text: The new Spidey villain confirmed, Chris Hemsworth talks Thor, and new Dark Knight Rises casting rumors!Alasdair Wilkins3/21/11 9:00amFiled to: morning spoilersThe Dark Knight Risescaptain americathorThe AvengersThe amazing spider-manBreaking dawnUntitled jodie foster projectdoctor whofringeGame Of ThronesWonder WomanNo Ordinary FamilyThe event17th Precinct69EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink An Amazing Spider-Man actor reveals how he fits into Spidey's fight with Rhys Ifans's villain. The Dark Knight Rises is casting another female role. Plus Matt Smith discusses his Doctor Who future, and more! Advertisement Spoilers ahead! Top image from Thor.The Dark Knight RisesWe're getting incredibly close to being able to actually confirm Joseph Gordon-Levitt for the movie... but we're not quite there yet. In the meantime, Atonement and Cracks actress Juno Temple is reportedly being considered for a supporting part as "a street-wise Gotham girl." I'd ask everyone to not immediately assume this somehow means Harley Quinn, but I'm guessing that's impossible (particularly since she does kinda look like a live-action Harley Quinn...but still). Anyway, keep your grains of salt at the ready until we hear anything official. [Variety]Captain AmericaThe film will reportedly be doing about two weeks worth of reshoots in the near future. It's not currently known what these will entail, although there is apparently at least some reason to think this is just part of the movie's normal production schedule. [CraveOnline]Thor Here are a couple new posters. [FirstShowing.net] Advertisement In an online chat, Chris Hemsworth explains the particular acting challenge of playing Thor:"It's a blend of Viking mythology and science fiction element, and when Thor comes to Earth, from the trailer he's banished there. But the scope of it and the universes are so huge, you're playing a god, there's really no one to draw for, is there? 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[Movieweb]The Amazing Spider-ManI could have sworn this was already confirmed, but supporting actor C. Thomas Howell mentioned in an interview that the movie's villain is indeed the Lizard. He dropped this not particularly shocking revelation while describing what role he plays in the movie, which also features some spoiler-y tidbits about how Spidey is seen in the movie: Advertisement Sponsored "I play a construction worker whose son is caught in the middle of a battle between the Lizard and Spider-Man on the Manhattan bridge. Spider-Man helps me get my son back from this perilous situation. There is some payback there at the end of the movie. Spider-Man is kind of hurting. I help him when all of the other people won't. Part of the story is, the nation thinks he might be a bad guy. They don't know what to think. Because of my experience on the bridge with my kid, I know he is a good guy. I pitch in and help out at the end. 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Mailbox Server Processor Capacity Planning
Topic Last Modified: 2010-04-22
Mailbox server capacity planning has changed significantly from previous versions of Microsoft Exchange due to mailbox resiliency provided in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Exchange 2010 has been reengineered with the concept of mailbox resiliency, in which the architecture changed so that automatic failover protection is now provided at the individual mailbox database level instead of at the server level. There are two primary changes that affect the Mailbox server role capacity planning process:
Hosting active and passive database copies on the same server
Providing database copy count
You can use the information in this topic to better understand these changes and as design guidance for sizing mailbox servers when configured for mailbox resiliency.
Hosting Active and Passive Database Copies on the Same Server
In Exchange 2010, you can host both active and passive database copies on the same server when the server is configured for mailbox resiliency. The processors on each server service the workload from both active mailboxes (hosted on active, mounted databases) as well as passive mailboxes (hosted on passive databases). The processor requirements for passive mailboxes and databases must be considered when performing Exchange 2010 mailbox capacity planning. A passive database copy uses CPU resources to check or validate replicated logs, to replay replicated logs into the database, and to maintain the content index associated with the database copy. In general, each passive mailbox (hosted on a passive database copy) equates to 15 percent of the CPU utilization required to host the active mailbox (hosted on an active database copy).
A key aspect of Exchange 2010 mailbox capacity planning is determining how many database copies you plan to activate on a per-server basis when configured for mailbox resiliency. There is a range of designs from which you can choose, but we recommend the following models:
Design for all database copies activated In this model, you design your server to handle 100 percent of hosted database copies becoming active.
Design for targeted failure scenarios In this model, you design your server to handle the active mailbox load during the worst failure case.
For more information, see the following topics:
Using Exchange 2010 mailbox resiliency, you can configure multiple database copies (up to 16 copies per database). Each additional database copy increases the CPU work the server hosting the active copy must do. This additional work on the server with the active copy is primarily log replication and content indexing because each passive copy will retrieve content to index from the active copy.
The per-mailbox CPU requirements of the server hosting the active database copy must be increased by 10 percent for each additional database copy (for example, one copy = 10 percent, two copies = 20 percent, and so on). This factor is only applied to the CPU requirements for the server hosting the active database copy. The CPU used to host passive database copies isn't applied to this calculation. For more information, see Understanding Processor Configurations and Exchange Performance.
Due to new sizing factors, additional steps are required to size mailbox servers when configured for mailbox resiliency. The general steps are as follows:
Consider high availability requirements for the overall solution architecture. Consider mailbox resiliency or a stand-alone solution, site resiliency, the number of database copies required, and the number of servers or DAGs to handle common failure cases.
If using mailbox resiliency, choose which database activation model to design for. (Design for targeted failure scenario, or design for all database copies activated.)
Use the following table to estimate CPU and memory requirements based on design. Consider CPU and memory requirements for active mailboxes, CPU requirements for passive mailboxes, and CPU requirements on the active mailbox for additional database copies. Use the activation model choice to define the maximum number of mailboxes the design can accommodate.
The following table provides estimated values based on user profile. The estimated values are based on a peak two-hour period during the knowledge worker workday (for example, from 10:00 until noon). This peak period is often twice the 8 to 10-hour daily average load. The user profile description has been omitted because the range of profiles has grown as e-mail usage has increased.
