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My brother Michael is 8 years younger than I am. I remember being kind of pissed off when my parents told me they were going to have another baby, being perplexed when they woke me in the middle of the night to tell me that this baby was coming 6 weeks ahead of schedule, and being disappointed to find out he was a boy (I already had a brother.) But as soon as I saw him, I fell in love. Being the oldest child and a baby lover, Michael became my baby.
Soon after he was born, my mom went back to school to earn her nursing degree. I did a lot of caregiving for Michael and it brought us very close together. We are similar in a lot of ways and as we have become adults, our bond remains strong. At the end of this past summer, he decided to move back to Seattle after having not lived here since high school. I am delighted to have him back. My boys adore him and I love being able to spend some quality time with him.
One of my favorite things to do with Michael is feed him. He is an incredibly enthusiastic eater. He is a hard core carnivore, but at the root of it all, he just loves good food. He is happy to eat vegetarian at my house and has even said that he could eat that way all the time if I was cooking for him. He is not a big sweets person but he absolutely LOVES cookies. The other night he and my parents came over for dinner and I realized that I had only one palmier left. Being the person I am, I can't know someone loves something and not be able to offer it to them.
So, I pulled out a special recipe. I made these about a year ago for my clients and they prompted a special note from one of them. She said they were the best cookies she had ever had. I do have to say there is something special about these. The oats make them soft and the coconut adds a new dimension of flavor – don't skip it even if you think you don't like coconut. There is no white sugar in these, only brown, so they bake up nice and golden and have that cararmel-y taste. Plus, I like oatmeal raisin cookies as much as the next person, but I would really prefer chocolate chip. I gave Michael a big bag to take home with him and yet he dipped into my cookie jar for a "few for the road". Guess they were a hit.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Adapted from The Greyston Bakery Cookbook
Makes about 2 dozen cookies
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
2 cups old-fashioned rolled ats
3/4 cup shredded coconut (DN: I used unsweetened.)
7 oz. bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped into small chunks (DN: I used chocolate
Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt to blend. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer set on medium speed, cream the butter and sugar together for 3 minutes, or until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and continue beating until well combined, scraping down the sides as necessary.
With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture, mixing until just combined. With a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, fold in the oats, coconut, and chocolate.
Drop the batter in rounded tablespoons, 2″ apart, onto baking sheets. Bake 12-15 minutes, or until the cookies are golden brown. Transfer to wire racks to cool.

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The recording of today's excellent webinar, Privacy and Our Ancestors, by Thomas MacEntee, is now available to view in our webinar archives. In additon to all of the resources Thomas taught, he also shed new light on privacy issues. One viewer commented:
Thanks for the genealogy resources. And for changing my view on the issue of privacy. I thought our privacy issues had changed with all the availability of data, not just on the internet, but other public records. In truth, with the advent of Facebook and Twitter, we are putting our OWN lives on record every day! And public records have always been public -- that hasn't changed. I'm less worried about my own privacy now and have more resources to find my ancestors' public lives. Thanks!
Here's just a few of the resources Thomas talked about:
- Marital discourse ads
- Hotel arrivals
- City directories
- Court records
- Speeding tickets
- Everyblock.com
- Newspaperarchive.com
- Freedom of Information Act
- Google Alerts
- Zabasearch.com
- Lots more...
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Mark Twain most likely wrote Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians during the summer of 1884. It featured the same targets as Twain's works such as the The Noble Red Man and Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses highlighted: James Fenimore Cooper's alleged idealization of American Indians.
Huck and Tom Among the Indians takes place on the Oregon Trail from western Missouri, along the Platte river, ending in Sioux territory near Fort Laramie. This is the same route that Twain himself took in 1861 on the way to Nevada, and from which he developed the travel book Roughing It (Blair 84). Walter Blair, the editor of Mark Twain's Hannibal, Huck & Tom observed that several of the events in the short story correspond with those that occurred in Clemens' personal life. He states: "Hugh's shocked reaction to the demonstrative love of the Mills family recalls the author's comparison of his family's refusal to show affection with his wife's Olivia's greater warmth. Huck's infatuation with the much older Peggy Mills recalls the boy Sam Clemens's unrequited love for two girls several years older than he was. Indians massacres like the one in which several members of the Mills family died were part of Jane Clemens's family tradition" (84).
While definitely not his best work, and in some respects an utter failure, Huck and Tom Among the Indians reveals intriguing things about Twain's view of American Indians. The devious nature of the Indians who double-cross and then massacre the loving Mills family, and Peggy's implied brutal rape, eliminate any possibility of a positive racial relationship between whites and American Indians. The story's plot dwindles until it reaches stagnancy; perhaps this is the reason that Twain could not finish the text.
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O mundo a vapor foi uma idéia pioneira que surgiu desde 1939 através da familia Urbani. Inspirados pela temática da máquinas a vapor, que transformaram o mundo desde a revolução industrial, colocaram em prática a sua utilização em réplicas perfeitas e exclusivas, fabricadas artesanalmente pelos Urbani sendo únicas no mundo.
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Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.Text by Steve Smith.


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SANTIAGO, Chile — Even as Pope Francis apologized for his failures in connection with Chile's most famous case of clerical sex abuse, the pope and that country's deeply discredited Catholic Church are under mounting pressure to address another, even bigger sex scandal.
The blooming scandal of the Marist Brothers, a congregation dedicated to education, has not yet drawn great attention worldwide — unlike allegations that a bishop covered up the crimes of a pedophile priest, Father Fernando Karadima.
Francis recently spent several days at his Vatican hotel in talks with three of Karadima's victims; this week he is meeting with all of Chile's bishops to address the crisis that has implicated several church leaders and religious orders.
In the Marist case, the accusations of abuse are many.
"It's a situation of systematic abuse where there are multiple abusers throughout time, within and outside the congregation," Juan Pablo Hermosilla, an attorney for some of the victims told The Associated Press. He said that there are at least 20 cases of abuse, but that there could be more.
"It's an unprecedented situation," he said.
Marists are religious brothers, not priests; they operate in dozens of countries around the world. The scandal came to light last August, when the group revealed that at least 14 minors were abused from the 1970s until 2008 by Abel Perez, a brother who worked at two of the order's schools. Then it acknowledged that another Marist sexually abused five students.
The Marists opened a canonical investigation and launched legal action against Perez. But many Chileans were outraged when the order admitted that Perez had confessed in 2010 — seven years earlier.
Now, victims have filed a criminal complaint against three Catholic priests, a Capuchin brother and six Marists. In that complaint and in interviews, they have recounted numerous abusive encounters.
Jaime Concha said he was 12 years old when he was raped by Perez during a boy scout field trip in the 1970s. He said Perez, a trip chaperone, took him to a tent after he fell ill, and gave him herbal tea mixed with alcohol.
"When I woke up in the middle of the night, he was taking advantage of me," the 55-year-old physician told the AP. "He had already raped me." But he said Perez blamed the abuse on him, saying: "Don't worry, I've already asked God to forgive your sin."
Gonzalo Dezerega, 55, wept as he recounted how Perez raped him in the school's locker rooms and showers. He was 10.
Perez has declined to speak with the media. Despite the order's acknowledgment that he confessed, his lawyers continue to maintain his innocence.
The alleged abuses at the Alonso de Ercilla Institute in Chile often took place in the school's basement, in the rooms of the Marist Brothers who lived in a residence connected to the school, or at spiritual retreats and scout field trips.
Concha said that he was abused by other Marists, as well as by priests. Jorge Franco said he was 15 when he was abused by one priest while another watched.
Both Concha and Franco said the current principal of the school, Jesus Perez — who was then in charge of pastoral activities, including masses, communion and confessions — once dragged them to the school basement, forced them to take off their clothes and don a tunic while they waited to take a "vocational test" to determine whether they were suited to become Marist brothers.
Then, they said, he delivered them to the priests who abused them.
Jesus Perez rejected the accusations. "I deny it completely …," he said. "I know the (former students), I was here, I worked here, but they can't accuse me of being complicit."
Hector Villena, a spokesman for the congregation in Chile, said the Marists are not commenting on the allegations.
But in an indication of just how broad the scandal is, the first priest the Marists appointed to conduct a preliminary investigation was removed after Chilean media reported he himself had been accused of sexual misdeeds.
The Chilean sex scandals have been a debacle for the pope. He visited the country in January, and before he boarded the papal plane to return to Rome, Francis said that until he saw proof that Bishop Juan Barros was complicit in covering up Karadima's sex crimes, accusations against Barros were "all calumny."
The pope's remarks drew shock from Chileans and immediate rebuke from victims and advocates worldwide, prompting him to later send the Vatican's sex crimes investigator, Archbishop Charles Scicluna, to investigate Barros.
After receiving Scicluna's 2,300-page report, the pope backtracked and apologized for having discredited the victims. He invited Juan Carlos Cruz, a key whistleblower in the case, and two other abuse survivors for several days of private and group meetings.
Cruz said the pope told him: "I was part of the problem. I caused this, and I apologize to you."
Though originally tasked with investigating Barros, Scicluna also interviewed several of the Marist victims, a clear sign his mandate had expanded. In fact, Scicluna took testimony from victims of several other abusers and heard of cover-up and inaction by Church leaders even against priests convicted of sex offenses by Chilean courts.
A Vatican statement issued Saturday, ahead of Francis's meeting with Chilean bishops, made clear that he had finally processed the victims' complaints: It accused the Chilean hierarchy of "grave omissions" in caring for victims and of having covered up for abusers.
The influence of the Catholic Church in Chile has eroded after the string of scandals. A recent survey by Latinobarometro, a respected regional polling firm, found that in 1995, an estimated 75 percent of Chileans were Catholic. That number plunged to 45 percent in 2017.
Chileans' disenchantment with the Church has also affected their views of the pope. Latinobarometro found that Chile had a lower esteem for history's first Latin American pope than 18 other Central and South American countries. Even among Chilean Catholics, only 42 percent approve of the job Francis is doing, compared to a regional average of 68 percent.


