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January 27
Theological Temptations
By Marsh Chapel
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Your love of Christ shapes your love of Scripture and tradition and reason and experience. You are lovers and knowers too. We are ever in peril of loving what we should use and using what we should love, to paraphrase Augustine. In particular we sometimes come perilously close to the kind of idolatry that uses what we love. We are tempted, for our love Christ, to force a kind of certainty upon what we love, to use what is meant to give confidence as a force and form of certainty. It is tempting to substitute the freedom and grace of confidence with the security and protection of certainty. But faith is about confidence not certainty. If we had certainty we would not need faith.
1. Errancy
Your love for Christ shapes your love of Scripture. You love the Bible. You love its psalmic depths. Psalm 130 comes to mind. You love its stories and their strange names. Obededom comes to mind. You love proverbial wisdom. "One sharpens another like iron sharpens iron" comes to mind. You love its freedom, its account of the career of freedom. The exodus comes to mind. You love its memory of Jesus. His holding children comes to mind. You love its honesty about religious life. Galatians comes to mind. You love its strangeness. John comes to mind. You love the Bible like Rudolph Bultmann loved it, enough to know it through and through.
You rely on the Holy Scripture to learn to speak of faith, and as a medium of truth for the practice of faith. Around our common table today in worship, we share this reliance and this love. The fascinating multiplicity of hearings, here, at and through Marsh Chapel, and the interplay of congregations present, absent, near, far, known, unknown, religious and unreligious, have a common ground in regard for the Scripture. A preacher descending into her automobile in Boston, after an earlier service, listens to this service to hear the interpretation of the gospel. A homebound woman in Newton listens for the musical offerings and for the reading of scripture. On the other side of the globe, way down in Sydney, Australia, a student listens in, come Sunday, out of a love of Christ that embraces a love of Scripture. Here in the Chapel nave, on the Lord's Day, scholars and teachers and students have in common, by their love for Christ, a love for the Scripture, too. In this way, we may all affirm Mr. Wesley's motto: homo unius libri, to be a person of one book.
But the Bible is errant. It is theologically tempting for us to go on preaching as if the last 250 years of study just did not happen. They did. That does not mean that we should deconstruct the Bible to avoid allowing the Bible to deconstruct us, or that we should study the Bible in order to avoid allowing the Bible to study us. In fact, after demythologizing the Bible we may need to remythologize the Bible too. It is the confidence born of obedience, not some certainty born of fear, that will open the Bible to us. We need not fear truth, however it may be known. So Luke may not have had all his geographical details straight. So John includes the woman caught in adultery, but not in its earliest manuscripts. (Actually she, poor woman, is found at the end of Luke in some texts.) So Paul did not write the document from the earlier third century, 3 Corinthians. The references to slavery in the New Testament are as errant and time bound as are the references to women not speaking in church. The references to women not speaking in church are as errant and time bound as are the references to homosexuality. The references to homosexuality are as errant and time bound as are the multiple lists of the twelve disciples. The various twelve listings are as errant and time bound as the variations between John and the other Gospels. And so on…
The Marsh pulpit, and others like it, are not within traditions which affirm the Scripture as the sole source of religious authority. We do not live within a Sola Scriptura tradition. The Bible is primary, foundational, fundamental, basic, prototypical—but not exclusively authoritative. Do you hear that? It begs to be heard. Today's passage from Matthew 4 is an idealized memory of something that may or may not have happened in the way accounted, somewhere along the Tiberian shore. It looks back sixty years. Sixty years! What do you remember from January of 1948? Nor was it written for that kind of certainty. Matthew 4 is formed in the faith of the church to form the faith of the church.
If I were teaching a Sunday School class in Nebraska this winter I would buy the class copies of Throckmorton's Gospel parallels and read it with them.
We grasp for certainty, but confidence grasps us.
2. Equality
You love the tradition of the church as well. "Though with a scornful wonder we see her sore oppressed…" John Wesley loved the church's tradition too, enough to study it and to know it, and to seek its truth. The central ecclesiastical tradition of his time, the tradition of apostolic succession, he termed a 'fable'. (It would be like political debaters today using charged language like 'fairy tale'.) Likewise, we lovers of the church tradition will not be able to grasp for certainty in it, if that grasping dehumanizes others. The Sabbath was made for the human being, not the other way around, in our tradition.
Baptism is as traditional and central a variously understood practice as Christianity possesses. It is in some ways the very doorway to our traditions. Yet listen to Paul today. In his context, he rejects baptism. For him gospel trumps tradition.
Our linkage of the gifts of heterosexuality and ministry, however traditional, falls before the gospel of grace and freedom. Further, on a purely practical level, another generation will not be impressed by church growth strategies rooted in the exclusion of 10% of the population. There is a serious upside limit to the use of gay ba
shing to grow churches. My three children in their twenties are not going to stay around for it.
It is theologically tempting to shore up by keeping out. But such a theological temptation has no future. Equality will triumph over exclusion. It is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave…
If I were convening a Lenten study in suburban Washington DC I would have the group read G. Wills' Head and Heart: American Christianities, for some perspective on the way traditions change.
3. Evolution
You love the mind, the reason. You love the prospect of learning. You love the life of the mind. You love the Lord with heart and soul and mind. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste", you say. You love the reason in the same that Charles Darwin, a good Anglican, loved the reason. You love its capacity to see things differently.
Of course reason unfettered can produce hatred and holocaust. Learning for its own sake needs virtue and piety. More than anything else, learning, to last, must finally be rooted in loving. Did you hear the one thing requested in our vibrant Psalm? To inquire in the temple. Inquiry!
The universe is 14 billion years old. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. 500 million years ago multi-celled organisms appeared in the Cambrian explosion. 400 million years ago plants sprouted. 370 million years ago land animals emerged. 230 million years ago dinosaurs appeared (and disappeared 65 million years ago). 200,000 years ago hominids arose. Every human being carries 60 new mutations out of 6 billion cells. Yes, evolution through natural selection by random mutation is a reasonable hypothesis, says F Collins, father of the human genome project, and, strikingly, a person of faith.
If I were the chaplain of a small private school in New England I might have my fellowship group read this winter F Collins, the Language of God. He can teach us to reason together.
It is tempting to disjoin learning and vital piety, but it is not loving to disjoin learning and vital piety. They go together. The God of Creation is the very God of Redemption. Their disjunction may help us cling for a while to a kind of faux certainty. But their conjunction is the confidence born of obedience. Falsehood has no defense and truth needs none.
4. Existence
You love experience. The gift of experience in faith is the heart of your love of Christ. You love Christ. Like Howard Thurman loved the mystical ranges of experience, you do too. Isaiah, in looking forward, can sing of the joy of harvest. We know joy. Joy seizes us. Joy grasps us when we are busy grasping at other things. You love what we are given morning and evening.
You love experience more than enough to examine your experience, to think about and think through what you have seen and done.
But beloved, a simple or general appeal to the love of experience, in our time, in 2008, is not appealing or loving. It is not experience, but our very existence which lies under the shadow of global violence. To have any future worthy of the name we shall need to foreswear preemptive violence. How the stealthy entry of such a manner of behavior could shape our civil discourse without voluminous debate and vehement challenge is a measure of our longing for false certainties. Preemption is our besetting theological temptation. Our existence itself is on the line in discussions or lack of discussions about violent action that is preemptive, unilateral, imperial, and reckless. One thinks of Lincoln saying of slavery, 'those who support it might want to try it for themselves'. Not one of us wants to be the victim of preemptive violence. We may argue about the need for response, and even for the need of some kinds of anticipatory defense. But preemption? It will occlude existence itself.
