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Priests give Hitler salute at a Catholic youth rally in the Berlin-Neukolln stadium in August 1933.
Over 20,000,000 Russians were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazis. (Read " The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Might one ask what your source is for this information?  I am interested since it was Francis Xavier who was the first Christian missionary to Japan in 1549.  I have not seen any mention of "forced conversions" in India.Ebor
But much like the swastika, the salute given in this picture did not become associated predominantly with Hitler until after his madness during the late 30's/early 40's. I remember reading one time that many people used this type of salute with no evil intention meant, as people also used the swastika for a long time in a way that was not close to what it later came to represent to most people. So it really wasn't a "Hitler salute," but more like a recognition of a civil/societal leader.
Also, from what little I've read/watched, while Hitler's tactics were always thuggish (when he could get away with it), they weren't truly insane (so far as I've read) in the early 30's.
I mean, the Orthodox (including many in ROCOR) in Germany were not that much more vocal contra Hitler, were they?
MoWell, I've not read William Shirer, but I have read Solzhenitsyn, and it seems to me that if his account in the Gulag Archipelago (not to mention lots of Orthodox religious books I've read) were at all accurate, then the Soviets sacrificed millions, so I'm not sure that the Nazis can be fully blamed for that. I think it'd be more accurate to say that Stalin, Lenin, et al. killed 20 million, and that Hitler and his ilk had a part to play.
Untrue. Over 20,000,000 Russians were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazis. (Read " The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer) . Perhaps youve spent too much time watching History Channel and too little time reviewing historical record.
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It does seem pretty fitting. Ako's the one who was most serious about making the nationals, originally planning to join that other big highschool in Nagano (lol, I forgot the name now...damn). She also seems to have a pretty uptight personality, :P. I think she's pretty interesting.
The character I'm most concerned for at the moment is actually Shizuno. She's like, the main protagonist, but we haven't really seen anything yet to indicate she can play at National level. She doesn't seem to have any outstanding skills in particular and she even dealt into a haneman. I'm really curious how she'll even put up a challenge when she gets to go against Saki.
Achiga right now still feels kinda weak; not even at the level of Kiyosumi at the prefecturals level, where all they had were pretty much Hisa, Nodoka, and Saki. The semi-finals match is already over, but I hope that maybe this Tsuruga training arc will go a bit slower so we can see the Achiga team becoming real badasses.
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Achiga-hen team is from Nara.
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Thanks Sol.. I always had the idea that Kuro was their best player, since she's the only one shown with an ability at the start of the manga..
Though only Yuu have shown her ability thus far together with Kuro.. Maybe the rest are just talented players but without an ability?
I hope Achiga don't progress though.. It would be an insult to Senriyama and Shiratodai if they did..
Shiratodai is a sure shoe-in for the finals, but it's whether Senriyama or the other school (I highly doubt so) will progress and I for one think it'll be fitting for Senriyama to progress..
Specs girl will be studying all Kiyosumi and Rinkai (I'm putting my bet on Rinkai to progress) players like what she did with Kuro and the others..
It's gonna be a fun fun finals.. And I don't think Momo can teach them much.. She's eventually still a loser to Saki..
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Eisui will probably get another chance in the semi-finals; but I do really like Miyamori, so I'm okay with slowing down a little to flesh them out while we have the chance.
What I am concerned about is how fast Achiga's going. Also, Ritz taking another damn break apparently, lol. But by itself, I think this chapter is fine.
Toyone did reveal another ability/skill. Also, while Kyouko's "change of strategies" did get her knocked on her ass again, I'm still expecting her to put on at least a little bit of a performance in order to back up the faith that Hiroe showed in her. What I'm really looking forward to though, I guess, is seeing just what kind of monster Saki has become. lol, this is practically the first time we've seen her playing since her match in the preliminaries. Saki's behaviour is pretty noticeably different from the time she was playing against Koromo; newb/gimmick stuff like taking her socks off feels like it's long gone. I think this match has been going pretty well.
Anyway, while I was trawling the /a/ archives for Saki discussion a ran across a couple tenhou replays that are absolutely insane, lol. Check these out: the interface is in Japanese but I managed to figure it out just by clicking around; post if you need more detailed instructions.
Hahaha, people who think that Saki's mahjong matches are bullshit should totally just check these out.
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Not to mention he only had one 'Qing Fa' at that time.. Sick!!!! Plus that last dora.. -.-'
2nd one: His starting tiles are good enough with good draws so that's less sick than the 1st one imo...
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It gives me the feeling that Ritz is not giving a damn to Saki. She seems to be more interested in working on Achiga instead. That is not acceptable!!
I wish I had even 25% of it.. T_T
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The list of fools who have brought this disaster upon us certainly also will include New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the gelatinous clown who (a) hogged up a prime time spot at the Republican convention to sing his own praises; (b) embraced Obama as the hero of Hurricane Sandy; and (c) then refused to appear at campaign events in support of Romney's presidential campaign. Good luck with the remainder of your political future, governor. It is unlikely Republicans shall soon forget your perfidious betrayal. [The American Spectator, 11/7/12]
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As the Obama administration was taking incoming fire for its mismanagement of emergency-relief efforts in response to Hurricane Sandy, Mr. Christie handed Mr. Obama a big gift in the form of photo-ops, public hugs and gratuitously complimentary statements about the job done by the opposing party's standard-bearer. [The Washington Times, 11/7/12]
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Fox's Laura Ingraham: "It Would Not Surprise Me If Chris Christie At Some Point Became A Democrat." Conservative radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham claimed that Chris Christie's praise of the president went to the point of "embarrassing himself." She added:
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Let me tell you something, Chris Christie -- it would not surprise me if Chris Christie at some point became a Democrat, doesn't surprise me one bit. It really doesn't, in the end. [The Daily Caller, 11/6/12]
Attacks On Christie Follow Rupert Murdoch's Warning To Christie That He Would "Take Blame" For Romney Loss
Murdoch To Christie: Re-Endorse Romney "Or Take Blame" For Romney Defeat. Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Fox News parent company News Corp., warned Governor Christie on Twitter that after his thanks to the president for assistance during Hurricane Sandy, he must "re-declare for Romney" or "take blame for next four dire years":
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Feetwashing, also called the "washing of the saints' feet," was in the 1950s observed as an ordinance by most Mennonites in the world. It was customarily based on the express command and example of Jesus, who washed His disciples' feet at the Last Supper (John 13:1-17), and on the statement by Paul (1 Timothy 5:9, 10) that having washed the saints' feet was a qualification for a widow's acceptance into the church widows' group. Rarely has the Old Testament practice of washing the feet of visitors as an act of hospitality toward strangers (Genesis 18:4; Genesis 19:2; Genesis 24:32; Genesis 43:24; Judges 19:21; 1 Samuel 25:40, 41) been used to support the practice, except in the early days in Holland, when the practice in some groups was limited to washing the feet of visiting elders and ministers or even of laymen as a sign of affectionate recognition. The most common practice has been and still is to observe the ordinance immediately following the communion service. In the Franconia Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC), where the ordinance was long out of practice, it was observed at the preparatory service on the day preceding communion. Since most congregations that observed it in the 1950s celebrated the communion twice a year, in the spring and fall, feetwashing also came twice a year.
The most common mode of the observance is as follows: After the communion service is completed, one of the ministers or deacons reads and comments on John 13:1-17. Basins, usually small wooden or metal tubs, with warm water and towels have meanwhile been provided in sufficient quantity to permit a fairly rapid observance. These are placed, either in the front of the church or in the "amen" corners, and in the "ante-rooms," or in some cases in the rows between the benches. The sexes then wash (more properly rinse or lightly touch with water) feet separately in pairs, concluding with the greeting of the holy kiss and a "God bless you." In some localities towels are furnished in the form of short aprons to be tied by cords around the waist, in presumed imitation of Jesus "girding himself," though most commonly ordinary towels are used. In some congregations the practice is not pair-washing but rowwashing, in which case each person washes the feet of his right-hand neighbor in turn in a continuous chain (United Missionary Church, some General Conference Mennonite congregations). In the Church of God in Christ Mennonite group the ministers wash each other's feet first, and then wash the feet of all the brethren in turn, the ministers' wives doing the same for the sisters.
