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Apple's iPhone 4: Thoroughly Reviewedby Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on June 30, 2010 4:06 AM EST
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I'm not sure how this keeps happening. The first year I waited at a mall for 5 hours to get the original iPhone. The following year my friend Mark Rein convinced me to see a midnight showing of Hellboy II and then wait outside of an AT&T store all night to get the iPhone 3G. You'd think I'd learn by the third year but once more I was in line at the mall hours before the Apple store opened to get the 3GS. This year I thought it would be different. Apple offered free overnight shipping to anyone who wanted to pre-order the iPhone 4. Figuring everyone would go that route I decided to beat the FedEx trucks and just show up at the mall at 6AM. I'd be in and out in a little over an hour, which would give me a head start on battery life testing on Apple's 4th generation iPhone.
I promise that not all of my decisions play out this poorly. Those who pre-ordered the 4 and requested overnight delivery got their phones early and my one hour wait turned into six hours at the mall, for the fourth year in a row.
Apple's iPhone 4 with Bumper Case
It's a self fulfilling prophecy. Steve gets up on stage, proclaims the iPhone 4 to be the biggest introduction since the original iPhone, and the public flocks to Apple stores to fork over $200 on day one and around $2500 over the course of two years for the privilege. But this isn't 2007. Apple has real competitors in the smartphone space. Android phones have grown in features, polish and popularity. Even Palm entered the race with a competant offering, and Microsoft isn't far behind. It's easy to start a revolution when everyone else is doing the wrong thing, but what about when more companies actually get it? Was Steve justified in his excitement over the 4? That's what we're here to find out today.
Straight on it looks like just another iPhone. You get the black face with a shiny trim. From the side it is the redesign that Apple has needed for a while now. It's not revolutionary but it's the type of improvement that makes its predecessor feel old. And that's exactly what this does. Have a look for yourself:
iPhone 4 (left) vs. iPhone 3GS (right)
The straight lines, smaller dimensions and lack of unnecessary bulk make the 3GS feel like a car from the 90s, unnecessarily curvy. The styling is now so much more compact. Compared to the iPhone 3GS the 4 is around 5% narrower (but no more difficult to type on) and nearly 25% thinner. It even makes the Nexus One look dated:
The iPhone 4 is slightly heavier than the 3GS (4.8oz vs. 4.7oz). You feel the added weight but I wouldn't call it heavy. The front and the back of the iPhone 4 are both made out of glass, and they protrude beyond the stainless steel band that wraps around the phone (more on this controversial decision later). While this gives the 4 an amazing finish, it also makes carrying the phone nerve racking. Coupled with the smaller, more dense form factor I'm now deathly afraid of dropping and shattering this thing. Apple has done a lot to reinforce the glass, however there have been enough reports already of shattered iPhone 4s for me not to feel very safe. Only Apple would think to make the two surfaces most likely to hit something out of glass. It's like making mouse traps out of cheese, something bad is bound to happen.
iPhone 4 (left) vs. iPhone 3GS (right)
The physical buttons (but not their layout) have changed on the 4. The ringer switch has shorter travel and feels sturdier as a result. The volume rocker has been replaced by discrete volume up/down buttons, also very sturdy in feel. The power/lock button is also now made out of stainless steel. Only the home button remains unchanged, although it does seem to make a deeper click when you use it.
The speaker moved to behind the right grill at the bottom of the phone instead of the left. The dock connector thankfully remained unchanged. It looks like Apple is committed to maintaining this connector until it makes the jump to something wireless (or optical?).
The back of the phone is pretty. Apple broke with tradition and finally included a single LED flash on the phone. The flash comes on in low light conditions and is enough to take shots in total darkness.
The camera has been upgraded to a low noise 5MP sensor. It can shoot stills at up to 2592 x 1936 or video at 1280 x 720 @ 30 fps. We'll go into greater detail on its quality in the camera section. The iPhone 4 also adds a front facing camera capable of shooting both photos and video at 640 x 480.
Apple quotes contrast ratio as 1000:1, in our measurements we got very close (952:1). A significant improvement over the 188:1 ratio of the 3GS. Apple achieved this by both dropping black levels and increasing the white levels on the display. Improving both is always fine by me.
Internally the iPhone 4 uses Apple's new A4 SoC, built around an ARM Cortex A8 CPU and a PowerVR SGX GPU. The new SoC is built on a 45nm process and features 512MB of memory on the package. Apple hasn't made CPU clock speed public, but I'm guessing around 800MHz compared to the iPad's 1GHz for reasons you'll see later. GPU clock speed is unknown as well. Having more memory on package is an interesting move by Apple as it makes the iPhone 4 better suited for multitasking compared to the iPad. Also implying that shortly after the iPad gets multitasking it'll be updated to a version with more memory as well.
The iPhone now has an gyroscope as well the rotation sensors of its predecessors. Developers are given full access to the gyroscope making the iPhone 4 capable of becoming a very expensive Wii-mote.
|Physical Comparison
|Apple iPhone 4
|Apple iPhone 3GS
|HTC EVO 4G (Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650)
|HTC Droid Incredible (Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650)
|Google Nexus One (Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250)
|115.2 mm (4.5")
|115 mm (4.5")
|121.9 mm (4.8")
|117.5 mm (4.63")
|119 mm (4.7")
|58.6 mm (2.31")
|62.1 mm (2.44")
|66.0 mm (2.6")
|58.5 mm (2.30")
|59.8 mm (2.35")
|9.3 mm ( 0.37")
|12.3 mm (0.48")
|12.7 mm (0.5")
|11.9 mm (0.47")
|11.5 mm (0.45")
|137 g (4.8 oz)
|133 g (4.7 oz)
|170 g (6.0 oz)
|130 g (4.6 oz)
|130 g (4.6 oz)
|Apple A4 @ ~800MHz
|Apple/Samsung A3 @ 600MHz
|Qualcomm Scorpion @ 1GHz
|Qualcomm Scorpion @ 1GHz
|Qualcomm Scorpion @ 1GHz
|PowerVR SGX 535
|PowerVR SGX 535
|Adreno 200
|Adreno 200
|Adreno 200
|16GB or 32GB integrated
|16 or 32GB integrated
|8GB micro SD
|8GB micro SD
|micro SD
|5MP with LED Flash + Front Facing Camera
|8MP with dual LED Flash + Front Facing Camera
|8MP with LED Flash
|5MP with LED Flash
|3.5" 640 x 960 LED backlit LCD
|3.5" 320 x 480
|4.3" 480 x 800
|3.7" 480 x 800 AMOLED
|3.7" 480 x 800 AMOLED
|Integrated 5.254Whr
|Integrated 4.51Whr
|Removable 5.5Whr
|Removable 4.81 Whr
|Removable 5.18 Whr
The iPhone 4's logic board shrinks in size thanks to further component integration, making room for a much larger battery. The 5.25Whr battery in the iPhone 4 is a 16% increase from what was in the 3GS, and 95% of what HTC put in the EVO 4G. While raw performance improved, it's clear that Apple's focus this time around was battery life. Again, we'll dive into specifics later in the review.
