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Two charts on tech bubbles show why the homebuilder rally looks frothy
Buying home-builder stocks at the start of the year has been a very profitable bet. PulteGroup Inc. PHM -0.19% shares have skyrocketed 146% year-to-date, while KB Home KBH +0.13% is up 116% and Ryland Group Inc. RYL +0.93% has risen 94%. That performance crushes the nearly 15% gain for the S&P 500 SPX -0.45% year-to-date. Read more on housing stocks big run.
However, a chart put together by economists at RBC Capital Markets, LLC shows why investors should consider pocketing some of those outsized gains. The chart tracks the post-bubble behavior of tech and housing stocks.
At current share prices, RBC economists argue home-builder stocks are divorced from fundamentals.
"Recently there seems to be an endless supply of optimism toward housing. As homeowners we are sympathetic to this view. As economists we are appalled . . . consider that the last time home builders were sitting at this level, sales were 3x greater than where we are today," RBC Capital economists wrote in a report Thursday afternoon.
In the first chart, RBC Capital Markets Chief U.S. Economist Tom Porcelli overlays the S&P 500′s tech index XX:GSPTI +1.57% during the boom-bust period of 1994 to 2003 with the S&P 500 homebuilder index during its later rise — and spectacular crash — between the early part of the 2000′s and late 2007. Indeed, they look scarily similar.
In the second, Porcelli overlays tech's last pre-crash runup, the period between 2004 and late 2007 as rich bids from private equity firms hiked tech-share prices, with the 2011-2012 rally in builders. They also look like sister peaks in the same mountain range. But the other side of the mountain — the big drop in tech during the recession — looks more like an abyss. From the peak in November 2007, the S&P 500 tech index fell as much as 55% by 2009.
"Putting aside the fundamentals, home-building stocks are exhibiting similar post-bubble behavior to that of the technology bubble that popped back in 2000. Both followed very similar patterns during the bubble cycle and home builders now seem to be tracking the post-bubble reflexive rebound that was also witnessed in tech stocks. The thing about reflexive rebounds is that they are, well, reflexive. Food for thought."
– Matt Andrejczak


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Weekend of 12th May ~ 13th May
A super slow weekend as SL went to Chengmai and most friends disappeared without a trace. Spent the day sleeping, playing PS2 and chitchatting on MSN. At night, went out with V, LE & A for a free movie at 1 Utama. Watched a Thai movie called 'Spirit of the Victim', which is just as long winded as Spider-Man 3. Good god, spare me already, what have I done to deserve this? *sob*
In this movie, The ghost just would not go away, it just keeps bugging everyone again and again, I think really, this ghost is a pesky ghost, or a 'pat por' ghost that just likes to sneak up on a person, to see what this person is going, where is he/she is going, and until this ghost gets bored with this person, then only it starts killing this person. This ghost really knows how to torture people. Because of this, I started wondering: there's so many ghost, for example scary ghost, killing ghost, ghost that makes a lot of noise etc. I was thinking, how come there's no hamsap ghost? Why can't there be a ghost that hamsap a person before killing that person? Or a hamsap ghost that visits a person every day and night, maybe because the ghost is lonely? Honestly, I wouldn't mind seeing a ghost like that hahaha…then I would be very tired and no power to work at office...but nevermind, since this hamsap ghost choose me, then have to follow, right anot? So have to obey lor…hamsap ghost hamsap ghost….
Woke up at 12:30pm, took a shower, lunched with family and waited for SL to touch down at KL-LCT back from Chengmai. She took the bus to Subang Parade instead (so good of her!) and I picked her up there. We makan-makan with V at 'Kiwi Express' near Taipan 2, and it had the most mouth-watering Cordon Blue burger I've ever tasted. Sinful, delightful and packed with evilness, I wouldn't mind going to hell for this….*yummmm* After dinner, sent SL back to her place and it ended at that.
Just so you know, I've moved… - … to a new blog persona: http://majidah.wordpress.com Let's meet there:)
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The magnificence of a beautifully presented cooked whole fish is experienced far too infrequently today. Most people prefer the convenience of fillets, but fish has so much more flavor when cooked whole. Wrapping the fish in foil is a simple, effective way to lock in the juices.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- 3 tablespoons pure olive oil
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 medium red onions, sliced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1 pound medium red potatoes, scrubbed and cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- One 4-pound snapper, gutted, scaled, and pectoral gill cut out (but tail left on; ask your fishmonger to do this)
- 1/4 cup Mojo Verde , plus extra for serving if desired
- 1 pound ripe tomatoes, sliced
- 1/4 cup dry white wine
- Lemon wedges for garnish
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- In a large sauté pan, heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and the butter over medium-high heat. When the butter foams, add the onions, stirring to coat, and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 8 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally, until golden. Let cool.
- Stack two pieces of aluminum foil that are large enough to wrap the fish in on top of one another. Fold up the sides of the foil so that it resembles a little boat. Pour the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil into the boat and spread it over the bottom. Lay the potatoes in the boat in one layer, and season with salt and pepper.
- With a sharp knife, make slashes in one side of the fish about 1 1/2 inches apart, going almost to the bone, and season with salt and pepper. Repeat on the other side of the fish. Lay it on top of the potatoes. Spoon the mojo verde on top of the fish. Lay the tomatoes on top of it and spoon the rest of the mojo on them. Spoon on the caramelized onions. Pour the wine around the fish.
- Fold the foil over to enclose the fish, crimping the edges to seal and set on a baking sheet.
- Roast the fish for about 1 hour, or until cooked through (carefully open the foil to check: the fish should flake easily when tested with a fork); cooking times can vary significantly depending on the thickness and type of fish. (The baked fish can be kept warm, and still retain its moisture, for up to 30 minutes if kept wrapped.)
- Serve with lemon wedges and, if you like, extra mojo verde on the side.
- Recommended wine: A wine with soft acidity and sweetness, such as a Vouvray or an American Pinot Blanc.
Chef Norman Van Aken shares his tips with Epicurious:
·In this beautiful dish, a whole snapper is roasted in foil with vegetables and mojo verde, a version of the classic citrusy, garlicky Cuban sauce. You'll have a lot of the versatile mojo left over, and it can be stored in the fridge for up to a month. Van Aken likes it on grilled burgers and also mixes it with sour cream as a dip. ·This dish can easily be adapted for the grill. Says Van Aken, "You are essentially using the grill as an oven. Burn a large amount of coals just until they turn white, then 'bank' them to one side to provide indirect heat, and place the foil-wrapped fish on the other side. Be sure to add the fish as soon as the coals have turned white, or they will burn down too much before the fish has finished cooking. Put the grill cover on, but keep the top and bottom air vents open. As the coals begin to burn down, you can spread them out to provide more even heat, then quickly replace the cover. Cooking times will vary widely, so you must use an instant-read thermometer. Cook the fish until the internal temperature is 130° F." ·The mojo calls for roasted garlic mash, made by cooking whole heads of garlic with thyme and olive oil. The oil will be imbued with complex flavor and can be used in many recipes, including the red mole for Van Aken's Grill-Roasted Rack of Lamb in Red Mole .
