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Well, I'm finally using Firefox 1.5... Hit-a-Hint has been updated, an extension called MenuX will suffice for text enlargement until TextZoom is updated, and Mihai recently updated all those fancy-schmancy Greasemonkey user scripts for the new version.
Finally! I can use this nifty new browser, since my customizations are now all available. Whew...
Saturday, December 31
Finally... Firefox
Well, I'm finally using Firefox 1.5... Hit-a-Hint has been updated, an extension called MenuX will suffice for text enlargement until TextZoom is updated, and Mihai recently updated all those fancy-schmancy Greasemonkey user scripts for the new version.
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Friday, December 30
The top 10 weirdest USB drives ever
Just click the link and look at the pictures of these oddball USB flash-memory devices...
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Thursday, December 29
Microsoft's Software Subscription Fiasco
This article (linked below) by John C. Dvorak details his thoughts about Microsoft's new idea to consider moving to a subscription-based model for software purchases. I think he's right for consumer-level users, but a subscription service could be great for corporate users.
See the latest episode of Inside the Net to hear a discussion of subscription-based software models. Microsoft couldn't switch to this for consumers who are used to flat-fee installed software, but the constant security updates of a Web-based subscription service could definitely help corporations stay on top of the latest version of Office... Microsoft could even sell a version that the corporation could host on their own server rather than jack into the main M$ mainframe.
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Wednesday, December 28
The Chronicles of Narnia - Reading Order
I read C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia three times as a kid (well, the first time I was 8 or so and quit partway into The Last Battle because I didn't understand it). Each time, I went through the series in the order the books were published - Wardrobe, Caspian, Voyage, Chair, Horse, Nephew, Battle. This was the order in which "full sets" came at the time, and I think it makes a lot of sense. After all, this was the order in which Lewis thought of and created the world of Narnia. (Well, that's not quite true: The Horse and His Boy was actually composed slightly before The Silver Chair.)
I noticed, when visiting my neighborhood Barnes and Noble about six months ago, that full sets are now being ordered semi-chronologically according to the order of events - Nephew, Wardrobe, Horse, Prince, Voyage, Chair, Battle. I say semi-chronologically because the events of The Horse and His Boy actually take place between the penultimate and final chapters of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
You'll notice, in the essay I've linked to below, that these two reading orders sharply divide fans of the series. I won't go into any detail here since it is so plainly laid out in the essay I'm referencing, but suffice it to say that I agree wholeheartedly with the philosophical points raised by the author. The series is neither fantastical history nor allegory (in the strict senses of the words); so an attempt to use reading order to apply either of those descriptions loses the idea of the whole thing.
In any case, the next time I read the Chronicles, I will read them in the order in which they were actually penned (publication order, with Horse and Chair switched), in order to see them more closely through the eyes of their author.
By the way, the BBC recently aired dramatizations of Nephew, Wardrobe, Horse, and Caspian, which are still available to be listened to until next Sunday by visiting this BBC7 Listen Again page.
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Thursday, December 22
Top 10 Software Euphemisms
I know Philipp posted these more than 2 weeks ago, but the post is still funny.
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Wednesday, December 21
My Wife Made Me Do It
My wife put this up on her blog, and it seems she'd like me to do it as well, so here goes...
7 Things I Hope To do Before God Calls Me Home
- Visit Europe
- Sit in the audience for a recording of BBC4's "Just a Minute"
- Figure out what career God has in store for me
- Become fluent in German
- Learn a programming language other than BASIC
- Own a home
- Figure out the Question for the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
7 Things I cannot Do
- Touch my nose with my tongue
- Push-ups from my toes
- Drive a stick-shift automobile
- Watch my wife be upset without trying to help
- Drink a gallon of milk in one sitting
- Tolerate injustice
- Satisfy my quest for knowledge
7 Things that Attracted Me to My Wife (and still do!)
- Beautiful smile
- Infectious laugh (and how I can bring it out of her fairly easily)
- Thirst for knowledge
- Passion for the Truth
- Godly lifestyle
- Ability to share herself and her thoughts through writing
- Knowing just what I need, when I need it
7 Things I say Most Often
- No problem.
- <tone="sarcastic">Riiight...</tone>
- You got it.
- Yes, Dear.
- (to Lauren) Slow down; get some rest.
- (to Lauren) I love you.
- (When asked what I want for dinner) Food.
7 Books or Series That I Like Most
- C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia (I want to read them again after I read Mere Christianity)
- J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy
- Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
- Isaac Asimov, Robot Novels (incl. Robots & Empire)
- Peter Kreeft, A Refutation of Moral Relativism
- John Grisham, The Firm
7 Movies I Watch Repeatedly
- The Saint
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Sneakers
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- That Thing You Do
- The Matrix
- The Thomas Crown Affair
7 People I'd Like to See Make Similar Lists
- Lauren (but I already did)
- Jeff
- Christian
- Simon
- Vincent
- Ryan
- Ivan
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Tuesday, December 20
iTunes as a podcast client
I wrote this post yesterday, but somehow it was lost in the ether of the Internet. So now here I am again to rewrite it...
I listen to podcasts. I use iTunes and have an iPod nano (2GB, black). iTunes works pretty well as a podcatcher-- much better than any of the standalone apps, even-- but I have a few gripes/feature requests that could make it even better.
1) Separate podcast subscriptions into groups
This would work like playlist folders, and allow the user to create groups of podcasts instead of needing to view all shows and episodes in one big conglomeration. For instance, I would use this feature to put all of my video podcasts in one group, all of the Radio Leo podcasts in another group, etc.
2) Convert Podcast MP3s to regular MP3s
I'd love to be able to remove episodes from the Podcast view, but keep them in the Library still for future reference. This way, I'm only seeing new podcasts in the Podcast view, but still have access to past shows I've downloaded.
3) More options for episode longevity
I currently have iTunes set to keep "all unplayed episodes." It would be great if iTunes could leave the episodes in the Library after they're played instead of deleting the files entirely (see #2 above). Also, it would be great if the episodes could be set to automtically be deleted or moved out of the Podcasts section after a certain amount of time has passed since either the episode release or the time of download.
4) Longevity options for individual shows
I'd like to be able to set the options discussed in #3 for each individual podcast. Maybe I want the episodes from Channel Frederator to be moved out of the Podcast section after one full play, but completely delete all episodes of Jawbone Radio after they've been on my iPod for two weeks whether they've been listened to or not.
I think these enhancements would make iTunes the perfect podcast client. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Friday, December 2
Firefox 1.5 is out!
I suppose I would be remiss not mention the fact that Firefox 1.5 is now available at mozilla.com. However, I'm still not using it.
It runs really well on my Mac. The speed is great, and it feels much more integrated into OSX than its previous counterparts. However, it doesn't yet support my browsing habits. My most important extensions, TextZoom and Hit-a-Hint, don't work just yet (though momokatte has poked his head out after a five-month hibernation to let us know that TextZoom is presumably being worked on). Also, the app loses keyboard focus when hitting command-W to close a tab. This is horrible for me, since I basically do all my browsing with the keyboard and it's very annoying to have to keep reaching for the mouse to click into a window and regain focus.
It looks like a really great product, but unfortunately I won't be able to make it my primary browser for a while.
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Thursday, December 1
Blogging through the mire
Anybody who looks at this blog (and who gets here from somewhere other than a search engine) has probably noticed that the entire month of November only produced 10 posts from me.
This is not an apology.
I do this blog for myself, and because I like to make comments about tech developments. Without ripping entire pages from Greg Dean's I'll-update-when-I-choose-to-update playbook, I'd just like to say that I do plan on continuing to update this blog when I have the time and/or inclination.
If you want to read something that's updated more regularly, go to Google News or something :).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walt Disney is a global brand with film studios and theme parks bearing his name, but now his family are unveiling a museum to tell the story of the animation pioneer they say has been lost behind the trademark.