Although the interpretation of the ordinance may vary, it is always held to be symbolical of a spiritual lesson, and is never considered to have any religious value per se, or to be a "good work." The most common interpretation is that it teaches humility and equality. Often the lesson of service is included along with the other meanings. In some instances it has been and is observed as a symbol of the daily sanctification which is needed by the Christian as he comes into contact with sin and temptation.
Among the North American Mennonite groups the observance varies. The following groups practiced it universally in the 1950s, following the communion service: Mennonite Church (MC), Conservative Mennonite Church, Old Order Amish, Evangelical Mennonites, Evangelical Mennonites (Kleine Gemeinde), Reformed Mennonites, Mennonite Brethren in Christ, United Missionary Church, Krimmer Mennonite Brethren, Church of God in Christ Mennonites. Among the acculturated groups, the practice has declined since the 1950s. The Mennonite Brethren formerly universally observed the ordinance, but in the United States in the 1950s the number was 85-90 percent of the congregations, while in Canada only a minority do so. Among the General Conference Mennonites only a small minority of the congregations practice feetwashing, depending upon the background of each congregation. A study by S. F. Pannabecker in 1929 showed that of 107 General Conference Mennonites congregations in the United States, 23 encouraged it. Of the 23, the Western District had 10, the Northern District 8. Since then the number has decreased. An official conference study in 1943 showed that then 9 congregations made it obligatory, while 14 encouraged it. The Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, who formerly practiced it universally, have almost completely dropped it. The Lower Skippack Mennonite Church (Johnson Mennonite) withdrew from the Eastern District Conference (GCM) in 1861 because it observed feetwashing, while the conference refused to make it mandatory. The Evangelical Mennonites and the Mennonite Brethren in Fernheim Colony, Paraguay, also practice feetwashing.
It was traditional in the Mennonite Church (MC) and related groups to have a collection for the alms fund or charity fund in connection with the feetwashing service. Usually the contributions are placed in the collection plate by the members individually upon completion of the feetwashing ceremony.
The History of the Ordinance: Pre-Reformation Times
In the time of Jesus it was customary for the host to make provision for the washing of the feet of guests (Luke 7:44-46), but without religious significance. Jesus gave the rite religious significance and told His disciples, "Ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you" (John 13:14, 15). Paul's report in I Corinthians 11 concerning the observance of the communion does not mention feetwashing, but this is no absolute proof that it was not practiced in Corinth. The widows' washing of "the saints' feet" (I Timothy 5:10) is clearly a rite performed only for church members, but no indication is given of when or how often it was to be done. Apparently the widows had a special office or function in the church which included this duty. The implication is that they washed the feet of others, possibly visiting brethren and sisters, rather than practicing a universal mutual ordinance.
Tertullian (145-220) of North Africa in his De Corona is the first Church Father to indicate that feetwashing was practiced in his time, but he gives no clue as to by whom or how. Ambrose of Milan (340-97) states that it was not the practice of the Roman Church, but endorses it as a symbol of sanctification. Augustine mentions it as being rejected by some. Knight (p. 816) says flatly that feetwashing always remained "a purely local peculiarity, introduced at an early date into some parts of the Catholic Church, but never universal." Among the monks in particular, the hospitality custom of feetwashing was widely practiced, and often in the name of Christ, but not as a universal ordinance of the church. For the monks the observance was often intended to express humility. St. Benedict's Rule (A.D. 529) for the Benedictine Order prescribed hospitality feetwashing in addition to a communal feetwashing for humility.
The ordinance of feetwashing persisted down through the Middle Ages, with varied interpretations and applications, more prevalent in the East than in the West. The Roman Church finally observed the practice only as a part of the liturgical festivities of the Holy Week (Maundy Thursday), not as a sacrament, while the Greek Church recognized it as a sacrament, but seldom practiced it. When practiced outside the monastery, it was gradually taken away from the laity and made a pompous ceremony for state officials and clergy. It was frequently observed at coronations of kings and emperors, and installation of popes and archbishops. As late as the 18th century it was a common feature of Maundy Thursday in European Courts, and there are references to it in Bavaria and Austria as late as 1912. Monastic feetwashing is still practiced in both Roman and Greek churches.
The Albigenses and Waldenses, two medieval sects which arose in Southern France in the 11th and 12th centuries, apparently observed feetwashing as a religious rite. The Albigenses observed it following the communion service. Among the Waldenses it was the custom to wash the feet of visiting ministers, but there is no evidence of the practice of the ordinance by the members. The Bohemian Brethren or Hussites also practiced it, at least in the 16th century. The ordinance was not introduced into the new Reformation state churches, but it was adopted by the Anabaptists.
Anabaptist-Mennonite Practice
From the beginning (1525-35) some Anabaptists practiced feetwashing, but it was not universal. It was most common in Holland and the related or descendant groups in Northwest Germany, West and East Prussia, and Russia. It was not practiced by the Swiss Brethren or Hutterites, nor by the 16th-century Anabaptists in South and Central Germany, with rare exceptions. Balthasar Hubmaier (d. 1528) practiced feetwashing at least once in his early (1525) Anabaptist congregation at Waldshut, but does not mention the ordinance in any of his writings. Sebastian Franck in 1531 (Chronica) mentions the practice as observed among some of the Swiss Brethren. William Gay claims (in an unpublished M.A. thesis of 1947 at Columbia University), though without giving documentary proof, "Among the various Anabaptist sects which sprang up all over Western Europe early in the 16th century.... footwashing as a sacramental act of communal humility was practiced almost universally at one time or another. The rite fitted in well with their tendency toward communalism, their Biblical fundamentalism, and their emphasis on self-effacing equalitarianism among the members. Often the ceremony was done in connection with a 'complete' observance of the Last Supper, with the agape and the communion itself following mutual feetwashing segregated according to sex."
If the practice was prevalent at the beginning in Switzerland and South Germany (and there is no proof of this), it must have died out very soon. There is no mention of it in the Schleitheim Confession (1527) or the Peter Riedemann Hutterite confession (1545) or in any other known source except in the writings of Pilgram Marpeck (ca. 1495-1556). Marpeck's great book of ca. 1542 (Verantwortung) makes repeated mention of feetwashing as a Christian ordinance on a par with other ordinances. The first edition of the Ausbund (n.p., 1564) contains a hymn of 25 stanzas (No. 42 in the 1742 first American edition, pp. 692-700) for use at the observance of the ordinance, still used by the Old Order Amish.
Wappler (Thuringen, 129) reports a case of feetwashing observed among the Thuringian Anabaptists. Bullinger claims there was a group called "Apostolic" Anabaptists who practiced feetwashing. This is possibly the ultimate source of a statement by E. Daniel Colberg which names an "apostolic" Anabaptist sect, "also called footwashers, who had as their ancestor Matthew Servatus" (Servaes?). Colberg adds, "modern Anabaptists are almost all footwashers as Joh. Hoornbeek has shown from their writings," probably meaning the Mennonites in North Germany and Holland.
