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SEATTLE (AP) – Domingo Santana hit two home runs in a game for the third time this season, Marco Gonzales won his third straight start and the Seattle Mariners avoided an embarrassing series sweep with an 8-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday.
Santana, who had five RBIs, and Daniel Vogelbach hit back-to-back homers in the first inning to give the Mariners a 4-0 lead and they went on to snap Kansas City's three-game winning streak.
The Mariners had been outscored 15-4 by the Royals in the first two games of a series between last-place teams.
Seattle jumped on starter Brad Keller (3-9) immediately. Mallex Smith doubled to open the bottom of the first and J.P. Crawford walked before Santana hit his first home run of the day to left-center field. Vogelbach followed with his 18th of the season, off the Hit It Here Café in the second deck.
It was the eighth time this year the Mariners, second in the majors in homers, have gone back-to-back.
Seattle showed some of the small-ball potential of its new young lineup in the fourth after Dylan Moore singled to start the inning.
Keller hit Smith with a pitch, then gave up run-scoring singles to Crawford and Santana before Vogelbach's sacrifice fly made it 7-1.
Keller didn't return for the fifth after giving up nine hits and throwing 97 pitches.
Santana added a solo home run, his 15th of the season, in the sixth and finished with three hits. The top three batters in the order – Smith, Crawford and Santana – each scored two runs.
Gonzales (8-6) scattered six hits over 6 2/3 innings, striking out five. It was his third straight victory after going 0-6 in his previous seven outings.
An MRI showed nothing out of the ordinary in RHP Felix Hernandez's injured shoulder, Seattle manager Scott Servais said. The 2010 AL Cy Young Award winner is expected to begin working out again soon.
Servais said Hernandez could pick up a ball in a few days for light tossing. Hernandez left a minor league appearance Friday night after experiencing fatigue in his shoulder and strained lat.
He'll throw bullpens before making another minor league start.
Royals: SS Adalberto Mondesi was out of the lineup with tightness in his right groin. He's day to day.
Mariners: RHP Sam Tuivailala threw 30 pitches Tuesday in his first bullpen since taking a step back in his return from Achilles tendon surgery.
The reliever said he didn't feel any of the muscle tightness in his arm that sidetracked his return last month.
Tuivailala will report to Class A Everett where he will work out of the bullpen for three or more games until he earns a move to Triple-A Tacoma, Servais said.
Royals: RHP Glenn Sparkman (1-3, 4.01 ERA) will face the Twins on Thursday night for the second time this week after giving up five runs and five hits in five innings of a loss last Saturday.
Mariners: Servais said he will likely use an opener Thursday and then turn to Wade LeBlanc (3-2, 6.20 ERA) in the series opener against Baltimore.


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From DramaWiki< User talk:Groink
Handling incomplete articles[edit]
So if I am not able to write the kanji should I be bothering to even update screenwriters / composer pages? I don't think I should be using a translator program since those are pretty unreliable and I can't really think of any other way around figuring out how to write there names in kanji. Thanks in advance.
- According to the guidelines, if you leave an artist article incomplete (incomplete meaning you left out critical information, such as the kanji, categories, or the drama list is empty), you should tag it with the appropriate stub depending on the artist's profession, such as {{jactor-stub}}, {{jactress-stub}}, {{jproducer-stub}}, {{jwriter-stub}} or {{jsinger-stub}}. Once the article is tagged correctly, someone like myself can come along and catch the stubbed article. Groink 15:33, 1 Apr 2007 (CDT)
Question on copyrights...[edit]
Hi, I noticed that you removed my summary for plagiarism and then added it back. I was wondering, if I can't synopsis from the original site, where are all the summaries from? I know for a fact that some of the shows aren't out yet, so people haven't watched them. Just curious. (I put a summary for Mei Wei Guan Xi before I saw your edit of my edit, so then I removed it.) Thanks!
- Most of the synopses are actually written by us, using external sources as inspiration. At least that's how the Japanese drama synopses are written. As for the Korean and Chinese drama articles, many of the articles are packed with plagiarism, and we're slowly cleaning it up. So don't use the other articles as examples. Groink 19:43, 27 Feb 2007 (CST
Problem editing a page[edit]
I've been trying to put Awards information in for the Jdorama article Shiroi Kyoto (2003), but keep getting this error heading and page: 500.shtml (There is currently no text in this page). Can you please help? Thanks. --Lady Zhuge 19:31, 5 Mar 2007 (CST)
- It appears that there may be caching problems in the MediaWiki software that runs DramaWiki. I'll forward this to Ruroshin. Groink 21:16, 5 Mar 2007 (CST)
i also got the error 500.shtml for the Fubuki Jun and Ohkura Koji pages. Marienella
the synopsis is limited to 150 words, is that right? i changed the synopsis for this drama, Netsuretsu Teki Chuuka Hanten, because basically it can be summarized in just 2 sentences. however, the editor who put the long summary reverted it back, she retained 203 words from the old summary then she put the link where she got it. i dont understand why you have to put the whole article copied from the english Fuji website, if you can just basically summarize it in just 2 to sentences. if that is allowed, then is it alright to just copy and link all the summaries from the TV websites? Marienella
- Thanks for inquiring. I don't understand either why people can't just link to a synopsis rather than copying it. I would let 203 words slide by; that's just a few words longer than we would like. Japanese articles - I don't see a problem with length in general seeing most translations from the official sites are short anyway. However, it appears that the Korean TV networks like writing very lengthy English-written synopses because they're basically trying to sell their viewers their shows, and that their fans like details. Chinese synopses in general are almost as bad, but it is simply because Chinese drama fans are a lot more fanatic about their shows than the rest of us. So in short, NO, copying an entire synopsis off a TV network or other site is not allowed. You can copy the first one or two sentences, and then provide a link to the rest of the article. But I would prefer that we start writing our own. We all watch these dramas, so you would figure we should at least be able to summarize what we watched. Groink 00:32, 22 Mar 2007 (CDT)
"Stop removing Goong S from the article. Goong, Goong S, and Goong 2 are all related series. Groink 02:52, 16 Mar 2007 (CDT)"
Can you please tell me how Goong S would be related to Goong? I have been following the legal issues since the beginning and both dramas are NOT related to each other in anyways besides the similar plot. (That is why Goong S is no longer Goong S but it is now named Prince Who.) If you can find any OFFICIAL statement from MBC or Group 8 about Goong S being related to Goong, then I would drop the issue. I seriously do not want other people reading misleading information and getting themselves confused as to if Goong S is really the sequel, which is is not. -- unsigned by Aquafina (Talk)
- Note that we use the terminology "related series". We are not saying that the two dramas contain the same casting or writers. We associate two dramas if the two have very similar genre and/or very similar storylines. For example, in the Japanese drama area, it is not unusual for us to say that two jidaigeki dramas are "related" seeing they both are in the same era, both have very similar storylines, and other similaries, even though the two are aired on two completely different networks, written by two totally different people, and the characters are totally different. That's what your problem is - you're mis-interpreting the use of "related series" on DramaWiki. Believe me - it is you fans who are confusing the issue on your blog sites; DramaWiki is NOT contributing to the confusion. Groink 22:23, 27 Mar 2007 (CDT)
Smiling Pasta[edit]
Hello, I noticed that you added season 2 for Smiling Pasta. I'm not trying to prove you wrong or anything, I would like to know the source of the season 2? Because I have searched among many Chinese resources and none of them indicate that there will be a seaon 2.