The Walt Disney Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization established in 1995 to promote education and writing about Disney as well as scholarships in his name, will open the Walt Disney Family Museum on October 1 in San Francisco.
"My father's name is probably one of the most well-known names around the world, but as the 'brand' or trademark has spread, for many, the man has become lost," Disney's daughter and museum founder, Diane Disney Miller, said in a statement.
The museum will trace Disney's life from his birth in Chicago and childhood in Missouri to his move to California in 1920s, where he married and his animation career took off with the creation of the "Mickey Mouse" character.
Among the exhibits on display will be early animation drawings, film clips, scripts, cameras and many of Disney's numerous Academy Awards, including an honorary Oscar in 1939 for his first feature length animation film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
There will also be a model of the Disneyland theme park he first envisioned, quite different from the park that opened in California in 1955, and a model of the Lily Belle train that ran on half a mile of track around his Hollywood home.
"Visiting my grandpa was pretty fun," Walter Miller, the foundation's president, recalled at a launch of the museum in New York on Wednesday.
"Perhaps my grandfather's greatest gift, without question his greatest pleasure, was to bring imagination to life," he said. "He never lost that childhood sense of wonder and of curiosity."
Disney, whose other movies included "Cinderella," "Bambi" and "Mary Poppins," which mixed live action and animation, died in 1966.
John Canemaker, an Academy Award winning animator and animation studies professor at New York University, said at the launch that Disney's development of "personality animation," beginning with Mickey Mouse, revolutionized the industry.
"Within a remarkably short period of time, a mere decade, Disney set the course for animation in the 20th century and beyond," Canemaker said.
"There would be no 'Toy Story' and no Pixar (Walt Disney Co's animation studio) without Disney personality animation, nor other studios that yield to the pantheon of stories and characters that fascinated throughout the years," he said.
Richard Benefield, executive director of the museum, said the Walt Disney Co had made their resources and archives available to the foundation and loaned several exhibits to the museum.
"Walt Disney reached people because he was a magical story teller," he said. "Now it's our turn to tell his story, to narrate the life of someone whose name is often confused with a brand and to present him simply as a human being with an extraordinary vision."
Editing by Paul Simao

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text: Jeff completed his B.S. in Forest Operations in the fall of 2014 at Humboldt State University (HSU). Jeff's academic interests include natural resource planning and management, specifically with regard to commercial timber harvesting. He began his work with the Forest Operations Team in 2014 during the summer of his senior year at HSU. Jeff's senior research involved working with HSU, Green Diamond Resource Company, and the U.S. Department of Energy for the Waste to Wisdom project to aid in the effort to determine how to best utilize commercial timber harvest residues for bioenergy production. After becoming deeply involved in this research work in his final year, he decided that pursuing a graduate degree was something he wanted to do. Consequently, Jeff is now continuing his academic career and earning a M.S. in Forest Operations with a focus on GIS.


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A 24-hour massage parlour and spa has been found to be a front for sex activities and sensual pleasures. The parlour, which is operated by 5 or 6 young PRC female masseuses and opened up about 6 months ago, was only supposed to provide foot and body massages, but nearby shop assistants and residents observed that its clientele consists of a steady stream of men who patronise the shop at all hours of the day.
One shop assistant said: The customers are mostly male. Some enter from the front, while others enter from the back door. One night, I saw a smartly dressed man leave from the back door and drive away in a fancy car, but only after sharing a passionate goodbye with a female worker,"
Another resident questioned why there was a need for the massage parlour to be open 24 hours since traffic in the residential area was low at night. "Why would anyone feel like having a massage in the middle of the night? I suspect the shop is not so innocent."
To investigate further, a reporter pretended to be a customer and visited the shop. He found out that besides the massages advertised, 3 other "special services" are also provided, with one of the services reserved for regulars only. When probed further, a masseuse was reluctant to reveal further and only said "I will show you next time."
Upon entering the shop, three masseuses immediately approached and asked if he had made a reservation. When they found out that no reservation was made, their expressions immediately changed and became unfriendly. There were six small rooms with shower facilities in the shop. Customers who had made reservations would immediately be ushered into the shower once they went into the rooms.
The reporter chose the one-hour massage package. The first 45 minutes proceeded like a typical massage session.
But at the end of the session, the masseuse told him: "We can't earn much if you don't take up the extra services."
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"I wish to present a plea for a 'tool house' at home for the young people, and one well stocked with the best tools. A great deal of creditable work has doubtless been done with a jack-knife and an old cross-cut saw, reinforced, possibly, with a half-worn- out smoothing plane, a rusty bit or two, and, perhaps, a chisel; and a certain amount of ingenuity has unquestionably been developed by the adaptation of these tools to the work in hand. But, after all, the best that can usually be said of such work is that it is very well done considering the means. The edges are rarely square and true, the joints are rarely well made, and the time consumed on the "job" is apt to be unduly prolonged, so that the work, if intended for something more than a mere makeshift, becomes wearisome before it is completed. A necessary consequence is that the boy (or girl, for there is no reason why a girl should be ignorant of the use of tools) becomes discouraged with his work, and decides that his forte is in some other direction. If on the other hand, a boy once becomes familiar with the use of good tools — tools such as an artisan would use for the same work — the knowledge stands by him, and is a source of constant pleasure and often of some profit. In a few words, to use a Western expression, the best tools ought not to be 'too rich for the blood' of any intelligent American boy."Along with the best tools must be supplied some knowledge in their care, and safe use. You may play a part in that if you choose to do so.
Make, fix, create, and extend to others the likelihood of learning likewise.


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Assured Guaranty Responds to Puerto Rico's Latest Revised Fiscal Plans
Newest Plan Now Projects $6 Billion Surplus
Public Company Information:
HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dominic Frederico, President and CEO of Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO)(together with its subsidiaries, Assured Guaranty), released the following statement in response to the latest revised fiscal plans submitted by the government of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) by the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico (Oversight Board):
Each successive proposed fiscal plan reveals what many informed observers already suspected, that Puerto Rico had greater financial resources than it previously claimed. Nevertheless, there continues to be little transparency in the process, and audited financial statements still have not been produced since 2014. The most recent draft fiscal plan, the third this year, now projects $6 billion available for creditors in the first six years, when just two months ago the Commonwealth claimed to be facing a deficit exceeding $3 billion before paying any debt service, a swing of almost $10 billion. Every new fiscal plan paints a different picture, but they each continue to demonstrate a failure to comply with applicable law including the requirements of PROMESA, an unwillingness to repay debt obligations, a lack of recognition of the importance of capital market access for future economic growth, and the allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars to unnecessary litigation expenses – expenses that could be avoided by working together with creditors and other stakeholders to develop a realistic plan for Puerto Rico's future. Based on the revised plan and further opportunities for revenue and expense improvements, a consensual agreement can be negotiated without delay and significant litigation expense.
Against this backdrop, the Governor recently made the unprecedented suggestion to both increase public sector salaries and cut taxes, thus deepening the financial hole even while the Commonwealth sits in Title III proceedings, essentially bankruptcy. The Governor and Oversight Board must do a better job for Puerto Ricans whose lives and livelihoods depend on the recovery, and for investors that provided funds to build the island's schools, airports, hospitals, and infrastructure. The Commonwealth and Oversight Board must develop a process to prohibit wasteful and fraudulent spending, and to eliminate the budget deficits that have plagued the island's recent past. As past municipal bankruptcies have shown, working closely with creditors on consensual approaches and tapping their expertise to help navigate complicated debt restructurings is the optimal path to emerge successfully from bankruptcy.
It is critical that debtors respect their creditors. If Puerto Rico does not pay its debts, as required by its own constitution, future investment in the island will dry up. Without investment, there can be no economic recovery or long-term expansion. This is a lesson that has clearly not been reflected in Puerto Rico's actions.
