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It was taken for granted tha Mr. Truman will make every ef(o to pick a successor who will carr on Muruhy'i general philosophy as a champion of the poor and (rieni less and of racial and religious m noritles. Murphy's own dencription of hm philosophy wax this: To try to make democracy work so well that it would be sale from attacks from either the extreme let', or the extreme right. Toward the end he was pisslon- ute in pronouncements on the basic 5 \an rights of little men, stern sharp-tongued in defense nf #ous minorities under attack ior the practice of their r*U»fs. .ions Clubs Plan nte motional 3ity Near Chicago NEW YORK, July 20. (AP) — tails for the construction of "Lion.s international Cily" on land on the jtncoln li"igli<A'ay, .south of Chicago, 'ere outlined to the 32nd annual convention of Lions international estet'day. Eugene S. Briggx .of Enid. 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Check out YFN Lucci's new video for "Letter From Lucci."
YFN Lucci has been busy lending out features to other artists in the game recently, including Lil Durk ("Feel Good"), Lightshow ("No Info") and most recently Lotto Savage ("Stack Up), the latter of which we premiered for y'all on Wednesday night. But looking to get back to promoting his own music today, YFN decides to revisit the sequel to Wish Me Well, and share a new video in its support for the outdo track "Letter From Lucci."
From sitting in his Mercedes to enjoying the city views at nighttime, the ATL rapper counts his cash and flaunts hard for the cameras in this JerryPHD & A Zae Production directed clip above. It follows up his latest video for
Check it out (above) and let us know what you think. Wish Me Well 2 available now on iTunes & HNHH. Stream it right here.

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A big part of the American dream is purchasing a home. Many people value pride in ownership or customizing their own home. The average person or family can gain some security if they are able to buy their own home. In these times, investing in real-estate doesn't come without risk but the exchange is lower interest rates and the chance of picking up valued property to be a profit in other times.
Real estate can make you money weather through appreciation or rental income.
Instead of purchasing things that loose value, the hope to put money into things that gain value or make money. This seems to be something that is on a lot of people's minds in today's economy.
With the advent of the internet and sites like Zillow, anyone can now search broad areas of the country for real-estate. You can get a feeling of what it would be like to live in different areas and search each area for its positive points and try to find out any negative aspects of that area as well. This by no means is better than actually being there, but it does help. A picture is worth a thousand words and there are many images available from sources such as Google Maps, Satellite Images, Google Earth's Street view and pictures from cells phones or digital cameras. Video is worth a thousand pictures and helps even more. And yes, being there is worth a thousand videos, but sometimes this is not always an option. So, the ability to try to assess the condition of a house or real-estate over a broad spectrum is enhanced by this technology and knowing how to use it property.
We were looking for an investment in a good community in an area with a good economic future. After reviewing a number of properties for sale, over a period of several months, we got to know what was for sale and what was just not something we wanted to get into. One day, about an hour or so after it was listed, we found a house. It was a foreclosure that the bank wanted to unload, and fast. Why? Well… it was disheveled and trashed. Someone looked to have had a drunken vandalism party there and did a ton damage. However, we saw the preserved value of the property. Due to its condition we knew we could pick up the property reasonably cheap but would have to put a significant amount of work into it to restore it to a fine home and/or an income producing piece of property.
We called our realtor who was able to go there and take multiple photos providing more information on the condition. While at the location, he saw the place was being inspected by other realtors and contractors despite the condition. We could confirm this by the number of inquiries that where occurring on the web site. We took a risk and put in a low offer to see what would happen. We saw no response. After reviewing the photos to help us refine the estimate on the fix it up, we put in another offer. And wouldn't you know it, it was accepted.
When our realtor called to tell us, he jokingly said the he didn't know whether to congratulate us or offer condolences. Having never been to the house, we aren't quite sure either. None the less, we figure we can repair a lot of the damage with some blood, sweat and tears. Also known as Sweat Equity.
The photos from the realtor (Who was very kind to take photos and do an on the phone walk through.), showed a multitude of problems.
Electrical: There is nothing coming out of the top of the electrical box to the pole. We called the electric company who refused to go out unless we were there because "The smart meter says it's on". We asked if someone may be stealing power and if they could go out and look but they wouldn't unless we had an account, but the account would not be active until we got there.
Water: There is none. We don't know if any pipes are damaged so we can't turn it on till we get there. If the water doesn't work, we are going to be in trouble because we are staying at the house while we do the rehab. Also, I hate to say it, but we could not get an inspector to inspect the property before we bought it, because of no water or electricity. The good thing is, we have a water heater. have no idea if it works, and plan to flush it regardless, but it's there.
Pool: Well, that is going to be an adventure all in itself. First of all, someone drove a lawn tractor into it. We have to get it out without damaging the concrete work around it. We have no idea what is in that dark ugly water. Concrete pieces, paint, dead snake and or mouse bodies.iick.
Windows: They are most all broken. We will most likely have to hire someone to come out and replace the glass since it is so hard to transport that much glass in a pickup truck.
HVAC Unit: We don't know if it is there or even if it is working. If not, it will significantly hamper our budget. We think we see part of it in this photo and are hoping for the best.
Drywall: There are holes everywhere. I Have no idea what someone was thinking. It's just kinda dumb.
Roof: There are holes. Not sure why or how, but they are there. The Google Earth flyover shows them there in March of 2011, so not sure what happened. And yes, the tarps do say FEMA on them. We are assuming there is some water damage somewhere. Hopefully it is only in one place... Hopefully.
The great news is the floors are all a nice and cool tile. They look in decent shape and are in every room of the house. A few throw rugs, and its good to go...Hopefully.
Garage Door: It's not there. Well... Lets rephrase that. It is there, but it is not where it should be. I guess we can be thankful it's not in the pool. We are hoping to have it repaired, but it may need to be replaced. No one is willing to go out to look at it unless we are there. So, it will have to wait.
Yard Work: There is a lot of it.The overgrowth all needs to be cut back. May have to hire our favorite gardening crew to come out and get it done. If anything it will give us a good starting place where we can go from there.
Kitchen: The trash is everywhere. It's like they all left in a hurry and/or tried to make the place as unlivable as possible. Hopefully there will be enough in the budget for at least new counter-tops.
Paint: Not only does the place need all new paint throughout the entire house, the threw it everywhere as well. Have no idea how to get it up off the concrete, but will have to try.
Fixtures: We know that one of the sinks is missing and not sure what will have to be replaced. Let's cross our fingers that this is the only one.
OK, so here is the kicker. P only has four weeks in which to get this done. What ever is not done, C will have to finish, and quickly. We also have to get the house at least sealed before two weeks after the closing date because the insurance inspector will be out to asses the property to see if it will be insurable. Because of the damage, we could not get a mortgage, so our budget is extremely limited to about 15,000 in total. I know, laugh all you want, but we are going to give it our best.
So having said that, come along for the ride. If we pull this off, GREAT. If not, don't do what we did. Only time is going to tell on this one. At the end of the day, as least we got the property for a great price. :)
As we get ready to go on this grand adventure, we will just keep adding our thoughts and assessing the situation. So stay tuned. It should be a fun ride.


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James Bond has always been known for his gadgets — but unfortunately, the modern 007 films have scaled back the corny gizmos that were once a staple of the franchise, and the Daniel Craig films generally don't have the same level of ridiculousness that Brosnan, Moore, Dalton, and Connery had. Spectre, which opens today, isn't likely to have too many outrageous gadgets in it, so to celebrate the release and bring back the good old days, we've rounded up the 20 most wonderfully ridiculous Bond gadgets of all time, and presented them in GIF format for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
Single Digit Sonic Agitator — The World Is Not Enough (1999)
This little ring is thing emits a high-frequency sound that shatters any kind of glass — even the bulletproof variety. Lucky for James, the villain in the movie has a penchant for trendy, transparent glass floors.
