Proteins and cells remain in the arterioles because they are too large to pass through the membrane channels of the glomerulus; hence, they remain circulating in the blood throughout the body. Small particles (e.g., ions, sugars, and ammonia) are able to pass through the membranes into Bowman's capsule. These smaller components then enter the membrane-enclosed tubule in essentially the same concentrations as in the blood.
The tubule functions as a dialysis unit, in which the fluid inside the tubule is the internal solution and the blood (in capillaries surrounding the tubule) acts as the external solution. Particles may pass through the membrane and return to the blood stream in the process known as reabsorption, which is analogous to the movement of particles from the internal solution to external solution in the dialysis experiment performed in lab. Alternatively, particles may pass through the membrane from the blood into the tubule during secretion, which is analogous to the movement of particles from the external solution to internal solution in the dialysis experiment. The most important particles that are secreted from the blood back into the tubules are H+ and K+ ions, as well as organic ions from foreign chemicals or from the natural by-products of the body's metabolism.
Collecting Duct
The blood components that remain in the nephron when the fluid reaches the collecting duct are excreted from the body. The collecting ducts from different nephrons combine and feed into the ureter. The ureters (one from each kidney) enter the bladder, which leads to the urethra, where the liquid waste is excreted from the body.
Membrane Channels
From the overview of kidney function above, it is clear that blood components (e.g., water, ions, sugars) must be able to pass between the nephron tubules and the blood-filled capillaries surrounding them. However, phospholipid-bilayer membranes are not permeable to polar molecules since the interior lipid region of the membrane is nonpolar. Polar components of blood cannot cross the membranes surrounding the tubules (Figure 3A) unless these membranes contain specialized channels.
The channels required for passage of polar blood components are formed by proteins embedded in the phospholipid-bilayer membrane (Figure 3B). These proteins typically have membrane-spanning cylindrical shapes, which are composed of hydrophobic surface amino acid residues and hydrophilic internal core residues. The hydrophobic surface interacts with the non-polar tails of the phospholipids in the bilayer. The hydrophilic interior forms a "tunnel" that allows ions and polar molecule to pass through. The size of the hydrophilic tunnel determines the size of the particles that will be able to pass through the channel. These channels may be left open continuously, or they may be opened and closed by elaborate cellular gating mechanisms. Ultimately, passage of particles through the membrane is dictated by the size, shape, and polarity of the channel.
Diffusion and Concentration Gradients
Diffusion describes the mixing of two different substances that are placed in contact. The substances may be gases, liquids, or solids. Diffusion occurs due to random migration of particles. Although particles move in every direction, there is a net flow of the particles from a more concentrated solution to a less concentrated solution (this is commonly referred to as going "down the concentration gradient"). As the number of particles in the more concentrated solution diminishes and in the less concentrated solution increases, the difference in concentration between the two solutions (concentration gradient) becomes smaller (see Movie below). This process continues until the concentrations of the two solutions are equal. When this occurs, particles continue to move between the two solutions, but there is no net flow in any one direction, i.e ., the concentrations do not change. This state is called dynamic equilibrium. All else being equal, the rate of the net flow is greater when the concentration gradient is greater.
Membranes and Concentration Gradients in the Kidneys
How do the kidneys actually filter the blood to remove the necessary particles in the proper amounts? The specialized semi-permeable membranes of the nephron, protein channels, and protein pumps act in conjunction with concentration gradients to perform the dialysis functions of the kidney.
Lipid-soluble substances can easily pass through the phospholipid membrane, and so these substances tend to be readily reabsorbed into the blood. This can be a problem because many drugs and toxins, such as the pesticide DDT, are lipid-soluble. Hence, removal of these toxins is very difficult.
Most of the components of the blood, however, are polar or charged and require protein channels to cross the membrane. The channels in the nephrons are specialized to allow only the passage of particular types of particles, based on size, shape, and charge interactions with the amino acids lining the channel interior. The kidneys control the concentration of different species in two ways: by regulating the number of channels in the membrane and the number of channels that are open. In the end, most waste products undergo only partial reabsorption, so large amounts of the substance remain in the tubule and are thus removed from the body in the urine. In contrast, useful plasma components, such as water, nutrients, and inorganic ions, are completely reabsorbed.
To demonstrate how the specialized membranes of the kidneys work to maintain the blood's chemistry properly, we shall consider three different blood-plasma components (Na+, H2O, and urea) and how the flow of each component between the nephron tubule and the surrounding blood-containing capillaries is controlled.