If I were gathering a book club in downtown Boston to read this winter I would select the articles and books of Reinhold Niebuhr. Our future lies on the narrower path of responsive, communal, sacrificial, prudent behavior and requires of us, in Neibuhr's phrase, 'a spiritual discipline against resentment'.
There are indeed theological temptations in the unbalanced love of Scripture, tradition, reason or experience. As we come soon to Lent let us face them down. Let us face them down together. Let us do so by lifting our voices to admit errancy, affirm equality, explore evolution, and admire existence. The measure of preaching today in the tradition of a responsible Christian liberalism is found in our willingness to address errancy, equality, evolution and existence.


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Although it was announced alongside the BlackBerry Z10, the Q10 has been held back by BlackBerry so consumers could focus on the fully touchscreen, flagship model.
TechRadar was initially told that the BlackBerry Q10 would arrive six to eight weeks after the Z10, and BlackBerry looks to be staying true to its word.
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A statement from the Canadian firm reads: "We expect the first global carriers to launch the BlackBerry Q10 in April. We will announce new pricing and availability information as carriers roll out around the world.
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The Q10 is the first handset to feature a QWERTY keyboard alongside the firm's new BlackBerry 10 operating system and it will certainly appeal to those who can't live without a physical input method on their smartphone.
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Odorizzi set for return to Busch, this time on the mound
Red-hot righty will start Tuesday in St. Louis against team he grew up rooting for
Wolves in sheep's clothing will dot the Busch Stadium stands Tuesday night -- Cardinal lifers turned Rays fans for a day, maybe a couple hundred, depending on how accurate Jake Odorizzi's estimates are.
Fans will flock from Highland, Ill., a half hour away from St. Louis, and head west along I-55 and across the Mississippi River to see the hometown kid pitch against the hometown team.
"Just the atmosphere alone will be very cool," Odorizzi said. "It will be a fun atmosphere and fun game for me in general."
Odorizzi's family and friends, who "could be anywhere from 100 to 500," will look on as he gets the ball in Tampa Bay's series opener against the Cards, his first career start in St. Louis. Odorzzi said it was a coin flip that his rotation slot would line up with the two-game series at all. Well, lucky him. This is the game Odorizzi wanted to pitch.
The 24-year-old rookie grew up in Highland, and like everyone he knew, Odorizzi rooted for St. Louis. He's been to more Cardinals games than he can count -- at the old and new Busch Stadiums -- watching pitchers toe a rubber he's never pitched from himself.
Odorizzi surely imagined himself striding off that mound when he was making 46-foot deliveries in Little League, and he must have dreamed of it while Fox Sports Midwest glowed on his television screen at home.
Odorizzi used to watch Mike Matheny -- then the St. Louis catcher who now manages the Cardinals -- call games for the playoff teams of the early 2000s. He remembers the first St. Louis World Series of his lifetime in 2006, with Adam Wainwright -- his opponent on Tuesday -- closing out the title.
Odorizzi will be wearing a road-gray Rays uniform when he starts Tuesday. Still, for the first time, a trip to the Midwest means more for him than time spent at home.
"It's not hockey season anymore, so I can't go see a Blues game," Odorizzi said. "I don't really go back unless it's the wintertime. In the summertime, I haven't been back in a long time."
The Rays played the Cardinals in St. Petersburg on June 10, and Odorizzi started that series opener, too. He lost, 1-0, but dominated for 7 1/3 innings, giving up three hits and one run while striking out five.
"Today was the best outing I've ever had," Odorizzi said after the loss. "I came out with a little extra motivation against these guys. I think it could be a good turning point not just for the season, but a career turning point."
Earlier in the season, Odorizzi, who won the fifth-starter job out of Spring Training, hadn't been getting results -- especially in the second and third times through the batting order. Simply put, he wasn't going deep enough into games.
Of his 12 starts prior to the outing against St. Louis, five lasted fewer than five innings and none went more than six. Odorizzi was 2-6 with a 5.31 ERA, and opponents were hitting .279 against him.
He never worried about his job security, saying, "If I thought about it that way, I probably wouldn't be here right now." But with Jeremy Hellickson's return expected in early July, and Erik Bedard pitching well, the question was valid: When the time came, who would be displaced?
Then Odorizzi started against the Cards and got the outing he'd been looking for. In the seven games since, Odorizzi is 4-3 with four quality starts, a 2.28 ERA and opponents are now hitting .204 against him.
So when Hellickson returned, the once-uncertain decision had already been made for manager Joe Maddon. Bedard was moved to the bullpen, despite having little relief experience.
"You're not gonna take Odo out of the rotation right now," Maddon said, simply.
Wil Myers, Odorizzi's old roommate in Kansas City before the two were sent to Tampa Bay in the James Shields trade, has noticed the difference.
"There's something, obviously, that he's made the adjustments on," Myers said. "To be honest, I haven't really paid attention to exactly what he does every single pitch -- I've seen him for years, how he throws."
Myers was right. There is something, and it can be traced back to that June 10 game against the Cardinals.
"I realized some things I hadn't seen before when I went out there," Odorizzi said. "Now I notice it every game, and it's translatable at the end of each game, and I can tweak it."
He won't say what "it" is. He doesn't want "it" to be out there. He doesn't want hitters to key in on "it."
"Just, I did something different than what I normally do," he said. "And now that I'm doing it, it's like, 'Why didn't I do this from the get-go?'"
Whatever "it" is, he's been doing it for a month and a half, and that June start is still a career-changer in Odorizzi's eyes.
And whatever "it" is, it will be on display Tuesday, when the kid from Highland comes home.


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A new 13in MacBook Pro may be set to launch soon with a Retina display, 8GB RAM, and a 2.9 GHz Core i7-3520M, if a new entry in the Geekbench results database is to be believed.
The MacBookPro10,2 entry could refer to a new Retina display version of the MacBook Pro since it's identifier is similar to that of the 15in MacBook Pro with Retina display.
The 15in Retina MacBook is referred to as MacBookPro10,1 in Geekbench results while the non-Retina versions are known as MacBookPro9,x.
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However, Geekbench developer Primate Labs told AppleInsider that they believe the entry is genuine because the OS version number, processor model, motherboard and BIOS strings, all appear to be legitimate.


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When the Electrolux washing machine factory left Webster City, Iowa for Juarez, Mexico almost two years ago, it effectively knocked the town's middle class to its knees. A sizable portion of the town's population worked there, and they quickly found themselves scrambling to figure out what came next.
A couple of months after the plant closed down, photographer Brendan Hoffman first visited Webster City, which sits about 75 miles north of Des Moines. He was following former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty who, at the time, was campaigning in the Republican presidential primary. The plight of the town presented itself to him as the bigger story.
"It was a story that I felt conflicted about and those are the kind of stories I'm most drawn to," says Hoffman, who is a member of the Prime collective. "Sure, some of the people in Webster City are going to tell you that they got screwed over. But at the same time if we are going to consider this country to be a free-market democracy, whose is to stop [the company] from deciding that they can be more efficient by moving production to Mexico?"