Shark-Bursting Pellet — Live and Let Die (1973)
This one requires some explaining. Q-branch originally developed these compressed gas pellets as an anti-shark system — the idea being that Bond could shoot them into a shark's mouth and blow the beast to smithereens before it ate him alive. Bond actually ends up using the pellets against the movie's villain, Dr. Kananga, in an epic hand-to-hand brawl at the end of the movie. Basically, Bond shoves one down Kananga's throat, causing him to inflate, rise to the ceiling, and violently explode.
Flamethrower Bagpipe — The World is Not Enough (1999)
This one is actually a twofer. Not only is the bagpipe a flamethrower — it also doubles as a machine gun. Bond never uses it in the movie, but he definitely doesn't pass up the opportunity to make a cheesy pun about it right after the demonstration: "I suppose we've all got to pay the piper sometime, right Q?"
Rocket Cigarette — You Only Live Twice (1967)
This one gets Bond out of quite a pickle. He's gets caught by the film's villain, Blofeld, and is told he'll soon be killed. Bond accepts his fate, but asks to smoke one last cigarette before he's dispatched. Unfortunately for Blofeld's henchmen, this particular cig happens to have a f$%&ing rocket in it!
Ski Pole Rocket Launcher — The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Q branch seems to have a pretty straightforward strategy: wherever Bond is going, you simply figure out how to hide a gun in whatever objects he'll be using. Going to the Bahamas? Better give him a snorkel gun. Cuba? Quick — give him some rocket-propelled exploding cigars. The Swiss Alps? Give that man some ski pole guns!
Grenade Launcher Pen — Never Say Never Again (1983)
I kind of feel bad for Fatima in this one. After all the badassery she exhibited in the movie, she was ultimately taken out by a pen. Granted, it was a ballistic pen with an explosive tip — but it was a pen nonetheless. That's gotta be embarrassing.
The "Boom Box" — The Living Daylights (1987)
"Oh, don't mind me; I'm just a normal dude just walkin' down the street and blastin my tunes on a boombo — PHLHWPHOOOM!"
Palm-sensing Walther PPK — Casino Royale (2006)
This one isn't really crazy or outlandish, but it's arguably the coolest gadget that Daniel Craig has wielded during his time as 007. It's pretty straightforward — it's just Bond's favorite firearm outfitted with a special biometric lock, so it only fires when he's holding it. Pretty handy, right?! (I feel cheated that this pun wasn't used in the film)
Omega Seamaster Laser Watch — Goldeneye (1995)
007's high-tech watches are a staple of the Bond franchise, and this one is arguably one of the coolest he's ever had. Oddly enough, however, it's not actually the first laser watch the franchise has ever seen. Bond wore a special laser-equipped Rolex in the 1983 film Never Say Never Again.
Mini Scuba Tank — Thunderball (1965)
This gizmo is basically two tiny tanks of compressed air, designed to fit easily into a suit pocket. This ultra-compact scuba gadget made its debut in Thunderball, but has made multiple appearances since then — most recently in The World is Not Enough (1999).


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|An extensive series of B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) calculations have been performed for ethanol molecules in a diverse range of fields. Field-dependent intramolecular potentials are extracted from the ab initio results with a direct coupling introduced between the field experienced by a molecule and its intramolecular motion. In particular, field-dependent stretch, bend, and torsion potentials have been derived. Atomic charges are also field-dependent and the fluctuating charge model has been introduced to govern the changes in atomic charges. Detailed aspects of molecular dynamics simulations for polarizable, flexible molecules are discussed, including the use of damping functions, the equations of motion, multiple time step algorithms and other considerations. An examination of the structure and diffusion of bulk ethanol and comparisons with experiment are presented. The structure of ethanol molecules near chiral solutes is analyzed to show the range and character of chiral induction in the solvent.
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Considering Buying or Selling in North Shore?
7 Barrie Terrace, Oro-Medonte, ON is located in Oro-Medonte's North Shore neighborhood.North Shore Real Estate is made up of primarily residential properties, with the majority of homes in the neighbourhood being Detached Homes, Condominium Units and some Townhome Condominiums. The majority of homes found in the North Shore neighbourhood have 1 Parking spaces. It is typical to find homes in North Shore that were built Before 1969. Neighborhoods found close by include Grove East, Codrington and Georgian Drive. With no shortage of conveniences, North Shore offers a variety of amenities and activities for residents to enjoy.
The average asking price for a home in the North Shore neighbourhood is around $2,078,050. Breaking this down further, there are currently 5 condominium properties for sale with an average asking price of $329,080 and 3 freehold properties for sale with an average asking price of $4,993,000 for sale in North Shore. If you live in North Shore, you can expect to pay an average of $8,468 for annual property taxes, depending on the type of home you own.
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PISCATAWAY, NJ - The Piscataway Police issued an alert Thursday afternoon to township residents about the bells and sirens that will ring at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11th in honor of the 100th anniversary of the armistice of World War I as part of Bells of Peace.
The police alert states, **DO NOT BE ALARMED**
"On Sunday, November 11th at 11 a.m., bells will ring and sirens will sound in honor of the 100th anniversary of the armistice of World War I as part of Bells of Peace, a nationwide program established by the United States World War One Centennial Commission.
By proclamation, Piscataway Township will participate, most notably in honor of Holmes Marshall, a son of Piscataway, who died in uniform in service to the United States on June 14, 1918 in Cantigny, France."
Participants in the Township include places of worship, firefighter stations, rescue squads' headquarters, and the Waksmann Institute on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University.
Would you like to participate at home?
• You can post a remembrance on social media with the hashtag #TollTheBell.
• You can also download the Bells of Peace app and have it open on your phone before 11 a.m. on November 11th. Once it is 11 a.m. – the same time that fighting ceased on the Western Front – the bells will toll from your phone in unison with others 21 times. You can download the app here: https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/…/ace-smartphone-app.ht…
To learn more about Piscataway's participation, please click here: http://www.piscatawaynj.org/admin_dept/bells-peace
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As the holidays approach, we'd like to share some fabulous projects you can make for the people on your gift list. After all, is there any better gift than a handmade gift? No way! So check back often for more project ideas, and feel free to suggest ideas of your own! We'd love to hear from you.
Both of these projects were made by Lynne Nostrant in Hayden, ID. Talented Miss Lynne is a soon-to-be grandmother of twins, so she's been sewing up all kinds of goodies for those little babies. If you have any little ones on your holiday gift list, then this is just the project for you! It's a little sleep sack to keep baby cozy at night. The fabric is Farmgirl's Garden by Joined at the Hip, and the pattern is called Hushabye Baby by Favorite Things.
Lynne also made a sleep sack in the Milly collection by Erin Ries. Behind it is a quilt she made that I'll show you in a later blog post.
Lynne says this a quick and easy project to make, taking about two hours to complete. You can find the pattern on the Favorite Things website or simply click here.
Do you have any babies to make gifts for? If so, what are you making for them? More projects to follow soon…


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Deciding to follow a healthy lifestyle and hitting the gym is nothing short of commendable. It's not easy to make such a decision especially in this day and age where more and more people are encouraging the normalcy of obesity and even going as far as to claim that having more fat than usual isn't detrimental to one's health. After getting past that ridiculous notion, it's important to get a good footing in order to get off to a running start, figuratively.
Opting for a leaner body can be just as commendable whether the motivation is to look good or to be healthy. The latter motivation does sound nobler, yet there's nothing wrong with wanting to improve one's looks. A lean, good-looking body is a reflection of a person's self-value, which other people can't help but pick up on.