Menno Simons (1496-1561) mentions the practice twice in his Complete Writings, but only as a hospitable practice and not as a church ordinance. However, his colleague, Dirk Philips (1504-68), gives detailed teaching on feetwashing as an ordinance in his Enchiridion of 1564 (English edition, Elkhart, 1910, pp. 388-90). His treatment reveals careful and serious thought and exhorts vigorously to its practice. There is nothing like this treatment in any other 16th-century Anabaptist writing. It was practiced in general by the Dutch Mennonites in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
The first direct evidence that feetwashing was practiced as a general ordinance in Holland is found at the time of the division of the Danziger Old Flemish ca. 1635 from the Groningen Old Flemish. The Groningen group required the observance in connection with the communion service, while the Danzigers required it only for visiting elders who came from other districts to administer baptism. and communion. For these the ordinance was to be observed in the house in which they were guests.
Out of the 19 confessions of faith produced by European Anabaptists and Mennonites from 1527 to 1874, 12 speak of the ordinance of feetwashing as a Christian practice, while 9 omit it altogether. The first one to mention it (Dutch Waterlander Confession of 1577) indicates that it is to be done for visitors from a distance, particularly refugees, but is not prescribed as a church ordinance for a worship service. The same is true for the Concept of Cologne (1591), the Twisck 33 Articles of about 1615, and the George Hansen Flemish Confession of 1678 (Danzig area). All the other seven which mention it (Olive Branch of 1627 in Holland, Dordrecht 18 Articles of 1632, Jan Centsen of 1630 in Holland, the first Prussian confession of 1660, the Prussian confession of G. Wiebe of 1792, and the confession adopted in Russia in 1874 by the Mennonite Brethren) treat it as a general ordinance of the church. The Cornelis Ris' Dutch Confession of 1773 does not mention it, probably because it was already dying out in Holland. The widely used Elbing-Waldeck catechism of 1778 includes it, as does the Russian Mennonite catechism of 1870.
The Alsatian congregations which adopted the Dordrecht Confession in 1660 were probably the channel for the adoption of the same confession with its feetwashing article by the Amish schismatic group which originated 1693-97 in Switzerland. The Amish have ever since been fully committed to feetwashing and in fact were distinguished from the other Mennonites of Switzerland, France, the Palatinate, and South Germany by it, since the latter did not practice it. The Northwest German Mennonites, being closely related to the Dutch Mennonites, followed them both in the observance earlier and in discarding it in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The decline of the practice among the European Mennonites who had earlier practiced it had set in by the 17th century in Holland. N. van der Zijpp supplies the following account of the history of the practice in Holland.
"While in course of time the practice among the Waterlanders soon fell into decline -- it is not mentioned in the ordinances of the Waterlander churches of 1581 -- it was maintained for some time, though not after 1640, by the Frisian, Flemish, and High German congregations. (In the Hamburg congregation under Dutch influence the question arose in 1628 whether feetwashing should be maintained or not; see Inv. Arch. Amst. 1, 576.) But among the conservative Old Flemish and Old Frisians in the 17th century it was again more earnestly practiced. Among them, and also among the Jan Jacobsgezinden and other Fijne Mennisten, it became a church practice observed in connection with the Lord's Supper. So it was still in 1741, when Simon F. Rues visited several Dutch churches among the Groningen Old Flemish (Rues, 53 f.). (A pictorial illustration of feetwashing as practiced in the Groningen Old Flemish congregation of Zaandam is found in Schijn's Geschiedenis of 1743.)
"In this same way feetwashing was performed publicly in the meeting,' as Rues says, among the Old Frisians and also among the Swiss Mennonites who had immigrated to Holland about 1711. The Swiss in Holland practiced it until 1805. Most Old Frisians had abandoned it by 1770, and most Groningen Old Flemish by 1800, though in some of their congregations it was performed until 1815.
"Among the Danzig Old Flemish Mennonites footwashing was not practiced in the meetinghouse in connection with the Lord's Supper, but in the older hospitable form, i.e., to a visiting preacher or elder. The ceremony was performed at his arrival, or in the evening, the host washing the guest's feet in the room in which the guest lodged. It was also done to new members who had come from other places (Rues, 19). The practice was continued among this group until about 1780, when the last Danziger Old Flemish congregation died out. In the 19th century feetwashing in the old form (to visiting elders) was performed only in four Dutch congregations: Giethoorn, Ameland, Aalsmeer, and Balk. Since 1854 no footwashing has been practiced in Holland."
Feetwashing died out among the French and South German Mennonites of Amish background much more slowly than elsewhere. The last observance in Luxembourg was in 1939. There are still five congregations in France which practice it: Birkenhof, Diesen, Haute-Marne, Meuse, and Montbeliard.
Clarence Hiebert (S.T.B. Thesis, Biblical Seminary, 1954) comments upon the decline of feetwashing in Europe as follows: "The decline of this practice was due largely to secularization and compromising influences in the church. Along with the loss of this practice European Mennonitism has gradually lost almost all beliefs that were once distinctive to them. In America, footwashing was rigidly observed by most Mennonite groups, the form and mode being more uniform than it ever was in Europe." Hiebert speculates further as to the causes for the decline, suggesting five reasons.
"1. The ridiculing of the peculiar beliefs of the Mennonites and their emphasis on the 'fringe doctrines' rather than the cardinal beliefs stimulated them to question some of their literalistic practices. Many abandoned this practice as a result of re-examination of their beliefs, in favor of the more cardinal emphases.
"2. The literal interpretation of the Johannine footwashing narrative had never been satisfactory to all. The spiritual concept came to be emphasized as being sufficient without the external act.
"3. The influence of the larger denominations upon the Mennonites played no little part in bringing about compromises in their traditional beliefs. This was especially true in Holland, where the Reformed and the Mennonite churches often united.
"4. The liberal tendencies which began in the 18th century, especially through the Mennonite Seminary in Amsterdam, were influential in changing the entire church.
"5. Because the more conservative element was constantly emigrating in the 19th century from Germany and France in search of religious freedom, the liberalizing tendencies gained the upper hand.
"Other reasons could be listed, but these are the cardinal factors and suggest the trend of European Mennonitism."
Here, according to P. M. Friesen (Brüderschaft, 40, 82), the Flemish group observed the ordinance in connection with the communion, while the stricter of the Frisians practiced the observance in the home of the minister when a guest minister arrived. Specifically the Gnadenfeld and Alexanderwohl congregations were among those that observed the ordinance at communion. Among Bernhard Harder's (1832-84) poems, published in 1888 at Hamburg as Geistliche Lieder, was one written to be sung at the feetwashing service. Its dominant emphasis is that of cleansing from "sin which collects like dust" in men's souls. All the schismatic groups in Russia, Kleine Gemeinde (1812), Mennonite Brethren (1860), and Krimmer Mennonite Brethren (1869), continued the practice. The observance was brought to North America by all these groups and the Mennonite congregations as well which had practiced it there. The Swiss-Alsatian Amish in Volhynia also brought the practice with them.
North America
The first documentary evidence of the observance of feetwashing in North America is found in a document of ca. 1775 relating to the Martin Boehm case, in which the leaders of the Lancaster Conference specifically refer to the ordinance of feetwashing as commanded by Christ to show humility. John Herr, the founder of the Reformed Mennonite Church in 1812, describes the Lancaster Mennonite group as having declined greatly and states "The washing of feet, if not rejected, was at least practically omitted for many years" (Funk, 13). By contrast Funk (p. 114) quotes a letter of an aged member in 1878 who specifically recalled that Bishop Jacob Hostetler's (bishop 1831-65) charge to the bishops he ordained included the administration of feetwashing The Lancaster Conference hymnal, Unpartheyisches Gesangbuch (1804), contained one hymn (p. 117) to be used during feetwashing and the first English Mennonite hymnal, A collection of Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs (Mountain Valley, Va., 1847), contained three (pp. 288-91). A pamphlet published in 1859 at Berlin, Ont., written by Ulrich Steiner (?), was devoted exclusively to feetwashing (Fusswaschung und Deutung derselben).
