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World’s top 50 riding experiences
From the Alaskan tundra to the precipitous tip of Africa, we scoured the globe for the top fifty riding experiences for keen riders of all persuasions.
Here at Ride On, we know that there is no better way to travel than by bike. There are hundreds of roads to ride, trails to discover and cities to explore from the saddle of our trusty two-wheeled companion. In coming up with a list of the top 50 rides we were naturally biased toward Aussie rides, but after surveying our riding buddies, online fans and intrepid travel writers, we gathered hundreds of rides from around the world. After much debate, we managed to whittle our list down to fifty, presented in alphabetical country order starting with Australia. Some of these rides we wouldn’t do ourselves, or recommend you to do – the Death Road in Bolivia, for example! – but they still deserve to be included.
LEGEND.
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Outback Odyssey, South Australia
Discover the majesty of the Flinders Ranges by the seat of a mountain bike. Travelling along the Mawson Trail for 900+km from Adelaide to Blinman, the 14 day tour is fully supported and limited to only 200 riders.
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Riesling Trail, South Australia
Travelling 34km from Auburn to Clare through the picturesque Clare Valley wine region, this rail trail passes by numerous cellar doors and visitor attractions. Perfect for a leisurely day out.
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Five Dams Challenge, West Australia
Starting in Perth, the Challenge heads 234km up and around the five major dams of the Perth hills with over 2,000m of vertical climbing. A 146km Three Dams Challenge is also on offer.
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Cape Breton Island, Canada
Recently named one of the world’s best cycling destinations by Lonely Planet, Cape Breton Island has non-stop seaside panoramas and wide, open roads.
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Whistler Mountain Bike Park, Canada
Total MTB heaven, with over 50 trails for all skill levels, from gentle beginner’s tracks to gnarly drop-offs and rock faces, set amongst breathtaking scenery.
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The Pyrenees, France
Base yourself in the mountain town of Pau and ride (in)famous Tour de France monster passes. Hotels in the region offer accommodation and road bike hire packages.
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Paris Respire, France
Translated as Paris Breathes, on Sundays and public holidays some of the city’s most scenic riverside roads are closed to motor traffic, allowing bike riders and walkers access to the tarmac.
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Paris Roubaix Cyclosportif, France
Tackle the cobblestones in the mass-participation cyclosportif version of the iconic professional race. Held every two years, the ride follows the same route that the pros take, battling bone-shaking terrain.
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Capetown, South Africa
Table Mountain National Park and its peninsula jutting off the southern tip of the African continent offers the most spectacular coastal road on the planet. Home of the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, the world’s largest timed bike race.
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Tour de Timor, East Timor
A mountain-biking race taking in some of the world’s worst roads, stifling heat and difficult mountain passes, alongside generous and welcoming locals, spectacular scenery and an incredible cultural experience.
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Going to the Sun Road, Montana, USA
This 80km engineering marvel winds through the interior of the Glacier National Park in north-west Montana. It curves around mountainsides and past waterfalls, wildflower fields, and glaciers up to Logan’s Pass.
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Are there any other rides that you think should be included? What would be on your list of must-do rides?
Hi guys
Actually the “Death Road” in Bolivia is not a very risky ride. Dozens of people ride it every day and many aren’t good riders. The average Australian city street is probably more dangerous for someone on a bike.
Death Road earned it’s reputation when it used to be cluttered with trucks but they all take another road nowdays.
Best wishes
Jim
Some interesting suggestions here in the mix. I like that you have included some interesting touring experiences as well as shorter challenging day rides. Looks good. Well done.
Where’s Mt Buller Vic, Australia??? It’s heading to be listed as Australia’s first IMBA Epic Ride and it’s not even mentioned. Get to Buller people… especially if you hate pavement and love dirt.
What, no “End to End” in Britain? Land’s End to John O’Groats is an enormously popular ride, taking 1-3 weeks, although some do it in 2 days. I did it in 2 weeks.
No Otway Odyssey?
Yep agree with David. Buller has to be added to this list
List Buller when Moab/Rotorua/Wales (the whole place)/European Alps aren’t mentioned as MTB destinations and there’s only one ride in each of South America and Africa… that one will keep me laughing for weeks
How wonderful it is is see you have included our town, Bright Victoria, in your top 50 rides. The Rail Trail and local mountain bike tracks are particularly popular. Hope to see you back at some stage and thanks for the mention. Jaie BVA
Thanks for the feedback! It was a challenge to whittle the list down from the hundreds that we came up with, but there are definitely plenty of other rides and destinations out there for all kinds of riders.
Riding the ‘road of death’ in 07 was part of a motor bike ride from the bottom of the world to the top of the world. We road in and out on the same day and it was good to get back to La Paz in one piece. Something I can never forget was the sheer fear on the faces of the bike riders on being confronted by a motor bike going in the opposite direction. This ride is the real deal!
This is going straight into the … bucket list!
Where are all the rides in Germany?! Surely great infrastructure, beautiful scenery, friendly people, historic cities and plentiful opportunities to stop for beer rates as a great ride!
Was this made deliberately subjective so as to be contentious? Surely there should be a scoring system so as to rate
road surface
availability of cafe’s & bars en route |( hillyness etc…? Mention should be made of the McLaren Vale railtrail in SA which is a contour friendly winery crawl from Seacliff to the coast of Noarlunga to Willunga, 37km.
Whether or not readers feel it is a credible list of the top 50 rides I pleased to be informed about other rides around the world. More information about each would have be useful and given the piece more substance and purpose. I only ride on road, not off trail so I need to know what I’m dealing with. have done Lilydale-Warbuton and Rottnest island, loved both.
you missed out on the mother of all rides tour d Afrique Cairo to Capetown 12,000 km 4 months riding. what a challenge
rodney sanders Israel
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The Ring of Kerry, in Ireland, is a spectacular and challenging ride. This should be on the list. There are some great cycles all along the west coast of Ireland.
With regards to Map Reference 2 (Cairns, Daintree, Cooktown etc) ->
I’m taking part in my first one this year but places are limited!
PS. I’ve driven the Ring of Kerry and it is indeed one of the most ruggedly beautiful places I’ve ever seen.
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Built in the 10th-11th centuries, Shoana Church is located on a rock spur of Chuana mountain, which rises above the Kuban river, seven kilometers north of Karachayevsk near Kosta Khetagurova village. This landmark of the early Middle Ages Christian architecture is part of the Karachay-Cherkess Open-Air Museum.
The Church is clearly visible from the Cherkessk-Dombay highway. The church's history is connected with the adoption of Christianity in Alania and the rise of Alans into the international political arena in the 10th-11th centuries, when relations were established with Byzantium, Georgia, and other countries. It is believed that the Christian churches in Alania, especially the complicated and monumental ones (which demanded deep architectural knowledge), were constructed under the guidance of invited architects. Perhaps, later on, traditions were adopted by local masters as well.
Shoana Church is a comparatively small building (about 13 meters high) crafted in architectural traditions that were greatly influenced by the Byzantine architectural school.
The square of rock solid ground was initially too uneven and small for the planned building. The first step was erecting a massive stone retaining wall on the western side to serve as an artificial platform for the building.
Chuana Mountain also boasts a natural landmark — a yew grove watered by a local spring (the needle leaf yew tree is listed in the Red Book and protected by the state).
This region gave birth to several placenames: Chuana-Kaya (Chuana Rock), and Chuana-Suu (Chuana river), a tributary of the Kuban river. The name derives from the Karachaevo-Balkarsky word «chuana» meaning a sanctuary, high-set place. The region is also associated with the tale of Gilyastyrkha, a character of the Karachaevo-Balkarsky epochs who had his own fortress here, Chuana Kala (The Kala Fortress).
Ministry of Tourism, Resorts, and Youth Policy of the Karachaevo-Cherkess Republic.
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Faculty Profile
Phillip J Ansell
Primary Research Area
- Applied Aerodynamics
Profile Sections-present
For more information
Resident Instruction
- AE 515 (Wing Theory)
- AE 419 (Aircraft Flight Mechanics)
- AE 416 (Applied Aerodynamics)
- AE 311 (Incompressible Flow)
Research Interests
- Applied aerodynamics, unsteady flows, wake and shear flows, experimental aerodynamics, flow control, aircraft design, aircraft performance
Research Areas
- Aerospace Structures
- Aerospace Systems Design and Simulation
- Applied Aerodynamics
- Experimental Fluid Mechanics
- Flow Control
- Laser and Optical Diagnostics
Selected Articles in Journals
- Gupta, R. and Ansell, P.J., "Closed-Loop Trailing-Edge Separation Control System using Empirical Mode Decomposition," AIAA Journal, accepted for publication.
- Perry, A.T. and Ansell, P.J., Crossflow Fan Power Requirements for Boundary-Layer Suction in Transonic Flow, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2017, pp. 1217-1220. doi: 10.2514/1.C034193
- Wroblewski, G.E. and Ansell, P.J., Prediction and Experimental Evaluation of Planar Wing Spanloads for Minimum Drag, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 54, No. 5, 2017, pp. 1664-1674. doi: 10.2514/1.C034156
- Ansell, P.J. and Balajewicz, M.J., Separation of Unsteady Scales in a Mixing Layer using Empirical Mode Decomposition, AIAA Journal, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2017, pp. 419-434. doi: 10.2514/1.J055120
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- Ansell, P.J., Kerho, M.F., and Bragg, M.B., "Application of a Hinge-Moment-Based Envelope Protection System on a Wing," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 51, No. 6, 2014, pp. 2038-2042. doi: 10.2514/1.C032703
-., Bragg, M.B., and Kerho, M.F., "Stall Warning Using Flap Hinge Moment Measurements," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 48, No. 5, 2011, pp. 1822-1844. doi: 10.2514/1.C031435.
Patents
- Kerho, M.F., Bragg, M.B., Ansell, P.J., Detector Function and System for Predicting Airfoil Stall from Hinge Moment Measurements, Unites States Patent, US 2013/0345910 A1.
Professional Societies
- Sigma Gamma Tau, Member
- APS, Member
- AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee, Chair of Honors and Awards Subcommittee (2017-present)
- AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee, Associate Member
- AIAA, Senior Member
Teaching Honors
- List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by their Students (Fall 2012, Fall 2015, Spring 2016 )
- Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award (2015)
Research Honors
- William T. Piper General Aviation Systems Award (2013 )
- AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2015)
Other Honors
- Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (2011-2012)
- Forbes 30 Under 30 (Science) (2016)
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By Dorien Boxhoorn, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – While Petrobras is launching its largest investment program in the oil exploration and production industry yet, the fuel prices continue to rise steeply in Brazil. These high fuel prices have been adding to Brazil’s already increasing inflation, and in an attempt to keep the inflation under control the government has reduced the CIDE tax on gasoline sales.
Secretary for Economic Monitoring of Ministry of Finance Antonio Henrique Silveira, speaking about inflation in 2009, photo by Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/ABr.
Inflation has been a problem for the Brazilian economy this year. Antonio Henrique Silveira, Secretary of Economic Affairs at the Finance Ministry, explains the current reduction of the CIDE tax: “Our intention is to neutralize the small increase in the price [of oil] that would happen from October forward.”
Last May, the government lowered the price of gasoline at the pumps throughout its downstream division of Petrobras, BR. This division holds over 7,000 pumps over Brazil, and by decreasing the prices at these gas stations, other gas stations were forced to lower their prices as well.
Although Brazil seems to have plenty of its own fossil fuels, it has had to increase the import of gasoline to meet domestic demands. Petrobras is producing crude oil from its wells, but Brazil does not have enough refining capacity to fulfill its domestic demand for refined products such as gasoline.
As a result, Petrobras imports refined oil, whereas crude oil is exported. Over the second quarter of this year, Petrobras imported more than two million barrels of gasoline. The difference between the export and the import of oil resulted in missed revenues of R$2 billion ($1.1 billion).
The government is concerned that the rising price of fuel will drive up the inflation rate even more. The annual inflation in mid-September was 7.33 percent, the highest rise in six years.
At the same time, the exchange rate of the dollar when compared to the real increased about fifteen percent over September. Because oil is traded in U.S. dollars, this immediately affects the price of refined oil in Brazil.
The increasing demand of gasoline cannot be explained only by the emerging Brazilian economy. The disappointing harvest of sugarcane, which was largely damaged by cold weather, has risen the price of ethanol as well.
Ethanol is extensively used by Brazilians as a biofuel for cars. The shortage of ethanol caused the government to reduce the percentage of ethanol in the mix with gasoline at the pump from 25 percent to twenty percent ethanol.
Petrobras is a state owned company, with the government owning 54 percent of the shares. Formally the oil giant is free to set its own fuel prices, but it is the Brazilian government that has de facto control over the prices of gasoline through different taxes (such as the CIDE tax).
Petrobras’ CEO Jose Sergio Gabrielli is not concerned about the announced measures, as he explained in a press release last week: “We collect the CIDE, and we are going to collect whatever is defined by the Finance Ministry. The tax cut will not have any impact on the company’s cash flows because the company routes the collected tax proceeds directly to the government.”
Taxi driver Guillerme Perreira is content with the announced reduction of the CIDE tax. “The prices for gasoline and natural gas are very high, [and] this is difficult for me as I have to work longer to maintain the same level of income.”
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP)—James Legan scored 20 points and hit a 3-pointer with 5 seconds left in overtime to lift East Carolina past Rice 91-88 on Saturday night.
Darius Morrow added 19 points and Sam Hinnant chipped in with 17 for the Pirates (13-11, 5-6 Conference USA). Brock Young, who leads conference with 7.61 assists per game, had 17 points and 14 assists for East Carolina.
The Pirates, who lead the conference in 3-pointers made (8.78), were 11 of 22 from beyond the arc (50 percent). Rice (8-15, 3-7), which is the league’s top 3-point shooting team (38.7 percent), hit 46.2 percent of its shots from the 3-point line (12 of 26).
The Pirates hit 53.7 percent of their shots from the field (29 of 54) and 80 percent of their free throws (22 of 25).
The Owls, who hit 66.7 percent of their free throws (10 of 15), were led by 24 points from Rodney Foster and 21 from Trey Stanton.
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For the full year, the company raised its forecast to $2.20 to $2.24 a share, excluding items, on revenue of about $1.1 billion.
Shares of the company were up about 5 cents at $31.75 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Savio D‘Souza in Bangalore; Editing by Aradhana Aravindan)
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The Harbin Clinic physician said sometimes it takes a trip into a third-world situation to make someone — particularly impressionable 8-year-old triplets — appreciate things they normally take for granted.
Scott, his wife, Jennifer, and triplets Kate, Ryland and Parker went to Siguatepeque, Honduras, on a medical mission the first two weeks of January.
When Scott initially hooked up with World Medical Mission, a subsidiary of Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse, the agency suggested a trip to Africa.
“We said ‘we’ve got 8-year-olds, let’s look at Central America,’” said Scott.
The Hospital Evangelico in Siguatepeque was founded as a mission facility by Dr. Marion B. McKinney of Tennessee in 1949. It includes a 50-bed hospital, an outpatient facility and a two-room operating suite.
“It was very different than the operating suites here,” Scott said. “The orthopedic supply room looks almost like a hardware store.”
Having little idea about the type of conditions he might encounter, Scott carried seven bags worth of equipment — some obtained through a grant from Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, and other items provided by Floyd Medical Center and Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome.
He started off with a patient who had been diagnosed with gastric cancer but could not see a surgeon in the capital city of Tegucigalpa until sometime in April.
“We actually did the first laparoscopic gastrectomy in the history of Honduras, as far as we know,” Scott said.
Since narcotics are more common on the streets than they are in the hospital, Scott said, the patient essentially had his stomach removed and was left with nothing much more than Motrin to help alleviate his pain. He said being able to use the laparoscope reduced the pain considerably.
The next major case involved a nurse who had worked at the hospital for more than 20 years. She had a tumor that required a liver resection, something Scott hadn’t done since his residency at Emory.
With the nurse facing little more than a month to live, and no one in Honduras willing to perform the surgery, Scott somewhat reluctantly agreed. The surgery was a success and the nurse was able to sit up the next day, even though she had a massive incision and no narcotics for the pain.
A third case involved a 3-year-old child with a 10-pound tumor in his belly.
“He went home on his fourth birthday, which was my last day at the hospital,” Scott said.
While Scott was doing his thing in the operating rooms, his wife and the triplets went to several orphanages to play and work with the children there.
Scott said part of his vision is to expose his children to a bigger world than Rome, Georgia. The year before, the family went to Coban, Guatemala where Kate, Ryland and Parker helped install water filters at several different locations. The Harbin surgeon said he tries to take a godly perspective on the world.
“We’re not here just to pamper (the triplets), but to go out and serve others,” he said. “I think it’s nice to get out of your comfort zone and go operate somewhere where they don’t have trochars and they don’t have laparoscopy and they don’t speak your language.”
Scott said the family would continue to work with World Medical Missions “and maybe someday we’ll wind up in Africa as the kids get older.”
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U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe, Officials Say
Acting on fears that terrorists can build bombs into laptops, Homeland Security has decided to expand the ban it imposed on Middle Eastern flights. Computers will now be checked as baggage.
Initially a ban on laptops and tablets was applied only to U.S.-bound flights from 10 airports in North Africa and the Middle East. The ban was based on U.S.. Laptops and tablets denied access to the cabin and added to checked baggage means that devices with a history of lithium-ion battery fires could set off a deadly conflagration in a cargo hold — where no one can put out the fires.
The FAA recorded 33 incidents in 2016 of personal electronic devices carried into cabins by passengers causing fire emergencies during flights, according to an FAA document reviewed by The Daily Beast. Of these, three were in laptops and two in tablets.
Two of the most serious were on Delta flights and both involved laptops.
On January 15, 2016 on a flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta fire broke out in a bag in an overhead bin shortly before landing. The smoke in the cabin became so overwhelming that when the flight reached the gate, passengers opened emergency exits over the wings and staff on the ramp helped them escape directly from the wings.
Flight attendants used halon fire suppressant extinguishers and water extinguishers to put out the fire, which had originated in two laptops.
On December 3, 2016 fire broke out in an overhead bin on a flight from Honolulu to Atlanta. Cabin crew needed three halon extinguishers and two water extinguishers to put out a fire originating in a laptop. For the rest of the flight the laptop was placed in a cooler with ice and monitored.
The FAA stressed that the 33 incidents are only ones that they are aware of. “This should not be considered as a complete listing of all such incidents…nor do they include all investigative and enforcement actions taken,” the documented stated.
Tests carried in 2015 by the FAA’s Fire Safety Branch have shown that halon gas is ineffective against fires originating in the kind of lithium-ion batteries used in laptops and tablets.
Even more to the point, these tests have revealed that the quantity of halon gas used in the automatic fire suppression systems of airplane cargo holds had no effect on a fire that begins as what is called a thermal runaway in a lithium-ion battery. Panels in the cargo hold designed to contain a fire were actually blown out in the tests, creating an explosion that would destroy an airplane.
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Commenting on these tests, the Federation of Airline Pilots’ Associations, IFALPA, representing airline pilots worldwide, said, “In fact, the fire proceeded is if the halon were not present.”
Some Middle East airlines complained to the International Civil Aviation Organization that they had been unduly penalized by the original 10-country ban. In response, the ICAO said that it accepted that improvised explosive devices in electronic devices have been “the greatest security risk to commercial aircraft for some years.”
At the same time, they said, they have asked experts to examine the safety risk of a sudden influx of electronic devices in cargo holds. And Patrick Ky, a European safety regulator, told Reuters that his agency wants airlines to avoid placing all the electronic devices in checked baggage being in the same container in the cargo hold.
At London’s Heathrow Airport, where 17 percent of all flights to the U.S. originate, is adding an extra layer of security screening for those flights at the gates.
As The Daily Beast reported in March, the original ban placed on the 10 airports in North Africa and the Middle East followed intelligence gathered during a raid on Al Qaeda in Yemen in January. Bomb makers had managed to insert into batteries an explosive device powerful enough to bring down an airplane.
First indications of this came in 2016 when a hole was blown in the fuselage of an Airbus A320 as it was on its ascent from Mogadishu, Somalia. The airplane was able to make an emergency landing. The insurgent group Al-Shababb claimed that it had equipped a passenger with a laptop rigged as a bomb.
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why is it showing that i only have 2 transfers available for stage 7? I didn't use any for stage 6.
Try again, mine's showing 4 and I did the same, no transfers ahead of today's stage, four saved for tomorrow.
Also, are you sure you got your transfers for stage 5 in before the deadline? If not they'll have been actioned for stage 6 although in theory your stage 5 transfers should have then carried over....
Either way have another look
thank you
I keep seeing references to people doing 4 transfers in a day.
If you have 2 and only 1 carries over I cant see how you can ever do 4 transfers in a day?
2 can carry over, i made no transfers for today so now have 4 for tomorrow
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Perth Chocolate & Gin Street Fest18 Nov 09:00 - 19 Nov 17:002017-11-18T09:00:00+0000
The Perth Chocolate & Gin Street Fest is a unique celebration of all things chocolate and gin. Indulge your passion for the cocoa bean with mouth-watering chocolate bars; buttons; sauces; spreads; cakes...High Street, Perth, PH1 5, United KingdomREAD MORE
Reindeer Rush09 Dec 10:00 - 14:002017-12-09T10:00:00+0000
What IS Reindeer Rush? It’s a festive dash with inflatable obstacles along the way and each runner will get ‘Reindeered’ up with their very own a pair of antlers and a red nose. Who can take part? There...St Wilfrid's Hospice, 1 Broadwater WayREAD MORE
Embrace Christmas Fair25 Nov 13:30 - 16:302017-11-25T13:30:00+0000
Embrace are excited to announce our annual Christmas Fair will be held on the 25th November from 1.30 to 4.30pm Come along and join us for a festive afternoon of fun for the whole family. The children...Community Church Eastbourne, St Anthony's Centre . 557a SeasideREAD MORE
Cabaret Cerises Christmas Show01 Dec 20:00 - 22:302017-12-01T20:00:00+0000
A Christmas themed evening of burlesque, cabaret & comedy. Brought to you by local amateur & professional performers! At the Havana Lounge Bar on Friday 1st December. Don't miss a fantastic evening of...Cherry Dance, Cherry Dance Studio, 7-9 Wish RoadREAD MORE
East Of Berlin by Hannah Moscovitch22 Nov 19:30 - 25 Nov 21:302017-11-22T19:30:00+0000
Standing outside his father’s study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes. It has been a few years since he left his family and their history behind him. As a teenager Rudi grew up blissfully unaware...Lamb TheatreREAD MORE
Dick Whittington and his Cat08 Dec 17:00 - 14 Jan 20:002017-12-08T17:00:00+0000
Join Dick Whittington and his Cat on this rip-roaring adventure from the streets of London across the high seas on a memorable journey to Morocco. Are the streets paved with Gold? Will Dick find love...Eastbourne Theatres, Compton StreetREAD MORE
Hydroschool Christmas Party10 Dec 12:01 - 14:012017-12-10T12:01:00+0000
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Bede’s Prep Christmas Fair09 Dec 10:30 - 13:302017-12-09T10:30:00+0000
You are warmly invited to join us for this year’s Christmas Fair. Doors open at 10.30am ⭐️ A huge selection of Christmas stalls for all the family ⭐️ Santa’s Grotto ⭐️ A wonderful Christmas hamper...Bede's Prep, Dukes DriveREAD MORE
Stargazing with Eastbourne Astronomical Society28 Oct 18:00 - 24 Mar 21:002017-10-28T17:00:00+0000
Look at the Moon and Planets through an Astronomical Telescope on the Gun Platform Pop into Casemate 20 to find out what you can see in the night sky. The Eastbourne Astronomical Society will provide...Redoubt Fortress, Royal ParadeREAD MORE
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Live Music @ Jesters Bar Eastbourne. Warm up act Modway kicks off at 7.30 followed by The fantastic band from Birmingham 'The Jam drc' Free entry. Proudly supported by Arcade Menswear Grove road Eastbourne...Jesters Bar & Party Venue, 121 Seaside roadREAD MORE
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The Sussex Craft & Design Christmas Fair02 Dec 10:00 - 03 Dec 16:002017-12-02T10:00:00+0000
Browse for handmade stocking fillers and beautiful gifts at our Christmas craft and design fair. Ceramics, textiles, pottery, glasswork, contemporary jewellery, artwork, interior & home accessories and...Enterprise Shopping Centre, Station ParadeREAD MORE
Little Christmas LIVE Hot Border Special Delta Bell Emily Capell01 Dec 16:00 - 23:592017-12-01T16:00:00+0000
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Mission Worship 201724 Nov 16:00 - 26 Nov 14:002017-11-24T16:00:00+0000Devonshire Park Theatre, 8 Compton StREAD MORE
Late Night Christmas Event07 Dec 18:00 - 20:002017-12-07T18:00:00+0000
It's time to get festive with us at NU Beauty Lounge as we launch our first ever Late Night Christmas Event! As a thankyou to all of our loyal clients we welcome you to drop in with a friend or two and...NU Beauty Lounge, 12-14 Willingdon RoadREAD MORE
To Where You Are19 Nov 19:00 - 23:002017-11-19T19:00:00+0000
BTQ Productions, proudly announce an evening of musical entertainment, Hosted by Alice Read and Jon Clark, raising funds for the World Aids Day Tree and Rose Garden re-dedication. The tree and garden...The Hart Eastbourne, 89 Cavendish PlaceREAD MORE
Christmas Mingle09 Dec 14:00 - 16:002017-12-09T14:00:00+0000
A fantastic Christmas all age event, free entry. Saturday 9th December 2-4pm at St Anthonys Centre Eastbourne (opposite Lidl). Craft stalls selling fab items, free Father Christmas Grotto, entertainment...Community Church Eastbourne, St Anthony's Centre . 557a SeasideREAD MORE
A Christmas Extravaganza!08 Dec 19:00 - 23:592017-12-08T19:00:00+0000
A true cornucopua of local talent in a truly festive spirit for a wonderful cause - Care for the Carers! Acoustic Music from: Grace and Danger Milton Hide Dandelion Charm Ambz Matthew Hart Jack Buster...Printers Playhouse, 49a Grove RoadREAD MORE
The Matthew 25 Mission Christmas Bazaar09 Dec 10:00 - 12:002017-12-09T10:00:00+0000
Join us for our annual Christmas Bazaar! Meet the team and browse the various stalls including a selection of goods from our very own shop, scenic Eastbourne photographs from one of our volunteers, and...The Matthew 25 Mission, Brodie hall, Christ Church, SeasideREAD MORE
Dick Whittington - Pantomime08 Dec 19:00 - 21:302017-12-08T19:00:00+0000
Tthe rags-to-riches tale of a young man and his loyal cat on their exciting quest to find fame and fortune. Will our hero defeat the evil King Rat and his gang of vile vermin? Will Alice Fitzwarren lose...Devonshire Park Theatre, 8 Compton StREAD MORE
Prosecco & Xmas Pottery Painting Night £529 Nov 19:30 - 22:302017-11-29T19:30:00+0000
Pre-Book onto our Prosecco Xmas Pottery Night. £5 books your place and gets a glass of Prosecco on arrival. Then choose and pay for the pottery that you paint on the evening. This is a great evening to...The Art House, 34 Grove RoadREAD MORE
Cherry Dance Christmas Show03 Dec 19:00 - 21:002017-12-03T19:00:00+0000
Cherry Dance Christmas Show is a fusion of dance styles all with a christmas theme! Performances from our children's classes ages 3-16 years and some of our adults too. Not forgetting the fantasic Weird...Cherry Dance, Cherry Dance Studio, 7-9 Wish RoadREAD MORE
Turbo Lovers - Arrows Of Time - Mickey's Girl17 Nov 20:00 - 00:002017-11-17T20:00:00+0000
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Phyre Dance 1 Year Anniversary Party!18 Nov 20:00 - 00:002017-11-18T20:00:00+0000
Has it really been 1 year already? Where does the time go? Come and celebrate this momentous occasion with the Phyre Dance Team and Family. With special lineups, animations, giveaways, prizes and surprises...Phyre Dance, 10 Whitley RoadREAD MORE
Christmas Shopping Event - Saturday 2nd December02 Dec 09:00 - 20:002017-12-02T09:00:00+0000
Pop along to Taboo on Saturday 2nd December and enjoy browsing for loved ones presents with a complimentary glass of festive fizz and scrumptious canapés. For one day only, there will be a 15% discount...Taboo Silver, Taboo 10A Grove RoadREAD MORE
Friends And Family Of Embrace Christmas party16 Dec 19:002017-12-16T19:00:00+0000
A fun disco with a visit from Santa and friends £3 per person... Adult and children's raffle to..Eastbourne Fishermens Club, Royal ParadeREAD MORE
Afternoon of Yoga Bliss in the Yurt18 Nov 14:00 - 17:002017-11-18T14:00:00+0000
A delightful afternoon of yoga in the wonderful yurt at The Well Being Centre in Stone Cross. Blissful afternoon for everyone. A perfect getaway for a day - create more time for YOURSELF <3 Enjoy some...Yoga with Eva, Enterprise Centre, Station ParadeREAD MORE
Open Chrismas Bazaar02 Dec 10:00 - 16:002017-12-02T10:00:00+0000
Come join us for our open to all, very first ever christmas bazaar. There will be many different stalls selling handmade gifts you can buy for your familiy. This event is completely disable freindy. We...The Chaseley Trust, South CliffREAD MORE
Pyjama Day for Children in Need!17 Nov 09:30 - 18:002017-11-17T09:30:00+0000
Stay in your pyjamas, grab a teddy & help us to raise money for Children in Need! Lots of fun & games to be had ALL DAY!Treasure Island (Eastbourne), Royal ParadeREAD MORE
The Holywell Club 4th Annual Kids Christmas Party10 Dec 14:00 - 16:002017-12-10T14:00:00+0000
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Jingle All the Way22 Nov 14:30 - 17:002017-11-22T14:30:00+0000
Come and join the Trapdoor Team for our Seasonal Christmas Variety Show. Jingle All The Way will have you singing along to hit musical songs as well as all those classic Christmas songs that everyone loves...The Royal Hippodrome Theatre, Eastbourne, 108 - 112 Seaside RoadREAD MORE
Christmas Party at The Hub16 Dec 12:00 - 16:002017-12-16T12:00:00+0000
Come at join us at the Seaside Community Hub for our party! This is a community event that the groups from the hub are hosting and is for everyone! There'll be party games, crafts, refreshments and present...Helen Owen Marketing Enterprises - HOME CIC, 97-99 Seaside RoadREAD MORE
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Tour de France Genesis Sportive Sustrans London London 2012 Mark Cavendish Rapha Milan 09 Charge Upload 11 Cycle Show 2009 Giant Eurobike 2010 2010 road bike Eurobike Italian bikes 2011 wheels Team Sky Lance Armstrong Shimano CORE Bike cycle show Milan Cycle Show 2009 Fixed Cannondale Cycle Show 2010 Bradley Wiggins Trek Milan Bike Show Eurobike 2009 Verenti Cyclocross uci
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Structure and metamorphism in the Mono Craters quadrangle, Sierra Nevada, California / by Ronald W. Kistler.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (v, 53 pages, 2 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1966.