Hoffman also knew he could follow the story beyond Iowa. One of his colleagues in Prime, Dominic Bracco, has been working in Juarez for years and could help him find the people who now work the jobs that used to belong to the residents of Webster City.
"This was a solidly middle class job when it was in Iowa and I'd like to see if it's creating the same kind of jobs in Mexico," he says.
Hoffman has been back to Webster City three times, putting together an ethnography of the town. In the spring he hopes to travel to Juarez to document the new Electrolux factory and have the story done by 2014, in time for NAFTA's 20-year anniversary.
Instead of focusing on just one family in Webster City, he's chosen to look more broadly at moments that slowly weave together a complicated story about a place in transition.
"I don't think there is any way to ignore the fact that this is a major blow for the town. I wouldn't be doing my job of being objective if I tried to gloss over that," he says. "But at the same time it isn't a surprise that companies have the option to move to a lower-wage country. The question comes up about whether the company has any responsibility to the town. I also don't see why people aren't more prepared for this kind of thing."
While the Electrolux plant didn't employ the entire town, Hoffman says the closing still had a seismic effect on everyone there. For those that did lose their jobs he says the Federal Government has stepped in and helped many of them go back to school through the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. Some former employees are also still living on unemployment while they look for new work. Others have ended up losing everything.
Showing this complexity in photos is difficult. Hoffman has the photo of a Webster City resident on his lawn with all his possession lined after being evicted and the photo of the shuttered plant. But he also has the photo of a dad joking around with his kids as they lay out under the stars on a summer night.
The dad, Steve McFarland, actually shows up in several of the photos. McFarland was never an Electrolux employee (he builds houses and frequently works outside Webster City) but for Hoffman he signifies someone who has found a way to work through the general economic problems in the town. Within the context of the story McFarland helps show the viewer that not everyone has thrown up their arms in despair.
"He's not someone who worries about this future at all," Hoffman says. "That's probably unique in some ways, but he manages every week to have a couple dollars left over and as long as there's something left over it's all good."
Some of Hoffman's photos are more ambiguous. This summer, for example, he shot photos during the county fair, including the fair queens and the local parade. While people still lined the streets and dressed up for the contest, he says the whole event felt a little forced.
"It all kinda felt like an attempt to remain stoic," he says. "They were trying to stay straight faced and let people know that everything is fine because look, our daughters can still be beauty queens."
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There is a definite chill in the air, and the first snow flurries are flying… that means it's time to get our snow blower prepared for the winter.
Basic snow blower maintenance is fairly simple and straightforward, involving steps similar to those you'd take for your car (changing oil, inspecting belts, and so on). The first step is to dig out the owner's manual, so that you know exactly what replacement parts, oil, and lubricants are right for your specific model of snow blower. Following are some general guidelines that should have you up and running before the first heavy snow.
1. Inspect and Tighten
Check all of the nuts, bolts, screws, belts and cords to make sure that nothing is loose. Two-stage snow blowers have two belts, one for the auger and one for the drive; single-stage snow blowers have only one belt. If the belts are worn or cracked, they should be replaced. Otherwise, make sure they are tight. The starter cord also should be inspected and replaced if there is any evidence of fraying.
Changing oil. Photo: Family Handyman
2. Change Oil and Gas
A two-cylinder engine uses mixed gas and oil; a four-cylinder engine uses straight gas with a separate crank case for the oil. In both cases, you should completely drain the old oil and gas from the engine and replace with new fluids. To change the oil, start the engine and let it run for a few minutes to warm up. Stop the engine and remove the oil plug, draining the old oil into a waste receptacle. Once all the oil has drained, replace and tighten the plug and refill the engine with the appropriate weight of oil. Turn the engine on again and check the oil level. Also, check to make sure that the drain plug is tight and there are no leaks.
3. Replace Spark Plug, Fuel, and Air Filter
Check your owner's manual to ensure that you have the proper replacements on hand. To change the spark plug, remove the lead wire, then use a socket wrench to remove the plug. Replace with a new spark plug, being careful not to over-tighten the new plug, and re-attach the lead wire.
4. Lubricate Drive and Chassis
Again, check the owner's manual to ensure that you use the proper lubricant. If possible, turn the snow blower on its side so that you can easily reach all of the components. While the snow blower is on its side, inspect the scraper bar (the piece that rubs against the ground and scrapes the snow off.) If this is worn, replace it (leaving it alone could result in damage to the snow blower housing). At the same time, inspect the skid shoes, which are located on each side of the auger housing. The skid shoes adjust the height of the auger in order to keep it from scraping the ground or picking up stones. Skid shoes should be replaced if they are worn. Also check the rubber on the auger-if your finger fits between the rubber and the housing, it is time to replace the rubber.
5. Check Tires and Chains
Check the tire pressure and add air if needed. Visually inspect the tires for wear; replace if necessary. If you have chains for your tires, either put them on in advance or make sure they are readily accessible.
Snow Blower Shear Pins from Lowe's
6. Buy New Shear Pins
The shear pins (also known as shear bolts) on a snow blower are actually designed to break. Shear pins are an important safety feature, because they break when the auger and casing are over-torqued and prevent serious damage to the unit. The shear pins are located between the auger and the gear casing. If any pins are missing or broken, replace them. It is a good idea to buy extras, so you have them on hand during the winter.
7. Check All Accessories
Different makes and models of snow blowers come with various accessories, such as power steering, headlights, and electric starters. It is a good idea to inspect all of these items and replace any accessories that are broken or worn.
There are a few things to keep in mind during the season: Always run the snow blower on a cleared surface to remove any leftover snow from the auger and, before you put it away, wipe snow from the throw chute and the housing. Tighten any loose bolts or fasteners after each use. Check for worn or damaged parts and replace as soon as possible. Remember that just a few minutes of simple maintenance will keep your snow blower in tip-top shape, ready for winter's worst!
For more on winter maintenance, consider:
Winter Preparation Checklist
Quick Tip: Snow Blower Safety
Salt vs. Sand to Prevent Slips After Snow


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an enhanced renderer by Chris Dohnal. I did manage to build a recent version of his renderer for Linux once but I had to install Debian Sarge in a VM in order to do it!
No announcement yet.
A New Game Ported To Run On Wayland/Weston
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the long answer: Wayland support on Qt depends on Lighthouse project namely QPA[Qt Platform Abstraction] lately and this work landed in Qt 5.0+ and is not present, so Qt4 still uses the normal hardcoded XCB/Xlib Api.
Don't confuse gles support for Wayland support
weird no Mir priest has come to preach yet about how awesome is that page flipper and that wayland is like totally dead.
The port of SDL to Wayland looked like it's been abandoned by the devs but recently there's been quite much of activity in soreau/SDL GitHub.
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I'd love to see a UT 2004 Wayland port benchmarked against its X11 version on some modern Radeon card with 3.11 kernel and latest mesa etc.
Not so much in terms of FPS (I don't think there will be a difference) but in terms of frame playback quality, latency etc. Might be hard to benchmark, though. You'd have to do a double blind test and let 10 people play the same game on the same machine on X and on Wayland and let them fill out a survey if one system felt smoother.
