text: Ways to Cut 500 Calories a Day Health March 4, 2018May 4, 2018 sadiya0 Tap your foot Your skinnier friends are probably fidgeters, who burn up to 350 calories a day just by tapping their feet or being restless. Try it for a few days. Walk around while you're on the phone, or tap out a tune with your hands or feet (in the privacy of your own office, of course). In fact, do a couple of swaps a day and you can drop 10 pounds in 5 weeks! So try these 25 easy tweaks—and get the slim body you want in no time. Step away from the nuts Especially if they're in a big bowl. The bigger the serving bowl, the more you'll eat, Cornell University researchers say. Nuts have heart-healthy fats, but they're also high in calories: 1 handful (about 1 ounce) of oil-roasted mixed nuts has 175 calories; 3 handfuls have 525. Cut out nuts altogether and save more than 500 calories. Can't resist 'em? Eat pistachios: 2 handfuls are just 159 calories, and the shelling will slow down your munching. Don't eat in front of the TV You'll eat up to 288 calories more, according to research from the University of Massachusetts. Instead, eat at the table, and trade 1 hour of TV for a casual walk. Together, that's 527 calories burned. Limit salad toppings A big salad might seem healthy, but all those goodies on top can make it more calorie-laden than lasagna or fettuccine Alfredo. Cheese crumbles, caramelized nuts, bacon, avocado, dried fruit, croutons, and vinaigrettes can add lots of calories. Save 500 or more calories by having just one topping, adding flavorful but lower-cal veggies (roasted bell peppers, grilled onions, or mushrooms), and using half the dressing. Use smaller plates Swap your 12-inch plate for a 10-inch one. You'll eat 20 to 25% less—and save up to 500 calories. You won't feel any less full, either, researchers say. Skip the whip Or at least size it down. Dessert-like coffee creations can contain as many as 670 calories, with large sizes and options like whipped cream, whole milk, and syrups. Craving whipped cream? Try it on a shot of espresso for a total of just 30 calories. You save 640 calories! Count your chips (and crackers) No, you can't eat your snacks from a large bag or box because it's way too tempting to eat until the bag is empty. (Remember Oprah's blue corn–tortilla chip confession?) A chip-bender to the bottom of a 9-ounce bag is 1,260 calories sans the dip. So stick to 1 serving, about 15 chips—that's 140 calories—or pick up some 100-calorie snack packs and save 1,120 calories. Serve and sit Family-style meals, with platters and bowls of food on the table, invite people to go back for seconds and thirds. Cut hundreds of calories by filling plates before bringing them to the table; leave serving dishes in the kitchen, too.


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"Whatever you do don't quit smoking cold turkey!"
Most medical professionals believe that the way to quit smoking is to use pharmacological aids. They think that pharmacological aids are an effective tool for smoking cessation.
Why do they believe this? They believe it because almost all of the smoking professionals of the world tell them that they work. Even the Surgeon General of the United States says that they work. If almost all world experts believe that they work, and the Surgeon General says that they work, well then they must really work. Right?
Well, I look at it like this. Lets say I see a published story come out that says a specific pill prevents colds in 100% of the cases in human trials. Then another study verifies it. In fact, every expert in the world comes out and says colds no longer exist -- the pill has eradicated them.
But most people I knew who took this miracle pill still got colds. Worse than that, I took the pill myself and all of my friends who were on the pill kept giving the cold to me. Pretty soon I would dismiss those studies and no matter how many times I see it I would not believe it. Sooner or later I would have to believe my own eyes and ears, basically my own instincts, more than expert opinion.
I have seen people use the argument of who should they believe, the Surgeon General of the United States or me. I somehow get the idea that people think that the Surgeon General is a person who has spent years and decades working with nicotine addicts. That somehow being an expert in smoking cessation is a prerequisite for being the Surgeon General.
I have been running stop smoking clinics since 1976. Back in 1976 I told my second group that they were nicotine addicts. If the people in my 1976 clinics were skeptical and wrote the Surgeon General and asked him if it were true that nicotine was a drug addiction he would have answered no it was not.
It was clearly spelled out in the 1964 Surgeon General's Report that cigarette smoking was not an addiction. In the report of the Surgeon General back in 1979 the Surgeon General was starting to say that maybe it was an addiction, but still had put the emphasis on the habit of smoking being the primary problem. In 1988 the Surgeon General finally issued a report stating once and for all that nicotine was an addictive substance.
In all of the programs I did from 1976 through 1987 I was constantly criticized and attacked for saying that cigarette smokers were drug addicts but I had too much first hand contact with smokers trying to quit that was making it abundantly clear that the Surgeon General was wrong.
So I accepted the fact that the Surgeon General and most of the experts of the world were not going to agree with me. For eleven years I was wrong that smoking was an addiction because the Surgeon General said I was wrong yet today I am no longer wrong on this fact.
The same thing is happening now when it comes to issues like the effectiveness of all of the quitting aids available today. The Surgeon General and most of the world experts say that these products increase success and that people should not quit cold turkey.
Again, I still have too much first hand contact with people who are trying to quit using these products as well as too much contact with people who are actually quitting and succeeding without their use. It is still all too obvious that in real world settings these products do not increase success and that people have a much greater chance of success by disregarding the expert's advice.
So I think I am going to just take a wait and see attitude on what the Surgeon General will say ten years or twenty years from now on what is the most effective way to quit smoking. Maybe he or she will have come around by then, maybe not.
But I know one thing for sure. That all of the people who decided to follow my advice on how to quit, and then stay committed in the interim to the advice that I gave them on how to remain smoke free, that all of these people will still be successful ex-smokers.
My advice to them, that is so controversial today, is simply that to quit smoking and to stay smoke free is no more complicated than just knowing to Never Take Another Puff!
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Please note: Entry to the Watercress Festival is FREE. Tickets purchased here are for Standard Travel on the Watercress Line
19th May 2019
This nationally acclaimed festival draws together the local community and food lovers from far and wide for a FREE day of food and fun to celebrate our local watercress!
The street cavalcade gets things going at 10.30, led by the renowned Sussex Jazz Kings with Morris dancers and Sun Hill Infant and Junior school children accompanying the Watercress King and Queen atop a horse and cart, distributing the first of the season's watercress harvest to festival goers.
Alresford's very own restaurants, pubs, butchers, tearooms, cafés, wine merchants and market traders are proud to showcase their products to festival goers as the entire length of Broad Street becomes a massive food market, with a huge fifty stall Hampshire Farmers' Market providing the highest quality 'local food for local people'.
In West Street and Station Road you will find arts, crafts, jewellery, home and garden gifts and much else besides. In East Street there are activities for children of all ages, including circus skills workshops, face painting, 'magic' roundabout, Spider Mountain and the petting farm. Music is also high on the agenda, with jazz, blues, ukuleles, brass and rock, performed on the main stage and in St Johns church. There will be falconry demonstrations throughout the day at the end of East Street and of course the delights of the many street entertainers - keep a watch out for all-girl Mayflower Morris and the Dorset Buttons Rapper with their swords!
Please Note: The Watercress Festival is not organised by the Mid Hants Railway; it is an independent event taking place in the streets of New Alresford. To find out more, please visit the Festival website or pick up a copy of the free programme on the day.
The Watercress Festival is operating a park and ride service from Ropley to Alresford and back for festival goers. From the parking field next to Ropley station* visitors can either take a FREE ride on the Watercress Line or, during peak times, a FREE luxury coach ride into Alresford.