Reprinted with permission from New World Kitchen by Norman Van Aken. © 2001 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.


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Some links from newsmedia:
https://www.rt.com/uk/392151-london-fir ... irculation
http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2017/06 ... P1-S1.8-T1
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/13/europ ... index.html
I will not argue that the event is completely fake, of course, because I am quite sure this such building was on fire and burned down as the videos depict. And, unfortunately, it's very well possible that such a terrible accident really happened and that all these people really died, have been harmed or have lost their homes.
However, the understated reactions of the survivors in front of the cameras, some of the language used by media and witnesses, the emphasis on "children trapped" or "thrown out" of the window, people "banging on the windows", allows for a bit of research in the possibility that, while the fire was real, the building was actually empty, nobody died (WTC, 9/11), and the whole event was staged.
Some witnesses/survivors:Eyewitness Jody Martin said: "I watched one person falling out, I watched another woman holding her baby out the window... hearing screams.
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho-4c-lDHng
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBFMEgY4MQ
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLCrwqfwTk
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnrqXBYWOsU
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTLqOFX_Co
the last one, with the father in his robe being walked around, raised an eyebrow...
Same guy being interviewed in the video embedded on this BBC page:
and again here:
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cMaT5t6wxc
...can't shake the feeling "Michael Paramasivan" (why the Indian surname?) looks like a copper...
This is supposed to be a bit of action: someone from the building screaming for help to people on the street:
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLm42C6ghAA
"what floor are you on, seven or eleven?" "eleven, he said it, it's eleven".
(I don't get this: the tower burned all night, engulfed in smoke, and the next day there is still someone trapped at the 11th floor, alive? uhm...)
Finally, the "conspiracy theory" is given here:
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1lP614TD3w
"I'm not gonna lie... I'm not sure this was an accident"


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Quality of the preoperative medication history for the patients scheduled for total hip replacement or total knee replacement at the CHU of Liege (QAMP-STUDY)
STAQUET, Cécile ; ; REMY, Bernadette et al
in Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica (2014), 65(3), 132Detailed reference viewed: 72 (14 ULiège)
Analgésie après chirurgie orthopédique du membre inférieur: intérêt de l'anesthésie locorégionale périphérique
Godfroid, Nathalie ; Lecoq, Jean-Pierre ; Remy, Bernadette et al
in Revue Médicale de Liège (2009), 64(12), 639-644Detailed reference viewed: 191 (24 ULiège)
Evaluation of serum osteocalcin and CTX-I in Ardenner horses with special reference to juvenile interphalangeal joint disease.
; ; Lejeune, Jean-Luc et al
in Journal of Veterinary Medicine. A, Physiology, Pathology, Clinical Medicine (2007), 54(9), 458-63
The first aim of this study was to establish a profile of age-related normal serum concentrations of osteocalcin (OC) in Ardenner horses. For this first part, blood samples from 49 healthy Ardenner horses ... [more ▼]
The first aim of this study was to establish a profile of age-related normal serum concentrations of osteocalcin (OC) in Ardenner horses. For this first part, blood samples from 49 healthy Ardenner horses were collected. The second aim was to study two biochemical markers of bone metabolism, OC and a carboxy-terminal cross-linking telopeptide of type I collagen (CTX-I), in 30 young Ardenner horses during 1 year. Amongst them, 17 showed lesions of juvenile degenerative joint disease in the distal forelimbs. A specific radioimmunoassay for equine OC was used to measure the serum concentration of the marker. The serum concentration of CTX-I was measured using a commercially available human assay validated for use in the horse. The effect of age, sex, season and health status (with or without lesions) was assessed. Levels of OC fall between birth and the adult stage: this decrease being most marked between birth and 1 year of age. This age-related decrease of OC was confirmed in the 30 young Ardenner horses, but CTX-I levels remained constant in this group. The Levels of the two markers changed significantly with the season with higher concentrations during the winter. No significant difference was shown either between the two sexes or between the two health statuses. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 46 (11 ULiège)
Intérêt de l'utilisation des substituts érythrocytaires
Deby, Ginette ; Remy, Bernadette ; Lamy, Maurice
in Actualités en réanimation et urgences (2001)Detailed reference viewed: 14 (5 ULiège)
La commission d'hemovigilance du CHU.
Baudoux, Etienne ; Blaffart, Francine ; Bouffioux, Christian et al
in Revue Médicale de Liège (2000), 55(9), 878-80
As suggested by the National Blood Council, a Hemovigilance Committee was set up in the University Hospital of Liege in 1995. A multidisciplinary discussion takes place on any action aiming at the ... [more ▼]
As suggested by the National Blood Council, a Hemovigilance Committee was set up in the University Hospital of Liege in 1995. A multidisciplinary discussion takes place on any action aiming at the improvement of transfusion safety, and the follow-up of its implementation. The first issue to be discussed was the set up of a detailed documentation of all blood transfusions. The data are now recorded on a single document allowing proper identification of people and products involved, and of the eventual incidents. This document has lead to a better transfusion safety and to an improved administrative management of blood transfusion. The Commission has been coordinating two multi-centric studies analyzing the consumption of fresh blood products and the incidence of transfusion reactions. Among blood-saving policies, autologous transfusion and volume reduction of samples drawn for laboratory purposes have been discussed. Other measures were taken to improve the labeling of samples for cross-mach and to actively follow-up transfusion reactions. By its actions and advises, the Commission aims to direct strategies towards a safe and rational use of blood products. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 275 (39 ULiège)
Substituts des globules rouges: émulsions de fluorocarbures et solutions d'hémoglobine
Remy, Bernadette ; Deby, Ginette ; et al
in Annales Françaises d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation (1999), 18(2), 211-24
OBJECTIVE: To review the current data on perfluorocarbon (PFC) emulsions and haemoglobin (Hb) solutions. DATA SOURCES: For this paper we analysed the literature using Medline search along with major ... [more ▼]
OBJECTIVE: To review the current data on perfluorocarbon (PFC) emulsions and haemoglobin (Hb) solutions. DATA SOURCES: For this paper we analysed the literature using Medline search along with major review articles. DATA SELECTION AND EXTRACTION: The collected articles were reviewed and selected according to their quality and originality. DATA SYNTHESIS: PFCs are synthetic fluorinated hydrocarbons capable of dissolving, at increased FIO2, large amounts of oxygen. They deliver oxygen at tissular level, and are administered as emulsions containing particles of around 0.1 micron, reaching the smallest vessels. They are exhaled unchanged by the lungs within 7 days. The first clinically used PFC was Fluosol-DA 20%. Currently, Oxyfluor 40% and Oxygent 60% are under evaluation. PFCs are not true blood substitutes, but rather a means to support tissue oxygenation during extreme haemodilution. Solutions of free Hb do not require compatibility testing and are fully saturated with oxygen at ambient FIO2. Hb is either human, bovine or recombinant Hb. In order to maintain adequate intravascular half-life and affinity for oxygen, the Hb molecules are modified by internal cross-linking, polymerisation and encapsulation. After promising results using animal models, some of these modified Hb solutions are now undergoing phase III clinical trials. Among these, diaspirin cross-linked haemoglobin (DCLHb) has been tested in cardiac and orthopaedic surgery, as well as in trauma patients. The initial results of these multicentre trials are currently being analysed. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 65 (7 ULiège)
Red blood cell substitutes: fluorocarbon emulsions and haemoglobin solutions.
