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The Real Story Behind the Phrase 'In the Nick of Time'
When something gets done 'in the nick of time,' it means the clock is about run out, and whatever needed doing almost didn't get done at all. In the movie 'The Hangover,' the guys have a wild bachelor's party weekend in Las Vegas, and only make it back to Los Angeles for the groom's wedding 'in the nick of time.'
But where exactly does this oft-used expression come from?
It has its roots in pudding
Centuries ago, people used to keep track of time in a completely different way. It was a far more general concept, often related to when people sat down to eat. Pudding time referred to the first dish of the meal being served, although the pudding in question wasn't the sweet stuff we gobble down today.
The pudding changed, but the idea remained the same
The word 'pudding' eventually changed and was used to describe a sweet dish that came after the meal. Therefore 'pudding time' could no longer be used to mark the start of something, whether it was the hour for chow, or a particular time of the day.
Nicks and tally sticks became a way to keep tabs of time
Tally sticks were once used to keep precise records. Perhaps in some backwater places, they still are. A nick or a small notch cut into a tally stick marked a score, or a specific measurement. Every nick counted for an individual unit of something, and that could be applied to a unit of time as well. Thus 'nicks of time' replaced 'pudding time.'
Nicks can equal big bucks
So, to shed a bit more light on this expression, you can ponder this example: a gentleman living in the 17th century pays a stable boy to look after his horse. When he comes to collect his horse several hours later, he arrives just as the stable boy is about to carve another nick into his tally stick (marking the time). By getting there before the knife touches the wood, the gentleman avoids having to pay for any addition time. He's arrived 'in the nick of time.'


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(AP) England, Spain, Bosnia, Russia reach World Cup
By STEVE DOUGLAS
AP Sports Writer
England and defending champion Spain qualified for the World Cup on Tuesday night along with Russia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which earned its first berth as an independent nation.
Chile and Ecuador earned the final two automatic spots from South America. Another berth was at stake in the North and Central American and Caribbean region, the 21st of 32 slots for the field in Brazil next June.
Wayne Rooney scored in the 41st minute and Steven Gerrard in the 88th to give England (6-0-4) a 2-0 win over Poland at London's Wembley Stadium and first place in Group H by one point over Ukraine (6-1-3). The Three Lions qualified for their 14th World Cup and fifth in a row.
Spain (6-0-2) won Group I with a 2-0 victory over visiting Georgia on goals by Alvaro Negredo in the 26th minute and Juan Mata in the 61st. Iker Casillas returned to starting lineup for Spain after being replaced by Victor Valdes against Belarus last week. The Spanish, who have won three straight major tournaments, including the 2008 and 2012 European Championships, qualified for their 10th straight World Cup.
France (5-1-2) was second and will be in the playoffs despite defeating visiting Finland 3-0 on goals by Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema around Joona Toivio's own goal.
Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal, Greece, Ukraine, Romania and Iceland also finished second in their groups, winding up in Monday's draw for the eight-team European playoffs next month along with Sweden and Croatia. The four playoff winners also will earn berths.
With a population of just over 300,000, Iceland would be the smallest nation to qualify for a World Cup. Trinidad and Tobago, at about 1.3 million, was at the 2006 tournament in Germany.
The seedings for the playoffs will be determined by Thursday's FIFA rankings. Denmark (4-2-4) had the poorest record among the nine second-place teams and missed out on a playoff berth.
Bosnia (8-1-1) won 1-0 at Lithuania on Vedad Ibisevic's 68th-minute goal to win Group G on goal difference over Greece. Bosnia-Herzegovina gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1992. Almost 10,000 fans jumped, cried and screamed `Vamos Bosnia' _ or `Go Bosnia' _ when Ibisevic scored in Kaunas.
Fans headed to the airport after the game to wait for their team to arrive in the middle of the night and join the party.
Greece (8-1-1) defeated visiting Liechtenstein 2-0 as Dimitris Salpingidis scored in the seventh minute and Giorgos Karagounis added a goal in the 81st.
Russia (7-2-1) won Group F with a 1-1 tie at Azerbaijan as Roman Shirokov scored in the 15th. Portugal (6-1-3) finished a point back after defeating visiting Luxembourg 3-0 on goals by Silvestre Varela, Nani and Helder Postiga.
Italy, which already had clinched, tied Armenia 2-2 at Naples. Former Real Salt Lake forward Yura Movsisyan scored in the fourth minute for the visitors. Alessandro Florenzi and Mario Balotelli scored for the Azzurri, and Giueseppe Rossi entered in the 73rd minute for his first international appearance since Oct. 7, 2011. A 26-year-old forward who was born and lives in New Jersey, Rossi had been sidelined until last May by a knee injury late that October, which required three operations.
After clinching last week, Germany rallied for a 5-3 win at Sweden as Andre Schuerrle had a second-half hat trick following goals by Mesut Ozil and Mario Goetze.
A 2-1 win by Chile (9-6-1) over visiting Ecuador (7-5-4) earned both nations berths. Alexis Sanchez scored for Chile in the 35th minute and Gary Medel added another three minutes later, while Felipe Caicedo scored for Ecuador in the 66th.
Uruguay (7-5-4) was fifth on goal difference after a 3-2 win at home over already qualified Argentina (9-2-5) and will play a home-and-home playoff against Jordan, the fifth-place team in Asia. Cristian Rodriguez and Edison Cavani scored around a Luis Suarez penalty kick for the hosts, and Maxi Rodriguez had two goals for the visitors.
In CONCACAF, Honduras was three points ahead of Mexico for the region's last automatic berth, and Mexico was three points ahead of Panama for fourth playoff and a playoff against Oceania champion New Zealand. The U.S., which clinched last month, was at Panama, while Mexico was at Costa Rica, and Honduras at Jamaica.
In the African playoffs, Ghana routed Bob Bradley's Egypt national team 6-1 in the first leg of the home-and-home, total-goals series. The second leg is scheduled for Nov. 18 in Cairo.
Bradley was hired by Egypt in September 2011, 15 months after Ghana beat Bradley's U.S. team 2-1 in the second round of the World Cup. The Pharaohs, ranked 50th, have not qualified for the World Cup since 1990.
The 24th-ranked Black Stars have eliminated the U.S. in two straight World Cups and were knocked out by Uruguay on penalty kicks in the 2010 quarterfinals.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Everett Golson threw touchdown passes of 50, 34 and 2 yards, Cierre Wood scored on a 68-yard run and third-ranked Notre Dame beat Wake Forest 38-0 Saturday to finish the season undefeated at home for the first time since 1998 and keep alive its national championship hopes.