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Expert's Rating
- Great price point
- Ships with Android Ice Cream Sandwich
- Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
- Lags when you play games or watch video
- Low-resolution display
Our Verdict
The Kyocera Rise is a great starter smartphone with a physical QWERTY keyboard, but more-experienced smartphone users will be left wanting more.
There's nothing to "oooh" and "ahhh" about with the Kyocera Rise ($20 with a two-year contract from Sprint after a mail-in rebate; price as of August 29, 2012). This budget smartphone, which runs Android 4.0, has a simple design and basic hardware, and it doesn't excel in any particular category despite its wide range of functionality. However, you can't beat the price point, and the Rise is a solid option if you're looking to dip your toes into the world of smartphones. Also, it has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, which makes typing messages more convenient and also frees up space on the Rise's compact screen.
The Rise tips the scale at 5.54 ounces, which is a little heavy for a phone with a mostly plastic body. But at 4.44 inches tall by 2.38 inches wide, and with a thickness of 0.56 inch, the Rise still feels compact despite its weight. The phone is pretty short, and may be too small for those with larger hands.
A 3.5-inch touchscreen display takes up most of the Rise's face, save for the four navigation buttons along the bottom—Back, Home, Recent Apps, and Menu. With a display resolution of 320 by 480 pixels, the screen won't dazzle you. Text isn't as crisp as I'd like, though it's still readable. On the plus side, the display is very responsive and doesn't lag when you navigate throughout the phone's interface. When you select icons or a letter key, the Rise vibrates in the spot where you touched.
The left and right edges of the device are straight, while the top and bottom edges have a slight curve. The phone's construction isn't fantastic, but it should hold up over time. Unfortunately, the Rise's plastic body and low-res display cheapen the overall aesthetic of the phone (which I guess is offset by the phone's reasonable price).
A microUSB port can be found on the left-edge of the phone, just below the Rise's volume controls. The top edge is home to the power button and a headphone jack.
Most notable is the QWERTY keyboard that slides out to the right of the display if you're holding the Rise in portrait orientation, or the bottom if the display is in landscape orientation. Sliding the keyboard out automatically signals the display to switch to landscape view, as that's how the keyboard is designed to be used.
I usually like using QWERTY keyboards, but this one is cramped: The keys are a little small, and the top row is positioned too close to the top section of the phone, which makes typing uncomfortable. I have small hands and fingers, so I was still able to manage typing despite the challenging layout, but I'd definitely recommend trying the keyboard before buying the phone, as it won't be a good fit for everyone.
If you prefer, you can opt to use the Rise's touchscreen keyboard instead. Swype is preloaded as the phone's default touch keyboard, but you can switch to a standard Android 4.0 keyboard by accessing the phone's settings. Much like the slide-out keyboard, the touch keyboard feels cramped and is hard to use on the Rise's diminutive screen. If you're familiar with Swype, however, you'll probably find that to be the most comfortable typing option.
The Rise packs a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8655 single-core processor, which (for the most part) keeps the phone running smoothly. General navigation, app launching, and switching between apps all work seamlessly, but there are moments where the processor seemed to have trouble keeping up.
There is noticeable lag when switching from landscape to portrait orientation. App, game, and music downloads from the Google Play store were laboriously slow (about eight to 20 minutes). Mobile gamers might want to shy away from the Rise, as I noticed some lag when I played Temple Run and Angry Birds, which definitely impacted my performance.
Call quality on the Rise varies depending on your environment. From my third-floor apartment in San Francisco, I had no trouble hearing others speak, but sometimes voices sound slightly fuzzy. I also tested call quality while walking down a busy street, where reception was still good, but I did experience one dropped call. I turned the volume up to hear people on the other end, but this caused the slight fuzz to increase as well. Callers on the other end commented that my voice had a faint echo, even when I moved to different areas of my house or went outside.
The Rise runs on Sprint's 3G network, which doesn't have the fastest of data speeds. When I tried to test the phone's upload and download speeds, the FCC-approved Ookla Speed Test app crashed almost every time I ran it, so I wasn't able to conduct a proper speed test. The one successful test I was able to run had abysmal results: 127 kilobits per second for download, and 103 kbps for upload.
We have yet to run the Rise through our official PCWorld Labs battery tests, but I was able to use the Rise for six hours of heavy use (downloading apps, listening to music, texting, making calls, Web browsing, and so forth) before the battery maxed out.
The Rise ships with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), which gives this phone a nice performance boost. Kyocera opted not to go with a custom overlay—meaning the menu system and Home screen are both standard Android. Google's apps are already loaded, which include Gmail, Google+, Maps, Play Music, and others; Sprint has a few of its own apps as well, like Eco Mode, Sprint ID, and Sprint Mode.
Because Sprint's 3G network is pretty limited, the Rise can't handle extensive video playback. It struggles with short YouTube clips—I could barely get through a 30-second YouTube video, as it paused to buffer every 10 seconds or so. For music, you can stream your tracks through the Play Music app, or you can manually load music files onto the Rise's included 2GB microSD card and store them there.
The rear speakers surprised me with their solid sound quality, but the entire phone vibrates when playing music through the external speaker. If placed down on a hard surface, this causes a loud buzz, which can be distracting. Headphones provide a better listening experience.
On the back of the Rise lies a 3.2-megapixel camera with flash, which is mediocre at best. It performs better outside with natural light, and using the flash while indoors will help improve clarity, but photos still turn out slightly fuzzy with dull colors.
The camera app includes a few settings for adjusting your photos, like zoom, scene mode, white balance, and flash control; you can play around with these settings to get the most out of your photos.
For video capture, you can pick between four video resolutions: WVGA, 480p, HVGA, and QVGA. The Rise's camera can capture moving objects without much problem, but it can't focus on a subject and its video footage is pixelated. You can adjust the white balance and flash to improve the light quality, but the settings give your video clips an unnatural look that is a bit off-putting.
Bottom Line
While the Kyocera Rise's price point and physical QWERTY keyboard are appealing, you definitely get what you pay for. I'd recommend the Rise as a solid starter smartphone, or perhaps a phone for your clumsy teenager, but more-experienced smartphone users will be left wanting more. If you're willing to shell out more cash, the Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE is another Sprint option with a physical keyboard, and it packs way more power.