Moreover, a failure to comply with applicable law and to respect property rights in Puerto Rico would also have harmful ripple effects across the mainland financial markets. Violating bond agreements could prevent other municipal issuers from accessing capital markets at reasonable rates. This would make it more expensive for municipalities throughout the United States to fund essential services and infrastructure. We urge the Governor and Oversight Board to work with creditors to create a sustainable economic recovery plan based not on political agendas but on the Oversight Board's only mandate: to support economic stability in Puerto Rico by achieving fiscal responsibility and access to capital markets.
Any forward-looking statements made in this press release reflect Assured Guaranty's current views with respect to future events and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in these statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those resulting from implementation or non-implementation of any Commonwealth fiscal plan; failure to reach a consensual settlement among creditors, the Commonwealth, the Oversight Board and other stakeholders; future litigation, and other risks and uncertainties that have not been identified at this time, management's response to these factors, and other risk factors identified in Assured Guaranty's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are made as of March 28, 2018. Assured Guaranty undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.


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S'Wanderings: Cape Ann, Massachusetts – Toad Hall Book Store
Just down the street from The Paper Mermaid is a grand old bank building. And, in that building is a grand old indie book store—Toad Hall Book Store.
Toad Hall is an unusual independent bookstore, in large part because it is also a nonprofit. All proceeds of the store go to environmental causes. According to its Web site, Toad Hall has donated over $130,000 since it opened in 1972. So, when you shop here, you help the planet, too.
And, boy, is it fun to shop there. There are soaring ceilings on two sides, with high bookshelves stocked with an eclectic variety of titles.
Tall windows bring in a lot of light, but the main feature of the store is its spiral staircase, which winds from the basement level up to a second-level loft area.
Downstairs, in the basement level, is a decent selection of children's titles.
And, if you climb the staircase to the second floor loft, which has views on both sides down to the main level, you'll discover a collection of second-hand titles at great prices. I got this beauty for $2.00 or $3.00.
Toad Hall unsurprisingly carries a nice variety of Cape Ann-related merchandise.
And, their selection extends beyond books. Toad Hall has journals, jotters, calendars, greeting cards, puzzles, toys, maps, tote bags, and more. It's definitely worth a stop on your Cape Ann visit.
Toad Hall Book Store is located at 47 Main Street, Rockport, Massachusetts, and is open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 – 5:00, and Sunday from 11:00 'til 6:00.


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Comment on Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference by Bill Sorensen.
Hubert F. Sturges: If some of those new pastors happen to be women, and they have a demonstrated interest and talent for winning souls, and are willing to see this as their most important work; I say "More power to them." We need them.
Why do they have to be pastors to do this work? Let's stick to God's ordained method for church administration. Male headship was ordained by God before sin entered. Adam was king and priest in the home. Eve was his "help meet" or supporting cast. And this has been the norm in the family, the church and society in general for thousands of years. How come all the sudden this order of authority is now abandon for "higher enlightenment" that goes beyond the biblical norm?
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Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference
"Again, I think this has to do with the morality of a person, not so much the gender of a person. "
Sean, this is equal to saying the Sabbath "day" of the commandment is not important as long as we keep the spirit of the Sabbath.
So the quote has to do with both the morality and the gender of the individual. Just as the Sabbath has to do with the literal day as well as the true Spirit of keeping the Sabbath.
Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference
All you have shown and affirmed Sean, is this. They will not affirm that any of the statements are "official teachings of the church". This would mean anyone who disagreed or differed with any statement would be subject to church discipline.
Like we do the seventh day Sabbath. Or other positions like baptism. You must be baptized by immersion to be a member of the SDA church.
So these books about the "fundamental beliefs of the SDA church" are just stated opinions by scholars who have put together the list of beliefs. Just like the book "Seventh-day Adventists believe…..27"
And is described as "A Biblical Exposition of Fundamental Doctrines" under the title.
So you have given no evidence that any list is an "official list of doctrines of the SDA church." We have no "official list". Period.
Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference
". I fail to see where the Bible says otherwise? –"
A lot of Sunday keepers reject the Sabbath in the name of the gospel, just like you reject male headship. And "They fail to see otherwise", but it won't change the reality. The bible is crystal clear that Adam was head of the human family, and Jesus is the "second Adam". And Jesus is not "Adam and Eve" no matter what some claim about the position of Eve as being equal to Adam and claim they reigned as co-regents before sin entered.
And it is a superficial argument to claim that since "Christ is head of the church", He has not ordained levels of authority under His headship, and thus everyone is "equal" to hold any office.
Christ is head of the home. Does this negate male headship in the home? Apparently so, since if one application is valid, so is every other application.
But, there have been many presentations by both sides, just like the Sabbath/Sunday issue. The bible is not vague or ambiguous on either subject.
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@Sean Pitman:
Since the fall of Adam, Sean, all babies are born in sin and they are sinners. God created them. Even if it was by way of cooperation of natural law as human beings also participated in the creation process.
Paul says, "Sold in in." and "Children of wrath just like everyone else."
You may not like this biblical reality, but it is true none the less.
And yes, God has also provided a way of escape so that all who He has created "in sin" can be "born again" spiritually and escape their heritage of sin and shame.
I know a lot of people don't like this idea, but it is true anyway. We are born lost with the potential to be saved if we accept Jesus and His atonement that is provisional for "whosoever will may come."
Cain didn't like it either and resisted the exhortation of his brother, Abel, to offer a sin offering because he was a sinner. Cain says, "No, I'll bring a thank offering, but no sin offering. Sin is not my fault. God created me this way."
Most people will be outside looking in because they agree with Cain but a few will be inside looking out because they agree with Abel.
Bill Sorensen
What does it take to be a true Seventh-day Adventist?
@Sean Pitman:
Well, Sean, I was not as confrontational as Wesley who said, "Those who deny the doctrine of original sin are heathen still." … [deleted]
[Oh please…
If you want to have a real conversation, great. However, unless you actually respond substantively to the questions and counter arguments posed to you, without your needless pejoratives, I'm not going to continue posting your repetitive comments on this topic in this forum…]
What does it take to be a true Seventh-day Adventist?
And the topic at hand is "What does it take to be a real SDA?"
It takes someone who is willing to follow the bible and its teaching in every particular. If you don't believe this, you are not a "Protestant" SDA.
You then bring up the Trinity. Which is fine. But that is certainly not the only thing that qualifies for the topic of your thread.
So, here is what you stated to me….."To be morally "guilty" of something, however, requires that one is consciously aware of what is right, but deliberately chooses to do what is wrong instead (James 4:17). Without the interplay of free will, there is no moral "guilt"."
So a person is "born" selfish, proud, coveteous, vain….etc, but not "guilty" of being, selfish, proud, coveteous, vain….etc. Your limited view of "guilt" is not biblical. Half a truth is equal to a lie. There is certainly conscience guilt. But guilt is more than awareness of right and wrong. "Sin is transgression of the law", and the law doesn't care what you know, or don't know. If you break the law, you are guilty of breaking the law.
Just admit the truth, Sean. But don't accuse me of going outside the intent of this thread when it was not specifically stated as a thread about the Trinity.
Just "man up" once in a while and admit you are wrong. We are all born guilty in the eyes of God. And our ignorance does not free us from this fact.
Bill Sorensen
Science and Methodological Naturalism
Well, Sean, this article is about Dr. Taylor and his argument to negate the bible. Maybe you and Goldstein can persuade him with your arguments.
The evidences of nature function as a "law that is a schoolmaster" to lead us to the bible. "The heavens declare the glory of God……." but still does not tell us who God is nor the function of His government concerning the moral law.
In fact, natural law is so convoluted by sin that "survival of the fittest" is the only logical conclusion.
At any rate, I wish you well in your endeavors to support the creation account in scripture.
Take care.
What does it take to be a true Seventh-day Adventist?
@Sean Pitman:
I read Kevin Paulson's article and he "double talks" around the obvious to deny and/or ignore the reality of what the bible teaches and EGW confirms.