The Fighting Irish improved to 11-0 for the first time since 1989 and need to beat Southern California to finish a regular season undefeated for the first time since 1988, the last time they won a national championship. The Demon Deacons (5-6) fell to 1-33 all-time against top 5 teams, their lone win coming against No. 4 Tennessee in 1946.
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Sources say the Santa Monica Police Department and the L.A. County District Attorney are fully aware 47-year-old Jennifer Campbell has been despondent for years over her infertility and has spoken openly to friends that she wanted to end her life.
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Growing up in the Cultural Revolution
I thought I knew the story of Wenguang Huang, who will be the commencement speaker at the University of Illinois Springfield May 12. After all, I've known Wen for 21 years, first as my student at UIS and later as a dear family friend. He met my extended family, picked apples in my husband's orchard and even flew from Chicago to Boston for my son's wedding.
I was wrong.
Sure, I knew he had grown up in China during the Cultural Revolution, was involved in student protests at the time of Tiananmen and had embraced democracy after a short time in the United States. Not until I read his just-published and captivating memoir did I realize the extent of his journey.
Most of all, I did not know he had been the keeper of his grandmother's coffin, a fact that stands at the center of The Little Red Guard.
In the book, Wen details his life in Maoist China and his family's conflict over clinging to the old Confucian ways or embracing communism. Nothing represents this divide more than his grandmother's wish to be buried in her home village and the government's mandate for cremation, her worst fear. Wen's father risks his standing in the party, the family's finances and his wife's anger to honor, as a filial son, his mother's demand he have a coffin ready for her eventual departure.
Caught in the middle is the young Wen, who dutifully spouts the communist doctrine at school but sleeps next to his grandmother's secret coffin for years. Outwardly he is on the path to party membership. At home he is the favored first grandson and loyally laps up his grandmother's love.
"As a 'Little Red Guard,' I was supposed to defend and fight for Chairman Mao's revolution, not to guard Grandma's coffin," he writes. "Each time I looked at the Little Red Guard scarf around my neck, I felt a pang of guilt. I was even hit with a fleeting thought of reporting it to my teacher. Then, the idea of seeing Father being paraded publicly deterred me. Besides, Grandma would die of a broken heart and nobody would take care of me."
Despite distancing himself from his homeland, Wen can't shake free of his home. After years of suppressing the tension among his father, mother and grandmother, symbolized by the empty coffin in the room, Wen allows his memories to break free in this coming-of-awareness memoir. It reads like a novel as he journeys through the changes in his country and himself.
He paints vivid portraits of his mother coping with three generations in a two-room house, his father's loyalty to hard work and communist ideals and his grandmother's tiny bound feet. His three siblings get little attention until late in the book, but then this is Wenguang Huang's story. His story is one I am now, and others soon will be, happy to know.
Mary Bohlen taught thousands of students, including Wenguang Huang, at SSU/UIS before retiring in August. She is now a freelance writer and editor.
About Wenguang Huang
Wenguang Huang, a 1991 graduate of the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois Springfield, will be the featured speaker at the UIS commencement Saturday, May 12, at the Prairie Capital Convention Center. His book, The Little Red Guard, was published April 26 by Riverhead Books, a member of the Penguin Group (U.S.A.) Inc.
Huang lives in Chicago and has written for such publications as The Paris Review, Harper's, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune and the Asia Literary Review. He also is the English translator of The Corpse Walker and God is Red by Lian Yiwu and Woman from Shanghai by Yang Xianhui.


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According to Kent Somers of the Arizona Republic, King has been unable to participate in OTAs after having surgery on his knee this offseason.
The Cardinals are hopeful he can begin practicing again with the team in June. King dealt with a knee injury last season for the Cardinals. He appeared in 12 of 16 games for Arizona and caught 17 passes for 129 yards on the year.


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dateinside of a cron tab job?
I have a server in Amazon EC2 that I run a backup script on with cron. However, it is not working. To test out if cron is working, I did the following:
Logged into the server and switched to root. I then ran "crontab -e". It has the following lines:
29 00 * * thu tar -zcvf /home/<user removed>/Dropbox/Backup/DirBackup_$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz /var/www/html/
30 00 * * thu mysqldump -u <removed> -h <removed> -p<removed> --opt <removed> > /home/<user removed>/Dropbox/Backup/database-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).sql
*/1 * * * * touch /tmp/foo
So, the touch command should go every minute, and the others should run at 00:29 and 00:30 on Thursday. Here is what the logs say:
Sep 20 00:27:01 ip-10-204-142-149 CROND[16888]: (root) CMD (touch /tmp/foo)
Sep 20 00:28:01 ip-10-204-142-149 CROND[16890]: (root) CMD (touch /tmp/foo)
Sep 20 00:29:01 ip-10-204-142-149 CROND[16898]: (root) CMD (tar -zcvf /home/<user removed>/Dropbox/Backup/DirBackup_$(date +)
Sep 20 00:29:01 ip-10-204-142-149 CROND[16900]: (root) CMD (touch /tmp/foo)
Sep 20 00:30:01 ip-10-204-142-149 CROND[16913]: (root) CMD (mysqldump -u <removed> -h <removed> -p<removed> --opt <removed> > /home/<user removed>/Dropbox/Backup/database-backup-$(date +)
If I check the time stamps on the /tmp/foo folder, they are changing every minute. If I check Dropbox, the files are not there. (I am using "ls /home//Dropbox/Backup/" to check this to verify that it is not a Dropbox upload problem) They should be! I tested that by copy/pasting the command from cron onto the command line....it works great!
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Home Depot Distribution System Developer Tom Williams Presents at WCS Webinar on June 10t
PRLog (Press Release)[1] - May 31, 2014 - Thomas N. Williams will bring decades of expertise to an upcoming webinar starting at Noon EST on Tuesday, June 10th. Williams is a systems and industrial engineer with thirty-five years of experience designing, developing, and implementing highly productive and cost-effective software and hardware solutions for high-volume distribution systems. His company has won national awards for design in both the US and Canada. Williams' client roster includes Home Depot (Atlanta, GA), UPS Airhub (Louisville, KY), and Under Armour (Baltimore, MD).
The topic of the webinar is Warehouse Control Systems (WCS) versus Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and how to pick the right solution. This informative session will allow Williams to bring his formidable background to the conversation.
Williams noted, "The Material Handling industry continues to change. Recently, ecommerce and multichannel distribution have added new layers of complexity to the supply chain. The IT industry has evolved in response to these changes. We will review the various warehouse control solutions that are available and provide guidelines for making intelligent IT decisions."
