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As if it's not disturbing enough to read about a girl being gang raped by four men. As if it isn't disgusting enough to discover that this is the second time this has happened in a year to the same girl by the same group of men; it's a hundred times worse to see how our police, government and news channels handle such a sensitive issue that can and will destroy (if it already hasn't) a woman's life.
Take the recent Noida gang rape case. In a shocking display of complete lack of empathy towards the victim or any respect for the law, the police actually named the defendant, in what they later called a 'clerical' error. So not only has she suffered twice at the hands of rapists, now thanks to this 'clerical' error (for which no head has rolled), her name, address and probably school and whereabouts are common knowledge – for the wholemohalla to know, talk, discuss and snigger about. All this after finally having the guts to come out and file a complaint against the accused. And let's get real. We all know what our society thinks of rape victims.
Later – more shocking news. Once again an alleged rape victim was made to suffer. When asked about the gang rape of a woman on a train in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee claimed the victim fabricated the story. So much for any empathy from the government, and that too from a woman Chief Minister! Has Ms. Banerjee gone and met the victim, or is she just trying to deny that any such thing happened on a train in herstate? Must be a Left conspiracy! This isn't the first time Ms. Banerjee has called a rape victim a liar. On February 17th, 2012 the Kolkata police claimed that there were 'technical discrepancies' in the rape complaint filed by anAnglo-Indian woman; a state minister questioned the morality of the woman and alleged that the complaint was fabricated to extort money; and our great Chief Minister called her rape story "cooked up" and asked "where is the evidence?" What evidence would satisfy her? A recording perhaps… West Bengal is clearly the place all rapists should head, since no one believes the victims. At least no one in the current government.
And then. The unkindest cut of all – comes the Times Now report on this rape – with the anchor's voice going on and on hysterically building up the supposed suspense, with shots of Mamta Banerjee in a loop, along with the interview of the rape victim with her identity concealed. Just how was her identity concealed? By putting a thin, black band that barely covered her eyes (forget about her face), and then putting her entire byte on TV in a loop, while leaving her face and shoulders exposed.
Is there no law to regulate how the rights and the dignity of rape victims can be protected on news channels? I mean forget about the police and the politicians. We (unfortunately) can't really expect anything different from them. But a national news channel like Times Now? Do they have no sense? Do they really think that putting that little band on a rape victims eyes is good enough to mask her identity and protect her from the certain backlash that exposing her will have? Shouldn't the news media know better?
According to the Norms of Journalistic Conduct as defined by the Press Council of India – "While reporting crime involving rape, abduction or kidnap of women/females or sexual assault on children, or raising doubts and questions touching the chastity, personal character and privacy of women, the names, photographs of the victims or other particulars leading to their identity shall not be published." Is anyone following these rules? And who is enforcing them? You can file a complaint with the Press Council, but how long it will take to get justice, if any, is anybody's guess. Besides, by then the damage is done.
According to the BBC guidelines "All victims of rape and other sex crimes, including children, are automatically guaranteed anonymity for life from the moment they make a complaint that they are the victim of a sex crime…These restrictions only apply to identifying the person as being the victim of an alleged sexual offence. They do not prevent the identification of the person in other contexts… Victims can be identified if they agree to it. The consent should be in writing and must not be the result of any pressure." I have so far failed to find any such guidelines in the website of any Indian news channels.
Switching through other channels, at least NDTV had the sense to blur her face, even though the overall look and hairstyle was fairly evident.
Then comes Headlines Today (Pt4). Initially they did blur her face, but suddenly in the middle of the story they show the bottom half of her face without blurring! Why? Was it necessary? No, but they did it anyway. Just for some variety. Un-fuckin-believable!
Which again brings me to the real question. Why can't they just darken the whole shot so that absolutely nothing can be seen, and only her voice heard? Are they catering to the voyeur in the audience who may be getting off on seeing a woman who's been violated? Do we as the intended audience really want to see this? I don't think so. I think we're better than that and don't need any such visuals. What we do want is for the media to deal with rape in a sensitive way. I really couldn't bear to watch anymore, but I seriously think we need a law for this.
In the meanwhile there are three lessons all potential rape victims can learn from this episode.
1) Don't report the rape because the police will tell everyone who you are.
2) Don't report the rape unless you want to be called a liar.
3) Don't report the rape because the media will plaster your mug on national television for all to see. With a slim black band of course.
(Courtesy: Sunayana Singh & Newslaundry. Sunayana wandered into journalism by accident. Reported for Newstrack and loved it. Later made documentaries and worked on short films. Gave birth to two kids and is raising them. Consulted for children's TV channel POGO for 5 years. Had too much of kids screaming, yelling and fighting in life so decided to move into a quieter, more mature zone – TV News critique. Don't snigger.)

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Maine DEP ends extra surcharge on petroleum products imported into state
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has ended an extra surcharge on gasoline and other petroleum products, saving consumers an estimated $5.5 million this year.
The DEP says improved fiscal management allowed it to stop a 20-cent-per-barrel surcharge on gasoline imported into Maine and a 10-cent surcharge on other petroleum products including home heating oil.
The decision is supported by an independent board that oversees a fund administered by DEP for cleaning up oil discharges from storage tanks.
Funding comes from a 38-cent fee for each barrel of gasoline and a 19-cent fee on all other petroleum products. The extra surcharge that just ended has been in place for seven years to help bolster the fund.


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Beck & Paul Investigations #5, 1994
Paul Kowalski has done artwork for several Caliber Comics projects since the 1990s. He was the artist of the 'Beck & Paul Investigations' comic books written by Reginald Chaney, and has also worked on 'U.N. Force', 'The Realm', 'Underside' and 'PowerCardz'. Kowalski illustrated the 1995 'Oz: Lion Special', from a script by Ralph Griffith and Stuart Kerr.


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On Monday's Beauty and the Beast's Cat and Vincent are sussing each other out in a scene reminiscent of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Beauty and the Beast Boss: Cat and Vincent Have to Fall In Love All Over Again
On the episode (Monday at 9/8c, The CW), Catherine (Kristin Kreuk) and Vincent (Jay Ryan) track a beast while keeping their individual agendas secret from one another in a game of cat-and-mouse. In our exclusive sneak peek, the two dance while Cat threatens Vincent to tell her what's going on — or else her backup, Tess (Nina Lisandrello) and Gabe (Sendhil Ramamurthy), are prepared with tranquilizers.
Beauty and the Beast airs on Mondays at 9/8c.
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Microsoft's Surface attracted a line of about a hundred people when it went on sale Friday morning in Palo Alto, California.
The line outside the Microsoft Store at the Stanford Shopping Center, the closest Microsoft-run full-time retail outlet to San Francisco, began forming about six hours before the store opened.
First in line was Matthew Dien, who said he made a two-hour journey from Sacramento to be among the first on the U.S. West Coast to buy the tablet computer.
"I'm very excited about it," he said. "It's Microsoft's very first hardware and they are coming up against Apple. I've always liked Windows products and so I was very excited when I heard they were coming out with hardware."
Dien left the store about 30 minutes after it opened with a new Surface in his hands.
Most of those in line appeared to be waiting for the Surface and not Windows 8, which also went on sale Friday. There's less buzz for the new operating system, likely because many would-be users can download copies from Microsoft.
Microsoft offered a sweetener to those willing to queue: a yearlong subscription to the Xbox Music Pass worth US$100 for the first 100 customers who made a purchase.