- Read the talk page for Smiling Pasta for an explanation. Groink 16:12, 28 Mar 2007 (CDT)
Sorry groink, I have been under the assumption that they were divorced for the past year for some reason and you just officially blew my mind by making me aware of this. I'll change them both.
Artists link back[edit]
You said "We don't allow additions of artists names without having the artists link back. Not doing so within a reasonable amount of time will result in reversal of your edits."
What do you do when the artist has no link? Omit them? Or I've to create a page for every new artist name I add??
- This rule only pertains to artist articles that exist. It would be nice for you to create a page for every new artist, as this is the nature of a wiki - attempt to create articles that are missing. But it isn't a requirement. The reason I wrote the above warning is that when I saw your artist additions to the drama article, I did not see that drama listed in those newly-added artist articles, even though those artist articles exist. Take for example Umemiya Anna. Upon inspection, I do not see a link to Tokumei Kakarichou Tadano Hitoshi 3. That is what I mean by being incomplete in your updates. Groink 18:14, 5 Apr 2007 (CDT)
Answers to "Read each one 100 times if you have to"[edit]
You said "Dramas within an artist profile are listed in descending order. You stuck Tokumei Kakarichou Tadano Hitoshi on the bottom of each list, when it should have been near or at the top."
You mean in descending ALPHABETICAL order? I think it makes more sense to list dramas in CHRONOLOGICAL order.
You said "Birthdate" and NOT "Date of birth".
I was just following the practice used here. Don't believe me? Well, click on those artist links on Tokumei Kakarichou Tadano Hitoshi's page. For instance, Takahashi Katsunori, Ebihara Yuri, Sakurai Atsuko... want me to go on?? I pasted Sakurai Atsuko's profile here for your reference.
- Name: 櫻井淳子 / Sakurai Atsuko
- Profession: Actress
- Date of Birth: 05 January 1973
- Birthplace: Saitama prefecture
- Height: 162cm
- Weight: 46kg
- Star Sign: Capricorn
- Blood Type: A
- Talent Agency:
By the way, the term "Date of Birth" is commonly used in places like Japan and Hong Kong.
You said "The kanji on one of the actresses was incorrect (Ozawa Maria)."
My kanji is CORRECT, but if you want to use Katakana, this is okay to me. However, majority of users here have non-Japanese origins, I think more people will understand if I translate those Japanese Katakana into Chinese kanji. Also, notice that on Sakurai Atsuko's profile, the name is 櫻井淳子, which are Chinese kanji. If you are that strict, replace all Chinese kanji with Japanese kanji. In the above example, 櫻井淳子 should be 桜井淳子(Japanese Kanji).
You said "Do not include body measurements of an actress (B/W/H). Include only height and weight."
Body measurements of an actress are widely publicized information in Japan's media, just like blood type and birthplace. In case you don't know, body measurements statistics are commonly found in Wikipedia.
You said "You did not categorize any of the new articles you created. You're supposed to add [[Category:JActress]] for actresses, [[Category:JActor]] for actors, etc."
I will give you a quote from DramaWiki's main page: "Don't be afraid about layout or formatting. Information is the important factor for this site; other more experienced users can always clean up the format of a page for you."
You said "And once more, you forgot to add Tokumei Kakarichou Tadano Hitoshi to many of the artists you added. I spent 30 minutes cleaning that mess up. "
I spent more than 3 HOURS to contribute information here, and I created the artist pages as you requested. However, I only do things step by step, when I have some more important things to do, I will stop and leave it until I come next time. As an editor, isn't editing and correcting mistakes YOUR JOB?
You said "Just like Wikipedia, we're VERY strict about how articles are organized, written, and maintained."
If so, go ahead and correct ALL the artist profiles the way you want. Please be reasonable. DON'T JUST PICK ON ME!
"Everyone is welcome to contribute here and add any information they may know about certain dramas or artists."(quoted from main page) You owe me an apology, but it is fine if you just say "thanks".


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Green Building & Design (GB&D) Magazine recently ran an article describing how Chatsworth Products (CPI) helped Seattle-based wireless provider TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), overcome the problem of limited power availability and become one of the most efficient data centers in the Pacific Northwest. TCS earned two ASHRAE awards and averages a PUE of 1.15.
The article explains CPI's "hot aisle/cold aisle" method. This entails aligning two long rows of cabinets, so the intake sides of the two rows are facing each other, then delivering conditioned "cold" air into the intake side "cold" aisle that has been created and venting the hot air out of the opposite exhaust of the "hot aisle." From a thermodynamics perspective, it was pretty rudimentary compared to the high-tech HVAC acrobatics that LEED designers are used to.
Read the full article or the case study.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes green building (also known as sustainable or high performance building) as the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle, from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction. The common objective is that green buildings should be designed to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by:
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Keep your thoughts under control. Don't let lustful thoughts rule your mind. Keep your mind fixed on Christ, and your thoughts pure at all times. If you are tempted, take some time away from each other, and pray for strength.
Make sure that you are never alone for more than a few moments. When you are courting, spend time with your families and friends. Getting to know each others families will help you know each other better.
Pray for guidance. If you know this relationship is not meant to lead to marriage, you are wasting your time if you continue to date.
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December 14, 2018 -- Remember how exciting it was beginning your career in dentistry or purchasing your first practice? Now you may be in a position to offer that same opportunity to another dentist. The benefits of adding an associate to your practice are numerous.
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Milford, NH.Amherst Label has achieved a certification which only 19 other companies* in all of North America have attained. In late October, the Milford manufacturer of custom labels, tags and flexible packaging completed the rigorous audit process required for LIFE® certification from TLMI, the professional association for Tag and Label manufacturers and suppliers.
LIFE®, or Label Initiative for the Environment, encourages applicants to measure and reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing. The certification program was introduced in 2009 as an audited process tailored specifically to the narrow web printing and converting industry. By examining all aspects of the member business, LIFE® shifts the focus from the bottom line to what is best for the business AND the environment. The program provides a framework for education and continuous improvement… from turning off excess lights to using thinner, lighter materials, to changing chemicals in use—either through reduction, elimination or replacement with a greener, safer alternative. LIFE® certification fosters an outlook of always being on the lookout for ways to protect the environment.
Amherst Label owner and President Nick Calvetti describes the benefits of LIFE® in a nutshell: "It's good for the environment and it's good for us!"