Nevertheless, for people who have absolutely no clue how to start, it's going to be an uphill climb. One of the most common obstacles that new lifters in the gym tend to do is go from one section of the gym to another, not having any concrete program to follow. Just because the equipment in the gym exists, doesn't mean that it has to be incorporated into one's program, especially a beginner's program. In fact, beginners can stick to a few basic exercises and can even get a solid workout with just a power rack, a bench, barbell plates and the bar. But then again, this is where beginners are also fumbling in; the lack of knowledge in body sculpting to design an effective program. Some even end up spending entire gym sessions, lasting for weeks, doing nothing but bicep curls. We can only wish this was an exaggeration, but that's the sad truth.
These beginner obstacles can sometimes be the very reason why people end up going back to their unhealthy lifestyle. These obstacles collectively create an impasse which might just convince the person that they were happier back when they didn't care. The lack of progress will make them think it's not worth it.
The good news is that shooting for a fit and healthy body doesn't have to be a solo journey. Those trainers at the gym aren't there just to rip you off. To be fair, some of them are actually not the reliable kind, which is why it's sometimes better to go to the Internet to find a trainer who can help in creating a comprehensive program that can provide results and scalability. With reviews all over the web, it's easy to assess a certain trainer's reputation. And it's also easy to check their physique, which is a testament to what they know and their dedication to health.
Fitness enthusiasts can also help in reviewing certain programs. Questions like "How does Adonis Golden Ratio work?" usually have lengthy yet helpful answers which can lead to figuring out whether a certain author/trainer is worth spending time and money on. In addition to Internet-based trainers, however, it may still be a good idea to hire an actual trainer in the beginning. This is in order to start one off with good exercise form.


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I seem to keep going on about how busy I've been lately. In the scheme of things it's probably not THAT busy - but with a 2.5 year-old to look after (every day I feel like I solve at least one United Nations crisis with the amount of negotiating that's involved), a baby growing bigger by the day in my tummy, one of the most exciting freelance jobs I've done just days away from launching... and it being THAT time of year, I've been feeling pretty flat-out.
All to say I haven't had much time to do my own Spoonful of Colour How Tos - so thought I'd share with you five of my favourite paper ornament How Tos from other bloggers (click on the captions to go to original stories). Some are definitely Christmassy, others are just beautiful objects that could easily be appropriated for the festive season - enjoy.
Oh, and don't forget to enter my Christmas giveaway - click on the link at the top right of the page!
|Modern and organic, perfect for a touch of the festive year-round
|Lovely and colourful paper balls - would make a great centrepiece
|Graphic six pointed snowflakes - intricate but not fussy
|Love this spiky paper ball as an ornament on its own - but hung from the ceiling would work wonderfully for a touch of the festive


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I've been very moved in the last few days reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's account of the last few weeks of the life of Thomas Cranmer, in his biography of the great man (Thomas Cranmer, Yale University Press, 1996). It's a well known story, of course, of Cranmer's apparent recantation of his Protestant convictions and then his dramatic recantation of the recantation.
What struck me was one of the primary reasons MacCulloch suggests for Cranmer's apparent capitulation back into the Catholicism out of which he had expended so much energy dragging himself and his country.
The reason was friendship. Towards the end, in his confinement, he was very isolated from his Protestant friends. They had mostly either fled to the Continent or been jailed. Indeed two of the most prominent, Latimer and Ridley, had been burned at the stake and he had been forced watch their sufferings.
At this point, says MacCulloch: 'In isolation which was spiritual rather than physical, he cast in the role of friend and confidant the attendant who was guarding him, a simple but devout traditionalist Catholic called Nicholas Woodson. Woodson's friendship came to be his only support, and to please Woodson he began giving way to everything that he had fought for twenty years and more' (pp.588-89).
Some very sharp Catholic minds had turned up during his imprisonment to try to argue him out of his Protestantism, but he held firm. Yet put him in a position where his only possible friend in all the world was a simple-minded Catholic and he weakened. I think it is only the most foolhardy of us who conclude that Cranmer was just one of life's pushovers and that we would have been stronger.
What do I conclude?
I conclude that a desire to please my friends may well be deeper in me than I imagine it is.
I conclude that therefore those deep friendships that I do have with brothers in the Lord are likely to be a far more powerful means by which the Lord keeps me true to him than I imagine they are.
I conclude, finally, that choosing to sacrifice some other things in order to invest in those friendships is a very wise thing to do. According to MacCulloch it was spiritual isolation that did for Cranmer – although mercifully not permanently so. We are fools, I think, if we imagine that we are different.
My PT colleague, Adrian Reynolds, might well add at this point: so when, Mr Pastor, did you last go to a conference where you knew you would be spending time with like-minded brothers? He puts on some pretty good ones, you know.
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The big idea and aim of the Big Idea and Aim
Anyone who encounters what we do at Cornhill quickly discovers that we're rigorous in training students to come up with two sentences for any Bible passage that they're teaching or preaching: a Big Idea (a.k.a. BI, or Theme Sentence) and Aim Sentence.
This practice sometimes raises some good questions, and here are a couple of them.
Isn't it more formulaic than Scripture itself?
Of course any set of disciplines can be turned into a lifeless formula by the petty-minded, but I'm pretty insistent that our insistence on BI and Aim does not drain the life from Scripture, but actually leads the preacher to be listening out for it.
- The BI boils down to this: what is the passage actually talking about?
- The Aim boils down to this: why are these things written here in this way in Scripture?
'What?' and 'why?'. These are the two key questions that precisely help the preacher not to impose his favourite framework on a text, but to discipline himself to listen for what God is actually saying there.
That's why, for myself, I fight a little shy of asking early on in my preparation questions which presuppose looking for a certain kind of content. Some books recommend this: e.g. one good contemporary writer suggests looking for what he calls the 'Fallen Condition Focus' of each text. It's far from a terrible question, but I'd always rather start with, and persist with, 'what?' and 'why?' – questions which steer me, if I follow them faithfully, to listen to this text in its own right.
What's the basis of 'BI and Aim'?
Well, you can find theological answers to that question. But here's a good general answer, from God's common grace in human life:
Every time a person uses language, that language has two inseparable features: propositional content and inter-personal action. More simply: every time we open our mouths or tap on our keyboards, there's content (what I'm saying) and intention (why I'm saying it). These two can be analysed separately, but they never actually exist separately; they're two ways of describing what we're doing when we communicate. (In a previous life I researched this a bit, and should anyone be interested it's grounded in a solid philosophy of language.)
That's why we get Cornhillers going on both BI and Aim from day one of Cornhill. Focus on BI without Aim and you'll get lectures pretending to be sermons; focus on Aim without BI and you'll get lots of heat and little light. All language, including the human language that Scripture is written in, always has both. 'BI and Aim' is simply our way of expressing a desire to read Scripture in a way that's faithful to how God has made us and our language.
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Exegetical reflections on Luke ch.24, part 3
The final section, vs.36-53:
Three rather odd things happen here, and I think that working away at these, in the way Luke has described them, gets us heading in the right direction:
1) When Jesus appears to the disciples (v.36), they're all startled and frightened and think he's a ghost. Yet only moments earlier they had seemed convinced of his resurrection (v.34)! The repeated language of 'ghost' (vs.38-39) suggests what's going on: they are not fully convinced of the complete physical reality of the resurrection. After all, at the meal-table with Emmaus Two it seems that he disappeared before anything was actually eaten (vs.30-31).
2) The climax of Luke's account of Jesus providing the disciples with evidence of the reality of his resurrection is… he eats a mouthful of fish while they watch (vs.40-43). Rarely has such a mundane act had such theological clout! But see this as Jesus' response to their thinking he's a ghost, and Luke's point begins to emerge: the climax of the evidence of the resurrection is the demonstration that the risen Christ was as fully human as he was before his death.