Remy, Bernadette ; Deby, Ginette ; Lamy, Maurice
in British Medical Bulletin (1999), 55(1), 277-98
The problems posed by transfusion of homologous blood have led to the development of substances able to replace the gas transporting properties of blood. Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) emulsions and modified ... [more ▼]
The problems posed by transfusion of homologous blood have led to the development of substances able to replace the gas transporting properties of blood. Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) emulsions and modified haemoglobin (Hb) solutions have been developed for this goal and are now tested in clinical assays. PFCs are synthetic fluorinated hydrocarbons, capable of dissolving large quantities of oxygen (O2; without binding) at high inspired concentrations of O2, and of delivering this O2 to the tissues. They are administered as emulsions containing particles with a diameter of approximately 0.2 micron, capable of entering the microcirculation. They are eliminated unchanged by the lungs within several days. Fluosol-DA 20% was the first PFC emulsion used in clinical practice. Currently, Oxygent, a second generation PFC emulsion, is being evaluated in clinical studies. The PFCs are not blood substitutes, but rather a means to ensure tissue oxygenation during extreme haemodilution. Solutions of free Hb do not have the antigenic characteristics of the blood groups, and do not require compatibility testing. They are fully saturated with O2 at ambient FiO2. The Hbs used are derived from either human or bovine sources, or via recombinant DNA technology. In order to maintain satisfactory intravascular half-life and O2 affinity, the Hb molecules are modified by adding internal crosslinks, by polymerization, and/or by encapsulation. After promising animal studies, several of these modified Hb solutions are now being studied in Phase III clinical trials. Among them, diaspirin cross-linked haemoglobin (DCLHb) has been used in cardiac and orthopaedic surgery, and for resuscitation of traffic accident victims. The initial results of multicentre trials are now being analysed. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 32 (1 ULiège)
Apports et perspectives des dérivés de l'hémoglobine
Remy, Bernadette ; Deby, Ginette ; Lamy, Maurice
in Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift (1997), 127(25), 1088-96
Anoxia-reoxygenation leads to severe metabolic alterations, which result in a generalized inflammatory reaction and multiple organ dysfunction. Direct blood transfusion limits these alterations, but is ... [more ▼]
Anoxia-reoxygenation leads to severe metabolic alterations, which result in a generalized inflammatory reaction and multiple organ dysfunction. Direct blood transfusion limits these alterations, but is accompanied by risk of transmission of infections or viral diseases. To avoid these risks, "blood substitutes" have been designed. The modified hemoglobins are not true blood substitutes because they do not possess the complex functions of erythrocytes. They are only oxygen carriers, with a short intravascular life, adapted for temporary use. They are stable, devoid of toxicity and antigenicity, and are able to carry and deliver O2 without regulation of this oxygen transport and without chemical reaction with O2. They possess rheologic properties and an oncotic pressure like those of blood. The use of natural hemoglobin solutions, obtained after lysis of erythrocytes, remains "at risk" because these solutions easily form methemoglobin, increase the oncotic pressure, present renal toxicity, and possess a too high affinity for O2. For these reasons, 5 types of modified hemoglobin solutions have been designed, prepared from human or bovine hemoglobin or by genetic engineering. These hemoglobins are highly purified to eliminate trace amounts of stroma, lipids and endotoxins, which are responsible for acute toxicity. They are modified by internal cross-linking between the monomers, or by binding to macromolecules. Afterwards, they can be polymerized or encapsulated in liposomes. The purpose of these modifications is to modulate the affinity for O2 (by decreasing the binding of O2 and increasing its delivery to tissue), to reduce the dissociation into monomers and to guard against oxidation into methemoglobin. Encapsulation in liposomes allows co-encapsulation of effector molecules and protective substances. Genetic engineering allows the production of recombinant hemoglobin with selective modifications. The modified hemoglobin solutions are essentially used in hemorrhagic shock and perioperative hemodilution. Experimental work in animals has afforded good results: restoration of normal O2 pressure and no toxicity. These assays allow frequent observation of an unexpected rapid hypertensive effect, transient, reversible, and that could be controlled by antihypertensive drugs. The mechanisms of this hypertensive effect remain controverted (stimulation of endothelin production, inhibition of nitric oxide effects, etc.). In humans, studies with healthy volunteers have been completed, while phase II clinical studies are under way in hypovolemic shock, in major abdominal, orthopedic and cardiac surgery, in stroke and in intensive care patients after surgery. The detailed results are awaited, but the modified hemoglobin solutions already appear to be without toxicity and present the same hypertensive effect as observed in animals. However, until now only low doses have been used, and the catabolism of these solutions remains largely unknown. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 43 (0 ULiège)
Utilisation de solution de diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin (DCLHb) en milieu chirurgical
Larbuisson, Robert ; Remy, Bernadette ; Lamy, Maurice
in RBM (1997), 19(suppl 1), 55-57Detailed reference viewed: 39 (1 ULiège)


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In the mid-nineteenth century, William Gilmore Simms did more than any other writer and editor to frame white southern self-identity, nationalism, and historical consciousness. He also did more to foster the South's literary life and place in America's imagination.
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Hayner Retiring as Chicago Sun-Times Editor
Chicago Sun-Times editor-in-chief Don Hayner has announced he is retiring after nearly 30 years at the newspaper.
The Sun-Times reports Hayner made the announcement Thursday afternoon. He will be succeeded by John Barron, who will be executive editor after three years as publisher. Hayner led the Sun-Times when it won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 2011.
Hayner told staffers he decided to retire and it is "time to hand off the baton."
The 60-year-old Hayner started at the newspaper as a general assignment reporter. He was named editor in February 2009. He also served as city editor, metro editor and managing editor. He also was a lawyer who represented criminal defendants at the Cook County courthouse before working for the City News Bureau and the Chicago Tribune.


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Nelson Big Gun® Sprinklers provide the greatest range of options for traveler irrigation. Full and part-circle sprinklers are available in a variety of trajectory, nozzle, and coating options. The adjustable trajectory (15-45°) is also available for SRA100 and SRA150.