Urea Reabsorption (Using Channels; Movement of Particles Down (With) a Concentration Gradient)
Urea is a waste product formed in the liver during the metabolic breakdown of proteins. Due to its small size, urea easily enters the tubule during the filtration step in the glomerulus. Even though it might seem that all of the urea will be excreted, only half of this urea actually reaches the urine. The tubular membranes are permeable to urea. Therefore, as urea flows down the tube, it flows from high concentration (inside the tubule) to low concentration (in the blood containing capillaries) until dynamic equilibrium is reached. The urea in the tubules is eventually excreted via the collecting duct, but it is only half the amount of the glomerular filtrate.
Sodium Reabsorption (Using Pumps; Movement of Particles Against a Concentration Gradient)
Certain segments of the nephron tubule contain proteins that use energy to pump sodium ions out of the tubule and into the blood (Figure 5). Sodium is therefore actively reabsorbed into the blood. In this case, the proteins in the membranes act like pumps, using energy to move particles "against the concentration gradient" (i.e., so the more concentrated solution becomes even more concentrated). The amount of sodium ions that are reabsorbed can be controlled by the hormone aldosterone. High levels of aldosterone promote sodium pump activity, which increases sodium reabsorption into the blood. When aldosterone levels are low, the pumps are less active, more sodium remains in the tubules, and more sodium is excreted.
Water Reabsorption (Using Channels; Movement of Particles Down a Concentration Gradient)
The active pumping of sodium ions out of the tubule causes the water concentration inside the tubule to increase. Conversely, the water concentration in the blood decreases. The result is a water concentration gradient between the tubule fluid and the blood. Some portions of the tubular membrane are impermeable to water, but other portions contain hydrophilic channels through which water can flow. In these areas, water exits the tubule and enters the blood through these hydrophilic channels by passive diffusion (Figure 5). In the collecting duct, the permeability of the membrane can be altered by the hormone vasopressin, also known as antidiuretic hormone (ADH).When the body needs to retain water, as in dehydration situations, the pituitary secretes ADH. Higher ADH levels cause the water-permeability of these membranes to increase. Therefore, large amounts of water are reabsorbed into the blood, and only a little water will be excreted in the urine. When the body has plenty of water, the level of ADH remains low, causing this portion of the membrane to become relatively impermeable to water. In this case, a larger amount of water remains in the collecting duct and is excreted.
Artificial Kidney Dialysis
When the kidneys do not function properly, dialysis must be performed artificially to prevent toxic waste build up in the blood and tissues. Failing kidneys are responsible for uremia, which means "urine in the blood." Eventually, waste build-up causes cell death.
Artificial Membranes
To separate the components of blood, artificial kidneys use cellulose membranes in place of the phospholipid-bilayer membranes used by real kidneys. This cellulose membrane is the same type of membrane that you used in this experiment. Cellulose is a polymer of glucose molecules that form long, straight chains. Parallel chains form linkages with one another by hydrogen bonding to make strong fibers. These fibers in turn interact to form the strong, sheet-like structure of the membrane. The arrangement of the cellulose fibers may contain gaps (Figure 6) which form the pores through which particles may pass from one side of the membrane to the other. Like the membrane proteins in the real kidney, the size of the gaps determines the size of the particles that will be able to pass through the membrane.
Types of Artificial Kidney Dialysis
Two types of artificial kidney dialysis are used clinically. Hemodialysis uses a cellulose-membrane tube that is immersed in a large volume of fluid. The blood is pumped through this tubing and then back into the patient's vein. The membrane has a molecular-weight cut-off that retains proteins and cells in the blood but allows most solutes to pass out of the tubing. The external solution in which the tubing is immersed is a salt solution with ionic concentrations near or slightly lower than the desired concentrations in the blood. If a particular species is high in concentration in the blood-derived internal solution, then it flows into the external fluid. In this manner, excess substances in the blood are removed from the body. To maintain the blood's concentration of a species, the external solution is made to have the same concentration of that species as the blood. In such a case, the two solutions are in dynamic equilibrium, and so the blood's concentration does not change.
Peritoneal dialysis uses the lining of the patient's abdominal cavity, known as the peritoneum, as a dialysis membrane. Fluid is injected into the abdominal cavity, and solutions diffuse from the blood into this fluid. After several hours, the fluid is removed with a needle and replaced with new fluid. The patient is free to perform normal activities between fluid changings.
By filtration, reabsorption, and secretion mechanisms, the kidneys separate and regulate the components of the blood. Some of these components (e.g., proteins) are filtered from the fluid entering the tubule at the glomerulus and remain in the blood. Other particles (e.g., water, ions, and sugar) are reabsorbed by the blood or secreted from the blood to maintain the proper concentrations; these processes occur while the fluid is flowing through the tubule. Any blood components that remain in the nephron when the fluid reaches the collecting duct (e.g., waste products such as urea) are excreted from the body.