Per mailbox database cache, IOPS, and CPU estimates based on user profile and message activity
Messages sent or received per mailbox per day | Database cache per mailbox in megabytes (MB) | Single database copy (stand-alone) with estimated IOPS per mailbox | Multiple database copies (mailbox resiliency) with estimated IOPS per mailbox | Megacycles for active mailbox or stand-alone mailbox | Megacycles for passive mailbox |
50 |
3 |
0.06 |
0.05 |
1 |
0.15 |
100 |
6 |
0.12 |
0.1 |
2 |
0.3 |
150 |
9 |
0.18 |
0.15 |
3 |
0.45 |
200 |
12 |
0.24 |
0.2 |
4 |
0.6 |
250 |
15 |
0.3 |
0.25 |
5 |
0.75 |
300 |
18 |
0.36 |
0.3 |
6 |
0.9 |
350 |
21 |
0.42 |
0.35 |
7 |
1.05 |
400 |
24 |
0.48 |
0.4 |
8 |
1.2 |
450 |
27 |
0.54 |
0.45 |
9 |
1.35 |
500 |
30 |
0.6 |
0.5 |
10 |
1.5 |
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You must increase the megacycles per active mailbox by 10 percent for each additional database copy after the one active copy. |
The example in the next section "Example of Capacity Planning for a Mailbox Server" uses a baseline processor configuration, 2 x 4 core Intel Xeon x5470 3.33-GHz processors, that yields 3300 megacycles per processor core. However, this processor configuration most likely isn't the processor configuration you're deploying. Therefore, you will need to perform a megacycle adjustment to determine the available megacycles your server design can support. Use the following steps:
Open a Web browser, and then go to www.spec.org.
Note: The third-party Web site information in this topic is provided to help you find the technical information you need. The URLs are subject to change without notice. -
Click results, highlight CPU2006, and then select Search CUP2006 Results.
In the Available Configurations drop-down, select SPECint2006 Rates. Under Simple Request, enter the search criteria (for example, Processor Matches x5550).
Find the server and processor you're planning to deploy, click Execute Simple Fetch, and note the resulting value.
For example, let's say you're deploying a Dell PowerEdge M710 8-core server with Intel x5550 2.67GHz processors (2670 Hertz). For this configuration, the SPECint_rate2006 results value is 240, with a value of 30 per core (known in the formula as "new platform per core value").
The baseline system (HP DL380 G5 x5470 3.33GHz, 8 cores), has a SPECint_rate2006 results value of 150, or 18.75 per core (known in the formula as "baseline per core value").
To determine the megacycles of the M710 platform example, use the following formula:
((New platform per core value) * (Hertz per core of new platform)) / (Baseline per core value) = Megacycles per core
Then, using the example values as follows, you have:
30 * 2670 / 18.75 = 4,272 megacycles per core or 34,176 megacycles per server
The following example illustrates the processor sizing process. The example has the following design assumptions:
Mailbox count 12,000.
Mailbox profile 150 messages sent or received per day.
Availability requirements Mailbox resiliency within a single site, tolerance for double-server failures.
Storage architecture JBOD (not RAID) storage with three database copies, 300 mailboxes per database, 40 databases with 30 database copies per server (or 120 database copies per DAG). The three database copies are randomly distributed across the four nodes so no two servers look alike.
Activation model Targeted failure scenario, where double-server failures are tolerated with minimal outage. This results in 20 databases out of 30 copies per server being activated after two server failure events.
Server platform 2 x 4 core Intel Xeon x5470 3.33-GHz processors.
The following process applies:
Calculate server count A four-node DAG is required to tolerate double-server failures, so the design needs to begin with four Mailbox servers within the DAG.
Calculate maximum active mailboxes per server based on the activation model Assuming the active databases are equally distributed across the nodes, each server would ideally host 3,000 active mailboxes (12,000 ÷ 4). To calculate the active mailbox count after a double-node failure (based on this example), the mailbox count would be divided by the remaining two nodes, which equals 6,000 active mailboxes per node (12,000 ÷ 2).
In this example, the MaximumActiveDatabases parameter on the Set-MailboxServer cmdlet is configured for 20.
Calculate active mailbox CPU requirements Multiply the maximum number of active mailboxes (20 × 300 = 6,000 active mailboxes) by the megacycles per active mailbox (6,000 × 3 megacycles = 18,000 megacycles), based on the preceding table. Multiply this value by 10 percent for each additional database copy.
In this example, there's one active copy and two passive copies for every database, so the 18,000 megacycles is increased by 20 percent (18,000 × 1.2 = 21,600 megacycles).
Calculate passive mailbox CPU requirements Multiply the number of passive mailboxes (when a server is hosting the maximum number of active mailboxes) by the megacycles per passive mailbox (3,000 × .45 megacycles = 1,350 megacycles), based on the preceding table.
Add active and passive CPU requirements to get total CPU requirement In this example, 21,600 active mailbox megacycles + 1,350 passive mailbox megacycles = 22,950 megacycles total CPU requirement.
Apply total CPU requirement to hardware platform This example uses a 2 x 4 core Intel Xeon x5470 3.33-GHz processor-based server. This equates to 26,640 megacycles (8 × 3,330 MHz). Divide the required megacycles by the available megacycles based on the server platform to estimate the CPU utilization at peak period after a double-node failure (22,950 ÷ 26,640 = 86 percent predicted CPU utilization). The 86 percent CPU utilization rate represents a fully utilized server with almost no space, but because this is based on a double-failure condition that occurs during the peak period, this rate may be acceptable.
We recommend that stand-alone servers be designed to not exceed 70 percent utilization during peak period, and two-node and three-node configurations that can only tolerate a single-node failure be designed not to exceed 80 percent utilization at the peak period (during a node failure).

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June 28, 2010
Vintage BATMAN Coloring Book From Argentina
OK, I'm wondering if anyone knows if this BATMAN Coloring book is an actual licensed product or just bootleg? ( Either way it's pretty cool ). It was made in Argentina around 1989 & the shape of the book is die-cut, which is interesting. The artwork is kind of cheesy but that's normal for a coloring book. It looks like it was made by a company called "Sylvapen". Does anybody have any information on this?
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- Christopher A. Huff said...
I don't know if I like "1989" being described as vintage...makes me feel old. Still, it's a cool book.
- ozz said...
The cover art looks a lot better than the inside art.
