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After the death and resurrection, of Jesus. Part 16
By Terry Cropper.
"Yahweh is salvation," long ago promised Israel resurrection from the
dead. While the Old Testament does not use the phrases resurrection the
concept is most certainly there. Daniel 12:2 And many of those who
sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life,
Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Hosea 13:14 (NKJV) "I
will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from
death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your
destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.
Not only did Paul have
problems with the Jews accepting the Gentiles. Paul had trouble with
the Gentiles as well accepting that fact that God had not abandon his
promise to Israel.
Because the nation of Israel rejected Christ
as Messiah; the Gentiles imagined God had abandon his plans for Israel's
dead. "There would be no resurrection." They believed that Christ had
rose but had a false idea that God had abandoned His promises to Israel.
Paul then explains. Now if Christ is preached that He has been
raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no
resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead,
then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching
is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false
witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up
Christ, whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead do not rise. For if
the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. (1Corinthians 15:12-16)
Paul pointed to the fact of the resurrection of Christ, and
showed that the two stand or fall together, saying, "if the dead do not
rise, then Christ is not risen. Paul demonstrates beyond all doubt that
Jesus resurrection from the dead, is an importance fact of Israel's
resurrection using a metaphorically concept of firstfruits Greek
aparche. But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the
firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came
death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own
order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His
coming (1 Corinthians 15:20-23, emp. added).
Now the only way you
can understand this kind of language is to go back to the Old Testament
and if you don't understand the Old Testament then for sure you can't
understand what Paul is saying here. So let's go back to Old Testament
were did this idea of "first fruits" originate? "On the same general
principle that the firstborn of man and beast belonged to the God of
Israel and were to be devoted to Him (Nehemiah 10:35-39).
first fruits including the first grain to ripen each season, were to be
brought as an offering to God. Every Israelite who possessed the means
of agricultural productivity was under this obligation (Exodus 23:19;
34:26; Numbers 15:17-21; 18:12-13). "Speak the to children of Israel,
and say to them." When you come into the land which I give to you, and
reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of
your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to
be accepted on your, behalf on the day after the Sabbath the priest
shall wave it (Leviticus 23:10-11).
The first fruits were brought
in a basket to the sanctuary and presented to the priest, who was to
set the basked down before the altar. Then, the offering recited the
story of Jacob's going to Egypt and the deliverance of his posterity
from there. He then acknowledged the blessings with which God had
visited him (Deuteronomy 26:2-11).
It would be natural for Paul
to have thought of Christ as the first fruits, because the day of
Christ's resurrection was the second day of Passover week on which the
first ripe sheaf of the harvest was offered to the Lord (Lev
Paul was also establishing another basic point.
While Christ was the first fruits of the resurrection. The first century
saints were also significance of the "first ripe sheaf" (Romans 16:5; 1
Corinthians 16:15; James 1:18). All of the first century saints who put
their trust in Christ were apart of collective believers known as first
fruits to God. This select group of Christians were purchased from the
earth as a FIRST FRUITS offering to God. (1Corinthians 6:20, 7:23) The
Greek ἀγοράζω for purchased, means to go to the market. It is a picture
of God coming to the earth, to select His FIRST FRUITS representative of
a whole harvest before God (Revelation 14:4).
Eternal Life, or
resurrection was a gift to the first fruits Christians. The time for
death to be abolished had arrived. (2 Timothy 1:10) One of the
principles that a first fruit offering taught was that a future harvest
was promised - the first fruit were just a taste of what lay in store at
the end of the age full ingathering harvest. Every Jewish Christian
understood this Old Testament concept. The firstfruits ingathering is
separate in time to those which follow after, as it occurs.
second important truth inherent in the first fruits figure is the
readiness of the harvest to be gathered as signified in the offering of
the first fruits. The act of reaping had already begun, with the first
fruits and the harvest would soon be ready to be cut (Revelation 14:15).
The harvest were all the saints who had died under the Old Covenant and
had not received the promise of resurrection. Prior to Jesus' messianic
work, no one went to Heaven-- where did people go when they died? They
went to a holding place of the dead and waited for the atoning work of
Christ and the resurrection from the dead. All people were believed to
go to Sheol when they die: Psalms 89:48 (NASB) What man can live and
not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
God had promised to redeem His people from the grave: Hosea 13:14
(NKJV) "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem
them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be
your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.
Paul clearly
taught that the resurrection was the hope of Israel. Acts 26:6-8 (NKJV)
"And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God
to our fathers. 7 "To this promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving
God night and day, hope to attain. For this hope's sake, King Agrippa, I
am accused by the Jews. 8 "Why should it be thought incredible by you
that God raises the dead?
These were people like Noah, Abraham,
Moses, David, Job, Isaiah, and Daniel etc. These "Old Covenant saints"
were the rest of the harvest, the general resurrection. These were the
ones Jesus addressed "though he may die, he shall live in. (John 11:23).
Knowing the biblical concept of the first fruits and the harvest we can
appreciate why God said: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living
(Matthew 22:32; Mark 12:27; Luke 20:38).
The harvest, follows
the ripening "perfecting and offering of the first fruits saints." With
the return of Christ and the destruction of temple, the way into God
presence was now fully opened. (Hebrew 9:8) The Hadean realm was
emptied, and all the Old Covenant saints harvest were gathered in the
general resurrection in A.D.70. This is the second resurrection that
John mentioned in the first part of verse 5 of chapter 20 of
1 Corinthians 15:20-23 Paul's use of the metaphor
"firstfruits" (Greek aparche) is to understand how "firstfruits" was
used in the Old Testament. Under the Old Law, the firstfruits were the
earliest gathered grains, fruits, and vegetables that the people
dedicated to God in recognition of His faithfulness for providing the
necessities of life.
The Israelites were to offer to God a sheaf
of the first grain that was harvested on the day after the Sabbath
following the Passover feast (Leviticus 23:9-14). Paul used the term
"firstfruits" in this letter to the Corinthian church to reinforce the
certainty of the resurrection. Just as the term "firstfruits" indicates
that "the first sheaf of the forthcoming grain harvest will be followed
by the rest of the sheaves, Christ, the firstfruits raised from the
dead, is the guarantee for all those who belong to him that they also
will share in his resurrection.
Jesus is God's "firstfruits" of
the resurrection. And, like the Israelites, God would gather the rest of
the harvest at the final resurrection. Paul wanted the Corinthians to
understand (by way of metaphor) that Christ's resurrection is a pledge
of a future harvest. It is inevitable—guaranteed by God Himself.


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42% Grenache, 23% Syrah, 18% Mourvèdre, 17% Cinsault
Jean-Claude Mas
Jean-Claude Mas, independent winemaker, fourth generation grape grower, first generation winemaker and owner of Domaines Paul Mas, is a leader in fine winemaking in the Languedoc region of the South of France. Since taking the helm of the family winery in 2000, he has prioritized sourcing the highest quality grapes from twelve privately owned estates and premier growers in the Languedoc to make wines of authenticity and refinement. The result is a collection of magnificently charming wines that burst forward with the warmth and stunning beauty of the Languedoc. Named after the original Mas family home, Château Paul Mas and Paul Mas Estate wines showcase the terroir, complexity and style of Languedoc estate superior winemaking.WINEMAKING & VINTAGE NOTES
Soil type: Clay and limestone with gravel. Mediterranean climate. Destemming. Each grape is vinified separated and then blended. Fermentation for two weeks at 63°F. The wine is aged on lees with regular stirring for 40 days in new covered concrete vats. During the process, special attention is paid to maintaining the fruit expression and concentration with regular pumping over.TASTING NOTES
Pale pink with cherry, red berries and tropical notes. Elegant, fruity, smooth, very fresh with a persistent length. Serve at 50–54°F with seafood, shellfish, salmon, pork, grilled meats, salads, light cheeses. The perfect summer wine!