Moving back outside Apple surrounded the phone with a stainless steel band. This band doubles as the 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth antennas. And if you hadn't noticed, it also moonlights as a giant elephant. Let's talk about it.
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MisterQED - Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - linkI am not a member of the "tin foil hat" crowd, I'm a guy with a physics degree and a Ham license, so I know a bit about radios. What I am about to point out seems so obvious to me, but I have never heard it discussed anywhere. Your article discusses the effects of having a exposed antenna as it effects phone reception, but that misses the main point, this is a receiving and transmitting antenna. Having skin contact with a transmitting antenna is not safe. Allow me to explain my thought process and tell me if I have a flaw in my logic.
1) Constant irritation causes cancer. Whether it is fiberglass fibers, silica dust or coal dust in our lungs, to UV radiation from skin exposed to the sun, if you irritate an area consistently for long periods of time, you are just asking for cancer.
2) RF radiation from most phones is a subject of worry and present discussion, but it doesn't worry me. RF radiation is a worry because it will cause electrical conduction thru body tissue. This would be an irritation and consistent irritation can lead to cancer. RF radiation from most phones has two methods of conduction, capacitive and inductive.
a) Capacitive needs: a sizable area, small dielectric distances and high frequencies. Cell phones have the high frequencies, but all other designs keep minimal gaps between antennas and the operator's skin. Also the operator's finger tips provide a rather small area to support capacitive conductance.
b) Inductive conduction needs frequency matched radiators to allow conduction i.e. a good antenna on each end. Body parts make poor antennas, and bodily dimensions generally don't match the proportions of ideal radiators, so inductive conduction isn't really a worry.
3) iPhone 4s, unlike any previous device, allow a third and a magnitude more effective connection between an operator and a transmitting antenna, a resistive connection. All a resistive connection needs is a low resistance, which skin has when sweaty or damp and the antenna has if it is not covered by a non-conductive coating. To add insult to injury, this contact de-tunes the antenna making it less efficient. This inefficiency causes the transmitter to up the power output as cell phones work on a "yell loud enough to be heard" system, so the worse the reception the more power the phone will pump into the antenna to be able to communicate with the cell tower.
So unless you can show me where my logic has lead me astray, I would expect that in the future some percentage of the population that use an iPhone without a case may find a small possibly cancerous mole forming on one of their fingertips.
That is a bigger problem than some dropped calls, so why didn't you mention it. Reply
smithpercy - Sunday, November 14, 2010 - linkDoes this mean that I could cold weld a suitable socket to the gsm antenna side strip to allow a patch cable to an external antenna and get reception in the very marginal areas that I spend most of my time in?? I know that the shield would have to be grounded but that could be done thru one of the other connectors. I understand that would void the warranty, and give apple a conniption fit but that is their problem. Reply
keri - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - linkserious question here. Reply
Rizi - Friday, July 13, 2012 - linkThe iPhone 4S doesn't offer much in the way of camera controls. The sensitivity settings, white balance and exposure, for example, are all set automatically with no way of adjusting them prior to taking a shot. There's not even an exposure compensation facility to tweak the exposure. A camera manufacturer wouldn't be able to sell a compact camera with such a limited level of control unless it was for a child. However, it does make the camera of this <a href="http://cellocean.com/iphone-4s-specifications-2210... very easy to use and of course extra functionality can be added via apps. One useful option that is available is the ability to manually select whether the flash fires or not. Those who prefer to handover complete control can leave this set to 'Auto' - and generally we found it fired at the correct points, often appearing to improve shots we considered already well-lit. The flash is weak, but it's useful for illuminating very dark scenes or adding a little sparkle to eyes in daylight. It's a very small light source, so if it is the main one for an image, expect strong shadows and highlights – it's not the most flattering option for a night-time portrait, but very strong for a single LED. A tap of the screen is all that is required to set the focus point. The camera then usually does a quick backwards and forwards focus adjustment before the subject is made sharp. There's no clear focus indicator, the subject just looks sharp when the focussing has completed. Although the touchscreen is core to the iPhone, Apple hasn't given the camera a touch-shutter facility. This would trigger than camera to focus and take the shot with a single touch of the screen. Instead, after choosing the focus point, the shutter icon needs to be hit to take the shot. The 'up' volume control can now also be used as the camera shutter button too - however, it was very stiff indeed on our test sample, meaning there was an element of shakiness about some of the photos that simply pressing the screen could accomplish. However, it's still a nice touch to have - taking pictures of yourself is much easier with this as an option. Although there is no optical zoom facility, the iPhone 4s camera allows users to zoom digitally into the scene using the pinch to zoom option on the touchscreen. Plus you could always look SUPER COOL and get one of those optical attachments for the iPhone 4S to make it into a longer range shooting device - but you'd have to be really dedicated to do that. Rather than reducing the size of the images, however, the iPhone interpolates the digitally-zoomed shots so they have the same 3264x2448 pixel dimensions. On-screen icons provide access to the secondary camera and the grid display, flash and HDR options. These icons can be difficult to see when you're shooting from an awkward angle and it's easy to touch one accidentally when you are trying to set the focus point. It's helpful that, if the camera is active when the iPhone 4S is put into sleep mode, the camera is available as soon as the lock screen is swiped open. You can also jump straight into the camera from the lock screen with a double tap of the Home Button, although you can only see the snaps you've taken from that session, meaning you can't sneak into the photo gallery of a code-locked iPhone. Reply
Rizi - Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - linkWhen Apple announced the new Siri software for the <a href="http://cellocean.com/iphone-4s-specifications-2210... 4s it was easy to just dismiss it as another company trying to get on board with the voice recognition gimmick we've seen companies trying to make work for years. But there are a couple of things to remember here: firstly, this is Apple, a brand that will always make something seem cool and work pretty well. And secondly, it's not a technology that it's had to develop fully in house, with the company buying voice recognition development app-maker Siri. We've played with some pretty advanced voice recognition software on the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S2, so we've also taken a look to see how the same command is registered on both phones. Long pressing the home button will result in the Siri voic icon popping up - or alternatively, you can set the iPhone 4S to activate the service when you hold the phone up to your ear in standby mode, so you don't look as ridiculous when talking to your handset. From there, you've got quite a range of things you can achieve with speech alone, be it sending a message, playing a song (or even a playlist), setting the alarm, creating a reminder... we were very impressed with the range of options on offer. And the system is quick too - where with many other phones you have to open up the voice recognition function (often in a long winded way) and then wait for the beep to speak, Siri opens up in around a couple of seconds from anywhere in the phone. The voice recognition is pretty darn good too - we were straight away impressed with how many phrases it managed to get right on the first go, including some pretty obscure bits and pieces of speech. You do have to pronounce your words a little more clinically than you might do normally, but even garbled speech comes through pretty well. To put a number on it: we went through the list of functions Siri offers, and found that around one in three or four attempts went awry, which is miles better than the one in two we encounter on most other phones. However, before we get into the comparison, we should say this about Siri in the UK - the full range of services aren't available, and that's a real shame. This means you can't ask where the nearest McDonald's or petrol station is, a feature that's been talked up in the US. We do have high hopes that the same features will eventually be enabled in the UK, as it's just a matter of licensing the information and incorporating it into the system, but it will be annoying for a number of users to see that Siri comes back with 'I cannot do that' time and time again for cool functionality. But what it does do well is work out the context of what you're saying, something that most other voice recognition software fails to do. So if you say 'Tell Andy his hair looks amazing today' it will work out that you'll want to tell him by message, rather than asking what method you'd prefer to speak to him. Messaging isn't as straightforward as we'd like though, as using the 'Send message' command to a person in your address book will result in you being asked whether you'd like to do it using the phone number or email address - and there's no way to set a personalized choice. Reply


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KG and Ringy visit the town of Goodsprings in Nevada, which is the number one gold-producing state in the nation. Ecstatic at the thrill of gold hunting, the guys aim to find the stolen gold that is rumored to be hidden here. and start off their search by heading to an old mercantile store that was built in 1900s. The guys think that this is a great place to find gold, but soon they come across something that they would not even imagine finding there: Indian artifacts.


