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Quins' Mike Brown takes some stopping during his side's victory over Connacht at The Stoop © PA Photos
The race for a place in this season's Heineken Cup is hotting up following the penultimate round of pool games.
Harlequins, Toulon, Clermont Auvergne and Ulster have all booked their place in the last eight but the four other teams and the all-important seeding are yet to be confirmed with next weekend's final round of matches set to provide all the answers.
Quins sealed their passage with a 40-8 mauling of Connacht and they were joined by Toulon following their 45-25 demolition of Cardiff Blues. Clermont Auvergne joined them having extended their unbeaten run at the Stade Marcel Michelin to 54 matches with a 46-3 drubbing of Exeter. Ulster were the first side to progress thanks to their 23-6 victory over Glasgow on Friday night.
Elsewhere, Toulouse took control of Pool 2 with a 35-14 victory over Treviso. But Leicester remain hot on their heels following their 15-all draw with Ospreys that sets up a winner-takes-all clash against their French rivals next weekend.
Saracens' hopes are also alive and well following their 37-28 win against Racing Metro that leaves them in charge of Pool 1 with Edinburgh set to visit Vicarage Road in the final round of pool action.
Montpellier and Leicester are in line to claim the two places on offer for the best runners-up, with the French side having accounted for Sale on Friday night. But their results against Toulon and Toulouse next time out will decide whether they cement their places in the knock out stages.
Munster's latest victory against Edinburgh on Sunday initially saw them push defending champions Leinster out of the current play-off picture despite their bonus point win against the Scarlets. But Munster had also slipped out of the current play-off picture by the end of the day with both Irish sides now needing big wins against Racing Metro and Exeter respectively if they are to force their way back into the reckoning.
Heineken Cup quarter-finals qualifiers and seeding: (as it stands)
1. Harlequins (Q) (P5, 24pts)
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Lakers vs. Houston, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m. (TNT); Staples Center
A restless Lakers fan base will spend its energy on opening night booing Dwight Howard, the Lakers' top villain since he left for Houston last summer.
Lakers at Chicago, Dec. 25, 2014, 5 p.m; (TNT); United Center, Chicago
A season after cementing their worst record in L.A. franchise history, the Lakers will not spend Christmas at home. They will instead travel to Chicago and face Pau Gasol for the first time since he left the Lakers this offseason.
Lakers vs. Clippers, Oct 31 on ESPN, April 5 on NBA TV (designated home games); Jan. 7 on Time Warner Cable SportsNet/Prime Ticket, April 7 on TNT (designated road games) all at 7:30 p.m. except for April 7 (6:30 p.m.) at Staples Center
It takes a long time to erase the equity the Lakers built through 16 NBA championships. But in the short term, the Clippers appear equipped to have bragging rights over their crosstown rivals.
Lakers vs. Boston, Dec. 5, 4:30 p.m., T.D. Garden, Boston; Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m. Staples Center (NBATV)
The outcome will not offer any glimpses of an NBA Finals preview as it once did in so many past seasons. But a Lakers season-series win against the hated Celtics would serve as a consolaton prize.
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We specialize in customized trip to New Zealand especially self drive and seat in coach. Being the travel arm of Qantas Holidays, we are able to provide competitive rates for hotels, tours, car rental and even motor homes.
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As the leisure arm of Qantas Airways, we offer a variety of holiday packages that span the Qantas Airways' network, under the brand of Qantas Holidays. Under the Jetabout Holidays branding, we work with many leading Asian carriers to provide a powerful synergy that can greatly benefit our clients.
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Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
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Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
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Couture Group necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 174 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
I'm starting a new e-commerce business called Fabricdirect.co.za It will be an online store in the .co.za (South Africa) domain. The main purpose of the site will be to sell awesome textiles to anyone not currently in the Decor trade, at trade discount prices!
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MV Tricolor, a 55,000-ton Norwegian-flagged vehicle freighter, sank in the English Channel in 2002 carrying 2,871 Volvos, Saabs, and BMWs worth $100 million. How do you salvage a boat that big? Start with a really big band saw.
In the wee hours of December 14, 2002 the MV Tricolor collided with another boat, the Kariba, and while the Kariba was able to travel on to port, the MV Tricolor sank on the edge of a busy shipping lane — just below the surface in 98 feet of water. Over the next two weeks the wreckage was struck by no fewer than three ships despite buoys and police guarding the site. With the wreckage sitting in such a busy lane it had to be removed.
Starting in 2003, Smit International of the Netherlands began a thoroughly amazing salvage operation. Small wrecks can normally be hoisted from the bottom of the sea using a variety of methods, but because the MV Tricolor was so heavy it needed to be sliced up while on the bottom of the channel so its pieces could be lifted. How do you cut up something that's in 98 feet of water? The process uses a pair of self-jacking stationary rigs and a very sturdy cutting wire.
Using side-scanning sonar and GPS positioning data, the team created a three dimensional map of the crashed freighter and planned eight cuts for a total of nine sections each weighing between four thousand and six thousand tons, each easily lifted by sea cranes. Using the data, the two stationary rigs were placed on either side of the wreckage and and lifted above sea level. The cable which is coated in a material called WIDIA and comparable in hardness to diamonds, was routed from one rig right under the wreck and over to the other rig. Using power winches and gradually tightening the line, the cable acted like a giant saw, moving back and forth and slowly sliced through the ship, bottom to top. Everything inside got the same treatment, from the engine room to the doomed cars in the cargo hold.
The huge pieces were lifted from the bottom and placed on a float barge for transport to Zeebrugge harbor for metal salvage. When the large pieces were gone, teams with grab cranes moved in, cleaning up the remaining bits and whatever cars had fallen out during the process.
In all, the full recovery was completed in approximately a year. All the vehicles were scrapped and the loss totaled somewhere in the neighborhood of $100M USD at the time of the accident. At least as a consolation we get amazing pictures of a ship and its load of cars sliced open.
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The Hidden Deal Maker Behind the Dell Buyout
The buyout of Dell Inc. is a breakout moment for Egon Durban.
Mr. Durban, a 39-year-old managing partner at private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners, led the $24.4 billion deal reached Tuesday to take the computer maker private.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — An early tech rally fizzled on Friday as the sector was weighed down by losses in shares of Zynga Inc. and Facebook Inc.