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Originally posted by Chewi View PostI don't see why not, if it doesn't depend on any X stuff. I just checked the original UT, no X stuff in sight! This could be good news, getting it to run on modern systems is a bit hit and miss at the moment.
# readelf -d /opt/unreal-tournament/System/ut-bin /opt/unreal-tournament/System/*.so | fgrep NEEDED | sort -u 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [Core.so] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [Engine.so] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libdl.so.2] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libglide.so.2] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libmikmod.so.2] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libm.so.6] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libnsl.so.1] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libopenal-0.0.so] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpthread.so.0] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libSDL-1.2.so.0] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [Render.so]
> ldd /usr/local/share/ut2004/System/ut2004-bin-linux-amd64 linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff3ccbd000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1cc76bb000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1cc749f000) ./libSDL-1.2.so.0 => not found libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 (0x00007f1cc71bd000) libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1cc6ebf000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1cc6ca9000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1cc68fc000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1cc78bf000)
What really annoys me about the Linux version of the original UT, is that even though I own it, I purchased the Anthology version (which is 4 games in 1), and the UT Linux installer has a CD check (something the Windows version had dropped since a long time ago), and of course it doesn't recognise Anthology as an UT disc. :\ And speaking of which, I think the UT installer depends on Motif or so (because its widgets are awful-looking), which of course in turn depends on X.
Originally posted by Chewi View PostI'm not sure why it doesn't link against libGL. The other good news is that new plugins can be built. The original renderers have framerate issues on modern machines but there is an enhanced renderer by Chris Dohnal. I did manage to build a recent version of his renderer for Linux once but I had to install Debian Sarge in a VM in order to do it!
And yes, there was a recent attempt at doing something similar, as documented here: http://www.oldunreal.com/cgi-bin/yab...m=1363937027/0 It's for Rune, and not UT, but the idea is pretty much the same. It needs some really arcane GCC versions to make it work.
Thankfully there are no such problems with Unreal, since it has a fan-maintained modern version that should work just fine with GCC 4.
Originally posted by scionicspectre View PostHonestly, GTK 2 apps are the only real sore area I see in this migration, aside from FLTK and other barely-known, barely-used toolkits. Many people stick to using GTK 2 apps just to keep using old themes, not even for any technical reason. Once someone actual ports their desktop over, so people don't need to use Weston to enjoy Wayland, I think people will stop assuming this situation is so difficult to adapt to.


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Thiols aren't quite like bacon, but they're not too far off trend-wise. These aromatic sulfur-containing molecules are highly appealing in small quantities — even low concentrations lend a wine's aroma fresh fruity notes (tropical in sauv blanc, black currant or berry in reds). Just about everyone wants them, or wants more of them. They're at work in the expected places (thiols in sauvignon blanc are like the bacon in your pasta carbonara; bland without, and much better with), but also do a fair bit in the unexpected ones, too (thiols contribute to the aroma of Bordeaux reds and Provençal rosés, for example, and bacon, I'm told, does excellent things to cupcake frosting*).
Unlike bacon, we still don't have an especially good idea of how thiols are formed (we figured this out for bacon a good long while ago, I believe). The amounts yeast transform from various precursors under realistic wine conditions just don't add up to the final concentrations we find in wine, and how the rest happen remains an open question. Last year's news was that tannins contain thiol precursors upon which yeast act during fermentation. Now, those researchers (an Italian group, with the aid of a Sauvignon blanc-oriented researcher from New Zealand) have demonstrated what I'm sure they'd hoped for when they published last year's paper: adding tannins to wine before fermentation increases a wine's thiol concentrations, specifically 3-mercaptohexan-1-ol (3MH). (For some context on 3MH and other sulfur compounds, Jamie Goode's blog article on the topic is a good primer).
This study is very much a first step, and a bit of a disappointing one. Tannin was only added at one concentration: 1.6 g per 2 kg batch, compared with a no tannin-added control. Seeing a dose-dependent response — add more tannin, get more thiols — or showing that the relationship between those two variables isn't linear, anything other than just two points, would have been much more convincing. As would using larger than 2 kg batches for those experimental wines (2 kg ~ 1 750 mL bottle), since the volumes in which experimental wines change yeast fermentation and oxygen exposure dynamics; the oxygen mightn't be relevant here, but the fermentation parameters are. AND, each wine was only made in duplicate, not satisfying the usual experimental expectation of performing studies in triplicate. With two samples, if one is off you can't tell which reflects the trend you'd see if you did the experiment a hundred times (and you certainly shouldn't just average them together); if three samples all group, you can feel better about life (and your results). AND, with so little wine, the authors couldn't conduct a proper sensory analysis, not that doing so would have been worthwhile in any case with their mini-make-do winemaking technique. In other words, this study is less than convincing on methodological grounds.
All of that said and duly noted, this study points toward some interesting possibilities. For instance, I've recently talked with a few winemakers who have been experimenting with tannin additions to good but confusing effect. (I seemed to come across people talking about tannin additives about as often as I did bacon-laden menu items on my most recent trip through Eastern Washington, which is to say, a lot.) They know good results when they see them, and they like what they taste. But tannin assays sometimes seem to yield results that conflict with experience, with the assay saying that the with-addition and without-addition wines contain the same amount of tannin even though the winemaker can taste a difference. All manner of possible explanations exist for that phenomenon, and I don't want to suggest that thiols are responsible for those sensory differences. Nevertheless, this study is a good reminder that adding anything to wine is bound to have more than just one obvious, direct effect, and that adding tannins could play with wine aromas in ways we hadn't expected.
*I'm told, because I'm one of three people on the planet who likes neither bacon nor cupcake frosting.


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- Nikon D7000 reaches #2 at the bestsellers list on Amazon. Not surprised. Actually I am - it should be #1. Update: the D7000 is #1 in the DSLR chart.
- Update: worth mentioning here - the new retro design Fuji FinePix X-100.
- Bruce Lee shooting with a Nikon (must have Facebook account in order to see the picture).
- Another claim that the D7000 sensor is made by Sony:
"Nikon has drawn as usual and decided how they want the sensor to function, since it is also, as usual, an external sensor manufacturer based on, in this case Sony."
And to make things more interesting, according to Markus Hillebrand (Marketing Manager, Nikon Germany) the D7000 sensor is design and produced by Nikon:
"A further highlight is the 16.2 effective megapixel resolution CMOS image sensor, the Nikon According to Markus Hillebrand, Marketing Manager, Nikon Germany, has even developed and produced."
- More Nikon D7000 samples. The D7000 is listed in the consumer section of Nikon's website (D300s is in the professional section).
- Nikon P7000 hands-on from Engadget and Pocket-lint. Amazon UK says the P7000 will start shipping on September 23th.
- Nikon revamped Picturetown. One of the new features is the "PhotoMovie that allows you to combine photos, messages and music with special effects", read about the rest of the improvements here.
- Capture One 5.2 released with "improved colors and consistency on a number of Nikon cameras" and "improved tone response in ISO mode L1.0, L0.7 and L0.3 for a number of Nikon cameras".


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Interview: Switchfoot's Jerome Fontamillas on New 'Narnia' Song
By now, whether you are Christian or not, you have heard at least one hit song from the beloved rock band Switchfoot.
While all the band members are Christian, they prefer to be known as just a rock band because they say their music contains broad themes that everyone can enjoy, whether it is "Meant to Live," "Dare You to Move" or their newest hit single, "Awakening."