Traveling sprinklers were developed to significantly reduce labor with a minimum of initial investment. The traveler system consists of a hose reel machine that continuously reels in the Big Gun® and gun cart down selected travel lanes. The traveler is capable of irrigating regularly and irregularly shaped fields with distances as long as 1/2 mile (750 meters). Traveling Big Gun® Sprinklers are capable of high uniformity water application when the proper sprinkler flow rate, operating pressure, and travel lane spacings are selected.
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The distance between travel lanes for any given sprinkler size is largely determined by local wind conditions. High winds tend to distort or modify the sprinkler pattern into an egg-shaped coverage pattern. Therefore, if possible, direction of travel should be at right angles to the prevailing wind. While the continuous movement of this irregular pattern improves the water application uniformity, it is essential to use closer spacings between travel lanes to ensure proper overlap. A part-circle sprinkler should be used when it is desirable to leave a dry path in front of the traveler, to water ends of the field without overthrow of the boundary, and to adjust the arc of the sprinkler to compensate for wind. A full circle sprinkler should be used if the elements above are not important and when the lowest possible application rate is desired. When using a part-circle sprinkler to maintain a dry travel path, adjust the area of the circle not watered to the smallest possible arc. This will provide nearly as low an application rate as with a full circle sprinkler at the same performance. The application rate of a part-circle sprinkler is greater than for a full circle sprinkler of the same capacity, increasing in accordance to the proportion of circle covered. For example, the application rate of a sprinkler covering a one-half circle is double that of a full circle sprinkler.


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Castles and other such installations are large scale buildings generally built with defense in mind. Due to their massive size, however, they also serve as containment units, housing small to large residential areas and other functionable structures. They can also mount large scale ordinance. They might serve as cities in their own right, military installations, or imposing wards.
Possible Uses:
- Siege Warfare.
- Castles and other such installations, if they are large enough, could literally serve as the entire setting for a battle or story.
Tactical Considerations:
- Concerning Castles in particular: The keep is at the very heart of castle strategy. Usually situated at the back of or in the middle of the fortress, well away from structural weaknesses such as gates, drawbridges, large windows and doggie-doors. The keep is where the most important people in any kingdom will hide, generally while wishing that they had sprung for the more expensive castle with the hidden escape tunnels. The walls are what set a true castle apart from a stand-alone keep, or an unprotected garrison. they are strong, thick and generally monochromatic. Tactically, they provide an ideal defense against ground-based troops. Many castle walls are topped with a rampart and crenelations, the rampart being the pathway around the inside of the walls, provide the perfect place from which to insult invading armies, and/or fart in their general directions. And the crenelations being the intermittent blocks which partially obscure the ramparts, providing cover from most missiles. The Moat is the outermost of the perimeter defenses, it consists of a deep trough cut around the bottom of the castle, usually this is filled in with water, as it is a widely known fact that hordes cannot swim. This feature may be lacking in some castles, but others make up for it by having mega-awesome pits filled spikes and venomous creatures. These strategies may be adopted for other large scale defensive installations.


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Tickets for Western Carolina University's 2010-10 University Theatre Mainstage season, which is packed with popular Broadway musicals and smaller experimental works, will go on sale Tuesday, Aug. 10.
Mainstage productions are directed by faculty members from the School of Stage and Screen. For the first time, the season includes three musicals: "The Seven Deadly Sins," an operatic ballet by Kurt Weill; "Rent" by Jonathan Larson; and "Kiss Me, Kate" by Cole Porter.
In addition to the musical works are a combination of contemporary and intimate productions staged in the university's Niggli Theatre: the comedy "Romantic Fools" by Rich Orloff; the Tony Award-nominated "Reasons to be Pretty" by Neil LaBute; and a selection of "theAtrainplays," six short works by different authors all set on an iconic New York subway route.
Tickets may be purchased individually or in season packages. The six-show combo is $60, a savings of $40 over regular ticket prices.
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RPi Serial Connection
Back to RPi Advanced Setup.
The Serial Port is a low-level way to send data between the Raspberry Pi and another computer system. There are two main ways in which it can be used:
- Connecting to a PC to allow access to the Linux console. This can help to fix problems during boot, or to log in to the Pi if the video and network are not available.
- Connecting to a microcontroller or other peripheral which has a serial interface. This can be useful if you want the Pi to control another device.
Connection to a PC
Note that the Raspberry Pi cannot be wired directly to an RS232 serial port. To do so, some additional electronics are required!
A UART is available in the Broadcom SoC, and its RxD and TxD lines are available on the GPIO header. However, these use 0 and 3.3V logic levels, not the +/-12V used by RS-232 serial ports. If you wish to connect one of these, you need a board or adapter to convert the signal levels. See this tutorial for one example on how to build a 3.3V to RS-232 level converter with a breadboard, a MAX3232CPE IC and five 0.1 uF capacitors.
If your PC has a USB port, it is possible to connect a USB-to-serial cable which uses 3.3V logic levels (e.g. the Adafruit 954 or the FTDI TTL-232R-RPI cables) directly to the GPIO pins.
If you have a serial connection using 5V logic levels, you should ideally have a circuit to convert between the voltage levels. See this tutorial for an example circuit. For prototyping work, provided the connections are kept short you may connect the GPIO TxD directly to the 5V RxD, and the 5V TxD can be connected via a voltage divider to the GPIO RxD. A 5V to 3V resistor divider can be built from a 2K2 (top) and a 3K3 (bottom) resistor.
When this is done, you will need to set up a terminal emulator program on your PC as described below.
Console serial parameters
The following parameters are needed to connect to the Pi console, and apply on both Linux and Windows.
- Speed (baud rate): 115200
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Linux terminal set up
You will need to know the port name of your PC's serial port. On Linux this will be:
- Built-in (standard) Serial Port: the Linux standard is /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, and so on, but on the raspberry pi, it is /dev/ttyAMA0
- USB Serial Port Adapter: /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, and so on.
- Some types of USB serial adapter may appear as /dev/ttyACM0 ...
You will need to be a member of the dialout group to access this port (for later releases the required group is tty). You can check which is needed with:
ls -l /dev/ttyAMA0
and you will see something like "crw-rw----T 1 root dialout ..." which says root can 'create,read,write' and the group xxx can 'read,write' to the port and everyone else cannot access it.
To find out if you, the current user, is in the group dialout, use the command:
If you do not see dialout listed, add yourself with the command
sudo usermod -a -G dialout username
You then have a choice of terminal emulation programs:
- Super Easy Way Using GNU Screen
Enter the command below into a terminal window
screen port_name 115200
To exit GNU screen, type Control-A k.