Immediate webinar registration is strongly suggested at: http://www.qcsoftware.com/register[2].
QC Software (www.qcsoftware.com[3]) is proud to host the event and is recognized as an industry leader for order fulfillment and distribution centers. These innovative software solutions help North American and European distribution centers and warehouses to streamline operations with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. Warehouse managers realize increased system productivity and dependability.
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A U.S. Marine tests the new M32 MGL (MGL-140) in Iraq
The Milkor MGL-140 (Mk.1L) six-shot 40mm grenade launcher is the world's first mass-produced multi-shot 40mm hand-held weapon. Developed by the South-African company Milkor, it entered production in 1983, and served with South-African National Defense Forces for more than twenty years. Since the 1996, an improved version of the basic design entered the production, it has been designated MGL Mk.1. The Milkor MGL is also used by more than twenty other countries worldwide. Milkor MGL offers significant firepower increase, compared to US-made M79 single shot 40mm launcher. The rapid-fire capability (six shots in less than three seconds) is essential in ambush situations and in quick-pacing urban warfare. The Milkor Mk.1 is now offered for export, and an almost exact copy of Mk1, is manufactured in Croatia by the RH Alan Company as RGB-6. The most recent modifications of the Mk.1 launcher, which are manufactured and offered in USA under license by the Milkor Marketing Inc., are the Milkor Mk.1S and Milkor MK-140. These two launchers differ from original Mk.1 by having stronger, stainless steel frame (as opposed to the original aluminum frame), as well as by having four Picatinny-type accessory rails around the barrel. The difference between Mk.1S and Mk-140 is the length of the cylinder - while Mk.1S retains the original cylinder, the Mk-140 has a longer cylinder, which can accommodate a wider variety of the less-lethal 40mm ammunition, which usually has longer warheads. Both types also an fire all standard 40x46mm 'lethal' ammunition, including HE, HE-FRAG, HEDP and others.
The Milkor Mk.1 is a revolver type, hand-held grenade launcher. The six-shot cylinder is rotated by the clockwork-type spring for each shot. Spring is wound manually during the reloading. For reloading, the rear part of the frame (along with the pistol grip) is unlocked and then rotated sideways around the top strut of the frame, until the chambers in the cylinder are exposed for reloading. Once cylinder is reloaded, the rear part of the frame is rotated back and locked into position. The double-action firing mechanism has a manual safety above the pistol grip. All Mk.1 launchers are fitted with the red-dot type sight, with range scale. Modern versions, M.1S and Mk.1L, also can be fitted with other types of sighting equipment, using Picatinny rail on the top of the barrel. The top folding shoulder stock has a rubber recoil pad.


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I just couldn't help jumping on this bandwagon. These terrariums look so adorable on Etsy so when I saw this dusty little number on the shelf at the thrift store I had to pick it up. I know mine will never be as perfect as this one or this one or this one but I am going to see what I can come up with.
As promised I am going to go a little link crazy here and share some wish list tutorials. You all needed a weekend project anyway, right? Well if you do you will certainly find something here. So much inspiration:
I'll probably never make this as little girls are pretty scarce in my life but I have bookmarked it just in case
I also have a copy of Weekend Sewing here from the library with plenty of temptations calling to me. Those beautiful crafting books usually are due back at the library before I get a chance to start on anything though. Maybe I'll actually spring for my own copy one of these days. Then the pressure would really be on to make something.
Here's the plain truth though: weather forcast for the weekend - awesome. I probably won't do a lick of crafting but will hopefully get a little color and lots of vitamin D.


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Congrats on the nice work, Jonny! I wish you were shooting a ½" sensor camera so you could shoot the over/under shot of breaching humpback. Can't wait to see it on the big screen.
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Three years ago today we had no idea what was in store for us when Jackson made his quick and easygoing entrance into our lives. And he has continued the quick and easygoing approach to almost everything he does.
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Let's face it: magic dissipates after a time, creatures die or fall apart, and even poisons loose their effect eventually. But a sturdy mechanism, be it just a simple affair or a complicated machine, can hold for centuries, millenia if you are lucky.
And then there are the pit traps, smartly constructed rooms and countless other ways how to make sure your privacy is undisturbed. Do not underestimate them: they can be much cheaper than the alternatives, and much more reliable.
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The problem for the pc's in-game arose when they spotted the tripwire and disabled it. They gummed-up the holes where the wire ran through, and cut it. This meant that the floor would now not move, and cut off their way that they came in, as well as the way to the werewolves' den. Instead, they now had to make their way down to the bottom of the chasm & back up on the other side. The players didn't find out that the floor was even supposed to move until I revealed this after the adventure was over... They had heard the odd sound from the floor moving (the werewolves moving about), but didn't discover what caused it until I told them after the game.
It is in a long hallway or set of hallways. The floor is stone or tile. Underneith a few tiles are mechanisms that "click" when you step upon them.
So people are walking along, and they hear a somewhat audible "click". They then panic and dodge. This happens a couple of times as they go down the hall. After they walk along for a bit, they can see at the far end of the hall there is an open "pit" where the floor swung open. It does not move when the clicks occur. They assume that it is a broken trap. The last click just before they reach the edge of the pit causes the floor underneith them to half drop to an angle, sliding them into a set of angled spikes or a water trap.
(see a follow up to this trap below My Second Favorite Trap )
In a very large and very old city (Citadel, Formour), the inhabitants have built additional layers, so that what was once ground-level streets are now subterranean sections. The pc's are slogging through the darkness and making a wide turn through what was once a curved road. They had a recent encounter, so only one person was carrying a torch, with the rest armed and ready. As they rounded the bend, they saw a glimmer of torchlight ahead and heard accompanying noises. They quickly dropped the torch, ducked into an alcove (what was once the opening to a shop), and noticed that the other torchbearer did likewise. Peering carefully around the corner, they could barely make out in the dimness the gleaming of metal from the other group, armed and ready for battle. After arguing about what to do and failing to come to a mutually satisfying plan, one of the guild rushed out--seeing a member of the opposing team running to meet him--and fired his crossbow... Crash! Shattering glass rained down with a deafening noise. There was no opposing group. The pc's were afraid of their own reflection from an old large pane of glass left in an abandoned storefront. The torch and gleaming metal of weapons were their own, and the noise was just echoes. Their own paranoia was the trap.