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"John Urbain (1920- 2009) was born in Brussels, Belgium. He moved with his parents to Detroit in 1922. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941, Urbain was an infantry corporal whose skill as an illustrator led him to create army training graphics and murals. Wounded during the war, he later depicted the pathos of war in his own artwork.
Urbain studied art at Black Mountain College in North Carolina on the GI Bill. His most influential teacher was artist Josef Albers, who opened his eyes to new approaches to design, color and materials. He also learned about collage that became the dominant means from which Urbain would create art.
In a 2004 ""Block Island Times"" interview, Urbain was asked how he was able to make the viewer see ordinary objects in a new way, a scrap of lace as a cloud, a piece of battered metal washed up on the beach as a human figure, for example. He laughed and revealed his secret. ""They kind of happen,"" he confessed. ""I often don't realize what's there until after it's assembled.""
While at Black Mountain, he met his future wife, fellow artist Elaine Schmidt. After their marriage in 1946, the couple moved to Paris and studied art at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and the Academie Julien.
The Urbains returned to the U.S. in 1953 where they raised their two children, Catherine and Michael. John became art director at Phillip Morris Company. John continued at Phillip Morris Company until his retirement when he and Elaine moved to a summer home in Block Island, Rhode Island. They divorced soon afterwards. For the remainder of his life, John divided his time between the summer home in Block Island and a residence in Ardsley, New York.
Urbain's work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, North Carolina Museum of Art and the Asheville Art Museum." [Source: Museum staff]
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Chegg has long been known as a textbook company, becoming one of the first companies to bring textbook rental online and reach widespread adoption. But with Amazon, Apple and others moving aggressively into the textbook market — and the market and textbooks themselves increasingly going digital — Chegg has been re-positioning. Today, the textbook company is eying EdTech's Holy Grail of becoming the OS for students (or in their words, a student's academic hub), a big change for a company that launched behind the Textbookflix.com URL back in 2005.
This means the company has been adding course reviews and planners, scholarship help, course search and tutoring, as it expands to offer a wider range of student services. On the other hand, CTO Chuck Geiger tells us, those services have little value if students can't access them across platforms. So, Chegg has been on a mission to provide that access to its services at any time, on smartphones, tablets laptops and every platform in between.
It's already launched "Chegg Flashcards" and its original app, which allows students to rent, search for and purchase digital textbooks. Today, Chegg launched a new app for iOS called Chegg Textbook Solutions, which aims to help students solve those tricky textbook problems. The new app includes over 2.5 million step-by-step textbook solutions from over 2,000 popular college textbooks and allows students to search book-by-book and chapter-to-chapter for the content they need.
The idea is to let students learn at their own pace, going through the process one step at a time, and if they run into hurdles, to ask the community for help. Students can also rate and suggest corrections, rating solutions from 1 to 5 stars. The company, which says that it now reaches 30 percent of college students on 7K campuses across the country, is offering the new textbook app for free. However, the full service itself will only be free for 30 days. After that, it will cost $14.95.
The real benefit of Textbook Solutions is that the app acts like a companion to students' regular textbooks and offers the kind of answer guide that teachers usually get access to but students don't. But, more importantly, Geiger says, the solution isn't there to just give students the answers outright, the app aims to help them understand how to arrive at the correct answer. Plus, it has that interactive element by allowing students to reach out to the community to ask questions when they get stuck.
The company is also updating its original, flagship app today, which allows students to use the their phone's camera to scan ISBN numbers, QR codes, enter the title, author to search for and find text (and textbooks). Textbook Solutions for iOS includes this search functionality, too, though the new app focuses on problem sets, while Chegg's original, eponymous app lets students read eTextbooks on the go and helps them save money with price comparisons and extended purchase options.
Today, the CTO tells us, Chegg's demographics still skew more towards higher ed, but as the company has grown, it's been seeing a larger portion of its user base made up of high school students. It still makes the majority of its revenue from students buying and renting textbooks, but, again, through its acquisitions of Zinch, 3D3R and CourseRank (to name a few), it's been slowly diversifying.
The company continues to show today that the focus there is really on mobile, as the company's mobile traffic doubled over the last year and its mobile orders (from its flagship app) have increased 80 percent year-over-year. In 2012, Geiger added, one in four of Chegg eReader sessions was on mobile.
As such, Chegg has smartly committed to the goal of becoming a real eCommerce portal for high school and college students — on the Web and on mobile — where it sees huge potential. With the value of academic content decreasing as it moves to the web and digital devices, Chegg can still benefit handsomely from becoming the intermediary or middle man in the digital content game between students and publishers.
"We're not interested in commoditizing content," Geiger says, "but we have relationships with millions of students who have credit cards. eCommerce's ability to allow microtransactions for 'micro-content' purchases is huge. If we can offer the best content from a wide range of sources, we'll be well-positioned."
As of now, the company has been looking to make strides in the user experience of reading textbooks online and on your tablet. Chegg launched its popular eReader HTML5 app a year ago and has developed several patents for the techniques it uses to cache content on a mobile browser.
Of course, with its new native app, students don't have to worry about as many caching restrictions or slow rendering. Going forward, Chegg will look to take more advantage of living natively on student devices. It's been more concerned with cross-platform compatibility up to this point, but by making more use of a phone's GPS, for example, Chegg can begin to offer a realtime, high-res campus map students can access at the beginning of the term or school year. Anything that enables the company to offer more digital products and services to students at a faster pace is a good thing, the CTO says.
In the future, look for Chegg to begin experimenting more with the personalization of learning content as well. The topic has become a hot one in edtech communities over the last year, and even the big publishers like McGraw-Hill have jumped headlong into the game. Chegg already offers personalized scholarship services, and the "best" content from "The Big Four" publishers (McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Cengage and Wiley), but with its growing access to students on mobile devices — especially during their reading experience — there are a lot more opportunities for Chegg to make the learning process better.
The company's mission is now to "to save students time, money and get them smarter." You'll notice there's no longer any mention of textbooks in that mission statement, but if Chegg really hopes to follow-through with the first and third parts of that statement, it will need to keep pushing forward here. By expanding its services, it's begun to allow itself to make money beyond the times of year when students are buying textbooks, but really this should be about the student — and student outcomes. And while a textbook answer key is sure to pique their interest, adaptive learning technologies (when done right) can ensure that personalization becomes part of the Chegg experience.
For more, find Chegg's announcement here, and a video intro to Textbook Solutions below:


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Evgeny Kuznetsov Scores Two Goals, Shootout Winner Against Atlant
Evgeny Kuznetsov steals the puck before scoring his first goal of the game. (Photo credit: Atlant Moscow Region).
On Friday, Washington Capitals top prospect Evgeny Kuznetsov scored two goals and tallied the game-winning shootout goal (aka the DC Hat Trick) in Traktor Cheylabinsk's 4-3 win over Atlant. Kuznetsov has now scored in four-straight games, and has 16 goals on the season, which puts him tied for 5th amongst all KHL players.
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As fire gorged the iconic statue, several motorists along I-75 pulled over to photograph the sight....Plastic foam and fiberglass... at the Solid Rock Church.
The sculpture stretches 40 feet wide at the base. It was made of plastic form and fiberglass over a steel frame.
A pond surrounding the statue that used to be full of fish is now filled with remnants of the structure, made of fiber glass and foam. All the fish are either dead or dying....No miracle for these fish. I was going to Google some relevant stuff about the miracle of the fish, but Google being what it is, a search for "miracle of the fish" turned up things like:
How Miracle Whip, Plenty of Fish Tap Lady Gaga's 'Telephone ...Ah! The world is strange, but perhaps God is trying to tell us something.
Mar 13, 2010 ... At least nine different brands make appearances in Lady Gaga's nine-minute music video, "Telephone," from HP Envy to Miracle Whip and Wonder ...
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Tiger Woods' hopes of winning back-to-back Masters came to a crushing end on Sunday (November 15). Woods was sitting at three-under-par as he approached the notoriously tricky 155-yard par-three 12th hole at Augusta National.
He got off to a bad start, hitting the ball in Rae's Creek. He took a penalty drop and hit the ball onto the green. Unfortunately, the ball rolled back off the green and into the water again. For his next shot, he hit it over the green into a bunker. His attempt to get out of the sand ended up in the water, forcing Woods to take another shot from the bunker. He managed to get out of the bunker, and the ball landed on the green. Just when Tiger thought it couldn't get any worse, he missed his first putt. The nightmare hole finally came to an end as Tiger made the second putt.
He finished the hole ten-over par, which is the worst single-hole performance of his career. He dropped from three-under to four-over and moved into a tie for 55th place.
Tiger didn't let the 12th hole bother him and finished the day strong. He birdied five of the last six holes and finished the day one-under-par.
Woods said he misjudged the wind, which had changed direction, on his first shot, and it just spiraled from there.
"I committed to the wrong wind," Woods said. "The wind was off the right for the first two guys, and then when I stepped up there, it switched to howling off the left. I didn't commit to the wind, and I also got ahead of it and pushed it, too, because I thought the wind would come more off the right, and it was off the left, and that just started the problem from there."
"From there, I hit a lot more shots and had a lot more experiences there in Rae's Creek, and then … this is unlike any other sport in which you're so alone out there, and you have to figure it out, and you have to fight, and no one is going to pull you off the bump, and you just have to figure it out.
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The Juvenile Mentor, Or Select Readings: Being American School Class Book No. 3, Containing Progressive Lessons in Orthoepy, Reading and Speaking ...
Am. School Class-Book Warehouse, 1820 - 282 pŕgines
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The Juvenile Mentor; Or Select Readings; Being American School Class Book ...
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Pŕgina 89 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Pŕgina 210 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Pŕgina 256 - ... the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority or by that of the respective States ; fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States ; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States — provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Pŕgina 279 - Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Pŕgina 245 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Pŕgina 273 - ... that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution which is the work of your hands may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue; that in fine, the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty...
Pŕgina 253 - Congress by less than two nor by more than seven members ; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Pŕgina 265 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Pŕgina 254 - No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them, grant...
Pŕgina 266 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.


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On Saturday, some friends and I participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count, a 4-day event that is winding down today. We had great fun and saw lots of birds while hiking around the Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds in San Rafael, CA, a nearby place I'd never visited before! There's still time to join this and other bird counts. In fact, they're part of an ongoing effort by the Audubon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology to track, learn about, and assist bird populations. Here is complete information about bird counts and how you can get involved. In the meantime, enjoy our walk with us.
We immediately spotted lots of birds in the nearby trees, such as Yellow-Rumped Warblers, Red-Winged Blackbirds, House Wrens, and these Finches, both male (top) and female.
The large ponds were teeming with bird life, both on water and in the trees. It was amazing what I could see in the trees with binoculars. It was as if a hidden world opened up. There were birds everywhere — white glints of gulls, herons, and egrets. (I admit I'm not sure what kinds. My friends, and their kids, were all much better classifiers than me.) Flocks of Canada Geese flew by and we did our best to count/guess how many there were.
In the water were Avocets, and these graceful Black-Necked Stilts.
Plenty of ducks and geese swam by and called noisily to one another. Ducks we spotted included the poetically named Northern Pintail, Cinnamon Teal, Ruddy Duck, and, of course, the lovely emerald-headed Mallard.
I'll never forget the first time I saw a Red-winged Blackbird. It took me a moment to register the bright orange-red color on the tops of their wings. These seem in repose, watching a duck.
We found a great stand of trees, hosting lots of bird life. (Quickly moving bird life, that seemed to sense when you were closing in with a camera, before flying away.) We were able to identify Robins and these Western Bluebirds.
I quietly followed this Great Egret for a while. I liked the way he mozeyed down the trail, taking his time (Slow Egret?), before sticking his neck out.
This tree was full of noisy, cheery blackbirds.
You can listen to a group of blackbirds, seemingly signaling spring.
The tally for the Bird Count got entered online. As of mid-day Monday, there had been 46,912 checklists submitted, 553 species observed, and 4,531,433 individual birds counted. In a little over an hour, we contributed 170 birds in 24 species to the list in order to help the Bird Count get a snapshot of bird activity over a busy, migrating weekend in February.
As for me, the activity really whet my appetite to do more bird watching and counting. Who knows? One day I might be able to identify those white birds in the trees.
Photos by Susan Sachs Lipman
You might like these other citizen science projects.


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Oh OK
Interviews by Jason Gross (July 2001)
'When you asked me to be interviewed, I just thought THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING INTEREST IN ME!' Linda Hopper told me. I said something like 'Actually, I wanted to thank YOU for making great music that really meant something to me.' Such is life being a zine where you get to contact your heros.
Even though their entire recorded output consists of two EP's and a compilation cut in the early '80's, Oh OK weren't your average band from Athens, Georgia. Led and formed by singer Hopper and bassist Lynda Stipe (her brother is named Michael and he's with some other local band), the group were unique for the kiddy, sing-song nature of their first EP (Wow) and the more introspective, mature workings of their second/last release (Furthermore What) in the early '80's. Their supporters included local heros like Michael's band (can't remember the name...), Pylon and the B-52's. What made this group so intriguing is that sadly, they broke up just as they were getting off the ground, leading a fan to dream up all kind of scenarios of what could have happened. Obviously, there had been a lot going on with Lynda and Linda since the group was no more so it seemed imperative to find out what they've been working on since then. It turns out it was quite a lot, definitely worth chronicling here even though Linda went on to warn me 'I haven't done an interview in years so when you ask me these kind of questions, my mind just explodes!'
After being out of print for far too long, the Oh OK material is finally available to the public again, through the kind graces of the Collector's Choice label: Complete Oh OK is extactly what it say it is (including unreleased live material) put together by Lynda and Linda themselves (with a bit of help from yours truly and the fabulous Pat Thomas).
In the meantime, we should mention that Lynda's new group, Flash to Bang Time, is putting out a new release and looking for a label. The group can be contacted at email@example.com. You'll also be happy to know that Linda too is working on a new material right now. Furthmore what, you'll be heart-warmed to hear that Lynda and Linda asked me to pass along their best wishes to each other.
Enormous thanks to Meredith at Chronic Town, Vanessa Briscoe-Hay and Darren Daugherty.


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The parents of Xander Vento, a little boy who was forced under the water
while saving another child at a neighborhood pool in Fort Worth, Texas,
earlier this week, says they are taking their son off of life support.
Cris and Misty Vento released the following statement Thursday:
made the extremely difficult decision to remove our precious son Xander
from life support. We send heartfelt thanks to all of you who kept our
family in your thoughts and prayers; we're appreciative of your love and
We in some way hope our son's life serves as an
inspiration. He was the angel in the pool who sacrificed himself to save
another. And now he continues to give as an organ donor. We were
blessed to have such a kind and caring boy as Xander who set an example
for all of us and even now he will be saving lives by giving of
Xander, 4, held a struggling 3-year-old girl above the water, and
after becoming exhausted, slipped below the water's surface, the
Associated Press reported. He was found at the bottom of the pool. After
Xander was pulled from the water, rescuers did get a pulse from him, but he was unable to breathe on his own before they loaded him into a helicopter,
the Dallas Morning News reported.
Xander was hospitalized at Cook Children's Medical center, where he fell into a coma. He had been on life support since Monday.
were present at the pool during the incident, including an off-duty
nurse who helped rescue the children, according to the Dallas Morning
News. It wasn't clear where the adults were when the incident happened.
The 3-year-old girl, whose name has not been released, apparently swallowed water but never lost consciousness.
fund has been established in Xander's name to help the family with
medical expenses. Anyone wishing to contribute can do so online at https://www.wepay.com/donations/145080.