- Super Easy Way Using Minicom
Run minicom with the following parameters:
minicom -b 115200 -o -D Port_Name
You can exit minicom with Control-A x
- Tedious Old-Fashioned Way Using Minicom
Another method to setup minicom is described in the Tincantools Minicom Tutorial
- GUI method with GtkTerm
Start GtkTerm, select Configuration->Port and enter the values above in the labeled fields.
Windows terminal set-up
Windows Users above Windows XP must download putty, TeraTerm or a comparable terminal program. Users of XP and below can choose between using putty and Hyperterminal.
You will need to know the number of your serial (COM) port. Built-in ports are COM0 to COM3, and USB-attached ports are COM4 and upwards.
First Dialog
If you get the prompt below, you are connected to the Raspberry Pi shell!
prompt> #
First command you might want try is "help":
prompt> # help
If you get some output, you are correctly connected to the Raspberry Pi! Congratulations!
Unwanted serial garbage input
Note that on older software by accident the internal pullups of the RxD GPIO pins were not enabled, this could lead to lots of serial garbage being picked up if the GPIO pin was touched, or even if a finger was nearby. In extreme case this could lead to kernel warnings and other problems.
Connection to a microcontroller or other peripheral
The TxD and RxD signals can also be connected directly to similar signals on a microcontroller board like the Arduino provided the signals are all at 3V3 levels. It's still a good idea to put 2K2 series resistors in the lines to prevent damage when two outputs are connected together, which could also happen if a GPIO input pin is accidentally programmed as output.
If your microcontroller uses 5V logic levels, level conversion is usually necessary - see 'Connecting to a PC' for details.
Preventing Linux using the serial port
The Broadcom UART appears as
/dev/ttyAMA0 under Linux. There are several minor things in the way if you want to have dedicated control of the serial port on a Raspberry Pi.
- Firstly, the kernel will use the port as controlled by kernel command line contained in
/boot/cmdline.txt. The file will look something like this:
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait
The console keyword outputs messages during boot, and the kgdboc keyword enables kernel debugging. You will need to remove all references to ttyAMA0. So, for the example above
/boot/cmdline.txt, should contain:
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait
You must be root to edit this (e.g. use
sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt). Be careful doing this, as a faulty command line can prevent the system booting.
- Secondly, after booting, a login prompt appears on the serial port. This is controlled by the following lines in
#Spawn a getty on Raspberry Pi serial line T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyAMA0 115200 vt100
You will need to edit this file to comment out the second line, i.e.
#T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyAMA0 115200 vt100
Once all of those are off, you can use /dev/ttyAMA0 like any normal linux serial port, and you wont get any unwanted traffic confusing the attached devices.
The above instructions have been verified on Raspbian 'wheezy'; other distributions may be set up differently. To double-check, use
cat /proc/cmdline
to show the current kernel command line, and
ps aux | grep ttyAMA0
to search for
getty processes using the serial port.
Handshaking lines
You can have the RTS0 signal on GPIO 17 (P1-11) if you set it to ALT function 3. Likewise, the CTS0 is available on GPIO 30 (P5-05), if it is set to ALT function 3. You can control the settings of IOs with gpio_setfunc


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Yoga for Sleep
Sleep deprivation can be a serious problem which may ruin your day or even career and relationships. You can try several things to improve your sleep however it may not be that effective. That's where yoga comes in. Certain yoga poses can be particularly helpful for your sleep.
Relaxation Pose
To begin the pose lie flat on a mat with your arms on your sides. Relax your body and take deep breaths. Slowly move the wrists and ankles around in circles. It will relax your body further. Now stretch the toes and fingers apart. Finally contract and release your facial muscles and stay in the relaxed position as long as you can.
Downward Facing Dog
Get on all fours and slowly lift the knees off of the floor while you exhale. Extend your legs as much as possible and tilt the pelvis slightly inward. Stay in the pose for a couple of minutes. This amazing pose reduces fatigue and insomnia and also improves digestion.
Legs against the Wall
Lie on your back close to a wall so that your hips touch the wall with your legs against the wall. Stay in the pose for up to 15 minutes. It will help you feel relaxed when you go to the bed.
Yogic Breathing Technique
Sit comfortably on a mat and inhale. Now exhale through your mouth and make a "ha" sound as you exhale. Do this for five to eight minutes. This technique helps tone your throat muscles for sleep apnea.
Forward Fold
For this pose bend forward and fold your upper half toward your lower half and hold for up to one minute. You can also rest your hands on a chair or something if you have trouble reaching the floor.
Head-to-Knee Forward Bend
Sit on a mat and stretch your legs into a straddle, then fold your left foot in toward your groin so your left knee is bent and resting on the floor. Turn your torso toward your right leg. Stay in the pose for a couple of minutes. Repeat the same with the other leg.
Bound Angle Pose
Sit on the floor and bring the soles of the feet together in front of you, hands holding the feet or ankles. Now inhale and lengthen the spine. Exhale and bend forward from the hips, keeping the spine long.
Wide-angle Seated Forward Bend
Sit upright on the floor and extend the legs in front of you. Go as wide as is comfortable. Inhale and lengthen the spine, ensuring the lower back isn't rounding. Exhale and bend forward from the hips, with hands in front of you. Focus on the breath as you lengthen the spine with every inhale and relax forward with every exhale.
Thread the Needle
Lie on your back with the head flat on the floor. Bend the knees and place the soles of the feet on the floor. Bring the right knee toward the chest and place the right ankle below the left knee with the right knee pointing to the right. Flex the right foot to keep the muscles engaged and protect the knee from strain. Lift the left foot off the floor and bring the left knee toward the chest. These poses will help you with your sleep.
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Senate Approves Fix to Citizenship for Inter-Country Adoptees
Senate Approves Fix to Citizenship for Inter-Country Adoptees
The U.S. Senate approved an amendment Tuesday to the immigration reform bill that provides automatic citizenship to all persons who were born outside the United States and were adopted by U.S. citizens. The provision would fix a controversial law that has led to the deportation of adoptees who lived most of their lives in the United States.
Called the "Citizenship for Lawful Adoptees Amendment," the fix would give citizenship to all of those who were adopted as children by U.S. citizens.
In 2001, inter-country adoptees were given automatic citizenship, but it was not made retro-active for those over 18 years old at the time. There are some adults in the United States today who were adopted, brought to the United States as infants, grew up in the United States, but are not citizens because their parents failed to apply for citizenship for them.
In August 2012, The Christian Post interviewed Peter Brient. Brient was brought to the United States when he was only 13 months old. He was adopted by his stepfather, a U.S. citizen. Forty-five years later, he discovered he is not a U.S. citizen when he applied for a passport.
There have been two other cases that have received media attention. In 2000, Joao Herbert was deported to Brazil, even though he grew up in Ohio and could not speak Portuguese. He died there after being shot by drug dealers. And more recently, Kairi Shepard has been in danger of getting deported to India, even though she has lived in the U.S. since she was three months old and would be unable to receive lifesaving care for her multiple sclerosis.