The strange deviation in the Franconia Conference from this general practice of the Mennonite Church is unexplainable. The Dordrecht Confession, first printed in English in 1712 for the Germantown group, and adopted in 1725 by a conference of all the congregations in America at that time (printed at Philadelphia in 1727), has a specific and strict article on feetwashing. Yet J. C. Wenger reports, "It appears that until a generation or so ago what is now the Skippack bishop district was the only one which observed Feet-Washing" (Franconia, 34). This is supported by the fact that the Franconia Conference hymnal Die Kleine Geistliche Harfe (1803), in contrast to the Lancaster hymnal, had no feetwashing hymn. Only gradually did the observance spread after 1900, particularly when Henry S. Bower, a preacher, and the noted bishop Andrew Mack put his influence behind it. "As late as 1917," says Wenger (p. 105), the conference admonished the ministers "to teach the subject of feetwashing more earnestly, so that it may be more generally observed." But there are some facts on the other side. The letter of Andreas Ziegler et al. to Holland in 1773, written on behalf of the Franconia Conference, inquires "whether you keep up the observance of feetwashing" (Franconia, 401), thus implying the observance in Franconia at that time.
It is interesting to note that the Oberholtzer group, which broke away from the Franconia Conference in 1847, according to Hiebert, for a time after their initial organization continued the practice of feetwashing in connection with the communion service. In 1851, four years later, they decided the observance should not be compulsory, and in 1853 it was made an optional practice with complete freedom in the local congregation. Finally, in 1855 it was no longer recognized as a church ceremony. A spiritual interpretation of the passage (John 13) was agreed upon at the 1859 conference. The Lower Skippack congregation, which intended to continue the observance of the ordinance, thus came into conflict with the conference. Henry G. Johnson, the bishop, was declared out of order by the conference in 1859, and formally excommunicated in 1861 taking most of the congregation with him. Lower Skippack has continued as an independent congregation to this day. J. C. Wenger (Franconia, 360) suggests that the conference may have originally adopted feetwashing to meet the demands of Johnson who was a strong advocate of it, but without any connection with a general practice by the body as a whole.
Feetwashing has been introduced into the foreign mission fields of the American Mennonite groups in accord with the constituency.
The following other North American denominations are among those which in 1956 still observed feetwashing as a standard ordinance: Church of the Brethren, Brethren Church, Grace Brethren Church, Brethren in Christ, and a number of minor Baptist bodies. The Moravian Brethren practiced it until 1818 when it was discontinued by act of the Moravian Synod.
There is no uniformity in the writing of the term "feetwashing." Five other forms often used are: foot washing, footwashing, foot-washing, feet washing, and feet-washing. The initial letters "F" and "W" are sometimes also written in capitals.
Much of the material of this article has been drawn (and sometimes directly quoted) from Clarence Hiebert's thorough unpublished S.T.A.B. thesis of 1954 at the Biblical Seminary in New York, entitled "The History of the ordinance of feet-washing in the Mennonite Churches with a survey of the pre-Reformation evidences of this practice." Daniel Graber's unpublished paper (1952) at the Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Chicago, entitled "The history of the ordinance of feet-washing as observed by the Mennonites," was also of service. The items in the following bibliography were all (with one exception) taken from the very extensive bibliographical section of Hiebert's paper.
Feetwashing. Students of the New Testament are aware that the Lord's command to "wash one another's feet" John 13:14) is one of the clearest in the New Testament sources. It is reinforced with the words: "I have set you an example: you are to do as I have done for you" John 13:15). For this reason, it is not surprising that the practice made its way into the Anabaptist movement. At the same time, as Harold Bender points out in in the above article, largely based on research by Clarence Hiebert, it was not uniformly practiced among the Mennonites and this is still the case. Biblical scholars have done more research into the history of the practice and the meaning thereof. indeed H. S. Bender's book on the church, while it does not speak about the practice as such, invokes it when he refers to the two great symbols of the church as the cross and the towel. For Bender the towel symbolizes service: "The Christ who took the towel to wash His disciple's feet is our example in service" (p. 96). With a renewal of physical contacts in church there has been some movement to institute or keep feetwashing, but by and large it seems to be suffering from neglect even as a deeper understanding of its symbolism is emerging. At least it is no longer practiced just because of historical reasons and greater efforts are being made to explain the action. There is little evidence that efforts are being made to keep the practice even as it is clear that views of service and models of service are much discussed.
The Confession of faith in a Mennonite perspective (1995) includes an article on feetwashing. The 1975 Mennonite Brethren Confession no longer includes such a reference.
Bergsrasser, P. Baptism and Feetwashing. Philadelphia, 1896.
Brunk, George R. Ready Scriptural Reasons. Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1926.
Colberg, E. Daniel. Das Platonisch-Hermetische Christentum. Leipzig, 1710.
Dale, A. W. The Synod of Elvira and Christian Life in the Fourth Century. London, 1882.
"Foot-washing" in McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. N.Y., 1891.
Funk, John F. The Mennonite Church and Her Accusers. Elkhart, IN: Mennonite Publishing Co., 1878.
Gay, William . "The Origin and Historical Practice of Foot-Washing as a Religious Rite in the Christian Church." MA thesis, Columbia University under the Faculty of the Union Theological Seminary in N.Y., 1947.
Horsch, John. Mennonites in Europe. Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1942.
Kauffman, Daniel. Doctrines of the Bible. Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House,1949.
Knight, G. A. F."Feetwashing." Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics 5. N.Y., 1912: 814-23.
Kurtz, D. W. "Washing of Feet." International Standard Bible Encyclopedia 5. Chicago, 1915.
Malvy, A. "Lavement des Pieds." Dictionnaire de Theologie Catholique 9. Paris, 1926: cols. 16-36.
Mack, Alexander. Appendix to The Refuted Anabaptist. Ephrata, 1788.
Pannabecker, S. F. "The Development of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America in the American Environment." PhD dissertation: Yale University, 1914.
Rues, S. F. Tegenwoordige Staet. Amsterdam 1745.
Schijn, H. Geschiedenis dier Christenen welke . . . Mennoniten genaamd worden 1. Amsterdam, 1743.
Smoker, George. "Permanent Principles Implicit in the Ancient Christian Rite of Feetwashing." STB. thesis: Biblical Seminary in New York, 1940.
Thurston, Herbert. "Washing of Feet and Hands." Catholic Encyclopedia 15. N.Y., 1913.
Ursinus, Johann. Historisch- und Theologischer Bericht vom Unterschied der Religionen Heutiges Tags auf Erden und Welches der Waare Allein-Seligmachende Glaube Sey. Nürnberg, 1663.
Wenger, J. C. History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference. Telford, PA, 1938.
Yoder, C. F. God's Means of Grace. Elgin, IL, 1908.
Bender, Harold S. These Are My People. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1962: 96.
Periodicals, Articles, and Pamphlets
Bacon, B. W. "The Sacrament of Footwashing." Expository Times 43 (1931-32): 218-21.
Berkey, E. J. "Is Feet-Washing a Command?" Ttract, Scottdale, ca. 1905.
"Feet-Washing." Tract, Scottdale, ca. 1910.
Coffman, S. F. "Christian Ordinances: Feet Washing." "Christian Monitor 44 (Scottdale, 1952): 206-7, 240-41, 245, 276-77.
Fleming, Walter. "The Religious and Hospitable Rite of Feet Washing." Sewanee Review (January 1908).
Janzen, Jacob H. Fusswaschung und Abendmahl. Winnipeg, n.d..
S[teiner], U.[lrich]. Fusswaschung und Deutung derselben. Berlin, ON, 1859.
Mennonitisches Lexikon II, 22-24.
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Bender, Harold S. and William Klassen. "Feetwashing." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1989. Web. 18 Jan 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Feetwashing&oldid=162917.
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While going through some old files related to my former job, I came across this very brief synopsis of an episode of Ultraman I proposed sometime in the mid-90s.
