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|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by nuclearboy(m): 6:54am On Feb 21, 2012
Here are a few examples of REALLY BAD TRANSLATIONS found in a single reading of the NIV. Here it is compared with the earlier NASV just to demonstrate that the NIV is bad in comparison even with its modern siblings.
Romans 4:1, NIV: "What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter?"
NASV (text option): "What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?"
NASV (margin option): "What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?"
First of all, notice that the NIV ELIMINATES the term "flesh," which is one of the most important theological terms in the entire Bible. The "flesh theology" begins in Genesis 2-3, and continues throughout the Scriptures. It is extremely significant in the Pauline understanding, especially in the book of Romans. This is NOT "concept by concept" or "dynamic equivalence" -- it is an unwarranted reduction of the text by those who simply did not want to include the idea in the English. The NASV, with a far greater scholarship, included the term while acknowledging they were not certain about what the phrase "according to the flesh" modified.
Hebrews 11:11, NIV (text option): "By faith Abraham, even though he was past age--and Sarah herself was barren--was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise."
NIV (margin option): "By faith even Sarah, who was past age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who made the promise."
NASV (text option): "By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised;"
NASV (margin option): "By faith even Sarah herself received power for the laying down of seed, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered him faithful who had promised;"
The second NASV reading is a literal reading and points us to the mighty and important "seed theology" that runs throughout the Scripture, from Genesis onward. In fact, the first mention of the seed theology refers to the WOMAN'S seed. Thus Hebrews 11:11 has a very important place in the seed theology of Scripture. Yet, the NIV mentions it NOT AT ALL, and the NASV mentions it only in the margin. How convenient for a translation that translates "concept by concept" simply to leave out one of the MOST IMPORTANT concepts in the entire Scripture from its translation here. But this is not paraphrastic -- RIGHT! Neither is it an issue of textual criticism -- the UBS text does not vary from the TR at this point in Hebrews 11:11 -- both read "kataboleen spermatos elaben." The problem is not with the eclectic text -- the problem is with the NIV (and the NASV text option). The NASV text option is *slightly* paraphrastic and does away somewhat with a proper understanding of the seed theology of Scripture in this place. But it is not as paraphrastic as the NIV!
The NIV is so paraphrastic that they made up things to place in God's mouth. Furthermore, the things they made up aren't even true! The NIV at Hebrews 11:11 attempts to make every scholar true and God a liar. Let me expatiate:
First of all, of the two NIV readings, only the marginal reading even *approximates* the Greek. And in approximating the Greek, it guts the passage by ignoring the seed theology. The text option, however, is just downright awful.
With absolutely no textual support in any textual tradition -- i.e. no Greek mss -- the NIV throws Abraham into the verse. It claims that Abraham was past age to have children -- which is clearly untrue, as Abraham's six sons by his second wife Keturah could testify (Genesis 25). Further, Abraham's behavior () with the handmaid Hagar is proof enough that it was not Abraham, but Sarah who was "past age." But the NIV leaves us with the distinct impression by INTRODUCING Abraham without any textual basis at all that Abraham as well as Sarah was past age for "bearing children" (much less laying down seed, which is the theological import that is missing from both the text option and the margin option).
Further examples of REALLY BAD TRANSLATIONS in the NIV are here grouped under seven categories:
1. Elimination of complex grammatical structures (pp. 18-21). Long complex sentences are broken into several shorter sentences. To do this, the [size=13pt]translators had to make interpretive decisions[/size] about the *theology* of the passage in question. Thus Ephesians 1:3-14, which the AV breaks into three sentences, the NIV breaks into eight. 2 Thessalonians 1:3-10, which the AV keeps as one sentence, is broken into eight by the NIV. Compare also Acts 1:1-5 & Hebrews 1:1-4.
2. Addition of words in translation (pp. 22-28). To be fair, older translations have done this as well, but when the AV adds words to clarify meaning it puts them in italics. The NIV does not -- it therefore gives no warning or notice to the reader as to what it has done. For example, 1 Cor. 7:9 states "it is better to marry than to burn," a statement which is subject to numerous interpretations. The NIV in its stead says, "to burn with passion," an addition to the text that is not indicated by any italics (or other flags) and that simply settles the interpretation for the reader. Acts 5:20 says, "all the words of this life," but the NIV reads "the full message of this new life." The word "new" is nowhere to be found in any Greek ms. It has been added by the NIV translators and clearly adds a "new thought" to this verse -- a thought which is man's and not God's at this place.
3. Omission of words (pp. 28-29). Be careful -- some words are omitted due to a difference in textual choice. That is not what the author is speaking to here. The NIV often omits conjunctions and interjections. The word "lo" or "behold" occurs 62 times in Matthew, but the NIV omits it 37 times. Mark's gospel abounds in the term "immediately" and creates a major theme in Mark's Davidic perspective on Jesus. The NIV omits it in 5 places. In Matthew 10:6, "of the house" is simply left out, and "unto himself" is left out of Ephesians 1:5 -- neither of these omissions have any textual basis.
4. Erosion of technical vocabulary (pp. 29-38). There are parts of the Bible that use highly technical words -- words that have been used in a specifically Christian way by the author. Thus the NIV translates the Greek term *dikaioo* as "justify" except in Romans 2:13 and 3:20, where it reads "declared righteous." This author correctly points out that justification "involves the imputation of our sins to Christ and the imputation of Christ's righteousness to us," not simply a mere verbal declaration. Propitiation becomes the vague "sacrifice of atonement" and "atoning sacrifice" in Romans 3:25 and 1 John 2:2. Martin provides several pages of discussions of the "flesh" as mentioned in another post on Romans 4:1.
5. Leveling cultural distinctives (pp. 38-40). "Girding up the loins of your mind" in 1 Peter 1:13 becomes "prepare your minds for action" in the NIV. The NIV does give the "sermonic gist" of the idea, but[b] it eliminates the biblical imagery which calls to mind much of the OT, especially the priestly ministry. The priests were forbidden to approach the altar by steps, lest their unclothedness be exposed. They were given special, anointed loin coverings (breeches) so that they could do so. Ordinary underwear would not cover "unclothedness" any more than Adam's figleaves did. Thus the notion of girding up the loins has a priestly ring to it, which the NIV eliminates[/b]. See Exodus 20:26; 28:42-43; Lev. 9:30.
6. Slipping in subjective interpretations (pp. 41-62). Here is a handful of numerous illustrations: In each case, the first translation is word-for-word formal equivalency; the second is the NIV. In each case, the NIV decides to perform the office of pope for us by interpreting the "sense" of the Greek.
John 17:11 in thy name
by the power of your name
Gal. 1:11 according to man
something that man made up
Phil. 2:1 in Christ
from being united with Christ
1 Thes. 4:2 through the Lord Jesus
by the authority of the Lord Jesus
7. Finally, paraphrasing. The problem with paraphrasing again is that it allows too much latitude to the translator to do our thinking and meditating for us. But the primary focus that is illustrated in this category is the manner in which the cadence and beauty of the original text is changed. Here are just a *few* of numerous illustrations. [size=14pt]Remember, there is an entire generation being raise on this pap. . .[/size]
Matt. 12:49 and he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples and said
NIV pointing to his disciples, he said
(the hand is eliminated)
Matt. 13:33 in three measures of meal
NIV into a large amount of flour
(the number three is eliminated)
Mark 1:2 before your face
NIV ahead of you
(the face is eliminated)
Luke 1:15 from his mother's womb
NIV from birth
(completely changes the meaning; pro-abortionists can take comfort here!)
