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Paul begins his ethical appeal with a second declaration of freedom: You, my brothers, were called to be free (v. 13). This declaration echoes the central points of his first declaration in chapter 5 ("It is for freedom that Christ has set us free" ). Both declarations focus on the initiative of God: Christ's action set us free! God's call set us free! When the whole human race was hopelessly locked up under law, imprisoned by sin, "God sent his Son" into human history to set us free. When we were enslaved, "God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts" to set us free. Our freedom is not the result of our decisions or our actions. God acted in history on the cross and through the resurrection to set us free. God acted in our hearts by his Spirit to set us free. The gracious initiative of God is underscored by Paul's repetition.
Both declarations of freedom also emphasize that freedom is the purpose of God's action in Christ. The NIV translation brings this out in verse 1 but not in verse 13. Paul puts the purpose of God's action right at the beginning of both sentences: "For freedom . . . ! To freedom you were called, brothers!" What is the purpose of your Christian life? Freedom in Christ! Paul blasts out these trumpet calls of freedom to Christians who are in danger of putting themselves under a heavy yoke of slavery. Their immediate goal is circumcision—painful discipline under the law. Their larger purpose would then be, as Paul informs them in verse 3, the obligation to obey the whole law. Their total preoccupation would be to learn the Jewish traditions and keep the Jewish customs. Paul knows very well from his own experience (1:14) that that road does not lead to freedom. So he repeats his declaration of freedom to emphasize the new purpose of their life in Christ: they are called to freedom from slavery under the law.
So far we have seen two similarities between these two declarations of freedom in verse 1 and verse 13. Now we need to observe a great contrast. After the first declaration Paul gives a command to protect freedom by refusing to accept the "yoke of slavery." After the second declaration Paul gives a command not to use freedom to indulge your sinful nature but to serve one another in love. In other words, we are first told not to lose our freedom by turning back to slavery; then we told to use our freedom by entering into slavery.
No doubt Paul sets up this apparent contradiction as a kind of warning signal. Paul clearly sees the danger that his teaching about freedom from slavery under the law might be interpreted to mean freedom to do whatever our selfish desires lead us to do. A more literal translation of the second phrase of verse 13 than we have in the NIV is "only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh." The Greek word I have translated as "opportunity" was originally a military term for "the starting point of a military offensive" or "a base of operations." It was commonly used to mean "occasion" or "opportunity." An abuse of Christian freedom from slavery under the law could be a base of operations for the flesh, an opportunity for the "flesh" to launch a terribly destructive attack against us.
Paul uses the term flesh eight times in 5:13—6:10 to refer to that aspect of our being that is opposed to the Spirit of God (5:16-17) and that produces all that is evil and destructive in our human experience (5:19-20). The NIV translation of flesh as sinful nature is a helpful, interpretive translation. Human nature apart from God's intervening grace is both a captive of sin and the source of "passions and desires" (5:24) that lead to sin. No doubt one reason the Galatian Christians were attracted to the law is that they viewed the law as the only way to restrain and control the passions and desires of the flesh. They saw the law as a needed disciplinarian to keep them from being destroyed by their own sinful desires.
The law's restraining power over sinful desires is a common subject in Jewish literature and must certainly have been a theme in the campaign of the false teachers who were trying to bring the Gentile Christians under the law. We can imagine them saying, "How can you ever hope to win the battle against your evil desires? There is only one way. Come under the yoke of the law. The law was given to guard, protect and keep you from evil. Live under it as your master and guide." But now in contrast to this message of the false teachers, Paul says that he has "died to the law" (2:19), that "we are no longer under the supervision of the law" (3:25) and that we should not let ourselves "be burdened again by a yoke of slavery," by which he means the law (5:1). "Does this mean that we are free to follow the desires of our sinful nature?" the Galatians may have wondered. Paul, who was always sensitive to the questions in the minds of his readers, counters their misunderstanding with a strong prohibition: Do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature (v. 13).
I have interpreted this section of Paul's letter as his response to the possible misunderstanding of his gospel in contrast to the message of the law teachers. Others have interpreted this section as Paul's response to a "libertine group" in the church that advocated doing away with all restraints upon the flesh. In other words, they think Paul was fighting on two fronts: against the law teachers on one side and against the libertines on the other side. A somewhat different version of this "two-front" interpretation suggests that the Galatian converts were torn in two directions: by the message of the law teachers from the outside and by the libertine tendencies of their own Hellenistic culture. According to this interpretation, Paul wrote 1:6—5:12 against the threat of legalism (you are free from slavery under the law) and he wrote 5:13—6:10 against the threat of libertinism (you are not free to indulge your sinful nature).
But it seems better to interpret 5:13—6:10 as a continuation of Paul's argument against the law teachers for two reasons: First, Paul focuses on these law teachers immediately before (5:1-12) and after (6:11-14) this section. Second, this section constantly refers to the law (5:14, 18, 23; 6:2). So Paul is not aiming in a new direction in this section. It is still a response to people who wanted to live under the yoke of the law. They were hoping to be able to overcome their moral problems by concentrating on keeping the law. Paul seeks to convince them that the law has no power to restrain the flesh. On the contrary, those who try to overcome the sinful nature (the flesh) by observing the law become more deeply enslaved to the sinful nature (the flesh). Certainly Christian freedom from the law does not mean giving into the sinful nature. It means serving one another in love. And this is only possible by walking in the Spirit. That is the essence of Paul's ethical appeal. His appeal defines freedom as freedom to love (5:13-15), freedom by the Spirit (5:16-18), freedom from evil (5:19-21), freedom for moral transformation (5:22-26) and freedom to fulfill responsibilities (6:1-10).
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NEW YORK, September 29, 2011 - Who doesn't love s*x? But what happens when that love becomes an obsession or addiction? Or you don't feel the love at all? S*xual issues - from promiscuity to s*xual phobias and love addiction can destroy lives - and in some cases end them. Noted sex specialist Christopher Donaghue has dedicated his professional life to helping people reclaim control of their s*x lives through intense individual and group therapy sessions. In the docu-reality series "Bad Sex," the cameras capture the dynamic group sessions and the explosive and frequently heart-felt exchanges among clients. "Bad S*x" will offer a frank and shocking behind-the-scenes look at the process of healing severe sexual issues - both inside and outside the therapy room. The 10-episode series "Bad Sex" premieres Friday, November 4th at 9PM ET/PT on Logo.
"Bad Sex" follows the real-life experiences of 10 diverse participants undergoing an intensive, two-month program with s*xuality expert Chris Donaghue. Male and female, gay and straight, the participants range in age from 20 to forty-years-old and arrive at the group with issues ranging from dangerous promiscuity to clinical frigidity, from violent s*x addiction to compulsive public s*x. Under his supervision, they'll participate in a unique s*x therapy group program where they'll finally address their deep-rooted issues around s*x, infidelity, trust, relational intimacy and s*xual addiction.
Each episode will also feature a deeper examination of the treatment process and progress of an individual group member. Over the course of the season, viewers will get to know each participant's struggle and hopeful path to healing. Can Chris lead them away from s*xual destruction and addiction, and toward healthier lives?
Christopher Donaghue is a s*xuality expert specializing in the s*xuality spectrum and addictive behaviors such as s*xual compulsivity/s*x addiction, as well as mood and relational intimacy disorders. Donaghue received his Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from Temple University and is currently finishing a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He trained in couples and s*x therapy at Florida's Post Graduate S*x Therapy training program, UCLA, and the Center for Health S*x. Chris currently specializes in couples and s*x therapy, as well as running s*x addiction, love addiction and sexuality group therapy at The Hills Treatment Center. He is the former Program Director at La Ventana Rehab's S*xual Addiction Program. He is a member of American Association of S*xuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT).