This one has been done numerous times, but bears repeating. There is an obvious pit in a corridor. It can seem bottomless, be spiked, have a waiting monster, whatever--it's an ordinary open pit in a dungeon. The pit is a bit too large to safely jump, especially given the ceiling height, but there is a small ledge one one side. If they are careful, the pc's can scoot along this ledge to the other side--scary but doable. However, once the group is starting across (especially if they don't go one at a time), the ledge falls (simple weight-activated sliding bar) or crumbles, dropping them into the pit. Even if they only go across singly, you can still have one or more people on either side, with someone trapped and possibly dying down in the pit.
This is an idea I used many many moons ago, when I was rather a novice GM. It works best if the pc's are running from an encounter, or have other reason not to notice small sounds or an odd floor. Prior to this trap, the flooring consists of rubber mats over gravel, uneven sections, and the like. Once the players start to get bored of this as "flavour text dungeon dressing" you spring the trap. The hallway opens up so that the floor is all that they can see in their light radius, and it makes a wide corner so that they cannot see very far either in front or behind. In a fantasy setting, you can have an air shaft blow out their torches to further cast them into darkness. Inside this section of hallway is a large and well-oiled treadmill, tilted slightly upwards. The player-characters have already become accustomed to odd walking surfaces, and the air shaft or chasing monsters will hide whatever small noises the treadmill makes--as will the pc's own noises. The troupe can potentially walk for hours without gaining any ground, and the area is frequently checked by local dungeon dwellers who know of this trap & how to get the tasty treats it holds...
This trap must be later in the dungeon where my favorite trap has been sprung. If not sprung twice (once for spikes once for water). Down the hall, if you shine the light, there will be a pit. When you walk forward, there will be a click.
Okay same drill as before... so the characters get bored and since they know the score for this trap, they are pretty careless. This time, about halfway down the hallway, the click triggers extending spears. Either way you move down the hall, once the center click has been activated... the extending spears will shoot out of the left and right walls (at varying heights) as you move up or down the corridor. Eventually the spears retract, set to spring again.
A set of stairs leading to a mansion door would be a nice setting.
The trap is laid by having a section of floor cut out. A support beam, or several beams, holds this section of floor upright in its place from a burrowed out cave below, or even a set of tunnels. A small section of floor should be selected, perhaps 3' in diameter.
When the victim steps up on the cut out platform a ghoul pulls the beam out from the supported floor piece, thus causing the PC to fall to their doom. The fall itself may only be 6' or so and not even cause any damage. The 6 ghouls that wait below is another matter. Once again this one is not technically a trap, its just a support beam. Its not the floor's fault, someone pulled the beam.
This trap is used by paranoid keepers of ancient libraries, sorcerors jealous of their knowledge, and other book lovers everywhere.
A very simple trap, it involves distributing various volumes throughout the library, or in regions of very sensitive books which the trapper believes are important. These trap books appear to be a regular book in every way, but their pages usually contain nothing but gibberish, and they are poorly bound. Hidden amongst the pages of these books are flexible leaves of razor-sharp metal- when the libral trespasser innocently takes hold of the book, flipping through it's pages, said trespasser finds their fingers and hands quite hideously damaged.
Of course, this trap functions almost purely by chance- an innocent chooser may be just as likely to take hold of a true book as one of these trap books. But many have found them to be excellent, especially in the tracing by blood-trail, if not the killing, of book thieves.
Quote from CaptainPenguin: "This trap is used by paranoid keepers of ancient libraries, sorcerors jealous of their knowledge, and other book lovers everywhere."
This trap works for books that are hand scribed and of stiff paper. Many of these books have "scripting" in the upper or lower corners, perhaps inking along the very outer page edge. The ink of certain books include a deadly poison.
How this works: People who read often lick their fingers to get a good grip on the paper when they turn the page. The ink transfers to the finger. The finger transfers to the mouth. The reader slowly poisons himself as he turns the pages.
If you know it is a "dangerous book" you just take care not to lick your fingers - using something else to move the pages.
Thank you CP for dislodging this idea from my brain.


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Macey Scholar Ahmed HussienSOCORRO, N.M. May 10, 2011 -- A graduate of Los Lunas High School, Ahmed Hussien has been active in a variety of academic and extracurricular activities since coming to New Mexico Tech.
In addition to maintaining a 3.87 GPA, Hussien has competed successfully in a national Geo-Institute conference, in a competition called GeoPrediction, finishing second in 2010. He also was a leader of the Civil Engineering Department's steel bridge team that competed at regionals in 2010.
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He worked as a residential assistant for one semester before being asked to serve as the senior residential assistant for three dorms, which later grew to five dorms. That service lead to Hussien being asked to serve as the sole student on the architectural committee that judged the 12 firms that bid to construct the new dorm.
"There was a lot of pressure to pick the right company," Hussien said. "That showed me how the process works. It was exciting."
He has also been involved in Tau Beta Pi and its community service projects. Through Res Life, he has helped plan 49ers, Spring Fling and the President's Dance.
"I feel that helping the community is an integral component to improving New Mexico Tech," he said.
Two faculty members and one staff member nominated Hussien for the Macey Scholars award.
Dr. Mehrdad Ravazi, assistant professor of mineral engineering, wrote that Hussien is an exceptional student academically and a dedicated person.
"His excellent performance is the direct result of his hard work and strong focus," Ravazi wrote. "Ahmed is a pleasant and responsible person who takes his professional work very seriously."
Dr. Claudia Wilson praised Hussien for his leadership in the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and that he has played an integral part in the success of the chapter.
Hussien said that through ASCE he hopes to show that New Mexico Tech has a strong program in civil engineering and that the field is both difficult and fun.
Mitchell Tappen, Director of Residential Life, said Hussien has proved himself to be a valuable asset to his team.
"Though technically I supervise Ahmed, he has done such an outstanding job as a residential assistant that he leaves me little to oversee," Tappen wrote. "I have the utmost faith Ahmed can handle any situation to the point I no longer have need to give him direction."
Hussien didn't choose civil engineering immediately. "I started taking classes and really liked it," he said. "We solve real problems. I hopefully will be building structures that last longer than I do."
Hussien wants to pursue a master's and a PhD, but might choose to start his career first. His career goal is to design and engineer buildings in areas with high seismic risk.
"Tech has given me all the basics for what I'll build upon," he said. "Most importantly, Tech has made me grown as a person. Tech has showed me a lot about human nature and gave me a better idea of managing people and being a leader – which is far more important than just the math."


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"The best way I've ever been able to describe a car is think of it as a really complicated wind instrument. The engine is sucking air in, it's causing an explosion, and it's sucking air out. That creates a note that resonates through the pipe much as you would with a brass instrument. By adjusting the length and the diameter of the pipe, you change the note of the car."
