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The 50 Best Doctor Who Stories – 3: The Web of Fear
"Prepare for a great darkness to cloud your mind."
In the 80s there were certain Doctor Who books I could read again and again. Inferno, Fury From The Deep, The Celestial Toymaker, The Deadly Assassin. Chief among them was The Web Of Fear - there was a dark magic about it, particularly in the way that it invaded the real world unlike any other Doctor Who story that I'd noticed, in the way it invades London and the Tube. I wasn't aware of the fact that it was missing, presumed wiped, and I'm not sure it would have bothered me too much at the time. I had constructed the perfectly in my own head anyway. Imagine my astonishment and delight when, for the first time ever, the real thing matched my imagination when I watched it for the first time, perhaps 30 years later.
There's still a sense that the return of The Web Of Fear isn't real somehow. When the serial was released on iTunes I couldn't quite believe it - even as I downloaded it and subsequently watched the first two episodes I couldn't take it in. It was just too unreal to me. It strikes me that The Web Of Fear's cast and crew might as well have made the thing, then sealed it in a vault for 45 years - a gift to the future. It's a time capsule sent to us from the past; an incredible, unsurpassable gift in the anniversary year.
I've never watched a recon but have listened to the audios of both Web and The Abominable Snowmen many, many times. They are, perhaps, the best representation of what Troughton was about for me; atmospheric, frightening, iconic. A lot of what exists of the Second Doctor is, frankly, not very good and the shortcomings of the era were laid bare by Tomb of the Cybermen; a decent story with lovely moments but with much to criticise. It was perhaps Tomb that confirmed to me what I'd feared - the televised episodes were never going to match my expectations.
But frequently in the Second Doctor era there's an undeniable thrill: Troughton sparkling in his more considered moments; the sets and weird stock incidental music build an image of something mysterious, forgotten and thrilling. Despite its closeness to the Pertwee era in terms of time, it is quite different. Monochrome and film certainly play a huge part in this but it's worth remembering that this stuff comes from a time when television, relatively speaking, was in its infancy. It is alien to us and enthralling because of it, in the moments where it becomes something magically scary.
It's not an especially popular view, but I'm not a fan of much of Troughton's work in Doctor Who - too often it seems like he's sending the whole thing up and I simply can't suspend my disbelief. Doctor Who's leading men flirt with excesses of silliness from time to time - Tom in later years and Sylv before he's got a handle on what he's doing most obviously - but Patrick Troughton gets away with it for some reason.
Certainly The Web Of Fear is the best representation of Patrick Troughton's era that we currently have available. And barring some early nonsense in the TARDIS the cast - this TARDIS trio particularly had an irritating habit of shouting over one another and hugging each other in fear - play this with utter conviction. Web is simply the best I've ever seen the mighty Trout in Who. The Second Doctor is still impish, slightly bumbling and inclined towards jokiness, but it's balanced here by intelligence, awareness and a slight otherness that's hard to explain. Tom perhaps put it best in describing the Doctor has 'having secrets'.
Perhaps my Doctorish favourite moment in Web comes when the Time Lord explains to Lethbridge-Stewart that the Yeti got what they came for, following a raid on the Goodge Street headquarters: Professor Travers, played here even more gruffly than in The Abominable Snowmen by Jack Watling. It's a moment that's heavy with significance and judged perfectly by Troughton; a little suggestion that he is a few steps ahead of everyone else and troubled by that knowledge.
That Web amounts to a game of chess between The Doctor and Intelligence, with the network of the Underground as the backdrop, is implied on a few occasions and this moment perhaps the most explicit reference. That the Second Doctor has misled everyone, including his companions, in laying a trap for his foe is another indication of this Doctor's cunning streak, in direct opposition of his apparent impishness.
What's significant - and rather overlooked - is that the Doctor, in apparently walking into a trap set by the Great Intelligence, has in fact outmaneuvered the entity. Had Jamie not intervened at the climax of the adventure, the Doctor would have drained its knowledge, rather than the other way around. This raises some interesting questions about how long the Doctor had this course of action in mind - and exactly what would have been the end result. The Doctor is keen to rebuff offers of power and ultimate knowledge throughout his regenerations, yet here he's all set for a form of Godhood before his faithful companion spoils it for everyone. He's so annoyed he issues a furious racial epithet at the blameless Driver Evans.
Sadly we don't get to see all of Troughton's moments in the recovered film, not least his first meetings with The Brig, but Haisman and Lincoln's second script offers us a Doctor who appears much more rounded a figure. By the time the TARDIS crew are leaving, he's back to his throat-clearing bluster, but the ramifications of the Doctor's behaviour here leave an intriguing after-image.
This leads me to Nick Courtney, a man much-loved in Who for good reason. But perhaps not given appropriate credit for his ability - which he rarely gets the chance to show off after season 7. In his debut story Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart is a serious, pragmatic and thoroughly capable soldier: the scene where he plans the recovery of the TARDIS from Covent Garden shows his calculating nature. You can even see the germ of the Brigade-Leader here: this Lethbridge-Stewart is humourless and even cold.
In the face of a subterranean invasion by robotised Yeti the Colonel simply takes the Doctor at his word: he has a magical box that can save everyone's life. Lethbridge-Stewart's reaction to Evans' initial greeting is similarly believable - he barely registers it, having lost most of his men at Covent Garden. Not only that but the climax of the story, certainly from the point of view of Lethbridge-Stewart, ends in a de facto appeasement; a concession - we'll hand over The Doctor if you leave us alone. The Brig would rarely this professional, this believable again and Web is his - and perhaps Courtney's - strongest story.
This conviction with which everyone sells what, on the face of it, could be a total farce, drags the show into unusual territory for the time. Perhaps the tone of The Web Of Fear, dead straight and filled with terror, anguish and death, is what convinced the BBC to record a trail after the previous week's episode, warning children to be prepared for a rather more disturbing tale than usual. Certainly there are no weak links in the cast; no comedic accents or overacting villains to capsize the whole thing. That's no surprise with Douglas Camfield directing, but one need only look to Robots of Death, Enlightenment or Revelation of the Daleks to find see how an out-of-focus performance can impact on a story.
Jack Watling's performance sails close to the wind when Travers is under the influence of the Intelligence, yet his possession is undeniably creepy, particularly his awkward gait and sharply-whispered "YOU!" in answer to the Doctor's question as to what he wants. He also shares some of the best moments of the story with Silverstein in his desperate attempts to reclaim the Yeti in episode one. The combination of performances, lighting, incidental music from Bartok, control-sphere bleeps and Camfield's direction in The Web Of Fear is straight out of the best of Hammer's playbook. It's perhaps the most atmospheric scene in all of Doctor Who.
Of the rest of the cast Chorley a rather archetypal middle-class social climber. There's a suggestion that Chorley is acting somewhat above his station, either that or the actor playing him accidentally drops his accent a little in moments of peril. He's set-up as a fairly obvious traitor early on - obviously revelling in the deaths of the good guys in pursuit of his story. As a journalist among scientists and soldiers - fundamentally decent men all - Chorley's class and occupation mark him out as someone to be distrusted.
Evans, as a cowardly Welshman, is another red herring. His is perhaps the most interesting character of the lot, despite the crudenesses of his cowardice and dialect. Evans simply doesn't want to be there: he wants out of the story from his introduction and there's something of the everyman - a Yossarian pointing out the absurdity of the events and reactions he sees around him - to him. While we're intended to dislike his lack of bravery, he's probably the most relatable character here; Evans is frightened out of his wits, not afraid to save his skin and quite prepared to sacrifice others it means he can go home, presumably to eat some lava bread and sit in a bath of coal.