The reabsorption and secretion of the blood components depend on the ability of these components to cross the nonpolar interior of the membrane surrounding the nephron tubule. The polar blood components can only pass through the membrane via special protein channels. The size of the channel can determine which polar or charged particles will be able to cross the membrane through the channel.
The concentrations of the blood components are maintained by diffusion (going down the gradient) through the membrane (via the protein channels if the component is polar) or by pumping (going against the gradient). Hence, the ability of the kidneys to remove harmful particles from the blood, and to regulate the concentration of other particles in the blood, depends on the chemical concepts of polarity and diffusion. The use of "pumps" made of proteins and the permeability of tubule membranes can be altered by hormones such as aldosterone and vasopressin.
When the kidneys do not function properly, the components of blood can be separated by artificial semipermeable membranes such as cellulose membranes, a polymer of glucose molecules. The peritoneum, which is the lining of the abdominal cavity, can also function as a dialysis membrane. Thus, the artificial kidney dialysis uses the same chemical principles that are used naturally in the kidneys to maintain the chemical composition of the blood. Diffusion across semipermeable membranes, polarity, and concentration gradients are central to the dialysis process for both natural and artificial kidneys.
Additional Links:
Doyle, D.A. et al. "Potassium Channel (KCSA) From Streptomyces Lividans," (1998) Science, 280, 69. Potassium channel PDB coordinates, Brookhaven Protein Data Bank.
Guex, N. and Peitsch, M.C. Electrophoresis, 1997, 18, 2714-2723. (SwissPDB Viewer) URL: http://www.expasy.ch/spdbv/mainpage.htm.
Insight II graphical program; Molecular Simulations, Inc. URL: http://www.msi.com.
Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-Ray). URL: http://www.povray.org.
Vander, A. et al. Human Physiology, 7th ed. WCB McGraw-Hill, Boston, 1998, p. 503-533, 547-548.
Stryer, L. Biochemistry, 4th ed. W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, 1995, p. 261-278, 299-301.
The authors thank Dewey Holten, Michelle Gilbertson, Jody Proctor and Carolyn Herman for many helpful suggestions in the writing of this tutorial.
The development of this tutorial was supported by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, through the Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education program, Grant HHMI# 71199-502008 to Washington University.
Copyright 1999, Washington University, All Rights Reserved.
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|Sommer {m}Maskulinum (der)
|> Summer ({f}) (weiblicher Vorname)
|> Summer
|Das grüne Leuchten (ein französischer Spielfilm aus dem Jahr 1986)
|Summer [Am.]
|Summierverstärker {m}Maskulinum (der) [elektr., EDV]
|Ferienkurs {m}Maskulinum (der)
|summer school
|Gartenhaus {n}Neutrum (das)
|summer house
|Gartenhäuser {pl}Plural (die)
|summer houses
|Gartenpavillon {m}Maskulinum (der)
|summer house
|Junikäfer {m}Maskulinum (der) [zool.]
|summer chafer (Amphimallon solstitialis)
|Sommeraufenthalt {m}Maskulinum (der)
|summer stay
|Sommeraufenthalte {pl}Plural (die)
|summer stays
|Sommerferien {pl}Plural (die)
|summer holidays
|Sommerferien {pl}Plural (die)
|summer vacation (Am.)American English
|Sommerfrische {f}Femininum (die)
|summer resort
|Sommerfrischen {pl}Plural (die)
|summer resorts
|Sommerfrischler {m}Maskulinum (der)
|summer visitor
|Sommergäste {pl}Plural (die)
|summer visitors
|Sommerkleid {n}Neutrum (das) (sommerliches Damenkleid)
|summer dress
|Sommerkleidung {f}Femininum (die)
|summer clothes
|Sommerkleidungen {pl}Plural (die)
|summer dresses
|Sommermonate {pl}Plural (die)
|summer months
|Sommerreifen {m}Maskulinum (der)
|summer tire [Am.]
|Sommerreifen {m}Maskulinum (der)
|summer tyre [Br.]
|Sommersachen {pl}Plural (die) [ugs.] (Kleidung)
|summer clothes
|When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietorwhen she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherines drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeepers room.
|But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice.
|About a year ago, she was taken from school, and an establishment formed for her in London; and last summer she went with the lady who presided over it, to Ramsgate; and thither also went Mr. Wickham, undoubtedly by design; for there proved to have been a prior acquaintance between him and Mrs. Younge, in whose character we were most unhappily deceived; and by her connivance and aid, he so far recommended himself to Georgiana, whose affectionate heart retained a strong impression of his kindness to her as a child, that she was persuaded to believe herself in love, and to consent to an elopement.
|Only think what a miserable summer else we shall have!
|The families who had been in town for the winter came back again, and summer finery and summer engagements arose.
|Not so much as I could wish, sir; but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.
|On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows: The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!
|Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
|The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit.
|Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leavessights which before always yielded me supreme delightso deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.