It doesn't look to me like the artwork shown in the second and third photos was done by the same artist. - 7/25/2010 01:50:00 AM
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Office Space to Rent in Sidemoor
We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Sidemoor. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Sidemoor. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
Provides accommodation ranging from micro units suitable for one person businesses, through to large linked business suites and spacious workshop units - most with mezzanine floors. Flexible license agreements allow the tenant to leave with 2 weeks notice. Charges are fully inclusive. Facilities include a licensee's breakout area, superfast broadband, telecoms packages and free parking.
Our serviced office space in Rubery, South Birmingham B45 were refurbished just a few years ago. The office block contains 18 separate furnished offices of varying sizes. Internet access and phones lines can be provided. The offices offer a furnished reception area, data room, two kitchens, two sets of toilets and able parking. We have space available from a 1 person office (114 sq ft) from £200 a month, to a 400 sq ft office from £650 a month. Our meeting room comes complete with desks which can be arranged to suit the number of attendees on your meeting as well as your individual requirements. The meeting room also has comfy chairs, a white board, flip board, paper and pens. The office block has a reception area with tiled floor and modern decor. All offices come with desks, office chairs and storage. All offices have also been newly painted and have new flooring. This office block has a dedicated data room which handles all phone and internet data. All office have CAT5 points. The office block has two kitchens. There is space for over 40 vehicles directly behind the building. All entrance doors have security entry systems which can be operated by a pin code or fob. The office block has CCTV cameras both outside and inside the building which record 24 hours. All office windows have security bars fitted and entrances have security shutters. The building has a walk-in safe suitable to store any valuables. The office block has 2 male toilets and 2 female toilets.
These offices, are located at the front of one of the warehouses, available to let on a per office basis. The building contains 8 separate furnished offices to let in a variety of sizes. The serviced office space also benefits from a kitchen, parking area and toilet.
This modern 2 storey building offers prestigious office suites from 125 - 1000 sqft. It is also possible to combine offices to form larger suites if required. All offices are fully furnished to a very high standard and carpeted throughout.
The Centre is situated in a quiet rural setting within easy reach of the West Midlands motorway network and close to the centre of Birmingham and major Black Country towns. Originally a traditional brick hay barn, which dates from the 1830's, and has now been renovated to a high standard for modern commercial use, whilst retaining many of its most attractive historic features. There are currently 3 offices available, 2 on the ground floor and 1 on the first floor. Office 2 on the ground floor office accommodates 3 people and is 240 sq. ft., Office 3 on the ground floor is suitable for up to 8 people and is 462 sq. ft. Office 6 on the first floor accommodates 4 people and is 267 sq. ft.
The business centre comprises of a range of modern office suites and industrial units of various sizes. Suitable for a variety of uses, subject to planning. Offices come furnished with desks and cupboards, have heating and lighting, 24/7 access with on site concierge. There are common kitchen areas and shower room plus conference room facilities for hire.
The centre has been carefully planned to offer a broad range of unit sizes and flexibility of use for occupiers. Most of the mature trees around the site are being retained and the site enhanced with extensive new landscaping.
Affordable, commercial property from 150 sq ft (14 sq m) to 275 sq ft (25.5 sq m). Short, flexible leases offer customers the opportunity to expand or contract as their requirements demand. Lease terms are fully inclusive of business rates, service charges and utilities and include free parking and 24 hour access. Deliveries and collections can be overseen on tenants' behalf. Storage and warehouse facilities are also on-hand, facilitating short term fluctuations in stock, or again allowing customers to increase or decrease their space in-line with business demands or staff requirements. Storage spaces can be rented from as little as one week to as long as required.
The centre offers a vibrant mix of start-ups and more established businesses. From industrial and commercial units, through to offices and self storage. Just 5 mins walk from Cradley Railway Station and ideally located for Merry Hill Shopping Centre. Offices are on the first floor, most with good natural light, carpeting, blinds, kitchen and toilet facilities on same floor. Management and maintenance team on site. Use of conference facilities, and secretarial services if required.
The centre is located in a mixed use development consisting of 34 stylish fully furnished apartments, 10 office suites and an up market restaurant bar. The building is located in the leafy suburb of Harborne, just two miles from the commercial heart of Birmingham.
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LAKE ELSINORE: Live City Council coverage, Sept. 24
September 25th, 2013, 12:43 amThe Lake Elsinore City Council meets at 7 p.m. at Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District headquarters. Significant items will be reported.
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LAKE ELSINORE: Utility undergrounding project endorsed by council
July 11th, 2013, 12:50 amA proposal to put utility lines underground along a section of a scenic lakefront drive in Lake Elsinore received the City Council's endorsement Tuesday, June 9.
Council members voted 5-0 to launch the process of undergrounding electrical lines along four blocks of Lakeshore Drive between Chaney Street to the north and Mohr Street to the south, where Mohr and Lakeshore form a three-way intersection with Graham Avenue.
The $1.3 million project will be paid for through a fund ...
LAKE ELSINORE: Canyon Lake fire issues spark Elsinore concerns
June 27th, 2013, 12:03 amLake Elsinore's City Council wants to put heat on the Riverside County Fire Department and the city of Canyon Lake over fire protection services and funding.
During budget talks Tuesday, June 25, the five Lake Elsinore council members directed the city's staff to put their concerns in writing to the fire department and Canyon Lake over the possible closure of a fire station within the neighboring city's boundaries and the burden that would put on nearby fire stations in Lake Elsinore as well ... Read the rest of this entry»


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Need some tips on Fix
I bought my new YJ and I need some Tips on some fixes,
1:My Headlights are a yellow Color( I dont know if this is just how they are or not) but they are also very very and i mean very Dim, How can i make them Brighter? 2:I think it has a miss, Im not to sure, what may i need to replace? 3: It has a Stock Lift, but the back of it sags alot and im not to sure why, mabye i need a new lift. Any tips or suggestions would be great guys :) |
check your battery voltage. dim lights sounds like your alt is not working and you are running on the battery.
depends if it is actually bad. do you have a multimeter?
Check the voltage across the battery terminals. An easy test is to fire the Jeep up and remove the POSITIVE terminal on the battery. If the alternator is working properly the Jeep will run- it only uses the battery to start, then once running the alternator provides ample power to the Jeeps systems on its own. If the Jeep dies when you remove the terminal, then your alternator is bad and not charging.