That's not often a key point that folks like us have drawn from the resurrection, but it does seem to be Luke's. In his resurrection, and then at his ascension, Jesus left no part of his humanity behind. We who are in him can be confident of heaven, because (among other reasons, of course) one human being has blazed the trail and gone there ahead of us.
3) In vs.50-53 it is rather clear that the Father took Jesus up into heaven while he was part-way through blessing them. Why didn't he wait just a few minutes for Jesus to finish his blessing?! Wouldn't that have been an encouragement for the disciples?
It's a strange thing. Is Luke's point that Jesus is continuing to bless his disciples from heaven, even though he is not with us physically – that his unfinished blessing is unfinishing? That fits, I think, with his promise to clothe them with power from on high (v.49). His physical disappearance does not end the blessing of his presence with them; actually it allows for it to continue in a much more powerful way.
I feel I have only scratched the surface of Luke 24. But again I've been reminded that working away hard at what Luke has actually said, and trying to stick with the question 'why has he chosen to say this?', yields rather more fruit than I see when I first read through such familiar verses.
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Exegetical reflections on Luke ch.24, part 2
Now to the famous Emmaus Road, vs.13-35.
Much more than this could be said, but here are a couple of thoughts:
1) Central to this event as Luke tells it is the contrast between what the Emmaus Two expected of the Messiah (vs.19-24), and what Jesus says the Messiah actually had to do (vs.25-27).A careful contrasting of these two portions gets us to the heart of things, I think. They expected that he would do for their nation the very things that they themselves wanted done for their nation: sort out the Romans, and renew the nation's life and status. In their expectation, God's plans just happened to include the things that they themselves wanted.
Jesus, though, uses Scripture to describe God's plan for the Messiah entirely without reference to the redemption of the nation which so concerns them. For Jesus, it is all about the Messiah's glory, which had to be preceded by the very suffering which the Emmaus Two thought proved his defeat. If we expect God to work in ways that will also just happen to lead to our glory and comfort here and now, most of us will be disappointed in him. But if we expect that he will work to bring the Messiah glory – and that through suffering, as throughout Scripture – then he will never disappoint us.
2) How is it that they came to recognise him at the breaking of the bread (vs.30-31, 35)? Most evangelicals reject any overt reference to the Lord's Supper, and have sometimes wondered if the disciples noticed the nail-marks in his hands at that point. Luke, though, makes no reference to that, so that can only be guess-work. What Luke does describe is Jesus acting as host at a meal at which is he technically a guest (v.30). That points us in the right direction, I think. Twice before, Luke has used similar words to describe Jesus hosting a meal: the feeding of the five thousand (9.16) and the last supper (22.19). In the first of these, he is the host who provides for the Lord's people in the wilderness, and in the second he is the provider of the atoning sacrifice for sin.
This suggests that Luke is showing us that the risen Christ was recognised as risen when he was seen to be the Provider who was still among his people. Faith in the resurrection is therefore not just faith in a miracle, but is trust in Jesus as the provider of all that his people need to cover their sins and to sustain them.
Proclaimer Blog
Exegetical thoughts on Luke ch.24, part 1
At the recent PT Summer Wives Conference I gave three talks on Luke's final chapter, ch.24, and to be honest I found the prep a real wrestle. Preachers know that feeling mid-way through the prep for something like this: "I don't think I'm going to have anything useful to say. Shall I just pick something that promises to yield easier fruit instead?".
However some things did come to strike me quite forcefully, and I share them here, over the next three days.
First up is vs.1-12.
Luke seems to have narrated this in a way that stresses two things:
1) The disciples were simply not expecting the resurrection (vs.1-3, 11), even though they had heard Jesus predict it (v.6), and even though some of them had themselves experienced his miraculous healing power personally. The latter point is presumably why Luke goes out of his way to name the women in v.10, since some of the same women are also mentioned as having been healed in 8.1-3.
That gives huge comfort to Christians who find our message of a risen Christ met with incredulity.
2) This is really the same point, but now put positively: belief in Christ resurrected is given through divine revelation that first of all humbles, and then gives insight into and remembrance of Christ's words (vs.4-8). (This theme will also continue into the next section: vs.16 and 31-32.)
I began to think that this explains why Luke ends the section with Peter as a partial exception to the disciples' lack of expectation of the resurrection (v.12). The last time Luke showed us Peter, he was in a position rather like that of the women at the tomb: humbled, forced to remember Jesus' words, and confronted with the truth of those words (22.60-62). If that's right, then Luke is showing that human reception of the news of the resurrection requires our humbling – and those who have been humbled by God are more likely to be open to believing it. On reflection, I have found that to be largely true of ministry as I have experienced it.
Proclaimer Blog
The working wife
I was at the recent PT Summer Wives conference, invited along as a speaker. We had a panel question time on wide-ranging issues of ministry, and the perennial question arose of whether or not a pastor's wife ought to do paid work out of the home. There are of course strongly argued views both ways on this, so we wanted to pick our way through it carefully.
One helpful way in which the question was framed was this: aren't we in our constituency in danger of promoting a 1950s cultural model of the housewife (main job: cook and clean, and make sure house and kids are spick and span and dinner is ready for hubbie's return home), and pretending it's biblical?
A good question. There is no doubt that danger is real, and we may well at times have fallen into it. As is often pointed out, the wife of noble character in Prov 31 is rather more like a home-based businesswoman than a 1950s housewife, and the 'busyness at home' which older women are teach to younger women (Titus 2.5) is very likely to be much more akin to that, than akin to a post-Industrial-Revolution cultural model of house-wifery. That itself doesn't answer the question about pastors' wives going out of the home to earn money, but it certainly shows that easy answers won't do.
I wonder if it is especially in marriage-roles and family relationships that we are likely to slip unawares into largely cultural rather than biblical patterns without noticing, precisely because such things seem so 'natural' to us. It is really only those who believe that Scripture is the living voice of God who can gain a true perspective on themselves and their culture from outside, which is a great mercy and a great challenge.
Proclaimer Blog
A pastor's wife's tale
One book I return to often is Garrison Keillor's Leaving Home, his whimsical tales of life in a mythical Minnesotan town called Lake Wobegon. One story I've just re-read focuses on Judy Ingqvist, wife of Lutheran pastor, Dave. I'm not Lutheran, but this particular excerpt did make me think of the talks I'll soon be delivering at the PT Summer Wives Conference. And it might give a married pastor pause to think about how things actually are for his wife right now.
The Ingqvists bought their tickets to Florida two months ago, Pastor Dave and Judy; at least that's what she said. They've missed the Annual Ministers' Retreat three years in a row because the civilian leadership at church can't see why their minister and his wife should cavort in the tropics in January. She can see about three reasons, but she can't tell the Board because it's more than they want to know about a minister: it's hard work to stand up and say what people don't really believe but want to think they do; and it's tough when a man of faith suffers from depression in a town where nice people are expected to be upbeat. For a few days on Captiva Island, at the Chateau Suzanne, around the blue kidney-bean-shaped pool, cool aquamarine in a forest of deep green and fabulous birds of brilliant plumage, some pale plump Lutherans will sit in the sun like lumps of bread dough and say forbidden things. Oh, the luxury of truth when you come from a town of storytellers! The luxury of sitting in sunlight, clasping a gin-and-tonic, wearing two articles of clothing that allow the world to reasonably assume you are a woman, lighting up one of your ten annual cigarettes, and saying openly to other ministers' wives, "It has been hard this year."
Of course there's no pool like that at Hothorpe Hall, and I'm ignoring his comment about sun-bathing American Lutherans! But I'm guessing a number of women at the Conference will gain some relief from simply telling another woman, "It has been hard this year."