John 1:20 and he confessed and denied not; and he confessed
NIV and he did not fail to confess, but confessed freely (lessens the emphatic character of the language)
1 Thes. 4:6 the Lord is an avenger
NIV the Lord will punish (the OT Avenger of Blood theology vanishes)
The kinds of errors outlined in this and the previous post reveal more than just the usual mistakes that are made in any translation. They reveal a cavalier attitude toward the doctrine of VERBAL inspiration. The NIV is not interested in translating the WORDS of God, but the CONCEPTS of God. Yet such cannot be done apart from the words. I would remind anyone interested in the truth, that Paul based an important aspect of the "seed theology" on the fact that the word occurred in the SINGULAR and NOT the PLURAL form. If even singulars and plurals are important to a correct understanding of God's word, how dare we take such an attitude toward it that we will translate "idea by idea" rather than word by word?
For CLEAR evidence that both NASV and NIV have a chiliastic bias, simply compare Matthew 24:30 in either of those versions with the ACCURATE translation to be found in the AV. It is not a sign that appears in the sky or heaven, but rather a sign is given that the Son of Man is in heaven. Again, while theologians of various eschatological stripe may dispute the *MEANING* of this text, the AV preserves the word order and sense of the Greek text and allows for more than one interpretation. At this point, both the NASV and the NIV remove "ambiguity" from the text by FORCING one interpretation onto the text.
The Bible was not written in 20th century "street English." It was written in Hebrew and Hebraized Greek. Attempts to make the Bible sound like a modern novel do it no service and in the opinion of numerous scholars (James White's unwarranted claim to a "majority of scholars" notwithstanding) are beginning to realize that the NIV went WAY OVERBOARD with a new idea -- an idea that is philologically unsound.
[size=13pt]It should be noted, however, that many of the more Reformed men on the translation committee dropped out of the work over time, no longer desiring to be associated with it. Also, in the years since 1965-78, many more Reformed linguistic scholars are coming to understand the numerous flaws contained in the NIV.[/size]
Further, if James White is to be believed (how could we doubt the scholarship of Mr. White?), the preface to the NIV is simply WRONG when it states "For the Old Testament the standard Hebrew text, the Masoretic text as published in the latest editions of *Biblia Hebraica*, was used throughout." Yet Mr. White informs us that the NIV *really* used a non-standard ms variant at Psalm 12:7 (ENG) to come up with "you will keep us."
How many examples does one have to give? It is very interesting to find some people actually say that [size=18pt]the NIV does have the right initials which mean - (Non-Inspired Version)[/size]. From the error of changing fornication into "marital unfaithfulness" in Matthew 5:32;19:19 to the taking away of many passages, this version of the Bible is truly a perversion of God's Word.
# NIV Psalms 51:5 "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me."
Biblical reasons WHY this is wrong:
1. Sin is breaking God's Law I John 3:4
2. Sin is not passed on Ezekiel 18:20
3. You are pure until you sin Ezekiel 28:15
4. Man causes himself to be a sinner Ecclesiastes 7:29 "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."
5. Sin has do be done by someone realizing right and wrong James 4:17 "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."
6. Can a baby sin? God says that we are to become as these little children not little sinners Matthew 18:3.
7. Out of this doctrine comes infant baptism.
a. Out of nine conversion examples in the book of Acts not one time was a baby converted (Acts 2:36-41, Acts 8:5-13, Acts 8:26-39, Acts 9:1-20, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 16:13-15, Acts 16:23-34, Acts 18:8, and Acts 19:1-7).
b. Can a baby believe in God? You cannot separate belief from baptism (Mark 16:15-16).
* NIV Romans 10:10 "For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."
Biblical reasons this is wrong:
If confession was enough why did the Eunuch not stop at that (Acts 8:37)? [If you are using the NIV you will have to look at another version to read Acts 8:37, the NIV has taken it out. Again, see # 7 a above. NIV John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
1. If one is saved by faith alone explain why there are no examples of this post Calvary. (See point 7 a above for how many examples of baptism there are)
2. Jesus said faith and baptism not faith alone Mark 16:15-16.
3. Jesus stated (John 3:5) "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
4. Read James 1:19. If we are saved by faith alone why did Jesus condemn the devil and his angels to hell (Matthew 25:41)?
5. Read James 2:19-26 and explain how God says we are NOT saved by faith alone and why the NIV contradicts itself here with John 3:16?
There are so many other issues including some ridiculous ones - many analysts complain about NIV using language constructs that state Jesus Christ & Satan are the same, since the term Lucifer and/or star of the morning are used interchangeably when referring to them - This also due to attempts to make the NIV more modern-friendly rather than pass on what they started with.
Anyone interested can simply search for more information and make their own deductions!
|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by MyJoe: 11:44am On Feb 21, 2012
If I wrote my own Bible, surah 2:1 would read:
When thou seest nations rising against nation, when thou want to speak to the guy in the next room and thou pick up thy mobile phone, when thou ask a simple question and thou get a referral to Google, knowest thee that the end times are here.
I merely wished to know why you think the NIV is heavily compromised. One finds a lot of things in Google and I'm not smart enough to know what's in your mind or a certain POV by wading through tons of text. No, I don't wish to be spoon fed but I appreciate a simple ansa to a simple kweshon and I certainly imagined you could give one, like this:
That^^^ does not explain "notoriously compromised" but it shows what you were thinking and what you consider the "POV of…". And I think you could have cut to this earlier instead of "heating up the polity". But I guess it's a sign of the end time. Or maybe it was delayed ej.ac.ul.ation.
|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by MyJoe: 11:50am On Feb 21, 2012
Thanks for this. You have highlighted things I had not previously considered or been aware of. There is a lot I find agreeable in it, there is also a lot I disagree with – in terms of the deductions made but more particularly the approach employed in making them. I will read it more closely later and hopefully understand this POV better.
|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by nuclearboy(m): 12:47pm On Feb 21, 2012
No frustrations here, Sir & thus no requirement now or ever to eja-cu-late on NL! I only wonder why this polity is being heated up simply because I trusted my audience to be of such quality as to make inquiries from google (an impersonal guide)!
As I stated earlier, how many examples or references can one give? Which would be why someone accorded much more respect and academic capability was expected to take out a few minutes for personal research! this more so when what has now being stated only just starts to scratch the surface!
But then, I may be giving respect whist not being accorded any so the perception may have been of nuclearboy being perfectly vacuous and lacking in substance! I should thus re-examine self, I guess but still maintain - an even cursory application of intellect towards checking out my "vacuous" claim would have "cooled the polity".
Best regards
|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by MyJoe: 1:29pm On Feb 21, 2012
Thanks again and best regards, too.
|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:30am On Feb 23, 2012
I get your point that none is greater. The analogy and the Scripture below explains it better:
If I give you a small slice of cheese from a large block (the taste being constant throughout the whole block), and you spit out the cheese saying you hate the taste, then you reject the whole block. Jesus was God manifest in human form. If the Jews and other religious folks rejected Him, they rejected the Father also -- he who is of God hears God's words. John later stated in his epistle,
"Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father, (but) he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also" (1 John 2:23).
|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by Enigma(m): 9:09am On Sep 25, 2012
Recall! Error, wrong thread!
|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by ijawkid(m): 10:19am On Sep 25, 2012
Enigma: Many people say they do not believe in the idea of God as "Trinity". However, quite often when some of them make a few posts it seems that they are supporting that which they deny. I suggest that (leaving aside the "intellectual shenanigans" at Nicea) there is really a simple test for a person to know and or determine whether or not s/he believes that God is "Trinity".
