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Born in New Jersey in 1942, Henry Wessel has been honored with two Guggenheim grants and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His photographs are included in the permanent collections of the major American, European, and Asian museums. His work has been frequently and widely exhibited, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne, Germany. FIVE BOOKS, a slip-case collection of his work, was published by Steidl, Gottingen, Germany in 2007.
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- Autumn Changes
- Tears of December
- Lay Me Down
- Lost Prayer
- Darkest Hour
- The Levee
- Eyes of Burden
- Forgotten Memory
- Yesterday's Tears
- Harbours of Pity
- Sorrowed Regrets
- Useless Apologies
- Sleeping Dogs
- The King
Book of Shadows II is the second solo album from Zakk Wylde. It was released on the 8th April, and is his first solo record for twenty years.
Wylde's previous album was entitled Book of Shadows, and it's clear why he's chosen to name this venture Book of Shadows II. The music is in the same genre, and it delivers the same emotions and openness.
Wylde's solo albums are a departure from his other work. It's rooted in Southern Rock, Americana, Blues, and other genres you might want to relate to it. Even for a guy from New Jersey, he gets it so right. If you're expecting heavy metal, or Zakk's trademark shredding, look elsewhere.
The opening track is melancholy in lyrical tone, as is the rest of the album, but the instruments are uplifting, to give a sense that this will be a cleansing process for Wylde. There is so much emotive language and sad themes, but the album is a way of exorcising those things, dealing with it, and getting back to living happy. Maybe that's why it's taken two decades to come around; he hasn't needed to do it until now.
It's been an up and down ride for Zakk Wylde over those years, with success coming from founding Black Label Society, playing and writing with Ozzy Osbourne, as well as dabbling in acting, and enjoying family life. Alongside this, he's had health issues, eventually quitting alcohol as a result, and suffered at the loss of friends and family, as we all do. Each of us have a way to deal with the stuff that makes us crazy, and it seems that this album has been a way for Wylde. It's so personal and honest. "My Autumn changes have come and gone," he sings. It's telling us that this album has a beginning, middle and end. I find it interesting that this song is the opener, when it feels like it's a conclusion. It's almost like Wylde is telling a story, and has started it with the assurance that it has a happy ending.
The next couple of tracks are a soft, inviting, easy-listening sound, good for a late-night drive through the city, or one of those nights on your own with a drink of choice, and possibly a cat or a lizard, whichever is more your jam. Then the fourth track, "Lost Prayer", brings things back up, with a more blues/soul vibe. This is very to my taste, and I love Zakk's vocals. In fact, his voice is so great for this style, and keeps me hooked throughout the record.
The whole thing is a wave of melancholy Folk Rock numbers followed by Blues ones, and this makes the fourteen tracks that last for over an hour seem like so much less, and able to keep your attention. Wylde's signature sound comes through over and over, but especially so in "Forgotten Memory". The guitar is so moving, and full of soul. It's definitely my favourite track. "Yesterday's Tears" follows on with the Blues mood, but it's brought down again as the album gets towards its end. It's soothing, but if it weren't for the uplifting melody in the chorus of "Sorrowed Regret," it would probably depress me. Thankfully, Wylde's guitar solos and bridges are comforting, bringing me back to the message delivered in the opening track.
Overall, it's a soothing, hopeful feeling that's taken away, and I can't wait to play this record on my next road trip. It's perfect for a counter to the stresses of life, so enjoy it.

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We are honored to recognize the selfless work of the NICU nurses and their commitment to future generations by raising donations for their department in celebration of Nurses Week.
Aurora, CO (PRWEB) May 07, 2014
American Sentinel University, an accredited online university, will hold a fundraising initiative honoring the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses at the Denver Health Medical Center in recognition of National Nurses Week May 6 – 12.
American Sentinel will be raising donations the entire month of May to purchase onesies, receiving blankets, preemie socks and other newborn baby items, which will be delivered to Denver Health NICU nurses the first week of June.
"The nurses at Denver Health work tirelessly to care for newborns in need of intensive care following childbirth. These nurses often spend their own money to decorate the baby's cribs and dress them in onesies to help parents connect with their newborn and cherish their first treasured moments together," says Judy Burckhardt Ph.D., MAEd, MSN, RN, dean, nursing at American Sentinel University. "We are honored to recognize the selfless work of the NICU nurses and their commitment to future generations by raising donations for their department in celebration of Nurses Week."
To help raise donations, American Sentinel's employees at the Aurora headquarters can purchase a 'Jeans Day' – days when they can wear jeans to the office – available to them throughout the month of May. Those who donate to this initiative will receive specially designed stickers to signify that they support their local NICU nurses for Nurses Week. The proceeds from 'Jeans Day' will be used to purchase items for the NICU newborns.
"More than 3,000 babies are delivered each year at Denver Health Medical Center and many of their families are struggling financially. The tiniest and sickest babies are cared for in our 16-bed NICU by the extraordinary professionals on our NICU nursing team. With the help of generous donors in the community like American Sentinel, the Newborns in Need program makes it possible for these nurses to send babies home with diapers, clothing, blankets and other necessities. It gives a real boost to our new parents at a time when they really need it," says Robin Engleberg, program manager at Denver Health Foundation.
"Denver Health is highly regarded as a national model of health care success. American Sentinel is proud to honor and thank the NICU nurses for their continued commitment to their patients and the nursing industry," adds Burckhardt.
About Denver Health Foundation
The Denver Health Foundation has been the fundraising arm for Denver Health Medical Center since 1998. An independent nonprofit, the Denver Health Foundation channels funds from its community to support diverse programs at Denver Health. Through the generous contributions from its donors, they provide more than $9 million annually to assist Denver Health in the delivery of high-quality care and vital resources to Denver's citizens, helping them to heal and lead healthy lives. Anyone interested in making a donation to the Denver Health Foundation, please visit http://www.denverhealthfoundation.org/ways-to-give/donate-now/.
About American Sentinel University
American Sentinel University delivers the competitive advantages of accredited online degree programs in nursing, informatics, MBA Health Care, DNP Executive Leadership and DNP Educational Leadership. Its affordable, flexible bachelor's and master's nursing degree programs are accredited by the Commission for the Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), of One Dupont Circle, NW Suite 530, Washington, D.C., 20036. The DNP program is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) of 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, Ga., 30326. The university is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), of 1601 18th St., NW, Suite 2, Washington, D.C. 20009. The Accrediting Commission of DETC is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency and is a recognized member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.


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Sports Review Ethiopia, Yohannes Sahle appointed Walia coach
Sports Review
Yohannes Sahle appointed Walia coach
After the sacking of Portuguese coach Mariano Barreto, the Ethiopian Football Federation appointed Yohannes Sahle as the new national team coach for the Walias.
Yohannes is an Ethiopia-born US citizen who had a successful playing career in the mid 1980s with the top Ethiopian teams before leaving for America.
Since appointment, the coach's prime target has been preparing his team for the Afcon 2017 qualifier and under his guidance, the Walias are placed second in Group J having gathered four points from two group stage matches against Lesetho and Seychelles. His team has qualified to the next round of CHAN 2016 qualifier having beaten neighbors Kenya.