"Bad Sex" is produced by PB&J Television with Patty Ivins and Julie Pizzi serving as Executive Producers. Brent Zacky and Pamela Post serve as Executive Producers with Stevenson Greene as Producer for Logo.
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Life Class
Author: Pat Barker
Paul Tarrant is living his dream. Thanks to a legacy from his slumlord grandmom, the 20-something from northern England is enrolled at the prestigious Slade School in London, learning to be a "real" artist. Too bad he isn't.
Paul's teacher, the real-life artist and surgeon Henry Tonks, offers him a devastating assessment early on in Life Class, the new novel by award-winning writer Pat Barker: Paul has ability, but nothing to say. He's a technically accomplished void.
To make matters worse, Paul meets Kit Neville, a slightly older artist who has made a name painting the gritty, urban scenes Paul was surrounded by growing up, and which he escaped by painting pretty landscapes. To complicate things further, both men are preoccupied with the same woman, Elinor Brooke, another Slade student.
Paul, like any self-respecting artistic type, launches into a spiral of self-doubt and worry. But his existential crisis – and the love triangle – are rudely interrupted by the outbreak of World War I.
Barker, who won a Booker Prize for her World War I-set Regeneration trilogy novels, is tramping over territory she knows like her own shell-pocked backyard. But "Life Class" is very deliberately not a wartime epic. Barker avoids sweeping battle scenes and dramatic resolutions.
Declared physically unfit for the army, both Kit and Paul volunteer as Red Cross ambulance drivers in Belgium. Kit, because he's determined to paint the battlefields; Paul, because he feels it's the right thing to do. Once there, both get pressed into service as orderlies, and it's Kit who finds satisfaction in the work. Paul can only endure the suffering of the wounded and the futility of much of the battlefield medical care – which Barker recounts in unsparing detail – by shutting down his emotions completely.
Meanwhile, Elinor's response is to ignore the war resolutely and to paint only lovely things, what she terms an "iron frivolity."
Barker doesn't spend a whole lot of time on the joy of creating or flashes of inspiration. Instead, as she paints a portrait of how three very different personalities cope with carnage and horror, she examines the place of art in a shaken world. While Elinor feels shoved aside by a country demanding patriotism and valor, Paul finally discovers that he has something to say. In between punishing shifts at the hospital, he runs up to a rented studio to paint, so that the suffering of the soldiers won't just be "swept away." The irony, of course, is that once he discovers his real subject, it turns out to be too difficult for most people to look at.


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"…the fire-drakes of the North, issued from Angband's gates by night."[1]
Fire-drakes (Quenya Urulóki) were fire breathing Dragons.
History and Characteristics
The fire-drakes were the more powerful of the two fundamental divisions of dragon-kind (the other being the cold-drakes), who, as the name suggests, were able to breathe fire. Glaurung, the Father of Dragons, was the first of the species.[1] He first appeared in the middle of the First Age but the Urulóki were known to have survived even after the downfall of Morgoth. Other dragons considered to be of the fire-drakes during the Elder Days were Ancalagon and the terrible Beast of Gondolin.
Smaug, the last of the truly powerful dragons, was slain by Bard in the late Third Age.[2] We can be sure that he was not the last of the fire-drakes, though, because Gandalf refers to fire-breathing dragons in the time before the War of the Ring, nearly eighty years after Smaug's death.[3]


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What trends in hiring may we see in CA over the next couple years?
Will be headed to the academy in april, and was wondering what hiring trends we might see over say the next two or three years? I know SF is really hard pressed for officers now and will be needing 500+ over the next few years, due to the voters approving early retirement packages. Im wondering if theres other similar situations across the state, or if the recent election might effect anything in a positive, or even a negative manner for the next few years?
A lot of departments will be hiring or at least "wanting" to hire. You have quite a few baby boomer cops retiring/promoted over the next few years. However, if the economy doesn't make a sharp improvement hiring may be kept to a minimum.
I see the job outlook as good. The two departments I'm in the running with told me the exact same thing. A third, SD Sheriff has academies approved through the end of 2013. I just couldn't justify moving there for the amount of pay..
Given today's economy and the penchant in Sacramento and some local government agencies to spend more that they can afford, I would do some serious research and make sure I knew which cities/counties take a more restrained/conservative approach to fiscal management (learn to read a budget). I know we all like the idea of 3% @50 and all of the other great benefit packages that some agencies were able to negotiate for over the past few years, but the well has run dry.
If I were just starting in LE today, I would seek out those communities that paid a decent salary, with a nice benefit package, but were a bit restrained in their overall fiscal approach. Keep in mind it is a 30 year career, and it does matter what happens over the long run.
There are a number of really great LE agencies to work for up and down the state. The one observation I would make is to stay away from the really small agencies. Oftentimes local political forces try to micro manage in the smaller agencies.
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I really see any government hiring at a minimum to keep at workable operational levels. A lot of early buyouts, less specialized units, and more work for everyone else. Nationwide there will be a huge gap for routine vehicle maintenance and other essential items such as gas. It is going to be downright scary in the next few years for anyone in law enforcement. Like many of us on this board I am mid-career, and we might be seeing the return of the bad times of the late 60's an 70's where LEO's had to pay for bare essentials in order to go 10-8 and the level of violence increased. I have ten years left in order to be eligible for retirement (25 at 50 for Feds) and have to return to California next year for family reasons (parent's are getting old and want to enjoy my time with them)
Guys, I wish everyone on this board to come home safe after every shift, and for everyone starting a career, good luck with the process and hope you all make it to the finish line. If you want to stay in Cali, get hired with whatever agency gives you a job and see where you can go after you are past probation.
Thanks for all the insight so far. This has been a very long process for me so I'm going to put my best foot forward and hope god can guide me in the right direction. I feel like I've been through enough work related issues that ill be happy, or at least content with any department that's going to give me a chance. In my opinion there's going to be good and bad at all jobs, LE or not, and nine times out of ten the over all experience is what you make it. It would just be nice knowing there will be some job security after getting in.
You don't show a location but I know our academy has had bigger classes for the last couple academies. That tells me more agencies are hiring. I honestly don't think it will ever get back to the way it was just a few years ago where if you had a pulse and no drugs in your system at the time of the blood test you'd get hired but things around my neck of the woods seem to be improving a little bit.
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I'm hoping things are better by the time I straighten out my finances & work history. Right now I wouldn't have a chance going up against straight-edge college graduates/veterans.
Then again, I may be living in Texas by then. Anyone know how things are over there?
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Athens and Paul
What an amazing place Athens must have been for Paul to visit. Even from the port of Piraeus, Paul would have been able to see the Parthenon, the gleaming marble temple to the goddess Athena crowning the Acropolis.
According to Acts 17, he visited the synagogue in Athens and reasoned with the Jews and God-fearing Greeks. But all around him he could see the symbols of pagan idolatry, distressing to him, an ambitious, well-educated Pharisee, whose encounter with the resurrected Jesus Christ, son of the living God, had transformed his life into one of service and mission to a new Master.