Either way, while rather crass, The Web Of Fear's portrayal of class - and how people react to it - is fairly unusual in Doctor Who, as is the fact that bravery, nobility and honour inevitably lead to an untimely demise, while Evans and Chorley make it to the end unscathed.
Perhaps the best performance is that of Jack Woolgar as Arnold. As the dependable, no-nonsense 'staff' - a rank he would clearly never move beyond in the British army - he's another familiar archetype. Arnold is beautifully comforting of Chorley in the last episode, gruff towards Evans, yet with some warmth, and solidly deferential to the officers. But there's much more going on here.
Staff Arnold - who at every point on-screen is a reanimated cadaver controlled by the Great Intelligence - gets a series of subtle, disturbing asides, portrayed eerily by Woolgar, that reveal the identity of the true traitor. The fact that we've invested so much in him - no-bullshit, northern, brave and loyal - means his unmasking as the Intelligence's agent is so much more disturbing than if it were Chorley, Evans or even Travers.
That Woolgar is so unthreatening as the embodied Intelligence is the story's one true misstep. The Target conveyed the horror of this wonderfully - Victoria's lament that it is 'too horrible' to contemplate sells it completely: how can our faithful Staff be a traitor? But on screen it's a damp squib, though Arnold's blackened, screaming death mask is another genuinely horrible moment.
Perhaps the true hero of The Web Of Fear is Douglas Camfield, if not an auteur then certainly Who's most consistently interesting director of the 60s and 70s. Joe Ahearne is the best comparison in the new series - a director who clearly thinks about angles, composition and reaction shots in conveying the emotional heart of the story.
Moreover Camfield's command of action marks him out as a talent beyond most studio-bound contemporaries. The scenes of the proto-UNIT's attempt to recover the TARDIS at Covent Garden - the lumbering Yeti, shot in broad daylight, closing in on Lethbridge-Stewart's men - should, by most metrics, be an embarrassment.
Yet everyone in The Web Of Fear sells it with utter conviction: the action is frantic, frightening and so very fast - from the desperation of the Brig and Corporal Blake and the shooting of the Yeti from low angles to the death screams of the soldiers blasted by web guns or crushed by the beasts. Elsewhere in the series we will see lumbering beasts killing people by barely touching them - in Camfield's hands the Yeti are murderous, the fury and power of the creatures conveyed totally.
That all of this happens in a ten-minute window that sees Arnold, Knight and Lane also apparently dispatched ramps up the tension unbearably in episode four. Courtney sells it wonderfully upon his devastated return to headquarters: the peculiarly baroque Yeti are unkillable, unknowable. "Hopeless. Can't fight them. It seems indestructible. Can't fight them!". They should be absurd, but they're not.
Rather than appearing cumbersome or cuddly there's a horrible, unknowable remorselessness to the creatures. A reaction shot of Courtney observing the Yeti advancing on all sides at Covent Garden suggests this hopelessness. And the sheer oddity of the spectacle is not apologetic or embarrassed: it's wildly dissonant, unbelievable. This is where Doctor Who is at its best and, in the furry creatures overrunning London, reaches its apotheosis.
They're wonderfully complemented by the inexplicable Web - at once a fungus, foam or web. What does it do? How does it work? Why does it kill people? What does it want? As it spreads though the London Underground it's hard not to imagine it as a disease slowly infesting a body. Only through the faceless Autons in Spearhead is Who ever so weirdly frightening - or frighteningly weird - as The Web Of Fear.
Through a combination of this imagery, atmosphere and execution The Web of Fear is an almost complete success. And it has no right to be. By modern standards of storytelling it's utter gibberish: a shapeless malign entity sets a trap for its greatest adversary by filling the London Underground with foam and robot abominable snowmen? Why? Clearly the question bothered Stephen Moffat as he goes to the trouble of retconning the entire affair 45 years later in The Snowmen.
The answer here seems not quite to be 'why not?'. Rather 'because it's scary'. And scary it is. It's scary for the heck of it, regardless of context or rationality. The pulsing, killing web encroaching on all sides; the reinvented, remorseless Yeti; the possession of familiar characters and infestation of familiar places; the TARDIS seized in space as web parasitises it; the rhythmic bleeping of control spheres and voodoo-like statuettes that serve to make the Tube and its cast of characters a giant chess board and disposable pieces - they are all visually, audibly, conceptually unsettling creations.
The names and places are burned onto my memory: Goodge Street and Holborn have a nostalgic resonance that speak to me on a level I can't fully comprehend or rationalise; the unfortunate Lane, Blake and Knight, tragic Arnold and luckless Weames; the iconography of it all disturbing in the way that only something that frightens a young mind can be.
The Web of Fear pitches them all into some demimonde; a London cast into some Hellish parallel universe like Silent Hill or a Gaiman construct. Pertwee had immortalised this as the Yeti on a toilet on Tooting Bec and Doctor Who has returned to this trope again and again over the years, never as successfully.
Only the Doctor has the vaguest idea of what is happening in Web; everyone else, including the audience, is just along for the ride. The Great Intelligence is, perhaps, the most disturbing creation in Doctor Who because it's utterly insane by our standards. Nothing it does really makes the slightest sense. Robot yeti - why? A trap for the Doctor - how? Maintaining the pretence of Arnold for so long and in such detail - to what effect? Daleks, Cybermen, Nestenes, Silurians, Sontarans, Angels, The Master - they all have arguably-logical modi operandi. And even if their goals are alien to us they are, on some level, understandable.
But The Intelligence is Lovecraftian: it is ancient; it operates on a totally different plane of existence. Evil by our standards, yet unknowable at the same time - truly uncanny. The Web Of Fear radiates with this unsettling sense of something gone horribly wrong for reasons we can't quite comprehend. Knight, Lane, Blake, Weames, Arnold and the others meet their ends knowing only that a killing web and ferocious Yeti have infected the London Underground and may yet take over the Earth. Why? They do not know - and neither do we.
The sheer giddy, unfathomable nature of The Web of Fear is its great power. It's like a side-step in Doctor Who where even its own fantastic rules are suspended for an exercise in pure terror. In such baroque surroundings it's on an axis that speaks to us on a level we understand instinctively: a heady mix of night terrors, disturbing juxtaposition, creepy incidental detail and horrible revelation. A Yeti on your loo in Tooting Bec is, indeed, frightening - amid the abandoned tunnels and stations of London it's something darkly, disturbingly magical.


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A major heartbreaker could still end up sitting in the third "American Idol" judge's chair this fall.
Pop diva Mariah Carey is reportedly in talks with the show to help mint America's newest pop star alongside Randy Jackson and the recently hired Steven Tyler, reports E! Online.
"She wants it," says a source close to the situation. "She's seen what 'America's Got Talent' has done for [hubby Nick Cannon] and thinks it will be a good career move."
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A rep for Carey only stated that there was "nothing to report" when contacted for confirmation on the possible negotiations.
Tyler has all but been confirmed for one of the open seats, but landing the last judge has been a difficult task for the show. Talks with Jennifer Lopez recently broke down, and rumored flirtations with stars such as Justin Timberlake and Elton John have not yielded any results.
Carey could have an inside track to the job due to the chemistry she has with Jackson, who has served as her occasional musical director and performed with her band over the years.
Returning executive producer Nigel Lythgoe apparently favors a three-judge panel with an occasional guest judge, but the setup will be determined by negotiations.
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Ed O'Neill is no Al Bundy.
The former "Married … With Children" star said Wednesday he'd been misquoted in a story by TV Guide Canada – since retracted – as grumbling that "Glee's" Jane Lynch didn't deserve her Emmy.
"Last week I spoke to a group of journalists and one quoted me supposedly saying of Jane Lynch, 'I don't think she should have gotten the Emmy for that part,'" O'Neill said in a statement to EW. "I never said those words and transcripts of the press conference attest to that fact."