Haile Gebreselassie announced retirement
Distance running legend Haile Gebreselassie announced his retirement from competitive running after finishing 16th at the Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on May 10, 2015.
His announcement brought an end to a phenomenally successful career which stretched back more than two decades in which he claimed two Olympic gold medals over 10,000m, in 1996 and 2000, nine IAAF world titles, including four consecutive IAAF World Championships 10,000m wins, and he set 15 official world records outdoors as well as five world indoor records.
Haile Gebrselassie remains the world record holder at 20,000m in less than one hour.
St. George clinched 12th EPL title
Saint George clinched the Ethiopian Premier League (EPL) title for a record 12th time. The horsemen secured the title with two games to spare amassing 51 points from 24 matches - winning 15, drawing six and losing three matches. St. George's management decision to sack Brazilian coach Naider Dos Santos in March proved decisive to their title charge.
Caretaker manager Fasil Tekalegn guided the horsemen to the championship maintaining an undefeated run in nine league matches drawing just two.
Woldiya City and Muger Cement were relegated having as Dire Dawa City and Halaba City were promoted to the topflight league.
Historic gold for Ethiopian cyclist Tsgabu
It was a historic year for the Ethiopian cycling team as Tsgabu Grmay became the first rider from Ethiopia to win an elite gold medal at the 2015 African Cycling Championship.
Although the hosts South African team was favored to win the men's Individual Time Trial, it was Ethiopian rider Tsgabu who was the fastest over the two laps to claim the continental crown.
Ethiopia's cycling success this year was not confined to the men. Hadnet Asmelash finished third in the women's road race coming behind two South African cyclists. The pair will be representing Ethiopia at the Rio Olympics after 24 years.
Genzebe's record smashing year
Genzebe Dibaba achieved what many had believed to be unachievable, breaking the 1500m world record with a time of 3:50.07. Set at the 1993 National Games, the 1500m record was considered to be one of the toughest records on the books.
In what was a record-breaking season, Genzebe's also shattered the 5000m world indoor record which was held by Meseret Defar by almost six seconds in Stockholm in February. The new indoor record was also a mere eight seconds off her sister Tirunesh's outdoor world record set in 2008. In 2014, Genzebe broke records in the 1500m, 3000m, and two-mile (9:00.48), all in a span of 15 days.
African junior athletics championship hosted
The 12th edition of the African Junior Athletics Championship 2015, a biennial continental athletics tournament for African athletes aged 19 years or younger, was hosted in Ethiopia. The Addis Ababa Stadium was the venue for the athletics competitions following on the 2008 African Championships in Athletics, which was hosted at the same venue.
Ethiopia finished the tournament occupying the third spot in the medal standings with seven gold, 12 silver and ten bronze medals. The Nigerian team finished top with 12 gold, eight silver and seven bronze medals followed by South Africa who scooped nine gold, seven silver and seven bronze medals.
Football showdown in Bahir Dar Stadium
Bahir Dar Stadium became Ethiopia's major sporting venue following a recognition by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the stadium to host international matches.
The 50 thousand seat capacity stadium hosted its first international match between Dedebit FC and Cote d'or of Seychelles in the return leg of CAF Confederation Cup which Dedebit won 2-0.
Since then, the stadium hosted four international matches including Walia's Afcon 2017 and CHAN 2016 qualifiers in front of capacity crowd.
CAF also extended a similar recognition to Dire Dawa Stadium which hosted the U-23 All-Africa Games qualifier between Ethiopia and Sudan which the visitors won 2-1.
First Woman Coach in the league
Meseret Manni made history by becoming the first woman coach to lead her team, Dire-Dawa City, to play in the Ethiopian Premier League. Under Meseret's guidance; Dire-Dawa City won seven of the nine trophies in this year's National League Championship. Dire-Dawa City now returns to the topflight Ethiopian Premier League after 13 years of absence.
Open taekwondo tournament held
Ethiopian Taekwondo Association (ETA) hosted the first open taekwondo tournament in both sexes in which participants from five countries took part including the Ethiopian team.
The tournament was used as an opportunity to select a taekwondo team which will represent Ethiopia in the 2016 Summer Olympics which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Over 450 participants from Ethiopia, US, India, Kenya and England took part in the tournament which took place for two days at the Ethiopian Youth Academy at Arat Kilo Sports Center.
Golden girls at Beijing 2015
Ethiopia finished fifth in the medal standing at the end of the 2015 IAAF World Championship in Beijing thanks mainly to a golden performance from its women athletes. It was Genzebe Dibaba who delivered the first gold for her country in the Women's 1500meter.
On the final day, Ethiopia won two more gold medals as Mare Dibaba and Almaz Ayana finished first in the Women's marathon and 5000 meters, respectively, to appease Ethiopian athletics fans dismayed by the performance of the men particularly in 5000 and 10000 meters.
However, it was Almaz who stole the headlines with her stunning 5000 meters victory and voted Performance of the Championships.
Africa's U-20 handball tournament hosted
Ethiopia hosted Africa's U-20 handball tournament in both sexes from August 4-8, 2015. In the tournament eleven handball teams from African countries have participated with the team that went on to win the competition representing Africa on the world stage.
Ethiopia, Mozambique, Madagascar in both sexes; Cape Verde, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda participated in the male's category. Senegal, Burkina Faso, Chad and Kenya were countries that took part only in women's category.
Ethiopia was eliminated in the early round in the men's competition while the women's team finished fourth. Cape Verde and Senegal won the men's and women's category, respectively.
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Bill Sardi
Health care consumers may ask the question, "whom should we trust for accurate information when it comes to matters of health?" In an interdependent and specialized society, modern man relies upon others to interpret scientific and medical data. But do the interpreters always tell the truth? Most physicians have been taught very limited methods of therapy, so they have little knowledge or experience outside high-tech treatments and patented medicines. If any cures exist outside their experience or training, particularly if those remedies do not require the continued need for doctors, they are likely to be rejected. Home remedies, vitamins and herbal cures are flatly dismissed as being unproven, despite reams of scientific evidence and thousands of years of use in some cases.
Far too many patients still rely totally on their doctor's advice. For many, to question their doctor is as irreverent as questioning their priest. Yet, consumerism has begun in medicine. Insurance companies and government agencies have begun to require doctors and drug companies to prove their treatments are safe and effective. So there is a growing movement to question conventional medical care. The temples of medicine are crumbling.
Historically, anyone who has the knowledge of healing has been regarded as close to God. Healers have been said to have a special gift. Some are called saints. For most of mankind's history, health and a godly life were fused. Religious leaders prescribed folk remedies to their flocks. Plagues cut short the human life span, so for a great part of human history man lived under the threat of his imminent demise. Nutritional deficiencies and lack of personal and public hygiene were the hidden causes behind most epidemics. But mankind interpreted sickness as evidence that the reigning gods were unhappy. Mankind pled for mercy and universally came up with the idea of offerings to appease the gods.