The Surface, Microsoft's first attempt at its own tablet brand, costs $499 and runs Windows RT.
Unlike other versions of Windows, which are written to run on the x86 architecture of Intel and AMD processors, Windows RT runs on chips from Intel rival ARM. That means Surface and other Windows RT tablets can take advantage of the lower power consumption of ARM chips, but users will initially face a narrower software selection.
Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Valley and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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It was the year 2004 and perhaps Retah McPherson's best year yet. Retah was "living the dream" as most people would describe her life, and loving it. She had the best of everything and to top it all off, she was crowned as Mrs. South-Africa. This opened many doors for her and ushered her onto a platform of public speaking. On one of these events she shared the following message:
"The simile of our lives as clay tablets - works of art that we are improving upon daily. We each paint our own tablet. While some of our tablets are bright and beautiful, full of color and life, others are drab, with only beige and brown paint signifying an unfulfilled life. More important though, is what happens once your precious clay tablet slips from your fingers one day and falls to pieces at your feet. No matter the color of your tablet, once it's shattered you will bow your knee to inspect the damage. Bowing down to the broken pieces of your life is an automatic reaction. One person bows down and picks up the pieces. Then under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, he redesigns his picture, pasting the potsherds to create a new mosaic …because all the broken pieces of your life is nothing more than a beautiful mosaic of your future. Another person kneels down among his destruction. He too collects the pieces, but then he sits in it – defeated. He cherishes his pain and bitterness flows from it. Life is all about choices."
Little did she know her own plate was soon about to fall…
As Retah and her family were returning from one of these public speaking events in the Free State not long after she delivered the message above, her own precious tablet fell from her hands and shattered into a million pieces. The entire McPherson family was involved in a terrible motor car accident. Retah, her husband Tinus and her youngest son Josh walked away with little or no injuries, but her eldest son Aldo felt the full brunt of the impact. He was thrown from the vehicle and found unconscious on the other side of the highway. This was the start of a long upward road of endurance relying only on God's grace, mercy and provision.
Aldo was on life support for a long time after the accident, and during that time Retah was lifted into a new level of walking by faith and not by sight. Although Aldo suffered severe brain injuries as a result of the accident, Retha testifies: "God is good! He has awakened my Sprit to Him and I have come to know Him as a holy God who wants my life, not only my heart."
After a few weeks in a coma, Aldo finally woke up. While he was in a coma, he had a supernatural experience where he went to heaven, saw God, the angels, Moses and Abraham. Aldo came back with one message: "Jesus is alive!" Due to the seriousness of his injuries to his head Aldo was not able to speak for a long time and related his miraculous journey by writing letters lead by the Holy Spirit – which he is still doing today.
After these series of events their lives were forever changed. Retah and Aldo co-authored a book titled "A Message from God" which relates their miracle story in detail. Retah has since retired from her mainstream job and is now busy with full-time ministry. She travels around the country and the world spreading this simple truth "Jesus is alive!"
In closing, here is an excerpt from the preface of her book A Message from God:
I've always confessed that I'm a Christian. I've always known God. I believed in the Holy Trinity and even served God.
Yet, when I look back now I realize that I was merely living a good life filled with good deeds. I didn't really know God's character and I had no idea what it meant to be completely sold out to Him – which is the only sacrifice that is ever acceptable In His sight. I had to live through a terrible tragedy and huge suffering, before I was finally willing to sacrifice everything, including my son to God. Only after all that, did I hand over control of my life to Him and did I get to know Him personally.
All this pain was so unnecessary! Jesus had already paid the price in full. After I had given my life to Him as a living sacrifice, I could get in line with God's perfect plan for my life – to live in a love relationship with the living God!
Only then could I say that it didn't matter whether I lived or died, as long as I glorified God.
For a long time I thought it was my husband's responsibility to make me happy, but the truth is no human being can make you completely happy. Only Jesus can do that for you. He is the ANSWER to all questions; the SOLUTION to all your problems, the FULFILMENT of all your needs and desires. He is ALL things to ALL men! I tried to quench my thirst with all sorts of things like perfectionism, fame, wealth and achievement. But, now that the fire of the Holy Spirit has purified me from the inside out, I know Jesus is the fountain of living water. He is the only One who can quench my thirst forever.
Know one thing for sure: Jesus is alive! – Retah McPherson
If you would like to find out more about this miraculous story please go to the following website: www.retahmcpherson.com.
The book "A MESSAGE FROM GOD" gives a detailed portrayal of the McPherson's testimony. The latter part of the book is dedicated to sound teachings from the Word of God, which are accompanied by the letters Aldo wrote led by the Holy Spirit.
Retah and Aldo have since authored numerous other books, including:
A Message of Faith (ISBN: 978-0-620-43580-2)
A Message of Hope (ISBN: 978-0-620-48482-4)
Daily messages of Faith (Daily Devotional by Retah McPherson)
Words from Wisdom (Journal by Aldo McPherson, ISBN: 978-0-620-48484-8)
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Looking on EVE Online from the outside, one of the things I see happening is power creep. (It's also a concern of several bloggers so I know I'm not out in left field on this.)
Specifically I'm talking of the plethora of HUGE ships, ships that are expensive and very large and at least nominally dominate the battlefield by their existence, much less presence. From my point of view, the existence of these ships is part of what's driving the coalescence of player corps – another perceived problem in the game.
Inevitable digression time: there's a lot of concern that the 'exciting' area of the game is turning into two huge alliances, and only where those two alliances edge against each other is the game interesting and 'fun'. For PVP values of fun, of course. See, if you're part of the alliance you really shouldn't shoot at other alliance members, not unless you want the behemoth to crush you for being an annoyance. Anyway…
I had an idea I was mulling, and was staggered when I saw long-time player/blogger Drackarn post an article with the same basic idea. Torpedo Boats.
Now he's been playing long enough he thought a battlecruiser was a good idea, but in my opinion that works against the basic idea. The basic idea being a specialized very cheap ship that does really nasty damage to the really big ships, but is otherwise extremely vulnerable. And as I posted in a comment, I think there's a better way than building and balancing a specialized battlecruiser.
That's to make a specialized launcher. See, there's a missile that does really heavy damage to the capital ships but due to the mechanics of the game doesn't do much to non-capitals. They're called Capitals, and in particular Capital Torpedoes. The problem is that the normal launcher is huge and pretty much unavailable for anything smaller than a capital ship.
But a major reason for this is that it holds a lot of missiles, and can be reloaded from ship cargo, and a whole bunch of other things that… think rotary torpedo launcher on a modern warship to get the idea. Which in concert with the WWII torpedo boat idea gives a possible solution.
Make a specialized launcher. It carries one capital torpedo. Just one. It can't be reloaded from the ship, but has to be done as a dockyard exercise. And because of these conditions it could be fit on a frigate in one of the launcher slots.
It's still going to take developing the skill tree to Capital Torpedo. But what this means is that a small corp can go on a raiding party with cheap frigates looking for Big Game.
Now, I'm not involved enough in the game to know if one missile is enough for concern. My guess is it isn't — that even a half-dozen might not matter. It might be that for balance they need two or three per launcher. But the rest of the difficulty and limits block most of Drackarn's concerns. A ship with one of these has sacrificed a 'normal' weapon slot. It is worthless against almost anything else, and as a frigate is an eggshell waiting to be smashed. (speed and size provide avoidance defenses, but if the hammer ever catches up the ship is dead.)
The most likely "abuse" I see is throwing these on cloaking ships. I find this doesn't bother me all that much – it's still one shot per launcher and then go find a base or a hangar that'll refit another launcher.