We will also be operating a diesel shuttle between Alresford and Ropley station only for festivalgoers. In addition there is a free coach service by road from Ropley in to Alresford, which may become directed transport at peak times. Therefore festivalgoers are not guaranteed travel on the steam trains.
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If you wish to combine your visit to the Festival with a ride on one of our steam trains along to Medstead and Four Marks, you can do so by purchasing a ticket in advance, or from the Ticket Office at our stations on the day. Standard fares apply allowing unlimited travel on the day of your visit.


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Uh, KILLA!
Harlem World '89, black Jordans they were mine
Hund'-eighth toy dork is the only one ever pay me mine
Baby mine lady fine(fine), you ever date a dime?(dime?)
Before your favorite rhymes, had gator lime
Major crime made me grind, copped fancy heat
You know hater time, cat food fancy feast
Dated Nancy niece, she like candy treats
God damn she sweet, we did the Lancy Street
We hopped the D train, you don't understand us freezed
No hassle heffer, did we battle? never
We went Easter shoppin', coppin' them tassled leathers
From Gimbals from we gained, make it simple and plain
I wanna nibble on ya ear, rekindle the flame
I'm god's child, but yea I got devilish game
Once you meddle wit Cam, ma'am is never the same
So you through with the peekin'? you pursuin' and seekin'?
You know the season, Killa what you doin this weekend? huh? KILLA!
(Weekend Love)
You could be, You could be, You could be, You could be
You could be, You could be, You could be
(And I Don't Have Time On The Weekend)
You could be my, You could be my
(Weekend Love)
You could be, You could be, You could be, You could be
You could be, You could be, You could be
(Then Maybe We Can Try To Work It Out)
Uh, KILLA!
some say that i'm belligerent, others say that i'm ignorant
I don't just experiment, intimate not my sentiment
everyday at the tenement, yayo like I invented it
scrambled just like eggs, like eggs they're benedict
they don't ever remember shit, all they want is their membership
only one that they gettin is jackins, that's the end of it
they want designer recliner along wit benefits
won't take a risk, but wanna spread the mick
wipe 'em off my agenda quick, I need the other gender thick
you seen my Monday to Fridays, I need a Friday to Sunday
we'll eat Friday's on Fridays, and go to Sunday's on Sundays
drink a little liquor, maybe twist a L
play catch and kiss, if you don't kiss and tell
take the city bus, or come through with chauffers
we could do Air Ones hun, or Louis laufers
yeah i'm truly focused, take down your Snoopy posters
put up Killa Season's, now who the reason?
come through this weekend huh? huh?
Uh, KILLA! KILLA! KILLA!
I drive big cars, puff heaven haze
not just the weekend, thats seven days
rev up the engine, not a lemon, it's lemon
thats the color, wanna play 7-11?
you know catch and hump, your butt gotta extra rump
forget ya man, extra clip, extra pump
don't mean to be extra, but ma..extra stunts
extra money, extra piff, extra blunts
extra! extra! really some neck I want
not the dude for help, but you're truly felt
ass fat stomach flat, I could see ya Louis belt
mine on too, for any gunplay
I'm a troublemaker yea yea some say
you model material, you need a runway
so let's runaway, we could hit the runway
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Thomasville, NC- Anderson University women's cross country team has been labeled the favorites in this years preseason coaches poll. After an injury-riddled season in 2006,
Senior Jennifer Hitt will try and make conference history by winning her fourth individual league title at the Conference Carolinas meet Oct. 20 in
Lees-McRae has high expectations for the upcoming 2007 cross country season as well. With a pair of All-Conference returnees and a talented incoming class, the Lady Bobcats will look to best their second place finish a year ago at the league meet. After earning league Freshman of the Year honors and qualifying for the NCAA meet a year ago, Dana Lindholm, will lead the Lady Bobcats as she looks to best her runner-up finish in last year's conference championships. All-Conference performers Ashley May and Demarea Colson will help shoulder the load while Gina Valenti and Carla Stewart return prepared for strong sophomore campaigns. A pair of freshman, Anna Gray and April Harris will be key assets and provide excellent depth as the Lady Bobcats take aim at their seventh conference title in ten years.
"This group is special. As I have watched their growth over the last year, I am pleased with where we are heading and the goals we have set," commented Head Coach Craig McPhail. "We are still young, but we are talented and our hard work should set us up for some really great things later in the year. Our top seven has really improved, giving us more of a pack mentality and helping us grow everyday in training."
The St. Andrews women's cross country team surprised the entire conference last season by finishing third in the conference championships after being picked ninth in the 2006 preseason coaches poll. The Lady Knights will look to build on last years most successful season by climbing another rung on the newly renamed Conference Carolinas ladder and get one step closer to contending for a league title. SAPC posted a trio of top-3 finishes in '06 and also had their best finish-ever result in the Southeast Regional with a seventh place finish. Reigning 1st Team All-Conference junior Alyson Trovato and 2nd Team All-Conference senior Veronica Gobeyn will lead the deep
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What does the global economic outlook tell the debt managers?
2018 started with the good news. The World Bank's Global Economic Prospects and the IMF's World Economic Outlook both show that the global economy is in a recovery. Furthermore, it is expected that the upturn is broad-based as the growth is increasing in more than half of the world economies. Global Economic Prospects report that in advanced economies, growth in 2017 is estimated to have rebounded to 2.3 percent while emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) were projected to have higher-than-expected growth of 4.3 percent. Overall, global growth is projected to edge up to 3.1 percent in 2018.
Over the last decade debt managers, like the central bankers, fiscal policy managers and regulators, had to deal with the global financial crisis. During this period, while debt levels were increasing in many countries, thanks to the unconventional monetary policies, interest rates went down, maturities lengthen up to 100 years, and portfolio capital flows moved across markets. In the end, those were very unusual times. Now the question is: Is this the end of the global crisis? Are we back to the "normal" times?
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By MANUEL MENDOZA
Almost 40 now, Ms. Cho was less strident, less out to shock for the sake of it, and more outwardly happy than in the past….She was most at home when engaging the body, especially from the angle of identity politics…Ms. Cho seemed more comfortable in her skin than ever."
GRAND PRAIRIE – For Margaret Cho, the body is political. She never met an orifice she wasn't eager to explore for social meaning.
On her first tour in three years, comedian Margaret Cho entertained the Nokia Theatre crowd with her frank observations.
On her first tour in three years, called Beautiful, the foulmouthed comedian brought her frank observations to Nokia Theatre on Sunday night. Almost 40 now, Ms. Cho was less strident, less out to shock for the sake of it, and more outwardly happy than in the past.
That didn't stop her from boring into her usual topics from the liberal, sexually open-minded point of view that has become her trademark and creates her audience demographic, the gay men and lesbians who were out in force in Grand Prairie.
She started gently, with polygamy, a reference to a local news story just to let the crowd know she was hip to the goings-on around here. Soon she turned to the many ways she and others deal with their body parts. "I'm Asian," Ms. Cho said. "If there's extra credit, I'm doing it."
But she wasn't in favor of anything and everything. Not anymore. Her gay-centric shtick led to the assumption that she is lesbian or bisexual, and she continues to talk about her omnivorous history. "I wish I had thought to charge," she said after mentioning Eliot Spitzer and her respect for prostitutes.
But while she still labels herself "queer," Ms. Cho revealed that she's been married to a man for a long time, though not necessarily faithfully. That kind of nuanced confession would not have squared with the righteous anger of I'm the One That I Want, her first stage show.
Now, she's more measured, using heady, indirect associations in place of pinpoint daggers. She advised Britney and Paris to slow down, blaming their downfall on the moment they revealed too much flesh. "I don't think we understand Paris Hilton, but we will in the future. She's like a crop circle."