Zynga ZNGA, -2.54% shares plunged following the latest warning from the social-game maker — which sparked selling, albeit on a lesser scale, in Facebook Inc. FB, -3.91% as well.
• What else might he have done?
Media columnist Jon Friedman contemplates what other industries Jobs might have changed.
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Slide show from December 2010 when Jobs was named MarketWatch's CEO of the Decade.
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The tech sector had joined a broad market rally sparked by U.S. upbeat employment numbers for September.
But the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.72% edged fractionally lower to close at 3,136, though the benchmark ended the week with a 0.6% gain.
Strong trades in the chip category had helped the sector. But the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, -0.77% ended the session down 0.1%, though shares of Intel Corp. INTC, -0.23% , Texas Instruments TXN, -1.80% , Broadcom Corp US:BRCM and Micron Technology MU, -1.24% posted slight gains.
JMP Securities analyst Doug Freedman said the chip gains were likely due to the jobs report and an upbeat forecast from Samsung Electronics, telling MarketWatch, "Semis are very macrosensitive."
But many of Friday's headlines focused on Zynga ZNGA, -2.54%, shares of which plunged 12% to close at $2.48, tripping the Nasdaq's circuit breaker meant to shield stocks from manipulation by short sellers. The shares have shed 74% since the beginning of the year. See: Zynga's game business now valued at zero by investors
Late Thursday, the social-game maker lowered its full-year forecast, citing weakness in some of its key game titles. It also wrote off about half of its $180 million acquisition of mobile game firm OMGPOP from earlier this year. See: Zynga crashes after cutting outlook
Robert W. Baird downgraded Zynga to neutral, citing concerns over the "magnitude" of the forecast cut. Zynga stock was trading below book value on Friday morning, according to FactSet.
Facebook, where most of Zynga's games are played, also saw its shares sink about 5% to close at $20.91. J.P. Morgan cut its revenue target for Facebook's Payments unit based on the social gaming firm's outlook change. Facebook derived about 10% of its revenue from Zynga in the second quarter.
The decline wiped out Facebook's gains for the week. The stock, which ended the week with a 3.5% loss, has fallen more than 30% in the last three months.
Also in the red were shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ, +0.71%, down 1.4% to close at $14.73 after Sterne Agee cut its rating to neutral, citing uncertainty at the tech giant. The stock skipped Friday's rally, emerging as the worst performer on the Dow industrials. See commentary: H-P should be split into several companies
In a note, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu said, "We are at a loss in identifying positive catalysts within a reasonable investment horizon and fear for further downside surprises as we believe the headwinds the company faces are likely structural and secular in nature."
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Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Bruce Springsteen, Al Pacino, Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, and Jodie Foster are among the many figures in the film industry who have sent their family members to study at the New York Film Academy. We are honored to be the film and acting school of choice of these other luminaries including Kevin Kline, Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Bono(U2), directors Stephen Frears, Peter Bogdonavich, Roger Donaldson and James L. Brooks.
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Parsnips are a quintessential cold weather vegetable. They look like carrots but are white and somewhat sweeter, characteristically starchy with a hint of citrus.
Like many of the tastiest foodstuffs, parsnips were once a staple among the poor in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. When the potato came from the New World and disseminated throughout the continent, parsnips fell out of favor. For centuries, they were used almost exclusively as animal feed.
Parsnips are complex in flavor, remarkably versatile and easy to cook. Their earthiness works well in broths and soups but also comes through when they are roasted or braised.
I like to slice parsnips thinly and cook them with rendered pancetta for a simultaneously crisp and toothsome pasta sauce. Don't crisp the slivers like potato chips, just cook all the way through and toss with spaghetti and a few ladles of pasta water.
I even serve parsnips instead of mashed potatoes as a Thanksgiving side, adding Yukon Gold potatoes and yams. The combination of sweet potato and parsnip might seem like it would be too sweet, but it creates the perfect balance.
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The RSBS Realistic MLB All-Star Game Checklist
In my house, the MLB All-Star Game is almost Christmas. It's a time for being with friends and family, for stuffing your face with unhealthy food and coming up with a believable excuse for missing work in the morning while you nurse that helluh-bad hangover.
But to do it, ya gotta do it right. So here is a list of things the RSBS interns and I deem necessary for an enjoyable ASG experience:
Or wine, or gin, or vodka, or peach Faygo (if you're Mr. Krause)… or whatever it is you shove down your gullet to help you forget Joe Buck is annoying, go for it.
Mute Button
Like I said, Joe Buck — the king of pretension — will have your ears bleeding by the 7th inning stretch if you don't have a quick finger on the proper controls.
Until the World Series rolls around, the All-Star Game seems to be the one game the rest of the world actually pays some attention to (I know this 'cuz my mom always texts me during the ASG, commenting on things happening during the game, as if I'll be impressed). The problem is, the folks at FOX cater to that crowd and seem to feature a ton of feel-good filler before and during the game. Look, that's cool and all, but I only care about the game, not about hometown heroes or how so-and-so grew up poor and blind and is now an All-Star who can see… sorry. I know that makes me sound like an a-hole, but the truth is: fluff has a time and a place, neither of which are during a game that supposedly COUNTS, which brings me to the next must-have…
A Sense of Humor
Now it counts! This time it counts! The All-Star Game counts! Yeah, okay, whatevs.
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A Keen, Observing Eye
This part is tough, especially after about 10 peach Faygos… but the MLB All-Star Game is the one All-Star Game that is played true. It's not a show of offense. Guys don't ease up or fall back. They play just like they usually play: hard and to win. When I attended the 2009 ASG in St. Louis, I marveled at each player's individual effort. Seeing a star-studded field of players who were obviously giving their best to win was a real treat and it's something that only happens once a year, so PAY ATTENTION DAMMIT!
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Scotch Plains
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- Population: 23510
- Size: 9 sq miles (23.31 km2)
- Established: 1917
- Distance from NYC: 24
- Distance from Philadelphia: 84
- Distance from Newark: 15
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When Business Week magazine compiled its list of the best affordable suburbs in the United States in 2009, Scotch Plains was top pick in New Jersey. The article cited the area's golf clubs, antique shops and historic town center as notable amenities, while an average commute of less than 30 minutes was also an important aspect of their findings.
This suburban township in Union County has a population of approximately 23,000 residents. Conveniently located near Route 22 for commuters headed toward Newark or New York City, the nine-square-mile township boasts lively commercial and residential districts. Surrounding towns include Westfield, Fanwood, Cranford and New Providence.