My swag is that this launcher package would probably cost more than most of the frigates that might carry it. But that's still a crapload less than the capital ships, and goes a long way toward reducing the need to be part of the mega-alliance.


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John Street will soon by synonymous with Howard Schoenly, a man who grew up there and died tragically in the El Faro shipwreck in 2015.
Village officials will honor the late Schoenly by renaming John Street in his honor during a ceremony on March 24 at 11:30 a.m.
"They have been extremely supportive," Howard's brother, Steve Schoenly, told the Herald in an email in regard to village officials.
With a crew of 33, the El Faro left Jacksonville, Fla. on Sept. 29, 2015, and headed straight into Hurricane Joaquin, a Category 4 storm that stalled over the Crooked Islands in the Bahamas. After the 790-foot boat was battered by heavy winds and waves up to 40 feet high, communications with the crew were lost on Oct. 1. The ship was found on the bottom of the Caribbean on Oct. 31.
Schoenly worked for TOTE Maritime as a ship engineer, and frequently made weeklong, round-trip runs between Jacksonville and Puerto Rico, transporting household goods.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Coast Guard hosted hearings to further investigate the cause of the shipwreck in 2016 and 2017. Officials from TOTE, former El Faro ship personnel, Coast Guard representatives and others were among those who testified.
On April 26, 2016, a U.S. Navy salvage ship, the USNS Apache, located the El Faro's voyage data recorder, which functions like an aircraft's black box, recording the captain's radio transmissions. The 510-page transcript of Capt. Michael Davidson's conversations was released to the public on Dec. 13 of that year. In the recordings, Davidson was asked about changing course, but he said he thought that he could avoid the hurricane by sticking to his route. Eventually, he was forced to sound the alarm to abandon ship before communications cut off.
After learning of the ship's disappearance, Steve flew to his brother's home in Cape Coral, Fla., where he waited with Howard's wife, Karen, for updates as the search dragged on for days. On Oct. 7, a mile-long debris field was discovered in the Caribbean Sea. The Coast Guard determined that the ship sank in 15,000 feet of water on Oct. 1 and that every crewmember on board died.
In a 2017 interview with the Herald, Steve described the close bond between him and Howard. "Me and my brother were as tight as you could be," he said. "He was not only my brother, he was my best friend. He was the one I would call, the first call you make, no matter what happens. Everyone's got that person that they call. And he was it."


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Time travel: Back to the '60s close to town
SIZE: 2392 fin. sq.ft., 979 unfin.
ADDRESS: 2806 Northfield Road
NEIGHBORHOOD: Northfields
CURB APPEAL: 7 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Eric Strzepek, Century 21 Albemarle Properties, 977-3033
There was a certain innocence to the '60s that is very appealing in these times of water shortages, $1.50/gallon gas, and Viagra prescriptions. Oh, sure, the Cold War was scary, the Vietnam War divided hippies from their I-Like-Ike parents, and the civil rights struggle could be brutal.
Maybe it's just the "good old days" cliché that makes us look at the past through rose-colored glasses. Whatever the reason, this house on Northfield Road, lived in since 1961 by the original owner, is a monument to nostalgia.
As soon as you enter the front door, you find out you're in a unique place. Because that door you just came through– with doorbell, mail box, front stoop, knocker, the whole front-door package– isn't really the front door! When you step through, you find yourself in a covered patio with a beautiful slate floor and a sweeping view to the back yard.
Now you can turn and go through the real front door into the long, dark, paneled living room. (What was that fixation on paneling back then?) This L-shaped living room, with a raised hearth and deep, built-in bookshelves, opens to the bedroom wing to the left and to the dining room and kitchen around the corner. It has big windows, but because they open to that covered front-entry patio, they don't allow much light to enter. However, there is also a large "picture window"– another pure '60s touch– with a large angled fanlight window above it, allowing beautiful views of a huge magnolia in the front yard.
The kitchen is another happy surprise. Although the appliances are 40 years old it has one of those great old stoves with the oven above and burners on a sort of tray that slides in and out under it it's perfectly serviceable and even charming. There's a wonderful skylight over the whole room, with Art Deco-influenced mirrored beams holding it up, that makes the sky the ceiling. I wouldn't change a thing in that kitchen, but realizing that anyone else probably will, the owner is offering a $5,000 "kitchen remodeling allowance" as part of the pricing package.
The ceramic tiles in the three full bathrooms (on floors and walls) are large white "Florida tiles," elegant and only a little campy. One bathroom has a laundry chute which delivers dirty skivvies directly to a sorting table in the washer/dryer area in the basement level below. It's hard to resist the charming little touches in this house.
That downstairs "rec room," or family room, contains a wet bar with sink, walk-out access to the sweeping back yard, and more built-in bookshelves. Behind this large room is the laundry area, a workshop, and just in case the Red Scare revs up again, a sort of bunker area deep under the front of the house for storing those canned garbanzos or maybe even hunkering down yourself. There's a full bath on the downstairs level, too.
Outside is all taken care of. A row of gorgeous boxwoods lines the driveway leading to the one-car garage (more paneling!), and the backyard has been professionally landscaped with a tall privacy hedge on one side and flowering shrubs grouped under a large tree. A brick path leads to a patio and, up an unusual brick stairway, to a covered deck just off the kitchen.
The garden storage shed, approximately 25' x 30', at the edge of the property is big enough for all necessary garden tools, including riding mowers and tractors. The back yard's only drawback is that it's a pretty steep slope to the woods at the edge of the property.
Situated far down a little-traveled road, protected in front by the large boxwood hedge, and with two front doors, the house is private in the extreme. I can imagine a swell couple of a certain age inviting all their friends over for groovy parties on that beautiful slate patio, having so much fun– the way they used to do when rock was young.


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I have been at the new job for about 6 months and the Superintendent asked for a mid-year recap. Here is an overview of what we have don in the last 6 months. There is more coming soon too!
Updates in Educational Technology since July 1st include:
Updates in Educational Technology since July 1st include:
- · Blackberry roll-out to all District administrators, principals, assistant principals, athletic directors, deans, and technology staff. This has increased the ability to communicate via e-mail and has increased productivity.
- · Currently, we are half-way through a new technology planning process which has involved students, teachers, staff, and community members.
- · Department chairs all have new laptops this year and have been using them for staff development and evaluations.
- · Each building is now running i-Tech sessions, which provide for staff development opportunities for integrating technology into the curriculum. Nearly 150 teachers, administrators, and staff are participating throughout the district this year. Topics covered have included use of network resources, PowerPoint, podcasting, image editing, and digital storytelling.
- · Gradebook Training took place at the first two institute days and was well received. The technology staff followed up with individual instruction where required and support was provided by Al Michalik, Linda Rutchke, and Mike Smith who have been working on the development of the gradebook program and enhancement of the student information system. All teachers are using the gradebook program to maintain and post grades.
- · In late October ten members of 207 attended the National School Board Association's Technology and Learning Conference in Nashville, TN. This conference has sparked a great deal of creativity and energy in the area of technology development in our district.
- · New Language Labs were outfitted this summer allowing for greater functionality and interaction in Foreign Language classes.
- · Parent and Student Portals were opened in October. There are approximately 9000 users signed up. 67% of portal users are students and 33% are parents. We average 4000 visits to the portal each school day.
- · Teachers and Staff have been trained on how to use the new Xerox copiers to scan documents to PDF files which should allow greater flexibility in digital information.
