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There are no prerequisites for taking up this course. Basic knowledge of database, SQL and query language can help.
Sydney is the economic and technology capital of Australia and a home to some of the top-notch companies from across the globe. Looking at the development of this city, it is clear that the companies in this city are quite ahead in terms of technology. As big data is considered to be the latest wave in the world, the companies in this city are increasingly looking for candidates who are skilled in big data technologies like Spark and Scala.
Sydney is the nerve-center for technology firms in the entire country of Australia. As processing the real-time streaming data is becoming the necessity to achieve quality outcomes from the business processes, the technologies like Spark and Scala have gained immense popularity in the market creating numerous career opportunities for aspirants in this city.
This training emphasizes on providing learners a rich hands-on experience by projects, lab practices and assignments. Moreover this course is perfectly in line with the Cloudera Spark and Hadoop Developer certification (CCA175) exam.
Introducing Scala and deployment of Scala for Big Data applications and Apache Spark analytics.
The importance of Scala, the concept of REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop), deep dive into Scala pattern matching, type interface, higher order function, currying, traits, application space and Scala for data analysis.
Learning about the Scala Interpreter, static object timer in Scala, testing String equality in Scala, Implicit classes in Scala, the concept of currying in Scala, various classes in Scala.
Learning about the Classes concept, understanding the constructor overloading, the various abstract classes, the hierarchy types in Scala, the concept of object equality, the val and var methods in Scala.
Understanding Sealed traits, wild, constructor, tuple, variable pattern, and constant pattern.
Understanding traits in Scala, the advantages of traits, linearization of traits, the Java equivalent and avoiding of boilerplate code.
Implementation of traits in Scala and Java, handling of multiple traits extending.
Introduction to Scala collections, classification of collections, the difference between Iterator, and Iterable in Scala, example of list sequence in Scala.
The two types of collections in Scala, Mutable and Immutable collections, understanding lists and arrays in Scala, the list buffer and array buffer, Queue in Scala, double-ended queue Deque, Stacks, Sets, Maps, Tuples in Scala.
Introduction to Scala packages and imports, the selective imports, the Scala test classes, introduction to JUnit test class, JUnit interface via JUnit 3 suite for Scala test, packaging of Scala applications in Directory Structure, example of Spark Split and Spark Scala.
Introduction to Spark, how Spark overcomes the drawbacks of working MapReduce, understanding in-memory MapReduce,interactive operations on MapReduce, Spark stack, fine vs. coarse grained update, Spark stack,Spark Hadoop YARN, HDFS Revision, YARN Revision, the overview of Spark and how it is better Hadoop, deploying Spark without Hadoop,Spark history server, Cloudera distribution.
Spark installation guide,Spark configuration, memory management, executor memory vs. driver memory, working with Spark Shell, the concept of Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDD), learning to do functional programming in Spark, the architecture of Spark.
Spark RDD, creating RDDs, RDD partitioning, operations & transformation in RDD,Deep dive into Spark RDDs, the RDD general operations, a read-only partitioned collection of records, using the concept of RDD for faster and efficient data processing,RDD action for Collect, Count, Collectsmap, Saveastextfiles, pair RDD functions.
Understanding the concept of Key-Value pair in RDDs, learning how Spark makes MapReduce operations faster, various operations of RDD,MapReduce interactive operations, fine & coarse grained update, Spark stack.
Comparing the Spark applications with Spark Shell, creating a Spark application using Scala or Java, deploying a Spark application,Scala built application,creation of mutable list, set & set operations, list, tuple, concatenating list, creating application using SBT,deploying application using Maven,the web user interface of Spark application, a real world example of Spark and configuring of Spark.
Learning about Spark parallel processing, deploying on a cluster, introduction to Spark partitions, file-based partitioning of RDDs, understanding of HDFS and data locality, mastering the technique of parallel operations,comparing repartition & coalesce, RDD actions.
The execution flow in Spark, Understanding the RDD persistence overview,Spark execution flow & Spark terminology, distribution shared memory vs. RDD, RDD limitations, Spark shell arguments,distributed persistence, RDD lineage,Key/Value pair for sorting implicit conversion like CountByKey, ReduceByKey, SortByKey, AggregataeByKey
Spark Streaming Architecture, Writing streaming programcoding, processing of spark stream,processing Spark Discretized Stream (DStream), the context of Spark Streaming, streaming transformation, Flume Spark streaming, request count and Dstream, multi batch operation, sliding window operations and advanced data sources. Different Algorithms, the concept of iterative algorithm in Spark, analyzing with Spark graph processing, introduction to K-Means and machine learning, various variables in Spark like shared variables, broadcast variables, learning about accumulators.
Introduction to various variables in Spark like shared variables, broadcast variables, learning about accumulators, the common performance issues and troubleshooting the performance problems.
Learning about Spark SQL, the context of SQL in Spark for providing structured data processing, JSON support in Spark SQL, working with XML data, parquet files, creating HiveContext, writing Data Frame to Hive, reading JDBC files, understanding the Data Frames in Spark, creating Data Frames, manual inferring of schema, working with CSV files, reading JDBC tables, Data Frame to JDBC, user defined functions in Spark SQL, shared variable and accumulators, learning to query and transform data in Data Frames, how Data Frame provides the benefit of both Spark RDD and Spark SQL, deploying Hive on Spark as the execution engine.
Learning about the scheduling and partitioning in Spark,hash partition, range partition, scheduling within and around applications, static partitioning, dynamic sharing, fair scheduling,Map partition with index, the Zip, GroupByKey, Spark master high availability, standby Masters with Zookeeper, Single Node Recovery With Local File System, High Order Functions.
Project 1: Movie Recommendation
Topics – This is a project wherein you will gain hands-on experience in deploying Apache Spark for movie recommendation. You will be introduced to the Spark Machine Learning Library, a guide to MLlib algorithms and coding which is a machine learning library. Understand how to deploy collaborative filtering, clustering, regression, and dimensionality reduction in MLlib. Upon completion of the project you will gain experience in working with streaming data, sampling, testing and statistics.
Project 2: Twitter API Integration for tweet Analysis
Topics – With this project you will learn to integrate Twitter API for analyzing tweets. You will write codes on the server side using any of the scripting languages like PHP, Ruby or Python, for requesting the Twitter API and get the results in JSON format. You will then read the results and perform various operations like aggregation, filtering and parsing as per the need to come up with tweet analysis.
Project 3: Data Exploration Using Spark SQL – Wikipedia data set
Topics – This project lets you work with Spark SQL. You will gain experience in working with Spark SQL for combining it with ETL applications, real time analysis of data, performing batch analysis, deploying machine learning, creating visualizations and processing of graphs.
Intellipaat is the pioneer of Hadoop training in India. So it pays to be with the market leader like Intellipaat to learn Spark and Scala and get the best jobs in top MNCs for top salaries. The Intellipaat training is the most comprehensive course that includes real time projects, assignments and designed by industry experts. The entire training course content is fully aligned towards clearing the exam for the Apache Spark component of the Cloudera Spark and Hadoop Developer certification (CCA175) exam.
Intellipaat offers lifetime access to videos, course materials, 24/7 Support, and course material upgrades to latest version at no extra fees. For Hadoop and Spark training you get the Intellipaat Proprietary Virtual Machine for Lifetime and free cloud access for 6 months for performing training exercises. Hence it is clearly a one-time investment.
This course is designed for clearing the learn Spark and clear the Apache Spark component of the Cloudera Spark and Hadoop Developer certification (CCA175) exam. Check our Hadoop training course for gaining proficiency in the Hadoop component of the CCA175 exam.The complete course is created by industry experts for professionals to get the top jobs in the best organizations. The entire training includes real world projects and case studies that are highly valuable.
Upon completion of the training you will have quizzes that will help you prepare for the CCA175 certification exam and score top marks.
The Intellipaat Certification is awarded upon successfully completing the project work and after reviewing by experts. The Intellipaat certification is recognized in some of the biggest companies like Cisco, Cognizant, Mu Sigma, TCS, Genpact, Hexaware, Sony, Ericsson among others.
Real World Projects
Spark training at Intellipaat ticked all the right boxes. The best thing I liked about the Apache Spark certification training was the opportunity to work on real world projects helping me get hands-on experience in one of the fastest big data processing engines. Thank you Intellipaat.
Splendid Training
The Intellipaat Spark trainers were of the highest experience and knowledge. But what I liked was that the trainers went out their way in order to explain things and that too with real world examples which helped to learn Spark quickly. If I did not understand the first time they had the patience to explain it again making this learning experience one of a kind. The entire training is in line with clearing the Apache Spark Certification.
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The following are a few scouting reports regarding Brady Skjei:
Hockey Prospectus: His swiftness makes him a confident puck-rusher and very willing to jump into the attack. Defensively, his recovery speed allows him to take chances more slow-footed blue-liners would shy away from. He's demonstrated willingness to play a physical game though he's not known for momentum-building hits. He has an active stick and uses it (and his solid wingspan) to shut down a large area of ice.