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Monday, May 28, 2007
In Memoriam
I am thinking about my dad today. Although he did not give up his life for our country, he did put it on the line. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in November of 1943 and entered active service the following month. He served as a Staff Sergeant in Troop B of the 106th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. His occupational specialty was rifleman. His Separation Qualification Record states that he "supervised the activities of 11 men in a rifle squad. Was responsible for the control, coordination, and tactical employment of squad. Loaded, aimed, and fired a .30 Cal Garand rifle. Is familiar with carbine, Browning automatic rifle, machine gun, etc. Also is familiar with all types of hand weapons and hand to hand fighting techniques." His discharge papers list the following battles and campaigns: Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central Europe. Decorations and Citations received were the European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal; the Good Conduct Medal; the World War II Victory Medal; and three Bronze Service Stars. He was honorably discharged on November 1, 1945.
As I was growing up I remember my dad talking about how he fought at the Battle of the Bulge, how he marched from the English Channel to Czechoslovakia, how he almost got run over by a German tank, and how he was the only original member of his squad to survive the war. He wasn't a religious man, but when he spoke of the war he thanked God for protecting him and bringing him home. He said that on more than one occasion he remembered a fellow soldier waking up with the feeling that his time had come--that he would not survive the day--but my dad said he never had that feeling. Somehow he always knew he would make it home.
I regret that I didn't pay more attention to his stories and that I didn't appreciate all that he went through in service to his country. My dad died on June 16, 1994 at the age of 78 after an extended battle with lung cancer. He is survived by five children, six stepchildren, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, one sister, and his second wife (my mom).
I still miss him. Thank you, Daddy, and rest in peace.
3 comments:
- Presbytera said...
Thank you for introducing your father to me!
- May 29, 2007 at 9:54 PM
- Favorite Apron said...
Cheryl - I'm so sorry he's gone. Sounds like a wonderful man.
My uncle was killed at age 19 in the Battle of the Bulge. In contrast to your father, who always said he was coming home, Uncle Clarence told his family he wouldn't be coming back. He was drafted and only there for a few weeks. He was doing reconnisance for the Cactus Division and was walking into the village of Sessenheim, France ahead of a tank unit. When they got to the village they were met by the German tanks. He was taken to a church where he bled to death. In 1949 my PawPaw went over and brought his body back to Ohio and they had a memorial service at that time.
Somewhere on the internet I ran across the journal of a man who rode the train and took the boat to Europe in October as part of the same group as my uncle. It was so interesting.
Well gee, I didn't mean to write a book. It just struck me that your Father always planned to return home.
- May 30, 2007 at 6:07 AM
- Cheryl said...
Polly, thank you for sharing the story of your uncle. How chilling to know that he had a sense he wouldn't be coming home. My dad said usually the soldiers who had that feeling were right about it.
Your uncle was so young. But I guess most who die in wartime are. My dad was older than most--30, I think, by the time he returned home. He was already a husband and father when he was drafted. Because of his age, the other men in his squad called him "Pops."
After he returned home from the war he had several more children. Then he lost his first wife to cancer. Enter my mom, a divorcee with 6 children, and they married and had me (for a total of 11). It was a tough situation. My dad was a sinner like the rest of us. He was an alcoholic, and his drinking caused a lot of people great pain. But I prefer to remember the best about him.
- May 30, 2007 at 4:19 PM


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So autumn arrives, and with it cinemas start to fill with Serious Films About Serious Things, with this being the prime spot for releasing films hopeful of award nomination.. This season, the tranche of weighty tomes begins at The Beginning.
2009 is Darwin's year. 20o years after his birth, 150 years after the publication of On The Origin Of Species, there's an inevitability to this project. Doubtless encouraged by the high-profile debates of the last few years that arose out of Richard Dawkins et al, this film chooses to tell just one part of Darwin's story – his voyages on the Beagle are here long gone, now seen only as part of his children's bedtime stories. Instead we have the tale of how his revolutionary book came to be written, and it's impact on the religious community, represented by a stern vicar and his religiously devoted wife. This is a story of a marriage under strain as two work out how to love and be loved, give and receive, prefer the needs of the other.
These on-screen Darwins make for a convincing couple – not least because the actors are married to one another; Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly are always watchable performers. Rightly, Darwin's loss of Christian faith seems to be pointed more towards the death of his daughter than his research into evolution; and intriguingly we see a rational Darwin convinced of the benefits of seemingly ineffectual water therapy for his illnesses. I have no knowledge of accuracy of this, but it makes for an intriguing self-contradiction. So it's doubtless a well intentioned film, that would like, I think, to offer more balance than the debates of recent years have tended to offer.
It's a shame, then, that there are some significant weaknesses. One would be that there would have been more to gain by giving at least lip service to those Christians of the time who saw no conflict between Darwin's theories and their faith, or even the Genesis creation poems. Many still don't seem to grasp this, and it would have only added wieght and depth to the story to address this. Another let down is that while there is nothing wrong with the film's central dramatic device – Darwin being visited by imaginings of his dead daughter – the film's shifts in time are often confusing and poorly signalled. That may be deliberate, but it carries hints of disrespect towards the viewer; what's wrong with a simple caption? Finally, while the film is intelligent and reasoned, it is also just a little slow and ponderous. It takes itself just a little too seriously and slowly. Different from a mercifully absent tiresome worthiness, it could just do with a lightness of tone and deftness of touch.
This is, then a Serious Film About Serious Things. That doesn't, though, have to mean being sombre. Wonder and joy walk hand in hand, and should have done here; sadly, the film lacks both.


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Uniarts Students' Works on ELIA Neu Now festival's Online Series
ELIA - European League of Institutes of the Arts organises annually a festival called NEU NOW. It is devoted to presenting the work of exceptional creative talents from art academies across Europe and beyond. After the stage festival, the NEU NOW Online Festival features all of the artists that showcased their work in Amsterdam, in addition to a selected group of 35-50 outstanding emerging artists. Three pieces from the University of the Arts Helsinki were selected for the Online Festival 2017: Jenni-Elina von Bagh's choreography Posthuman, Elina Pirinen's (guest) choreography KOSTO I-IX (Revenge I-IX) for TADaC (Theatre Academy Dance Company) and Jenni Ristilä's opera Jääkausi (Iceage).
Watch the works on festival's web page . Filter artists by: "online", "2017" and "Finland" to find these pieces mentiond above.
About the works
What would it mean to surrender and leave the hegemony of human? What is Posthuman? Where are we now? Inspired by philosophical discourse around Posthuman, this piece, performed by two male-performers and one drummer, is asking the possibility for shaking existing categories and stable identities. The work is ambitiously questioning the dichotomy of subject and object, living and non-living, culture and nature, man and woman. It also asks: How does it feel to stay with these questions? On stage we see different colorful objects, performers, drums. Through planned and spontaneous actions, through composition of text, body in action and body in question a whole newworld of potentialities is opened up. The work tests the limits of absurdity in an attempt to search the quality of not-knowing and off-tracking.Posthuman is an artistic collaboration between choreographer, scenographer, costume designer, lighting designer, sound designer and two dancers.
Kosto I-IX (Revenge I-IX) is a recitative fantasy directed by choreographer Elina Pirinen for dance company TADaC, made up of MA students of dance at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Kosto I-IX sings forth visions of revenge in linguistically, visually and corporeally subtle and direct ways. The singing on stage is surrounded by nine bodies incorporating rest and festivo. The tableau vivant, in turn illuminated and extinguished, brings forth the beautiful inner tumult of humanity. Welcome to a desert of glowing light and flaming darkness.
The opera's dreamlike libretto tells the story of a relationship gone wrong. It starts as an apocalyptic image of the future after climate change where people fight for survival, but in the end Ice age turns out to be a metaphor of the protagonists own state of mind. The story centers around how people act towards each other in today's society: the increasing divide of people into us and them; and how the current egocentric way of life affects our relationships. Itzam Zapata's music embraces the dreamy absurdity of the libretto: his musical language is an unprejudiced collage of microtonality, gregorian chant, jazzy duets and mad cabaret, bringing out the dark humour of Juho Gröndahl's text.