Some of Ms. Cho's hour-plus set returned to the subject of Asian stereotypes. She's driven crazy by people who try to employ her help with Sudoku, clothing alterations and tech support, or who confuse her with actresses Lucy Liu or Sandra Oh.
But she was most at home when engaging the body, especially from the angle of identity politics. Whether tweaking Idaho Sen. Larry Craig ("He's a sorry old queen without a piano bar to go to") or Heidi Klum (in one of her exaggerated impersonations), Ms. Cho seemed more comfortable in her skin than ever.
Dallas Morning News
Margaret Cho talks a blue streak
By MANUEL MENDOZA


text: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:58:05AM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Cluster newbie, power recommendations > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Charlie Peck wrote: > >signal back to the power supply. I believe the site that RGB is referring > >to is http://joule.bu.edu/~hazen/LinuxCluster. If this isn't enough get > Yeah, that looks like it. Kinda cute in its own way. And you don't > "have" to buy stock aluminum or steel and cut and bend it into shelf > trays for the motherboards, BTW -- there was a design somewhere that > mounted the motherboards onto cookie sheets and "racked" them in a > standard cookie-sheet rack, or a rack like the ones they use in > cafeterias. Slide in, slide out. I believe I originated the cookie tray cluster idea, and then later first mentioned it on the list here: http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2005-November/014108.html Unfortunately, I have no website on it, as I was reluctant to write it up until I had an actual finished working cluster to take pictures of, etc. (Which I still don't have - funny how real work and other distractions tend to interrupt one's hobbies like that...) A hugely useful addition to the basic cookie tray idea was Jim Lux's suggestion here: http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2005-November/014088.html http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2005-November/014091.html So far the double sided foam tape seems to work very well! I've tried it on a SMALL scale - 3 motherboards. They run memtest86+ just fine, but I have not yet tried network booting Linux on them with Warewulf and actually using them heavily in a cluster. I exchanged some private emails back and forth with other interested experimenters about that, but I don't think it's been mentioned on the list yet, so here are further details: I purchased a roll of "3M Double Coated Urethane Foam Tape 4004 Off-White, 1 in x 18 yd", here: http://www.hillas.com/Products/3M_Double_Coated_Foam_Tapes/3M_4004_1_X_18.asp Normal motherboard standoffs raise the board 0.25" off the case. This 3M 4004 tape is nominally 0.25" thick, but once mounted it's actually a bit thinner. The foam tape is very firm, you have to push HARD to compress it much, and then it gradually springs back. Thus, the tape alone seems to do a good job keeping the knobs of solder and other stuff on the back of the motherboard away from the aluminum cookie tray, even when you press down hard while inserting memory sticks or PCI cards. This is good, you do NOT need any additional rigid standoffs on the back of the motherboard. Note, I have NOT yet tried removing one of those taped down motherboards... The tape is somewhat expensive, $46.44 + shipping per roll. For each of my microATX motherboards, I used 3 strips about 9" long each, so I should be able to do about 18*3*12 /27 = 24 motherboards from that one roll. For ATX boards I suppose 1 roll would let you do 18 or 19 motherboards. (And you could probably get away with only 2 strips of tape rather than my 3, if you cared.) It's still a bit time consuming to place the tape and mount the boards, but it is EASY. Drilling holes for standoffs both takes longer and is much easier to get wrong. The double-sided tape is certainly convenient, and I plan to try a thinner version for mounting power supplies, hard drives, etc. as well. In addition to the foam tape, 3M's velcro-like "Reclosable Fastener" tape materials (e.g., SJ3540) might also be interesting for mounting motherboards: http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/en001/manufacturing_industry/engineered_adhesives/node_GSTHK7XYXKbe/root_GST1T4S9TCgv/vroot_WHG0MWH6QPge/gvel_QM7L6GDVFXgl/theme_us_adhesivetape_3_0/command_AbcPageHandler/output_html As far as installing stuff on the cookie trays themselves goes, I mostly talked about that in my post back in November. But here are some additional bits: Figuring out what fits is most conveniently done in person with an actual cookie tray and actual tray rack, as some of the dimensions are sloppy. The tray itself has angled lips, you lose some space on the sides due to the rack rails extending over the edge of each tray, the tray slides side-to-side a bit in the rack, etc. The nice thing is that none of this mounting hardware is too expensive, so just buying it and fooling around isn't much problem. Remember that the tiny fans in 1U power supplies have an annoying high-pitched whine which tends to carry. So if you use 1U supplies, you definitely want the cluster behind some kind of door, NOT sitting right next to your desk. The motherboards I'm using are microATX (9.5" x 9.5"). 2 of those plus 2 1U power supplies will easily fit on 1 cookie tray. 2 ATX motherboards will also definitely fit on a single cookie tray, and should fit even with 2 1U power supplies as well. With any motherboard substantially larger than ATX, you're virtually guaranteed to fit only 1 board per tray at most. Since my microATX boards are 9.5" square, after mounting them flush up against the long front edge of the cookie tray, I have free space about 6.75" deep at the back of the tray, all the way across. A standard 3.5" hard drive is thin enough that if you mount it flush to the cookie try, it will NOT stick up over the 1" tall lip of the tray at all. This means that you can mount it all the way out to the edge of the tray, even underneath where the tray holding rails stick in, saving a bit of space. There ARE 1U power supplies like the SPI FSP250-50PBL that are only 3.25" wide, so I could easily fit two of them side by side in that 6.75" space. However, my Emacs 1U power supplies are 4" wide so I can't do that. To mount 2 supplies, I need to put them tail to tail. That works fine but takes up most of the free space on the tray, I could MAYBE squeeze 1 hard drive flat onto the tray next to the power supplies but definitely not 2. I could mount 2 1U power supplies on top of each other, but that would require a 1 tray every 3 slots spacing. A better idea, if you want disks, is to mount a 3.5" hard drisk on TOP of a 1U power supply - that fits fine with a 1 every 2 slot tray spacing. This is basically free space for disks, as nothing else is going to fit on top of those power supplies. So if I want to, on each tray spaced 1 every 2 slots, I can definitely fit 2 microATX motherboards, 2 of my 4" wide 1U power supplies, and 2 hard drives (1 on top of each power supply). ATX motherboards are about 12" x 9.5" rather than 9.5 x 9.5, so you should still be able to use the exact same arrangment even with ATX rather than microATX boards. And of course, to save even more space, you could experiment with Y-cables to see if you can reliably power 2 motherboards with only 1 power supply, as discussed elsewhere on the Beowulf list. They used to be cheaper, c. $8.50 each for 10+ shipped, rather than the $15.25 they want now, but the power supply Y-cables I found were: CB-Z-Y2020-EXT "ZIPPY Power Cable Splitter: ATX 20 pin to Two ATX 20 pin for ATX Power Supplies" http://www.ateck.com/viewItem.asp?idProduct=453056250 CB-Z-Y2424-SPLITTER "ZIPPY Power Cable Splitter: One EPS12V 24 pin to Two EPS12V 24 pin for ATX EPS12V Power Supplies" http://www.ateck.com/viewItem.asp?idProduct=453056251 -- Andrew Piskorski <atp at piskorski.com> http://www.piskorski.com/


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Holy, Holy, Holy Is the Lord of Hosts
From Gospel Translations
By John Piper About The Glory of God
Isaiah 6:1-8
On June 1, 1973, Charles Colson visited his friend Tom Phillips, while Watergate exploded in the press. He was baffled and shocked at Phillips' explanation that he had "accepted Jesus Christ." But he saw that Tom was at peace and he wasn't. When Colson left the house, he couldn't get his keys in the ignition he was crying so hard. He says,
That night I was confronted with my own sin—not just Watergate's dirty tricks, but the sin deep within me, the hidden evil that lives in every human heart. It was painful and I could not escape. I cried out to God and found myself drawn irresistibly into his waiting arms. That was the night I gave my life to Jesus Christ and began the greatest adventure of my life. (Loving God, p. 247)
Charles Colson's New Understanding of God
That story has been told hundreds of times in the last ten years. We love to hear it. But far too many of us settle for that story in our own lives and the life of our church. But not Charles Colson. Not only was the White House hatchet man willing to cry in 1973; he was also willing to repent several years later of a woefully inadequate view of God. It was during a period of unusual spiritual dryness. (If you are in one, take heart! More saints than you realize have had life-changing encounters with God right in the midst of the desert.) A friend suggested to Colson that he watch a videocassette lecture series by R.C. Sproul on the holiness of God. Here's what Colson writes in his new book, Loving God (pp. 14–15):
All I knew about Sproul was that he was a theologian, so I wasn't enthusiastic. After all I reasoned, theology was for people who had time to study, locked in ivory towers far from the battlefield of human need. However, at my friend's urging I finally agreed to watch Sproul's series. By the end of the sixth lecture I was on my knees, deep in prayer, in awe of God's absolute holiness. It was a life-changing experience as I gained a completely new understanding of the holy God I believe in and worship. My spiritual drought ended, but this taste for the majesty of God only made me thirst for more of him.