The episode was to be titled "Shiki Soku Ze Ku" or "Form is Emptiness." It was proposed for a series which was to have been titled Ultraman Neos. Eventually Ultraman Neos was shelved in favor of a show called Ultraman Tiga. My episode was never produced.
This version has been rewritten for a proposed Ultraman novel, which would have featured the characters from the original Ultraman TV series (the one that was shown on UHF stations over here in the US in the Seventies). The novel never happened either.
What I present here is from the synopsis of the novel that I planned to send to publishers to get them interested. This section would have been chapter five.
There was a lot more detail in the story proposal I submitted. But I have no idea where that is anymore.
ULTRAMAN CHAPTER 5 "Form is Emptiness"
A Zen Buddhist temple in the mountains is attacked by a monster. Ultraman appears and battles the monster. But before he can defeat it he finds himself transformed back into Hayata and held prisoner in an alien space ship. It turns out that the monster and the temple were all an illusion created by unearthly creatures to make Hayata reveal himself as the human form of Ultraman. While Hayata is imprisoned the aliens create the illusion that he is still among the members of the Science Patrol.
Meanwhile unknown flying saucers hover ominously over the world's capital cities.
In Tokyo as in the rest of the world the people become increasingly convinced that the aliens intend to attack. Hysteria builds and finally the attack comes. A gigantic creature descends from the ship and rampages through the city. Hayata, still held prisoner, watches in amazement as Ultraman appears and battles the creature.
Before the monster can be defeated, both the creature and Ultraman disappear. The city, destroyed in the battle, resumes its previous state. The face of a young girl appears in the sky. She says that the entire encounter was an illusion projected by the beings of the Galactic Federation, a group of peaceful planets throughout the galaxy. The purpose was to discover how humans would react to the presence of alien beings in their midst. Humanity failed the test and are refused entry into the Galactic Federation.


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I'd love to see more of that short spikey-haired guy.
me rikey.
do you ever take a break from drawing? maybe go bowling or see a movie, i bet you'll sit there, in the theatre, with a sketch pad in front of you, doodling away! its obsessive, isnt it!?
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El Salvador
major macro economic indicators
|Main economic indicators
|GDP growth (%)
|Inflation (yearly average, %)
|Budget balance (% GDP)
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(f): forecast
- Relative economic diversification
- Free trade agreements with Central America and the United States (CAFTA-DR), as well as with Mexico and the EU
- Financial support from multilateral institutions
- Growing population
- High level of criminality and insecurity associated with drug trafficking
- Lack of natural resources
- Climatic and seismic vulnerability
- Inadequate infrastructures and investment
- Dependence on the United States (47% of exports, 90% of remittances and FDI)
- Structural fragility of public and external accounts
- Significant inequality and poverty
Risk assessment
Weak growth
In 2018, Salvador's growth is expected to be the weakest among the countries of Central America. Activity will likely continue to be hit by lacklustre US growth, to which the Salvadorian economy is strongly correlated. In addition, low levels of national savings and credit growth, as well as the ongoing restrictive fiscal policy, will impede growth, especially as the positive impact of the exceptional 2017 harvests dissipates. Despite this, agriculture, like the textile industry, will continue to be one of the key growth sectors.
Private investment is set to be hit by high crime levels and weak household purchasing power. Added to this are structural weaknesses (small size of the market, income inequalities, poor natural resources, corruption), which will further weaken the country's attractiveness as an investment destination, especially compared to neighbours such as Costa Rica. Moreover, the profitability of small businesses in El Salvador suffers from gang extortion rackets, which reduces their profits and ability to invest.
Consumption, the country's main growth engine, also suffers from the high crime rates and will be hit by rising inflation despite the stability of oil prices. Finally, the country is one of the four countries in Latin America that is the most vulnerable to climate and earthquake shocks, but low rates of investment undermine the ability to build the infrastructures needed to limit the consequences.
Worsening fiscal position
Given the modest growth and low levels of investment, the government's ability to mobilise tax instruments so as to increase revenues is limited. Moreover, political differences between President Salvador Sánchez Cerén's government (FMLN, on the left) and the National Assembly, dominated by ARENA (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, on the right) are blocking the reforms needed to reduce the deficit, which is set to further deteriorate in 2018. Budget spending cuts are likely to remain limited, as almost half of the budget is devoted to social programmes and pensions, which are cherished by the population. The legislative paralysis prevented the government from obtaining the revenues needed to pay the due sums for local pension funds (USD 57 million) in April 2017, resulting in the country's first default in over twenty years. Payment was eventually made, but the growing tension between the two political parties is increasing the risks associated with servicing the public debt in 2018. With a deal between the FMLN and ARENA looking unlikely, and with external funding still limited, the country's financial situation will remain precarious. The persistence of the deficit is a factor in pushing the public debt to above 60% of GDP – a worrying level for a dollarised economy.
The current account deficit, which widened in 2017, is not expected to improve significantly. Dependent on the health of the US economy (48.2% of exports), exports will grow less rapidly than imports. Imports will likely continue to rise, notably with the progression, though moderate, of oil prices. The trade deficit should therefore remain substantial (19% of GDP). The trade deficit will continue to be hit by weak FDI, with foreign investors remaining wary of the high crime rate. By contrast, remittances from the Salvadorian diaspora, particularly from the United States, are expected to remain at high levels (18% of GDP).
Legislative and structural difficulties
President Cerén, who is expected to remain in power until June 2019, cannot rely on a majority in the National Assembly, which is dominated by the opposition. His popularity is falling, giving rise to fears that he may be defeated at the parliamentary elections planned for March 2018, as urgent reforms will be needed if poverty and criminality rates are to be reduced in a context of weak growth.
Homicides linked to gangs are declining, notably thanks to the extraordinary measures introduced in 2016 and extended in February 2017 until 2018 (state of emergency declared in seven prisons where gang members are concentrated, deployment of the army in rural areas). Two of the large gangs (MS-13 and Barrio 18) have expressed their willingness to begin negotiations with the government, which has so far refused to engage. Salvador is still the world's most violent country not at war, and the business climate is therefore strongly degraded.
Even though the FMLN has historical links with the radical left-wing regimes in the region, the president is careful to maintain good relations with the United States, the country's leading trading partner.
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Thus I decided to start a list of possible multi-element diopters for various filter sizes to fit various cameras.
**Note** I have not tested many of them so I cannot be vouch for the image quality of some of these lenses.
I'll concentrate on the 3 sensor cameras and their bigger filter sizes. Some of the links have the dimensions of the diopters for housing compatibiity:
Canon 500D +2 (good quality and thin)
Century Optics AD-7220/7235 +2 and +3.5 (+5.5 stacked) (very good quality but thick)
Nikon Close Up Lens 5T(+1.5) and 6T(+2.9) (good and thin/Discontinued)
Olympus MCON-35 (discontinued but still available) +2
Raynox DCR-5320 +3 and +2 (+5 stacked) (Good quality/a bit of CA)
Marumi Digital High Grade Diopter +3 and +5
Marumi comes in 52,55,58,62,67,72,77 mm sizes. It is also the OEM producer for Nikon.
The Canon 500D comes in 52,58,72,77mm sizes. Here is a comparison test between the Canon 500D and Nikon 6T
If you use a diopter which is larger in filter size, a step up ring is needed but you also use the center of the lens which is usually sharper, but resolution limited.
Century Optic AD8626 (+2.6) and AD8620 (+2) 86mm (Similar performance to the +3.5)
For the smaller cameras, this little lens by Zoerk is reputed to be very good quality.
If using a step ring, the added thickness of the step ring should be considered when measuring for port compatibility.
For more information on shooting macro, check the reports by Nick Hope and Mark Thorpe.
Remember shooting macro requires the best depth of field possible, but with video cameras, the bigger the f-stop number, the more diffraction and resolution loss there is. So you must find that balance where the lens on the camera is optimized for the diopter attached.