Although the process was arduous, Calvetti says, "Employees feel good about it. Less waste is a good thing and leads to saving money, which is a win win situation."
VP of operations and sales Nye Hornor says LIFE® certification has been "a three-year journey of setting annual goals and accomplishing them." He describes the process in one word: "Challenging," and elaborates, "It has made us better in many different ways. We now do more documentation, tracking things that help us manage our business better. This has made us more efficient. But it also gets us to think outside the box. For example, could we use run-off water from the roof for an internal process or for our landscaping irrigation?" Reusing "gray" water is one aspect of the reuse, reduce and recycle theme promoted by the LIFE® program.
Both Calvetti and Hornor credit Jim Cutler, Amherst Label Manager of Purchasing and Facilities, for carrying the ball and reaching the LIFE® goal. Cutler did most of the prep work, data collection and analysis. His tracking and recommendations for improvement were acknowledged by the LIFE® auditor who spent a full day at the Milford plant in October.
LIFE® requires many safety, health and environmental improvements like sourcing less corrosive cleaning solutions. Storage of all potentially flammable processing and cleaning solutions was an area where this printing company was able to make strides. Even low-flammability platemaking solution barrels are now grounded, safe-guarding against danger. Masks and spill aprons and other safety and health measures have been instituted. Other examples of LIFE® savings are material expenses for set-up stock and plates: fewer plates leads to less material which leads to positive environmental impact and cost savings.
On the heels of the LIFE® certification is Amherst Label's investment in solar technology. Installation is set to begin shortly and promises energy cost reduction plus energy credits.
Hornor concludes, "I hope we are helping to change the culture to be more LIFE® conscious not only in our business but in our homes and communities. We are showing that as a company we care about being responsible to the environment and to future generations occupying the earth. I love it."
* Nineteen companies, including some with multiple locations, have achieved LIFE Certification as of April 21, 2016. The total number of sites is 32.


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book of books – The Odyssey
The reason for reading Homer's Odyssey was simply because I thought it would make reading James Joyce's Ulysses easier. Being honest it did not do that because where there were references in Joyce they are either quite oblique or in the wrong order so unless you are really looking for them you miss them.
The surprising thing was that in its own right the book has a solid story and plenty of action at keep you interested and at some points reads like a script for a Sinbad the Sailor or Lord of the Rings film and at others like a who's who of Olympian Gods.
Plot summary
Odysseus the hero has been marooned on an island for years after upsetting the gods on his way home from victory in Troy. Athena, Zeus's daughter, looks him on with favour and so is allowed to leave his exile and head home and on the way tells of his adventures with Cyclops, sirens, spider legged six headed beasts and the Gods. But once home he discovers that suitors have moved into his palace and are waiting to marry Penelope his wife so he reveals his true identity to his son and with some old comrades who have remained loyal slaughter them all and things end happily ever after
Is it well written?
The text in set out in poetry form but it reads more like a piece of prose so that is sometimes a challenge. In style it reminds you of anything written in the same way, Dante springs to mind, and has the same dense text that makes you feel that half the time you are missing some crucial details. Having said that it is surprisingly easy to read and the story is gripping enough to make you want to stick with it, although at the end he does spin out the length of time it takes to reveal Odysseus is back and then dispatches the suitors.
Should it be read?
For most people the idea of going out and reading Homer for fun and not because some lecturer has told you to might seem odd. But this does link in with other texts, mot just Ulysses, and for that reason it is one of those books that has a wider relevance for someone who wants to get into literature so should be read.
Version read – there are numerous translations, even my local library stocked three, but I plumped for the Robert Fitzgerald translation in a Collins Harvill hardback


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Cheyeene Rosenbaum filed July 17 a petition seeking a protection from stalking or sexual assault order against Alexander Barlow.
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State workers to get parking, bus breaks
Sun., May 5, 2013
Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law Saturday that lets state employees pay for their work-related parking and transit costs using pretax earnings. Democratic Rep. Sam Hunt of Olympia sponsored the measure, House Bill 1456, and said it offers some small financial help to state workers.
"This is their pay raise," Hunt half-joked.
Keith Cotton, manager of commute-trip reduction for the state Department of Transportation, said his agency has about 800 workers who use bus passes that cost the worker about $25 a month. For someone paying that rate and taxed at the 25 percent marginal rate, the savings would be about $75 a year, or just over $3 per pay period.
For a worker paying $50 a month for parking and getting taxed at the 25 percent marginal rate, the legislation is worth twice that.
The Washington Federation of State Employees had pushed for the measure for three years, and union President Carol Dotlich said the savings can make a small difference to a lower-paid custodian at the University of Washington.
"We hope this encourages more state employees to take the bus," federation spokesman Tim Welch said.
The bill passed by a large margin in the Senate – 41 to 7 with 15 Republicans joining all Democrats in favor – and was closer in the House, where 11 Republicans joined Democrats to pass it 65 to 31.
The bill drew no formal opposition in hearings. But Republican Rep. Vincent Buys of Lynden spoke against the measure when it was approved in the House Government Operations and Elections Committee, chaired by Hunt.
"We just have some concerns with the precedent it continues to set about nonessential things coming out pre-tax," Buys said before voting against it.
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Roland MC-8
Update via Chris Carter in the comments:
"I owned an MC8 from 1982 to 2002 and used it on many recording (I bought it from Landscape, who recorded 'Einstein agogo' with it). An article I wrote about the MC8 can be found here."
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"This is the Roland MC-8 MicroComposer. They called it a MicroComposer due to its diminutive foot print. Actually, that isn't true. It was designated as the MicroComposer as it was the first microprocessor controlled sequencer - the Intel 8080, to be precise. In addition to launching the 'MC' moniker, it also introduced other innovative features like copy and paste.
So, if you were an electronic musician in 1977, you could drop $8000 and string together 1000 or so notes with Japanese precision.
The MC8 provides eight channels of CV and gate outputs for controlling inputs found on synthesizers from Moog, Roland, Arp and others. I used this with a Doepfer A-100 modular, Prophet 5, minimoog and SH-101. There is no MIDI, this is all about a microprocessor coupled as directly as possible to analog voltage outputs.
If you're sequencing drums, you don't have to waste the normal CV outputs (and consume memory with unnecessary note data) by using the additional MPX outputs. You can even automate tempo and the presence of portamento. Or, you could use the MPX outputs in conjunction with a sequential switch to control which of several envelopes are used for a particular phrase. They were clearly thinking of serious, complete automation here.
Controlling it all is an impressive console that looks as if it were responsible for launching ICBMs. It certainly feels that way as all the controls and switches seem designed to withstand a nuclear blast. It worked, too. 30 years later, this machine still works great. If you're at all familiar with a 10-key keypad, you can enter data in by touch, without even looking at the unit. The response of the keypad is delightfully retro and a joy to use. All the buttons have satisfying physical feedback that seems absent on current gear.