In 1973 Colson had seen enough of God and himself to know his desperate need of God, and had been driven "irresistibly" (as he says) into God's arms. But then several years later something else wonderful happened. A theologian spoke on the holiness of God and Charles Colson says that he fell to his knees and "gained a completely new understanding of the holy God." From that point on he had what he calls a "taste for the majesty of God." Have you seen enough of God's holiness to have an insatiable taste for his majesty.
Job Sees God Anew
"There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil" (Job 1:1). Job was a believer, a deeply devout and prayerful man. Surely he knew God as he ought. Surely he had a "taste for the majesty of God." But then came the pain and misery of his spiritual and physical desert. And in the midst of Job's darkness God spoke in his majesty to Job:
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified? Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? Deck yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor . . . Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand . . . Then will I also acknowledge to you, that your own right hand can give you the victory . . . Who then is he that can stand before me? Who has given to me that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. (40:8–14; 41:10–11)
In the end Job responds, like Colson, to a "completely new understanding of the Holy God." He says,
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me which I did not know . . . I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee; therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes. (42:3–6)
Perseverance and Hope in Pursuing the Holy God
Can that happen at Bethlehem? It can and it is. If I saw no signs of it, I would be hard pressed to continue even though I know perseverance is the key to revival. A.J. Gordon wrote in his book, The Holy Spirit in Missions, pp. 139, 140:
It was seven years before Carey baptized his first convert in India; it was seven years before Judson won his first disciple in Burma; Morrison toiled seven years before the first Chinaman was brought to Christ; Moffat declared that he waited seven years to see the first evident moving of the Holy Spirit upon the Bechuanas of Africa; Henry Richards wrought seven years on the Congo before the first convert was gained at Banza Manteka.
Perseverance, prayer and labor, is the key to revival. But so is expectation and hope. And God has given me signs of hope that the experience of Isaiah and Job and Charles Colson can happen here if we continue to go hard after the holy God. For example, one of our members wrote me a letter a week ago which said the ministry here has
taken me soaring far past what I formerly perceived as mountaintops, to a grander, greater, bigger, more glorious picture of the God on high than I had ever imagined . . . My view of God becomes larger and larger and out of his omnipotent magnificence flows everything, all-sufficiency. In the ten months I have been at Bethlehem there has been a wonderful revival in my heart and the flame burns brighter and more surely than it ever has.
Revival happens when we see God majestic in holiness, and when we see ourselves disobedient dust. Brokenness, repentance, unspeakable joy of forgiveness, a "taste for the magnificence of God," a hunger for his holiness—to see it more and to live it more: that's revival. And it comes from seeing God.
Seven Glimpses of God in Isaiah's Vision
Isaiah invites us to share his vision of God in Isaiah 6:1–4.
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.' And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
Seven glimpses of God I see in these four verses, at least seven.
1. God Is Alive
First, he isalive. Uzziah is dead, but God lives on. "From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Ps. 90:2). God was the living God when this universe banged into existence. He was the living God when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead andTime magazine put it on the front cover. And he will be living ten trillion ages from now when all the puny potshots against his reality will have sunk into oblivion like BB's at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord." There is not a single head of state in all the world who will be there in fifty years. The turnover in world leadership is 100%. In a brief 110 years this planet will be populated by ten billion brand new people and all four billion of us alive today will have vanished off the earth like Uzziah. But not God. He never had a beginning and therefore depends on nothing for his existence. He always has been and always will be alive.
2. God Is Authoritative
Second, he is authoritative. "I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne." No vision of heaven has ever caught a glimpse of God plowing a field, or cutting his grass or shining shoes or filling out reports or loading a truck. Heaven is not coming apart at the seams. God is never at wits' end with his heavenly realm. He sits. And he sits on a throne. All is at peace and he has control.
The throne is his right to rule the world. We do not give God authority over our lives. He has it whether we like it or not. What utter folly it is to act as though we had any rights at all to call God into question! We need to hear now and then blunt words like those of Virginia Stem Owens who said in last month's Reformed Journal,
Let us get this one thing straight. God can do anything he damn well pleases, including damn well. And if it pleases him to damn, then it is done,ipso facto, well. God's activity is what it is. There isn't anything else. Without it there would be no being, including human beings presuming to judge the Creator of everything that is.
Few things are more humbling, few things give us that sense of raw majesty, as the truth that God is utterly authoritative. He is the Supreme Court, the Legislature, and the Chief Executive. After him, no appeal.
3. God Is Omnipotent
Third, God is omnipotent. The throne of his authority is not one among many. It is high and lifted up. "I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up." That God's throne is higher than every other throne signifies God's superior power to exercise his authority. No opposing authority can nullify the decrees of God. What he purposes, he accomplishes. "My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose" (Isaiah 46:10). "He does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand" (Daniel 4:35). To be gripped by the omnipotence (or sovereignty) of God is either marvelous because he is for us or terrifying because he is against us. Indifference to his omnipotence simply means we haven't seen it for what it is. The sovereign authority of the living God is a refuge full of joy and power for those who keep his covenant.
4. God Is Resplendent
Fourth, God is resplendent. "I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple." You have seen pictures of brides whose dresses are gathered around them covering the steps and the platform. What would the meaning be if the train filled the aisles and covered the seats and the choir loft, woven all of one piece? That God's robe fills the entire heavenly temple means that he is a God of incomparable splendor. The fullness of God's splendor shows itself in a thousand ways. For one little example, the January Ranger Rick has an article on species of fish who live deep in the dark sea and have their own built-in lights—some have lamps hanging from their chins, some have luminescent noses, some have beacons under their eyes. There are a thousand kinds of self-lighted fish who live deep in the ocean where none of us can see and marvel. They are spectacularly weird and beautiful. Why are they there? Why not just a dozen or so efficient streamlined models? Because God is lavish in splendor. His creative fullness spills over in excessive beauty. And if that's the way the world is, how much moreresplendent must be the Lord who thought it up and made it!