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Canterbury cathedral, one of the greatest medieval buildings of Europe, is described as "a space absolutely crowded, packed with images as much as an American shopping mall" by the man who, nominally at least, has run it for the past 10 years.
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in an elegiac, filmic farewell to the building – "a purpose-built factory for prayer" – and his job, is seen wandering through the enormous space from attics to crypts, turning the whole space into a valedictory sermon.
His film for BBC2, Goodbye to Canterbury, to be broadcast on New Year's Day, is far from a tourist trail around the cathedral's medieval glories. The Guardian's Andrew Brown once described trying to follow Williams's thought processes as like watching "a jellyfish dropped in a jacuzzi".
He compares the iconoclasm of the English Reformation, when hundreds of medieval carvings of saints and angels in the cathedral were decapitated, stained glass shattered, and acres of wall paintings destroyed, leaving only a few survivors in the crypt, to images of a smashed Starbucks window, the destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, and a defaced image of Colonel Gaddafi. "When today's idols, false or otherwise, are built up and smashed down, I'm glad to have this place to retreat to, and remember that these are arguments that never go away. It's a mistake we make too easily to think we've progressed between the moral questions of the past, but what we can put behind us is institutions that have failed."
He reflects: "Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community. At the end of the middle ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation – yet they did, change does happen."
Recalling his first crisis within weeks of taking the job, his personal opposition to the war in Iraq, and then his reluctance "to sound off from a distance" when British troops were risking their lives on the ground, he found he was satisfying nobody on either side. "Being unpopular, taking the rap, aren't accidental side-effects, they're the stuff of the job." He got off comparatively lightly, he considers, reflecting on the fate of Thomas Becket, murdered in the cathedral on 29 December 1170.
In the film, he often seems a lonely figure, as he did to many observers of his time as archbishop, when he wrestled with problems from the appointment of gay priests and women bishops to the revelation in the census that faith of any kind is in freefall.
Kneeling by the 15th-century tomb of Henry Chichely, Archbishop of Canterbury and chancellor to Henry V, which shows him as a prince of the church on the upper level and a worm-gnawed corpse below, Williams grimly translates the carved Latin motto: "Here is my tomb, look into your mirror." The tomb was deliberately set opposite the seat for his successors at Sunday service.
Gazing around the great golden space – mysteriously scoured bare for the cameras of the usual heaving mass of clergy, worshippers and tourists – he perches on the great stone archbishop's chair, barely taking up half the seat.
"It is physically impossible to fill this throne, and that shouldn't be surprising," he reflects, "since it's certainly spiritually impossible to fill it also. The first time you sit here you realise that you have countless new ways of getting things wrong, countless new responsibilities and expectations laid on you – and the likelihood is that you're going to get most of them wrong."
His surroundings will be almost as glorious in his new post of Master of Magdalene College in Cambridge, which he takes up in a few days, but hopefully the responsibilities and expectations slightly lighter.


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Updated 8:04 am, Thursday, July 26, 2012
The arenas are ready and so are the Latino athletes representing the United States in the highly anticipated 2012 Summer Olympic Games that kick off July 27 in London. The Olympics will be streamed live in their entirety for select cable and satellite subscribers on NBCOlympics.com. Here is a look at some of the Latinos standing for the Red, White and Blue.
Latinos to watch: Danell Leyva (above) and John Orozco (left)
Olympic history: The Cuban Leyva, 20, and Boricua Orozco, 19, are both members of the five-person gymnastics team as first-time Olympians. Leyva won the U.S. Olympic trials July 1 with a score of 368.350, followed by Orozco who placed second with 367.400.
Watch it: Men's Qualifications — 5 a.m., Saturday, July 28, on NBC.
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Latinos to watch: Marlen Esparza (left) and Joseph Diaz Jr. (above)
Olympic history: Esparza, from Houston, makes history as one of three boxers to make up the first U.S. Olympic boxing team for women and the first Hispanic Olympian to be chosen as a CoverGirl. Diaz, a left-handed boxer and the youngest member on the male boxing team, defeated O'Shanique Foster 17-14 at trials last August.
Watch it: Women's Flyweight Round of 16 — 7:30 a.m., Aug. 5; Men's Bantamweight Round of 32 – 7:30 a.m., Saturday, July 28, on Telemundo and CNBC.
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Latinos to watch: Steven and Diana Lopez
Olympic history: In the 2008 Beijing Games, the Nicaraguan-American siblings and their older brother, Mark, each took home a medal. Although there won't be a "three-peat" this year, Steven, a two-time gold medalist and five-time world champion, told the Wichita Falls Times Record News that both he and his sister are going for the gold.
Watch it: Women's 57kg Preliminary Round – 3 a.m., Aug. 9; Men's 80kg Preliminary Round – 3:15 a.m., Aug. 10, on MSNBC.
Latina to watch: Christina McHale
Olympic history: Ranked 29th in the world, McHale is a first-time Olympian playing women's singles in a team with the Williams sisters and Varvara Lepchenko. The Cuban-Irish-American turned pro in 2007 and has since won one International Tennis Federation singles title and three doubles.