The "Citizenship for Lawful Adoptees Amendment" would provide automatic citizenship for people like Brient and Shepard, as well as provide a few other tweaks to the laws related to citizenship of adoptees.
The amendment was sponsored by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and co-sponsored by Sens. Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).
"Some adopted children, through no fault of their own, endure a precarious legal status, which can result in the horror of being deported to a country they don't remember at all, where they don't have any ties or even speak the language," Landrieu said in a statement. "My amendment provides important technical fixes to ensure that children adopted internationally by American citizen parents receive automatic citizenship, treating them the same as biological children."


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Wordsworth in a Math Bubble
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This semester I'm teaching a course entitled, "Poetry, Art, and Science in the Age of Wonder" at Georgia Tech. At Tech, there's no such thing as an English major, and so teaching a humanities course poses some unique challenges. How to make literature compelling for science and engineering majors is one of the questions I frequently ask myself when designing courses. Richard Holmes's recent The Age of Wonder presented me with an excellent opportunity to combine my students' interests with Romantic literature. So far this semester, we've been reading Holmes's book and the experience has been, well, wonderful. The text has proven enticing for my students; it's also a great example – as a notable and bestselling book – of the contemporary interest in and relevance of the Romantics.
One of the concerns I've had, however, is that the book is long and detailed, and we've spent a lot of time discussing Holmes but less time than I would like discussing Romantic poetry. I tried to rectify that this week by bringing to class a copy of William Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned." I handed out the poem after we had discussed Holmes's chapter on "Dr. Frankenstein and the Soul." This chapter, more than any of the others, considers why the Romantic poets have frequently been seen as anti-science. I felt that "The Tables Turned" would allow students to dig into those assumptions and see first-hand how complicated Wordsworth's response to science was in the poem.
In discussion, students targeted the famous line, "We murder to dissect." Students also started to ask questions, such as, "if the poem is so anti-science, why does Wordsworth use 'we' in that line? Shouldn't he say you?" Then students noticed the grouping of "science and art" in the last stanza, realizing quickly that much like science, poems also dissect objects of beauty for analysis in their own way. I was pleased with this discussion, but I also wanted to see how far we could take our analysis of the poem. I asked students to indulge in a creative thought experiment: if they could represent the poem as a work of visual art, any kind of work of art (a painting, a digital project, a comic book), how would they do so?
Students were quiet at first, but then they started to get excited. Really excited. I couldn't keep up with the hands in the air. Lots of students proposed depicting a dreary lab with a window out on nature; others started to get more complex. One student said she imagined Wordsworth trapped in a bubble made out of math equations floating over a sublime landscape. As the students tossed ideas around about what the poem would look like, they engaged in compelling analyses of the poem: one student, for example, said he worried that representing the lab as dreary and nature as wonderful recreated a dichotomy between science and art that perhaps Wordsworth hadn't quite meant to create; perhaps we could combine them by making the lab instruments double as natural objects. A tree could be a beaker, a leaf a sheet of lab notes.
All in all, it was a great discussion, and students got to get excited not only about the poem but about their creative capacity for analyzing and representing it. This kind of excitement is important in my course not least because throughout the semester, students are working in groups to develop technologically innovative online exhibitions of Romantic poetry, creating just the sorts of images they imagined in class this week. But I will save those details for another blog post. In the meantime, I'm wondering what other kinds of creative strategies folks have used to get students engaged in discussion, and I'm especially interested in considering the benefits (and perhaps also the drawbacks) of asking students to perform this kind of synaesthesiac experiment – would this experiment be possible to try with music, for example? Or film? Or other mediums?


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Number of Units
One unit of credit is one-hour lecture or recitation or three hours laboratory, drafting or shop work, for each week within a period of complete semester. Pre-requisite subjects should be satisfied first before taking a subject of a higher level.
Petitioned Subjects
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Dropping/Changing/Adding of Subjects
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Grading System
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The Class Standing is the sum total of the evaluation of the students recitations, quizzes/tests, homework, seatwork, themes, experiments, laboratory exercises, class report, projects and the like.
Lecture and laboratory grades are computed into one grade only, the proportion of which depends upon the policy of the college concerned.
Rating System
The University has adopted the numerical, 5-point, system for the graduate and undergraduate level as follows:
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anfunny2003 wrote:Yes, it's out. I pre-ordered from Amazon UK but it hadn't charged my card or dispatched at midnight, so I went and cancelled and picked it up in HMV this morning instead. It's been out of stock on Amazon for weeks now, so they must've had stock issues.
It's a really nice set (same style as Marc's recent one of his own) and I already played four of the ten discs! I did...
The Early Years
Rarities, Alternative Versions & Curios
Extended Versions & New Mixes
Non-Stop Euphoric Dubbing
...in that order, as I felt it made more sense. Sounded great to me! Really enjoyed every disc - the new mixes are very good and use only the original elements. Euphoric Dubbing is excellent - a more ambient, downtempo companion to the previous instalment, if you like. Looking forward to checking out the other discs over the weekend.
BigManRestless wrote:Never mind the format - the DVD doesn't work. When I try and select BBC Performances the disc grinds and grinds away in the player and nothing happens. A few other people online have been reporting the same thing. Such a shame this is screwed up as the music discs are great.
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1. Pretty much everything about Trouble With the Curve is a crock, but I couldn't help but like it anyway. It has a hackneyed, painfully overstructured screenplay; its motivations for its characters are stock at best and embarrassingly obvious at worst; and it knows so little about the game of baseball in the 21st century that you half expect an ad for Ovaltine to pop up halfway through. (More on this in a bit.) But I still fell for it, because, as Roger Ebert famously put it, a movie is not what it's about, but how it is about it. Trouble With the Curve did everything wrong except cast its three leads; it did that so perfectly that it's almost like nothing else even matters.
2. Seriously, though: You're gonna have to swallow a lot of idiocy. Clint Eastwood plays ... oh, he's playing Clint Eastwood, let's not even pretend his character has a name that matters ... a longtime scout for the Atlanta Braves who is beginning to lose his eyesight at the same time that one of those fancypants computer analyst people always using those whirligig computer devices is trying to force him out of his job. He's sent to North Carolina to scout One Last Prospect, at the same time his daughter—another of those Overextended High-Maintenance Female Lawyer types you see in 73 percent of Hollywood films—is struggling with her inability to commit to a meaningful human relationship, in large part because of her father. (She's played by Amy Adams, who's terrific though she doesn't seem to share a species with Eastwood, let alone genes.) She ends up traveling with him to Carolina to scout this top prospect, where they meet a washed-out ballplayer-turned-scout (Justin Timberlake), who, hey, would you believe he's the perfect antidote for all their disagreements and woes? And that he looks like Justin Timberlake? And that, as it turns out, they have lessons to learn from each other?