Babies are born guilty of sin because they are born with the spirit of sin. They have no power to do anything but sin unless and until by the special grace of God, they are given the ability to "choose".
If you add God's grace to the bible definition of original sin, you can make man free to act all you want. Original sin has to do with the fall of Adam and the results. It is not about God's grace that has been added by way of the cross. So EGW has stated clearly in support of the fall and its effects on Adam's children.
" God declares, "I will put enmity." This enmity is not naturally entertained. When man transgressed the divine law, his nature became evil, and he was in harmony, and not at variance, with Satan. There exists naturally no enmity between sinful man and the originator of sin. Both became evil through apostasy. The apostate is never at rest, except as he obtains sympathy and support by inducing others to follow his example. For this reason, fallen angels and wicked men unite in desperate companionship. Had not God specially interposed, Satan and man would have entered into an alliance against Heaven; and instead of cherishing enmity against Satan, the whole human family would have been united in opposition to God." {GC88 505.2}
Those who deny original sin and its effects on the children of Adam always appeal to the atonement and the grace of God. But we see that God "put" enmity between Satan and the human family.
As Luther said to Erasmus in their discussion on this matter when Erasmus claimed the will was free by way of grace,
"Once you add grace you can make the will as free as you like."
Original sin is not about grace nor what man can do once grace is implied and involved. Original sin is about what man is after the fall apart from grace and/or God's special action super-imposed in the situation. So, if there is no original sin, neither is there any need for grace.
Kevin Paulson convolutes the issue just like other SDA scholars by making no distinction between how man is after the fall with or without grace.
So, in light of original sin, David says, "The wicked are estranged from the womb, they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies." Ps. 58
David knows apart from God's grace, no one can do anything but sin. Original sin highlights the necessity and value of the atonement and what it truly means to be "born again."
Hear the words of Jesus, "That which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit, ye must be born again."
Original sin is exactly why Jesus made this comment. No one can read and understand the bible who denies the reality of original sin and its effects on all the children of Adam. We are all born guilty of sin, even before we act. So Isaiah says, "Write the vision and make it plain, that wayfareing men, though fools, need not err therein."
In closing, original sin is not about the atonement nor its meaning and application to humanity. It is about man as he comes from Adam lost and without hope, power, choice or any ability to do anything about his situation.


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Ever in search of the sounds of America, this time the Live From the Streets crew joined us in Dallas to poke around one of America's uniquest southern cities.
In typical Live From the Streets fashion, Green and crew got hooked up with some true underground info: first of all, they met with a group of local street racers, who have fought hard for a legal space to practice a decades-old tradition. Next they visited our #CourtsideCollection court takeover by Kyle Steed, who explained his tribute to the Dallas community. After a snack of BBQ, they linked with local heroes The Outfit, TX, in their home suburb of Pleasant Grove, who then took them to an underground party that shows that Dallas's hip-hop scene is absolutely thriving. Finally, they congregated to make a beat in the car park, contributing to a new Dallas-specific creation by Green that will melt the aux cord.
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Announce the litter
Announce the litter : Puupies will be born in our kennel in mid-May
Father : Cassom Hey Jude
Mother : Fruit Sugar Coolgang
Autumn at the ROYAL QUEST kennel
ROYAL QUEST Almost Illegal
( Annilann Sergeant Blast & Fruit Sugar Coolgang) :
02.09.2017 IDS Luxemburg 2 ex.
16.09. 2017 IDS Nitra 1ex. JCAC
17.09.2017 IDS Nitra 1ex. JCAC
23 .09. 2017 IDS Wrocław 1ex, CAC , CACIB !!!! (age of 15 months and 4 days )
Fruit Sugar COOLGANG ( Rainstorm's Latest News x Bleper's Flame of Passion) :
02.09.2017 IDS Luxemburg 3 ex.
16.09. 2017 IDS Nitra 1ex. CAC
17.09.2017 IDS Nitra 1ex. CAC
Dog exhibition in Warsaw:"Ami"Royal Quest All For Love
10.09.2017 NDS (CAC) Warszawa
Judge: Mr Ray A. Strudwick
Ami got J CAC, J BOB, BOS. 🏆❤🏆 Congratulations for owner !!!!
Dog exhibition in Gostynin:"Ami"Royal Quest All For Love
26.08.2017 NDS (CAC) Gostynin
"Ami"Royal Quest All For Love got:
Judge :Mr Sławomir Sztul
J CAC, J BOB, BOB, BOG lll. 🏆❤🏆
Dog Exhibition in Warsaw:"Słodka" Fruit Sugar Coolgang
CACIB Warsaw 8.07.2017 Judge: Sergei Slukin, UA
"Słodka" Fruit Sugar Coolgang got :
1ex ,CAC , CACIB , BOS, Cruft's Qualification 2018
Dog Exhibition in Warsaw:"Asgard" Royal Quest Almost Illegal
CACIB Warsaw 8.07.2017 Judge: Sergei Slukin, UA
"Asgard" Royal Quest Almost Illegal got :
1ex, JCAC , JBOB , Cruft's Qualification 2018!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀
Ami- Royal Quest All For Love
National Exhibition of Hunting Dogs in Szczytno 2.07.2017 ( Judge : Renata Niklasiewicz ) Ami won Youth Winner , Best Junior in Race and BOS!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Congratulations for Owners!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Ami- Royal Quest All For Love
Day 2.07.2017 National show of hunting dogs took place in Szczytno
Ami- Royal Quest All For Love get there 1 ex. , BOB , BOS
And he achieve a title of Youth Champion of Poland.
Jugde: Renata Niklasiewicz
Again we are continually proud of Ami 🙂 🙂 🙂 .
Last successes of Fruit Sugar Coolgang
20.05 .17 IDS Dortmund got another request and fulfilled the conditions for the German Champion !!!!!
And in Moletai 27.05.17 1 ex, CAC, res.CACIB (ninth)
28.05.17 1ex, CAC, CACIB (seventh) and BOS
She fulfilled this last condition (related to time) at INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY CHAMPION !!!!!
I'm in the seventh heaven !!!
Last successes of Asgard – Royal Quest ALMOST ILLEGAL
Asgard – Royal Quest ALMOST ILLEGAL
IDS Kołobrzeg (judge: Małgorzata Lorenc) got the third junior winner and fulfilled the conditions for obtaining Junior Champion of Poland !!!!
The other two requests Asgard won on NDS Opole 21.04.17 (judge: Rafael de Santiago (PR)) … 1 ex. , JCAC, JBOB, JBIS II
And NDS Gostynin 4.06.17 (judge: Miroslaw Olejnik) … 1 ex. , JCAC, JBOB
Asgard in Moletai won :
27.05.17 (judge: Marko Lepasaar) 1 ex. JCAC and Baltic Junior Winner 2017
28.05.17 (judge: Janusz Opara) 1ex, JCAC, JBOB
And therefore is Junior Champion Lithuania !!!!!
We are very proud of our little Scamp .
Last successes of Ami- Royal Quest All For Love
Ami- Royal Quest All For Love , whom live in Mława with his caregivers began his adventure in junior class in excellent way .
17.06.2017 NDS ( CAC) Kraków (Pl)
Judges: Mr. Jose Miguel Doval Sanchez, Mr. Leszek Salamon (J BIS)
Royal Quest All For Love- J CAC, Junior BOB, BOS, Junior BIS II❤🏆❤
18.06.2017 IDS ( CACIB) Kraków (Pl)
Judges: Mrs. Eva Liljekvist Borg, Mr. Andrzej Mania (J BIS)
Royal Quest All For Love- J CAC, Junior BOB, BOS, Junior BIS II❤🏆❤
We are very proud of you .
Today we wish all the best Asgard , Ami and Agat
Asgard , Ami and Agat ends their first year today .
We wish all the best our scamps .