Secrets of health, particularly natural remedies placed on earth by our Creator, have often been concealed from the public by kings, politicians, physicians, pharmacists and even religious leaders. Better to be sick and have to rely upon a god, a physician, a king, than to be healthy and independent of the overseers. When royalty held possession of the many herbal compendiums that were published over the ages they were considered part of their inherent omniscience that was to be passed on down through family lines. Kings and queens commissioned explorers to return to their kingdoms with precious herbal remedies from afar.
The pharaohs in Egypt and the emperors in China were quick to mix their magic potions with a variety of herbs to obscure which one held the healing power so the laity would not have this knowledge. But when this knowledge was discovered by the common man and became a threat to the ruler and physicians, it was branded as witchcraft and sorcery and was condemned. Not much has changed over the centuries. In the modern world pharmacological prescriptions are obscured in Latin and any remedy that is not ordered by a physician and dispensed by a pharmacist, that is outside the approved compendium of 3200 drugs, is considered to be unproven and possibly dangerous.
And people are not completely satisfied with the technical advancements of modern medicine, of just prolonging life and postponing death. In the face of all the medical breakthroughs, all of a sudden there is a turn towards alternative medicine and a return to traditional health practices. The use of shamans and health gurus are on the rise and acupuncture, massage therapy, Chinese herbs and mind-body medicine techniques are in vogue. Why?
As spectacular as the advancements in medical technology have been over the past century, there may be limits to progress. Chronic diseases still plague mankind, and longevity has given rise to an array of age-related health problems such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer, and retinal disease, for which modern medicine has few remedies. The "magic bullet" drugs are falling into disfavor with the realization that it costs nearly as much to treat their side effects as it does to purchase them. Medical mistakes are now among the leading causes of death in the U.S. Germs are becoming resistant to antibiotics and health officials fear worldwide plagues. Mankind is still vulnerable to viral epidemics (AIDS comes to mind), which antibiotics are useless against. The Medicare system, which pays for the medical care of retirees, could not afford to provide a cure for cancer even if it were to be developed. Many retirees cannot afford the drugs they are prescribed, and many others do not have health insurance. Arrays of modern therapies are available yet they are not affordable, which adds to the frustration.
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Dinner Distraction
Urocyon cinereoargenteus There we are, just sitting down for dinner, when movement catches my eye. Diagonally across the house, more or less, through one of our many windows, I see a gray fox hurry through the garden past the house. Then he or she stops, sniffs, paws and sniffs some more. Suddenly s/he grabs something […]Read more "Dinner Distraction"


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Open Thread: Friends and Family and Everyone Else
Here's a place to talk about the relationships in your life whenever you want.
When I asked my friend why she felt "betrayed" and "set up" by her boss, she explained that she had been asked by her chief executive officer what her biggest strength was, and then her words were twisted as a negative during her review. What my friend said to her boss, verbatim, in response to that Biggest Strength question was: "I think I'm good at promoting the company to everyone I meet."
During my friend's review, her boss then chided her, throwing her words back dishonestly as a withering critique: "I think you're too concerned with self-promotion and appearances. I mean, you admitted as much to me -- if you remember when we spoke."
What the what?
My heart sunk for my friend when she relayed the anecdote.
You can't win with someone like that. All you can do is protect yourself and stop feeling crushed each and every time -- and get better at "predicting" seemingly "unpredictable" behavior so you can work around it, rather than letting it get you down, or expecting a shady person to suddenly mea culpa and admit their faults and humanity.
Then I recommended my friend read "48 Laws of Power." Not for her to use, mind you, but for her to realize exactly what move was being employed against her so she could take better care of herself. So she could not take personally what was essentially a management and psychological power play strategy on her boss's part.
I honestly think the book is essential reading for every person trying to navigate the workplace or just life in general as a young adult. I stumbled across it when I had to write a story about how the Machiavellian tome was a favorite of many people in Hollywood.
One of the principles that unravels many supposedly scary individuals -- including my friend's boss -- is Law No. 17: "Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability."
We've all had this friend, colleague or relative. One day the love and the praise is almost uncomfortable in its ebullience, and you develop a warm, high, safe opinion of the person based on rules of vulnerability and trust, such as those explained by researcher Brene Brown in "Daring Greatly." The next day you are shamed and humiliated for similar actions that earlier had garnered you praise and affection.
You're left confused and saddened and shamed, and the other person (if you don't see through it) now has a firm psychological hold on your need to win back affection. It's an angle. Plain and simple.
And so much less scary when you can see it for what it is. Like someone else's choice to wear a little black dress. It's about as meaningful as that. If you don't base your self-worth on other people's undulating opinions, you don't need to let it affect you, and instead can figure out workarounds to take care of yourself.
See how powerful that is? The only thing my friend's CEO's frenetic behavior translates to is an attempt to keep her in suspended terror and to cultivate an air of unpredictability.
And once you make like Weezer in "The Sweater Song" and unravel the thread as they walk away, it's not so scary any more. You see the behavior for what it is: A move. And moves really aren't that scary; they're just moves. The same way a bully terrorizes a nerd in middle school by making them feel self-conscious and stupid and wrong. Think: The Martha Dumptruck scene in "Heathers."
Of course, as a younger person, you may not be aware it's a move, and you may not have confidence in who you are to know that whatever is being communicated to you says everything about the other person -- and very little to absolutely nothing about you.
To be fair, I absolutely recognize that there are critical times when someone who has established a foundation of trust will provide terrific (and sometimes hard to hear) criticism and teachable moments. Ideally, however, they're coming from a place you recognize to be of love and honesty, rather than manipulation.
These aren't moves proffered to make you second-guess yourself or feel shame (as happened with my friend, who had her vulnerability thrown back at her), but opportunities for the two of you to grow together in your friendship or whatever the collegial bond may be.
I related very much to my friend's situation from past experiences working in the cutthroat culture of newspapers and as someone who grew up in a somewhat dysfunctional upbringing, which can lead to comfort with abuse -- the "claws fitting wounds" dynamic. Because of this, I am incredibly hyper-vigilant about people's motivations and intent in this way. I did not feel safe for a lot of my life as a child, and I used to toss and turn about everything, no matter how slight the slight, fretting about the slitted glare from the little blonde boy who sat in front of me in 4th grade homeroom. It was yet another confirmation of my inherent lack of worth.
I knew why. I knew he glared because of me. I knew that I was bad. I knew that I was wrong. I was wrong and bad a lot, and maybe I could learn how to fix the new thing I had done that was wrong and bad and people might like and love me more. Maybe I could figure it out. Maybe if I dressed different. Maybe if I talked less. Maybe if I didn't look up in class.
Through a long process, I slowly started to learn I was not bad and wrong. I didn't need to hate myself, and I did not cause people's reactions to me. I was not always responsible for that.
For a time, I think I would scrappily fight against situations that I sensed were old shaming moves -- or what my therapist has called "hitting on old tapes that play from when we are younger." But I had a come-to-Jesus moment a few years back when I realized that I did not need to fight unwinnable battles. All I needed to do was continue to take care of myself in sussing out what level of trust I accorded people.