That's Turn 10 creative audio director Nick Wiswell on how the studio goes about recreating the vehicles in Forza Horizon, in the latest behind-the-scenes documentary from Kill Screen. Sure, these documentaries are kinda promotional, but they're also thoughtful and interesting, and worth a watch.
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At this stage I can hang up my hat - these guys are doing a better job. But before I retire, I might ask one question - what's up with Cuba? Why does a false birth certificate cost so much? And, they have the answer:
Price to Get a Fake Birth Certificate from Cuba
A man in the US State of Florida was selling counterfeit Cuban birth certificates to illegal immigrants in the United States. Due to US immigration policy, Cuban nationals are able to apply for a green card after one year of being in the country.
The man was selling fake Cuban birth certificates to migrants from Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Each migrant was already in the United States illegally, and paid between $10,000 to $50,000 for the fake documents. By possessing the fake Cuban birth certificates, the migrants attempted to pass off as Cuban nationals to US immigration officials.
According to court documents, the man sold around 50 fake birth certificates and made over $500,000.
Answered! Looks like I'm out of a job! Maybe I should take up forging Cuban birth certificates... Or, go chase these guys who organised a hit in Bahrain using false ID:
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Nice paywall, Mr Murdoch; now what are you going to do about Google?
So after all that talk and months of planning, Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp has finally unveiled his grand scheme to make his newspaper websites turn a profit.
And it is, er, a paywall.
NewsCorp's The Times will charge £1 a day or £2 a week for access.
Bit of a disappointment really. I was at least expecting some form of tiered charging system, a la the Financial Times. But on a global level, a micropayments system, similar to the ones used in online gaming, does seem to have traction.
Can it work? I asked that months ago on my old Media blog. And frankly, we're no nearer any answers. It seems crazy to think that people will pay £1 to read a news story they can read anywhere else for free. The BBC is still out there, of course, and even if it goes through with plans to scale back its online content, there is still the Guardian, which has pledged itself to a free-access future. The Times is really going to have to show it can deliver value-add content, or rely on a very loyal minority. And let's face it, Murdoch's online track record isn't exactly sparkling.
Still, the sums involved are pretty substantial, according to the Guardian:
Assuming that only 5% of daily users convert to the paywall system – a standard metric for paywalls – that would bring in £1.83m if they each buy a £1 daily pass. At a 10% conversion, it would net £3.66m per month for the two papers. If more people of those choose to buy the weekly pass, the revenues would be lower.
Compare that with the £40m made by The Guardian's web division in the last financial year, according to outgoing CEO Carolyn McCall.
The big question now is what to do about Google. We all know that if you paste a headline into Google you can bypass a paywall – just try it with the Wall Street Journal. Should The Times block Google and protect its paywall but hurt search traffic? Or should it be like the WSJ and just pretend nobody knows about that?
There's been a lot of sabre-rattling toward Google from NewsCorp, suggesting it might seriously pull back from Google. Instinctively that feels like a mistake, and something that could seriously set The Times back years. From personal experience I know that news sites get more than half their traffic via search. What's more, The Times seems to be looking for one-off payments rather than tying people in to annual subscriptions. That approach will require regular traffic through the site.
One thing's for sure, though. If Murdoch starts making money from this, there will be a lot of others following him. And the more of them that do so, the less free competition there will be for The Times.
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A physics scholar explores how the combination of science, magic and real life stirred his inner magician.
Stone begins his kaleidoscopic tour through the world of illusion at the 2006 World Championships of Magic in Stockholm, where be beheld tricks of the trade that soon became more life altering than spectacle. A self-described "nerdy and unsocialized" only child, the author was 5 when his father, an eccentric geneticist, gave him a magic kit from F.A.O. Schwarz, which provided him a real-world escape and a perpetual fascination. In a memoir studded with historical factoids, charming anecdotes and a variety of behind-the-curtain insider secrets to classic magic tricks, Stone serves as a winsome tour guide through several wizardly institutions where he gleaned a magical education. After a disastrously amateurish onstage flop, meetings at the Society of American Magicians restored the author's wounded confidence, as did time at a magic school in Las Vegas, an instructional apprenticeship with master illusionist Wesley James, shadowing Manhattan's Canal Street hustlers, and even a stint at clown school. He enthusiastically describes the delicate mechanics of wristwatch stealing, cardsharping and finger calisthenics. Stone's first attempt at exposing trade secrets (an unspoken industry no-no) appeared in a 2008 Harper's article that drew vehement criticism and practically shunned the author from the magical community altogether. Juicy bits aside, there's plenty of eye-opening knowledge on display for those inclined to discover what lies behind the curtain.
Magically engrossing.


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Joe sez: If you've missed the previous guest blogs, they've been fascinating and informative.
You can read Todd Travis talking about fear here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/06/gust-post-by-todd-travis.html
You can read Patrick Balester talking about how he learned to love e-publishing here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/06/guest-post-by-patrick-balester.html
You can read Shantnu Tiwari talking about publishing cliches here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/06/guest-post-by-shantnu-tiwari.html
You can read Mike Dennis talking about noir here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/06/guest-post-by-mike-dennis.html
You can read Douglas Dorow talking about the publishing game here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/06/guest-post-by-douglas-dorow.html
You can read Iain Rob Wright's 10 self-publishing tips here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-iain-rob-wright.html
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Now here's today's guest poster, A.J. Abbiati...
I'd like to take this opportunity to share a nifty little writing tool I created a few years ago.
For those who don't know me, I have a background in science. Twice now I've used that background to solve particularly gnawing artistic problems. The first time came at the start of my MFA program when I found out that, apparently, no university, no workshop, and no how-to book teaches writers how to actually write. Really? Yup. Sad but true. No one teaches a logical, step-by-step process for learning how to construct professional quality prose. As such, I had to figure it out for myself (using a scientific approach), and I wrote The NORTAV Method for Writers so I could teach the process to others (using a non-scientific approach). In fact, some very well-known, well-respected authors, authors who frequent this site, offered me their prose for use as examples in The NORTAV Method, and I want to thank them again for their generosity!
Anyway, the second time science bailed me out of an artistic problem, and the point of this post, came during the writing of my episodic novel Fell's Hollow. Fell's is a dark fantasy, and I needed to come up with three new languages to support certain aspects of the story. I didn't want to make up fictitious words on the fly. That's a rather hack way to go about it, in my view, and experienced readers will pick up on a shortcut in an instant. I also didn't want to pull a Tolkien: I didn't have ten years to build three new languages from the ground up. So I decided to do a little research into linguistics, and I ended up creating a tool that, in a matter of minutes, can define a "new language" from scratch. I call the tool "The Transliterator."