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TV Guide Canada agrees. The news outlet penned an apology on its website Thursday admitting it bungled the veteran sitcom star's comments.
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I'm one of Jane Lynch's biggest fans. I love Jane Lynch. She is a genius. But at the same time I said 'Sophia could win' because … and I've only seen Glee a couple of … I've only seen Glee once. But I thought Jane's role is rather one-dimensional. It's kind of strident. It's always kind of the same. I've seen her be much better. So I thought 'Sofia's funnier,' and I think she is in these two comparative roles. Anyway, Jane won. But I was hoping that Sophia would.
O'Neill added in his statement to EW that "of course" he would "root for my dear friends Sofia Vergara and Julie Bowen (and all of my colleagues on our show)" during the Emmys.
"But I absolutely never said, nor do I believe that Jane — whom I think is an enormous talent — was undeserving of the award," he said.
He added that he'd reached out to Lynch to explain what happened.
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Kevin M. Lewis, of Chester, NY, passed away Sunday, May 5, 2013, at Orange Regional Medical Center in the Town of Wallkill, NY. He was 25. Son of Karen A. Johnsen Payton and Jeffrey P. Lewis, he was born in Suffern, NY on April 20, 1988.
Kevin was an Electrician with I.B.E.W. Local 363 in Harriman, NY.
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Set the stage for discovery and success by changing course contexts.
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The most obvious and most important part of our ever-changing teaching context is the student. Whether we're teaching 19-year-olds, adults who are returning to the classroom, or professionals in continuing education programs, our attention to changing trends can help us to meet student needs.
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As we choose a textbook, assign grades, and meet the demands of our departments and our disciplines, we are obliged to control our courses. In light of changing student needs, however, we may want to reconsider the level of control which is necessary and appropriate.
If we can see our students as partners or even as apprentices, we can give them more responsibility to contribute to the learning environment, to interact with us and with their peers, to practice their new content and skills, and to demonstrate their knowledge more publicly. We can design a course to build on students' energy and to create an environment for participation and learning, building on their desire for interaction and harnessing it to promote deep learning of course content. We can learn with and from our students as they delve into projects that require problem-solving, creativity, and hard work.
Are we catering to students or yielding control so that they'll like us? No, we're meeting students where they are and capitalizing on their breadth of knowledge and enthusiasm. We share control and offer choices so that their experience in the course will contribute to their long-term learning. In this way, the course will become part of their framework for living in and understanding the world.
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References & Resources
Baxter Magolda, M. B. & King, P. M. (2004). Learning partnerships: Theory and models of practice to educate for self-authorship. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Cleveland-Innes, M. F. & Emes, C. (2005, Winter). "Social and academic interaction in higher education contexts and the effect on deep learning." NASPA Journal 42(2). 241-262.
Duffy, D. K. & Jones, J. W. (1995). Teaching within the rhythms of the semester. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Fallows, S. & Steven, C. (2000). Integrating key skills in higher education. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Howe, N. & Strauss, W. (2000). Millennials rising: The next great generation. New York: Random House.
Higher Education Research Institute. (2006). The American freshman: National norms for 2005. Available at www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/norms05.html.
Preston, M. (2003), Color-coded course design: Educating and engaging faculty to educate and engage students. To Improve the Academy, 22, 95-109.


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Faster Four-Door: Jaguar XFR-S To Debut At L.A. Show
Jaguar will use the Los Angeles auto show to introduce its "fastest and most powerful saloon" ever. The Jaguar XFR-S, shown here in a teaser photo, will be the company's second "R-S" model and should have similar performance to the existing XKR-S coupe and convertible.
We first heard rumors about a Jaguar XFR-S in January, and then in August and October our spy photographers caught prototypes testing at the Nürburgring. Those prototypes wore a big rear wing, larger brakes, quad exhaust tips, large front air intakes, and a racier body kit that included a rear diffuser.
The Jaguar XFR-S should follow the same formula as the XKR-S coupe and convertible (pictured below). The regular XFR and XKR performance cars use a supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 engine with 510 hp and 461 lb-ft of torque, while the XKR-S has an upgraded version of that engine good for 550 hp and 502 lb-ft. A six-speed automatic transmission sends power to the rear wheels. Jaguar says the existing XFR can hit 60 mph from rest in 4.7 seconds, while the XKR-S coupe manages the same feat in just 4.2 seconds, so expect the XFR-S to post performance figures somewhere in between those two.
In addition to the power increases, the XKR-S also receives firmer suspension, stronger brakes, and numerous weight-saving carbon-fiber components.
With as much as 550 hp on tap, the Jaguar XFR-S would be well poised to take on similar performance sedans like the BMW M5. The German power sedan has a twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8 engine with 560 hp and 500 lb-ft. The faster Jaguar could also take on the Audi S6, which extracts 420 hp and 406 lb-ft from its twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 engine.
At the L.A. auto show, Jaguar also will show the F-Type roadster -- marking the car's first official appearance in the U.S. The sports car goes on sale in summer 2013.
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Google Accused of Tracking Safari Usage Without Permission
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A Stanford University graduate student has released a report that accuses Google and three other ad networks of side-stepping the privacy settings on Apple's Safari browser to track usage on iPhones and Macs without permission.
Google said the report, which was picked up by the Wall Street Journal, "mischaracterizes" the search giant's efforts. But the company admitted that a glitch accidentally allowed Google cookies "to be set" on Safari and promised a fix.
The other companies named in Jonathan Mayer's report are Vibrant Media, Media Innovation Group, and PointRoll.
"Cookies" are little bits of data collected about your Internet activity. They can be useful - like remembering passwords and settings on sites that you surf to frequently - but there are also concerns about targeted advertising and how much data is really collected. As Mayer noted, popular Web browsers provide the option to block third-party cookies, but Apple's Safari browser is unique in that it blocks third-party cookies by default on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Macs.
According to the Journal, Google "used special computer code that tricks Apple's Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users."
A Google spokeswoman, however, said "we used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled." She stressed that "these advertising cookies do not collect personal information."
The spokeswoman acknowledged that Safari blocks third-party cookies by default, but said "Safari enables many Web features for its users that rely on third parties and third-party cookies, such as 'Like' buttons." As a result, Google started using this functionality last year for Safari users who were signed in to Google and had opted to see personalized content - like Google's +1 button.
"To enable these features, we created a temporary communication link between Safari browsers and Google's servers, so that we could ascertain whether Safari users were also signed into Google, and had opted for this type of personalization," the Google spokeswoman continued. "But we designed this so that the information passing between the user's Safari browser and Google's servers was anonymous – effectively creating a barrier between their personal information and the web content they browse."
Safari, however, "contained functionality that then enabled other Google advertising cookies to be set on the browser," Google said. "We didn't anticipate that this would happen, and we have now started removing these advertising cookies from Safari browsers."
The search giant insisted that IE, Firefox, and Chrome users were not affected, nor were those who opted out of Internet-based ad targeting.
A spokesman from Vibrant Media said the company is "immediately addressing the issue."
"A prior implementation of our technology provided for a separate web page call from the Safari browser which permitted use of a generic user cookie," he continued. "Vibrant Media does not collect personally identifiable information from any users. We remain supportive of all industry privacy guidelines, requirements and best practices. We are a member of the NAI and DAA and adhere to all applicable compliance policies."
In a blog post, PointRoll said it "conducted a limited test within the Safari browser to determine the effectiveness of our mobile ads," but does not currently use the technique mentioned in Mayer's report.
"The test did not involve the collection, retention or resale of any specific user information," wrote Rob Gatto, PointRoll's CEO. "The limited test ended on February 8, 2012, and we made the decision not to employ this practice further."