I always notice when people have my back -- and I've reflected on times when I have not had other people's backs and very much regretted the actions on my part. I wrote a short post about the Reese Witherspoon arrest where I was struck by her husband seemingly throwing his wife under the bus to the officer, saying he had nothing to do with her. To me, it read as cold and a team divided -- worst of all, it was when it mattered, which matters most.
And it made me think of a specific fight I had where a cop was present, and I brought up incendiary words that my ex had said about the crazy person who had attacked and threatened him. I recounted these words in front of the cop. Totally unnecessary and if anything, potentially harmful to my ex, as if the attack on him could have been provoked.
I justified my behavior in a million ways at the time (I was terrified) but I look back and think how betrayed my ex must have felt when I brought in any element of doubt in the cop's mind. I was in a state of shock, and I was pissed at my ex for riling up a psycho, but if I had really had his back I would have STFU. I would have supported him. That's what you do when you love someone.
I wish I would have had his back, and I've let that experience be a teachable moment for me.
I hope my friend can use her upsetting performance review as a teachable moment for her life as well. Next time, hopefully, she will not accord her CEO with the same 100 percent level of vulnerability she initially did, without ensuring that he has actually earned it. She will know better than that.
It doesn't mean she has to be hostile or angry or resentful or paranoid or suspicious. She will simply take care of herself. She will be aware that the "48 Laws" exist. And if she chooses, she can make the most powerful move of all. She can detach with love.
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RE: surfboard rentals in scotland« Reply #1 on: April 23 2007 09:04:00 »
coldingham bay is a good place the st vedas surf shop is 20 meters from the beach the prices r ok theres alsa great little towns n villages near by and some other surf spots near if u have a car
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Scotlands beaches are beatiful, they are alot like nova scotias beaches. i want to go to Scotland some day along woth Ireland
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I will be making a trip to Machrihanish this july and I want to rent a surfboard, preferably a standard thruster, is this possible. Do you know where I might find one?
I am flying into Edinburgh and then will be making my way to Machrihanish.
RE: surfboard rentals in scotland« Reply #4 on: May 25 2007 05:05:00 »
Don, Probably your best bet is Clan Skates or Boardwise in Glasgow or Boardwise in Edinburgh. They should sort you out with what you need.(apart from a decent wave at Mac)


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Your timing is excellent. A Hadoop cluster of some sort is likely to be the best substrate for your work. I will contact you off list to see if you might qualify for an educational MapR license. On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Tom Seddon <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to do a dissertation on Drill, as part of masters degree in > Data Science. I'm hoping to set up a cluster to run it and then analyse > its efficiency with different datasets, as well as make recommendations for > its usage. I know Drill is in a fairly early stage of development but I > have around 18 months until the project is due, so I'm hoping the timing > will work as Drill is developed further. > > I'd be grateful for any advice on how I could get started on this. Would a > Hadoop cluster be a good back-end to base my project on or would something > more suited to nested data like MongoDB be more appropriate? Also, I > haven't found much documentation on configuring Drill in a distributed > environment, so any help on this would be appreciated. > > I'd also be willing to contribute but not sure if I have enough Java > experience. My background is mainly in BI and database technologies. > > Thanks, > > Tom >
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Blizzard Hiring 3D Modeler/Texture Artist
by Thomas on April 6, 2002 @ 11:31 a.m. PST | Filed under News
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for Modelers/Texture Artists with an eye for color, shading and detail, who are adept at creating texture maps for environments and structures. 3D Artists also assist with the design and creation of objects and characters that populate the World of Warcraft, using programs such as 3D Studio Max, and participate in game design with the rest of the team. An Ideal candidate would be an Illustrator with experience modeling and texturing objects and environments, and has the ability to conceptualize worlds and architectures. Read more here!


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NSW Pregnancy Loss Day Services – October 15 2015
This Pregnancy Loss Rememberance Day, two very special services will be held in memory of babies lost during pregnancy, stillbirth and children up to 12 years.
At the conclusion of the Service, each attendee will be provided with a symbolic gift of a white candle. These will be lit at 7:00pm as part of the International Wave of Light, joining others from around the globe in a very moving tribute.
The Stillbirth Foundation along with many of our partners will be there in support of families who have lost their babies and children.
Thursday, 15th October 2015
First Location:
Garden on Innocence
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park
12 Military Road, Matraville
Guest arrival: 6:00pm for a 6:15pm start
Friday 9th October T. 02 9661 5655
E. email@example.com
Link to invitation: PIL-ESMP Invitation
Second Location:
Karinya Gardens
Woronora Memorial Park
121 Linden Street, Sutherland
Guest arrival: 6:15pm for a 6:30pm start
Friday 9th October T. 02 9545 4677
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Series: Sinful Suitors #3
Published by Pocket Books on November 22nd 2016
Genres: Historical, Historical Romance, Regency, Romance
Pages: 416
Source: Netgalley
Buy: Amazon, B&N, Book Depository, Chapters !ndigo
The third book in the sexy Sinful Suitors Regency romance series, this heart-pounding story shows why New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries is one of the most beloved historical romance writers today.
To root out the card cheat responsible for her brother's death, Miss Delia Trevor spends her evenings dancing her way through high society balls, and her late nights disguised as a young man gambling her way through London's gaming hells. Then one night, handsome Warren Corry, the Marquess of Knightford, a notorious member of St. George's Club, recognizes her. When he threatens to reveal her secret, she's determined to keep him from ruining her plans, even if it means playing a cat-and-mouse game with the enigmatic rakehell.
Warren knows the danger of her game, and he refuses to watch her lose everything while gaining justice for her late brother. But when she starts to delve beneath his carefully crafted façade, can he keep her at arm's length while still protecting her? Or will their hot desires explode into a love that transcends the secrets of their pasts?
I can't help but enjoy stories where the hero is determined to not fall in love, only to do so with the last person they'd suspect! Warren Corry, Marquess of Knightford, is asked by his cousin to keep an eye out for her friend Miss Delia Trevor and protect her from fortune hunters. Delia is more than capable of taking care of her self and can't figure out why Warren keeps hanging around (neither can he!). Not only that, but he's getting in the way of Delia's sleuthing to find her brother's killer.
And I'm definitely not the sort to inspire besottedness."
"Besottedness isn't a word."
"From the first meeting, it was already dueling words and banter galore with Delia and Warren. It's a battle between the two as Warren sees Delia as a challenge, a mystery to solve while Delia is determine to not fall for his roguish charm. They have a nice chemistry and it's easy to see they're perfect together. I liked that their romance was a slightly slow burn with lots of tension. Both had tough pasts and are pretty determine to not marry or love, but of course fate (or maybe lust) has a way of pushing them together whether they like it or not (hint hint).
"You, my dear, have the bottom of an angel."
The tension ebbed from her. "Do you make a practice of looking at angel bottoms, sir?"
Along with the romance is a bit of the mystery (solving who killed Delia's brother). This quickly played second fiddled to the romance, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but it ended up feeling very rushed with a huge angsty explosion right at the end in an attempt to wrap up loose ends.