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Hello world, Sakai a well-known learning management system and framework for tool building has had its first European Congress in the beautiful town of Lübeck in Germany. A relatively small campus town Leubeck is well known for its churches and marzipan and related confectionary. I personally enjoyed looking at the two main churches back lit from outside in the dark with good beer and solid traditionally German food inside my nicely warmed stomach.
Sakai itself is a robust highly scalable Learning platform written in Java. Being educationally orientated and open source its license is Apache-like and allows for good relationships with partners that are more commercial. If you have itchy fingers and are interested in instant contact with the product, you could download an archive file, unpack and just run locally. No configuration or other changes are required. Log in on http://localhost:8080 as admin, admin now you are the boss.
The congress lasted two days not the one day suggested by first part of the title. The presentations covered a healthy range of topics from the history of Sakai via a photo tour by Chuck Severance to the creation of content and internationalization. With around a 100 participants ranging in location from the US, Holland, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ethiopia, South Africa, and a few more destinations, this was truly an international and cozy event.
Being relatively new, the e-learning environment is growing rapidly in functionality via a wide range of contribution projects and has a substantial and active development community. About 100 deployments have occurred to date, some of them rather large. Here is a nice Google map representation of the main deployments. However, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the map is a significant underestimation of reality. The situation is changing so fast at the moment. Chuck Severance is one of the driving forces in the community and it is no coincidence that his travels over the last couple of years mimic the local deployment centers of activity.
For my sins, I am a developer at the Universeit Van Amsterdam, Central Computing Services. I gave one of the more technical presentations on automatically finding bugs in code. However, luckily for the audience there were better presenters throughout the two days. Enhanced by good and solid refreshments and well organized facilities. The Oncampus consortium hosted the whole affair and sold their perspective of the Sakai Universe well. As a builder and gluer of systems, my personal favorite presentation was by Ian Boston of Cambridge University on the subject of the Sakai Framework. Sakai is not just a delivery system. It is also a set of API's and services that allow for the rapid development of new tools. Boston gently introduced a mixed audience of techies and decision makers to some of the more interesting details. A hard performance to follow and I was next!
The Dutch presence was welcome with participants from at least Twente and the Universeit Van Amsterdam. Not surprisingly, hinted at by their presence, both Universities are planning further deployments after first successfully piloting this new e-learning software. I asked the Manager of the Group Education and Research Services at the Universeit Van Amsterdam, Dr Leon Raijmann, if Sakai had a future in Amsterdam. He commented, "Yes, we are implementing a portfolio system that is part of the Sakai environment. Therefore, Sakai is effectively there. Further, we like the whole philosophy of the open source movement we are sure that tools and the functionality will follow". At the conference, I noticed similar attitudes from managers at a number of piloting sites. This bodes well for a deep and long presence of this mainly high educational e-learning environment.
To round up, I suspect that over the coming years I will look back with nostalgia on this first congress. I expect Sakai to boom and thus the numbers next year to be much higher. This initial European congress was probably the first and last Sakai European day where you could mingle as one group.


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Kiwanuka ready to play after Sandy scare drove him from home
Part of the reason the Giants can make a sincere statement tomorrow by playing in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is that they're suffering the same impact as the rest of the residents of New Jersey and New York.
While it's easy to see professional football players as insulated from real life because of their salaries, they worry about protecting their families too, and Giants linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka admits he wasn't sure he was going to be able to.
Kiwanuka fled to the top level of his Hoboken townhouse Monday night with his wife, daughter and mother-in-law, and wasn't able to leave until Wednesday because of the water, sewage and fuel and oil that filled the first floor.
"It wasn't like the water just came from the Hudson," Kiwanuka said, via Newsday's Tom Rock. "The storm drains backed up so the water was literally just coming out of the ground and coming out of the drainage pipes.
"And it came up really fast, so you don't know how [high], at what point it's going to stop when you're in the middle of it. It was tough."
They made it to a hotel Wednesday, and will likely have to stay there for months, as their home is no longer livable.
"I was displaced from the hurricane, but you still have a job to do, still worry about your family," he said. "You put things in priority, take care of your family first and then get back to work. You know, it's New Jersey. It's a tough state. A state full of tough people. We'll rebuild, we'll get back on our feet.
"But in the meantime, we just have to get together and help everybody out."
Being so close to it makes Kiwanuka want to do his small part, to serve as a distraction, an escape for a few hours. It's a symbolic gesture, but it's the one they can make.


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With the help of Logi Analytics, Progress Software has embedded business intelligence capabilities into its integrated stack of enterprise software, providing its customers with another way to wrangle more useful knowledge from their business data.
Progress OpenEdge Analytics360 should cost enterprises much less than a typical BI implementation would run, said Bob Palumbo, Progress' vice president of product marketing and management.
The new offering is integrated into Progress' OpenEdge development platform. OpenEdge is a complete stack for building enterprise applications, including development tools, middleware and a database. Approximately 1,500 independent software vendors, integrators, and Progress channel partners use OpenEdge to build and run applications on behalf of about 50,000 organizations.
The new package is based on the BI suite of tools from Logi Analytics, and includes capabilities for user dashboards, ad hoc queries, and visual analysis. The functionality can be embedded into other Progress applications, giving end users the ability to manipulate interactive graphs and charts from within the application itself.
The release was driven by customer demand for a built-in BI package, according to Jerry Rulli, president of the Progress OpenEdge business unit. Previously, customers would have to install and configure BI software from scratch, as well as install, configure and maintain the supporting databases and data warehouse software.
Running BI software on top of the OpenEdge database and associated middleware eliminates most of this setup work, as well as the ongoing maintenance chores.
Progress hopes the package will provide additional savings with a set of key performance indicators (KPIs), or useful metrics designed to meet the specific needs of a variety of industries, eliminating the need for each organization to generate KPIs on their own. Channel partners can also further customize the software for the specific industry verticals they serve.
Education software provider Skyward has been using an early version of the product to build a system for school principals and teachers to quickly see how well their students fare with new lesson plans and programs. The company was able to develop the software in about three months, much more quickly than it can take to build out a full BI system from scratch, according to the company.
This is not the first time Progress has offered an integrated BI package for its customers; the company has also offered software from Crystal Reports and Actuate.
The core offering costs around $50,000 for a basic implementation, and can vary depending on the size and complexity of installation.
Progress announced the product at its annual users' group meeting, held this week in Westford, Massachusetts.


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(CNN) -- A compromised levee in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, failed Tuesday, forcing authorities to order more evacuations in the region.
The levee failed in at least four locations along a two-mile stretch along the Black River, City Manager Doug Bagby said.
The failure was sending floodwaters from the Black River into a populated but rural area of Butler County, sparing the city of Poplar Bluff, said the city's deputy police chief, Jeff Rolland.
Authorities were worried about another one to three inches of rain in the forecast.
It was unclear how many people might eventually be affected by the flooding, Butler County Sheriff's Detective Scott Phelps said. As of midafternoon Tuesday, several hundred homes had been evacuated in the county, he said. The breaks occurred between Poplar Bluff and the community of Qulin, about 12 miles to the southeast.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said 59 water rescues were conducted and nearly 7,000 people had to be moved in Butler County. Bagby said about 1,000 of them are city residents, with more than 200 being sheltered at Black River Coliseum.
Flood levels are dropping slowly, Bagby said, and people may be able to return to their homes Wednesday afternoon if the trend continues.
"It's sunny in Poplar Bluff right now," Bagby said on Tuesday afternoon.
The city has received 15 inches of rain in the last four days, Rolland said -- five of them in just one storm Monday.
"It's just extraordinary," Rolland said.
Nixon deployed about 200 members of the Missouri National Guard to Poplar Bluff and the southeastern corner of the state for what the National Weather Service said could be record flooding. Nixon ordered troops to help with efforts to shore up levees near Poplar Bluff and other river communities, among other duties.
"A lot of people are getting very worried that they're going to see higher levels than they've ever seen before," said Aaron Luke, a Nashville resident, who visited family in the Poplar Bluff area over the weekend.
Luke left his car at an aunt's house north of Poplar Bluff when rising waters prevented him from leaving the area.
"I had to grab a rental car to get out and return to Nashville," he said, after using a boat to get across a swollen creek.
Authorities ordered residents most at risk to evacuate immediately. Other residents near the river were asked to closely monitor developments and water levels in their neighborhoods, the police department said.
Daryl Nelson helped evacuate his father and sister from the south end of the city.
"You don't know when it's going to be over and you can get back in," he told CNN affiliate KFVS. "It's better than getting everything ruined."
Poplar Bluff resident Alleesha Gloyd, 29, said many streets were flooded Monday night.
"They're not driving wisely at all," she said of area motorists.
CNN's Ed Payne, Phil Gast, Marlena Baldacci, Michael Pearson and Kara Devlin contributed to this report.