Media Innovation Group declined comment. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian this morning tweeted screen shots of Google's advertising cookie opt-out plugin instructions from Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, they included an "instructions for Safari" section, but any mention of Safari was deleted the next day.
Privacy advocates were quick to criticize the misstep.
"Technological workarounds to evade browser privacy settings are unacceptable," said Justin Brookman, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT). "We are severely disappointed that Google and others choose to place tracking cookies on Safari browsers using invisible form submission. While we take Google's assertion at face value that it was not their intent to track users in this way, we are perplexed how this decision evaded Google's internal design and review process. After a several recent missteps – and two new reboots on privacy-by-design – this should never have happened."
Microsoft, of course, used the controversy to push its own Internet Explorer 9, which Redmond said is "the browser that respects your privacy."
Editor's Note: This story was updated Friday afternoon with further comments.


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Don't be scared.
Nearly every show we go to has half-naked ladies running around marketing the latest automotive gadget. This gives us plenty of opportunities to test our best pick-up lines. Real proven winners like, "Hi, I'm a magazine editor with no hope of ever making any real money," or "Wow! Are those real? Can I touch 'em?" We're not sure why, but we just haven't hit pay dirt - until now. We bumped into Bree and found out she doesn't actually like us, but she likes Jeeps. We hired her so we could keep staring. You can ask her questions and stare at her picture. Run your best pick-up line by her, find out what the hottest Jeep is, or maybe get some beauty and waxing tips like Editor Cappa. Write 'em up or type them in to:
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1.) Why the hell are you here and what do you have to do with Jeeps anyway?
Mike Karwath
Some Damn Town, Ohio
Hey, Mike, thanks for the warm welcome, but nothing beats a Jeep and a hot chick with a nice rack. I think nearly everyone has owned a Jeep in his or her lifetime. My first one was an old-ass CJ-5. I loved that beast. I lived in the swampy Carolinas and went mudding in it all the time. So thanks for the question, but let's make this interesting. Get it? Got it? Good!
2.) A '67 M715 or a '05 Wrangler Rubicon?
Jeff, I would flat out have to go with the '67 M715. There's nothing better than old-school military style. You can't even compare the two. So what do I think is so special about an M715? Ahhh, well, I think it has some big cajones. Man, I would totally love to go for a spin in one. So, Jeff, if you happen to own an M715, let's go for a long, hard ride.
3.) Hey baby, what's your sign?
Giovani Scotto
Iselin, New Jersey
First off, I must warn you: I am a Friday the 13th baby born in the month of November. Yep, I got your attention now. Miss Bree is a Scorpio. Are your hackles standing up? Do you even know what hackles are? Anyhow, I'm determined, forceful, powerful, passionate, jealous, secretive, and an obstinate little pain in the ass! Just kidding. Well, I guess some of it is true. I'm loyal to those who respect me; I love a good time and long walks on the beach. Dang, this is turning into a personal ad. So what's your sign, Giovani?
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Nintendo eShop
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- Sparkle Snapshots™ 3D – Use your Nintendo 3DS system's cameras and this software's easy-to-use camera settings to take 2D pictures, and then personalize your shots any way you want with layers of stickers, ribbons, pens and other 3D effects. (For Nintendo 3DS)
- Moshi Monsters™ Moshlings™ Theme Park (demo version) – Your Monsterific adventure awaits. Help rebuild the theme park and find the lost moshlings. (For Nintendo 3DS)
Nintendo Video™
- Dinosaur Office: Halloween Spooktacular! – A haunted printer. A creepy janitor. Craig dressed like a pumpkin. It's Halloween, Dinosaur Officestyle! Don't miss this spooky holiday special premiering on Nintendo Video Wednesday, Oct. 24. (For Nintendo 3DS)
Also new this week:
- Gradius® (Nintendo eShop)
- Puzzler World XL (Nintendo eShop / Nintendo DSiWare™)
- Reel Fishing® Ocean Challenge (WiiWare™)
To view this week's Nintendo Download in its full graphical version, please visit: http://www.news2know.net/nintendo/downloadC13dAL3e.php.
In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their systems. Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS/Nintendo 3DS XL system, to the Nintendo DSi™ Shop for the Nintendo DSi system and to the Wii™ Shop Channel for the Wii console at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Thursdays.
The Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service and features games, applications and videos in both 2D and 3D. Users can add money to their virtual wallets using a credit card or by purchasing a Nintendo 3DS Prepaid Card at a retail store and entering the code from the card.
The Wii Shop Channel offers games and applications and uses Wii Points™, which can be purchased via the Wii Shop Channel. The Nintendo DSi Shop offers games and applications and uses Nintendo DSi Points™, which can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Wii Points Card™ and Nintendo DSi Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one card must be redeemed in either the Wii Shop Channel or the Nintendo DSi Shop, respectively. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.
Remember that Wii, Nintendo 3DS/Nintendo 3DS XL and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage some of the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visithttp://www.nintendo.com/wii, http://www.nintendo.com/3ds orhttp://www.nintendo.com/ds.


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This Weekend
Dedicated a solid four hours to cutting the pieces of a coat. The main fabric was easy to cut but the charmeuse lining gave me a few problems. I expect this to be the case when it comes to sewing, too. Most of it will be done on a machine but some parts have to be finished by hand. We'll see!
Took new apron pictures
While the babies slept in odd positions, the sister and I drove and camped out at Castaic Lake.
My brother-in-law (her husband) signed up for the Magic Mountain Man triathlon and we wanted to show our support.
I tried paying attention to all the competitors but honestly, the dog next to us was more interesting. I mean look at this frenchie! STOLE MY HEART.
Happy Sunday, I'm off to knit the sleeves for Beatnik.
Ana permalinkOctober 9, 2011 7:55 pm
What cuties. & that sure is a lot of cutting, sheesh. Hah. 🙂


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The Gadget: Duracell's Powerpack 450 is a portable power source for AC, DC and USB-powered electronics. It also features a vehicle jump starter, air compressor, flashlight and a voice feature.
The Price:$US120-150
The Verdict: As a portable power source, the Powerpack 450 is outstanding. It cranks out 340W continuous (450W peak) of AC juice, which is enough to power laptops, lamps, radios, mobile phones and other small appliances. It would be an ideal supplement to a generator in the event of a power outage.
As far as a vehicles are concerned, the 150 psi air compressor works, but don't expect to be back up an running in a short amount of time. I actually have a slow leak on my front passenger side, and it can take over 10 minutes to pump up a flat (depending on the situation). I never ran into a situation where a jump start was necessary, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Duracell even supplies the cables with the battery. The 5W flashlight is fairly standard, but given the fact that the entire battery weighs around 20 pounds, its no substitute for even a cheap handheld version. However, if you are stuck on the side of the road in the dark, it could come in handy.
On the downside, the Powerpack 450 takes nearly 40 hours to charge completely and the voice feature can be extremely annoying at times. I can tell you that my laptop maintained a full charge for nearly 8 hours while plugged into the device, but I couldn't tell you precisely how long it would have lasted because the constant battery status updates towards the end proved too much to bear. Still, voice directions that notify you of battery status and guide you through a jump start / tire inflation can still be useful—although not particularly necessary.