- Distributor: Washington : United States Government Printing Office
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Brad all over: ITV1 to screen last two stages of Tour de France as Wiggo hits the headlines
Wider audience for Saturday's iTT plus Sunday's Champs-Elysees finale with Cav going for 4th straight win
ITV1 will air the final two stages of the Tour de France this weekend as Bradley Wiggins heads towards victory in Paris, a further sign that mainstream media has woken up to the magnitude of the Team Sky rider's achievement in becoming the first British winner of the race in its 109-year history. The broadcaster will also show the final two stages simultaneously on ITV4, the usual home of its cycling coverage.
With Wiggins and team mate Chris Froome set to complete an historic one-two in Paris this weekend - no British rider has previously finished higher than fourth, a feat achieved by Robert Millar in 1984 and Wiggins himself in 2009, when he was with Garmin-Transitions - two national newspapers, The Daily Telegraph and The Times, have the maillot jaune as their main front page picture this morning.
With the Team Sky pair now safely through the mountains and extending their lead over third-placed Vincenzo Nibali of Liquigas-Cannondale yesterday, TV news bulletins are also devoting additional time to the race as it heads towards its climax, while ITV4 last night screened a 45-minute documentary on Wiggins which you can watch on the ITV Player.
ITV1's screening of the final two stages, an individual time trial from Bonneval to Chartres which should see the pair extend their lead at the top of the general classification, and Sunday's traditional procession into Paris culminating in Mark Cavendish aiming to take the sprint on the Champs-Elysees for the fourth year in a row, will bring the race to an even wider audience than are currently following it through ITV4 and Eurosport, as well as the thousands of fans expected to make the trip across the Channel to the French capital.
It's also a reflection of the fact that the story of Wiggins' journey towards the maillot jaune is a feel-good story in this most dismal of summers, although the cyclist may not be aware of that himself, stuck as he is inside the Tour bubble.
At yesterday evening's press conference, he lamented that for all the questions he's fielded throughout the race, and the one he'd just been asked about whether the race would be remembered more for the absence of Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck no-one had said to him, 'Bloody good on you, mate, well done.'
As Carlton Reid points out in the comments below, that's now being put right with a hashtag #bloodygoodonyoumatewelldone now doing the rounds on Twitter.
Coverage of the two stages starts at 2pm on ITV1 and ITV4 on both Saturday and Sunday, with Eurosport's coverage of tomorrow's individual time trial beginning at 12.30pm and Sunday's final stage at 1.30pm.
Wiggo complained yesterday that the press conference questions were largely negative and that nobody wished him "bloody good on you mate, well done."
Let's put that right. There's a hashtag...
#bloodygoodonyoumatewelldone
Could you place in story and tweet it out there, too?
There has also been the #allezwiggo hashtag too!
Good on ITV for lifting the profile and celebrating what will be (fingers crossed) Britain's best ever tour. Coverage has been disappointingly muted on BBC, but I suppose that's because they are covering golf/tennis instead. Given that when Andy Murray lost he was the lead story on the evening news, I'm interested to see how they cover Wiggo's success and a 1-2 in the tour!
Don't know about other channels, but on BBC I imagine he'll be knocked into second place by some bloke in checked trousers who's spent the past four days ambling around the Lancashire coast, stopping periodically to whack a ball with a stick.
Don't get me started Simon! All that 'sport' is missing is a dog and it's (literally) a walk in the park chasing a ball! And who on earth would decorate sports kit in Argyle?! Oh, hang on...
Good to see some recognition of the achievement - I keep telling everyone it's as big as England winning the world cup, but I get a fair few blank looks.
If the bicycle was invented tomorrow, it would be seen as the solution, not the problem
"the magnitude of the Team Sky rider's achievement in becoming the first British winner of the race in its 109-year history"... way to tempt fate, people!
When I get the blank looks about the tour I say 'You know how we feel when other people win at football and rugby and cricket and tennis? The sports we invented and formalised. That's how the French feel about cycling in general and the TdF in particular'. That usually gets them onside.
bloody hypocrites! showing interest now that we have a potential winner, typical ...
He can still crash and break his collar bone
break a leg Wiggo, as they say in the theatre
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The grey king / Susan Cooper.
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- ISBN: 0689829841
- Physical Description: 165 pages ; 20 cm.
- Edition: Rev. cover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999.
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Accidents
Thanks to Fellow Cyclists - NO Thanks to 4WD Driver
Well,.
cycle safety
My wife had an off from her bike this afternoon on the way home. She was shocked, bruised and a bit scraped but otherwise unhurt.
A woman stepped out from in front of the stopped bus my wife was overtaking and the woman looked the wrong way, despite the fact a stream of cyclists had already come past and my wife was at the rear of these other riders.
Crashes cost the economy
The UK Government’s annual report on the number of road deaths and injuries shows that in Britain in 2009 2,222 people were killed while, according to police statistics, 24,690 were seriously injured. However, the real figure is estimated to be closer to 80,000 when data from other sources are taken into account.
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Mother Courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht ; translated and edited by John Willett .
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- ISBN: 1559702346 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxii, 154 pages ; 21cm
- Edition: 1st Arcade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Arcade Pub., 1994.
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Chocolate can sell anything, and the chocolate milk campaign proves it. Most people like chocolate, so naturally most people like chocolate milk. However, it was not until the sugary beverage was deemed a “smart post-workout choice’ that health conscious jumped on the chocolate milk bandwagon. Oh, what millions of dollars in marketing can accomplish!
Though advertising and research insists that chocolate milk is beneficial, there are three main reasons why I disagree:
1) Milk – Maybe Not so Good!
It’s commonly thought that dairy products are good sources of calcium; however, they may not be the best source. Cow’s milk is rich in phosphorous, and when combined with calcium can actually prevent it from being absorbed properly. The protein in milk may also cause calcium to leach out of the bones. When you consider that many dairy cows may have been injected with antibiotics, leading to antibiotic resistance, it may not be the best calcium source for our families. Bovine growth hormones, while illegal in Canada, are still used in some countries to yield more milk per cow. Another factor to consider is that many people are sensitive to cow’s milk, not just to the lactose in the milk but the protein in milk itself, which may lead, for example, to gastro-intestinal problems, allergies and eczema and general low grade body inflammation.
In some aspects, organic milk is a better alternative than regular milk, but there is a concern over the pasteurization process. When milk is pasteurized all the important enzymes are destroyed and, without these enzymes, milk becomes difficult to digest, placing added stress on the pancreas, which may lead to diabetes.
2) Sugar, sugar!
A serving of chocolate milk contains 6-10 teaspoons of sugar per serving. And most bottles of chocolate milk contain 2 servings—YIKES! Simple sugars like the ones found in your chocolate milk, cause acid imbalances in the body, and also contribute to poor nutrient absorption, a weakening of the immune system, and even nutrient losses. While chocolate milk may be better than plain carbohydrate sources for athletes, it is not worth the excessive calories or sugar for those trying to lose weight. Sugar
3)The Source
The most widely cited article I could find about chocolate milk and exercise recovery was Chocolate Milk as a Post-Exercise Recovery Aid. And guess who sponsored said research–the Dairy and Nutrition Council. Hmm, big surprise there! After reading the above-mentioned study it became clear that the so-called benefits of chocolate milk do not apply to average gym-goers. The study consisted of a mere 9 participants all of whom were elite athletes. Obviously this was done on purpose, as use of “average” people would not have rendered the same results.What’s more is that the vast majority of studies pushing the use of chocolate milk as a post workout recovery beverage examined athletes performance after having the recovery beverage shortly after an initial workout. I seriously doubt that the average person is going to the gym, having a recovery beverage, and then doing another workout. Most people, at best, are not working out again until the following day. The clearly biased study concluded that chocolate milk is indeed advantageous post workout (for elite athletes), but no more effective than a sport’s drink such as Gatorade.
The Verdict: Chocolate milk is fine as an occasional treat, like cookies and chocolate bars. However, the people benefiting the most from you consuming chocolate milk post workout are those in the dairy industry, not you.
Opt for a protein shake and a banana after your workout and your body will love you for it.
What kind of healthy snack or beverage do you consume after a workout? Leave a comment below!
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The….
Take a look at the previous post about upgrading your operating system, the rules are the same.
- make sure everything on data partitions is backed up and up to date
- download a new Karmic live CD for install.
- make a list of applications.
- log all disk partitions by name and UUID, where you can see it during the install.
- run the Ubuntu install
- do not tick the box “format partition” unless its a system partition (/, /boot, /usr) to preserve your data.
After install:
- amended my sources list
- added the repo keys
- ran update manager
- worked through my programs list using combination of command-line, Synaptic and the Ubuntu software centre (use whatever gets the job done fastest).
I update my sources list and import keys using a terminal session. Software centre doesn’t give you a lot of info about what its doing, so I don’t use it much. I mostly use synaptic so I don’t have to type or track dependencies. However I do always open the terminal from synaptic so I can see what its up to.
Result: complete clean reinstal inside an hour and a half and what do you know, audacity doesn’t crash any more!
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Ma Beijing Birdie, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. Sadly this is a library copy because budgets are limited and all that, but this is a shot of the gorgeous Chatto & Windus edition of Ma Jian's Beijing Coma [ISBN: 0701178078] I've … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: Ma Beijing Birdie
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Is it possible in vtiger to link a contact to different companies in order to see the companies linked every time you call the contact?
In vtiger independently from the version used, you can not link a contact to more than one company, meaning that the relationship accounts-contacts is one to many (and not many to many).
Certainly, you could change the code to create the report, but it is not recommended because it does not save the specific relationship that links the contact to many companies.So one solution might be writing a module of details (for example Contact Role) to link one to many with both companies and contacts.
The Evolutivo CRM already contains the solution proposed.
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India Palace
301-545-0013
India Palace specializes in Indian cuisine. It has a lunch buffet Monday through Friday, as well as a brunch buffet from 11:30am to 3pm on Saturdays and Sundays. The restaurant offers delivery though the service "Waiter on the Way" and is available for private events.
- Hours: Daily lunch and Sunday brunch: 11:30am - 3pm; Dinner: 5:30pm - 9:30pm
- Handicap Accessible: Entrance on ground level
- Payments accepted: American Express, Cash, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
- Products: Pakoras, Samosas, Kabobs, Soups, Indian Breads, Biryani, Tandori, Chicken, Lamb, Prawns, Lobster, Curry, Vindaloo, Raita, Kheer, Lassi, Soft Drinks, Bottled Water
- Food & dining options: Vegetarian
- General services: Delivery, Eat-in, Phone orders, Take-out
- Specialties: Chicken Korma, Chicken Tikka Masala, Tandoori Prawns, Fish Curry
- ATM: No
- Parking: Free lot
- Private events: Yes
- Cuisine: Indian, International
- Signature dishes: India Feast, Mixed Grill
- What dish is most representative of the restaurant?: Chicken Tikka Masala
- Price level: $$
- Reservations: Accepted
- Number of tables: 13
- Features: Brunch, Buffet, Dinner, Group-friendly, Lunch
- Atmosphere: Quiet
- Dress code: Casual
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North Carolina’s favorite literary son Thomas Wolfe published The Lost Boy in 1937. Even today, stories of the American South are steeped in a sense of “lostness,” often seen through the eyes of children as they experience loss, grief and tragedy. In her book, Thomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature, author Paula Gallant Eckard calls upon Thomas Wolfe’s evocative and autobiographical novella The Lost Boy as a touchstone for her analysis of contemporary Southern novels and will tell “the story behind the story” at Personally Speaking.
A book signing and reception will follow the presentation.
Paula Gallant Eckard is an associate professor of English and the director of the American Studies program at UNC Charlotte.
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Preface: Let me just say RIGHT NOW that I went to Home Depot on Sunday and bought a new smoke alarm. Okay. And now that I think about, I think I'll go back and buy another one.
So! Like a good little doobee, on Saturday I was changing out the batteries on my carbon monoxide detectors and the smoke alarm. I changed the battery in the smoke alarm and pressed the test button, bracing myself for the ear-piercing, instant-headache-producing shriek, and instead what I got was this:
meeeeeeeeeeep ee ee meeeeeeeeeep
Whaaaa? That ain't right! I tried another battery, and still all I got was a pathetic little mewl. I never knew smoke alarms had a "crying kitten" mode.
Seriously, I thought when a smoke alarm was dying, it was supposed to beep, like, every fifteen seconds, to let you know it's on the way out. I had NO IDEA a smoke alarm could just give up the ghost without notifying you.
Whenever I read an article about a house fire where there wasn't any smoke alarm, or the batteries had been taken out of the smoke alarm, or .... waaaaaait a minute. I think I remember reading a couple of times about house fires where the smoke alarm was "non-functioning."
IS THIS WHAT THEY MEANT? When the smoke alarm gives out a little "meep" instead of a brain-damaging scream?
Because I always read those articles and go, "What idiots!" about the homeowners. Who on earth is TOO F*CKING STUPID to have a working smoke alarm?
Evidently, I am.
Monday, November 08, 2010
1 comment:
Yeah, when your father-in-law and brother-in-law are both firemen and your husband grew up in that kind of household...you always have working alarms. Imagine how stupid we'd feel if our house caught on fire. You know, stupid and, well, devastated probably.
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The Loire has always been one of the most bicycle-friendly routes in France with well signposted and maintained roads, lots of cafes, places to stay and establishments that are always welcoming. Now the region is becoming a leader in providing free portable tools for English-speaking bicyclists visiting the region. Last week I wrote about a new app just released by Loire a Velo. Another new app called Cyclopedia has been released for the Anjou area in the western Loire. Cyclopedia has been around for a couple of years but was only available as a rental device. Fortunately its scope has been expanded and it’s now available from iTunes. Later this month, will also be available from the Play Store.
The Anjou is a wonderful, very undiscovered part of the Loire and one of my favorites for exploring by bike. Cyclopedia helps enrich this adventure by highlighting points of interest, background on different areas and stories about the region. Cyclopedia illustrates the itinerary along 70 km of the Loire between Gennes and Montjean-sur-Loire. A detailed map of the region is also provided.
Points of interest are automatically displayed when you pass them. You’ll know this by a little “ding” on the phone.
If you need directions from Point A to Point B along the route, there is help for that too.
Kudos to the Anjou Department of Tourism and its development partner, Camineo for developing such an easy to use app, and for making the investment of offering it in English. Tools for bicycling don’t get any better than this, and offering it for free makes it even that much better.
For me, this app gives me, and hopefully you just one more reason to consider Anjou for your next bicycling trip in France!
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Hello, Happy Holidays! Hope you all have some time to relax after Christmas.
This post will wrap up the year combining November, December, and 2012 Best of Roundup. I have mentioned some of the products in the past and some will be shown for the first time. Let's get started...
Skincare - Sulwhasoo, Sunday Riley, L'Occitane, Fresh
Sulwhasoo Deep Cleansing Oil was new to me this year and I LOVE it! It is one of the best cleansing oils I have ever tried. It not only takes off heavy eye and face makeup, but my skin feels extra supple without being greasy after each use. It has a herbal scent that is not very common, but I do not mind it since I am used to oriental herbal and medicinal scents. I sampled other skincare items in this brand, but this to me is their stand out product. I high recommend it.
Sunday Riley Modern Skincare was a line that I thoroughly enjoyed using over the warmer months. The products contain active ingredients and are very effective. My favorites are Juno, Good Genes, and Start Over.
L'Occitane Angelica Eye Roll-On was one of my favorite eye rollers this year. I mainly like the gel like texture as it refreshes the eye area and wears well under makeup. The Angelica grassy scent is amazing!
I have seen mixed reviews on Fresh Black Tea Instant Perfecting Mask. For me, I see results after continuous use. As I said before, this is one of my all time favorite masks especially before events and on special occasions. Read more about it in my previous post here.
I will be back to talk about makeup next, but let's start with this video on some new Dolce & Gabbana makeup. Don't you love the glowy and luminous look? Great techniques to create that winter glow.
Until next post......
Hope you have been well Rola! ^_^
Sulwhasoo sounds like a good product. I am actually in need of a good cleanser to remove waterproof mascara and reading your comment that it's not greasy, is making me want to try it!
I am well, thanks!
The mask sounds lovely, I love anything with a cooling sensation :) The L'Occitane eye roll on sounds really nifty and refreshing too!
Both are excellent products:)
great skin scare round up Rola :) Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Nic Nic.
Great review! I love the concept of double cleansing and I think it makes a huge difference. Love the Dolce & Gabbana makeup look.. gorgeous and wearble! :)
xx
Heel in Mint
Yes, double cleansing is the preferred method, I agree.
I follow it religiously and I swear by it. I love Boscia cleansing oil and sometimes I use raw coconut oil. Happy New Year, Rola! I wish you all the best for 2013 :)
I've heard great stuff about Sulwhasoo, but I never tried it. I'll get myself one when they have the annual LA Korean Festival this coming September/October... hehe~
Cool, where is the festival?
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A New Throne.
G’day
I’ve had Bluey for just a smidge over 3 years and The Pillion and I have covered quite a bit of country on her together.
For a bike that’s described as a sports tourer, it certainly does the job well, it eats the miles both effortlessly and economically. In fact, from the 19 litre (5 gallon) tank I can get around 340 km (210 miles) around town and about 390 km (240 miles) on a fully load two-up country run.
The Worlds Largest G-String
It’s no point in having a bike that’ll eat the miles, when the seat isn’t up to par though. I mean, who wants to have a seat that eventually feels like the worlds biggest G-string. Right?
One of the most common complaints about the seat on the Bandit is that you tend to slide forward into the tank all the time. Even with the front of the seat set at the high adjustment point and the back at the low, a 20mm (3/4″) difference, you still slide forward.
Even the pillion seat needs some work in that respect. Quite often I have to get The Pillion to push back a bit because she’s inched forward, which in turn pushes me forward up against the tank.
As this is such a common complaint with the Bandit, you’d think Suzuki would have addressed the problem during their refinements over the years. But they haven’t.
There are after market seats available of course, Corbin is one such seat that comes to mind.
These aren’t custom shaped to your butt and are a generic one size fits all design, unless you have access to their factory. In which case they will custom make a seat for you.
As I’m on the wrong side of the pond to take advantage of the Corbin custom-made seat option, I decided a generic Corbin at over $500 Australian wasn’t the way to go.
Instead I opted to use a local trimmer who’s been in the game for over 30 years and who has a great reputation for doing quality work.
The Genuine Suzuki Bandit 1250 Seat
So a couple of weeks ago I took the stock seat down to Capalaba… No, not Capa-la-ba-bah. Everyone says that.
It’s Cap-a- (as in apple) la-bah (as in the noise a sheep makes).
Anyway, after glowing recommendations from a few of our friends, we took Bluey and her stock seat down to Capalaba where John measured us up for the re-fit. While we were getting measured up, John took photo’s of how we sat on the bike and asked some questions to get a feel for what we needed.
- Did we get numbness anywhere, and
- Did we have any back or other injuries that caused discomfort after riding for any length of time, and
- How long before the discomfort set in, and
- Was there anything else that we didn’t like about the seat, and
- Were there any specific requests.
For me, the sliding forward was the biggest issue. I find that I’m forever pushing back on the seat.
The other thing was that numbness set in on my upper inner thighs after about 400 km (250 miles), even if I got off for a stretch the numbness would return fairly quickly once back on the road.
With The Pillion, it wasn’t just the numbness, but a pre-existing back and tailbone injury.
As I’ve written previously, the AirHawk does a great job of keeping these aches at bay, but it’s just another thing we have to take with us when we travel.
There’s also the issue of sliding fore and aft on acceleration and deceleration: Puts a nice shine on the seat, but is a pain in the a…. you get the picture.
After getting measured up and discussing our needs, John explained what he proposed to do.
All the factory injection molded foam was to be stripped off and replaced with a high density memory foam with the exception of a section of low density foam at the rear most part of the seat where The Pillions tail bone would be. The seat was then going to be re-shaped and made a little wider for added comfort.
That’s More Like It.
After all was said and done we were quoted $440.
We made an appointment to bring the seat down the following weekend to get the job done.
When I dropped the seat off on Sunday night, John said it would be ready the following weekend – 5 days. As it turned out he gave me a call on Wednesday and told me to come collect my seat as he kept stubbing his toe on it.
The workmanship is indeed superb, this man knows his stuff.
The seat is now about 50 – 75mm (2″ – 3″) wider than it was and is shaped front and rear so that we are held more securely in place. No more sliding around.
This’ll take some getting used to for me because I’m held back against the step more firmly, as a result my riding posture is a little more aggressive than it was before. My centre of gravity is back as well, which has changed the handling of the bike a little with the weight shift.
It’s not as bad as it sounds and I actually have more confidence now because I’m not thinking about holding myself off the tank all the time.
I can devote that small piece of brain space to where is should be, concentrating on riding.
Behold! The New Throne
John is so confident in his work, that he promised that if he’s done his job correctly, we would have no need for the sheepskin seat cover or the AirHawk we were using.
He added that the seat would take a good 1600km (1000 miles) to break in and if during or after this time we found the seat needed an adjustment, all we had to do was bring the seat back and he would alter it free of charge.
On Sunday we covered about 350 km (210 miles). Already we’ve noticed a difference.
The Pillion rode for the first time in years without the AirHawk and said that although hard at first, the seat is much more conformable than the original.
I concur with that assessment, the seat is much more comfortable than the standard seat, the riding position is better for me too.
Perhaps the only thing for me is that I can’t stand flat-footed with my knees slightly bent at traffic lights like I used to. Now my leg is straighter, almost like I was standing. This is because during the process of getting the seat reshaped, it’s at least 30mm (1-1/4″) higher than it was previously.
I do think the seat will settle over the next few weeks, so it might not be such a problem after the break in period. The option for an adjustment is there if I need it though.
In all, I think it was money well spent, especially considering that we’ll be spending 7 weeks straight on the bike next year covering somewhere in the order of 8,000 – 10,000 km (5,000 – 6,200 miles).
I’d hate to be wearing a G-String for that amount of time.
Cheers.
I went with a Mustang seat set-up on my Suzuki C50. It made a huge difference. Now with the Yamaha Stratoliner, which I bought to do the long hauls, the Mustang seats are greatly missed. Air Hawk has bought my passenger a little time before I have to drop some coin on new seats.
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September 2, 2015 at 4:56 AM
I’ve never had a custom seat before and I agree it has made a huge difference in the comfort stakes. Thanks for commenting MIke
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September 2, 2015 at 8:09 AM
Very nice looking new seat.
Suzuki must corner the market on seats tilting forward on bikes. Hubby doesn’t like to ride my Gladius for that reason and I find riding pants really creep up where they shouldn’t on long rides too.
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September 2, 2015 at 5:24 AM
None of my other bikes have had the problem, only the Bandit.
If it happens on other Suzuki’s it’d be interesting to get a comment back form Suzuki as to why they design their seats like that…
Surely it couldn’t be aesthetics… could it?
September 2, 2015 at 8:12 AM
My ass is sooo jealous…
(Hmmm, I never imagined I’d say something like that.)
It certainly appears that your chap in Capalababa 😁 knows his trade. That’s a mighty fine looking saddle. This seems to relate closely to your blog post about helmet shopping: The more comfortable the rider and the pillion, the safer and more absorbing that priceless motorcycling experience.
My, um, heinie gets a bit numb and sore after a full day on the dual-sport of course, but it’s that blasted XR seat… That’s the one that shoves me up. And it’s so freaking firm. I’m beginning to think that it ain’t a seat at all, but just bike body painted black.
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September 2, 2015 at 2:42 PM
Thats the thing with sports bikes, sports tourers to, to some degree. The seats were not designed to be sat on but are more for decoration I think. Although it seems that even cruisers can do with some seat tweaking.
September 2, 2015 at 9:07 PM
Congrats, I know the right seat makes all the difference! And it’s not just Suzuki!!
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September 7, 2015 at 10:20 AM
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I’ve had a John Moorhouse seat on my current bike for over 200,000km and I don’t know why I put up with standard seats before. If you do a lot of miles these are an essential upgrade.
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October 26, 2016 at 8:16 PM
Couldn’t agree more. Its head and shoulders above any other seat I’ve had
October 26, 2016 at 10:00 PM
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This is good cover for the current news that we have troops on the way to aid the French in Mali, Africa, and Obama has troops on standby to go to neighboring Algeria in aid of the hostages, including Americans, taken by Islamic militants at a BP oil field.
NBC is nothing short of a PR firm for Obama.
Home of Chuck Todd-LOL
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Author, Biography, Cambridge University, Dying, International Association for Near-Death Studies, Mystics and Scientists Speaker, Near Death Experiences, Neuropsychiatry, Neuroscience, Peter Fenwick, President SMN, Speaker a consultant at the Institute of Psychiatry. He was the Consultant Neuropsychologist at both the Maudsley and John Radcliffe hospitals, and also provided services for Broadmoor Hospital. He worked with the Mental Health Group at the University of Southampton, and held a visiting professorship at the Riken Neurosciences Institute in Japan.