The San Diego-based group now has a new original song out called, "This is Home," which plays in "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" – the latest "Narnia" film which this past weekend seized the box-office crown, with $55 million in ticket sales.
The Switchfoot song is featured during the end credits of the film, and appears on the Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack CD, which released May 13.
The Christian Post caught up with Jerome Fontamillas, who is often found jamming on the guitar or keyboard for the band, to discuss the new "Narnia" song and to get the 411 on Switchfoot's latest projects.
The following are excerpts taken from the interview:
CP: Tell me a little bit about "This is Home" – Switchfoot's new song, recorded for the movie "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian." How does the song tell the journey of these four kids?
Fontamillas: Well, the whole idea of the song – if you read the Chronicles the series from beginning to end – it's this idea that the place you live now is not the place you are really meant to be. You feel this is just a passing by and there is something bigger for you beyond this place. This song has a longing to go to that place. "This is Home" is about longing to be in the place where you belong and destined to be.
CP: What do you think is the destiny of these four kids?
Fontamillas: Well, I'm sure for the four kids, Narnia is their place to be. But you know, you can relate it to you. "This is not my place. I belong in a place bigger than this."
CP: Now, have you read the books?
Fontamillas: Yes, I have … when I was a kid.
CP: Was it surreal to work on a story you read when you were younger?
Fontamillas: Yeah. It was surreal to be a part of a work like this. Reading C.S. Lewis all my life, it's an honor and a privilege to work on something like this. So when they called us up and said, "Hey can you work on a song for the movie?" we were like pretty floored. We were like, "Really? For Chronicles of Narnia? That's amazing."
CP: A lot of your songs are known to contain messages that Christians can relate to. Do you see any such messages in this song?
Fontamillas: Oh, yeah. I mean a lot of our songs have Christian themes because C.S. Lewis is a big part of us. We read a lot of it at work, so a lot of the themes he had put in his book, you can see them in a lot of our songs.
We have a song called, "Meant to Live." The idea is that we are meant to live for something more, something bigger than where we are at.
We have a song called "This is your life," where you are talking about "Is this all there is or is there something big you could be living for?" And a lot of C.S. Lewis themes are in that area.
CP: How about for this song?
Fontamillas: "This is Home," like I said before … this song has a longing to be in a place where you are destined to be at.
CP: For Christians, would that be heaven?
Fontamillas: Yeah! For Christians, that would be heaven. But it kind of can start here too, where you are longing for something bigger than where your life is right now.
CP: Switchfoot has been known as alternative rock band or a rock band and also as a "Christian rock band." How do you feel about being known as a Christian rock band? And if you were to describe yourself, how would you describe Switchfoot?
Fontamillas: I would describe us as a regular rock band. But you know, we are all Christians and it's an honor to be associated with the name of Christ. You're like, "Hey, it's a privilege to be regarded in the Christian community. Wow they are Christ followers." But I also feel like our music is bigger than that. Our music is … not just Christians but everyone can relate to it in some form or another. Because of the honesty and the things we have, it's music for a broader perspective. Music for thinking people.
CP: You must travel so often, especially with the new song for the movie. Where do you feel most at home or where do you call home for you?
Fontamillas: We're from Southern California. You know what's really funny? Sometimes on stage you're like: "This is where I belong. This is where I'm destined to be." But this is home everywhere. When I go home with my wife and my family, that's home. Or when I'm with the guys, the band mates - They're like brothers to me; We're like family – that's another kind of home we're in. And performing in front of fans and friends – that's a different kind of home we get to be in. It's amazing.
CP: Well, I heard you all just moved into your new home – the new studios?
Fontamillas: Yeah! In fact, we just moved in a couple of days ago, our gear and getting ready to record the new album.
CP: What's on your plate next?
Fontamillas: We are going on tour at the end of August again. Just like we did with Relient K, we are partnering up again with Habitat for Humanity and it will be another tour benefiting Habitat for Humanity.
CP: Yeah, you are all involved in a lot of humanitarian projects – from Habitat for Humanity to To Write Love On Her Arms. Which one has left the deepest impression on you?
Fontamillas: Well, all of them have left big impressions on me. But I'm excited about the Habitat for Humanity one because you do get your hands dirty and do go out to the build site to build homes for low-income families. I mean, it's one thing to say "I support this charity and here's money." But it's another when you go out there and actually build a home. And that has a lasting impact on you.
CP: Did your previous work with Habitat for Humanity influence the song "This is Home?"
Fontamillas: We actually wrote another song called "Rebuild." That was one of the songs for Habitat for Humanity.
CP: With Relient K, right?
Fontamillas: Yeah. But you know, it always comes back to those themes – about home, where you belong and things like that. Those are great.
CP: And I have to ask. Did you hear David Cook sing "Dare You to Move" on American Idol?
Fontamillas: Yeah! (chuckles) I honestly thought he did a great job. You know, it's a hard song to play. I myself find it a hard song to play so I commend him just for trying it. It's awesome.
It's weird seeing it on TV. It's like, "I should be up there playing that song."
CP: Well, Jerome, any last thoughts are comments?
Fontamillas: Yeah. I just want to thank everyone for even coming out to our shows and really supporting us. We're in a great, amazing place to be up in all of it. It's because of the fans. We're really thankful and grateful.


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Calgary Travel Guide
Calgary © Dhinakaran Gajavarathan
Calgary is situated on the banks of the Bow River
below the Rocky Mountains, 200 miles (322km) north of the US
border. Although Alberta's second city, Edmonton, is the state
capital, Calgary is the largest, offering all the trappings of
urban life as the territory's commercial and cultural centre, along
with the pleasure of enjoying the dramatic countryside that
surrounds the city.
Splendid national parks flourishing on Calgary's
doorstep act as a magnet for hikers, fishermen, and lovers of the
great outdoors. Set on the Trans-Canada highway, the city is also
the gateway to the Rocky Mountain resorts which attract skiers from
all over the continent during winter.
The downtown area of Calgary not only serves as a
shopping, entertainment, cultural, and recreation centre for
locals, but it is also a tourist centre for more than four million
visitors a year who come for the annual attractions and festivals,
wonderful parks, and open spaces, and a selection of excellent
shops, restaurants, cafes and bistros.
The city is perhaps best known for the Calgary
Stampede, a world-class cowboy carnival and rodeo that draws more
than a million people every year to watch the action and be
entertained by its accompanying festivities.
For over 10,000 years, the site on which Calgary sits
today was home to the Blackfoot Indians; the first European
settlers did not arrive until 1860. Colonel James Macleod
established the small trading post, Fort Calgary, named after
Calgary Bay on his native Isle of Mull in Scotland. The Pacific
Railway reached the town in 1883, but it was not until the
discovery of oil in Turner Valley, 22 miles (35km) southwest of the
city, that the population started to explode.
Wander the streets in your Stetson beneath the
sparkling skyscrapers built on the back of the oil boom or dine on
a juicy steak in a saloon with country music playing in the
background. It will be hard to decide whether you are in Calgary or


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At the beginning of this month, a wooden idol of the god Perun, installed in the Ukrainian city of Kiev by Slavic Pagan reconstructionists/revivalists (known as Ridnovir), was destroyed by unnamed vandals. According to the Native Faith Association of Ukraine (ORU) this was a coordinated effort that required machinery and multiple people to accomplish. This desecration comes after a Ukrainian Pagan temple was attacked at the end of 2011 in Poltava.