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Being a mom might be the toughest job in the world, and for many mothers who also work outside of the home, it's just one of two tough jobs.
On Mother's Day, as you celebrate yourself or the mother in your life, consider these guidelines gleaned from seven mothers, who are some of the most powerful women in the world.


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Chicken fingers. Breaded in a panko-like crumby breading, not battered. This fact did not please this dish's orderer.
Appetizer sampler, with mozzarella sticks, loaded skins, and chicken wings. The mozz sticks were standard and were finished off; the wings and skins were left on the plate.
Fries-- really pretty to look at, not so good to eat. Whatever was sprinkled on top of them (parsley?) added visual interest but no flavor. They were fried so the outside was cooked but the inside was dry. There was no salt. And they were cold. Yech.
Shepherd's pie. I think this was one of the winners of the bunch-- this got polished off, one of the few dishes to earn that distinction.
Quesadilla-- shameful. I think maybe one of these triangles was consumed.
Chickpea burger-- deemed "not that good." About half was eaten; I tackled the side salad, very heavy on the chopped raw onion (why??).
Mussels with sausage. Okay, maybe we shouldn't have ordered this at a beer bar, but they're good at BXL, so why not? Almost this entire dish went untouched.
Some sort of other sandwich, with more of the pitiful fries. Not sure what this was, but I think it was eaten relatively happily.
I'm not even going to put forth a food rating for House of Brews (you pretty much know what it would be). All I can say is, in the end, when you go to House of Brews, that's what you should get. Drop yourself in a sticky booth, grab a greasy menu, skip the food and order a beer. Save your hunger for any of innumerable other decent restaurants along restaurant row.


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"The only way to be truly happy is to get your mind off yourself and help somebody else." ~Joyce Meyer
A couple of years ago, I was dealing with two major life changes at the same time.
The first change was that my husband and I moved from Maryland to Delaware after our son finished high school. And th…
Everyone has times when they are down, broken and just not feeling all that happy.
That's okay, you need to have days and nights like this, otherwise how would you understand when you are happy. You need to have something to contrast your pleasure with. What is black without white?
Although you know that sadness is a part of life, let's make an effort to make it a tiny part of our lives.
With that being said, here are a few guidelines to help you feel better when you are feeling down in the dumps. They are simple to do, easy to practice each day plus they work!
1. Stand up straight, sit up straight. When your body is in alignment your energy can flow and when your body energy is flowing nicely, you can flow.
2. Smile! Yes, just smile. Easy to do and is very effective.
3. Repeat positive affirmations. Things like "I feel good", "Positive energy moves through my body", "I see the good in all".
4. Tune in to some music that you enjoy. It doesn't need to be anything specific, just something you like. Certain types of music work cooler than others, but experiment to see what works for you. Analyses show that Classical music plus new age music work great.
5. Have some time out for yourself, relax and read a nice book, take action for yourself.
6. Meditate. Meditation is a fantastic habit to develop. It will serve you in all that you simply do. In the event that you are one who has a hard time sitting still, then try some special meditation CDs that entice your brain into the meditative state. Just look for "Meditation music" on Google or Yahoo and explore.
Our outside work is simply a mirror of our inside person. Do not forget that there is no reality just your perception of it. Use this truth to your benefit. Whenever you are sad, realize that it is all in your head and you do have the capacity to change your perception.
These guidelines will lift you up when you are down, but do not just use them when you are feeling sad. Try to practice them each and everyday, get them to be a habit. You will be amazed at how these easy exercises will keep the rainy days away.
On a final note, if you are in a deep depression that you can't seem to shake, you have to see a doctor. This is your life and don't take a chance.


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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Trend: Button It Up
This Fall/Winter the rule is as simple as that, all buttons up! Buttoned-Up collars are as hot as it gets!
Can't wait to try it on!
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- chloe said...
oh, i love the chloe, i did a post about it too.
and buttoned-up-to-the-top? i LOVE it! i often wear my shirts like that :) x
- July 27, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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September 7, 2012
I'll see your vet bill and raise you...
Our Lab, Gus, had a little surprise surgery yesterday. Last month, he suddenly had a lump on his head one day. When I say suddenly, I mean, I was petting his head, he went outside for half and hour and came back in with a bump the size of a walnut on his head, right where I had been petting him.
We thought he got stung or bitten by something and gave him some Benadryl for a couple of days. He wasn't at all bothered by it, so we decided to wait a few days to see what happened.
Ultimately, the lump went away. Then it came back. Usually on Friday evenings, one of us would notice it coming back and we would decide to call the vet first thing Monday. Of course, the lump was gone by Monday. Since it kept coming back in the exact same spot, I took Gus to visit the dog doc yesterday.
We don't have the pathology back, but the vet is fairly certain it was a mast cell tumor. Reading up on it, I would say it is a textbook case. Hopefully, it will be a stage 1 tumor and we are done. In hindsight, we are a little worried that this was actually the second tumor, as he had a growth removed from his paw a couple of years ago that is eerily similar in character.
The cost of the surgery didn't exceed the swallowed ball fiasco, but it was still way more than we had budgeted for animal care. All this college and dog surgery is cutting in to my Shiner budget.
I kinda like the soft Cone of Shame, makes him look like a flower...
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- The Whited Sepulchre said...
He looks like an art project.
- September 7, 2012 at 4:19 PM
- CenTexTim said...
Okay, you win. Gus is a bigger resource hog than our mutt.
BTW, the vet gave us we got a clear plastic collar of shame so the dog could see potential obstacles and avoid them. Didn't work...
- September 7, 2012 at 9:04 PM
- Harper said...
We have an array of cones, including a clear plastic one that tends to take 1/4 inch swaths out of calves and door jambs. I have seriously considered attaching some pipe insulation around the rim. We are also pet sitting for my parents and had to cone their dog, as he is OCD and started gnawing on his paw. He has an awesome padded cone with reflective fabric that scares the shit out of me at night.
- September 8, 2012 at 9:21 AM
- CenTexTim said...
Did you ever in your wildest dreams think that someday you'd sit around comparing different types of cones of shame?
Life sure takes some strange turns...
- September 8, 2012 at 9:29 AM
- Harper said...
At least we aren't to the daily bowel movement discussion age.
- September 8, 2012 at 5:03 PM