Overall, it was a nice Sabrina Jeffries read. It didn't necessarily blow me away or become my favourite new read, but it was a comfortable and easy read just when I was in need of some historical romance. If you've been enjoying the Sinful Suitor series or have always been a fan of Jeffries, this is a nice addition to her collection.
You may feel as if you had none, but I damned well had a choice. And I chose you.
{*Thanks to Netgalley and Pocket Books for providing me an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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Blackberry icecream ripple
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- Rinse the blackberries and place in a saucepan with the sugar and a splash of cold water. Bring slowly to the boil. Remove from the heat once the sugar has dissolved. Set aside to cool completely.
- Pour the custard into a bowl and stir in the cream. Pour the mixture into a plastic container and place in the freezer. Every couple of hours remove the container from the freezer and beat the icecream with a wire whisk. As it begins to harden, stir in the blackberry compote to create a ripple effect. Leave in the freezer overnight.
- Before serving, allow it to soften for 30 minutes. To serve, pour a little extra blackberry syrup over the top.
- If you have an icecream machine, mix the custard and cream together and churn until frozen. When the custard is almost frozen, scoop it into the chilled container. Pour in the blackberry compote and stir into the custard to give a marbled effect, but do not over-stir. Place the mixture in the freezer and leave overnight.
Tip: This sharp-tasting compote is good served with roasted duck breasts. It may also be used in a pie made with a traditional lard pastry, soft and crumbling. Serve it hot from the oven and accompanied by nothing more than runny cream.
Lorel66added 959 days ago
The tip in the recipe for Blackberry Ice Cream Ripple does not relate to this recipe.
Bite_teamadded 935 days ago
The tip is just offering alternative ways to use the compote - it is good with duck and in pies as well as icecream.
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During that service, she assisted refugees from a plantation attacked by Confederate marauders. On 13 June, Wild Cat sailed up to Hutchinson's Island, off St. Helena Sound, in company with the gig from the sloop-of-war Dale, Lt. W. T. Truxtun, commanding, to investigate a large fire ashore. Upon arrival in the vicinity. the Union sailors found the burning Marsh Plantation, set afire by a marauding Confederate band. The Southern troops had plundered the belongings of the poor negroes there, wounding some, generally striking terror into the hearts of the inhabitants. As Wild Cat sailed up the river, she came in contact with many canoes paddled by panic-stricken former inhabitants of the plantation. Lt. Truxtun soon placed all of the refugees on board Wild Cat and had them transported out of the area. A few days later, while reconnoitering the vicinity, Wild Cat shelled some Confederate raiders spotted near the Ashepoo River.
Wild Cat continued to operate in South Carolina's coastal waters through March of 1865. After a brief spell as pilot boat at Charleston, S.C., in April, the schooner was transferred to the Army on 15 April 1865. Apparently returned to the Navy within three months time, Wild Cat was sold at Charleston on 28 July 1865. Her subsequent fate is unknown.


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Georgia Tech plays Colgate for the first time in school history Wednesday at McCamish Pavilion at 7 p.m. The game will be broadcast on 680-AM and online through ESPN 3.
40 minutes of focus
Against a second consecutive opponent that the Yellow Jackets ought to defeat, Tech needs to play with better focus than it demonstrated against Southeastern Louisiana. Against the Lions on Monday, Tech pushed out to a 24-point lead in the first four minutes of the second half, but ended up winning by 13, 75-62. SLU shot 59.3 percent against Tech in the second half, which is better than any Jackets opponent had shot for a half this season. Not the sort of thing you want to permit against a team with an RPI over 300.
"We contained (SLU's guards) pretty well for the first 30 minutes, but the last 10, we didn't do a good enough job on them," coach Brian Gregory said. "Just not able to maintain that level of intensity and, at times, concentration on some of that stuff. It's an area we need to improve on."
Presumably, maintaining focus will be easier against North Carolina in the ACC opener Jan. 2 than it was against Southeastern Louisiana. That said, Tech had problems last season allowing teams to rally, a factor in their 3-15 ACC record.
"You can't play in stretches with who we're going to play against," Gregory said. "You can't do that."
About Colgate
Colgate (4-6) plays out of the Patriot League, which last year was No. 18 in conference RPI out of 33 Division I leagues. The Raiders finished second in the league last season but lost four starters. In their two games against power-conference teams this season, they lost 76-49 to TCU and 78-51 to Syracuse.
Colgate starts one senior, three sophomores and a freshman. Only one, guard Austin Tillotson, averages in double figures, at 11.5 points per game.
The Raiders have one player from metro Atlanta, junior guard Nathan Harries, a Centennial High grad who has played in one game this season. Harries received a small degree of fame in 2013 when the NCAA denied him a year of eligibility because he played in three games in a church league in Dunwoody. NCAA rules stipulate that any athlete who does not enroll in college immediately after graduating from high school (Harries served a two-year Mormon mission) will lose a year of eligibility for each year they compete in organized competition. The NCAA ultimately reversed its decision.
Colgate is coached by Matt Langel, who was a star at Penn in the late 90s and has improved the Raiders' win total in each of his first four seasons. I think I wrote about his younger brother Casey when I covered high school basketball in New Jersey for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The school was named in honor of William Colgate, a benefactor and also the founder of the Colgate toothpaste brand. Tuition is $49,970. Good thing they were able to keep it under $50,000. That would be too expensive.
RPI report
After defeating Southeastern Louisiana, which went into the game ranked No. 337 in RPI, Tech's RPI dropped from No. 82 to No. 114. Colgate was No. 209 as of Wednesday morning. Duquesne, which is Tech's final non-conference opponent, was No. 122.
More time for White?
After the game Monday, Gregory was non-committal about giving another start to forward James White. In his first start of the season, White had 12 points and a season-high 13 rebounds in a season-high 22 minutes. In his past three games, White has 29 rebounds in 53 minutes.
His rebound-per-minute rate is actually quite comparable to forward Charles Mitchell, who through Monday's games was fifth in the country at 12.2 rebounds per game. Mitchell is averaging .456 rebounds per minute while White is at .413. If White had played the same number of minutes as Mitchell thus far and maintained the same rate, he would be averaging 11 rebounds per game, which would be tied for 11th in the country.
"Obviously, he's a different rebounder than Chuck and Nick (Jacobs)," Gregory said. "Ben (Lammers) kind of rebounds with length. Chuck and Nick kind of rebound with brute force, and then James is kind of the long, athletic rebounder in spaces and is able to play over the top of guys."
Shooting better
It's a small sample size, but forward Quinton Stephens has made 41.4 percent of his 3-point tries this season, a significant jump from his rate last season, 29.9 percent. Forward Marcus Georges-Hunt has likewise improved, up to 38.2 percent from 28.8 percent last season. (His high for a season was 34.1 percent as a sophomore.)
Stephens was 0-for-4 from behind the arc and 0-for-7 overall. Gregory said that "we need him to make those shots. He's not a guy that presses, but I thought all those shots were open looks. They were all open looks. So you've just got to get in the gym and keep shooting and feel confident that you're going to put those in."