Hockey Prospect: His breakout game has become increasingly proficient and his puck-moving capabilities might even enter territory reserved for the elite PMD's in this draft-class. His speed allows him to handle the heavy-fore checking game and advances the puck effectively. Offensively, Skjei is still a work-in- progress and his upside appears relatively limited. But he's shown some flashes of skill with the puck on the power play and his distribution game is certainly adequate.
Strengths: Brady Skjei is at his best when he has the puck on his stick and is going north to south toward the opposing goal. Skjei is an elite puck-mover and skates remarkably well for a player his size. Skjei is 6'2 and 203 lbs at 18 years of age, and he is reportedly still growing. Skjei is also very strong positionally on the defensive end and he is very difficult for forwards to maneuver around because of his mix of size and speed.
Weaknesses: As good as his ability to transport the puck, Skjei needs to work on his auxiliary offensive skills. His shot isn't considered overpowering to say the least and his passing skills could use some improvement as well. Skjei will need to utilize his body frame physically as he progresses and develops moving forward.
Future Analysis: Skjei is as solid as they come defensively, despite not utilizing his size to his advantage as a physical presence. However, Skjei has the potential to be a solid second pairing defensemen in the NHL, as his offensive game and physical play will improve under Coach Don Lucia at Minnesota. In my opinion, Skjei will need at least two years of developing before he makes the leap to either the AHL or the NHL. Once he does, he will be worth the wait and the Rangers will benefit from it.

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Editor's note
The link to the Domoto reference was updated on 1/23/15.
Various tasks must be completed in a vineyard for it to become and remain productive, yield quality fruit, and deliver a financial return. As most vineyards in the Midwest are hand-farmed, an adequate supply of available labor is necessary to complete operations at appropriate times and with maximal efficiency. For example, if shoot thinning is performed too early (before the 4- to 6-inch growth stage), a second thinning pass may be needed to remove late-emerging shoots, but if performed too late (10-inch growth or more), shoots may have to be cut with shears, which greatly reduces efficiency. Therefore, to achieve the greatest possible efficiency, adequate labor is needed to thin all vineyard acres when shoots are between 4 and 10 inches long. Numerous other cultural operations in vineyards have similar narrow windows of opportunity.
This publication aims to help grape producers develop appropriate management plans and reasonable financial expectations by providing information on
Labor requirements are provided on a per-acre basis, unless otherwise specified, and assume manual execution of most tasks by laborers skilled in vineyard work. Producers using unskilled labor will need to budget for higher labor-training expenses and labor requirements due to lower productivity. Seasonal and climatic variability across the Midwest will require producers to adjust the timing and perhaps sequence of operations according to a vineyard's location and observed weather conditions. Tasks included in this timeline assume conventional or sustainable management practices because of their prevalence in the Midwest region.
This publication is not intended to replace labor records for individual enterprises but to serve as a reference for those that do not yet possess them. Vineyard enterprises should monitor their labor use and costs for various tasks on an individual block basis to accurately determine their establishment and production costs.
The vineyard development timeline referenced in this publication assumes an extensive site preparation period, starting in late summer and about 18 months before spring planting. This schedule is appropriate for sites that require significant modification before planting due to limitations such as highly irregular topography, surface obstructions, unfavorable soil chemistry or structure, or poor internal drainage. Sites with difficult perennial weed populations would also likely benefit from this approach.
Site preparation needs can vary widely, and sites that require little modification may be well prepared for planting in as little as 6 to 8 months. Prospective growers are encouraged to seek expert guidance in preparing a site-development strategy.
This publication refers to preplant vineyards as establishment phase from the start of site development until the fall before planting and planting phase for the 6 to 8 months before spring planting. Nonbearing vineyards are those planted but not yet bearing. Vineyards attain bearing status in late winter of the first cropping year, typically as they enter their third or fourth leaf.
The three studies referenced in this publication developed cost estimates based upon different assumptions.
Where appropriate, the figures reported herein are averages of those reported in these studies, with references provided in parentheses. This was done to approximate, as accurately as possible, the labor required by Midwestern vineyards that are grown with differing training methods and vine densities. This method did result in a loss of specificity, however, so readers are encouraged to examine the referenced studies for information most pertinent to their operations.
Labor demands for tasks not included in these studies are estimates provided by the current authors. Demand for tasks that vary by block size was estimated based upon 8-acre enterprises trained to single cultivars. Labor demands for some tasks, including irrigation system installation, nutrient application other than granular nitrogen to planted vineyards, and harvest, were not estimated due to expected high variability between enterprises and locations (harvest costs are estimated on a piece-rate basis).
(Bud swell and burst; shoot growth begins)
Site preparation phase:
Planting phase:
(Early shoot growth; start of bloom)
(Fruit set; continued canopy development)
(Canopy development nears completion; veraison in early cultivars)
(Canopy development complete; veraison for late cultivars; harvest for early cultivars)
(Harvest for midseason cultivars)
Planting phase
(Harvest for late cultivars; growing season nearing its end)
For a more comprehensive tool for calculating vineyard labor demand and establishment expenses, download the interactive spreadsheet available from the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center at http://www.agmrc.org/commodities__products/fruits/wine/winery_and_vineyard_feasibility_workbooks.cfm.
The authors sincerely appreciate the kind and valued assistance of Tim Burson, Mary Burson, Jackie Harris, Fred Dressel, Brandon Fahrmeier and Lynn Gay in reviewing this publication.
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5 New England Communities Get EPA Technical Assistance to Help with Sustainability
Release Date: 02/07/2013
Contact Information: David Deegan, (617) 918-1017
(Boston, Mass. – Feb. 7, 2013) – Five New England communities were among 43 selected nationwide to receive EPA technical assistance to pursue sustainable growth that encourages local economic development while safeguarding people's health and the environment. The New England communities are Brattleboro, Vt.; Bridgeport, Conn.; Brunswick, Maine; Portland, Maine; and Stamford, Conn.
The assistance is being provided through EPA's Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program to communities in 27 states. EPA staff and national experts will conduct one- or two-day workshops focusing on the specific sustainability goal each community chose in their initial application to EPA. The agency offered nine tools this year, including a Green Building Toolkit, Land Use Strategies to Protect Water Quality, and Using Smart Growth to Produce Economic and Fiscal Health.
"Communities that pursue sustainable practices know that good management and planning go arm-in-arm with a strong economy and a healthy environment," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "EPA's Building Blocks program helps communities invest in sustainable growth techniques, helping them to plan for a better future. The short-term, targeted assistance we are providing will help stimulate local economies, while protecting people's health and safeguarding the environment."
EPA consulted with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to select this year's 43 recipients from 121 applicants through a competitive process.
To date, EPA's assistance through the Building Blocks program has reached 141 communities. Together, EPA, HUD and DOT form the federal Partnership for Sustainable Communities, which coordinates investments in housing, transportation, and environmental protection to get better results for communities and use taxpayer money more efficiently.
More information on the Building Blocks program: https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/buildingblocks.htm
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Through the use of NBA.com's Advanced Stats machinery, in conjunction with the finest analytical tools both currently in use throughout the league and yet to be conjured in the eventual big brain of Daryl Morey's someday great-grandchild we can say unequivocally that coach Erik Spoelstra contributed 5.279 victories to the Miami Heat's recent, remarkable 27-game winning streak.
If only.
There's no reliable way to know precisely what Spoelstra's contribution was to the streak, the second-longest in NBA history. In that way, it's not unlike the Heat's championship last June or their consecutive trips to The Finals. Considering LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh hardly needed a general manager to pull off their SuperFriends scheme, it's tempting for people to presume they might not need much of a head coach, either.
How hard can it be? Miami's roster boasts the NBA's Most Valuable Player, certain to be validated again this spring with his fourth Maurice Podoloff trophy. It has, in All-Stars Wade and Bosh, another top 10 and top 20 player. And the Heat have become a recruit-yourself destination for quality veterans such as Shane Battier and Ray Allen eager to win rings.
But consider how far Spoelstra has come from the death watch of two seasons ago, when a five-game losing streak, a 9-8 start and a timeout bump on the court with James had everyone predicting his demise in days, if not hours. Even a year ago – on the heels of a two-year, $6 million contract extension through 2013-14 – speculation simmered that anything short of a championship might bring a change.
And now? None of that. Quite the opposite, in fact, to the point that Spoelstra – with a 250-133 mark and, counting this season, with five trips to the playoffs – would be well within his rights to blow cigar smoke at his critics like Red Auerbach or give that self-satisfied Phil Jackson/Cheshire Cat smile while pointing above to various scoreboards.