Meeting of brothers
Recently brother of Asgard , Agat has visited us
And there is a few photos from their meeting:
Happy Easter wish all Royal Quest kennel


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|Biographical Information
|Mainly Brotherhood of Makuta
|Black, Gray, and Orange
|Toa Armor
|Claws, Electro-Rocket
|Matoran Universe
|In use
Exo-Toa were special suits of powered armor that were invented by the Nynrah Ghosts. Toa and other similarly-sized beings could wear and control them, or they could be programmed to act on their own as robotic sentries.
After the Makuta species "evolved" from biomechanical form to a purely gaseous state, Chirox took over an Exo-Toa to 'demonstrate' to Mutran the new powers being made entirely out of antidermis exhibited. Exo-Toa were one of the kinds of things Makuta could possess along with other robots, such as Maxilos. Later, when Mata Nui fell into his deep sleep, the resulting Great Cataclysm ruptured a Makuta's armor, and needed to be placed in an Exo-Toa suit in order to remain alive.
In the time of the Toa Hagah, the Brotherhood of Makuta used Exo-Toa as part of their army, which also included Visorak, Fohrok and their Dark Hunter allies.
The Bohrok WarThousands of years later, when the Bohrok swarms were awakened by Teridax to attack the island of Mata Nui, the Toa Mata ventured into the Bohrok Nest to confront the swarms' twin queens. Travelling through the tunnels deep below the island's surface, the Toa discovered a chamber containing six Exo-Toa. Each Toa stepped into one of the suits, which they then attempted to use when they encountered the Bahrag. However, Tahu found that the electro-rockets had no effect on Cahdok and Gahdok; even worse, the armor hindered the Toa from using their elemental powers. Only by abandoning the suits were the Toa able to successfully defeat the Bahrag.
The Bohrok-Kal CrisisLater, when the elite Bohrok-Kal tried to free the Bahrag, the now-Toa Nuva followed the Bohrok-Kal into the Nest; there, they found the six Exo-Toa fighting the Kal on autopilot. However, the battle was a short one, and the Exo-Toa were reduced to scrap metal. However, after a last-minute gambit on Gali's part, the Bohrok-Kal's powers spiraled out of control; Gahlok-Kal, whose power was Magnetism, ended up drawing the Exo-Toa pieces toward itself, crushing the Bohrok-Kal under the wreckage. Later, Nuparu, an Onu-Matoran Engineer, salvaged the scrap, intending to study it; however, he had little time to do so before he and five other Matoran embarked on a journey to Voya Nui and subsequently became the Toa Inika.
Reign of Makuta
During Teridax's reign, Exo-Toa were used by Makuta to hunt down and apprehend fugitives and return them to Metru Nui. One such army of Exo-Toa attacked Tahu's team in the ruined land of Karzahni; fortunately, Onua arrived in time to save them, and destroyed the robotic suits with an earthquake.
It remains unknown what became of the remaining Exo-Toa after Makuta was finally struck down during his battle with Mata Nui.
Set Information
- The Exo-Toa's set number was 8557.
- The Exo-Toa consisted of 360 pieces.
- The Exo-Toa set would actually only allow four Toa Mata sets to fit into it: Tahu, Gali, Lewa and Kopaka. Because of Pohatu's upside-down torso, he couldn't fit in one. Onua was also unable to fit concerning his "head placement" on his set. However, with a few minor alterations, you can reconstruct Onua and Pohatu to fit in the Exo-Toa armor.
- Stars Tahu also cannot fit in the Exo-Toa, despite the set being an updated set version of his Toa Mata Form.
|Brotherhood of Makuta
| Former Leaders: Miserix • Teridax (Deceased)
Former Members: Tridax • Kojol • Spiriah • Mutran • Antroz • Chirox • Vamprah • Icarax • Krika • Gorast • Bitil • Makuta of Stelt (All deceased)
Former Servants: Rahkshi • Shadow Matoran • Exo-Toa • "Fohrok" • Visorak • Roodaka • Sidorak • Voporak • Toa Hagah • Pridak • Brutaka


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Pastor - Calvin Halcomb -
Calvin was born and raised in Kingston, Tennessee in a Christian home alongside his 4 siblings. His father is a pastor as well. He surrendered his life to Christ and was baptized at age 7.
Calvin surrendered to the call of gospel ministry in 1997 and began preaching as pulpit supply throughout East Tennessee. In 2005 he and his family moved to Louisville, KY to pursue an education at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. After serving at a church in central KY for five years, God called him to pastor Dexter Baptist Church in July 2011.
Calvin married the love of his life, Mylisa, in October, 1994 and have two beautiful children, Corrie and David.
Calvin enjoys deer and bird hunting, gardening and woodworking.
Choir Director - Mary Beth Harkleroad
Mary Beth comes from a family of preachers/singers. She hails from Rentz, GA and has served in various churches prior to coming to Dexter. She has a heart for expressing her love to God in music and leads the choir to do the same. She is married to Thomas and mom to Abi Grace and Grayson.
Worship Leader - D.W. Knight
D.W. is a life long resident of Dexter and and local business owner. His passion for leading music runs deep. He has been leading worship at DBC for 20+ years. He is married to Jannell.


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The crisis is an opportunity. But for who?
Increasingly it is starting to seem that the recession, in this country at least, is going to herald yet another round of neo-liberal "reform" of the economy.
All the parties are now fessing up to the fact that the next general election is going to followed by massive public spending cuts.
Whether it is George Osborne saying that within six months an incoming Tory government will be the most unpopular since the war, or leaked government Treasury documents setting out the biggest cuts since the Callaghan government of 1977-1979, the consensus is clear.
For those that do not remember that far back, and it is a long way now, Jim Callaghan's Labour government of the late 70s made the biggest cuts in public spending in the post-war period, and saw the biggest fall in working class living standards. Popular disillusion with his administration opened the door to Thatcherism in 1979.
But behind all the talk of the necessity of cuts to balance the government's books lurks something far more insidious, and far more dangerous.
It's something you'll hear more of as it spreads out from the think tanks and the Westminster bubble into public debate, as both parties seek to fashion it into a political idea that gain support, something an agenda of cuts alone cannot do.
It's about the state, and what it can do.
The answer all around seems to be less, for less people and for less money.
Less services, less state
The call by the CBI for students to pay more towards their education, which is hardly free any more, is just a start.
Local government executives have already been putting their plans in place. Budgets are going to be slashed. But how will they provide services on less money?
The answer is procurement.
It means everything goes out tender, everything is privatised.
Any service you can think of, the private sector (and its increasingly indistinguishable cousin the "voluntary sector") will do it cheaper.
And cheapness will be the watchword.
Already local government contracts put out to tender are competed for ruthlessly. Wages and conditions have been cut and cut again.
Whole swathes of the state will be farmed out. The very idea of public service and state provision will come under enormous attack.
This death by a thousand tenders will also mean the last great bastion of union power, the public sector, will be broken up.
Anyone who works in the privatised public services, or the voluntary sector, will be familiar with what happens next: the breaking up of collective agreements, performance related pay, casualisation, the withering of union organisation and a gradual acceptance by workers of the vagaries of a labour market heavily weighted against them.
The political justification will be to "shrink the state" to give people freedom, "a new birth" of social voluntarism and philanthropy.
End of the welfare state?
Such an assault on the public sector will also herald a new round of tax cuts, to "give power" to people to decide how to spend their money.
It is a drive that could have a popular resonance. In a situation where wages are going down, and collective action to push them up seems like non-starter (or doesn't even cross some people's minds) the only way to increase income is to cut taxes.
And this has a logic all of its own. A logic that could lead to the dismantling of the welfare state in ways not yet imagined even by the outriders of neo-liberalism.
The fact that public services will be retreating will force more and more people to pay for things themselves, from private health insurance to supporting their children through higher education. Even the most well meaning, and public minded people will increasingly have to make hard economic choices.