5. God Is Revered
Fifth, God is revered. "Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew." No one knows what these strange six-winged creatures with feet and eyes and intelligence are. They never appear again in the Bible—at least not under the name seraphim. Given the grandeur of the scene and the power of the angelic hosts, we had best not picture chubby winged babies fluttering about the Lord's ears. According to verse 4, when one of them speaks, the foundations of the temple shake. We would do better to think of the Blue Angels diving in formation before the presidential entourage and cracking the sound barrier just before his face. There are no puny or silly creatures in heaven. Only magnificent ones.
And the point is: not even they can look upon the Lord nor do they feel worthy even to leave their feet exposed in his presence. Great and good as they are, untainted by human sin, they revere their Maker in great humility. An angel terrifies a man with his brilliance and power. But angels themselves hide in holy fear and reverence from the splendor of God. How much more will we shudder and quake in his presence who cannot even endure the splendor of his angels.
6. God Is Holy
Sixth, God is holy. "And one called to another, 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts!' Remember how Reepicheep, the gallant mouse, at the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader sailed to the end of the world in his little coracle? Well, the word "holy" is the little boat in which we reach the world's end in the ocean of language. The possibilities of language to carry the meaning of God eventually run out and spill over the edge of the world into a vast unknown. "Holiness" carries us to the brink, and from there on the experience of God is beyond words.
The reason I say this is that every effort to define the holiness of God ultimately winds up by saying: God is holy means God is God. Let me illustrate. The root meaning of holy is probably to cut or separate. A holy thing is cut off from and separated from common (we would say secular) use. Earthly things and persons are holy as they are distinct from the world and devoted to God. So the Bible speaks of holy ground (Exodus 3:5), holy assemblies (Exodus 12:16), holy sabbaths (Exodus 16:23), a holy nation (Exodus 19:6); holy garments (Exodus 28:2), a holy city (Nehemiah 11:1), holy promises (Psalm 105:42), holy men (2 Peter 1:21) and women (1 Peter 3:5), holy scriptures (2 Timothy 3:15), holy hands (1 Timothy 2:8), a holy kiss (Romans 16:16), and a holy faith (Jude 20). Almost anything can become holy if it is separated from the common and devoted to God.
But notice what happens when this definition is applied to God himself. From what can you separate God to make him holy? The very god-ness of God means that he is separate from all that is not God. There is an infinite qualitative difference between Creator and creature. God is one of a kind. Sui generis. In a class by himself. In that sense he is utterly holy. But then you have said no more than that he is God.
Or if the holiness of a man derives from being separated from the world and devoted to God, to whom is God devoted so as to derive his holiness? To no one but himself. It is blasphemy to say that there is a higher reality than God to which he must conform in order to be holy. God is the absolute reality beyond which is only more of God. When asked for his name in Exodus 3:14, he said, "I am who I am." His being and his character are utterly undetermined by anything outside himself. He is not holy because he keeps the rules. He wrote the rules! God is not holy because he keeps the law. The law is holy because it reveals God. God is absolute. Everything else is derivative.
What then is his holiness? Listen to three texts. 1 Samuel 2:2, "There is none holy like the Lord, there is none besides thee." Isaiah 40:25, "To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One." Hosea 11:9, "I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst." In the end God is holy in that he is God and not man. (Compare Leviticus 19:2 and 20:7. Note the parallel structure of Isaiah 5:16.) He is incomparable. His holiness is his utterly unique divine essence. It determines all that he is and does and is determined by no one. His holiness is what he is as God which no one else is or ever will be. Call it his majesty, his divinity, his greatness, his value as the pearl of great price. In the end language runs out. In the word "holy" we have sailed to the world's end in the utter silence of reverence and wonder and awe. There may yet be more to know of God, but that will be beyond words. "The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him" (Habakkuk 2:20).
7. God Is Glorious
But before the silence and the shaking of the foundations and the all-concealing smoke we learn a seventh final thing about God. God is glorious. "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory." The glory of God is the manifestation of his holiness. God's holiness is the incomparable perfection of his divine nature; his glory is the display of that holiness. "God is glorious" means: God's holiness has gone public. His glory is the open revelation of the secret of his holiness. In Leviticus 10:3 God says, "I will show myself holy among those who are near me, and before all the people I will beglorified." When God shows himself to be holy, what we see is glory. The holiness of God is his concealed glory. The glory of God is his revealed holiness.
When the Seraphim say, "The whole earth is full of his glory," it is because from the heights of heaven you can see the end of the world. From down here the view of the glory of God is limited. But it's limited largely by our foolish preference for frills. To use a parable of Søren Kierkegaard, we are like people who ride our carriage at night into the country to see the glory of God. But above us, on either side of the carriage seat, burns a gas lantern. As long as our head is surrounded by this artificial light, the sky overhead is empty of glory. But if some gracious wind of the Spirit blows out our earthly lights, then in our darkness God's heavens are filled with stars.
Some day God will blow and turn away every competing glory and make his holiness known in awesome splendor to every humble creature. But there is no need to wait. Job, Isaiah, Charles Colson, and many of you have humbled yourselves to go hard after the Holy God and have developed a taste for his majesty. To you and all the rest who are just beginning to feel it, I hold out this promise from God, who is ever alive, authoritative, omnipotent, resplendent, revered, holy, and glorious: "You will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me (go hard after me) with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:12–13).


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Bedford Blues v Moseley
It will be a case of back to the drawing board for Bedford Blues after they suffered a second home defeat of the season going down 13-26 against a revitalised Moseley on Friday evening.
There were 2,545 fans crammed into Goldington Road for the Friday night lights but despite a positive start, the Blues just weren't able to break down a stubborn Moseley defence who seized their opportunities when they were presented.
Moseley Fly half Caolan Ryan missed a penalty in the third minute after his pack won a penalty on a Bedford scrum and then Jake Sharp pulled an effort just left of the uprights when the visitors were pinged for not releasing a tackle.
Bedford were the first on the score sheet though when lively winger Neville Edwards crossed the whitewash when the home side sent the ball along the backline to the right winger. Sharp added the extras and all looked good after eight minutes.
Ryan found his range with a 15th minute penalty after more good work by his pack, but Sharp retaliated with three points of his own after Tom Armes was alert to scoop in a loose ball and wasn't released on the floor.
As the half wore on though, Moseley started to enjoy a bit more of possession and territory and they made it count. Bedford infringed at a ruck but Buster Lawrence played the advantage to gallop clear of the Blues defence to score close to the posts with Ryan levelling the scores with the conversion.
After the break, Bedford thought they were over the line when Armes scrambled through but the ref said he was held up. Following a penalty at the resulting scrum Sharp converted the three points to inch the home side in front but Moseley replied with their second try of the evening. The visitors mauled well before hooker Rhys Buckley went over the line but Ryan couldn't convert.
The Blues cause wasn't helped when first Sharp and then Aaron Morris had to leave the field because of injury but Moseley defended stoutly when they were reduced to 14 when Buckley was carded for persistent team infringements and Ryan extended the lead with his second penalty of the evening.
When Moseley were back to their full 15 they scored a third try of the game. Winger Matt Williams was given a sniff of space and he made the Blues pay as he brushed of challenges to score in the corner following an impressive break down the left. It was too far wide for Ryan to convert but when he added a penalty in the 76th minute, the game was too far out of the Blues reach.