Instead, he grinds like the video coordinator he once was. He plugs along. And he proves to be of no help whatsoever in attributing his share of the credit for what Miami is doing. Invariably he'll lapse into his preferred brand of group speak. "I think the untold story about this group was the willingness of professional athletes to sacrifice for something greater," Spoelstra said the other night in Chicago. "Virtually everybody on our roster had to sacrifice something financially and, in today's day and age, you just don't see that very often. … And save for LeBron, virtually everybody else on our roster in a perfect world would have a bigger role. But they sacrificed to make this thing happen – sacrificing to less minutes, less opportunities, less shots, whatever – and I think that's pretty remarkable."
Doesn't scratch the Spoelstra surface, though. For that, you're better off seeking exhibits and deposing witnesses. Such as Zach Lowe's recent splendid read on the Heat's evolution into the Swiss watch-slash-monster-truck of NBA offenses:
These Heat look almost nothing like the 2010-11 version that melted away against Dallas in the Finals, and they don't even look much like the team that took the floor for the bulk of their championship campaign last season. The Heat, more than anything else, are a story of slow and fitful evolution — a reaffirmation that the regular season really does matter, and that true basketball chemistry is a fragile thing that almost always requires patience, time, sacrifice, and deep knowledge of teammates.1
The Heat have almost totally reinvented their offense over those three seasons, and in the process they've done something very rare: taken a good offense and transformed it into something almost historically great.
That at least starts with Spoelstra, young enough yet wise enough to know what he doesn't know. So says David Fizdale, the Heat assistant who's an expert witness because he's been at Spoelstra's side all five seasons in Miami after working previously for Atlanta and Golden State.
"Every year he's gotten better since I've been with him," Fizdale said. "He challenges himself to get better. He's never satisfied with where he is as a coach. He rarely gets credit. And the best part about him is, he doesn't want any of the credit. You can't say that about a lot of coaches in this league. He is one guy who really would prefer to coach and no one know who he was."
Fizdale admitted that Spoelstra did savor the Heat's title beyond the moments on court or in the trophy presentation. "He finally relaxed and got to sit back and smile and enjoy the fruits of his labor," the assistant said. "Now, he's not the type who's going to sit there for a long. Probably a couple weeks after that, he was meeting with Billy Donovan or [John] Calipari or Chip Kelly [now of the NFL Eagles] or one of these guys. He's always seeking knowledge and ways he can apply it to this team."
Any time squeezed in there for, y'know, gloating? Spoelstra certainly earned the right.
"No. No way. Never ever," Fizdale said. "He'll never take the credit, he'll never throw things in people's faces because that's not who he is. He's competitive as hell. Wants to win everything. But not the type of person who, after he beats you, will gloat about it."
Battier scoffs at any suggestion Spoelstra has it easier because of the Heat's star power. "I'd beg to differ," he said. "At this level, not only do you have to worry about the X's & O's, you have to balance egos. And the egos in this locker room are big. Global icons. It takes a person with a strong personality."
Battier and Fizdale see the Pat Riley influences in Spoelstra, both in the gym and as a motivator. Then there's a little Stan Van Gundy in there, and bits and pieces gleaned from those other coaches, maybe even from other sports.
In particular, Fizdale talked of Spoelstra's ability, even his drive, to adapt and innovate to personnel and to various roster tweaks. "He understood these guys were a different monster," Fizdale said. "And every year a team is a little different. He has always adjusted his tactics and his personality to that.
"You got to make talent mesh. Individually, those guys are going to the Hall of Fame. But they're guys who were used to getting the ball 100 percent of the time. Now that's been chopped into pieces.
"With the way he's built our offense, he's also developed those Hall of Famers in some way. Where you see them doing a lot more cutting, a lot more posting, more reading and reacting. It says something that these guys are having career years from a field-goal percentage standpoint. It's not just that they went to the gym and started shooting 1,000 shots. It's the structure that he's put out there and the quality of shots they're getting. The fact that they're probably getting more easy baskets than they've ever gotten in their careers."
Divvying up the percentages of credit for that interests Miami less than seeing that it continues into June.


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Disassemble the LS Pro v2 / LS Live v2
LS Pro v2 /LS Live v2 ?
Buffalo changed the hardware of the LS Pro / LS Live. At the beginning the LS Pro & LS Live were using the same hardware layout. but the hardware layout has changed. now the mainboard looks like the Kurobox Pro...with a striped down daughterboard and without the 256 MB NAND Flash.
Why should i disassemble my LS Pro v2 / LS Live v2?
- If you want to upgrade the HDD inside
- If your box is unbootable and you want to connect it to a desktop for data recovery
- If you want to solder headers for serial to the board
- If you want to solder the JTAG headers for reviving
- because you can!
How to get out the HDD
All steps below in a full video:
Video - LS Live v2 Disassembly FULL
10 Steps to get the HDD out of the Case
1. Remove the screw. Note the hole for the custom serial plug.
2. Remove the Front
Video - Opening Front of new LS Live
3. Remove the 2 screws.
4. Remove the side
Video - Opening Side of new LS Live
5. Remove the 2 screws. Notice the Board Code and that it was made in China.
Sluk: If you just want to take out the hard disk, no need to remove the side panel in step 3 & 4 or the mainboard in step 7 & 8, just remove the 2 more screws on 2 side behind the daughter board and the hard disk can be completely take out. Picture below show one of the screw in the daughter board's right side, the other screw is located in lower left corner behind the daughter board.
6. Remove the daughterboard
Video - Removing the daughterboard
7. Remove the four screws. Notice the holes for JTAG and serial.
8. Remove the mainboard
Video - Removing the mainboard
9. Remove the 2 screws that are holding the hdd in place.
10. Get out the hdd!


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Dr Clifford Wilson, long-time friend of CMI, died on 4 April 2012. Over many years he has given a powerful defence of the Bible's historicity, a big encouragement to many people in Australia and the USA in particular. He is most famous for his best-selling book, Crash Go the Chariots, a thorough refutation of Erich von Daniken's bizarre ideas of visits by 'ET' to explain ancient artefacts. This is a previously published interview with Dr Wilson, on the archaeological reliability of the Bible, especially Genesis.
Archaeologist confirms creation and the Bible
Interview with archaeologist Dr Clifford Wilson … by Dr Carl Wieland
A: I started as a lecturer with the Australian Institute of Archaeology more than 35 years ago—I was with them for some time. Later I came back as its director when I had certain other qualifications. I am not only recognized in the field of archaeology, I am also a registered psychologist and a Fellow of the Commercial Education Society of Australia—I have a number of different hats!
I was an area supervisor at the excavation of Gezer in Israel with the American Schools of Oriental Research. Later I was the associate director of the first dig at Tel-Nusieh, which is possibly the biblical site of Ai. I have visited sites in nine Bible countries and have had the privilege of being taken seriously where I've gone. I even excavated briefly at Nineveh (Kouyunjik)—that's out of Mosul—where I personally uncovered a little pathway between the palace of King Sennacherib in Iraq and the temple, with an inscription stating that this pathway was dedicated to the goddess Esagilla.Q: What was your most interesting 'hands-on' experience?
A: I think it was at Gezer, where we excavated over a period of quite a few days. All we were going through in one area was a whole lot of black ash, and it was very discouraging. Professor Nelson Glueck—a very important archaeologist who gave the world the idea of Solomon's mines—suggested that we ought to do more sieving. So we sieved, and we found evidences of a civilization which had Egyptian and Canaanite artefacts with a Solomonic wall nearby. The team found little god-figures and the like; I was in charge of that area. All the excavation leaders were very excited because they realized the ash was from the time when the Egyptians had burned the city of Gezer and then handed it over to Solomon as a wedding present when he married the Pharaoh's daughter.Q: That was, of course, consistent with the Bible?
A: Very much so—the burning is referred to in 1 Kings 9:16. I found it interesting at that time that here were some of the world's leading archaeologists—G. Ernest Wright of Harvard, for instance. They weren't so much pleased about proving the Bible, but rather that they had found something in history they could now peg their hats on, as it were. What impressed me was that the Bible was taken by them as an acceptable textbook, reliable in its historical statements. They were very pleased that they had something that fitted into acceptable history. And that history was in the Bible.Q: Have you found in your researches in archaeology anything that has contradicted the biblical account in a definite sense?
A: There have been plenty of claims that things contradict the biblical account, but the Bible has a habit of being proved right after all. I well remember one of the world's leading archaeologists at Gezer rebuking a younger archaeologist who was 'rubbishing' the Bible. He just quietly said, 'Well, if I were you, I wouldn't rubbish the Bible.' When the younger archaeologist asked 'Why'?, he replied, 'Well, it just has a habit of proving to be right after all.' And that's where I stand.
Professor Nelson Glueck, who I suppose would be recognized as one of the top five of the 'greats' in biblical archaeology, gave a marvellous lecture to 120 American students who were interacting with the Arabs. He said, 'I have excavated for 30 years with a Bible in one hand and a trowel in the other, and in matters of historical perspective, I have never yet found the Bible to be in error'.