Centuries later, a visit to the Agora still reveals the things Paul could have seen from that market place. Nearby is the Temple of Hephaestus, dedicated to the god of the forge. Above him he could have seen Mar's Hill and the Pnyx where the Ecclesia of citizens met for discussions and to pass judgment on criminal issues. All around him in the Agora, the market place of ideas swirled opinions and ignorance and ideas flowing as easily as today's talk shows on radio and TV.
Some of these people, the philosophers, wanted to hear Paul's ideas – "he seems to be advocating a foreign god." So they took him up the hill to Mar's Hill, or the Areopagus where people met to discuss more formally.
Paul's speech there is both careful and bold. Virtually in the shadow of Athena, he is confronting the pagan powers on their own turf. He compliments them, quotes their poets, and then tells them that according to the God of Creation, they are ignorant of His commands and should prepare for a day of true justice – which God has proved, by Resurrection power, will take place.
Some people sneered when they heard about the Resurrection, but Paul did gain a small following there.
Seeing these places through the eyes of Paul increases my respect for his oratorical ability, his missiological skill, as well as for his dedication to Jesus Christ.


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Big Breeze And Classic Current Produce Spectacular Day Of Audi Melges 20 Racing At Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week
19 April 2013
Charleston, SC - The Audi Melges 20 Class thoroughly enjoyed four high-powered 'rippin' races at Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week today. Overcast skies, 15-20+ knots of breeze with periodic gusts up to 30, and white caps appropriately set the stage for opening day. Consistent top five finishes helped Michael Kiss on Bacio secure the overnight lead position by a ten point margin. Rob Wilber on Cinghiale is seated second and Jeff Ecklund's STAR felt the effects of a stellar day to land third overall.
The day commenced with the perfect amount of breeze, warming up the fleet just right for Race One — a short and sweet, six-legger. James Wilson's Oleander lashed out at the competition taking control immediately, Ecklund followed closely in second. The first downwind run shuffled the fleet with Travis Weisleder's Lucky Dog/Gill Race Team moving up to overtake for second. Lady helm Camille Rasdal on Odin also got in the mix to pass through the gate in third. Ecklund slipped to fourth, Robert Hughes' Heartbreaker rounded out the top five. As teams headed back upwind, Wilson extended his lead for the win, leaving Ecklund and Weisleder to battle for runner-up honors. Ecklund eventually edged out Weisleder for second. Weisleder settled for third.
Defending Charleston Champion Russell Lucas on Shimmer got in the groove to win Race Two. Hughes had a great race to finish second, just ahead of Wilber in third.
As races three and four unfolded, just as forecasts had predicted, the breeze was on the increase as was the wave action. The combination of the two, paired perfectly with classic Charleston Harbor current made for some very interesting racing. Hughes took the lead at the first mark and saw it through to the finish, earning him his first bullet of the event. Kiss turned up the speed to finish second over Ecklund in third. Weisleder hung tight to take fourth and Reilly grabbed fifth.
The breeze was pumping a beautiful 20 knots for the final heat of the day, with Wilson staking his claim on the lead position at the get go. As the race progressed Wilson extended, acquiring a massive lead mastering the big breeze conditions for the win. Ecklund and team excelled in the heavy air to finish second, Kiss claimed third.
More racing is scheduled for Saturday, however the weather forecast appears rather different from today. Morning showers are expected to provide cooler temperatures with a lighter, more civilized 5-10 knots of breeze.
As with many previous Audi Melges 20 events in North America and around the world, racing updates will be posted online at the Official Class Blog. Tune-in regularly for the latest developments, conditions and results. Stay close to the Official Audi Melges 20 Facebook Page for photos and further commentary. Race reports, press releases and photos will be available online each day post racing at melges20.com.
TOP TEN RESULTS (After Four Races)
1.) Michael Kiss/Chris Rast, Bacio; 4-5-2-3 = 14
2.) Robert Wilber/Anthony Kotoun, Cinghiale; 6-3-8-7 = 24
3.) Jeff Ecklund/Ed Baird, STAR; 2-24-3-2 = 31
4.) Jim Richardson/Terry Hutchinson, Barking Mad; 12-6-9-4 = 31
5.) Paul Reilly/Andy Burdick, Red Sky Sailing Team; 14-5-7-6 = 32
6.) James Wilson/Sam Rogers, Oleander; 1-8-23-1 = 33
7.) Travis Weisleder/Scott Nixon, Lucky Dog/Gill Race Team; 3-18-4-12 = 33
8.) Robert Hughes/Morgan Reeser, Heartbreaker; 5-2-1-34/DNF = 42
9.) Mark Bremer/Mitchell Kiss, TRUE; 10-11-12-9 = 42
10.) Tony Tabb/Seadon Wiesjen, Elevation Racing; 7-15-11-10 = 42
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3.) Andy Rasdal, Valkyrie
4.) Lance Smotherman, Details
5.) Danny Shea, Diamante
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NEW LONDON, Conn. – Coast Guard held MIT without a field goal for the final eight minutes of the game outscoring the Engineers 15-4 in that span en route to a 62-53 upset win on Senior Day, the final home game of the season, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's basketball action on Saturday afternoon.
MIT took a 49-47 lead on a basket by sophomore Will Tashman with 8:16 left, but that would be the last basket the Engineers would score as they managed just four free throws, all by Tashman, in the final eight minutes of the game.
Coast Guard took the lead for good, 51-50 on a free throw by freshman Kevin Sowers with 6:01 left. Sophomore Jimmy Knudsen and Sowers added back to back buckets to give the Bears a 55-50 lead with 4:53 left.
Tashman made one of two free throws with 53 seconds left, the Engineers final point of the game, to make the score 58-53, but Coast Guard made four of six free throws to close the scoring and snap a season-long five-game losing streak.
Coast Guard led by as many as seven at 11-4 in the first half, but MIT scored eight straight for its first lead of the game 12-11 with 11:59 left. The Engineers led 30-28 at the break.
It was trio of freshmen scoring in double figures that led the Bears to a win on Senior Day as Devonte Weems had a game-high 17 points. Sowers added 13 points and John Benedict chipped in with 10 points off the bench. Senior Jevon James had a game-high 12 rebounds moving him into ninth place on the Bears all-time list with 654 rebounds.
Tashman finished with a double-double leading MIT with 16 points and 10 rebounds. No other MIT player had more than five points. Junior Jamie Karraker, who leads the NEWMAC with 79 three-pointers, was held to just four points and no trifectas.
Coast Guard shot 38.9 percent (21-54) while MIT shot 42.9 percent (18-42) from the floor. The Bears made just one of six from 3-point range while the Engineers connected on five of 18 from behind the arc.
MIT turned the ball over 21 times while the Bears turned it over just 10 times, their second lowest of the season.
The Engineers drop to 16-7 overall and 6-4 in conference play while the Bears improve to 9-13 overall and 4-7 in the NEWMAC. Coast Guard can clinch a berth in the NEWMAC tournament with the right combination of games before they take the court in their regular season finale at Wheaton College on February 19. MIT will close out the season with a pair of home games, beginning with a 6:00 p.m. contest with Wheaton on Wednesday, February 16.
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This was the first time I have seen this on a military marker. I knew it was available and I expected to find this in an Oklahoma Cemetery where the Native American population is much higher than in a rural cemetery in Arkansas. Imagine my surprise.
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Pygame is the most commonly used library for creating Python games. In design it is a wrapper around the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL), which provides a low-level interface suitable for doing reasonably efficient 2D games. See Game development HOWTO or Pygame wrapper for details on their usage.