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If You Go to Vet School, You Will Be Broke
Ever since you were a little kid, you loved animals. Cats, dogs, other animals: you just loved them. Petted them and everything, real nice. You always dreamed, since you were a little kid, of growing up and working with animals every single day. You love the pretty animals, and you want to help them. Even when you were five years old, you knew that one day, you would grow up and become a veterinarian.
I guess your five-year-old self was not highly skilled at cost/ benefit analysis.
For all of you young-ish people with dreams of going to vet school to help the poor little kitty, look at the kitty, oh my god it looks so sad, don't worry kitty I'll help you feel better, we'd like to start the week by drawing your attention to this Sunday New York Times story on the current state of veterinarianism. The essential facts can be summed up in a handful of charts: since the recession, pet ownership and vet visits are down, along with average veterinarian salary; but the number of vet school graduates, and their average debt load, keeps climbing.
That means that, logically speaking, it is a poor choice to attend vet school, because you will emerge with huge debt and poor earning prospects. Even though working vets point this out, vet schools keep cranking out graduates because, well, that is how vet schools get paid. (In this sense they resemble law schools.) And vet school is expensive as a motherfucker.
And the level of debt for American graduates, says Dr. Alan M. Kelly, former dean of the veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania, who led the study on work force needs, is already too high. "The general guideline is that your debt should never be twice your starting salary," Dr. Kelly says. "The debt of graduates today, on average, is three times their starting salary. Well, this is a cataclysm."
Of course, you didn't want to grow up to be a vet in order to do math; you wanted to grow up to be a vet because oh my god the dog has a thorn in his paw, come here doggie, sit in my lap, oh my god his tiny paw probably hurts so bad, look at his face! You didn't get into the vet game to get rich. You got into the vet game to help animals, damn it.
And the animals love you too. And they will pay for each and every procedure. In poop. Not a currency accepted by lenders—yet.


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A new order of events
From chapter 12 then there
is developed altogether a new order of events, which
refer to the call of God, to His covenants, to His
promises, to the manifestation of His people as a
distinct people on the earth, to the counsels of God.
Before the deluge, it was man such as he wasfallen
before God; and though there was a testimony from the
beginning, still no dispensational intervention of God in
His own ways, but man, with that testimony as to divine
left to himself, resulting in such violence and
corruption as brought on the deluge in judgment on the
world. Afterwards, God having interposed in judgment and
begun the world that now is, there was the government of
that world and its failure and the consequences of this
failure; but, the nations being established and having
submitted themselves to the power of demons, the call of
God, the deposit of promise in him who was chosen of God,
His elect ones (seed of the depositary of the promises),
and subsequently His people, rise up to our view.
The call to
Hence we find them at once
called upon to separate themselves entirely from all that
connected them with their position in nature on the
earth, and to belong to God on the ground of promise and
confidence in His word. "Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's
house, unto a land that I will shew thee." This was
a solemn event. It was in principle the judgment of the
world, though in the way of grace to those called out if
The world and its
prince, and Abram the root of the tree of promise
That we may fully
understand this, we must remember that the world had been
constituted by the judgment of God passed upon the
enterprise of building the tower. Countries and nations
had been formed, as it is to this day. That was the
world. Satan had full hold of it, and the very world
which God had providentially formed Abram had to leave.
God would have a family, a people for Himself, not of it,
though out of it. Another fact adds to Abram's
importance. There had been saints individually, known and
unknown, but no head of a race since Adam. Adam fallen
was the head of a fallen race. Abram was called to be the
root of the tree of promise, of God's people natural or
spiritual. He was the father of the circumcision, and of
all them that believe.
A new principle to
In the outset however,
Abram still held to his family; or at least, if it held
to him, he did not break with it; and though he quitted
his country on the call of God, he stops as far from the
land of promise as before. For, thus called, man must
belong wholly to God on a new principle. In fine, he sets
out as God had said to him.
Abram called out
by the manifestation of the glory of God
We have then here Abram
called by the manifestation of the glory of God (compare
Acts 7) for the journey of faith. The promises are given
to him, whether of a numerous posterity, or of the
blessing of all the families on the earth in him
[2]. He sets out, he arrives. There
are not many experiences, though there will be deeper
knowledge of God, in a path which is purely of faith:
power is there, and man walks with God. In the history of
Jacob we have many. Arrived in Canaan, Abraham enters
into possession of nothing, for his life must still be of
faith. And here we see, by comparing this passage with
Hebrews 11, the effect of being left as pilgrims and
strangers on the earth, not yet in possession of what is
promised. Abraham goes in the obedience of faith to the
promised land, and there has not so much as to set foot
upon; but in virtue of thisas God, though He could
prove, could not leave faith without an answer; nor,
indeed, where tried, without leading it on to the
knowledge of further blessing, for He never doeshe
has before him the city which hath foundations, and the
yet better country. The energy of faith through grace put
him in a position which, as it was not possession,
necessarily set him in connection with higher and better
things; for he was under the personal calling of God for
blessing: so, practically, we are come into the body and
heavenly things below. But there is the path of
faithnot possessionand the heavenly scene
opens before us. Abraham in Ur could not see the heavenly
portion; a stranger in the land of promise, it was his
natural object under grace. Such is our own case. Only
Abraham rises above his calling; we enter by the Spirit
into what we are called to.
A second
revelation of the Lord for communion and worship
But then there is a second
revelation of the Lord to him in the land, in the place
into which he had been called. The first was to call him
out of the place he was in, and make him walk in the path
of promise. Now the Lord reveals Himself to him for
communion, where he is; speaks with him; unfolds to him
how the promise will be accomplished, and Abraham thereon
worships Him. He has in the land his tent and his altar.
This is the second part of the life of faith. The
revelation of God, when far from Him, sets us out on the
journey of faith, inspires the walk toward heaven. When
in the heavenly position, God reveals Himself for
communion and worship and a full revelation of His ways.
The Canaanite is in the land; the heir of promise has no
possession of the thing promised. We have to do with
spiritual wickedness in heavenly places, but the Lord
reveals Himself, shews the heir and inheritance when the
Canaanite will be gone; and so Abram worships by faith,
as before he walked by faith. This is the full double
function of faith.
Abram's lack of
The rest of the chapter is
the history of his personal want of it. Pressed by
circumstances, he does not consult God, finds himself in
the presence of the world, where he has sought help and
refuge, and denies his true relationship with his wife
(just as has been done in respect of the church), is
cherished by the world, which God at last judges, sending
Abram again out from it. During this period, and until he
was returned to the place from which he started, he had
no altar. When he left Egypt and returned to his
strangership in Canaan, he had what he had before. But he
must return first to the same place and find his altar
again. What a warning for Christians as to the
relationship of the church with Christ[3]! And, however the world may be a
help for the church, this relationship cannot be
maintained when we seek that help.
I would again recall here
a remark made elsewhere, that in types the woman presents
the position in which those prefigured are placed; the
man, the conduct, faithful or unfaithful, of those that
are there.[1]
Sacrifice may be called an institution of God perhaps,
but it was individual. There was no establishment of a
people who were God's upon earth.
[2] This last promise is repeated only in
chapter 22, during Abraham's history, and then to the
seed alone; the promise of his posterity and of the land
to him and to his seed is often repeated. It is to this
promise given to Abram in chapter 12 and confirmed to the
seed in chapter 26, that the apostle refers in Galatians.
The earthly seed, on the contrary, was to be numerous.
The translation of Galatians 3: 16, should be, "now
to Abraham were the promises made, and to his seed."
And in the following verse, not in Christ but to Christ.
He was the seed of promise.
[3] There may be a certain typical
reference to Israel while in the world and away from God.
But these things happened unto them for ensamples (tupoi)
and are written for our admonition on whom the ends of
the world are come. Abraham was away from his altar at