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Many notable people have lived in Scotch Plains including acclaimed author Judy Blume, former governor of New Jersey Donald DiFrancesco, singer and songwriter Pat Dinizio of The Smithereens, and Nathan Jones, NFL quarterback for the Miami Dolphins.
Scotch Plains was settled by Scotch immigrants in the late 1600s who had landed at Perth Amboy under the leadership of George Scot. The name Scot's Plains traces back to these early days. The Battle of Short Hills was fought in the township's Ash Swamp on June 26, 1777. Parts of this battle took place along Rahway Road as Washington's troops moved toward the safety of the Watchung Mountains.
In 1878, Scotch Plains was called Fanwood Township; some portions of town were taken in 1895 to form Fanwood Borough. A town referendum renamed Fanwood Township Scotch Plains in 1917. For many years, Scotch Plains consisted mainly of family farms and farmland. Construction of Route 22 in 1930 played a large role in the township's development.Back to top
Community Life
There are social and recreational events for all age groups in Scotch Plains. Youth sports are plentiful, including local baseball and soccer associations. Clubs and volunteer groups include the Historical Society of Scotch Plains and Fanwood, Scotch Plains Fanwood Newcomers' Club, Scotch Plains Junior Woman's Club, Scotch Plains-Fanwood UNICO and Scotch Plains Rotary Club.
The Scotch Plains Library at 1927 Bartle Avenue sponsors book clubs, storytelling for children, career workshops, teen events and author visits.Back to top
The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Regional School District oversees the public schools in Scotch Plains. There are five elementary schools: the Howard B. Brunner Elementary School, J. Ackerman Coles School, Evergreen School, William J. McGinn School and School One. Middle grades attend Park Middle School or Terrill Middle School. Students from Scotch Plains and Fanwood combine at the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School.
St. Bartholomew Academy is a Catholic school for Pre-Kindergarten to 8th grade students. Union Catholic Regional High School is a private school serving students from throughout the region.Back to top
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An enviable location 25 miles west of Manhattan has made Scotch Plains a popular commuter community. There are diverse home styles and price ranges within the township. Estate-caliber properties in the million-dollar-plus range, newly constructed custom Colonials are listed in the $800,000 to $900,000 range, spacious ranch and split level homes are available in the $400,000 to $500,000 range, and town house and condominiums priced from the $200,000s to upper $300,000s are currently on the market.
Similar to many other residential areas of Scotch Plains, Canterbury is a quiet neighborhood north of Route 22 and set apart from the business of the commercial part of town. In the 1940s, the unique Crestwood neighborhood was established featured mainly Cape Cod-style homes in the part of town bordering Westfield. Many of the original homes have been replaced by newer and larger dwellings. A number of newly constructed condominium and townhome communities have sprung up in the past ten or 15 years, and most are convenient to Route 22.Back to top
Scotch Plains residents can catch the Raritan Valley Line of New Jersey Transit for rail service to Manhattan from neighboring Fanwood. New Jersey Transit also provides local bus service to New York City and points around New Jersey. Newark Liberty International Airport is about 14 miles east of Scotch Plains along Route 22.
Scotch Plains offers easy access to major highways including Interstates 78 and 287, the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike.Back to top
Local Attractions
Bowcraft Amusement Park on Route 22 West has kept generations of children and teenagers happy with its classic attractions. This seasonal park has two roller coasters, arcade games, snack bars, a picnic grove and over 30 rides. The name Bowcraft originated from the period prior to the 1970s when park offered archery and arts and crafts.
1451 Raritan Road is the site of Betty and Gershom Frazee's simple 1700s homestead. Local lore says that when "Aunt" Betty told Lord Cornwallis he could have her fresh-baked bread for his English troops "Not out of love but out of fear," she became a local legend during the Battle of Short Hills. The Fanwood-Scotch Plains Rotary Club is spearheading an effort to restore the circa 1760 home.
Osborn-Cannonball House Museum is a historic home located at 1840 East. Front Street and is open for tours on the first Sunday of every month from March until December. Built in the late 1700s, it was originally owned by prominent residents John and Abigail Osborn. Each room of the home offers a glimpse of Early American or Victorian life as told by costumed docents.Back to top
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Proponents of abstinence-only sexual education curricula for public schools took to the airwaves to respond to charges contained in a report issued by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) that found that "over 80%" of the curricula of federally funded abstinence-only education programs "contain false, misleading or distorted information about reproductive health." But in attempting to counter these charges, these advocates proffered more misinformation.
In particular, the Waxman report found that a curriculum prepared by pro-abstinence group Project Reality says that "the popular claim that 'condoms help prevent the spread of STDs [sexually transmitted diseases]' is not supported by the data." In defending the curricula on MSNBC's Scarborough Country, Project Reality director Libby Gray falsely claimed that "condoms do not provide protection against the most commonly sexually transmitted disease, which is HPV, or human papilloma virus."
In fact, the American Social Health Association's (ASHA) National HPV & Cervical Cancer Resource Center, in a report on "HPV Myths and Misconceptions," noted: "Studies have shown condom use can lower the risk of acquiring HPV infection." Because HPV is transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, condoms cannot prevent the disease entirely, but they do provide some degree of protection.
That didn't stop Gray and other conservative abstinence-only advocates from repeating the false claim throughout the day:
- LIBBY GRAY: "[O]ne thing I really want to make sure is clear is that comprehensive sex education programs do a lot of misleading of kids. They are actually ignoring the fact that condoms do not provide protection against the most commonly sexually transmitted disease, which is HPV, or human papilloma virus, which is the cause of all or nearly all of cervical cancer." [MSNBC, Scarborough Country, 12/2/04]
- GENEVIEVE WOOD (vice president for communications for the conservative Family Research Council): "Maybe you don't care about this because you are a man, but the HPV virus, which is the leading cause of cervical cancer in this country -- you are not protected from that by a condom. That hurts a lot of women in this country. And when you tell teenage girls that using a condom, being with a boyfriend who uses a condom is going to keep them safe, that's a lie. And you guys have to own up to that." [CNN, Crossfire, 12/2/04]
- DR. JOE S. McILHANEY JR. (president of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health): "Let me tell you, Paula, that right now, today, about 25 to 50 percent of sexually active adolescents are infected with human papilloma virus, and condoms give almost no protection against the sexual transmission of that disease, and it's the cause of 99 percent of cervical cancer and precancer that is impacting hundreds of thousands of people in our country today." [CNN, Paula Zahn Now, 12/2/04]
The suggestion that HPV leads to cervical cancer is also misleading. While it's true that certain "high risk" cases of HPV can evolve into cervical cancer if not detected, ASHA reports that "most women with high-risk HPV on their cervix will not develop cervical cancer." And the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) explains that HPV is extremely common and that "[m]ost people who become infected with HPV will not have any symptoms and will clear the infection on their own." According to the CDC:
Approximately 20 million people are currently infected with HPV. At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. About 6.2 million Americans get a new genital HPV infection each year. ... Very rarely, HPV infection results in anal or genital cancers. ... Research has shown that for most women (90 percent), cervical HPV infection becomes undetectable within two years.