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macro run problems
Posted by sean shanley on November 12, 2001 2:27 PM
I need help please!!
I have an excel workbook with many sheets prepared for presentation. I created many buttons on a page for navigating to and from each worksheet- this works well
I gave the file to the presenter to present on another pc and it wont work.
When the presenter opens the file the macro enable/disable prompt doesnt appear. I thought that this was just because it was turned off in Tools/Options under general tab "macro virus protection" not checked. But here is the problem this option is not visible at all in the general tab
When i told the presenter to record a simple macro and and try running it the message was that this was disabled.
where if not in options at teh general tab could this have been disabled and why is the check box missing.
I need to know asap and would appreciate any help
its either excel 97/2000 on the PC that wont operate the macros and the file was created on 97
I thought then that use of macros was and add in of some sort and wasnt loaded on this pc however when i checked my own pc this shows no add in thta could be related


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Blog of the Week Right Wing News comments on what looks like an excellent takedown of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid by the Washington Times. Reid, as you probably know, is embarassed by the fact that in 1993, he gave a fiery anti-illegal immigration speech and introduced legislation to tighten up the system.
That, of course, is at odds with the current position of the Democratic Party, which now advocates making citizens out of illegal aliens even if they have been convicted of felonies (above and beyond illegal immigration). So yesterday Reid tearfully took the Senate floor and disavowed his 1993 position. He said that he changed his mind after a few days because his wife, whose parents were immigrants, chided him.
It turns out, however, that Reid reintroduced his bill and testified for it in the Senate Judiciary Committee the following year, 1994. Confronted with this fact, Reid last night backtracked on his touching story:
Mr. Reid's office said last night that his conversion occurred after the second time he introduced his bill but couldn't give an exact time line.
They can't give an exact time line, I suspect, until they've done a Nexis search and figured out when Reid last gave an anti-illegal immigration speech that was reported in the press.


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Storytelling has been at the heart of human creative impulses since the beginning. Hieroglyphics told the stories of kings and their subjects, Homeric poetry invented fantastic histories, Roman frescoes captured scenes of narrative interest, and both books and film found their most celebrated works in sharing yarns with those who'd chosen to spend their time with them. In videogames, the process of telling a story has long been encumbered by the fact that the audience is also supposed to be the protagonist. For years, games have approached this problem reluctantly, borrowing cinematic scripting, pen and paper role-playing devices, and static text boxes to deliver stories by one-way decree.
Jason Rohrer's newest game Sleep is Death (Geisterfahrer), originally commissioned for the Art History of Games Conference in Atlanta, tackles this problem by making a game about the actual process of telling a story. It's a 2 player networked experience that you can play online or through a local connection. One player acts as a storyteller and has access to a full set of editing tools, character models, environmental objects, and a music generator. The second player is the actor in a story that the first player prepares.
Each player has 30 seconds to take a turn. As the player you can move your character anywhere on screen, type in dialogue, and interact with any object on the screen by typing a short command into an action box. The storyteller then has 30 seconds to respond to the player's moves by rearranging the scenery in accordance with your desired actions, changing the mood, or introducing new characters and objects to guide the story.
While the experience benefits from some advance time spent customizing characters and making backgrounds, you can also dive right in and use the premade objects in the storyteller menu. All the new objects you make for a particular story will be permanently saved for both the player and storyteller, so the more times you play with someone the more tools you'll have at your disposal.
I spent a little over an hour playing through a story that Rohrer built for me. I started as a woman alone in a room with a bed, television and a kitchen. My first instinct was to inspect everything in the room since there didn't seem to be any obvious directives. I walked to the television and typed "turn on" into the action box. Rohrer put a new sprite into the game, turning the gray-screened television into one with a colorful image and an accompanying speech bubble about the morning news.
I wanted to press Rohrer so I typed "undress" into the action box and on my next turn my character was naked in her room. I walked outside and was in a withered forest with craggy trees and an old house behind me. A snake was on the ground and it spoke to me, imploring me to put my clothes back on. "There are lots of men around here," the snake told me.