You can download the Excel or PDF version of The Transliterator here. My gift to you.
In the span of this relatively short post I don't have the luxury of walking you through The Transliterator in detail, with screen shots and explanations and all the associated theoretical background, etc., but I can give you an overview of how a transliteration works. If you download The Transliterator, you can follow along as I go, but it isn't necessary to get the gist of the idea.
Basically, The Transliterator will help you transpose the phonetic sounds of an English word or sentence into a non-English representation, using a different set of consonants and vowels, thus recreating the English word in a "new language." (This is not a letter-for-letter transposition from English to something else. That approach introduces WAY too many technical problems, which I won't get into here.) For example, you could set up The Transliterator to map the English vowel sound "i as in fine, line, behind" to a new vowel representation aa. Thus, whenever you encounter the long vowel sound "i" in an English word, you represent it physically and phonetically as aa in the new language. The rest of the transliteration process simply involves tailoring the new language to taste.
Note: The Transliterator is not a computer program! It's a reference sheet on which you mark down and save your transliteration choices for your new language. You then, by hand and by ear and by using the reference sheet, transliterate the words you need, as you need them.
Let's say you're writing a humorous thriller in which the hero must learn how to communicate with a newly resurrected cave man in order to solve a 30,000-year-old mystery. The cave man, we'll call him Grunch, speaks his own strange, prehistoric language that will be quoted throughout the novel. (And of course you want Grunch's language to look and act and sound as real as possible, which is why you use The Transliterator!) There are six steps required to set up The Transliterator. The seventh and final step is to actually perform an English-to-"Grunchian" transliteration.
STEP 1: Choose the Consonants and Vowels for the New Language
Here you need to choose what the new alphabet or script will be. That is, you need to choose the letters and letter combinations that will represent individual Grunchian phonetic sounds. Since you will probably want Grunchian to be a rough and guttural language, you might want to eliminate some of the softer or more pleasant-sounding letters, such as j and f and i, etc. Thus your new Grunchian consonant representations might be:
b, d, dd, g, gg, k, kk, p, pp, r, rr, s, ss, t, tt, v, w, z, gh, kh
And your new Grunchian vowel representations might be:
a, aa, o, u, uu
STEP 2: Map English Consonant Sounds to New Language Consonants
Next you want to map (i.e., assign) each individual phonetic consonant sound from the English language to one of your new Grunchian consonant representations. There are at least 24 individual consonant sounds in the English language, so you will end up with some Grunchian consonants representing more than one English phonetic sound. That is, the Grunchian gg could represent the English sounds "qu as in queen" and also "sh as in shut," just like an English c can sound like a hard k or a soft s.
STEP 3: Map English Vowel Sounds to New Language Vowels
You can probably guess what happens here. Map each individual phonetic vowel sound from the English language to one of your new Grunchian vowel representations. There are at least 16 English vowel sounds, so again, Grunchian vowels will represent more than one English vowel sound. Hence, the Grunchian a could represent the English sounds "uh as in but, ocean, caution" and "oh as in boat, moat, home, comb."
STEP 4: Define New Language Consonant and Vowel Separators
Next you want to decide if Grunchian will be a language that can be pronounced by your readers. After transliterating, you often end up with new words that contain consecutive consonants or vowels that make the new words difficult, awkward, or impossible for English speakers to pronounce. This might be a desired effect (e.g., an alien language), or it might not be. If you want Grunchian to be pronounceable, you can define a standard "separator" vowel to be inserted between any pair of unpronounceable Grunchian consonants in your new words. You can define a standard "separator" consonant to be inserted between any unpronounceable Grunchian vowels as well. For example, if you transliterated the English word frat to the Grunchian dkkaz, you could use a standard consonant separator e to make the word more pronounceable, as in dekkaz.
STEP 5: Define a Syllable Split Value
After transliteration, words can sometimes grow in length due to adding multiple separators or changing a single English letter into a double letter representation in your new language. This may or may not have an impact on the style of language you're trying to create. You probably want to keep your Grunchian words relatively short. You can do this by defining a "syllable split value" and then splitting into two any new word that has more syllables than that value. Simply count that many syllables into each new word and split it at that point if it's longer. Thus if your split value is three, and your new word is ghakuukasoratad, you would end up with two new words after the split: ghakuuka and soratad. After splitting, if you still have words containing more syllables than the split value, you can repeat the process again and again.
STEP 6: Define Custom Start and End Values
Lastly, you now want to take a close look at the new language consonants and vowels you created in STEP
1. After transliterating, separating, and splitting, any new word could theoretically start or end with any of these consonants or vowels. Most will not present a problem, but some might. If you do not want any of your new words to start or end with any particular consonant or vowel, define standard prefixes and suffixes to be used when these undesired consonants or vowels end up at the start or end of a new word. For example, if you do not want any new words to start with the consonant gg, you could define a prefix u to be tacked on the front of any words that do begin with gg after transliterating, separating, and splitting. Thus ggud would end up as uggud. Similarly, if you defined a suffix of d for any words ending in aa, the word rokkaa would become rokkaad. Note: This step can also be used to add even more flavor to your language by defining certain styles of prefixes or suffixes. For instance, adding Latin-like prefixes and suffixes to words will give your new language a magical or scientific feel.
STEP 7: Transliterate
When you finish STEPS 1-6, which shouldn't take more than ten minutes or so, you are now ready to use The Transliterator whenever you need to create words or sentences in your new language. Transliteration consists of five phases (which you already understand if you've gotten this far). I will use our Grunchian example to illustrate the five phases below. (The complete Grunchian setup can be found in The Transliterator.)
I. Choose the English words or sentence to transliterate.
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II. Use the mappings created in STEP 2 and STEP 3 to transliterate your English words or sentence into your new language, one phonetic sound at a time.
Wuk ukh aa guasgh zkkugkhsuzukkaazukk!
III. If desired, use separators between any unpronounceable consonants or vowels.
Wuk ukh aa gunasegh zekkugekhesuzukkaazukk!
IV. If desired, split any overlong words. Repeat if desired.
Wuk ukh aa gunasegh zekkugekh esuzukk aazukk!
V. If desired, add custom prefixes or suffixes where needed.
Wuk ukh kaa gunasegh zekkugekh esuzukk kaazukk!
That's all there is to it.
I hope you find The Transliterator as useful as I have. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at http://ajabbiati.com or http://thenortavmethod.com. If you're interested in checking out the first episode of Fell's Hollow, you can download it for free from my website here.
Joe, thanks so much for the opportunity to guest blog. Tess, I'm thrilled to have contributed to such a worthy cause!