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TRavel Grants 2012 - Danida Fellowship Centre: For Master Students at Danish Higher Education Institutions in support of master thesis work relevant to Danish Development Assistance
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hereby invites applications for travel grants in support of thesis field work of master students enrolled at a Danish higher education institution.
The applicant must be a master student enrolled at a Danish higher education institution. Students on OSVAL II studies/pre-graduate research year for medical students, and students on a 4+4 arrangement are eligible for a travel grant only if the field study is considered part of the master degree and will be used for a report equivalent to a master thesis.
The applicant must fill in the electronic application form and attach the following documents (of maximum 4mb each) to the application:
1. Signed approval of the project from the supervisor stating the title of the project, in which country the field study is taking place, the relevance for the thesis and finally a guarantee for the academic level of the field study project. In cases of OSVAL II/pre-graduate research year students and students on a 4+4 arrangement applying for a travel grant, the supervisor must explicitly state that the field study is considered part of the master degree and will be used for a report equivalent to a master thesis.
2. As documentation of local attachment, a signed official approval from the local partner in the country where the field study is to be carried out. The local partner could, in the country designated for field study, for example be the Embassy of Denmark, a local office of a Danish or international NGO, a local NGO, adepartment of a university, a research institution, a private company, or a specific development project/programme.
3. Copies of relevant examination certificates.
The instructions given in the electronic application form must be followed. Applications, which do not include all required information and attach all the above mentioned documents to the application, will be rejected without further consideration. Missing information/documents cannot be submitted after the electronic submission of the application.
It is the responsibility of the applicant to obtain all relevant ethical approvals and other required permits before field study project activities are initiated.
The grant may cover some or all of the following expenses:
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The online diary of the Right Reverend Daniel Martins, Bishop of Springfield (Episcopal Church)
Friday, October 12, 2012
The goal was to have something of a "normal" day, but it was not to be. Consulted with Sue regarding several details of next weekend's annual synod. Slipped into the cathedral for some short devotions. Produced a working draft of a homily for this weekend (Cairo and Harrisburg). Welcomed my Roman Catholic counterpart, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, to the diocesan office and took him on a quick tour of the St Paul's Cathedral. We then walked up to the eatery Obed & Isaac's on 6th Street for a nice lunch, after which he reciprocated the hospitality and showed me around Immaculate Conception Cathedral and his private residence on the third floor of the rectory. It had been my hope for some time to meet him, and I'm glad we were able to connect. I then dashed off to my primary care physician to consult over my recent kidney stone attacks. As soon as I got back to the office, around 3:30, I felt another one coming on, so I drove home to where my supply of pain-killing pills is. Happily, the attack never got traction.
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Paul de Grauwe, Belgian nomination for an up and coming place on the board of the ECB stakes his claim. His point, last weeks ECB announcement of a new monetary policy strategy, far from clarifying things, has only produced confusion. Among other details, it's also nice to note that I'm not the only person who can't fathom the depths of Otmar Issing.
The European Central Bank has a new monetary policy strategy. Or does it? After months of research and deliberations within its governing council, the ECB last week announced a new strategy, only to deny that it constituted a change at all. How are we to make sense of this brain-teaser? The first change is clear enough. The ECB is downgrading the importance of the money supply (M3) in its monetary policy strategy - and rightly so. It did not make sense any more to pretend that the money supply was the most important variable to watch. This signal was so easily distorted by "background noise" that it was rarely a reliable indicator of future inflation. On the contrary, it often gave the wrong signal, as after September 11 2001 when investors fled into short-term assets, thereby massively increasing the money supply. Luckily, ECB policy makers had enough sense to recognise that the build-up of M3 did not signal inflation but its opposite - a risk of deflation. So the Bank did what had to be done: to disregard the money numbers. Since then, the ECB has been forced to do the same all too often. Inevitably it concluded that it was better to stop pretending that the money supply was important while everybody else could see that the measure played almost no role in the setting of interest rates.
The second change is far less clear-cut. The ECB has now defined a new inflation target. Or so it seems. When the ECB started operating in 1998 it defined price stability as a rate of inflation of at most 2 per cent over the medium term. This definition has come under increasing criticism for giving the ECB an incentive to push inflation below 2 per cent, thereby increasing the risk of deflation, especially in those countries where inflation was already significantly lower than the 2 per cent eurozone average. One could have expected the ECB to do last week what common sense dictates: announce a point target of, say, 2 per cent and allow for some leeway above and below that target. Surprisingly, it was not so sensible. In last week's communiqué the ECB first confirmed that the old definition of price stability still held - that inflation should not exceed 2 per cent over the medium term - and then added that "in the pursuit of price stability it will aim to maintain inflation rates close to 2 per cent over the medium term".
How should we interpret these seemingly contradictory statements? The last sentence could mean that the ECB has shifted to a mid-point target of 2 per cent for the rate of inflation. Many analysts have come to that conclusion. However, this interpretation would contradict the ECB's reaffirmation that nothing has changed with its definition of price stability.What an anticlimax. Instead of creating clarity, the ECB has managed to create confusion about its true intentions. There can be no doubt that this is the result of strong disagreements within the governing council - the rate-setting body comprising the 12 national central bank governors plus six permanent ECB members.
The markets demand clarity and transparency. There is now less clarity about the objectives of the ECB than before last week's announcement. So the governing council will have to start again and come up with a new strategy that satisfies the markets' demands.This new strategy should consist of the following elements. First and foremost, the ECB should switch to a more explicit inflation targeting procedure that is now increasingly adopted as best practice in central banking. This consists in defining a point target for inflation with a symmetric range around it. It further requires the central bank to announce its inflation forecast, regular information that helps the market to understand the policy actions of the central bank, thereby promoting transparency.
Second, the ECB's mandate consists not only in maintaining price stability but also in pursuing other objectives - financial stability, stabilisation of the business cycle - as long as these objectives do not interfere with price stability. Up to now the ECB has been mostly silent about this second "pillar" of its mandate. It is time for the Bank to spell out what it intends to do to meet it, or to explain why it continues to ignore it. Immediately after last week's announcement, Otmar Issing, the ECB's chief economist, declared that there was nothing new in the new monetary policy strategy. This is quite unfortunate. The new strategy creates confusion and will maintain the ECB in a defensive position. The only way for the ECB to get out of this uncomfortable position is to come up with a better strategy than the one presented last week.
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Amitava's Technical Diary: Nesting ExtJS 2.0 TreePanel inside Accordian:
Nesting ExtJS 2.0 TreePanel inside Accordian
Was having some trouble getting a TreePanel to render as a child in another Panel in ExtJS 2.2. Bizzarre. It'd render if I'd put it directly into a DIV (renderTo set for the TreePanel) and the other Panel into another, but if I removed renderTo from the TreePanel and stuffed it into that other Panel, BLAMMO. ct is null. Enjoy.
Lots of weird stuff in ExtJS. I've seen it act unhappy if you don't have an id set for an object. Now, maybe a header is occasionally assumed as well? /sigh Neat overall, but a little rough around the edges.
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Victor and I are in the blissful state of new parent discombobulation. Routine? What routine?? Sleep? HUH? Both of us almost put diaper oinment on our toothbrushes (that would have been bad) and I have since moved the desitin to another part of the bathroom. Our first night at home was eventful around 3:30 in the morning. She was fed, changed, and warm -- and screaming! We didn't know what to do. I was panicking, afraid I was waking up the neighbors, and quickly moved her out to the living room. I started vigorously rocking her, and patting her back and then heard One. Tiny. Little. Sound. "Urp". She stopped crying immediately. One tiny bubble rocked our world. Now I'm much wiser...lol.
I'm learning the art of sleeping on demand when she sleeps. My dear sister Carolyn stayed up late last night to take the 1 AM feeding for me, which gave me 7 hours of sleep. She is such a lifesaver! My mom was down for almost 2 weeks starting the day before Annika was born. It was so nice to have her here for that time. She is, of course, smitten with her newest granddaughter. Carolyn is here this week and I want to thank Scout and A-Rob for loaning me their mommy. It's perfect timing, as Victor is back on a graveyard shift this week - the last for a really long time.
Here are some pictures from the last week.
And then there is Osa, who has to be in the middle of everything I do with the baby. When I'm feeding her, she has to get right up next to us and snuggle in too. And then she 'mows' and complains when I try to move her. At least she's not jealous.