Peter is the president of the Horizon Research Foundation, an organisation that supports research into end-of-life experiences. Before this he was the President of the British branch of the International Association for Near-Death Studies.
Peter has been part of the editorial board for a number of journals, including the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, the Journal of Consciousness Studies and the Journal of Epilepsy and Behaviour.
Near-death research.
He has been criticised by the medical community for claiming that human consciousness can survive bodily death, but Peter argues, and the evidence supports,.
Fenwick and his wife, Elizabeth are co-authors of The Art of Dying, a study of the spiritual needs of near-death patients. The Fenwicks argue that modern medical practices have devalued end-of-life experiences, and call for a more holistic approach to death and dying. In 2003, Fenwick and Sam Parnia appeared in the BBC documentary The Day I Died. In the documentary Parnia and Fenwick discussed their belief that research from near-death experiences indicates the mind is independent of the brain.
Bibliography
- The Art of Dying
- The Truth in The Light
- How to Get Out of This World Alive
- The Hidden Door: Understanding and Controlling Your Dreams
- Past Lives: An Investigation into Reincarnation Memories
References
- Annual Gathering – 40 Years of Widening Horizons
- Conciousness and Dying – Dr Peter Fenwick
- Conscious Ageing and the Wisdom of Elders
- Consciousness beyond Life: The Near-Death Experience and the Nature of Reality
- Fenwick, Peter, Dr.
- Galileo Commission – Members and Advisors
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Purging the Evil from Our Midst—A Case for Capital Punishment from a Christian Perspective (III)
Two More Key Texts
A discussion or debate on capital punishment can be a very emotional one since vying ideologies are at play. Especially for Christians it is imprudent simply to declare that you are either in favor of or against the death penalty without taking a good hard look at the biblical evidence. To that end, we have previously listened to the Word of God as it spoke to us about God’s plans and purposes as they come to us in Genesis 9:6. In this installment we want to go farther and examine two more pertinent, germane, and highly relevant texts: the 6th commandment and Romans 13:1-7.
Exodus 20 & Deuteronomy 5—(The 6th Commandment)
The 6th commandment forbidding murder is simple and straightforward and in the Hebrew text quite short.[1] We are told, “You shall not murder.” (Exodus 20:13.) The version in Deuteronomy is identical. In Hebrew and the Greek version of the Old Testament (LXX; Septuagint), there are only two words in this commandment.
In our modern society, many Christians are not in favor of the death penalty. As often as not, their views are based on emotion or a faulty interpretation of Scripture or what is commonly called “the ethics of Jesus.” We must be clear that the ethics to which Jesus adhere and that he taught in no way contradict or in opposition to what is taught in the remainder of Scripture. So, therefore, we should not expect a different “ethics of Isaiah,” “ethics of Moses,” or “ethics of Paul,” to cite just a few examples.
Moreover, based on equally faulty exegesis or logic, some Christians believe that capital punishment ought to be suspended if the convicted criminal repents while on death row (it’s not difficult to understand how that might occur) and becomes a believer. Suffice it to say that I disagree with those opinions for a number of biblical reasons. Time does not permit us to delve into the numerous scriptural references that deal directly or indirectly with this matter, but I do want to touch on the two in question in this issue.
It will be helpful to begin with a basic understanding of the meaning of the Hebrew word used in Exodus and Deuteronomy. The Hebrew verb rashach has no clear cognate in any of the contemporary languages of its day.[2] The meaning in Exodus 20:13 is, “You shall not murder.” What is clear is that the word is does not carry the connotation of killing in general, but has to do specifically with murder. Noteworthy is the use of the word in Numbers 35 where the cities of refuge are described. Scholars agree—which is a small miracle—that the cities of refuge were designated for accidental death, which we call manslaughter today. According to statistics, there are fourteen occurrences of the Hebrew word in Numbers 35.[3]
It becomes clear then that the Hebrew word is not a general prohibition against all forms of killing, but it deals specifically with the notion of murder. In Numbers 35:27, 30, for example, the root word describes killing for revenge and in 2 Kings 6:32 it is used of assassination. For some, this interpretation of the biblical prohibition against murder would rule out the execution of convicted murderers by the State, because their deaths would be—in some sense—premeditated, revenge, or a form of assassination. We shall hold on to that argument as we proceed because it’s important that we understand rightly what the sixth commandment entails.
For the present, however, we must understand that with the coming of Christ (the first coming), God’s people no longer have the same arrangement that they had in the Old Testament. There, religion and state formed a theocracy. In the New Testament Church, however, religion and state are separated. The Church may not and should not put anyone to death. The keys of the Kingdom give the Church the power of excommunication, but not the power to put someone to death. That particular power is now entrusted to the state (cf. Rom. 13:1-7). We shall have the opportunity to investigate what the New Testament says about this later in the article. Let’s continue in our discussion of the 6th commandment.
All of life is ethical and all of life is worship of God. Christians need to remember this also in their discussions regarding capital punishment. To worship God alone is the essence of the law. I know many might not believe that, but it’s true. When Jesus was asked about the greatest commandment, he answered in this manner: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” (Matthew 22:37.) Mark’s gospel adds, “and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30). To live is to worship God by living life on God’s terms only. The law of God is total because God is totally God, absolute and omnipotent. Real health for man is spiritual wholeness in terms of God’s law.
So what does this commandment command and forbid? In general, it is clear that the 6th commandment requires us to reflect upon man’s inherent value that accrues to him by virtue of the fact that he is made in the image of God. Some of the sins this commandment prohibits are unlawful death, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, desire of revenge, reckless self-endangerment, envy, hatred, and anger—just to mention the most obvious.[4]
This commandment does not, however, prohibit the police from shooting and killing criminals, the state from performing lawful executions, or a country taking part in a just war and killing the enemy. In my own Presbyterian tradition, the Westminster Larger Catechism (Q/A 136) explains that the 6th commandments forbids “all taking away the life of ourselves, or of others, except in case of public justice, lawful war, or necessary defense…” All too often, Christians have fallaciously “jumped the gun” and illogically concluded that the prohibition of not murdering given to us in the 6th commandment can be extrapolated to include capital punishment, police protection, and the waging of war. What is prohibited in the commandment, from the physical point of view, is what we call today premeditated murder (Ex. 21:14).
We also confess as Christians that the government bears the sword of punishment and execution precisely to prevent murder.[5] That is to say, that whether the secularists agree or not, it is legitimate for the Church to be in favor of capital punishment based on the Word of God. Moreover, it is a proper position to hold that since the government is given the sword by God for the specific purpose of implementing the death penalty where warranted, there is a deterrent factor to be reckoned with. With this in mind, let’s now transition to a brief explanation of what Scripture teaches in Romans 13.
Another Look at Romans 13:1-7
It is not totally out of place to take just a few moments and examine what the New Testament text, Romans 13:1-7 has to say about capital punishment. This is an essential exercise for us, since there is so much confusion among modern Christians—and non-Christians—regarding what these verses actually mean. Therefore, it will behoove us to spend some time paying close attention to what the Holy Spirit teaches us here.
In the first place, we’re going to treat this section of Holy Scripture as put there by God and as applicable to us today. I say this because in the past some modern German liberal scholarship has denied that these verses have anything to do with Christians.[6] Certainly, we expect that kind of thing from liberal scholars. It is more than just a little disconcerting, however, when Christians today also manifest an air of confusion about what this text means practically.
This brings me to my second point and that is this: as modern Christians we must be prepared to possess sound principles of interpretation and allow each text to speak for itself and, where necessary, to compare the text in question with other pertinent portions of the Word of God. I say this because there is good reason to see these verses connected to the preceding context in Romans 12. William Hendriksen writes this in his commentary on Romans, “Paul has urged the addressees to sacrifice their lives to God. Grateful and complete self-surrender is the only proper answer to the marvelous mercy God has shown. This means, of course, that the new life must reveal itself in every sphere of Christian enterprise and endeavor.”[7] The apostle has written regarding the Christian’s relationship to various individuals and groups in the twelfth chapter.[8] It makes sense, then, that chapter thirteen would deal with yet another of these relationships: that of the Christian and the civil authorities.
Historically, a large number of the congregants in Rome were Jews. Its stands to reason that the Jews would have liked very much to have been out from under the oppressive yoke of the Romans. Apologetically, Paul seems to be writing to the civil government—in an oblique manner—and reminding them that Christians are not opposed to government officials. They are, rather, supportive of government.
Near the end of chapter twelve, Paul had spoken clearly to the Christians about the matter of non-retaliation. In order to establish the clear principle that civil disobedience is—with notable exception—wrong. Rather than avenging ourselves in this life we are to leave vengeance to the Lord and, in civil matters, to the state.
The first verse sets the stage for what Paul is going to say about civil authorities when he tells us, “For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” For some, the troubles begin at the outset. What does Paul mean? What about evil rulers? That’s where we like to start. Hendriksen is correct when he explains, “The civil magistrates to whom Paul refers, from the emperor down to the rulers of the lowest rank, in the final analysis owed their appointments and right to govern to God. It was by his will and in his providence that they had been appointed to maintain order, encourage well-doing, and punish wrong-doing.”[9]
The second verse carries this notion a step farther and reminds the Christians that whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed. A modicum of commonsense will be of great service to us here. For there are inevitably those who get a horrified look on their face and ask, “Do we always have to obey the government?” Well, always is a small word with a large reach. The obvious answer, then, is: No. When the government requires that we violate part of the revealed will of God to obey a law of the state, then we are duty bound to disobey (Dan. 3:18; Acts 5:29). Paul understood his times and knew that certain civil authorities could be tyrannical and dictatorial.
What is key to remember is that, “Paul means…that all human authority is derived from God’s authority…”[10] The text, then, is not referring to individual heads of state (Nero, Domitian, Hitler, Stalin, Hussein) but that the state as such should acknowledge that its authority is derived from God (cf. John 19:11).
Living in California facilitates becoming jaded as far as our civil officials are concerned. Our state representatives in Sacramento are—with notable exception—frustrated hippies, who never really extricated themselves from the sappy Socialism and the anti-Vietnam War mentalities that dominated the 1960s and early 1970s. We have government (welfare) programs out the wazoo. Every year we have a school bond and—surprise, surprise—nothing ever gets improved in terms of education of the children; so next year we perform the same drill again. On and on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Barf.
Our illustrious former Governor, Gray “Brownout” Davis managed to sink the state so far into debt that it will take us years to recover. Our federal Senators Boxer and Feinstein are some of the most liberal politicians in Washington, surpassed only by John Kerry and Ted “Driving School and Get Me a Drink” Kennedy. Even though we have a reputation for being from another planet, many Californians are quite sane—well, a few anyway. When you have to live in a state where a majority your legislators are liberal, it can be tough. Nevertheless, we have a mandate as Christians to embrace the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27), including Paul’s words in Romans 13.
The words in Romans 13:4-6 are to be taken together and describe for us the state’s authority and its ministry. The two must be taken together if the civil magistrate is to fulfill his or her God-given mandate. A lion’s share of the problems citizens have faced down through the ages is when the state neither understands it authority (from God) or its ministry. The civil servant is to be just that: a servant. Politicians of all stripes, dictators, and heads of state have far too often either forgotten or ignored this truth. Perfection in terms of the state is God’s business; responsibility and proper fulfillment of the office of civil magistrate is the task of man.
At the same time, these verses are significant biblical statements for those of us who are looking “to develop a balanced biblical understanding of the state,” for “central to it will be the truths that the state’s authority and ministry are both given to it by God.”[11]
Not every state will operate in the same fashion. Some will be good, others better, and a few might manifest the best possible human government. At the same time, some governments will be bad, others worse, and still others the worst imaginable. Not every government will serve the purposes of the gospel. Some will persecute Christians physically while others will persecute them psychologically. Moreover, we can see that in the face of less than ideal governments, the apostle is willing to put himself aside for the sake of the gospel. After all, hadn’t Paul been mistreated by the civil authorities? (cf. Acts 16:19-24; 2 Cor. 11:25.)
So we ask: What is the ministry that the Lord has entrusted into the hands of government officials? John Stott is correct when he draws a parallel between the themes found in the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of this letter. Those basic themes are good and evil. After laying out the Christian’s attitude towards evil in chapter twelve (12:9, 17, & 21), “Now he depicts the role of the state in relation to good and evil.”[12] The verses 4-6 clearly delineate the “complementary ministries of the state and its accredited representatives.”[13] What might those ministries be? Clearly, what Paul describes is both the restraint and punishment of evil.
Receiving the approval of the ones in authority means that as long as we obey the laws of the land the civil magistrate will tend to leave you alone. Break the speed limit and a friendly CHP officer will dispassionately write you a fat ticket. Rob someone and you will incur disfavor with the government.
In God’s providence, he gives us civil authorities (v. 4). Whether he acknowledges it or not, the civil magistrate is God’s servant. The Lord is not particularly interested in whether the magistrate is a so-called atheist or not. He is responsible to acknowledge that he rules by derived authority from God. Part of God’s common grace upon all mankind is that civil authorities typically have the good of the people in mind. “As the result of the work and watchfulness of these governmental representatives the believer is able to lead ‘a tranquil and quiet life in all gravity and godliness’ (I Tim. 2:2).”[14]
Interestingly, the fourth verse also speaks in terms of those who do “wrong” (kakòn). Christians should be very hesitant about going against what is right and wrong both in terms of Scripture and in terms of civil legislature. Very simply put, we are to obey God first and foremost, but also obey the civil magistrate except where man’s laws require us to violate God’s. We ought to obey the speed limit, stop at stop signs, not steal, care for our neighbor’s well being, and the like.
For those who insist on acting upon other premises, we are warned that the civil magistrate is “the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer” (v. 4). To this end, the government does not bear the “sword” in vain. The word Paul uses here for “sword” (máchaira) was employed earlier in the letter in 8:35 to indicate death. Other New Testament texts make use of this word as a form of execution (cf. Acts 12:2; Rev. 13:10), so it is not a “stretch” to say that he uses it here as a “symbol of capital punishment.”[15]
This point has been made before and some (Christians) choose to ignore it. Why? The short answer is because it doesn’t fit with their preconceived notions. This ought to be a sufficient warning for all of us. It is a spiritually dangerous way to interpret the Bible to force it to say what we want it to say. Many struggle with this because they are unwilling to allow the Bible to speak for itself. Let’s say that a young college student has been taught by his liberal professor that Pacifism is the way to go and that all killing is unjustified. In the course of reading through the Bible, our student arrives at the text under consideration. Now he’s in conflict. The Bible speaks of capital punishment but he has been taught to believe that the death penalty is wrong. The easy solution is that the Word of God trumps all of our notions—preconceived or otherwise. It is the wise Christian who will submit to the truth of Scripture even though it cuts against the grain of what he’s always thought or believed.
It is also noteworthy that it is a “given” that the state understands the difference between good and evil and that it can and must recognize evil for what it is. Being an “activist judge” is no excuse for not punishing evil. Right now in America we are witnessing the rise of those in political authority—and especially those in the judicial branch—who seem less concerned about rightly and precisely interpreting the law than they are to espouse their own life and worldview. Recently, we have observed incidences of convicted murderers being released from prison only to murder again. Convicted felons are allowed to walk free after only the most minimal of prison time. Time and time again we ask ourselves, “How did that happen?” or “How did our country get this way?” Obviously, it is not just one thing that got us entangled in this nefarious web, but part of the problem lies with judges who are atheists and the other part of the guilt lies with Christians who do not get involved—in a biblical fashion—in the public arena. It ought to part of our goal to insist on the death penalty for convicted murderers.We shall now turn our attention to certain other pertinent verses in Scripture that speak to the notion of the death penalty or how executing capital punishment in a correct, biblical fashion purges the evil from the land. I am particularly interested in the latter idea—purging the evil from our midst—because so many liberal Christian and non-Christian objections to capital punishment almost—if not totally—ignore this principle.
[1] For a more complete study of this commandment and the other nine commandments, you can email me ([email protected]) and purchase my workbook (The Ten Commandments) for $10.00.
[2] R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., & Bruce Waltke (eds.), Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Vol. 2, (Chicago: Moody Press, 1980), p. 860.
[3] Ibid.
[4] See my papers on euthanasia and suicide at as well as the Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day, 41, Q/A 105-107 and the Westminster Larger Catechism Q/A 134-136.
[5] Cf. Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 41, Q/A 105.
[6] See. Otto Michel, Der Brief an die Römer, Ernst Käsemann, An Die Römer, and Oscar Cullmann, Christus und die Zeit as typical examples of what I’m talking about here.
[7] William Hendriksen, Romans, in the series, New Testament Commentary, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981), p. 430.
[8] For example, John Stott, Romans, (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994), p. 338 writes, (neighbour-love as its fulfilment, 8-10), and to the day of the Lord’s return (living in the ‘already’ and the ‘not yet’, 11-14).”
[9] IHendriksen, Romans, 433.
[10] Stott, Romans, 340.
[11] Ibid., 343.
[12] Ibid., 344.
[13] Ibid.
[14] Hendriksen, Romans, 435.
[15] Stott, Romans, 344.
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As silent as the sound of one hand clapping on the subject since the Occupy L.A.evictions from City Hall, Ex-President of the Council Eric Garcetti — the wannabe high priest in what he calls “this Temple of Democracy” — wants to duck all responsibility for multi-million-dollar costs associated with the protesters he told “to stay as long as your need to.”
what Occupy LA has done. What they’ve basically done is cheated taxpayers out
of services. I don’t know who wins.”
And then blows more hot air the next minute, saying, “They are suing us, so I think we should look at filing a
suit to try to recover whatever we can. We had a lot of officers, police and General Services, who
were watching the occupation. Most of them were on
overtime and those costs add up quick.”
But a rising star among the posers and phonies on the Council horseshoe, Mitch Englander takes the dis-honors as the king of hypocrites on the Occupy L.A. issue.
Englander was present and accounted for at the opening of the Oct. 12 meeting at which the resolution in support of Occupy L.A. was set for debate.
One hour into the meeting after the consent calendar was approved and general public comment was over, the Council took up the motion and suddenly Englander disappeared, allowing it to be approved unanimously. He was listed as absent.
With the occupiers safely removed from City Hall to city jails, Englander self-righteously demanded to know exactly how much it cost the taxpayers. When the report came in last week putting the total at $2.3 million and likely to exceed $3 million, the Council’s newest member was so flabbergasted and angry, he was absent no more, sending out press releases, holding press conferences, visiting TV stations, calling John & Ken on KFI.
“This is a direct hit to all residents throughout Los
Angeles,” he told one reporter. “I’m disappointed that a few people who
wanted to make a statement ended up costing taxpayers so much money at a time
when L.A. doesn’t have the cash. Hopefully, now some of the council members who
supported these efforts will realize there’s a cost to residents before they
make these decisions in the future.”
Conan Nolan on Channel 4 asked Englander point blank if he objected in public or private about occupation and all he got was a mumbled and dissembling answer.
At another point, Englander asks, “Who’s going to pay for this?”
At this point, it’s the public in lost services and wasted money. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
The mayor could foot the whole bill just by eliminating 10 percent of his staff — roughly 20 people with pay and benefits included — or it could be shared among the Council members who could dump just one of the 20 staffers they each have to cover the whole bill.
Better yet, they could hold a public hearing to apportion responsibility with discussion of how much Garcetti owes, and how much each of them owes for their degree of support and what the penalty is for those who took a walk on the issue when it was voted on — Englander, Krekorian and Reyes — and how much more is owed by those who would exploit the issue after the fact.
I’d like to see the details on this repair. Knowing first hand that the city is used to paying $80,000 for a 40 foot length of cement curbing (approximately $200 of materials and 3 days of labor by 4 men) to which our organization was able to do for less then $6,000 (still too much), I doubt highly that this figure is anywhere near a true market value.
I find it rather ironic that Englander and other members of Council unanimously have voted to approve one Community Redevelopment Agency gift after another to wealthy real estate developers totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. These actions are precisely just one way the system is rigged by the Los Angeles City Council to reward wealthy campaign contributors with yet more money from the taxpayers. Is there one peep of discontent or alarm at the City Council over these giveaways to the billionaires like Eli Broad who got $50 million from the City for his ego-palace art museum? (Sound of crickets plays here.)
But when the nascent Occupy LA movement conducts a massive free speech action on the City’s public square, these absolute slimeball City Council hypocrites jump before the cameras demanding repayment of $1 or $2 million of trumped up “costs.”
Why isn’t Englander and the other opportunists instead demanding that Eli Broad return his ill-gotten $50 million to the public treasury in order to cover the Occupy LA “costs” of free speech?.”
A BIG AMEN – LET’S GET TOGETHER ON THIS.
THE TAXPAYERS SHOULD VOTE UNANIMOUSLY ON THIS
NEXT ELECTION.
I have the easy solution to all of this bullshit mess the council and Mayor made. First Chief Beck lied and said the Overtime for cops was being paid by AEG’s money from Michael Jackson funeral. Bullshit!!! That money was spent two years ago. So, the simple solution would be for all 15 city council members to pitch in $$$ from their million $$$ discretionary funds. They opened their big mouths and gave Occupy LA an open invitation as did the gangster Mayor. The Mayor made us taxpayers spend $300,000 to have 7 members of his staff, his security detail all go to Asia with him. The Mayor should also pitch in since he has money from all his good buddies like Eli Broad who gets millions of our tax payer dollars. There!!! Problem Solved and services shouldn’t be cut.
Fine with me if the mayor and council get rid of excess baggage staffers to pay for the mess they made, but they CANNOT send them over to the DWP. They must be fired!
And yes, each councilmember and the mayor have office slush funds that could be used.
But I’d like to know what the occupiers did to the lawns and sprinklers to cause more than a million dollars worth of damage. Did they dig up all the pipes? Punch a zillion holes in them with their tent poles? Steal them? Destroy the automated sprinkler controls? Make pot pipes out of all the sprinkler heads?
A million plus to resod lawn and fix sprinklers? I don’t think so!
“A million plus to resod lawn and fix sprinklers? I don’t think so!
That is really big lie!!! A way to charge us
to pay off cronies and supporters?????
The Mayor will find a way to steal all of it from the charter-mandated funding for Rec and Parks, of course.
What a piece of sh*t Villaraigosa is.
The sad part is that we didn’t get much bang for our buck from the occupy folks who thought Garcetti, the bankers best friend, was heir hero.
I support free speech even when it costs the tax payers $$$, and I support right to assembly and right to petition. Constitutional rights to freedom are not FREE — that is life. I don’t mind paying for our FREEDOMS. Thank goodness we do not have to pay with ur lives in L.A. like Syrians.
The $2.3 to $3 Million figure is probably a fraud like everythinga t City Hall, but my point is simple. These Occupiers were ignorant of everything about Los Angeles and did nothing to improve anything. They didn’t even have the brains to know what to protest.
Mitch Englander – A profile in courage he’s not…
What else would one expect from someone who switched parties to take the job with Greig Smith, after being “active” in the Young Dems and every other front group that Harvey could get him involved with, back when they thought he was going to the Legislature.
It is even funnier when you realize he has sided with Brad Sherman against Howard Berman, who has been endorsed and supported by Harvey.
It is even funnier when you realize he has sided with Brad Sherman against Howard Berman, who has been endorsed and supported by Harvey.
The real sad part is that the Mayor and Council act like they have no responsibility with the mess they created.
The Mayor and all Council members should take funds out of their own budgets to pay for the problems that they caused!
But they won’t……. they will go to the General Funded departments and suck the life out of the services each one of us tax payers pays for.
EXAMPLE: They keep cutting the funds for Building and Safety Code Enforcement that actually makes a difference deterring and removing blight in communities… also we will have to trip over the broken sidewalks, take the alignment out of whack on our cars due to hitting potholes….. and so on, and so on!!!!!
Hey-The Council probably felt like it was okay to allocate our tax and rate dollars to the OLA mess because they helped to deflect the blame off of them.
Whether OLA or the City pays the price, the precedence has been set. In the spirit of equal protection, I expect Council to provide the same privileges to any other group that wishes to set up shop at City Hall–be it the American Quilter’s Society or the KKK.
“The only way to change LA is to get rid of the current City Council and Mayor and recruit articulate grass roots and smart Occupy LA leaders to run for City offices.”
Don’t you get it? OLA is also bought off by corporate interests—the unions. And, please, do not think that the unions represent the working class anymore.
Until politicians can no longer be purchased, no one is free from corruption. That does not just include direct contributions, it also includes bought and paid for ads by “outside” parties–or any party for that matter. No ads, no mailers and no contributions-that is the only road out of this mess. Sadly, it’s the only road no one will travel.
Yes, the exemption of political campaign contributions from the First Amendment should be the highest priority. The U.S. Supreme Court is an instrument of the monied interests.
Yes, the exemption of political campaign contributions from the First Amendment should be the highest priority. The U.S. Supreme Court is an instrument of the monied interests.
Dear December 28, 2011 1:17 AM–
I love you!!!
Sincerely,
December 28, 2011 12:50 AM
KFI John and Ken had the solution. You don’t hire anyone from the outside but use the same damn employees already on the City payroll to fix the lawn and other damages Beck said OT for officers was paid so that’s not an issue so what else is the Mayor saying the $2 million is for?
This is just a ploy to reduce services or increase fees or both. But then again you were complacent and let Villar to get re-elected and same for garcetti. It would be very nice if every poster adds at the end of his/her post how did they vote in 2009 or whether they bothered to vote at all.
I AM PROUD TO SAY I CAMPAIGNED AND VOTED FOR MAYOR HAHN. I was yelled at, threatened, called a racist for not voting for the 1st Latino Mayor because I’m Latino. I told everyone I knew NOT to vote for the Gangster Mayor and look at the destruction he has made in our City. I can hold my head high and say “I told you so”
At last!!!
Even as the city wants to ripoff Occupy LA, here is a reminder of the LAPD HQ lawn ruined by the LAPD Union’s fundraiser. Interesting, that the price to repair the lawn was only $12,000 in 2010 and $2 million a year later. Depends on who does the damage. Cannot trust anyone in cityhall. THUGS!
“The Los Angeles Times wades into the story about the great brown lawn at the LAPD headquarters, reporting that there’s bickering about how the the lawn, which was damaged during a November fund-raising event, should be paid for. While the police foundation–the group that held the ball–admits they are responsible for turning the damage around, now there’s a “dispute between insurance companies over who should pay for the $12,000 replanting,” according to Thom Brennan, commanding officer of the LAPD’s Facilities Management Division”.
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Carmine’s
[From Il Terrazzo Carmine's website]
I just finished a post about my current visit to O’Hare, mentioning in passing my fondness for the O’Hare Hilton’s Italian restaurant, Andiamo. Not the greatest, but comfortable. Perhaps it’s worth pointing out in contrast that two nights ago, we celebrated Gail’s birthday a day late at our favorite Italian restaurant in Seattle, Il Terrazzo Carmine. It is a continuing puzzle why we don’t eat there more often.
Sometimes we get there twice in a year, once for Gail’s birthday and once for mine. Sometimes just once. You may recall my post in March 2009 about our visit for my own birthday. (Well, non-birthday, since I didn’t have one that year, but I did get a year older, and that’s when we went.) That’s the time we had dinner in the bar, since we were too late to reserve a table, and Dale Chihuly dropped in to join the celebration.
This time Dale didn’t show. We had a good evening nonetheless. We always do. The menu never changes. But there’s always a risotto of the day, always yet another risotto served as a side dish with one of the dinner specials, always a soup of the day, a fish of the day, another three or four appetizer and main dish specials. Lots of variety. And the constant menu is plenty large. I’m invariably drawn to the cannelloni or rigatoni as an appetizer, to the rack of lamb or veal chop or pork chop or steak as a main dish. And then I hear the specials and want the soup, or the fish, or some other concoction. This time I went with the risotto special, with pancetta, and then the peppercorn steak with shoestring potatoes. Those potatoes are the greatest, one reason I can’t resist the steak.