U should have added:::
DO u believe that the angels are God??
Also do u believe satan is GOD??
Do u believe you are God??
Why did u stop at those 3 entities??
GOD is not a name mr man.....
Read and understand......
|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by Nobody: 10:35am On Sep 25, 2012
Guys can you help me here.
I read the following scripture and need to to understand how you see it and point out the trinity.
Exodus 33:18 - 34:5-7
New International Version (NIV)
18 Then Moses said, "Now show me your glory."
19 And the Lord said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 20 But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live."
21 Then the Lord said, "There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. 22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen."
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation."
Can you kindly help us wrench the concept of the Trinity out of this scripture master piece.
Secondly :
1. how many Faces do we have here
2. how many Backs do we have here
3. how many Hands do we have here
Thanks in advance.
|Re: The Trinity - A Simple Test by truthislight: 11:16am On Sep 25, 2012
numo86: @snowy, just d way Yahweh & Jesus are one, so also we christians are one with Jesus, so also a husband is 1 with his wife,but 1 always greater than the other,^^^
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It was tested with simple SVG animations in current versions of Firefox(46) and Chrome(50).
Select SVG file in the form bellow, input desired frames per second number (FPS), animation time in seconds or number of frames. Of course these variables are bounded by simple formula #frames=FPS*time
Output of program is series of PNG images. Currently all images are zipped(storage) and saved to your Downloads directory. You may convert these images to video with ffmpeg/avconv (todo: explicit command and link to tutorial)
Developement state
There is a github repository for svg-render so you can contribute directly. If you are not familiar with javascript programming you can sent your feedback to email@example.com. If it is a bug report please attach your SVG file which rendered incorrectly.
If you would like to add this as library to your application you may - it is separated in svg-render.js and afaik does not have dependencies (except for window/document so it won't work in server side apps in nodejs). I would appreciate your feedback on my mail - if demanded I can make svg-render bower library.
Svg-render is licensed under MIT license so you have complete freedom.


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Over the next three years, prices will continue to rise as demand for laboratory furniture rises with increased R&D activity and input costs.
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Laboratory furniture has a buyer power score of 2.9 out of 5. This score reflects a mixed environment for buyers; as low market share concentration and low vendor financial risk allow for ample supplier options, moderate price volatility and the acceleration of price growth hinder buyer power. Additionally, high volatility in demand drivers and moderate product specialization affect the buyer power score negatively. "Shipping and installation costs are significant, so proximity to shipping locations may also limit a buyer's choices," says IBISWorld procurement analyst Keiko Cadby.
Low market share concentration and low vendor financial risk allow buyers of laboratory furniture to choose from a variety of suppliers that have a high probability of remaining in business for years to come. Buyers should seek multiyear contracts to lock in prices, offset the effects of volatile of input costs, and protect themselves from gradual long-term increases in prices as the economy improves. "Volatile prices of raw material inputs and moderate product specialization work against the buyer because the resulting prices for necessary lab furniture are mostly out of their control," adds Cadby. "However, buyers can mitigate these risks by securing prices through contracts, and by purchasing the most economical furniture that adheres to safety regulations."
Buyers typically upgrade and replace laboratory furniture every five to 10 years, so the buying process does not happen frequently. However, a multiyear contract with a warranty and a modification and repair clause may be highly beneficial to the buyer if adjustments need to be performed on the products. Because shipping and installation costs are unpredictable due to volatile fuel prices, buyers are encouraged to set parameters for these prices to avoid a potentially significant increase in the total cost of ownership. For more information, visit IBISWorld's Laboratory Furniture procurement category market research report page.
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The report is intended to assist buyers of laboratory furniture. These products include casework, such as lab benches, carts, tables, fixtures, cabinets and shelving. Suppliers of laboratory furniture include manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors. Key buyer institutions included in this report are schools, universities and research establishments that are engaged in laboratory education or use. Laboratory furniture is purchased on a stock or custom basis and may be assembled or unassembled. This report excludes laboratory equipment, such as fume hoods or refrigerators, as well as laboratory furniture rental services.
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By Alexei Anishchuk
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is in good health and a back injury that was reported last year is not a cause for concern, according to the Kremlin's top doctor.
In an interview which appeared intended to bolster Putin's image as his 61st birthday approaches in October, Sergei Mironov told Itogi magazine that the president stayed fit by playing sport and preferred using folk remedies to taking pills.
Putin, who plays ice hockey, swims, still enjoys judo and likes to portray himself to voters as energetic and macho, missed several foreign trips last year after what the Kremlin said was a sports injury.
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said Putin had hurt his spine during a judo bout and government sources said at the time that Putin may have to undergo surgery. But Mironov said this was not the case.
"From the medical point of view, Putin seems significantly younger than his age," Mironov, the head of the presidential administration's Chief Medical Directorate, told Itogi in the interview published on Monday.
"(He) is rather skeptical when it comes to taking medicine, even if it is just common anti-cold pills," he said. "He prefers folk remedies, tea with lemon, sauna and massage."
"Swimming, in my view, is his preferred way to recover and adapt to stressful situations," he added.
Russia has not dropped the Soviet tradition of treating the health of its leaders as little less than a state secret but Mironov said this was for medical reasons.
"I see no reason to keep the leader's health a secret but there's medical ethics," he said.
The health of the president is a sensitive matter because the head of state is also commander in chief of the armed forces and in charge of Russia's nuclear arsenal.
Putin has, however, also been trying to reassert his authority following protests last year against his long rule that have been led by a younger generation of opposition leaders.
He has carved out a political system where power is concentrated in the hands of the president, and the poor health of President Boris Yeltsin, a drinker who had heart surgery while in power in the 1990s, alarmed foreign investors.
Before that, the Soviet Union carefully managed news about the health of its ageing leaders. Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, like Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin before them, all died while in power.
Mironov was also the Kremlin physician when Yeltsin was president but said he had a "totally different relationship" with Putin because he was healthier.
Putin has not said whether he will seek another six years as president when his current term ends in 2018.
But asked whether now was the age for political leaders who could live a long time, Mironov said: "With sport and the achievements of modern medicine, there's no doubt about it."
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WHEN LUKE A. SHAW was a year old, his brother, left home to care for his little sibling, secured him with a belt in a tiny rocking chair by the fire place. Shaw rocked and rocked, until he pitched forward into the fire's dying embers. He landed on his forehead and hands. His sister and brother retrieved him, and his mother came home in time to find the flesh melting from his fingers.
Three years later, Shaw remembers, there was a train ride and the consoling Baby Ruth candy bars his father plied him with as they traveled from their rural North Carolina home to the hospital in Gastonia. There he spent 18 months and endured many operations to repair his hands.
Shaw's fingers remained scarred and disfigured, but they never stopped the Coppin State art professor from becoming an accomplished painter and sculptor with an adventurous interest in other mediums, such as ceramics and stained glass.


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Open Thread: It Happened to You
This is your place to talk about the funny, sad, outrageous things that are happening in your life -- whenever you're ready.