From there we can help further... |
For the question about the rear sagging......the previous owner probably pulled a trailer behind it or something of the like to make the springs sag. Most folks install a lift soon after getting a Wrangler if bought in stock form. AS far as the lights go, you can get the battery and alternator tested at your local VatoZone or Advance auto for free. That will save you some time seraching for what is going on.
I bought the Sylvania SilverStar replacement lights for mine and they are bright and legal. I like them a lot |
If you test out and determine it's just the lights, I run the Sylvania's as well. Very bright and DOT legal.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Newspapers: Please help Bailii
The newspapers have been doing a roaring trade on the back of the injunction debacle.
One of the reasons the Tweeters and bloggers have been having so much to do is having access to some of the original injunctions. These are posted at Bailii.org (British And Irish Legal Information Institute). However, this organisation is running out of money. It costs £160k a year to run.
So we are appealing to the newspapers to put some money its way.
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I'd have slightly more sympathy for BAILII if it weren't for the fact that their website is a badly constructed crock of shite. There shouldn't really be any need for them, anyway - this is precisely the sort of stuff that the Ministry of Justice itself should be publishing, either on its own website or via data.gov.uk. Court judgments should, as a matter of routine, be made available for distribution in electronic format to anyone who wants to read them.
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Spoiler "Five Children" Sin Hye-seon makes a decision to marry Seong Hoon
Sin Hye-seon made up our minds to get married at last.
On the forty-eighth episode of the KBS 2TV weekend drama "Five Children", Lee Yeon-tae (Sin Hye-seon) agreed to marry Kim Seong-min (Seong Hoon).
They were on a date at night. Kim Seong-min said, "Let's take some other walk round the park" because he did notneed her to headhouse yet.
Lee Yeon-tae said, "I idea about it and I suspect there are merits to getting married. We do now not need to phase after dates like this and we will run acrosseach and every other in the morning. We can see one another at evening too. We do not have to lookoutdoor so it save cash and I do now not believe we mustput offthe marriage anymore".
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Toledo may not have Lindsay Lohan or Nick Lachey, but nice middle-class homes can be had here for a tenth of the cost in Beverly Hills, according to a study released yesterday.
The Coldwell Banker Home Price Comparison Index examined the average price of a four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home in 317 U.S. cities.
Buyers in the California enclave paid $1.8 million for the same house that could be had for $173,700 in northwest Ohio.
The survey, which also included some foreign markets, tells people what their homes would be worth in various states or countries. Seven California cities were among the most expensive, along with St. Thomas, Bermuda, and Paris.
The survey "serves a very practical purpose," said Jim Gillespie, president and chief executive of Coldwell Banker.
Relocation advisers for companies such as General Electric Co. and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service use such measures to help set cost-of-living adjustments for employees. Coldwell's study focuses on the type of house that corporate managers, military officers, or government employees might choose: a four-bedroom with two or more baths, a two-car garage, and casual space for entertaining.
The most affordable cities: Minot, N.D., $132,333, and Killeen, Texas, $140,310.
Toledo was well below the national average of $423,950.
In Ohio, Columbus had the most expensive mid-market home, at $251,364, and Toledo had the second lowest behind only Canton, at $148,333.
In Michigan, Ann Arbor was the most expensive, at $324,500, and Grayling was the lowest, at $144,250.


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Orange Couscous Recipe
Here's a fabulous, healthy side dish that features a delightful blend of fresh herbs and sunny citrus flavors. Says Kathleen Martin of Medford, New York, "Anytime I take this to a picnic…the bowl is always the first one emptied!" TIP: When herbs are fresh and plentiful in her garden, Kathleen Martin chops and freezes them with the oil, lime juice and soy sauce, then stores in Zip-loc bags. That way she can enjoy this tasty dish with fresh herb flavor all year long.
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1 cup water
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 package (10 ounces) couscous
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh basil or 2 teaspoons dried basil
- 2 tablespoons minced chives
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh gingerroot
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 can (11 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted
- 1. In a large saucepan, bring orange juice, water and cumin to a boil. Stir in couscous; remove from the heat. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes or until liquid is absorbed; fluff with a fork.
- 2. Transfer to a large bowl; cool.
- 3. In a small bowl, whisk the oil, lime juice and soy sauce. Stir in the cilantro, basil, chives, ginger and salt. Pour over couscous and toss to coat. Add oranges and almonds; toss gently. Refrigerate until serving. Yield: 8 servings.
Nutritional Facts
3/4 cup: 206 calories, 6g fat (1g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 231mg sodium, 34g carbohydrate (8g sugars, 2g fiber), 6g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 starch, 1 fat, 1/2 fruit.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Zynga To Patent Virtual Currencies?!
Zynga, the creator of social networking games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has filed a patent on purchased in-game currency.
Online games have long offered virtual currencies, usually earned by performing actions within a game. The currency can then be traded for in-game objects which help players progress within the game. But they have not traditionally been something one can purchase legally. As a result, booming bootleg economies have sprung up around these games, leading to illicit operations in China and other countries known as "gold farms," which pay third-world workers to play games hours on end and then trade in-game objects for real money.
Zynga's twist on this business model has been to embrace and profit from gold-farming behavior. Rather than force players to go on the black market to buy in-game objects, Zynga freely sells its game currencies, like FarmVille Cash and FrontierVille Horseshoes.
For some of its games, like Zynga Poker, the use of virtual currency might fall under state gambling guidelines. Online gambling is highly regulated in some states, illegal in others. But Zynga's patent application stresses that one of its virtual-currency innovations is that the currency exchange is one-way: Players can send cash into the system, but they can't take cash out, arguably avoiding the risk of regulation as gambling.
The patent filing, on which Zynga CEO Mark Pincus's name is listed as one of the inventors, is arguably defensive, potentially orestalling intellectual-property claims against Zynga. But it could also give Zynga leverage in its negotiations with Facebook, the social network which connects most of Zynga's players with each other.