- · The district purchased Adobe's Master Suite, which will allow us to deploy all 22 of Adobe's products throughout our schools over the next year. Teachers also can take the software home for their home computers.
- · The network team has enabled a guest wireless network that allows visitors to the Maine schools filtered access to the Internet.
- · The process has begun for creating a formal timeline of events for the new web environment, which will be deployed next year.
- · There is now an emergency alert system up and running in the case of inclement weather or other school cancellations.
- · We are in the process of connecting all three buildings with fiber optics. When completed in early January we will be able to support 154mbps of data traffic between the buildings (100mbps via fiber and 54mbps via wireless) and 50mbps out to the Internet.
- · Within the next week we will be putting in place a new Internet filter that will allow more access to the Internet while providing better tracking of Internet use.


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Questions from readers have been pouring in to my mailbox, so I need to answer some of the more pressing ones.
Q: Despite the stuff I read in the press about the economy improving, I think it is still in the dumpster. It is so bad that I just saw a picture of Bill Gates on TV, and he was in a line at Walmart to buy lottery tickets. What is the best thing I can do with my money to make it grow?
A: The best thing you can do is to diversify. For example, my portfolio is definitely diversified. I have white, black, Hispanic and Asian stockbrokers.
Q: I have flown out of Philadelphia Airport twice in the past few months, and I am getting tired of those agents getting a little too touchy-feely when they pat me down. What can I do about this?
A: You are in luck. Since the summer started, traffic at the airport is so heavy that passengers are now being asked to grope themselves.
Q: This whole controversy about the National Security Agency listening in on our phone calls has me really upset. What can we do to find out all these things the government is keeping secret?
A: I don't know what you can do, but I'll tell you what I have done. I recently filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to find out where the heck I can find Hidden Valley Ranch.
Q: I have read so many articles about NFL players being arrested recently, some for really serious crimes. These young men have so many advantages and so much money, and yet they are committing crimes. Is there at least a silver lining to this dark cloud?
A: Yes. Twenty-nine NFL players have been arrested since the Super Bowl was played in February. The silver lining to this cloud is that next year for the first time ever, there will be a prison football team in the NFL playoffs.
Q: I am a senior citizen who lives on Social Security, and all the talk about Congress cutting my benefits has me terrified. Do you think I am justified in being so worried?
A: No. You are not. The Republicans have a great plan that will take good care of you. They want to replace Social Security with scratch-off lottery tickets.
Q: I see thousands of people marching to defend their personal freedoms all the time, yet hardly anyone ever marches to demand better schools for our children. What can I do to help fund public schools?
A: Unless you have a small fortune — or a big fortune — to donate, the next best thing you can do is to smoke and drink like a fiend. If you are already doing so, then consider doubling your consumption. All that "sin tax" goes toward helping the school system. You may die young, but you'll be helping young kids to learn to read and write.
Q: I donated a kidney to my sick husband, but as soon as he got well, he found a younger woman and divorced me. Can I get my kidney back?
A: Sadly, this is a story that I hear all too often. You need to contact Homer Ferrari, "The Transplant Attorney." His motto is "When it comes to organs, Homey don't play." He will get you your kidney back and maybe even a spare gall bladder to boot.
Q: I find New Jersey Governor Christie to be refreshing. He definitely speaks his mind and doesn't beat around the bush, unlike most politicians. But his weight is definitely an issue because he could have a heart attack at any time. I read that when he and his wife got married, they were registered at Old Country Buffet. What can Christie do to lose the weight?
A: Nothing. He definitely should not lose weight because now, when he wears a white suit, they can show movies on him.
Q: It seems to me that airline prices and all the little extras they charge you for have gotten completely out of hand. Am I right?
A: Yes. It now costs $450 to go from Philly to Miami on US Airlines, and if you want to land safely, that's another $250.
Q: When I was a kid, I had so much fun playing with other kids in the schoolyard, but now it seems that kids just want to spend all of their time texting and playing with electronic gadgets. I wish I could get them to play games like I did. Am I hopelessly old-fashioned?
A: Not at all. I agree with you completely. When I was a kid, I used to always ask the girl next door to let me play doctor with her, but she refused to see me without a referral.
Thank you for your questions, gentle readers. I hope I answered them satisfactorily. In a recent poll of Local readers, 50% of those responding (two of my relatives, not necessarily real people) said that my advice had helped them "somewhat." This is a record that I strive to maintain.


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O fountain of Bandusia! more glittering than glass,
And worthy of the pleasant wine and toasts that freely pass; More worthy of the flowers with which thou modestly art hid, To-morrow willing hands shall sacrifice to thee a kid.
In vain the glory of the brow where proudly swell above
The growing horns, significant of battle and of love;
For in thy honor he shall die,--the offspring of the herd,-- And with his crimson life-blood thy cold waters shall be stirred.
The Dog-star's cruel season, with its fierce and blazing heat, Has never sent its scorching rays into thy glad retreat;
The oxen, wearied with the plow, the herd which wanders near, Have found a grateful respite and delicious coolness here.
When of the graceful ilex on the hollow rocks I sing,
Thou shalt become illustrious, O sweet Bandusian spring!
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Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert and Brantley Gilbert to Headline 2014 Country Thunder Wisconsin
The 2014 Country Thunder event in Twin Lakes, Wisc. doesn't take place until July, but organizers are already gearing up for the big event by making a major announcement about the talent that will take the stage. They've revealed a trio of powerhouse headliners: Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert and Brantley Gilbert.
Country Thunder Wisconsin is set for July 24 through 27, 2014.
Other acts set to appear include Gary Allan, Craig Morgan, Joe Diffie, Colt Ford, Will Hoge and Chad Brownlee, among others. The lineup is certainly hot enough to melt the chill off the oncoming winter and gives Wisconsin-based country fans something to look forward to next summer.
In addition to stages populated by the best of the best that the country genre has to offer, the event offers tasty vittles, delicious libations, shopping, thrill rides, camping and more. Additionally, there is Electronic Thunder, featuring DJs spinning country, red dirt and rock, offering an EDM/club twist and providing late-night entertainment to festival-goers.
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Evolution International Film Festival, hands-down is one of the most heart-driven film festivals I have ever attended well-attended by celebrities, film directors, paparazzi, and film distributors of high-quality international films that grace the market of today's society and issues. The energy of the festival was apparent on first arrival into the famed Los Angeles Film School in the heart of Hollywood where film guru's huddled around the entrance in observance if this yearly event founded by Elvi Cano influenced by the Los Angeles Film School where she also attended and founded as the home of her future successful international film festival. Elvi Cano, herself had stopped me on the way out of Xingu as a personal video interview of what I had experienced due to my intense emotional response leaving the theater. I left the theater with something inside that is rarely seen in the modern mainstream film market of film with little substance and truth, inspiration of a world beyond materialism, a happy-ending.
The diversified selection of the films nominated and screened by the festival range from societal and economical issues, political causes, charitable contributions, cultural differences, love, and creativity. The choice of films was an outstanding diversified selection relating to a wide range of audiences leaving the viewer with something of substance and memorable at the end of the film, rare in today's mainstream film market.