Pygame on the OLPC XO
Work in progress allows Pygame via SDL to interact with the Sugar (GTK and DBUS) environment. Discussions and announcements normally occur on the OLPC Games info/devel OLPC Devel list. There is a Pygame-to-Sugar wrapper maintained for the XO called 'olpcgames'. To learn how to use it, see Game development HOWTO. See Pygame wrapper for documentation and caveats.
There are a number of libraries written on top of the Pygame system which provide simple mechanisms for creating games of certain types. These libraries make it possible for relatively young children to write games and for older children to write games of sufficient polish to distribute to others.
Among the libraries written on top of Pygame that might be useful in setting up a Game development sub-curriculum (or simply in making it easier to develop games for the OLPC):
- Pygsear
- Schoolsplay (formerly Childsplay)
- Phil's Game Utilitys (PGU)
Introductive Reading
- Pygame Programming - Great 4 lecture introduction in display, images, sound, event handling
- Pygame Reference - List of functions and their usage
- Pygame Tutorials
- Pygame object oriented tutorials
Rationale and Discussion
Games are an important part of learning. Projects based on pygame that can be helpful for children who want to develop games for themselves and their friends.
The idea is to develop a curriculum that teaches older kids Game Programming for the OLPC using Python and Pygame. They can then write additional games/activities for the Childsplay environment for younger kids.
Original email sent by Mamading Ceesay to Python-UK mailing list on Friday 20th May 2005:
One of the threads at the last London Python Meetup was about Python for Kids. Specifically about how to get kids into Python programming and possibly how to get Python taught in Schools. There was mention of the Livewires python tutorial material for example. Simon B. in particular (IIRC) was interested in Turtle Graphics for Python (a la Logo). Along similar lines, but drawing upon the Karel the Robot tradition there is RUR-PLE where there is a robot that is controlled using Python syntax, there is a set of lessons provided where the student has to accomplish progressively complex tasks with the robot using Python syntax introduced in the course of the lessons. An overview of RUR-PLE can be found at http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/en/help.htm. It's based on wxPython. I have a young nephew who has just reached school age, so right now I'm more concerned about him having educational games and software than programming. Being able to extend/enhance the software in Python would be useful though. Childsplay http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/ is just the thing, it's a suite of educational games for young children along similar lines to Gcompris but without the C/C++ code and GNOME dependencies. It's based on Pygame and is cross-platform. It only has two games bundled, you have to install the plugins to get the other available games. Games are written as plugins in python that run in the Childsplay environment. Ideally, you might get your older kids to write new game plugins to keep your younger ones amused, just an idle thought! ;-) Anyway, I intend to try out Childsplay on the nephew this weekend.
Follow-up email sent by Mamading Ceesay to the Python-UK mailing list on Saturday 11th June 2005:
The nephew loves it and will nag me to fire up my laptop so that he can run Childsplay. Especially the PacKids game, which is quite useful from the spelling and pronounciation perspective as well as being entertaining. The main drawback with Childsplay so far, is that most of the games/activities are lacking in levels. The project clearly needs more developers to add more levels and games/activities. Perhaps it might even be worth organizing a sprint at something like the rumoured forthcoming PyCon UK. Alternatively, the London Python Meetup crew might like to do something.
Follow-up email sent by Mamading Ceesay to the Python-UK mailing list on Friday 21 October 2005:
Check out the Livewires course and see if it suits: http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/ Alternatively, there's a new Beginning Python book which has 10 projects to build in the last third of the book: http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10013 I have been toying with the idea of getting some funding to develop and run a Python course for kids with a focus on Game and Multimedia programming.
First milestone - contact Pygame and Childsplay developer mailing lists to garner developer interest in this project.


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This collab left us speechless! So many great guitarists and talent in this video!
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GMC has grown to become a deep guitar lesson database on its own over these years, and as such hides marvellous treasures, hidden under the sands of time!
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Ok, ok. We are being a tad criptic let's spill the beans!: we are getting some of our best classic lessons portrayed on our main page, each day, and what's more, we have added an ultra-cool "Stumble" button which will take you to any of our lessons randomly, as many times as you wish. Let yourself be surprised with hundreds of tracks many of which you didn't ever hear before!
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CAIRO, Egypt — Heavy gunfire between warring militias prevented firefighters from battling a massive inferno in Libya's capital Tuesday, despite calls for a cease-fire to end the worst violence in the capital since the country's 2011 civil war.
The blaze engulfing oil depots started earlier in the crossfire of militias fighting over Tripoli's international airport, a weekslong battle between rivals mirroring the violence that's plagued Libya since the downfall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. In the eastern city of Benghazi, Islamist-led militias said they also seized bases of a renegade general fighting against them Tuesday as a jet fighter crashed.
The violence has impeded the country's democratic transition and its escalation is the biggest challenge facing Libya's newly elected 200-member parliament, which will take office in August.
Earlier this month, a militia composed of fighters from the western city of Misrata backed by others stationed in the capital carried a surprise attack on the airport, held for the last three years by a militia from the mountain town of Zintan.
The fighting forced authorities to shut down the airport after it was devastated in shelling. The Health Ministry said that 97 people have been killed and more than 400 have been wounded in the fighting.
The violence prompted many diplomats and foreigners to flee the country, including the U.S. ambassador in Libya and United Nations staff. A Spanish military plane also evacuated 60 people from Libya, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday. The Spanish ambassador will remain in Tripoli with a reduced staff.
A cease-fire deal over the airport fighting mediated by Tripoli's City Council fell apart hours after they declared it late Monday, leaving council members pleading with the militias to withdraw from at least a 3-kilometre (1.86 mile) radius to allow firefighters to fight the blaze. The government ordered firefighters to withdraw amid new clashes.
Gunfire struck a fourth oil tank Tuesday, but it didn't catch on fire, said Samir Kamal, a senior official with Libya's state-run oil company.
Kamal said up to 80 million litres (21 million gallons) of oil and liquid natural gas are in the area, as well as gas cylinders used for cooking.
"We are afraid that if fire sweeps the whole area … (there will be) huge explosions that can impact lives of residents living in a 5-kilometre (3.11- mile) radius of the tanks," he said.
The fighting in Tripoli comes as the eastern city of Benghazi has seen monthslong battles between Islamist-led militias and forces allied with renegade Gen. Khalifa Hifter, who has launched a campaign aimed at crushing Islamist extremists.
On Tuesday, Islamist-led militias in the eastern city of Benghazi claimed to have taken control of one of the main barracks of the Special Force, which is allied with Hifter. On its official Facebook page, the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries posted pictures of bulldozers knocking down barracks walls. In a second picture, masked gunmen posed in front of a demolished tower identified as being inside the barracks.
The Special Force was the only force composed of professional troops in Benghazi and has support among many residents for taking the lead in fighting Islamist forces. The Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries also claimed it seized five other Special Force camps, which if true would mean the force had been push out of the city.
Health officials said that at least 38 people were killed earlier this week in fighting between the two sides. Hospital official Habib al-Ubaidi said he expects the death toll to rise dramatically after the attacks on the camps.
Meanwhile, a Libyan fighter jet crashed after Hifter's forces launched series of nighttime airstrikes hitting positions of Islamist-led militias including those of Ansar al-Shariah. That's the al-Qaida-inspired group the U.S. blames for the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Mohammed Hegazi, a spokesman for Hifter's so-called National Army, claimed that the fighter jet crashed due to a "technical failure" and that the pilot safely escaped by parachute.