Professor G. Ernest Wright, Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Studies at Harvard University, gave a lecture at that same dig. He made the point that (because of the researches associated with the Hittites and the findings of Professor George Mendenhall concerning what are called the Suzerainty Covenant Treaties between the Hittite kings and their vassals) it had become clear that the records of Moses, when dealing with covenants, must be dated back to the middle of the second millennium BC. That's about 1500 BC. Also, that those writings should be recognized as a unity. In other words, they go back to one man. That one man could only be Moses.
I went to Professor Wright later and said, 'Sir, this is very different from what you've been putting out in your own writings.' He looked at me and said, 'Clifford, for 30 years I've been teaching students coming to Harvard to train for the Christian ministry; I've been telling them they could forget Moses in the Pentateuch, but at least in these significant areas of the covenant documents that are there in the Pentateuch, I've had to admit that I was wrong.'
They were two scholastic giants. One says, 'I've excavated for 30 years and I've never found the Bible to be in error'—basically that's what he was saying. The other says, 'For 30 years I've been wrong.' It's rather sad, isn't it, that a good man such as Professor Wright had been so swept along with the ridiculous documentary hypothesis* that he had taken a wrong stand for so long. Let me stress that Professor Wright was a man of the highest integrity.Q: Can you recall any other experience relevant to the authenticity of Genesis in particular?
A: Yes. In the late 1970s soon after the excavation of Ebla in North Syria (between Damascus and Aleppo), Italian archaeologist Professor Paulo Matthea, and epigrapher (translator) Professor Pettinato, were making known to English-speaking scholars their findings at Ebla. Their whole lecture tour was arranged by Professor David Noel Freedman, the man who gave to the English-speaking world the information about these fantastic new tablets which had been discovered. His picture was on the front of TIME magazine.
I had the privilege of being invited to a dinner with about a dozen leading archaeologists because I was in the area and so was invited by Professor David Noel Freedman.
After the meal, technical questions were being asked backwards and forwards, and frankly I wasn't too interested in some of them, because I am not a cuneiform scholar. But I'd heard a rumour, and so after a while I said to Professor Freedman as chairman, 'Sir, I hear there is a new creation tablet that has been found. Is that a fact'?' He shrugged his shoulders, and said, 'Ask him'. I put my question to Professor Pettinato and, after some hesitation, he indicated that the information shouldn't be made public. So I made the point, 'If there is a new creation tablet you simply can't hold it back; it must he made known.' After thinking about it he revealed that there was indeed a new creation tablet.
I found it very interesting to hear those world-leading scholars discussing the impact this would have on what is called the 'documentary hypothesis'. This basically says that the Old Testament documents are oral traditions, so that only after the time of Solomon were the various strands brought together. They were supposedly brought together at intervals of about a century, from the time of Solomon up to Ezra who, ultimately, with his team of chroniclers, brought these things into Scripture.
One of those scholars, as a result of this revelation of a new creation tablet that was even earlier than Moses, declared 'It looks like we've got to forget the "P" document.' Now the 'P' document is the 'Priestly' document that supposedly dates to the time of Ezra. The argument used to be that the creation story did not come into the Pentateuch (the records of Moses) until the time of Ezra—that Moses could not have had it. But in fact we not only find that Moses could have had it but that it was known even earlier than the time of Moses.Q: That seems to raise a problem, because isn't the first knowledge of it heard in the Bible with Moses?
A: The answer is, 'Yes'. But there is very good evidence to suggest that the Genesis records were compiled by Moses from written records on clay tablets. Donald Wiseman, formerly Professor of Archaeological and Semitic Studies at London University, recently edited and revised a book put out by his father P.J. Wiseman, back in 1948, called New Discoveries in Babylonia about Genesis. It is now called Clues to Creation in Genesis. In it he acknowledges that his father's approach was basically correct, which is this: through Genesis there is the regular use of a literary form called a colophon. It tells you that this is where a particular tablet ends and then another one starts. In the Genesis record this centres around the expression, 'These are the generations of ' … These records of early Genesis were presumably carried over the Fertile Crescent by Abraham, and eventually they were used by Moses (centuries after Abraham) under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to compile what we have in Genesis.
Of course there never was such a thing as a 'P' document. We can just accept the Genesis records as being what they claim to be—factual eye-witness records. There is legitimate editing to make things understood to a later generation (for instance, Genesis 14:3 talks about the Vale of Siddim and then it says, 'which is the Salt Sea'), but the basic text is there in writing right from the very times of Genesis itself.Q: Dr Wilson, we are often told that religion has evolved—that people started off worshipping spirits, then there were lots of gods, then fewer gods, and eventually came the idea of one true God. Can you tell us if this is confirmed in the archaeological records of the civilizations with which you are familiar?
A: At the time just after the Flood, we find a record of three gods— the god of the earth, the god of the sky, and the god of the waters. And fairly soon after that you've got hundreds of gods in ancient records. You start with the concept of monotheism (one God), leading up to polytheism (many gods). It does not start with dozens of gods. And even at Ebla, although there are some 500 gods there, there is also in ancient Canaan the concept of a 'great one', Lugal, who was associated with creation. Later the word Lugal came to mean king.Q: So that would be consistent with what Paul tells us in Romans, that people abandoned the worship of the one true God and turned to the worship of other things?
A: Absolutely. The specific reference to only three gods just after the Flood may, in a vague way, be associated with the Trinity, because it does seem that Satanic forces are prepared to offer a parody of spiritual realities. The Canaanites had three main gods. They had El, the father, Baal, the son, and Asherah, the mother who is the wife of El (and also the mother of Baal, according to some scholars). There is some challenge as to the interrelationships, but you have three gods there. So when the Israelites got away from Jehovah, they were offered the worship of the Canaanites and their three gods without all the problems of being a holy people and so on. It seems to be a parody on the Trinity, which of course is not fully revealed until New Testament times. But the demonic spirits have always known about the Trinity.Q: People raised on evolutionary thinking might find it hard to see how an archaeologist who digs through the earth can possibly believe that the Bible can be right about Genesis—which of course would imply that the earth is young. Have you ever been involved in any other research or seen any other evidence which would lead you to cast doubt upon the evolutionary geological system of dating?
A: Well, many years ago I was lecturing at a college in the United States and declaring that the earth could be as old as you would like to have it—millions or billions of years—and a student came to me and asked me to read some research papers by Professor Tom Barnes. And that led me on a search. I even found myself with the scientist who had done the investigation for Professor Barnes' arguments about the depletion of the earth's magnetic field. This person was associated with one of the biggest institutions in America. I asked him about his conclusions. He said, 'Well, it's not a matter of my conclusions, it's the institution I represent.' And he made it quite clear that he would personally recommend (and could not flaw) Dr Barnes' arguments. However, the institution was not prepared to accept them, because this would mean accepting that the earth was young—just a few thousand years rather than billions of years. And their argument was, 'We know that Professor Barnes is wrong.' We 'know'—simply because of the establishment belief, it seems.
A: Sometimes. For instance, in the excavations at Gezer to which I have referred, on the last day of two particular digs, we actually found a cache of Philistine pots, which were about 150 years out, based on the argument that the Exodus took place about 1290–1270 BC (which is the date taken by many modern scholars). They are plain wrong, by the way. The evidence from Dr Bryant Wood today is being taken very seriously these days: he has done a great deal of work to show that Jericho fell about 1400 BC, which gives you an Exodus date of about 1440 BC. So these particular Philistine pots just shouldn't have been there on this accepted theory. And they didn't know what to do with it, so they just went quiet on it.
That's what happens from time to time. My own experience is that if the Bible says something is accurate, well, be very slow to suggest otherwise, because it does have a habit of proving to be right after all.Q: Have you handled or seen any fossil evidence which would contradict the geologic column?
A: Yes, I've excavated a number of times at the Paluxy River in Texas, and there's very interesting evidence there. I've talked to the lady, Jeannie Mack, who with her mother found a famous trilobite. She is the curator of the Somervill County Museum at Glen Rose, at that location in Texas. She and her mother found this trilobite in the same fossil limestone strata where there have been plenty of undeniable dinosaur footprints found. And when I challenged her because of the sensational nature of a trilobite and a dinosaur track being found in the same place, she was upset with me because she thought I was calling her a liar. She knew what dinosaur limestone strata were and where dinosaur prints would be, and she was emphatic that just across from where she lives at the Paluxy River this trilobite was found in exactly that stratum with dinosaur footprints.Q: Did you see the fossil yourself?
A: I've handled the trilobite, yes. It's in about four inches of limestone. But it was undoubtedly a trilobite—nobody argues about that. And it was found in the same stratum as dinosaur footprints, which according to evolutionary theory is impossible—they're supposed to be separated by tens of millions of years.Q: I understand that you know something about some dinosaur prints at the Paluxy River that are found in the wrong place.
A: Yes, it's very interesting. Back in 1982, we had come to the last day of that particular excavation and the field supervisor came to us and said, 'I think I've seen what might be the start of a dinosaur footprint on the top stratum over there. And the leader of the excavation and I (the associate) said, 'Well, forget it. That's on the top stone stratum of the earth's surface in this area. There are no dinosaur footprints up there.' Then he said, 'Look, the machinery is sitting here, we've paid good money for it and we've finished with it. Let me just remove the overburden—the topsoil—and see what's there.' So we agreed and off he went.