"What's so dangerous about men?" I asked as I moved to the edge of the screen to follow the path. On the next screen, Rohrer had put the robe back on my character, punishing my impudence with a firm authorial hand. There was a big green tree in the middle of the screen with one lone apple hanging from a limb. I immediately recognized the Garden of Eden reference and expected Rohrer to riff on some of the things we'd talked about in an earlier email exchange about a short film I'd made on the subject. That had led us into an exchange about Lars von Trier's Antichrist, which immediately changed my perception of the game's opening with a woman in a cabin in the woods.
As soon as I recognized all those personal elements, my impulse to experiment with random behavior lessened and I wanted to see what Jason was going to do with these elements, imported out of context from both our lives. I plucked the apple from the tree and took it back to the cabin. I cut the apple in half and baked it in the oven (Rohrer later confessed the cutting of the apple was totally unexpected on his end and he had to scramble to add some white to the apple sprite to make it look cut).
I ate the apple, finally. The screen turned black, the snake morphed into a green devil with horns and a tail, and my character was naked again. The devil told me that chaos reigns and I assumed he had some ability to bend the laws of nature. I asked him to make me fly.
Another speech bubble appeared in the bottom of the screen not connected to any character with a non-sequitur message about a product that I didn't understand. In the next screen I was back in the cabin and news about the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 was playing on the television. There was a loud banging on the door and when I opened it two men in suits came inside.
They seemed to be blaming me for something so I decided to leave. I walked back through the forest and then one of them grabbed my character. My move command became disabled and all I could do was write speech or type a command to struggle. The men carried me back to the tree where the apple had been, tied me to the trunk, and then burned my character alive. I imagined they were blaming me for having eaten the apple so I tried to blame it on the snake, but it didn't help. I typed "ouch" into the speech box as I realized there was nothing more I could do. The next screen was black with only "The End" written in thin white letters.
The experience was filled with seeming contradictions and self-consciousness for me. All stories require suspension of disbelief, but knowing Rohrer was watching all of my moves, I felt especially aware of my choices. I wanted to both challenge him and try to anticipate what his story was, as if it were some psychological puzzle to be solved. The moment-to-moment experience was simultaneously tedious and nerve-wracking. After having spent so much time playing games where constant interaction and visual feedback was the norm, having to wait thirty seconds staring at a static screen while he took his turn was dull, especially in the beginning. Many of the new element seemed anti-climactic when first introduced, and I often felt disappointed at how familiar much of the key ideas and images were. Ironically, I never felt like I had enough time to plan my response to Jason's additions. I flubbed several turns writing and deleting dialogue, ruminating on how to respond, and then having to rush some hastily considered choices in the final few seconds.
But I never wanted to stop playing. As impatient as I was with the experience while it was happening, it was acting on parts of my brain that I'd never used in a game environment before. I'd never had to watch something terrible and then be responsible for documenting how that person would feel. When I wrote "ouch" in the end it felt both ridiculous and sad. The pantomime of human torture and sacrifice was happening in a form that was so abstract it was just barely recognizable. Yet the path that led to that pixelized still life had been filled with complicated thoughts and reactions, all of which had to be funneled through the narrow bottleneck of pixel art and dialogue boxes.
Rohrer made Sleep is Death partly as a response to Chris Crawford's Storytron, the legendary attempt to build character and story A.I. that consumed seventeen year's of Crawford's career. In Rohrer's game, there is no A.I., everything is directed by human intelligence. That's both a daunting weight and a alluring opportunity. After your story is finished, you'll be able to look at a flipbook version based on sequential screenshots from each player's turn.
Looking back over the pictures from our time together, I felt a whole new sense of discovery. Without the pressure to respond, provoke, and impress, the actual story that was told was haunting to me. An hour's worth of thinking, worrying, and wondering had been condensed into a dark children's book that ended with a woman tied to a tree in flames. In this blocky technical artifact, I discovered something alarmingly dark, personal, and beautiful. And we had made it together.
Sleep is Death is available for pre-order here. On April 16 it will be available for direct download on PC and Mac.


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The extremely occasional blog of Colleen Lindsay, professional nerd, cat herder, publishing optimist, and sartorial tragedy.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Adventures in outer borough living.
I live in the upper part of a two-storey row house in the pit of outer borough suburbia called East Elmhurst, just off the final runway approach to La Guardia Airport. (Why, hello there, giant 767! Thanks for sharing the spectacular view of your landing gear deploying one hundred feet above my head!) A row house is a long, skinny dwelling that is designed to suck all available sunlight in through the front window and render it completely inert by the time it hits the middle of the living room. By the time you reach the back of the house, you are walking in a sea of blackness. But thank God for the paper-thin walls that let you hear every whispered conversation and drunken brawl of the neighbors on both your left and right; otherwise you might be led to believe that you were living inside a sensory deprivation chamber.