The short film Carbon for Water created by Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez was one of the most heart-driven tear-jerkers I have seen in awhile. The quality of the actors, story, location set, and charitable cause created a memorable film that should be at least in nomination as best short film at The Academy Awards. The creators of the film chose a brilliant topic that is far undermined in a busy materialistic society more focused on image, career, and social status rather than basic humble needs of clean drinking water for basic survival. Set in the heart of Kenya, the filmmakers chose a sensitive and life-transforming matter of improving the economical standards of living for under-educated and civilized local citizens. Water-filters for the locals in their homes were created for basic survival for mud and infected water needed for basic survival. Overall, there was a happy-ending and solution to this epidemic of untimely deaths due to unsafe drinking water savings thousands of lives.
Xingu, directed by Cao Hamburger, Brazil was a brilliant collaboration of the socio-economical differences of Brazilians integrating into the humble society of Xingu Indians in order to improve their health conditions with modern medicine for survival against common causes of curable death as flu that seems to afflict many local Indian tribes with no cure in the heart of the film. It is a meeting of two different worlds that integrate with the gift of love. Set alongside the Amazon basin, Xingu National Park is the heart of the pride and home of the Xingu Indians, and the lead actors Claudio Villas Boas (João Miguel) is to quest to protect and preserve one of the world's most exclusive territories.
What would life be like without the forced merriment of modern day living in a humble Indian tribe that chooses to leave their land sacred? It is a test of modern day technology meets humble nobility of two worlds that collide seeking their own definition of cultural pride to reserve their individuality in the world they live. By now surprise does Xingu win overall best film, as a well-deserved standing ovation for outstanding performance and filmmaking.
Many of the award-wining films received mentions, but Xingu went the extra mile to captivate the audience and make an impact on the viewer, and of course, Xingu walks away with best full-length feature by no surprise.
The Award winners by no surprise as a follows as the festival goes on to Dubai, Palma De Mallorca, and Cairo inspiring the world one city at a time.
Best Narrative Feature
- Xingu, directed by Cao Hamburger, Brazil
Best Doc Feature
- Barzan, directed by Cassidy Dimon, USA
Best Narrative Short
- That Wasn't me, directed by Esteban Crespo, Spain
Best Doc Short
- Not Anymore: A Story of a Revolution, directed by Matthew VanDyke, USA
Best Student Film
- Try Outs, directed by Susana Casares, Spain
Best Male Actor in a Feature Film
- Joao Miguel for Xingu
Best Female Actor in a Feature Film
- Jan Broberg for Coyote
Best Male Actor in a Short Film
- Fawad Mohammadi and Jawanmard Paiz (Tie) for Buzkashi Boys
Best Female Actor in a Short Film
- Zoe Thielemans for Robyn O.
Best Ensemble Cast:
- Coyote
Best Screenplay:
- Bela Wolf She was left alone
The theme of this film festival inspires the audience that truth and love is still alive in the world in ways overlooked in a fast-paced modern society. Hats-off for memorable cause as the festival moves forward to other international markets!
For more information about Evolution International Film Festival, please visit, www.evolutionfilmfestival.com/


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Engineers at GE's NELA Park facility recently discovered five intact lightbulbs inside a 100-year-old time capsule. And much to the delight of the dudes over in marketing, three of the century-old bulbs still work.
The tungsten filament bulbs needed a little cleaning after being removed from their temporary tomb, but once connected to a socket and slowly powered up to 60-volts, the majority of them slowly came to life. They're obviously not as bright as modern bulbs which run off 120-volts and use more efficient filaments, but claiming a 100 year shelf life would be impressive even today. [GE via BoingBoing]


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New Jersey Dispatch: PA Dutch Farmers Market
Nobody idealizes wholesome food more than the Amish, and it's always a pleasure to head off to Lancaster County and pay them a visit on their home turf. However, as patient as they are, the Amish can't wait around for us to come to them; at some point, they have to come to us too.
Although Pennsylvania Dutch vendors will occasionally show up at New Jersey farmers' markets—and the very idea of being able to buy a shoofly pie in, say, Westfield is in itself notable—the main way these products make their way to market in here is in the form of what I call "Amish Megastores," or retail spaces about the size of a chain pharmacy with stalls that resemble urban food markets of an earlier era.
I've already mentioned the one in Mullica Hill down at the states' south end, but there's one that's much more accessible to most of us on Route 27 in Kingston, just a bit north of Princeton and not far from New Brunswick. Let´s head over and take a stroll through it.
On your left as you walk in is Smoker's Deli with good deals on cold cuts and smoked meats. I'm an especially big fan of their bacon and knockwursts. Across from them is a pretzel stall with those butter-laden soft twists that you´ll either love or hate. I feel both ways myself, often on the same day.
Next stop up the hallway is Beiler's Meats, said by at least a few competitive barbecue teams to be the best butcher in the state. (I agree if you take price into account.) Besides, where else can you find lamb kidneys or sausage casings?
Across from Beiler's is Fisher's Bakery, a great place to visit for Pennsylvania classics like apple dumplings and shoofly pie. They also have a modest, reasonably priced selection of bulk grains and spices.
Beiler's Dairy, owned by the nephew of Beiler's Meats, has milk, butter, yogurt, and what you might call a "budget" cheese selection. This isn't the place for fine cheese (that will be the subject of at least a few future dispatches), but there's a nice selection of what many people pay more for in the supermarket.
A sharp right at the corner of Beiler's Meats and Beiler's Dairy will take you to
Stoltzfus Poultry, the largest vendor there. Although they sell both fresh poultry and cooked foods, it's the fresh ducks, turkeys, and stewing hens that are the big draws. Their rabbits, although frozen, are excellent too.
Opposite Stoltzfus is Mom's Candy Corner, a mecca for bulk candy fans. Sadly, I must report that I´m not much of a candy eater and have never bought anything here.
Just around the corner from Mom's and Stoltzfus is R&B Produce, the world's most practical produce store. With a combination of local and commercial veg and fruit, you can shop here knowing confidently that you're getting a good deal. And where else can you count on finding really nice turnips? And in the summer, they make fruit smoothies that are easily the best snack available in the market.
King's Salads, right across from the produce stand has something they call a "box salad" that actually resembles what most of us would call a "green salad" but that isn't the point. Instead the case filled with dessert puddings, pickles, rich vegetable salads and other sweets is the Amish equivalent of Korean Panchan—something that´s supposed to be a side, but can easily be made into a meal.
Finally, there's one more Stoltzfus: The Stoltzfus Lunch Bar. Most of the time, there's not much to speak of here, but there is a breakfast buffet—I've never eaten it but imagine Princeton intellectual types going for third helpings of biscuits and sausage gravy. Otherwise, have your meal here on the last Saturday of the month when they hold a pig roast. It's not Southern, Portuguese, Cantonese or any of the other barbecue genre found on Route 27. It's Amish. Plain pig cooked correctly and worth a trip in itself.
PA Dutch Farmers' Market
4437 Route 27, Princeton New Jersey 08540 (map)
Open Thursday 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Friday 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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The "Baywatch" star, whose battle with the bottle went viral with a 2007 video showing him writhing drunk and shirtless on the floor begging for a cheeseburger, laughed about the incident at a Comedy Central roast. The YouTube clip drew more than a billion viewers, all clicking to see the beloved-by-Germans singer and erstwhile talent judge's rock bottom moment. Prior to Sunday's taping, which airs Aug. 15, Hasselhoff had never addressed the infamous video.
"I've been waiting for a forum to talk about where I'm at," Hasselhoff told Popeater backstage at the event. " I didn't do it in the beginning because I was in a very personal matter and it involved the custody of my children."
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Former 'Dancing with the Stars' contestant Jeffrey Ross piled on.
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Audited Table Schema Column Addition Change
How does your product handle schema changes under MySQL?