So please let us know which diopter you use and what housing and port you fit it in so we can help others find the optimal setup for their rigs.


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Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stone of Gol or Psionic Resonator
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This was purchased at the Vegas Experience and was cast using one of the original molds. The paint jobs HMS did on the ones for sale were inaccurate to the 3 different paint schemes seen on screen. This one has been completely re-painted to match the screen used prop.
The Stone of Gol was an ancient weapon conceived on Vulcan during the turbulent times before the Time of Awakening. It functioned as a psionic resonator which amplified telepathic energy, specifically any violent thoughts and emotions many hold and then turned them back upon the person experiencing them. However, if the target was able to empty their mind of violent thoughts, the resonator had nothing to amplify and so was unable to operate. Since the teachings of Surak were aimed at precisely this kind of emotional control, the psionic resonator subsequently became useless against his followers during the Time of Awakening.
Following Surak's success at bringing logic to Vulcan, the resonator was largely forgotten. Over time it became known as the "Stone of Gol", known only as a myth and it was believed to have been destroyed by the Vulcan gods. In truth, the weapon became disassembled and its three pieces became scattered over large distances of space.
The Vulcan Isolationist Movement stole the first fragment in 2370 and hired the mercenary Arctus Baran to find the two remaining pieces. Captain Jean-Luc Picard managed to infiltrate the crew of Baran's ship and located all three pieces. T'Paal, a member of the isolationist movement, had also infiltrated the crew as Romulan mercenary Tallera and attempted to steal the resonator. She successfully reassembled the Stone of Gol in the T'Karath Sanctuary and used it against the mercenaries but Picard was able to interpret the Vulcan pictograms on the resonator to work out how to withstand an attack.
The Vulcans took custody of the resonator and promised Picard that they would destroy all three fragments. (TNG: "Gambit, Part II")
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As a scripting junkie at heart, I set out to write an extension in script for IE7: inline search – searching the document for text while I type. Before you get too excited, this does not replace the Find functionality in IE7. It's just me getting excited about scripting.
After investigating the different places I could extend IE with script, I decided to implement inline search as a context menu. All I had to do was create an HTML or JavaScript file with my script in it and add keys to the registry as described below. My context menu item appears whenever I right-click the page.
When the user chooses "Inline Search" from the context menu, the "Find" dialog is displayed. As soon as she starts typing, it highlights the search terms on the document in yellow with black text. By default the first instance of the search term found is called the "current" instance, and is highlighted in aqua. Pressing "<<" (Previous) or ">>" (Next) buttons changes the current search term. When the user closes the dialog, all the search terms are returned to their original coloring.
The Script
Context menu scripts execute in the context of the current page. Once you get a handle to the DOM from window.menuArguments.document, you can do whatever you want with DHTML – rewrite the page, highlight text, display additional UI, or even call web services.
With a handle to the DOM, the script is pretty straight-forward. At each keyup event, it searches the document and highlights matching terms. On pages with framesets, it only searches in the context of the frame that was right-clicked on. Also, for performance reasons, it only searches for terms that are at least 2 characters long. I use the DOM method execCommand to change the background color of the page around the highlighted text to yellow and the text to black. The relevant code for searching the text is below.
function findStrings()
// With each character press, search for the text typed
// in the search box.
var sz = new String(txtFindText.value);
var rgFoundText = new Array(); // array of ranges where text is found
var iMatchFlags = findFlags(); // whole word/match case/etc.
// performance optimization - don't look for less than 2 character words
if (sz.length >= 2)
// enable next/prev buttons
btnFindNext.disabled = false;
btnFindPrev.disabled = false;
var trTextRangeToSearch = g_Doc.body.createTextRange();
while (trTextRangeToSearch.findText(txtFindText.value,
ALL_CHARS, iMatchFlags))
// add them to our array
// search for the next occurrence
// call my local function to draw the screen
// with our search terms highlighted
// keep track of text we found
g_rgFoundText = rgFoundText;
// disable the next/prev buttons
btnFindNext.disabled = true;
btnFindPrev.disabled = true;
Registering with IE
With your script in hand, the next step is to tell Internet Explorer to include your script in the context menu.
To register a context menu item, you add a key to the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt, with the name you want to see in the context menu. The default value of this key should be a URL pointing to the script to execute. If you add a DWORD value under this key called "Flags" with the value 0x1, the script will execute as if it were launched from a call to showModalDialog.
Below are the relevant lines from my installer batch file which registers the inline search script attached to this post. This code registers a context menu item named "Inline Search", which executes the file "C:\Program Files\IEXTNSN\findonpage.htm". The "Flags" value makes it execute as if it had launched from a call to showModalDialog().
reg ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Inline &Search" /ve /t REG_SZ /d "C:\Program Files\IEXTNSN\findonpage.htm" /f
reg ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Inline &Search" /v "Flags" /t REG_DWORD /d "0x1" /f
Get Started
The best way to get familiar with IE extensibility is to get elbow deep in script: see the code, tweak it, and create your own. The source for my inline search add-on and an installer batch file are attached to this post. To install this script, execute "setup.bat –i MENUCONTEXT "Inline Search" findonpage.htm". The batch file also installs toolbar buttons and explorer bands, so you can experiment with other script-based extensions. Type "setup.bat /?" for complete usage.
This version suffers from some performance concerns, and has only been tested on English systems. You are free to modify it however you wish. Please use the comments link to let me know what you did with it, or other creative script extensions you think of.
Mark Harris
Lead Program Manager, IE
P.S. if you are really into inline search, be sure to check out Sven Groot's addon, or the addon done by the team at Core-Services.


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TRIED & TESTED | Eyeko mascara
THERE ARE not many pictures of me, period. Perhaps my camera shyness with haunt me later in life, but it's just not for me. However, a recent project required my mug in front of a camera. There were no stylists on hand to do makeup (except for the fabulous Lynne and her impromptu powdering. Thank you!) or wardrobe -- just me, my jet-lag and makeup kit, in which I had my trusty mascara. Some people have seen one of the pics and keep commenting on my lashes so it is high time I do a review of the wunder-mascara that makes them look good (without curling or priming).
Eyeko is a cutesy (in fact the strap line is London's Cutest Beauty), Manga-themed British makeup company. Probably more at home in the makeup bags of teenagers than a grown woman, I have (of course) grown to love it. The Eyeko mascara comes in a silver tube (much like Cargo cosmetics), with a wand of wide and widely spaced bristles and in black. There's a Manga girl on the tube but otherwise, it's pretty discreet.
Your eyelashes will look AMAZING (long, separated, black), it's cheaper than most drugstore varieties nowadays, the formula doesn't flake AND (I mean, can it get any better?!) it's a TUBING FORMULA (whether intended or not) so it slides right off your lashes at night, leaving absolutely no mess. The perfect 10 of mascaras.
Not a single thing. Not one. Even the Manga girl on the tube is fine. In fact, she's a downright good advertisement for the product inside and the results you'll get, unlike most mascara ads where the models/actresses have to wear fake lashes to advertise the product.
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With her throaty vibrato and lushly orchestrated pop songs, Nicole Atkins made her debut in 2006, bringing to mind a blend of Roy Orbison, Loretta Lynn, and Jenny Lewis.
She was raised in Neptune, New Jersey, and relocated to North Carolina during her late teens to study illustration at UNC Charlotte. After befriending members of the Avett Brothers and logging several years with the alt-country band Los Parasols, Atkins briefly returned to the tri-state area, where a series of open-mike performances in Manhattan's East Village helped her hone a sound that was more indebted to pop music than her work with Los Parasols.