The CDC report adds that while the exact extent to which condoms protect against HPV is undetermined, "condom use has been associated with a lower rate of cervical cancer."


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WASHINGTON — Vice President Biden begins a two-day visit to Ukraine on Monday amid growing anxiety in Washington that Russia President Vladimir Putin will press to grab more of eastern Ukraine.
The vice president arrives in the capital, Kiev on Monday after a fragile truce reached last week in Geneva was tested earlier in the day with deadly shootout at a checkpoint run by pro-Russian militants near the town of Slovyansk.
Biden is set to meet with Ukraine's interim prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, parliament Speaker and acting President Oleksandr Turchynov and other key legislators, according to the White House. The vice president's meetings comes with a little more than a month to go before Ukrainians are set to go to the polls. He is also scheduled to meet with the staff and family of U.S. diplomats stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev as well with a group of civil society leaders at the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine.
The White House said Biden intends to discuss the international community's efforts to help stabilize Ukraine's struggling economy, preparations for the May 25 elections, and the situation in eastern Ukraine.
Republican lawmakers continue to criticize President Obama for taking what they say is a timid response to Russia's annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine and support of pro-Russian provocateurs in eastern Ukraine.
On Sunday, Sen. Bob Corker R-Tenn., ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, argued on NBC's Meet the Press that the administration needs to impose targeted sanctions on Russian companies in the energy and financial sectors. He warned that eastern Ukraine will be lost if Putin does not feel real consequences for Russia's aggressive actions.
"I think we're going to lose eastern Ukraine if we continue as we are, and I think it's going to be a geopolitical disaster if that occur," Corker said. "The world is watching; our allies in Europe are watching … and I think we need to step on out and do the things that we threaten because I don't think Putin will respond to anything else other than us overtly doing the things we've laid out."


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My opinions on the great toki pona sales contract experiment
Suitablity of toki pona for legal contracts. Worked just fine. Just as difficult to understand as any credit card privacy policy. Buying and selling, online included, is already so common that the majority of the details of the contract are already embedded in our culture. toki pona might be unsuitable for never seen before derivatives contracts like interest rate swaps, mortgage swaps or wife swapping.
When reading the contract, I got the vague idea about contracts being sent back and forth. I didn't understand this until the package arrived with two poster-quality toki pona sales contracts in hieroglyphics, then it was obvious that the artists was planning on retaining a copy of the art piece for himself. As I've said elsewhere, context and paralinguistic evidence needs more formal treatment and study.
Suitablity of toki pona for business. Half way through the experiment jan Josan switched to English to say he wasn't in this for the money, it was just a friendly experiment.
I tried to respond in tp, that fair is fair and if someone does some work, they should get paid. I wanted to also convey that I'd be happy with what ever quantity of art he felt was fair, because I know that professional artists in New York normally charge four to five digit dollar amounts for a custom single piece of art-- I was psychologically prepared to receive a postcard for my $100. I wasn't clever enough to write that. I'm optimistic about Sonja's inclusion of more abstractions in the definition list for base root words to help convey words like "fair" without resorting to "pona"
I read this as meaning toki pona really needs more conventions of politeness. If a language lacks effective tense markers (grammatical or otherwise), the worst that can happen is the listener misinterprets a sentence as being in the past or future instead of the present. If a language lacks established politiness markers, the worst that can happen is people will fight un-necessarily, and after all, isn't that was real world legal contracts are trying to prevent? The politeness markers don't necessarily have to be the sort regarding establishing pecking orders that people seem to *want* to remove from languages. Politeness markers that signal that I consider them as trust-worthy, honest, well-intended, an equal, etc are very handy. Right now, conveying that sense is just as hard as saying "It is two days walk from my fathers village to my sister's village." Please feel free to take this as a challenge to use toki pona examples to prove me wrong in both cases. We don't need a "royal we" or a "you, my lord" in toki pona to convey politeness. We do need to disabuse ourselves of the idea that "o pana e moku tawa mi" will necessarily be interpreted as a polite request.
Japanese has a reputation of being highly indirect language, relying heavily on context. I think it is no accident that it is the language most famous for extensive use of non-optional grammaticalized politeness markers and probably has quite a few optional constructs for marking politeness. The risk of being misunderstood and thought rude are high in vague speech.


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Baltimore, Md., Nov 12, 2012 / 03:54 pm ().- In the aftermath of the Nov. 6 elections, the U.S. bishops stressed that they will push ahead with defending religious liberty from the Obama administration's contraception mandate, which cannot be lived with as it stands.
"Currently the HHS mandate is on the books," said Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, who leads the bishops' ad hoc religious freedom committee. "That's what we actually concretely have to deal with now."
"And as it stands, certainly we would not be able to live with it," he explained, "especially the four-part definition of what Church activity is."
"That's just not who we are, and we don't find it appropriate for any government to draw lines in our mission where we don't draw them," Archbishop Lori said.
The archbishop explained that Church leaders are monitoring and engaged in the ongoing federal rule-making process that will determine how religious organizations are accommodated under that mandate, and as that continues, "our range of options will probably become a little clearer."
Archbishop Lori spoke at a Nov. 12 press conference during the U.S. bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore.
He and other panelists reacted to the outcome of various ballot measures in the Nov. 6 election. The bishops explained that the Church does not identify with any one political party because Catholic social teaching transcends party agendas.
And Catholic teaching should not be seen as divided, added Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, who leads a conference subcommittee on defending marriage.