When my phone vibrates for the third time within 10 minutes, I glance from drying nails to handbag, considering whether to jeopardize freshly painted paws to reach in and find out who's calling. Predictably, I succumb to my digital addiction. Perky Purple manicure somehow still intact, I digest the foreboding message printed on my cell's screen: You have three missed calls from The Pentagon.
My parents' number has long been logged as The Pentagon in my address book. Partly, it amuses me to nurture a false sense of self-importance, but mostly this is the case because many of the calls I've received from home in the past have, in fact, been extremely urgent.
The subject of pressing calls has always been my older sister, Céline. For roughly half a decade, Céline suffered from liver disease, the debilitating effects of which were aggravated and/or caused by a prolonged battle with alcoholism.
Her illness meant that she was heavily medicated by a host of drugs which clouded her natural wit and disarming spirit, that she was often blasted to the point of collapse at Starbucks at 1 pm, that the green bile her liver couldn't filter radiated through her skin and the "whites" of her eyes.
Before her passing in 2009 at age 30, Céline's sickness also meant that my parents frequently rang my younger brother and me at odd hours to alert us to near-death episodes and ambulance rides.
Not since the devastating day we lost Céline have I received such a frantic series of calls. What could have happened now, I think to myself. She's already gone.
As when Céline was still alive, I hesitate to call back, wishing to delay whatever truth awaits. But Mom's dire tone in her voicemail moves me more than I wish it could. So I gather my belongings and leave the salon to call The Pentagon. One ring before Mom answers.
"Melanie," she says, introducing Bad News with my full name. "I cannot believe the cruelty."
"Please explain."
"We received a letter. Your father and I. It's just -- it's so disturbing. Why would anyone?"
"A letter from who?"
"It's anonymous."
"What does it say?"
"They cite the upcoming anniversary of Céline's death as their impetus for writing."
"It better be in sympathy, then, or attached to a bouquet of flowers."
"They say awful things. About your father and me. That we are terrible parents. That Céline's death is our fault. 'Her blood is on your hands,' it reads. 'Céline's long desire to kill herself is directly correlated to your failure."
Mom pauses here, because I'm laughing. It's not that I find any aspect of this funny, but that this is how I cope instinctively. Whenever Céline was bedridden at the hospital, I would draw weird cartoons on the white board at the foot of her bed and tell inappropriate jokes. It's just what I do.
Sensing maternal disapproval, I regain my bearings. "In a way I'm grateful for the absurdity, Mom, because it means that we can't take it seriously. You can't let the ramblings of a total loon bother you."
"Who do you think it is?"
"I don't know, but whomever it is sucks more than syphilis."
"The bulk of it is actually about you," Mom confesses.
"For real?!"
"Well, some of your work is mentioned. The article you wrote for Elle about being a woman on Wall Street, and the one from Vanity Fair about marital infidelity. Your father and I agree that this letter is very much aimed at you. The segments about us, while troubling, seem like decoys. We're afraid this might escalate. Someone is angry at you, Melanie."
"Read it to me," I demand.
"Are you sure?"
"Bring it."
Deafeningly robotic. "Can Melanie be far behind Céline? Have you read the articles she publishes? She exploits herself in every manner possible. Her admitted affair with a married man and her struggle choosing whether or not to sleep with her boss are surely destined for literary immortality."
"Oh, snap!"
Continuing, "She is clearly worse than Céline ever was."
"Her hateful nature and destructive path is clear to all except those who use and exploit her. One can only hope that your children decide never to procreate and the dysfunctional lineage dies with them. Your sickness is apparent to all who look closely. How do you live with yourselves?"
"That's horrible."
"It's awful, Mel. Who would do this? Who could?"
"I don't know, Mom. The most ridiculous thing is that whomever wrote this is inherently more terrible for doing so than we are for whatever we've allegedly done wrong."
"It's so cruel."
"The timing's certainly screwed up. Mom, I'm sorry, but I'm running late for a dinner. Please don't let this get to you. It's not worth your time and energy to dwell on it. Otherwise, he wins," I say, perhaps more to myself than to her.
"Let's talk again this weekend."
"I love you. And remember, you're an excellent mother. How else could I have turned out so awesome?"
"Right," she says, though my jesting does little to soothe her. "Love you, too."
While dressing for the night in my studio apartment, I ponder the contents of the letter. As a writer, this isn't my first encounter with invective. I know from reading comments on my work that anonymity emboldens assholery. I also know that however hard you try to ignore such venom, it can compromise your sense of self.
Whether or not I'm successful at preserving my mental health, the more disturbing reality is that my mom, who isn't the regular recipient of rancor, is naturally shaken. I know this letter will prevent her from sleeping. She will mull over every word. Linger over the sad reality that someone is capable of doing such a thing. She might even reevaluate her role as a mother to Céline, my younger brother, and me. She will judge herself because one spiteful, misguided human acted inhumanely.
I hate that letter.
My parents have since encased the despicable thing in a plastic bag and locked it in a file cabinet. I know what they're thinking: potential criminal evidence.
In an ode to my sister, I refuse to be scared. That said, the window above my bed that doesn't lock properly suddenly seems a whole lot more foreboding.
Melanie has written Céline's story in her new book, "Surviving In Spirit: A Memoir about Sisterhood and Addiction."


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A real Bavarian restaurant, hotel and beer garden in Herrsching at Ammersee
How to find usIf coming from Munich via Seefeld by car, the easily recognisable pale yellow Gasthof Hotel zur Post building stands at a triple junction along the main road shortly after entering the town of Herrsching. If you are coming by train, The Post is no more than a 10-minute walk from the town's only railway station.
Center the map above The Post or Herrsching Train StationComing from Munich:
Motorway A96 direction Lindau, take exit Oberpfaffenhofen and thereafter continue via Weßling and Seefeld to Herrsching.
Coming from Lindau:
Motorway A96 direction Munich, take exit Inning a. A. and thereafter continue via Inning and Breitbrunn to Herrsching.
Coming by train:
Herrsching is the final station for the S-Bahn line S8 (rapid transit railway) coming from Munich. The travelling time between Munich's main station (Hauptbahnhof) and Herrsching is about 45 minutes. From Herrsching train station you can easily reach The Post within 10 minutes by foot.
There is a straight train line connecting Herrsching with Munich's International Airport.
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Andechsstrasse 1, 82211 Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany
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Looking around the Web, it's clear that Apple's mobile devices are ideal solutions for people who want to snap quick photos or videos. That's precisely why Apple delivered an improved camera in the new iPad.
Next year, expect the company to do the same with the iPad 4, and offer up a camera that comes with at least 8-megapixel resolution and panorama support.
Apple made the surprising decision in the new iPad to includes the A5X processor, a chip that comes with dual-core processing power, but quad-core graphics. In the iPad 4, Apple will almost undoubtedly offer the long-rumored A6 chip, which will add quad-core processing power to the quad-core graphics. More processing power means better performance. And that's something both consumers and enterprise users are looking for in today's marketplace.
Over the last two iPad generations, Apple has kept the same design. With the iPad 4, the company will likely deliver something new.
Sure, that's what people were saying about the new iPad before its launch, but consider that Apple has never let an iPhone or iPad come with the same design for more than two years. That's enough for anyone to believe something new is coming -- and want it.
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The loss of the Australia star has been a huge blow to boss David Moyes as Everton have seen themselves slip five points behind Liverpool in the race for fourth spot and Champions League qualification.