And as Grunch might say…
Zu zu dukk gug!
Joe sez: Thanks, AJ.
I haven't had the need to create a new language, but for many hardcore fantasy writers and readers, it can mean the difference between disappointment and immersion in an alternate world.
Now some savvy programmer reading this needs to take The Transliterator and make it into a computer program, like Babelfish. I can easily see a whole segment of fans geeking out by translating English into something else, and back again, bringing a greater depth and new techy element to fantasy books. Why have a glossary when you can translate for yourself?
I admit that fantasy is one genre I never got into (after the ninth poem in The Hobbit I lost interest in Tolkien) but I also admit that there are plenty of worldwide fans who go nuts for it. In my Timescaster sci-fi series, I took the Burgess Nadsat approach (aka the Adams Watership Down approach) and made up words, acronyms, and portmanteaus to give the book a futuristic feel. But I never understood the lengths writers will go through to attain authenticity in a made-up universe until I read this post.
I have no doubt, AJ, that going to Comic-Con with this will gain you fans, and possibly even some cosplay action.
If anyone has experience creating new languages for their stories, I'd love to hear your comments, and what you think of The Transliterator.


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Fox News' Keith Ablow: Unabomber Was Right That Liberals Are "Psychologically Disordered"
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Fox News' Keith Ablow wrote that serial killer Ted Kaczynski's crimes were "reprehensible" but promoted claims made in Kaczynski's manifesto that liberals are "psychologically disordered."
In a June 26 FoxNews.com column, Ablow claimed that while Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, committed "reprehensible" crimes, he was "precisely correct in many of his ideas." Ablow went on to claim that Kaczynski "must wonder what it will take for Americans to wake up" after "what constitutes the core of a human life" was being threatened by "technology and leftist political leaders." Ablow concluded by promoting Kaczynski's manifesto, claiming "it is time for people to read 'Industrial Society and its Future,' by convicted serial killer Ted Kaczynski" [emphasis original]:
He saw the political "left" as embracing these technologies with special fervor, because they were in keeping with the "leftist" ideology that centralized power was the way to govern men.
He saw these "leftists" as psychologically disordered--seeking to compensate for deep feelings of personal disempowerment by banding together and seeking extraordinary means of control in society.
Well, Kaczynski, while reprehensible for murdering and maiming people, was precisely correct in many of his ideas.
And having seen Barack Obama elected, in part, by mastering the use of the Internet as a campaign tool, then watching his administration preside over eavesdropping on the American public, monitoring their emails and tapping their phones, denying them their due process and privacy, and making a play to disarm them, Kaczynski, must wonder what it will take for Americans to wake up to the fact that their individuality and autonomy--indeed, what constitutes the core of a human life--is under siege (by the very forces he predicted--technology and leftist political leaders).
What the Unabomber did was reprehensible. And he was wrong: Killing people to bring attention to his ideas ended up making most people lock up his ideas, along with him. They became unmentionable, for politically correct folks.
Well, I would rather be correct, than politically correct. And it is time for people to read "Industrial Society and its Future," by convicted serial killer Ted Kaczynski. His work, despite his deeds, deserves a place alongside "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley, and "1984," by George Orwell.
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It's also clear that Leeds fans prefer a plain all white kit with only two shirts in the top six being adorned by a prominent sponsors logo. We will get onto the top six shirts shortly but shirts that did not make the cut but performed well include
the 1976-1981 Admiral Shirt with 6.3%, 1995-1996 LUFC Script with 5.5%, 1988-1990 Top Man with 3.2% and 1998-2000 Packard Bell with 2.4%. The only shirts not to receive any votes were from 2000 onwards and included 2004-2005 Diadorra Whyte & Mackay, 2006-2007 Admiral Bet24 and last seasons 2014-2015 Macron Enterprise Insurance shirt.
You can see the full results here but now onto the top six...
5th) 1990-1992 Evening Post & 1964-1971 Owl Badge (6.5%)
With 6.5% of the vote each sharing joint 5th position in the poll we have two shirts which lifted the First Division title. The classic all white shirt with Owl badge from 1964-1971 was worn as Leeds won the league in 1970 and also lifted the League Cup and a couple of European Fairs Cups. The Yorkshire Evening Post shirt from the 1991-1992 season also saw us lift the league title at the height of Howard Wilkinson's teams success.
4th) 2015-2016 Kappa Plain White (7.6%)
A surprise entry at 4th? The all white Kappa shirt from the current 2015-2016 season proving Leeds' fans fondness for a plain all shite strip. Sadly unlike the previous two shirts I doubt this one will go down in history remembers for it's deeds and titles, still it's a nice shirt though.
3rd) 1971-1973 White LUFC Script (12.1%)
In third spot is the LUFC script kit worn from 1971-1973 and rejuvenated for the 1995-1996 season. Only worn for a couple of seasons it will go down in history as the kit in which we won our only FA Cup in 1972. We were also runners up in 1973, the same year we were Cup Winners Cup runners-up.
2nd) 2000-2002 Nike Strongbow (15%)
In second and leading for much of the way is the Strongbow shirt from the Champions League days. This shirt embodies the most successful and entertaining football of the modern era. Always the bridesmaids finishing 4th in the Premier League and reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League that young team moulded by David O'Leary was always great to watch.
1st) 1973-1976 White Smiley Badge (15.4%)
The smiley badge only featured on Leeds shirts for seven years and only for three in it's original form but it has gone down as an absolute classic. It is not surprising then that the 1973-1976 shirt is your favourite home Leeds United shirt. A plain white kit with a modern, quirky badge, quintessentially 1970s. We won the league in 1974 in this shirt and it featured in perhaps one of the most famous days in the clubs history, the 1975 Champions League final.
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The programme, delivered between 26 and 20 May, focused not only on the theories and benefits of a Green Economy to sustainable development, but also on methodologies for stakeholder awareness raising and programmatic implementation. The concept of a green economy has received increasing international attention recently, as countries explore new patterns of development that take into account economic, social and environmental sustainability considerations. Participants examined different concepts and facets of the green economy, as well as global, national and sector-specific challenges and opportunities to advance low-carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive development.
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- Describe social, environmental and economic benefits of advancing a green economy;
- Identify enabling conditions for greening national economies;
- Identify principal challenges and opportunities for greening key economic sectors;
- Describe national planning processes in support of a green transformation;
- Outline key elements of action plan development;
- Illustrate processes for effective stakeholder identification and integration.