He called it unfortunate that "a lot of our people view these issues politically, rather than through the lens of the Gospel."
If Catholics saw societal issues through the lens of the Church's social teaching and the common good, Archbishop Cordileone said they would see "the consistency among all these issues," including life, the economy and immigration.
The San Francisco archbishop said he was disappointed at the outcome of referenda in Maryland, Maine and Washington state that approved a redefinition of marriage, as well as the rejection of a constitutional amendment to protect marriage in Minnesota.
"But rather than being a cause for giving up, it is a call to intensify efforts to strengthen and defend marriage," he said.
The archbishop observed that "this election is a symptom of a much larger problem," namely, that many people do not understand what marriage is.
"Marriage is not a matter of two consenting adults simply coming together for the state to ratify their romantic relationship," he said. "Rather, marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman to each other and to any children born of their union."
"It's child-centered, and its meaning is written in our nature," Archbishop Cordileone told the press. "It's either this, or it's nothing at all."
He stressed the need to continue working to increase educational efforts and to "build a renewed culture of marriage and the family."
Archbishop Lori applauded the passage of a referendum upholding the Dream Act in Maryland, allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition in schools throughout the state.
Although the measure met with significant opposition when it was first introduced into the legislature, the archbishop noted that "there was a change in the public's perception" after a public education campaign helped people understand how the law would benefit society.
He observed that this law continues in the Catholic Church's "long heritage of offering educational opportunities for the disadvantaged."
Cardinal Seán O'Malley of Boston expressed gratitude to the diverse coalition that came together to inform voters about the negative consequences of a Massachusetts ballot initiative to legalize physician assisted suicide. The measure was narrowly defeated.
With the cooperation of medical organizations, newspapers, religious groups and disability rights advocates, he said, "we were able to stop this terrible assault on human life."
"At the same time, this calls us to be more focused on the fact that we must do more to promote good palliative and hospice care at the end of life," he added.
Noting that the Church has always been committed to compassionate end-of-life care, he offered examples of ways that dioceses can work to improve the quality of such care.
"We are called to comfort the sick, and not to help them take their own lives," Cardinal O'Malley remarked.
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Colin Kaepernick accounted for touchdowns through the air and on the ground Sunday, propelling the San Francisco 49ers to a 31-21 decision over New Orleans.
Kaepernick -- starting a second straight game in place of the concussed Alex Smith -- completed 16-of-25 passes for 231 yards with a TD pass and an interception, while also rushing for 27 yards with a score on six carries.
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Hello. I've got a Samsung Galaxy at the workplace (among other Android devices like G1, Magic, Hero) and i tested an Opengl ES application on it. I've got 5 fps, which is terrible. The same build gets 25 fps+ on G1, Magic, Hero. Weird...
Another problem is that the app crashes if i use VBO extension, just like in the emulator, and that is strange. My conclusion is that HW acceleration for OpenGL is OFF in Galaxy (although the processor -which handles the GL as well- is the same as in Magic).
I saw a video on youtube that shows Galaxy vs Magic in Neocore benchmark (3d heavy) and the two phones got the same score, so the acceleration is somehow available.. Then i searched a little on the web and i found that Neocore benchmark was written in native code so they did not use Java.. The obvious conclusion is that the Galaxy has opengl HW acceleration disabled, but only in java.
The final test was to get from Market a 3d app that was made in java. I found one, a spaceship racer (just like the old PC Star Wars Racing game), and i downloaded it on Galaxy and on G1. The Galaxy was slugging at 3-5 fps meanwhile G1 was rocking smoothly (20 fps+ for sure). I rest my case..
My question are:
Has somebody else written a opengles game and tested it on galaxy?
What is the solution for a 3d Game on Samsung Galaxy (in java, not native code)?
And for what reason Samsung decided to disable HW acceleration, when the Magic has the same processor and it works perfectly?


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I am creating a program which has the following requirements:
-Class named Point must be superclass of the hierarchy
-Square and Cube are subclasses of Point
-Private data of Point are the x and y coordinates
-Private data of Square is sideLength
-Private data of Cube is depth
-Use accessor, mutator, toString(), volume, and area methods when applicable
Given that the volume of a cube is length x width x height (depth) and the area of a square is length x width, the formulas to calculate these figures are very simple. However, I have really no idea how Point (x,y) play into this scenario. It seems to me that width, instead of x and y, would make more sense.
Doe anyone know what the program requirements are suggesting here, specifically relating to the Point class?


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The contrast presented in the previous chapter between imprisonment under the law (3:23-25) and new relationships in Christ (3:26-29) is now clarified by an illustration drawn from a household where sons were treated as slaves until they received the full rights of sons at the age of maturity. First, the slavelike condition of the sons while they were still minors is described and applied to the human condition (4:1-3). Second, the sending of God's Son to liberate slaves and make them sons is announced (4:4-5). Third, the full rights of sons are disclosed (4:6-7).
Paul gives us a portrait of a young boy in a wealthy home. This boy is the legal heir and future master of the entire estate. But as long as he is a child, his life is just like that of a slave. He is subject to guardians and trustees. They supervise him, discipline him and control him. Their orders regulate and restrain his behavior. He is under their authority until the time set by his father, when he will be free from their control and enjoy his full rights as heir and master of the family estate.
It is clear that Paul constructed this illustration to dramatize what life was like under the supervision of the law. But since he has already used the images of a jailer (3:23) and a disciplinarian (3:24-25) to dramatize the supervisory function of the law, why does he add yet another illustration of life under the law? To appreciate the reason for Paul's use of this additional illustration, we need to understand that Jewish Christians must have been astonished that their history under the Mosaic law had been compared to being imprisoned by a jailer and controlled by a disciplinarian. Paul himself would not have accepted such a description of Jewish history before his conversion. After all, the Jews had been redeemed from slavery in the exodus. In fact, when God set the Jewish people free, he had called them his "son" (Ex 4:23). The giving of the law began with the announcement of freedom for God's people: "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery" (Ex 20:2). If God had redeemed his people from slavery, how could their whole existence under the Mosaic law until Christ be depicted in terms of slavery? It would certainly be appropriate to view the Gentile condition in terms of slavery, but surely not the Jewish condition. Such thoughts would have been in the minds of Jewish Christians and had probably been expressed to the Gentile Christians as well. No doubt the Gentile Christians had been told that only those who united with the Jewish people under the law could truly participate in the freedom God gave to his offspring, the people of Israel.