Cahill is now out for the rest of the campaign, but claimed: "I´ll be back better than ever. I started my rehab programme the day after I broke it again. When it comes to pre-season, it will be like I haven´t been out of football."
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It's been 5 days since Claire came into the world. 5 days of snuggles, just breathing in that fresh newborn smell. I have a hard time putting the birth of Claire into words. It was so different than her big sister Leah's story, much calmer and peaceful and present. I started labor on the night of November 30th and I spent the night laboring quietly with Brett, breathing through contractions that hit hard every 3 minutes. At the beginning of labor Claire was sunny side up, meaning that most of my contractions hit HARD in my lower back. Brett was always there, massaging away and pushing back against the contraction with all the force he could muster. As morning came my contractions got closer and closer together and we called my mom to come and meet us at the hospital. I wanted my mom to be in the room with this birth and we were lucky to have a close friend who ran over to watch Leah so my mom could be there with us. She arrived a little after 10 am and by 11:30 I felt ready to push. As we waited (quite impatiently on my end) for my doctor to arrive I asked my mom to take some pictures of our sweet girl entering the world. That is one thing we did not have with Leah (since Brett was obviously focused on me and the birth of his daughter) and I really wished we had pictures that captured those first amazing moments of life. A little after noon, the doctor was there, the room was set up, and I was more than ready to deliver this baby. I pushed like crazy through 3 contractions and, in less than 10 minutes, at 12:17 pm, Claire Diana made her way into the world. At one point during the delivery my doctor tried to convince me to take a break, but through the heat and the pain I slipped into a zone and continued to push. She just laughed and said "Okay, it seems like you have a plan of your own, so I'll just let you keep doing what you're doing." This delivery was so different than Leah's. I felt every push, every rip and tear, every move of my girl making her way out, and I wouldn't change it for anything. Although this was (by far) the most painful experience of my life, it was also the most exhilarating. As corny as it sounds, I felt like a warrior as I pushed with all my strength. I felt strong, I felt powerful, I felt amazing. Claire's delivery was the epitome of the miracle of birth and, as soon as she arrived, I was ready to give birth again and again. The endorphins were rushing and all I could do was laugh, as tears streamed down my face, and repeat over and over again, "She is so beautiful! Isn't she so beautiful? Have you guys ever seen a baby more beautiful?" I'm sure my doctor and our nurse started thinking I was insane. I just lied there, holding this gorgeous little creature, repeating over and over again how beautiful and perfect she was while my doctor quietly stitched me up.
Later, as I looked at the pictures my mom was able to capture, I started to cry all over again. They are probably some of the most unattractive pictures of me ever, and yet they are still the most amazing and gorgeous pictures I have ever seen. They completely capture the moment, the exhilaration, the happiness, the exhaustion, the LOVE that was felt at that very moment. And because of that, I know I will cherish these photos forever and share them (and her story) with Claire once she is older.
The rest of our hospital stay was peaceful and relaxing. I'll share some pictures of Leah meeting her new sister in a different post, but I'll just say it was just as sweet and emotional as I expected it to be. As it is with second children, Brett and I felt more calm and relaxed during this stay and it helped make the hospital stay feel like a little get-a-way (as much as we missed Leah at home!) We snuggled our new babe, ordered pizza, ate a million snack we brought with us from Trader Joes (seriously we were MUCH more prepared food wise this time around!) and watched movies. Friends came to visit and we passed Claire around the room, where she even met her first friend, 6 week old Colby, for the first time. And now we are home, a family of four, relaxing and enjoying constant baby snuggles. Life is pretty much perfect.


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From Eastex Freeway Service Road and Little York Road, Houston, Texas, drive southwest on Eastex Freeway Service Road toward Little York Road. Continue onto Jensen Drive. Make a right turn onto Berry Road. Slight left to stay on Berry Road. Make a left turn onto Bauman Road. Village Park North Apartments will be on the left.
The Village Park North is a friendly community that offers residents and their pets traditional apartments with upscale kitchens that feature frost-free refrigerators, pantries, self-cleaning ovens and dishwashers. The apartments also have large walk-in closets and plush wall-to-wall carpeting throughout. Reserved parking is also available.Residents of the Village Park North apartments in Houston will appreciate the extra conveniences the community offers that will help make their lives easier. The extra perks include package receiving, a Spanish-speaking staff, 24-hour maintenance, a professional on-site management team and use of a business center. The convenient location is also what entices people to want to live in the community. Residents have easy access to Interstate 45, grocery stores, shopping plazas, Clark Park and several transportation options.Village Park North offers exquisitely designed l- and 2-bedroom floor plans and pleasurable community amenities including a sparkling pool, fitness center, barbecue and picnic area and a playground.


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NORWALK, Conn. -- An accused Norwalk drug dealer has been charged with manslaughter following the overdose death of a man in Norwalk on July 22, according to police.
The fatal overdose was one of seven overdoses reported in Norwalk on July 22, all involving crack cocaine laced with Fentanyl, police said. When police responded to an overdose at 28 Quaker Road, they found a male identified as Michael McMurray in a vehicle at that address. McMurray was taken to Norwalk Hospital, where he died.
That day, police arrested 29-year-old Eric Frank of Norwalk on a narcotics charge, and later identified him as a suspect in McMurray's death, according to police. Frank was arrested at the Norwalk courthouse on Friday and charged with first-degree manslaughter and sale of narcotics. His bond was set at $150,000.
Frank was also charged with second-degree assault and sale of narcotics in connection with another overdose that day. In that overdose, which took place on Suncrest Road, the victim survived, according to police.
Frank was the second person arrested on Friday in connection with the July 22 overdoses. Police also arrested Derrick Wiggins of Waterbury and charged him with second-degree assault and sale of narcotics.
Related story: Accused dealer charged with assault in Norwalk overdose
A total of seven overdoses occurred throughout the day on Saturday, July 22 at various locations throughout Norwalk, all involving crack laced with opiates, according to police. In addition to McMurray, there was one other fatal overdose that day.
That night, police arrested Frank after setting up an undercover drug purchase from him in the Best Buy parking lot. When officers closed in on Frank, he resisted arrest and a struggle ensued, according to police. At one point he kneed an officer in the groin before police eventually subdued him, according to police. They recovered 3.53 grams of cocaine, which was laced with Fentanyl, police said.
Related story: Norwalk man charged with trying to sell opiate-laced crack
Police said that after his arrest, Frank was taken to Norwalk Hospital to be treated for minor injuries that he sustained. While at the hospital, he was somehow able to obtain a handcuff key and tried to undo his shackles, but police were able to quickly secure him and recover the key, police said.
Frank was charged at the time with assault on a police officer, possession of narcotics, possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession of narcotics within 1,500 feet of housing, possession of narcotics with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of housing, interfering with a police officer and first-degree criminal attempt escape.
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We test the Radeon HD 7870 against nVidia's GeForce 660 and 660 Ti graphics boards. Read on for 7870 v 660/660 comparative benchmarks and specs, as well as a list of the graphics cards commercially available. See also: Group test: what's the best graphics card?
Radeon HD 7870 or GeForce 660? That's a difficult choice, but we hope we'll be able to show you how the cards measure up, and where they fall down. We'll also explain why the 660 and the 660 Ti are actually two very different cards - albeit ones with extremely similar names. We'll be comparing the specs, and putting up some figures for you. So sit back and let us take you through the perilous landscape that marks the battleground between 7870 and 660. See also: Group test: what's the best budget graphics card?