However, the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries claimed responsibility for the "downing" the fighter jet.
Over the past two years, successive governments have relied solely on militias — originated from rebels who fought Gadhafi's forces — to maintain order after the military and police were shattered during the war. However, militias mushroomed in size and power and quickly turned against elected authorities.
The militias have been blamed in a wave of abductions and killings targeting activists, judges and clerics.
The latest victim appears to be Mustafa Abushagur, Libya's first elected prime minister after Gadhafi, who a relative said had been kidnapped Tuesday. Abushagur — depicted by opponents as Islamist-leaning — didn't serve as a prime minister after he was elected by the General National Congress as his Cabinet makeup was rejected by parliament.
Abushagur's successor, Ali Zidan, also once was kidnapped by militias before he was released by another militia.


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For the Love of Physics
From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time — A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
Walter Lewin, with Warren Goldstein
Free Press, 302 pp., $26
For more than 30 years, the pioneering
astrophysicist Walter Lewin taught core curriculum physics courses to undergraduates at the
. For this alone, he probably ought to be put on the fast track for canonization. To most career physicists in exalted places like MIT and Caltech, undergraduates are things you bump into in the hall.
Now blessedly emeritus, Lewin has apparently not lost one iota of his enthusiasm for his life's work. In "For the Love of Physics" (written with
historian Warren Goldstein), he recaps his adventures in the classroom for the benefit of all you graduates of liberal arts colleges who didn't have to take Physics 1 and in later life may feel that something huge and important is missing.
"I've always tried to make physics come alive for my students," Lewin writes. "I believe it's much more important for them to remember the beauty of the discoveries than to focus on the complicated math — after all, most of them aren't going to become physicists." One chapter is titled "The Magic of Drinking With a Straw."
In embracing the layman and laywoman, Lewin has become a star not only of
but also of MIT's OpenCourseWare on the Web ("Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required."), which presents nearly 100 of his lectures on Newtonian mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and vibrations and waves. These consist largely of engaging and sometimes alarming classroom demonstrations of such fundamental physical principles as the action of a pendulum, which Lewin demonstrates by straddling a steel plumb bob suspended from the ceiling and whizzing back and forth across the room (a photo of him doing this serves as the book's jacket illustration).
"One of my favorite in-class demonstrations involves two paint cans and a rifle," he tells us. To show his students that air is compressible and water isn't, he fires at both cans, one full and the other partly full of water, and the former explodes ("As you may imagine, it's really very dramatic").
All this is a far cry from quantum theory or, say, the fluctuating two-dimensional branes that some of Lewin's more theoretically inclined colleagues think constitute the physical world's real reality. But Lewin, a physicist of the experimental variety, takes a slightly jaundiced view of theoretical physics. "I'm skeptical of theories that can't be verified by means of measurements," he writes. "[W]hen theory gets way out there, I am reminded of my grandmother, [who] used to tell me, for instance, that you are shorter when standing up than when lying down." She was right, as it happens, and Lewin demonstrates it in class with the aid of some snugly calibrated and exceedingly cool measuring equipment.
Physics can indeed be alarming, especially when you're deep into quantum territory, where information appears to be transmitted at greater than light speed and an electron finds itself in two places at once. Such matters evoke the kind of existential horror that's a lot worse than worrying that your pendulum-borne professor will smack his head against a desk.
Nevertheless, Lewin's joy in communicating "the workings of our world and its astonishing elegance and beauty" is infectious. You will learn a lot from "For the Love of Physics": How to see rainbows in the shower and fogbows in the fog (car headlights; pull over); how to give yourself a halo; how to make a battery with a potato, a penny, a nail and a couple of wires. The concluding chapters are a primer on his specialty, cosmic X-rays (so named because, initially, "they were 'unknown' (like the x in an equation)." In his attractively unworldly (for an author) way, he peppers his book with helpful Web addresses. Those of you who are sick and tired of the printed word can catch him swinging back and forth on YouTube or at
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Baptists are a variety of Evangelical Protestantism. Baptists claim 90 million members worldwide, approximately seventy percent of which reside in the United States. It should be noted that Baptist members are adults who have been baptized. Baptists do not count children as members.
Historical origins
Baptists cannot trace their denomination's beginnings to any one founder. Most reputable historians teach that John Smyth and Thomas Helwys, two Englishmen connected to the separatist movement from the Church of England, gave this group its general ideas, though. Smyth and Helwys disagreed with the Church of England on doctrines such as infant baptism (hence the name Baptist), ecclesiastical authority, and church-state relations, among other things. Since the separatist movement was persecuted by the English government, Smyth exiled himself to the Netherlands and established the first Baptist church there in 1609. Helwys, however, stayed in England and started the first English Baptist church two years later. Today, this schismatic group is referred to as the General Baptists. Years later, though, the Particular Baptists, who shared a more Calvinist theology, arose. They offically emerged in 1644 with their London Confession of Faith.
Some also believe the Baptists got their start from the Anabaptists. However, this is unlikely, due to the fact that Baptists and Anabaptists disagree on many issues (such as practices and doctrines relating to church discipline and pacifism).
Another view known as Landmarkism teaches that the first Baptists were the discples of St. John the Baptist. This, however, is extremely unlikely as Baptism espouses many doctrines that developed either in post-schism Catholicism or in other Protestant sects, more than a millennium after Christ. The most notable denomination that holds this view is the American Baptists.
Since there are at least sixty-five Baptist bodies with no structured ecclesiology, it's hard to precisely define their doctrines. Nevertheless, there are some points common to all Baptists. For example, most adherents place strong emphasis on the independence of the individual person ("individual soul liberty"), independence of the each church, affirmation of the believer's baptism, and distinctively American concepts such as freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
Orthodoxy disagrees with Baptists on:
Baptists are part of the "congregationalist" heresy, meaning that they don't have bishops or any traditional ecclesiological structures. Instead, Congregationalist church governance gives autonomy to individual local churches in areas of policy, polity and doctrine. Baptist churches are not under the direct administrative control of any other body, such as a national council, or a leader such as a bishop or pope. Administration, leadership and doctrine are usually decided democratically by the lay members of each individual church, which accounts for the variation of beliefs from one Baptist church to another. Such a system allows for each person to decide independently to believe whatever they wish, making it effectively impossible for a single Tradition or the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church to be preserved. Also, Baptists ascribe to a doctrine called the "priesthood of all believers." This notion states that every Christian has direct access to God and the truths found in the Bible using his own rational faculties, without the help of a priest to cleanse the noetic faculty to see the Light of Christ. Thus priests are made into mere church leaders or financial managers, not guides of Christian life as the presiders of the Divine Liturgy.
Baptists firmly believe in sola Scriptura (Scripture alone). Properly understood, this is the concept of Scripture as a unified whole, utilizing literary critism called "historical Biblical scholarship," which was pioneered in the late 19th century, while rejecting the previous two millennia of commentaries by the Holy Fathers. Orthodoxy, however, knows Holy Tradition to hold and interpret the Bible within itself. Like all Protestants, Baptists reject the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament, considering them to be less than divinely inspired. Biblical inerrancy is yet another common heresy among fundamentalist Baptists.
Baptism, commonly referred to as believer's baptism among Baptists, is an ordinance that according to Baptist doctrine plays no role in salvation. That is, the act of baptism does not actually save a person or cleanse him from all his sins. Instead, it is merely an outward observance, properly performed only after salvation, which occurs when a person professes Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. This completely opposes Orthodoxy, which regards baptism as a real supernatural transformation, through which the believer dies and rises again with Christ in a very real manner.