The European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER) released a statement saying that this event "rocked all those who respected the ancient Slavic faith."
This event rocked all those who respected the ancient Slavic faith. In Poland, in the name of Rodzimo Wiaro (Stanislaw Potrebowski), an appeal on behalf of their fellow Ukrainians was released. The appeal reads "With pain we are going through the news of your idol's desecration in Kiev. Through this tragedy we stand in solidarity with you. The authors of this crime should not feel like they still live 1000 years ago, when the sacred groves were destroyed and our people's idols were profaned. Across Europe, the old spiritual traditions are being reborn, and that which has been persistently forced on us is drawing back. The destruction of our idols and beliefs will not minimize our fidelity to our ancestral faith. Let this sordid crime become one more stimulus to move us into restoring and strengthening our indigenous culture. "
This incident seems to be part of a larger tapestry within the Ukraine, where tensions between competing worldviews seem to be ratcheting up. Back in August members of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen took a chainsaw to a giant wooden cross to protest the treatment of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, while the recent Ukrainian elections were very controversial (and very close), causing mass demonstrations. No doubt some see the rise of Slavic Paganism as an affront to traditional Orthodox values, even though adherents of the traditional pre-Christian faiths in the Ukraine are hardly heterogeneous in political or social views (Ridnovir was recently denied inclusion in national religious organizations). Unlike other European countries, clergy in the Ukraine are very involved in politics, fueling tensions with those who feel the Orthodox and Catholic churches in that region exercise too much control over society.
Within Slavic Paganism Perun is the highest power, controller of thunder and lightning. He shares many, but not all, characteristics with the Norse god Thor. As mentioned above, Ridnovir maintain that this desecration of Perun's idol will simply become a "stimulus" towards growing and strengthening their faith. As I find more information on this incident, and the larger picture of current tensions between Pagans and Christians in the Ukraine, I'll post updates.


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Burger City Guides: Nadia G.'s Favorite Burgers in Montreal
Lists of top 5 burgers.
Nadia G. may be best known for cracking wise and cooking up a storm in a candy-colored kitchen decorated in animal prints and leather, but the host and creator of Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen (now in its third season on the Cooking Channel) and author of two cookbooks (Cookin' for Trouble and Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook) is also a big burger fan.
Here's how she describes her perfect burger:
For me, an ideal burger for should be only slightly bigger than a slider. Massive burgers mean massively soggy buns (and liquified bread sucks). Onwards. Grab a brioche bun, slap in a charbroiled organic chuck patty (cooked to a perfect medium). I love the combo of sweet and savory, so my toppings include grilled pineapple, applewood smoked bacon, caramelized onions, and spicy pickles. Slather it with honey mustard, ketchup, relish and voila. Oh, and melted American "cheese", yup, nothing better than the plastic stuff on a burger—many a great burger has been ruined by a great cheese.
We asked Nadia for her top five burgers in her hometown of Montreal, and she delivered a list that runs the full gamut of burger possibilities, from cheffy gourmet burgers to charbroiled sliders at a neighborhood diner famous for poutine. Read on for all of Nadia's favorite burgers in Montreal.
1. m:brgr: Gotta love these DIY gourmet burgers. Their topping choices range from shaved black truffle to chipotle mayo and everything in between. Great for trying new flavor combos (and learning that blue cheese and horseradish maybe wasn't the best choice).
2025 Drummond Street, Montreal, QC H3G 1W6 (map); 514-906-0408; mbrgr.com
2. Patati Patata Friterie De Luxe: These guys were making sliders before the term existed. These tasty little suckers are the perfect condiment delivery system. 4177 St-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal QC H2W 1Y7 (map); 514-844-0216
3. Buns Hamburger House: Cheap, charbroiled, and seasoned with Montreal Steak Spice—these babies remind me of homemade backyard BBQ burgers, minus the creepy uncle.
1855 Sainte-Catherine Street West, Montreal QC H3H 1M2 (map); 514-303-8889 & 3673 St-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal QC H2X 2V5 (map); 514-759-7799
4. Le Canard Libéré: They specialize in all things duck, and their succulent duck burger is a nice change from the typical beef variety.
4396 St-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal QC H2W 1Z5 (map); 514-286-1286; canardsdulacbrome.com
5. The Sparrow: This Plateau watering hole has the most amazing burgers, and with a side of polenta fries, how can you go wrong?
5322 St-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal QC H2T 1A5 (map); 514-507-1642; Facebook page
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A quick follow up, back from a few days away.
Huffington Post have a recent update which notes that the Open SSL vulnerability applies in major products from Cisco and Juniper Networks. They also repeat what's becoming the consensus on passwords: change your passwords for services which you know were vulnerable but have now been patched. There's no point in changing a password which might still be at risk.
They reference the Mashable resource on what's been patched a,md copy the patchable list: Google (and Gmail), Yahoo (and Yahoo Mail), Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Etsy, GoDaddy, Intuit, USAA, Box, Dropbox, GitHub, IFTTT, Minecraft, OKCupid, SoundCloud and Wunderlist. A quick look, though, suggests that the Mashable article was a one-off and the list is not being kept updated.
The article also recommends turning off external access to your home network: the sort of capability, for example, that you might use for remote access through LogMeIn, TeamViewer or similar. If you're not using this kind of facility, disable it. Your firewall should already be holding the line on this.
And check what your Internet provider is doing and the status of your wireless router. Being a BT user. with a BT Home Hub, I tried searching the bt.com website for information on Heartbleed but nothing surfaced. It would be nice to know.
Huffington suggests that, at the moment, public WiFi has to be treated as an unknown quantity since you can't tell what infrastructure they use or whether it's been patched. BT again doesn't have any information on the impact of Heartbleed on BT Wifi (Openzone, as was) but it does say that user details are encrypted when you log in to their service. It's perhaps ironic that they offer free Cisco VPN software, which you can download when connected to one of their hotspots. I didn't know this. I'll take it up for my laptop.
I also have an O2 Wifi locator app on my phone. There's nothing about security on their website. Anyone with other Wifi-finder apps? Please check their sites and post a comment here about what you find.
• The Heartbleed Bug Goes Even Deeper Than We Realized – Here's What You Should Do, Alexis Kleinman, The Huffington Post, 11 Apr 2014
• Security when using BT's Wi-fi hotspots, BTWifi.com, with link to the Cisco offer
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Capacity-Building Workshop in the Dominican Republic Promotes Access to Climate Change Finance
In order to identify funding sources and initiate profile development for potential projects to access climate funds, the National Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism (CNCCMDL) of the Dominican Republic organized a capacity-building workshop on climate finance on 7-8 August 2013 in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic. The event, which gathered 38 participants, is part of the second phase of the national UN CC: Learn pilot project.
The administrative and financial director of CNCCMDL, Mr. Evérgito Peña, gave an introductory presentation about the current status of climate finance in the Dominican Republic. Mr. Peña said the country should establish conditions for negotiations with agencies, bilateral and multilateral cooperation that make climate project financing correspond to real national needs, ensuring transparency in the use and allocation of funds as well as proper accountability. Mr. Peña also stressed that financial resources for mitigation and adaptation to climate change should come from different sources and not only from development aid.