7870 v 660: Ti or Not Ti
The 660 is not one but two different cards, we hear you say? Well, yes. The 660 and the 660 Ti, to be precise. And if you're thinking that means the 660 Ti is simply an overclocked 660, then you'd be wrong - very very wrong, as it turns out. As ever with graphics cards, the naming of the 660 and 660 Ti isn't as simple as it should be.
The addition of 'Ti' (short for 'Titanium', but really just a way of saying that the Ti version is enhanced) seems to suggest that the 660 Ti is a slightly improved version of the 660. In fact, while both the 660 and 660 Ti are members of nVidia's Kepler family (the successor to Fermi), they both use different chips to one another.
The 660 Ti is built around the same GK104 that forms the foundation of a number of other products, from the 670 through to the 680 and 690. The standard 660, on the other hand, employs the GK106. The main difference between the GK104 and GK106 is that the GK104 is a much bigger chip. The 660 Ti, for example, is formed from 3.54 billion transistors, rather than the 2.54 billion of the standard 660.
This was done so that nVidia could use the same chip across the 660, 670 and 680 ranges, but turn off certain parts in order to create the lower-specified and cheaper poducts like the 660 Ti. However, while the 660 Ti can't access its extra capabilities, it still has to carry much of the bulk, making it a slightly wasteful design. So nVidia decided to cut costs by creating a new mid-range GK106. The 660, effectively, is a fully-featured version of the GK106, with no parts turned off. And because there's no excess on it, its transistor count is accordingly much lower than on the GK104-powered 660 Ti.
Because the GK106 has a smaller and more efficient design, the standard 660 can run hotter and faster, and can be pushed up to higher speeds. The standard 660 offers a default core clock of 980MHz, with a potential Boost to 1,033MHz. You might expect the more expensive and powerful 660 Ti to boast higher clock speeds, but its larger design means it has to make do with the relatively meagre default figure of 915MHz, with a potential boost to 980MHz.
So, in a bizarre twist, the unboosted figure on the 660 is just as high as the boosted figure of the higher-end 660 Ti! The manufacturers of graphics cards mostly improve on these 'factory settings', but the 660's advantage remains. So even fast low-priced versions of the 660 Ti have a boost up to 1,019MHz, while the standard 660 sees as much as 1,111MHz. When you look for the 660s and 660 Tis with the very highest clock speeds of all, the 660 is still 26MHz higher than the fastest 660 Ti. See also: all components buying advice.
7870 v 660: The 660 Ti Fights Back
That, though, is very far from the end of the matter. That's because of the ways in which the 660 and 660 Ti otherwise vary. Despite the standard 660 being (technically) a fully-featured version of the GK106, those facilities are still more limited than on the 660 Ti. So while the standard 660 comes with five Streaming Multiprocessors (SMXes), the 660 Ti uses a far healthier seven of them. This allows the Ti to boast 40% extra when it comes to Stream Processors (1,344 rather than 960 on the standard 660) and Texture Units (112 rather than 80), for instance.
And those texture units become pretty important when it comes to raw power. Even at the default factory settings, the standard 660 offers a texture fill-rate of just 82.6GTps. The 660 Ti, though, uses its 112 texture units to increase this figure to 109.8GTps. That's despite the fact that its Boost core clock speed of 980MHz is some 53MHz behind that of the standard 660. Indeed, if we take the most overclocked 660 of all (the 1,137MHz EVGA 660 FTW), it produces a texture fill-rate of just under 91GTps - a long way short of the 109.8GTps turned out by the 660 Ti at its worst. And even a fairly low-priced version of the 660 Ti, such as the MSI, can push the Boost clock speed up to 1,019MHz - producing a fill-rate of 114.1GTps.
In many other respects, the 660 and 660 Ti are very similar. They both have standard memory clocks of 1,502MHz - the GDDR RAM increases this to an effective 6,008MHz. The memory interfaces are 192bit - as we'll see, that's inferior to the HD 7870's - and produce identical memory bandwidth figures of 144GBps.
7870 v 660: Enter the Radeon HD 7870
So far, the competition has been very friendly. But let's up the stakes a bit, and open the competition to nVidia's big rival, AMD. Since taking over the graphics chip specialists ATI, AMD has found itself in regular battle against nVidia. Many of the recent fights have gone the way of nVidia, with AMD falling a little behind on the development cycle.
In truth, the graphics card market hasn't made any great leaps for a significant amount of time, but nVidia's technology seems to have had a slight advantage for the last two years. That general overview, though, does nothing to explain whether the 660 and 660 Ti are superior to their natural competitor, the Radeon HD 7870.
The 7870, or 'Pitcairn', as it's called, was always designed as a mid-range product that would sit between the tooth-crunchingly powerful 7900 cards, and the more modest 7700 range. As such, it's a perfect competitor to the 660 and 660 Ti. Like the two nVidias, the 7870 is built using the efficient 28nm manufacturing process. It consists of 2.8 billion transistors, placing it some way in the middle of the 2.54 billion 660, and the 3.54 billion 660 Ti - albeit a little closer to the 660 than the Ti.
The AMD's architecture isn't directly comparable to that of the 660s, so it's dangerous to take differences in figures at face value. The 7870 does, though, have 22 of its Compute Units turned on, giving it 1,280 stream processors and 80 texture units.
This means that it falls only slightly behind the 660 Ti on stream processors - while remaining ahead of the 660 by 320. It fares rather less well on those texture units, though, only matching the lowly 660. The raw texture fill-rates of the 660s suggested that the number of texture units is more important than clock speeds, so will the 7870 struggle here?
And so on to clock speeds. As we have seen already, a smaller amount of transistors makes it easier to run at higher figures. That truth is proven again, with the 7870 offering a standard core clock speed of 1GHz. There's no Boost feature, so that 1GHz is essentially your figure. Even taking into account Boost, though, the Radeon still manages to beat the default clock setting of the 660 Ti by 20MHz, while falling some 33MHz behind the standard 660. Throw the texture units into the mix, though, and the 7870 registers a fill-rate of just 80GTps, falling behind even the 82.6GTps of the standard 660. It gets decimated by the 660 Ti's figure of 109.8GTps.
There is better news in terms of memory capabilities. That's not, though, down to the memory clock rates themselves. The 1.2GHz turns into an effective figure of 4.8GHz (taking into account the quadruping effect of the GDDR5 RAM), leaving it trailing both of the 660s by over 1.2GHz. (AMD may have done much to bring GDDR5 RAM to market, but it's nVidia that has ultimately squeezed the highest performance from the memory.) However, while both of the 660s are saddled by a 192bit memory interface, the 7870 has a much wider 256bit version, giving it an awful lot more elbow room.
Even with the lower memory clock rates, the 7870 turns out a very impressive 153.6GBps on memory bandwidth - beating both of the 660s by 9.6GBps. Use a version like the heavily overclocked Sapphire HD 7870, and you can get this up to 160GBps.
The 7870 hits home harder in other areas as well, delivering 32 Raster Operations to the 24 of the 660 and 660 Ti. It's also a better card for double precision, with its FP64 performance measuring just 1/16 of its FP32 performance - as opposed to 1/24 in the case of the 660s. None of those cards have good Compute facilities, although, in truth, such facilities are unimportant when it comes to home gaming. The 7870 is capable of driving more displays, with Eyefinity allowing for up to six displays, as opposed to the four of the 660s.