Watch it: 5:30 a.m., Saturday, July 28, on Bravo.
Latino to watch: Manuel Huerta
Olympic history: Cuban-born Huerta, 28, earned his spot on the team after placing ninth at the International Triathlon Union World Triathlon. "The life of a triathlete is 100 percent dedication," the first-time Olympian, who trains more than 20 hours a week, told NBC Latino.
Watch it: Men's Event – 3 a.m., Aug. 4, on NBC Sports.
Track and Field
Latina to watch: Desiree Davila
Olympic history: Davila, who turns 29 on July 26, finished second in trials with a time of 2:25:55. Davila, who recently got engaged to marathoner Ryan Linden, is in the three-member marathon team with Shalane Flanagan and Kara Goucher.
Watch it: Women's Marathon – 5 a.m., Aug. 5, on NBC.


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text: i don't have the episode this entry references on DVD, however i know in several others, like "Empok Nor", "The Siege of AR-558" and "Meld" the term coil spanner is used. is there such a thing as a coil scanner? or did somebody mishear coil spanner? Deevolution 02:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


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The Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) recently launched MyRECO Certificate, a mobile app that allows Ontario's real estate professionals to display their registration certificate on their mobile device, in real time.
"The industry has expressed a desire for a convenient registration certificate that can withstand wear and tear and the app addresses that," says registrar Joseph Richer. "It's part of RECO's ongoing effort to leverage technology to offer useful digital services to registrants."
The app is currently available for Apple, Android and BlackBerry Z10 devices. To download, visit the Apple App store on your Apple device, the Google Play store on your Android device or BlackBerry World on your Z10 device and search for "MyRECO Certificate." The app is free.
Once downloaded, registrants can pull up a real-time version of their RECO registration certificate anytime they are connected to the Internet or keep a date-stamped copy stored for offline use.
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Dawn got scared when the Ariados were chasing her in a forest, does that make her similar to Misty? I don't think so...Originally Posted by Maldaed
Serena was alone in the forest, so her getting scared after seeing Venipede and Vespiquen is a normal reaction. Serena is Serena, not Misty, May, Dawn or Iris.


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November 3, 2008
WhiteHat Security Ranked Number Ten in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley Internet, Media, Entertainment and Communications Companies
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- WhiteHat Security, the leading provider of website security solutions, has been named to Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley Internet, Media, Entertainment and Communications companies. This year's Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 program is co-presented by Deloitte, Silicon Valley Bank, Korn/Ferry International, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Cornish & Carey Client Solutions and ABD Insurance and Financial Services - A Wells Fargo Company. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years from fiscal year 2003-2007.
"Deloitte's Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 companies have shown the strength, vision and tenacity to succeed in today's very competitive technology environment," said Mark Jensen, Managing Partner, National Venture Capital Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP, in Silicon Valley. "We applaud the successes of WhiteHat Security and acknowledge it as one of the very few to accomplish such a fast growth rate over the past five years."WhiteHat Security's CEO Stephanie Fohn credits the Company's innovative SaaS approach to website vulnerability management, unmatched technology and the diligence of its sales and development teams with the company's remarkable growth from fiscal year 2003-2007. Fohn said, "In today's threat-rich business environment, organizations need an easy to manage, cost-effective way to take control of website security and narrow their window of risk. Our rapid growth is a gratifying validation of our vision for WhiteHat Sentinel."
WhiteHat Security's 2,491 percent increase in revenues of from fiscal year 2003 to 2007 resulted in a top ten ranking in the Technology Fast 50 for Silicon Valley.
To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must be headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and be a company that owns proprietary technology or proprietary intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology. Using other companies' technology or intellectual property in a unique way does not qualify.
Companies from the regional Technology Fast 50 programs in the United States and Canada are automatically entered in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 program, which ranks North America's top 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies. For more information on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 or Technology Fast 500 programs, visit http://www.fast500.com/.
About WhiteHat Security, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, WhiteHat Security is the leading provider of SaaS website security solutions. WhiteHat delivers turnkey solutions that enable companies to secure valuable customer data, comply with industry standards and maintain brand integrity. WhiteHat Sentinel, the company's flagship service, is the only solution that incorporates expert analysis and industry-leading technology to provide unparalleled coverage to protect critical data from attacks. For more information about WhiteHat Security, please visit our website, http://www.whitehatsec.com/.
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pLike a whisper, the inspired words of scripture are moving into my heart./p
p"Speak to me, Lord." I close my eyes. His word settles in deep./p
pAre you listening for God's voice? Maybe the busyness of our days keeps us from hearing the quiet whisper that floats on a breeze and wants to settle on our soul./p
pHe is speaking./p
pI'm listening today,/p
pem"Ask the Lord to heighten your senses so that your spritual ears are tuned in. He can and will give you an awareness of His Presence, His activity, and His voice in all the activities of your life. Is your ear tuned in? Are your ears wide open?" ~Discerning the Voice of God, Priscilla Shirer/em/p
pemWhat is he saying to you?/em/p
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The 33-year-old reality TV star has been enjoying a romantic vacation with her husband Kanye West in Mexico, but perhaps she's enjoyed one late night too many .
As she soaked up the afternoon rays outside her luxury hotel, she Instagrammed a revealing bikini photo with the caption: "Let me sleep!!!!"
The skimpy snap quickly went wild online with over 600,000 fans liking her sleepy swimwear moment.