He came back in a little while and said, 'I think there's something up there.' We all went up to where he had removed the overburden on top of the stone (an average of between six and 11 feet of topsoil—the debris that accumulates over the centuries). It was about 30 feet by 30 feet in area. I got down into the mud and personally excavated the six dinosaur footprints that I found there. I stepped them out as being approximately three feet six inches from each other. There were cameras going, and there were people there; there's no possibility of this being faked. We found six dinosaur footprints that started from the edge of the Paluxy River and led over to where the overburden was no longer removed.
About two years later I was in the area, and well-known scientist-author Dr Charles Thaxton was there this time, and we had quite an interesting chat. He said, 'By the way, do you remember those dinosaur footprints you found up there in that top stone stratum?' 'Yes'. 'Well, do you know how that was written up?' 'No'. 'Well, they claim that they couldn't possibly be there, they couldn't be genuine because that's not the Cretaceous limestone (a layer supposedly 70–100 million years old). So they claim that those footprints were carved there by Indians or you people faked them.'
Well, we checked out with a particular Indian art history man at a nearby university to find out what the usual practice was with Indians and carving. Did they carve into a rock? No. They would paint into the caves, just on the outside of the caves and sometimes just inside, but certainly they did not get into the rock and make carvings. And in any case, how they would do that under deep overburden, I don't know. I'm glad I was the one who dug them out, because I can say before God that there is no faking in this whatever. I personally got down in the mud—we could see the beginnings of one of the dinosaur footprints. I uncovered that, and if I stepped it out in the direction in which it pointed—I would, and did, find the others. And so we found a total of six of them.
They were dinosaur footprints—the same pattern of dinosaurs as at other places in that region. However, these prints were supposedly in the 'wrong' place and so this plain, straightforward evidence is rejected—simply because it doesn't fit the evolutionary timetable.Dr Wilson, thank you very much.
Footnote* The documentary hypothesis (J,E,D,P,H hypothesis) is still, sadly, taught in many Christian institutions. It claims that the five books of Moses were written not by him, but by at least five different sources (code-named J,E,D,P,H) which gradually came together over many centuries. The hypothesis has been amended from time to time, but is still taught in many institutions despite clear evidence opposing it. The basic Bible documents come from eye-witnesses with legitimate minimal editing to make them clearer to later generations—see for example Genesis 14:3, where the Vale of Siddim had become part of the Dead Sea.
Readers' commentsNigel C., United Kingdom, 25 April 2012
I read Wiseman's book "New Discoveries in Babylonia about Genesis" some years ago, and it transformed the way I saw Genesis. Before this, I has no idea how Moses knew what to write regarding the creation, life before and during the flood. Then I discovered that the accounts were eye-witness material. Why was the account of the flood so repetitive? Because three accounts had been combined into one - and the authors' names were still attached! How do we know the account of the Garden of Eden is accurate? Because the author of that chronicle was there, and his name still exists at the end of the narrative!
This interpretation was confirmed to me by Romans 4 vs 23 + 24 which states that Abraham's imputed righteousness was written for us to read, and also for HIM to read! Now, that must have been written in Abraham's lifetime, long before Moses was even born; so he could read in God's Word that God counted him righteous.
There are many interesting points this interpretation throws up. For instance, there was never a time when God's word didn't exist for man to read. The first section was most likely written for Adam when he was newly created as an explanation by God regarding our most important questions in life: where did we come from? Is there a God? etc. Also Noah ends his account with his greatest discovery: 'Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.' and the next section begins with Noah's sons' appraisal of their father: 'Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.'
Genesis is absolutely trustworthy from the first verse.
Peter N., Australia, 26 April 2012
I fully support Nigel C's assessment, above, of "New Discoveries in Babylonia about Genesis". That was first published in 1936 (not 1948). A second study called "Creation Revealed in Six Days" was published In 1946 or 1948 (both dates are cited). In 1977 the two were combined as Parts I & II of "Clues to Creation in Genesis".
Part I, New Discoveries in Babylonia about Genesis, is a well argued case that Moses faithfully passed on creation documents received from his ancestors. This not only refutes the Documentary Hypothesis but is also evidence that Genesis is reliable history of a recent creation.
Part II, the 1946/48 "Creation Revealed in Six Days", is a capitulation to the prevailing dogma that the earth is millions of years old. Wiseman tries to explain away a plain reading of Moses' writing; he argues that God spent the six days telling man about the creation.
I find his argument here convoluted and even disingenuous. E.g. Part II concludes (p203): "Consequently there was one thing our Lord was not doing on those six days, he was not creating the heavens and the earth and all life on it." Then (p204) "Nowhere in the Bible, not even in the fourth commandment, does it say that God created [created in italics] the heavens and earth in six days." But he does not reference or discuss Exodus 20:11.
Neither does Appendix I, a list of "Scripture References to Creation", list Exodus 20:11. Considering his explicit reference to the fourth commandment, this is a very strange, even disingenuous omission - obscuring the fact that he is splitting semantic hairs to make a distinction between 'created' and 'made'.
Andy S., Canada, 26 April 2012
If I wrote a fictional novel and set it in Paris around some historic monuments, would archaeologists decide my story was factual and historically accurate, simply because they dug up the monuments mentioned in my text? If I threw in some philosophical discussion would they also then claim my theories were true, because they'd found the monuments? Using archaeology to claim truth in the Bible is no more more than this, and demands more rigorous support than saying, "hey they Bible mentions it, and here it is under my spade!"
Don Batten responds:
The Dan Brown phenomenon (fiction in an historical setting) is a recent invention. I think it was CS Lewis, the first Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, who pointed out that historical fiction is a modern phenomenon unknown in earlier times. There is not a shred of evidence that your completely hypothetical suggestion applies to the Bible's record.
The context seems clear: archaeology confirms a biblical claim about the particular issue at hand, often one which had been disputed by skeptics, like the destruction of Jericho or the early cultural aspects of Genesis paralleled in the Ebla tablets, or that Jeremiah was 'made up'. It also lends credibility to the authors: if they were accurate about the history and geography that we can check, it makes it more likely they were accurate about other things they reported, especially if they were prepared to die for them. Here is a response to something similar: http://creation.com/should-genesis-be-taken-literally-countering-critic.
Much of the Bible was clearly written by eyewitnesses who recorded the people involved, the time frame, the places and what they did. It is these things that are consistently corroborated by archaeological discoveries. Indeed, Hebrew, the language of nearly all the Old Testament, has special grammatical form for recording history. Poetry (e.g. the Psalms) does not use this special structure but an entirely different one; there is no confusion. However, there is not even any evidence that the poetic passages were in any sense fictional, although they could use figures of speech such as simile and metaphor, etc.
Any good historian asks "How did the writers intend the reader to understand the writings." It is clear the biblical writers intended that their historical narrative writings be understood as history. The Oxford Hebraist, Professor James Barr, made this point about Genesis 1-11.
In standing by their testimony, many of them were willing to pay for their stand with their lives. If they invented these things they would hardly be willing to die for it.
Also, in the article you refer to, the archaeologists who initially did not regard the Bible as historically reliable did not expect to find archaeological corroboration for it. When they consistently found archaeological evidence that backed the Bible's account, they changed their attitude to the Bible. Clearly these experts in the literature and archaeology of the times had no concept of what you suggest of a work of fiction set in an historical context. It's quite a bizarre suggestion.
The archaeological discoveries do underline the historicity of the writings. That's the point. But it is not just archaeology that backs the Bible; see Should we trust the Bible?
Henry S., United States, 3 May 2012
Thanks for writing this article in memory of Clifford Wilson. Dr. Wilson has an strong and decades-long connection with the Associates for Biblical Research ministry. Our Director of Research, Dr. Bryant Wood, has written a dedication to his life and ministry on the ABR website. Thanks again for your remembering the work of our brother and friend. Sincerely, Henry B. Smith Jr
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You can spend all day finding different varieties of sea slugs and you would not find them all. In fact scientists keep finding new sea slugs. It is impossible to keep up with all the varieties in the world! Here is a page that is child-friendly. Consider that there are over 3,000 types of sea slugs that we have identified and we keep finding more. Think of all the various types of spiders/arachnids there are. How about bacteria? Grasses? There are multiple thousands of differing grass types in the world. Evolution, if it actually happened, would tend to choose one or maybe three or ten types of grass. Not thousands! Of course, there is not one verified instance of evolution being observed since science has begun looking for it. We see variation within kind, which is the Biblical model. We do not see one kind of organism becoming another. It doesn't happen. Ever!


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MRandall25 wrote:The US military certainly has bombed civilian areas to get military structures. No clue what you're trying to say there. Remember WWII? Hell, they even do it now with unmanned drone strikes.