Facebook has sought to push Facebook Credits as the medium of exchange for virtual currencies in games played on Facebook. It reportedly takes a 30 percent cut of Facebook Credits transactions, an additional cost which Zynga and other app makers have bristled at paying. Facebook and Zynga have signed a five-year agreement committing Zynga to the use of Facebook Credits. But the patent, if granted, could give Zynga leverage in ongoing negotiations on other commercial issues between the companies. (Zynga is believed to be one of the largest advertisers on Facebook.)
A patent on how virtual currencies operate would also secure Zynga's position as the dominant player in social games. Zynga is already the largest developer of games on social networks like Facebook. But there is a good bit of competition from other social networking game companies like Playdom and Playfish. Disney recently acquired Playdom for about $760 million, while gaming giant Electronic Arts picked up Playfish for around $400 million.
San Francisco-based Zynga is one of the fastest-growing gaming companies in history, with more than 1,200 employees now across studios in 12 cities. The company recently took a seven-year lease on a new headquarters in San Francisco's South of Market district. That office can accommodate as many as 2,000 people. It's been on a bit of an expansion kick as well, opening up offices in Dallas and Seattle.
You can find the original post here: http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/25/zynga-virtual-currency-patent/
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Not that we haven't seen this sort of one-way monetary transactions before in MMO's and other online app games. Still, this sort of news is disconcerting when you think about how many people are currently using and are going to be using these sorts of silly services. Great Article! Down with Big Brother!
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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
It should be daunting to open SEC play with a pair of freshmen on the mound, but John Cohen doesn't view it that way.
When his Mississippi State team takes on Florida in Gainesville this weekend, Cohen will send freshman Kendall Graveman to the mound for today's 6:30 p.m. tilt, then Tupelo freshman Chris Stratton on Saturday.
Sophomore Nick Routt gets the call Sunday.
No. 6 Florida (13-3) will counter with a sophomore and a freshman those first two days (Sunday's starter is undecided).
"I don't know if there's a team in the Southeastern Conference who's going freshman, freshman, sophomore on the weekends," said Cohen, who's in his second year as head coach. "When we took over this program, we knew this is where we were heading. Everybody else you're competing against, they're going to go junior, senior, maybe a younger guy, but that's just where we are.
"It's kind of fun to be here, because you know it's going to pay off in the future."
If MSU (11-6) hopes to avoid a third consecutive last-place finish in the SEC, the future needs to be now. Graveman (1-0, 3.78) and Stratton (2-2, 2.95) aren't the only freshmen arms Cohen is counting on. In fact, freshmen have accounted for 52.9 percent of innings thrown for MSU this season.
Guys like Luke Bole, Ben Bracewell, Chad Girodo and C.C. Watson have also contributed and are expected to continue doing so in a relief role. Bole and Girodo have also drawn starts this season, and the rotation will be fluid.
The Bulldogs are stocked with freshmen elsewhere, too. Sam Frost starts at second base, and Jonathan Ogden holds down shortstop. Junior college transfer Nick Vickerson is at third.
That makes the presence of senior first baseman Connor Powers all the more valuable. He turned down good money from the Los Angeles Dodgers to return to Starkville, and he's torn it up, hitting a team-best .409 with eight home runs and 32 RBIs.
"He's obviously taken some big swings for us this spring thus far," Cohen said. "He's been a great leader as far as the other guys, and quite frankly we need that, because we don't have a lot of older guys in the program."
Powers likes what he sees in the new infielders and feels confident in their defensive abilities. And he has gladly taken on the role of mentor.
"I try to take a lot of responsibility, because I remember when I was a freshman, and I didn't really know what was going on," Powers said. "Especially when games start, you really need to help them out with the detail stuff."
State has already faced some tough competition, like Oklahoma and UCLA. And while opening at Florida is an unenviable task, Cohen doesn't worry about that too much.
"Would you rather open up at South Carolina, or at LSU, or at Arkansas, or at Alabama? I mean, it really doesn't matter, everywhere in the league is the same. Everybody's good."
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This weekend's rotation
– Tonight: Mississippi State RHP Kendall Graveman (1-0, 3.78) vs. Florida LHP Alex Panteliodis (4-0, 1.10)
n Saturday: Mississippi State RHP Chris Stratton (2-2, 2.95) vs. Florida LHP Brian Johnson (1-1, 5.52)
n Sunday: Mississippi State LHP Nick Routt (1-1, 7.27) vs. Florida TBA


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IIRC, Dan has mentioned that the olive calfskin 2010 DR was the nicest jacket ever made by TOJ; bear in mind that he's seen/overseen the production of thousands of jackets... you should definitely get the olive calfskin if it's still available. I have the graphite Italian calfskin and I really like it - it seems to be more pliable than the regular calf, but that doesn't mean it's any less substantial (the jacket is heavier than my FQHH bomber) - and also, the texture is beautiful
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The unique aspect of this seminar is emphasis on the risk management process itself in establishing a systematic approach to bank-wide risk management. Strategies include monitoring, controlling and reporting risk through appropriate levels of management to the board of directors. In order to have maximum impact on bank policies, it is suggested that attendance be limited to chief executive officers, directors, chief operating officers, chief financial officers and other bank-wide executive level officers of bank and thrift institutions. Outside directors are encouraged to attend.
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April 19, 2013
Rose-Hulman is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its distinguished Undergraduate Mathematics Conference with educators and students from throughout the world examining the innovative fields of computational mathematics and computational biology on campus Friday and Saturday, April 19-20.
More than 125 people from 28 colleges and universities will participate in three invited presentations, 35 student talks, and two panel discussions. The conference is being sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, Metron Scientific Solutions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratories, the Sandia National Laboratory, and Maplesoft.
"The popularity of this year's conference proves that undergraduate research is thriving," says conference co-chair Allen Holder, associate professor of mathematics. He is a senior investigator for computational math projects for a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program on campus, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Three invited speakers will feature issues in the expanding fields of computational mathematics and computational biology.
Thomas Mifflin, PhD, Metron's chief executive officer, will discuss how computational mathematics, through probabilistic search models, helped identify the wreckage of Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. He formerly was an investigator for the U.S. government's Federal Aviation Administration's operations research service.