For dessert, Gail was brought tiramisu with a candle in it. Then our (fabulous) waiter brought a tray with all the desserts to view. I resisted the profiteroles, difficult to do, and went with the pear tart, served with berries.
Let’s not forget the outstanding bottle of wine that accompanied the meal, a 2006 Brunello di Montalcino from Casanova di Neri.
I’m hoping this time we won’t wait another year for our next visit to Carmine’s.
Chicago Again
I’m in Chicago now. Well, sort of, O’Hare being within the city limits though far from the city in any real sense. As some readers of Ron’s View know, I come to the O’Hare Hilton every November in order to attend the annual meeting of an organization whose secretary-treasurer I happen to be. We always have dinner at 7:30 on the Sunday evening before the meeting at Andiamo, the Hilton’s Italian restaurant, and a restaurant I have become oddly fond of, the odd part being that it isn’t exactly a great restaurant, but it’s now a familiar one, and a comfortable one, with pleasant wait staff. There’s also a sports bar attached, always filled with fans, or travelers with nothing better to do. Since it’s a Sunday in November, NFL football is featured. Hockey too.
This is the ninth year in succession that I’ve made this trip, and with a couple of other stops at the O’Hare Hilton along the way, I’ve come to feel very much at home here. The guest rooms. The furniture. The meeting rooms. The lobby. And best of all, the views, out toward the parking garage on one side and the terminals on the other. The last few years, I’ve had the parking garage view. This year, it’s the terminals. Either way, you get to watch planes land and take off, since we’re surrounded by runways.
It’s been warm and windy hereabouts. At dinner tonight I learned that those of us who flew in yesterday had a pretty bumpy go of it on the way down. We were warned on our flight to expect the same, but it didn’t seem so bad at all. We headed way east over Lake Michigan, then turned back over the city a little to the north of the Loop, this being around 4:20 or so this afternoon, with the sun low and glaring, making it difficult to pick out sights. I could see the Navy Pier and the Hancock Tower. I couldn’t make out Soldier Field to the south, where the Bears were hosting the Lions. A few minutes later we were down. Long taxi to the gate, off the plane, down the escalator, down another escalator to the basement tunnel system, under the road, over to the Hilton basement, up to the lobby. You gotta love it. No need for a coat. Not that there would have been one anyway, the temperature being close to 70 degrees, but when you’re here, you would never know. You have to force yourself to go out in order to get some fresh air, which I did after dinner, as I always make it a point to do, so I can stare at the parking garage and breathe in the jet fuel fumes for a bit.
What now? I suppose I’ll read. I caught the end of the Bears game before dinner. That’s another of my traditions here, imagining myself a Bears fan for an hour or so. I missed the highlight of the game, Devin Hester returning a punt for a touchdown for the 12th time in his career. I was on the phone with Joel when they replayed it and I voiced the thought that I should get a Hester Bears jersey tomorrow if I can find one. Once I get home, I would feel pretty foolish about getting it. I suppose I won’t.
Tomorrow I’ll need to get up early for the meeting, what with the time zone change, then I’ll head back over to the United terminal and be out of here less than 24 hours after arriving. Too bad Gail couldn’t come. Three years ago, she joined me. I must have written about it at the time. We came on a Friday, stayed two nights in the Loop, visited the Art Institute and other favorite places, then headed back out to O’Hare Sunday afternoon. Oh, and we saw Lang Lang at Orchestra Hall. Yes, I know I wrote about that. Two years ago she was here too, but only because we timed our return from France and Italy to coincide with the meeting, allowing me to fit it in as part of that trip rather than going to Seattle only to have to head back east a couple of days later. Last year she had her own trip at the same time. This year, um, I don’t know. Gail, why aren’t you here? She did point out this morning that she’s not that in love with hanging out at O’Hare and eating at Andiamo. That must be the reason.
Maybe next year though. That would be fun.
I thought I was done, but one more thing. There’s this great column in the NYT that I rarely remember to read — The Haggler. A couple of weeks ago, in it, David Segal made a plea for hotel room doors that don’t slam.
During a recent visit to the Omni Shoreham in Washington, the Haggler was awakened by the blast of a neighbor leaving his room at 6 a.m. And the racket never ceased, because at hotels — surprise! — people enter and exit rooms throughout the day and night.
A bit of research shows that hotel doors slam shut in part because they’re cheap to install and in part because of liability concerns. Owners worry that the doors won’t fully close, which could lead to thefts and other crimes, which could lead to lawsuits.
But, obviously, a mechanism exists that closes a door fully and quietly. The Haggler encountered it this summer at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque. The question is why these mechanisms aren’t far more common.
Amen to that. I gotta tell ya, the O’Hare Hilton is ground zero for hotel door slamming.
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World of Warcraft
General
World of Warcraft (or WoW) is a popular MMORPG created by video game publisher Blizzard Entertainment and set in their already existing Warcraft universe. Its release on November 23, 2004, marked the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise. In October 2010 WoW had over 12 million subscribers.[1]
Game World
What started out as a fairly straightforward "Orc vs. Human" universe developed into a rich and diversified world, featuring several other distinguishable races, epic storylines and beautiful landscapes. The two warring sides however, Alliance and Horde, remain.
Races
The Alliance is formed between Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Night Elves, Draenei and Worgen (Humans with a werewolf curse). The Horde features Orcs, Trolls, Tauren, Forsaken (undead Humans), Blood Elves and Goblins. Pandaren can join either faction.[2]
Game Classes
Depending on their race, characters can be one of these classes: Death Knight, Druid, Hunter, Mage, Monk, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock or Warrior.[3]
Fan References within the Game
From the beginning Blizzard followed a tradition of placing popcultural references, often in the form of NPCs with recognizable names such as Lenny "Fingers" McCoy or archaeology trainer Harrison Jones. Furthermore, some members of Blizzard's staff received in-game acknowledgment as well.[4] However, it doesn't stop there.
Over time, references to members of the WoW Community emerged in the game. In Loving Memory is a tribute from his friends at Blizzard to a player who died in his 40s. At Blizzcon 2010 a fan, quickly known as The Red Shirt Guy, brought some discrepancies to the attention of lead designers Alex Afrasiabi and Chris Metzen which resulted in The Wildhammer Fact Checker in-game, of course wearing a red shirt.[5]
You Awaken in Razor HillPlayer Alex Levinton started a game on the US WoW forum in the form of a Text Adventure. The starter entry was:. Scratchfever seems agitated. His Happiness is getting low and you don't have any Meat or Fish to feed him. You have only 500 bullets left for your gun.
- To the north is the road to Orgrimmar, it travels along the base of a short, narrow, red stone canyon.
- To the south is that little Troll village you never remember the name of.
- To the east is Razor Hill's large central building.
- To the west is a primitive stamped-earth path leading out into the red rock desert of Durotar.[6]
Ezra Chatterton
In 2007, 10 year old Ezra Chatteron, avid WoW fan and suffering from brain cancer, was invited to visit Blizzard HQ with help from the Make-A-Wish foundation. He received, amongst other things, the world's first Ashes of Al'ar (a phoenix mount and still a rare drop to this day), but the developers at Blizzard did more: Together with lead game designer Jeffrey Kaplan Ezra created a Tauren NPC in the starter area of Mulgore. However, unlike other tribut NPCs, Ahab Wheathoof is actually a quest giver, sending the player to feed his dog Kyle (designed after Ezra's own dog). He cannot be attacked, neither by Horde nor Alliance. Ezra also provided the voice-over for this quest.[7] In 2008, Ezra passed away.[8] Afterwards, Blizzard renamed the Thunder Bluff Elder (a spirit only appearing during Lunar Festival) to Ezra Wheathoof.
The case of Ezra Chatterton has become widely known within the community. Fans felt a connection to the boy, not just because of his circumstances, but also because the NPC Ahab Wheathoof is at some point a quest giver for many Horde players. It has become a custom to have small interactions with him, such as greeting or waving. The Lunar Festival, a two week festival to honor ones ancestors, features an achievement that requires players to visit all Elders, even those in enemy territory. During that time it's not uncommon to observe Alliance players saluting Ezra Wheathoof with respect, before they usually are killed by Horde players or jump to their death from Thunder Bluff.
Fanwork
Being a game fandom, WoW offers multiple media possibilities for fans to be creative: text, art, video creation and music are among the most common fan works.
Fanfiction and Fanart
Due to the variety of in-game plots, races, cultural backgrounds, game classes and relations between the races and factions, Fanfiction and Fanart offers a broad spectrum of possibilities without the need to go AU. Classic Adventure, political intrigues, Fantasy in various shapes - even Science Fiction can be canon due to the space-faring Draenei race. Pairings between different races can also include kinks such as tentacle, furry, bestiality and necrophilia. Dark themes like rape or torture aren't uncommon, considering the fact that there is constant war in Azeroth and Outland.
Remixes
WoW offers a huge archive of sound files and many fans use these files (especially speech files) to create new works. One of the most successful remixes in the history of WoW fandom in terms of publicity is MrVoletron's You FACE Jaraxxus, a high beat arrangement featuring voice-overs from the Jaraxxus boss fight.[9]
Another classic is the "Moar DoTs!!!" incident, a raid wipe from so-called Vanilla WoW (the early game as it was before any expansions) where the raid leader went into a rage fit in voice chat. His repeated demand for more DoTs has made it into the collective mind of the WoW community, the phrase being used now randomly or to comment a rage outburst. The voice file of that raid has also been used to create remixes, such as the Onyxia Wipe Animation Song Remix, with the Onyxia Wipe Animation being very popular as well. Also the phrase was later used for the achievement More Dots! gained for killing Onyxia in less than five minutes.[10]
Machinima
Blizzard announced 2007 in a "Letter to the Machinimators of the World of Warcraft” that they would support fanwork using video footage of the game as long as there was no profit gained.[11] Thus WoW[12], but "a rendered animation that's similar to many CG films and television shows. The animations were made by me in a 3D application. I used game assets so I guess you could refer to it as a machinima in that sense."[13] Nevertheless his video is referred to as machinima within the community.
Vid Tutorials
Vid tutorials are mainly used to describe raid encounters and fight mechanics. With the retirement of popular guide producers Tankspot, Fatboss has grown to be one of the main resources for high quality raid encounter tutorials and many low- and mid-level guilds make use of their guides. High-level raiding guilds often release their own raid encounter tutorials.
Additionally, WoW tutorial vids can discuss many other topics, such as the installation and use of certain Addons, the best way to complete a quest, or strategies for how to make gold. Those tutorials are mostly found on Youtube.
Music
WoW features several soundtracks with epic scores. Rearranging and rerecording in-game music is therefore one of the fan activities connected to this part of the game.[14]
There are, however, original fan-made compositions as well, which are used in machinimas. Christmas Time in Dun Morogh by Pure Pwnage and ROFLMAO Productions features not only the stunning landscape of Dun Morogh, but also a nostalgic song about the carefree time as a beginner in the dwarven and gnome starter zone. Greyfoo's Exodar Disco transforms the spaceship Exodar into a 70s disco, and Xcross - winner of the 2010 WoW Movie Contest: Rise to Power - lets Edwin VanCleef sing Welcome to the Deadmines, to name just three.[15]
Parodies
In addition to original music, fans also record WoW parodies--usually currently-popular songs with lyrics relating to gameplay from the player's perspective, or lore from an in-game character's perspective. These are similar to filk in other fandoms. Parodies are normally released by the artist on YouTube with an accompanying machinima or a still image in place of the video.
Communities
- - Official Blizzard US Forums
- Blizzard Watch - News, rumors, discussions for all Blizzard games
- MMO-Champion - News, Forums
- WoW Ladies - LJ Community
- WoW Subreddit - General discussion
References
- Official World of Warcraft Cataclysm Homepage (Accessed May 4th 2011.)
- ↑ WORLD OF WARCRAFT® SUBSCRIBER BASE REACHES 12 MILLION WORLDWIDE Accessed May 4th 2011.
- ↑ Accessed May 4th 2011.
- ↑ Accessed May 4th 2011.
- ↑ For instance, Michael Belfast is named after an ex-staff member. Accessed May 4th 2001.
- ↑ BlizzCon 2010 Red Shirt Guy Added to Cataclysm as Wildhammer Fact Checker. The Red Shirt Guy quickly became somewhat of a geek icon and prompted responses, such as the Red Shirt Guy Auto-tune Tribute. Accessed May 4th 2011.
- ↑ You Awaken in Razor Hill Accessed May 4th 2011.
- ↑ and Accessed May 4th 2011.
- ↑ Accessed May 4th 2011.
- ↑ Accessed May 4th 2011.
- ↑ Both links accessed May 6th 2011.
- ↑ Hayes, Christina (2008). "Changing the Rules of the Game: How Video Game Publishers are Embracing User-Generated Derivative Works". Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 21 (2): 567–587. Accessed May 4th 2011.
- ↑ Machimima.org describes two ways to create a machinima: script-driven with play-back in real time or recorded in real-time within the virtual environment. Accessed May 5th 2011.
- ↑ Accessed May 5th 2011.
- ↑ For instance the widely known arrangement of Lament of the Highborne by katethegreat19. Accessed May 5th 2011.
- ↑ All three accessed May 5th 2011.
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I pray that is is in the actual show.
I pray that is is in the actual show.
laughing and crying at the same time
love these puppies
Put your dick in it.
Kickstarter: Fight For Space - Space Program & NASA Documentary
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The only way humans can land on mars is if it’s a one way trip.
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This story es my first attempt to read a children classic.
Da story roams around a little girl who has some extraordinary brain powers and a worse family to handle.
Best part: according to me, da best part es da last part where Miss. Honey’s (Jennifer Honey) story started and unveiled da revelation that who’s da arrogant aunt Ov Miss. Honey? — from there da story continued with an amazing balance until last.
Important points: I liked that writer didn’t try to finish da story with a supernatural moment. Instead, he showed Matilda’s power as “need-for-something” kinda thing.
Illustrations: Da story es joined with illustrations by Quentin Blake which are not very detailed (personally I liked detailed illustrations) but still give an enjoyable support to help children understand da characters and circumstances.
Moral: da story promoted da value Ov Book-Reading which is very important for children to know.
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“Pray to God, but keep swimming to shore.” Does this folk wisdom really work? Is it reflective of the way God/Divine Mind unfolds? I often hear out of my own mind, and from the mouths of others: “I know God is in charge, but what do I need to do about the situation?”
The folk wisdom suggests that God is an unreliable source of safety or security – so we need to do what we can in the meantime.
It indicates that there is an “I” that can pray and swim, and there is God, who can bless or curse.
This is a formula for continually struggling to get somewhere or do something; with hope perhaps, yet without assurance.
A more useful idea may be: “Clarity replaces arduousness.”**
Clarity is the understanding that comes from seeing the larger picture. In this case, clarity is the view from above – perhaps there is a ship just out of sight, or a shore in another direction. What the “I” cannot see, the Whole knows.
What seems like an independent personality making decisions and struggling to get somewhere is futility in action. With the clarity of the Whole, the larger view, there is no arduousness.
With clarity, it is obvious what action is harmonious with what already is.
Clarity is present and available with the awareness of our oneness with the Whole; all that really is. There is only One Mind – not self and God.
This is true in all situations. This is the miracle.
Pray to be aware of your complete oneness with all that is.
**: quoted from Dr. Hora, shared by Ann Linthorst in “The Blessings of Metapsychiatry” the documentary
Filed under: General Healing Essays | Tagged: clarity, inspiration | 3 Comments »
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REBECCA ROWLAND-CHANDLER |
Glass Sculpture
Honeystones’ series focuse on Norfolk’s Hunstanton Cliffs, exploring the patterns created in the sedimentary rocks, the angular rugged forms, and irregular texture. Surface contrast is a key component in her glass, for example, smooth and textured, transparent and opaque, and through researching this, creating structural and decorative elements that combine the organic with the geometric. Honeystones, which ‘Hunstanton’ derives from, are fused sculptures created by layering glass sheets on top of each other in a mould, applying colour separately, and days of polishing to reach high transparency. Rebecca’s aim is to create beautiful objects in response to the natural world, that are an allusion, rather than a replica.
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Reblogged from imgfave
Red lipstick stains many hearts
Pansexual. Photography. Drawing. Random. Hugs. Cuddles. Occupy Love. Peace. Weed. Acid. Cigs. Drank. Tattoos. 1993. Explorer. Smiles.
Whoa
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I want one! And I want all my friends to have one. Then we can all be a pizza. Forever.
would actually wear
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Weekend Reading
As the government shutdown stretched into a second week, FCW continued to document the effects, including worries about vulnerability to cyberattacks, the message it sends to young professionals and the difficulty workers face getting needed identification credentials.
But that wasn't all that was going on. A bipartisan group is set to introduce legislation intended to rein in the NSA's ability to collect data about Americans’ electronic communications, while the agency had to postpone the opening of a new data center because of unexplained power problems. The Postal Service is upgrading its already formidable supercomputing capabilities, and lawmakers are looking for an explanation of the shaky launch of HealthCare.gov.
Last but not least, FCW is now ready for your nominations for the 2014 Federal 100 award. Don't delay!
Elsewhere: Wired reports on an advanced military uniform under development that would "turn a special ops commando into Iron Man."
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what kind of sprinklers do you like?
(Source: ziggymarmadukegarfield)
what kind of sprinklers do you like?
(Source: ziggymarmadukegarfield)
prisoners of technology
the sun is cool
…And I remember Joey Ramone sat right in front of me. Me and my wife, Adrienne were sitting there and we were watching and she was pregnant with my first son, Joey…well who was gonna be Joey…and I remember he stood up and I had one of those little instamatic cameras and right when he stood up, Adrienne goes “Take a picture of his butt!” and so I took a picture, so I have a picture of Joey Ramone’s butt.
— Billie Joe Armstrong reference to 1994 VMAs (via xxgreendaynerdxx)
(Source: jack4frost)
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(Source: katiegodisbestgod)
(Source: sk4te-lifestyle)
chief keef came to my show so you can all eat my ass
(Source: satanickittenn)
Clearin out the ol’ dome (not to mention the liver) (at Helen Putnam Regional Park)
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This summer just got way more fun.
James Bond 30th Birthday Party - Pretty My Party More
Lemon Basil Martini | A beautiful & refreshing #cocktail | MarlaMeridith.com ( @marlameridith )
The Ultimate Holiday Chocolate Martini Bar from @cydconverse
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- freely available
- re-usable
Remote Sens. 2013, 5(3), 1311-1334; doi:10.3390/rs5031311 (doi registration under processing)
Article
Mapping Coral Reef Resilience Indicators Using Field and Remotely Sensed Data
1 Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada 2 Wildlife Conservation Society, 11 Ma'afu St, Fiji Country Program, Suva, Fiji 3 School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 31 December 2012; in revised form: 4 March 2013 / Accepted: 5 March 2013 / Published: 14 March 2013
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Understanding Coral Reef Dynamics and Processes: Photo-Systems to Coral Reef Systems)
Abstract:.
Keywords: coral reefs; resilience; spatial prediction; mapping; random forest; universal kriging; Fiji
Supplementary Files
- Supplementary File 1:
Supplementary Information (PDF, 836 KB)
Cite This Article
MDPI and ACS Style
Knudby, A.; Jupiter, S.; Roelfsema, C.; Lyons, M.; Phinn, S. Mapping Coral Reef Resilience Indicators Using Field and Remotely Sensed Data. Remote Sens. 2013, 5, 1311-1334.AMA Style
Knudby A, Jupiter S, Roelfsema C, Lyons M, Phinn S. Mapping Coral Reef Resilience Indicators Using Field and Remotely Sensed Data. Remote Sensing. 2013; 5(3):1311-1334.Chicago/Turabian Style
Knudby, Anders; Jupiter, Stacy; Roelfsema, Chris; Lyons, Mitchell; Phinn, Stuart. 2013. "Mapping Coral Reef Resilience Indicators Using Field and Remotely Sensed Data." Remote Sens. 5, no. 3: 1311-1334.
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On Saturday, August 25, 2012, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark participated in day two of the 2012 Nordic Dragon Sailing Masters held in Båstad, Sweden.
The future king of Denmark’s son, Prince Christian, was also there to cheer his father on. The 2012 Nordic Sailing Masters race ends tomorrow.
Fred really seems to be a good father. Nice to see him with his kids, Isabella was there too.
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Putty Squad (Amiga) 1.0
Rare Amiga platformer. This is a release from the original code base. The license allows for distribution as long as it remains unaltered. Due to a Filetrip bug, the full description can not be pasted here. Check the official website for more information.
Change log (1.0):
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FROM OUR AUGUST 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE…
Miami Herald: Shell, Texaco clients seek refunds
“faulty fuel sold by Shell”: “said it has received about 70,000 claims: “figure will easily run into the tens of millions of dollars.”; About 70,000 claims have been filed due to the fuel-quality problem that shut down Shell and Texaco stations in May, but as many as 500,000 people could be affected.; all supplied with the substandard fuel from a Port Everglades terminal operated by Motiva Enterprises…
BY PATRICK DANNER
[email protected]
Posted on Thu, Aug. 12, 2004
Some 25,000 Floridians have sought reimbursement for damage to their automobiles that they claim was caused by faulty fuel sold by Shell and Texaco gas stations, Shell Oil Products disclosed.
The fuel-quality fiasco that shut down Shell and Texaco stations over the Memorial Day weekend impacted other companies as well. BP, ConocoPhillips, Colonial Oil and Valero Energy Corp. were all supplied with the substandard fuel from a Port Everglades terminal operated by Motiva Enterprises, a refiner partially owned by Shell, a Shell spokesman said. Those companies, however, reported few — if any — complaints from customers.
Overall, Shell said it has received about 70,000 claims from drivers in Florida and Louisiana — up from about 9,000 on June 1. The fallout resulted from elemental sulfur found in gasoline originating from the Houston-based Motiva’s refinery in Norco, La. The sulfur can corrode the silver electrical contact on the gas-gauge sensor in some vehicles, causing the fuel gauge to indicate the tank is full when it’s actually less than full or empty.
Shell and Texaco stations initially halted sales of regular and midgrade fuels after the problem surfaced May 27. But by the next day, all of the pumps were turned off at 450 Florida stations. Gas sales resumed at all affected stations by June 2.
Shell Oil Products spokesman Shawn Frederick wouldn’t say how much the mishap has cost. Considering the cost to replace a gas-gauge sensor ranges from about $150 to more than $1,000 in some high-performance cars, the figure will easily run into the tens of millions of dollars.
”We are working diligently to reimburse affected customers and to resolve claims,” Frederick said.
Florida has received about 1,025 complaints related to the fuel problem. All but 78 were made in June. Many just wanted information about getting their vehicles repaired, while others complained that their reimbursement checks weren’t being processed fast enough, said Eric Hamilton, chief of Florida’s Bureau of Petroleum Inspection, part of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
”We’re still in the process of cutting checks,” Frederick said.
The state is satisfied with how Shell and Motiva have responded, Hamilton said. And Florida has since instituted an emergency rule establishing maximum levels for elemental sulfur in gasoline sold in the state.
”We have been testing gasoline as it arrives at the terminals, and we have not found any gasoline that would be corrosive to the silver” electrical contacts, Hamilton said.
Meanwhile, Louisiana lawyer Daniel E. Becnel Jr. estimated that at least 30 lawsuits have been filed against Shell and Motiva. Becnel, who has filed a federal lawsuit in Louisiana, estimated as many as 500,000 people may have been affected, based on his communications with other lawyers involved in the litigation. At least one state court case and a federal court case have been filed in South Florida, but lawyers handling those cases didn’t return calls.
Becnel, who has been seeking to consolidate all of the suits into a single case, said the framework for a settlement in some of the Louisiana cases was hammered out last week with Shell and Motiva.
”We haven’t agreed to a definite number yet, but we have agreed to a broad outline of how it will be negotiated,” Becnel said.
He estimated a final settlement may take as long six months to reach.
Motiva has agreed to continue the voluntary repair/reimbursement program, Becnel said. People who signed releases at the time repair work was completed still will be allowed to pursue claims if they discover later that the tainted fuel caused additional damage.
A battery of expert witnesses has been hired to determine if the damage to vehicles extends beyond the gas gauge, Becnel said. Shell is unaware of any other problems caused by the fuel, Frederick said.
Other gasoline suppliers weren’t nearly as hard hit by claims as Shell and Texaco. Motiva provides fuel to other suppliers under exchange agreements.
BP received some of the substandard fuel, but it received only about 30 claims from customers, company spokesman Howard Miller said. He didn’t know why the number was so low.
”I can’t give you an answer to that one, other than to let you know that somehow, some way, we have been very fortunate,” Miller said.
“I just think it was luck of the draw.”
Valero, which has about 11 locations in South Florida, reported one of its ”unbranded customers” received some of the problem fuel but hasn’t received any complaints.
Colonial, which supplies to Cumberland Farms and RaceTrac stores, said the few complaints it received were from the Tampa area, where the fuel was distributed from a Motiva terminal in the Port of Tampa, and not South Florida.
Despite being identified by Shell as among the companies that received the substandard fuel, ConocoPhillips denied it got any. Frederick said ConocoPhillips had requested that any claims be handled by Shell.
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Hello Fire Pro aficionados, Dave K here back to break the silence with news about a long-awaited feature: Custom ring graphics are finally here!
When you make a custom ring from [Edit Mode > Ring Edit], you can now also apply custom textures to the ring mat, apron, posts and corner mats/turnbuckles.
You can create custom graphics yourself, or download them from the Workshop.
Here’s a visual guide showing how the elements look in-game:
(Remember, there are three types of turnbuckle designs: Cylinder, Triangle 1 and Triangle 2. Make sure to select the design that matches your corner mat graphic.)
[SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS]
.jpg, .png
[RESOLUTION]
Ring Mat: (1024×1024)
Apron (1024×128)
*Aprons require two graphics for the left and right sides.
Corner Mat: (1024×512)
Post: (1024×512)
Once you create a custom graphic, move them to the appropriate sub directory. By default, this should be:
Ring Mat:
\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Fire Prowrestling World\Decal\Mat
Apron:
\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Fire Prowrestling World\Decal\Apron
Corner Mat:
\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Fire Prowrestling World\Decal\Cornermat
Corner Post:
\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Fire Prowrestling World\Decal\Post
Once you apply your custom graphics, you may want to adjust the base color to make the graphics pop. For example, here we made the Mat Color orange and the top/bottom Corners white.
You can also upload custom graphics to the Workshop from: [Edit Mode > Workshop > Publish Item > Ring Texture]
The Workshop handles each graphic as a separate item and automatically tags them by category.
That’s all there is to it! Be sure to check out the Steam Workshop for inspiration and creations to download.
Until next time, stay strong.
-Dave K
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Let me say this up front - Grandia, in my opinion, has the one of best soundtracks I've ever heard in a video game. I had high hopes for its arrangement as well, but it's not exactly what I expected. Now, this isn't to say that is a bad CD. Quite the opposite - it's an excellent CD. However, the arrangements on the CD just don't seem to have that same masterful quality that the originals had. The arrangements on the CD range from merely a bit different instrumentation to total overhaul.
The first track, 'Parm', keeps the background industrial sound of the original, but has a much more soft and sweet accompaniment. 'For the Love of You' is an arrangement of the 'Sandy Beaches of Ganbo', and pretty much replaces the piano and violin with harp and trumpet, respectively. It's arranged a bit but not much. It's not bad, but the original had more emotion. 'Lily' is probably the most similar to the original ('Seagull Restaurant Lily'). Here it's taken slower and of course placed by real instruments with a slight change in instrumentation. It also keeps the happy spirit of the original quite nicely. This is one of my absolute favorite game tunes ever, and I'm happy it came out so well. I'd almost say the CD is worth it for this track alone.