The example case is
- Create a table
- Setup auditing of data changes for that table for all columns
- Run an alter schema to add a column to the table
- Update or insert row for that table
- I want the updated/inserted row do appear in the audit_xxxx table. It does not.
Is there a way to have this column created dynamically or at least provide support in the DB Audit Export GUI to modify the audit without having to throw away the old audit login?
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It sounds like you are talking about data-change auditing. If you modify structure of the table being audited (e.g. make a schema change) you obviously need to update the audit configuration to reflect the change. In all database systems, except MySQL, , adding a new column to a table, doesn't break the auditing, just data changes in the new column don't get auditing until the audit configuration gets updated. This is like if the added column hasn't been selected for the auditing in the first place. In comparison, in MySQL it breaks the auditing and the auditing stops working for the table until the it disabled and re-enabled for that particular table or some other configuration change is made. This update can be made using the DB Audit Console (GUI or web version) or programmatically using the API.
Note that you modify the configuration, you don't have to "throw away" anything. You can choose to keep the old audit trail table in place, or if you want, export it to an external file. A better solution would be to deploy the central audit repository and don't store the data locally on the server being audited.
PS. The config cannot be updated automatically; DB Audit is not part of the database engine and not hooked to the engine directly. It is an external auditing and security toolset. Besides ALTER TABLE... ADD COLUMN is only one type of schema changes, there are tons of other types of schema changes for which it is completely unclear how to handle "schema changes", for example, adding new columns via CREATE TABLE new.. INSERT INTO new SELECT FROM old... DROP TABLE old. and what to do if that is done using external files or backup restore, etc .
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The background for our requirement is that we are an ISV that produces software for medical offices. We are looking at using DB Audit in our product to audit changes to the database table. Because of this the client will not have a central audit repository available and the audit logs must be accessible in a DB format since the user must be able to view the audit trail. The problem is that when we upgrade the client software we would also upgrade their table schema. I take your point about the complexity of schema auditing. I guess we will have to figure out a way to export to an external file and then upgrade.
Interestingly, MySQL audting does not appear to break when I added a column although it obviously did not audit the new column.
Can you confirm that your API works for MySQL? Also would it be possible to get an trial version of the API to play around with?
Finally, we would like to discuss licensing for embedding your product in our product. Who should I contact to discuss?
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The best option for dealing with schema changes in this situation is using DB Audit's API. Basically when deploying schema changes, application upgrades, you also run a small script using DB Audit's API command line interface (or programmatic interface if you wish) and that script goes to the database and resyncs auditing settings for all affected tables. As you can see the entire process is not complicated. You can also use the same API to automate installation of auditing in the first place.
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Pet MarketLooks: Pet Food in the U.S.: Dog Food - Health, Humanization and High Quality Ingredients in an Increasingly Value-Driven Global Market
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Title: Pet Food in the U.S.: Dog Food: Health, Humanization and High Quality Ingredients in an Increasingly Value-Driven Global Market
Published: January 2009
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The following is the abstract from the full report:
The U.S. pet food market has not just survived the spring 2007 recalls but proven its resiliency, with 2007 sales up over previous years and healthy growth continuing through 2008. Yet heightened safety concerns on the part of pet food makers and consumers continue to shape product development and marketing, as well as the choices of pet owners looking for the safest and healthiest products possible. At the top of the list are kibble, canned and raw/frozen foods made with ingredients that are natural, organic, grain-free/non-allergenic and pure, as well as made in the U.S.A., locally grown, "whole" (fruits, vegetables, grains, etc.) and human-grade. Foods making functional appeals also continue to proliferate, especially those targeting age- and weight-related conditions via the inclusion of novel ingredients like glucosamine, omega fatty acids, antioxidants and probiotics. In other words, premium pet foods remain the primary value growth driver in the U.S. market, with ever higher quality ingredients fueling the premium wave.
At the same time, one thing marketers and retailers at all levels of the market cannot afford given the faltering U.S. and global economies is complacency. More than ever before the ability to convert pet owners to higher priced products—or keep them buying them—will depend on marketers' success in communicating product benefits and tapping into the ever-potent human/animal bond. Helping to make the case are new celebrity spokespersons like Cesar Millan with his new Dog Whisperer line, and Ellen DeGeneres with her co-ownership in Halo Purely for Pets, with other positive trends including rapid growth in the natural supermarket channel and an increasingly globalized market in which ingredients suppliers like Cargill are looking to stake a deeper claim in pet food (in Cargill's case by specifically targeting the U.S. agricultural retail channel as well as global markets). At the same time, new products continue to flood the market, which saw more entries in 2008 than in any previous year.
Pegging 2008 U.S. sales at $17 billion and global sales at $49 billion—and projecting steady growth through 2013—the report provides market size estimates for the overall retail universe, while quantifying mass-market sales to the marketer/brand share level using data from Information Resources, Inc., and also providing market size and marketer share figures for the natural supermarket channel. The report thoroughly documents competitive, new product and retail trends, as well as trends in pet food purchaser demographics and lifestyle pursuits (media and marketing psychographics, Internet usage, "green" involvement, etc.), based on data from Simmons Market Research Bureau, BIGresearch, the American Pet Products Association and other sources.
Bringing to bear more than 20 years of experience in analyzing this market and drawing on Packaged Facts' broad cross-category expertise, Pet Food in the U..S pinpoints strategic directions for current and prospective marketers, with a forward-looking focus on high-growth product segments and market-driving trends. The report provides a comprehensive Market Overview covering cross-market trends. New features of our 2009 edition include focus sections on:
- The global pet food market (sales overall and by world region, marketer shares, new product trends, U.S. export trends, and more);
- Recall-related product safety initiatives;
- Cross-channel private-label activity and prospects;
- Levels of in-store merchandising and price promotions;
- Pet food purchasers as coupon users.
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Sanders earns pair of CAA weekly awards
Sanders earns pair of CAA weekly awards
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Freshman attack TJ Sanders (Orillia, Ont.) was named Colonial Athletic Association Co-Player and Rookie of the Week for his performance against Towson on Saturday (April 13). Sanders scored five goals to lead the Nittany Lions into sole possession of first place.
Sanders upped his conference-leading goal tally to 33 with five against the Tigers. Sanders tallied three goals in the first half against Towson before scoring once each in the third and fourth.
The Ontario native has seven hat tricks this season along with six games of four goals or more and three games with five goals scored. Nationally, Sanders ranks tied for eighth in goals per game (2.75) and leads the nation's freshmen in goals.
The weekly rookie award is the fifth for Sanders, while he shares the player of the week honor with Ben McIntosh of Drexel. The player of the week laurel is the first of his young career.
Penn State (9-3, 4-0 CAA) won its seventh straight game, while snapping Towson's four-game win streak. The Nittany Lions can clinch a share of its first CAA title with a win at Delaware on Saturday at 7 p.m.


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|*June 3 -9
|The Restorer
Read for This Week's Study:
|Genesis 1, Jer. 17:9, John 15:13, Rom. 1:21, 5:10-19, 1 Cor. 13:4-7, Titus 1:15, 2 Pet. 1:2-8.
Memory Text:
| "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun
a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ"
One of the great hopes of all Christians is the hope of eternal life. After all, without thatwhat? We live, we die, we rot in the ground forever alongside the animals? No, that's not to be our end. Instead, not only do we have the hope of eternal lifeit's not a continued life here in this world as it now is. Please! Our short existence world is hard enough; imagine that going on forever!