During the workshop, Ms. Carola Menzel, representative of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Administration based in Germany, addressed the topic of the global climate finance architecture. In addition, Ms. Maritza Mendez, Lifelong Education Coordinator of the Teachers Education Institute Salome Ureña, highlighted the learning and training component of climate change projects.
Omar Ramirez Tejada, Executive Vice-president of the CNCCMDL, presented an interesting analysis of the current situation of climate finance within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations regime. Mr. Tejada emphasized transparency as well as good procurement measurements within project implementation at both, local and international scale.
Daniel Abreu, project focal point of UN CC:Learn, presented a guide for the identification of project profiles, in order to support the development of strategic initiatives that may be part of a national climate finance platform, whether they come from the public, business or civil society. During this session, various questions emerged on how climate finance could address the needs of local communities and on capacity building to address climate change and risk management. Mr. Abreu also explained the process for identifying initiatives to be inserted into the Second Phase of the National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development, another component of the Pilot Project.
Among the organizations that attended the workshop, there were the Sur Futuro Foundation, INTEC University, Participacion Ciudadana (PC), the Foundation for Marine Studies (FUNDEMAR), the Dominican Institute for Integral Development (IDDI), the Center for Conservation and Eco-development of Samana Bay (CEBSE), the National Network of Business Support for Environmental Proection (ECORED), Pro Nature Fund (ProNatura), Alianza ONG, the Dominican Institute ftor Agriculture and Forestry (IDIAF), the Center for Business Executive Education (IEBEC) and Plenitud Foundation.
Representing the public sector, there were the Ministries of Environment and Natural Resources, the Ministry Education, the Ministry of Finance, the National Energy Commission (CNE), The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, the National Institute of Water and Sewer Service (INAPA), the National Institute of Education and Training of Teachers (INAFOCAM), the Dominican Federation of Municipalities (FEDOMU), the Office for the Reorganization of Transportation (OPRET), among others.
About UN CC:Learn
UN CC:Learn is a partnership of 33 multilateral organizations which supports Member States in designing and implementing results-oriented and sustainable learning to address climate change. The Secretariat for UN CC:Learn is provided by UNITAR. An important aspect of UN CC:Learn is to support countries develop a National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development through a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder process. During the course of 2012-2013, Benin, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malawi, and Uganda are participating as UN CC:Learn pilot countries. Core funding for the 2011-2013 implementation phase of UN CC:Learn is provided by the Swiss Government.


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General Information
IntroductionThis databook is a detailed information resource covering all the key data points on Bakery and cereals in Thailand. It includes comprehensive value volume segmentation and market share data. The databook supplies actual data to 2007 and full forecasts to 2012.ScopeContains information on 6 categories: Bread & rolls, Breakfast cereals, Cakes & pastries, Cookies (sweet biscuits), Crackers and Morning goodsProvides market value, volume, expenditure and consumption data by market, category and segmentIncludes company and brand share data by categoriesHighlightsThe market for Bakery and cereals in Thailand increased between 2002-2007, growing at an average annual rate of 3.8%.The leading company in the market in 2007 was Kraft Foods, Inc. The second-largest player was First Confectionary Ltd with Thai President Foods Public Company Ltd in third place.Reasons to PurchaseDiscover the major quantitative trends affecting the Bakery and cereals marketsUnderstand consumers' consumption and expenditure patternsUnderstand the future direction of the market with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting
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Lethal buy: Wrecker ad offers refunds
One of the more unusual ads The Daily Progress has ever published appeared last week, and it was hard to miss. First, it was big– 45 square inches– and positioned near the top of Page A6. And second, it invited unhappy customers of Lethal Wrecker Service to let the City collect any money owner George Morris had illegally charged them. But here's the kicker: Morris paid for the ad.
That was one of several things he agreed to do– or, more precisely, agreed not to do– to settle a suit the City brought against him last December. According to the suit, the City had officially warned Morris in February 2002 to stop charging more than state law allowed for towing passenger vehicles from private property: $85 for the tow, $10 extra for nights and weekends, and $10 per day for storage after 24 hours.
Morris persisted in what Deputy City Attorney Lisa Kelley called a "pattern" of overcharging, however, and customers began suing Lethal in General District Court to collect the excess. His errant behavior got more expensive for Morris in October 2004, when Jonathan Coleman sued after he'd been overcharged. Because Morris had also violated the Virginia Consumer Protection Act by overcharging for towing, Coleman was awarded the $500 penalty state law prescribes. With court costs and interest, the total came to $615.
In the settlement, which was reached this past June, Morris agreed to stop overcharging, to issue written receipts, and to pay for one of at least three ads that will appear in local papers, including the Hook.
Kelley said last week that while consumers don't need to produce a receipt (Lethal usually demands cash and often declined to provide a receipt), they do need to meet certain conditions: Their passenger vehicle must have been towed from private property (such as a parking lot), and they have to know the exact amount they were charged and at least the approximate date. Anyone passing muster will be asked to submit an affidavit.
It's important that consumers act quickly, however, as the City needs to submit a final list to Charlottesville Circuit Court by 5pm on November 21. If you think you might qualify, call Kelley's office at 970-3131.
Nordin writes the Fearless Consumer column, which has covered Lethal topics at least a dozen times.


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During the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Investors Day meeting it was revealed by Jeeps CEO Michael Manly the ambitious plans for the next half decade that are in store for the Jeep brand. The goal during that period is that FCA will launch Jeep as a lead global brand by boosting sales to 1.9 million units by 2018.
The beginning of this plan will be to launch the new Renegade late this summer that debuted in Geneva. Next will come a new unnamed compact SUV model that will replace the current Patriot and Compass that will arrive in mid 2016 to help celebrate Jeep's 75th Anniversary. A new generation Wrangler arrives in mid 2017 which will be followed by the all-new Grand Cherokee later that same year. And as if that wasn't enough the last new arrival will be a large, 3 row SUV that will have the classic Jeep Grand Wagoneer name.
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World War 1
World War 1 - Local Timeline
17th July 1915
Miss Beare, daughter of Mr T Beare, St Pauls Road to take up an appointment at Netley Military Hospital.
VAD wounded enjoy trips to ?Dartmoor and Torquay.
Local dairyman fined for diluting milk with water.
Mrs Brooks of the Dartmouth Inn and the children of Wolborough Girls School present newton's Ambulance Corp with two stretchers to ease the movement of ounded from the station to the local hospitals.
15th July 1915
King presents local flying aces Ft Lieut. Mills with DSC at Buckingham Palace.
8th July 1915
Despatch rider Corpl. E Elmsall of Devon Square, shares some of his experiences whilst home on leave for a few days.
Local school children continue supporting 'Eggs for the Wounded', the local grand total is 19,358 donated. Several children receive letters of thanks from the wounded recipients after they write their names and addresses on th eggs.
Newton Abbots new Girl Guides company now are over fifty members strong.
1st July 1915
Fundraising parade of Newton's Post office and GWr employees, St John Ambulance Brigade and Trade Unionists, accompnied by local bands took place.
Two local men charged with posession of Homing Pigeons without a permit, in contravention of the Defences of the Realm Act.