Having said that, a wide range of nVidia cards will support the maximum of four, whereas running running six displays from the ATI will require considerable research and a very careful choice of card. PhysX is another plus for the 660s, although very few games have good support for PhysX, making it something of a niche feature - if you don't know whether or not you'll miss it, then you almost certainly don't need it.
The 660 is the lowest on power, coming with a TDP of 140 watts. The 660 Ti, however, is surprisingly efficient, and has a TDP of just 150 watts, some way from the 7870's comparatively wasteful 175 watts. The 660 Ti is the outlier here, although that's perhaps not surprising given the Ti's fairly small clock speeds. In fact, there's plenty of potential to push the Ti further, making it a card that, with its default settings, is very economical.
7870 v 660: Benchmark Tests
No matter what the specifications say, the only thing that really matters is how well the graphics cards fare on real-world games. We've compared the 660, 660 Ti and 7870 at default settings, and across five different titles and three resolutions. We've also included figures for a 2GB version of the 760 (around £200), so that you have some sort of reference point.
7870 v 660: Crysis 3
The 660 Ti starts off with a pleasing victory at the lowest resolution of 1680x1,050, marching 4.1fps ahead of the standard 660. The 7870 falls some distance behind, finishhing a further 2.2fps back. The gap gets smaller over the larger resolutions, and by 2,560x1,600, has become just 2.8fps between the three cards. In the most typical resolution for these cards, though, the Ti wins handsomely.
7870 v 660: Bioshock Infinite Rage
The 660 Ti is even more decisive here, leading the 660 and 7870 by 6.7fps and 11.3fps respectively. Again the gap closes up at higher resolutions, although it's still almost 7fps at the top resolution.
7870 v 660: Stalker: Call of Pripyat
A rare case of a game that doesn't show the 7870 behind. Indeed, it finishes ahead of the standard 660 in all three resolutions, and at 2,560x1,536, the gap is as small as 0.8fps. Even at the more realistic resolution of 1,680x1,050, it's a mere 3.1fps.
7870 v 660: Battlefield 3
Normal service is resumed. Indeed, the 660 Ti opens up a very sizeable lead of 12.9fps over the 7870, and 6.4fps over the 660. The gap once again closes significantly at higher resolutions. Nonetheless, mainstream games will show good results with the 660 Ti.
7870 v 660: Assassin's Creed 3
Another very solid victory for the 660 Ti, beating the 7870 by 8.2fps, and the 660 by 3.4fps. Again, the gap has dropped to 4.1fps by the time we get to the top resolution.
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7870 v 660: Verdict
The games tests are clear - the 660 Ti is the best performer here. The 660 is also very much superior to the 7870, and roughly halfway between that card and the 660 Ti. Of course, it would be unfair not to point out that the 7870 can be bought for less. We found some very good MSI and XFX versions available for £150-£161. The 660 Ti, on the other hand, costs between £175-£180. Nonetheless, this card does offer very much better frame rates. 8-12fps may not sound very much, but it often amounts to around 15% extra performance. That'll make for a much smoother experience, and allow you to raise resolutions or detail levels. For the extra £30 or so, we believe the 660 Ti to be worth the cash. It's also a better deal than the standard 660, offering a significant bump in return for an extra £10-£20. Of course, it comes down partly to how important money is to you. For our cash, though, the 660 Ti is an excellent buy.
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Brooding and intense, Al Pacino has remained one of Hollywood's actors everywhere his lengthy trade, a well-liked and critical favorite whose incline of credits includes multitudinous of the finest films of his days. Pacino was born April 25, 1940, in East Harlem, NY. Raised in the Bronx, he attended the legendary High Form seeking Performing Arts, but dropped out at the stage of 17.
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After making his sensational directorial launch with 1970's Rats, he returned to the screen a year later in Panic in Needle Greens, again appearing as a junkie. (To prepare for the role, he and co-star Pool Winn conducted cosmopolitan research in known poison-wholesaler haunts as proper as methadone clinics.) While the representation was not a success, Pacino again earned pivotal raves. Next came Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 Mafia epic The Godfather. As Michael Corleone, the son of an foul misdemeanour lord reluctantly energy into the family point, Pacino shot to stardom, earning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination through despite his soulful performance. While the follow-up, 1973's Scarecrow, was received far less warmly, the policemen drama Serpico was a smash, as was 1974's The Godfather Part II seeking which he earned his third Academy nomination. The 1975 inside info-based Dog Daylight Afternoon, in which Pacino starred as a robber attempting to gum up a bank in order to pay for his gay lover's shafting-change operation, was yet another staggering success.
The 1977 auto-racing theatre arts Bobby Deerfield, on the other hand, was a disaster. Pacino then retreated to Broadway, winning a second Tony for his performance in the role in The Root Training of Pavlo Hummel. Upon returning to Hollywood, he starred in ...And Imprisonment on the side of All, which did not appease reviewers but restored him to moviegoers' cogent graces. Pacino next starred in William Friedkin's controversial Cruising, portraying a Imaginative York Burgh cop on the trail of a serial iceman targeting homosexuals; it was not a hit, nor was the 1982 comedy Author! Author! Brian DePalma's devastating 1983 remake of Scarface followed; while moderately successful during its initial present, the movie later became a major cult favorite. Still, its half-hearted initial social moreover tarnished Pacino's woman. How in the world, no one was fully prepared for the benefit of the end which befell 1985's reliable epic Turn; made for upon $28 million, the integument failed to gross even $1 million dollars at the receptacle office. Pacino subsequently vanished from the public eye, directing his own cover, The Neighbourhood Stigmatic, which outside of a behaviour of 1990 showings at the Museum of Hip Tricks was not in a million years screened publicly. While his name was attached to a billion of projects during this all at once period, no person came to perfection, and he disappeared from cinema for over four years.
Finally, in 1989, Pacino returned with the stylish thriller Domain of Lady-love; the picture was a arrive at b devise, and suddenly he was a play all over again. A virtually unrecognizable turn as a garish gangster in 1990's Dick Tracy earned him a sixth Oscar nomination, but The Godfather Portion III was not the fiscal blockbuster many anticipated it to be. The 1991 mad comedy Frankie and Johnny was a success, however, and a year later Pacino starred in the approvingly regarded Glengarry Glen Ross as well as Hear about of a Woman, at pattern earning an Oscar his bringing off in the latter film. He reunited with DePalma for 1993's trendy crime dramatics Carlito's Way, to which he'd first been slated to famous in sundry years prior. Remaining in the underworld, he starred as a cop opposite master thief Robert De Niro in 1995's superb Eagerness, written and directed by Michael Mann. Pacino next starred in the 1996 public histrionics City Entry-way, but earned more notice that year after journalism leading article, directing, producing, and starring in Looking for Richard, a documentary examination of Shakespeare's Richard III shot with an all-important cast.
In 1997, he appeared with two of Hollywood's most notable young stars, first shooting Donnie Brasco differing Johnny Depp, and then acting alongside Keanu Reeves in The Devil's Endorse. Following roles in The Insider and Any Given Sunday two-years later, Pacino would appear in the film version of the stage play Chinese Coffee (2000) in the vanguard a two-year periods in which the actor was curiously absent from the screen.