Farewell to Sue is a strings only arrangement, and it's quite nice. It's very passive and sweet. New Parm Church is an arrangement of the New Parm Church music, complete with wedding music and everything. (I heard they took the New Parm Church music out of the US version, so it may have been this also, however it's labeled New Parm Church on the OST). It's very nice with real instruments instead of a synth organ.
'Ruku' is a beautiful arrangment. It's got a lovely guitar in the background and a very pretty violin melody. 'Gadwin Pathos' is arrangement of 'Duel With Gadwin', but it's presented in, as the title implies, a slow and somber fashion. It works okay, but the original had much more impact. 'From Inside The Darkness' is a string only arrangement of 'Dungeon 2' (which also acts as a boss theme). It's very 20th century, but it's an interesting take on the music.
'Alent -Requiem-' is the only vocal track. It starts off slow and then turns into a fast pace samba-like thing. It's very good, and singer fits the part nicely. 'Remembrance...' is a very nice harp piece. It's slow and beautiful, and fits the instrument well. However, in reality it's an arrangement of 'The Three Young Women', which was a very fast and bouncy piece. It's very well done.
Theme of Grandia's arrangement is just plain odd. The original had the orchestral glamour that this one doesn't have; however, it's not without it's charm. The final track is a piano arraignment of the theme, played by the composer himself (as all of the piano parts on the CD are) and it's incredibly great. It's almost worth the CD just for this, however this piece is unfortunately too short.
Overall, this is a nice CD, but certainly not the be all and end all of arranged CDs. If you're a big Grandia fan, it's a must have, but only after you have both OSTs, especially the first one.
Reviewed by: TerraEpon
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The wonder food.
No, really, am I the only person who loves hummus this much? I know I’m not, because my entire family is nearly as obsessed with it as I am. We eat it by the bucketful. And, believe it or not, I had never made it. Never! Me! I’ve only ever eaten store bought hummus, except I think my aunt made it once when I was younger and I can’t quite remember.
Anyway, so I was going to a party on Valentine’s Day, and had to bring some food, and forgot to plan anything. Which is unusual, but things are a bit busy lately. And without question, there are always dry beans in the house. And… somehow… I decided on hummus.
Now. Hummus is a fairly simple thing to make. In theory. All it really is, is chickpeas mashed up with some other stuff, usually oil and garlic and sometimes seasoning and things. If you aren’t familiar with chickpeas, they are also called garbanzo beans- they are those lovely little tan things that you sometimes see on salad bars. They are possibly my favorite bean ever. They are so versatile. You can use them in stews, you can use them in curry, and chili, and stir fry, and just about everything else. And hummus, of course! You can’t have hummus without chickpeas.
So I put my chickpeas in to soak overnight, and while my taster had gone off to get out of the kitchen, I boiled them, as you do when you’re using dry beans, and wandered around the house. I added an entire head of garlic (I only have one left! No idea how I’ll get through the next few months- next summer I’m hoarding four times as much). When they were soft enough to squish, I drained them, added a ton of oil, a splash of soy, a decent amount of lemon juice, water, a touch of cumin and a little more than a touch of cayenne. Oh and some salt. And with my magic immersion blender (oh my god I LOVE my immersion blender!) made this:
The amount of garlic was right, but it was a bit dry, and I kept adding water. And it was good right off (if maybe a little short on garlic, but then again, garlic is like a drug, the more you eat it the more you want, and I’ve been eating it in spades for years), especially while it was still warm. Maybe could have used more spice, but that’s just me and my addictions again. It does not refrigerate particularly well, I’ve discovered. It loses almost all the flavor, and keeps getting drier and drier. But of course I made a vat of hummus, and here again is my classic dilemma: there’s only one of me. God, I can’t wait to live with someone who will actually eat my food (I’m sure I’ll be biting my tongue when I’m living with a hoarde of people who will not only eat my food, but everything else in the kitchen so I can never get my hands on anything).
I guess I’m used to grocery store hummus (oops- yes, well, it’s good, and one of the few things from the grocery store that are). But you can open it and it’s still good a week later. This is probably because of preservatives or something. Mine- well. All I can conclude is that I need to have more people around to eat my hummus. You would think a party would have been enough.
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I can't promise that this will be a diligent, in-depth look at last night's Smackdown, but I didn't want to skip it two weeks in a row. The things I do for you!
PROS
~ The two-out-of-three-falls match between The Corre and The Random Babyfaces (you might as well call it a faction). It was given plenty of time, and each guy chipped in with offense. This will be the first match ever to appear in both sections of Parts Unknown. I told you why it's a "pro;" scroll down to find out why it's also a "con."
~ Cody Rhodes scores another victory! It looks like we'll be seeing a rematch between Captain Mexico and The American Nightmare. Sounds good to me.
~ I loved the backstage segment with Edge and Christian. It was well-acted, well-written and well-timed.
~ We finally saw more of Beth Pheonix's ring prowess. When the hell are they going to pair her up with Awesome Kong?
~ Sin Cara strikes again! I appreciate the fact that Vince is trying to get him over as a fan favorite before tossing him into a program.
~ The main event. Of course, I wanted Christian to win, but this plan of action will pay off in the long run.
CONS
~ The two-out-of-three-falls match between The Corre and The Random Babyfaces. Once again, the young champions lose for no reason. Whatever happened to the youth movement? And why did the referee disqualify The Corre? The match had already broken down. There was no outside interference. What a messy finish.
~ Marriage counseling for LayCool? I don't like where this is heading.
Overall, this was a strong episode. Smackdown is still the most consistent wrestling series on television.
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The not-so-minor details
Product
Giant Lust 27.5 2
Giant Bicycles
Price
AUD2,499.00
Weight
13.00kg
Positives
Robust women’s frame and build
Tried and tested spec
Agile ride feel
Negatives
A Giant What?
Front end handling feels a little light with stock set-up.
Us
Lusting for a full review? Click here.
When multiple 24-Hour champion, Jess Douglas, opted for the alloy Lust for the World Endurance Mountain Bike Organisation 24 Hour World Champs, we were a little surprised. The carbon frame didn’t arrive in time to build the bike up and bed everything in, so Jess went with the alloy frame instead.
If we were keeping the Lust for a while we’d definitely experiment with a steeper stem and cut down the cables to personalise the ride experience more to our tastes.
Jess was so much more confident and comfortable on this new model compared to her previous, blinged out Giant 29ers, that she chose this one for her biggest race of the year.
Keeping an element of novelty in 24-hour racing is important too, and the new frame, built around a 650B wheel size, saw Jess outride her competition once again. We’ve been itching to test the Lust ever since. It obviously meets the desired mix of comfort and efficiency for a full weekend in the saddle, but how versatile is it for other types of riders, with different riding aims?
The Giant Lust. We can’t help but wonder if there were no men present at the marketing meeting about the name.
The Lust 27.5 2 is uses the same alloy frame as the 24-hour Douglas-mobile, but specced with parts that meet its $2500 price point. With 100mm front and rear travel, and a tweaked frame geometry, it’s a women’s version of the popular 650B Giant Anthem.
Spec-wise, a nice collection of tried and tested componentry and design ideas, trickled down from lighter and more expensive innovations, adorn our test model Lust: a Shimano Deore clutch rear derailleur (this keeps the chain quiet), a 2×10 drive train (the gears you need without the ones you don’t), the Maestro suspension system (you’ll see this on all Giant duallies), Fox suspension, Shimano hydraulic brakes. It’s a tidy package that enables capable, confident and enjoyable riding.
Ride
We’ve had the chance to hit the trails a couple of times on the Lust already. We’ve been riding a lot of 29ers lately, so it was nice to experience the agile ride feel of this small sized frame built around 650B wheels.
The standout difference was the ride experience that comes from being able to move our bodies around the bike more easily due to its smaller overall size. Confidence comes from agility with this design, compared to the confidence that comes from getting away with being more of a passenger on a 29er.
Setup
There are a few basic set up things that we want to play with over the test period as we find out more about the Lust’s strengths, capabilities and the experiences it offers.
With a lot of spacers to play with under the stem, and a wide set of riser bars, the front end feels high. This is good for confidence building for riders new to the sport, but we found we’re not putting enough weight through the front wheel to stop it wandering on flats and climbs.
We tend to knock the gear cables with our knees when climbing out of the saddle. They’re set like this so as not to scratch the frame, and also to allow riders to run a longer stem.
We tubelessed the wheels immediately, too. We were pleased to see that the Schwalbe Racing Ralph Performance tyres and non-tubeless specific Giant branded rims were easily converted with some tape, valves and sealant – light and cheap.
Despite the mouthful of name, the Lust 27.5 2 is a no nonsense offering from Giant equipping an entry- to mid-level women’s market with a versatile and robust bike.
Keeping this market in mind the obvious questions to explore over the review period are: how does it compare to 29” competitors, and what does it offer in comparison to a similarly specced hardtail. We have no intention of riding it for 24 hours in one go, but we’re looking forward to lots of shorter, more playful, and far less painful rides instead.
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First some background: The standard procedure is to supplement BHI with hemin and NAD from stock supplies that are already made up to standard concentrations (giving sBHI), to put 5ml of sBHI into a 25ml glass culture tube, to add H. influenzae cells either from a frozen stock or a previous culture (usually a 1/100 dilution), and to incubate the culture overnight on a roller wheel in the 37°C incubator. H. influenzae will normally also grow in the E. coli medium LB, provided it has been supplemented with hemin and NAD (sLB). E. coli doesn't need hemin or NAD and will grow well in both LB and BHI, better in BHI because it's a richer (and more expensive) medium. Growth can be checked various ways. The easiest is simply looking at the turbidity of the culture, but we can also measure the turbidity in a spectrophotometer, dilute the culture and plate the cells on agar to count the colonies, or look at the cells under a microscope. The last is not very useful for H. influenzae, mainly because the cells are so tiny but partly because our very expensive microscope is badly out of alignment. (We are arranging for a long-overdue visit from the serviceman.)
The first tests, done with the original problematic batch of BHI, found that inoculation of sBHI culture tubes with H. influenzae produced no growth but inoculation of E. coli directly into the bottles of BHI produced abundant growth.
The lab assistant then made four bottles of new BHI using combinations of the two stocks of BHI powder (old Difco brand and new MBL brand) and two sources of distilled water (secondary carboy and source carboy); this gave four bottles, labeled A, B, C, and D. One of the post-docs supervised this to make sure she wasn't making any errors. The post-docs then inoculated tubes of these media with H. influenzae from a freezer stock (amounts not carefully controlled, and with E. coli from a fresh culture. All of the H. influenzae tubes grew but none of the E. coli ones did! They then inoculated H. influenzae from the tubes that had grown into fresh tubes of media A-D, and this time the cells didn't grow!
I wanted to find out what the medium was doing to the cells by looking at them under the microscope. So yesterday I inoculated tubes of sBHI (from bottle A) and sLB with measured amounts of H. influenzae and of E. coli. Both inocula were prepared by resuspending cells taken from fresh colonies on plates into a small amount of LB, and then adding 50 microliters to 2.5ml of medium. I used disposable plastic culture tubes rather than our standard glass culture tubes because we wanted to exclude the possibility that dirty tubes were causing the problem.
I looked at the cells immediately after inoculation and after 30', 60' and 120' in the incubator. The E. coli cells in both sLB and sBHI did what healthy cells do - they gradually became longer and divided so that, after 120' the culture was very cloudy and each microscope 'field of view' contained 5-10 times more cells than it had at the start. The H. influenzae cells in sLB also grew. Because they're so little they looked like tiny specks and threads, but the number and proportion of threads got higher, indicating that the cells were elongating and dividing into new cells. But the cells in sBHI just sat there, continuing to look like a mixture of specks and short threads. The post-doc measured the culture turbidities in the spectrophotometer, confirming that E. coli was at high density in both media (higher density in the sBHI) and that H. influenzae was at higher density in sLB than in sBHI.
What did I learn? First, the problem is reproducible. Second, it isn't dirty culture tubes. Third, the problem manifests itself quite quickly. It isn't that the cells grow initially and then run out of some key nutrient - rather they don't grow at all. Fourth, the problem isn't the hemin or NAD. These results reinforce my notion that we should focus on the inability of H. influenzae to grow in BHI medium that does allow growth of E. coli, and not worry for now about the time when H. influenzae did grow and E. coli didn't.
So what will I do today? The post-doc made a big batch of BHI and BHI agar yesterday for me to do tests with, and streaked out H. influenzae and E. coli on agar plates.
- I think I'll first repeat yesterday's experiment with media A-D and the new batch (call it E), this time measuring the turbidities of all cultures at the start as well as after 2 hours.
- I'll also use oil-immersion to look at the H. influenzae cells under the microscope - this is a bit more hassle but gives higher resolution.
- I'll also dilute and plate the H. influenzae cells that are in the medium they wouldn't grow in yesterday. By doing this I can find out whether the cells die (and how quickly) or just fail to grow. Finding that the cells die would suggest that the medium contains something toxic, whereas finding that they just fail to grow would suggest that the medium is lacking an important nutrient.
- I'll also try mixing the sBHI 50:50 with LB. This might also show whether there's something missing from the BHI (if H. influenzae grows in the mixture) or something toxic in the BHI (if H. influenzae doesn't grow in the mixture).
- The batch E BHI agar was made with the same medium as batch E broth, so I'll pour plates of this and see if cells grow into colonies overnight. So far the problem has been found only with cells in liquid culture, but the liquid medium and agar have been from batches made on different days. (I can do my other plating on another batch of plates that one of the post-docs poured on Monday - we know cells do grow into colonies on these plates.)
How is the temperature in your incubator? Could it be off a few degrees, or fluctuating? Are the fans working properly? Could some tubes be overheating and others at the right temperature?
Good point. The incubator has a fan that mixes the warm air efficiently, and it shows no signs of behaving badly. Yesterday's four parallel cultures (E. coli and H. influenzae in sLB and sBHI) were all incubated together, so the failure of H. influenzae to grow in sBHI isn't due to an incubator problem. They're on a roller wheel so they all experience identical environments in the incubator.
Of course a messy problem like this could easily be due to interactions between factors that, taken alone, don't significantly affect growth. Some minor change in our still's output plus some minor change in the incubator plus some minor difference in something I haven't thought of...
What a nightmare - I hope we find a simple explanation soon, as the post-docs' have important experiemnts they need to do, and their patience is bound to run out soon.
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Auckland Institute.
Fourth Meeting: 1st August, 1910.
Dr. R. Briffault, President, in the chair.
Lecture.—Mr. A. Wyllie, Electrical Engineer to the City of Auckland, delivered a lecture on “Wireless Telephony.”
The lecturer explained the different systems at present in use, taking first of all those dependent on light or heat radiation, such as the photophone, the speaking arc, the photographophone, &c. He then passed on to consider those modes which are worked by means of electrical forces, explaining at some length closed-circuit telephony, electro-magnetic induction telephony, and spark telephony.
A large number of illustrative experiments accompanied the lecture, and the “speaking are” was exhibited for the first time in Auckland. A unanimous vote of thanks was awarded to Mr. Wyllie.
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Al-Jazeera’s office overlooking historical Tahrir Square in Cairo was firebombed by protesters as the third day of violent anti-government demonstrations rages on in Egypt’s capital..
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How Al Gore Came To Invent The Internet
As Republicans head to the polls in New Hampshire, it is worth reminding ourselves of the role the media will play in shaping the outcome of both today’s election and the presidential campaign to come. In this 2007 piece for Vanity Fair, Evgenia Peretz recounts how a collection of misquotes, half-truths and transcription errors were fashioned into a narrative of Al Gore as a serial exaggerator willing to say anything to win the presidency: ‘invented’ the Internet, didn’t help.”
Read the full article here.
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Do you go insane for donuts, candy, and all things sweet? If you do, then you should be put in a straight-jacket and tossed straight into Psycho Donuts, a donut shop with an insane asylum theme. The entire Psycho Donuts store is decorated with a freakish sensibility, from the twisted, Tim Burton-esque pictures adorning its white walls to its employees dressed in white nurses’ and doctors’ uniforms. There is even a booth with white, padded walls and a box of assorted masks for you to take memorable pictures in like a patient. Of course, one wonders how politically-correct this all is, but the atmosphere is reassuringly colorful and light-hearted.
As for the donuts themselves, it is as if the milquetoast Krispy Kremes we have come to know and love have been manhandled and pumped up with a Frankenstein treatment (in a good way). This means that Psycho Donuts pulls out all the stops when it comes to combining sugary, fried treats with bombastic creativity:
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On 14 March, Ambassador Cole was invited by the Dutch United National
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RUSHVILLE —
The Fitness Initiative Team of Rush County wants to help those who may be struggling with New Year’s resolutions to improve health and personal finances. F.I.T. is encouraging participation in the “Winter 2013 Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ (SSHW) Challenge” which will be held Sunday, Jan. 13, through Saturday, Feb. 23. A free six-week program, SSHW nationally is provided through Rutgers Cooperative Extension Program. F.I.T. is bringing this program home to Rush County.
Those who are able will enroll in the national program online. A pen and paper version will be provided for those who do not have Internet access. Small Steps to Health & Wealth™ classes will be held locally starting with a kick-off session Saturday, Jan. 12. Classes will be held every two weeks throughout the challenge including Jan. 26 and Feb. 9 with final wrap-up on Saturday, Feb. 23. Prizes will be awarded for participants who report the highest point totals nationally. At the local level, prize drawings and basic weight and health assessments will be completed at each of the four meetings.
Two steps are required to participate in the Rush County version of SSHW.(1) Return your completed enrollment form to Purdue Extension Rush County in Room 103 of the Rush County Courthouse or to Rush Memorial Hospital HR Dept. (2) Sign up for the online SSHW Challenge by following the “Challenges” link on the Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ Web site at. Set up a user name and password and download a simple one-page user’s guide with instructions about how to proceed. Enroll in the Challenge titled “Winter 2013 SSHW Challenge.”
If you want to use the pen and paper version, it will be available through Rush County Extension Office. Information will also be provided on Facebook (Partners for a Healthy Rush County). Be sure to “like” this page. to track daily points and is now available online for participation nationwide. health and financial practices.
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four 2013 online,. At the end of the six weeks, participants will print out their bar graph and submit it locally. They should also bring their up-to-date chart to each of the local classes. Those participating with the pen & paper version will turn in their charts every two weeks, or at the local classes.
Doing even one of the ten recommended daily practices is a great way to get started on the path to better health and improved financial security. The more SSHW Challenge activities that are performed by participants, the better. SSHW activities are being planned locally. Make plans now to be involved.
This is a project of the Fitness Initiative Team of Rush County, one of the action teams of the Partners for a Healthy Rush County.
Enrollment forms will be available from Purdue Extension Rush County and from the Human Resources Department of Rush Memorial Hospital. The form can be downloaded at. Questions may be directed to Gracie Marlatt, HHS educator with Purdue Extension at 932-5974 or [email protected] or to Dennis Fogle, vice president of Human Resources at Rush Memorial Hospital, [email protected].
To participate in the Rush County “Winter 2013 SSHW Challenge”
(1) Return a completed enrollment form to Purdue Extension Rush County, 101 E. Second Street, Room 103, Courthouse or to RMH Human Resources, 1300 N. Main Street.
(2) Visit the Rutgers SSHW Web site at. Under Challenges select SSHW Online Individual Challenge. Register for an account then select My Challenges to enroll in the Winter 2013 SSHW Challenge.
The Challenge will run from Jan. 13 to Feb. 23.
The deadline to enroll is Jan. 17.
Don’t miss out on this fun and motivating program to improve your health and wealth for 2013!
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Beijing’s Ban on Smoking Is Actually (Sort of) Working
That's no mean feat in a country that loves to light up.
BEIJING – months after it was first implemented. “Personally, I support the new ban,” old-school grunge act Xie Tianxiao announced on social media in June, after paparazzi snapped the icon sneaking a smoke at Beijing’s airport. He’s not the only one.
On June 1, the day after World No Tobacco Day, Beijing declared it would try — once again — to ban smoking in all its public places. The rule proscribes puffing in virtually every traditional venue: shops, public bathrooms, hospitals, bars, restaurants, trains, buses, and taxis. Those who ignore it risk a $32 fine, which escalates to $1,600 for any business that allows abusers on its premises. So far, over $16,000 worth of fines have been collected under the new rule, according to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning, which announced the possibility of increasing individual penalties to $800.
But what may prove more effective than the threat of a financial penalty is the growing realization that Beijing, already fending off notorious pollution, can no longer afford to carry the public-health burden of a citywide smoking habit as well.
The ban’s early success — one month after it began, the Beijing Association on Tobacco Control described the short-term results as “satisfactory” — is noteworthy. Environmental or health-friendly policies are often introduced to great fanfare in China, usually accompanied by amiable mantras like “Healthy City,” only to quietly fade due to lack of political will or commercial incentive. When it comes to smoking, Chinese cities have mostly proven willing to stub out only while international audiences are watching. What starts as erratic enforcement soon peters out, and the country light back up as soon as the world turns away. Take Guangzhou, the capital of southern Guangdong, which experimented with an ill-fated smoking crackdown in 2010, and has been doing so on-and-off, and without success, since 1995. Then there’s financial capital Shanghai, which made a similarly short-lived effort prior to its World Expo in 2010, themed “Better Life, Better City.” Beijing has also tried, with at least one half-hearted effort targeting large restaurants during the 2008 Olympics. That effectively ended when the foreign press went home.
Still, China’s capital has long regarded itself as a little different. Beijing is intended in part as a showcase for the superiority of the Chinese socialist system, and special emphasis has always been placed on the city as a vanguard of orderliness. As the first port of call for foreign delegations and visitors, and with vaunted aspirations to be a world city, it would satisfy Chinese leaders’ vanity for Beijing to keep up with the green, healthy policies of more developed rivals.
Though it’s too soon to declare any victory, almost two months after Beijing announced its ban, evidence of newfound abstinence still abounds. During fierce stock-market upheavals in mid-July, I spent a day at a Beijing trading hall, where one might expect more than a few tense puffs — yet only a few middle-aged smokers paced the building’s steps as stocks lit green within, signaling a loss. At one 24-hour bar in the Gongti nightclub district last weekend, notorious for its anything-goes atmosphere, tobacco fiends loitered outside, instead of indoors, where revelers at Beijing bars and clubs used to take drags beneath ubiquitous, universally ignored “no smoking” signs. The club’s manager confirmed the place was taking a firm line. Even smoker-friendly venues seem less smoky: over a dinner of spiced duck blood at my go-to local dive-restaurant on July 24, for example, I asked about the ban. “You can smoke,” the manager cheerfully reassured, offering to fetch an ashtray. “We’re a small restaurant and off the main road, so it’s fine.” Yet despite the many beer and strong baijiu liquor bottles accumulating on tables, the nicotine-laced fug was notably thinner than usual.
Beijing has come far since December 2009, when, at a Nicotine Dependence Conference held here to promote greater compliance among healthcare workers, one speaker warned that China had the largest number of male doctors who smoked — 60 percent — and many were unaware of its relation to diseases other than severe respiratory problems. In October that year, visiting an army hospital in central Beijing on several occasions, I observed patients blithely puffing away in elevators and bathrooms used as informal rec rooms by staff. An effective ban seemed unlikely then, if not outright impossible. That’s clearly changed. At the same hospital, I gently tested the ban in late July by wandering around with an unlit cigarette; I didn’t get past the crowded reception desk before earning a worried reprimand from a friendly youth in military uniform, clutching a baton. Inside, the odor of stale smoke and quashed butts that had permeated the place on previous visits seemed to have dissipated.
Those who work at other state-owned workplaces in Beijing, where bathrooms used to be frequently commandeered for cigarette breaks, say that signs now publically forbid it, while staff privately frown on the once-ubiquitous practice. “Actually, we are all for the ban,” said Lu Wei, a married smoker who works for a state-owned shipping company. His said his fellow smokers believe the ban has helped them cut back on the habit, while non-smoking peers, especially women, cheer them on. “My female co-workers even put up their own ‘no smoking’ notice in the office.”
As is usual in China’s top-down system, those who issue the rules don’t necessarily heed them. “On the first day of the ban, I didn’t smoke one cigarette in my office … On the third day, I smoked four or five … after that, everything basically went back normal,” one senior official told a reporter from state broadcaster China Radio International. He attributed his relapse to the importance of the “the ‘human’ element” in China, a likely reference to smoking’s role as a traditional facilitator of masculine bonding, not to mention bribery — the country sells cheap cigarettes, but also cartons that can cost $1,000. In business, the ritualistic offer of a cigarette can confer prestige and status. Then there’s the traditional fear of confronting higher-ups, which may explain the thousands of complaints health authorities have received on an official hotline set up to report smoking scofflaws.
The real test of Beijing’s latest anti-smoking effort may come when the capital’s roof terraces, beer gardens and patios close down for the frigid winter months. “People are fine with it now, because there’s plenty of room for them to sit outside,” said one restaurant manager, who says his business has already applied for permission to build further outdoor seating. (He asked to withhold his name so as not endanger the application). If anything, the manager said, the ban has been good for businesses that have space for customers to smoke comfortably outdoors. But he noted that, in the weeks around the ban, urban management officials were regularly disrupting bars and restaurants without the right permits for sidewalk seating. Many in the hospitality trade have been long suffering since austerity measures drove a slump in business and fear further restrictions could worsen their fortunes.
National leaders’ support for tobacco control has long clashed with provincial authorities’ need to consider tobacco’s importance to the local economies they represent. The tension has resulted in some bizarrely conflicted governmental compromises. In January 2006, when China agreed to a World Health Organization framework for eliminating smoking in public, it included the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) — which oversees the sales, quotas, and costs of all official tobacco products in China — in the group assigned to examine strategy and offer guidance on its regulation. With some 300 million customers, the STMA is effectively the world’s most powerful tobacco company. Its tens of billions worth of U.S. dollars in taxes are significant to the Chinese economy; in May 2009, authorities in one country in the central province of Hubei famously demanded that their employees smoke an annual quota of locally produced cartons, with fines for going off-brand, just to juice revenues.
Yang Gonghuan, a former deputy director general for the Chinese Center for Disease Control, told state-run online outlet The Paper that the STMA poses “the biggest obstacle to China’s tobacco control.” Yang described Chinese cigarette packs as “the least scary in the world,” and blamed the monopoly for issuing a temporary regulation in 2008 that prevented health warnings from appearing on shelves. “If the people knew about the real danger of smoking, they’d stop,” Yang claimed. That’s starting to happen; 55.8 percent of a sample of Beijing’s four million smokers say they plan to quit, according to a recent poll by the government-run Beijing Patriotic Health Campaign Committee. Although some have rightfully complained that the new rule penalizes users while ignoring abuses by the industry itself, vested interests like the STMA may matter less if there exists a common will to make the ban work.
Smoking may eventually come to be viewed as an oddly indulgent habit in a city whose air is already persistently hostile to one’s health. Indeed, an unusual spate of recent thunderstorms, coupled with low winds, has left a spectral gloom over the city this summer, a reminder of greater problems yet to be resolved. In this clammy atmosphere, young commuters, lining up at bus stops, seem to cough, hawk, and grumble like terminal smokers. The capital may be ready to finally give up its favorite bad habit, but it has plenty of others still to kick.
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In the morning, I reviewed/updated 3 more ancestors files. These were actually living relatives and were quick and simple to do, boring actually. I’m ready to get back to the “old souls” again!
As I was finishing up the morning’s activites, I got a call to come in to work early, which was actually a good thing, as this way I have the evening off. I wasn’t really feeling genealogy then, anyway. I’ve been sick all week and can’t sleep and don’t feel like doing much of anything. (Can you hear the tiny violin playing?)
When I got home from work, I checked my Gmail and Google Reader, then wrote a post for the Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt. The post turned out to be rather long, so I split it into 2 separate posts and published Part I.
I’m trying to get more active in the genealogy blogging community, as time allows. Unfortunately, prose doesn’t flow from my virtual pen (can’t type!), so it takes me awhile to write a post. I’m so anal, the grammar and spelling have to be perfect before I publish anything!