The front door is made of plywood panels and last saw a paint job sometime during the Eisenhower administration. The remaining paint hangs off in great sheets and pretty much every day ends up getting tracked into the house on the bottoms of shoes. The lock on the front door is tempermental, to say the least. It locks and unlocks whenever it has a mind to, whether or not a key is involved. The front concrete stairs that lead off the porch to the ground (ie, the only way out of the house) are literally crumbling to pieces. As in, when you step on them the wrong way, they crumble to dust under your feet. One step is about 40% gone, the one beneath is starting to go and three others have developed the same cracks. My housemate and I have made an art out of jumping over the broken steps without breaking any limbs.
And the bathroom is also an exercise in extreme sports. There's a broken skylight in the bathroom ceiling, ostensibly to let in fresh air and let out moisture, but it no longer opens and - instead - a sheet of metal-encased glass hangs precariously on two hinges from the ceiling over your head when you are sitting on the throne. While I've come to terms with the inevitability of my own death by decapitation while perched on the potty, I suspect that any houseguest who ventures into the bathroom may be far less zen about it.
And then there's the roof.
About a week before Christmas, I woke to discover that an entire seam in my ceiling had split open and it was - for all intents and purposes - raining in my bedroom. We're not talking a drip here and there. We're talking a ten-foot long Niagara Falls running down the middle of my bedroom. Directly over my bed. Where I was sleeping at the time. The cats were soaked, I was soaked and pretty much everything in my bedroom was soaked. And, for reasons I don't care to speculate on, a great deal of the water coming down was jet black and...chunky.
I called the landlord. And called the landlord. And called the landlord. And then went next door to the neighbor (who is the landlord's sister), home of Milo-the-Puggle-Who-Hates-Me, and asked the neighbor to keep calling the landlord for me while I tried to get some things out of the bedroom: paintings, shoes, books, clothes, etc. The bed was already ruined and much of my bedding was covered in the black water as well. And it was raining outside. A lot. So it continued to rain in my apartment. For three full days. And the water was running directly through the light fixture over my bed. On day two, the exterior wall also opened up, and water began running down the inside of the wall into my downstairs neighbor's apartment. The downstairs neighbor who was in Colombia at the time.
The landlord eventually called me back. Seven hours later. And then showed up the next day, wringing his hands about the cost of insurance and how much it costs to fix roofs. And then he looked at my wretched already-beginning-to mildew-mattress and said "Oh, you can dry that out! It'll be fine." Three days later, he finally got someone to climb up there and throw a tarp over the hole in the roof. And there it sits still, ladies and gentlemen, flapping in the breeze. On the still not-fixed roof.
Fast forward to last night:
I've been waiting for the mattress to dry out so that my housemate and I could actually get it out of the apartment. It's a futon mattress; futon mattresses aren't the most maneuverable things in the world when they're dry. When they're wet, they are unmoveable.
My housemate works in the entertainment business and thus gets home very late most nights.We frequently don't see each other for days because of her work schedule. So, in order to actually get the damned thing out of the house on Big Item Garbage Day (a party day in the outer boroughs, to be sure!), I'd asked her to wake me up when she got home so she could help me drag the mattress out to the curb. Thus we found ourselves at 2:00 AM wrestling a mildewed futon mattress out to the curb in 20 degree weather. By force of habit, my roommate pulled the door shut behind her to keep the cats from escaping. Neither of us relished chasing Stinkyboy all over the neighborhood in below-freezing weather.
Those of you who have been paying attention probably already know what happened next: Mattress disposed of, we headed back up to the porch where we discovered - to our complete horror - that the door had locked itself behind us. Neither of us had keys or a phone. More importantly, neither of us had a coat or gloves or a hat. (Truth in fact, I was actually wearing only a hoody, boots and a pair pajama bottoms so raggedy that one might be able to see portions of my posterior should one actually bother looking at my backside.)
My roommate tried to open the windows, but - being that we're both pretty security-conscious - they were latched down tight. Then we went to the neighbor's house, figuring that they might have keys and, at the very least, would let us use the phone. Thirty minutes of doorbell ringing and door pounding later, they still hadn't woken up. Another fifteen minutes of extreme door pounding and finally the door opened. Neighbor lady did not, in fact, have keys to her brother's house but she did call our landlord. Over and over and over again. No response. (Gee, what a surprise!) And then she shut the door in our faces. We headed to the pub around the corner, where Shane the Most Awesome Bartender in Queens, plied us with Jameson's whiskey, pretzels and bootleg Bruce Lee movies on his laptop. He also let us use the phone to call a locksmith.