In the end, if you live in an area prone to power outages, you have a beater car, you enjoy camping or you work in remote areas, spending $US120 or so on the Powerpack 450 is worth the money. If you need more juice, you can always step up to the 600 model. [Duracell]


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SPRING THING: Everyone everywhere is more likely than not to describe seasons or temperatures or the general weather of where they live as "funny" or "unpredictable" or "rain in the morning, sunshine at lunch" or some such folkism. We do it too, here in Southern California, and, anecdotally at least, we talk the most about spring. The sweetest season gets an early jump in some parts of the state, thanks to a drier climate and elevations and hills and such. Think of the wildflowers that pop up around Death Valley and the Anza-Borrego starting in February. Then spring recedes again, or seems to, with the foggier days of May and June. It's a season with a changeable mind, a lot of people might say, which is why we say that those early signs of spring, come February, should be taken very much to heart and enjoyed while the moment is ripe. Yes, the desert wildflowers should be seen, and so should the coming-out-of-winter days at our fruit orchards. You've heard that California and citrus have a longtime relationship, right? You can learn more about that, and one of our state's tartest, most historic industries, at Friend's Ranch.
TOURS OPEN FOR THE SEASON: We're always happy when the various fruit farms start to hold tours again, because it does mean longer and sunnier days are ahead (May and June fog or not). Friend's Ranch in Ojai is set to kick off its tour schedule on Saturday, Feb. 9. You'll walk among the trees and learn about the ranch, which has a history extending back to the 1800s. It's an invigorating day out. Note that while tours are on Saturdays, they're not every Saturday, so you'll need to plan your orange-flavored adventure around the ranch schedule.


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I have one points layer in a cached map service, symbolised with a unique renderer on one field.
e.g. petrol stations, symbolised by the company who owns them.
I want to create a fairly basic application in the Esri Javascript API (or potentially with the Google Maps API, and this).
One of the main components I need to have on this application is a dynamic legend that shows a feature count for the current extent.
e.g. Shell - 34, BP - 21, Texaco - 7, etc
Has anyone seen any code that could get me started on this or can provide some references/pseudocode on how one would go about this?


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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, Sept. 8
Today's recommended picks
Brian Roberts, 2B, Orioles
.545 AVG (6-for-11) lifetime vs. Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz
Stephen Drew, SS, Diamondbacks
.394 AVG (13-for-33) lifetime vs. Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley
Miguel Tejada, SS, Astros
.474 AVG (9-for-19) since '04 vs. Braves starter Javier Vazquez
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
The long holiday weekend turned out to be an ideal time for many BTS leaders to pick Matt Holliday.
The hard-hitting outfielder didn't have one of his best games Monday, but his 1-for-5 effort was good enough for five of the Top 6 contestants. Included in that group was top dog tshalterman, whose 41-game streak is tied for the fourth-longest mark of the season.
The lone member of the top group to pass on Holliday was michaelh30, who received an identical 1-for-5 performance from Shane Victorino to remain in a tie with ichter4 for second place, at 37 games.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Albert Pujols (STL): 6.7%, 3-for-4
2. Torii Hunter (LAA): 6.6%, 1-for-3
3. Dustin Pedroia (BOS): 6.6%, 1-for-3
4. Derek Jeter (NYY): 5.9%, 0-for-8
5. Joe Mauer (MIN): 5.5%, 3-for-5
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Tuesday 9/8…..
Beware——-CHISOX V. OAKLAND
A.J. Pierzynski v. Brett Tomko of A's
They have never faced each other.
They were teammates in 2004 at SF. Tomko spoke to the media and said AJ was a cancer in the clubhouse. Story goes that AJ was playing cards in the clubhouse and "didn't have time to go over opposing team hitters" before a game. (Tomko maybe was the pitcher that day?). AJ is very volatile, Tomko will go hard against him – AJ will be squeezing the bat trying to hit Tomko. Does AJ strike out in his first at bat? Then get "buzzed" in his second at bat and charge the mound and both are ejected? It could happen.
I'm going with Cubs Derrek Lee today. I watched the game yesterday and he is swinging the bat like the D Lee of old.
I'm thinking that there is a hit v. Dukes in his bat tonight.
Tough not to take Hanley Ramirez v. NYM at home though.
Also, Longoria TB remains on a hotter than hot streak!
Good Luck to all……
I've mentioned before not to take anyone on the Cub team for bts. Being a Cub fan this is not an easy thing to say.
But—-Derrek Lee has been very hot lately. So I took him today and I'm watching the game. The first 8, that's right 8 Cubs to come to the plate everyone got a hit(D. LEE got a single). The first out recorded by Zack Dukes was on a sac bunt by the number 9 hitter, pitcher Ryan Dempster. Maybe, just maybe, the Cubs have broken out of their team hitting slump. Cubs put up a TD & extra point in the top of the first.
Any ideas about Wednesday?
David Wright, Evan Longoria?
leader gone again. How many potential winners are left? 12? 11?
HaY good call picking lee drag and who the leader choose Derek jeter? Was working didn't had the time to check is pretty cool working in Yankee stadiem to see this great team play and to watch history. I want with ichiro as we speaks he's 0-3 so don't look to good lol tomorrow ichiro again:)
Ichirio does an 0 – fer against a rejuvinated lefty, Scott Kazmir. The bts guy who has the deep stat book on Ichirio – how many 0 – fer's has The Little Magicain had this year v. lefties?
Cubs v. Pirates – Cubs traded Kevin Hart, today's Pirate starter, about 6 weeks ago. Hart is struggling and I'm going again with hot hitting Derrek Lee today.
I was going to take Matt Holliday but Jeff Suppan MIL has been doing well lately. Holliday is 7 – 11 v. Suppan but I'm fearing a repeat of the Johnny Damon fiasco of last week.
Holliday batting .267 in day games!
Good luck to all today
I am going with Holliday today.
Looks like only 10 left with a shot (few more if there is a playoff)
Do we need to take up a collection and buy an alarm clock for the guy who updates the blog? 5pm Central time and I'm typing on the Tuesday page.
The bts gods hit back today with Matt Holliday leaving the game with a brusied knee and going 0 – 1. What a way to lose a streak – reminds me of Joey "The Black Cat" Votto.
Holliday was having a great run.
My luck with the Cubs Derrek Lee the past two days is too good to be true. I'm moving on now. Cubs are off on Thursday – no Cub picks on Friday for me.
dragbunt – great call on Lee – thx for the tip. Same rule applies in NY – you do NOT root for both Yanks and Mets. It's either the Yankees or that other team. 🙂 BTS obviously asleep at the wheel. By the time we get the Wednesday page it will Thursday. Hanley Ramirez looks good for tomorrow……
FYI – Brett Tomko did hit AJ Pierezynski with a pitch on Tuesday night. But AJ did not charge the mound. AJ got a hit off Tomko by flicking a pitch that was about 6 in off the ground into left field for a single on a 0 – 2 count in the first inning. Ty Cobb would have been proud of AJ for his bat skills in that hit. Great thing about living in Chicago is that you get to see all the AL and NL teams. But – Native Chicagoans only root for Cubs or WSOX not both!
Thursday, Sept. 10th
Very short schedule………
Hanley Ramirez looks good v. NYM Bobby Parnell
Twins v. Cecil of TOR? Cecil is hittable but he is a lefty and all Twin big guns are lefties – Does a pick here make sense?
Mauer, Marneau, Kubel, Spann all lefties.
Cuddyear(R) hitting .234 over the last 30 days and hitting .261 v. lefties on the year.
Ichirio looks tempting but Lacky LAA looks tough.
I like the matchup of Aaron Hill vs. Scott Baker
Looks like the top two are the only ones with a shot now – both are at 35. I think picking Ichiro today might have shades of Damon from last week……Lackey does look tough – Seattle did get 10 hits off him but that was back on May 29th (Ichiro went 2-for-5.) Numbers of late are better though (WHIP numbers a bit wide but still looks good.) Ichie not giving me the warm, fuzzy feeling today….I like Ramirez better 🙂


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Jamba Juice wants to come home with you. And to make the move possible, the healthy juicer is turning to a company that developed Burger King snack chips.
The smoothie makers announced it will start selling kits for health enthusiasts to blend their favorite Jamba drinks at home.