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I sold my Gungnir DAC to a fellow AC'er. So I have around $500-$600 for the next Piece to this Puzzle ..Like I mentioned in another posting , I want to make this $$$ count , no lateral purchases ( just replacing equipment with basically the same equipment )So I think that the only component I'm missing is the Room Treatments.Room is (15'w - 20'd - 17'h) with almost nothing on the walls (pictures ect.)When I clap my hands in this room I can definitely hear an echo.. S0 I'm thinking 1 - (2-4) cloud panels on the Ceiling 2 - (1) scatter panel behind each speakerroom treatment is a good idea but costly, you would be better of getting your IC's and perhaps DSPeaker room correction device, which works very well I have heard it , but it is expensive around $ 850.0 Asghar 3 - (2-4) absorber panels on the first reflection point (side walls ) & ( 8'-10' ) high on the side wallsAll that junk on the fire place is going ,going , gone..I will try to post more pics of the room tonight...( walls, ceiling, sweet spot , ect..) I'm looking for some advise from fellow ACer'sPlease chime in with "which room treatments worked for your set up , & the ones that didn't work"..
My two cents.....1)Corner/Bass traps2)Absorption at first side reflection points3)Panels behind speakers (could be Absorption or Diffraction, depending on goals, speakers, distances, etc)4)Ceiling panels
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Progress in psychological science can be limited by a number of factors, not least of which are the starting assumptions of scientists themselves. We believe that some influential accounts of autism rest on a questionable assumption that many of its behavioral characteristics indicate a lack of social interest—an assumption that is flatly contradicted by the testimony of many autistic people themselves. In this paper, we challenge this assumption by describing alternative explanations for four such behaviors: (a) low levels of eye contact, (b) infrequent pointing, (c) motor stereotypies, and (d) echolalia. The assumption that autistic people's unusual behaviors indicate diminished social motivation has had profound and often negative effects on the ways they are studied and treated. We argue that understanding and supporting autistic individuals will require interrogating this assumption, taking autistic testimony seriously, considering alternative explanations for unusual behaviors, and investigating unconventional—even idiosyncratic—ways that autistic individuals may express their social interest. These steps are crucial, we believe, for creating a more accurate, humane, and useful science of autism.
Food uncertainty has the effect of invigorating food-related responses. Psychologists have noted that mammals and birds respond more to a conditioned stimulus that unreliably predicts food delivery, and ecologists have shown that animals (especially small passerines) consume and/or hoard more food and can get fatter when access to that resource is unpredictable. Are these phenomena related? We think they are. Psychologists have proposed several mechanistic interpretations, while ecologists have suggested a functional interpretation: the effect of unpredictability on fat reserves and hoarding behavior is an evolutionary strategy acting against the risk of starvation when food is in short supply. Both perspectives are complementary, and we argue that the psychology of incentive motivational processes can shed some light on the causal mechanisms leading animals to seek and consume more food under uncertainty in the wild. Our theoretical approach is in agreement with neuroscientific data relating to the role of dopamine, a neurotransmitter strongly involved in incentive motivation, and its plausibility has received some explanatory and predictive value with respect to Pavlovian phenomena. Overall, we argue that the occasional and unavoidable absence of food rewards has motivational effects (called incentive hope) that facilitate foraging effort. It is shown that this hypothesis is computationally tenable, leading foragers in an unpredictable environment to consume more food items and to have higher long-term energy storage than foragers in a predictable environment.
Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile, advocates for optimality have countered that such criticisms single out a few selected papers. To elucidate the issue of optimality in perceptual decision making, we review the extensive literature on suboptimal performance in perceptual tasks. We discuss eight different classes of suboptimal perceptual decisions, including improper placement, maintenance, and adjustment of perceptual criteria, inadequate tradeoff between speed and accuracy, inappropriate confidence ratings, misweightings in cue combination, and findings related to various perceptual illusions and biases. In addition, we discuss conceptual shortcomings of a focus on optimality, such as definitional difficulties and the limited value of optimality claims in and of themselves. We therefore advocate that the field drop its emphasis on whether observed behavior is optimal and instead concentrate on building and testing detailed observer models that explain behavior across a wide range of tasks. To facilitate this transition, we compile the proposed hypotheses regarding the origins of suboptimal perceptual decisions reviewed here. We argue that verifying, rejecting, and expanding these explanations for suboptimal behavior – rather than assessing optimality per se – should be among the major goals of the science of perceptual decision making.
Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, throughout history people have been willing to lay down their lives for the sake of their groups. Why? Previous theories of extreme self-sacrifice have highlighted a range of seemingly disparate factors such as collective identity, outgroup hostility, and kin psychology. This paper attempts to integrate many of these factors into a single overarching theory based on several decades of collaborative research with a range of special populations, from tribes in Papua New Guinea to Libyan insurgents, and from Muslim fundamentalists in Indonesia to Brazilian football hooligans. These studies suggest that extreme self-sacrifice is motivated by 'identity fusion', a visceral sense of oneness with the group resulting from intense collective experiences (e.g. painful rituals or the horrors of frontline combat) or from perceptions of shared biology. In ancient foraging societies, fusion would have enabled warlike bands to stand united despite strong temptations to scatter and flee. The fusion mechanism has often been exploited in cultural rituals, not only by tribal societies but also in specialized cells embedded in armies, cults, and terrorist organizations. With the rise of social complexity and the spread of states and empires, fusion has also been extended to much larger groups, including doctrinal religions, ethnicities, and ideological movements. Explaining extreme self-sacrifice is not only a scientific priority but also a practical challenge as we seek a collective response to suicide terrorism and other extreme expressions of outgroup hostility that continue to bedevil humanity today.
In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. However, the intense search for the biological basis of mental disorders has not resulted in conclusive reductionist explanations of psychopathology. Recently, network models have been proposed as an alternative framework for the analysis of mental disorders, in which mental disorders arise from the causal interplay between symptoms. In this paper, we show that this conceptualization can help understand why reductionist approaches in psychiatry and clinical psychology are on the wrong track. First, symptom networks preclude the identification of a common cause of symptomatology with a neurobiological condition, because in symptom networks there is no such common cause. Second, symptom network relations depend on the content of mental states and as such feature intentionality. Third, the strength of network relations is highly likely to partially depend on cultural and historical contexts as well as external mechanisms in the environment. Taken together, these properties suggest that, if mental disorders are indeed networks of causally related symptoms, reductionist accounts cannot achieve the level of success associated with reductionist disease models in modern medicine. As an alternative strategy, we propose to interpret network structures in terms of D. C. Dennett's (1987) notion of real patterns, and suggest that, instead of being reducible to a biological basis, mental disorders feature biological and psychological factors that are deeply intertwined in feedback loops. This suggests that neither psychological nor biological levels can claim causal or explanatory priority, and that a holistic research strategy is necessary for progress in the study of mental disorders.
Many philosophers of science and methodologists have argued that the ability to repeat studies and obtain similar results is an essential component of science. A finding is elevated from single observation to scientific evidence when the procedures that were used to obtain it can be reproduced and the finding itself can be replicated. Recent replication attempts show that some high profile results---most notably in psychology, but in many other disciplines as well---cannot be replicated consistently. These replication attempts have generated a considerable amount of controversy and the issue of whether direct replications have value has, in particular, proven to be contentious. However, much of this discussion has occurred in published commentaries and social media outlets, resulting in a fragmented discourse. To address the need for an integrative summary, we review various types of replication studies and then discuss the most commonly voiced concerns about direct replication. We provide detailed responses to these concerns and consider different statistical ways to evaluate replications. We conclude there are no theoretical or statistical obstacles to making direct replication a routine aspect of psychological science.
The domain of "folk-economics" consists in explicit beliefs about the economy held by laypeople, untrained in economics, about such topics as e.g., the causes of the wealth of nations, the benefits or drawbacks of markets and international trade, the effects of regulation, the origins of inequality, the connection between work and wages, the economic consequences of immigration, or the possible causes of unemployment. These beliefs are crucial in forming people's political beliefs, and in shaping their reception of different policies. Yet, they often conflict with elementary principles of economic theory and are often described as the consequences of ignorance, irrationality or specific biases. As we will argue, these past perspectives fail to predict the particular contents of popular folk-economic beliefs and, as a result, there is no systematic study of the cognitive factors involved in their emergence and cultural success. Here we propose that the cultural success of particular beliefs about the economy is predictable if we consider the influence of specialized, largely automatic inference systems that evolved as adaptations to ancestral human small-scale sociality. These systems, for which there is independent evidence, include free-rider detection, fairness-based partner-choice, ownership intuitions, coalitional psychology, and more. Information about modern mass-market conditions activates these specific inference-systems, resulting in particular intuitions, e.g., that impersonal transactions are dangerous or that international trade is a zero-sum game. These intuitions in turn make specific policy proposals more likely than others to become intuitively compelling, and as a consequence exert a crucial influence on political choices.