Thirty minutes and nearly $300 later, we were back inside our apartment and a nice Israeli kid named Sol was handing us two shiny new keys to the place. Which I am going to go get duplicated this afternoon, so that I can leave a set with Shane the Most Awesome Bartender in Queens.
And yes, in case you were wondering? We're making the landlord pay for the mattress AND the locksmith.
Good times, kids! Good time!
26 comments:
- Ugly Deaf Muslim Punk Gurl! said...
ohhh man. That's shitty you were locked out... but hey, now you got a funny story to tell all of us, and someday you can look back at it and... oh never mind.
you're funny. "the bathroom is like doing extreme sports..."
- January 10, 2009 at 2:07 PM
- wheelmaker said...
ok, I'm going to stop complaining about roaches now. Well, probably not, but this does make me happy for my leak-free apartment.
- January 10, 2009 at 2:10 PM
- Marsha said...
That's horrible! There's nothing worse than being at the mercy of a lax landlord. At least he's paying for the damage caused!
- January 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- romany said...
agh! i can't wait to see it...
- January 10, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- Jinx said...
Oh wow, my stomach hurts now. That sounds like the many apartments I grew up in! I hate landlords, who have multiple similarities to the roaches. This is why I own my house.
Thanks for the distraction from my research. =) ROFLMFAO!
Hope it all gets fixed soon.
- January 10, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- KD said...
That Niagara Falls gets around. It found my last house three times. When I finally escaped my lease, "landlord" was first on my list of necessities. My apartment is tiny and expensive, but my landlord is to die for.
I'm working on cloning him; I'll send you a copy when I do.
- January 10, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- Laura Anne said...
oh my god. I have this urge to send my super Super over there. He would not only fix everything, tsking all the while, but would kick your landlord for you (and, quite possibly, tuck you under his arm and bring you back here We have a cute studio that's about to go on the market...)
- January 10, 2009 at 3:04 PM
- Sharon Gerlach said...
Aaahhh...are you sure we aren't related? That much bad karma can't exist outside a family bloodline, can it??
All I can say is (as I wipe tears of laughter from my face) is at least you can have a sense of humor about it. Someone needs to thump your landlord to see if the loose connections in his brain (i.e. those connected to simply human concern and courtesy) might fuse long enough to take care of his doggone responsibilities.
My niece has a set of keys to our house, just in case. In the event we get lock ed out, we'll only have about a 12-18 hour wait because she's so darn hard to reach (perhaps she's related to your landlord...). Luckily there is a microbrewery within walking distance of our house. And a pizza place. And an all-night grocery. And a liquor store. What more could a girl ask for?
- January 10, 2009 at 3:34 PM
- clindsay said...
Laura Anne -
I would gladly accept your super super Super!
I miss my old super and my old apartment in Astoria. The super there, Victor, was amazing. He was on top of things immediately all the time. Plus, ya know, ASTORIA!
I lost that apartment because after three years of being unemployed or under-employed, I just couldn't afford the rent anymore. (I was a victim of the very first Random House/Ballantine restructuring. Good times!)
I moved out here to Bumfuck just because it was the least expensive place I could find and woman who lived in the apartment said she'd allow me to bring my cats. I'd been looking for four months and was essentially homeless during that time. Not an experience I care to repeat, thanks! =)
I do like my housemate. But I confess that after living here for six months, I've come to hate this part of Queens with a passion heretofore reserved only for cockroaches and Jerry Falwell. I miss Astoria like crazy. And I miss being near a subway. And I miss being able to afford to live in New York. (This whole agents-not actually-getting-a-salary thing blows.)
Where do you live? And just how much is that studio, anyway? :-P
- January 10, 2009 at 3:34 PM
- Elissa M said...
And people wonder why they can't pay me to live in NYC. Hilarious story though. It's great you can laugh about it (after the fact).
- January 10, 2009 at 3:41 PM
- Laura Anne said...
I'm in Riverdale (or, as Ellen Datlow called it, "northernmost northern Manhattan, although technically it's the Bronx). Fabulous neighborhood, still not too pricey for buying or renting...
- January 10, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- slf said...
Holy crap. And in Seattle we all whined about getting trapped in the house (nice, warm house with intact roof) for a week by the snow.
- January 10, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- Leatherdykeuk said...