3. These are three obvious characters, so thank heavens they're played by Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, and Justin Timberlake. The movie is at its best when it cuts it out with its dumb asides about baseball and supposed thematic connections and obvious, lookie-here-lookie-here "emotional" music cues and just lets these actors interact with each other. Eastwood and Adams have a fun, prickly chemistry; her character hasn't been much more thought out than "spitfire!" but the way she holds her own with Clint, the way she pushes back at him, gets him off-balance, is fun to watch, almost inspiring. (And Clint seems to enjoy it as well. Too many actors in this film seem to revere Eastwood so much that they sort of tiptoe around him; I love how Adams keeps getting in his face.) Eastwood's acting style these days is 45 percent growling, but it's a great growl, and honestly, at this point of his career, it'd be compelling to watch Eastwood stare in a mirror for 90 minutes. And Timberlake—an actor I've been skeptical of for a while; he always seems to be playacting as an actor rather than as a character—is as relaxed and charming as I've ever seen him. He fits comfortably in the cracks; it's impressive to see an international superstar so willing and content to take a backseat to everyone else. When the movie is just about these three people talking to each other, it sparkles.
4. Unfortunately, it's not just the three of them. I tried to take off my Baseball Fan hat watching this film, but at times it was just too hard. The worst character is a Braves assistant GM played by Matthew Lillard, who is almost always lit via computer screen and is sniveling and young and stupid and full of himself and of course never watches any baseball because he's too busy (and this is an exact quote) "looking for players on his Interwebs." The movie's baseball perspective is basically a response by the fired scout in Moneyball; it appears scripted by the foreword to Three Nights In August. Anyone who has even cursory knowledge of modern-day baseball will find the whole Braves plot staggeringly stupid; I absolutely cannot wait to see Keith Law review this. It's funny when Eastwood is spewing "get off my lawn" sentiments as a self-effacing means of leavening his screen presence; apply them to baseball, though, and suddenly Eastwood is aligned with some dopes who have been quite publicly discredited. I love baseball more than almost anything in the world, and I wish this movie would have been about anything other than baseball. Table tennis? Chess? Risk? Yes: I wish this movie were about competitive Risk players.
5. Thinking about the movie the day after I saw it, I find myself putting aside those frustrations, along with the plodding screenplay and increasingly strained thematic connections. (The film at one point explicitly makes the argument that neither baseball nor life is played on paper. Which is undeniably true. Good point, there.) The film is full of small pleasures, whether it's Eastwood and Adams whispering baseball facts to each other, or Timberlake and Adams clog-dancing, or Eastwood—in the film's best scene—attacking a guy in a bar who dared touch his daughter on the thigh. I don't feel proud recommending Trouble with the Curve. It does so much wrong, and it is so proud of itself for it. But it's too much fun watching these actors have such fun. Eastwood hasn't acted in a movie he didn't direct in nearly 20 years, and it fits him; it loosens him up, gets him out of his comfort zone, challenges him. Now that he's done it in a sorta dumb film, here's hoping he'll do it again in a great one.
Grade: B-.
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Gut bacteria could help with diagnostics and influence treatments
In the future, when you walk into a doctor's surgery or hospital, you could be asked not just about your allergies and blood group, but also about your gut type. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and collaborators in the international MetaHIT consortium, have found that humans have 3 different gut types. The study, published today in Nature, also uncovers microbial genetic markers that are related to traits like age, gender and body-mass index. These bacterial genes could one day be used to help diagnose and predict outcomes for diseases like colo-rectal cancer, while information about a person's gut type could help inform treatment.
We all have bacteria in our gut that help digest food, break down toxins, produce some vitamins and essential amino acids, and form a barrier against invaders. But the composition of that microbial community – the relative numbers of different kinds of bacteria – varies from person to person.
"We found that the combination of microbes in the human intestine isn't random," says Peer Bork, who led the study at EMBL: "our gut flora can settle into three different types of community – three different ecosystems, if you like."
Bork and colleagues first used stool samples to analyse the gut bacteria of 39 individuals from three different continents (Europe, Asia and America), and later extended the study to an extra 85 people from Denmark and 154 from America. They found that all these cases could be divided into three groups, based on which species of bacteria occurred in high numbers in their gut: each person could be said to have one of three gut types, or enterotypes.
The scientists don't yet know why people have these different gut types, but speculate that they could be related to differences in how their immune systems distinguish between 'friendly' and harmful bacteria, or to different ways of releasing hydrogen waste from cells.
Like blood groups, these gut types are independent of traits like age, gender, nationality and body-mass index. But the scientists did find, for example, that the guts of older people appear to have more microbial genes involved in breaking down carbohydrates than those of youngsters, possibly because as we age we become less efficient at processing those nutrients, so in order to survive in the human gut, bacteria have to take up the task.
"The fact that there are bacterial genes associated with traits like age and weight indicates that there may also be markers for traits like obesity or diseases like colo-rectal cancer," Bork says, "which could have implications for diagnosis and prognosis."
If this proves to be the case, when diagnosing or assessing the likelihood of a patient contracting a particular disease, doctors could look for clues not only in the patient's body but also in the bacteria that live in it. And after diagnosis, treatment could be adapted to the patient's gut type to ensure the best results.
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About the human gut microbiome: EMBL press release: Bacterial balance that keeps us healthy
About the MetaHIT consortium: www.metahit.eu
Source Article
Arumugam, M., Raes, J. et al. Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome. Nature Advance Online Publication 20 April 2011. DOI:10.1038/nature09944.
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- New York Times (USA) , 20 April 2011 "Bacteria Divide People Into 3 Types, Scientists Say"
- Not Exactly Rocket Science (Discover Blogs) , 20 April 2011 "Divided by language, united by gut bacteria – people have three common gut types"
- Radio 1 (Belgium) , 20 April 2011 "Kunnen we binnenkort onze levensstijl aanpassen aan ons darmtype"
- Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) , 20 April 2011 "Ökosystem im Bauch"
- Los Angeles Times (USA) , 20 April 2011 'Gut microbes: What's your type?'
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David Mathis, on the Desiring God Ministries website, recently published a valuable article aimed at North American readers regarding all the family time and food traditions surrounding Thanksgiving. In that article he challenged his readers to view such annual cultural celebratory occasions as invaluable opportunities for Gospel influence.
He identified himself as a fellow bungler who struggles, just like the rest of us, to make full use of family gatherings for Gospel progress. He offered some practical ideas for what it might mean to see ourselves as sent among our relatives. His helpful suggestions were in turn inspired by Randy Newman's excellent book Bringing the Gospel Home: Witnessing to Family Members, Close Friends, and Others Who Know You Well.