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Sure the film could resemble current events...but shit like this happens all the time! You could draw parallels with RofS and events in many different time periods.
On the plus side though you two earned some killer condescending points!
.....yes, yes, its all a rich tapestry--n'hey, the colors children, the colors....
Lucas, at a Cannes film festival press conference yesterday, said he first wrote the framework of Star Wars in 1971 when reacting to then-U.S. president Richard Nixon and the events of the Vietnam War. But the story still has relevance today, he said, and is part of a pattern he has noticed in history.
"I didn't think it was going to get quite this close," he said of the parallels between the Nixon era and the Bush presidency, which has been sacrificing freedoms in the interests of national security.
"It is just one of those re-occuring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will awaken people to the situation of how dangerous it is . . . The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we are doing now in Iraq are unbelievable."
In the latest film, the Palpatine character takes over as ruler of the universe with the co-operation of the other politicians.
"Because this is the back story (of the Star Wars saga), one of the main features of the back story was to tell how the Republic became the Empire," Lucas said.
"At the time I did that, it was during the Vietnam War and the Nixon era. The issue was: How does a democracy turn itself over to a dictator? Not how does a dictator take over, but how does a democracy and Senate give it away?"
Lucas cited the Roman empire in the wake of Caesar's death, France after the revolution and Hitler's rise in Germany as historical examples of countries giving themselves over to dictators.
"They all seem to happen in the same way with the same issues: Threats from the outside; they need more control; and a democratic body not being able to function properly because everybody's squabbling."


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dancing . smoke
i call it " dancing smoke "
on design
nice work~:)
hey kai, i think you should rename it. 'dances with smoke' has a more poetic ring to it. i think the piece is awesome. keep it up.
thank you :)
yeah adik seng kai. nice work :) mysterious and dark. nyehe. just the way you like it :P
thank you 4 support kak.
you know, i was just thinking, its fabulous. you could put this up in our 'playground' section. that's when our doll puts it up. :)


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Friday, May 2, 2014
A Blessing From The Pope
Paul and I celebrated our wedding anniversary this past Monday. The day before, I wanted to find our wedding album, not remembering where it was (it turned out to be up in the attic). While looking, Paul found a box of wedding memorabilia. How fun! One of the things we found was a parchment sent to us by Bishop Vladimir Tarasevitch, who married us. He had brought it from Rome, a blessing signed by then Pope John Paul II. The funny thing was this: the day we found it again was the same day of the canonization of Pope John Paul II. Anyway here it is. I feel this blessing has been a special gift these past thirty years!
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Serve the mankind.
Grind and rhyme all the time, no falling behind,
all soul and rhythm and blues and jazz, newest,
rapper out, I got clout, down with the underground,
Like a crown I shine, the ruler, the scholar who hollers,
showing true colours, flowing with styles,
low from the mainstream hype, the main thing to make hits,
I break like b-boy, for god's sake, my art great, spark like a scud,
mark the techniques, hard hitting and spitting ill formatted,
dope raps. fall back, I got cold facts, why fools like you all really paid,
The preservertists, serve the mankind,
angels with 7 swords, with the wrath,
and bless the righteous man, my people,
got the brightest plans, from goons under the full moon,
to hustlers, some need the slightest gram, we sharp like a harpoon,
fiends and thieves, guns and all the hype, now what the deal?
small time schemes grow, ball all the time, do not get between bro,
I am like a high roller, could of being a slave,
for Coca Cola, I choose the rhythm, let it hit them.
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Job Posting Details
Job # 112124 WRA VO
- Posted Date
- Jul 10, 2014 @ 16:26
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- Jul 11, 2014
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- Age Range
- Middle Aged
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- Internet Video
Job Description
WRA started in 1997 when Mark Farrell and Peter Hubble left the Southwest Florida Water Management District and decided that they wanted to work together on practical projects in the Water Managements field, but also wanted to do more, by expanding into civil, environmental, and geohydrological engineering.
WRA has multiple active projects in the Tampa Bay Area,
including the million square foot mall opening in Sarasota this fall, the only mall under construction in the State of Florida.
Right next to that is the Nathan Benderson aquatic park, which holds a mile long rowing facility, and is set to hold the World Championships for Rowing in 2017
Additionally, a facility that showcases WRA's innovation, St. Leo College needed both a soccer lacrosse field as well as a Parking Facility in a very cramped wetland environment. WRA answered by constructing the soccer field on top of the parking garage.
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Thanksgiving Home School Ideas or just Thanksgiving ideas for kids.
First Thanksgiving Vocabulary Guide
Thanksgiving Lessons - Grades PreK - 2
Thanksgiving Lessons - Grades 3-5
Really net, take a virtual Field Trip to Ellis Island, Explore Ellis Island with a virtual tour so cool
A thrifty mixed family sharing learned experiences and thrifty ideas. Hoping to help others frugally with recycling, up cycling, reuse, re-purpose and more.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
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Coffee and Tea at Russia Restaurant are served with great love and devotion to the traditions and customs of the great country named Russia.
If you have crave for the tasty and at the same time healthy food and if you are searching for these two components in Los Angeles, Glendale or North Hollywood then we are happy to represent to your attention Russia Restaurant where you will enjoy not only the best dishes but also the best atmosphere in the whole world. Coffee and Tea at Russia Restaurant are amazing and have a unique taste and bear the traditions of the amazing and powerful country named Russia.
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You can just drop in at Russia Restaurant and taste Coffee and Tea ("Кофе и чай") at Russia Restaurant as here every thing has amazing taste and looks fantastically great. Come, have a bit of the best dishes, drink Coffee and Tea and you will understand that the amazing smells and tastes are every where at Russia Restaurant. Welcome!