Instead, we're given the wonderful promise: "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness" (2 Pet. 3:13). Eternal life isn't eternal life on this sinful earth but on a new one where there will dwell not sin, not death, not sinnersbut "righteousness."
From the beginning, God has been working toward that goal, that goal of a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness. And this is where the plan of salvation becomes crucial, for the plan of salvation is how God is working to get us into that new earth. That's why salvation includes the process of restoration. God is getting us ready for a new heaven and a new earth and the righteousness that will dwell there.
This week we continue our look at what the Holy Spirit is doing in order to prepare us for our new home.
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, June 10.
|June 4
Created in God's Image (Genesis 1)
Even the simplest reading of the Genesis Creation account reveals that our existence is no accident. We are not here because of blind, purposeless forces that, given enough time, just happened to coalesce into a people-filled planet. Instead, we are here because God purposely put us here. Verse after verse in Genesis 1 explicitly depicts God as the Agent of Creation. In other words, there was a distinct plan for our existence. Nothing was left to chance. Contrast this view to evolutionary theory, which claims we are here only by chance; that there was no plan, no purpose, no intention for us. We are a cosmic accident, nothing more. It's hard to imagine any view more contradictory to biblical origins than evolution. No wonder Satan works so hard to promote it.
Genesis 1:26, 27 says that God created man and woman in His own image. What does that mean, being created in the image of God? How does 1 John 4:8 help us answer this question?
Whatever being in the image of God means, it must also include the capacity to love. As beings made in the image of a God who Himself "is love," what else could it be? This ability to love sets us apart distinctly from the rest of what was created in Genesis 1. The moon, the grass, the seas, even the animalsnone of which was made in the image of Goddon't have the capacity to love as humans do. Certainly the ability to love, as we have it, has made us different from everything else created in Genesis.
|From your own personal experiences, along with what the Bible teaches
Cor 13:4-7,
John 4:10), what is your best understanding of what love is? What
does your answer tell you about what Adam and Eve must have been like after
first being created? What does your answer tell you about what life on this
earth was intended to be like? Be prepared to share your answer in class.
|June 5
Love and the Fall
Read Genesis 3:1-6. What did Adam and Eve have to possess in order to be able to fall?
Yesterday, we saw we were created in the image of God, and whatever else that must mean, it must, at least, mean we were given the capacity to love. Yet, love, in order to be love, has to be free; that is, God can't force His creatures to love Him, or one another for that matter. Love cannot be coerced. Because we were given the ability to love, we also were given free choice. The Fall is a powerful example of what happens when beings with free choice make the wrong choices.
And we, too, millennia after Eden, have free choice. Yet, our situation is much worse than Adam and Eve's before the Fall. They were perfect beings, living in the full light of God's glory; their natures were not corrupted or sinful. In contrast, we are fallen beings with corrupted, sinful natures steeped in iniquity. It's one thing having free choice while perfect; it's another having that same free choice while corrupted. What's scarier: a kind, gentle, loving person who carries a gun or a nasty, spiteful, and hateful one who wields the same weapon?
What kind of picture do the following texts portray about unregenerate human nature? Jer. 17:9, Rom. 1:21, 5:12, Eph. 2:3, Titus 1:15.
The Bible is very clear about the state of fallen human nature. It's bad, very bad, and left unchecked it would lead to death and destruction for the entire human race. All one has to do is look around at the world today, and we can see, everywhere, the results of what our fallen nature has wrought: war, terrorism, addiction, exploitation, prostitution, crime, and on and on. It's only because of the grace of God we haven't destroyed ourselves. No doubt,
|What things do you see around you every day that testify to the corruption of human nature? What does your answer tell you about just how desperate our situation would be if left unsolved?
|June 6
Second Probation
Sunday and Monday we looked at first the creation of humanity and then at the Fall. Our situation, as fallen creatures, was bleak. The actions of Adam and Eve after the Fall perfectly reflected the state of humanity: fearful, alienated from God and each other, guilty, and ashamed. With their children, murder was added to the roster of human wickedness (Gen. 4:8), and before long their hearts were "only evil continually" (Gen. 6:5).
Of course, we know that God didn't leave humanity to suffer the full and final results of sin. The whole plan of salvation was initiated by the Lord in order to rescue us from the utter ruin that would otherwise have been ours. Jesus came and went over the same ground as Adam, only where Adam failed Jesus succeededand because of what Jesus accomplished, the whole world was given another chance. Through faith in Jesus, anyone, anywhere, can have the promise of eternal life, the promise of having restored everything that was lost through sin.
Look at the following text (Rom. 5:10-19). What is the essential message it is giving to us? Notice the stark contrasts presented here. What brought death, and what brings life?
Jesus came, and through all He accomplished with His sinless life and then atoning death, the human race has been given another chance. In this sense, the human race, as a whole, has been restored to favor with God. This doesn't mean the whole race is automatically saved or justified; it means, instead, everyone has been given another chance. The doom that should have been ours through Adam has been averted because of Jesus.
"The word of God declares that we are not our own, that we are bought with a price. It is at an immense cost that we have been placed upon vantage ground, where we can find liberty from the bondage of sin wrought by the fall in Eden. Adam's sin plunged the race into hopeless misery; but by the sacrifice of the Son of God, a second probation was granted to man. In the plan of redemption a way of escape is provided for all who will avail themselves of it."Ellen G. White, Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, p. 15.
|Think about what it means to have a "second probation." Were you ever given a second chance at something? What did you learn from that experience that can help you better appreciate what you now have been given through the Cross?
|June 7
The Restoration: Part 1
Yesterday, we saw that despite our desperate situation, God did not leave us without hope. On the contrary, we have been given great hope through Jesus Christ, who has paved the way for each of us to return to what we would have been before the Fall.
And the process begins now. The gospel isn't just salvation; it isn't just a change in our legal status before God. The gospel is also restoration. We were originally made in the image of God; the plan of salvation is the process to bring us back to that state. This isn't just something that will happen at the Second Coming: It's a process that begins now. The Holy Spirit is working in us to restore in us what has been lost through sin.
Read 2 Peter 1:2-8. How do these verses, particularly the part where Peter talks about being "partakers of the divine nature;' help us understand the work of restoration that is going on in us right now? How do these verses relate to Genesis 1:26, 27?
God works to change fallen beings into His image by transforming their wills, minds, and desires. In short, the Holy Spirit works on our characters. Partaking of the divine nature, we are being transformed. "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Cor. 3:18). And that image, of course, is the image of God, and this has been revealed to us in no better way than through Jesus, who was "the express image" (Heb. 1:3) of God's person. Yet, because Jesus isn't here in the flesh, the Holy Spirit is here as His Representative, revealing to us the truths that will change and transform our lives. This is a process of restoration that will not be completed until there's a new heaven and a new earth. Until then, God is working on us now, getting us ready for a new existence that has been made available to us through Jesus.
|Imagine what your life would be like if you more and more reflected the character of Jesus. What immediate changes would take place, particularly in your relationship with others, were you to start reflecting that character?
|June 8
The Restoration: Part 2
the essential message of each text, and as you write
out your answer, ask yourself: How well am I experiencing the promises given
in each text?
Rom. 5:1
Cor 5:17
2:12, 13
Pet. 5:10
The Christian life is a road toward perfection (Rom. 12:2, James 1:4), a word that in the New Testament comes with the idea of "completion," "fully grown," or "mature." We are to be perfect in our finite and fallen sphere as God is in His infinite and absolute sphere (Matt. 5:48).