Proclaimer Blog
Don't try to be relevant!
I recently preached at a friend's church on a text he assigned me: Jude 17-25, at the end of a short series in the church on Jude.
The big thing that struck is how remarkably similar our situation in the UK right now is to the situation Jude was addressing, right down to specific details:
• Some ungodly people have got into the church and are teaching believers that they can go lax on morality, especially sexual immorality (vs.4 & 7).
• Some believers seem to be shaken by this, and are beginning to wonder whether the apostles were really the ones led by the Spirit, or whether this new teaching is actually Spirit-inspired (v.17).
That would not have seemed as obviously relevant to the times in the UK fifty years ago as it does today.
Jude's pastoral response is just as specific. Although the verses in question aren't the easiest to interpret, most likely he tells believers how to relate to three kinds of people in this situation:
• v.22: believers who are beginning to wonder if the apostles had it right after all ("My daughter is so happy with her same-sex married partner; can it be so wrong after all?)
• v.23a: church-members who have gone a step further and are taking serious steps into immorality ("I've decided that God won't mind if I have an affair; I'm really lonely, and my marriage is dying anyway")
• v.23b: the very teachers of the immorality themselves, and their followers.
This reminds us of a crucial truth about the relevance of Scripture, that all of us need to stay convinced of:
Relevance in preaching is like happiness. The people who most keenly seek after it for its own sake never really find it.
The preacher who is desperate to be relevant is usually embarrassingly outmoded before he even stands up to speak.
But the preacher who gives himself to the task set before him – to listen to this text in its own right, to ask first of all what God was doing in it back there and then – will discover extraordinary relevance to the details of our lives. Be brave enough to dig down deep enough into Scripture, and then suddenly a really powerful spark will jump across the gap between then and now.
Proclaimer Blog
The virtues of the preacher
Expository preaching is difficult. And I think it is most difficult in one particular way.
It's not difficult in the way that something like quantum mechanics is difficult – difficult because only a small percentage of people, the most intelligent, can understand it. (You gather that I don't think I understand quantum mechanics.)
After all, at heart good expository preaching requires of the preacher that he sit in his study asking some pretty straightforward questions: what does this passage actually say? when was it written, in general history and in the history of redemption? how does this passage contribute to Scripture's overall message? …and especially why does the writer say what he says, in the way he says it?
These are not difficult questions to understand. But they are difficult questions to discipline yourself to stick rigorously to in your preparation…
We read our preaching text through, and often immediately a ready-made preaching point comes to mind – not unlike a point we made in a recent sermon.
We read our preaching text through, and often immediately an application from a particular line jumps to mind – one that we can use to address head-on an issue that's troubling us.
These things might be what the passage is actually saying… or they might not. We have no idea of that until we've disciplined ourselves to do the hard work of asking our simple questions rigorously of the passage.
One of the chief virtues that the expository preacher needs is therefore self-discipline. The same letter which exhorted Timothy to preach the word (2 Tim 4.2) began by urging him to fan into flame the gift that is in him because the Spirit has given us (among other things) self-discipline (1.6-7).
I think I would say that from this perspective the task required of the expository preacher is simply one aspect of the virtue of being quick to listen and slow to speak (Jas 1.19) – and everyone knows how much self-discipline it takes to do that.
Proclaimer Blog
Better study equals better application
One practical reason why preachers are tempted to short-circuit working hard on their Bible-text is because they feel the pressure to have compelling applications. And the truth is that it can sometimes feel as if the further we bury ourselves in the text, the further we are getting away from the real lives of the people we'll be standing in front of come Sunday.
Here's one simple example from a passage that came up in our Cornhill practice classes this week, which demonstrates that we must hold our nerve and believe that the opposite is the case: namely, the further we bury ourselves in the next, the closer we are getting to the profound and precise message that the Lord has in it for our people.
The passage is Matthew 18:21-35, the parable of the unmerciful servant. It's provoked by Peter asking Jesus how often he must forgive a brother or sister who sins against him. "Up to seven times?", asks Peter.
Already there in the opening verse of the passage we are given two limitations to our application: this is primarily about sins committed against us…
– by fellow-believers, not the world in general;
– by fellow-believers within the life of the church family, rather than within our own family relationships.
There's more. The immediate context is the well-known passage on church discipline (18:15-20), which speaks of the two possible outcomes for a sinning Christian: repentance and restoration, or coming to be regarded as an unbeliever. Peter's question in v.21 can only have in view the repentant believer, since he asks about multiple acts of forgiveness. Here then is a third limitation to our application: the sinning Christian is assumed to be repentant.
I think I detect even a fourth limitation, too: since Peter assumes repeated forgiveness, primarily in view are sins that are committed pretty regularly, rather than enormous, infrequent sins.
If I notice all of this, I won't start my sermon by talking about a Christian who said she forgave her unconverted father who sexually abused her as a child (not a Christian; possibly not repentant). I won't start talking about a converted man who stays with his church-going wife through her continual affairs (possibly not a Christian; not repentant). If I start like this, I'll probably do pastoral damage.
Instead, I'll start talking about the kinds of sins committed regularly among church family members: gossipping, back-biting, lack of hospitality, etc. I may think that this passage speaks to forgiveness in other areas too. But if I think that, I'll be guided by the text to work my way there through a series of careful pastoral steps.
As I said, in this case when I finally emerge from the hours spent buried in the text, although there's still much to do, I know exactly in which direction my applications need to run.


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Xtreme Couture now has a line of supplements. It's about time a fighter poked their nose into this world. It's been sitting there waiting for a couple years. This is one reason I think MMA managers are horrible. You have a perfect match between fighters and supplements. Everyone is enamored with MMA training at the moment. It's the new Tae Bo. All you really need is a popular fighter to be the spokesman for the products and some investors. Why has it taken this long for someone to do it? Even a moderately successful operation could turn out millions a year. Instead MMA managers cash their 10% checks, wait for calls from promoters, and line up ugly sponsor t-shirts for their fighters to wear.
Supposedly (probably not), this is Randy Couture's supplement schedule. Not surprisingly, he takes every product they offer. What are the odds?!
Check out this stock photo of the Xtreme Couture research lab. Looks like they're working on a new Orange Julius shake of some sort.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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Posted by Rear Naked at 11:21 AM
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Rearnaked, are you studying contract law? You should become an agent or manager yourself.
- June 11, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- Rear Naked said...
I'd have to grow a sleazy mustache or start wearing shiny suits.
Don't think I'm ready for that.
- June 11, 2009 at 7:11 PM
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A quick update:
My page has changed around again. I know. Forgive me? You'll just have to bear with me… I'm still new to this blogging thing. I'm slowly figuring out the basics of html coding and the finer details of WordPress, but after today, things are beginning to look how I want them to. I do apologize, though, for the many theme changes and broken links. We should be all set for a little while now.
What a relief.
Be excited for Wednesday Wines! I WILL be posting tomorrow…I promise.
Also, be on the look-out for a new pork recipe coming soon. I'm thinking Hawaiian Pork, yum!
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On Compassion
Soon, the Jewish new year begins, and I would like to welcome it with a few words on compassion. I recently had reason to look up the exact definition in the dictionary.
com·pas·sion /kəmˈpaSHən/
Sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others: "the victims should be treated with compassion".
Synonyms: pity – mercy – sympathy – commiseration – ruth – clemency"
Even the dictionary can't agree on what compassion means.The synonyms aren't actually synonyms. Pity is useless and often destructive. Mercy is better, but implies fault with the miserable (though it has the notion of action or help that 'pity' fails to show.) Commiseration is a different thing entirely, ruth is an archaic word that comes the closest to modern usage of compassion, and clemency, in this day and age, is something the President grants.