The growing assault on the "universal provision" of the welfare state is a massive step in that direction.
The idea that help should only focussed on those "most needy" rather than be available to all, tends to undermine support amongst those who pay for it through their taxes.
This is what happened in the US in the eighties. The dismantling of what welfare provision there was reached tipping point where the consensus at the ballot box for it collapsed.
Millions who now had no recourse to the services of the state, and having to pay for such services themselves, became unwilling to pay for welfare through their taxes. The assault started with things like Proposition 13 in California restricting property taxation. Ever since in election after election, in one ballot initiative after another, measures have been passed cutting public provision and limiting taxation.
Who'd have thought it? A year ago it seemed like the collapse of the neo-liberal experiment was at hand. Instead we could be facing a turn to an even more extreme type of neo-liberalism.
Stop the attack or turn the tide
A turn that could be the coup de grace for what has been exposed by the last eighteen months of recession as a directionless and decaying trade union movement, which seems incapable of defending its members from pay cuts and redundancies.
Yet every crisis is also an opportunity. The crisis of their system does mean that the tide can be turned. But only if there is an attempt to turn it, not just to stop it.
A political alterative to their system has to be put, and a way found to communicate it to the mass of the working class, rather than just seeking to defend sections of it piecemeal.
This is the task that faces us.


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Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! It's fall--my favourite season of all!! I love Thanksgiving!!! We Cunucks celebrate it in October which I think makes more sense because there isn't usually two feet of snow on the ground yet (usually--LOL)!! Our friends to the south celebrate it in late November and I think this year I will celebrate it twice (the Canadian & the American) just because I can!! I love Thanksgiving even more than Christmas!! Here in Ontario we have such wonderful colour when the leaves turn--it's one of my favourite thing in life!! Add an XL Tim Horton's hot apple cider and a walnut crunch donut and you have perfection!! LOL!! Anyway, on with the challenge at Sundays With Crissy!! This month our theme is Thanks/Thanksgiving--meaning a thank you card/project or a Thanksgiving card/project is what we are looking for.
Here's what I did for the challenge... I used Crissy's digi image called "Turk in Boots" for this card!
No one can make turkeys look cuter than Crissy Armstrong!!!
This card is making it's way to my friend Scott who is serving with the Canadian Forces at Kadahar Air Field, Afghanistan!! Hiya Scott & Happy Thanksgiving!! Here's hoping you will have a hot turkey dinner on the big day!!
Now it's your turn to show us your Thanks or Thanksgiving cards!! Go HERE to find out how to upload your projects. There will be five free digi's given to one lucky challenge participant who will be chosen by Random.org at the end of the month! You may now use images from any company and still be included in the draw for the blog candy prize! Those who use one of Crissy's images, either from her rubber or digital collections will be entered twice in the draw. But please respect the rule of no more than three entries per month. Otherwise your entries could be deleted.
Thanks for popping in to take a look!! Have a great day!!
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Securing J2EE Applications with a Servlet Filter
Web applications oftain contain both public and private resources. It is necessary to ensure that those key areas that are restricted to the public remain off limits to even the craftiest of users. This is a common problem and there are many different solutions. In this article, I will show how a Servlet Filter can serve as a simple, unobtrusive agent that will help to safeguard data when developing J2EE web applications.
A Few Options
When discussing the topic of security, there are two main categories to consider. Authentication refers to verifying a certain user is in fact who they say they are. Authentication is handled typically via a username and password login. For most sites, a login page utilizes SSL (Secure Socket Layer) over HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). Once authentication is complete, you need to perform authorization. Authorization is concerned with ensuring that what a user accesses conforms to their permission set. In other words, they should only see what they are authorized to see.
Along with many third-party tools, J2EE provides some built-in support for security. In the deployment descriptor of an application (web.xml), for example, you can declaratively configure an application for authentication and authorization (see options available under the <security-constraint> element). For in-depth information on how to use these features, consult the Java Servlet specification. One potential problem with this approach is that implementing some of these features also requires actions specific to a Servlet container, making them not entirely portable. Another option for security is the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS). JAAS consists of APIs to authenticate and authorize in a pluggable, platform-neutral fashion. JAAS is a bit newer and its use is not as widespread as those previously mentioned.
Of course, coding a solution yourself is always an option too. This is not always desirable, depending on the complexity of the problem you are dealing with. However, if your application has rather unique or complex security requirements, you will probably require a custom solution. Below, I will demonstrate how Java Servlet Filters can help craft a solution that works across Servlet containers.
Filter Review
Servlet Filters were introduced in version 2.3 of the Java Servlet specification. If you are completely new to Filters, I suggest reading about them here. I will attempt a high-level overview now. Read about the Intercepting Filter design pattern to better understand the problem Filters try to address.
A Servlet Filter object implements an interface that specifies three methods: init, doFilter, and destroy. The first and the last allow for custom processing at the beginning and end of the object's life cycle. To enable a Filter to initialize itself, an instance of FilterConfig is passed to its init method. The most important method for a Filter object is doFilter. This is where the Filter does its job. It accepts objects of type ServletRequest and ServletResponse (which usually need to be cast to their HTTP versions: HttpServletRequest and HttpServletReponse), and a FilterChain object that contains a 'chain' of Filters to execute (if any) after the current Filter finishes its work.
So how does a Filter object execute? A Filter is specified in the web.xml file inside the <filter> element, along with a corresponding <filter-mapping> that maps a Filter to a request pattern. When this pattern matches a request URI, doFilter on the Filter object is invoked. This allows you, the developer, to intercept the normal application flow and perform whatever tasks you deem necessary. These tasks commonly include logging, compression of response data, and in our case, enforcing application security.
An Authorization Filter
For the purposes of this article, I will assume that the authentication piece of the puzzle has been solved, either custom either by programming or using the declarative support the Servlet specification provides. I will focus on performing authorization for the application. For this, you will use a Filter object. In fact, a Servlet Filter could help solve the authentication problem as well (and handle other security-related tasks, such as storing number of login attempts, locking accounts, and so forth.).
The fictitious application includes public resources, resources for intranet users, and resources that should be accessed only by an administrator. As a result, you need to intercept requests to verify that a user's role or roles allows them to go where they are attempting to go. The Filter intercepts the requests, then, to achieve a clean separation of concerns, invokes a method on the Java class that actually performs the work. There are three objects to look at—an interface, its default implementation, and a Filter object. You'll start with the interface.
The Java interface used for authorization is called, appropriately, AuthorizationManager.
package examples; /** * Manages authorization to the system. * * @author Michael Klaene */ public interface AuthorizationManager { public boolean isUserAuthorized(User user,String uri); }
AuthorizationManager specifies a lone method, public boolean isUserAuthorized(User user,String uri). Method isUserAuthorized accepts a User object, presumably stored in the current HttpSession, and the request URI. It returns true if that user is authorized to view the resource, false otherwise.