Atkins spent the following years traveling between North Carolina and the Northeast, eventually settling in New Jersey at her parents' house. Performances in New York City helped her attract attention from several local musicians, and Atkins began piecing together a backing band comprised of guitarist Dave Hollinghurst, bassist John Flaugher, drummer Dan Mintzer, and keyboardist Daniel Chen. Operating under the name Nicole Atkins & the Sea, the band secured a residency at Piano's -- a popular nightspot in the Lower East Side -- and struck a deal with Columbia Records on the strength of Atkins' demo recordings and impressive performances. Atkins released the Bleeding Diamonds EP in 2006, and the group decamped to Sweden later that year to work on a full-length album. Featuring the songwriter's self-professed "pop noir" sound, Neptune City arrived in late 2007, followed by an EP of cover material in 2008.
After lending her vocal talents to A.C. Newman's album Get Guilty, Atkins went through a period of transition during the making of her second album. She parted ways with her original backing band, broke up with her longtime boyfriend Paul Ritchie (of the Parlor Mob), and found herself at odds with Columbia Records. As a result, Mondo Amore wasn't released until early 2011 (via Razor & Tie), and the album found Atkins exploring new influences, including blues and vintage psychedelia. Atkins toured extensively in support of Mondo Amore, playing shows for close to a year, and then began work on a third album, writing new material with producer and percussionist Jim Sclavunos. However, in 2012 Atkins' home in New Jersey was hit by Hurricane Sandy; she was thankfully in Memphis when the storm battered the East Coast, but she was still left temporarily stranded. Word of Atkins' troubles got back to Tore Johansson, a producer and musician who had worked on Neptune City; he invited her to join him at his residential studio in Sweden, and there Atkins sorted through the lyric ideas and song fragments she'd stored in her iPhone and fashioned them into an album, the ambitious and eclectic Slow Phaser. Rather than deal with yet another record company, Atkins opted to release Slow Phaser through her own label, Oh'Mercy! Records, financing the project through a successful crowd-funding campaign. The album was released in January of 2014. ~ Andrew Leahey, Kenyon Hopkin & Mark Deming
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2002 News Releases > February 2002 > Wayland offering music scholarship auditions in Lubbock
Wayland offering music scholarship auditions in Lubbock
Wayland Baptist University's Department of Music will be hosting music scholarship auditions for prospective music majors or minors at the Wayland Lubbock campus, 2002 West Loop 289, on Saturday, Feb. 9.
Audition times are available in the afternoons and students wishing to audition should RSVP to Dr. Scott Herrington, Director of Choral Studies at Wayland, by calling (806) 291-1062 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com to set up a specific time.
According to Herrington, this is the first time Wayland has taken auditions off the Plainview campus and into other communities.
"This would be a great opportunity for students to audition and see what kinds of scholarships might be available to them," Herrington said. "Or they may just want to get an audition experience under their belt."
Students may audition on music they are working on or have performed for solo and ensemble, voice lesson literature or church music. An accompanist will be present or students may bring their own. Equipment will also be available if students choose to use prerecorded, taped accompaniment.
A scholarship committee of four faculty members will jury the auditions and make recommendations for scholarships. Members of Wayland's admissions staff will be on hand as well to answer any questions about the university and provide application information.
For more information, call Herrington at 291-1062.


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Prior to Oracle Database 10g, all latch waits show up as the latch free wait event . In Oracle Database 10g, common latches are broken out and have independent wait event names and statistics but documentation about this independent wait event statistics are forgotten.
Yesterday I saw long waits of "latch: KCL gc element parent latch " event on 10046 trace output of one of our sqls. I searched the documentation, metalink and google, all I have found is 15 bug pages on metalink, no page on documentation, 6 pages on google and all of this pages are not talking about defintion of event. They only show that this event has a place on the tkproof outputs. But my sql is suffering from this event what should I do now to lower this long waits???.
I hope documentation about latch sub events will be more definitive on upcoming 11G.
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Record Breaking Year for Agriculture, Program Helping Conservation
- Exported food and agricultural products topped a record breaking $144 billion and supported nearly 1 million jobs in 2013.
With the success of ag exports, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke at the White House Rural Council's first "Made in Rural America" regional export forum Wednesday.
The forum kicks off a serious of four more forums to help rural businesses and leaders take advantage of new investment opportunities and access new markets around the world. At the forum a web portal was unveiled for rural businesses considering export opportunities through BusinessUSA.gov that allows businesses to search aggregated business-related information and resources from 24 federal agencies.
- The Conservation Reserve Program is one of the largest voluntary conservation programs in the country.
The initiative helps farmers and ranchers lead the nation in preventing soil erosion, improving water quality and restoring wildlife habitat. The general sign up for CRP is now open. Continuous sign up begins June 9th.
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I'm 23, living in San Francisco (Inner Richmond), www.stopinternetromance.com
What was your first camera and when did you get interested in taking pictures?
An old Minolta my dad let me borrow for my first college photo class. I stumbled through a whole semester not really knowing what I was doing, but picked up shooting film again in 2005. I really got into photography during my time at San Francisco State while studying cultural anthropology. Photography became a research tool during my ethnography projects, and slowly evolved to be about studying my own life, and the lives of those around me.
Ray Potes and Hamburger Eyes a whole lot, Garry Winogrand's "The Animals", Jason Fulford's exploration of humor and sadness, my peers.
You have put out a handful of zines within the last few years, in this digital age what keeps drawing you back to the world of photocopied booklets?
I think every photographer wants to put out a book at some point in time in their life. I know I do. I don't think that is happening any time soon, so in the meantime I will just make my own. I like the tangibility of a zine. I make prints in the darkroom, but the majority of my photos I just scan and they sit on my computer. It is really nice to hold something in your hands, put in on the shelf, come back to it in a couple months and see it again and again. I like laying out a zine. I have laid out dozens of zines that never saw the light of day. I just do it to keep in practice. And I like the language of zines and books, how pictures play off each other and you can tell a story with our ordering and pairing. I really treasure the zines I have collected from friends, artistic peers and heroes. I wanna make something that some might treasure too.
Current camera set-up?
Yashica T4, Nikon F100. I sold my medium format camera (Fuji GA645) a while back because I needed the money, but I hope to buy another one like it by the end of the year.
You are in the new group show "The Young Jerks" at Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter, could you tell us about the show and how you became involved with Hamburger Eyes?
The Young Jerks was put together by myself and my friend and fellow Hamburger Eyes intern Oscar Mendoza, along with help from our friend Brad Troemel. The show is seven up and coming photographers and image makers who are all linked through various social connections. The show features Brad Troemel (Chicago), Bea Fremderman (Chicago), Andrew Laumann (SF by way of Baltimore), Jimmy Limit (Toronto), Oscar Mendoza (SF), Willa Nasatir (LA/NY), and myself. To be a Young Jerk is to be able to simultaneously embrace and reject what has come before us, to pay homage but to move forward. The work in the show spans from photography, to installation, to video, to digital collage. You can read more about it on the Hamburger Eyes site.
Ray at Hamburger Eyes gave Oscar and me a show last year and stemming from the response from that show he allowed us to put together this new one. I have been a fan of Hamburger Eyes for a long time and one of my goals when I moved to San Francisco was to submit photos for consideration to the magazine. I did and didn't hear anything back about it, which bummed me out. But inn March 2007 Ray posted a MySpace bulletin looking for interns and in a week or so I was Ray's first employee. The internship has been a great opportunity for me, and even opened a few doors for me as a photographer. It is a great job and Ray is incredibly gracious with his time/money/advice. Let this be a lesson to you: send your heroes an email.
Favorite music?
Right now: Notorious B.I.G., Bon Iver, Young/Lost Ones.
Favorite restaurant?
As of this morning, thanks to their strawberry jam, Sunrise Restaurant on 24th St.
Shout Outs?