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the day i knocked out my ex-boyfriend and ended up in People Magazine
Well at the time he was my boyfriend. I loved him despite the fact all my friends just couldnt understand why I continued my on and off relationship with the guy who was much younger than me to be exact about 7 years younger. It got real annoying trying to explain certain music to him that my friends and i would talk about and he would look over at me not knowing wat to say because the music was ahead of his time. He was a young college student living in a frat house but he just never could get himself to join the frat. He was a true mama's boy who barely made a move without his mother knowing. He had dumped me about 3 times around the time of my story and I was just getting fed up with him and so embarassed by the fact that this young boy seem to get a kick out of playing with my emotions. So on this particular day there was a football game on and we were fighting. he was at his apartment and i was at my family's home trying to call him. he was ignoring my calls and told me that he was at a friends but something inside of me told me that he was lying so i had a relative drive me over to his place and as she drove i called him with no answer from him. when i reached his apartment and i saw his car so i called him from her phone. he picked up and i told him to come downstairs, the jig was up. he came down and as he walked down the stairs i felt such rage and anger as he started to tell me that it was over. i ran up to him and words came out of my mouth that i still cant remember but whatever it was he laughed and i went blank but from what my relative told me it was a moment she could relive over and over again from her car as he watched me knock down this guy who was much bigger and even alittle taller than me. my fist went up and he fall down on his on an iron fence. he looked up at me and said "its over!" and i said "you got that right!!!:" i heard my cousin laugh and she drug me back to her car. i regain myself back as she drove back to my family's home. You would have thought that it was really over but we got back together one more time for the last time to have it end on my 30th birthday after he was m.i.a at my party and broke up with my online on facebook by changing his status to single. I was crushed but i moved on and found a new guy who is now my husband. but during my engagement i wrote an article on facebook about being dumped online and a reporter from People Magazine contacted me and within a month my story was featured in the magazine along with a photo with my fiance. Gotta love some sweet revenge!


text: I was wondering if anyone has experience with Dolphin Interconnect Solutions (http://www.dolphinics.com)? We currently have Myrinet (www.myri.com) on our cluster and it seems to be working reasonably well. I have several questions though. First, we are considering upgrading our cluster with more nodes, and myrinet seems to have a scalability problem in the average cluster size area. We have 8 nodes now, and can go up to 16 nodes with our current switch, but past that, Myricom says we would need one additional switch to get up to 18 nodes and two additional switches to get up to 24. Ok, we just went from spending $5000 on JUST SWITCHES to $15000, and we didn't even get close to the 32 nodes we were thinking about. I know they have there $40,000 Millionare-in-a-box, I mean network-in-a-box "solution", but really who wants to waste that much money (if I just need even 32 nodes). Not to mention that Myrinet prices have not come down in... ah, ever as far as I can tell. Dolphin's switchless technology appears inviting in this area, but I don't know if it has really been proven in the Beowulf area. I also don't know how much Dolphin equipment costs (I just sent a request in for pricing). From the specs that I've seen, I think Dolphin is supposed to be faster as far as latency, but slower as far as bandwidth, but I rarely trust specs from manufacturers, and was wondering if any of you have run comparison tests. From what I've seen though, Myrinet uses 64/32 bit, 66/33 mhz PCI, where Dolphin uses 64/32 bit, 33 mhz only PCI, so I this would lead me to believe that Dolphin is a lot closer to saturating their PCI interface, while Myrinet has and can continue to improve their performance (not that this affects those of us who already own Myrinet hardware). Anyone have any experience or comments. -- Jared Hodge Institute for Advanced Technology The University of Texas at Austin 3925 W. Braker Lane, Suite 400 Austin, Texas 78759 Phone: 512-232-4460 FAX: 512-471-9096 Email: Jared_Hodge at iat.utexas.edu


text: Hello Donald, and thanks for the response. Donald Becker wrote: > > > Various ports of POV-Ray are available for PVM and MPI, with a very wide > range of quality and performance. > > We distribute a version of POV-Ray specifically ported for our cluster > system and BeoMPI. Our POV-ray port is interesting because > It transparently uses all available cluster nodes, and works even if > that number is '0'. I like this. > It does all of the serial setup and run-time I/O on the front end > machine (technically, the MPI rank 0 node). This minimizes > overall work and keeps the POV-Ray call-out semantics unchanged > It does the rendering only on compute nodes (except for the N=0 case). > It complets the rendering even with crashed or slow nodes. Ah. So it redistributes the work, huh? Kewl. Sounds like somebody at your place of employment has a great abstract mind, being able to encompass all variables, yet the end solution seems concrete and directed toward the individual user. Too kewl. > >>* Is there a beowulf setup out there setup specifically >> for random-number generation, with its main focus on >> generating "truly random" numbers, if you can say that >> synchronus, clock-based computers are capable of generating >> truly random numbers :^). If so, has a cluser of this type been >> used in encryption and decryption purposes. > > > This is trivial. Once you get a good a serial pseudo-random number > generator, you can use a cluster to generate more. That's what I was thinking. Can you say 1 billion bits of RSA encryption? I knew you could :^). My only worry here is that with a few hundred thousand nodes, would the NSA be able to decrypt stuff relating to national security? That is, could the government actually afford to purchase on-site equipment that could keep up with P2P, Internet-based clustering, if you will? Peronsally, I think they'd have to jump in on the bandwagon with everyone else, yet with the current level of "Big Brother is wathcing us all" attitude floating around, I seriously doubt that people would knowingly allow them to use their free cycles for decryption without some mega-serious watch-dogging geeks watching their every move. >>* Is anyone working on beowulf clustering based on trusted-host >> computing? That is, instead of having a local cluster of > > This wouldn't be a Beowulf cluster. (It's a stretch to > call it a cluster at all.) Cycle scavenging is different > concept, and it only to a tiny percentage of problems. Ah. Ok. Thanks for the info. OTOH, one can't help to wonder if this isn't the future of computing, especially when we consider the fact that almost all of our appliances we'll be using in the near future will be network aware. For instance, my computer determines that a particular task/process is very CPU intensive, and the best solution to the problem would be to use more processors in a parallel fashion to obtain the result. Wouldn't it make perfect sense for the system to set itself up as a master node and subdivide the task at hand to various network-aware devices/computers, such as the unused television or coffee pot? :^). Also, if the "local cluster" of household machines isn't up to the computation, wouldn't it also make sense that the master/root node would then go out and ask its/your nextdoor neighbor if it can steal a few cycles, too, branching out further if necessary? Basically, I'm thinking along the lines of a power-grid like setup here. I guess what I'm really trying to say here is this: do all nodes "have" to be on site to be considered a beowulf cluster? Personally, I don't think so, especially if we consider the fact that in the not-too-distant future, networking speeds will be up to snuff with the various tasks at hand. With these concepts in mind, I'll step out on a limb here and say that it might actually be very advantageous to live in a highly-congested area, like in an apartment complex or next to a busy freeway. Living in an area that encompasses both would flat-out rule :^). BTW, when I say "living next to a freeway would be advantageous," I'm talking about using unused cycles from various WiFi-connected cars :^). Futuristic? At this point in time, most definitely; however, I'm sure that most of us here see something as left-field as this eventually happening, and, IMHO, someplace like this is exactly the place I want to be before the rest show up. As a side note, I found something on the web last night called "GreenTea," which is a P2P-like "operating system" setup around Java. Interesting concept, portable, and I can see a system like this taking off fairly soon. OTOH, I think interpreted languages and environments have a bit further to go before they'll start pushing compiled languages aside, though.Eventually, they should take over,although I seriously doubt it will be anytime soon. > (People have heated discussions about cluster I/O performance and > communication latency. I bet they do, and, quite frankly, it's very understandable, especially when we all start to consider the major drawbacks of using Ethernet-based NICS for message passing. OTOH, it is cheap, are there are certainly various applications that lend themselves nicely to using this type of environment.Personally, I'd be more worried about things such as node stability, algorithms, code profiling, algorithms, and maybe even looking into writing various time-critical subroutines in assembly. IMHO, this would time much better spent :^). Not only that, but if we were to nit-pick the beowulf model to death, I think we'd come to the conclusion that using multiple processors on a real buss would be a much better way to go, although I'm sure we'd all eventually wind up designing something that resembles a 1.5 million dollar Sun or IBM system :^). >(With cycle-scavenging, these are orders of magnitude worse.) Agreed. OTOH, this will eventually change, and linear-progressive, "next logical step," fringe-level computing is where I like spending my man hours. Unfortunately, though, we all have bills to pay and rationilaztions to make about the current level of real-world computing, so let's just say that I'm a bit flexible in this particular area :^). BTW, my main level of interest in this particular field is system administration and a bit of code cranking. Having done both for years, I find network administration much more relaxing -- believe it or not! :^) Not only that, but having a decent level of hardware, electronics, telecommunications, and programming knowledge has to be benificial when administrating something like a beowulf cluster. Hopefully, the road to learning this particular model of computing won't be too time consuming. OTOH, I'm sure the infamous Murphy will rear his ugly head somewhere along the line :^). Thanks for your time and remarks, Donald -- it is much appreciated! Randall -- Randall Jouett Amateur Radio: AB5NI I eat spaghetti code out of a bit bucket while sitting at a hash table! P.S. Is it just me, or do others find it annoying that the current version of Mozilla doesn't have spell-checking capability? BTW, this is a semi-shrewd way of saying, "Please disregard all spelling errors, and please send all complaints to /dev/null :^). P.P.S. Anyone out there try Plan 9 in a beowulf environment? As a layman and at first glance, it does seem to be well suited to the tasks at hand.