Don't bring WWII to it. We're talking in this new era we live in. But you actually have a point with the drones.


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A raft trip that Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl took in 1947 from Peru to Polynesia was punctuated by dangers, yet most of the 101 days were spent in the doldrums. Kon-Tiki, the earnest new movie about the expedition, captures that balance all too well.
A raft trip that Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl took in 1947 from Peru to Polynesia was punctuated by dangers, yet most of the 101 days were spent in the doldrums.
Kon-Tiki, the earnest new movie about the expedition, captures that balance all too well.
Thor was living in French Polynesia in the 1930s when his wife had an epiphany: Liv (Agnes Kittelsen) suggested that the islands must have been populated by immigrants from South America rather than Asia, as was commonly believed.
Obsessed with the idea, Thor built a balsa-wood raft with 1,500-year-old techniques. He and five Nordic cohorts let the South Equatorial Current carry the Kon-Tiki, named for an Incan god, toward their destination.
The 5,000-mile quest succeeded but didn�t change most scholars� analysis of how Polynesia was settled.
As portrayed by Pal Sverre Hagen, Thor is a floppy-haired, tightly wound charmer � more professor than outdoorsman. He has a few failings as a nautical adventurer, notably an inability to swim.
His dedication to his mission, though, is absolute, leading to occasional moments when he seems, well, nuts.
Thor and his crew carry a few items that the pre-Columbians lacked � such as a sextant, a radio, a typewriter and dehydrated rations from the U.S. Navy.
But the captain wouldn�t allow any deviation from his idea of an ancient craft. When Herman (Anders Baasmo Christiansen) proposes replacing ropes with metal cables, Thor doesn�t react well.
The expedition�s list of perils is short: storm, reef, whale and shark (more than one, and more than once). The scenes in which the crew faces these hazards are well-staged, without much apparent computer-generated imagery; one is exceedingly and realistically bloody. But most of the movie drifts at the same speed as the raft.
The trip might have been less languid if directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, and screenwriter Petter Skavlan had drawn the supporting characters more fully.
Most have just one character trait; so, as their beards get bushier, the men become almost indistinguishable.
Perhaps the actors would be more distinct if they spoke with their original voices.
Kon-Tiki, an also-ran for the 2013 best foreign-language film Oscar, was initially filmed in Norwegian. But for the U.S. release, scenes were either re-shot or dubbed into English (save for a few lines of French).
Norway did pick up an Oscar in 1951 � for Kon-Tiki, Heyerdahl�s black-and-white documentary about the journey.
That film lacks the production values of the elegantly photographed fictionalization, but it�s more raw and real.


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HIGH NOTES: Doctor attributes healthy living to vocal practice
COLUMBIA CITY — Having a healthy lifestyle is nothing to laugh at. But it may very well be something to sing about.Dr. David Haines, of Warsaw, has been singing with the Chain O' Lakes Chorus for six years and sees many healthy advantages to singing."You get a high from singing just like runners get from running," said Haines. "There are endorphins released when you sing, just like when playing sports."The barbershop chorus is comprised of men from Whitley and Kosciusko County with a range of talents and abilities. The main thread that connects them all — they enjoy singing in a barbershop genre. Barbershop music is built around four-part vocal harmonies. There are a number of different kinds of barbershop styles, but the true genre has its roots planted in songs such as "Good Night Ladies," "Sweet Adeline," and "Hello My Baby.""This is not just a hobby, it's a way of life," Haines said while wearing a T-shirt that read, "Warning: Barbershop singing is addictive."As a physician, Haines recognizes the health bonuses that come from singing.Studies show singing is a way to exercise the lungs, since sustained breathing requires breathing deeper than normal and from the diaphram. "When you breathe like this regularly, you reduce the possibility of respiratory infections," said Haines. "It's a workout for the lungs. It makes them stronger and keeps them clear."Singing also tones abdominal muscles and stimulates circulation. When standing to sing, it engages back muscles and promotes good posture and poise."Singing is an ageless activity," Haines said. "At 70 years old, I might not be able to play sports like when I was younger, but I can still sing."To learn more about the Chain O' Lakes Chorus, visit www.chainolakeschorus.com.For a more in-depth look at this story, see the Jan. 14 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook.


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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
MBCR Appoints New General Manager
For the past three years the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad (the company that operates the commuter rail for the MBTA) has flourished under the leadership of General Manager Hugh Kiley.
Now comes a new chapter for MBCR. The company announced yesterday that Bonnie Murphy, a former safety executive with the Federal Railroad Administration, would succeed Kiley as General Manager.
"Bonnie brings strong operational leadership and regulatory expertise to MBCR with her 30 years of railroad experience." says James F. O'Leary, chairman of the MBCR Board of Directors. "MBCR has enjoyed success under Hugh Kiley's stewardship and we wish him well in his future endeavors."
Under Kiley's three years of leadership, on time performance has been on the rise. The MBCR has exceeded the 95 percent benchmark set by the MBTA during Kiley's tenure.
Bonnie Murphy says she is looking forward to working with the diverse staff at the MBCR. "MBCR will continue to focus on service delivery, consistent on-time train performance and safety in its operation, as well as introduce innovations and enhancements that will benefit our customers." says Murphy.
Murphy will oversee the day-to-day operations and manage the strategic direction for the MBCR, which provides rail service to the more than 140,000 passengers who ride the MBTA commuter rail system each day.
This shakeup in leadership comes just as the MBCR's contract with the MBTA is set to expire. The current contract, which has been in place since July 2011, is set to expire sometime this month.
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The rear has been designed with a low, wide bumper and a roof spoiler that hides the rear wiper, for a stronger, cleaner appearance. LED tail and stop lamps are used, which illuminate more quickly and consume less power.
Overall, the exterior looks clean and sleek, and it is. Aerodynamic work, including underbody covers to help manage airflow, keeps the coefficient of drag relatively low, at 0.31 Cd.
There are quite a few exterior differences from model to model. Each has a distinctive grille, ranging from the sporty mesh grille on the Sienna SE to the chrome four-slot arrangement on the Sienna Limited. Wheels may be 17, 18, or 19 inches depending on the model and options. Sienna XLE, SE, and Limited models have front fog lamps in the lower valence, and Limited has HID headlamps as an option. The SE has dark chrome accents around the lights and smoked headlight covers.
The Sienna SE gets other special styling cues. The front has a more aggressive appearance. Side skirting visually lowers the vehicle and smoked headlights and taillights make a distinctive statement. Aerodynamic sculpting hugs the standard 19-inch alloy wheels. The SE sits lower, on a sport-tuned suspension.
The Sienna interior looks modern, with flowing lines and round controls to achieve a unified, integrated design. Prominently visible at the base of the center stack is a shape, something like a tadpole, that tapers laterally toward the passenger, to create the feeling that there is more room to share. To our eye, it's modern and effective, preventing the center stack from looking like a pile of squared-off rectangular boxes. Instead, the design suggests shared space and control areas, in a freshly contemporary atmosphere.
Design aside, the center stack contains the usual controls, with the message center at the top, the audio system just below, the climate control system below that, and storage and convenience features, such as cupholders and 12-volt plugs, at the lowest level. The shifter is located on the dash, closest to the driver, freeing center console space for storage.
There are three instrument designs. The standard analog system uses bright blue numbering with red needles. In all three designs, a large speedometer and tach are combined with fuel and temperature gauges. The automatic transmission range and odometer are displayed on the LCD in the center of the meter, and an ECO-drive light indicates economical driving. The dash materials and cloth upholstery look and feel nice enough, although the upper pieces of the dashboard, while attractively textured, turn out to be hard plastic.
The steering wheel, padded and contoured, has buttons for the audio system and Bluetooth. The wheel tilts and telescopes.
The front seats are passenger-car comfortable. Driver's seats are six-way adjustable on the base Sienna model, and eight-way adjustable on all other models, with power on all but LE memory available on Limited models. The front passenger seats are four-way, with power adjustability available on the XLE and Limited. An ample range of forward-to-back adjustment, generously sized cushions, and adjustable armrests contribute to comfort. Leather-trimmed and heated seats are standard on the XLE and Limited.
Second-row comfort was obviously a design priority. The second-row seats are mounted on very long sliders, 25.6 inches in length, so they can be moved very far forward or very far back, depending on the way the interior needs to be configured for people or cargo. With the seats at adjusted to the limit, a walk-in isle is created, big enough for an adult to walk through to help a child or an older passenger. With the second row seats adjusted all the way forward, walk-in access to the third row becomes possible.
Eight-passenger models use an arrangement that splits seating in a 40/20/40 proportion. That makes the second-row center seat small relative to the two outside seats, useful only for smaller people. When not in use, the center seat can be removed and stowed in a specially designed compartment in the back, converting the second row to captain's chairs with room in between. The standard chairs are quite comfortable. A Lounge Seating feature, standard on XLE AWD and Limited, equips the second-row captain's chairs with extended footrests.