The MC-8 was expensive for Roland to build, though. It is reported only 200 left the factory. This is a rare chance to own a unique piece of Roland history. I'm selling this and other items because my work area needs to occupy a smaller space.
Famous users of the MC-8 are reported to include: Kraftwerk, Human League (Dare), Tangerine Dream, Hans Zimmer, Toto, and Tomita.
Included in the auction is the original factory manual, interface cable, CV interface unit and, of course, the MC-8 itself."
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- Anonymous6/6/07, 11:54 AM
Thank U Annunaki!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/6/07, 12:30 PM
aaaah, those were the days... :)ReplyDelete
I owned an MC8 from 1982 to 2002 and used it on many recording (I bought it from Landscape, who recorded 'Einstein agogo' with it). An article I wrote about the MC8 can be found here:ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/7/07, 6:41 AM
Yes, thanks to you Chris, I bought the damn thing.ReplyDelete
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Wow, that went for cheap.ReplyDelete
Anyone know how to make a cable? Anyone have the manual or any technical information for this? Get in touch ! Even if you're reading this in 2010 or later ! ;-)ReplyDelete
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Performance Data Analysis and Reporting System (PDARS)
Innovative technology processing and visualizing air traffic data
In 1997, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) partnered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to launch the Performance Data Analysis and Reporting System (PDARS) project. PDARS has continuously collected flight plan and radar track data since the initial prototype was deployed in 1999. This information comes from systems at Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs), which track and provide service to an aircraft for the duration of its journey, and at the Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities, which track and provide service to aircraft approaching and departing between 5 and 50 miles of an airport and most recently from Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) facilities, which track and provide service to aircraft on the airport surface and immediate vicinity. PDARS received NASA's Administrator's Award at the 2003 Turning Goals into Reality (TGIR) Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Administrator's Award is the most prestigious of the TGIR awards, which recognize the year's top teams for their significant contributions to NASA's aeronautics and space objectives.
Annually more than 60 million flights take off and touch down on runways across the United States. There will be one billion airline passengers by 2015 and this number is expected to triple by 2025. It is up to the FAA, as required by congressional mandates, to ensure safe and efficient trips for each and every flight. PDARS provides FAA Air Traffic Control (ATC) decision makers at the FAA headquarters, Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC), facility level, service areas as well as the William J. Hughes Technical Center with a dynamic set of comprehensive tools and methods for monitoring the health, quality, and safety of day-to-day ATC operations. Using a network of computers in air traffic control facilities across the country, PDARS analytic software enables processing of complex and extremely large data sets as well as reliable extraction of relevant information, allowing FAA users to quickly focus on operationally significant problems.
PDARS is extremely versatile. It can analyze operations of a single flight, operations within one airspace volume, facility, airport, or larger airspace system. It can look at single days or multiple days, limited only by the available data. PDARS has many applications for ATM safety assurance, including airspace optimization, incident analysis, impact analysis of temporary airspace modifications, etc. Visualization tools in PDARS are extremely suitable to support qualitative analysis. PDARS does not require any set level of data, provides results with little available data and better results for large data sets.
PDARS goals include:
- Collect and manage data
- Process data and generate reports daily
- Share data and reports among facilities
- Support exploratory and causal analysis
- Archive basic operational data and measurements
ATAC is the primary contractor supporting the PDARS program. ATAC's role includes systems engineering, software development and deployment, system monitoring, training, and user support.
For a comprehensive overview of PDARS, read Performance Data Analysis Reporting System (PDARS) – A Valuable Addition to FAA Managers' Toolsets (PDF) published in Managing the Skies - A Journal of the FAA Managers Association.
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Vermont Tech's main campus is located in Randolph Center – a quintessential small Vermont town in the geographical heart of the state. Situated on 544 picturesque acres, the campus encompasses residence halls for 620 students, modern classrooms and labs, conference facilities, the SHAPE facility, and the college farmstead. We even have our own ski hill!
We offer more than thirty degree programs at our Randolph Center campus, where you'll also discover a well-rounded college experience that goes far beyond the classroom. Ready to explore what it's like to be a student here?
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When you're ready to come visit , simply sign-up online for a tour or to schedule a meeting with an admissions counselor or faculty member. Here's a campus map, directions for getting here, and a list of area accomodations.
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Since 2009, California gave a $2,500 tax rebate on zero-emissions vehicles like the Tesla Model S and Prius plug-in hybrid. And here's something that should surprise no one: The majority of those rebates went to households earning $100,000 or more. Now that could change.
A bill sponsored by California Senator Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) attempts to address the fact that nearly 80 percent of those rebates went to households bringing in more than $100k and that almost half of Tesla Model S owners receiving a rebate are making at least $300,000.
"A $2,500 rebate to purchase an electric vehicle is not likely to matter to someone earning over $300,000 a year, but it does make a big difference to someone earning $60k a year," said de León. "Every community deserves clean air, regardless of wealth."
The bill sets out a more complex scheme for rebates, with the L.A. Times reporting that a family of four with an annual income of $53,000 could use state incentives to purchase a cleaner vehicle, along with getting $1,500 for putting an older vehicle out to pasture while still getting the $2,500 for an electric car. Low income families could get a $3,000 break for purchasing a clean air vehicle or get rid of their old car and get the same amount to pay for a public transit pass or car-sharing membership. And if they live in a neighborhood with particularly poor air quality, the incentives could increase.
The other reason for the great rectifying of the rebate issue is cash. The program is running out of it. On April 1, the California Air Resources Board started a waiting list for rebates and when the new state budget passed, CARB was allocated another $30 million for the incentives. With that $30 million, California will have paid out over $170 million in incentives with around 70,000 clean vehicles on the road.
The bill, SB 1275, has already passed the Senate and will head to the State Assembly's appropriations committee before landing on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk at the end of the month.


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This is a short biography of Pierre Viret (1511 – 4 May 1571), a Swiss Reformed theologian, who is as obscure now as his tiny native village. However, he was without a doubt, the most sought after Reformed minister of the Sixteenth Century.
As, one great scholar and professor has pointed out..
No tourist in Geneva can miss the impressive Reformation Monument with its four towering figures: John Calvin, Guillaume Farel, Theodore Beza, and John Knox. Some visitors might even notice a series of reliefs on the statue's base, which depict various scenes from the Genevan Reformation. Yet only a sharp-eyed observer is likely to spot in one of the reliefs a spare man with a long beard preaching to a crowd of intent listeners: that man is Pierre Viret. Viret is now virtually forgotten among the major reformers. But if we can say that Calvin systematized the theology of the Reformation, it would be equally just to say that Viret popularized it. He preached in a language simple and colorful. He wrote in a style which captivated people, responded to their questions, and provided them with simple apologetic arguments necessary for the defense of their faith.