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Pray Ahead
Begin praying for your part in gospel advance among extended family several days before gathering. And let's not just pray for changes in them, but also pray for the needed heart changes in us—whether it's for love or courage or patience or kindness or fresh hope, or all of the above.
Listen and Ask Questions
Listen, listen, listen. Perhaps more good evangelism than we realise starts not with speaking but with good listening. Getting to know someone well, and specifically applying the gospel to them, is huge in witness. Relationship matters.
Ask questions to draw them out. People like to talk about themselves—and we should capitalise on this. And most people only enjoy talking about themselves for so long. At some point, they'll ask us questions. And that's our golden chance to speak, upon request.
One of the best times to tell the gospel with clarity and particularity is when someone has just asked us a question. They want to hear from us. So let's share ourselves, and Jesus in us. Not artificially, but in genuine answer to their asking about our lives. And remember: It's a conversation. Be careful not to rabbit on for too long, but try to keep a sense of equilibrium in the dialogue.
Raise the Gospel Flag Early
Let's not wait to get to know them "well enough" to start clearly identifying with Jesus. Depending on how extended our family is, or how long it's been since we married in, they may already plainly know that we are Christians. But if they don't know that, or don't know how important Jesus is to our everyday lives, we should realise now that there isn't any good strategy in being coy about such vital information. It will backfire.
Even if we don't put on the evangelistic full-court press right away (which is not typically advised), wisdom is to identify with Jesus early and often, and articulate the gospel with clarity (and kindness) as soon as possible.
No one's impressed to discover years into a relationship that we've withheld from them the most important things in our lives.
Take the Long View and Cultivate Patience
With family especially, we should consider the long arc. Randy Newman is not afraid to say to Christians in general, "You need a longer-term perspective when it comes to family." Chances are we do. And so he challenges us to think in terms of an alphabet chart, seeing our family members positioned at some point from letters A to Z. These 26 steps/letters along the way from distant unbelief (A) to great nearness to Jesus (Z) and fledgling faith help us remember that evangelism is usually a process, and often a long one.
It is helpful to recognise that not everyone is near the end of the alphabet waiting for our pointed gospel pitch to tip them into the kingdom. Frequently there is much spadework to be done. Without losing the sense of urgency, let's consider how we can move them a letter, or two or three, at a time and not jerk them toward Z in a way that may actually make them regress.
Beware the Self-Righteous Older Brother in You
For those who grew up in nonbelieving, or in shallow or nominal Christian families, it can be too easy to slide into playing the role of the self-righteous older brother when we return to be around our families. Let's ask God that he would enable us to speak with humility and patience and grace. Let's remember that we're sinners daily in need of his grace, and not gallop through the family gathering on our high horse as if we've arrived or just came back from the third heaven. Newman's advice: "use the pronouns 'we' and 'us' far more than 'you.'"
Tell it Slant
Some extended family contexts may be so far from spiritual that we need to till the soil of conversation before making many direct spiritual claims. It's not that the statements aren't true or desperately needed, but that our audience may not yet be ready to hear it. The gospel may seem so foreign that wisdom would have us take another approach. One strategy is to "tell it slant," to borrow from the poem of the same name—to get at the gospel from an angle.
"If your family has a long history of negativity and sarcasm," writes Newman, "the intermediate step of speaking positively about a good meal or a great film may pave the way for 'blinding' talk of God's grace and mercy." Don't "blind" them by rushing to say loads more than they're ready for. As Emily Dickinson says, "The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind."
Be Real about the Gospel
As we dialogue with family about the gospel, let's not default to quoting Bible verses that don't really answer the questions being asked. Let's take up the gospel in its accompanying worldview and engage their questions as much as possible in the terms in which they asked them. Newman says, "We need to find ways to articulate the internally consistent logic of the gospel's claims and not resort to anti-intellectual punch lines like, 'The Bible says it, I believe it, and that settles it.'"
Yes, quote Bible when appropriate—we are Christians owing ultimately to revelation, not to reason. But let's not make the Bible into an excuse for not really engaging with their queries in all their difficulty. (And let's not be afraid to say we don't know when we don't!)
Consider the Conversational Context
Context matters. It doesn't have to be face to face across the table to be significant. "Many people told me their best conversations occurred in a car—where both people faced forward, rather than toward each other," says Newman. "Perhaps the indirect eye contact posed less of a threat." Be mindful of the context, and seek to make yourself available for conversation while at family gatherings, rather than retreating always into activities or situations that are not conducive to substantive talk.
Know Your Particular Family Situation
In some families, the gospel has been spoken time and again in the past to hard hearts, perhaps there has been a lack of grace in the speaking, and what is most needed is some unexpected relational rebuilding. Or maybe you've built and built and built the relationship and have never (or only rarely) clearly spoken the message of the gospel.
Let's think and pray ahead of time as to what the need of hour is in our family, and as the gathering approaches pray toward what little steps we might take. And then let's trust Jesus to give us the grace our hearts need, whether it's grace for humbling ourselves enough to connect relationally or whether it's courage enough to speak with grace and clarity.
Be Hopeful
God loves to convert the people we think are the least likely. Jesus is able to melt the hardest of hearts. Some who finished their lives among the greatest saints started as the worst of sinners.
Realistically, there could have been some cousin of the apostle Paul sitting around some prayer meeting centuries ago telling his fellow believers, "Hey, would you guys pray for my cousin Saul? I can't think of anyone more lost. He hunts down followers of The Way and arrests them. Just last week, he was the guy who stood guard over the clothes of the people who killed our brother Stephen."
With God, all things are possible. Jesus has a history of conquering those most hostile to him. We have great reason to have great hope about gospel advance in our families, despite how dire and dark it may seem.


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Kathy Baker will always hold a special place in my heart as the slutty chick who wanted to bang Edward Scissorhands really bad. I didn't get out much as a kid. And now she's been cast in the film "Model Home" along side Monique Gabriela Curnen. The flick tells the story of a single mother who's recruited to live in unsold homes and finds herself entertaining dangerous thoughts. I have no fond memories of Monique but the first girl who saw me nude had that same name and she had weird sunken eyes so that's something I guess.
"The Cabin In the Woods" has a trailer! I still have no idea what the movie is about but I can 100% confirm there is in fact a cabin and it is in fact in the woods.
"The Devil Inside" is yet another addition to the long list of exorcism flicks that have made their ways into our hearts over the past couple years. But hey here's some new screen shots from the film and they look like they were filmed on some crappy VHS recorder that they found at the back of someone's mother's closet so that's something new. I'm not saying it's a good thing, I'm just saying it's new.
The Ring Lord himself Mr. Peter Jackson has recently wrapped up production on a new documentary about the "West Memphis Three", a true story about three men who were wrongfully accused for the murder of three 8-year-old boys and subsequently spent 18 years in prison. I don't have any sarcastic comments here, cause ya know even I'm not that big of a monster. I'm close... but not that big.
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