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It occurred to me this morning that the basic conflict in the world now is between creative and interesting weird people and reliable but boring people. For most of human history, the default was reliable and boring. Our lives depended on being reliable and predictable members of a small group. Creativity might be fun, but more times than not changing anything changed it for the worse. Humans adopted new technologies only after a long period of observation and only once it became clear that the new method was necessary or so clearly better than the old one that failing to adopt it would be dangerous. To use one recent example, firearms were inaccurate and far more dangerous to the one using them than to anything else from their introduction in the late 13th century until the end of the 15th. That is, from the late 1200's until the very late 1400's, archers were better than riflemen. The creative souls who invented guns died thinking their invention was mostly a failure. Cannon were more useful but principally for knocking down fortifications, and since sieges were worse for the besieges than the besieged, cannon were still less desireable than a good infantry battle. Novelty requires the leisure time and surplus of goods to play with the novelty until its use becomes apparent, and for the large majority of human history we didn't have the surplus necessary. So, most people were boring but reliable, and weirdness was sharply discouraged.
You will, of course, have already seen the problem here. Eventually adopting novelty becomes necessary and failing to do so at the right time means catastrophe. Groups that delayed too long in adopting the new stuff eventually get eliminated. China in the 17th Century thought itself superior to the European interlopers and for centuries it had been so. By the end of the 19th century Europeans owned large chunks of China and manipulated its government, and largely controlled its economy. Since the advent of machine production and now with the vastly greater automation capacity of electronics, we have far more stuff than we really need, and clearly enough to reward the weird and creative for being weird and creative. Thus, we have artist celebrities and inventors and scientists and all manner of fascinating but clearly odd people in important places.
So far, so ordinary. What is the point? Societies were being boring and reliable are desirable are homogenous ones. People have to be predictable in such places, and the prerequisite to being predictable is having mostly the same looks and tastes and motivations. This works great for hunter-gatherers and small village farmers. Now, however, we don't live in homogenous villages, and failing to be part of the predictable and boring default group has painful economic consequences. In a world where the preferences of certain kinds of white males are the default, not sharing those preferences or being unable to share those preferences means forever being excluded from power and influence. That, in turn, means living a much more precarious life than someone who is part of the dominant group would. In the language I've been using, there are people whose normal is weird to the dominant group and who suffer for wanting to be normal according to their own terms.
So, still, what's the point? Humans like boring and predictable, yet we now live in a world where there is a lot of reward for those who disrupt things and at the same time reward the preferences of one particular dominant group. Thus, both the predictable and reliable AND the creative weird live in stressful and unpleasant realities. The predictable blame the creative types for being weird and the creative types blame the predictable for being repressive and boring. Trump voters are mostly boring; Democrats are mostly creative.
Finally, my point: right now, being boring is worse than being weird. We do not live in a predictable world, and consequently trying to cling to predictable things makes the world a lot worse. We have to find a way to make those who prefer predictability as part of the dominant group comfortable with what to them is weird. As a diehard Weird Novelty Seeker, this is important to me. We are most successful when we present ourselves as wanting normal -- black students wanting to eat lunch at Woolworths, gay people wanting to marry, women wanting recognition for our intellect instead of our looks, transpeople wanting to just go to the damned bathroom -- all were recognized as wanting to be part of normal and were mostly successful at doing so. We lose when the other side paints us as weird.
We have to find a way to make the boring understand that different people have normal needs.
Friday, September 08, 2017
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Resolutions for the Trump Era
1. I will not suggest that he is somehow not actually the President. He is formally entitled to the office under the rules established for that office. I will, at the same time, continue to note that those rules were made up in the 18th century as a way of preserving the power of slaveowners at the expense of everyone else. Furthermore, I will not suggest or support any suggestions that we redo the elections because of possible foreign interference, Trump's own extraordinary conflicts of interest and general incompetence. The Constitution has a procedure for removing Presidents once they take office. If the facts warrant removal, then follow those rules. If not, then we defeat him at the polls. Trump lost the popular vote by a large margin and is historically unpopular. We work with those things.
2. I will not share or otherwise publicize obviously fake or poorly-sourced news stories about his alleged salacious activities. Mostly because his policies start at catastrophic and go on up to mass-extinction-event level; paraphrasing the great Molly Ivins, he's going to screw enough people in office so we don't need to worry about who he's screwing after hours. (On the Pee-Pee Tape: his kink is gross but so long as everyone was willing and of age, it's none of my business. It shows an arrogant disregard for the poor maids who had to clean up after him, but other than that no one should care.).
3. I will not criticize his family unless they insert themselves into policy making. I will never criticize Melania's or Ivanka's looks or aesthetic choices as a backhanded way of attacking him. To the extent possible I will completely ignore their existence.
4. I will not cut off anyone of my actual friends because they supported him. They were wrong, but unless I have concrete evidence that they supported Trump because they hate dark-skinned people or women, they get the benefit of the doubt. I will not let Cheeto Mussolini prevent me from sharing my friends' lives, especially their vacation and baby pictures. I am not denying myself their music, art, recipes, and jokes because the rest of the country elected a buffoon.
5. Most importantly, I will never share or endorse any ridicule directed at Trump voters who will suffer under his horribly policies. That guy who disliked Obamacare but loved the ACA needed help, not abuse. The Republican Party treated Obama's policies like Cotton Mather treated witches -- as means to obtain power by lying. That people who don't have the privileges that I do to check on such things fell for it reflects on the liars and not their victims. I will do whatever I can to help these people, including explaining how Democratic polices are better for them than Republican ones.
6. Finally, I will not give up andI will not stop opposing him and his evil policies. Someone suggested that wanting the President to fail is like wanting the pilot on my airplane to fail. If the pilot announced that he was going to fly the plane into the ground, damn straight I want him to fail. I want everyone who can to work to stop him, Same here. His policies, such as they are, are all horrible. They need to be stopped.
The next four years are going to be at best trying and, well, I'm not going to say what the worst will be. I have to believe that we're better than this and that we can inspire our fellow citizens to correct this mistake as soon as possible.
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Reducing all men to two extremes "nice guy" vs "bad boy", "alpha" vs "beta", "dominant" vs "submissive" is problematic. funny enough, this is the kind of thing that actually drives guys to act in manipulative and shady ways. Only driving these stereotypes.
Guys are so much more than a media-fuelled type and have complex emotions and inner lives like everyone else. However, some try to forcefully hide it. Caught up in an act, a lot of guys attempt to play the part. So concerned with how others will perceive them - especially girls - they end up coming across as glazed-eyed emotionless robots and falling for these one-size-fits-all pick-up artists tactics of seducing women. And fail miserably. Of course.
On the other hand, a special breed of guys exists. Those that embrace their true nature. These dudes are sincere, genuine, and humble - those who know they are imperfectly perfect, they are the ones that end up coming across as the most charming and dreamy. It goes against the classic fairy tale trope, but most girls end up falling for the awkward guy, just because - he's real.
In the next pages we will be exploring the "anatomy" of the awkward guy, what is he really like and what you need to know if you are dating him or considering it. We will look at what you can expect from the first interactions, hanging out and in a relationship. We will also zoom in real close and shed light on the awkward guy during conflict and behind closed doors. Read on for more!