Tony Nance, PhD, associate director of the NSF's Mathematical Biosciences Institute will highlight some of the exciting progress being made in the use of computational math to solve problems in biology and medicine. He serves as director of The Ohio State University's Mathematics & Statistics Learning Center.
"The Dynamics of Sleep" will be a presentation by Janet Best, PhD, of The Ohio State University. She will showcase how mathematical models, through deterministic and random approaches, can help understand sleep-wake rhythms from newborns to adults. This research also has yielded insight into some sleep disorders.
For the first time, three student presentation proposals have been selected as finalists for the conference's best presentation award. They will be featured on Saturday morning, and competing for a $100 award. Ted Samore of Rose-Hulman will present "Advanced Finite Difference Methods in a Chromatography Inverse Problem"; Lirong Yuan of Purdue University will discuss "The Probability that a Polynomial with Integer Coefficients has all Real Roots"; and Luvsandondov Lkhamsuren of the University of Illinois will talk about "Random Points, Broken Sticks, and Triangles."
Rose-Hulman students making undergraduate talks during the two-day conference will be Jon Drobny, James Folberth, James Foulkes, Devon Hardman, Christopher Lippelt, Chase Mathison, Vismay Modi, Jack Pringle, Katie Ross, Jacqueline Simon, and Jonathan Taylor.
Other presentations will be made by students from the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (Saudi Arabia), University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, Knox College (Ill.), Southwest Baptist University (Mo.), McKendree University (Ill.), Illinois College, University of Evansville, Valparaiso University, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, and Taylor University.
Student presentations may be expanded into research papers for publication in Rose-Hulman's Undergraduate Mathematics Journal, devoted to scholarly work by undergraduates on topics related to mathematics.
The conference will also feature a panel discussion on industrial careers in mathematics, featuring professional mathematicians John Peach of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, Tim Vrablik of Maplesoft, Mark Inlow (PhD) of Rose-Hulman, and Mifflin. A graduate-school preparation panel will feature two graduate students, both Rose-Hulman alumni, and two graduating seniors that have been accepted to numerous graduate programs.
This year's conference has been organized by Holder and mathematics faculty colleague Vin Isaia, with assistance from department secretary Michelle Prather.


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I was wondering if we should start a thread for some of the most important tips or best advice you've ever got. Just to help out future girls that will be joining the group?
I was wondering if we should start a thread for some of the most important tips or best advice you've ever got. Just to help out future girls that will be joining the group?
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I think that is great! Let's make it a sticky, too!
The book that MurphNoMore recommended is fantastic - I have learned so much more about pre-pregnancy nutrition, I highly recommended it!
"Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy" by Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
Oh no! I didn't think about it - I've had a few of these when I've had ovarian cysts rupture - but yes, my first one was like, "wait, what? You're putting that where?" LOL
This is more of a trick then tip / advice
Have your guy finish before you and then you finish about a minute later, it can be hard to time right but it will sling-shot the swimmers up...I swear this is the reason I got pregnant!
@Murph those were the only u/s I had when I was pregnant. haha The first time I went in I was like, man that u/s machine doesnt look right and the lady was like, "ok strip down at the waist" umm excuse me? haha
I have done it all. Most of the tips and tricks below are more for those who have been TCC-ing for awhile but I guess some things can be applied to those just starting out. But like MNM strongly suggests, talk to your doctor first. And even if you do get the green light to try such things, note that none of these are guaranteed. After all, it takes more than just science to summon a soul into this world. With that said, here's what I've tried:
- Have your DH start on multivitamins and exercise as well. You want strong swimmers.
- Have sex every other day if possible. You don't want old swimmers, and old is four days or older. Old swimmers die off sooner.
- Avoid caffeine if possible.
- After sex, I propped a pillow under my butt. Think of Phoebe from Friends after her embryo retrieval. Some swear by the force of gravity. Can't hurt to try.
- Low dose aspirin to improve uterine lining.
- Yoga or pilates for stress relief and to improve blood flow circulation around the uterus and ovaries. My clinic even offers yoga for fertility classes and there are dvds out there as well. Not sure if its necessary but def try regular yoga.
- Acupuncture. Mariah Carey swears by it. I find it relaxing though I can't physically determine any changes in my body or overall health. If you do try this, try to see one that specializes in fertility.
- Low dose of Vitamin B6. If you chart, pay attention to the number of days post ovulation to the day you get your period. That is your luteal phase. You want this to be long enough for the embryo to implant. Normal is 10-14 days. But since mine was 9 days, my RE suggested B6. Others try progesterone cream but my RE doesn't think it would be as effective as B6 or prescription progesterone.
- Finally, some suggests waiting a year before seeing an RE. I say six months but I guess it also depends on your time horizon and age. DH and I did everything according to the book, charted, etc. for six months only to find out I had a blocked tube after seeing an RE. That was over a year ago. I'm I didn't waste another six months of trying.
Hope this helps.
Great advice on here, ladies! Since I am brand stinkin' new to this, I've got nothin', but have enjoyed reading your advice! :)
I'm totally for PreSeed! That stuff is worth it's weight in gold. It helped DH and I after 2 cycles!


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Graphing Quadratic Functions in Intercept Form f(x)= a(x-p)(x-q)
Lesson 4 of 10
Objective: SWBAT graph Quadratic Functions in Intercept Form by identifying the x-intercepts and the Vertex.
Big Idea: To explain the relationship between solutions and factors, and to write possible equations in Intercept Form from a graph.
Warm Up
In this lesson I begin with a Warm Up on slide two of this Power Point. I expect the Warm Up to take about 10 minutes for the students to complete and for me to review with the class. I provide students with a Quadratic Function in Intercept Form. I hand each student a copy of the Power Point because I feel it is necessary for them to be able to take notes on it throughout this lesson.
Students have previously factored Quadratic Functions in the Polynomial Unit. So in the Warm Up, I assess their prior knowledge of the relationship between zeros and factors. Most of the students could answer the questions about the factors and zeros, but some of the students confuse the meaning of factors and zeros. A common mistake made on the Warm Up was identifying the x-intercepts as positive two and four instead of negative two and four.