Through Anabaptist influence, Baptists reject the practice of pedobaptism, or infant baptism, because they believe parents cannot make a decision of salvation for an infant. Related to this doctrine is the disputed concept of an "age of accountability" when God determines that a mentally capable person is accountable for their sins and eligible for baptism. In contrast, reason and mental capacity are not essential factors in either Orthodox baptism or Holy Communion. This "tradition" arose from the legalistic, overly rationalistic theology of the Roman Catholic Church, which puts the rational intellect above all else, whereas Orthodoxy places the noetic faculty above all.
Baptists, like nearly all Protestants, hold a sola fide soteriology. This is an interpretation contrary to the Fathers, placing central emphasis of a Calvinist reading of Ephesians 2:8 ("For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God"). Their interpretation states that a person must only willfully repent of sin, accept the substitutionary payment of his own sin by faith in Christ's death, and declares that Jesus is Lord in order to attain salvation. Like most Western Christians, there is a dichotomy placed between "faith" and "works." Thus, any mention of the necessity of "works" such as fasting, prayer, or charity being necessary or even helpful for the soul are anathema. However, it should be noted that most Baptists, like other evangelical Christians, believe that a reformed life and continued spiritual growth following conversion are important proofs that one's conversion was genuine. When an individual claims to have placed faith in Christ but does not show spiritual and moral growth, the sincerity of that individual's conversion is doubted. Baptists, like other Western Christians, do not speak of theosis like the Orthodox. Like other evangelical Christians, most Baptists do speak of sanctification, a process whereby the saved individual is gradually reformed by the interior action of the Holy Spirit to become more and more like Christ.


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Elegant - Vintage Inspired - Wedding Dress
Added Oct 3, 2013
by JolJol
Sydney, Australia
The Bride was reluctant to try on wedding dresses in a bridal salon, so I offered to make a dress for her. Having previously made items for this bride to be, I was able to advise her on the correct style and shape best suited to her body shape and the feel that she was looking for in her dress. As I work full time I was only able to work on the dress, in the evenings and on week-ends over a 10 week period, from the beginning this was a dream project to work on from the first toile to the finished garment. Spending many hours working on this dress was a pure joy, when you work with beautiful fabrics such as these, it makes the construction so enjoyable. The bride did lose some weight before the wedding so her dress is a little loose in places but I was the only one to notice.
Material Notes
Ivory Corded Lace, Blush Silk Satin, rayon lining, boning, horsehair braid, covered buttons, invisible zipper, interfacing (woven).
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Oct 3, 2013, 10.17 PMby quiltsewsewsue
Great job – the bride looks beautiful!
Oct 3, 2013, 09.57 PMby Sara Álvarez
This is stunning! Great job
Oct 3, 2013, 08.11 PMby Redlin
Lovely detailing, craftmanship is excellent and the choice of style is very fitting to the bride!
Oct 3, 2013, 06.41 PMby papermothballvintage
Beautiful! Wedding dresses are the most stressful, but most enjoyable! I love the lace placement and choice.
Oct 3, 2013, 06.36 PMby carolynsuzanne
Gorgeous! the fabric really does look like a joy to work with
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Wow, you have created such a beautiful dress.
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Wunderwunderschön! Eine wunderschöne Braut in einem tollen Kleid.
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Wow, just beautiful!
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A beautiful dress for a beautiful bride :-)
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1. Details of the training programme for the review experts of GHG inventories
The courses of the training programme are intended to train review experts for the technical review of information reported under the Convention related to GHG inventories by Annex I Parties.
The courses of the training programme are mandatory for any expert with relevant GHG inventory experience, who has not previously participated in GHG inventory reviews. Each trainee taking the basic course will be required to study the general module and one sector-specific module. Trainees are allocated to sector-specific modules based on their previous experience in national GHG inventories and the needs of the inventory review process. At the request of any Party, the training courses will also be made available to other experts interested in the technical review of GHG inventories.
All courses are available on-line and offered through the Internet in an e-learning format for a study period of six weeks each year. During this period, trainees are expected to dedicate time to complete and follow the on-line courses. Instructors are available during this period to answer questions on the course content and to monitor the individual performance of trainees throughout their study. for trainees with limited access to Internet, the secretariat can provide the e-learning courses on a CD-ROM. The working language for the training is English. A good command of this language is required for participating in the training programme.
Following completion of the on-line courses, the UNFCCC secretariat conducts a closing training seminar for around 30 trainees each year to provide additional hands-on experience with inventory review materials. During the seminar, trainees conduct a simulation of a centralized review of real GHG inventory materials with the support of instructors and the secretariat. The seminar will conclude with mandatory two examinations for all trainees on the basic course contents, covering both general and sector-specific aspects of inventory reviews. Additional regional training seminars following a study period of six weeks may also be offered, depending on the availability of resources.
The on-line courses are also available to trainees all year round, without support of instructors. In this case, other arrangements for examinations could be made, provided that examinations take place under the supervision of the secretariat and that this does not require additional resources.
New GHG inventory review experts who successfully complete the requirements of the training programme and pass the mandatory examinations will be invited to participate in centralized or in-country reviews under the Convention, working alongside experienced review experts. New review experts who do not pass an examination at the first attempt may retake the examination once only, provided that the expert has fulfilled all of the tasks assigned during the training in a timely manner and that the retake does not require the secretariat to incur additional costs.
Basic course
The course, in its general module, covers a comprehensive introduction to the new "Guidelines for the technical review of information reported under the Convention related to greenhouse gas inventories, biennial reports and national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention" in the part related to the GHG inventory reviews, an overview of the "Guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention, Part I: UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual greenhouse gas inventories", guidance on procedures and approaches for the technical review of GHG inventories and general IPCC inventory guidance with the application of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines.
The course, in its individual modules, covers specific aspects of the review of the energy; industrial processes and product use; agriculture; land use, land-use change and forestry; and waste sectors. This course also provides guidance on drafting substantive review reports that are consistent among review teams and reader friendly.
Target audience: New and experienced review experts of GHG inventories.
Type of course: On-line facilitated by instructors, with a closing training seminar.
Examination requirements: New review experts of GHG inventories must pass the general examination and a sectoral examination before participating in expert review teams. Lead reviewers and experienced review experts of GHG inventories are encouraged to take the examinations. Examinations are in writing and conducted in person.
Review of complex models and higher tier methods
The course provides general guidance, procedures, and specific aspects for the review of emission estimates performed using complex models and higher tier methods, in particular tier 3 methods. For this course are implemented two optional self-check electronic examinations, one for the LULUCF sector and the other for all the other IPCC sectors.
Target audience: Lead reviewers and review experts of GHG inventories.
Type of course: On-line without instructors.
Examination requirements: Optional with self-check electronic examination.
Improving communication and building consensus in expert review teams
The course covers cross-cultural communication and conflict avoidance and provides tools to improve the work of expert review teams and facilitate teamwork.
Target audience: Lead reviewers and review experts of GHG inventories.
Type of course: On-line without instructors.
Examination requirements: Optional with self-check electronic examination.
Refresher seminar for experienced GHG inventory review experts
The annual seminar provides general guidance on specific and complex aspects of the technical review of GHG emission estimates. It enables experienced review experts to strengthen and refresh their knowledge, in relation to both cross-cutting aspects and sector-specific issues, including relevant supplementary information.