As a changed and converted man, Pierre Viret (vee-RAY), was a Sixteenth Century Reformer, and one of three sons of a poor tailor of Orbe, which is an obscure village in present-day French Switzerland, near Lausanne. Viret, was born in 1511, which makes him two years younger than John Calvin, and he was one of the Calvin's closest friends. These two men worked closely together for many years in Geneva and corresponded regularly when Viret left Geneva to accept a pastorate at Lausanne.
Viret was a precocious child who benefited from the new village school where several of the teachers were trained humanists and suspected Lutherans. He developed an interest in the classics as well as theology. These interests in 1528, led him to study for the priesthood. He entered the Collège de Montaigu at the University of Paris at about the time Calvin was leaving. After studying intensely there, Viret left Paris two years later a changed man. The new Protestant ideas that were flourishing at the great university, led to Viret's personal commitment to Jesus Christ.
He returned to Orbe, and there he found that his home village was divided into Protestant and Catholic factions. There he also met with William (Guillaume) Farel, the fiery traveling evangelist who was unsurprisingly, largely responsible for this turmoil. However, Farel challenged young Viret to become a minister of the Gospel and to do so by begin preaching the Gospel in his native village. Viret resisted, then finally yielded to what the older man told him was the absolute, and certain will of God for Viret's life. (You may recall Farel did the same thing to young Calvin as well, and with equal success.)
In very short time, it became obvious that Viret possessed outstanding gifts as both a pastor and as a theologian, and there he easily won his people's hearts over. But Viret's preaching and attitude not only won the hearts and minds of his own people, but he became highly regarded by many outside his parrish. We know of this by, among others, the great Theodore Beza, who spoke of "the wisdom of Calvin, the thunders of Farel, and the honey of Viret." He also states elsewhere of Viret: "None possessed more charm when he spoke." Viret's preaching, which seemed to embrace his hearers in a calm and tranquil stream, as attested by Verheiden, "[Viret] had a word so sweet that he constantly kept his hearers alert and attentive. His style had such strength and a harmony so caressing to the ear and spirit that the least religious amongst his hearers, the most impatient of others, heard him out effortlessly and with pleasure. His audience was, it was said, as though suspended upon his lips, wishing the sermon were longer."
Many souls were converted under Viret's preaching, but of greatest importance to the young pastor was the conversion of his two Roman Catholic parents. As he noted later, "I have much occasion to give thanks to God in that it hath pleased him to make use of me to bring my father and mother to the knowledge of the Son of God … Ah! If he had made my ministry of no other use, I should have had good cause to bless him."
After Viret had won Orbe over to the Reformation's side of the Gospel, Viret regularly traveled between several of the surrounding villages for the next three years to further the work of the Reformation. Accompanied by Farel, he journeyed first to Grandson, a small town just north of Orbe, which was quickly won to the gospel under the Reformers' preaching. He was then asked to preach in Payerne, and it was there that he was badly wounded when a band of Catholics, led by a priest with a sword attempted to kill him. It was perhaps here that the young preacher met with his deadliest opposition. The city was strongly Roman Catholic and violently protested the preaching of the "new faith." Viret, knowing that his teaching was no more than the truth of the Word of God, begged for a public disputation in which he would be permitted to prove his case from Scripture. The Council of Payerne at last acceded to this request and a date was fixed. The night before the disputation, however, Viret, returning home, was ambushed in a solitary field by a priest from the Payerne Abbey. The would-be murderer gravely wounded the young preacher with his sword and left him for dead, thus seeking to douse the Light against which he could not dispute. Discovered by his friends, Viret, half-dead, was slowly nursed back to health and soon continued his work in another city: Geneva. He later, he preached at Neuchâtel however, before linking up again with Farel in Geneva in 1534.
In 1534 Viret journeyed to Geneva to again assist Farel in his Reformation work. Viret and Farel preached salvation and reform in Geneva for the next two years. The city was in an uproar: its citizens had decided to cast off the rule of the Catholic Duke of Savoy, but they had not yet embraced Protestantism. Viret celebrated the first Genevan baptism according to evangelical forms, took part with Farel in the debate that convinced the Council of Geneva to renounce Catholicism, and, in 1536, silently witnessed Farel accost Calvin and inform him of God's will for his life.
But in 1534 Geneva was still quite hostile to the teaching of the new preachers, and another murderous attempt awaited the young men. Catholic radicals tried again to silence Viret's voice, this time by poisoning his spinach soup. At the instigation of the Catholic authorities, a woman, Antonia Vax, was persuaded to eliminate both Farel and Viret by serving them a poisoned spinach soup. Farel, declaring the soup to be too thick, asked for something else to eat. Viret, however, still pale and weak from his sword wounds, was assured by Antonia that the soup would aid in the restoration of his health, and trustingly ate an entire bowl of the poisoned dish. He grew dangerously ill and lay for some time at the point of death.
Upon hearing the news, the townspeople of Geneva mourned the impending loss of their beloved Reformer, exclaiming, "Must the Church be robbed of such a pearl?… Poor Viret! Poor reformers!… Sword-cuts in the back, poison in front … Such are the rewards of those who preach the Gospel!" Viret suffered from digestive problems for the rest of his life, but he would not be intimidated. This episode, though so detrimental to the Reformers, also brought much damage to their adversaries as many now looked with suspicion and contempt upon the perpetrators of such a base crime. The priests and monks were henceforth regarded with grave doubt and misgiving, and little more than a year later, through the indefatigable labors of Farel and Viret, the General Council of Geneva officially accepted the Reformation.
Leading Lausanne to Christ
With the Protestant faith now firmly planted and Calvin ensconced alongside Farel, Viret left Geneva to help consolidate the Reformation in Lausanne, the chief city of his native Pays de Vaud. Lausanne had just come under the authority of Bern, a Protestant canton of Switzerland. The Bernese, desirous of winning their newly acquired city to the gospel, organized a public disputation in which the principal elements of the faith would be discussed.
All Catholic clergy were required to be in attendance. The defense for the Reformed was offered primarily by Farel and Viret, who ably championed the cause of Christ. Calvin also attended the debate, speaking twice throughout its course. At the close of the week-long disputation, Lausanne declared for the Reformation, and Viret was appointed pastor of the city.
Though Lausanne was now officially Reformed, it was still heavily steeped in Catholicism. To rectify the ignorance rampant among the priesthood, Viret determined to begin an academy for the training and education of young men for the ministry. Under the oversight of the Bernese authorities, the Academy was founded in January of 1537 and was the first Protestant and Reformed academy of the French-speaking world. The Lausanne Academy boasted learned instructors from Italy, Germany, France, and Switzerland. Theodore de Beze, future successor to Calvin in Geneva, was principal of the Academy for nine years. Many renowned men of the faith received their training at Viret's Academy, including Zacharias Ursinus and Caspar Olevianus, authors of the Heidelberg Catechism of 1562, and Guido de Bres, author of the Belgic Confession of 1561.
At the Lausanne Academy, Viret met with a singular joy when the Lord provided him a godly bride. On Sunday, October 6, 1538, Viret and Elisabeth Turtaz, a lady of Orbe, were married. Farel presided over the ceremony.