Apart from Christ, of course, we cannot attain any kind of "perfection." Instead, it is Christ who "became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption" (1 Cor. 1:30, NASB). In Christ, these qualities constitute our "perfection" before God. He completed, once and for all, our sanctification and redemption. We are "complete in Him" even now (Col. 2:10). It is now the work of the Holy Spirit to take these "completed" products and make manifest in our lives the reality of what Christ has done for us. Our growth, our character development, our restoration toward the image of God become the living expression of what it means to "be filled with all the fulness of God" (Eph. 3:19). In Christ, the Holy Spirit is making real in us the reality of what Christ has done for us. No one can be a Christian without both these aspects of salvation foundational to their new lives in Christ.
|June 9
Further Study:
|Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets,
pp. 44, 45; Steps to Christ,
"Consecration," pp. 47, 48;
Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9,
pp. 21-23; Christ's Object Lessons,
"The Sower Went Forth to Sow,"
pp. 33-69; "Two
Worshipers," pp. 161-163; Ellen
G. White Comments, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6,
pp. 1097, 1098.
"In the work of redemption there is no compulsion. No external force is employed. Under the influence of the Spirit of God, man is left free to choose whom he will serve. In the change that takes place when the soul surrenders to Christ, there is the highest sense of freedom. The expulsion of sin is the act of the soul itself. True, we have no power to free ourselves from Satan's control; but when we desire to be set free from sin, and in our great need cry out for a power out of and above ourselves, the powers of the soul are imbued with the divine energy of the Holy Spirit, and they obey the dictates of the will in fulfilling the will of God."Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 466.
"Those who are begotten unto a new life by the Holy Spirit, have become partakers of the divine nature, and in all their habits and practices they will give evidence of their relationship to Christ."Ellen G. White Comments, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6, p. 1101.
Discussion Questions:
| As a class, go over your answers to Sunday's final question.
Before you do, have each person write on a card his or her own definition
of love and have each person read it before the discussion
Read aloud in class the second Ellen G. White quote listed above. How does that idea help us understand the close relationship between faith and works in the life of a Christian?
As a class, talk about the idea of a "second probation," a second chance. Is there anyone you know who needs another, chance? If so, why not, as a class, make a determined effort to find that person and let him or her know that he or she has another chance, not only with each of you but, more important, with God?
|I N S I D E Story
|The Shining Church, Part 1
Mar Dela Fuente
Datu (chief) Lagunday of Migtulod village in the mountains of southern Philippines was the only person in his village who wanted the student missionaries from Mountain View College to come and teach the children. The villagers were sure the new school was a trap to steal the tribe's land. Even the chief's wife resisted the coming of these "outsiders." But the chief prevailed, and the first team of student missionary teachers arrived in 1994.
"If you will not send your children to the village school I will not force you," Chief Lagunday told the people. "But as long as I am chief I will support this school. I believe that some day this village will be a shining light to other villages."
Unfortunately Chief Lagunday died, and the villagers closed the school. But the new chief soon realized that the village needed the school and its selfless young teachers to educate the children. He journeyed to Mountain View College and begged the student missionaries to come back and reopen the school.
Soon the village echoed with children's voices singing praises to God early in the morning. As the people learned the importance of cleanliness, they cleaned themselves and their squalid village. Pigs were no longer permitted to run through the village. The village became the cleanest community on the mountainside; it became a shining light to the villages around it. The children learned quickly, and soon they could compete with students from other villages in the skills they had learned. The parents learned better farming techniques and soon had enough produce to sell in the lowland marketplaces.
The villagers built a church on the hill overlooking their village. They planted lovely flowers along the steep dirt path up the hillside. The church's gas lamp drew villagers up the hillside for evening worships, and on Sabbaths the church was filled with believers who brought their food and stayed all day on the hillside.
Early one morning the wife of the new village chief woke her husband and children to tell them of a bright star shining from the church on the hill. "Truly our church is shining to other villages," the chief said.
(Continued next week)
When this was written Mar Dela Fuente was a student missionary teacher at the Adventist mission school in Migtulod Village in southern Philippines.
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I'm a Java newbie but I am enjoying the experience so far.
I am currently stuck on what seems to be a trivial problem, but so far it has me stumped!
I'm reading in lines of text one at a time, and feeding them into a scanner to break them up into individial words. All works fine. I know need to analyse the words emitted from the scanner and check them.
My particular application permits comments in the text file, in the following form:
( this is a comment )
So an opening bracket will set a flag, such that no further text processing will occur until a closing bracket is encountered.
However, I have got stuck on the detection of the firt opening bracket. My code is not detecting it, and I can't see why. Here is the code:
package com.f3; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Scanner; public class F3Assembler { //class level globals public F3Assembler(String inputFile) throws FileNotFoundException { BufferedReader br=null; int lineNumber=1; boolean inComment=false; String forthWord; Scanner sc; try { String sCurrentLine; br=new BufferedReader(new FileReader(inputFile)); while((sCurrentLine=br.readLine())!=null) { System.out.println("Line " + lineNumber + ": " + sCurrentLine); sc=new Scanner(sCurrentLine); while((sc.hasNext()) && (!inComment)) { forthWord=sc.next(); if(forthWord.substring(0, 0)=="(") { inComment=true; System.out.println("Comment detected; ignore rest of line"); } else { System.out.println("word: " + forthWord); } } System.out.println(""); lineNumber++; inComment=false; } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { if(br!=null) br.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } } }
For some reason, the line:
if(forthWord.substring(0, 0)=="(") { .... }
is not triggering. I've tried various things, like:
if(forthWord=="(") { ... }
But to no avail. I've also checked the length of the strings coming in, to make sure (for example) that there isn't a trailing space or something being passed back by the scanner, but the scanner *is* working properly.
Any idea what the problem could be?
Any help/pointers greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.
--- Update ---
Ah! I think I've found it. The == operator is checking the *objects* to see if they are the same, and, of course they're not. Looks like .equals() is the one for me.
Okay, that makes sense! I'm quite enjoying this Java thing!


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L'Oréal finalizes the acquisition of Korean Stylenanda
Clichy, 20 June 2018 - After obtaining the necessary authorizations from the relevant authorities, L'Oréal has finalized the acquisition of the Korean lifestyle company Nanda Co. Ltd, in accordance with the terms announced on 2 May 2018.
 About L'OréalÂ
L'Oréal has devoted itself to beauty for over 100 years. With its unique international portfolio of 34 diverse and complementary brands, the Group generated sales amounting to 26.02 billion euros in 2017 and employs 82,600 people worldwide. As the world's leading beauty company, L'Oréal is present across all distribution networks: mass market, department stores, pharmacies and drugstores, hair salons, travel retail, branded retail and e-commerce.
Research and innovation, and a dedicated research team of 3,885 people, are at the core of L'Oréal's strategy, working to meet beauty aspirations all over the world. L'Oréal's sustainability commitment for 2020 "Sharing Beauty With All" sets out ambitious sustainable development objectives across the Group's value chain.
For more information: http://mediaroom.loreal.com/en/
"This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy L'Oréal shares. If you wish to obtain more comprehensive information about L'Oréal, please refer to the public documents registered in France with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, also available in English on our Internet site www.loreal-finance.com.
This news release may contain some forward-looking statements. Although the Company considers that these statements are based on reasonable hypotheses at the date of publication of this release, they are by their nature subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated or projected in these statements."
Contacts at L'Oréal
Individual shareholders and market authorities
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