On certain models, the back half of the center console can be extended rearward about a foot into the second-row passenger area. With the console moved rearward, second-row passengers have more easily reached cupholders and another handy storage option.
Third-row seats are split 60/40, and fold flat with one touch. The seats recline a bit as well.
Versatility was another design priority, along with the ability to reconfigure the interior for different mixes of people and cargo. To convert from carrying people to carrying cargo, the Sienna's third-row seats easily fold flat and, when the second-row seats are folded far forward, 117 cubic feet of cargo area becomes available. With the second-row seats removed altogether, cargo area expands to 150 cubic feet. Even with just the third-row seats folded flat, there is 87 cubic feet of stowage behind the second row.
An oversized screen for the entertainment system is available for the Limited models that's large enough to split into two screens in case rear-seat occupants want entertainment from two different sources. That allows for playing a video game on half of the screen, and showing a movie on the other. Wireless headphones are available. The screen is unusually large, big enough for third-row passengers to see.
Tri-zone automatic climate control is standard on all but Sienna L. A cabin air filter that prevents pollen and dust from entering the vehicle is standard on all models.
The navigation system, a voice-activated, touch-screen system, is available on all but Sienna L. It supports an integrated rearview camera with two views, and on XLE it can be packaged with the 10-speaker JBL audio system from the Limited. The system supports Bluetooth-capable audio devices, allowing the user to control the source device using the car's steering wheel controls to play, pause and seek.
Toyota Safety Connect includes automatic collision notification, an emergency assistance button with 24-hour roadside assistance and the ability to locate a stolen vehicle by GPS. It comes standard on Limited, is optional on XLE, and either way comes with a one-year trial subscription.
A sonar parking assist system, with four ultrasonic sensors, is available on Sienna XLE models. The system sounds progressively as an object becomes closer to the vehicle. A similar system, with six sensors, is standard on Limited.
Driving Impressions
The Sienna has electric power steering, which allowed Toyota engineers to tune the steering response for the different models. The Sienna SE has the tightest, most accurate and responsive steering of the models, along with the best handling and the best chassis control. The Limited model has the most power assist in the steering, and the chassis is tuned for comfort. Sienna LE and XLE models are somewhere in between, with steering and chassis priorities balanced between comfort and handling.
Of the models we drove, the Sienna SE is by far the most appealing from a driving dynamics point of view. It steers exceptionally well for a minivan, more like a sports sedan. It corners without much body roll, with a nice crisp turn-in and a clean, stable track through the bends. This responsive personality is achieved with not too much ride tradeoff in the process. The 19-inch wheels and lower profile tires do allow a bit more road feel into the cabin, but it's not annoying, and the extra confidence allowed us to drive mountain roads at higher speeds in a relaxed manner. Frankly, we wish all minivans handled this well. We're not sure if a good-handling minivan is likely to become a major player in the marketplace, but if it is, the SE is a home run. We noticed the brakes become a little touchy when we hustled the SE down the Ortega Highway, but they don't lack for stopping power. All in all, we'd say the SE is a fun and responsive car to operate, in an attractive package. Drivers who drive enthusiastically will like the SE.
The available all-wheel drive biases torque between the front and rear wheels based on information from wheel sensors. When wheel slip is detected, torque distribution is adjusted accordingly, providing better grip on icy or snowy roads. A key difference is that AWD models have run-flat tires and no spare. The run-flat tires, specially developed by Bridgestone, offer improved safety and performance in the event of a puncture through unique cooling ribs on the sidewall. They are designed to provide the capability to safely drive to a repair location instead of stopping to change a tire, which can expose driver and passenger to traffic hazards and bad people. We would expect the run-flat tires would ride a little harder than regular tires, and wear a little differently because of their unique construction and rubber compound. Our conclusion is that the AWD would be worth the investment in areas where weather conditions demand superior traction, but less attractive to buyers who don't experience wintry weather.
Sienna Limited has steering tuned for ease of operation, with very high levels of power assist. We found the Limited easy to park and maneuver at low speeds, but it also required more attention to keep in the center of the lane driving quickly down a mountain road. The Limited is the kind of luxury wagon we would drive at a relaxed pace for almost any distance, just taking it nice and easy.
All Sienna models have huge rear doors for easy entry. Access to the second and third row is easier than any minivan we can recall, because the door is so large, and headroom is good. Also, because the second row seats are on long tracks, it's possible to move them all the way forward to access the third row, or all the way back to walk into the passenger area. We think it would be possible for an average-size person to step in with a car seat, fasten it down and walk out, without having to kneel or crawl around.
Sienna is well insulated against wind, engine, and road noise. Toyota engineers used every trick in the book, padding, phase-shifting techniques, noise cancellation, sound absorbing materials and better engineered seals in the doors, among others, to keep noise to an absolute minimum. These are quiet minivans.
The Toyota Sienna sets the standard for minivans. Sienna benefits from sharp, handsome styling that borrows design cues from SUVs and sedans. The Sienna SE is the most carlike in its handling, but all Sienna models are appealing in their own way, and versatility may in fact be the Sienna's greatest virtue. Whether hauling the soccer team or materials from the home-improvement store or driving cross-country, there's a Sienna for every purpose.
John Stewart filed this report to NewCarTestDrive.com. Additional material by John F. Katz.


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In a move that could potentially have repercussions for like-minded legislation across the state, Newark City Council will hold a final vote on its mandatory paid sick-leave ordinance Wednesday night.
The ordinance is currently listed on the council's agenda for the 6:30 p.m. meeting and is slated for final passage if it receives the corresponding votes. If passed, Newark would join Jersey City as one of only two municipalities in New Jersey to enact mandatory sick-leave legislation.
Under the ordinance, full- and part-time employees would be able to earn up to one hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked. There is a 40-hour per year cap for businesses with 10 or more employees or those that offer child care, food service or direct care. Businesses with nine or fewer employees will only be required to offer workers at least 24 hours of sick pay per year.
Business groups have been vocal in their opposition to the measure, saying it will significantly raise employers' costs and add another unwanted layer of regulation.
Stefanie Riehl, an assistant vice president with the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, said that on the surface, the ordinance is "very well intentioned" and it makes sense why elected officials are pushing for it.
But that doesn't mean it's practical, she says. For instance, if a worker takes a paid sick day, an employer is still going to have to pay someone else to take his or her place and essentially, will be tasked with paying a double wage.
"In theory, yes we understand the reason but practically speaking, it's going to be difficult for businesses," Riehl said.
And as other members of the business community have also pointed out, Riehl said it's not just paid sick-leave legislation that is being dealt with singularly as employers must also concern themselves with an upcoming hike in the minimum wage and the continued rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
"There's a lot that's converging at once," Riehl said.
If Newark votes to adopt the ordinance, all eyes will shift toward Trenton, where a statewide bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt (D-Voorhees) was introduced last spring.
New Jersey Citizen Action director Phyllis Salowe-Kaye, a proponent of the measure, says that as it's currently drafted and ready for passage, Newark's ordinance is "one of the strongest" in the country. So whatever comes forth at the state level, Salowe-Kaye says it must be "at least as good if not better than the Newark ordinance."
Adding to that wish list is coming up with something Gov. Chris Christie will actually sign, she said.
"In terms of the state bill, Newark has set the bar at this point," Salowe-Kaye said.
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Cutting-Edge Specs Translate Languages on the Spot
Oct 1, 2013 12:22 PM PT
Japanese NTT Docomo unveiled augmented reality glasses that are able to translate menus and signs in real time.
The company, which showed off the device at a Japanese gadget fair, says the glasses will be ready when foreigners descend on Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics.
The glasses work by overlaying someone's native language onto unfamiliar text. This could be especially valuable in Japan, which doesn't always have translated menus at the ready.
The glasses do more than just read, though: They also have a facial recognition function that can determine a person's identity and job title from a smartphone directory.
[Source: AFP]
Google Back in Spotlight Over UK Taxes
Recent records show that Google paid US$55 million in UK taxes in 2012 on sales of nearly $5 billion to British costumers.
Google is the poster child for corporate tax avoidance, at least in the UK, where these records are sure to raise eyebrows. British lawmakers have grilled execs for designating neighboring Ireland -- which has a lower corporate tax rate than the UK -- as its official European sales base. In May, Margaret Hodge, chair of the public accounts committee, told Matt Brittin, Google's northern Europe boss, that Google's behavior on taxes was "devious," "unethical" and...wait for it... "evil."
UK parliament has scolded other U.S. companies, as well, but Google seems to absorb the brunt of the antipathy (even if Eric Schmidt says it shouldn't).
Tax avoidance was a major theme of last summer's G8 summit. It was held in the UK.
[Source: Reuters]
Nokia Regains Access to Indian Accounts
Nokia said Monday that it had regained access to its Indian bank accounts after tax authorities there froze the company's accounts last week.
Authorities reportedly froze all of Nokia's Indian assets -- including its factories -- to ensure that the company could pay its future tax bill, which is expected to be nine figures long.