Two months following these celebrations, Viret was recalled to Geneva after Calvin had been banished from that city. Viret's loving spirit and gentle character had made him a favorite among the Genevans, and they longed to again have him as their pastor. Known as the Smile of the Reformation, Viret worked in Geneva "to rebuild the ruins, to dress the wounds, to reconcile the divers and opposing elements." Viret remained a year in Geneva, during which time he urged the Council upon several occasions to recall the exiled Calvin.
However, upon his return, Viret lived in constant tension with the authorities in Berne, however, who wanted to keep a tight political rein on Lausanne. Following a confrontation at Easter 1559, the Bernese exiled Viret. Soon thereafter, Viret joined his old friend Calvin in Geneva, bringing with him many of the Lausanne ministers, all but one of the faculty of the Academy of Lausanne, and nearly 1,000 of his parishioners. From this, Calvin's city became the undisputed center of the Reformed world.
Needless to say, the Genevans loved Viret. They immediately elected him a minister of the Geneva Church and assigned him a salary of 800 florins plus 12 strikes of corn and two casks of wine a year. The Council also provided him a commodious house, which Calvin, perhaps a bit enviously, noted was bigger and better furnished than his own.
Touching for a moment again upon John Calvin; Geneva had expelled Calvin, and it was, as noted, only the continued pleadings of Viret, that Calvin even got a call back to the city, let alone a continued and anxious call to come back. And frankly, Calvin, perhaps a bit worn from the inter-church/government warfare, was not at all anxious to go back into that "snake-pit." After first rejecting the proposal, he writes to Viret, remarking,
I read that passage of your letter, certainly not without a smile, where you shew so much concern about my health, and recommend Geneva on that ground. Why could you not have said at the cross? For it would have been far preferable to perish once for all than to be tormented again in that place of torture. Therefore, my dear Viret, if you wish well to me, make no mention of such a proposal.
While refusing to return to the troubled city of Geneva, Calvin simultaneously harbored hopes of the city's reformation after learning of Viret's arrival there. Writing to Farel in February of 1541, he expressed his assurance of the salubrious effects of Viret's influence on the tumultuous population, "It was a singular joy for me to learn that the Church of Geneva is endowed with the arrival of Viret … I now foresee that the matter is out of danger."
Viret, however, could not be dissuaded from calling his friend back to his duty, and exerted his utmost influence to convince the reluctant Calvin to return. Writing again, Viret described the transformation of the city and the people's willingness to receive the gospel,
You cannot imagine the attentiveness with which they listen to my discourses, and what a crowd of men they attract … such tranquility reigns in the republic, it is completely transformed, and has taken on a wholly new appearance … The Lord has offered us a most favorable moment. If you neglect it, Calvin, the Lord will certainly punish you for neglecting the Church, and not you only, but also those who restrain you.
After many such appeals, Calvin was at last persuaded to return; Viret joyfully assisted him in his reentrance. Having finally restored his friend to his post, Viret at once desired to return to his pastorate in Lausanne, but he was persuaded to remain for several months to aid Calvin. Farel, writing to the pastors of Zurich, noted the importance of Viret's presence in the city of Geneva at this crucial time, "If Viret is recalled [to Lausanne], then surely Calvin and the Church of Geneva shall fall again into ruins!" Calvin also shared this opinion, as is noted by historian Michael Bruening,
Three days after his return, Calvin told Farel, "I have also kept Viret with me, whom I absolutely would not allow to be taken away from me." Now it was Calvin who sought to persuade Viret that he was needed in Geneva. He explained to Farel, "If Viret leaves me, I am completely finished; I will not be able to keep this church alive. Therefore, I hope you and others will forgive me if I move every stone to ensure that I am not deprived of him."
Viret's selfless assistance of Calvin was not overlooked by the elder Reformer. The friendship of these two men expanded significantly during this time and showed itself in a beautiful brotherly relationship growing and deepening throughout the course of their lives.
Viret finally returned to Lausanne in 1542. His absence had been very detrimental to the health of the church, which he found in a terrible state. Writing to Calvin upon his return, he mourned, "I came, I saw, I was dumbfounded (veni, vidi, obstupui). If only what we had heard about the state of this church were not so true."
Despite Lausanne's manifest need for Viret, Calvin still desired to have his fellow Reformer at his side, and in July of 1544 he urged the Council of Geneva to write to the Bernese lords, requesting permission to permanently retain Viret at Geneva. Upon hearing of the letter, however, the Lausanne counselors and pastors immediately sent their own ambassadors to Bern, begging the lords to reject Geneva's request. Meeting with such a desperate appeal from Lausanne, Bern declined to grant the transfer and ordered Viret to remain in Lausanne. Upon hearing that Geneva's request was refused, Viret wrote to Geneva to express his devotion to the city, assuring them of his love, "As for me, if you so desire, you will always have me as your humble servant, no less than if I were present with you, as truly I am in spirit, though I am distant in person; I will also be joined with you in body as soon as it is the good pleasure of Him who has called us in His service."
In 1545 Viret's life was disturbed by another great tragedy. His wife Elisabeth fell ill, and despite Viret's desperate efforts to revive her failing health, she died in March of the following year. Writing of her death to a dear friend, Viret wrote, "The Lord has dealt me such a painful blow … in the death of my well-beloved wife. He has taken half of myself … I am so afflicted by this blow that I appear to myself a stranger in my own house."
Viret's sorrow was so great that Calvin was terrified lest his friend perish under the weight of the blow. Writing his comrade, Calvin begged Viret to come to Geneva for a time:
"Come to distract yourself, not only from your sorrow, but also from all your troubles. You need not fear that I will impose any work on you. I will take care that you enjoy your own pleasure in tranquility.
The wonderful harmony and brotherly love existing between these two Reformers is truly an example for all ages. Though each man was called individually and fashioned in a particular way quite distinct from the other, God saw fit to bring these tools together, separately crafted, but each endued with the same vision: to engage in the work of the Kingdom of Christ. Writing of this holy friendship in a book dedicated to Viret and Farel, Calvin wrote,
It will at least be a testimony to this present age and perhaps to posterity of the holy bond of friendship that unites us. I think there has never been in ordinary life a circle of friends so heartily bound to each other as we have been in our ministry.
One matter of constant concern to Viret was church discipline. This, he rightly believed, was a tool pertaining solely to the church authorities, not the civil government. The lords of Bern, on the other hand, reserved this right to themselves alone, requiring Viret and other pastors to submit all requests for discipline to the Bernese for either approval or rejection.