65 more wounded arrive at Newton Abbot and were greeted by rousing cheers of a large welcoming crowd.
Local child recieves letter of thanks from a soldier for egg donated to the sick wounded fund.
Mr Bradford of Wolborough Street has 6 sons serving King and Country.
26th June 1915
Mr Coles, former Mid Devon Advertisers' manager and popular Devon dialect writer / reciter, enlists as gunner - promises to send reports back to MDA.
Newton's air hero, Flt Lieu Mills awarded Distinguished Service Medal. During hoe leave in Newton, large crowds gather at St Leonards Tower to make personal presentation, in honour of his bravery.
Two brothers of leading local family, Capt. Alex and Lieu Jack Vicary, of Dyrons, both mentioned in despatches for conspicuous bravery - on the same day. Capt. alex also awarded the Military Cross.
First outing for VAD hospital wounded, included touring parts of Dartmoor, a stop at Widecombe-in-the-Moor and Natsworthy Manor, where squire Mr Scrimgeour provided scrumptious refreshments and charming grounds to wander.
19th June 1915
Army offers farmers short term use of soldiers, from New Armies and TAs, to help with hay hearvest, if farm labour shortages threatens its safe collection.
17th June 1915
Western Gaurdian reports 'Eye Witness' accounts in Parisian newspaper of Newtonian's sucessful attack on Germans Airship shed (reported 10th June), 5 aeroplanes as well as Zeppelin destroyed. Exploits cheered by thousands of watching townsfolk, Germans cavalry charge towards gathering crowds.
16th June 1915
Salvation Army allowed to use Bandstand in Courtenay Park on Thursday, and the Brotherhood band on Sunday's.
Speed restriction of otor vehicles to 10 mile per hour within Town prposed to Devon County Council.
12th June 1915
Secon Newton family, Mrs Gully of Victoria Place, mourns the death of two sons within week.
Possibility of soldiers to be billited in small houses on Coronation Road, raises query, would it be better to utlise the substanial villas and houses in the Town to provide this accomodation?
Union Workhouse currently has total of 397 persons resident.
10th June 1915
Newtonian, Flt Lieu Mills, son of local Brewer, along with Flt Lieu Wilson from Torquay, play key role in bombing and destruction of German Airship Shed near Brussels - Zeppelin destroyed and 28 crew killed.
Newtons emigrants to Canada return to support the War effort, they include Charles Madron, former postmaster, also Pte Badcock of the Toronto Reg. who sadly, is reproted missing.
Two son of Mr and Mrs Dore killed within days of each other, though in very different apseres of the War.
5th June 1915
Wages rise for Newton employees at Messrs Vicary & Sons leather works (including the girls), as war bonus and at Watts Blake Bearne & Co, clay owners.
Contributions to provide outings for VAD patients - to visit Dartmoor and elsewhere going well.
Newton Abbot Girl Guide company formed.
World War 1 - World Timeline
29th June 1915
Turkish counter-attacks at Dardanelles repulsed with heavy loss.
25th June 1915
Bukoba, German port on Lake Vitoria, Nyanza, Africa destroyed by British 'Frontiersmen'.
17th June 1915
Russina announce loss of 120,000 last month during Austro Hungarians and German offensives (see 1st May). Some 14,000 Russians take as POW's.
15th June 1915
Zeppelin raid on NE coast of England, industrial plants suffer damage, 16 workmen killed.
11th June 1915
Austrians lose 16,000 prisoners at Zuranwno, Russia, now part of modern Ukraine.
7th June 1915
First (German) airship destroyed in mid-air by (British) aeroplane. airship shed at Evere, North of Brussels destroyed by British aviators, Zeppelin plus 5 aeroplanes destroyed and 28 crew killed.
For more Timeline information: Timeline_doc_30_May_2015.pdf
World War 1 Micro Histories packs 1 and 2
With 20 brand new stories connecting the town to World War 1, we now have on sale packs 1 and 2 of the Micro Histories collection, a total of 40 stories. The histories include historical information and images of soldiers, sailors, balloonist, nurses and doctors from Newton Abbot, as well as the historical background.
At £2 a pack they are great value for money.
An example of one of the Micro-histories
The museum is always keen to hear your stories, do contact us through the 'contact us' facility on this website, or the museum facebook page.
Your WWI Stories
Richard Harris sent the museum some of his First World War family stories.
Amos Hewing's niece discovers her Uncle's WWI story at school
William Pearce had served with the Medical Corps of the Devonshire Regiment attending wounded soldiers, and been decorated with the DCM and MM. After the War, William Pearce became headmaster in Newton Abbot. One of his pupils was Amos's niece, Selina.
Mr Pearce sometimes told his pupils about his war experiences. On one occasion he told Selina's class how he had rescued a soldier from No-Man's Land. He had been cut down by gunfire taking a German position. The soldier was severely wounded, the lower part of his right arm shattered by gunfire. As the story unfolded, Mr Pearce told the children how the soldier's arm had to be amputated in the field hospital. (Amos is seated on the left)
Mr Pearce then asked Selina if she knew the name of the Soldier? Selina thought she was in trouble for not listening and broke down in tears. Mr Pearce comforted her and told her that she should be proud of this soldier - as it was her Uncle Amos. Selina cried even more. She knew that Uncle Amos had been wounded but he had never told his nieces and nephews, with whom he lived, how he had been wounded.
The whole family was involved in the War, brothers George, Sam, Amos & Tom Hewings, George Tom Sam The Harris Family 1917
Private Archibald Orton
Seaforth Highlanders Regtl. No.790.
Born 15th September 1893, parents George and Ann Jane Orton Nee Ward
18 August 1911 Enlisted
24th November 1914 Tidworthy Military Hospital
17th March 1915 Discharged for medical reasons
In receipt of disability pension @ 50%
22 August 1913 Shorncliffe Barracks @E Company 2nd Seaforth Highlanders.
21st October 1914 'E Company 1st Batt. Seaforth Highlanders 7th Division Indian Expeditionary Force 'A'
14th November 1914 1st Seaforth highlanders 19th Brigade 7th Division Indian Exp Force 'A'
Arrived Agra September 1912, Darjeeling Aug - Dec 1913, Meerut Jan 1913, Calcutta Mar 1914, Ambala, Apr1914, Chakrata May-Jul 1914
W095 3941Medals - 1914 Star and Rosette, British War medal, Victory medal, Defence medal (1939-1945)
1st Battalioin Seaforth Highlanders came from India to the estern Front with the 19th Indian (Dehra Dun) Brigade 7th Indian (Marat) Division, arrived 12th Oct 1914, moved with Division to Mesopotamia, arrived 24th September 1915.
Married Amy Elizabeth Sophia Davis on 31st Jul 1919 at King Richards road Weslyan Methodist Chapel, Leicester.
Children - Amy Betty Feb 1921, Alan Davis Jan 1923, Leslie George Nov 1925, Derek Neil Apr 1927, Christine Dorothy Apr 1932.
Sydney Sanders
Front Row third from the left
Born in Kingsteignton in 1898. He joined the Army in 1914 and went to France. Taken prisoner and spent 3 years in a prisoner of war camp in Germany.He worked down a coal mine 12 hours a day, and was given 2 meals a day of boiled turnips.
The prisoners were eaten by lice and their families would send special cream for their lice via the red cross.
He died in 1968.