Microsoft purchased Nokia's cellphone unit in September. The frozen assets won't affect the Microsoft deal, expected to be completed early next year, a Nokia spokesperson said.
Nokia has been operating in India for nearly 20 years. Even so, in January Indian officials raided a Nokia factory to recover what they claimed was $500 million in back taxes. Over the summer, before its cellphone unit was acquired by Microsoft, Nokia sent a letter to India's commerce ministry threatening to leave the country because of its tax policies.
[Source: The New York Times]
GTA Online Launch Overwhelms Servers
Rockstar, the company that produces the Grand Theft Auto video game series, warned that there might be a glitch or two with the online version of Grand Theft Auto V.
Sure enough, despite having bought additional servers to handle the anticipated load, Tuesday's launch of GTA Online overwhelmed the company's capabilities and reportedly locked out more than a few users.
GTA V logged more than $1 billion in sales within three days of its Sept. 17 release.
The online version of the game, available for free with the console version, allows up to 16 players to interact simultaneously.
[Sources: Forbes; Rockstar via BBC]


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In news that is sadly becoming "not news at all," another teacher has been fired for inappropriate behavior with a teenage student. But how's this for a twist? Arthur "Chuck" Matthews is suing Philadelphia area private school Springside Chestnut Hill Academy for discrimination over his texting relationship with a student.
He's using as proof the fact that the girl's parents have said that there was nothing improper about the texts exchanged by Matthews and the young girl. But is it ever really proper for a teacher to be texting a student?
I recognize that kids today are living in a digital world. Their gadgets are often their main means for communicating. And yet, as a mom, I'm wary of adults I don't know well interacting with my kid.
Teachers working with them inside a classroom is one thing. It's a controlled environment where the presence of other kids helps to keep things grounded. At the very least, a teacher who is thinking about stepping over the lines with a student has to be on their toes because they never know when another kid or another teacher is going to pop in and catch them in the act.
Jump to texts, and the threat of being watched is less. So what are they saying in those texts? For that matter, what could they possibly have to say in a text that couldn't be covered in the classroom?
And why would a teacher need a child's personal phone number? Call me old school, but I tend to shield my cellphone number from people who don't absolutely need to have it. It seems overly familiar to share it with people beyond that because it gives people access to me anywhere, anytime.
I know I don't want a teacher accessing my kid anywhere, anytime. That's for sure!
Do you think it's appropriate for teachers to text kids?
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This release solves the OpenSSL issue that many of us had run into with RedHat 9.0.
You can get 2.0.4 from
Hope this helps!
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. -- John Wooden
i've been looking into nessus for auditing my home network (i'm a newbie, bare with me)
but it needs (from what i've read) a server and client copy of nessus running to work?
do you need the server running on all of your servers, or just one of the machines?
i'm confused... could someone please shed some light on the subject for me
thank you!
When you connect to your ISP, you are potentially opening your computer to the world. There are \'naughty people\' out there who enjoy breaking into other people\'s computers. Give some thought to the security of your computer...
You are correct. You need the server and a client.
The server will only run on a *nix box. They have a client for both *nix and Win32.
If you install the client on a Win32 box, then you have to point it to a server running on a *nix box.
I'm not an expert on nessus... but I'm pretty sure thats the way it works.
I guess you would just regularly update the "definitions"?
I've only played with it a little bit....
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The server is where the nessus daemon lives. The nessus daemon is what is responsible for one authenticating and managing client access as well as launching the attacks that the client has requested. So when you see the log files of the servers you are scanning, the attacker will show up as the server.
The client is just that. It is a tool for connecting to the server, selecting the session requirements, selecting which vulnerabilities you wish to check for, and configuring/tweaking any of the plugins that allow it (for example inserting your domain name in, or only doing tcp syn scans, etc).
As far as the actual attacks go, they are just plugins (NASL scripts, Nessus Attack Scripting Language i think is what it stands for). You can download an all.tar.zip from nessus.org and explode it in the plugins directory and restart nessusd to update the attacks. Just keep in mind that if you customized any of those scripts, they will be overwritten. Also keep in mind that those scripts are supplied by the community at large and it is possible that malicious things are contained within them, so make sure you review them carefully (and at over 1000 of them, there is alot to look at...)
There is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: causality. Action. Reaction. Cause and effect...There is no escape from it, we are forever slaves to it. Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it, to understand the 'why'. 'Why' is what separates us from them, you from me. 'Why' is the only real social power, without it you are powerless.
(Merovingian - Matrix Reloaded)
guys can u help me out? can u tell me how to hack web sites for passwords?
guys can u help me out? can u tell me how to hack web sites for passwords?
Absolutely! All of us here have nothing better to do. We'll gladly be an accomplice in helping you crack into websites. Which one did you want to crack?
Get real. This isn't the site for that. Read the FAQ b4 make yourself look like an even bigger idiot than you aready have.
Originally posted here by spirit_420_mage
guys can u help me out? can u tell me how to hack web sites for passwords?
<sarcasm> We would love to help you commit a crime! Can we help you break into some banks too? </sarcasm>
spirit_420_mage: Please read the Antionline FAQ here http://www.antionline.com/misc.php?action=faq
Edit: Didnt see phishphreek80's post. Must be a faster typer..
N00b> STFU i r teh 1337 (english: You must be mistaken, good sir or madam. I believe myself to be quite a good player. On an unrelated matter, I also apparently enjoy math.)
Originally posted here by phishphreek80
Absolutely! All of us here have nothing better to do. We'll gladly be an accomplice in helping you crack into websites. Which one did you want to crack?
Get real. This isn't the site for that. Read the FAQ b4 make yourself look like an even bigger idot than you aready have.
I guess stupid people do stupid things. Hooked on phonics didnt work for Spirit....Ah well
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Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez: Children's Hospital Visit!
Selena Gomez and her boyfriend Justin Bieber visit the Starship Childrens Hospital on Thursday (July 19) in Auckland, New Zealand.
The 19-year-old actress stayed close by her 18-year-old beau as they walked inside.
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"Do something nice for someone else today," tweeted Justin. "U know your truth…do it for the right reasons."
He later added, "Always need to mentally prepare myself for these children hospital visits. Really excited though."
In case you missed it, make sure you check out Justin on the latest cover of Rolling Stone magazine, which hits stands this Friday (July 20).
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — First, Neil deGrasse Tyson took off his shoes. He wiggled his toes in his socks and padded across the stage in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University. He squinted out into the audience.
Every one of the 1,200 seats were filled, and Tyson smiled.
It was the first Bucknell Forum talk of the spring semester, a much-anticipated entry in the tech/no series on the perils and promises of technology. Tyson, the Frederick P. Rose director at the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City, is an astrophysicist and author, as well as host of the new Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey reboot.
The mysteries of the universe are undeniable, but Tyson kept no secrets about where he stood on the Bucknell Forum series' central question. His talk, "This Just In: Latest Discoveries of the Universe," would fall firmly on the side of tech. "Most scientists will tell you that all technology is good," said Tyson. "Let's check that box right now."
Tyson's two-hour talk was filled with memorable moments — from his thoughts on the Mars Rover to a dark energy interpretive dance and even to a brief YouTube detour to watch the Large Hadron Rap. Though difficult to elevate just one, perhaps it was when Tyson coined a new phrase to describe the generation born after 1995, "Generation Exoplanet." He was so tickled, he tweeted about it from the stage.
Born after 1995 -- the year the first planet outside our solar system was discovered? Then you are "Generation Exoplanet" #BucknellU
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 31, 2014
He maintained an unshakable exuberance for his field, even when explaining the most horrifying of cosmic realities. "Earth wants to kill you," Tyson told the audience, smiling. "For that matter, the Universe wants to kill you, too." He predicted the ever-expanding universe will end "not in fire, but in ice," demonstrated the relentless suck of a black hole, played a video simulation of a tsunami resulting from a possible asteroid impact in 2036 - and through it all, the joy never left his face.
Tyson ended his talk in the dark, with the screen lit with Saturn's rings behind him, a pale blue dot visible in the distance. "Look again at that dot," Tyson read aloud from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. "That's home. That's us."
The Weis Center was silent while Tyson read, proving that he had pulled closer the ever-expanding, doomed universe - and showed that it's possible to ponder the stars while in your socks, right here on earth.
Note: WVIA will broadcast an earlier Q&A between Tyson; Professor Ned Ladd, physics and astronomy; and two Bucknell students, "The Bucknell University Forum Presents: A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson," six times (March 17 at 7 p.m., March 19 at 10 p.m., March 20 at 8 p.m., March 23 at 3 p.m., March 28 at 7 p.m. and March 30 at noon).
The Bucknell Forum series, tech/no, will continue on Tuesday, March 25, with a special presentation featuring Bucknell alumnus Dr. David Scadden, a world leader in stem cell research and co-founder of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. The event, to be held at the Vaughan Literature Building in Trout Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.