Throughout his pastorate at Lausanne, Viret made numerous journeys to Bern to request the magistrates to cede him the authority necessary to establish and build the church. Viret pled with the Bernese lords, assuring them that a true church must be permitted to govern its members. Bern, desirous of retaining its power, refused to relinquish such authority to the church, declaring that it was the state's prerogative to govern all. For Viret knew well that a lack of discipline would result in no church at all. Pastors, he stated, must be allowed to enforce "this discipline, by which we can distinguish between swine, dogs, and sheep, according to Christ's teaching." "Discipline," he noted, "can be abandoned, if the administration and use of the Word of God and the sacraments are also abandoned, for the Word and the sacraments cannot be properly administered without it."
Despite the continued appeals, Bern refused to allow Viret to exercise church discipline or restrict the Lord's Table. They stated that all must be permitted to participate and any pastor who refused to administer communion was to be immediately discharged. The Lausanne pastors, following Peter's initiative (Acts 5:29), sent numerous letters to Bern in which they stated their obligation to follow God rather than men:
We have not been called to this charge [the ministry] to close our eyes, to keep silent, to conceal vice, and to cover the scandals of those who have been entrusted to us, but to be on guard, to be attentive, to unceasingly lift our voice with strength, when needed … We must do this to discharge our duty in good conscience.
The dispute finally came to a head in 1558. Writing to Calvin on August 24, Viret confided,
"I have more bitter worries than anyone. I am between the anvil and the hammer, and know not where to turn … I pray that God does not withhold His directions from me."
As Christmas communion approached, Viret announced that he could not in good conscience administer the sacrament without first being permitted to examine and instruct those who wished to partake. Going before the Council of Lausanne, he begged a seven-day postponement of the communion service to provide the time necessary to examine the communicants. After much debate, the Council agreed to grant the pastors the stipulated time.
When news of the ruling reached Bern, however, the magistrates were outraged at this usurpation of their authority. They sent immediately to Lausanne to countermand the decision of the Council and to dismiss and expel Viret and his colleagues. Thus ousted, Viret and his associates were ordered to pack their belongings and leave the city. A refuge was soon found in the neighboring town of Geneva, where Calvin welcomed his friend with the warmest affection.
Geneva's joy at receiving their former pastor again after a "loan" to Lausanne of twenty-two years was unimaginable. The city welcomed the exiled Viret with acclamation and open arms. Viret was immediately assigned the Church of St. Germain in which to preach, but the multitudes that pressed in to hear his sermons were so numerous that a new location had to be found to accommodate the crowds. The Council therefore determined to move Viret's preaching to the larger church of St. Pierre, which would provide ample room for the masses desirous of attending the sermons.
Viret's time in Geneva was cut short, however, due to a serious illness. In April of 1561 he fell dangerously ill and, fearing that this sickness would soon bring him to the grave, drew up his will on April 12. Concerning this time, he later wrote,
"I fell into an illness whereby my body was so debilitated and brought so low that in my judgment I could expect nothing else but to be lowered into the grave. I had never before had a sickness that had brought me so close to death, not even when I was poisoned by the art and cunning of the enemies of the Gospel."
Despite Viret's important assignment and generous treatment, he grew restless. Geneva was now almost completely Protestant and back again firmly under Calvin's theological control. News from France, where Protestants suffered harsh persecution and lacked pastoral guidance, turned his mind to a new challenge.
In 1561 Viret requested leave from the Geneva Council and Company of Pastors to visit the land of the Huguenots. The official reason was that his ailing health demanded warmer climes. However, once in southern France, his heart is touched by the need that he sees there, and he quickly recovers sufficient strength to engage in continuous rounds of impassioned preaching.
Viret's reputation by this time was so great that the moment he set foot on French soil, he was given immediate authority in the Reformed French churches wherever he chose to go. "Offers poured in requesting Viret to come to such places as Orleans, Avignon, Montauban and Montpellier." "When Viret arrived in France, churches from all over the country sought him out. The churches in Nimes and Paris even sent delegates to Geneva to ask officially for his services."
He traveled first to Lyon, and then on to Nîmes, Viret arrived in Nimes on October 6; the city received him with the greatest warmth. Indeed, the churches were not large enough to contain the crowds that sought to hear him; Viret was therefore compelled to preach in open fields and pastures. The multitudes responded eagerly to the Word of God, and on January 4, 1562, in a service lasting six hours, Viret administered communion to over eight thousand believers —almost the entire population. Riots followed many of his sermons, despite Viret's pleas for peace.
Friend and foe alike were drawn to the sweetness and gentleness of Viret's preaching. As he preached one day in a field in the Vaunage, the very prior and monks themselves came to listen to the man's words. As Viret explained to his listeners the wonders of the gospel and the blessedness of the Redeemer, his words did not return void: "The success was complete. The priests, the officers,… became Protestant, and the abbey consecrated half its revenues to evangelization, and the other half to aid the poor."
As Viret's leave of absence from Geneva neared its conclusion, the Council of Nimes grew terrified of losing their pastor. In an effort to retain him, they sent a delegation to the Genevan Council, writing,
"The harvest surpasses belief, and the famine is intolerable … We need reapers … In the name of the God you honor, we beseech and beg with our greatest affection that you leave [Viret] with us."
Despite the desperation of the letter, the Council of Geneva did not grant the request. Indeed, they were so flooded with letters begging for Viret's presence that they at last decided to let Viret himself decide where to proceed. The leaders of Nîmes begged him to remain with them. Requests again poured in from Montpellier, Montauban, Orleans, and even Paris. Viret at length decided upon Montpellier; he entered that city in February of 1562. There he saw the conversion of nearly the entire faculty of the city's famous medical college. Only the outbreak of the first War of Religion interrupted his ministry. Though there was fighting in the Montpellier area, Viret's personal intercession apparently kept bloodshed to a minimum.
He then returned to Lyon, the major city of southeastern France, to begin a three-year ministry. Despite ill health, civil war, and a violent outbreak of the plague, Viret was able to establish his moral authority in the city. He preached daily to large crowds, counseled the soldiers of the Protestant army, and wrote at least 12 books while revising and reprinting several more, including his monumental Instruction chrestienne. He also ministered to victims of the plague and carried on a lively correspondence with other leaders of the Protestant Reformation.
The City Council of Lyon, in writing to the Council of Geneva, expressed their indebtedness to Viret in November of 1562,
"We derive more aid and assistance from his learned and holy teaching than from our entire army." "Without his presence it would be impossible for us to hold our soldiers to their duty."
Royal authority was re-established in Lyon in July, 1563, however, and with it Roman Catholic worship. In the months that followed, Viret participated in a pamphlet war with the returned Catholic leader and with various radicals and dissidents in the city. This multi-sided verbal warfare continued for nearly two years until local Catholic clergy obtained a royal order for Viret's expulsion from the kingdom of France. The notice giving him eight days to leave the country was delivered on August 27, 1565.
Viret fled to Béarn in Navarre, a semi-autonomous kingdom in what is now southwestern France. He was befriended there by Jeanne d'Albrêt, the staunchly Protestant Queen of Navarre and mother of the future Henry IV of France. She made Viret one of her chief advisers and superintendent of the academy she had established at Ortez.