Oskie, Ray Ray, JDub, JP, Bird, CK, and Alana and Grant at Fjord
Interview compiled by Nicholas Venaglia
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Depressive and melancholic piece in the downtempo style. This track creates an atmosphere of hopelessness and sadness. It may be useful for detective video scenes or documentaries about a perishes nature.
This track creates a pensive mood and evokes a sense of nostalgia and sadness.
Both WAV and MP3-versions of the track are included in the download package.


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YALE HOCKEY: Senior captain Brian O'Neill leaves lasting legacy
BOSTON -- The sting of Sunday's season-ending ECAC Hockey playoff loss to Harvard didn't prevent Yale hockey coach Keith Allain from putting the career of senior captain Brian O'Neill into perspective.
O'Neill, a forward from Yardley, Pa., completed one of the most successful four-year runs in school history with 163 career points, second only to Jeff Hamilton's 173, and served as the backbone of three NCAA tournament teams.
"As the total package, I can make the argument that he's the greatest player in Yale history," Allain said. "In terms of what his teams produced, leading the team in scoring three years in a row -- and he's so much more than just a scorer. I could go on and on about the contributions he's made to our hockey program."
That's high praise considering the talent that's come through Yale in 117 years of hockey at the school.
Hamilton, who played in the NHL and Europe, was a Hobey Baker finalist in 1999 and 2001. Chris Higgins, a first-round draft pick who played in the Stanley Cup finals for Vancouver last year, and Ray Giroux, in his 14th pro season, were ECAC players of the year. Bob Brooke, Bob Kudelski and Randy Wood, all stars at Yale in the 80s, spent a combined 27 years in the NHL.
O'Neill, the Ivy League Player of the Year, is expected to be a finalist for ECAC player of the year. His 21 goals and 25 assists also make him a candidate for All-American and Hobey Baker finalist consideration.
His days in a Yale uniform are over, but the next phase of O'Neill's career will begin shortly. Several NHL teams are interested, and an offer has already come in from overseas.
Last summer, not long after O'Neill led the Bulldogs to within a game of the Frozen Four for the second successive season with a team-high 20 goals and 46 points, the Los Angeles Kings offered a contract for the maximum allowable money for rookies under the NHL's collective bargaining agreement.
O'Neill turned the deal down to return to Yale. But the Kings are among those expected to come back with another contract offer this week, joining one on the table from the Swedish professional league that signed Yale's Broc Little last spring.
"I'm confident he'll have an NHL deal," Allain said, adding he expects things to move quickly. "Generally, they do. I'd be surprised if it didn't (happen soon)."
Harvard coach Ted Donato, who spent 13 years as a forward in the NHL, mostly with the Boston Bruins, said he considers O'Neill an All-American-caliber player who deserves a chance to play in the NHL.
"Brian is one of the best players I've seen in our league over my eight years coaching," Donato said. "He's an all-around player who can hurt you scoring goals, setting up plays and he plays with a compete level and an edge that as a coach you dream your best players are that complete. Every time he's on the ice, he's a factor."
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|System: Xbox 360*, PS3, PC
|Dev: Codemasters Southam
|Pub: Codemasters
|Release: June 12, 2012
|Players: 1-8 (Online)
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Mild Lyrics, Mild Violence
Like the modes, the race tracks are largely hit or miss, and none really stand out. They're sprinkled with destructible objects for you to run into or slam your enemies into and a little of the game's fantastic personality can be seen in them. Unfortunately, like most of the game, they're never pushed far enough. There are occasional parts of tracks that are flashy and fun, but too much of the time you'll spend on them is driving on flat open road with little to look at. It doesn't help that the selection of maps isn't all that great so they get repetitive very fast.
As a whole, I love the way this game sounds. Slamming into the other cars genuinely sounds like two heavy chunks of metal and rubber colliding, and the music provides the perfect backdrop to the action going on onscreen. There's only one thing that ruins practically everything: the commentator. You can't mute him and he literally never shuts up. It'd be less annoying if there was a box I could check to have him be quiet, or if the words he uttered weren't so painful on the ears, but there's only so many times I can hear the words "T-bone-tastic!" and "T-bone-alicious!" yelled at me before my will breaks and I press that mute button on my TV remote.
The number of racing modes is great, but they just aren't interesting or original as they should've been, and despite being fictional creations, the cars are mostly forgettable. Unless you don't mind being inundated with text asking you to sign online, or redeem your online pass, etc. I suggest grabbing an online pass, because those messages don't go away.
When you're playing this game, it almost feels as if developer Codemasters wanted to take the series in an exciting new direction, but they also wanted to play it safe. The result is Showdown, a game that has great potential, but squanders it by not doing really anything that hasn't been done better in other games.
Adam Dodd
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The American Cinematheque and the Art Directors Guild Film Society will honor famed production designer Harper Goff with a screening of the classic 1954 Walt Disney adventure "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" on July 28 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
The first sci-fi film produced by Walt Disney, this lavish adaptation of Jules Verne's novel stars Kirk Douglas as a rakish harpoonist and James Mason as the infamous Captain Nemo. Peter Lorre and Paul Lukas also starred in the box-office hit directed by Richard Fleischer.
Goff, who was a 2013 Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame inductee, worked as a set designer for such films as 1935's "Captain Blood" before joining Walt Disney Studios in the early 1950s. Among the highlights of his design for "20,000 Leagues" is Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus.
He was named a Disney Legend after his death in 1993 at the age of 81.
Besides the film, the program will feature production designer Thomas A. Walsh presenting an overview of the film's art direction; after the screening he will lead a discussion about Goff's accomplishments with Marty Sklar, the Walt Disney company's International Ambassador for Disney Imagineering; Tony Baxter, former senior vice president of creative development in Walt Disney Imagineering; Harrison Ellenshaw, the former head of Disney's effects department and a matte/visual effects artist; and Stephen Berger, production and theme-part designer, art director and set designer who collaborated with Hoff on the submarine the Proteus for 1966's "Fantastic Voyage."


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EVGA Z87 Stinger Mini ITX Motherboard Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Courtesy of EVGA
The EVGA Z87 Stinger is EVGA's Z87-based answer for the small form-factor crowd. Sporting the micro-ITX form factor, the board is featured packed and offers support for the latest generation of Intel LGA1150-based processors. While its MSRP of $229.99 may seem large for its small stature, the Z87 Stinger's feature list makes it well worth the outlay.
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The EVGA Z87 Stinger board features a 6-phase power delivery system and an impressive 10 layer PCB. Additionally, EVGA designed the CPU socket with a higher amount of gold, as well as use of solid state capacitors throughout the board to ensure problem-free operation under all operational circumstances. The following features are integrated into the Z87 Stinger: 4 SATA 6Gb/s ports; 1 mPCIe/mSATA 6Gb/s port; 1 eSATA 6Gb/s port; an Intel GigE NIC; 1 PCI-Express x16 slot; on board power, reset, and BIOS reset buttons; BIOS Select switch; 2-digit diagnostic LED display; and USB 2.0 and 3.0 port support.
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Technical Specifications (taken from the EVGA website)
|Based on Intel Z87 chipset
|2 x 240-pin DIMM sockets
Maximum of 16GB of DDR3 (2666MHz+ in dual channel configuration)
Storage I/O
|4 x Serial ATA 600MB/sec (4 Internal) with support for RAID 0 and RAID1
Expansion Slot
|1 x16
Multi I/O
|Audio connector (Line-in, Line-out, MIC)
Integrated Peripherals
|6 Channel Creative Sound Core3D
1 x 10/100/1000 (Intel i217)
Form Factor
|mITX Form Factor
Length: 6.7in - 170.18mm
Width: 6.7in - 170.18mm
Operating System Support
|Windows 8 32/64bit
Windows 7 32/64bit
Windows Vista 32/64bit
Windows XP 32/64bit
Product Warranty
|This product comes with a 3 year warranty. Registration is recommended.
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