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Ubuntu lirc install
This Guide is the 'official' way to install Lirc remote control drivers in Ubuntu Linux for the Windows Media Center remote control but should work with any Lirc driver.
There are similar instructions at the Ubuntu Community site https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Feisty
If you are using a serial device, see the Ubuntu_Serial_Lirc_Install guide.
On Ubuntu Feisty, the instructions given here and on the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Feisty does not play well with serial devices. The guide at this link installs a working lirc named ledxmit (its still lirc but does not interfere with the lirc installed by apt) and it works well with homemade serial port irblasters: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=550068
- Install Lirc
sudo apt-get install lirc lirc-modules-source module-assistant
- Configure lirc-modules-source
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source
A Configuration should appear Choose the OK button and press enter (tab key to move across) Make sure only the mceusb2 modules is selected, use the space bar to select, and then press enter on OK You will be given an option to build the modules. Be sure not to build the modules here You may be given an option to replace with a new version. Be sure to choose to Install the package maintainer's version
- Modify /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
sudo nano /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
Make sure LOAD_MODULES is =true. Also, add your module to the line that is MODULES="". For the mceusb2 driver, this would be lirc_mceusb2
If using lirc_mceusb your files should match Ubuntu lirc configuration files#lirc_mceusb
If using lirc_mceusb2 your files should match Ubuntu lirc configuration files#lirc_mceusb2
Fiesty (7.04) may require you to change DEVICE to DEVICE="/dev/lirc/0" despite the fact that the comments said this would be adjusted automagically but I found it not necessary.
- Remove Old Drivers and Build Lirc Modules (Don't worry about file not found errors).
sudo m-a update,prepare sudo rm /usr/src/lirc*deb sudo m-a clean lirc sudo m-a a-i -f lirc sudo depmod -a
- Create a lircd.conf
wget http://download.efficientpc.co.uk/files/lircd.conf.mceusb sudo cp lircd.conf.mceusb /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
- Load Module
sudo modprobe lirc_mceusb2
- Restart Lirc
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart
- Test
irw Press some keys on the remote and see if you get any response
- Copy Key mapping to home directory (Added xmms support, Thanks Elliot Taylor)
wget http://download.efficientpc.co.uk/files/lircrc cp lircrc ~/.lircrc
- Give Mythtv access to Lircrc (If you use Mythtv)
ln -s ~/.lircrc ~/.mythtv/lircrc
- Done


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NEW ORLEANS -- Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints are having fun again. They hope it's a sign of things to come in the second half of the season.
Brees threw two touchdown passes, extending his NFL record streak to 51 games, and Patrick Robinson returned an interception 99 yards for a score to lead the Saints past the reeling Eagles 28-13 on Monday night.
New Orleans (3-5), which bounced back from a dismal 34-14 loss at Denver, also got a 22-yard touchdown run from Chris Ivory.
"There are defining moments throughout a season," Brees said. "Big plays, big wins, that kind of bring you together and let you see a vision of what you can be, what you can accomplish. Here we are the midway point. It's gone by fast.
"This," Brees added, "is the type of momentum we want going into the second half of the season."
The Eagles (3-5) lost their fourth in a row, which is sure to keep the heat on Vick and embattled coach Andy Reid. Vick threw a 77-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson in the third quarter, but that was about the only highlight for the visiting team.
Vick was sacked seven times.
"It's very frustrating," he said. "These are games that we have the opportunity to win, or get back in the game. At this point, everything has to be dead on. You can't miss, and you almost have to be perfect on every drive."
Philadelphia was far from perfect, but it sure had plenty of chances. Four times, the Eagles were staring at first-and-goal, but they managed just two field goals by Alex Henery. In fact, they were outscored in those situations, with Robinson going the other way for a touchdown just when it looked like Philadelphia was on the verge of scoring.
Rubbing salt in the wound, the Eagles squandered a chance to get back in the game with a brilliant trick play on a kickoff return. Riley Cooper laid flat in the end zone, unseen by the Saints, then popped up to take a cross-field lateral from Brandon Boykin.
Cooper streaked down the sideline for an apparent touchdown. Only one problem -- Boykin's lateral actually was a forward pass by a few yards, ruining the play with a penalty. Cooper stood with his hands on his hips, in disbelief, as the officials brought it back.
The Eagles finished with 447 yards -- the eighth consecutive team to put up more than 400 yards on the Saints. That already was the longest streak of 400-yard games given up by a defense since at least 1950, and maybe in the history of the NFL, putting New Orleans on pace to shatter the record for most yards allowed in a season.
But the Saints came through where it mattered most, giving up a season low in points. Their previous best was a 31-24 victory over the San Diego Chargers.
"The most important stat at the end of the day is points," Brees said. "Our defense came up with some huge plays tonight. If we can hold teams to 13 points, we're going to win a lot of games."
Philadelphia's last gasp was a fourth-down pass that Vick threw away in the back of the end zone with 7 seconds left, apparently more concerned about avoiding another pick than tacking on a meaningless TD.
Brees kept his record touchdown streak going, hooking up with Marques Colston on a 1-yard scoring pass and Jimmy Graham from 6 yards out.
Ivory, Pierre Thomas and Mark Ingram combined for 136 yards, each breaking off double-digit gains. Ivory, the Saints' leading rusher two years ago but playing for the first time this season, provided a much-needed boost to the backfield.
Meanwhile, the embattled Saints defense kept the heat on Vick, and the brutal beating made it tough for No. 7 to establish any rhythm. He finished 22-of-41 passing for 272 yards and really couldn't be blamed for Robinson's interception, which went off the hands of Eagles tight end Brent Celek.
Cameron Jordan had three sacks, matching his total for the season, while Will Smith took down Vick twice -- also matching his sack total through the first seven games.
Reid moved quickly to snuff out any talk about replacing Vick, which has become a weekly ritual.
Celek had a tough night. He also lost a fumble deep at the New Orleans 8 with just over 3 minutes remaining, essentially ending any hope of a Philadelphia comeback.
New Orleans was on the verge of blowing it open when it took the second-half kickoff and drove deep into Philadelphia territory. But the Eagles' defense came up with a big turnover, as Brandon Graham stripped the ball from Brees and fell on it at the Philadelphia 17. Two plays later, Vick found Jackson wide open down the right side on a deep throw, and he took it the rest of the way for a touchdown.
Rookie Travaris Cadet, filling in on returns for the injured Darren Sproles, fumbled the ensuing kickoff, and Philadelphia recovered again. Vick broke off a 14-yard run to the 8, but yet another sack stifled the drive. The Eagles settled for Henery's second field goal from 37 yards out.
Henery connected from 22 yards early in the second quarter after the Eagles squandered a chance for more. Jackson appeared caught off guard by Vick's third-down pass in the back of the end zone, doing little more than sticking out his left hand in a halfhearted attempt to make the catch.
Philadelphia moved the ball effectively in the early going and looked to strike first after Brown broke off a 40-yard run to the New Orleans 5. After losing 1 yard on a run, the Eagles went to the air looking for the touchdown.
Instead, it was the Saints who scored. Vick's pass in the flat deflected off Celek's hands -- and right into the arms of Robinson, New Orleans' cornerback. He took off down the sideline in front of the shell-shocked Philadelphia bench, matching Darren Sharper's franchise record for longest interception return.
Notes: Graham, who has battled an ankle injury and had a problem with drops, led the Saints with a season-high eight catches for 72 yards. ... Jackson finished with 100 yards on just three catches. ... Philadelphia's LeSean McCoy had 19 carries for 119 yards, but just 18 yards came after halftime.
Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press