Compassion has always been a very important word to me. I remember being in my senior-kindergarten classroom, age 4 or 5, and thinking about the fact that 'com' meant 'with', like community, and passion was strong emotion, so that compassion must have been community feeling. That was when I learned the word, and I went on with that definition for a very long time. I think the 5 year old me had more wisdom than most of the later versions, in a lot of ways.
I unlearned that definition for many years.
My mother was an uncommonly black-and-white person in her way of thinking. People were either good or bad. You were either wrong or right, and she was always right. This us-and-them mentality was very hard to live with, because it also taught me that people couldn't make mistakes, or be very different from my mother and I, and still be good people.
The thing is, she said all the right things.
My mother taught me that racism was bad, that all people were equal in the eyes of god, that people could be different and be good, but I didn't actually see it in practice very much. I remember my mother using the word 'slut' for one of my eight or nine year old third-grade classmates because she was wearing a short frilly skirt in the summer heat, and I remember her disgust when she talked about unmarried sexuality, about homosexuality, about people of religions other than her Judeo-Christian norm. She was always sure to tell me that she knew _I_ would never do a thing like (insert whatever sin, real or imagined) …
And generally I didn't, because I wanted to be loved. I believed I needed to be a certain way for this to happen. I knew I was missing something, and it hurt. There was definitely a hole in me, but it wasn't religion as so many of my very Christian teachers and friend's parents said. It was subtlety, and tolerance for uncertainty. It was also love. (Horses had long taught me how to love, and what it was…but that's another story. )
I wasn't taught subtlety of people or what real compassion was until I left her home in my mid teens. It made me very unhappy and very afraid. I was constantly torn between ideas: I could observe and know with my own mind that a person was good, and it made me feel good to be around them, but if I knew they had done something bad, that meant they must be a bad person, and I shouldn't like them. It made it very hard to get close to people. I didn't know how to forgive people, or how to be hurt, or how to pick myself up from being hurt, or how to recognise when people were lashing out because THEY were hurting. There were very important life-skills that I was simply lacking.
It got better. I was in my late teens before I was okay with the fact that every long-term relationship of any kind that I will ever have will include pain and betrayals, and that that's alright. I knew I needed to learn how to be happy, that it was a skill like any other, and that I would get there in time. So I worked at it. I got my heart broken. I learned to smile again, without worrying about what other people thought. I rekindled the light in my eyes. Somewhere along the way came a feeling of peace I had only ever known before when working with my horses, and now I recognise it as love, simple and freely given. So I worked on doing that more often.
It was, in retrospect, painful to unlearn to be afraid of other people. It was also very easy in the way that something is if it feels right and it is what you want.
As I got out into the world, I noticed that the deeply happy people I saw had significant things in common; they loved deeply, and they were at the same time, joyful and sad. They had a tolerance for uncertainty and for grey areas. Some have been men of religion, Zen personalities, but most were not. But they all kept an open heart and moved forward into the world doing the only thing that is always the right choice; acting with love. They also all shared a wonderment I feel myself, a fascination with the beauty and fragileness that is the human creature.
I am not a religious woman, but in a way I think I must be, because I find the need to use the vernacular of holy things when I talk about the meaning of my life and the overpowering beauty of living. I am indeed driven to my proverbial knees… or more often to dancing, to singing and writing and poetry and loving with abandon, in worship and honor of something greater than myself. Yet, the only place I find myself willing to stand and defend the existence of anything like god is in regards to the god in other people. There is something in the human being that is sacrosanct to me, and that spark or whatever you want to call it is why I live and why my life matters.
To that end, I sat down to write today with the goal of giving shape to the idea of compassion.
Compassion is not pity. To think that the suffering deserve pity devalues their agency to better their lives or alleviate their suffering. It also absolves the pitier of the need to act on behalf of the suffering. Pity is a selfish emotion, because it comes with many benefits to the pitier (soothing guilt, ameliorating an ignored sense of duty, and tricking the pitier into thinking they've done something useful.) It comes with few benefits for the pitied, and since they're suffering, that is an unequal, unkind, and selfish emotion.
Compassion is not giving-in. If a suffering person wants you to do something that harms you emotionally or practically, it is not compassionate to give in, because compassion is multidirectional. It is not compassionate to give in to someones desires (run an errand for them, help them move, take time off work) if this causes you to be angry or resentful, and negatively impacts your life. If you can truly let go of your anger because you believe the favor or life choice is right, that is compassion because it is founded in something you believe in. Giving-in is commonly mistaken for compassion, because it temporarily soothes the sufferer's immediate pain. But it solves no problems.
Compassion is not acting out of fear. It is not taking in an effectively homeless teenager because you're afraid of what people will think if you don't (as once happened to me, I think.) It isn't doing it so people will think well of you. (Another possibility.) It is truly RECOGNISING that the frightened creature on your proverbial doorstep is a HUMAN BEING, with a full real inner world just as vast and colorful as your own. It is honoring that human being, regardless of extrinsic circumstances.
Compassion is, most simply, love.
When I was sixteen, my life with my mother had become intolerable. My wellbeing was deeply threatened, and so I left. I stayed with a friend's mother, who, for all her best intentions, only made things worse.
After that, another woman took me in, and she taught me how to love instead of fear, through fear, to truly act with compassion for myself and for those around me. It has been the single greatest deciding factor in whether my life has been a success or not.
Sometimes I think that's really the only real choice we have in life in regards to other people… we can choose love, or not. We can choose to be compassionate, or not. Even when our world is crumbling around us, or perhaps more significantly, when it is good and we have every reason to be selfish.
I remember vividly what it was like to believe that good and bad was black and white, and it helps me understand how humans came up with the idea of hell.
For my own sanity, finding a practical understanding of compassion (and the tolerance for uncertainty required for it) is vital.
It doesn't make me stronger, but to borrow a Buddhist saying, it lets me flow like water. It lets me find my place in the world. It lets me change (and that is, indeed, the only constant) without fear of breaking more than I can mend. It makes this world tolerable for me, and hopefully, makes my presence in this world more good than harm. And there in love, there in the most mundane daily goings on of life become little prayers. And every day, the people I meet, both strange and familiar, answer them.
Shana Tova. May it bring you, of all things, love.
"And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky."
― Rumi


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Description of problem:
Installing a new LaserJet printer on an Opteron system will allow you
to install a printer but will never print. By setting LogLevel debug
in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file, it can be seen that it's looking for
the Omni device drivers in /usr/lib/Omni. On 64-bit systems these
drivers are loaded in /usr/lib64/Omni and are not present in the
former directory. Therefore the printer driver does not load and
printing never works.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change the LogLevel in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to debug
2. Create a new printer using e.g. a HP LaserJet driver.
3. Print a test page
Actual Results: Nothing is printed.
The /var/log/cups/error_log has similar to the following lines:
D [22/Nov/2004:17:56:47 +1100] [Job 21] Omni::openLibrary: for
"libHP_LaserJet_4000T_TN.so", g_module_error returns
"libHP_LaserJet_4000T_TN.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory"
D [22/Nov/2004:17:56:47 +1100] [Job 21]
D [22/Nov/2004:17:56:47 +1100] [Job 21] Omni::openLibrary: Omni device
library not found in the following paths:
D [22/Nov/2004:17:56:47 +1100] [Job 21] /usr/lib/Omni/.
D [22/Nov/2004:17:56:47 +1100] [Job 21] .
Expected Results: The test page was printed.
Additional info:
I included /etc/lib64/Omni in the /etc/ld.so.conf but this did not fix
the problem.
I need to know what version of Omni you have. You've put 'fc3' in the version
field but cups-1.1.22-1 is a rawhide package, so perhaps you have Omni 0.9.2?