A Servlet Filter, AuthorizationFilter, will obtain a reference to an object of type AuthorizationManager and invoke its method. The resources for users and an administrator have been grouped in a subfolder entitled 'restricted'. The following web.xml entries are required for AuthorizationFilter's doFilter method to be invoked each time a 'restricted' resource is requested:
<!--Servlet Filter that handles site authorization.--> <filter> <filter-name>AuthorizationFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>examples.AuthorizationFilter</filter-class> <description>This Filter authorizes user access to application components based upon request URI.</description> <init-param> <param-name>error_page</param-name> <param-value>../../error.jsp</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>AuthorizationFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/restricted/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>
Note: You are configuring your Filter by using an initialization parameter called 'error-page'. A FilterConfig object provides this value in AuthorizationFilter's init method. It tells the Filter where to redirect authorization failures:
private String errorPage; /**Filter should be configured with an system error page.*/ public void init (FilterConfig FilterConfig) throws ServletException { if (FilterConfig != null) { errorPage = FilterConfig.getInitParameter("error_page"); }
Here is the code for doFilter:
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws ServletException, IOException { if(errorPage == null) { returnError(request,response,"AuthorizationFilter not properly configured! Contact Administrator."); } HttpSession session = ((HttpServletRequest)request).getSession(false); User currentUser = (User)session.getAttribute("user"); if (currentUser == null) { returnError(request,response,"User does not exist in session!"); } else { //Get relevant URI. String URI = ((HttpServletRequest)request).getRequestURI(); //Obtain AuthorizationManager singleton from Spring //ApplicationContext. ApplicationContext ctx = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext( session.getServletContext()); AuthorizationManager authMgr = (AuthorizationManager)ctx.getBean("AuthorizationManager"); //Invoke AuthorizationManager method to see if user can //access resource. boolean authorized = authMgr.isUserAuthorized(currentUser,URI); if (authorized) { chain.doFilter(request,response); } else { returnError(request,response,"User is not authorized to access this area!"); } } }
The top half of doFilter is concerned with checking that the necessary variables are present. The error page should have been stored upon initialization. Also, in this application, a User object should exist in the current session if authentication was performed. A private utility method (returnError) is used to forward to the designated error page with the relevant error text. The remaining code obtains the current URI requested and passes it, along with the User object, to the isUserAuthorizedMethod on an instance of AuthorizationManager. If authorized, the request is forwarded on (possibly to another Filter, if more than one was mapped to this request).
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Artist: Joan Armatrading
Album: Joan Armatrading
People to the left of me
People to the right
I wanna be alone
But it just gets worse all the time
Can't make it work
People all around me
In love, in pain
Some are integrated
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Media Development Indicators launch comes at critical time of reform, reflection for Thailand
The spirited discussion that took place at the launch of the Thai translation of UNESCO's Media Development Indicators (MDI) spoke to the timeliness of the tool's release in Thailand, as reforms are underway that could have a tremendous impact on the future of Thailand's media sector.
Thai media stakeholders, media communications experts and development partners gathered at the Pathumwan Princess Hotel for the launch on 25 January.
The MDI are a diagnostic tool that have been used to carry out assessments of media sectors in 17 countries and inform media development strategies and policies.
Luc Stevens, UN Resident coordinator in Thailand, said that the country could also benefit from using the MDI as an input into ongoing reform plans.
"Thailand is in the midst of a challenging and contentious political transition process… and media are critical to ensuring the credibility of information and analysis, to build bridges across diverse groups, and to work hand-in-hand with others in moving the country forward," said Mr Stevens.
The extent to which Thai media have been fulfilling this role was discussed by panellists at a discussion held as part of the launch. Pirongrong Ramasoota, from Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Communication Arts, voiced what she said is a common critique of Thai media: that they often engage in partisan reporting and worsen societal divisions.
"In Thailand there is a deep mistrust concerning the media from both sides, the government and society," she said. One factor in this has been the "excess politicization of the media during the colour-coded political turmoil", referring to the country's "red" and "yellow" shirt political movements, as well as failures to rein in such distorted reporting.
The question of how to address these issues and rebuild trust in the national media was one of the main points of discussion at the launch.
In his keynote speech, Jayaweera Wijayananda, former director of UNESCO's Media Development Division, outlined the essential importance of free media to a country's progress. "For democracies to work … constantly negotiated consent between all segments of the citizenry, businesses and the government [is needed]," he said. "This cannot happen without a public service oriented media system, which is free from vested political and business interests, enjoys complete editorial independence and is pluralistic in their representation and coverage of issues."
Likewise, Charlotta Bredberg, Senior Programme Manager at the Swedish Embassy in Thailand's Development Cooperation Section Human Rights & Democracy, said that media play a crucial role in supporting development objectives. "Without a diverse, independent and pluralistic media environment … debate will not flourish and governments will not be held accountable for their actions by the wider population."
In Thailand's case, Dr Pirongrong said there are numerous challenges standing in the way of the ideals expressed by the international experts. She said the country had progressive media reforms with the 1997 constitution, but that these failed to have a lasting legacy due in part to deficits in the application of the law, the challenges posed by media ownership structures, and a lack of a deep understanding of the functions of media and it's potentially powerful social role on the part of governments and society.
Uajit Virojtrairatt, Director of the project Media Monitor, said that the main challenges for Thailand's media are to change current media ownership structures, encourage dialogue on the importance of having a public broadcasting service "that is not state-owned" as well as promote media and information literacy to deepen public understanding of media's role in society.
The panellists pointed out that the current government's reform plans do not acknowledge media development as a priority, rather they focus more on control of the content media produce.
In such a challenging and politically charged atmosphere, Dr Uajit said, the MDI can play a valuable role. "Promoting UNESCO's media development indicators among various groups in Thailand could help open up the dialogue," she said.
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The launch event was followed by a training programme on the Thai version of the MDI targeting journalists, researchers as well as representatives of the regulatory agency and ministries from 25-27 January 2016. The project is part of UNESCO's efforts to strengthen free and independent media in Thailand and was conducted with the support of the Swedish government.
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i find myself thinking a lot lately about the time in my life when i worked with mommas and their kiddos living in shelters.
i think about these moms when i make an impulse buy for cute shoes for my kiddo – shoes she surely doesn't need but i can't resist.
i think about these children as i am crafting with my C.
i think about these families when i am eating on the couch.
i think about them when i am taking my kiddo to an event that costs a small (and unreasonable) fortune.
i think about them when i see my kiddos dad playing so lovingly with her.
and i feel so sad. it is not fair that in this life, little people and their mommas must endure such pain and struggle. that some dads choose to hurt thier kiddos moms.
but when i think of them most is when i am having a hard day with my C. when she won't go to bed, or when she is having a stage 10 tantrum, or when she is sick, or when i have a migraine, or when she is just crabby and so am i. i think of all the rules and guidelines we had in the shelter in the interest of child safety. supervision was one thing that we always seemed to be talking about.
so and so isn't supervising her 5 year old, so and so wrote all over the wall because his mom wasnt watching him. is that so and so in the playroom without her mom. all things we needed to address. i think now if i was one of the moms i was speaking to, i would have wanted to shake me. i get it now. i have pen on my walls, while i was online, my C snuck downstairs and emptied the entire bookshelf. i do not always have eyes on my kiddo. i get it now. i would want to shake me too.
please don't get me wrong, guidelines are necessary. but with our rules, i don't think we factored in hard-momma-days or cranky-kiddo-days. or just regular i'm-raising-a-2-year-old-days or mom-is-also-a-person-and-needs-a-minute-to-breathe-days.
i love how i worked with families, both the children and mothers. but now that i have my own kiddo, there is a different in my gut understanding that i just didn't have before about how hard it is for moms. as a child and youth counsellor, working over 10 years in shelters, i know the impact of trauma, i understand how abuse impacts mommas and thier kiddos, and i have seen the challenges families have in shelters. these are rightful challenges. no home, loss of one parent, limited to no income, little control. anyone would find it challenging. i certainly would.
so this is what i want to do over:
i want to offer to do the mommas chores every now and then.
i want to ask if i can hold her baby so she can take a shower, read a book, go online.
i want to reduce the scheduled programming and just be available for her.
i want to bring her a coffee when she is sitting outside with her children.
i want to clean the highchair for the mother who has just fed her baby herslef and 3 other kids. better yet, i want to clean up the whole table.
i want to advocate that a family of 5 gets 2 rooms rather than sharing 1.
please dont interpret these do overs to be based on pity or sympathy. if anything they are based on how strong i know mommas are, and how little they ask for help.
i just didn't know what the kind of help was that would have really made a difference til now.
for me, i don't get a do over because my time working in the shelters is over (for now at least while im home with my own kiddo). i am lucky now though that i have the opportunity to shape future child and youth workers through my teaching. and will share my do overs and hope that at least one momma in a shelter gets a coffee brought to here every once in a while, or has a bonus unplanned 20 minutes of peace in an otherwise chaotic time.