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- This visit examined the central irrigation network, and fair distribution systems which are employed in rural Japan. The visit was preceded by a presentation from the Hiroshima Prefectural Government on the efficiency and fair-distribution models employed in Japan at a Central- and Local-Government level. The role of local actors, farmers, and government representatives was outlined, as were rural renewal policies employed in Japan. Local cooperatives for distribution and value-adding of local produce was also discussed, as were subsidies for solar energy in rural areas.
- The Seibu Recycling Center, located close to Hiroshima city center processes 80 tonnes of recyclable waste per day, on 3 lines. These lines are entirely manual, and the sorting process is done by hand. This low-tech, but very effective approach was selected for its potential implementability in Afghanistan, as well as the related engagement with the local community that such recycling requires. Presentations held by local government representativeness included the processes and policies required to develop and build the recycling center as well as the methods of community engagement and stakeholder integration required to give the populace buy-in to the process.
- Participants were introduced to the bombing of Hiroshima by a representative of the municipal government, who also examined the two-tiered post-conflict reconstruction process engaged in since 1945. Alongside the "hard-infrastructure" redevelopment, the processes and policies required for changing the thinking patterns and values of a community - from that of a military city to one focused on peace and reconciliation - were also outlined. following this a tour of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the ways in which the community has memorialised tragedy for future generations was also discussed. many comments in the evaluation forms outlined this visit as being very meaningful for the participants.
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Today, June 26, is the memorial of St. Josemaria Escriva, the 20th-century priest who founded Opus Dei, a path to holiness through ordinary work, family life, friendship, and such — the stuff of everyday life. His is a decidedly modern spirit, but he conceived it as a retrieval of the way of the "early Christians" (his preferred term). Opus Dei was, he said, "as old as the Gospel and, like the Gospel, ever new." He often cited the authority of the Church Fathers. A quick scan of his books online at EscrivaWorks yields many passages from Clement of Alexandria, Ignatius of Antioch, Tertullian, Ambrose, Justin Martyr, Origen, Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyril of Alexandria, Leo the Great, Jerome, lots and lots from John Chrysostom and Gregory the Great, and dozens from Augustine.
These early Christians were not mere ornaments on his pet project. His vocation was itself a return to the sources — the pre-Nicene sources of the life and labor of ordinary, faithful Christians. The journalist John L. Allen, in his book-length study of Opus Dei, described just how radical St. Josemaria's vision was: "The idea of priests and laity, men and women, all part of one organic whole, sharing the same vocation and carrying out the same apostolic tasks, has not been part of the Catholic tradition, at least since the early centuries."
Back in the 1990s (before St. Josemaria's canonization), the theologian Domingo Ramos-Lissón wrote an excellent study of the man's patristic influences. It's titled "The Example of the Early Christians in Blessed Josemaria's Teachings," and it's available free online at the website of the magazine Romana.
Scott Hahn has written what I consider the finest appreciation of St. Josemaria's reliance on the Fathers. It's in his recently released book Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Grace: My Spiritual Journey in Opus Dei. The whole book is great. You really should own it!


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Patriot Rebel will be performing at Rock City in Nottingham city centre on Friday, January 23.
Also on the bill will be Hellbound Hearts, Lock Up Laura, Empire 35 and Paradise Pill.
Then, on Tuesday, January 27, the visitors to the popular venue on Talbot Street will be Save Your Breath.
Looking a little further ahead, Thursday, January 29, is the date for a gig by Milk Teeth plus Hindsight.
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Richard Clark dicusses change in media ownership over the last 25 years and how it may have an effect on reporting.
Sometimes, I think we lose sight of what is truly important and tend to focus on issues that are, well, frivolous.
It�s odd that in a time of unlimited knowledge and data, it almost seems people are much more narrow-minded or lacking diversification. It feels to me that we listen, watch or read only those items that agree with our point of views.
We live in a time of boundless information. The problem is, where does this information come from? Is it possible that even with all that seems to be out there, we are actually getting less true information?
The Internet can be a very useful tool � if used properly. However, more and more we are seeing sites dedicated to one side or another with no consequences whether they tell the truth or not. Between political action groups posting false, opinionated information and calling it �fact� to sites that require no real verification such as Wikipedia, we are given a false sense of knowledge.
Television, radio and print are, frankly, no better. The reality is something like six corporations own more than 90 percent of these types of media. It almost seems as though it would be easier to pass off twisted, false or slanted information today than it would, say, 25 years ago.
In 1983, 90 percent of the country�s media was owned by 50 companies; today, it�s just the six � General Electric, News-Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time-Warner and CBS.
That is a very small number of executives controlling a very large portion of what is seen, heard and reported. For example, many newspapers, including this one, use The Associated Press to report a large portion of their news. Reuters owns AP and, according to a lot of information I have seen, the Rothschilds family owns Reuters.
Interesting huh?
How a financial juggernaut with tentacles into virtually everything essentially controls the company that supplies �news� to nearly every newspaper in the country is amazing. Talk about a potential conflict of interest. I suppose it�s the way of the world.
Which brings me to another argument that I will not delve deep into, but one I have to touch on since we�re here; the notion there is a liberal media is such a joke it�s incredible. Do you think the CEOs of those six companies are conservative or liberal?
That�s all I will say on that.
Television news reporting is another interesting area. Somewhere along the way, opinions and a slanted way of telling the story snuck into the mix. And let me be clear, this goes both ways. I can sit and listen to just the words chosen and manner in which it�s read and get a pretty good idea of how the reporter or anchor feels about said topic.
Maybe that�s the real issue here. Perhaps reporters/anchors can no longer be truly unbiased. Maybe they, too, have been bombarded with the constant barrage of misinformation that they, too, have succumbed to the difficult task of telling a story down the middle.
Anyone who has been in the media business for more than a week has seen a story minimized, under-reported or simply buried. Anyone claiming otherwise is simply lying. Let�s be clear, most of the stories are not Watergate or Benghazi; they are someone�s kid doing something stupid or something along the lines of drunk driving. But the fact remains, it was not given the same attention it may have been given were it some anonymous person.
The point to all of this is that we must begin to listen to all sides of issues, arguments and topics. We must stop being so entrenched and unyielding and calling it, �Taking a stand.� It�s not taking a stand, it�s being stubborn. And stubborn, ladies and gentlemen, is something I know a great deal about.
Even if what the other person is saying something that makes your blood boil, we must find a way to actually hear the idea before dismissing it.
Aristotle said, �It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.�
There is a lot of information out there, but it is our job to find the truth. We need to stop being lazy and find it.
Richard Clark is the universal desk chief of Halifax ENC. You can reach him at 910-219-8452 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at kpaws22.