Gregory had another issue with the 3-point shooting, particularly in the first half when half of the Jackets' 34 field-goal tries were 3-point tries. He felt that a lot of the shots were taken early in possessions and were shots that would still have been available three or four passes later.
"If we get the ball, either on a post touch, post flash or dribble penetration and then you take those shots, you have the zone broken down and, if the zone is broken down, then if you miss, we have a better chance of getting an offensive rebound," he said.


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IBRI Paper (2001)
The Star of Bethlehem:
A Natural-Supernatural Hybrid?
Robert C. Newman
Biblical Theological Seminary
Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute
Copyright © 2001 by Robert C Newman. All rights reserved.
Numerous suggestions have been made over the centuries for the
of the star that led the Magi to Jesus. Some of these proposals may be
classified as purely natural, in that no miraculous intervention is
- e.g., Halley's comet, some other comet, one or more of various
conjunctions, or an exploding star, such as a supernova. Other
can be labeled purely supernatural, since they suggest that a
object - perhaps an angel, the Shekinah glory, or some other localized,
movable bright light in the sky - was responsible for the phenomenon.
The advantage of this first class of proposals is that it may be
to find other historical references to the object, or (for Halley's
or planetary conjunctions) to re-enact the scenario using modern
The problem with such proposals is that the bright object, being
of miles out in space, does not naturally fit Matthew's comment that
star led the Magi to the place where the child was. Supernatural
on the other hand, can be easily imagined in which a relatively local
object will do the guiding. But it would be very unlikely that such an
object would leave any extra-biblical traces in the historical record.
Here we propose a hybrid model - part natural and part supernatural
- that both leaves a distinctive mark for us to investigate two
years later, and which will also fit a straight forward reading of
account. Our proposal involves a modification of Ernest Martin's
of a series of planetary and stellar conjunctions, to which is added a
localized bright object that would have been recognized by the Magi as
the "same" star and which, on that crucial night, led them to the house
where the baby Jesus was.
The Natural Part
Retrospective calculations of planetary positions for ancient times
have occasionally been made since the time of Johann Kepler (d 1630).
such efforts (being done by hand) were enormously time-consuming,
and tedious until very recently. An early fruit of the development of
computers was the publication in 1962 of Bryant Tuckerman's tables of
Lunar and Solar Positions 601 BC to AD 1 by the American
Society. In the following years, Roger Sinnott worked carefully through
these tables and located all the close planetary conjunctions that
around the probable time of the birth of Jesus. In particular, Sinnott
found one strikingly close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter in the
of Leo (the Lion) on the evening of 17 June 2 BC, which would have been
quite rare. He proposed that this was the Christmas star, publishing
results in the December 1968 issue of Sky and Telescope, the
magazine for amateur astronomers. His suggestion has since been adopted
and presented each Christmas in many planetarium programs. Ernest
went on to develop the suggestion with much additional detail and
research in his book The Star That Astonished the World.
Martin noticed a cluster of additional conjunctions involving one or
the other of these two planets within a year of this conjunction. He
that these would have had such symbolic significance as to send the
to Judea to look for the newborn king of the Jews.
(adapted from The Star That Astonished the World, p 56)
day-mo-year (BC)
(arc minutes)
Martin suggests that these conjunctions above, plus a configuration
of sun and moon with the constellation Virgo on 11 Sept 3 BC, would
been read as follows:
12 August 3 BC. Jupiter, the king planet, having left the Sun, the supreme Father, is now conjoined with Venus, the mother. The Sun, Moon and Mercury (the messenger) are also located with Jupiter and Venus in Leo, the lion, representing the tribe of Judah (Gen 49:9; see fig. 1). The message of this configuration: some important royal event is to happen among the Jews.
31 August 3 BC. Mercury, the heavenly messenger, having left the
now arrives at Venus, the mother. The Sun is now in the constellation
the virgin. Mercury and Venus are in Leo and Jupiter is just entering
same. Message: God's messenger is sent to the mother.
11 September 3 BC. One of the visions in Revelation, that of the woman about to give birth in chapter 12, verses 1-5, can easily be understood astrologically to mark an exact date. If the woman is taken to be the constellation Virgo, the virgin, then the Sun clothes her body for about one month per year. The moon will pass through that region in the course of its monthly cycle so that it is (just) under her feet on one particular day. In 3 BC, that day is September 11. Martin takes this to be the date of Jesus' birth. See fig. 2.
14 Sept 3 BC, 17 Feb 2 BC, and 8 May 2 BC. Three conjunctions of
with Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo, the lion,
located between the lion's feet. Martin notes the prediction in Gen
"The scepter will not depart from Judah nor the ruler (or ruler's
from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the
of the nations is his." Jupiter, the king planet, circles above
the king star, placing a crown on the king star. See fig. 1.
17 June, 2 BC. A very rare close conjunction of Jupiter and Venus,
are variously estimated to have a separation of 3 minutes of arc
0.5 minute (Martin), or 0.1 minute (Carroll). The frequency of such a
conjunction (depending on which estimate is correct) would range from
in about 1150 years to once in about 34 thousand years. See my
in the appendix. Martin sees this conjunction as having the same
as the one of 12 Aug 3 BC, and suggests it was this 17 June conjunction
that sends the Magi on their way, arriving in Jerusalem about December
26 August 2 BC. A close conjunction of Jupiter and Mars (war) in
with Venus and Mercury also in Leo, and the Sun in Virgo. Martin
this sign may mean these events will lead to war.
Recently I have noticed a number of things about these conjunctions
that point to a modification of Martin's view. When these changes are
the symbolism of this sequence of events suddenly snaps into focus in a
remarkable way.
1. Martin's 11 September event comes only two weeks after the 31
conjunction, in which God's messenger comes to the mother. This 31
event sounds like Gabriel's annunciation to Mary, which would hardly be
just two weeks before the birth.
2. Taking 11 September as the conception, then the really close
of 17 June is just over nine months later. This makes best sense as the
birth event, which (after all) is what Matthew 1-2 is all about. So
is born 17 June 2 BC.
3. This arrangement gives a different flavor to the three
of Jupiter with Regulus, as the baby Jesus is in Mary's womb at this
Thus Jupiter can be seen as God hovering over him. As an unexpected
the name Regulus is the Latin diminutive of Rex, "king." So the king
is hovering over the little king!
4. The 26 August 2 BC massing of planets - all the anciently-known
but Saturn clustered within a few degrees of one another in the space
Leo and Virgo (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter) - may indeed
war, as Martin suggests, given the presence of warlike Mars for the
time in this sequence of conjunctions. If we assume with Martin that
Magi set out from Babylon (or thereabouts) at the really close
of 17 June, they would have just 70 days to get to Judea by this date.
This is not unreasonable if they didn't dawdle. See the appendix. My
thus looks like this, with a date or two adjusted to fit the results of
my own planetarium program:
12 August 3 BC. Jupiter, the king planet, joins with Venus, the mother, in Leo. An important royal event - presumably a birth - is about to occur in Judah. See fig. 3.