When reviewing the Warm Up with the students I continue randomly calling on students to work on slide three of the Power Point. As a class we review the relationship between factors and zeros using the Zero Product Property. We also review all of the different vocabulary words that can be used to name the x-intercepts, like solutions, and roots.
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After reviewing slide two and three of the Warm Up, I build from the relationship of factors and zeros to teach students how to graph a Quadratic Function in Intercept Form. I start with slide four of the Power Point. I teach students to find and plot the zeros of the Quadratic Function first if it is in Intercept Form (Factored Form), and then use their knowledge of symmetry to find the Vertex. After plotting the zeros of the function on the graph, students have to find an x-coordinate in the middle of the x-intercepts. This is the x-coordinate of the Vertex. Then students are to substitute the x-coordinate into the given function to get the y-coordinate of the Vertex. These are the only three points needed to graph the function. I demonstrate reviewing slide four in the video below.
After reviewing slide four with the students to introduce Graphing a Quadratic Function in Intercept Form, I have students complete slide five, slide six, and slide seven. Students are allowed to converse with their table partner if needed. I also walk around the room to monitor their progress and assist with any difficulties or questions.
I review another example if necessary depending on if I observe several difficulties on the problems. I expect the graphing to take about 15 to 20 minutes for slides four through seven. I spend the last part of the lesson focusing on the possibilities for a in the Quadratic Equation if the zeros are given.
I work from slide eight which asks students to write a Quadratic Equation in Intercept Form given that the zeros are two and negative four. Most of the students wrote y equals the factors of (x-2) times (x+ 4). Some students did not have the signs correct in the factors. However, all of the students did not focus on the value of a.
My next step was to question students about the value of a to make them think. Students recognized when questioned that the value of a in their equation was an understood one. I continued to question students about the other possibilities for a with the given information. Then students started to realize that a could be any positive real number for the parabola to open upward and to cross the x-axis at two and negative four.
Then to prep students for the Exit Slip, I asked a third question, "What given information would create only one value for a in Intercept Form. Students agreed after a little discussion that we would need another point on the Parabola besides the x-intercepts. This led me to the Exit Slip where students needed to solve for a to write the equation for the given Quadratic Function.
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With about 15 minutes remaining in the period, I have students begin working on the Exit Slip. The Exit Slip is slide nine which is the final slide of the Power Point. I usually have students hand in the Exit Slip for me to review, but I want to review this Exit Slip with the students before they leave class. After about seven or eight minutes, I take volunteers to share their responses under the document camera.
Some of the students were able to write the factors from the zeros, but none of the students were able to completely solve for a and to rewrite the equation. I expected students to struggle with solving for a to write the equation. So I posted the factors that most students knew, and then taught the problem from that point. I demonstrate reviewing the Exit Slip in the video below.
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grey words Story never ends at city's first 24-hour bookstore, with the unique experience proving a hit with night owls, after-hours crowds and occasional sleepyheads
Nestled comfortably in an armchair, Nick Liao Liqin was curled up with Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. While this may not be a novel sight, Liao was not wiling away an afternoon at home - he was at a bookstore, and it was 5am.
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Taking up 41,000 sq ft at the new Hysan Place shopping mall in Causeway Bay, Eslite is the Taiwanese firm's first foray overseas.
With the city often derided as a "cultural desert", there have been concerns that there are not enough avid readers to sustain a round-the-clock bookstore, which has proved a runaway success across the strait.
Liao, a 26-year-old financier based in Shanghai who visits Hong Kong regularly, arrived at midnight and stayed for five hours.
"I read The Jungle Book in Chinese when I was young, and now I want to read it in English," he said. "I hope to finish reading the whole book here."
By 5am, drowsiness caught up with him and he never got to read the book cover to cover. It went back on the shelf.
"It's nice to have other people accompany you in reading," said Liao, who is a fan of the Eslite store in Taipei. "If I am out late in Taipei, I like to end the night tranquilly by visiting the bookstore."
Others were more excited by the store's stylish design. At 3am, the shop proved the perfect setting for an impromptu pictorial by 10 staff from a fashion store across the street.
One of them, Winnie Chan Wing-tung, admitted they wandered in looking for food: "All of us like to grab a meal after work and we thought they might have a restaurant here." She quickly added: "But we're here for the books too, of course."
While 24-hour eateries like McDonalds in Hong Kong are often teeming with sleeping customers who linger overnight, the Post only spotted three customers in Eslite happily snoozing away mid-read.
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Carlos Ngan Ka-ho and Ivy Chong Tsz-yan, both 26, decided to visit the store at midnight after dinner. Ngan, a landscape architect, was thrilled to see a range of books related to his profession - which are rarely available in other stores.
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Getting Past Stars and Swipes Forever By Sam Pizzigati - Back in 1776, public-spirited patriots emerged from the ranks of colonial America's privileged. But our corporate elite today seems to offer up only thieving, tax-dodging parasites. Why such a contrast?
Almost ten generations have come and gone since 1776. Yet the giants of 1776 still fascinate us. Books about Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington still regularly dot our best-seller lists.
What so attracts us to these "founding fathers," these men of means who put their security, their considerable comfort, at risk for a greater good? Maybe the contrast with what we see all around us.
Today's men of means display precious little selfless behavior. Our CEOs, bankers, and private equity kingpins remain totally fixated on their own corporate and personal bottom lines. They don't lead the nation.
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So who can blame the rest of us for daydreaming about a time when a significant chunk of our elite showed a real sense of responsibility to something grander than the size of their individual fortunes?
Actually, suggests a new book from University of Michigan sociologist Mark Mizruchi, we don't have to go back to 1776 to find Americans of ample means who cared about "the needs of the larger society." We had this sort of elite, he argues in The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite, a half-century ago.
Today's men of means display precious little selfless behavior.
Many of America's major corporate leaders, Mizruchi writes, spent the years right after World War II engaged in public-spirited debate over how best to put the Great Depression behind us and build a prosperity that worked for everyone.
These corporate leaders didn't try to gut the social safety net the New Deal of the 1930s had created. They supported efforts to stretch this safety net even wider. In the postwar years, major corporate executives helped expand Social Security and increase federal aid to education six-fold. They even accepted high federal income tax rates on high incomes — their incomes.