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"The only thing that counts is faith working through love."
~Galatians 5:6a (NRSV)
For God so loved the world... that is part of the most famous of biblical verses—John 3:16. It could never be said, truthfully, that God hasn't fallen in love with his world. The Father gave his Son for it. The Son died for it. The Holy Spirit is its hope.
If God is indebted to himself to work, eternally, through the process of creation, our Lord is certainly pressing us to do the same thing—to engage in faith that works through love; the acts of good works.
God has seven interests so far as the world is concerned:
The Poor and Needy
Poverty has always been an issue, but more than ever it knocks at our door. In this global world, even though we have the technological wherewithal, we still have significant inroads to make in reducing poverty and slavery.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news to the poor, but many of the poor are missing out on it. Whilst there will always be need (Matthew 26:11, cf. Mark 14:7, John 12:8), we may or may not always have opportunities to meet that need.
We can say with a perfect sense of assurance: God yearns to equip the poor and needy.
The Hungry – Physically and Spiritually
It's difficult to know what's worse: physical or spiritual hunger that cannot be sated.
Whilst there is a famine sweeping pockets of the
We can say with a perfect sense of assurance: God yearns to feed the hungry.
The Outcast
The gospel according to Luke shows us, through the eyes of an outlier, the wondrous focus that Jesus made of the outcast.
Touching the untouchable, caring for the handicapped, enabling the disabled, becoming as eyes to the blind, loosening the tongues of the speechless, binding up demonic powers, and uprooting addictions—these are all central to God's passionate concern.
We can say with a perfect sense of assurance: God yearns to love the outcast.
The Imprisoned and the Persecuted
Christ came to set people free, yet there are many in life, due to the workings of the judicial system, that are not free. Because of poor decisions or not people find themselves incarcerated beyond their will. Our task is compassion.
Compassion has many forms, but in this case it's simply care. It's visiting people in prison, witnessing God's grace to them, not usually through words, but through our manner. It's caring for the persecuted and absorbing hatred—not propagating it. It's also calling alive the gospel truth that nothing can separate us from Christ.
We can say with a perfect sense of assurance: God yearns for the protection and spiritual liberation of the imprisoned and the persecuted.
Children and the Vulnerable
God's intrinsic heart is after the child—we are all, or have been, children. We're certainly God's children. This heart of the Lord extends to the suffering—those captivated beyond sense of freedom.
Our role in exemplifying God is of mercy, the gentle touch, with no essence of bitterness, always empathising with the concerns of the day.
We can say with a perfect sense of assurance: God yearns for the rights of children and the vulnerable.
This level of help is not open to everyone, perhaps, but everyone has money to give, as shown by the poor widow (Luke 21:2). But philanthropy suggests riches, and those with riches ought to clothe the kingdom in whatever splendour they can procure.
This is also about love of money versus love for God. It's about cheerful giving (2 Corinthians 9:7) and the stewardship of whatever riches God has given us.
We can say with a perfect sense of assurance: God yearns to see the broadening of the kingdom objective through the giving of material wealth.
The Power of Deeds over Words
Faith must be active in love and good works must be timed well. These are ways that grace works.
Faith, consequentially, bears fruit. Indeed, there is not a differentiation between Paul and James—they both speak the same language and exhort the same message: faith expressing itself through works is love.
We can say with a perfect sense of assurance: God yearns for words to be converted to action.
God is passionate about you and I, for we have a unique share in what interests the Lord. Faith must express itself through works, for that is love. These seven interests, then, speak of how we please God in the manner of our activity in, through, and for love.
© 2011 S. J. Wickham.
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Looking for some places to have a meeting/lunch for 25-30 people. Good food and nice ambiance. We have monthly meetings and try to find new and interesting places.
I am also looking for a casual/outside location, for our June Meeting. Would like to be able to hang out afterwards and enjoy the sun. Some type of clambar/burger/sandwich type place.


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Last week, we had a discussion over the design and configuration of an Exchange 2007 server in a DRS.
Of course, as always, there isn't one answer that fits all. There are a few questions you need to answer to get to a solution that fits your needs:
- How will the data be replicated to the server located in the DRS?
- How performant is the link between the main site and the DRS?
- How important is are the e-mails within your company?
- How much money do you have to spend?
Let's go over the questions one by one to come to our solution.
1. How will the data be replicated to the server located in the DRS?
There are 4 different replication menthods:
a) Synchronous replication: the Exchange host receives a "successful write" response when the operation is complete on the local AND remote locations.
I. guaranteed no data loss (how is that for a sole advantage … )
I. reduced performance (site link, link utilization, distance very important since mails have to saved to both local and remote storage)
II. more expensive than asynchronous replication
III. need for 3rd party software
b) Asynchronous replication: the Exchange host writes to the local storage and the data is replicated independently afterwards
I. not as heavy on performance indicators as synchronous replication
II. cheaper than synchronous replication
III. native Exchange 2007 technology (LCR, SCR & CCR)
IV. robust: (in case of a CCR no single failure will lead to a loss of service)
I. no guarantee against data loss can be provided
c) Host-based replication: a filter driver manages the replication (and needs to cut the I/O stream to do this)
d) Storage-based replication: replication at storage level (more performant than host-based replication)
2. How performant is the link between the main site and the DRS?
Whether you choose synchronous or asynchronous replication might not just depend on the budget you have to spend, but also on the environment that is already in place. Be aware that choosing synchronous replication will not only reduce the number of mailboxes per server (up to 75 % reduction in mailboxes/server scalability), the site link is largely impacted as well.
The tools LoadSim and JetStress are developed by Microsoft to test latencies and storage throughput.
3. How important is are the e-mails within your company?
As said above, asynchronous replication cannot guarantee that all data will be retained in case of a "disaster", while synchronous replication does (providing the site links are operational). However, Exchange 2007 is designed to lose as little information as possible in case of a failure. Thanks to the LCR, CCR and SCR technologies, the losses should be minimized to read/unread messages statuses, incomplete contact, calendar entries, … If this is acceptable for your SLA, they offer a really good solution. Of course, if databases have to be moved to a new stand-by Exchange server, some downtime will be unavoidable.
4. How much money do you have to spend?
I guess this point is pretty clear. Choosing between LCR, SCR and CCR have already huge price effects on your budget. If your SLA requires you to choose for synchronous replication, this price will mount exponentially since third party software will have to be purchased, installed, configured, received training on, …
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Replicate Exchange to a DRS (Disaster Recovery Site): Design
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