No feedback, but looks like a duplicate of bug #141421.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141421 ***


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When Adam and Eve took a bite of the apple, thereby gaining the knowledge of Good and Evil, they bit off more than they could chew. We humans have been arguing about the permutations ever since.
The knowledge of Good and Evil is different from the knowledge of good and bad. The difference is not easily explained except by metaphysicians and philosophers, and even then there is not widespread agreement, as you might imagine. You get a bunch of metaphysicians and philosophers together and they squabble just like a bunch of scientists. They would do this even if they weren't competing for tenure or grant money. It's their nature.
For the layman, I guess the best way to put it is, Evil is really, really scary and possibly supernaturally so, whereas badness is simply run of the mill; a drag, but hardly surprising. Compare the Evil One, evil eye and Dr. Evil with bad dog, bad apple, bad hair day.
Evil is pure, more deserving of capitalization.
Evil is rare, in shorter supply than badness, at least on this plane. Many people don't even believe in it. Badness is more readily available, or at least more readily recognized.
Another thing about Evil: It isn't quantifiable. A thing can be pretty good or pretty bad. Bad, worse, worst. Good, better, best. But Evil is Evil.
Then there is the thorny question of right and wrong. You always hear curmudgeons going on about how young people these days have not been taught right from wrong.
I believe that most people actually do know right from wrong, but there is not widespread agreement about some of the finer points. Sometimes people take into consideration whether an act is normal, something everybody does.
When determining whether a certain act is right or wrong, my rule of thumb is to consider whether I myself have ever committed this act or am likely to do so in the future. If the answer is yes, I always say, "Well, that's normal." Not that it's right, necessarily, but.
Legally, I believe-I have picked this up from television-perpetrators of heinous, even evil, acts that clearly only insane people could possibly commit, are not found to be insane if they are shown to "know right from wrong." This method of evaluating mental health confuses many of us, but we don't generally complain too much because, for example, Charles Manson remained in prison, right? That gave us all one less thing to think about at three o'clock in the morning.
Even if we don't spend much time analyzing good and bad, right and wrong, Good and Evil, we know what we know.
Tent caterpillars are bad, for example. I don't care that they don't permanently damage the trees where they spend their idyllic larvaehood. I don't care that they eventually morph into innocuous little mothlets. It should be obvious to one and all that tent caterpillars fall into the category of bad bugs.
Did you know that tent caterpillars make their nests when they are very tiny, from a substance they secrete from their heads? They creep back into their nests at night for protection, after eating their fill of leaves during the day.
Right about now, large tent caterpillars, hairy and black with yellow stripes, are falling from the trees. You will see them everywhere you go. Soon they will spin cocoons and eventually emerge as gypsy moths. I suppose that's just nature, but I don't have to like it.
We all know the good bugs from the bad bugs. Butterflies, ladybugs (except when they're invading our homes), honey bees and fireflies are good. Blackflies are bad, as are most other flies. Mosquito is the diminutive of the Spanish word mosca, meaning fly.
Earwigs are bad, to the point where they may actually be evil. They are not out yet-they are still in their underground lairs-which is just as well. The mosquitoes and blackflies are enough to contend with. Only the females attack us and suck our blood, but I don't think we need to extend an analogy to other species, do you? That would be wrong.
Mosquitoes, blackflies and no-see-ums. Everywhere, you see people waving their hands in front of their faces, trying to fend them off. Blackflies rip off pieces of skin and inject their own special venom.
But it's spring, and it's all good. Or, as a scientist might say, "A statistically meaningful amount tends to be positive."
Have a good week.


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Semaphore, the Concurrency API in Java 5 also introduced a barrier –
CyclicBarrier. This class is used as a barrier for a set of threads, to keep them waiting until all the threads have reached it. Once all the threads reach the barrier, it is tripped, allowing them to perform further execution. The number of threads in
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This time a year or two ago, if someone had asked what scared you, the answer might be something like zombies or serial murderers or vengeful ghosts.
How innocent we were.
At this specific moment, unless you are one of those folks afraid of people with a different skin color, the real stuff is what scares you: losing health insurance, getting deported, losing a loved one to deportation, the destruction of our one and only environment, loss of civil rights, the suppression of a free press, unchecked gerrymandering, Betsy Devos, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, that other guy what's his face, etc. etc.. Real horror is upon us.
So, here is a list of terrifying books about (more or less) non-real things that will perhaps cheer you up a little: people getting disemboweled by the living dead, or maybe having their souls sucked out of their eye sockets by demons or getting buried alive by a barista who might not actually be a coffee shop employee. Fun stuff. Comedy-type stuff — relatively speaking. Things that, compared to reality, look like your 4-year-old's Hello Kitty tea party.
Seriously, though – here are some top-notch scary books: some new, some a bit older, but prob a bunch you haven't read. Take a break from the news, ok?
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
This one from the early 90s is slated to become a film. It has elements of Stranger Things and It, but with a wider variety of monsters and set in the early 60s. "Kids fight evil' never gets old, because we all feel vulnerable (like kids) when we go up against something reeeeally bad. Pick up some chocolate pudding on your way home from the bookstore for this one.
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
This peach from just a few years ago is a throwback to the horror everyone loves: a ghost story told in the vein of the classics like Poe and James. Escape to England and an old manor house which has seen better days; can you unravel the mystery – or… should you even want to?
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
A couple tries to start over, after a personal economic catastrophe, using their meager resources to move into an old house. Unfortunately for them, this house just might be a distant relative of Shirley Jackson's Hill House. Oops. Bad things happen. Can they – and their relationship – survive? They'll have to, because they cannot run away.
Asylum series by Madeleine Roux
If you've never read YA as an adult, let me tell you, it's like mainlining narcotics. First, it's never the case that writing for young people is somehow a lesser art than writing for… old people. It's just that the style, being intended for energetic youths who have a thousand intense things competing for their attention, feels sort of… streamlined. Less broad development, more focused action. Anyway, that's my opinion. It's a style, designed for its primary audience, and if you find yourself in a life situation right now where your attention span is on the short side, YA might be a way back in. This series starts with Asylum, is set in a former asylum (now a college dorm), and may or may not include ghosts, serial killers, family secrets and possession.
Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin R. Kiernan
If you like your horror to have a cosmic feel (ie Lovecraftian) or where it dips into sci-fi, then this poetic novella might be your speed. Humanity is in danger from something(?) out on the edge of the solar system, and it's up to Scully and Mulder some Special Agent to figure out what's going on: is it some kinda science thingy? is it that weird desert cult?
Ararat by Christopher Golden
As a religious person, I find it funny when folks search for Noah's ark: guys, it's "true", but not literally true. Knock it off; it's embarrassing. In this novel, though – they find it. Up on Mt Ararat, buried in a cave, is the original ark – sealed like a tomb. And maybe… that's exactly what it is. Horror ensues. With themes of science and religion, there's lots to recommend this monster horror.
The Girl from Rawblood – Catriona Ward
If you had a huge old house, and you wanted to name it, wouldn't it be something like: Greenholme Gardens or Rivendell or Golden Haven? Would you name it something grisly like Rawblood?! Sheesh. Anyway, the Villarca family has a history of strange curses and illness, so it's par for the course, I guess. Sequestered at Rawblood, young Iris begins to doubt and defy here father's controlling rules about where she can go, and who she can befriend – but he has his own past to worry about. It's the intersection of Victorian science and Gothic ghosts. What's better in a horror novel? Nothing.
Malus Domestica by S.A. Hunt
Witches get a bad rap, but like everyone else, there are good ones… and there are bad ones. Robin Martine, after losing her own mother to the wicked Marilyn Cutty, is on a vengeful quest to set things right. Can she, with her 4th grade allies, battle through a horde of evil beasties to end an ancient horror and free a town?