"The make-at-home smoothie is an emerging category and represents perhaps the most literal extension of the Jamba brand to date," Susan Shields, vice president of Jamba Juice's consumer products and licensing division said in a statement. "We want to serve the healthy habits of our consumers wherever they live and shop, and as we looked to extend the brand into this new area of opportunity."
To make the transition from storefront to store shelves, Jamba Juice turned to one of Burger King's fruit suppliers for direction. The Inventure Group, which supplies frozen fruit to grocery stores and restaurants across the country, will help Jamba Juice develop the at home smoothie kit, which will hit shelves in 2010. Some of their clients include the home of the Whopper, T.G.I. Fridays and Braids Pretzels.
The move is part of the Emeryville, Calif. based company's attempt to expand its name through licensing deals.


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But anyway, if you want a simple bare-bones web server with no fluff, continue reading...
Before we start with the actual implemtnation, we need to install some ruby gems. This is easily done by running the following commands in your shell
gem install eventmachine gem install thin
The server is pretty standard setup using eventmachine and looks like this
# FILE: server.rb require 'rubygems' require 'eventmachine' require_relative './thin_http_parser.rb' # Freeze some HTTP header names & values KEEPALIVE = "Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n".freeze class RequestHandler < EM::Connection def post_init @parser = RequestParser.new end def receive_data(data) handle_http_request if @parser.parse(data) end def handle_http_request p [@parser.env, @parser.body.string] keep_alive = @parser.persistent? data = "OK" send_data("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\nContent-Length: #{data.bytesize}\r\n#{ keep_alive ? KEEPALIVE.clone : nil}\r\n#{data}") if keep_alive post_init else close_connection_after_writing end end end host,port = "0.0.0.0", 8083 puts "Starting server on #{host}:#{port}, #{EM::set_descriptor_table_size(32768)} sockets" EM.run do EM.start_server host, port, RequestHandler if ARGV.size > 0 forks = ARGV[0].to_i puts "... forking #{forks} times => #{2**forks} instances" forks.times { fork } end end
At last, we need an http parser. I tried both writing my own in pure ruby and the EM::P::HeaderAndContentProtocol parser. But in then end I used the thin parser since it was the fastet parser and it is easy to integrate. This is the code for the parser
# FILE: thin_http_parser.rb require 'rubygems' # Uncomment this line if 'thin_parser' is not found # require 'thin' require 'thin_parser' require 'stringio' # Freeze some HTTP header names & values HTTP_VERSION = 'HTTP_VERSION'.freeze HTTP_1_0 = 'HTTP/1.0'.freeze CONTENT_LENGTH = 'CONTENT_LENGTH'.freeze CONNECTION = 'HTTP_CONNECTION'.freeze KEEP_ALIVE_REGEXP = /\bkeep-alive\b/i.freeze CLOSE_REGEXP = /\bclose\b/i.freeze # Freeze some Rack header names RACK_INPUT = 'rack.input'.freeze # A request sent by the client to the server. class RequestParser INITIAL_BODY = '' # Force external_encoding of request's body to ASCII_8BIT INITIAL_BODY.encode!(Encoding::ASCII_8BIT) if INITIAL_BODY.respond_to?(:encode!) # CGI-like request environment variables attr_reader :env # Unparsed data of the request attr_reader :data # Request body attr_reader :body def initialize @parser = Thin::HttpParser.new @data = '' @nparsed = 0 @body = StringIO.new(INITIAL_BODY.dup) @env = { RACK_INPUT => @body, } end # Parse a chunk of data into the request environment # Returns +true+ if the parsing is complete. def parse(data) if @parser.finished? # Header finished, can only be some more body body << data else # Parse more header using the super parser @data << data @nparsed = @parser.execute(@env, @data, @nparsed) end if finished? # Check if header and body are complete @data = nil @body.rewind true # Request is fully parsed else false # Not finished, need more data end end # +true+ if headers and body are finished parsing def finished? @parser.finished? && @body.size >= content_length end # Expected size of the body def content_length @env[CONTENT_LENGTH].to_i end # Returns +true+ if the client expect the connection to be persistent. def persistent? # Clients and servers SHOULD NOT assume that a persistent connection # is maintained for HTTP versions less than 1.1 unless it is explicitly # signaled. (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html) if @env[HTTP_VERSION] == HTTP_1_0 @env[CONNECTION] =~ KEEP_ALIVE_REGEXP # HTTP/1.1 client intends to maintain a persistent connection unless # a Connection header including the connection-token "close" was sent # in the request else @env[CONNECTION].nil? || @env[CONNECTION] !~ CLOSE_REGEXP end end endThe server is started by running
ruby server.rb
It is also possible to fork the process in order to increase the performance by adding an integer at the end of the start line. If I want to start 4 instances of server, I currently run
ruby server.rb 2
There is not much of an idea to run a lot more instances than you have cores on the machine, since it will only slow things down. And be aware that "fork" doesn't work out of the box on windows OS.
With this setup, I easily get 100.000+ reqs/seconds using ab with keep-alive switch (-k) on a medium core i5 processor.
To summarize my little hacking is that I really enjoy the simple and yet powerful API that EventMachine offers. You can really write compact code and yet good performing servers with Ruby and EventMachine


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In the Hartford Courant, I suggest going over it, but gradually, when the circumstances are more favorable:
The tax increases could be made to occur at a more appropriate time by instituting triggering criteria that would delay them until the state of the economy has improved and then phase them in. For example, the tax changes could be set to begin once the unemployment rate has fallen to a more reasonable level, like 5.5 percent, and remained there for six months. At that point, the increases could occur in three or four steps, with each one occurring as long as the unemployment rate has remained below a specified level for six months.This is another form of "state contingent" fiscal policy that I've suggested previously on this blog.
This would minimize the risk of pushing the economy back into recession by waiting until the economy has recovered enough to bring the unemployment rate down to a level more consistent with a healthy economy. It would also create confidence that the U.S. is not headed for a debt crisis (though low interest rates suggest that financial markets are not worried about this now). An automatic trigger would take the guesswork out of deciding on an appropriate time frame for an extension of the tax cuts, and spare the country further political brinksmanship over renewing them again.
In the piece, I asserted that allowing the 2001/03 income tax cuts and the 2010 temporary payroll tax cuts to expire would generate revenue "roughly consistent with the amount of spending required to maintain current programs." This is based on the idea that this would be pretty close to the "extended baseline scenario" in the CBO's projections where the US debt-to-GDP ratio gradually declines over time. As Jared Bernstein notes, the implication is that the US can afford its current entitlement programs, if it allows scheduled tax increases to take place.
In addition to the tax increases - essentially a reversion to the tax code at the end of the Clinton administration (we did pretty ok back then, didn't we?) - the "fiscal cliff" scenario also involves some spending cuts under the "sequester" mandated by last summer's debt ceiling deal. Since I was trying to keep the piece to op-ed length, I focused on the tax part because it is larger, but similar logic could be applied to the spending aspects.
The argument is not that this is an ideal economic policy - I'd like to see more stimulus now, and a simpler, more progressive tax code in the long-run; others would like cuts to entitlement programs and lower taxes - but rather that, as a modest change to existing law, it might be a politically feasible alternative to unrealistic hopes of a fiscal "grand bargain" that can achieve a "not bad" outcome in the short- and long-run.