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\015 My brand new Dell worked fine until about three days ago. Suddenly, with nothing new being installed, the cursor began to randomly jump around as I typed. I have moved my hands so they are arched (not comfy) and only my finger tips touch the keyboard. No joy. ATM it is working okay. It may not next time I type. It has been very intermittent and is driving me nuts! I have the newest Alps touch pad driver and the newest Logitech trackball driver installed. The jumping happens without regard to whether or not the external mouse is plugged in.\015
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text: [Offtopic tag added for reader convenience]> > - it doesn't impact drivers unless the developer chooses to use devfs> If the _user_ uses devfs, the _developer_ has to provide it. A halfway> system is worse than each alternative on its own.yes, just like SMP. and the impact is very trivial.> > - it doesn't impact system adminstration unless you enable the feature> But does when enabled. One more variable to consider on each support call.four options:a) use devfs and don't need to mangle /devb) use devfs and don't agree w/ naming/perms so choose to manually modify /dev;use rc.whatever or devfsdc) don't use devfs and run MAKEDEV and don't need to mangle /devd) don't use devfs and run MAKEDEV and don't agree w/ naming/perms and modrc.whatever or /devab and cd are very similar save that ab has one less step. consider that you_know_ in each support call that the naming and major/minor are current.> I've never said that everybody is like me. I'm careful to talk about my> experience, and what I have seen. As far, nobody at all has stepped forward> telling the grueling story of his machine with hundreds of devices that> change minute by minute, so I'd have to assume that this doesn't exist, or> in any case is so marginal that any impact at all on the kernel used by> millions that don't have any use for the feature is out.in an earlier email you point out that because you have never met anyone thatdoes a certain thing that the point is moot. i am a somebody that does thatcertain thing; hot swap all day long. two nifty and very handy things associatedwith swapping pcmcia cards and usb devices.> > - gives sensible names to devices (c1t3d0s2 instead of sde)> Change MAKEDEV, be my guest.c1t3d0s2 will always be c1t3d0s2 whereas sde will change depending on how manyother drives come before it. and UUID is not a workable solution for non-RWmedia.> > - eliminates scsi ordering problems because of sensible names> /dev/c1t3d0s2 becomes /dev/c2t3d0s2 when you move the controller, and> adding a new disk gets you to /dev/c2t4d0s2. How does this solve the "sdc is> now sdb" problem?moving the controller is one issue that remains, however most people appear tomove drives, in my case, removable media and non-powered media on scsi chainschanges the continuity of my drives.> Check mount(8), options -L, -U for a solution to this.cdroms have different labels and no uuid. devfs cleanly keeps it ordered.> > - completely eliminates major/minor number problems> Can't do that, because it is deeply ingrained into the kernel's way of> handling devices.and devfs is a direction away from them.> > - moves naming complexity INTO USER SPACE (good for usb)> MAKEDEV is user space.manual v.s. automatic> > - user space scripts ran on insertion (just like cardmgr/PCMCIA)> Can be done (sort of) with modules and pre- post- scripts. Not nice.similar to kmod, no? devfsd again can be like quota utils and update an incoremap.> > - UNIX-like /dev without UNIX-like rw fs (good for embedding on romfs)> ROMFS is designed to be _small_, not full-Unix. I'd guess adding device> nodes to ROMFS won't make it much larger. Surely much less than devfs and> its bloat in all devices by itself.devfs is not bloated.> > - provides a proper namespace (no need for recent rash of /proc/*/dev)> If you can't provide a proper namespace in /dev, then doing it as a fake> filesystem is out anyway.let's wonder for a bit. i am a developer of a widget. i change my major/minorfor my widgets. i don't have to go update MAKEDEV and make a big notice toeveryone. /dev will always have the naming constructs that i use in my code.> > Notice that all of these problems can be solved in other ways (for example> > you can solve the sde -> c1t3d0s2 problems using a startup script, similar> > to how Solaris populates /dev) but devfs solves ALL of the problems in one> > fell swoop.> That isn't exactly right. As said above, it does not solve all problems.> Plus the naming problem is still there, it is just shifted from MAKEDEV> (yuck!) to either another configuration file (same yuck!) or the driverin my case, i have never needed devfsd. in an earlier email you managed to makea large action list for the kernel and devfsd to talk and update confs. looktoward quota and see how it interacts with on disk files and in core. start upand shut down are your disk factor. nothing else unless you choose to sync. idon't know of many people that lmbench startup and shutdown.> unless you prefer to live in a vacuum. Also, if something solves several> problems in one fell swoop _without_ adding strange klugdes and needing> extra machinery, it's an elegant solution (the conception behind Unix is ahow many iterations of the F00F bug solution did we run through? how many timeshas the way SMP been done in the kernel been changed, or VM, or VFS?"version 1" normally leads to "version 2". we would be silly to think that devfsis ultimately perfect and it never need be changed again. heck, look at thefirewalling. we have iptables now. in the last five years we have had threemajorly different and incompatible ways of dealing with firewalling. all of itis made easy for userland by scripts and whatnot, and in core is made moreextensible and easy to manipulate. the majority of people are probably satisfiedwith their permissions in /dev and won't use devfsd. for those who aren't likeyourself, there are options. permissions can be easily set in the kernel make aswell. just like cpu selection is or ethernet card is or etc. one can be courseabout it and have "open" and "paranoid" permission groups or can be fine grainedlike soundcard and say specify precise perm values. you can even have a rangeinbetween these.> fine example). If not, it's just exchanging one mess for another one. My> fear here is that devfs exchanges an acknowledged mess, which we know and> over time learned how to handle in a reasonable way; with a much larger> mess, one with unknown quirks that will have to be worked around. All for> no real gain.i compile new kernels several times a day for the hundreds of systems worldwidethat we manage. devfs has enabled me to save a few minutes here and therefrequently and not worry about /dev updates. over time, that translates to a lotof saved time. i've been using devfs for over a year now and i honestly saythat i don't worry about /dev and my troubles with adding devfs to the kernel areby large "patch -p1 < devfs...". that's a trouble i can sleep with most easily.> Yes, I did. But if the costs involved are smaller than the benefits, go for> it. If not, leave it alone. In this case, as no pressing need has surfaced,> and no clear benefits have been shown, leave it alone.many of my peers use devfs and none of us have issues to deal with. the costsinvolved to date are a small amount of time during the week for one man,Richard. for the work that he has done, my benefits mean saving time personallyand a significantly lower accumulated load for that one class of servers thatstats /dev/ a lot.for you the benefits aren't clear and for me the benefits are very clear. itsolves a variety of little issues. little issues compounded by numerous systemsmakes for a lot of frustration and time.we have a bunch of stuff in the kernel such as AX.25 and IPX because it benefitssomeone. i'm probably correct in that they don't benefit you. nor do theybenefit me. but i will staunchly support them just as i do devfs.-d-- This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows NT reboot! Do you remember how to -think- ? Do you remember how to experiment? 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In what way does Puck's spirit dominate the mood of the play in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?
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One way Puck dominates the play is that he is the initiator of the actions that cause all the various confusions and problems. While he is Oberon's servant, executing Oberon's wishes, it is Puck who, for instance, administers the potion thus directly causing the problems. This trouble-making "spirit" of Puck's is well documented in Act I, scene i when he and Titania's Fairy discuss his exploits:
Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Puck is the troublemaker of the night to whom trouble is a jest (joke) and to whom mischievous antics are stock-in-trade. It is this spirit of good natured trouble-making that pervades the play from beginning to end. For instance, when Helena and Hermia are arguing in the Forest in III.ii, they insult each other in the "spirit" of Puck, calling each other "puppet" and "canker-blossom."
What, will you tear
Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?
Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!
It might be said that Puck in some ways acts as a narrator of the play as he seems to be everywhere and involved in everything and, therefore, seemingly commenting on everything. It is this seeming omnipresence that facilitates Puck's spirit dominating the troublesome yet playful mood of the play.