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Okay guys, I've been reading these forums like crazy! I need help and figured I'd go straight to the people who know all the ins and outs. I'm trying to lose fat...and QUICKLY. I have finally had the revelation that I'm an extremist...I function best on very strict/difficult tasks! So I decided to apply it to my everyday dieting life to get results.
Goals: Lose as much fat as possible in the shortest amount of time (we're talking 8-15 weeks...cutting cycle??)
Gain some strength, esp upper body strength.
I am vegan, and just did a 2 week cleanse made up of fruits, veggies, and lean protein. I got great results but I ate ONLY 500-800 cals a day. I would like to come up with something I can stick to, more like a cutting cycle, but a strict one at that. I don't want to mess up my metabolism. I have 32 lbs of fat on me BTW-- GO HARD OR GO HOME IS MY MOTTO! So this is what I've come up with:
Daily Diet: (can be found on myfitnesspal.com/mgbur01 see the log for monday feb 4)
Whole grain wrap cals 210
gardein chick'n Scallopini cals 110
1 tbsp honey mustard cals 36
1-2 cups fresh fruit-- melons or berries
1 tbsp peanut butter cals 105
2 salads made up of:
2 cups spring mix greens cals 40
8 baby carrots, raw cals 42
1/2 pepper cals 25
1 cup of white kidney beans, navy beans, garbanzo beans cals ~210
1 oz raw almonds cals 85
amy's kitchen organic california burger (might eliminate this and try to replace it with something w another protein shake-- the burger's got 300mg sodium) cals 150
1 tbsp italian dressing cals 40
topped with about 3 tbsp nutritional yeast which I don't know the calories on, but has good vitamins and helps the taste.
then finish the day with a protein shake after my nightly workout
gemma pea protein from true nutrition cals 104
1 cup light soy or coconut milk cals 45
Macros: 45% carbs/ 24% protein/ 31% fat (obviously if i replace the amy's burger with a protein shake my protein will be a little higher)
This comes out to 1251 calories and total protein is 78 grams. I exercise 6x a week- for the past 2 weeks I've been doing 30 mins interval training on the treadmill (1 min of about 6.0 pace, 10 incline every 3-4 mins) and weight lifting...alternating upper and lower body, 12-15 reps...feeling the burn when I reach 10. Saturdays I add in a SS 45 min cardio jog instead of the interval (jog for about 25 mins, then walk for maybe 5-10 mins, then jog again to finish, and I go swimming for 30 mins to stretch out my muscles and get a little more cardio, but I don't kill myself in the pool. I just love swimming haha and the cold water feels great!
Let me just recap that my goal is to lose fat as quickly as possible. I work for a modeling agency and just started going out on auditions so I want to get my measurements down. Eventually I will look into fitness modeling, but for now I'm trying to get LEAN. by the end of the week I'll be drinking about 100+ oz of water. (I drink 64 at least as of late).
The last measurements I had were taken in October. I gained some muscle since then and lost some fat, but I haven't remeasured since.
Bust: 34D
Waist: 28
Hips: 38
I have also thought of possibly doing another 1 week cleanse of low calories, mainly fruits and veggies with some protein. Then resume the above diet for a week or two, then repeat. I don't want to do a low calorie diet for too long (under 1100 is low to me) because I'm afraid I will gain pure fat if I have a cheat day.
Also, on the topic of cheat days/meals...what do you all recommend? All I want on a cheat day is fruit snacks, chocolate, a Luna or good Greens protein bar, and potato bread toast. I could easily eat 1000+ cals of these, but I think if I control it and allow myself 300 cals of fruit snacks, 200 cals for chocolate, I might not go crazyyyy if I know it's okay and won't totally sabotage me.
Any ideas on this diet? Are my macros all out of whack? Should I be cycling some other way, or just sticking to this diet? Cheat day/ no cheat day? You guys would be an awesome help to me, thanks in advance!!!
I'm an Extremist....moderation smoderation! HELP- newbie!
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Then apply a caloric amount to that.
But if you do start counting calories just know that it should be strict maintenance or you want be to happy with the results
If you are excerscising and eating right ( and im not talking about subway and chipotle and fast food salads) then you really dont have to count your calories (imo)
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Im thinking you could find a program unique to your goals and it will suprise you how many calories you should be getting.
I didnt read all of your post because im a troll but you being female
Im thinking you should get around 1700
To fit a healthy lean female body
Thats what my girls shooting for and shes pretty lean
Also, I know you guys won't believe me but I legit felt better than I ever have when I was on that cleanse. Even my agent told me I was glowing and I really did have more energy than I knew what to do with. Just sayin.
Anyways, back to helpful responses please.... 1400 cals a day, lifting and interval running for 30 mins, one cheat meal per week. Keep in mind I have very little muscle, 1400 isn't too low idt.
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Yesterday’s virt-what problem
If the qemu -cpu flag is used then “QEMU” no longer appears in /proc/cpuinfo, so virt-what fails to detect virtualization. Simple workaround of detecting KVMKVMKVM leaf in CPUID doesn’t work because Parallels Desktop also exports the same leaf (why?!?). A more complex fix is required.
Today’s virt-what problem
Xen full virt guests on IA64 are reportedly not detected by virt-what. I say “reportedly” because obviously no one uses IA64. So the first task is to locate an IA64 system, which I eventually manage (thanks Alexander Todorov). Secondly how to run the CPUID instruction on IA64 (thanks Paolo Bonzini). Thirdly to work out that there is nothing in CPUID which indicates virtualization on this peculiar platform. Number four to come up with a test (thanks again Paolo). Number five to write a patch and test everything several times over to make sure nothing has been broken or regressed …
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Good morning, My wifes work computers HD crapped out and their IT gentlemans backup did not include most of her data (i.e. outlook contacts, spreadsheets from my documents). Being a good husband I thought I'd take a crack at getting them back for her for a "price to be named later".
The HD is a WD 250gb that had windows 7. I have an old windows laptop that I figured I would be able to put the effected drive in, run TestDisk and be able to move the data to an external HD. Not sure if it's pertinent, but the machine I'm using as the donor is/was an HP with windows xp.
I booted the windows machine with a Ububtu 12.04 live CD and acquired TestDisk from Synaptics.
When I run TestDisk it will only display the volume created by the Live CD "Disk /dev/sr0 ... ... DVDRAM".
I plugged in an external HD and ran TestDisk again to verify it's proper operation, and it found the external HD without issue.
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You need to run TestDisk as root, otherwise you are using a user account that don't have the right to access all the disks.
You should select sudo in TestDisk interface.
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Thousands came out to see Dave Chappelle return to the stage for a free show in Oregon on Wednesday.
The “Chappelle’s Show” star put the word out on Facebook and Twitter that he’d be doing a free show at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon around midnight. According to the Associated Press, Dave only thought that about 200 people would show up, so he was surprised to see that thousands had gathered to see him crack some jokes when arrived at 1 a.m.
He must have forgotten how popular he is and how quickly things get around online.
Unfortunately, there were a few sounds problems. Since he didn’t expected so many fans to come out, he only brought a small amplifier, so most people couldn’t hear him. He announced that someone from his crew would go find a better speaker, but there was no power to make them work.
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Here’s more:
Wanda Sykes roasts the president
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I used Photo Rec to recover .jpg files that had been encrypted; it worked, somewhat. Recovered some pics, but many pics were in thumbnail form. Also it recovered some pics multiple times and did not recover others at all.
After reading more about Photo Rec I realized I used the same partition. Would Photo Rec still recover the .jpg files if I ran it again, saving the recovered files to another partition on the hard drive on my lap top? If not, I still have encrypted .jpg files on my back-up; so If I reloaded these files to my lap top hard drive, would it work if I ran Photo Rec? Please advise.
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Unfortunately if data have been written to the source partition, deleted data may have been overwritten. It's not possible to reverse this operation.
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This document contains only my personal opinions and calls of judgement, and where any comment is made as to the quality of anybody's work, the comment is an opinion, in my judgement.
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lsit might have been tenable, but anyhow it was a wrong idea. The rationale was to avoid listing the
.and
..entries, and was generalized to any files beginning with a dot. But the more appropriate design would have been to decide that when listing a directory the two special entries would never be listed, even if present.
etcsubdirectory of the user's home directory, and not dotfiles. Too late now.
:-)).
internetof 10-30 laboratories) but has huge performance requirements.
split trunkingwhich promises an amazing advantage: to have two outgoing routers with transparent load balancing and failover; somewhat like a cluster system (such as Heartbeat, RHCS) but for the
gateway serviceinstead of a higher level service like HTTP. If that does not sound amazing, note that in general a leaf node in IP use only one router address per route, e.g.
10.0.0.1for the default outgoing route for
10.0.0.0/8. There are special case exceptions, for example Linux has the advanced routing extensions, but in general IP is based on one active gateway per route. Transparent failover of that one route can be done, but only by turning each node into a router that listens for route updates, or pointing each node to a local router that does.
MAC addressfails the entries pointing to it are unlearned (usually with an explicit notification process), and traffic then flows only to the surviving router, a hinted here (I have added some emphasis to critical phrases):.This requires violating the spirit if not the letter of the designs of both Ethernet and IP, but if everything works, it gives transparent load balancing and failover without any changes to client devices, and to the manufacturer it also delivers the advantage of locking customers into their proprietary software and protocol (because all the switches involved, not just the two routers, must support the extensions) to a high degree, even if the protocol has been proposed for standardization.
Because SMLT inherently avoids loops due to its superior enhanced-link aggregation-control-protocol, when designing networks using SMLT, it is not necessary to use the IEEE 802.1D/w Spanning Tree protocols. Instead, a method is used that allows two aggregation switches to appear as a single device to edge switches that are dual homed to the aggregation switches. The aggregation switches are inter- connected using an InterSwitch Trunk (IST), over which they exchange addressing and state information, permitting rapid fault detection and forwarding path modification. Although SMLT is primarily designed for Layer 2, it also provides benefits for Layer 3 networks.
spamavoidance scheme uses wildcards. The main points about spam are that:
.mail.example.org(for people) or flickr
.mbox.example.org(for sites and companies), and then delete it if it gets spammed and reissue the welcome senders with a new one. This is easiest if one can run a DNS and SMTP server. But there is a better solution that relies on the notion that most of these e-mail addresses would not get spam, and explicitly adding one per correspondent is too tedious.
.example.com). It is also quite important to make sure that the main domain name cannot be used a mail target, by ensuring it does not have an
MXRR (and no
ARR ideally), and that any servers with a published domain names do not have an SMTP server on them. The wildcard scheme also requires an SMTP server that can accept e-mail for wildcard domain names (for example exim). Now, if all domain names under the examples above are valid as they are covered by the wildcard, how can one retract the few that eventually get spam? Well, the rule is that a more specific definition overrides the wildcard one, so just adding any RR definition for it. Therefore an example DNS zone file (in the usual BIND syntax) may look like in part:
$ORIGIN example.org @ NS NS0 @ NS NS1 NS0 A 10.0.0.2 NS1 A 10.0.0.3 WWW A 10.0.0.2 SMTP A 10.0.0.3 POP3 A 10.0.0.3 ; Wildcards *.mail MX 1 SMTP *.mbox MX 1 SMTP ; Number changed periodically me08 MX 1 SMTP ; Invalidated phat.mbox TXT "spammed" tony.mail TXT "spammed" anne.mail TXT "spammed"
port multiplierfor a single LAN, up to a low threshold.
sunitand
swidthparameters of the XFS file system is pretty essential (for both data and the log/journal).
salesman's RAID; by this he means that RAID5 is the ideal sales pitch as it promises both redundancy and low cost, and of course excellent performance due to inevitable proprietary enhancements. Similarly for VLANs, that are presented as the ideal way to expand an installation limitlessly and transparently in the most flexible way.
solutionthat does not require the effort to study issues like performance vs. redundancy vs. cost or complicated stuff like routing.
[ ... ] an NFS server that has two 12 disk arrays attached to it. The drives are 250GB SATA devices, so there is a total of about 3T of space in each array, 6TB raw space. On boot, the devices and capacities are detected by the kernel, and display these two lines:At least LVM2 is used in striping mode instead of linear mode; conversely I have noticed that using LVM2 to linearly span a logical volume across two physical discs is fairly popular.SCSI device sdb: 3866554368 512-byte hdwr sectors (1979676 MB) SCSI device sdc: 3866554368 512-byte hdwr sectors (1979676 MB)I start wondering where one third of the array went, and start digging. The former admin mentioned that they were configured into a as "Two RAID 5+0 array[s ...] with a usable storage capacity of 3.6TB Filesystems are striped across both arrays using LVM2." Confused, I start running some calculations to figure out how he managed to convert 6TB of space into 3.6T, using RAID5.
It appears that there are actually four RAID5 arrays (two per physical array), each with one hot spare. Within the RAID hardware, the two arrays are are striped (RAID5+0). The numbers mostly work for this configuration:(12 drives - 2 for spares - 2 for RAID5) * 250GB = 2TB per arrayLVM2 is then used to stripe the two RAID5+0 arrays (does that make it RAID5+0+0?)
stickinessand thus any links reduce revenues. This is not as relevant for non commercial web sites which often index their texts with links, notably at Wikipedia. Another problem is felt at many sites: lazyness which leads to treat hypertext pages as if they were mere text pages (which results in many commercial web sites not having even links between pages in the same site, except for boilerplate navigation). But the intentional lack of links when it happens is based on the idea that the stickiest web site has a lot of links pointing to it, but none from it to any other site (unless that site pays or equivalent, like link exchange).
embarassingly parallelapplications like Folding@Home the PS3 delivers very high performance running a fairly nice background application. That is not surprising as each of the 6-7 secondary processing elements in a Cell Broadband Engine architecture 1, 2, 3, 4) the vector processing elements can delivering a lot of power being 3GHz each if the problem data set fits in 256KiB, which is not too small.
"I know it's hard to keep focused on your current projects and at same time watch the industry trends," Mencher says, "but you must do this and ensure you're gaining the next generation coding skills needed for the next killer job.Well, I don't quite agree here: the single most important skill for keeping a job as a programmer, not just in the games industry, is to live in a low cost country, from Eastern Europe to India or the Philippines. Those programmers without such a skill will remain employed in the same way that naval engineers remained employed in Glasgow. Anyhow the idea that game employers discard those without the latest skills to hire those who have them is just a symptom that there is a large oversupply of programmers with recent skills.
For programmers, it's never safe to stay focused on only one technology or one platform. It is safe to keep learning and increasing your skill base even if this means doing it off work hours."
pathsto select the right one for each service application? Well, if only it were that easy. There are famous distributions with package and dependency managers that make even just installing different versions of the same library awakward. It can be easier to just create a wholly distinct system image and instance just to work around such limitations.
transparent interposition.
# ionice -c3 dd bs=16k if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb 30524161+1 records in 30524161+1 records out 500107862016 bytes (500 GB) copied, 10596.3 seconds, 47.2 MB/sCheap backup at 47MB/s (average over outer and inner tracks) can't be much wrong, especially compared to 12-15MB/s for Firewire 400 and 20-25MB/s for USB2. The only comparable alternative is Firewire 800 but my impression is that external cases and host adapters for it are far more expensive than for eSATA.
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Mythical Monsters, by Charles Gould, [1886], at sacred-texts.com
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IF we assume that the antiquity of man is as great, or even approximately as great, as Sir Charles Lyell and his followers affirm, the question naturally arises, what has he been doing during those countless ages, prior to historic times? what evidences has he afforded of the possession of an intelligence superior to that of the brute creation by which he has been surrounded? what great monuments of his fancy and skill remain? or has the sea of time engulphed any that he erected, in abysses so deep that not even the bleached masts project from the surface, to testify to the existence of the good craft buried below?
These questions have been only partially asked, and but slightly answered. They will, however, assume greater proportions as the science of archæology extends itself, and perhaps receive more definite replies when fresh fields for investigation are thrown open in those portions of the old world which Asiatic reserve has hitherto maintained inviolable against scientific prospectors.
If man has existed for fifty thousand years, as some demand, or for two hundred thousand, as others imagine, has his intelligence gone on increasing throughout the period? and if so, in what ratio? Are the terms of the series which involve the unknown quantity stated with sufficient precision to enable us to determine whether his development has been slow, gradual, and more or less uniform, as in arithmetical, or gaining at a rapidly increasing rate, as in geometric progression. Or, to pursue the simile, could it be more
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accurately expressed by the equation to a curve which traces an ascending and descending path, and, though controlled in reality by an absolute law, appears to exhibit an unaccountable and capricious variety of positive and negative phases, of points darrêt, nodes, and cusps.
These questions cannot yet be definitely answered; they may be proposed and argued on, but for a time the result will doubtless be a variety of opinions, without the possibility of solution by a competent arbiter.
For example, it is a matter of opinion whether the intelligence of the present day is or is not of a higher order than that which animated the savans of ancient Greece. It is probable that most would answer in the affirmative, so far as the question pertains to the culture of the masses only, but how will scholars decide, who are competent to compare the works of our present poets, sculptors, dramatists, logicians, philosophers, historians, and statesmen, with those of Homer, Pindar, Æschylus, Euripides, Herodotus, Aristotle, Euclid, Phidias, Plato, Solon, and the like? Will they, in a word, consider the champions of intellect of the present day so much more robust than their competitors of three thousand years ago as to render them easy victors? This would demonstrate a decided advance in human intelligence during that period; but, if this is the case, how is it that all the great schools and universities still cling to the reverential study of the old masters, and have, until quite recently, almost ignored modern arts, sciences, and languages.
We must remember that the ravages of time have put out of court many of the witnesses for the one party to the suit, and that natural decay, calamity, and wanton destruction *
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have obliterated the bulk of the philosophy of past ages. With the exceptions of the application of steam, the employment of moveable type in printing, * and the utilization of electricity, there are few arts and inventions which have not descended to us from remote antiquity, lost, many of them, for a time, some of them for ages, and then re-discovered and paraded as being, really and truly, something new under the sun.
Neither must we forget the oratory and poetry, the master-pieces of logical argument, the unequalled sculptures, and the exquisitely proportioned architecture of Greece, or the thorough acquaintance with mechanical principles and engineering skill evinced by the Egyptians, in the construction of the pyramids, vast temples, canals and hydraulic works.
Notice, also, the high condition of civilization possessed
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by the Chinese four thousand years ago, their enlightened and humane polity, their engineering works, * their provision for the proper administration of different departments of the State, and their clear and intelligent documents. by the Chinese four thousand years ago, their enlightened and humane polity, their engineering works, * their provision for the proper administration of different departments of the State, and their clear and intelligent documents.
In looking back upon these, I think we can hardly distinguish any such deficiency of intellect, in comparison with ours, on the part of these our historical predecessors as to indicate so rapid a change of intelligence as would, if we were able to carry our comparison back for another similar period, inevitably land us among a lot of savages similar to
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FIG. 23.VASE. HAN DYNASTY
B.C. 206 to A.D. 23.
(From the Poh Ku Tu.)
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FIG. 24.CYATHUS OR CUP FOR
LIBATIONS. SHANG DYNASTY,
B.C. 1766 to B.C. 1122.
(From the Poh Ku Tu.)
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those who fringe the civilization of the present period. Intellectually measured, the civilized men of eight or ten thousand years ago must, I think, have been but little inferior to ourselves, and we should have to peer very far back indeed before we reached a status or condition in which the highest type of humanity was the congener of the cave lion, disputing with him a miserable existence, shielded only from the elements by an overhanging rock, or the fortuitous discovery of some convenient cavern.
If this be so, we are forced back again to the consideration of the questions with which this section opened; where are the evidences of man's early intellectual superiority? are they limited to those deduced from the discovery of certain stone implements of the early rude, and later polished ages? and, if so, can we offer any feasible explanation either of their non-existence or disappearance?
In the first place, it may be considered as admitted by archæologists that no exact line can be drawn between the later of the two stone-weapon epochs, the polished Neolithic stone epoch, and the succeeding age of bronze. They are agreed that these overlap each other, and that the rude hunters, who contented themselves with stone implements of war and the chase, were coeval with people existing in other places, acquainted with the metallurgical art, and therefore of a high order of intelligence. The former are, in fact, brought within the limit of historic times.
A similar inference might not unfairly be drawn with regard to those numerous discoveries of proofs of the existence of ruder man, at still earlier periods. The flint-headed arrow of the North American Indian, and the stone hatchet of the Australian black-fellow exist to the present day; and but a century or two back, would have been the sole representatives of the constructive intelligence of humanity over nearly one half the inhabited surface of the world. No philosopher, with these alone to reason on, could have
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FIG. 25.INCENSE BURNER (1). CHEN DYNASTY, B.C. 1122 to B.C. 255.
(From the Poh Ku Tu.)
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FIG. 26.TRIPOD OF THE SHANG DYNASTY. Probable date, B.C. 1649.
(From the Poh Ku Tu.)
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FIG. 27.TRIPOD OF FU YIH, SHANG DYNASTY.
(From the Poh Ku Tu.)
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FIG. 28.TRIPOD OF KWAI WAN, CHEN DYNASTY, B.C. 1122 to B.C. 255
(From the Poh Ku Tu.)
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imagined the settled existence, busy industry, and superior intelligence which animated the other half; and a parallel suggestive argument may be supported by the discovery of human relics, implements, and artistic delineations such as those of the hairy mammoth or the cave-bear. These may possibly be the traces of an outlying savage who co-existed with a far more highly-organized people elsewhere, * just as at the present day the Esquimaux, who are by some geologists considered as the descendants of Palæolithic man, co-exist with ourselves. They, like their reputed ancestors, have great ability in carving on bone, &c.; and as an example of their capacity not only to conceive in their own minds a
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FIG. 29. (From Sir John Ross Second Voyage to the Arctic Regions.)
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correct notion of the relative bearings of localities, but also to impart the idea lucidly to others, I annex a wood-cut of a chart drawn by them, impromptu, at the request of Sir J. Ross, who, inferentially, vouches for its accuracy.
There is but a little step between carving the figure of a mammoth or horse, and using them as symbols. Multiply them, and you have the early hieroglyphic written language of the Chinese and Egyptians. It is not an unfair presumption that at no great distance, in time or space, either some generations later among his own descendants, or so many nations distance among his coevals, the initiative faculty of the Palæolithic savage was usefully applied to the communication of ideas, just as at a much later date the Kououen symbolic language was developed or made use of among the early Chinese. *
Such is, necessarily, the first stage of any written language, and it may, as I think, perhaps have occurred, been developed into higher stages, culminated, and perished at many successive epochs during man's existence, presuming it to have been so extended as the progress of geology tends to affirm.
May not the meandering of the tide of civilization westward during the last three thousand years, bearing on its crest fortune and empire, and leaving in its hollow decay and oblivion, possibly be the sequel of many successive waves which have preceded it in the past, rising, some higher, some lower, as waves will.
In comparison with the vast epochs of which we treat how
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FIG. 30.EARLY CHINESE HIEROGLYPHICS.
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FIG. 31.EARLY CHINESE HIEROGLYPHICS.
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near to us are Nineveh, Babylon, and Carthage! Yet the very sites of the former two have become uncertain, and of the last we only know by the presence of the few scattered ruins on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Tyre, the vast entrepôt of commerce in the days of Solomon, was stated, rightly or wrongly, by Benjamin of Tudela, to be but barely discernible (in 1173) in ruins beneath the waves; and the glory of the world, the temple of King Solomon, was represented at the same date by two copper columns which had been carried off and preserved in Rome. It is needless to quote the cases of Persia, Greece, and Rome, and of many once famous cities, which have dissolved in ruin; except as assisting to point the moral that conquest, which is always recurring, means to a great extent obliteration, the victor having no sympathy with the preservation of the time-honoured relics of the vanquished.
When decay and neglect are once initiated, the hand of man largely assists the ravages of time. The peasant carts the marbles of an emperor's palace to his lime-kiln, * or an Egyptian monarch strips the casing of a pyramid to furnish the material for a royal residence.
Nor is it beyond the limits of possibility that the arrogant caprice of some, perhaps Mongol, invader in the future, may level the imperishable pyramids themselves for the purpose of constructing some defensive work, or the gratification of an inordinate vanity.
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In later dates how many comfortable modern residences have been erected from the pillage of mediæval abbey, keep, or castle? and how many fair cities * must have fallen to decay, in Central and Eastern Asia, and how many numerous populations dwindled to insignificance since the days when Ghenghis and Timour led forth their conquering hordes, and Nadun could raise four hundred thousand horsemen to contest the victory with Kublai Khan.
The unconscious ploughman in Britain has for centuries guided his share above the remains of Roman villas, and the inhabitants of the later city of Hissarlik were probably as ignorant that a series of lost and buried cities lay below them, as they would have been incredulous that within a thousand years their own existence would have passed from the memory of man, and their re-discovery been due only to the tentative researches of an enthusiastic admirer of Homer. Men live by books and bards longer than by the works of their hands, and impalpable tradition often survives the material vehicle which was destined to perpetuate it. The name of Priam was still a household word when the site of his palace had been long forgotten.
The vaster a city is, the more likely is it to be constructed upon the site of its own grave, or, in other words, to occupy the broad valley of some important river beneath whose gravels it is destined to be buried.
Perched on an eminence, and based on solid rock, it may escape entombment, but more swiftly and more certainly will
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it be destroyed by the elements, * and by the decomposition of its own material furnish the shroud for its envelopment. It is not altogether surprising then that no older discoveries than those already quoted have yet been made, for these would probably never have resulted if tradition had not both stimulated and guided the fortunate explorer.
It is, therefore, no unfair inference that the remains of equally important, but very much more ancient cities and memorials of civilization may have hitherto entirely escaped our observation, presuming that we can show some reasonable grounds for belief that, subsequent to their completion, a catastrophe has occurred of sufficiently universal a character to have obliterated entirely the annals of the past, and to have left in the possession of its few survivors but meagre and fragmentary recollections of all that had preceded them.
Now this is precisely what the history and traditions of all nations affirm to have occurred. However, as a variance of opinion exists as to the credence which should be attached to these traditions, I shall, before expressing my own views upon the subject, briefly epitomize those entertained by two authors of sufficient eminence to warrant their being selected as representatives of two widely opposite schools.
These gentlemen, to whom we are indebted for exhaustive papers, embracing the pith of all the information extant
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upon the subject, have tapped the same sources of information, consulted the same authorities, ranged their information in almost identical order, argued from the same data, and arrived at diametrically opposite conclusions.
Mr. Cheyne, following the lead of Continental mythologists, deduces that the Deluge stories were on the whole propagated from several independent centres, and adopts the theory of Schirrer and Gerland that they are ether myths, without any historical foundation, which have been transferred from the sky to the earth.
M. Lenormant, upon the other hand, eliminating from the inquiry the great inundation of China in the reign of Yao, and some others, as purely local events, concludes as the result of his researches that the story of the Deluge "is a universal tradition among all branches of the human race," with the one exception of the black. He further argues: "Now a recollection thus precise and concordant cannot be a myth voluntarily invented. No religious or cosmogenic myth presents this character of universality. It must arise from the reminiscences of a real and terrible event, so powerfully impressing the imagination of the first ancestors of our race, as never to have been forgotten by their descendants. This cataclysm must have occurred near the first cradle of mankind and before the dispersion of families from which the different races of men were to spring."
Lord Arundel of Wardour adopts a similar view in many respects to that of M. Lenormant, but argues for the existence of a Deluge tradition in Egypt, and the identity of the Deluge of Yu (in China) with the general catastrophe of which the tradition is current in other countries.