Target audience: Lead reviewers and experienced review experts of GHG inventories.
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The York College men's tennis squad began its 2010 fall campaign with a quality first showing of the year at the Muhlenberg Fall Classic. The Green and White captured five of the tournament's nine divisions.
In the first singles match, Spartan newcomer Gavin Smith defeated Stefan Apostolos of Moravian, 6-3, 6-3 in a straight sets. In the championship Smith picked up the victory by default.
In third singles, Ryan Harvey defeated Dakkota Deem of Wilkes, 6-0, 3-6, 1-0 (10-6). Unfortunately for the Spartans, Harvey was defeated in the championship by Nick Yelito of Moravian, 8-3.
Colin Jones defeated Stefan Toulouse of Moravian in the fourth singles match 6-1, 6-4. In the championship, Jones defeated Clarke Freeman. In the consolation, James Villari defeated Brian Mintz of Muhlenberg, 8-5.
Fifth singles saw Philip Myers defeat Jason Richman of Muhlenberg, 6-1, 6-2. In the championship Myers registered a 9-7 triumph over Wilkes' Alex Makos.
In sixth singles, Justin Hostetter beat Robert Buesser of Muhlenberg, 6-2, 6-1 before taking the championship 9-8 (8-6) over Jon Rohrbach of Wilkes.
In doubles play, Jones and Travis Klein defeated the tandem Wayne Mitchel and Jason Teitelbaum of Muhlenberg, 8-2. In the championship, the Spartan pair suffered an 8-3 loss at the hands of Wilkes' Evan Katz and Clarke Freeman.
In second doubles, Smith and Hostetter bested the combination of Deem and Makos by an 8-2 count. In the championship, Smith and Hostetter defeated the team of Drew Shreter and Nick Yelito of Moravian, 8-5
In the third and final doubles match, Harvey and Myers defeated Stefan Toulouse and Craig Bunting of Moravian, 8-1. In the championship, Harvey and Myers ousted Wes McCollum and Jason Rohrbach, 8-5
The Green and White return to action on Wednesday, September 29, as they host Goucher in a 3:30 pm match.
Collin Jones photo courtesy of Brent Duffy
Story written by Heather MacLennan - York College Athletic Communications practicum student


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The No. 15 CCRI women's basketball team will host the Region XXI Tournament this weekend. The Lady Knights are the No. 1 seed and will play Orange County CC on Saturday at noon at the Vin Cullen Fieldhouse. That game will be followed by the match-up between second-seeded Monroe and third-seeded Dean College. The winners of Saturday's game will meet for the championship on Sunday at 1 p.m.
CCRI heads into the tournament off a loss to Division I power ASA College in the regular season finale. The Lady Knights fell to the Avengers 74-68 and dropped to 21-4 on the season.
The Lady Knights knew that they were going to be in for a tough contest, playing a nationally-ranked Division I program that has four players over six feet. In the first half the Avengers' size and quickness pushed the Lady Knights back on their heels, and ASA went to the break leading 34-26. In the second half the Lady Knights dug deep to keep the Avengers close. CCRI played at a frenetic pace late in the game to force several Avenger turnovers, which they used to trim the deficit to just four points with just 29 seconds left in the game. That was a close as the Lady Knights would get as they fell by six.
The Lady Knights were led by Moe Plummer (Fairfield, Conn.), who scored a career-high and game-high 21 points, including three 3-pointers. Sophomore Nyjah Porcher (New Britain, Conn.) added 13 points, including 11 in the second half with eight rebounds and five of the Lady Knights' seven steals. The eight rebounds for Porcher give her 488 for her career to tie her with Roxanne Reid (2003-04) for third on the CCRI all-time rebounding list. Sophomore co-captain Jahira Smith (Brooklyn, N.Y.) added 14 points with five assists. Smith now has 953 career points and needs just four points to become CCRI's all-time leading scorer.
"I think we played very hard," said head coach Kate Lynch. "We made some mental errors which cost us, but playing a team like ASA will certainly prepare us for our regionals."
The Lady Knights celebrated their annual Pink Out at the game, where they raised money for breast cancer awareness. In addition, the Lady Knights celebrated sophomore day and honored Smith, Plummer, Porcher, Jess Randall (Warwick), Treedy Ward (Boynton Beach, Fla.), Lindsey Nash (Manchester, Conn.) and Jenna Ayala (Paterson, N.J.).
"I love our sophomores," Lynch said. "They're a really fun group to be around and they work hard day in day out. They've built this program to where it is right now and that's a testament to the type of young ladies that they are – tough, focused, determined. We are all going to miss them next year, but we still have the regionals to focus on right now and I know they're looking forward to preparing for playoffs."
Knights notch crucial win over Warriors
CCRI closed out the regular season on Thursday with a 76-60 victory over Massasoit, which qualified the Knights for the Region XXI Championship. The Knights will travel to Franklin, Mass., to take on Dean College for the championship on Saturday at 1 p.m. CCRI will be looking to win its fifth Region XXI Championship in seven years.
The win over Massasoit was sparked by freshman Chris Light (Derry, N.H.), who made four three-pointers. Light buried two in the first half to propel the Knights to a 10-point lead with five minutes left, and CCRI took a nine-point lead into halftime. The Knights played excellent zone defense in the second half and were able to stretch their lead to 15 points at the 12:19 mark. From there a balanced scoring attack finished the game off for the Knights.
CCRI was led by sophomore Desmond Williams (Torrington, Conn.), who scored a team-high 17 points with five rebounds, three steals and two assists while facing box and one pressure defense the entire game. Sophomore Isaac Medeiros (Johnston) scored 16 points while hauling in seven rebounds. Medeiros was helped up front by freshman Elijah Okagbare (Bourne, Mass.), who added eight points and six rebounds. Sophomore Bryan Yarce (Cranston) scored 11 points and dished out 10 assists, and Light tallied 14 points on the three-pointers and an emphatic slam dunk late in the second half.
The Knights honored their five sophomores before the game: Williams, Yarce, Medeiros, Rob Alers (Central Falls), and Steve Bevilacqua (Exeter).
"Very satisfying to see our sophomores and 13 strong come up with a great performance tonight," head coach Rick Harris said. "I am so happy to be able to continue working next week with our sophomores and the entire team as we prepare to go after our fifth New England Championship in the past seven years. Just like tonight it will take 13 strong working for one common goal, to be the best we are capable of being."
Allen honored by Words Unlimited
CCRI cross country and track star Bobby Allen (Cranston) was honored as the Tom Doherty Male Athlete of the Year at the 67th annual Words Unlimited Sports Awards Banquet on Sunday. Allen became the first-ever CCRI student-athlete to earn this prestigious award which has been won in the past by Rhode Island sports legends such as Ernie DiGregorio, Davey Lopes, Mark Van Eeghen, Brad Faxon and Rocco Baldelli, just to name a few.
In a year and a half with the Knights, Allen has amassed six All-American honors, four national championships, two national records and six college records for the Knights. With indoor and outdoor track seasons to finish during his CCRI career, he has an opportunity to earn additional All-American and national championship honors.


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Could "vaccine diplomacy" work on the Korean peninsula? The short answer is yes.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in a New Year's Day speech, called for reductions in international tension and an end to confrontation with South Korea, while raising the prospect of reunification between the North and South. Ultimately, science diplomacy could play an essential role in helping catalyze improved North-South relations in 2013, with joint programs for elimination of neglected diseases as a cornerstone.