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This week, The Young and the Restless decided under the vision of new head writer and executive producer Chuck Pratt Jr., to put the lives of most all of the residents in Genoa City in peril. The plot device for their February Sweeps, "Flirt with Disaster" promotion was put to the test by utilizing groupings of characters and watching them face dire circumstances. In some cases, new sets were built to represent the remnants of a plane crash, or the pockets of a collapsed club. Of course, soap fans knew going into this heavy week of melodrama that Chuck Pratt Jr. has used this formula before most recently when he was at the writing helm of All My Children. But with Y&R, they rolled-out the disaster storylines on a much grandeur scale involving many lives.
There have been many jeers, as well as many cheers, depending on what side of the fence you are on with the action on the CBS daytime drama this week. Let's take a look at the different 'disaster" stories starting with Nick's (Joshua Morrow) club, "The Underground" and what came out of it. Nick kissed Sage (Kelly Sullivan) and told her he wants to get to know her better once they get out the rubble, Victor (Eric Braeden) found out Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott) has been drinking again, but that became secondary to saving the lives of himself, Jack (Peter Bergman), Phyllis (Gina Tognoni) and Nikki. And let's not forget in a twist, Jack had sex with Kelly (Cady McClain) right before the club collapsed!
Hit by beams and stuck in the rubble, Victor does CPR on Jack. But, Jack keeps muttering he has something to tell Victor about Adam (Justin Hartley)! Elsewhere, Joe (Scott Elrod) is trapped with Avery (Jessica Collins). He tells her that they have survived much worse than this building collapse, and you can see the spark between the exes, no matter how much Avery is trying to fight it. Jack and Victor are left behind after the paramedics get Nikki and Phyllis to safety. Later, news comes via Paul (Doug Davidson) while loved ones are waiting for news at Crimson Lights, that there was another collapse, and Jack and Victor were still inside. While at Crimson Lights, Lauren (Tracey E. Bregman) got news of the plane crash that had Jill (Jess Walton) as one of the passengers, and is worried sick about her sister. Dylan (Steve Burton) had choice words for Nick for being so harsh on Sharon (Sharon Case) over Faith, and a rescued Avery was not happy with Dylan after he admitted he would lie for Sharon, so Nick would not be mad at her. So, it looks like Dylan and Sharon will move closer to each other, while Joe and Avery reconnect, while Nick and Sage get to know each other.
Now on to the plane crash group consisting of: Neil (Kristoff St. John), Hilary (Mishael Morgan), Devon (Bryton James), Jill, Colin (Tristan Rogers), Cane (Daniel Goddard) and Lily (Christel Khalil). After the revelation that Neil could see and he knew about Hilary and Devon's affair, and that Cane knew, as well … the plane went down due to bad weather and crashed in the snow in the middle of nowhere. Hilary has sustained the worse injuries. Neil, and the entire group, has witnessed first hand the love between Hilary and Devon. Lily is infuriated with Cane for lying to her and her father, and never coming forward with Devon and Hilary's affair. There looks to be trouble ahead for Lane, when they are rescued. Neil, who had been drinking on the plane, is still so hurt and angry. Devon decided he was going to take the maps that Colin found, and go try to get help and leave the others behind. However, at the end of Friday's episode it seems as if Neil has wandered off!
Summer (Hunter King), Austin (Matthew Atkinson), Mariah (Camryn Grimes), Kevin (Greg Rikaart), Noah (Robert Adamson), Abby (Melissa Ordway), Fen (Max Ehrich) and Courtney (Kelli Goss) all show up at the Abbott Cabin not knowing who invited them. Abby revealed she did, because she did not want to be alone on Valentine's Day. Next thing you know, someone spikes the punch they are drinking and everyone passes out. When they awake, Austin is found dead among them. Summer remembers hiding a statue that had blood on it in the couch. Mariah remembers seeing Abby and Austin making out. She then has a private word with Abby, where the Newman gal admits she was having an affair with Austin behind Summer's back. Mariah puts two and two together and thinks that is why she called the Valentine's party and did it mysteriously, as this was her only way to be together with Austin. Suspicion is on Summer, if she found out the truth about the affair, and now suspicion is on Abby, because she could have killed Austin, upset that he wouldn't leave his wife for her! Meanwhile, as the younger set tries to figure out their story when the cops come, which they had decided would be Austin hit his head in the snow, Fen (who says he is the one that spiked the drink to have fun) comes back in from outside and says Austin's body is gone!
Finally, Billy (Burgess Jenkins) and Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan) and the kids are trapped at their place due to a fire that has broken out. Chelsea gets Johnny and Katie out, and Billy says he will get Connor and be right behind them. Only, Billy can't get out as the smoke is too much! He passes out. Adam/Gabriel happens on the scene and goes into the burning building to get Connor out. Once he safely rescues the boy, he is faced with the decision – should he go back in and save his mortal enemy? Ultimately, Adam/Gabriel does. When finding him, he mutters about "being even" to Billy, which later Billy remembers. After getting Billy out, Adam/Gabriel is looked at by paramedics for his injuries, and as they examine him they notice a bullet wound, and it looks like Billy overheard that remark. Will he put two and two together?
So, what did you think of the disaster storylines on Y&R this week? Was it thumbs up … or thumbs down? Which 'disaster" story do you like the best? Which do you like the least? What do you hope comes out of all it for your favorite characters? Share your thoughts below!


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I'm speaking at the San Jose Search Engine Strategies Conference next week and am hoping to see a bunch of you there!
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- How to support their child with their homework.
A ZiLink Homework is listed in the Homework panel within the parent's Guardian View. They see what homework have been set for each subject, which homeworks have been attempted and which are overdue. Just one-click will take a parent straight to the homework activity – no need navigate courses or sections to find the correct homework – just one-click, that's all.
The new ZiLink Homework Activity also allows for a teacher to include any additional information that may support a parent. In fact, parents can be a teacher's teaching assistant at home!
Plus, a parent will see any grading/comment that a teacher provides when the homework is assessed in Moodle. It's nice to see an outcome of your parent's support.
For students
Organising homework can be an issue with so many homeworks needing attention but ZiLink Homework will help by ensuring that all homeworks that are set or overdue are listed including submission dates within a section of ZiLink called Student View. This saves trying to remember homeworks or writing them down and worrying about completing them on time. ZiLink Homework helps students organise their time and with just one-click they can immediately access the homework activity without needing to navigate courses or sections – it's really easy.
For teachers
The Homework Activity enables a teacher to create or edit a Homework Activity and view progress of their group or individuals in the completion of that Homework Activity.