26 August 3 BC. Mercury, the heavenly messenger, comes to Venus the mother. The message is delivered to the mother-to-be. See fig. 4.
11 September 3 BC. The Sun clothes the body of the Virgin while the Moon is under her feet. The conception of the child. See figs. 2 and 5.
14 September, 17 February and May 8, now 2 BC. Jupiter the king planet hovers over Regulus, the little king, who is in his mother's womb.
17 June 2 BC. The rare close conjunction of Jupiter with Venus in Leo, almost exactly the same distance East of Regulus as the earlier 12 August 3 BC conjunction was West of Regulus. See fig. 1. The birth. The Magi set out for Judea and Jerusalem, its capital. See fig. 6.
28 August 2 BC. The clustering of Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Mars. This means war. The Magi arrive, and Herod makes his move to kill the baby Jesus. See fig. 7.
How rare is the sequence of events we are considering here? As noted above, this will depend on the separation of Jupiter and Venus at the close conjunction of 17 June 2 BC. With Sinnott's suggested separation of 3 minutes, this sort of conjunction will occur in Leo about every 1154 years. With Martin's separation of 0.5 minute, it will occur about once every 6923 years. With Carroll's separation of 0.1 minute, once every 34,615 years.
The event is seen to be even rarer when we add in the triple
of Jupiter with Regulus, which only occurs in this particular year
the eleven degree wide loop made by Jupiter at opposition happens to
across the position of Regulus. This has a probability of 11 degrees
by 360 degrees, or about .03. Thus the frequency of this close
conjunction plus the triple conjunction with Regulus can be expected to
happen once every 38 thousand years (Sinnott), every 228 thousand years
(Martin), or every 1 million 142 thousand years (Carroll). A rare event
The symbolism of these events (and their chronological order) is also impressive:
12 August 3 BC. Magi pay attention! A royal birth in Judah.
26 August 3 BC. The heavenly messenger informs the mother.
11 September 3 BC. The conception occurs.
The triple conjunction. The king of the gods hovers over the little king.
17 June 2 BC. The birth occurs.
28 August 2 BC. This means war.
The apologetic value of this sequence of events - which can easily
reconstructed two thousand years later by anyone on a home computer
a planetarium program - is enormous.
The Supernatural Part
The purely natural models tend to run aground in dealing with the
of Matthew 2:9-10:
(9) After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. (10) When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.
The problem here is that objects at astronomical distances cannot guide someone to explicit places on the surface of the earth by mere movement alone. Instead this is characteristic of objects that are only a few tens of feet above the ground, as for example, the pillar of cloud and fire in the wilderness.
Martin's model takes the verb "stopped" to be used in a technical
sense, for Jupiter ceasing its westward motion relative to the stars,
beginning to move eastward once more, which he sees as happening about
25 Dec 2 BC, when he believes the Magi were at Jerusalem. This is
an observer would notice by watching Jupiter that night. Its stopping
only become apparent over the course of many nights as its relative
among the stars would gradually come to a halt and then change
And "stopped over the place" Martin takes to mean that when the Magi
out of Jerusalem that night to go to Bethlehem, they saw Jupiter
in the southern sky over the village of Bethlehem, not over the
house in which the baby Jesus was located. Since the Magi would need to
know that Jupiter had reached its stopping point (before moving east
by means of calculations or charts they had prepared in advance, they
hardly be surprised or overjoyed as Matthew tells us they were. This
expression is quite emphatic.
Another suggestion for using an astronomical object to mark a
on the surface of the earth appears in E. W. Maunder's article on the
of the Magi" in the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
5:2849, under the section "The Legend of the Well." Maunder reports a
at Bethlehem that one of the Magi, looking down into the well at the
saw the star reflected in it (so directly overhead) and knew they had
to the right place. This is a clever suggestion, but it hardly does
to the details of the text of Matthew.
Supernatural models, by contrast, handle this problem easily. An
which is only a few tens of feet above the earth can easily guide
by moving at a speed they can keep up with and by stopping over the
to which the people are being led. In fact, the terminology used in the
ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament to describe the guidance
provided by the pillar of fire and cloud is rather close to that used
Matthew here. Matthew uses the verb proago to indicate that the
star "went before" them or "led" them, the verb erchomai to
its "moving" or "coming" and histemi to indicate its "stopping"
or "standing." In Exodus 13:21 God "leads" them (ago) by a
of cloud to show Israel the way. In Ex 14:19 the angel of God "goes
them (proerchomai), and to protect them from the Egyptians, he
the pillar of cloud to "stand" (histemi) behind them. In Ex
whenever Moses would enter the tent of meeting, the pillar of cloud
descend and "stand" (histemi) at the door of the tent, and when
the people saw the pillar "standing" (histemi), they would each
stand at the door of their own tents and worship. In Numbers 14:14,
tells God that the Egyptians have already heard that God's cloud
over" Israel (ephistemi) and that by or in the pillar of cloud
"goes before" them (poreuomai proteros). The verb poreuomai
is pretty much a synonym of erchomai. In Deuteronomy 1:33,
rebukes Israel for not trusting God who "went before" (proporeuomai
proteros) them in fire by night and cloud by day to search out
to camp and show them the way they should go.
So. With a purely natural model, no ordinary reading of the text of
Matthew or the phenomena of conjunctions will guide the Magi to Jesus.
In a purely supernatural model, this is handled easily, but the events
described above in our section "The Natural Part" are just an
(but meaningless) fluke. But how about a hybrid model? The natural part
is open to retrospective calculation, while the supernatural part fits
the Matthew narrative naturally and gets the Magi to the right house in
Bethlehem. Such a natural-supernatural hybrid might also make sense of
the extreme joy which the Magi experience when they see the star again.
Matthew 2:9-10 tells us that they again saw the star which they had
seen in the east, so there is a strong indication that we are to
the star they now see with that which sent them on their way. In the
we propose, if they arrive in Jerusalem on or about 28 August of 2 BC,
then the cluster of Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter in
will set with the Sun; in fact the Sun, being the easternmost member of
this group, will set last. So if we imagine the Magi coming out of
as or shortly after the Sun sets, we can construct a scenario that
work very well.
Suppose (we speculate) they see a supernatural light about the size
and brightness of the Jupiter-Venus conjunction of 17 June. It arises
the west from where the Sun has just set and comes toward them until it
is low overhead. The "star" then turns southward and leads them (like
pillar in the wilderness) until it stops over the house where Joseph,
and the child Jesus are now living. After all their travels, wouldn't
be something to make the Magi "rejoice exceedingly with great joy" (a
approximation to the Greek)?
That is my proposal for a reconstruction of the phenomenon of the
Carroll, Susan S. "The Star of Bethlehem: an Astronomical and Historical Perspective," 1998 <http://sciastro.net/portia/articles/thestar.htm> accessed 26 Sept 2000.
Chester, Craig. "The Star of Bethlehem," Imprimis (December, 1993): 1-4.