To understand how this might work, it is helpful to examine how North Korea and South Korea diverged more than 50 years ago in their respective disease-control efforts.
Today, South Korea has one of the world's largest economies and is a member of the Group of 20 major economic powers, but in the period after World War II, the South and the North were equals. Both countries were impoverished — among the poorest in Asia — and comparable to some sub-Saharan African nations today in terms of economic development. Most schoolchildren were infected with intestinal worms, and accumulated evidence indicates that these parasites actually impeded economic development by reducing future wage earning, possibly through their adverse effects on children's growth and intellectual development.


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RIAA Files Expected Appeal Over Judge's Decision To Decrease Jury Award In Jammie Thomas Trial
from the how-dare-the-judge-be-reasonable! dept
Whether the District Court erred by concluding that making a copyrighted work available for download on an online file-sharing network is insufficient to constitute a 'distribution' under 106(3) of the Copyright Act, and therefore refusing to enjoin Defendant from making Plaintiffs' copyrighted sound recordings available to the public.All three are interesting legal questions. The last one may be the biggest, but the hardest to succeed on. The reasoning used so far by two different judges in dropping jury awards is that the jury awards were so out of line with reality that they violated due process. The RIAA is scared to death that any sort of reasonable awards be associated with copyright law, because they're still under the ridiculously misguided belief that absolutely insane judgments for millions of dollars will scare people into no longer sharing files. The thing is, it's likely they have this misjudged in a big, bad way. The awards in the millions of dollars for just a few songs seem so incredible and so unfathomable, that most people simply think it's impossible. I honestly believe that they'd have a lot more luck if the fines were seen as much lower and much more within the grasp of the average file sharer. But the RIAA is not known for thinking logically.
Whether the District Court erred by concluding that it had committed an error in instructing the jury that making a copyrighted work available for download on a online file-sharing network constitutes a "distribution' under 106(3) of the copyright Act and therefor vacating the jury's verdict and ordering a new trial.
Whether the District Court erred by holding that the jury's award of statutory damages for defendant's willful copyright infringement violated the due process clause even though it was well within the range of damages awards authorized by 504(c) of the Copyright Act.
The first two issues are actually important as well, though they'll get less attention. It's a key fighting point by the RIAA: which is whether or not a copyright holder needs to prove actual distribution to show an infringement of the distribution right under copyright law... or if merely "making available" constitutes distribution. This has been a major point of contention. The RIAA relies on a case about library books to say that merely "making available" is a violation of the distribution right, but other rulings and basic common sense on what constitutes distribution, suggest that merely making available is not, in fact, distribution by itself.


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It's been quite awhile since I've spoken about music and I know you all are just dying to see what my latest obsession is (ha!) Even though that may not be the case I couldn't contain myself from telling you about the Imagine Dragons.
Their album is one of the best I've heard in ages. Ages, I say! They don't just have one good song. Each song is different AND each song is good. It doesn't get better than that. Here is their first single from the album Continued Silence EP called "it's Time". I love this video because speaks to me of their artistry -- for them it's all about the music.
Good no? Now go give the whole album a listen, you won't regret it!


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Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies or credit-bearing, career-oriented internships abroad. Such international exchange is intended to better prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.
International experience is critically important in the educational and career development of American students, but it can also require a substantial financial investment. The Gilman Scholarship Program broadens the student population that studies and interns abroad by supporting undergraduates who might not otherwise participate due to financial constraints. The program aims to encourage students to study and intern in a diverse array of countries and world regions. The program also encourages students to study languages, especially critical need languages (those deemed important to national security and diplomacy). By supporting undergraduate students who have high financial need, the program has been successful in supporting students who have been historically underrepresented in education abroad, including but not limited to first-generation college students, students in STEM fields, ethnic minority students, students with disabilities, students attending HBCUs or other minority-serving institutions, students attending community colleges, and students coming from U.S. states with less study abroad participation. The program seeks to assist students from a diverse range of public and private institutions from all 50 states, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico.
Award recipients are chosen by a competitive selection process and must use the award to defray eligible study or intern abroad costs. These costs include program tuition, room and board, books, local transportation, insurance and international airfare.
This congressionally funded program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and is administered by the Institute of International Education through its office in Houston, TX. Named after retired congressman Benjamin A. Gilman from New York, the program was established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000. Congressman Gilman, who retired in 2002 after serving in the House of Representatives for 30 years and chairing the House Foreign Relations Committee, commented, "Study abroad is a special experience for every student who participates. Living and learning in a vastly different environment of another nation not only exposes our students to alternate views, but also adds an enriching social and cultural experience. It also provides our students with the opportunity to return home with a deeper understanding of their place in the world, encouraging them to be a contributor, rather than a spectator in the international community."
Award Benefits
Over 2,800 scholarships of up to $5,000 will be awarded this academic year for U.S. citizen undergraduates to study or intern abroad. Award amounts will vary depending on the length of study and student need.
Applicants who are studying a critical need language while abroad in a country in which the language is predominantly spoken will automatically be considered for the Critical Need Language Award, for a total award of $8,000. Please note that this award is competitive and offered to a limited number of students each year. During the 2015-2016 academic year, 70 Critical Need Language Awards were offered.
Critical Need Languages include:
- Arabic
- Azerbaijani
- Bangla
- Chinese
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Persian
- Punjabi
- Russian
- Swahili
- Turkish
- Urdu
Link to Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship: http://www.iie.org/Programs/Gilman-Scholarship-Program


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I learnt to do 360 spherical images for the computer graphics i create. I was able to create light probes from stiching bracketed images which allowed me to easily composite 3d objects into a scene.
Now it has evolved beyond that to an artform. I really like to try and find places that look beautiful once they are unfolded into the equilatteral format.


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Seal and his now-estranged wife Heidi Klum never once considered staying together for the sake of their kids – because they don't think that's a healthy way of living.
The two shocked the world last weekend by confirming reports they were splitting up and the Kiss From a Rose singer admits he didn't want to deceive the pair's four kids by pretending nothing was wrong.
In a candid TV interview with U.S. show Access Hollywood, Seal says, "You often hear couples talk about, 'We stay together because of the kids'. I don't necessarily understand how healthy that is because kids are a lot smarter than you think they are… They're very intuitive. In fact, we are less intuitive than they are… and if there is any disconnect they pick up on it.
"We talk to them, we tried to explain as best we could what is going on… just explaining to them that things will be different without going into too much detail, but a lot of things won't change.
"The main thing is to make sure that they feel that they're loved, make sure that they understand that their parents love each other, make sure that they understand that if there are any changes it is absolutely nothing to do with them and it won't change the amount of time… in actual fact it may even improve the amount of time that we spend with them, quality time."
And the soul singer reiterates, the marriage fell apart because the two busy stars spent so little time together: "When you decide to be globally known you've gotta service the globe and you just grow apart… You find yourself… spending more time apart and that's just not really healthy."


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Tomorrow, April 22, is the 41st annual Earth Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness and appreciation for the environment. We think it's a great time to encourage and support practical efforts to help protect the planet. Every little bit counts, and it's easier than you think!
Encourage your workplace to get involved. It's easy to recycle, reuse, and repurpose. Create recycling areas for all paper and plastic. Ask colleagues to reuse paper and print double-sided; you'll reduce unnecessary waste and stretch your office supply budget at the same time. Eliminate plastic and Styrofoam waste in the break room by repurposing old dishes and utensils from home.
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