text: AFJ 33 Report post Posted August 4, 2011 We live in a day when the ressurection is not much talked about, except in the commentaries of a theologian's bookshelf. That's sad! Because the ressurection is ALL the first disciples talked about! The reason is they were experiencing the power that raised Jesus from the dead! Are we? If not, then how do we do that? But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Romans 8:11 Atheists want proof that God is, but they are seeking it the wrong way, and in the wrong place. You can't find God in a multitude of journal papers, textbooks, degree programs, or in a lab. He must be IN YOU personally! The only way they'll ever BEGIN to see is if HE is LIVING in us! But how can he live in us if we don't even FEEL his presence in our mortal (subject to death and decay) body. Our flesh is corrupt and sinful. The only thing that is GOOD is the presence ot God making a connection with us. That is only achieved by taking TIME to seek God!! It's just like anything else you want to be good at--it takes time to and focus to get good at it! I wanted to get better at talking to evos, so I had to spend time reading what they were reading, so I could get better at communicating with them. In the same way, we have to spend time 'getting God!' If we don't then our relationship to God is only MENTAL! We believe, but we don't pay attention to WHOM we believe in. And so the SPIRIT begins to fade in our life. What happens then is DEATH begins to creep in more and more. So if we want to get back, we have to 'get God' into our lives. That only happens whent the SPIRIT is in our mortal bodies, and thriving. Not just a ghost of 'what once was.' But a thriving current 'sit down with God' relationship. Thwn we can begin to live again, and we'll know the SPIRIT gives life to this corrupt body!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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[The following was presented at the House of St Michael the Archangel Devotional Conference in January of 2012]
Attentiveness is the heart's stillness, unbroken by any thought. […] If we have not attained prayer that is without thoughts, we have no weapon to fight with.
— Hesychios
Prayer without thoughts.
What does it mean to have prayer without thoughts?
Has anyone ever told you that you need to learn to pray without thoughts before?
Most of the instruction I have received in my life has involved prayer with words – words of thanksgiving, confession, petition, intercession. Prayer, as it has been introduced to me in most of my Christian education, has involved talking to God. The question at the heart of this teaching was, "What should the Christian say to her God?"
For our teacher this evening, however, prayer is not fundamentally conversation. For Hesychios, the launching pad of prayer is not address, but presence.
Prayer without thoughts. We're going to undertake and experiment. I want everyone in the room to close their eyes and stop thinking. I'm serious. We're going to sit for a minute and do our best to clear our minds – to have, and to keep, them free from thoughts. Begin.
Time's up. How did it go? Did you hear, as some translators render Elijah having heard on the mountain, the sound of sheer silence? Or was it more like a hospital on the nightshift – supposedly still for the repose of the sick, but really – still and always – bustling quietly, doctors writing late orders, housekeepers scrubbing lately emptied rooms for 2AM admissions, nursing making rounds to pass the midnight and 3AM meds, the occasional sound of alarms. I know that my mind at rest sounds much more like the hospital where I sometimes work at night than a Carthusian monastery where all the monks have taken a vow of silence.
What were all those voices running around in your head? All those images and ideas? Worries. Fantasies. Shopping lists. Memories. Plans. Wants. Lusts. Cosmically significant musings and wrestling. (And I'm serious about that last. Each and every thought that crosses your mind really, really matters.)
Do you know your own thoughts? Perhaps it is time that you met them. Or, if you're already acquainted, found out what they're up to for the purpose of the next 20 hours of devotion.
The second exercise is like the first. Close your eyes and stop thinking. Only this time you know, if you didn't know before, that you're likely to fail. And so this time, when your thoughts make their inevitable appearance, take note of them. Find out what they're up to. Make a list of them – but not more than two or three. Our purpose is noticing, not active engagement. Clear your mind and begin.
Time's up.
Do you have a list?
Or at least one thought you caught sneaking through?
Now comes the hard part. Those thoughts are the enemies of your prayers. Even if they were boring: "Tomato soup for lunch tomorrow or chicken noodle?" Even if they were pious: "Perhaps I will go to India and be a missionary." No matter what sort of thoughts they are, thoughts are the enemies of the sort of prayer Hesychios is trying to teach us.
The trouble with talking to Jesus is that – although He sometimes grants us glimpses of Himself in dreams and visions, although He is the visible image of the invisible God – He is, generally, not available for us to see with the naked eye. And we tend to do a pretty poor job of talking to people we can see. We do an even worse job of just being with people we can see. And being, I would like to posit, is the best precursor to real talking. Real being with – real, deep presence – leads to true conversation. Or, even better, to that which transcends talking: communion, the calling and meeting of deep and deep.
Tim and I had a conversation the other day that was pretty scattered. I was sitting in the kitchen of the house where he lives, working on this talk. He came down from the upstairs, where he had been working on his dissertation, to make a pot of coffee.
Tim: Lisa Renee.
Lisa: Hey, Tim.
Tim: How's it coming?
Lisa: Not so good. Work was rough last night, and I didn't sleep well, and I'm having a hard time concentrating.
Tim: (Obviously to himself) Where are the coffee filters? Are we out? Oh, Caroline said she bought some new ones. Where are they? (To Lisa) Yeah, that's hard.
Lisa: How's your dissertation coming?
Tim: I don't know. Plugging along.
Lisa: By the way, we're out of toilet paper down here.
Tim: Oh, yeah. (To himself, measuring scoops) One. Two. Three. Four. (To Lisa) I'll get some.
Lisa: Thanks. (To herself) I hope he gets it soon. I really have to pee. And I hope he's making enough coffee to share. And I hope he goes away soon because I was about to have a really important thought. Even though it's, like, his house.
Not the most profound exchange of inquiries that ever passed between two friends. Not that every conversation you have with your friends – or your spouse, or your coworkers, or your parents – has to be the most profound conversation you've ever had. But if that was the only kind of conversation Tim and I ever had, we wouldn't be very good friends. But we have had conversations that involve communion of the heart, that involve drawing near to those things of which sighs speak clearer than words. It is those conversations that allow our more passing exchanges to pass for communication and to be, in their own way, sustaining.
And so – and more so – with God. For there is a limit to how close Tim and I can be and to how close it is proper for us to be. Even Time and Caroline, who have become one flesh in their marriage, are still separated by flesh and bone. Tim may say that Caroline is close to his heart, but she does not actually dwell there. But God dwells within us and desires that we should dwell in Him. And while Tim doesn't have the right to come first in anyone's thoughts – although he may be near the top of Caroline's – the Lord, as Creator, is by the right the foremost of all that is and He demands that nothing come before Him. He desires you and wants no veil between Himself and your heart.
Prayer without thoughts.
Your thoughts are the enemies of your prayers.
How is it when we come to God? Are we so busy thinking about what we should say, or saying what we have already decided to say – or thinking about other things, or measuring scoops of coffee – to really notice the other Person in the room? If our truest prayers are prayed in the Spirit, then the heart of prayer is not thought or talk but availability to the One who knows both our hearts and the heart of God. Just as Tim and I can't talk deeply unless we are able to set aside our thoughts and listen to one another, so we are not able to truly listen to God save in the absence of thoughts. It is in the place beyond words that the Spirit intercedes for us and the mind of Christ is born in us and we learn to have the thoughts of Christ and to speak the words of God.
What are we to do then? We who need to dwell in the presence of the Lord and yet who have such busy minds? We are, according to certain wise teachers of the ancient Church, Hesychios among them, to call on the name of Jesus.
"Attentiveness in the heart's stillness, unbroken by any thought. In this stillness the heart breathes and invokes endlessly and without ceasing only Jesus Christ": this is the end to which we have gathered for these two days, that our hearts might learn, or be deepened in their ability, to breathe and invoke without ceasing the precious name of Jesus.
We are to breathe the name of Jesus because His Name is oxygen which sustains and intensifies the fire of our souls.