The subject is in itself so inviting, and has so direct a bearing upon the argument of this work that I propose to re-examine the same materials and endeavour to show from them that the possible solutions of the question have not yet been exhausted,
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We have as data:
2. That of Josephus.
3. The Babylonian.
4. The Hindu.
5. The Chinese.
6. The traditions of all nations in the northern hemisphere, and of certain in the southern.
It is unnecessary to travel in detail over the well-worn ground of the myths and traditions prevalent among European nations, the presumed identity of Noah with Saturn, Janus, and the like, or the Grecian stories of Ogyges and Deucalion. Nor is anyone, I think, disposed to dispute the identity of the cause originating the Deluge legends in Persia and in India. How far these may have descended from independent sources it is now difficult to determine, though it is more than probable that their vitality is due to the written Semitic records. Nor is it necessary to discuss any unimportant differences which may exist between the text of Josephus and that of the Bible, which agree sufficiently closely, but are mere abstracts (with the omission of many important details) in comparison with the Chaldæan account. This may be accounted for by their having been only derived from oral tradition through the hands of Abraham. The Biblical narrative shows us that Abraham left Chaldæa on a nomadic enterprise, just as a squatter leaves the settled districts of Australia or America at the present day, and strikes out with a small following and scanty herd to search for, discover, and occupy new country; his destiny leading him, may be for a few hundred, may be for a thousand miles. In such a train there is no room for heavy baggage, and the stone tablets containing the detailed history of the Deluge would equally with all the rest of such heavy literature be left behind.
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The tradition, however reverenced and faithfully preserved at first, would, under such circumstances, soon get mutilated and dwarfed. We may, therefore, pass at once to the much more detailed accounts presented in the text of Berosus, and in the more ancient Chaldæan tablets deciphered by the late Mr. G. Smith from the collation of three separate copies.
The account by Berosus (see Appendix) was taken from the sacred books of Babylon, and is, therefore, of less value than the last-mentioned as being second-hand. The leading incidents in his narrative are similar to those contained in that of Genesis, but it terminates with the vanishing of Xisuthros (Noah) with his wife, daughter, and the pilot, after they had descended from the vessel and sacrificed to the gods, and with the return of his followers to Babylon. They restored it, and disinterred the writings left (by the pious obedience of Xisuthros) in Shurippak, the city of the Sun.
The great majority of mythologists appear to agree in assigning a much earlier date to the Deluge, than that which has hitherto been generally accepted as the soundest interpretation of the chronological evidence afforded by the Bible.
I have never had the advantage of finding the arguments on which this opinion is based, formulated in association, although, as incidentally referred to by various authors, they appear to be mainly deduced from the references made, both by sacred and profane writers, to large populations and important cities existing subsequently to the Deluge, but at so early a date, as to imply the necessity of a very long interval indeed between the general annihilation caused by the catastrophe, and the attainment of so high a pitch of civilization and so numerous a population as their existence implies.
Philologists at the same time declare that a similar inference may be drawn from the vast periods requisite for the divergence
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of different languages from the parent stock, * while the testimony of the monuments and sculptures of ancient Egypt assures us that race distinction of as marked a type as occurs at the present day existed at so early a date as to preclude the possibility of the derivation of present nations from the descendants of Noah within the limited period usually allowed.
These difficulties vanish, if we consider the Biblical and Chaldean narratives as records of a local catastrophe, of vast extent perhaps, and resulting in general but not total destruction, whose sphere may have embraced the greater portion of Western Asia, and perhaps Europe; but which, while wrecking the great centres of northern civilization, did not extend southwards to Africa and Egypt. The Deluge legends indigenous in Mexico at the date of the Spanish conquest, combining the Biblical incidents of the despatch of birds from a vessel with the conception of four consecutive ages terminating in general destruction, and corresponding with the four ages or Yugas of India, supply in themselves the testimony of their probable origin from Asia. The cataclysm which caused what is called the Deluge may or may not have extended to America, probably not. In a future page
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[paragraph continues] I shall enumerate a few of the resemblances between the inhabitants of the New World and of the Old indicative of their community of origin.
I refer the reader to M. Lenormant's valuable essay * for his critical notice on the dual composition of the account in Genesis, derived as it appears to be from two documents, one of which has been called the Elohistic and the other the Jehovistic account, and for his comparison of it with the Chaldean narrative exhumed by the late Mr. George Smith from the Royal Library of Nineveh, the original of which is probably of anterior date to Moses, and nearly contemporaneous with Abraham.
I transcribe from M. Lenormant the text of the Chaldean narrative, because there are points in it which have not yet been commented on, and which, as it appears to me, assist in the solution of the Deluge story: honour] the gods. [I alone, I was] their servant, to the great gods[The gods took counsel on the appeal of] Anuuthou, build a vessel and finish it [quickly].By a [deluge] I will destroy substance and life.Cause thou to go up into the vessel the substance of all that has life.The vessel thou shalt build600 cubits shall be the measure of its lengthand 60 cubits the amount of its breadth and of its height[Launch it] thus on the ocean and cover it with a roof."I understood, and I said to Ea, my lord:"[The vessel] that thou commandest me to build thus,[when] I shall do ityoung
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on that which is on high and that which is below . . . . . . . Close the vessel . . . .. . . . At a given moment that I shall cause thee to know,enter into it, and draw the door of the ship towards thee.Within it, thy grains, thy furniture, thy provisions,thy riches, thy men-servants, and thy maid-servants, and thy young peoplethe cattle of the field and the wild beasts of the plain that I will assemblefourteen 3,600 measures of asphalte,and three times 3,600 measures of asphalte within.Three times 3,600 men, porters, brought on their heads the chests of provisions.I kept 3,600 chests for the nourishment of my family,and the mariners divided amongst themselves twice 3,600I had carried above and below the furniture of the ship.[This lading filled the two-thirds.]
All that I possessed I gathered together; all I possessed of silver I gathered together; all that I possessed of gold I gatheredshadirabi, the pilot,I confided this dwelling with all that it contained.
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Mu-sheri-ina-namari *rose from the foundations of heaven in a black cloud;Ramman thundered in the midst of the cloudand Nabon and Sharru marched before;they marched, devastating the mountain and the plain;Nergal the powerful, dragged chastisements after him;Adar § advanced, overthrowing before him;the archangels of the abyss brought destruction,in their terrors they agitated the earth.The inundation of Bar heaventhe gods became afraid of the waterspout, andsought a refuge; they mounted up to the heaven of Anu. **The gods were stretched out motionless, pressing one against another like dogs.Ishtar wailed like a child,the great goddess pronounced her discourse: Here is humanity returned into mud, andthis is the misfortune that I have announced in the presence of the gods. So I announced the misfortune in the presence of the gods,for the evil I announced the terrible [chastisement] of men who are mine.I am the mother who gave birth to men, andlike to the race of fishes, there they are filling the sea;and the gods by reason of thatwhich the archangels of the abyss are doing, weep with me."The gods on their seats were seated in tears,and they held their lips closed, [revolving] future things.
Six days and as many nights passed; the wind, the waterspout, and the diluvian rain were in all their strength. At the approach of the seventh day the diluvian rain grew weaker, the terrible waterspout. which had assailed after the fashion of an earthquakegrew calm, the sea inclined to dry up, and the wind and the waterspout came to an end. I looked at the sea, attentively observing; towards
p. 123found no place to light on, and it came back. I sent out and loosed a swallow; the swallow went, turned, andfound no place to light on, and it came back. I sent out and loosed a raven; the raven went, and saw the corpses on the waters; it ate, rested, turned, and came not back.
I then sent out (what was in the vessel) towards Aim be did nut master himself, and he has made the waterspout for the Deluge, and he has numbered my men for the pit."
From far, in drawing near, Belsaw watersp hymn
p. 124 agrees with the Biblical one in ascribing the inundation to a deluge of rain; but adds further details which connect it with intense atmospheric disturbance, similar to that which would be produced by a series of cyclones, or typhoons, of unusual severity and duration.
The intense gloom, the deluge of rain, terrific violence of wind, and the havoc both on sea and land, which accompany the normal cyclones occurring annually on the eastern coast of China, and elsewhere, and lasting but a few hours in any one locality, can hardly be credited, except by those who have experienced them. They are, however, sufficient to render explicable the general devastation and loss of life which would result from the duration of typhoons, or analogous tempests, of abnormal intensity, for even the limited period of six days and nights allotted in the text above, and much more so for that of one hundred and fifty days assigned to it in the Biblical account.
As illustrating this I may refer to a few calamities of recent date, which, though of trivial importance in comparison with the stupendous event under our consideration, bring home to us the terribly devastating power latent in the elements.
In Bengal, a cyclone on October 31, 1876, laid under water three thousand and ninety-three square miles, and destroyed two hundred and fifteen thousand lives.
A typhoon which raged in Canton, Hongkong, and Macao on September 22, 1874, besides much other destruction, destroyed several thousand people in Macao and the adjacent villages, the number of corpses in the town being so numerous that they had to be gathered in heaps and burnt with kerosene,
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the population, without the Chinese who refused to lend assistance, being insufficient to bury them.
A tornado in Canton, on April 11, 1878, destroyed, in the course of a few minutes, two thousand houses and ten thousand lives.
In view of these few historical facts, which might be greatly supplemented, there appears to my mind to be no difficulty in believing that the continuance, during even only six days and six nights, of extraordinarily violent circular storms over a given area, would, especially if accompanied by so-called tidal or earthquake waves, be sufficient to wreck all sea-going and coasting craft, all river boats, inundate every country embraced within it to a very great extent, submerge each metropolis, city, or village, situate either in the deltas of rivers, or higher up their course, sap, unroof, batter down, and destroy all dwellings on the highlands, level forests, destroy all domestic animals, sweep away all cultivated soil, or bury it beneath an enormous thickness of débris, tear away the soil from the declivities of hills and mountains, destroy all shelter, and hence, by exposure, most of those wretched human beings who might have escaped drowning on the lower levels. The few survivors would with difficulty escape starvation, or death from subsequent exposure to the deadly malaria which would be liberated by the rooting up of the accumulated débris of centuries. This latter supposition appears to me to be directly indicated by the passage towards the end of the extract referring to famine, and to the devastation of the earth by Dibbara (the god of epidemics).
It is noticeable that in this account there is no suggestion of complete immersion, Khasisatra simply says there is not any continent (i.e. all the hill ranges within sight would stand out from the inundation like islands), while he speaks of his vessel being arrested by the mountain of Nizir, which must consequently have been above the surface of the water.
Neither is there any such close limitation of the number
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of persons preserved, as in the Biblical story, for Khasisatra took with him his men-servants, maid-servants, and his young people, while the version transmitted by Berosus (see Appendix to this Chapter), states that Xisuthros embarked his wife, children, and his intimate friends, and that these latter subsequently founded numerous cities, built temples, and restored Babylon.
We have thus a fair nucleus for starting a fresh population in the Euphrates valley, which may have received accessions from the gradual concentration of scattered survivors, and from the enterprise of maritime adventurers from the African coast and elsewhere, possibly also nomads from the north, east, and west may have swelled the numbers, and a polyglot community have been established, which subsequently, through race distinctions, jealousies, and incompatibility of language, became again dismembered, as recorded in the history of the attempted erection of the Tower of Babel.
Confining our attention for the moment to this one locality, we may imagine that the young population would not be deterred by any apprehension of physical danger from re-inhabiting such of the old cities as remained recognizable; since we see that men do not hesitate to recommence the building of cities overthrown by earthquake shocks almost before the last tremblings are over; or, as in the case of Herculaneum and Pompeii, within the range of volcanoes which may have already repeatedly vomited destroying floods of lava. Yet, in this instance, they would probably invest the calamity with a supernatural horror, and regard it, as the text expresses it, as a chastisement from the gods for their impiety. If this were so, the very memory of such cities would soon be lost, and with it all the treasures of art and literature which they contained. *
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The Hindu account is taken from the S´atapatha-Brâhmana, a work of considerable antiquity, being one of a series which Professor Max Müller believes to have been written eight hundred years before Christ. A literal translation of the legend, as given in this venerable work, is as follows:
"To Manu in the morning they brought water for washing, just as they bring it for washing the hands. As he was using the water, a fish came into his hand. This (fish) said to him, 'Preserve me, and I will save thee.' (Manu said), 'From what wilt thou preserve me?' (The fish replied), 'A flood will carry away all these creatures; from that I will preserve thee.' (Manu said), 'How is thy preservation (to be effected)?' (The fish replied), 'As long as we are small, there is great danger of our destruction; fish even devours fish: at first preserve me in a jar. When I grow too big for that, cut a trench, and preserve me in that. When I outgrow that, carry me to the sea; then I shall be beyond (the reach of) danger.' Soon it became a great fish; it increased greatly. (The fish said), 'In so many years the flood will come; make a ship and worship me. On the rising of the flood enter the ship, then I will preserve thee.' Having preserved the fish he brought it to the sea. In the same year indicated by the fish (Manu) made a ship and worshipped the fish. When the flood rose he entered the ship; the fish swam near him: he attached the cable of the ship to his (the fish's) horn. By this means the fish carried him over the northern mountain (Himalayas). (The fish said),
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[paragraph continues] 'I have preserved thee: fasten the ship to a tree. But lest the water cut thee off whilst thou art on the mountain, as fast as the water subsides thou wilt descend with it.' Accordingly he descended (with the water); hence this became 'Manu's Descent' from the northern mountain. The flood had carried away all those creatures, Manu alone was left. He being desirous of offspring performed a sacred rite; there also he offered a pâka-sacrifice. With clarified butter, coagulated milk, whey, and curds, he made an offering to the waters. In a year a female was produced; and she arose unctuous from the moisture, with clarified butter under her feet. Mitra and Varuna came to her; and said to her, 'Who art thou?' (She said), 'The daughter of Manu.' (They said), 'Say (thou art) our (daughter).' 'No,' she replied, 'I am verily (the daughter) of him who begot me.' They desired a share in her; she agreed and did not agree. She went on and came to Manu. Manu said to her, 'Who art thou?' 'Thy daughter,' she replied. 'How, revered one, art thou my daughter?' (She replied), 'The offerings which thou hast cast upon the waters,clarified butter, coagulated milk, whey, and curds,from them thou hast generated me. I am a blessing. Do thou introduce me into the sacrifice. If thou wilt introduce me into the sacrifice, thou wilt be (blessed) with abundance of offspring and cattle. Whatever blessing thou shalt ask through me, will all be given to thee.' Thus he introduced her in the middle of the sacrifice; for the middle of the sacrifice is that which comes between the final and the introductory prayers. He, desirous of offspring, meditating and toiling, went with her. By her he begot this (offspring), which is (called) 'The offspring of Manu.'"
The correspondence of this legend with the Biblical and the other accounts is remarkable. We have the announcement of the Deluge, the construction of a ship, the preservation therein of a representative man, the settlement of
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the vessel on a mountain, the gradual subsidence of the water, and the subsequent re-peopling of the world by the man thus preserved. The very scene of the cataclysm is in singular agreement with the other accounts; for the flood is said to carry Manu "over the northern mountain." This places the scene of the Deluge in Central Asia, beyond the Himalaya mountains, and it proves that the legend embodies a genuine tradition brought by the progenitors of the Hindus from their primæval home, whence also radiated the Semitic and Sinitic branches of mankind.
There has been much discussion as to whether the great inundation which occurred in China during the reign of Yao is identical with that of Genesis or not. The close proximity of date lends a strong support to the assumption, and the supposition that the scene of the Biblical Deluge was local in its origin, but possibly widespread in its results, further favours the view.
As the rise of the Nile at Cairo is the only intimation which the inhabitants of Lower Egypt have of the tropical rains of Central Africa, so the inundation of the countries adjacent to the head waters of the great rivers of China may alone have informed the inhabitants of that country of serious elemental disturbances, only reaching, and in a modified form, their western frontier; and it may well have been that the deluge which caused a national annihilation in Western Asia was only a national calamity in the eastern portion of it.
This view is strengthened if we consider that Chinese history has no record of any deluge prior to this, which could hardly have been the case had the Chinese migrated from their parent stock subsequent to an event of such importance; assuming that it had occurred, as there seems valid reason to suppose, within the limits of written history. The anachronism between the two dates assigned by Chinese authors (2297 B.C.)
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and the Jewish historian's calculation (2104 B.C.) is only one hundred and ninety-three years, and this is not so great but that we may anticipate its being explained at some future date. Strauchius computation of 2293 B.C. for the date of the Biblical deluge is within four years, and Ussher's (2349-2348) within fifty-one of the Chinese one. The reason for supposing the deluge of Yao to be historically true, will be inferred from the arguments borrowed from Mr. Legge on the subject of the Shu-king, in another portion of this volume. It is detailed in the great Chinese work on history, the Tung-këen-kang-muh, by Choo He, of which De Mailla's History of China professes to be a translation.
This states that the inundation happened in the sixty-first year of the reign of Yao (2297 B.C.), and that the waters of the Yellow River mingled with those of the Ho-hi-ho and the Yangtsze, ruining all the agricultural country, which was converted into one vast sea.
But neither in the Bamboo Books nor in the Shu-king do we find that any local phenomena of importance occurred, with the exception of the inundation. In fact, the first work is singularly silent on the subject, and simply says that in his sixty-first year Yao ordered Kwan of Tsung to regulate the Ho, and degraded him in his sixty-ninth for being unable to effect it, as we learn elsewhere.
The Shu is more explicit. The Emperor, consulting one of his chief officials on the calamity, says: "O chief of the four mountains, destructive in their overflow are the waters of the inundation. In their vast extent they embrace the mountains and overtop the hills, threatening the heavens with their floods, so that the inferior people groan and murmur."
According to De Mailla's translation, Kwan laboured uselessly for nine years, the whole country was overrun with briars and brushwood, the people had almost forgotten the art of cultivating the groundthey were without the necessary
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seedsand wild animals and birds destroyed all their attempts at agriculture.
In this extremity Yao consulted Shun, his subsequent successor, who recommended the appointment of Yu, the son of Kwan, in his father's place.
Yu was more successful, and describes his labours as follows:
The inundating waters seemed to assail the heavens, and in their vast extent embraced the mountains and overtopped the hills, so that people were bewildered and overwhelmed. I mounted my four conveyances, * and all along the hills hewed down the woods, at the same time, along with Yih, showing the multitudes how to get flesh to eat.
"I also opened passages for the streams throughout the nine provinces, and conducted them to the sea. I deepened, moreover, the channels and canals, and conducted them to the streams, at the same time, along with Tseih, sowing grain, and showing the multitudes how to procure the food of toil in addition to flesh meat."
Yu's success is simply chronicled in the Bamboo Books as, "In his seventy-fifth year Yu, the Superintendent of Works, regulated the Ho."
There was a legend extant in China in the times of Pinto, which he gives in his book, of the original Chinese having migrated from a region in the West, and, following the course of the Ho in boats, finally settling in the country adjacent to Pekin. That some such event took place is not unlikely. Its acceptance would explain much that is difficult.
The pioneers, pushing through a country infested with
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hostile aborigines, who would immediately after their passage close up the road of communication behind thempioneers who may have been fugitives from their kindred through political commotions, or expelled by successful enemieswould have a further barrier against return, even were they disposed to attempt it, in the strong opposing current which had borne them safely to their new homes.
It is probable that such a journey would form an entirely new departure for their history, and that a few generations later it would resemble a nebulous chronological zone, on the far side of which could be dimly seen myths of persons and events representing in reality the history of the not very remote ancestors from whom they had become separated. The early arrivals would have been too much occupied with establishing themselves in their new dominions to be able to give much attention to keeping records or preserving other than the most utilitarian branches of knowledge which they had brought with them. The volumes of their ancestors were probably, like the clay tablets of the royal library of Babylon, not of a portable nature, at all events to fugitives, whose knowledge would, therefore, be rather of a practical than of a cultivated nature, and this would soon become limited for a while to their chiefs and religious instructors, the exigencies of a colony menaced with danger prohibiting any general acquisition or extension of learning.
In this way we can account for the community of the fables relating r.to the remote antiquity of the Chinese with those of Chaldean and Indian mythology, and with the highly civilized administration and astrological knowledge possessed by Yao and Shun as herediton of Fuh Hi, &c.
We can account for their possession of accurate delineations of the dragon, which would form an important decoration of the standards and robes of ceremony which were
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companions of their flight, while their descriptions of the animal and its qualities would have already entered into the realms of fanciful exaggeration and myth.
The dragon of Yao and Shun's time, and of Yu's time was, in my opinion, an aquatic creature, an alligator; but the dragon of their ancestors was a land lizard, which may even have existed down to the time of the great cataclysm which we call the Deluge, and the memory of which is best preserved in the Chinese drawings which have been handed down from remote antiquity, and have travelled from the great Central Asian centre, which was once alike its habitat and that of their ancestors. Its history may perhaps become evolved when the great store of book knowledge contained in the cuneiform tablets, representing the culture of the other branch of their great ethnological family, has been more extensively explored.
Geologists of the present day have a great objection to the bringing in of cataclysms to account for any considerable natural changes, but this one I conceive to have been of so stupendous a nature as to have been quite capable of both extinguishing a species and confusing the recollection of it. The mere fact of the story of the dragon having survived such a period argues greatly, in my mind, for the reality of its previous existence.
Extending our consideration, we are brought face to face with another very important fact, namely, that a large proportion of the human race content themselves with ephemeral structures. Thus, for example, the Chinese neither have now, nor at any time have had, any great architectural works.
The finest building in China is a reproduction, on a large scale, of the tent; and the wooden construction is always imitated where the materials are stone or marble. The supports, often magnificent logs, brought, at great expense, specially from the Straits, represent tent-poles; and the roof has always the peaked ends and the curves that recall the
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drooping canvas of the marquee. Architecture evidently died early; it never had life enough to assimilate the new material which it found when it migrated into China Proper. The yamen is a slightly glorified cottage; the temple is an improved yamen. Sculpture is equally neglected in this (æsthetically) benighted country. The human form is as dignified and sightly, to Chinese eyes at least, in China as in the West; but it never seems to have occurred, throughout so many hundreds of years, to any Chinaman to perpetuate it in marble or bronze, or to beautify a city with statues of its deities or great men." *
What holds good of the Chinese now, probably holds good of their ancestors and the race from which they parted company in Central Asia five thousand years ago, when they pierced their way eastwards through the savage aborigines of Thibet and Mongolia, pushing aside tribes which closed in again behind them, so as to intercept their return or communication with their mother countrya country which may have been equally careless of elaborating stupendous and permanent works of architecture such as other nations glory in possessing, and which, like the pyramids of Egypt and of Central America, stand forth for thousands of years as landmarks of the past.
We must, therefore, not be surprised if we do not immediately discover the vestiges of the people of ten, fifteen, or twenty thousand years ago. With an ephemeral architecture (which, as we have seen, is all that a highly populous and long civilized race actually possess), the sites of vast cities may have become entirely lost to recollection in a few thousands of years from natural decay, and how much more so would this be the case if, as we may reasonably argue, minor cataclysms have intervened, such as local inundations, earthquakes, deposition of volcanic ashes from even distant
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sources, the spread of sandy deserts, destruction of life by exceptionally deadly pestilence, by miasma, or by the outpour of sulphurous fumes.
We have shown in another chapter how the process of extinction of species continues to the present day, and from the nature of this process we may deduce that the number of species which became extinct during the four or five thousand years preceding the era of exact history must have been considerable.
The less remarkable of these would expire unnoticed; and only those distinguished by their size, ferocity, and dangerous qualities, or by some striking peculiarity, would leave their impress on the mythology of their habitat. Their exact history would be lost as the cities of their epoch crumbled away, and during the passage through dark ages of the people of their period and their descendants, and by conquest or catastrophes such as we have referred to elsewhere; while the slow dispersion which appears to have obtained among all nations would render the record of their qualities the more confused as the myth which embalmed it spread in circling waves farther and farther from its original centre.
Amongst the most fell destroyer both of species and of their history must have been the widespread, although not universal, inundation known as the Biblical Deluge; a deluge which we think the evidence given in the foregoing pages, and gathered from divers nations, justifies us in believing to have really taken place, and not to be, as mythologists claim, a mere ether myth. As to its date, allowance being made for trifling errors, there is no reason for disputing the computation of Jewish chronology, especially as that is closely confirmed by the entirely independent testimony of Chinese history.
This interposes a vast barrier between us and the knowledge of the past, a barrier round which we pass for a short
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distance at either end when we study the history of the two great streams of nations which have diverged from a common centre, the Chinese towards the East, the Accadian Chaldæans and Semites towards the West; a barrier which we may hope to surmount when we are able to discover and explore the lost cities of that common centre, with the treasures of art and literature which they must undoubtedly possess.
102:* Such as the destruction of the Alexandrine Library on three distinct occasions, (1) upon the conquest of Alexandria by Julius Cæsar, B.C. 48; (2) in A.D. 390; and, (3) by Amrou, the general of the Caliph Omar, in 640, who ordered it to be burnt, and so supplied the baths with fuel for p. 103 six months. Again, the destruction of all Chinese books by order of Tsin Shi Hwang-ti, the founder of the Imperial branch of the Tsin dynasty, and the first Emperor of United China; the only exceptions allowed being those relating to medicine, divination, and husbandry. This took place in the year 213 B.C.
103:* The Chinese have used composite blocks (wood engraved blocks with many characters, analogous to our stereotype plates) from an early period. May not the brick-clay tablets preserved in the Imperial Library at Babylon have been used for striking off impressions on some plastic material, just as rubbings may be taken from the stone drums in China: may not the cylinders with inscribed characters have been used in some way or other as printing-rollers for propagating knowledge or proclamations?
103: As, for example, the old canal from the Nile to the Red Sea, in reference to which Herodotus says (Euterpe, 158), "Neco was the son of Psammitichus, and became King of Egypt: he first set about the canal that leads to the Red Sea, which Darius the Persian afterwards completed. Its length is a voyage of four days, and in width it was dug so that two triremes might sail rowed abreast. The water is drawn into it from the Nile, and it enters it a little above the city Bubastis, passes near the Arabian city Patumos, and reaches to the Red Sea." In the digging of which one hundred and twenty thousand Egyptians perished in the reign of Neco.
103: The so-called tanks at Aden, reservoirs constructed one below the p. 104 other, in a gorge near the cantonments, are as perfect now as they were when they left the hand of the contractor or royal engineer in the time of Moses.
104:* In the 29th year of the Emperor Kwei [B.C. 1559] they chiselled through mountains and tunnelled hills, according to the Bamboo Books.
104: An interesting line of investigation might be opened up as to the origin of inventions and the date of their migrations. The Chinese claim the priority of many discoveries, such as chess, printing, issue of bank-notes, sinking of artesian wells, gunpowder, suspension bridges, the mariner's compass, &c. &c. I extract two remarkable wood-cuts from the San Li T'u, one appended here showing the origin of our college cap; the other, in the chapter on the Unicorn, appearing to illustrate the fable of the Sphynx.
I also give a series of engravings, reduced facsimiles of those contained in a celebrated Chinese work on antiquities, showing the gradual evolution of the so-called Grecian pattern or scroll ornamentation, and origination of some of the Greek forms of tripods.
109:* "The old Troglodytes, pile villagers, and bog people, prove to be quite a respectable society. They have heads so large that many a living person would be only too happy to possess such."A. Mitchell, The Past in the Present, Edinburgh, 1880."
110:* I have given in the annexed plates a few examples of the early hieroglyphics on which the modern Chinese system of writing is based, selected from a limited number collected by the early Jesuit fathers in China, and contained in the Mémoirs concernant lHistoire, &c. des Chinois, par les Missionaires de Pekin, vol. i., Paris, 1776. The modern Chinese characters conveying the same idea are attached, and their derivation from the pictorial hieroglyphics, by modification or contraction, is in nearly all cases obvious.
113:* "The Porcelain Tower of Nankin, once one of the seven wonders of the world, can now only be found piecemeal in walls of peasants huts."Gutzlaff, Hist. China, vol. i. p. 372.
113: The outer casing of the pyramid of Cheops, which Herodotus (Euterpe, 125) states to have still exhibited in his time an inscription, telling how much was expended (one thousand six hundred talents of silver) in radishes, onions, and garlic for the workmen, has entirely disappeared; as also, almost completely, the marble casing of the adjacent pyramid of Sen-Saophis. According to tradition the missing marbles in each instance were taken to build palaces with in Cairo.