In March of 1563 Viret's ministry was severely threatened by the issuance of a royal edict forbidding all foreign-born pastors from ministering in France. Because of Viret's renowned Christian character, however, he was exempted from the edict by request of the Catholics themselves.
Eventually, Catholic forces captured Viret and 11 other Reformed ministers in a surprise attack during the third religious war (1568-1570). The Catholic commander ordered the execution of 7 of the 12 but spared Viret largely because of the positive reputation he enjoyed even among his ecclesiastical enemies. A few weeks later, he was rescued by counter-attacking Protestant forces and returned to his intense and successful ministry.
How could Viret, a foreigner, become the most successful and sought-after Protestant preacher in sixteenth-century France?
After a difficult—though fruitful—life spent in service to his God, Pierre Viret died in early 1571 at the age of sixty, as he was preparing for a trip to the National Synod of Reformed churches at La Rochelle. The Protestants in France greatly lamented his death. Jeanne d'Albrêt wrote to the Council of Geneva:
"Among the great losses which I have sustained during and since the last war, I place in the fore-front the loss of Monsieur Viret."
Like the site of his death and burial, which remains unknown to this day, the life and theological greatness of Pierre Viret remains unknown to the church at large. Is this also the work of God? Has He thus withheld His Reformer, perhaps awaiting the time when, in His providence, Viret's life and thought shall be most needed for His church?
Taken and adapted from:
Pierre Viret: The Unknown Reformer, by R. A. Sheats
Robert D. Linder, "Forgotten Reformer," Christian History Magazine, Issue 71 (2001), 37
Jean-Marc Berthoud, Pierre Viret: A Forgotten Giant of the Reformation
Further references, authors, and materials that were used herein, referenced and provided by R.A. Sheats
J. H. Merle D'Aubigne, D.D., History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, Vol. III
Emile Doumergue, Lausanne au temps de la Reformation
Henri Vuilleumier, L'Église Réformée du Pays de Vaud, Tome I
Henri Meylan, La Haute École de Lausanne, 1537–1937
Pierrefleur, Mémoires de Pierrefleur (Lausanne: Éditions La Concorde, 1933), 137.
Jean Barnaud, Pierre Viret, Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre
Felix Bungener, Calvin: His Life, His Labours, and His Writings
Jules Bonnet, Letters of John Calvin, Vol. 1
"Viret: Réformateur de Lausanne,"
Pierre Viret D'Après Lui-Même (Lausanne: Georges Bridel & Cie Éditeurs, 1911)
Henri Vuilleumier, Notre Pierre Viret (Lausanne: Librairie Paytot & Cie, 1911), 87.
Michael Bruening, "Pierre Viret and Geneva," Archive for Reformation History, Vol. 99
Michael W. Bruening, Calvinism's First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528–1559
Schnetzler, ed., Pierre Viret, 65.
Bulletin de la Société de L'Histoire du Protestantisme Français (Paris, 1864), 93.
Doumergue, Lausanne au temps de la Reformation, 46.
J. Cart, Pierre Viret, le Reformateur Vaudois (Lausanne, 1864), 118.
Pierre Viret, Instruction Chrétienne (Lausanne: L'Age d'Homme, 2008), 348.


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Three Strategies for Better Bible Studies (and the one thing that makes them possible)
Jen Wilkin on Better Bible Studies
The Holy Spirit uses the Word of God to keep the local church on a sure foundation. The two places this is most visible are in Sunday morning proclamation and some kind of smaller educational setting such as a Sunday School class, a life group, or a Bible study. Writing at Christianity Today, Jen Wilkin outlines three ways to prevent Bible study dropouts:
1. Structure: Your Bible study should have a clear purpose, and that purpose should be reflected in how you spend your time. Wilkin writes, "Unstructured gatherings run the risk of devolving into an endless swap meet of opinions or prayer requests, eroding attendance as 'sharing fatigue' sets in." Swapping opinions and sharing prayer requests are healthy, but if the group's purpose is to study Scripture, people who came for that purpose may become demotivated as the focus gets blurry.
2. Accountability: There should be clearly communicated expectations for participants. This helps people to understand that this meeting, and their presence there, is important. Leaders should be prepared to honor participants by involving them as active students, which includes responsibilities outside of the Bible study time and follow-up if it seems that someone is unwilling or unable to participate consistently.
3. Predictability: A better word for this might be "consistency." Leaders can retain more participants by consistent schedules, limiting last-minute changes, and having a consistent meeting structure. Leaders should also hold themselves accountable to consistently high standards of preparation and teaching.
Ministry is messy, and plans don't always work out. But planning is not the opposite of flexibility. Rather, planning creates a safe context for flexibility. As Wilkin writes: "'Organic' and 'grassroots' ministry sounds appealing—and may work well in some ministry contexts—but those terms also imply a sense of uncertainty that makes it hard to establish sustainable learning environments."
The Key Ingredient: An Empowered Facilitator
These three keys--structure, accountability, and predictability--are ultimately made possible by something we call the empowered facilitator. What is an empowered facilitator? To begin with, facilitation is different from teaching, though the two share some characteristics. For a discussion about Bible studies or small groups, these are the most relevant contrasts:
- Facilitators aim to create and sustain dialogue between themselves and the participants as well as among the participants. Teachers aim to impart information to the participants and usually are acting as "subject matter experts."
- Facilitators take responsibility for the "surround," the structural elements Wilkin describes. They are skilled at transitioning learners through a thought-out flow designed to till the soil for deeper participation and learning. Teachers are typically focused on depth and knowledge of content, and on getting as much of that content to the learners as possible.
- Facilitators are emotionally intelligent and paying close attention to the group's "temperature." They are willing to pivot and make different choices if they discern there is a need. Teachers are typically focused on managing a group toward the outcome of maximum information sharing, and will pivot only long enough to get things "back on track."
- Finally, facilitators understand the importance of relationship to learning. They recognize the need to build deep relationships (between themselves and the participants, and among the participants) and use specific tools and frames to help build relational capital. Teachers typically also value relationship, but often this is seen as secondary to the goal of imparting a certain amount of information, and the assumption is that students ought to value this information in and of itself apart from a relational context.
An empowered facilitator is one who has been given the freedom and equipped with the tools to create an adult-learning-friendly small group or Bible study. Many Bible study leaders assume that since the goal of their group is to study the Bible, they ought to minimize the amount of time spent on other things (like prayer or relationship building). Some people assume that relationships will just happen naturally, and when they don't, it must not have been the right group of people.
Empowered facilitators recognize that slowing down to build relationship at the start of a Bible study will yield exponentially more learning later on. Rather than being separate from the "goal" of the Bible study, relationship building done well is actually an intrinsic part of a Bible study's success. Empowered facilitators are aware of, and proactive about, the kinds of guidelines Jen Wilkin suggests. Ultimately, we believe the Holy Spirit uses facilitation to sanctify believers and help them internalize more biblical truth.
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