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
This 700 page father-son epic is brand spankin' new. All the women in the world fall into a kind of sleep-trance, leaving men to fend for and fight amongst themselves. Try to wake up one of the women, and you'll be killed by them (I'm the exact same way, before 8am). As men futz about in this world, women enjoy a much better existence in that other world of their dreams. So, are we doomed? Or can we find some way get our two breeding halves back together?
With a little escape to recharge your batteries, you should be ready to face the horrors of reality. Remember: always use your imagination constructively, meaning –> never forget that things can get better- they really can. They will. For instance, some day, we might be haunted by vampire ghosts, attacked by zombie alien serial killers, and subject to an ancient werewolf curse – still scary, but better, right? For the moment, get out there and punch some nazis.


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Okay so when you are talking about a game that is this big and awaited by as many people as this one, it is a big thing to say that the developers might have disappointed fans.
Batman Arkham Knight came out today for all the platforms, but it is the game's PC version that has been in the line of fire for a number of reasons.
For instance if you check out the user reviews on Steam Community for the game you will see that almost everyone is complaining about numerous performance issues including massive stuttering, frame rate drops, FPS lock at 30, sound bugs, some ugly textures, graphics driver crashes, motion blur, SLI support problems, freezes and tons of other issues.
So yeah, in the words of the people who have played Batman Arkham Knight on PC specifications that either match recommended or are better, the game is horribly optimized and certainly a no go zone for AMD users.
However, as you might have noticed, the problems are not specific to AMD alone. Nvidia with all its Game Works features hammered into the game doesn't give you the perfect performance.
They put in a 30 FPS lock on PC! I mean it is editable from an INI file but does that match the expectations? Next up, even if you deactivate the lock the game's frame rate fluctuates between three and 60, even if Game Works is turned off.
What's more, players have reported that even with the 1000 bucks Titan X or the 980 Ti they haven't been able to either reach or maintain 60FPS.
Moving on, SLI support is a nasty mess; even in the release notes of the Nvidia 353.30 WHQL Game Ready driver they have acknowledged some of the issues:
- [SLI, Batman: Arkham Knights] Heavy flickering occurs in game after Alt+Tab if SLI is enabled. [200116723]
- [SLI, Batman: Arkham Knights] Severe stuttering seen, especially in indoor scenes, when the game is running at 4K resolution and NVIDIA Gameworks settings are turned on. [200116722]
- [SLI, Batman: Arkham Knights] Random flickering occurs in the game if SLI is enabled. [200116717]
- [GM206, SLI, Batman: Arkham Knights] Stuttering occurs and performance drops after shadow quality settings are toggled. [200116694]
- [GK180, SLI, Batman: Arkham Knights] When SLI is enabled, a crash points to ntdll.dll shortly after the game is exited. [200116717]
"Game ready," really?
Oh and Rocksteady, no body liked it when you updated the system requirements only hours before the PC release to officially state that AMD users will face "known problems."
It looks like both AMD and Nvidia users will have to wait for massive patches and updates before Batman Arkham Knight really turns acceptable.
You can read our list of Batman Arkham Knight Crashes, Performance, FPS, Stuttering, Errors, Bugs and Fixes.


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Looks like someone else is trying to outdo Kim Kardashian! Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has posed nude for Vogue Paris and, as you'd expect, she looks incredible -- with or without designer duds.
The 35-year-old mom of two stripped down in honor of the magazine's 95th anniversary and claims the cover wearing nothing but a hat and personalized panties. (We've all got those, right?)
While Mrs. Tom Brady may have called it quits on the catwalk, she proves she can still rock the haute couture. Here's a look at the former Victoria's Secret Angel slipping into a Moschino gown:
Gisele is preparing to party with us for #VogueParis95. See the full shoot by Mario Testino, styled by Emmanuelle Alt, with make-up Stéphane Marais and hair by Christiaan in the October 95th anniversary issue, out tomorrow. @mariotestino @gisele @emmanuellealt @stephanemarais @hairbychristiaan @Moschino #Gisele #EmmanuelleAlt #StephaneMarais #Christiaan #Moschino #Vogue
More from The Stir: Gisele Bundchen Ditches Makeup for 'Pop' Magazine Cover & We're Stunned (PHOTO)
Gisele's pal, photographer Mario Testino, took these playful shots that confirm the model is still at the top of her game.
Love these funky boots! And speaking of her kicks, inside the mag is a photo of Gisele wearing nothing other than a lone pleather boot. (That'll make you forget all about Deflategate, won't it?)
More from The Stir: Gisele Is Retiring: 10 Supermodel-Defining Moments (PHOTOS)
For those wishing to see even more of the model -- as if that's even possible -- a coffee table book priced at a mere $700(!!) features more racy photos and comes out in November.
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Solar-wind bill threatens preserved farmland
Credit: www.philly.com 16 June 2011 ~~
A bill in the New Jersey Legislature would revise standards for wind-generation facilities and permit commercial-scale wind turbines of any size on preserved farmland.
But the bill makes no provision for environmental review, public input, or municipal or State Agricultural Development Committee oversight. It would essentially transfer the powers of community self-determination and home rule to powerful special interests that have no connection to the land or the affected communities. Property owners, natural resources, productive farm soils, and migratory birds would also be impacted.
If passed, this bill would have far-reaching ramifications for the agricultural industry and would undermine the rural character of South Jersey's farm belt and many other communities along the Delaware Bay located within a high wind-generation zone.
Renewable energy at the expense of productive farmland is not "sustainable development." The public did not pay to preserve these farms so they could become industrial zones for intensive wind and solar installations.
Matthew Blake
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American Littoral Society
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You and I must be born again:
"Unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." John 3:3
You and I are sinners:
"There is none righteous, not even one." Romans 3:10
Our penalty is death:
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23
We must repent of sin, then confess and trust Jesus Christ as our Lord and Personal Savior:
"That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved ... for whoever will call on the Name of the Lord will be saved." Romans 10:9.13
To be saved pray sincerely:
"Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins and ask you to forgive me. Please come into my heart. I accept you as my Savior and Lord. Help me to live for You from this day forward. Amen."
You can be sure of your salvation:
"And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life." 1 John 5:11-12
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Problem recognizing dream signs
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Problem recognizing dream signs
Since I'm relatively new at this, I'm relying on becoming conscious within my dream to become lucid before I try anything more difficult. I do reality checks frequently (most of the time I look at my hands and try to push one through the other or through a wall, if I'm at school I'll look in my text book, look away, and look back to see if it changed, etc), but for some reason in my dreams I rarely do them. I will perform one only if something seems to be off, however there are no talking pigs or anything crazy like that in my dreams. I can't recognize dream signs because there seem to be none, at least that I can remember. It's almost like things go about as normal and the events that take place make sense to me. Sometimes even when I wake up I'm confused as to where I am because things are so realistic. I guess I'm either not good at recognizing dream signs or there aren't very many things that could be considered one. How could I improve my ability to recognize dream signs?
Re: Problem recognizing dream signs
I'm a beginner as well (so take my advice with a grain of salt!), but it helps me to be able to recognize emotional cues. When I feel irritated/frustrated for seemingly no reason, I remember to ask myself "Why?" and that generally leads to me becoming conscious. Also, I justify dream situations a lot so everything seems "normal" to me too. Lately, I've been trying to use these moments of justification to induce lucidity. It worked this morning for the first time!
Re: Problem recognizing dream signs
I have had almost no success in recognizing dream signs - and I see them a lot. The only dream sign that will work for me is breathing under water. That doesn't happen often. I have found other LD techniques to be much more successful. Maybe give some of the others a try. Each person is different and what works for one may not work for another. It took me quite awhile to find a consistent technique. Good luck.
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