In this illustration Paul clarifies the condition of the Jewish people under the law. This is a much more positive image of slavery than the images of a jailer and a disciplinarian. Even in the best of homes, sons who are loved by their father and destined to be heirs of his estate go through a period of supervision. It is entirely appropriate for immature heirs to be subject to the care of guardians. Obedience to their guardians is evidence of their love for their father. But it would be inappropriate for sons to be kept under the supervision of guardians once they had reached the age of maturity. It is not a mark of disloyalty for sons to eagerly anticipate the day set by their father when they will no longer be subject to guardians but will enjoy their full rights as sons. Once that day comes, their love for their father will not be expressed through subjection to guardians but by a free expression of love from the heart of mature sons.
This illustration makes the point that even the Jewish people, the rightful heirs of God's promises to Abraham, experienced a certain kind of slavery for a period of time. In verse 3 Paul applies his illustration to the real historical experience of God's people: So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world. This picture of slavery under basic principles of the world continues the series of images representing slavery under the law: "held prisoners by the law" (3:23), "under the supervision of the law" (3:25), subject to guardians and trustees (4:2). So in some sense Paul understood the basic principles of the world as equivalent to the Mosaic law. Although the Mosaic law was given by God, it was not God's last and ultimate revelation. It was necessary, but only elementary teaching: it was the ABCs of God's revelation. To be subjected to the discipline of learning the ABCs is good and proper for an elementary student, but to be kept forever at that level of education would be a tragic kind of slavery.
Now Paul has established his thesis that all of God's people, the Jews as well as the Gentiles, came to the inheritance of salvation in Christ out of a similar situation of slavery. As we will see in our study of verses 8-10, Paul views the Gentile Christians' attempt to observe the Mosaic law as a return to slavery under "weak and miserable principles." By their subjection to Mosaic law they are returning to their preconversion slavelike condition. The slavery of Gentiles under "weak and miserable principles" (v. 9) before their conversion and the slavery of Jews under the Mosaic law (the basic principles of the world [v. 3]) before Christ were certainly not similar in all respects. The pagan Gentiles were not enslaved to the Mosaic law; Jews were not enslaved to pagan idolatry. But these two situations of slavery were the same in one respect: Jews and Gentiles were enslaved to something less than the immediate knowledge of God enjoyed by Christians (see vv. 6, 9).
So when Paul says in 4:3 that when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world, he is emphasizing how even Jews were caught in the universal condition of slavery. In this common condition of helplessness, all alike are completely dependent on the liberating grace of God.
Slaves were set free to enjoy the full rights of sons only because God acted in history: when the time had fully come, God sent his Son. This reference to the time of God's action in history is directly related to the time set by his father (v. 2) in the previous illustration and concludes a whole string of references to God's time schedule: "until the Seed . . ." (3:19); "before this faith . . . up until faith" (3:23); "now that faith . . . we are no longer . . ." (3:25). When God sent his Son, the former period of universal slavery ended; a new era of freedom was inaugurated.
God's plan of salvation cannot be understood merely in static terms as a logical system of ideas: revelation, God, human nature, Christ, salvation, church. God's redemptive work must be understood in the framework of his actions in history. God gave an irrevocable promise to Abraham; 430 years later God gave the law through Moses; at a time God had set, he sent his Son. The relationship of these acts of God in history provides the framework for understanding the redemptive work of God. Of course this does not mean that we should abandon systematic theology; we can develop logical expositions of the meaning of salvation. But we should always remember that the narrative structure of God's work in history is the substructure of all truly biblical theology.
The confusion of the Galatian Christians was the result of their failure to understand the narrative structure of the redemptive work of God. In their attempt to inherit the blessing promised to Abraham by keeping the Mosaic law, they failed to understand that the Mosaic law had been given 430 years after the Abrahamic promise and could not change the terms of the promise or be a condition for inheriting the promised blessing (3:15-18). In their attempt to make progress in their spiritual life by observing the law after believing the gospel, they failed to understand that supervision under the law ended when faith in Christ came (3:23-25).
At the center of this narrative framework is the narrative of the gospel story itself: God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law (4:4-5). Here we have a simple confessional statement of the essence of the gospel story: the incarnation and birth of Christ, his perfect life of obedience under the law, and his redemptive death on the cross.
The phrase God sent his Son is taken by some interpreters as merely a reference to the prophetic mission of Jesus. As the prophets of old were sent by God, so Jesus was sent by God for a special redemptive mission. The background may be found in the parable Jesus told about the wicked tenants of the vineyard (Mk 12:1-12): the owner of the vineyard (God) first sent messengers (prophets), who were killed by the tenants (Jewish leaders); then he sent his own son (Jesus), who was also killed. But in light of Paul's other references to the preexistence of the Son (see 1 Cor 8:6; Phil 2:5-8; Col 1:15-17), we may also see here an affirmation of the deity of Jesus. Before the incarnation, the preexistent Son was commissioned by God to set slaves free and make them children of God.
The next phrase, born of a woman, points to the incarnation and full humanity of Jesus. The Son of God was sent to be one with us in our humanity. He was God's Son and he was Mary's son--the one and only God-man. He was also born under law. The phrase under law cannot mean legalism, keeping the law to earn salvation. Jesus certainly did not live his life under the misconception that he had to keep the law to earn his salvation. To be born under law means to be born a Jew under obligation to keep the requirements of the Mosaic law. From his circumcision eight days after his birth to his celebration of Passover with his disciples just before his death, every detail of Jesus' life was under the direction of the law. His perfect obedience to God the Father, as God's Son born of a woman, fulfilled all the requirements of the law. God's Son took our place as a human being to offer a perfect obedience to God on our behalf.
To be born under law also means to experience the curse of the law against all who fail to observe all that the law requires (see 3:10). Although Jesus did fulfill all the requirements of the law, he still experienced all the conditions of sinful humanity under the curse of the law. He was subject to temptations, suffering, loneliness, and finally, on the cross, God-forsakenness and death.