Creating a homework
ZiLink Homework is a very powerful and flexible way of identifying resources and activities that go to make up a homework which can be applied to Groupings just like any other Moodle resource/activity. ZiLink Homework will notify students, teachers or both when a homework has been completed and grading can be applied. Automatically populate the homework activity from existing sections or the whole course or you can pick which resources/activities should be a part of the homework. ZiLink Homework can also utilise Activity Completion features within Moodle and a wide range of Access restrictions can be applied to suit the needs of the homework.
Using Groupings, Activity completion and/or Access restrictions applied to a homework can almost personlise a homework for students.
Following progress
A teacher can follow the progress of their students as they access/complete resources and activities within each homework both as a class and as individuals which will assist the administration of a homework set for their students. Plus, at a glance a teacher can see the date and time when an individual resource/activity was completed.
Assessing a homework
Just like other Moodle activities, a teacher can grade a ZiLink Homework as well as any activities that are included in that homework. ZiLink Homework fully supports the new Gradebook in Moodle 2.8 really especially when using the new organisational features so that you could include all ZiLink Homeworks in their own category if you wish.


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Chocolate-Mocha Meringues
These fluffy treats are as beautiful as they are easy. Each cookie is hiding a Hershey's Kiss for an added chocolate surprise that pairs perfectly with the mocha meringue.
Total Time:
Level: Moderate
Yield: about 2 dozen meringues
- 28 Hershey's kisses
- ¼ c. sugar
- 1 tbsp. instant espresso powder
- .13 tsp. cream of tartar
- 2 large egg whites
- Heat oven to 200 degrees F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper. Unwrap 28 Hershey's Kisses. In a large metal or glass bowl, whisk together sugar, instant espresso powder and cream of tartar; whisk in egg whites.
- Set the bowl over (but not in) a saucepan of simmering water and heat, whisking constantly, until sugar is dissolved and whites are very warm to the touch, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and, using an electric mixer, beat on low speed, gradually increasing to high, until soft peaks form, about 4 minutes.
- Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a 3/4-inch star tip. Pipe 1/2-inch dots on the prepared baking sheets, spaced 2 inches apart. Top each with a Hershey's Kiss, then pipe a star (about 1 1/2 inch wide) over each Kiss. Bake until meringues are set and not tacky, 60 to 75 minutes. Slide the parchment paper onto wire racks and let meringues cool 10 minutes. Use a spatula to release from paper.
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Signing Shivnarine Chanderpaul to bolster their batting was an excellent plan on the part of newly promoted Derbyshire, but it has a flaw: he cannot bat by himself. For the second innings in succession he ran out of partners, and until some of his team-mates come to terms with a first division seam attack, there is only so much the West Indian can achieve.
In fairness to the hosts this was a rather better showing than their previous outing, when they were dismissed for just 60 (Chanderpaul 18 not out) by Middlesex at Lord's. It had not looked as though it was going to be that way when the combination of Stuart Broad, Andre Adams and Harry Gurney reduced them to 75 for six shortly after lunch, but first Jonathan Clare and then Tony Palladino applied themselves, enabling Chanderpaul, who finished unbeaten on 87, to steer Derbyshire to a total that at least ensured they were still in the game.
A green pitch and the availability of Broad – playing only his 12th championship match for Notts in his sixth season with the club – made Chris Read's decision to bowl a straightforward one, and it paid early dividends when Broad, understandably a little wild in his first spell, won a generous leg-before decision against Wayne Madsen.
Adams then swung one back to trap Wes Durston in front, but shortly after Broad found Billy Godleman's edge as he tried to leave the ball outside off-stump, the New Zealander limped off with a calf injury and did not reappear.
Initially his absence made no difference as Dan Redfern, on the move, played a poor shot to edge Broad to gully. Gurney, unused by Read during the morning session, then found enough away swing to have both Ross Whitely, pushing, and David Wainwright, fencing nervously, caught in the slips, but Clare was made of sterner stuff.
Chanderpaul, characteristically playing the ball late but never appearing hurried, was already timing his array of glides and guides sweetly. His half-century, off 79 balls, included seven fours, not one of which was struck in any way violently, and the seventh-wicket partnership had reached 96 before Broad got one to lift outside off-stump and Clare, on 49, could not resist a nibble.
Tom Poynton went quickly to Gurney, but without Adams, Read's fourth bowler was Samit Patel, whose left-arm spin carried little threat. Palladino played very solidly until edging Gurney, and the new ball quickly accounted for Tim Groenewald.
Broad ended with four for 57 off 22 overs, more overs than he would have expected, but a valuable workout, and the sight of Graeme Swann bowling in the nets without obvious discomfort was more good news for England. Like Broad, he is expected to play for Notts in their championship match against Durham, which starts at Trent Bridge on Monday.


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About Mumbai:
That's not my point this time however, I want to look at the
response. These ten men shut down an entire massive city and struck fear
into the hearts of millions for THREE DAYS. Depending on where this
happened in America it would have been over in three minutes or three
hours. The Indian police responded, but their tactics sucked. The
marksmanship sucked. Their leadership sucked. Their response utterly and
completely fell apart.
In talking afterwards with some individuals from a small agency of
our government who were involved in the clean-up and investigation, all
of whom are well trained, well practiced, gun nuts, they told me the
problem was that the Indian police had no clue what to do because they'd
never been taught what to do. Their leadership hated and feared the gun
so much that they stamped out the ability for any of their men to
actually master the tool. When you kill your gun culture, you kill off
your instructors, and those who can pass down the information necessary
to do the job.
How many of us looked at the pictures of terrorists basically walking around killing, no fear of response? Read the words of people who wrote "If only I'd had a gun!"?
And on what the hoplophobes and gun bigots have done to ensure it'll happen here*:
Don't think that we are so far off here. I recently got to sit down
with some fans who are members of one of the larger metro police
departments in America. These guys were all SWAT cops or narcotics, all
of them were gun nuts who practiced on their own dime, and all of them
were intimately familiar with real violence. These are the guys that you
want responding when the real bad stuff goes down.
What they told me made me sick. Their leadership was all uniformly
liberal and extremely anti-gun, just like most big cities in America.
They walked me through what their responses were supposed to be in case
of a Mumbai style event, and how their "scary assault weapons" were kept
locked up where they would be unavailable, and how dismal their
training was, and how since the state had run off or shut down most of
the gun ranges, most of the cops couldn't even practice or qualify
So now they were less safe, the people they were protecting were less
safe, the bad guys were safer, but most importantly their leadership
could pat themselves on the back, because they'd done something.
Quote I originally saw at Uncle: "Gun control is what politicians do instead of something."
*That's not what they think they're doing, but it is.