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As my last Venice image, I give you one of the dioramas from Ai Weiwei's new Biennale project, which he was not permitted to see installed. Six metal shipping containers, looking like huge minimal sculptures made of Cor-Ten steel, contain waxworks scenes based on Ai's memories of his jailing by Chinese authorities in 2011. Each one is sculpted at half of life size, and can be viewed through a porthole in the container's side and its top. This view from on high shows Ai showering as his inquisitors look on, as they did whenever he did anything, however intimate. It's important that Ai keep making art about his plight, and the plight of the other persecutees of China. There was, however, something just a touch in bad taste in his taking on a martyr's role (the piece is called S.A.C.R.E.D., an acronym for the titles of the dioramas: Supper, Accusers, Cleansing, Ritual, Entropy, Doubt). After all, he still commands the resources to have such posh objets manufactured, to have them shipped to Venice and then to have them installed … in a Baroque church no less. Is he trying to pass, camel-like, through the eye of a needle? We must remember, and he must remind us, that he stands for the plight of others who fare much, much worse.
Weirdly, I had a feeling that Ai's tongue might be in his cheek with this piece – as it usually is.
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I am working out in McCarthy, Alaska right now. It doesn't get any better than this. I am stitching away in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park. This is our cabin looking pretty spiffy with a new paint job. Around back on the right side is my studio.
I wrote about my McCarthy Sewing Studio several summers ago, and I think it is time for revisit. Earlier this summer, I posted a photo of the doors to my McCarthy studio on Instagram and tooheycohen commented, "You making a She Shed?"
I didn't even know that term existed, but it is a real thing. There's more than 42,688 images with the hashtag #sheshed. Sometimes I think I must be living under an ironing board.
So yes, I have a She Shed. Not as fancy as these decked out numbers, but it is highly functional.
My "shed" originally stored a Model-T Ford circa 1920. We divided the space so the front half of the former garage is my studio and the back is storage.
I debated about cleaning the space up for you folks to look at, but I decided not to. Which means this what the studio looks like when several quilts are in progress.
The space is about 10 feet by 14 feet with the design wall located on the longest wall. In fact, this design wall is bigger then the walls I have in Anchorage.
We finally fully attached the felt covering to this wall. The only drawback is the support beam in the middle of the room, but I am not complaining.
The wall is not level. How do we know that? Well, he wall is covered in a squared piece of fabric. Look at the lower edge of the design wall–that is the lack of squared-ness. You can expect a bit of settling with a 100 year old house built in a sub-arctic climate.
The gaps in the wood provide a lovely breeze but prohibit winter time use of this space. I must always remember to pin everything on the design wall down. More than once, I have showed up the next day to find that my work has been blown all over the place.
On a hot day, the sunlight twinkles through.
My friends know that if the barn doors are up, they are welcome to stop by. We chat while I work.
The space is powered by the sun. Thank you Sustainable Arts Foundation for granting me the funds to buy the solar system that powers my iron.
Since the last time I wrote about my plein air studio, I got a new sewing table and new flooring.
My husband hauled every bit of this studio out here and installed it for me. Thank you Walt.
It is good for the locals to know, that If you stop in the middle of the road to gossip, I will hear you.
It is good for the tourists to know, that as much as it may look like I am doing a Silver Dollar City Re-enactment—I am not


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Sweet peppers and a pleasingly salty vinaigrette enhance the meaty fish.
- 3/4 lb Italian fry peppers (light green)
- 2 (3/4-lb) sushi-grade tuna steaks (1-inch thick) (RELATED PRODUCTS YELLOWFIN TUNA)
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard (RELATED PRODUCTS)
- 1/4 cup olive oil (RELATED PRODUCTS)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons small capers in wine vinegar, drained and chopped (RELATED PRODUCTS, CAPERS IN WINE VINEGAR)
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Prepare gas grill for cooking over direct high heat.
While grill heats, cut peppers lengthwise into quarters, discarding stems and seeds. Trim ends so that quarters lie flat.
Sprinkle tuna all over with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Cook tuna and peppers on lightly oiled grill rack, turning over once, until tuna is pink only in center and peppers are just tender, 4 to 6 minutes total (peppers may take longer than tuna). Transfer tuna and peppers as cooked to a serving plate.
While tuna cooks, whisk together lemon juice, mustard, and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in a small bowl, then add oil in a slow stream, whisking until emulsified. Whisk in capers and parsley.
Serve tuna topped with peppers and caper vinaigrette.
Cooks' Note: If you don't have a gas grill or aren't able to grill outdoors, cook tuna on a lightly oiled well-seasoned large (2-burner) ridged grill pan over moderately high heat, turning once, 4 to 6 minutes total.


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Everyone seems to like the aspect of being an entrepreneur that goes with "being your own boss" and "able to do things my way." But sometimes they forget that this kind of freedom comes with a price of personal accountability. Accountability means "the buck stops here," and "all the failures are mine."
Too many people seem to do whatever it takes to avoid accountability, both before and after the fact. I suspect that this is largely caused by a fear of the unknown, and a lack of confidence in their own abilities. People with confidence problems and fear problems should avoid the entrepreneur role, since success without accountability is rare.
I'm sure you can think of better examples, but here are some comments that we have all heard from people who are trying to avoid accountability before the fact, who are setting themselves up for failure:
- "I'd love to start a new company, but nobody will invest in me."
- "I'll do the best I can, but the economy is totally unpredictable right now."
- "Investors always seem to put such unreasonable restrictions of me."
- "I can't seem to find employees who are committed to my business."
- "Customer expectations these days can be unreasonable."
- "Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems."
- "If there were just more hours in a day, I could get the job done right."
- "Investors want five-year projections, which is ridiculous considering all the unknowns."
- "My family expects me to always be there at a moment's notice."
- "My biggest challenge is make sure everyone is carrying their weight."
If you as the entrepreneur are willing to embrace accountability, here is how these same statements should come out:
- "My idea is so big, I will bootstrap the business myself if I have to."
- "Even in a down economy, there are some things that everyone needs."
- "I really appreciate the real-world guidelines I get from my investors."
- "I couldn't do this job without the full support of my team."
- "Exceeding customer expectations is my competitive advantage."
- "I select vendors carefully, and manage them well, to keep my costs down."
- "With limited time, I've learned to focus only on key issues, and delegate the rest."
- "I recognize that financial projections are commitments, so I don't take them lightly."
- "With the support of my family, I can walk that fine line between family and business."
- "I trust my team, and I'm convinced that the total is more than the sum of the parts."
If you are not yet ready to commit, you should consider getting more experience in your relevant business domain, or taking on a partner who has run a small business. Don't assume that your perspective as an employee gives you a real view of the founder's role. Also you shouldn't assume that your experience in a large public company is applicable to running a startup.
Some entrepreneurs feel they can control other people by "holding them accountable." This doesn't work in the negative, because only personal accountability counts. It can work in the positive if you work in partnership with the team to get the outcomes you both seek, making you jointly accountable.
Entrepreneurship is all about assuming a risk for a reward, and accountability is core to generating the desired results. To make it work, you must trust yourself, your partners, and your startup. You should find there is a thrill and satisfaction to making decisions and standing behind them.
The next step is employee accountability. That's the win-win combination that almost always leads to startup success. Are you there yet?
Marty Zwilling