Any wager on the workhorse actor's slowing down ended when in 2002 Pacino returned with the quadruple-threat of Insomnia, Simone, People I Differentiate and The Initiate. With roles ranging from that of a troubled detective investigating a murder in the of the midnight sun, to a film producer who builds the worlds before virtual actress, Pacino reenforced his effigy as a expert, animated and risky an actor.
The films struck uneven chords, however; Insomnia hit a zenith, critically and commercially, while Pacino scraped keister with Simone.
Pacino fared better at the box and in the press with Michael Radford's December 2004 Merchant of Venice but dodged touch-and-go bullets with the D.J. Caruso-helmed 2005 gambling theatrical piece Two in support of the Affluent. Circa 2006, Pacino starred as Jack Gramm in 88 Minutes, the gripping account of a college prof who moonlights as a forensics dexterous for the feds. He also announced plans, that year, to ally the tinge of Steven Soderbergh's Loads's Thirteen and a remake of Jules Dassin's seminal Rififi, to reunite him with Borough Hall helmer Harold Becker.


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Ans: The ResultSet object represents a row of a table. It can be used to change the cursor pointer and get the information from the database.
182) What does the JDBC ResultSetMetaData interface?
Ans: The ResultSetMetaData interface returns the information of table such as total number of columns, column name, column type etc.
183) What does the JDBC DatabaseMetaData interface?
Ans: The DatabaseMetaData interface returns the information of the database such as username, driver name, driver version, number of tables, number of views etc.
184) Which interface is responsible for transaction management in JDBC?
Ans: The Connection interface provides methods for transaction management such as commit(), rollback() etc.
185) What is batch processing and how to perform batch processing in JDBC?
Ans: By using batch processing technique in JDBC, we can execute multiple queries. It makes the performance fast.
186) How can we store and retrieve images from the database?
Ans: By using PreparedStatement interface, we can store and retrieve images.
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187) What is JSP?
Ans: Java Server Pages technology (JSP) is used to create dynamic web page. It is an extension to the servlet technology. A JSP page is internally converted into servlet.
188) What are the life-cycle methods for a jsp?
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189) What is difference between hide comment and output comment?
Ans: The jsp comment is called hide comment whereas html comment is called output comment. If user views the source of the page, the jsp comment will not be shown whereas html comment will be shown.
190) What are the JSP implicit objects ?
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192) Is JSP technology extensible?
Ans: Yes. JSP technology is extensible through the development of custom actions, or tags, which are encapsulated in tag libraries.
193) How can I implement a thread-safe JSP page? What are the advantages and Disadvantages of using it?
Ans: You can make your JSPs thread-safe by having them implement the SingleThreadModel interface. This is done by adding the directive <%@ page isThreadSafe="false" %> within your JSP page.
194) How can I prevent the output of my JSP or Servlet pages from being cached by the browser?
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195) How can we handle the exceptions in JSP ?
Ans: There are two ways to perform exception handling, one is by the errorPage element of page directive, and second is by the error-page element of web.xml file.
196) What are the two ways to include the result of another page. ?
Ans: There are two ways to include the result of another page:
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197) How can we forward the request from jsp page to the servlet ?
Ans: Yes ofcourse! With the help of forward action tag, but we need to give the url-pattern of the servlet.
198) Can we use the exception implicit object in any jsp page ?
Ans: No. The exception implicit object can only be used in the error page which defines it with the isErrorPage attribute of page directive.
199) How is JSP used in the MVC model?
Ans: JSP is usually used for presentation in the MVC pattern (Model View Controller ) i.e. it plays the role of the view. The controller deals with calling the model and the business classes which in turn get the data, this data is then presented to the JSP for rendering on to the client.
200) What are context initialization parameters?
Ans: Context initialization parameters are specified by the <context-param> in the web.xml file, these are initialization parameter for the whole application and not specific to any servlet or JSP.


text: Any doubts that Apple has become a digital music company that also sells computers were erased in the holiday quarter, when it sold more than 14 million iPods worldwide and made 69% more revenue from the digital music player than from PCs.Apple sold over three times as many iPods in the quarter ending Dec. 31 as it did the same quarter in 2004. While it didn't break down sales by type, debut of the new iPod Video and availability of shows from ABC and NBC on iTunes undoubtedly played a part in the boost. IPod revenue was $2.9 billion, up 140% from a year ago and well ahead of the $1.7 billion company made selling computers. Revenue from iTunes Music Store and iPod accessories was $491 million, up 177% from a year ago.


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Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid in Louder Than Bombs
Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs is a strange film, but not in the way one traditionally uses the word "strange" to talk about movies. This isn't a movie about weirdness, dream sequences, nightmarish non-sequiturs or other Lynchian shorthand for strangeness. Louder Than Bombs is strange because it's a movie about grief that's kind of funny, kind of wistful, kind of nervy and operates in tones that I've personally never seen utilized in this way. I spoke with director Joachim Trier after the film made its TIFF premiere in September 2015.
"There's a little bit of a full cycle thing going on," Trier explains. "I'd won the Discovery award for Reprise and we ended up getting a lot of offers from American producers. The idea was kinda born that way: 'Okay, it's time. We should do an American film.' I wanted to write my own American film — all the stuff I read wasn't really my thing. And now I'm back here for the third time with the film — my first one in the English language. It's kinda fun!"
Isabelle Huppert and Gabriel Byrne
It has been three years since celebrated war photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert) was killed in a car accident. An upcoming retrospective show brings her grown son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) back to the family home now occupied by his father Gene (Gabriel Byrne) and withdrawn teenage brother Conrad (Devin Druid, probably best known as the teenage Louis CK in Louie). Having just become a father himself, Jonah struggles being back with his family, while Gene attempts to connect with his children and the very different way they remember their late mother.
I ask Trier if he thinks that the story of Louder Than Bombs is a particularly American story — if he could have made the film in his native Norway. "Yes and no," says Trier. "Yes, it's a unanimous human thing, in the western world, at least. It's a parent-child relationship story about how we deal with identity in the family and how memories change. That stuff I'd worked on before, even in my Norwegian films, but there's something about these characters that I find specifically American. It's hard to say — I think there are also some thematic things. It's also a coming-home-from-war story, which America is dealing with. It's many things at once, but it's also a movie about a high-level, internationally known war photographer that works for The New York Times."
The film is also an unglamorous look at parenthood from a man who's not a parent himself. "We're dealing with separation and unity as a central theme," Trier continues. "I'm surrounded by people who, in the last 10 years, have had children. Eskil, my co-writer, has two children. I'm interested in — and I have dealt with this in my previous film — the gaps that happen, even in close relationships. Those things that are hard to name, hard to talk about — the holes in communication and the sense of loneliness that results not because anyone has decided to be the antagonist but because it's really hard to overcome the discrepancy between the roles you're often given in a family and who you really are. That whole thing, I think, is endlessly fascinating."
"I tell the truth how I see it, that's the only thing I can say," he says. "I think a lot of these things are kept within. It's hard to get catharsis in life." ■
Louder Than Bombs opens at Cinéma du Parc on Friday, April 22. Watch the trailer here:


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NEW YORK --It was Cat Friday in New York City, to encourage people to adopt a new feline friend.
Not to be outdone by retail's annual Black Friday, the ASPCA is offering deep discounts on fees for qualified adopters.
Cats over a year old will have their adoption fees waived. Kitten fees are more than half off.
Like the stores, the ASPCA's adoption center on Manhattan's Upper East Side extended its hours for the big day.
A look at the furry faces is available on the ASPCA's web site.
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