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Readings in Economic Sociology
Readings in Economic Sociology
ISBN: 978-0-631-22861-5 February 2002 Wiley-Blackwell 384 Pages
- Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists.
- Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets.
- Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestions.
Table of contents
Part I: Foundational Statements.
1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith).
2. Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy Selections from the Chapter on capital (Karl Max).
3. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (Max Weber).
4. The Great Transformation (Karl Polanyi).
Part II: Economic Action.
5. Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness (Mark Granovetter).
6. Making Markets: Opportunism and restraint on Wall Street (Mitchel Y. Abolafia).
7. Auctions: The Social Construction of Value (Charles Smith).
8. the Structural Sources of Adventurism: The Case of the California Gold Rush (Gary G. Hamilton).
9. The Separative Self: Andocentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions (Paula England).
Part III: Capitalist States and Globalizing Markets.
10. Weber's Last Theory of capitalism (Randall Collins).
11. Markets as Politics: A Political-Culture Approach to Market Institutions (Neil Fligstein).
12. Rethinking Capitalism (Fred Block).
13. Developing Difference: Social Organization and the rise of the Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina (Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Mauro F. Guillen).
14. Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries (Walter W. Powell).
Part IV: Economic Culture and the Culture of the Economy.
15. The Forms of Capital (Pierre Bourdieu).
16. Money, Meaning, and Morality (Bruce G. Carruthers and Wendy Nelson Espeland).
17. The Social Meaning of Money (Viviana A. Zelizer).
18. Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization (Sherryl Kleinman).
19. Greening the Economy from the Bottom Up? Lessons in Consumption from the Energy Case (Loren Lutzenhiser).
"The field of economic sociology is a crackling new universe of intellectual energy. It formed out of sociological theory's insightful understanding of how institutions, culture, and networks operate and shape economy and society in ways as sure as gravity affects the movements of the planets. Readings in Economic Sociology is a must read collection of the core articles that chart out this new universe of ideas and their implications for economic action from domestic households to globalization." Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University
- Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists
- Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets
- Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestions.


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Not unlike its counterpart rock 'n' roll, memorable jazz novels occupy a pretty slim shelf at the local bookstore. Though the music has been gracefully spun into fiction by Roddy Doyle, Michael Ondaatje and — most distinctively — Rafi Zabor in the surreal, ursine-centric "The Bear Comes Home," it's a fringe topic for the most part.
Maybe that's because when people want to read about jazz, the characters behind the real story are rich enough to transcend any fiction — or maybe it's just a reflection of how well-meaning writers can run into trouble once they start putting into words something as ephemeral and personal as a saxophone solo.
Enter Esi Edugyan's "Half-Blood Blues," a 2011 Man Booker Prize finalist making its stateside debut in paperback after first appearing in Europe and in Edugyan's native Canada. On the surface, with its colorful scenes of playing, drinking and bickering among a mixed-race ensemble called the Hot-Time Swingers, Edugyan's second novel could be a relatively conventional story of the jazz life. But she tweaks the formula by splitting the book's action between the chaos of 1939 Europe and modern times as old friends struggle to reconcile with a past that shaped them as men and as artists.
At the center is Sidney Griffiths, an African American bassist who performed with the Swingers in Berlin during the rise of "the housepainter" — just one of the bent nicknames that pingpong through Griffith's narration with the true echo of a snare drum's crack. In Griffiths' casual, jazz-hipster patter, everyone is a "jack," "gate" or "buck," including his bandmates in brash drummer and childhood friend Chip C. Jones and a quiet, 20-year-old phenom named Hieronymus Falk (or "Hiero" for short, introducing a rather tasty homophone).
A mixed-race "mischling" born in Germany with roots in Africa, Falk spends much of the book as a haunted figure, an outsider even in his own country who eventually falls under Griffith's wing. Though Edugyan spends comparatively little time trying to put jazz into words, she includes lovely allusions to Falk's assured genius on trumpet, comparing his sound to "a thicket of flowers in a bone-dry field" or, to Griffiths' doubtful ears, "a country preacher too green to convince the flock."
Edugyan starts the book with a taut, war-time confessional of sorts as Griffiths describes a sickly, desperate recording session in occupied Paris for the song that gives the book its name. Eventually arrested by "the Boots" in a French café, Falk and his music would've been lost to history were it not for a single pressing that Griffiths hid away only to be found after the war.
Falk quickly becomes a cult figure, and Edugyan colors her description of his influence with a record nerd's eye for detail, elevating him as a mythic cross between Robert Johnson "a German Louis Armstrong" with reality-blurring cameos from Bill Coleman, Albert Hammond Jr. and Wynton Marsalis.
In "present day" 1992, a forgotten Griffiths is invited by Jones to accompany him to a jazz festival in Berlin for the premiere of a documentary on Falk. Now touring jazz royalty, Jones sweetens the deal by adding that their long-lost bandmate Hiero is alive and hoping for a visit from them in the Polish countryside.
What follows is Griffiths' account of the Hot-Time Swingers' being branded degenerates and bottled up in a club after a violent encounter with German police. Slowly losing members to tragedy or circumstance, the group makes a tense escape to France after catching the eye of Louis Armstrong, who appears as a wise but crumbling monarch in a Parisian apartment. Along the way Griffiths and Falk get tangled with one of Armstrong's associates, a beautiful singer named Delilah, who falls into a turbulent relationship with Griffiths that all too easily brings out the envy and insecurity in his artistry with ugly, disastrous results.
In populating such a richly rendered world, Edugyan allows a few details to slip through the cracks. Though Hiero is described as fluent only in German and needing Griffiths to translate for him with Armstrong, he capably communicates around Paris and elsewhere as the primary language becomes unclear. Though there are few situations as emotionally complex as a love triangle, the volatile exchanges between Griffiths and Delilah leave so much unsaid that their breakup feels more confusing than affecting. Still, taken with the book's wealth of immersive details and tense, toe-tapping pace, these are minor passing notes.