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Life Of Christ:
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Jesus Triumphantly Enters Jerusalem
( Originally Published Early 1900's )
TOWARD evening, on the Friday before Palm Sunday, Jesus again went to Bethania. There a supper was prepared for Him in the house of Simon, and Lazarus was among the guests. Martha ministered to Our Lord, and Magdalen, for the second time, anointed Him with precious ointment. On Sunday morning, He started with His disciples for Jerusalem. On coming to Bethphage, a village near Mount Olivet, He sent two disciples before Him, saying: "Go into the village that is over against you, and immediately on your coming in thither, you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them to Me." (Matt. xxi. 2.) The disciples did as He ordered them, placed their garments on the colt, and seated Jesus on it. Thus He rode from the village of Bethphage to the city of Jerusalem, and His disciples accompanied Him.
Here consider the humility of Jesus. How simple and unpretending is His modest retinue! The King of kings comes riding, not upon a noble steed, but upon the much-despised ass, with head uncovered, with naked feet, accompanied by His poor, illiterate disciples, who constitute His sole attendance!
But why does Our Lord, in His formal entrance into Jerusalem, ride upon an unbroken animal, an ass's colt upon which no one has ever sat? To declare to us His preference for the uncontaminated soul, and His love to take up His abode in innocent hearts which have known no other owner but Him, and have not wasted their value and strength in the service of a sinful world.
Jesus having ascended Mount Olivet, He rode to an olive-tree, and, with His own hands, broke off one of its branches. This tree is shown to pilgrims even in our time. When His disciples saw this, they also broke branches off the trees, and, waving them in their hands, cried out: "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!" St. John adds: "A great multitude, that was come to the festival day, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm-trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried : Hosanna, blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel." (John xii. 12, 13.)
Learn the mysterious meaning of these fresh, green boughs. The olive branches remind us of the sweet and happy peace which Christ, by His atonement, obtained for redeemed and reconciled creation. The palm branches signify the glorious victory of Christ, and our victory through Him over sin, hell, and death. Such, too, is the meaning of the green branches, blessed by the Church each year, on Palm Sunday, with great solemnity, to be afterward borne in procession, and then kept in the homes of the faithful as an effective protection against the dangers of soul and body.
By this entry of Jesus into Jerusalem was fulfilled the prophecy of Zacharias: "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem : behold thy king will come to thee poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." (Zach. ix. 9.)
But, alas, how fickle is human nature, how changeable the human heart! To-day the people give their long-expected Messias a triumphant reception, and after five short days these same people, who now shout hosannas in His favor, will cry out: "Crucify Him!" Our all-seeing Lord foresees this in the midst of the rejoicing, and He begins to grow sad and to weep, and says, looking at the fair city before Him: "If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace; but now they are hidden from thy eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side, and beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee : and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation." (Luke xix. 42-44.)
Once before, Our Saviour had pronounced a similar ominous prediction about Jerusalem, and in bitter anguish of heart had said : " Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not! Behold, your house shall be left unto you desolate." (Matt. xxiii. 37, 38.) Now the hour is at hand when the ill-fated city will complete its crime by laying violent hands on the greatest of all the prophets, the Son of God Himself. And whilst the triumphant hosannas of the excited crowd are ringing in His ears, the whole dreadful picture of impending treachery, of imminent ruin and death, stands out clearly before His mental vision.
After weepingly contemplating the city for a while, Jesus proceeded through the valley of Josaphat to the golden gate, called thus from the gold leaf with which it was covered. It was on Mount Moria, to the east of the Temple, and opened on the shortest way to the latter. On account of its proximity to the Temple it was considered one of its gates, rather than an approach to the city. Usually it was closed. When the people, on the occasion of Our Lord's triumphant entry, stood still before its closed portals, the latter opened spontaneously at the approach of Jesus, to admit Him into the city. Although the golden gate was next to the Temple, He did not go to the latter at once, but rode through the principal streets of the city, to be seen and honored by all the inhabitants. "And when Jesus was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying: Who is this? And the people said: This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth, in Galilee." (Matt. xxi. t o, 11.)
What were the feelings of the high-priests and scribes and Pharisees at these demonstrations? Only a few months before they had published a decree, forbidding the people to call Christ the Messias, and now the whole populace went out to greet Him as such ! Scarcely a week before they had proclaimed that any one knowing the place of His abode should manifest it, so that they might take Him captive; and now He rode triumphantly before their eyes, and they were unable to do anything against Him!
" And Jesus went into the Temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the Temple, and over-threw the tables of the money-changers, and the chairs of them that sold doves; and He saith to them: My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves." (Matt. xxi. 12, 13.) The zeal which Our Saviour showed against the profanation of His Father's house ought to put every Christian upon his guard against all unseemly behavior in the place of divine worship. Our churches are infinitely more holy than was the Temple of Jerusalem; they are in a special manner sanctified by the presence of God, who dwells therein. Jesus, who showed such zeal for His Father's honor in the Temple of Jerusalem; cannot be indifferent to the dishonor that is shown Him in a Christian church by the irreverence of those whose conduct there is unbecoming the sanctity of His house; nor can we doubt that He will one day punish the offence with the severity it deserves.
After Jesus had thus purified the sacred place, "there came to Him the blind and the lame in the Temple, and He healed them. And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying in the Temple, and saying: ' Hosanna to the Son of David,' were moved with indignation, and said to Him: Hearest Thou what these say ? And Jesus said to them: Yea; have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings Thou hast perfected praise ?" (Matt. xxi. 14-16.)
Meanwhile, the crowds gathered about Jesus in the Temple, and raising His eyes to heaven, He prayed, and said: "Father, glorify THY name ! A voice therefore came from heaven : I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. The multitude therefore that stood and heard, said that it thundered. Others said: An angel spoke to Him. Jesus answered and said: This voice came not because of Me, but for your sakes." (John xii. 28-30.) Thus did the heavenly Father glorify His be-loved Son, thereby signifying to the Jews and Gentiles that He was the promised Messias. Do thou, too, praise and glorify Him with angels and men, joining in the chorus: "Blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord !"
On Palm Sunday, our blessed Lord, in His mercy and love, made a final effort to soften the stony hearts of the Jews. In deep humility, and overflowing with sympathy and compassion for man, He had come publicly into their city, had performed miracles before their eyes in the Temple, curing the lame and the blind, had preached to them all day, and had Himself and His doctrine con-firmed by a miraculous voice from heaven. And what were the fruits of this day of grace? Alas, how indescribably sad the results of His efforts! The scribes and the Pharisees were more hardened than ever in their in-credulity, while the few who did believe were too cowardly to avow their faith openly. Amongst this vast assembly of the great and wealthy Jerusalem, not one was found to offer shelter or food to Our Saviour when the day was over. He was therefore compelled to return to Bethania, and seek hospitality with His friend Lazarus and his devoted sisters. "And leaving them, He went out of the city into Bethania, and remained there." (John xxi. 17.)