The twofold purpose of the Son's full participation in our humanity, his perfect fulfillment of the law and his experience of the curse of the law on our behalf is given in the next two phrases: to redeem those under the law, that we might receive the full rights of sons (v. 5). Christ is uniquely qualified to fulfill these two purposes. Because he is the Son of God, he is able to give the position and rights of his sonship to sinful people. Because he became fully human, he is able to represent and redeem all humankind. And because he rendered perfect obedience to God and bore the curse of God against the disobedient, he is able to redeem those under the law. If being under law means being under obligation to keep the law and under the curse of the law for not keeping it, then to redeem those under the law means to set them free from both the obligation to keep the law and the curse of lawbreaking. When Paul says that Jesus was born under law, to redeem those under law, he means, as Calvin puts it, that "by putting the chains on himself, he takes them off the other." By taking the obligation and curse of the law upon himself, he set us free from both the obligation and the curse of the law.
The two verbs in verse 5, redeem and receive, present both sides of our relationship with God: God has already acted in history to set us free; for our lives to be changed by his action we need to respond in faith. Our response to God's action is depicted here as receiving the full rights of sons. This phrase in the NIV is a good translation of a legal term that means "adoption as sons." Adoption was defined by Roman law and widely practiced in Roman life. Several Roman emperors adopted men not related to them by blood in order to give them their office and authority. When a son was adopted, he was in all legal respects equal with those born into his new family. He had the same name, the same inheritance, the same position and the same rights as the natural-born sons. God sent his Son, who by his divine nature was the Son of God, in order that we, who are not his children by nature, might be his children by adoption and thus receive the full rights of sons. We have the same name, the same inheritance, the same position and the same rights as the one who is Son of God by virtue of his divine nature.
There is a shift in Paul's images here from the picture of a son who is treated like a slave until he reaches a certain age (vv. 1-2) to the picture of a slave who becomes a son by adoption (v. 5). The first picture clarifies the contrast between the two stages of redemption in history. The sending of the Son concluded the stage of slavery under law and inaugurated the new era when sons receive their inheritance. The second picture focuses on the nature of sonship itself. We are adopted as God's children by the sending of the Son of God.
Now Paul describes the way that children experience their full rights: Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts (v. 6). The change from first person (we) to second person (you) shows that the adoption received by those under law (v. 5) was also received by the Gentile converts. The confession of faith of Jewish Christians is now the confession of Gentile Christians. Though Gentiles were not under law in the same way the Jewish people were, Paul's point is that they too were set free from the tyranny and curse of the law by the sending of God's Son. And by faith in Christ, they too have entered into a new relationship with God which involves the enjoyment of the full rights of sons and daughters of God. Now their life is to be lived not "under law" but "in Christ."
The striking parallelism between God sent his Son and God sent the Spirit of his Son rivets our attention on God's gracious initiative. Just as our position as sons and daughters was secured by God's action in sending his Son, so our experience as sons and daughters is the result of God's action in sending the Spirit of his Son. We could do nothing to attain to the position of sons and daughters; we can only receive the gift of adoption by faith. We could do nothing to produce an experience as sons and daughters; the action of God in sending the Spirit of his Son into our hearts enables us to enjoy our new relationship with God our Father.
Paul makes it very clear that there is only one condition for the experience of the Spirit in our hearts: Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. There is no other prerequisite for this experience of the Spirit besides receiving the gift of adoption. We do not need to go through a series of steps, recite special prayers or meet extra conditions. God sends the Spirit of his Son into our heart for one reason: because he adopted us into his family. To view adoption and reception of the Spirit as two separate stages in the Christian life tears apart the reciprocal relation of adoption and the sending of the Spirit. Paul's unique title for the Spirit here, Spirit of his Son, emphasizes the unity of the experience of adoption and the experience of the Spirit.
Just as verse 5 teaches us that the gift of adoption is ours when we receive it, so verse 6 teaches us that the sending of the Spirit into our hearts is experienced when we pray: the Spirit sent into our hearts is the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." Abba is an Aramaic word for "father" used by a child in intimate conversation within the home. When children addressed their father as Abba, they were expressing affection, confidence and loyalty. One of the most remarkable aspects of the life of Jesus was that he addressed God as Abba in his prayers and taught his disciples to do the same. So striking and significant was Jesus' addressing God as Abba that even in Greek-speaking churches Jesus' Aramaic word for Father was heard as the believers called out to God in prayer. They called God Abba because the Spirit of Jesus was assuring them within their hearts, the control center of their emotions and thoughts, that they were children of the Father.
To know at the deepest level of our being that God is our Father and we are his sons and daughters is not the result of theological research or moral achievement, but the result of God's sending the Spirit of his Son to speak to us and to convince us that despite all our guilt, fears and doubts, the Father of Jesus is our Father too. To know God as our Father in this way is not merely intellectual apprehension of a doctrine, not merely warm feelings about God, but a life-transforming conscious awareness of the reality of our intimate relationship with God our Father.
Paul is certainly not talking here about addressing God as Father in a formal liturgy in which there is no real involvement of the heart and will and mind. Nor is he talking about addressing God with an easy familiarity, as in prayers where God is addressed as "Daddy" in a chummy, casual way with no sense of awe or reverence. We must remember that when Jesus addressed his Father as Abba in the garden of Gethsemane, he was expressing both confident trust and willing obedience. " `Abba, Father,' he said, `everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will' " (Mk 14:36). So if the Spirit of the Son is moving us to call God Abba, then we will be expressing the same confident trust and willing obedience of the Son to the Father. All that Jesus did and said flowed out of his relationship with his Father. His sense of identity (who he was) was not based on his ministry (what he did), but just the reverse: he did what he did because he knew who he was. Likewise, the witness of the Spirit within us that God is our Father and we are his children is the center and fountainhead of all our Christian life and ministry.
People all around us are having identity crises. They are trying to find out who they are. They go for therapy to discover their inner selves; they search for their roots; they try to build their sense of self-worth on the foundation of their achievements. But far more important than any of these ways of finding out who we are, we need to experience the great gift of God the Father, the gift of his Spirit who tells us that we are children of God our Father. This experience of our identity before God is not necessarily a sensational or emotional experience. It is simply an experience of the Spirit's inner witness as we pray from our hearts to God.
We should always be amazed that when we pray we are included in the conversation of the Triune God. When we call God "Abba, Father," we are reminded by the very word Abba that Jesus used this name for God the Father in his prayers. We can address God as Father only because his Son gives us the right to do so. And we can exercise our right to call God Abba only by the activity of his Spirit within us who calls out, "Abba, Father." We call God Abba through the Son and in the power of the Spirit.