We are to invoke Him – or call Him – because the name of Jesus is like no other name. I may speak Tim's name without commanding His presence. But Jesus is the name of the One who is the Son of God and Himself God, and God is neither divided nor divisible. To speak the name Jesus is to mediate with your very breath, voice box and tongue the presence and power of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Kingdom present and the Kingdom to come, the One who fills all things, the One from Whom, and to Whom, and through Whom all things exist. To Him be the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. To say the name Jesus is not merely to refer to the subject of our liturgies or to mention a Jewish rabbi who died in Palestine long ago. It is both to beg and, by God's mercy, to bring about the increasing revelation of One who is present in this very room. One who desires, like Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Present, that we may come and know Him better.
We are to call on the name of Jesus without ceasing because, as we have already seen, we are very inattentive creatures. Speak the name of Jesus and something in the air changes. Something in the heart changes. The bit of the universe which you inhabit becomes a bit more true. But speak the name of Jesus once and within ten minutes – or, if you're like me, within two minutes – the power of that speaking will, likely as not, have dissipated. Not because Jesus or His power are ever less, but because the fires of our hearts blaze not without the Spirit's blowing. To come to truly know a person, you must spend time with them. To come to the bottom of a thought, you must dwell upon it. And so with our prayers. My prayers must not be Jesus. Chicken soup or tomato? Jesus. What will I do tomorrow? Jesus. I need to return that call. But Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
The third exercise is like the first two – only better. Close your eyes and empty your mind that it might be filled with the name and presence of Jesus Christ. When your thoughts show up, put the name of Jesus between those thoughts and your heart. No thought should ever be nearer your heart than Jesus Christ. And at the presence of Jesus, those thoughts that cannot bear His gaze will flee, those thoughts that cannot be molded to fit the image of His name – which is the image of the indivisible God – will be broken, and only that which is Himself and of Himself will remain. Begin.
Time's up – or, well, not really. For the state in which our minds just stood, or tried to stand, is the state in which Hesychios would always have them to be, says that they must be if we are to have true hearts. I don't have an exercise to teach you that sort of day-in-day-out, every-waking-moment-and-even-in-your-dreaming sort of prayer – only a promise that time spent in intentional stillness has a tendency to creep and spread so that one's heart, by grace, begins to find quiet in the midst of even the busiest and hardest parts of one's days. It's gardening God's up to. He planted the seed and if you keep watering, it will grow – and grow beyond your wildest expectations.
So, how was it? Did you feel the presence of the Lord? If so, praise God for His goodness and mercy. If not, don't feel too badly. Even Hesychios admits that it's difficult. In a passage that we will read tomorrow, he writes: "To human beings it seems hard and difficult to still the mind so that it rests from all thought. Indeed, to enclose what is bodiless [that is, the infinite God] within the limits of the body does demand toil and struggle, not only from the uninitiated but also from those experienced in inner spiritual warfare. But he who through unceasing prayer holds the Lord Jesus within his breast will not tire in following him." The journey is hard, but there is food for the journey, for our work and our reward is to cling to the one who is manna for our souls.
Pray then, tonight and tomorrow, the name of the Lord Jesus, that He might come to dwell before all in your heart and all your thoughts might be subject to Him. For tonight, do not come to Him asking the redemption and healing of yourself and the world. Do not come to him asking favor or gifts. Come to Him and call Him to come to you simply as He is, Himself Favor and the Gift and the rightful Lord of all. Be still, and you will know that He is God, and having sought nothing but Jesus, you will find yourself in possession of all things. Amen.


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The challenge is to have universally deployed pumps as transfer and booster pumps on ships and harbours, as well as on offshore platforms – from fuel or sludge transport, through loading and unloading, to stripping. They need to generate high pressures of up to 80 bar, and be able to transport lubricant oil, fuel and bitumen.
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NETZSCH Pumpen & Systeme GmbH has also developed a range of NOTOS® screw pumps which can generate pressures of up to 80 bar even in tight spaces and can cope with liquid temperatures of up to 300°C. A series of design innovations, in line with the principle of High Efficiency Unique Design (HEUD) and involving the spindle profile and the pump chamber, make them particularly efficient. The sturdy materials used – depending on the requirement, these may for instance be simple cast iron, chrome-nickel steel, Duplex or Hastelloy alloys – enable the setting of very small tolerances between the dynamic and static parts. This keeps backflow to a minimum and improves the ratio of pumping capacity to energy used. The NOTOS® 2NS range involves a two screw pump. The drive spindle transfers the torque via hydrodynamic film to the second spindle, powered passively. Together with the housing, the two form conveying chambers, with the flow rate being determined by rotational speed, screw diameter and spindle pitch. The medium itself provides the lubrication, so the conveyed medium needs a light lubrication capacity for this type. This NOTOS® screw pump model, which achieves pumping capacities of up to 500 m³/h, is therefore used for the circulation of lubricant oils, for example in a ship's engine room. The three screw NOTOS® 3NS pump is also characterised by a novel, patented media discharge – a double outlet with a conical widening at the end of the drive spindle – which significantly reduces turbulence at the outlet and the energy consumption due to flow losses associated with this. The maximum flow rate with the 3NS is 200 m³/h and it is for example used to supply ship diesel engines with fuel and lubricant oils. Flow rates of up to 1,500 m³/h are possible with the geared twin screw pump NOTOS® 4NS. Even non-lubricating media can be conveyed with this model, as its conveying spindles do not touch. Its high flow rate and good intake behaviour mean this type of pump is frequently used for loading and unloading liquid cargo.
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I love what I do but I also know that what I do is just a tinny part of a bigger picture future brides to be's have.
I met Sarah via text she sent me. She asked if I can make letters to float in the pool of the wedding venue.
#vogelsvibes. That's what she asked that I make. "That's a lot of letters" I thought, but inspired by her tribal, freesprit and earthly theme I took on the job. I felt the VIBE I should say.
Weeks on end we texted back and forth on ideas, agreed on colors and design. it took me endless hours to make what she pictured.
I finally met Sarah and her fiancé Matt in the parking lot of Ralphs to deliver the letters. Their hashtag made sense, in the mist of their preparations, last minute running around for their big day, they had nothing but Good Vibes.
I follow them on instgram now, almost a year since their wedding. I see how their entire wedding party, all the details were a transparent reflection of their own personalities as well as love for each other.
I met them for a nano second, I don't really know them but I adore their journey as a couple as much as the most reflective wedding theme they had. Nothing but good vibes.
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Oh, hey, guys.
Listen, Kenny,we need to talk about
your new girlfriend.
What about her ?
Oh, boy...
Kenny, we know you reallylike this girl, but--
But what ?
Well, we've heardthat she's...
your girlfriend isa notorious whore.
She even gavea kid named Dave Darski
a BJ in the parking lotof T.G.I. FRiDAY'S.
Huh ?
Your girlfriend'sa slut, dude.
Woo-hoooo !
Woo-hoo-hooooo !
He took itpretty well.
Hey, Tammy !Hi, Ken !
You decide what youwanna do after school ?
Yeah, I was kind ofthinking
we should goto T.G.I. FRiDAY'S.
T.G.I. FRiDAY'S ?
Yeah, could belots of fun.
Yeah, okay, but...
Kenny, listen...
there's something I needto talk to you about.
There's a lot ofrumors going around about me
that I agreed to givea boy a BJ.
Well... it's true.
But it was before youand I were together,
and it wasn't my fault !
See, I was watchingthe Disney Channel
and that show came onwith the Jonas Brothers--
Jonas Brothers ?
You know thatteenage boy band ?
Every time I see themI get so... tingly.
I justcompletely lose control.
And then Dave Darskishowed up
and took meto T.G.I. FRiDAY'S
and it just happened.
But it was only for one secondand I had my eyes closed.
I know it's terrible.
Can you...can you forgive me, Ken ?
( sighing )
There you are, young man,
The Ring s13e01
The Boys feel like they need to tell Kenny the truth about his new girlfriend.