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Swinging into Chanukah?
This week, the Michael Hittleman Gallery came up with a provocative way of wishing Los Angeles a "Happy Chanukah." In the December 8 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Hittleman, the gallery's owner, placed a quarter page ad featuring a large photo of an art piece by Israeli contemporary artist Maya Attoun. In the past, Hittleman has placed many ads displaying art, but this one showed what appeared to be a chimpanzee held between the grip of a human thumb and forefinger. Beneath the photo was a simple, straightforward greeting: Happy Chanukah.
"Someone had just called to tell me that the ad was insulting," said Hittleman, who minutes before I interviewed him, had taken the call from the irate woman. However, Hittleman, who has been selling art for much of his adult life, seemed to take the call in stride. "After 42 years nothing ever bothers me much anymore," he said.
And besides, Attoun's work was selling. Hittleman's gallery on West Third Street, specializes in synagogue and Jewish center art sales, and he was able to report that he had sold other pieces by the artist involving the chimpanzees.
"Especially since the piece is called "Devolution," it makes you think about how we treat animals," he said. Attoun, "comments a lot on the vulnerability of our environment," expressing "the idea that in our arrogance we control everything. But we don't and that's very much on her radar."
As it turned out, in a twist of life stranger than art, Hittleman has some familial connection with chimpanzees. His father, Carl Hittleman, in the 1950's, directed 10 episodes of the "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" TV show, which featured a chimp. "He filmed in Mexico with an actress named Irish McCalla, who, herself, later became an artist, recalled Hittleman. "Chimpanzees are super strong and Irish was terrified of working with them."
As for the ad, when Hittleman first saw the design, he noticed that the designer had set "Happy Chanukah" in "a non-festive typeface. "I thought that should probably be in a lighter italic, but then I looked at the image and saw it created this surreal ad, I thought 'Why not'."
Academy of Tal R
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Opening May 20th, 2017
Gl Strandvej 13, 3050 Humlebæk, Denmark
Over the past decade Louisiana Museum of Modern Art has established a distinctive collection of works – especially paintings – by the Danish artist Tal R (b. 1967). The museum therefore thinks it is natural with him to round off the Louisiana trilogy of exhibitions of contemporary artists with painting as their focus: Peter Doig in 2015, Daniel Richter in 2016 and now Tal R in 2017. At the same time it is twenty years since Tal R made his debut in the museum world with his participation in The Louisiana Exhibition 1997. New art from Denmark and Scania.
is a wide-ranging exhibition which for the first time offers an overview of the past 20 years' active career. Since the 1990s Tal R, as one of the most striking artists of his generation, has exhibited around the world, especially in Europe, and his art is included in many central collections. He is an artist who with apparent ease and considerable visual impact expresses himself freely across painting, drawing, collage, artist books and sculpture.
The works in the exhibition offers Louisiana's guide to making sense of the essentials in Tal R's production: 55 paintings from the period from 1996 until now; collage pictures from 1997 to 2008; around 30 artist's books from 1996 until now; 32 sculptures from 2005 on; 25 drawings from 1997 until 2015; and a number of new works that have not been exhibited earlier.
Tal R's art may be tied to the material and content, but as a storyteller too he has had a keen eye from the outset for the neglected, hidden and marginalized spaces and for human beings in modern life. All that runs contrary to uniformity holds his interest as resources for his thinking and imagination. According to Tal R there is no straightforward path through life in terms of artistic awareness and personal expression. "The Academy of Life" leaves its traces, and we find them at the exhibition in the drawings from the 1990s from "The Back Garden" and onward to the empty shop fronts in the brand new works.
With his role as a rather lone wolf in terms of academic learning and at the same time his opposition to the decidedly political course in the 1990s, Tal R felt compelled to define painting in his own vital and up-to-the-minute way. One could say that his artworks function as a kind of portals for experience and emotions that can only be given meaning and fullness by the individual.
Further information about the exhibition Academy of Tal R is available from Curator Anders Kold or Head of Press Susanne Hartz. Press photos are available at www.louisiana.dk. A log-in can be ordered at e-mail email@example.com or M +45 2858 5052.
40th Anniversary Celebration
You're invited to the 40th anniversary celebration of the Michael Hittleman Gallery and a benefit exhibition for artists of The Ethiopian Jewish Arts Workshop in Be'er Sheva
Sunday, October 16, Noon-4 p.m.
Hors d'oeuvres, refreshments and complimentary valet parking
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Exhibition To Benefit Artists of The Ethiopian Jewish Arts Workshop
October 16-29, in conjunction with a party for our gallery's 40th anniversary.
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With Larry Abramson
at the Jerusalem Print Workshop, looking at Larry's exhibition of 30 years of his botanical prints, on our recent trip to Israel. July 2016.
Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue
Art Show and Sale
April 22-June 27, 2015
M-Th 9 -9, Fri 9-7, Sat 9-3, Sun 9-Noon
Featuring 43 works of Israeli art that are a history of Israeli art, plus a selection of contemporary Israeli art. The gallery and VBS are working together on it and the works are for sale. There will be an opening Wednesday night and further events will be scheduled.
First Floor exhibit - Contemporary Israeli Art
Second Floor exhibit - History of Israeli Art
Michael Hittleman Gallery Cited in Hadassah Magazine Article
"Not that long ago, exhibitions of Israeli art in the United States were mostly the purview of Jewish museums, synagogues, Jewish organizations—and Michael Hittleman's eponymous and pioneering Los Angeles gallery, which opened in 1976."
Full article.
With Joshua Neustein at His Studio
Mar. 17 - We met with Joshua Neustein at his SoHo studio this past week. We looked over his famous Carbon Series works. These are works on old-fashioned carbon paper which has been folded, cut, abraded and layered.
Gallery Now Has All Four Aroch Prints
The Hittleman Gallery has acquired the Higgs Boson of Israeli art. We now have all four of Arie Aroch's super rare prints
for the first time in the history of the galaxy, er, gallery.
The fourth and final work is titled Two Trees in Memory of Hametzayer. The print is in memory of Mordechai Tzvi Mane, who was one of the fascinating figures in the "Love of Zion" movement (Chibat Zion). The tradition of planting trees in memory of Diaspora Jewry reflects Aroch's role as an emissary for the J.N.F. since his time in Buenos Aires in the late 1940s.
Aharon Bezalel, 1926-2012
Aug. 22 - Aharon Bezalel passed away this morning in Ein Kerem, Israel. We have represented his works and his brother, Avigdor's works, for decades.
Aharon is one of the best-known and most beloved Israeli sculptors with collectors all over the world.
We were fortunate to be able to see him last month on our trip to Israel. He was in poor health but we were hoping he would recover.
We spent a wonderful afternoon in his studio looking at works from all phases of his long career. We also purchased a
magnificent horse sculpture for the gallery. It is still in transit to the U.S.
Gallery Acquires Rare Aroch Lithograph
July 16 - The gallery has aquired the rare Aroch lithograph "Ratchik." It was a grocer's sign in his native Kharkov. It is his rarest graphic work - an edition of only 25. He may have signed only 16 of them. The gallery now has three of his four major prints.
Hittleman Gallery Acquires Aroch Lithographs
June 10 - The gallery has just acquired Arie Aroch's The Boat lithograph. This is the most famous of Aroch's images and the most famous image in Israeli art. With its iconic rowboat/infinity sign it speaks to rescue ships and the hope of a new land. Aroch created only a handful of prints in his life and they are the rarest works in Israeli art.
The gallery will now have two of them.


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This compares with between 50 and 100 per cent of teenagers in most other countries, including the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Japan and Korea.
Academics warned that the UK was being left with a less "mathematically-enabled nation" – potentially holding the country back in the global economy.
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Anthony Tomei, director of the Nuffield Foundation, which published the research, said: "This new evidence shows just how much England, Wales and Northern Ireland are out on a limb.
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