Though "Half-Blood Blues" is a jazz book, its greatest strength lies more in the rhythms of its conversations and Griffiths' pitch-perfect voice than in any musical exchanges. A simple, one-word sentence that could be just an expletive — "Hell" — becomes so much more as Griffiths watches Nazis march into Paris under "that dancing black spider," and his dazed account of a band of weary survivors coalescing around Hiero's "Half-Blood Blues" is intoxicating enough to send you crate-digging through a record store's back room for anything like it.
"This was it, this was everything," Griffiths says with a delirious awe that nearly excuses his unforgivable selfishness. "We was all of us free, brother. For that night at least, we was free."
If there's a better description of jazz and its brilliant, in-the-moment power, you're not likely to find it.


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Anyone making a road trip across America should expect their mobile data service to basically not exist throughout much of the Western United States.
The Federal Communications Commission today released a map showing which counties across the U.S. lacked coverage from either 3G or 4G networks and found that wide swaths of the western half of the country were 3G wastelands, particularly in mountainous states such as Idaho and Nevada. This isn't particularly surprising since it's much more difficult for carriers to afford building out mobile data networks in sparsely populated mountainous regions, but it does underscore how large stretches of the United States lack access to mobile data services that people in the Northeast, South and Midwest now take for granted.
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And it isn't just interior western states that lack significant 3G coverage. The areas surrounding major Northwestern metropolitan areas such as Seattle and Portland contain large patches of 3G dead zones as well. For example, the eastern portion of King County, which encompasses Seattle, has more than 2,800 road miles that are currently uncovered by a 3G or 4G network.
Other major regions lacking access to 3G or 4G networks in the United States include the Appalachian regions of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, as well as the northernmost regions of Maine and the Adirondack Mountain regions in upstate New York.
The FCC is hoping to soon eliminate some of these 3G dead zones in with its planned "Mobility Fund" auction that's scheduled for September. The FCC says the auction will be designed to "award one-time support to carriers that commit to provide 3G or better mobile voice and broadband services in areas where such services are unavailable." The FCC says that it will select winners "based on the bids that will maximize the road miles covered by new mobile services without exceeding the budget of $300 million."
In addition to its upcoming auction to provide financial help to carriers for building out 3G services in underserved areas, the FCC is also working to free up more mobile spectrum to serve carriers' needs in building out their 4G LTE networks. The FCC has set a goal to make 300MHz of spectrum available for wireless broadband use over the next five years with the eventual goal of freeing up 500MHz of spectrum by the end of 2020. The FCC has said it could reach 300MHz by reallocating 120MHz of spectrum currently used by television broadcasters, with 90MHz coming from mobile satellite providers, 10MHz coming from the 700MHz "D" block, 60MHz coming from the AWS band and 20MHz coming from the Wireless Communications Service band.
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It's absurd to say that a minimum wage doesn't cause unemployment. ABSURD. Do you, does anyone, buy the same amount of something when the price goes up? Oh, maybe you ignore a price increase of a percent or two. What do you do when the price doubles? When it goes from $7.25 to $15? For damn sure you are going to buy less of it.
OR you'll find some other way to deal with it. Maybe you'll fire that black person, and hire a white person (because you're a racist who thinks that way). Maybe you'll simply reduce workplace amenities, like a frequently-cleaned bathroom? Maybe you'll replace the low-productivity workers with the higher-productivity workers who have re-entered the workforce to get the higher pay? Maybe you'll just charge your customers more? Of course, if your customers are all minimum-wage earners, they're kinda screwed, but that's not YOUR fault as the employer, is it?
Or maybe you'll replace workers by machines, now that the machines are relatively less expensive. Oh, wait, you already did that. Look at the McDonald's machine that fills the french-fry baskets automatically. Look at the McDonald's soda dispensing machine. Those jobs used to be done by people.
See? It's pointless you present you with all this information, because you will reject it. You already know that the minimum wage CANNOT cause unemployment because the unemployment is so small that it gets lost in the churn of jobs. The unemployment is detectable because of secondary effects, though. Look at teen black unemployment: 2X that of whites. Look at teen Aboriginal unemployment: 3X that of whites (official government statistics).
Let me ask you: how many drops of pee do I need to put into a cup of water before you will refuse to drink it? If I put one drop in, and mixed it, do you think you could detect that drop (I'll tell you before you go looking because this is what I do all day: no, you cannot)? Does the water become drinkable simply because you cannot detect the pee in it?
How many people need to become permanently unemployable simply because you cannot detect the unemployment? Just as you wouldn't drink the cup of water with a single drop, I refuse to tolerate a minimum wage because of just one person who cannot find a job because of the minimum wage.
I'm sure you're a nice guy Jon, you mean well, you have the best of intentions. But the people who created the minimum wage did so to reduce black employment. This would reduce the resources available to blacks to reproduce, and would help to purify the white race.
No, seriously.
So what has changed since then? Has the minimum wage turned around from a way to hurt black people to a way to help all workers (including blacks)? How, exactly, did this happen? Any explanation at all?
Citations on request, I don't need to bother to look up things you aren't going to read because you know they're wrong even though they've been peer-reviewed or are official government statistics.
Go ask any economist what would happen if the minimum wage was raised to $100/hour. Every one of them will tell you that it would be a disaster and would cause massive unemployment. So why does a $15/hour minimum wage not cause a minimal amount of unemployment? What changes? Is there some quantum effect which nobody has discovered yet even after 80 years of a minimum wage?
I will tell you what happens: the unemployment is small enough to be undetectable. That is because the minimum wage is not a market phenomenon. It is something that is created by people who do not wish to be blamed for creating unemployment. They will refuse to set a minimum wage that they think will cause unemployment. I happen to think that they're wrong about a $15, but just as people in crowds can do crazy things, so can politicians in crowds do crazy things.
We'll see. The trouble is that you won't learn. You didn't learn when Haiti got accidentally included in a US federal minimum wage back in the 1930's. It doubled the wages there, and destroyed the lace industry. Have you bought any Haitian lace lately? No, you have not. Have you learned not to have any minimum wage at all? No, you have not. Have you learned not to double the minimum wage? No, you have not.
Doubling the minimum wage is experimenting on human subjects. No university ethics committee would approve that experiment. That you support it says something bad about your ethics.


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Valentina Lisitsa has been called the Justin Bieber of classical music.
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Her popularity in the digital realm has translated to opportunity in the physical world: last June, the 39-year-old was tapped to perform a debut gig at London's Royal Albert Hall as a solo recitalist.
Fresh off the biggest concert of her life and close to a career milestone, Lisitsa will join the Stamford Symphony in the opening concerts of the group's 2012-13 season.
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A fundraiser for the symphony, the Oct. 6 concert will be preceded by a reception and dinner at the University of Connecticut in Stamford and a silent auction. The orchestra will return for an afternoon performance on Oct. 7.
Lisitsa, who is known for wowing audiences in concert and online, will team with the symphony on its performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's jaw-dropping "Piano Concerto No. 3." Made famous in the 1996 film "Shine," the 40-minute piece has the reputation of being one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
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A former Walt Disney Co. archivist is suing the Burbank company, claiming the entertainment giant fired him in alleged retaliation for reporting sexual harassment in the workplace.
Robert Klein, 41, filed an unlawful retaliation suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, seeking damages in excess of $75,000 for lost wages and benefits. He alleges, in court documents, that he was a casualty in Disney's "attempt to cover up sexual harassment at the company."
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A Disney spokeswoman said the lawsuit is "absolutely without merit."
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