Mizruchi takes care not to go overboard here. Corporate leaders of the mid-20th century years regularly did do battle, at various times and on various issues, with unions and other groups that spoke directly for average Americans.
But these corporate leaders also did display, notes Mizruchi, "an ethic of responsibility." They compromised. They tried to offer solutions. They behaved, on the whole, far more admirably than the union-busters, tax-dodgers, and bailout artists who top Americans biggest banks and corporations today.
A weaker labor presence has allowed wealth and power to concentrate ferociously at America's economic summit.
What explains why our corporate elite behaved so much better a half-century ago? Mizruchi explores a variety of factors. In the 1950s and 1960s, for one, our corporate elite had to share the political center stage with a strong and vital labor movement. Today's corporate leaders face a much weaker labor presence.
This weaker labor presence has allowed wealth and power to concentrate ferociously at America's economic summit. We have become, over recent decades, a fundamentally much more unequal nation.
This inequality, in turn, may be the key to understanding why corporate leaders a half century ago much more resembled the elite of 1776 than our own contemporary corporate movers and shakers. In both 1776 and a half-century ago, our most financially fortunate found themselves in relatively equal societies.
On the eve of the American revolution, researchers have recently
documented, England's 13 American colonies had a much more equal distribution of income and wealth than the nations of Europe.
In the years right after World War II, the United States enjoyed a similar epoch of relative equality. Corporate CEOs in the 1950s only made
20 to 30 times what their workers
made, not the 200 and 300 times more, on average, that top corporate execs routinely take in today.
On the eve of the American revolution, England's 13 American colonies had a much more equal distribution of income and wealth than the nations of Europe.
In both 1776 and 1976 America, the top 1 percent overall took less than 10 percent of the nation's income. The top 1 percent share today, as
economist Emmanuel Saez
details, is running at over double that level, at 20 percent.
Did this relative equality of revolutionary America and America right after World War II help shape how elites interacted with their societies?
That certainly seems plausible. More equal societies, after all, have narrower gaps between those at the economic summit and everyone else. The narrower the gap in any society, the easier for all — elite and average alike — to feel invested in their society and share a sense of responsibility for its future.
If we want to rekindle that spirit of 1776, not just daydream about it, our course stands clear. We need to create a more equal America.
Labor journalist Sam Pizzigati, an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, writes widely about inequality. His latest
book --- The Rich Don't Always
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Chef Grant Achatz has a new feather in his culinary cap.
For the third year in a row, Elite Traveler awarded Chicago's Alinea the top slot in its list of the best 100 restaurant in world.
The list was compiled from a reader survey. New York's DANIEL restaurant took the second spot and UK restaurant The Fat Duck took third.
The Fat Duck's Heston Blumenthal was awarded Chef of the Year.
London and Paris tied for the most entries on the list, with eight restaurants apiece, and New York and Tokyo each had six.
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After following the news in the wake of last week's terror attack at the Boston Marathon, it is obvious and understandable that emotions in our nation run the gamut.
We are saddened by the physical and emotional pain that our friends and fellow Americans face as a result of those killed and injured. Our prayers for healing and comfort go out to the victims and their families during this time.
We are angry that someone had the audacity to commit this heinous crime on a day (Patriot's Day) that was about everything that is right with our nation (courage, honor, freedom) on our own soil—our home.
We are confused as to why and how this could have happened. Who committed this act? Why did they do it? As our fine law enforcement officials investigate, we believe that answers will be forthcoming.
We are afraid. Many people in our nation are now living in fear on a variety of levels:
- People are in fear that it could happen again.
- Witnesses may face fear of the memories of that horrific day.
- Victims are fearful of moving forward into a future of uncertainty.
Terror, by its very definition, is about eliciting a fear response. Terror means "extreme fear." Terrorism is not simply about killing and wounding innocent men, women and children; it is about inciting fear in those who remain and causing people to live in fear.
The problem we face is that fear (terror) is a vicious cycle. Fear is a magnet to demons. The more we discuss and voice our fear with our lips, the more demons are attracted to the atmosphere of fear. Fear is more than emotion … fear is a spirit. Second Timothy 1:7 tells us that "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
In the Bible, Job was considered a righteous man. However, Job had a fatal flaw. In Job 3:25, Job confesses, "For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me."
Job feared the loss of his children and his treasures, and Satan was drawn to that fear. And while we may think fear is an unavoidable part of life, living in fear is an existence we do not have to settle for. First John 4:18 tells us "perfect love casts out fear," and according to Proverbs 29:25, we have this promise: "The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe."
Abraham Lincoln is arguably the greatest president our country has ever seen. However, history bears out that he lost every single election in which he ran until he ran for president. What if he had allowed fear from past experiences to convince him to quit? How different would our country look today?
Former South African President Nelson Mandela once said, "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." For the believer in Jesus Christ, the opposite of fear is more than courage … it is faith and hope.
For those of you who watch my television program Abba's House With Ron Phillips, you are familiar with my co-host, Angie McGregor. What many of you may not realize is that Angie is a gifted songwriter and singer.
Several years ago, in the immediate shadow of 9/11, Angie released a song that resonates today. Having faced down some fear in her own life, she penned the song, simply titled "I Will Not Fear." After the events of 9/11, this song took on a whole new meaning for all of us who heard it.
For more than 30 years, Ron Phillips has been the pastor of Abba's House (formerly Central Baptist Church) in Hixson, Tenn. As a lifelong Southern Baptist, a dramatic encounter with the Holy Spirit in 1989 changed his life and ministry to one that grasps who we really are in Christ and the gifts and fullness that are available to us through a Spirit-filled life. His television program, Abba's House With Ron Phillips, blends solid biblical exposition with a simplicity anyone can understand. In addition, for 14 years, Phillips hosted the daily 15-minute radio program CenterPoint across the nation via radio and throughout the world via the Internet. He has now authored more than 20 books, including Awakened by the Spirit, Our Invisible Allies, Everyone's Guide to Demons and Spiritual Warfare, The Foundations on the Holy Spirit series and his latest release from Charisma House, A God-Sized Future.
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