Oh Gods!
You could write a boo... No, wait...
- January 10, 2009 at 4:31 PM
- ChristaCarol said...
Eeep, sorry to hear about all the bad luck, but you tell it in such an entertaining way I can't help but laugh. Hope everything gets squared out and your landlord stops being such an ass.
- January 10, 2009 at 5:53 PM
This whole post made my stomach hurt. And not in a good way.
Though I do enjoy the jets landing while we're on the phone...
Take care!
- January 10, 2009 at 9:05 PM
It's like what they say about marriage: don't pick your spouse, pick your in-laws. Don't pick the apartment, pick the landlord.
I feel like I should apologize for laughing so hard at your suffering, but...
Word verif: monionsu
- January 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- Montana Barn Cat said...
Give up!
- January 10, 2009 at 11:55 PM
- Kim Kasch said...
OMG: What a night! But my husband has you beat. He got locked outside with our 2 year old inside - all alone - on the first girls' weekend when I got away after having our son.
Would have killed him - if anything had happened to my babe - luckily family is still intact our son unlocked the door for daddy by crawling up on a highchair. :)
- January 11, 2009 at 3:47 AM
- H. L. Dyer said...
Ugh! I shall redouble my leak-free apartment finding vibes in your general direction.
When the soft underbelly of a jet glides close and the pilot whips out the landing gear, it seems indecent somehow. Like a flasher, almost...
- January 11, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Joanna said...
- January 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Oh my. I apologize but I DID laugh. But I also feel for you.
After ignoring the $300 + addition the landlord added to my rent statement monthly for about three years (after my toilet started spitting up water--or rather gushing at 3am on a Sunday morning at which I called the first plumber I could find in the phone book --because my super is --illegally--not on the premises or available 24/7)...they finally, a few months ago, removed the charge.
- January 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM
- Lily Cate said...
Ah, the lockout.
I've done it from the car. I've done it from the apartment building lobby, the dorm room, the second story flat with the antique self-locking door while the one year old was inside eating lunch. Even the garage door with a code I couldn't remember if you beat me with a dead raccoon.
Yes. priceless.
I only got flooded, usually, when the Cubs games were on, and the guy upstairs would forget about the running sink while he watched an inning or two.
- January 12, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- ryan field said...
This landlord is one of those who give the rest of us bad names. I've had a few bad landlords like this, and vowed that when I became a landlord I wouldn't repeat their mistakes. My tenant recently called and said there was a leak; the roof guy was there in an hour putting up a tarp until he could really fix it. And this past weekend I was salting and sweeping ice and snow at six in the morning so my tenant could get in and out safely. I haven't raised her rent in five years; she's good, pays on time and I never have problems. But I really do care about the quality of her life, and I think that's because I had a few landlords who didn't give a damn about the quality of my life.
- January 12, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- freddie said...
Oh, I'm so sorry. In college I have a "garden" apartment that flooded with sewage water twice. Landlord wasn't all that quick in responding, either. So I called him and told him I was going to a hotel until he fixed the problem and cleaned out all the sewage water, and he could either reimburse me or take the hotel bill off my rent. (He took the hotel bill off my rent). Luckily, nothing I owned was damaged.
I hope you find the apartment of your dreams soon. Or at least a nice apartment with caring neighbors.
- January 13, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- ccallicotte said...
Oh, wow. So sorry to hear about your horrible landlord. But at least you're retaining a sense of humor about it! I had a landlord from hell at one point - we had black mold growing on all the walls, and I lost a mattress, several duffel bags, some clothes, and a some of my favorite shoes. Plus I was constantly congested whenever I was home. After several unreturned calls, the genius brought me a 1/2 empty (or was it 1/2 full?) bottle of Lysol and advised me to scrub the walls with a good sponge.
- January 13, 2009 at 6:39 PM
- Georgiana said...
What a horrible experience. It reminds of me of Dark Water, a movie that scared the pants off of me. Hope everything is better now.
- January 17, 2009 at 2:10 AM


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The Life & Times of Ulysses S. Grant
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After the Mexican-American War ended in early 1848, Grant married Julia Boggs Dent, the sister of his former West Point roomate and war buddy. The pair had a son, Frederick Dent Grant, named after his uncle (the roommate.) Afterwards, while Julia was pregnant with Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. , Grant Senior was reassigned to Fort Vancouver (pictured below) in what is now Washington state, as quartermaster of the 4th Infantry Regiment. Julia, unfortunately, could not accompany him. His pay was not enough to support the many needs of a frontier family; his wife and children would be better of on the east coast than the west.
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