114:* "The work of destruction was carried on methodically. From the Caspian Sea to the Indus, the Mongols ruined, within four years, more than four centuries of continuous labour have since restored. The most flourishing cities became a mass of ruins: Samarkand, Bokhara, Nizabour, Balkh, and Kandahar shared in the same destruction."Gutzlaff, Hist. China, vol. i. p. 358.
114: "An army of 700,000 Mongols met half the number of Mahommedans."Ibid. p. 357.
115:* Those interested in the subject may read with great advantage the section on dynamical geology in Dana's valuable manual. He points out the large amount of wear accomplished by wind carrying sand in arid regions, by seeds falling in some crevice, and bursting rocks open through the action of the roots developed from their sprouting, to say nothing of the more ordinarily recognized destructive agencies of frost and rain, carbonic acid resulting from vegetable decomposition, &c.
115: Darwin, in Vegetable Mould and Earth-worms, has shown that earthworms play a considerable part in burying old buildings, even to a depth of several feet.
115: Rev. T. K. Cheyne, Article "Deluge," Encyclopædia Britannica, 1877. François Lenormant, "The Deluge, its Traditions in Ancient Histories," Contemporary Review, Nov., 1879.
119:* Bunsen estimates that 20,000 years were requisite for the formation of the Chinese language, This, however, is not conceded by other philologists.
119: Rawlinson quotes the African type on the Egyptian sculptures as being identical with that of the negro of the present day.
119: "While the tradition of the Deluge holds so considerable a place in the legendary memories of all branches of the Aryan race, the monuments and original texts of Egypt, with their many cosmogeniceton; they even added that the Hellenes were childish in attaching so much importance to that event, as there had been several local catastrophes resembling it."Lenormant, Contemporary Review, November 1879.
120:* François Lenormant, "The Deluge; its Traditions in Ancient Histories," Contemporary Review, vol. xxxvi. p. 465.
121:* Here several verses are wanting.
122:* " The water of the twilight at break of day," one of the personifications of rain.
122: The god of thunder.
122: The god of war and death.
122:§ The Chaldæo-Assyrian Hercules.
122:** The superior heaven of the fixed stars.
123:* Vases of the measure called in Hebrew Seäh. This relates to a detail of the ritualistic prescriptions for sacrifice.
123: These metaphorical expressions appear to designate the rainbow.
123: The god of epidemics.
126:* It is probably as much from a superstitious sentiment as upon merely physical grounds that many of the deserted cities in Asia have p. 127 been abandoned; while, as a noticeable instance, we may quote Gour, the ruined capital of Bengal, which is computed to have extended from fifteen to twenty miles along the bank of the river, and three in depth. The native tradition is that it was struck by the wrath of the gods in the form of an epidemic which slew the whole population. Another case is the reputed presence of a ruined city, in the vicinity of the populous city of Nanking, and at some distance from the right bank of the river Yangtsze, of which the walls only remain, and of the history of which those in the vicinity profess to have lost all record.
131:* i.e. (according to the Historical Records) a carriage to travel along the dry land, a boat to travel along the water, a sledge to travel through miry places, and, by using spikes, to travel on the hills.
134:* Balfour, North China Daily News, Feb. 11, 1881.
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'The Pastry Queen' opens restaurant in Fredericksburg
Published: December 5, 2012
Rebecca Rather is best known for her sugary treats, having run Rather Sweet Bakery & Café in Fredericksburg and published a cookbook, The Pastry Queen. She's now foraying into the savory world at The Pink Pig, a new new Fred-based restaurant focusing on Southern foods in a rustic setting. The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If you're in the area (maybe for some wine tasting?), enjoy their outdoor wine bar and cheese plates.
With the holiday season upon us, many will be tempted to whip out their smartphones to document their meals. Before you do, you should seek some professional advice on how to get the best photo. Chef David Gilbert from Sustenio at the Eilan Hotel Resort & Spa recently wrote a list of iPhone photography tips for food photos on his blog, BeyondThe Kitchen.com (revelatory tip #1: don't use the flash!). While some may look to photographers for photo advice, I look to chefs because they're the ones who see the most food.
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. The clutch on the fan is bad and the fan is not running at the right speed
2. The radiator is clogged with corrosion and the coolant flow is restricted
3. The water pump impeller is worn and not circulating the coolant
When your not in stop and go traffic there's usually enough air flow through the radiator to keep it cool with out the fan running fast. My gut feeling would be to look towards #1 first, based on your description. There's also an electric fan but it runs when the A/C is on to assist in cooling the condenser in front of the radiator.
I found it was easier to take the front seats out. For the 15-20 minutes it took it was worth it. The steering column didn't need to come out, just dropped to the floor. I wish I had removed to console also (bucket seats) since the center support for the dash has a bracket that gets in the way when trying to set the dash back in. It would have been easier to remove it but the console would have to come out to do it.
There's lots of connections to de mate. The lower nut that holds the plenum assembly is very difficult to get to, I removed the right front wheel and the wheel well plastic liner to get to it. It's right behind the right head (the transmission dipstick tube is also there) but it can be done. The expansion valve connected to the evaporator core needs to be removed before the plenum since it has a bracket attached that won't go through the firewall hole.
The new core was an aftermarket and is slightly different in shape. The tabs down in the bottom of the plenum housing had to be modified. The instructions said to remove them, but I used a Dremel tool and modified them just enough to get it to fit. I was concerned it would rattle around otherwise.
Since it's necessary to discharge the A/C I also replaced the evaporator core ( I was advised it's a good idea) but the old one was just like new. New receiver/drier also, but that's typical when opening up an A/C system anyway.
No trouble reconnecting the A/C parts (use new seals and o-rings) and pumping it down. I haven't been able to fully charge it yet since I ran out of time and it really isn't warm enough out to do it right anyway.
The hardest thing was getting the two support bars under the steering column back in. They look like they're an afterthought anyway. Those instructions I downloaded didn't say anything about them.........
This isn't a job for the faint of heart. I wouldn't have tried it if I didn't have the tools and experience of having done it to other cars before. Overall it took me about 10-11 hours total.
Here is a summary of my repairs, and some pictures I took at the end. My fix is very similar to the one that ncdodgeowner did.
Oxygen sensor wiring and description of the problem:The pre-cat OEM O2 sensor from Mopar has four wires: Heater+ (black), Heater/Chassis Ground (black), Signal+ (blue), and Signal ground (white). These wires comprise two distinct circuits: the heater circuit and the sensor circuit.
The colors on the truck side are: Heater+ (Orange/Dark Green stripe), Heater Ground (solid black), Signal+ (Light Green/Red stripe), Signal Ground (Black/Blue stripe). Note that the signal+ color is different for other engine sizes (Tan/white for the 5.2L and 5.9L engines).
The power steering switch shares a common splice with the heater ground on the O2 sensor. This is the source of fluid contamination at the O2 sensor. However, the heater circuit is not impacted. PS fluid is not a great conductor. The heater circuit is low impedance already. PS fluid has too much resistance to prevent the heater from working. My repair strategy relies on this.
The sensor part of the circuit has a much higher impedance. The sensor works by producing a voltage between 0.1 V (lean) and 0.9 V (rich). However, this voltage isn't very strong, and must be terminated with a high impedance load: such as a digital voltmeter or the high impedance input into the PCM. According to a few articles I found, a load of 10k to 100k ohms would be enough to load down an O2 sensor. Although PS fluid isn't a great conductor, it has a low enough resistance to intefere with this high impedance circuit.
My fixes: I decided on a course of action that I was capable of implementing, and that was likely to prevent the problem from happening again. I couldn't raise the front of my durango up very high, so I wanted to minimize my work from underneath. I also incorporated what I though were the best ideas from the various solutions. Here is a summary of my strategy :
Replace power steering switch. Click here to see picture
Clean up wiring harness with electrical cleaner as best I could.
Cut and resolder PS switch wires. I decided that I wanted a solder splice blocking a future PS switch failure and fluid leak. So I cut the PS wires and respliced with the heat shrink butt connector. I could have tried this approach at the oxygen sensor, but it was easier to do this up top under the hood.
Install new Mopar OEM O2 sensor (PN 56028233AA). Cut the two signal wires (blue and white) and run them up to the PCM in a separate wiring harness.
Leave the two black heater wires on the new sensor intact. Connect to the existing connector on the truck to complete the heater circuit.
I purchased these materials: 10 ft of black corrugated harness tubing
18 gauge wire (needed 12 ft total, bought 40 ft). Recommend buying two different colors.
18 gauge sealed connectors (red). Click here to see picture
18 gauge, heat shrink butt connectors with solder ring inside. Click here to see picture
friction tape.
various gauges of heat shrink tubing.
heat gun (didn't already have one, this was $59)
I already owned everything else that I needed.
Here are the steps I followed to re-route the signal wires:
Install new O2 sensor.
Prepared signal harness by cutting 6' of corrugated tubing, and fed through two 18 gauge wires. I marked one wire to identify it. I should have just bought two different colors of wire.
From below the truck, I snaked my fish tape up to the top, following the transmission dipstick. From above, I taped my new harness to the fish tape, and then pulled the tape back through.
I cut the blue and white wires on the new O2 sensor close to the connector. I crimped on the red connectors and tried to seal them up with heat shrink tubing.
Crimped mating connectors to the wires in my harness and connected them.
Re-connected the gray sensor connector to the mating truck connector. That connector will continue to close the heater circuit.
Up top, I snaked my harness behing the jumbo wiring harness and attached with a zip tie.
Sliced open the cloth wrapping around the harness and located two light green/red wires. One is for the oxygen sensor, and the other is for the transmission.
Picked one wire via coin flip, and shaved a little insulation off it.
Disconnected the C1 connector on the PCM. The PCM has three big harnesses coming into it. C1 is the rearmost, black, connector.
Pin 24 on the C1 connector connects to the wire that we want. I measured continuity between pin 24 and the wire that I shaved. As luck would have it, I guessed wrong. So I taped up that wire and repeated with the other light green/red wire.
Once I had the O2 sensor wire identified, I cut it. I soldered the correct wire from my new harness to the cut wire that heads to the PCM, and sealed it up with heat shrink tubing. The other cut end is left open. I tucked it up into the harness.
Inside the jumbo harness are several black wires with a light blue stripe. These all connect to signal ground, so I a convenient picked one. I shaved a little insulation off, and soldered the sensor ground wire from my harness to it. Note that you cant cut this wire. Whatever is downstream needs to still be connected. I taped up this 3 way splice with electrical tape.
I taped up the jumbo harness with friction tape, and secured my new harness.
Reconnected the C1 connector to the PCM.
I wish I would have taken some pictures during my repairs. But in reality, nothing went as smoothly as my list makes it appear. I did a number of things wrong. I have attached pics of the final outcome.
PCM and harness view
View of splice at O2 sensor connector. Not a great pic.
PS: If you tap into the wrong light green/red wire, your truck will function. But the shift indicator for the transmission will behave goofy (all gears will illuminate in park and neutral), and your check engine light will come on with P0132 exactly 4 minutes after starting the vehicle. Don't ask me how I know this.
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I don't know if this will help you, but it only takes a second to find out if there is air in your lines. Don't purge the line over grass, it will kill that section of your lawn.
I have experimented actually turning off the overdrive when this happens, and it seems to take care of it (there is still some very very sporatic hunting that goes on). I also experimented with letting cruise control take over the other day, and that seemed to elimintate it all together (that was for about the remaining 12 or so miles remaining on my daily commute. I'm going to try it again for as much of the commute as I can; 32 miles).
I noticed in some other posts, that some folks had the same situation but it was happening more with cruise control on.
Does anyone have any thoughts on my particular circumstances? Help!!!
I went out and purchased another coil pack from the dealership today and installed it. I let the engine run for about 5 minutes and the same thing happened.
Why is this happening? How do i fix the issue? Any info would be greatly appreciated cause i don't know too much about engine repair.
Thanks.
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Aural Pleasure
Hank Jones and Charlie Haden: Come Sunday
Published: January 13, 2012
When Hank Jones passed in May of 2010, he left behind a truly stunning legacy secured over seven decades as one of jazz's premier pianists playing alongside the likes of Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, and Ella Fitzgerald. Come Sunday, an album of duet recordings with the equally brilliant bassist Charlie Haden, is Jones' final recording, and as such, it seems only natural to seek in it a sense of poignancy. It doesn't require much. With a tracklist focusing entirely on spirituals, Come Sunday is Jones' gospel, with each tune glowing with the soulful warmth and understated joy of an aged master. There are no broad reconstructions or unique interpretations of any of these traditional hymns. Jones and Haden wisely choose instead to adhere closely to the melody and simple power of each tune, both men know enough never to sacrifice feeling for flash. If there is a criticism to be had, it's the uniformity. Everything unfolds at a peaceful plod, making it almost impossible to distinguish between tracks. However Come Sunday is not meant to be a cerebral experience. It's a simple and beautiful record, best left to wash over you and share its serenity..
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MYSQL/HTTPD resource issues in 5020
Just updated to svn 5020 and we are having a system resource overload. Mysql doesn’t seem to be dropping any connections now and apache has over 120+ children spawning when then computers check in with the client. From the time I started this topic to right now the sql connections have jumped from 300 to 1100…
mysql is running around 30-35% CPU and the httpd processes are chewing up the rest of the CPU.
This only started happening when we updated to 5020 from 4960 (but svn shows revision 4189?)
@Uncle-Frank said:
mysqladmin -u root -p -i 1 processlist;
New thread started here
- Sebastian Roth Developer
Maybe it is a good idea to start a (combined) new thread on this issue. Tom and I have been thinking and trying a lot but are unable to reproduce this issue. Probably because we only have a couple to a few dozens of clients to test with. Unfortunately I think we need you - @Adam-Taylor, @Joseph-Hales and @Raymond-Bell - to get into the details of debugging this. I am still not quite sure how we are going to get there. Here are some ideas:
- Check the output of
apache2 -Vor
httpd -Vfor “Server MPM”, is it Worker or Prefork??
- Apache server status (might be enabled already but only accessable from localhost - check out the apache mod-configs)
- Mysql logging, a good talk about this:
mysqladmin -u root -p -i 1 processlist;
- Tools like
mytopand
mtop()
Just a few ideas. Probably best to start a new thread and get into the details with this.
Should this thread be marked solved or should I start a new thread.
I am also still seeing this on this mornings SVN 5082 on ubuntu 14.
It does not affect the storage node whose cpu load is around 1. Here is TOP of the main server.
lsof -i :80 output
lsof output.txt
I am also experiencing this. This includes random revisions ranging from r4982 - r5080.
- Sebastian Roth Developer
Are you both running the latest SVN? Would be very interesting to see what is going on within those lots of processes! Maybe you could try using
strace(option -p to attach to a running process, -o to write to a file) to see what is going on. I am aware of this being an advanced debugging issue and I am not sure if you are keen enough to get into this. Maybe give it a try and well see what we get. I am more than happy to take a look if you upload a strace log file.
I’ve noticed that first thing in the morning, our server is fine. Its only when PCs start powering up that we see issues - but it isn’t even a hundred that cause it. Just loads and loads of high-CPU hogging apache2 instances that never seem to end.
For the record - all of these are new clients (we have no PCs running the old client anymore)
Question.
Would the old fog client be causing this? We noticed the new MSI fog client but we are still running the old one.
Adam
Can you ask him what OS, apache version, mysql version he is running for a can compare?
Thanks,
Adam
@Adam-Taylor WHen I get back to a normal schedule at work, I’d love to link up and run a Teamviewer connection with you.
It seems, to me, that this isn’t something I’ve been causing, directly. For some time I had some issues, but I have a person who has around 6k hosts and was seeing the resource problems as described. I have confirmed with him that this is now fixed. Now that doesn’t mean an issue still doesn’t persist, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t something FOG is doing any more.
I am still seeing 100% usage for me to after the last update with mysql using~30% and httpd using the rest with LOTS of processes.
Adam
@Trevelyan this makes absolutely no sense. It sounds like, from the error you are reporting, your server doesn’t have the mysqlnd driver stack for php as it can’t even find the mysqli object.
Changes don’t seem to have fixed anything for me. Still see 100% usage after restart and update to 5078- basically the same as my screenshot earlier.
I do see this in the apache error log though, for all the clients that are trying to connect. Not sure itd make any difference though.
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[Mon Oct 26 14:55:09.526015 2015] [:error] [pid 3099] [client 10.240.5.151:57133] PHP Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2002): No such file or directory in /var/www/html/fog/lib/db/MySQL.class.php on line 18
- Wayne Workman Moderator
@Adam-Taylor Tom has made some changes, update again.
Also, that 100% is always ~30% for mysql and the rest is chewed up with httpd processes.
Adam
The system is still getting hammered and all four cores are at 100% after a complete reboot.
Adam
@Adam-Taylor I know I keep asking the same things, but please reupdate and try again?
The only other thing that I think could be causing the issue is in line and hopefully this is corrected for. I have no real clue whether or not it is the case though.
I changed the DB connect from persistant to non persistant to test and see if the connections would then go away.
The connections go up much faster then before (what i expected since no reuse) but once again…they never go down.
That’s all i know to look at/try at the moment. Do appreciate your help in this!
Thanks!
Adam
3306 is all localhost connections.
80 is all different clients from around the campus.
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Trojan boys roll up 108 points
Wayzata High rolled up a season-high point total to beat Metro Tech Career 108-82 Academy in a non-conference boys basketball game Jan. 25 at the Wayzata High gym.
Neither team put the breaks on at any time. The Trojans took a 56-42 halftime lead and almost matched that total in the second half with 52 more points.
Junior guard Kyle Kalivoda is one of the floor leaders for the Wayzata High boys basketball team, which has 11 wins in a row and an overall record of 11-4. The Trojans romped to a 108-82 win over Metro Tech Career Academy Jan. 25. (Photo by Grant Hill, granthillphotography.com)
“We must have shot around 65-70 percent for the game,” said Wayzata head coach Phil Ward. “And we scored from everywhere on the floor. There were so many possessions … we scored so fast. We’re starting to get to the offensive glass better, and that was a factor.”
Zach Robertson, a 6-foot-4 senior forward, led the Trojans’ attack with 31 points. It was his third 30-plus game in two and a half weeks.
Nick Eid, Wayzata’s 6-8 senior center, also had a productive night with 15 points, and Marshaun Pudil, a 6-4 senior forward, had his best night of the season with 14 points.
“Zach and Nick were able to score on post-ups,” said Ward. “Marshaun made a couple of three-pointers and also scored some put-back baskets.”
Senior guard Bradley Carlson and senior forward Drake Mjaanes were also in double figures with 13 and 12 points respectively. Freshman guard Johnny Beeninga contributed eight points.
Now that the non-conference portion of the season is behind them, the Trojans are ready to challenge for the Lake Conference championship.
Hopkins has been favored every year for the past 10-12 years, but it’s not so clear cut this season.
Wayzata enters conference play this week with an 11-game winning streak and looms as one of the favorites. Eden Prairie, Edina, Hopkins and Minnetonka have all had major success in pre-conference games.
The Trojans tipped off against Hopkins Tuesday, Jan. 29, at this edition was going to press. Wayzata will slide back outside the conference to face Maple Grove at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at Maple Grove High School.
The Trojans will play Minnetonka in a 7 p.m. Lake game Tuesday, Feb. 5, at the Wayzata High gym.
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Our printed quarterly newsletter, Impressions, and our annual Power of Giving and Impact reports demonstrate the difference your gifts make throughout Virtua and the community. Please take some time to enjoy these stories of hope and inspiration from patients, donors and caregivers who experience firsthand the power of a gift.
In this issue of Impressions, we pay tribute to some of the many groups who fundraise on our behalf. Our Community Partners work tirelessly to raise support in so many ways, from golf outings, raffles and 5k races, to auctions, dance competitions and other unique events
The stories in this year’s Power of Giving make one thing clear: your gifts have a very real and direct impact on the lives of our patients and the community. We your help, we accomplished so much. In this issue, learn how support from individuals like you helps to provide comfort and care for our oncology patients, moms-to-be and those in need of innovative joint replacement surgeries and therapy. As we work to continually meet the needs of our families, we are very excited about plans for the future that will bring more needed services to the community. Read more for a sneak peek.
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AURELIAN (Saint) Bishop (June 16) (6th century) A Saint of the South of France, particulars of whose early life are not extant. On his election to the See of Aries (A.D. 546) he received the Pallium from Pope Vigilius, whose vicar in Gaul he became. He founded two monasteries, one for monks and one for nuns, and wrote a special Rule for their guidance. He assisted at the Council of Orleans (A.D. 549), and died two years afterwards at Lyons.
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Easter is not that far off so I thought you'd like to see a wonderful Easter sampler pattern that Kaaren Johnston has on her The Painted Quilt blog. Looks like a great project for the rest of the winter months.
Copyright © 2010 - All Rights Reserved - Kaaren Johnston of The Painted Quilt
Here's what Kaaren had to say about her pattern: Last Sunday morning, while doing a bit of housework trying to fill in time until the start of the gold medal hockey game between Canada and the United States, an idea for a new design popped into my head. After some quick sketching and even speedier stitching, a new design was born, just in time for this month’s First Friday Freebie.
I had actually completed another design that was designated for this month and it was all ready to go but when I realized that Easter is early this year and if I waited until next month to come up with something for Easter, it would be too late for this year. So the design that was originally slated for this month has been set aside until next month.
I hope you enjoy my Easter Sampler..
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Events & Activities
6th LIGHTTECH Fair is going to be held between the dates of March 14 - 17 , 2013 in Istanbul, the economic and financial center of Turkey. Istanbul, “World Capital” with a population over 17 million, is one of the world’s biggest trade centers and the most important city of Turkey’s most industrialized and productive region.
In parallel with the revival of the Turkish construction industry and the emerging Economic growth since 2010 , the lighting industry has enjoyed a good recovery after the 2009 economic crisis. Despite the Global Crisis and the negative position of the world trade, Turkey managed to grow its economy % 8,9 in 2010 and the production of durable consumer goods increased by 7.2%. Construction, the manufacturing industry, booming tourism industries and a shift towards energy efficient products are creating a bright future for the Turkish Lighting Industry. Given that the increasing importance of the environment technologies and the energy efficiency concept, there has been developed new technologies in lighting sector. The energy efficient lights and LED lighting systems gain significance day by day.
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I’ll just get this right out of the way: I think religions are dumb. All of them. People may laugh at Mormons and Scientologists and make fun of their obviously ridiculous origin stories, but the only difference between those myths and the ones on which, say, Christianity are founded is that the ones in the Bible are older. Being older does not make them more legitimate. They’re stories, engineered for the purpose of comfort, moral guidance, and social control.
So, why do I like gospel music so much?
I got to thinking about this recently when I was at a jam at a friend’s apartment and we played I’ll Fly Away.
No, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings were not at my jam. But, at the end of the song I looked around the room and realized that all four of us were Jews–secular, pot-smoking, guitar-playing New York Jews. And yet we were all sitting around singing songs about Jesus and Heaven and all this other stuff none of us buy into. I think there are a couple of reasons for this.
First, all of us were big fans of traditional American music. Like it or not, traditional American music mostly comes from the Bible Belt, and it’s pretty hard to get into this stuff without listening to some songs about Jesus. And at some point, you’ll find yourself singing along to one of those songs, and then you’ll realize what the words are and you’ll be like, wait, what the hell am I singing?
I recently had this exact experience with another Gillian Welch song (yes, I’ve been on a big Gillian kick lately). Check out By the Mark.
“I will know my savior when I come to him/By the mark where the nails have been.” Hard to get more Jesus-y than that. But it sounds so fucking good! Why is that? Other than the fact that Gillian Welch is awesome, I mean.
There are a couple of reasons: First of all, a song’s lyrics don’t actually have to make any sense for the song to be good. A good melody and a sweet voice go a long way. But there’s more to it than that. I think the thing is that gospel songs are inherently hopeful. They’re about finding a happier life, a home where things make sense, where they aren’t so hard. In a gospel song, that place is heaven, of course, but you don’t need to believe in a literal heaven for that sentiment to lift you up. When someone, say, the great Sam Cooke, sings, “Farther along, we’ll know all about it/Farther along, we’ll understand why/Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine/We’ll understand it, all by and by,” I don’t have to believe in God, Jesus, or Heaven to say, “Amen, brother.”
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Enough.
US Military and counter intelligence tracks all chatter online. Now we learn they are jumpin’ into threads as “joe” and “jane” from down the block. I hope she shares good recipes.
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I was a wee bit excited today to find that my TpT 'following' has crept up to 3000! See what happens when you stop looking! I could not have done it without you my friendly blog followers.
To celebrate, I am putting my store on sale for a day and also making this new print-cut-make-read reader FREE for today only! I hope you like it! It will help with the 'an' word family.
Students colour the pictures in and find the correct page to glue them down, so that text and pictures correspond.
This was a fun one to draw!
Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a great start to the week!
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We've covered photographer Ty Foster's "Lick" series before, but his latest creation, "Lick Puppies," takes this a step further by using only puppies and their particularly tiny tongues. Every puppy in this series is busy licking its nose, just coming up from licking some organic peanut butter — the choice lick-inducing food of the viral animal photographer.
Foster said the decision to use organic peanut butter came about because apparently other types have ingredients that can be harmful to dogs. No doubt, one must be especially careful with puppies. But what a treat to see a puppy's first taste of peanut butter!
It was a real treat both for myself and for the puppies to get to see their expressions with their first taste of peanut butter. The thing about puppies is that they're super excited, but super small (obviously), and when they start to get pumped about the peanut butter and squirm around, all you have to do is slide them back into the studio — they're really malleable. Plus, giving a few puppies peanut butter all at once is the cutest utter chaos you could ever experience.
Surprisingly, Foster also mentioned that working with puppies was actually easier than working with adult dogs, as he has in the past and continues to regularly for his job.
Most puppies are still trying to acclimate themselves to the world and, unlike dogs, there are a lot of new things for them to experience — peanut butter included. Once we set up the studio, we plopped the puppy down, took a few test shots, made sure he/she was comfortable with the flashes, and we were off to the races. For someone who only photographs animals, it was as close as I was going to get to those who photograph paint or liquids — every frame was so different, and the expressions we were able to capture were priceless.
As with the previous series, a Lick Puppies hardcover book is available on Amazon for about $17.
Anyone interested in dog or general animal photography should check out Foster's other work, which together is quite impressive in its breadth of coverage and clean, simple execution. Each time, the stunning end result allows viewers to really examine every facet of the animal photographed.
All images used with permission.
Xylitol is the ingredient to avoid. Below is the warning from the FDA:
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Enjoy Your Long Weekend!
Without the rain there would be no rainbow.
GILBERT CHESTERTON
Making this for breakfast tomorrow.
Trying not to follow in Benjamin Mee’s footsteps after going here.
Thinking about making Cheerio Birdfeeders with my nephews.
Needing this bag for pool season.
Going to hit up the sales here.
What are your plans for the long weekend?
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Since I’ve written about the freakshow and turned out to be mostly right, I feel I ought to write about an actual boxing match. And Alvarez vs Golovkin could be a damn good boxing match.
I always feel I don’t give Canelo the respect he deserves. Because he’s good, he lets his boxing do the talking and he doesn’t duck fights. He’s a model professional in a time when that’s a rare commodity.
But he’s fighting Golovkin and I ❤ Gennady Golovkin.
I first became aware of Golovkin sometime around the time he moved to the US. Mostly I noticed the number of boxers trying to avoid him. It annoyed me because I was worried that he’d never get to make his name because he wouldn’t have strong opposition.
I am so pleased he proved me wrong.
I like tidy boxers, which he is. I like no-nonsense boxers, which he is. Also, you know baby-faced Kazakh destroyer 😀
His technique is not perfect; I wish he’d use his feet more to get out of range because he takes way too many punches. It’s all well and good being an iron jaw (and an iron face in general) but, as someone said about Carl Froch, all that means is people keep hitting you in the face.
I look forward to this fight (and the BBC’s excellent radio commentary). It should be a good match-up between two stand-up boxers with solid technique. It’s exactly what I want from boxing.
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