We will always find it difficult to explain the doctrine of the Trinity. But in prayer we experience the life and love of the Triune God. What an amazing privilege that we should be included in the conversation within the Trinity through prayer!
Verse 7 sums up Paul's argument to this point: So you are no longer a slave, but a son. The witness of the Spirit within convinces us that we are sons and daughters, children of God. Sons and daughters are no longer "held prisoners by the law" (3:23), "no longer under the supervision of the law" (3:25) and no longer subject to guardians and trustees (4:2). Sons and daughters are free from the control of the law. This does not mean that sons and daughters are free to do anything. They are now under the direction of the Spirit, who brings them into such close communion with God that they call him Abba. Sons and daughters who live in communion with the Father under the direction of the Spirit do not need the law to guide and discipline them. They are directed by a far superior power: the power of the Spirit.
To live under the direction of the law, as the Galatian believers were attempting to do, was sheer folly. "You foolish Galatians!" You are sons and daughters, not slaves. Why turn to the direction of the law when you have the direction of the Spirit? The tragedy of the Galatian situation was that believers who had entered into a love relationship with the Father by the activity of the Spirit in their lives were now acting like slaves, not like sons and daughters. They were relating to God on the basis of keeping his law rather than worshiping and serving him in the freedom and power of the Spirit of his Son. It is the same tragedy of the elder brother in Jesus' parable of the prodigal son. Although he served his father dutifully, he never called him "Father" or related to him as a son. He thought and acted like a slave: "All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders" (Lk 15:29).
I have greater appreciation for Paul's argument here now that my two sons are full-grown and no longer minors. I no longer attempt to restrict their behavior with the set of rules they had to follow when they were still young. In fact, if at this stage of their lives they responded to me simply on the basis of keeping my rules, I would be disappointed. What I long for now is for them to relate to me as mature sons. When they express love and respect to me simply because that is the desire of their heart, I am deeply grateful and filled with joy.
The consequence of being a son is inheritance: Since you are a son, God has made you also an heir (v. 7). The Galatian believers had been told that they must be related to the descendants of Abraham through observance of the law in order to inherit the promises God made to Abraham. But Paul has now demonstrated how faith in Christ makes one a child of God and so an heir of God. None of us can make ourselves children or heirs of God. Only God can make slaves into sons and daughters, and sons and daughters into heirs.
The promise of inheritance is the promise of the Spirit. Paul said in 3:14 that the blessing of Abraham came upon the Gentiles: they received the promised Spirit. What greater inheritance could there be than the presence of the Spirit of God, the Spirit of his Son, within our hearts? The Spirit of his Son not only assures us that we are beloved children of the Father; he also makes us like his Son. We are most like the Son of God when we totally identify with him in Gethsemane and are able by his Spirit to pray "Abba, Father." When Christ prayed "Abba, Father" in Gethsemane, he was expressing complete trust in his Father and his willingness to endure the cross in obedience to his Father. He was looking ahead with confident, obedient trust to both the cross and the resurrection. When we are sure of our adoption by the witness of the Spirit within, we will also be living in the power of the inheritance of the Spirit, who is in the process of making us like Christ in his death and resurrection. Every day something of his cross will be seen in us as we die to self. Every day something of his resurrection life will be seen as he lives through us. One day, after a final death and a final resurrection, we will be completely like him. That is our inheritance as the children of God.
I once heard a son speak at his father's funeral service about his inheritance. He said, "The greatest inheritance my father left me was not what he had but what he was. He was a man of integrity; he was humble and often admitted his own failures. He was generous and compassionate. Above all, he was a man of deep faith in God. That's the inheritance that I most treasure, the inheritance of the character of my father." As children of God, we can say the same. Our greatest inheritance is not the abundance of things the Father gives us, but the character of his Son which the Spirit of his Son is forming within us.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- At the 2012 University Athletic Association Women's Cross Country championships held at the University of Rochester, Brandeis junior Victoria Sanford (LaGrangeville, N.Y./Arlington) was the team's top finisher of the day.
She covered the six-kilometer course in 23:01.2 to finish in 21st place out of 77 competitors. Sanford – the team's fourth finisher a year ago - took more than two full minutes better than her 2011 time at UAAs to improve by 40 places. She finished around 11 seconds shy of finishing in the top 14 to earn All-UAA honors.
Classmate Amelia Lundkvist (So. Portland, Maine/Cheverus) was the team's second finisher. Unable to compete at UAAs last year and the squad's seventh finisher as a freshman, Lundkvist came in 29th with a time of 23:14.6. A third junior, Ali Kirsch (Sharon, Mass./Sharon), who was the top returning UAA performer for the Judges, placed 43rd. That was down four spots from last year, when she was also the team's third finisher, despite improving her time by more than two-and-a-half minutes.
Rookie Maggie Hensel (Niskayuna, N.Y./Niskayuna) was Brandeis's fifth finisher, coming in 58th in her first collegiate championship meet with a time of 24:22.3. Graduate student Erin Bisceglia (Durham, Conn./Coginchaug) was Brandeis's fifth scoring runner with a time of 24:55.6, good for 65th place.
Both Brandeis teams finished in eighth place at an ultra-competitive meet that featured six of the eight men's teams and five the eight women's squads among the top 35 programs in Division III. The men's 186 points placed them 30 behind seventh-place Emory, while the women's 193 points trailed Emory by 66 points.
Brandeis's next meet is the NCAA Division III New England regional championship, which will be held Nov. 10 at Westfield State University.
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Two of my favourite designers are Mirabilia and Lavender and Lace, here are two projects I finished a number of years ago, up until the summer of this year I always stitched large projects but now I rotate and stitch smalls too.
I have also completed a number of Paula Vaughan designs ( I will eventually post the pictures )and I have recently purchased some Heaven and Earth Designs, if you have never seen them click on this link ,they are quite breathtaking but very detailed.
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A Global Barometer for Measuring Employee Engagement
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Employers are seeking clarity on whether there is an effective way to measure employee engagement and whether the same set of survey questions can be used from one country to another. The Conference Board surveyed employees from around the world to reexamine empirically all of the prominent measurements companies are currently employing, using a cross-cultural perspective. A robust measure of employee engagement can be constructed with just eight basic questions—termed The Conference Board Employee Engagement Barometer.™