Martin, Ernest L. The Star That Astonished the World. Portland, OR: ASK Publications, 1991.
Maunder, E. W. "Star of the Magi," International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1939).
Sinnott, Roger. "Thoughts on the Star of Bethlehem," Sky and Telescope (December 1968): 384-386.
Tuckerman, Bryant. Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions 601 B.C. to A.D. 1. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1962.
My simulations of the sky were made using the program SkyGlobe 3.6 for DOS, copyright 1993, Klass M Software.
My calculations for the frequency of conjunctions of Jupiter and
were made using my own program FCONJ, written in QBasic 4.5.
Calculating the Frequency of Close Conjunction:
(Astronomical data from World Almanac '97: 455)
The Jupiter Venus separation of our conjunction is variously
as 3' (Sinnott), 0.5' (Martin), or 6" = 0.1' (Carroll). This will give
us a range of frequencies.
The inclinations of orbits of these planets to the ecliptic:
I(Jupiter) = 1deg 18' 17" = 78' I(Venus) = 3deg 23' 41" = 204'
so the separation of Jupiter and Venus at a conjunction can range
0' to 282'. Assuming an equal probability for each separation, the
of conjunctions as close or closer than ours is:
F(Sinnott) = 3'/282' = 1/100
F(Martin) = .5'/282' = 1/600
F(Carroll) =.1'/282' = 1/3000
How often do Jupiter and Venus have a conjunction? I attempted in
ways to make a diagram from which a simple calculation could be made,
did not get consistent results. So I tried two alternatives. (1) I used
my computer planetarium program to look at the number of conjunctions
the past ten years, and found 12 or 13 (one case being too close to
for an average of 1.25 per year. But this is not long enough to give an
accurate average. (2) I set up a computer simulation in which three
travel in circular orbits around the Sun at the average distances and
of Venus, Earth and Jupiter, respectively, and counted the number of
Jupiter and Venus would be in the same direction from Earth. This was
for 100,000 days (about 275 years), and gave an average of about 1.04
year. I believe this second method is closer to the correct value, as
number of conjunctions seems to fluctuate rather substantially over
periods of time. Let us use 1.04 per year.
But only 1/100 of these conjunction are close enough to match or
the separation calculated by Sinnott, or 1/600 for Martin's, or 1/3000
for Carroll's. In addition, to have the conjunction occur in the proper
constellation, there is only one chance in 12, so frequency f of
f(Sinnott) = (1.04)(1/100)(1/12) = 1/1154, one conjunction in every 1154 years.
f(Martin) = (1.04)(1/600)(1/12) = 1/6923, one in every 6923 years.
f(Carroll) = (1.04)(1/3000)(1/12) =1/34615, one in every 34,615
Add to this the requirement for a triple conjunction of Jupiter with Regulus. My computer planetarium program (SkyGlobe 3.6) shows that Jupiter has a "loop" at opposition of about 11 degrees, so to have this loop intersect Regulus has a probability of 11 deg/360 deg, or .03.
This decreases the frequency of the event we are describing to:
f(Sinnott) = (1/1154)(.03) = 1/38082, one such in every 38,082 years
f(Martin) = (1/6923)(.03) = 1/228492, one such in every 228,492 years
f(Carroll) = (1/34615)(.03) = 1/1142460, one such in every 1,142,460
Travel-Time for the Magi:
In Ezra 7:9 we have information on the travel of Ezra from Babylon
Jerusalem in the fifth century BC. According to the conversion of dates
recorded in the New Living Translation, Ezra left Babylon on
8 and arrived in Jerusalem August 4. This is just under four months or
about 120 days.
Applying this travel-time to the Magi, if the close conjunction of
17, 2 BC was the event that moved them to journey to Jerusalem, then
would have set out sometime after this date. Traveling at about the
speed as Ezra's entourage, they would have arrived no earlier than
To get Martin's arrival date of December 25, we must assume that
spent over two months longer than this, either in preparation for
or in travel. This is possible, but seems rather long.
But Ezra's group was quite large, and so moved rather slowly. The
by contrast, may have felt the need to hurry. If they averaged 10 miles
per day, they could have traveled 700 miles by the 26 Aug conjunction;
if they averaged 15 miles per day, 1050 miles; if 20 miles per day,
miles. From the Macmillan Bible Atlas map #243, it looks like
total distance from Babylon to Jerusalem (up the Euphrates and across
Palmyra, then via Damascus) is about 3 inches on the map, or about 760
miles using the scale given there. This is doubtless somewhat of an
as the roads are not as straight as a ruler, but it looks like the Magi
could easily have made the trip in 70 days if they averaged between 10
and 15 miles per day, not at all difficult if they were riding horses
Captions For Figures
Figure 1: The constellation Leo (the Lion), showing the location of its chief star Regulus and the two close Jupiter-Venus conjunctions of 12 August 3 BC and 17 June 2 BC. Adapted from a figure in Roger Sinnott's article "Thoughts on the Star of Bethlehem," Sky and Telescope (December 1968): 384-386.
Figure 2: The Zodiac in the vicinity of Leo (the Lion) and Virgo (the Virgin), showing the location of the Sun and Moon in early September 3 BC. Martin identifies 11 September 3 BC as the date of the birth of Jesus. I see it as the date of Mary's conception, and thus the incarnation of Jesus. Figure from Ernest L. Martin, The Star That Astonished the World (Portland, OR: ASK Publications, 1991).
Figures 3-7: Star charts of the various conjunctions as
from Jerusalem, reconstructed by the planetarium program SkyGlobe 3.6.
Planet names are given in three-letter abbreviations (SUN, MOO, MER,
MAR, JUP), as are the constellation names (LEO, VIR).
|Although the author is in agreement with the doctrinal statement of IBRI, it does not follow that all of the viewpoints espoused in this paper represent official positions of IBRI. Since one of the purposes of the IBRI report series is to serve as a preprint forum, it is possible that the author has revised some aspects of this work since it was first written.
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The game was more dramatic than the final score indicated, as Cannella had to work out of a few tight spots. After Wray got the first hit off of him in the third, Cannella started a pitcher-to-shortstop-to-first double play as the Islanders got Bryant Cook by a step to end the inning.
With the Islanders holding a precarious 2-0 lead in the fourth, third baseman Trey Hicks made the defensive play of the game. He barehanded a slow roller and threw across his body on the run to get Chase Scarce at first by a half-step and deny Tunstall a run.
"Trey's play probably saved the game, and Chase (Pinder) made a big play on a slow roller (with runners on second and third) to end (the sixth) inning," Cannella said.
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Soon thereafter the Islanders seniors traded baseball uniforms for caps and gowns. They'll switch back to baseball uniforms Saturday morning for a rematch with Loudoun Valley, which beat the Islanders 5-3 for the 3A East Region crown.
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WP: Cannella (8-3), LP: Buckner. Standouts: Poquoson, Nestor 3-4 (double, 5 RBI), Pinder 1-2 (2 runs, RBI), Cannella (pitched complete-game 4-hitter). Records: Poquoson 18-9, Tunstall 25-4.
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